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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 3: Student Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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courses gradually decreased from 85-90% to 55-60 % in large classes. In 2016 theuniversity established an “Instructor-initiated Drop policy”. The policy allows instructors to dropthose students who exceeds the absence or missed assignment limits for the class described andspecified in the course syllabus. The newly established “Instructor-initiated Drop policy” wasadopted and enforced in three different courses taught from fall 2018 through fall 2019 semesters.The policy improved class attendance, completion of homework assignments, and student passrates. During the COVID pandemic the university suspended the “Instructor-initiated Droppolicy” and did not re-initiated it until fall 2022. In teaching upper division courses in fall 2021and spring

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuhao Xu, Prairie View A&M University; Bo Zhao; Steve Tung, University of Arkansas; Han Hu, University of Arkansas

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biomedical engineering [14]. The authors have developed a technicalelective course Machine Learning for Mechanical Engineers and offered it to both undergraduateand graduate students twice, in Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 [15]. This course has led to promisingachievements: i) Based on students’ feedback, most of them believe that they have learned theskills they expected before enrolling in the class; ii) This course has helped many studentsidentify the value of machine learning in various research areas through course projects and hasled to fruitful presentations and publications [16]–[19].Nevertheless, this course has shown several critical drawbacks and limitations: i) Theundergraduate enrollment in this course is very low. Some undergraduate students

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Crystal Han, San Jose State University

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flipped classrooms highlydepends on student participation in pre-class learning activities. The students who do not fullycomplete the pre-class activities are usually lost and left out during in-class activities, which canconsequently result in loss of interest or even failing the course due to adverse cascade effects ofunpreparedness. This paper discusses the impact of course modalities on student participationrates in pre-class and in-class activities and its correlation with student performance. Anundergraduate fluid mechanics course was delivered in an in-person and online flippedclassroom format during 2021 and 2022 as the campus went through the phased re-opening. Thestudent participation in the pre-class activities was measured through

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tara Esfahani; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

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-efficacy. The survey was administered at the conclusion of two separate offerings of the samecourse in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California Irvine (UCI):one in a fully remote format (Winter 2021) and the other in a hybrid format that transitioned fromfully remote to in person in the middle of the term (Winter 2022). This required upper divisioncourse for mechanical and aerospace engineering majors involves lectures, laboratoryexperiments, and a final team project. We employ non-parametric methods for hypothesis testingto compare survey responses from students in the two different course offerings, and we computerank correlation statistics of students’ responses and institutional data to determine

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire Yu Yan, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

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at a four-year university isapproximately $1240 [1]. At the University of British Columbia (UBC), the average cost oftextbooks for undergraduate students rose from $893 in 2021 to $1,253 in 2022. As a result, astaggering 70% of undergraduates reported not purchasing textbooks [2]. The high cost oftextbooks can negatively impact students’ access to learning materials, course selection, andacademic performance [3, 4]. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the situation,challenging institutions to continue working on innovative approaches to affordable andequitable higher education [5].Open education resources (OER) are learning resources that are openly licensed and freelyaccessible for users to adapt and share. The use of OER can help

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MECH - Technical Session 5: Virtual Learning and Technology Integration

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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solution manuals, 2) online tutoring services, 3) neglect of reading thetextbook, 4) increased absence from lectures, 5) decreased attention to homework, 6) gradeinflation in prerequisite courses, and 7) increased class sizes [1] - [5]. Most of these factors arebeyond the instructor’s control. Efforts have been made to address some of these challenges, whichhave been reported in engineering educational conferences [1] - [5].During the COVID-19 pandemic, all classes were conducted online from March 2020 throughAugust 2021. Teaching the heat transfer course in fall 2021 and spring 2022 revealed that manystudents lacked commitment to attending lectures or diligently solving homework assignments.Additionally, it was observed that many students lacked

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MECH - Technical Session 15: Engineering Education Research and Reviews

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Nihad Awartani, University of Cincinnati; Iman Shayegani, University of Cincinnati; David Allen Evenhouse, University of Cincinnati; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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clearer insight regarding interventions in Staticseducation.Keywords: engineering education, Statics, intervention, systematic reviewI. IntroductionStudents of mechanical, civil, environmental, aerospace, and industrial engineering disciplinesare mandated by the ABET standards to take many common courses laying down the sametheoretical foundation across all disciplines (ABET, 2022). This has been the standard for coursedesign for decades since the advent of pre-requisite courses that lay the foundation for latercourses in the curriculum (Skinner, 1954; Sato et al., 2017). One of those courses is theEngineering Statics course, which is also known by alternative names, such as Statics andDynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Structural Elements and

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MECH - Technical Session 13: Technological Advancements and Applications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Paper ID #43596Student Use of ChatGPT to Write an Engineering ReportDr. Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Randall Manteufel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has won several teaching awards, including the 2012 University of Texas System Regents Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2013 UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2019 College of Engineering Student Council Professor of the Year Award, 2008, 2022, 2024 College Excellence in Teaching, and 2005 Mechanical

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 4: Professional Preparation

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Kremer, Ohio University; Timothy Cyders; Cody Petitt; Kouree Chesser, Ohio University

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model is that increasing the level ofimmersion in professional scenarios will impact levels of student engagement and behavior. Totest this assumption, in the Spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year we initiated a pilotstudy of a full-immersion in a Tech Startup project. This project integrated curricular credit forcoursework whose core competencies aligned with the tasks of forming a technology startupcompany. Several courses from Ohio University’s Entrepreneurship Certificate Program and theMechanical Engineering Capstone Design (semester 1) and Experimental Design courses wererestructured to allow students to have a full schedule of classes immersed in real project work. Ateam of five students including two business students and three

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 2: Thermo-Fluids Projects and Active Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth "Elisha" M.H. Garcia Ph.D., PE, United States Coast Guard Academy

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nuanced and have since been replaced.Table 1: Comparison of ABET EAC Student Outcomes, 2022-2023 and Project-Based Learning(PBL) [2]. ABET EAC Criterion 3. Student Project-Based Learning Intersection Outcomes, 2022-2023 (PBL) 1. an ability to identify, formulate, and PBL requires students to approach a complex solve complex engineering problems by problem and identify the fundamentals at applying principles of engineering, play science, and mathematics. 2. an ability to apply engineering design to PBL is easily applied to societal engineering produce solutions that meet specified applications that require consideration of the needs with consideration of

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yucheng Liu, South Dakota State University

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asinterview skills/process, professional development, workplace expectations, etc. Based on thefeedback analysis, the author developed a plan to improve this course in 2021 winter break.Course Redesign in Spring 2022 and Student FeedbackIn regard to the first and second point, the author pondered if the coursework could be reduced,and a lenient grade scale could be applied. After weighing all pros and cons, the author decidednot to reduce the coursework because as a one credit college-level course, students are requestedto devote two to three out-of-class hours per week to this class and the amount of courseworkaligned well with this guideline. In terms of grading, instead of lowering the requirements onstudents’ assignments and quizzes, the author

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hiram Cover, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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after a sudden disruption to highereducation?”IV. MethodsA. SettingThis study examined LMS feature use in second- and third-year courses taught in a Midwest R1University in a single department in a college of engineering. The selection of the second- andthird-year was due to reports that these academic years in higher education are generally under-studied despite retention issues in these years [e.g., 20].The focus of the study was on Spring semesters from 2019 to 2023. This timeframe was selectedto allow tracking of LMS feature use before (2019), during (2020-2021), and after (2022-2023)the disruption. Only Spring semesters were considered to maximize the similarity of courseofferings when comparing LMS feature use across semesters; a

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MECH - Technical Session 7: Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kalon Ma Bienz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Devon Bountry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Chang Rui Liu, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Behnam Ghalamchi

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detailed real-time models. 9 [1] 2021 A virtual representation of a physical system (and its General definition associated environment and processes) that is updated through the exchange of information between the physical and virtual systems 10 [15] 2022 A digital representation of a physical system, or test rig Remote Learning 11 [14] 2022 Contain the “connection between the physical model and the Industry 4.0 corresponding virtual prototype…[and]..this connection is established by generating and transferring in both

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MECH - Technical Session 6: Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Lurana Crowley, Washington State University

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in 2022 when the course was offeredfully in-person. Note that the course was delivered synchronously online in 2021; however, thecourse topics were identical between 2021 and 2022. The only variation was the three designproject topics, and the student team conducted multiple reverse engineering projects in 2021. Thecourse offerings in these two years are the experiment for the study.Table 2 Summary of the introductory mechanical engineering course offered in-person in 2022.(2021 course delivery mode was synchronous online.) Course objectives: 1. Explore mechanical engineering professions and careers. 2. Define fundamental concepts in mechanics: vectors, forces, work, energy, etc., for engineering problem-solving. 3. Discuss

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 12: Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Amir Karimi P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ender A Finol, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Physics CoursesAbstractMany mechanical engineering students earn transfer credit for calculus and physics courses.This paper examines the impact of transfer credits on academic success in a junior-levelthermodynamics course, using data from 738 undergraduate students at the University of SanAntonio from 2019 to 2022. Results show that students who transfer credit for Calculus I tend toperform better in thermodynamics, with a pass rate on the first attempt around 10 percentagepoints higher than those who earn credit for Calculus I at the University. Differences in passrates for transfer credits in Calculus II and Physics I are less significant. The data suggests thatstudents with high numbers of transfer credits have equivalent or higher academic

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Najmus Saqib, Marian University

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understanding a map and the corresponding opportunities formistakes [6]. Instructor-created concept maps are presented herein.Methods/Classroom ApproachStudents in an undergraduate Heat Transfer course were introduced to concept mapping as alearning tool in Spring 2022. The course requires both Thermodynamics and DifferentialEquations as prerequisites. Seven students were enrolled in the course, which is designed for thethird year of the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program at the institution.Student mastery of course content was evaluated via homework, quizzes, in-class activities, andthree exams. The exams were cumulative, but each exam focused on key concepts from recentlectures. New concepts for each exam are listed in Table 1. Permitted

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 11: Project and Research-Based Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac Koduah Kumi, Old Dominion University; Stacie I Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University; Min Jung Lee, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University

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. Therefore, this study focuses on the following research questions.RQ1: How did participating in an interdisciplinary collaborative service-learning project affectteamwork effectiveness as measured by CATME?RQ2: How did students perceive the varying intervention modalities during the evolvingCOVID-19 pandemic affected their teamwork?MethodsParticipantsA total of 411 undergraduate engineering students agreed to participate in the research fromSpring 2019 to Spring 2022. Out of this, 78.6% of the participating students were male, and15.8% were female. Most students identified as White or Caucasian (58.9%), followed by Blackor African American (16.8%). Participants were assigned to the treatment or comparison groupbased on the course section they

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MECH - Technical Session 3: Advancements in Teaching Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Joan Tisdale, University of Colorado Boulder

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) 38.5 (9,872) 33.3 (9,864) 33.1 (6,487) 36.0 (4,452) Civil (270) 28.1 (13,586) 24.0 (11,464) 21.0 (12,154) 22.0 (8,935) Mechanical (358) 17.3 (34,781) 13.8 (26,816) 11.7 (19,241) 13.1 (16,063) Aerospace (57) 15.9 (5,168) 14.3 (3,781) 13.4 (3,459) 18.5 (2,722) Electrical (325) 15.5 (13,495) 12.7 (11,892) 11.5 (9,942) 14.2 (11,915)ASEE Profiles / By The Numbers reports; 2023 ABET program search, Bachelor Degree, United StatesThe American Freshman study (HERI 2019-2022 [13-16]) has long documented the strongerenvironmental and social commitments and concerns of female over male students

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 13: Lab Experiences

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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wee sing Yeo, University of Cincinnati; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Azrul Abidin Zakaria; Zubaidi Faiesal Bin Mohamad Rafaai

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Paper ID #39046Incorporating an Open-Ended Project to Address Complexity Solution ofEngineer’s Problem in Undergraduate Laboratory Coursewee sing Yeo, University of Cincinnati WS Yeo is a Charactered Engineer register with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, United Kingdom. She led research projects and also involve actively as member in research projects led by other staff. She adopted outcomes-based engineering (OBE) program accreditation practices since 2006-2022.Dr. P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati P.K. Imbrie is the Head and Professor of the Department of Engineering Education and a Professor in the

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 13: Lab Experiences

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Charles Riley, P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Ken Lulay, P.E., University of Portland; John D. Lynch

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polytechnicaluniversity, a liberal arts-anchored private university, and a branch campus of a research-one landgrant university, participated. Student lab report samples from six various sophomore-levelengineering courses were collected. For the control group, none of the participating labinstructors accessed the transfer-focused modules (academic years of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021); sixty-four control group lab report samples were collected (n = 64). In the academic year2021-2022, the lab instructors had access to the transfer-focused modules via the web to beencouraged to update their lab instructions; the experimental group lab report samples werecollected from forty-two students (n = 42). Using defined writing outcomes, a panel ofengineering lab instructors

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MECH - Technical Session 11: Integration of Problem-Solving and Design Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Foster, George Fox University; Luann Foster

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) * 4.4 (2.1) 7.8 (2.1) ** 2019 25 21 18.8 (5.8) 23.9 (6.2) 5.3 (2.1) 6.3 (2.5) 5.6 (2.1) 6.7 (1.4) 4.0 (2.6) 5.4 (1.8) 4.8 (2.2) 6.6 (3.3) 2020 24 7 18.8 (7.0) 24.1 (3.6) 5.9 (2.5) 6.1 (1.6) 4.8 (2.1) 6.1 (1.6) 4.2 (2.4) 5.1 (2.3) 4.7 (2.1) 7.6 (2.1) 2021 25 18 20.0 (6.9) 28.1 (4.4) ** 6.1 (2.0) 7.6 (1.8) 5.6 (2.0) 7.1 (1.4) 4.0 (2.1) 5.7 (1.6) 5.0 (2.8) 8.7 (2.2) ** 2022 18 19 16.8 (6.7) 25.7 (7.1) ** 5.6 (2.1) 6.8 (2.1) 5.6 (2.4) 6.9 (1.7) 2.4 (2.2) 5.4 (2.3) ** 4.3 (2.5) 7.9 (2.6) ** 2023 13 8 19.3 (4.8

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MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John T Solomon, Tuskegee University; Hang Song, Auburn University; Lauren E. Beckingham, Auburn University; Karen McNeal, Auburn University; Kelly Lazar, Clemson University

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. The surveys developed as part of this project are used to acquirebaseline data on students' environmental behavior in the Fall semester of 2021. Apart fromsurvey data collection, intervention plans were developed during this period. Twenty-two (22)students participated in the initial baseline survey from sophomore and junior-levelengineering classes. The intervention plans designed for building environmental behaviorwere implemented in Spring 2022 and Spring 2023. In the post and pre-surveys of theintervention semester Spring 2022, 25 and 22 students responded from a senior-levelmechanical engineering course. Twenty-one students (21) participated in the Spring 2023intervention semester.The survey questions developed were used to understand

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gergely Sirokman, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Ryan Barlow, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Adrian Rodriguez, zyBooks, a Wiley brand; Alicia Clark, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Lauren Fogg, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand

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include engineering education, fluid mechanics, and medical ultrasound. She is currently an Engineering Content Developer for zyBooks, a Wiley Brand. At zyBooks, she creates digital content for engineering textbooks to help make textbooks more engaging and accessible for students.Lauren Fogg, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand Lauren Fogg obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2021 and her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2022 from Louisiana Tech University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Education from Louisiana Tech University. She is cur- rently an Associate Engineering Content Developer with zyBooks, a Wiley Brand. Her research interests

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tao Xing, University of Idaho; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho; John Crepeau, University of Idaho

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for each is three correct answers. Based on the data released to the University of Idaho byNCEES, Figure 1 shows the pass rates of our students, pass rates of all examinees from ABETcomparator program and the number of students who took the FE exam from Spring 2013 to Fall2022. Details of students' performance in each topic area from Spring 2014 to Fall 2022 arepresented in Appendix A. As shown in Figure 1, students' pass rate in FE exam is consistentlyhigher (except in Spring 2013) than the national pass rate before FE CBT test was implementedin Spring 2014. After that, students' pass rate declined to the lowest point (65%) in Spring 2017.It recovered slightly to 73% in fall 2018 when we started implementing SDLMs. Since then,students' pass

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frederic-Charles Krynen, Stanford University; Carl E. Wieman

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providing just-in-time feedback. The subsequent lecture, then, expands on the workshopexperience and formally presents the week’s learning goal(s).The impact of this course redesign is measured by analyzing and systematically scoring students’final project deliverables in the course. The scoring rubric, which we describe later, used for thisstudy is based on the four mechanical design practices derived from Salehi’s STEMproblem-solving practices [14].MethodsAs we outlined in the paper we submitted to ASEE in 2022 [15], the Fall and Winter offerings ofthe ’21-’22 academic year were used as the control condition for this study (see figure 2). TheSpring offering of that academic year was the pilot for the developed intervention, and the ’22-’23Fall

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MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anahita Ayasoufi, Auburn University; Golbou Makki; Amanda Sterling, Auburn University; Kyle D Schulze, Auburn University; ASHU SHARMA, Auburn University; Jeffrey C. Suhling, Auburn University; Daniel Kevin Harris

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the 75-100 percentile)*4 + (Number of students in the 50-75 percentile)*3 + (Number of students in the 25-75 percentile)*2 + (Number of students in the 0-25 percentile)*1] / Total number of students Figure 1: The Scale of Concentration percentiles for freshmen and seniors of Fall 2022. Application: Figure 1 shows an example of such histogram plots for the scale of Concentration from the Self-regulation component. The figure compares the big picture image for this scale between freshmen and seniors of Fall 2022. The graphs provide data for the calculation of concentration score: 2 for freshmen and 2.7 for seniors, about 30% score difference in this

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MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

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whether or not students perceived the specifications grading scheme to behelpful for learning, stressful or not compared to traditional grading, and to give studentsconfidence to earn a desired grade in the course and to succeed in future courses.Course OverviewIn this work, we compare four offerings of an engineering dynamics course offered by the sameinstructor in the spring of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The class follows Chapters 11 through 17of the textbook Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self[32], and is divided into three main parts, or modules: • Module 1: Chapters 11-13, Kinematics of Particles • Module 2: Chapters 14-15, Systems of Particles and Kinematics of Rigid Bodies • Module 3

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MECH - Technical Session 15: Engineering Education Research and Reviews

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hayden J Wulf, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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department at a Midwestern R1 University.Table 1 outlines the number of course syllabi and number of instructors associated with thecollection of courses each semester, from Spring 2019 to Spring 2023. A total of 93 syllabi wereanalyzed, from 39 unique instructors. Table 1. Number of syllabi analyzed per semester Semester Syllabus Count # of Instructors Spring 2019 16 14 Spring 2020 (Regular) 15 14 Spring 2020 (COVID) 14 13 Spring 2021 17 17 Spring 2022 15 14

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland College Park; Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland College Park

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implementation, and campus logistical hurdlesare one challenge the course must overcome. Ad hoc partnerships and case-by-caseimplementations have been the approach so far. Sustainment, multi-disciplinary growth, andscaling are major unknowns moving forward.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by VentureWell, grant #2374021, February 2022 to August 2025.References[1] Johnson, Kathryn, “The Development of Sociotechnical Thinking in EngineeringUndergraduates, 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Minneapolis, MN,June 2022, ID #38347.[2] M. Swartz, J. Leydens, J. Walter, and K. Johnson, “Is Sociotechnical Thinking Importantin Engineering Education?: Survey Perceptions of Male and Female Undergraduates,” in 2019ASEE Annual Conference &

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 14: Curriculum and Course Assessment in and Outside the Classroom

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda C. Emberley, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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on what may be missing from these bins. Thesediscussions provided further insight into the goals of the curriculum. Overall, this process gaveus a good starting point for developing the goals of the curriculum. It allowed us to get a varietyof perspectives from the department without burdening any one person with a lot of time input.However, the large number of inputs from many different people also made it hard to manage.Iterative process to develop curriculum Our next stage of the process involved an iterative process of surveying our department,developing drafts, and editing those drafts. During the summer of 2022, two faculty members (the authors of this paper) volunteeredto be the Q2S leads for the department. We set out