On the Experience of Developing an Engineering OOP Application by a Student Group

The development of small applications for engineering calculations is a feasible, useful and interesting work for students of applied mechanics. In order to produce a workable application, it is necessary to have deep knowledge and competences in the field of mechanics, computational methods, information technologies. These knowledge and competences are improved if students are tasked not only to study the behavior of a mechanical system, e.g., a nonlinear dynamical system as described in this paper, but also to develop their own easy-to-use verified object-oriented tool.