INTEGRATING DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MATERIALS INTO A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGH INNOVATIVE USE OF WEB-BASED ACQUISITION AND HANDS-ON APPLICATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES. Part 2: Numerical Difficulties Processing Measured D

摘要

This six-part educational series presents some approaches that have been incorporated into a Mechanical Engineering curriculum to better integrate materials related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) that are generally considered to be disjointed from a student’s learning perspective. The material presented in this series has been developed in order to better integrate material taught in traditional differential equations, math methods, dynamics systems, and laboratory courses in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell to help students better understand the true inter-relationship of this material for solving structural dynamic-related problems. While this material is geared toward a Mechanical Engineering curriculum, all of the educational materials have been developed in a modular fashion and can be used in any curriculum which addresses dynamic systems applications (such as Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, etc.)