Teaching
Made Simple
Learning Made More Enjoyable
Fields: Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Design, Material Science, Mechanical Engineering,Naval Architecture;
Written for: Senior undergraduate and Post graduate students of
the above disciplines, Practicing Engineers at R&D laboratories.
Excerpts
of Reviews
FAQ
(Frequently
Asked Questions)
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Preface (PDF:
size 53kb)
Detailed
course content (PDF: size
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Brochure
(PDF: size 1.22 MB)
Guide
lines to teach the course (PDF:
size 63 kb)
Student survey
(PDF: size 52 kb)
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e-book
on Engineering Fracture Mechanics
This e-book is innovative in many ways.
It sets a new paradigm in developing multimedia based educational material.
Publisher : IIT Madras
Distributor: Online Solutions
ISBN: 978-81-904235-0-2
....The author has craftily exploited the potential of the electronic media with excellent animations, attractive colour sketches, many photographs of failed Specimens......They help in understanding the sophisticated concepts of fracture mechanics.........
This e-book is innovative
in many ways. In this, a novel attempt is made to mimic the class room
environment of developing the concepts through a series of careful steps.
Text and animations are juxtaposed on a single screen for convenient learning.
The textual matter is in the form of points and in many cases it synchronizes
with the diagram or animation. This form of presentation is hoped to provide
a semblance of class room teaching while viewing it on one’s PC.
Voice is intentionally not recorded, so that any one can provide additional
explanations based on the material provided. The mathematical derivations
are developed such that the slides pause at predefined steps allowing
the learner to think and answer or help the teacher to make the class
participate while using the e-book for teaching.
Although
several text books are available on fracture mechanics, this is the first
e-book on fracture mechanics. It has come about from teaching the course
to graduate and under- graduate students for the last 15 years at IIT
Kanpur and at IIT Madras. At Kanpur the course was taught conventionally
using chalk and board but at IIT Madras the course has transformed into
a multimedia course with critical inputs from at least five batches of
students. The student response has greatly influenced the development
of the course in many ways. While using the e-book, the user has to participate
in the learning process. It is suggested that the learner sits with a
pen and paper and view the e-book on his/her PC to learn the course.
The e-book has fourteen
chapters. In each chapter, the contents page has an animation which indicates
the learning goals for that chapter. To completely cover the slides provided,
one would require a minimum of sixty hours. Depending on the nature of
the class/teacher one can choose selected topics, so that a one semester
(42 lectures) first level course on Fracture mechanics could be delivered.
System requirements: Pentium 4 processor,
128 MB RAM, Windows Operating System (2000, XP), Internet Explorer 5+
with Flash Plugin Support.