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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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students and 2) does incorporating a mental wellbeing assignmentimprove students’ generalized self-efficacy beliefs? Our results indicate that participants’ mentalhealth goals centered around eight areas and focused on aspects of physical health such as sleepand exercise. While we did not observe a statistically significant increase in self-efficacy withthe mental health action plan assignment, students with lower initial self-efficacy scores showedbigger increases compared to students with higher initial self-efficacy scores. This resultsuggests that these types of assignments may preferentially benefit students with low self-efficacy.BackgroundThere is a growing concern about the mental wellness of undergraduate engineering students. Arecent

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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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Operating Board (BEGOB) as a representative to the Committee on Administration and Finance of the ASME (2011-2013) and a two-year term (2013-2015) on BEGOB as a rep. to the strategic planning committee. He has also served as a judge for the ASME Scholarship Program’s University applications from March from 2016 to 2018.Prof. Mohammad Elahinia, The University of Toledo Dr. Elahinia is a University Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Chair in the Mechanical, Indus- trial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) Department at The University of Toledo. He graduated with his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in August 2004. After graduation, he joined the faculty

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

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

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in safety, design and all processes available to perform any kind of work for a raw material. It would be important to have a space in the course to perform cost management analysis for the raw material, for the elaboration process, for maintenance. It would be interesting to perform statistical analysis, design, planning, operations management, simulations and problem solving. - We were completely lost when the professor was mentioning all the concepts he was going to teach us in the semester. But thanks to the professor’s easy to understand teaching, we survived. Impressively, the professor explained the concepts with real life problems that made it incredibly easy to understand. He

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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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taxonomy of significant learning and the associatedintegrated course design approach in the teaching of the MS course at our university. Asurvey was conducted at the end of the semester to collect student responses on theachievement of course outcomes using this methodology. Full survey results would becomemore meaningful after the course is offered a few more times using this approach. However,student responses during class activities and discussions, and the course survey indicate thatthe new approach (description of course outcomes, and planning and execution of learningactivities and assessments) is well received. Students feel that they are learning the basics ofMSE in a more well-structured, and lively, energetic, and interactive

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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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instruction on the “Introduction” section of the lab report. Instructions on Materials andMethods, Results, and Discussion were all one week apart, and occurred when studentssubmitted drafts for labs 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Focused instruction on references andappendix sections is part of the future implementation plan. The purpose of this strategy istwofold. First, focusing on one component of lab report at a time allows the students to bettergrasp the material. Moreover, receiving these instructions as they continuously write lab reportshelps them apply the received instructions more effectively.3.2. Reviewing Samples as a GroupThe focused instructional time was accompanied by reviewing samples of effective andineffective writing about the same

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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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declared their major. We suspect thatmany of these students were first-year students who likely planned to major in Materials Science,thus leading us to analyze the data by student year in college (Figure 7).Figure 6. Scores on the learning rubric, relative to a common mean, as measured in units ofdeviation above or below the mean. A green color indicates scores above the mean, a red colorindicates scores below the mean. Saturation scale was set such that most saturated green occurs at+0.17, while for red it is -0.25. BIOE = Bioengineering, IDEAS = Integrated degree inEngineering, Art, and Science, ISE = Industrial and Systems Engineering, MAT = MaterialsScience and Engineering, MEM = Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Questions for rows(a)-(p

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Afshin H. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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Spring 2016 semester, the author brainstormed variousalterations that can be done to the labs to further develop students’ understanding of conceptslearned in the course. A plan was put in motion to incorporate more laboratories to allowstudents more “hands-on” experiences. Additionally, it was decided to create a laboratoryhandbook, with pre-labs, for students to complete before performing laboratory testing. The goalwas to have the new labs and handbook ready for the Fall 2017 semester.Before the implementation of the VR enhanced laboratory experiments, students in AppliedStrength of Materials were taught how to perform the laboratory experiments via the“traditional” method. As can be seen in the flowchart in Figure 1, students were to print

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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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the other integrated modules as a whole were collected, but not considered for thispaper. Because this module was developed while the class was being taught, certain logisticalissues could be avoided on subsequent iterations. For example, the placement of this module inthe course schedule could be more strategic. The low in-class attendance could be a result ofstudents attending conferences, the class occurring directly after an exam, and students beingaware that their instructor’s planned absence. Lastly, integration of feedback about theaccessibility case studies was elicited from professionals with expertise with the disabilitycommunity but not enough time was given to incorporate that feedback before the class wastaught. Future iterations

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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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= 7.8 ∗ 10−3 ). The increase between 2018 and 2019 may haveoccurred due to the new inclusion of freshmen in the survey. The freshmen have only beenexposed to one module in MSE 182 rather than the two in MSE 201, which had previously beenthe first course with integrated computational tools in the MSE curriculum. We conclude thatexposure to the computational modules is fulfilling students’ desire for more computation in theirMSE classes, but that more modules are still desired. We are exploring whether modules can beadded to more MSE classes and plan to expand the number of modules in MSE 182 and MSE422, which currently only have one.6 ConclusionSince the survey of employers of MSE students by Thornton et. al. 1 , our department hasintegrated