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Exploring Nondestructive Evaluation Methods
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Through this lesson and its series of hands-on mini-activities, students answer the question: How can we investigate and measure the inside of an object or its structure if we cannot take it apart? Unlike the destructive nuclear weapon test (!), nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods are able to accomplish this. After an introductory slide presentation, small groups rotate through five mini-activity stations: 1) applying Maxwell’s equations, 2) generating currents, 3) creating magnetic fields, 4) solving a system of equations, and 5) understanding why the finite element method (FEM) is important. Through the short experiments, students become familiar with the science and physics being used and make the mathematical connections. They explore components of NDE and see how engineers find unseen flaws and cracks in materials that make aircraft. A pre/post quiz, slide presentation and worksheet are included.

Subject:
Algebra
Engineering
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
Lessons
Author:
Anton Efremov
Marianne Livezey
Oleksii Karpenko
Date Added:
11/01/2017