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2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Alexa G. Moreno; Thomas W. Smith; Edgar C. Clausen

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference A Lab Experiment Involving Free Convection Heat Transfer from a Flat Horizontal Plate Alexa G. Moreno, Thomas W. Smith and Edgar C. Clausen University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical EngineeringAbstractA number of simple modifications were made to an experiment involving free convection heattransfer from a flat horizontal plate to make it safer and more convenient for use in a standardundergraduate laboratory. The experiment was made safer by employing a thinner (1.3 cm, or ½in) aluminum plate that weighs about 6.5 kg and was made more convenient by using alaboratory oven

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Thomas McKean; Jorge Almodovar; Aubrey Schultz; Natacha S. Melgar; S. Ranil Wickramasinghe

the parallel REU program will foster a community withinthe program that will lead to increased confidence in STEM research among the REU students. Itwas also hypothesized that experiences in laboratory and professional environments wouldstrengthen the desire of the REM students to transfer to the University of Arkansas and pursueSTEM careers. Finally, the program will also increase the visibility of the Membrane ScienceEngineering and Technology (MAST) Center (a National Science Foundation Industry andUniversity Cooperative Research Center) and careers in science and engineering amongundergraduate students at NWACC and the Northwest Arkansas region. MethodsThe program was structured such that the program managers consisted of two faculty

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Pavel Navitski; Elena Gregg; Robert Leland; Viktar Taustyka; Andrzej Gawlik

class is taught in two sections, primarily to first year students, and teaches 3Ddesign using SolidWorks. The Double 3 robot enabled Dr. Leland to physically and remotelymove around the classroom, and give students personal help with their projects and exercises. Apicture of the Double 3 is shown in Figure 1. The Double 3 has excellent cameras, display andaudio, and it produces enough volume to easily address a class of 25-30 students. Fortunately, thecomputer lab is on the same floor as faculty's office, although the robot does not have arms, andcould not open and close office door.Physics Labs classesFor Laboratory classes transition to remote learning was much more difficult. In Spring 2020Semester after entering “lockdown” faculty performed

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Rohit Dua

the requiredsemester end instructor evaluations. Even though students found the project tough, theyappreciated the valuable experience gained into the design of basic processors. A major issueraised was time management. Students found it difficult to find time to work on projects owingto a lack of required laboratory time. The Cooperative Engineering program that caters primarilyto a commuting community further exacerbated this problem. The Digital Systems Design courseis currently setup as a 3 credit hour lecture course. There is an associated laboratory course,which the CpE majors are required to take. However, it is a recommended course for EE majors.Since the lecture course is project oriented, effort will be made to setup the lecture

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Randy Kelley

ofunderstanding contact resistance for engineering students. It also incorporates an analyticalmethod for helping the understanding of this phenomenon. This experiment was intended forstudent learning and not for scientific rigor. There are just too many variables that are notcontrollable in a classroom setting. The lecture on heat transfer can explain the concept, but aphysical demonstration enhances learning objectives. Heat transfer lectures do not normallyhave associated laboratory classes. This experiment can easily be conducted in a class roomwithout extensive laboratory equipment. This type of teaching method promoted active learningas the primary learning objective.[3] Allowing students to actually see a problem and thenformulate a solution

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Gerardo Urdaneta; Jacob Crawford; Andres Dewendt; Zuhanee Khan; Kyle McMillan; Christopher Meyers; Seyed Ehsan Hosseini

, all 6 motors of the drone were spun with varying intensities. The motors did not have thepropellers set up because this test was carried inside the laboratory. The activity of the powerconsumed by the motors can be seen in Figure 7 as a function of time. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Figure 7: Power Delivered to Hexacopter by HFC & Batteries in Motor Spinning Test.Results and Discussion The obtained data from the lightbulb tests showed a mild fluctuation in power supply for afixed number of lightbulbs, but the variations increased in magnitude as the number of lightbulbsincreased. Figure 8 shows the average power level

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Stephen Pierson; Josh Goss; Han Hu

the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), theAdvanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 highlighted the need for universities to provide engineerswith appropriate manufacturing education to sustain emerging technologies, a need which persiststo this day. This Student Paper proposes the adoption of a laboratory course at university-levelmechanical engineering programs in which undergraduates would learn and practice the basics ofcomputer-aided manufacturing and apply that knowledge to CNC milling machines. Themotivation for this course is to better prepare students for design and manufacturing careers byreconciling mechanical engineering curricula with the hiring need in the industry for engineerswho understand common

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Sara E. Wilson

taught in both the Fall and Springsemesters. The students each purchase the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit 4.1 (Sparkfun, Niwot, CO)which contains an Arduino Uno style development board as well as a breadboard and anassortment of sensors, motors, and other elements. Each weekly module starts with tutorialvideos. A one hour class on Mondays reviews this material in an active-learning style, wherestudents sit in their project groups to complete exercises. Each week has a 2 hour laboratory inwhich an individual programming assignment is competed followed by a homework assignmentdue the following week. The course has 3 individual exams, the first in week 4 on Arduino C++programming, the second in week 8 on Arduino C++ programming, and the third during

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Jackson Marsh; Christy Dunlap; Stephen Pierson; Han Hu

research interests lie in the applications of materials science and advancedmanufacturing techniques. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceHan HuHan Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universityof Arkansas. He leads the Nano Energy and Data-Driven Discovery (NED3) Laboratory and hisresearch interests cover experimental characterization and multi-scale modeling of two-phaseheat transfer enhancement on micro-/nano-structured surfaces, immersion cooling of powerelectronics, diffusion kinetics in high-entropy alloys, and multimodal data fusion. © American Society for Engineering

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Christy Dunlap; Jeff Pummill; Han Hu

collaborativeefforts to advance both AHPCC and scientific computing on campus. Jeff has been the recipientof nearly $500,000 in NSF funding as part of his work with the National research computingeffort.Han HuHan Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universityof Arkansas. He leads the Nano Energy and Data-Driven Discovery (NED3) Laboratory and hisresearch interests cover experimental characterization and multi-scale modeling of two-phase heattransfer enhancement on micro-/nano-structured surfaces, immersion cooling of power electronics,diffusion kinetics in high-entropy alloys, and multimodal data fusion. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022

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Mirit Shamir; Stacy Hutchinson; Gaea Hock; Ryan Hansen; Jonathan Aguilar; Nathan Hendricks; Prathap Parameswaran; Matthew Sanderson; Rebecca Cors; Melanie M. Derby

’ academic backgrounds are notable challenges and we expect to encounter in futuresemesters. We also found that even though the NRT capstone offered sessions about teamcollaboration, students still faced challenges with team logistics. Therefore, to better support thenext cohort, in the spring 2023 NRT capstone course, the NRT faculty will offer more teambuilding activities at the beginning of the semester. In addition, we found that even though thescheduled team workdays were useful, successful teams needed to meet outside of course time.We also found that one semester might not be sufficient to develop and submit a final researchproduct for journal publication, especially if it includes laboratory experiments. Literature reviewpapers and

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Dominic Halsmer; Chris Jacob; Josiah Kessler; Jasmin Marko

development of a laboratory manualto guide earth science students through the process of exploring the history and nature of planetEarth. Since it is the beginning stages of a work in progress, only a simple first draft of thelearning objectives and lab procedures for this unit have been developed by engineering andeducation students at ORU. The current learning objectives are as follows: 1. Describe the methodologies of retrodictive thought experiments and affordance-based reverse engineering 2. Starting with the Big Bang, summarize the process (from science) by which planet Earth came into existence, and identify the natural laws that govern these processes. 3. Describe the measurements that assist in determining the age of the

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Amanda Williams; Hari Pandey; Han Hu

the industry upon graduation in May 2023.Hari PandeyHari is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University ofArkansas. His research focus includes prediction and mitigation of boiling crisis using acousticemission and high-speed imaging, improving boiling heat transfer using wicking structures, andimmersion cooling of power electronics.Han HuHan Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universityof Arkansas. He leads the Nano Energy and Data-Driven Discovery (NED3) Laboratory and hisresearch interests cover experimental characterization and multi-scale modeling of two-phase heattransfer enhancement on micro-/nano-structured surfaces, immersion cooling of power electronics