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Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Lalley P.E., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael Langerman, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Umesh A. Korde, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

project and be part of a design team on a CNC project. These projectsrequire that the students complete fully dimensioned and toleranced engineering drawings and awork order including material selection and a planned build process.The third course in the sophomore year is a product development course focused on sustainableenergy. The lecture content includes renewable and sustainable fossil and nuclear energy. Thestudents complete a supporting lab series including solar, wind, fuel cell and hydroelectricexperiments. During the last half of the course the students design, build, and test an energyrelated product of their own invention receiving guidance and critique throughout the process

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Lulay, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Deborah S. Munro, University of Portland; Shazib Z. Vijlee, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

document and assess how wehave integrated design in all four years of a traditional mechanical engineering program.Overview  of  the  Design  Process  Engineering projects may be broken into several distinct phases, although in reality, the phasesoverlap or may be even be entirely different from that presented here. Design is rarely a linearprocess, it is iterative in nature. Each design project is unique, there is no one process to followfor design. In general, the design process can be described as: • Define the problem (which includes establishing objectives and criteria, and developing a plan), • synthesize math, science and engineering knowledge to develop alternatives, • evaluate the alternatives (through testing, analysis

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

Stream of CoursesAbstractThe author received a mini-grant from E^3 (Everyday Examples in Engineering) Organizationthe purpose of which is to help instructors both to use the existing examples from theorganization and also to develop more examples of common interest to the students takingcourses in the math, science and engineering areas. Per the information provided on the URL ofthis organization (http://www.engageengineering.org/?page=40), there are three types ofEveryday Examples in Engineering (E3s). First are lesson plans and solutions, most of whichhave been prepared using the principle of the 5Es: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate andEvaluate. The second type are demonstrations, including directions for building and using

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanical Engineering

) (10) Points Not completed, but Analysis correct and useful Everything None completed or completed and Weight: 10% Complete with minor correct errors Not thorough Thorough and Future Plan and/or reasonable including

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Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoman; Lucas Balmer, University of Oklahoma; Warren F. Smith, UNSW, Canberra, Australia

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Mechanical Engineering

engineered systems. Email URL http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/people/amefaculty/mistree.html LinkedIN http://www.linkedin.com/pub/farrokh-mistree/9/838/8baMr. Lucas Balmer, University of Oklahoma Lucas Balmer is a second year master’s student at the University of Oklahoma studying mechanical en- gineering. He has been working as a graduate teaching assistant for three semesters in design orientated courses. With this experience he is working on his thesis titled ”A Framework for Designing Courses that Support Design Thinking.” After graduation Lucas plans to work in the automotive industry.Dr. Warren F Smith, UNSW, Canberra, Australia Dr Warren Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information

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Research and Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Robson, California State University, Fullerton; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Hassanein Jaleel Radhi, California State University, Fullerton

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Mechanical Engineering

. Simple Communication Radio Controllers.The course activities were then mapped to the desired project lab development and outcomes.Specifically, the process for integrating inquiry techniques into the lab projects, contained thefollowing phases: • Determine faculty goals and objectives; analysis of potential students (students, who take the course are juniors and do not have a prior knowledge in the field of mechanical design and it’s applications); • Determine faculty role in the learning process and develop an instructional plan; • Design lab activities, assignments, and assessments that are congruent with four major desired student outcomes: (a) improved critical thinking, (b) greater capacity for

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

, A. L. (2011) “Assessment and Evaluation of a Comprehensive Course Modification Plan.” The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship. Vol. 2, No. 2. 2. Gerhart, A. L. and Carpenter, D. (2013) “Campus-wide Course Modification Program to Implement Active & Collaborative Learning and Problem-based Learning to Address the Entrepreneurial Mindset.” Proceedings of the 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA. 3. Gerhart, A. L. and Fletcher, R. W. (2011) “Project-Based Learning and Design Experiences in Introduction to Engineering Courses: Assessing an Incremental Introduction of Engineering Skills.” Proceedings of the 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Alex Birdwell, Northwestern University; Michael Peshkin, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

 sessions,  created  engineering  graphics  tutorials,  and  recorded  solutions  for  homework  and  example  problems.    Students  have  recorded  final  presentations  for  classes,  design  competition  entries,  and  promotional  videos  for  philanthropic  and  extra-­‐curricular  organizations.    Numerous  other  schools  have  constructed  Lightboards  from  our  plans  and  specifications,  which  we  have  offered  as  open-­‐source  hardware  (  http://lightboard.info  ).    Neither  we  nor  the  other  schools  have  yet  completed  assessments  of  effectiveness  of  Lightboard  videos  as  a  learning  tool,  as  compared  to  other  methods  of  video  creation.  At  the  present  time,  we  and  other  early  adopters  of  the

Conference Session

Dynamics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

project proposal, students were asked to document evidence of the plan they haddeveloped for their final coaster via concise descriptions, annotated sketches/graphics, roughlayouts in NoLimits, and notes they had made during the first half of the semester. At aminimum, they were expected to provide: • A list of major roller coaster features and the order of their arrangement. • A sketch or graphic showing the geometric layout of the major features. • Reasoning behind early design choices such as what makes the designed coaster unique, exciting, and attractive and why the particular layout was chosen.In the preliminary calculations, students were expected to present calculations for their out-and-back test track involving hills

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Thomas Smith; Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute; Esteban Garcia

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

that gamification of education provides both intrinsic and extrinsicmotivation is outlined. In this source, it’s further outlined that this type of gamification seems “to fosterhigher order thinking such as planning and reasoning”. Hence, badging fits well into our stated goals.This type of learning is only amplified by the feedback loop a badge system invites. Students all begintheir college experience with different backgrounds and levels of learning in written and oralcommunication. The badge feedback loop is designed to bring students to a solid integration of thecommunication skills at a developing or foundational level as outlined in the AAC&U VALUE rubrics,which provided the framework for our University’s Core Curriculum. The switch

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Jered H Dean, Colorado School of Mines

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Mechanical Engineering

  components;     e. construct  an  engineering  prototype  involving  multiple  custom-­‐ designed  and  constructed  components;   f. construct  a  prototype  of  a  system  composed  of  multiple  subsystems;   g. execute  a  verification  plan  for  an  engineering  challenge;   h. execute  a  validation  plan  for  an  engineering  challenge;                                                                                                                    1  For  the  purpose  of  this  paper,  verification  involves  proving  that  a  design  meets  the  technical

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Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Valenzuela P.E., University of Evansville; Valerie A. Stein, University of Evansville

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

readings from Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society (Davenport and Rosenthal, editors, 1967).7 Page 26.1153.6 The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025 (ASCE 2006)8Uncertainty, Risk, Climate Change, and the Future (Sorting Fact, Fear, and Fiction) The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Cannot Solve Our Global Problems (Petroski 2010)9 The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes and Conway 2014)10Energy: Public Reactions and Engineering Alternatives (Or, is there really a “War onCoal”?) The Essential Engineer (Petroski 2010)Infrastructure: Planning for the Future (Or

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah C. Baxter, University of St. Thomas; Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina; Bethany S. Fralick, University of South Carolina

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Mechanical Engineering

. The first module illustrated the solution toa two-dimensional particle equilibrium problems using force polygons. The second module usedforce polygons, and their extension to funicular polygons, to determine the magnitudes ofreaction forces in a beam problem. As a result of the first semester's work, an additional designbased module is planned for the Spring semester. Descriptions of model problems, on whichclassroom work was based, are presented here.An end-of-course Statics Concept Inventory Exam, was given to the two Statics classes, in whichGraphical Statics modules were presented, as well as to two other sections of Statics, at theUniversity of St. Thomas, that did not include the graphics modules. The results of thisassessment are

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared Rayleigh Wilson; Kurt C. Gramoll, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

of the 2D primitive variableNavier-Stokes equations, i.e. velocity and pressure. The Galerkin formulation produces a set ofnonlinear equations. After Picard linearization, a sparse linear equation solver, PARDISO1 fromthe Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL), was wrapped inside a Picard iteration scheme to convergeon the solution. Currently, turbulence is not modeled, and only low Reynolds Number (<50) areanalyzed. Future plans are to include more shapes, unsteady flow, and turbulence. Page 26.1706.2IntroductionClassrooms and the learning process are becoming increasingly interactive as they shift towardmore mobile and accessible platforms

Conference Session

Perspectives on Degree Completion and Graduate School Application

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington

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Mechanical Engineering

questionnaire, students provided such information as whetherthey started at a 4-year university, if they had changed their major, if they started their college mathbelow calculus, if they attended school full-time or part-time, the total number of years of collegestudy needed to complete their engineering degree, the factors that caused delay in their graduation,and other questions related to length of study for the degrees being offered. Engineering studentsstudying a variety of engineering programs participated in this survey. The results presented in thispaper provide useful information to guide the development of programs and plans for improvinggraduation rates for students enrolled in engineering.IntroductionIn recent years there has been a major

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University

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Mechanical Engineering

future plans for the course. Our assessment includesdetailed feedback from students and teaching assistants who completed the course in the initialtwo years.IntroductionAs a land grant institution with Research I status, The Ohio State University (OSU) has a longtradition of engineering education. In 2012, after over three years of preparation, the universityswitched from a longstanding quarter-based schedule to a semester schedule. The Department ofMechanical Engineering at OSU utilized this transition to review and improve their curriculumin order to better prepare their graduating engineers for entrance to the profession in anincreasingly competitive, global economy. Extensive input from alumni of the prior 20 years wasutilized with

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Benson, Arizona State University; Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University

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Mechanical Engineering

errors students make are often the result of blindlyapplying formulas without identifying which components are included and which do not apply.Students who made units conversion errors or other simple math errors were quick to identify theirmistakes and develop cursory plans for remediating. Students, however, who marked categoriesN (Evaluation error) and P (unknown) struggled immensely with the content and had little in the Page 26.1426.7way of a self-remediation plan. Table 4: Student Self-Reported Errors on Series and Parallel Circuits Quiz Problems Circuits Problem 1 Circuits Problem 2

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yeow Siow, University of Illinois Chicago

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Mechanical Engineering

- Page 26.938.2dimension in nature, and are ineffective in many situations. In recent years, many attempts havebeen made whereby the conventional methods are challenged. Programs such as NSF's Engage3and pedagogies such as classroom flipping4 are being demonstrated across many institutions.However, these strategies may present an adoption-rate challenge among instructors, particularlyseasoned professors and lecturers who may have already developed structured lesson plans thatare resistant to modifications. Other alternatives such as immersive visualization technology areoften costly and require specialized laboratory and wearable equipment, creating a disconnectbetween lecture and spatial learning.The positive impact of active learning, spatial

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soumik Banerjee, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

changes to theway the students form project teams and assessment of individual performances within groupscan enhance student experience and engagement in the group project. For instance, the author letstudents choose teams, which could have led to some skewness in the teams. While some groupscomprised students that were already highly engaged in class, other groups had students thatwere not as interested. Forming more well-rounded groups with a range of students in eachwould promote positive interdependence, collaborative skills and peer-to-peer mentoring asshown by studies of Felder et al.11 For future offerings of this course with the group-projectcomponent, the author plans on letting students fill brief survey based on which students would

Conference Session

Dynamic Systems and Control

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chan Ham, Kennesaw State University ; Mohsin Mohammad Taufiq, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

detailed the team’s work. Completion of the prototype was alsorequired which covered the building, testing, and evaluation of the prototype. Additionally, eachstudent was required to maintain an engineering logbook of the efforts on the project, keepingtrack of the time spent, the tasks being worked on, etc. The project required planning, proposalpresentation, scheduling, engineering, implementation, and written and oral presentations ofproject results.The assessment of the course was twofold: 1) learning of a design process and 2) developing aprototype by utilizing concepts and technical skills learned from courses throughout themechatronics curriculum. Based on the course objective, the following items were used to assessstudents’ learning

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanmay Gurjar, The University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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Mechanical Engineering

itselfbased on student feedback.Bibliography1. Badri, M.A., Mortagy, A., Davis, D., and Davis, D. “Effective Planning of R&D stages: A Simulation Approach,” International Journal of Project Management, 15:6, Dec. 1997, pp. 351-358.2. Thomke, S.H., “Managing Experimentation in the Design of New Products,” Management Science, 44:6, Jun. 1998, pp. 743-762.3. Drezner, J., and Huang, M., On Prototyping: Lessons from RAND Research, RAND Corp., 2009, downloaded March 29, 2013, Web, http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP267.html.4. Yang, M., and Epstein, D., “A Study of Prototypes Design Activity and Design Outcome,” Design Studies, 26:6, pp. 649-669, 2005.5. Houde, S.,and Hill, C., “What Do Prototypes Prototype?”, in

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis E Monterrubio, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Mechanical Engineering

his Ph.D. he worked at the University of California, San Diego as postdoctoral fellow in the area of bioacoustics. He teaches dynamics, machine design, numerical methods and finite element method. His research inter- ests are in vibration, numerical methods, finite element methods, continuum mechanics and acoustics. He has work for the automotive industry in drafting, manufacturing, testing (internal combustion engines –power, torque and exhaust emissions, vibration fatigue, thermo-shock, tensile tests, etc.), simulations (finite element method) and as a project manager (planning and installation of new testing facilities).Dr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is a University Professor

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jane Kokernak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

-stakes meeting may have reducedsocial loafing and contributed overall to students’ verbal participation.I. IntroductionIn the workplace and the academy, professional engineers, researchers, and students typicallyfunction in teams. Even if individual team members have diverse technical backgrounds andexpertise, the effectiveness of their work together depends on more than engineering ‘chops’. Inorder to negotiate, plan, motivate, and integrate tasks at the team and even department level,engineers must practice and become skilled at interpersonal tasks like “communication,collaboration, networking, feedback provision and reception, teamwork, lifelong learning, andcultural understanding”1. As a collective rather than individual endeavor, the

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken C Stanton, Colorado State University; Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

be aligned with these national objectives.The planning team consisted of the authors as this small team possessed the expertise, resourcesand authority to perform the needs assessment and to implement the recommendations thatresulted. Dr. Stanton worked for Delphi Automotive after earning his B.S degree in ElectricalEngineering at Clarkson University. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education at VirginiaTech, and was employed at Colorado State University as a Research Scientist under the HEVEprogram. Dr. Thomas Bradley was Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at CSU withindustrial and academic experience in HEV engineering and analysis. Bradley was PI for CSU’sportion of the HEVE program and had authority to implement necessary

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesca G. Polo, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

the solutions andconsider any additional feedback, they engage metacognitively: they self-assess what they havelearned, and what they still need to know. They are self-directing their learning. According toAmbrose et al., 27 the key metacognitive skills to becoming self-directed learners are "studentsmust learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan theirapproach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed" (p. 191). When thesemetacognitive skills are nurtured, students' complex cognitive reasoning skills are enhancedwhich affect goal setting and improved performance.DiscussionDiscipline-based educational research seeks to understand impediments to student learningwithin a given

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Sylvester Jaia Jr.; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

and instrumentation selection.10- The students had a chance to improve their project management skills by setting up project plan, time line, budge and cost table and etc.In this project, the assessment has been mostly based on the observations of faculty advisor whomeet with the student team once a week over the course of two consecutive semesters. In theweekly meetings, as the students present their progress and future plans, the advisor reviews theirdesign and interacts with the students while assessing them. The students submit their reportprogressively in 4 revisions as their reports are improved gradually after rigorous grading by thefaculty advisor. The final report is a strong assessment tool that the faculty uses for

Conference Session

Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David R. Mikesell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

future,” and 36%strongly agreed with that statement. Over half of the students found programming amicrocontroller more enjoyable than their other programming assignments; only 13% found itless enjoyable.This instruction module and survey will be repeated at the end of spring 2015. With the samenumber of robots available this year, the instructors plan to modify the exercises such that arobot will be issued to a student group (rather than one per student) to enable them to work onthe assignment outside of class.The questions shown in Table 1 were answered on a Likert scale where 1 = strongly disagree, 2= disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, and 5 = strongly agree

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Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Derrick Rodriguez P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Joel M. Bach, Colorado School of Mines

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Mechanical Engineering

, prior to starting theprojects. Obviously that request is not voiced by students very often and was new to the facultythat delivered the course the first time. The second offering of the course is still ongoing and wewill have more data in the future once our current students complete the courses in their junioryear. We are planning to give the same students that took our course this year an exit surveytheir junior year to determine how the introduction course helped them in their follow-oncourses.1) Recktenwald, G.W. and Hall, D.E. “Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design andMeasurement in a Freshman Engineering Course.” AC 2011-2642. ASEE 2011

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Research and Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel K. Anderson, Clemson University; Todd Schweisinger, Clemson University; Barbara Jean Speziale, Clemson University

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Mechanical Engineering

plans, and development of relationships with faculty and fellow studentshave been studied by a number of researchers4,5,6. We believe that hands-on, team basedresearch also has the potential to help reinforce the importance of technical concepts andcultivate skills that will help bridge the gap between recent graduates’ skills and the needs ofindustry. The novel Creative Inquiry program at Clemson University offers a mechanism forfaculty and students to conduct funded research across disciplines. The unique internal fundingmodel for CI encourages faculty to engage undergraduate students in research by providing Page 26.1406.8funds for equipment

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mohamed Hakeem Mohamed Nizar, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology: Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering

fortwo and three mass systems, a single mass system was chosen for in-class implementation forsimplicity. Two and three mass virtual models are more appropriate for a senior level controlsystems or vibrations elective, and we plan to introduce the virtual laboratories into those classesin 2015. Page 26.1703.4We have also completed a model of the ECP-505 inverted pendulum for use in a senior levelcontrol systems course 38 . The ECP design is unlike other inverted pendulum models in that the (a) ECP rectilinear stage 37 (b) Simulink model of ECP rectilinear stage Figure 1: ECP-210 rectilinear stage and