Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jordan Farina, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland ; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

. Identify and describe links between course knowledge and real-world systems. [connections]The research goal of the project was to determine if a structured module in an engineering coursecould help students engage more fully with psychrometrics. This module is also part of a largereffort at the University of Portland to embed the entrepreneurial mindset [1] across thecurriculum. The entrepreneurial mindset includes helping students connect engineering topicswith real world systems and building curiosity about systems. The learning objects of thismodule were aligned with this idea, and backward design was used to develop the evaporativecooling module.BackgroundThermodynamics students often struggle with the topic of psychrometrics. The topic

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Heather E. Dillon, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering students, and ties directly to ABET student outcome 3, “an ability to recognizeethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments,which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental,and societal contexts.” [3].This module is also part of a larger effort at the University of Portland to embed theentrepreneurial mindset across the curriculum. One facet of the entrepreneurial mindset asdefined by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is supporting students indeveloping advanced skills and mindsets to equip students to create personal, economic, andsocietal value [4]. Improving student skills to speak out about character issues is an

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Curriculum and Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Mechanical Engineering

work was initiated at a KEEN Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE)workshop. The author is grateful for the financial support of the Kern Family Foundation toattend the workshop. Facilitators and participants of the workshop provided helpful suggestionsduring the development of the module.References 1. T. A. Litzinger, L. R. Lattuca, R. G. Hadgraft and W. C. Newstetter, “Engineering education and the development of expertise,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2011, pp. 123-150. 2. M. M. Lombardi, “Authentic learning for the 21st century: An overview.” Educause learning initiative, 2007, pp. 1-12. 3. T. Byers, T. Seelig, S. Sheppard, and P. Weilerstein, “Entrepreneurship: Its Role in