Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the beginning of the course to assess their retention ofknowledge and to reinstate the importance of understanding of these for the proposedcourse. Also pre and post course assessment surveys were given to get the feedback fromthe students of their level of knowledge and understanding on this subject matter.Since this is a new course, no textbooks are available under this title that contained thesetopics. Advanced level research papers are available, so do the online materials fromcompany brochures, discussion forums and catalogs. Additionally, some students havepersonal experience in certain areas of some topics of this course that helped inpromoting discussions in the class.Besides the course syllabus and a course map, following learning

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Jose Antonio Riofrio, Quinnipiac University; Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, 2017].[2] “Best Undergraduate Engineering Program Rankings (No doctorate),” U.S. News and World Report, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.usnews.com/best- colleges/rankings/engineering-overall. [Accessed Nov. 27, 2017].[3] “Engineering Curriculum,” Harvey Mudd College, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.hmc.edu/engineering/curriculum/courses/engineering-course-descriptions/#84. [Accessed Nov. 30, 2017].[4] “ES 203 Electrical Systems, Course Syllabus,” Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.rose- hulman.edu/~berry123/Courses/ES203/ES203_Syllabus.pdf. [Accessed Nov. 27, 2017].[5] “Mechanical Engineering (ME),” Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, 2017. [Online

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreenidhi Krishnamoorthy, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Thermodynamics courses, large enrollment was the primary reason forintroduction of the discussion sections. It was agreed upon by the faculty committee that studentsshould be given the opportunity to interact with the instructor of the courses in smaller groups, toenhance engagement with the learning material. For the remaining two courses, high studentworkload and the lack of time to cover the syllabus in the allotted time steered the decisiontowards adding another credit unit for that those courses, and this was accomplished byintroducing discussion sections. Details about the courses such as number of students, number ofTeaching Assistants, and the duration of discussion section are indicated in Table 1.Table 1: Details about the enrollment, TAs, and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brett Batson, Trine University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

tenure. If,however, a student is not exposed to metacognition at the freshman level, Can such exposure stillhelp that student?A hypothesis of the instant work is that students at all academic levels may benefit from anunderstanding of their learning processes, and behaviors proven to enhance learning.In the fall 2017 semester, students in a first semester thermodynamics course (mostlysophomores and juniors) and students in a fluid mechanics course (mostly juniors) werepresented information about metacognition, roughly following the McGuire [1] model. After thefirst exam in each course, the students were asked to complete a questionnaire. Two brief,interactive lectures were then given introducing metacognition, Bloom’s taxonomy, and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Juan Abelló P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

health, with a particular focus on pediatric hip disorders and MRI-based methods.Dr. Juan Abell´o P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver Juan Abell´o, Ph.D., P.Eng, is an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Vantage One program at the University of British Columbia. His teaching interests include the integration of engineering science and design with language instruction. His technical research is in rotorcraft blade- vortex interaction (BVI) noise reduction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Creating problem taxonomies for WeBWorK in mechanical engineeringWeBWorK is an open-source, online homework system widely used in mathematics at the