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Conference Session
Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Labs in Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Shameel Abdulla, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Ibrahim Hassan P.E., Texas A&M Univeristy at Qatar
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
Paper ID #19402Creating a Functional Model of a Jet Engine to Serve as a Testbed for Me-chanical Engineering Students’ Capstone Design WorkMr. Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar Yasser Al-Hamidi is currently working as a Laboratory Manager in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is specialized in instrumentation, controls and automation. He worked as a Lab Engineer in the College of Engineering, University of Sharjah before joining TAMUQ. His other experiences include Laboratory Supervisor/Network Administrator at Ajman University of Sci- ence and Technology (Al Ain
Conference Session
Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies Poster Session
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daisuke Aoyagi, California State University, Chico
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
calibration, static and dynamic signals, computer-controlled data acquisition,data analysis, documentation, and technical writing. All those topics are important andapplicable in the two-semester Capstone course in senior design project that the students arerequired to take, not to mention any future projects they may work on as professional engineers.As such, it is recommended that junior-level students take the Measurements andInstrumentation course before the Capstone project. In practice, however, a number of studentstake them concurrently.The Measurements and Instrumentation course is offered only in the spring semester, and is a 3-unit course consisting of two 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour lab session per week. The pre-requisites are 1
Conference Session
Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Arash Mahboobin, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
used in ourlaboratory course. For example, a Progressive Paper was used in a chemistry capstone course,in which students wrote a large laboratory report in sections, resulting in a complete paper at theend of the semester (Van Bramer & Bastin, 2013). The students received detailed feedback aftereach section, which they could use to revise the section as well as apply it to future sections.Breaking the laboratory report into parts and spreading the work out demonstrated to studentshow to keep the project manageable. Coinciding with this, the successive draft submissionsshowed significant score improvements over time, and the students and instructors valued theexperience. In fact, teaching a process approach to writing can support students
Conference Session
Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ryan Curtis Darfler, California State University, Maritime University; William W. Tsai, California State University, Maritime Academy
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Diversity
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
test section and actively with a recirculation valve. The total cost for this projectwas approximately $3500 and required 3 months of part-time work to construct. Flow velocitymeasurements in the test section were made by simple flow visualization and found velocityranged from 0.32-0.65 ft/s within a 6”x12”x12” test section. The water flume was subsequentlyused by a senior capstone project for testing of their water turbine. Student self-evaluations wereused to assess whether their experiences reinforced fluid mechanics concepts and developed theirskills in experimental fluid mechanics. The results show that the students believed their workwith the water tunnel strongly met the learning objectives in the area of experimental methodsand
Conference Session
Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Philip Varney, Georgia Institute of Technology; David MacNair, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
as well as other outcomes that are more distantto the experiments themselves; e.g., teamwork, professionalism and ethics, life-long learning,and especially communications. This paper will describe the process of redesigning a junior-level mechanical engineering laboratory on measurements and instrumentation at Georgia Tech.Such classes are fairly standard in ME curricula, and they are often structured so that a newmeasurement technique, or new sensor/actuator is introduced in every lab. Such courses have theadvantage of introducing students to a wide variety of instruments and measurement techniques,but they do this at the risk of losing conceptual connections between the weekly projects. Thispotential problem was compounded by the original
Conference Session
Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
suited for online delivery also include: greenscreen techniques, interactive video and software tools from the internet marketing niche tocapture and engage students6.During 2016 Summer Quarter, the set of videos provide a technical foundation made up of aseries of short mini-lectures (usually lasting between 5 to 10 minutes for each video) followed bya series of short assessments to verify and validate student understanding using Google Docs.Video recordings on the use of engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Labview/Multisim,PhET and Algodoo software, can serve as examples to show key concepts. The video instructioncan also include demonstrations of real-world applications. For example, in the capstone designcourses and projects, students