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The Evolution of a Flipped Dynamics Course

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics: Modes and Methods

Tagged Division

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Page Count

14

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44450

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https://peer.asee.org/44450

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190

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Phillip Cornwell United States Air Force Academy

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Phillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy and is an Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000 and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inventory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE.

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Matthew Snyder

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Michael Anderson, P.E. United States Air Force

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Lt Col Mike Anderson is Associate Professor and Deputy Department Head of Engineering Mechanics, US Air Force Academy. He has been researching autonomous systems for fourteen years, authoring several papers relevant to the field including design of terres

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Abstract

The teaching of Dynamics at the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA has changed dramatically due to COVID-19. Initially, when all courses went remote at USAFA, Dynamics was taught using a “flipped-remote” format. In a traditional flipped course, the lecture content is typically delivered asynchronously via videos and the in-class activities are redesigned to be more active. Although many papers have been written on flipping Dynamics, missing from the literature is information on the challenges associated with a flipped course being taught by new instructors who did not participate in the development of the course, who have no experience teaching a flipped course, and who may or may not be convinced as to the benefits of flipping the course, but are willing to try it. In this paper, we will discuss the lessons learned as Dynamics evolved from being remote-flipped to being face-to-face flipped, and finally to being face-to-face flipped taught by instructors who did not participate in designing the flipped class. Each of the courses will be briefly described, and assessment results will be presented on students’ perceptions as to which activities they believed to be most beneficial to their learning in the course. Insights from the instructors who taught the course using the flipped materials developed by somebody else will also be presented. The purpose of soliciting feedback from these instructors was to learn how to best design a flipped course so that future instructors can effectively use the materials for a flipped course with little additional work on their part.

Cornwell, P., & Snyder, M., & Anderson,, M. (2023, June), The Evolution of a Flipped Dynamics Course Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44450

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