Systems, Accounting, and
Modeling Approach to Engineering Science
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One-Page Description
of Key Concepts in the Systems, Accounting, and Modeling Approach
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ASEE
paper that discusses this approach as it applies to integrating the
engineering science component of the mechanical engineering curriculum.
Includes several worked out example problems that demonstrate this approach:
D. E. Richards, "Integrating the Mechanical
Engineering Core," Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference &
Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington
D.C., 2001. Presented 26 June 2001 in Albuquerque, NM.
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Workshop materials on "A Unified Approach
to Engineering Science" that describes the motivation and key features
of this approach. (Presentation
slides ----- Handout
----- Example
problems using this approach). See next section for material on how
this approach can be used as the basis for an engineering science curriculum.
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Textbooks that use this approach:
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D. E. Richards. Basic Engineering Science
-- A Systems, Accounting, and Modeling Approach, 2001. Available from
the author at Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology. This text presents six physical laws -- conservation
of mass, conservation of charge, conservation of linear and angular momentum,
conservation of energy, and accounting of entropy -- using a common framework
and applies these principles to the solution of typical engineering problems
using a common problem solving approach. More information can be obtained
from the Preface and Table
of Contents.
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C. J. Glover, K. M. Lunsford, and J. A. Fleming.
Conservation
Principles and the Structure of Engineering, McGraw-Hill College Custom
Series, New York, 1992. The original engineering textbook that demonstrated
how this approach can be used at the undergraduate level for engineering
science.
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W. C. Reynolds. Introduction to Engineering
Analysis: An integrated approach to the fundamental principles that underlie
all engineering analysis, Preliminary Edition, Spring 2000. Available
from the author at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
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H. U. Fuchs. The Dynamics of Heat,
Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996. A physicist's perspective on system
physics.
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M. T. Holtzapple and W. D. Reece. Foundations
of Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2000. A freshman engineering text
that introduces this approach.
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A comparison of student performance solving
dynamics problems between traditionally-educated students and students
taught using the systems, accounting, and modeling approach is discussed
in a paper
by P. Cornwell and J. Fine. Similar paper published as
P. J. Cornwell and J. M. Fine, "Mechanics
in the Rose-Hulman Foundation Coalition Sophomore Curriculum," International
Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 441-446, 2000.
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