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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