Fluid Mechanics

In this course, we studies the engineering applications of fluids mechanics through analysis and identification using varies of knowledge, techniques, and skills taught in this course. During the semester while taking this course, we were assigned a semester-long project where your creativity, knowledge of fluid mechanics concepts, and skills to work with people from your own discipline and other disciplines will be tested.

The main objective in this project is to create and develop an innovative product for 4th and 5th graders to learn about the foundation of engineering using the scientific concept in one of the fluid mechanics topics that were taught within this course. For this project, we worked with some of the college students within the education department to create a great engineering lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders to be interesting and involved in the engineering field. Another main importance value in this project is for engineers like myself to have values when making a product to educate others, and to see the potential for future value by creating physical products of their own design.

For my group’s project, we use the fluid mechanics concept of buoyancy and stability as part of the engineering lesson plan. The product we planned to use for the lesson that the elementary students can be involve and engage in is creating an innovative boat capable in holding huge weights while floating on the water surface. For the educational students, their ideal teaching method they use in helping the elementary students to learn in this lesson plan using the 5E’s which is a lesson plan tool for inquiry teaching that provides a structure for students to connect science ideas with their experiences and apply their learning to new contexts. The 5E’s has five sequences for teaching and learning: Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend (or Elaborate), and Evaluate when acquiring scientific knowledge of the lesson.

Experiment-Day

After taking this course, I feel quite good when informed elementary students about our engineering experience with other students as well as encouraged students to participate in creating their own innovated boats. As my future career in Mechanical engineering, I wish to continue educating my findings and shared with people in and outside of the engineering field.