Conference Session

Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wadach, Monroe Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #11784Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into AcademiaProf. John Wadach, Monroe Community College John Wadach is a professor and department chair of the Engineering Science and Physics Department at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. He has taught a variety of physics and engineering courses in his 30 year career. Wadach is most inspired by the use of design-build projects in his engineering courses. Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into Academia is the title of the NSF TUES grant that he and co-PIs George Fazekas and Paul Brennan were awarded $200,000. Wadach has been the co-organizer of

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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Two Year College Division

creating a Connect Four game with AI that played against the user.Dynamics. Our Dynamics course is as much of a Capstone course as anything for McLennanEngineering. The embedded project for this class is for students to design a Rube Goldbergmachine. Rather than the typical high-school version of this project, potentially involving a lotof dominos and maybe an exploding potato, students must meet specific design goals todemonstrate certain types of motion studied within the class. There are requirements about set-up time and success rate of the machine. (Anyone who has attempted such a machine willrecognize the challenge in having a five-minute reset time and an 80% successful completionrate.) Students must build the machines in a CAD program and