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Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley; Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley

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Mechanical Engineering

in each field and the academic subjects the field encompasses.Using these field descriptions, students will be able to determine the field within which theirinterest falls and navigate to the appropriate field page using links on the interests page.It is worth mentioning that although the interests/fields page will be similar to the MEOP(they both describe mechanical engineering), they will not be identical. MEOP is directedmore toward users who have very little knowledge of mechanical engineering, whereas theinterests/fields page is directed more toward users who already know enough about mechan-ical engineering to have a goal in mind. MEOP will be more focused on grabbing attentionwith the particularly interesting parts of mechanical

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Brent Cobb, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

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Mechanical Engineering

mind map Page 11.927.14Figure 5: A mind map with pictures of various hands-on activities for mechanical engineering Figure 6: A sticky-note version of a mind map3.6.3 ChecklistsFor product development idea generation, a number of checklists have been developed. Theseinclude Eberele’s SCAMPER acronym (substitute, combine, adapt, magnify or minify, put toother uses, eliminate or elaborate, and rearrange or reverse), Shore’s CREATIVITY acronym(combine, reverse, enlarge, adapt, tinier, instead of, viewpoint change, in other ways, to otheruses, yes!) and VanGundy’s

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Foley, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

student not seeing the point of yet another simplified, closed system, pistonexample, particularly, when what they want to do is design rocket engines after twoclasses. With the above in mind, the approach attempted by the author is, by contrast, a “topdown” approach which begins by introducing a ‘catch all’ general control volume and theReynolds Transport Equation from the very first class. This is rarely, if ever, done inthermodynamics texts and generally relegated to mid to late chapters even in fluids texts.(e.g. Munson et al 4 and Shapiro 5 give comprehensive, if understandably fluids basedcoverage of the topic.) Once these concepts have been covered the students are generallyre-assured to know that this really is about as complicated as

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Sometimes when we teach our courses, we tend to lose sight of the fact that each courseis but one element in a learning sequence defined as a curriculum. The closer therelationships are among courses, curriculum, and planned out of class activities, the moreeffective the learning experience will be for the students2. The paradigm shift initiated by theappearance of ABET engineering accreditation criteria EC 2000, see Ref. [3], imposed oncourse designers to keep in mind this relationship between these three educational aspects. Acourse has to be designed, taught and assisted to address program objectives and outcomes.2. Active LearningThe instructor can make the most of a classroom by turning it into active learning. The setupin the classroom would

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Tracy Van Zandt, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Nels Wirkkala, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Mechanical Engineering

necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation The authors are gratefulfor the support obtained from NSF to further engineering education.VII Bibliography1 Higley,K.A., Marianno,C.M., “Making Engineering Education Fun”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 1, pp105-107, January 20012 Davis,B.G., “Tools for Teaching”, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1993, p100.3 Piaget,J., “To Understand is to Invent”, Grossman, New York, 1973.4 Vygotsky,L., “Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes”, Harvard University Press, MA, 1978.5 Starrett,S., Morcos,M., “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 1, pp93-100, January 20016

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What's New in Dynamics?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Stephen Pennell, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John White, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Charles Van Karsen, Michigan Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

ASEE, Engineering Education for a Changing World: Project Report, . 1994, ASEE: Washington, D.C6 Starrett,S., Morcos,M., “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 1, pp93-100, January 20017 Avitabile,P., VanZandt,T., Hodgkins,J., Wirkkala,N., “An Online Acquisition System for a Second Order Mechanical System (RUBE)”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chigago, Illinois, June 2006 (to be published)8 Avitabile,P., VanZandt,T., Hodgkins,J., Wirkkala,N., “Second Order Mechanical Online Acquisition System (RUBE)”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chigago, Illinois, June 2006 (to be published

Conference Session

Improving ME education: Broad Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Davol, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Mello, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-1835: STUDENT COMPETITIONS - THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGESPeter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University Peter Schuster is interested in automotive safety, impact, biomechanics, finite element analysis, and design. He earned a Physics BA from Cornell University, MSME in design from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in biomechanics from Michigan Technological University. After ten years in body design and automotive safety at Ford Motor Company he joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Cal Poly. He teaches mechanics, design, stress analysis, and finite element analysis courses and serves as co-advisor to the student SAE chapter.Andrew Davol, California Polytechnic State

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Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University

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Mechanical Engineering

of undergraduate engineering education over the previous two decades, and thatuniversities were graduating great scientists but mediocre engineers.12,13 As a result there was apush towards providing both intellectual and physical activities (such as dissection) to anchor theknowledge and practice of engineering in the minds of students.10 Dissection provides hands-onactivities that apply engineering principles coupled with significant visual feedback.3 Since there-introduction of the first courses, numerous courses that include dissection activities have beendeveloped across the United States (for example see references 14-18). Dissection activities can provide concrete experiences as part of Kolb’s learning model.“Learning by doing

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Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua Vaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; William Singhose, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-1791: ARLISS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXTRACURRICULAR DESIGNPROJECT FOR UNDERGRADUATESJoshua Vaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology Joshua is a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2004. He received a B.S. from Hampden-Sydney College in 2002, double majoring in Physics and Applied Mathematics. Josh was a 2004-2005 NSF STEP Fellow, where he worked at Cedar Grove High School. His Ph.D. research focuses on command generation for flexible machines.William Singhose, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. William Singhose is an Associate Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of

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Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelley Racicot, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-368: ASSESSING GROUP LEARNING USING WIKIS: AN APPLICATION TOCAPSTONE DESIGNKelley Racicot, Washington State UniversityCharles Pezeshki, Washington State University Page 11.237.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Assessing Group Learning Using Wikis: An Application to Capstone DesignAbstractIn this paper, we discuss the use of a wiki for documenting social knowledge in thecontext of an industrially-based capstone design course and for assessing group learning.Students create a knowledge management (KM) tool for the explicit purposes of sharinglessons learned with wider audiences and engaging in active group assessment, wherestudents actively develop

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Wedlick, The College of New Jersey; Shou Rei Chang, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-2037: A START UP MANUAL FOR USING "ANSYS" IN UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING COURSESThomas Wedlick, The College of New Jersey Thomas Wedlick is a graduating mechanical engineering senior at The College of New Jersey. He presently serves as the president of TCNJ’s student ASME chapter. His current areas of interest are engineering pedagogy, PEM fuel cell analysis using computational fluid dynamics, and robotics. He will continue his research in graduate school.Shou Rei Chang, The College of New Jersey Shou-Rei Chang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey. Dr. Chang is an active member of SAE and has served as the Primary and Technical advisor of the Mini

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin Odom, University of Idaho; Russ Porter, University of Idaho; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Adrian Gomez, University of Idaho; Lloyd Gallup, University of Idaho

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-1497: LIBRARY OF STUDENT-AUTHORED INTERNET VIDEOS FORJUST-IN-TIME LEARNING IN SUPPORT OF THE CAPSTONE DESIGNEXPERIENCEEdwin Odom, University of Idaho Edwin Odom is professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho where he has been instrumental in expanding design infrastructure in the ME Machine Shop and CAD labs that support major design projects. Dr. Odom maintains an avid interest in the literature of creativity and management and is especially well-versed on the subjects of engineering mechanics and machine design. He was recognized for his role in development of the Idaho Engineering Works by a university teaching award in 1998.Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Meeting ABET Requirements

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-831: CONTENT ASSESSMENT AT THE COURSE LEVELRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20062006-831: CONTENT

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Janna, University of Memphis; John Hochstein, University of Memphis

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-578: COLLABORATION OF FRESHMAN WITH SENIORS IN A CAPSTONEDESIGN COURSEWilliam Janna, University of Memphis William S. Janna joined the faculty of The University of Memphis in 1987 as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Herff College of Engineering. His research interests include boundary layer methods of solution for various engineering problems, and modeling the melting of ice objects of various shapes. He is the author of three textbooks, a member of ASEE and of ASME. He teaches continuing education courses in the area of piping systems and in heat exchanger design and selection, for ASME. Dr