The essence of mechanical engineering is problem solving. MEs combine creativity, knowledge and analytical tools to complete the difficult task of shaping an idea into reality. Mechanical engineering ...

University of Delaware students in the sophomore level mechanical engineering course Statics, the study of forces acting on a system at rest, designed and fabricated wooden bicycles that would have ...

9. Crawford, M. and Berger, E. (2017). Understanding student use of worked examples to support problem solving via real-time measurements of problem-solving events, Proceedings of the 7th Research in ...

Engineering work demands creativity and innovation in order to solve complex, interdisciplinary problems. But creativity and innovation skills are not emphasized in many traditional engineering ...