Work in progress - developing warm-up questions for strength of materials

This paper outlines our preliminary efforts to develop warm-up questions for Strength of Materials. These are conceptual questions that students answer before the topics the questions cover are introduced in class. The warm ups give instructors an idea of what students conceptions are before discussion begins, so the instructor can directly address students´ specific difficulties as the topic is introduced. The questions that we are developing are still in flux, but our preliminary results indicate that while students remember some relevant information from the prerequisite Materials Science course, they have trouble knowing when to apply it.