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- James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University
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student survey and instructor-assessed elements. The tool is beingused in the capstone design course sequence, and the results from three semesters ofimplementation are reported and briefly discussed. Compared to the previous method of peer-evaluation alone, the new tool allows each sub-outcome to be measured and evaluated.IntroductionMechanical engineering seniors at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) complete acapstone design project: either an SAE collegiate design series (CDS) competition or anindustry-sponsored project (ISP). These capstone projects serve as a summative assessment,bringing together machine design, thermo-fluids, manufacturing, and mechatronics topics into areal-world design experience. Relative coverage of these topics
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- Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Julia Noginova, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University
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Paper ID #34131The Influence of Participation in a Multi-Disciplinary CollaborativeService Learning Project on the Effectiveness of Team Members in a100-level Mechanical Engineering ClassDr. Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University Stacie Ringleb is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Do- minion University. Dr. Ringleb received a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1997, a M.S.E. from Temple University in Mechanical Engineering in 1999, and a PhD from Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in
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- Nathan M. Kathir P.E., George Mason University; Erik Knudsen, George Mason University
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creative ways to solve real-world engineering problems and ensures students get experience in planning, design, research, manufacturing and project management before they graduate. Dr. Kathir is a member of ASCE’s Committee on Accreditation.Dr. Erik Knudsen, George Mason University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Capstone Design - Unexpected Challenges and Opportunities due to the Covid-19 PandemicAbstractDue to the Covid-19 pandemic George Mason University (Mason), similar to many institutions,had to suddenly switch to online delivery of all courses in March 2020. As the director of seniorprojects (first
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- Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Danny Rubin, Rubin
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based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies.Mr. Danny Rubin, Rubin Danny Rubin is the founder of Rubin, a leading provider of online curriculum for business communication skills. Rubin, the company, provides its signature curriculum, called ”Emerge,” to engineering schools nationwide. Emerge features in-demand communication topics like email etiquette, phone etiquette, net- working, LinkedIn and more. Danny began his career as a local TV news reporter and national news consultant for NBC’s ”Meet
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- Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; James E. Bluman, United States Military Academy; Rebecca Zifchock, United States Military Academy; Matthew Dabkowski, United States Military Academy
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the new introductory course, andthe first cohort that did. All data evaluated their skill levels during their senior year capstonedesign experience. Therefore, the survey was a direct opportunity to assess the result of an earlyintroduction to the mechanical engineering profession and design process.The paper assesses the effect of the Intro to ME course on student grasp of the design processand their ability to apply the process to their capstone design project. Overall results were mixedwith faculty indicating that students who completed the Intro to ME course differentially appliedthe design process but also had fewer gaps in their knowledge of the tools associated with thedesign process. Furthermore, there were no indications that the
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- Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Eric Marsh, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University
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expertise; manage and lead projects; understand basic businessprinciples needed in small and large companies; and ideate when there are not alreadyestablished explicit design specifications.As a curriculum, most Mechanical Engineering programs by necessity are discipline focused,without much flexibility. Curricular changes typically involve a long process and significantjustification. There are also a number of required foundational courses such as math, physics,and mechanics that are followed by the obligatory ME-focused courses such as thermodynamics,fluids, dynamics, labs, and design courses. The sheer breadth of required courses significantlyconstrains the time available to explore other critical skills. These curricula are additionallyshaped
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- James Canino, Trine University; Jon Koch, Trine University
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hands-on experiences in engineering education has been recognized fordecades. Yet creating and running an effective hands-on experience, especially in the thermalsciences is challenging. This paper will outline a project that asks students to design, build, andtest a heat exchanger. In addition to being hands-on, the project incorporates two high-impacteducational practices. First, the project is collaborative as groups of 4-5 students work ondesigning their heat exchangers. Second, the project serves a sort of “capstone project” for thethermal science classes by integrating topics from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heattransfer. While attempts to incorporate designing, building, and testing of heat exchangers as partof a mechanical
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- Alan Jones, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Michael Golub, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
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Confidence Question Difference Use Computer Tools +0.4 Use Technical Concepts -0.1 Use Fabrication tools +0.1Table 7. Questions about Solving ProblemsIn general, the students in the project-based curriculum indicate more confidence in designingbut less confidence in identifying a design need than students in the traditional curriculum. Thiscould be a result of the students in the project-based curriculum being faced with the open-ended,multidisciplinary, design problems associated with the competition projects. Students in thetraditional curriculum typically will not have that experience until the capstone design course.Students in the
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- Mechanics & Mechanics Related
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- Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University
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Paper ID #33514Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset through a Hands-on Design Project in aMechanism Design CourseDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Dr. Haolin Zhu earned her BEng in Engineering Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, with a focus on computational solid mechanics. Dr. Zhu is a Senior Lecturer of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) and the recipient of the Fulton Outstanding Lecturer Award. In this role, she focuses on designing the curriculum
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- James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University
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& Electronics) and one corequisite (Probability & Statistics), as shown in Figure 1.Mechatronics, a course focused largely on dynamic system modeling and control, moved fromhaving Circuits & Electronics as a prerequisite to having Measurement Systems as a prerequisite.Other courses, including the capstone sequences (Competition Projects 1 and Industry SponsoredProjects A) and Mechanics Lab, now include Measurement Systems as a corequisite. Figure 1. Measurement Systems with prerequisite courses (solid arrows), corequisite course (dashed arrows), and following courses in BSME programThe course development started from a set of course-wide learning objectives, provided below.A more detailed list of section-by-section
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- Dennis O'Connor, California State University, Chico
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project. With an incremental increase in requirements and grade percentage, a seriesof five writing intensive design assignments were facilitated within the course’s weekly two-houractivity time. While examples abound for a positive impact on student outcomes through hands-on projects[1], [2], [3], there is also evidence of a positive correlation between student success inengineering design and their writing skills. Engineering students completing their two semestersenior Capstone Project experience have substantial writing and technical documentationrequirements in addition to designing and fabricating a complex engineering solution.Interestingly, in one study teams demonstrating good writing skills throughout their capstoneprogram ultimately
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- Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ava R. Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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Paper ID #33054Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience Using a Series of Self-Directed Mini-Projects andePortfolios: Face-to-Face Versus Online-only InstructionMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering
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- William W. Tsai, California State University Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen, California State University Maritime Academy
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programs atthe university (see Appendix A for the rubric). In addition to the institution-wide assessment ofinformation fluency, the Library department conducts its own assessment of information fluencyinstruction on an offsetting cycle from IWAC. In this assessment, librarians review therecommendations from previous IWAC findings and collected interim data to monitor theprogress and effectiveness of implemented changes.During the 2016-17 academic year, IWAC collected artifacts from seniors of all programs toassess this learning outcome. Mechanical Engineering students were assessed at the masterylevel using their senior lab reports, capstone project final reports, and engineering ethics papers.The results of the rubric scoring showed the
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- Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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ElementsAbstract:Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is an extremely important skill formechanical engineering students who will mainly design mechanical devices and components.However, a GD&T course is typically not included in an undergraduate mechanical engineeringcurriculum. In our mechanical engineering curriculum, bits of basic concepts of GD&T arebriefly mentioned or discussed in several different courses. It has been observed in the lastseveral years that some students in their senior capstone project designs still didn’t know how toproperly define assembly dimension tolerances or component dimension tolerances. In the lasttwo years, the authors used one and a half weeks out of a total of a fifteen-week semester toteach GD&T
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- Sean Stephen Tolman, Utah Valley University; Matthew J. Jensen, Utah Valley University
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of the survey questions directly asked the students about the course content. As expected,for the 1st and 4th year courses (Intro to Engineering and Capstone respectively), the vastmajority of students stated the design process was taught and they applied the design process inthat course. More surprisingly, a majority of students from Statics and Linear Systems alsostated that the design process was formally taught in the course despite both courses focusingsolely on modeling and analysis. Additionally, the Statics and Linear Systems students alsostarted that they had applied the design process on at least one assignment or project. In Statics,no formal design problem or assignment was given, and in Linear Systems a group designproject was
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- Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Aidan Puzzio, The Citadel; Benjamin Lawrence Kicklighter, The Citadel
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Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework and interdisciplinary electives.Dr. Kevin Skenes, The Citadel Kevin Skenes is an associate professor at The Citadel. His research interests include non-destructive evaluation, photoelasticity, manufacturing processes, and engineering education.Mr. Aidan Puzzio, The CitadelMr
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- Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver
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class, in the end they all get veryengaged in the conversations creating a really active learning environment.Building a laboratory like this is challenging. The machinery are not available off-the-shelf. Theyare expensive since industrial-grade components and controllers are used in the design to meet themain goal of the course. Programming software is proprietary, expensive and requires license.The student excitement and feedback about the course have been extremely positive.In parallel to this course, most students are also taking their senior capstone course where somestudents worked on automated machines for their team project. Feedback from the projectsponsors has been very positive indicating that they were able to design custom machines
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- John A. Mirth, St. Cloud State University
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basis. A common example of thisformat in the engineering curriculum is the assignment of teams to Capstone Design Projects [6],[7], [8]. Common issues include team formation, mentoring, feedback and evaluation,milestones, assessment, leadership, individual accountability, and team dysfunction.In contrast to larger team projects, the Problem Solving Studio (PSS) implemented at GeorgiaTech and Emory University [9], [10] has students working in pairs to solve “well-structured butsomewhat complex” problems during class time. A similar approach is found in “Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning” (POGIL) [11], [12]. POGIL also uses instructor facilitatedteaming during class times. Typical POGIL groups consist of 3-4 students, each with anassigned
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- Sean Michael Quallen, University of Idaho; John Crepeau P.E., University of Idaho; Barry Willis, University of Idaho; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho; JJ Petersen, University of Idaho
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Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 34 years. He is a former department chair and collaborates the college of engineering introduction to engineering course, the inter-disciplinary capstone design course, and the FE review course. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design of curricula for active learning, design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills.Mr. JJ Petersen, University of Idaho American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Transforming Introductory Engineering Courses to Match GenZ Learning
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- Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Campus; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College
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Paper ID #33623Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Statics Recitation CourseMr. Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University, Erie CampusDr. Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College Dr. Charlotte de Vries is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. She received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches First-year and Capstone Design, Dynamics, System Dynamics, and Instrumenta- tion