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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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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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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Creating an Engineering Action Plan for EthicsAbstractThe purpose of this research was to develop a classroom project module that supported studentsin developing an action plan for ethics. The module connects ABET criteria related to ethics andevolving research in ethics in other disciplines. The module was implemented in the context of alarger project in a junior level heat transfer course. A student survey was developed andmeasured student perceptions of learning objectives. Students reported they found the activitieshelpful for building the skill of ethics action planning, particularly the ability to explore multiplesolution paths. The results indicate this type of action

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

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J. Asuncion Zarate-Garcia, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Ariadna Serrano-Reyes, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Israel Zamora-Hernandez

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Tecnologico de Monterrey. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MODEL TO ENHANCE ACADEMIC QUALITY IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMSAbstractOne of the main challenges in all areas of education is to ensure that the academic quality of theteaching – learning process is enhanced continuously. In this work, we present a continuousimprovement process based on Deming´s Plan-Do-Check-Act (also known as PDCA) continuousquality improvement model which was implemented in the School of Engineering and Sciencesat Tecnologico de Monterrey campus Puebla. This model encompasses a one-year cycle, it startsin August and ends in July. Faculty of the Academic Departments participate in the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Labs & Projects - New Opportunities

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Camilo Ordonez, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Tomas Fajardo, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Joshua James Blank, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Paper ID #28559Structuring a Mechatronics Open Design Project to Reinforce MechanicalEngineering Concepts and Design SkillsDr. Camilo Ordonez, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Camilo Ordonez received the B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Bolivariana University in 2003. He obtained his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University in 2006 and 2010. Currently, Camilo is a Teaching Faculty at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research interests include dynamic modeling of legged and wheeled vehicles, terrain identification, motion planning, and low level

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Ozgul Yasar-Inceoglu, California State University, Chico

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). Questions Category 1. I know how small nanoscale is compared to human hair. A 2. I can name a technology/device using nanotechnology in my daily life. A 3. I plan to seek for a nanotechnology related engineering position when I graduate. R 4. I plan to continue my advanced degree education in the nanotechnology field when I R graduate. 5. I plan to seek for nanotechnology internship programs in the industry or research lab. R 6. If there were a nanotechnology seminar in Chico, I would attend it

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

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Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Donald Jerome Hake II, York College of Pennsylvania

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. The Series 8345 Prime-Focus be remotely controlled. Main Antenna The faculty underestimated the complexity and scope of the project and thought this could be accomplished within a year. This turned out not to be the case for this capstone. This year-long course begins in the summer semester, usually the research and design portion of the project, and finishes in the spring semester during the build and test portion of the project. A fall Co-op semester separates the two semesters. Typical capstone design projects require that the students research their project, plan and design an appropriate solution, and then in the spring semester build and refine the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Dynamics I

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Daeyeoul Lee, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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-efficacy [15]. Pintrich and hiscolleagues developed the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to measurecollege students’ SRL skills [5], and he proposed a conceptual framework for SRL in the collegeclassroom [9]. The framework consists of four phases that are explained in four areas forregulation; the four phases are ‘forethought, planning, and activation,’ ‘monitoring,’ ‘control,’and ‘reaction and reflection’; the four areas for regulation are ‘cognition,’ ‘motivation/affect,’‘behavior,’ and ‘context.’ Table I shows Pintrich’s SRL model [9]. TABLE I PHASES AND AREAS FOR SELF-REGULATED LEARNING Areas for regulation Phases

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Dynamics I

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Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University

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intermediate dynamics is useful in a real-life setting.Figure 4 captures student responses regarding ancillary skills they may have developed as aresult of the project. Here the results were more mixed. Based on subplots B and C the majorityof students felt the project did help them in experimental planning and data capture and inlearning new ways to produce visualizations in MATLAB. However, few students found theproject provided practice in producing physical hardware using campus MakerSpaces. This islikely because many teams ended up producing their sensor mountings using off-the-shelfcomponents and did not need to use the campus facilities.Finally, Figure 5 presents results regarding how much students enjoyed the project and how wellthey thought

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

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Haejune Kim, Texas A&M University

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Research Engineer Indianapolis, IN 03/2008 – 01/2009 •Led a prod- uct development team for new product development •Designed and conducted leak testing of various mechanical components for the seal integrity •Performed mechanical design for new products using Solid- Works •Designed experiments and conducted data acquisition measurement via a LabVIEW-based leak measurement system Korean Army Helicopter dispatcher Chungnam, Korea 04/1999 – 06/2001 •Managed flight plans of 40 helicopters supervising 8 assistants •Analyzed and evaluated meteorological information for the safety of flight •Maintained no accidents for 2 years; elected best helicopter unit TEACHING • MEEN 461, Heat Transfer • MEEN 464, Heat Transfer

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Remote World

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Brooke-Lynn Caprice Andrade, Boise State University; Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Douglas Hagemeier, Boise State University; Harish Subbaraman, Boise State University

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question about a certain concept, I just referred them to that video”Discussion and ConclusionIn summary, there was an agreement that VOH were beneficial to the students. From thefeedback instructors received from course evaluations, it confirmed that the students had a betterunderstanding of the course information. The benefits to the instructors were not having to repeatmaterial, being able to accommodate more students, a more constructive meeting, and increasedstudent participation. Students also benefitted from being able to do office hours from home. Allprofessors plan on continuing to use VOH and found it to be an effective solution to their needsand wouldn’t change anything about it.Out study indicates that the student faculty interaction

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Nicholas DiZinno, New York University; Yona Jean-Pierre, New York University

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deployment as well as our internaltesting and the results of the soft-pilot study of the system. In section IV, we conclude with a summaryof our findings to date as well as our plans for the future.II. Development of the AGPTerminologyThe following terms are core to the CAD industry: Computer Aided Design (CAD) is a frameworkwhere a computer is used as a tool for designing and drafting of mechanical parts. A Solid Model(also referred to as a part) is a 3-D representation of an object within the computer. It has mass,occupies volume and has all the properties of a real object (e.g. center of gravity). A Drawing (alsoreferred to as a two-dimensional drawing or a blueprint) is a flat paper representation of a solid model.It is typically an arrangement

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

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Farid Breidi; Jotam E. Chen, University of Southern Indiana; Madelyn D. Sturgeon; Justin Michael Amos, University of Southern Indiana

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competitive, which can ultimately help them in the competitive engineering world.The aim of this project is to create a miniature racing car that will provide students with the abilityto apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specific needs with consideration ofmultiple factors. Ultimately, having the ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative environment, establish goals, plan tasks, andmeet objectives is crucial to completing a project efficiently.A significant part of this project is to examine how every mechanical change that can be done fromrace to race can be implemented to the miniature racing car in order to make it powerful enoughto successfully finish the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Liang Zhu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Ronghui Ma, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Timmie Topoleski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Deepa Madan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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initiated and/or promoted by theME S-STEM program. Typically, all ME undergraduate students receive advisement by staff members in theDean’s office during the 1st year and later by a faculty member in ME. Undergraduate studentsmay talk to their advisor once a semester to get clearance on their registration for the nextsemester. “Extra faculty mentoring” refers to the mentoring from a faculty mentor assigned toeach scholar in our scholarship program. The ME S-STEM scholars are encouraged to meet theirfaculty mentors when needed to discuss not only their academic progress, but also their futurecareer plan and personal issues. Most of the scholars had talked to their faculty mentors morethan three times each semester, suggesting that they felt

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Team/Project-based Pedagogy and Approaches

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Jennifer Lynne Tennison, Saint Louis University; Jenna L. Gorlewicz, Saint Louis University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University

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monitor Test Create a test protocol Create a test protocol for 9 protocol home security systemThe first few activity lessons were designed to facilitate planning for and designing a system. Thissub-module incorporated lessons on system architecture, how to solicit requirements, and thenhow to design a platform that addresses those requirements. The later lessons are focused oncreating system prototypes for simple tasks and the basics of programming and hardware. Lessonswere technical, but approachable for new students. The activities in each lesson allowed teams tocreate and make mistakes without having to fear broken components or harming themselves

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Remote World

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Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Lopa Bakrania, Rowan University

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. Therefore, it is recommended that suchtransitions are planned over the summer to allow time for development. Instructors must beaware that a substantial amount of content must be prepared for the online course compared to aface-to-face delivery [17].The following is a list of content that was transitioned and the decisions made to create a highimpact online student experience for the Nanotechnology course. Aspects of each were refinedduring the face-to-face offering of the course. Later this list was used to develop guidingprinciples for transition.Lectures. Since the lecture slides had been revised several times during the previous sixofferings it was easy to envision converting this content into lecture videos. Lecture slides wereconverted to

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

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Thomas W. DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Elizabeth (Elisha) M.H. Garcia, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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efforts of the curriculum. Annual assessment doesn’t need to be a burden if it’s organically rooted in a course. • EAMU provides a more robust system that is more than just a pass/fail criteria, leading to better assessment. • Currently, the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Program is relying largely on analytic, in-class data for assessment. An additional layer that will be conducted through a capstone audience survey is planned to be implemented this year as a more holistic, qualitative approach, but the survey will be in the form of a rubric to overlay on the EAMU vector.ConclusionWhen programs adopt the new ABET Criterion 3 Student Outcomes, it is important to recognize that a robustassessment

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

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Vallorie Peridier, Temple University

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solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgements, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and social contexts. 5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Dynamics II - Feel the Vibe

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Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College

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here, with tiered content – each topic buildingdirectly on the previous – setting up an assessment plan separating proficiency and mastery skillssets fosters improved student mastery of core principles across the entire sequence of topics.The increased success rate on the proficiency level work by the students is likely due to severalinterrelated causes, including shifted expectations and having the foundation necessary for thenext topic. Students appreciate the clearly defined expectations required for the proficiency levelcompetency (also access to a C-level grade). The instructor now also know precisely wherethese students have demonstrated competency at the end of a course. When competency inprocedural analysis is conflated with the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Nelson Fumo, University of Texas at Tyler

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inthe engineering curriculum, the projects were completed in single classes.In this study, a PBL approach is implemented by developing projects in a series of requiredcourses in a Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The projects assigned in each course are relatedand planned to build up the knowledge and skills needed to develop a successful senior designproject or capstone project. In implementing the approach, the instructor identifies the topic orproblem to be proposed as a senior design project. In the first of the sequential courses, anexperimental measurements laboratory course, a project is assigned regarding a sensor that couldbe used in the senior design project. In the second of the sequential courses, a thermal-fluidslaboratory course

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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Benjamin B. Wheatley, Bucknell University; Elif Miskioğlu, Bucknell University; Eliana Christou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University

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result from thesedata (Table 9) is that half of faculty find a conflict between achieving tenure and maintaining awork-life balance. While this may be of no surprise to some, it shows that for many tenure trackand recently tenured faculty are sacrificing personal balance for their profession. We hope thatthese data can spur conversations regarding appropriate work-life balance in various programsacross the country.In summary, these data highlight the similarities and potential differences in time commitments,expectations, and impediments as they relate to tenure across different ABET accreditedmechanical engineering programs in the United States. Specific methods to assist tenure trackfaculty in planning, managing expectations, and developing

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Molly McVey, University of Kansas; Carl W. Luchies, University of Kansas; Sara E. Wilson, University of Kansas; Lorin P. Maletsky, University of Kansas; Lin Liu, University of Kansas

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Graduation Rates for Cohorts Starting in Mechanical Engineering in Fall 2010-Fall 2014. URM= Under-represented minority, First-Gen = First Generation college students.Therefore, a group of faculty in the Mechanical Engineering department collaborated with ourinstitution’s Center for Teaching Excellence on an initiative which allows us access toinstitutional data to help drive action plans to address these important issues. Through thisinitiative, our department is working to understand student success in our programs, particularlyfor females, under-represented minorities, and first-generation college students. The goal of thisinitial project was to better understand where we stand as a department in terms of success forthese students, develop

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Pedagogy II - Best Teaching Practices

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Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Esmee Vernooij, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Catherine LaBore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Ava R. Wolf, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning; Cheelan Bo-Linn, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois; Robert Thomas Baird; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, creativity, exploration, inspiration, planning, and organization ina project of limited extent. They offer an ideal mechanism for students to demonstrate theircompetencies, especially when merged with comprehensive teaching-learning-assessmentePortfolios to effectively document competencies, and to enable commenting (including the useof social media). In effect, ePortfolios, combined with mini projects, offer an opportunity totransform a traditional curriculum into one comprised of a succession of learning experiences.Objectives and significance of researchThe primary objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) ePortfolio tool, using Digication, an ePortfolio platform [25], for the 190engineering

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

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Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

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troubleshoot and ensure therobot can follow a practice track. We are finally seeing some real improvements in the quality ofthe projects, including the number of devices that worked in Term 3. We plan to continue usingthe milestones in the future.7 Effect of Arduino-Based Projects on Design SpacePrior to introducing Arduino based projects in Term 1, ME 250 focused only on mechanicaldesigns for the final project. Students use morphological methods to optimize their design byconsidering all relevant possibilities and then reduce the design space by considering theobjectives and comparing design alternatives [16].To simplify ordering materials, students were required to use a particular sensor in the projects.In eliminating options for sensors, the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University

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that will remedy the predicament. “If my grades aren’t as expected then the stress is definitely higher, however, I still generally take things one day at a time and I’ll create a plan to get my grades back on track. Sleep definitely suffers though.” “Motivates me to try harder but also damages my confidence which tends to decrease my performance.” “Trying to improve grades puts extra pressure to keep working hard.” “I need to maintain a decent GPA for internships, but I think I have enough of a buffer where this shouldn’t be a huge problem.” “If my grades are bad (C or D), then I get very worried and anxious about the class.” “I would be much more anxious to make up for them and study more.”Based on student responses, it

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Eric A. Dieckman, University of New Haven; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels P.E., University of New Haven

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6 Plan what to write 5 3 (Just) write 2 4 Follow Guide or Template or Rubric 1 3 Reread what I wrote 10 5 Revise (explicitly mentioned) 1 0 ask professor to read what was written 4 2 The order in which items are done (i.e. abstract last; formatting) 4

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

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Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University

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“correct” answer.Additionally, it could be interesting to compare student achievement using CBL to that ofstudents in a flipped classroom with a traditional assessment timeline. While the author doeshave some videos that students watch outside of class to leave more class time for problemsolving, the author does not have immediate plans to completely flip the course.ConclusionsCBL clearly is not a good option for all classes. However, for a class like Thermodynamicswhere fundamental topics come first followed by more complex applications later in thesemester, CBL can help students achieve the fundamental understanding that they need to besuccessful in the course. And that fundamental knowledge is important for their success asengineers upon

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Nina Robson, California State University, Fullerton; Allison Serrano; Axel Alvarez Loya, California State University, Fullerton; Nikol Miojevic; Kimberly Krystal Lopez-Zepeda; Madeline E. Rasche

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a STEM researchproject. National Science Foundation Middle/High School Student Attitudes Towards STEM (S-STEM) Survey [8] was used to assess the overall impact of the outreach program on the femalestudents’ self-confidence and motivation in pursuing future cross-disciplinary STEM careers.The results showed that the 21st Century skills related to critical-thinking, communication, andcollaboration was the section with the most radical improvement.Keywords: kinematics of mechanisms, protein kinematics, biomechanics, biochemistry, DNAnano-mechanismsIDEAL Online Summer Outreach Program Curriculum Plan and MethodsDuring the summer of 2019, mechanical engineering faculty and two undergraduate studentsfrom both NSM and ECS colleges offered a two

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Team/Project-based Pedagogy and Approaches

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Alexander Bryan Bailey, Alfred State College; Trevor S. Michelson, State University of New York, Alfred State; Reza Rashidi, State University of New York, Alfred State

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manufacturing capabilities of the Alfred State clean room. As with all projects, there were some portions of the microfabrication process that were notexecuted as planned. The aluminum traces for device design configurations 1.1 and 2.1 wereunable to be realized due to unforeseen design flaws. There was not enough spacing between the20 µm wide traces for the photomask laser printer to properly define those elements. In addition,the traces failed due to overdeveloping in the photoresist developer solution. The configurationswith smaller critical dimensions were washed away while waiting for larger features in the otherconfigurations to develop properly. These results, although not desired, are still valuablefeedback concerning the student’s MEMS

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Fluid Mechanics

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Julie Mendez, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus; Jessica Lofton, University of Evansville

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theconcept maps at UE, but without the concept maps at IUPUC. In the passive-approach course,only one student preferred the course be taught without concept maps. Student plans for usingconcept maps in the future also differed across institutions. (a) (b) Figure 7: Student preference of learning with concept mapsStudents were also asked to estimate the frequency of their use of concept maps in the passive-approach course. The responses provided in Table 1 indicate that about half of the studentsreferred to the concept map weekly while the remaining students referred to the concept mapevery 4-6 weeks. Table 1: Frequency of use – passive

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

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Lan He, Beihang University; Jingjun Yu, Beihang University

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teaching contents of Engineering Drawing course have included the introductionof tolerance and fit, important elements of engineering drawings and the use of at least oneCAD software such as SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD. The task of “disassembling andredrawing the provided XY positioning mechanism” is set in the plan of the project referringto the idea of “reverse engineering” used for teaching. An example of the disassembly andmapping process of the screw slide table is shown in Fig. 4. In this way, students can discernthe components of “handwriting robot” and apprehend how these components work togetherto achieve system functions by disassembling the provided machinery, which is necessary forbeginners. Tasks such as writing measure reports, drawing

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Fluid Mechanics

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Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Mohammed Aslam, University of Michigan, Flint; Fardeen Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint

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plan for the Fluid Mechanics coursewas developed considering the objectives and clear outline for student learning. The survey used16 questions with a five-point Likert scale and the overall responses were analyzed to determinethe effectiveness of the integration. The results of the survey are summarized below: • There was a consensus in the support of our use of the software • The support is readily available from the students to integrate CFD, EFD, and AFD with the general theoretical lectures and coursework in Fluid Mechanics. • The results indicate that students will not only benefit their learning and improve their general overall understanding but can impact the student’s potential job opportunity