Computer utilization in engineering mechanics education

Abstract For the last 20 years, the Mechanics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education has surveyed engineering schools to ascertain trends in mechanics education. Every five years an extensive instrument is sent to over 200 engineering schools. This year, for the first time, a series of questions dealing with computer utilization was included. This paper will report results of computer related items only. The timing of the reported results is critical, since the advent of moderately priced computers is fairly recent and no coherent plans for computer use in mechanics have been formulated.