experiments.To accommodate a large number of students simultaneously accessing such experiments, a HighPerformance Computing (HPC) server cluster technology will be developed and implemented.The cluster will also help for those experiments that are computational intensive.The students will be using a web browser on their own device, where the parameters of theexperiment can be modified by a client application. The client sends input data to a HPC servercluster simulation application that runs the experiment. The server sends output data back to thestudent’s device where the web browser shows motion and numerical results of the experiment.The implementation of a time-based collision physics engine on the server cluster uses parallelprogramming techniques
AC 2012-3392: DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF AN UNDERGRAD-UATE MICRO/NANO ENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSEDr. Benita M. Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Benita Comeau is a Technical Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches a laboratory course on nano/micro engineering. She is a Chemical Engineer and received her B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was an NSF Research Fellow and a member of the Georgia Tech Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) GK-12 program. Before graduate school, she worked as a Product Engineer for Procter & Gamble and Agere Systems
AC 2012-4312: CAN AGILE METHODS ENHANCE MECHATRONICSEDUCATION? EXPERIENCES FROM BASING A CAPSTONE COURSEON SCRUMDr. Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology Martin Edin Grimheden currently holds a position as Associate Professor at KTH and is the Director of Mechatronics Education at KTH. Page 25.279.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Can agile methods enhance mechatronics education? Experiences from basing a capstone course on SCRUM.AbstractIn 2011, an experiment was undertaken at KTH Royal Institute of Technology to introduceagile methods for
AC 2012-2943: A SURVEY OF DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMS THATOFFER A MASTER’S OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDEGREEDr. Wayne E. Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology Wayne E. Whiteman is a Senior Academic Professional and Director of the Office of Student Services in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree from the U.S. Military Academy in 1979, a master’s degree from MIT in 1987, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1996. Whiteman is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and completed 24 years of active military service. He served on the West Point faculty from 1987 to 1990, and 1998 to 2003. He has been at Georgia
educational, integrate and apply the knowledgeobtained in courses such as statics, solid mechanics and instrumentation. It demonstrates thepotential use of strain gages as sensors. Strain gages, and signal conditioners are used tomeasure, calculate and analyze force by direct application of a concentrated or distributed loads.These experiments provide students with hands on experience with using strain gages, signalamplifiers, and conditioners and setting up and balancing Wheatstone bridge.IntroductionIn engineering education today, instrumentation and computer integration are increasinglybecoming part of teaching in classrooms. Faculty use new technologies to increase their teachingeffectiveness in their classrooms. In addition, laboratory
Paper ID #3541Conversion of a Gasoline Internal Combustion Engine to a Hydrogen EngineDr. Govind Puttaiah P.E., West Virginia University Govind Puttaiah is the Chair and a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He has been involved in teaching mechanical engineering subjects during the past forty years. His research interests are in industrial hydraulics and alternate fuels. He is an invited member of the West Virginia Hydrogen Working Group, which is tasked to promote hydrogen as an alternate fuel.Timothy A. Drennen Timothy A. Drennen has a B.S. in
than 1400 were built during the 18th Century. Newcomen’s design condensed steam insidea piston and cylinder through a water spray injection process. The vacuum formed in thecylinder, in combination with atmospheric pressure on the top of the piston, actuated areciprocating pump via an overhead “walking beam.” This first engine served to pump waterfrom a coal mine in England, but the power technology thus created enabled the IndustrialRevolution and sees its legacy in the steam-powered utility power plants of today.In commemoration of the tercentenary of Newcomen’s engine, a group of MechanicalEngineering students at the United States Naval Academy designed and built an instrumentedoperating model of a Newcomen engine. A significant aspect of
AC 2012-4127: LEARNER CENTERED INSTRUCTION IN MECHANI-CAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMMr. Tom Spendlove, Baker College, Flint Tom Spendlove teaches engineering and CAD courses at Baker College in Flint, Mich.Dr. Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint Anca L. Sala is professor and Dean of engineering and computer technology at Baker College of Flint. In addition to her administrative role, she continues to be involved with development of new engineering curriculum, improving teaching and assessment of student learning, assessment of program outcomes and objectives, and ABET accreditation. She is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and OSA, serving in various capacities.Mr. James Riddell, Baker College, Flint James A. Riddell is
solutions society via MechanicalMechanical to problems EngineeringEngineering? Processes Areas missing – Design (19) nano-technology, Design related to real sensing systems, world problems/efficient etc. Students see Mechanical effective tools/practical Engineering as a broad problem solving (7) Students kept applied field combining Problem solving, coming back to areas of content and process creativity, open-minded, creative problem etc. (7
AC 2012-4805: ASME VISION 2030’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ME-CHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Allan T. Kirkpatrick P.E., Colorado State UniversityDr. Scott Danielson P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic Scott Danielson is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Technology and Innova- tion at Arizona State University. Before assuming that role, he had been the Interim Chair of Engineering Department and the Chair of the Engineering Technology Department. He has been active in ASEE in the Mechanics Division and the Engineering Technology Division. He has also been active in ASME, being awarded the 2009 Ben C. Sparks Medal for excellence in mechanical engineering technology education, serving as a
) teaches a senior level course in Heat Transfer at the University of Central Oklahoma(UCO) for Engineering Physics-Mechanical Systems students. This paper describes an attempt to havestudent’s devote time outside of this class engaged in learning lecture material and problem-solving using“play-pause-rewind” (PPR) technology. This approach was adopted to guide student’s use of timeoutside of class and take advantage of a recent economical technology, which makes production of thesePPR resources accessible to instructors at all levels. An additional factor in choosing to introduce new Page 25.1412.2resources for the students in this course
virtual real time free software (DimDim).Numerous challenges arose, some were technical, and others created due to the skewedscheduling of main campus students. Surveys of students, and faculty observations, frustrations,and recommendations were evaluated. Then, the Information Technology Department, theInstructional Designer, and the Engineering Dean helped either by ideas or financially byintroducing other alternative solutions. Once these solutions were in place, the same facultytaught the course Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers to three groups. Interactive videoconferencing was used for one group, interactive real time using more reliable software, than theprevious used. License for use of Adobe Connect was purchased and implemented for
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012INTRODUCTION OF “MICROFLUIDICS” TO UNDERGRADUATE FLUID MECHANICS COURSE Page 25.850.2AbstractUndergraduate level fluid mechanics course is traditionally taught as a math-intensive coursewith the content remaining fairly similar for decades. The course content is usually challengingfor students with significant amount of theory and numerous new concepts introduced. In a fluidmechanics course, only a limited amount of state-of-the-art technologies and real-lifeapplications can be included, given the limited time and the material that should be covered.Information on market and career opportunities are often not mentioned in fluid
8: (a) Measurements in the aerosol wind-tunnel to characterize particle samplingcharacteristics o different inlet designs. (b) Intercomparison of mass measurements with chamber experiments.USABILITY TESTS The Usability Testing Lab in the Eastman Kodak Center for Excellence inCommunication at Clarkson University was set up to record users testing out the website.Participating in the first test on the early version of the website were twelve studentvolunteers: six Mechanical Engineering majors and six Information Technology majors. Page 25.1027.9Information from these tests were communicated to the website
analyses in nuclear power generation plants. She has been designing online courses since 2006. In 2010, with an education grant from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) she completed the online design of the graduate nu- clear engineering certificate program. In 2011, the new education grant from NRC, allowed initiating the design of two new nuclear graduate courses for the Master program. Her applied research in education is in cognitive functioning using online learning technologies. She has redesigned two undergraduate courses in thermodynamics for online/distance delivery at the ME Department at VT. She is a co-author on a chapter that is published in the book titled ”Cases on building quality distance delivery
Energy Efficient Building Technologies Challenge where the students won first place and a$5000 prize. The students gained valuable hand-on project experience and far exceeded thecriteria laid out by the competition due to the inherent will to win. The TurboFlow prototype wasdesigned, 3D modeled, FEA simulated and experimentally tested while the students used anarray of engineering concepts. Engineering concepts in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics,machine design, dynamics, finite element analysis, materials, electric circuits, and life cycleanalysis were necessary throughout the project. The design and analysis of the TurboFlowprototype reached the students in the upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, namely the synthesisand evaluation levels, where
subject of on-goingefforts.Bibliographic Information1. McDonald, D., “Data Acquisition in a Vehicle Instrumentation Course,” 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society of Engineering Education.2. Zhang, Y., S. Cui, Y. Wang, and C. Akujuobi, “Taking Action: Enhancing Engineering Technology Laboratories with LabVIEW-Based Graphical Development Tools,” 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society of Engineering Education.3. Lohani, V., P. Delgoshaei, and C. Green, “Integrating LabVIEW and Real-Time Monitoring into Engineering Instruction,” 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society of Engineering Education.4. Delgoshaei, P., V. Lohani, and C. Green, “Introducing Dataflow Programming in a
AC 2012-5274: DEVELOPMENT OF A WRITING WORKSHOP FOR AMECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSEDr. Vincent Capece, University of Kentucky Vincent R. Capece is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering. Capece received his B.S. de- gree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1980, M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1982, and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1987. Page 25.459.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development of a Writing Workshop for a Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
AC 2012-4480: SIX HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO IMPROVESTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS LEARNINGFLUID MECHANICSMs. Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University Lynn Albers received her B.S. in mathematics with a minor in music from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and her M.S. in mechanical engineering with a concentration in nuclear engineering at Manhattan College in 1996. After working for Nortel Networks and the North Carolina Solar Center, Albers matriculated at North Carolina State University, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and will be the first of its kind at NCSU.Dr. Laura Bottomley
AC 2012-4716: A THERMODYNAMICS SHORT COURSE FOR A SUM-MER OUTREACH PROGRAMMs. Natalie Barrett, Purdue University, West Lafayette Natalie Barrett is a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at Purdue University and is interested in re- newable energy. Barrett received a B.S.M.E. from Florida State University, a M.S.M.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a M.B.A. from Indiana University. She has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Professor. She has also worked in industry at Pratt & Whitney for several years and served in roles such as Integrated Product Team Leader and Affordability and Risk Manager for the F135 Engine Program
the importance of validation, however they can be improved to help thestudents learn self-teaching of engineering software. For this reason, the exercises will beupdated for continued use in future courses. The solutions to the five exercises may also act astutorials for the other faculty in the department. Page 25.604.8V. Bibliography 1. Garrett, S. L. (1996) The Polk County Courthouse: a $47 Million Iaq Disaster. Presented at 1996 ASEE National Conference. 2. Schlager, N. Breakdown: Deadly Technological Disasters (Visible Ink Press, 1995). 3. Petroski, H. Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in
is a big picture as well as each weekly “little picture.” The sequence ofclass discussion topics should reflect this larger framework in such a way that the studentscan see how each week’s work has more completely limned the overall theme of the class - inthis case automotive-bicycle technology as a microcosm of mechanical engineering in general. Day oneThe first day of the class is used to introduce the philosophy and goals of the course. Beinga freshman class, with students unaccustomed to university rigor, the author has found itimportant to indicate clearly what will be expecting of the students over the semester. If anyof them were thinking that the course would be no work and an easy pass, they
AC 2012-4360: IMPROVING UPON BEST PRACTICES: FCAR 2.0Dr. John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is a professor of computer engineering and computer science at Ohio Northern Univer- sity. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagog- ical aspects of writing computer games. Estell is an ABET Program Evaluator, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Dr. John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University John-David Yoder received all of his degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in mechanical
, its relevance in engineering and engineeringeducation cannot be underestimated, especially when having today´s energy andenvironmental concerns in mind.Despite the importance of the subject, it has been considered as “dry and abstract” bystudents 1. One reason might be that the subject has become more and more difficult to relateto its applications –the fundamentals principles are the same as for 150 years ago, but theapplications become more and more refined due to technological developments andinnovations. If so, it is altogether not surprising that students find engineeringthermodynamics abstract, being separated from its applications – this might be devastating forthe students’ interest and possibility to learn.An increase in student
Engineering Education, 34(1), 26–39. 2. Engineers Canada. Accreditation Criteria. Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board Accreditation Criteria and Procedures. http://www.ccpe.ca/e/files/Accreditation_Criteria_Procedures_2010.pdf 3. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). General Criterion 3: Student Outcomes. Criteria for Accrediting Applied Science Programs, 2012 – 2013 http://www.abet.org/asac-criteria-2012- 201 4. Templeman, E. & Pilot, A. 2010. Strengthening the Link between Theory and Practice in Teaching Design Engineering: An Empirical Study on a New Approach. The International Journal of Technology and Design Education (21), 261-275. 5. Felder, R.M., Brent, R., 2004
generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of me- chanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has served as the Chair of ASEE divisions of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS) in 2006-07 and Mechanical Engineering in 2007-08. Sepahpour is an active member of ASME and ASEE. Page 25.100.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A REVISED
responsibility in the Army to include combat experience as a platoon leader. Evangelista holds a bachelor’s of science in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a master’s of science in engineering management from the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology. He recently graduated from Cornell University with a second master’s of science degree in mechanical engineering. The title of his thesis was ”An Experimental Demonstration of Converting Organic Liquids and their Aqueous Mixtures in a Film Boiling Reactor.” Page 25.595.1 c American Society for
50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and two invited book chapters. He serves on the conference committee for the International Conference on Wear of Materials and has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Young Engineering Faculty Research Award and Early Achievement in Teaching Award at Iowa State University. He received his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, and ASM
AC 2012-2942: THE EFFECT OF SURFACE AREA AND THERMAL DIF-FUSIVITY IN TRANSIENT COOLINGDr. Awlad Hossain, Eastern Washington University Awlad Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Wash- ington University, Cheney. His research interests involve the computational and experimental analysis of lightweight space structures and composite materials. Hossain received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ma- terials engineering and science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota.Dr. Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington UniversityProf. Martin W. Weiser, Eastern Washington University Martin Weiser is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Design
Nagy, Z., 2009, “Applying Kolb’s experiential learning cycle for laboratory education,” Journal of Engineering Education, 98, pp. 283–294. [4] Wieman, C. and Perkins, K., November 2005, “Transforming physics education,” Physics Today, pp. 36–41. [5] Fraser, D., Pillay, R., Tjatindi, L., and Case, J., 2007, “Enhancing the learning of fluid mechanics using computer simulations,” Journal of Engineering Education, No.4, pp. 381–388. [6] Goeser, P., Johnson, W. M., Hamza-Lup, F. G., and Schaefer, D., 2011, “VIEW - a virtual interactive web-based learning environment for engineers,” Advances in Engineering Education. [7] Terpenny, J. and Goff, R., 2006, “Utilizing assistive technology design projects and interdisplinary teams to