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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto; Simo Pajovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cheuk Yin Larry Kei, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, York University; Scott D. Ramsay, University of Toronto

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Use of a Low-Cost, Open Source Universal Mechanical Testing Machine in an Introductory Materials Science Course1. IntroductionIn recent decades, there has been a paradigm shift in engineering and science education frommore traditional passive learning (transmission of facts and knowledge from a lecturer to thestudents) to active learning (engaging with applications and learning through collaboration andcooperation with peers) [1]-[3]. Increasingly, instructors and employers are recognizing that athorough knowledge of engineering theory alone (natural sciences, mathematics, and design) isnot enough to prepare a student to be a fully competent engineer. Rolston and Cox

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Engineering and Bio-engineering. Whilethermo-fluidics and aerospace go hand in hand with each other, the joint materials and manufacturingsection relates more to machine design. Bio-engineering includes biomaterials and their manufacturingprocesses whereas the conventional manufacturing processes in the macroscale level give a generalintroduction to the processes that are often used in the metalworking industries. This general introductorycourse is offered to the fourth year undergraduate students in both Mechanical Engineering (ME) andIndustrial Engineering (IE) in their Bachelor’s Degree programs; and the course is compulsory for both theprograms [1]. This paper addresses this joint venture of ME and IE undergraduate students in acompulsory course

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Sayyad Zahid Qamar P.E., Sultan Qaboos University; Majid Al-Maharbi, Sultan Qaboos University; Josiah Cherian Chekotu, Dublin City University

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and telecommunications, agriculture and environment, etc [1]. Broad areascovered by materials science and engineering include synthesis and processing of materials;structure, composition, and properties; tailoring of material properties; and performancetesting and applications. The importance and role of this multi-disciplinary field is becomingeven more significant for the current and future world due to increasing concerns abouteconomics and business, new technologies, environment and ecology, depletion of traditionalmaterials, etc [2].Core MSE CoursesThe undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program at our university includes two serialcore courses Materials Science (MS), and Engineering Materials (EM). The MS course servesas an

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University

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strategies, modifying content, giving instructor feedback on muddiest points, andcreating class activities that address IBS. Uncovering and addressing such IBS makes teachingboth more challenging and rewarding with the opportunity of improving the classroom experiencefor both students and instructors.IntroductionResearch has shown that the combination of active learning through student engagement combinedwith frequent formative feedback is more effective than traditional knowledge transmission bylecture for achieving improved student attitude, persistence, and achievement (1-5). In student-centered learning, students engage with one another in relevant activities that promote conceptualdevelopment by defining and using vocabulary, discussing and

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University; Gregory Mark Skutches, Lehigh University; Sabrina Starr Jedlicka, Lehigh University

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data and correlations extracted from this course to addresswhether project-based learning aids in enhancing student appreciation for materials science andengineering and how the utilization of different mentoring types enhances the effect.Introduction:Materials science is a field of study that is instrumental to large-scale problem solving in society[1-2]. The importance of the field is often apparent to students choosing to major in the field; theunique contribution of materials science principles to engineering as a whole is often less obviousto non-majors. In part, this is due to the societal tendency to champion a final product (or individualcarrying out a heroic act), rather than the engineers, scientists, and technicians who made

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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paper outlines the current versions of the activities that I use to supportstudent writing in MSE 281. All of the full documents are included at the end as appendices.Initial Exposure to Technical WritingJust before students begin working on their first lab report, I assign them a technical journalarticle to read [1] and a set of questions about the article to answer. The article is short (3.5pages including many graphs) and related to a topic that we are currently covering in lecture(solid state diffusion). The article I use was found with help from my university’s engineeringlibrarian. The students must answer questions related to both the content of the article (e.g. Whatis the diffusivity of copper when the carbon content is 0.6% and the

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Laura Ann Gelles, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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of contextual factors that arecritical to addressing global issues such as sustainability, social impact and the environment.Helping students to address these contextual factors is critical to the development of an engineergraduate to have the skills and aptitudes needed for confronting the challenges of the 21stcentury. In recognition of this, considerations of social and environment context and factors arespecifically stated in ABET student outcomes 2 and 4 [1].Sustainability requires a balance between the competing interests of various stakeholders whichform a Triple Bottom Line [2]. These three aspects, sometimes called the ‘3 Ps’ are Economic(Profit), Environmental (Planet), and Social responsibility (People) [3] can be described as

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Sabrina Starr Jedlicka, Lehigh University

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engineering. Week 4 introduces the first case studyin engineering ethics. Typically, for the class in question, the Bhopal disaster is the first casestudied in depth. Students will prepare case study reports, applying each ethical theory to the case.Students are then further asked to identify what could/should have been done differently. Studentsare encouraged to examine cases from all angles, as is common in ethical analysis.In Week 6, the students were given the creative writing assignment. This assignment is shown inFigure 1. This assignment was initially intimidating to students. However, all 18 students in theFall 2019 cohort scheduled a meeting with the faculty member in charge of the course within 1week of being given the assignment. There

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Mohamed Samir Hefzy, The University of Toledo; Mohammad Elahinia, The University of Toledo; Ahmadreza Jahadakbar, The University of Toledo; Bethany Arn, The University of Toledo; Mohammadreza Nematollahi, University of Toledo

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additional skills in areas of functional materials to bioengineeringstudents that they would not otherwise receive. The PBL module that consists of lectures andlaboratory experiments was seamlessly connected with the rest of the content of the course. Thisapproach allowed us to create a low barrier way of adopting shape memory alloy by introducingadvanced topics in the existing course [1, 2].Nitinol (Nickel-titanium, NiTi) alloys are one of the most well-known and most usedbiocompatible SMAs. Shape memory alloy market (predominantly NiTi) is a growing marketand is expected to arrive at $33.9 billion market by 2027. This is mainly due to the fact thatNitinol has widely being used in medical devices as the base material for transcatheter stent

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Jacob Kelter, Northwestern University; Jonathan Daniel Emery, Northwestern University; Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University

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. He has also developed many computation-based curricular units for use in K-16 that are used internationally. He is the co-inventor of, and continues to develop restructuration theory that describes the changing content of knowledge in the context of ubiquitous computation, and its implications for making sense of complexity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Learning About Diffusion at Two Levels: Agent-based Micro-scale and Equation-based Macro-scaleAbstractDiffusion is a crucial phenomenon in many fields of science and engineering, and it is known tobe difficult for students to learn and understand. Ideally, students should understand (1) themacro-level

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Oscar Sanchez-Mata, McGill University; Mathieu Brochu, McGill University; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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-related positions: he was the Research Officer on electron beam welding and freeforming of aerospace materi- als at the NRC-IAR-AMTC, and Post Doctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He is leading research projects in two main fields: (1) additive manufacturing and joining of advanced materials, and (2) high heating rate sintering processes. He received several distinctions, including the ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers (2009), the METSOC Brimacombe Award (2011) and the AAC Donald I. Johnson Award (2014).Prof. Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago,Chile Genaro Zavala is a Full Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford; Kamau Wright, University of Hartford; Paul E. Slaboch, University of Hartford

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further develop students’ technical writing skillsthroughout the semester by introducing a three-part strategy: (1) Focused instruction time –Allocating select times throughout the semester to focus on one section of lab report; (2)Reviewing samples as a group – determining which samples or attributes of samples wereeffective or ineffective; and (3) Peer review – Students reviewed each other’s lab reports andgave feedback. The goal of focused instructional time and reviewing samples was to allowstudents to improve their writing skills by focusing on one section of lab report at a time, andthus learning the writing techniques more effectively. The peer-review part of the strategy wasdesigned to draw students’ close attention to quality of writing

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Afshin H. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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Materials is an important foundation course for several engineering andengineering technology programs such as Mechanical and Civil Engineering and EngineeringTechnology. Over the past 18 months, the author has developed and taught a set of LaboratoryExperiments for this class at Purdue University Northwest (PNW), using a range of differentlearning and teaching methods, to enhance and improve the student learning in this coretechnical course.Laboratory experiments, using different methods, have been employed and examined to enhancestudent learning. Development of Virtual Reality (VR) experiments has received NSF supportand several VR experiments have been developed for on-line or physical delivery [1] [2] of theStrength of Material courses. Also

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Blake Herren, University of Oklahoma; Ryan Cowdrey; Weston Scott Sleeper; Colin Bray; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma

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mechanicalengineering programs, in most instances, without demonstrating the connection of concepts andapplications [1-3]. Most undergraduate curricula of mechanical engineering programs emphasizehow well students can solve textbook questions of a single topic, without deeply understandingthe connection between various courses and fundamental engineering concepts. Althoughengineering curricula are well-designed and highly structured, a few research studies have reportedthat students who successfully completed the engineering education still faced challenges duringthe college to career transition [4, 5].In the last two decades, significant efforts have been focused on the development, implementation,and application of novel additive manufacturing technologies

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Nicole Johnson-Glauch, California Polytechnic State University; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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engineeringprograms. A recent study at a large public institution in the West found that 38% of engineeringstudents who responded to a mental health survey (n~700) screened as high risk of seriousmental illness. When broken down by major, 25% of the materials engineering studentrespondents were at high risk, and 28% of the mechanical engineering student respondents wereat high risk, compared to 38% for the overall engineering population. To address this problem,we designed a study to understand the mental wellness goals important to materials engineeringand mechanical engineering students. This study sought to answer the following questions: 1)what types of goals, related to mental well-being, are important to materials engineering andmechanical engineering

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Grace M. Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica Krogstad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicola H. Perry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering class; thus,students will be expected to use computational tools from their first year onwards. In this paper,we survey students who are currently taking courses with integrated computation to explore theeffects of gradually introducing students to programming as well as both macro- and micro-scalesimulations over multiple years. We investigate the improving confidence level of students, theirattitude towards computational tools, and their satisfaction with our curriculum reform. We alsoupdated our survey to be more detailed and consistent between classes to aid in furtherimprovements of our MSE curriculum.1 IntroductionComputational tools have become indispensable for materials science both in research andindustry. According to the

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Tracy Zhang, Michigan State University; Robert Allen Bubeck, Michigan State University; Therese Aimei Joffre, Midland High School; Grace Anne Bremmer, H. H. Dow High School; Logan Patrick McNamara, H. H. Dow High School; Aaron Michael Heydenburg; Bingbing Li, Central Michigan University

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of theseconditions require the removal of shattered or malignant bone tissues and result in bone defects.Small bone defects can heal spontaneously through a regenerative healing process which followscellular and molecular mechanisms similar to those for the formation of embryonic bone.1,2However, bone defects larger than a critical size cannot heal spontaneously via the regenerativehealing process. Critical-sized bone defects are generally defined as those greater than 1-2 cm orthose correspond to greater than 50% loss of the bone circumference, depending on the anatomiclocation of the host tissue.3–5 Critical-sized bone defects, both congenital and acquired, areserious and costly impairments. To induce the bone regeneration across critical

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Kaitlin Tyler, ANSYS Inc.; Claes Fredriksson, ANSYS Granta; Hannah Melia, ANSYS Inc.

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moving away from the “traditional lecture” model and moving towards more student-centricteaching models [1], such as active learning. The idea of active learning, or actively includingstudents in the teaching and learning processes, is not new and has been discussed for a long time[2]. While the benefits of active learning have been widely recognized [3]–[7], implementationcan often be met with resistance. STEM fields offer a source of resistance, where the lecturemodel often seems the best due to the sheer volume of theoretical information being taught inany given class.Besides the evolving discussions in active learning, a shift in higher education has come intofocus within engineering disciplines. What industries are looking for in college