Concept Inventories for Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials
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Concept Inventories for Shape Memory Alloys and
Piezoelectric Materials
Jeff Froyd, Rita Caso, Dimitris Lagoudas
Texas A&M University
Signals and
Systems Concept InventorySample
Question
Hestenes, Wells and Swackhamer, The Physics Teacher 30, 141 (1992); Revised edition available at http://modeling.la.asu.edu/R&E/Research.html
Andrew Heckler, Assistant Dean, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Ohio State University
Conceptual Understanding
• What are the concepts in area X?– ..– ..
• How might you ascertain whether students understanding these concepts
FC Concept Inventories
• Thermodynamics• Materials• Strength of
Materials• Fluid Mechanics• Dynamics• Heat Transfer• Chemistry
• Signals and Systems
• Electromagnetics• Circuits• Electronics• Computer
Engineering• Waves
Engineering Concept Inventories
• Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences – thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat
transfer, mass transfer – http://www.mines.edu/research/cee/Misconceptions.html
• Statistics (Teri Reed Rhoads, Oklahoma)– http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2003/papers/1049.pdf
• Circuits Concept Inventory (Old Dominion)– ASEE 2002 Paper
Concept Inventory Projects in Physics
• Determining and Interpreting Resistive Electric Circuit Concepts Test (DIRECT)– http://www.ncsu.edu/per/Articles/Engelhardt&Beichner.pdf
• Conceptual Survey on Electricity (CSE), Conceptual Survey on Magnetism (CSM), and Conceptual Survey on Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM)– http://physics.csusm.edu/202/csem/csem.htm
• Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE)– http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/perg/dissertations/Saul/AppB.PDF
• Energy Concept Inventory– http://modeling.la.asu.edu/R&E/ECI-v2.3.pdf
Shape Memory Alloys• What are the
concepts?– ..– ..
• How might student understanding of the concepts be assessed?
• Shape Memory Alloy Concept Inventory
Piezoelectric Materials• What are the
concepts?– ..– ..
• How might student understanding of the concepts be assessed?
• Piezoelectric Material Concept Inventory
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