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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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participation in engineering and providing international experiences and perspectives to undergraduate students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Report Writing in Undergraduate LabsAbstractFor undergraduate engineering students in lower level laboratory classes, writing up the resultsfrom their lab activities is often far more of a challenge than performing the activity itself oreven analyzing the results. The instructor’s challenge is therefore not just to teach concepts liketensile testing or cooling curve analysis, but also to teach technical communication and theaccepted reporting standards and vocabulary of the field. Over the last

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Afshin H. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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opportunity within theengineering and engineering technology fields. Initially the Applied Strength of Materials courseat PNW had been run with four laboratory experiments in addition to the lectures for class. Notonly were the four laboratory experiments enhanced with VR, and subsequent pre-labs in whichstudents used VR to better understand he laboratories, but four more laboratory exercises wereadded. This allowed the students to compare theoretical calculations to VR and software(MDSolids) calculations.2. Pre-ImplementationThe author has 7 years of teaching experience in the Applied Strength of Materials course andrealized that many of the teaching methods employed for the laboratory section of the coursewere outdated. At the beginning of 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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significantimprovement in students’ writing skills [21].The primary stage for the effort of improving engineering students’ writing skills can beincorporating writing instruction into laboratory courses which require lab reports. Requiringformal lab reports is an effective tool to integrate substantive learning into a written structure aswell as integrating communication skills into curriculum. It has been suggested that increasingthe number of collaborative writing assignments in the form of lab reports will result insignificant levels of improvement [18].This paper describes a series of teaching strategies to enhance students’ technical writing in thecontext of group-based lab assignments. A description of the methodologies employed, andoutcomes of assessment

Conference Session

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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state that “theneed for hands-on experience is presented as overcoming the emphasis on knowing ‘that’[theory] versus knowing ‘how’ [practice].” [3] Additionally, hands-on learning goes beyondenhancing technical knowledge and skills and provides invaluable opportunities to developprofessional and interpersonal skills [4].Laboratory work has long been recognized as a crucial component of a complete undergraduateengineering experience. Laboratory work teaches students how technical knowledge is applied inpractice. Many traditional labs have been successful in this regard [5]-[7]. Yet in light of therapidly changing professional landscape, disrupted by the unprecedented accessibility ofinformation and global connectivity via the Internet, and

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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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entitled “Experimental Methods in Orthopaedic Biomechanics” is an elective coursefor senior undergraduate and graduate mechanical and bioengineering students at our university.In this course, the students perform a series of 10 laboratory experiments that demonstratedifferent concepts related to orthopaedic biomechanics. The goal of two of these experiments isto observe the behavior of shape memory alloys (SMAs) which are a unique class of materialswith the ability to recover their shape. There is a growing body of evidence to show theeffectiveness of modular teaching to bring advance topics to engineering course. In this paper wehave incorporated a project-based learning (PBL) module into an advanced engineering course.This PBL module brings

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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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Paper ID #29797Impact of Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Curriculum: NewModules and Long-Term TrendsMs. Grace M. Lu, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Grace Lu is a Ph.D. student and the computational teaching assistant in the Materials Science and Engi- neering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her B.A. in Physics and Math from Northwestern University. Her research in the Trinkle Group uses machine learning and a variational principle to calculate mass transport in alloys.Prof. Dallas R Trinkle , University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dallas R. Trinkle

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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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interests include physics and engineering education, collaborating with Prof. Genaro Zavala’s Physics Education Research and Innovation Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico).Prof. Mathieu Brochu, McGill University Prof. Brochu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University, a Gerald Hatch Engineering Faculty Fellow on Additive Manufacturing and the Director of the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Laboratory. He is codirector of the NSERC network on Holistic Innovation on Additive Manufacturing and co-director of the Canadian Additive Manufacturing Network. Prior to Joining McGill in 2004, Prof. Brochu held key AM