2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Computer programming is an integral part of being an engineer and has provided a means of performing analysis that would be cumbersome to complete analytically. In Fall 2022, a set of projects were developed for a junior level dynamics course. In prior offerings of this course, the typical dynamics theory was covered and assessed using textbook assigned problems and exams. The developed projects required the students to recollect their knowledge of MATLAB programing from their programming class taught during their first year and apply those skills to solve systems over a specified time instance. In this paper, the three projects developed are presented. Subsequently, the assessment of the students’ performance with respect to the desired learning outcomes is presented. In addition, a discussion of the results is presented coupled with the post survey results from the students. Lastly, lessons learning from the projects along with recommended future improvements are presented.