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Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Diane Folz, Virginia Tech

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AC 2010-1459: A SUMMER TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM FOR ANUNDERGRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT: PLANNINGAND ASSESSMENTPatricia Mellodge, University of Hartford Patricia Mellodge is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hartford. She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Her graduate work was completed at Virginia Tech where she received an M.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Research interests include control system design, mathematical modeling of microwave processing, and bio-instrumentation.Diane Folz, Virginia Tech Diane Folz is a Senior Research Associate and Laboratory

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Henry Kowalski, Kettering University

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AC 2010-1904: HOW TO DESIGN STRONGER AND LIGHTER PRODUCTS – ATERM PROJECT FOR A COMPOSITE MATERIALS COURSEYaomin Dong, Kettering University Dr. Yaomin Dong is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in 1998. Dr. Dong has extensive R&D experience in automotive industry and holds multiple patents. Dr. Dong's areas of expertise include metalforming processes, design with composite materials, and finite element analysis.Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed is the Director of the Center for Excellence of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Mechanical

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Na Lu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert Swan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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of Virginia. With more than 13 years professorial experience, he has taught a large variety of courses including statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic communications, engineering economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management.Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte DR. CHUNG-SUK CHO is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineers, and the US National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. He is also active in the POGIL project; he has been invited to attend the last three POGIL National Meetings and serves on the Education Research Committee for the project. He has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, being named a University of Florida Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and being named the University of Florida Teacher of the Year for 2003-04. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Educational

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Olshefsky, ASTM International

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in the laboratory or in the field.Additionally, students must know enough about the details of technical standards to specifytesting for a project and potentially supervise testing in a laboratory management situation.Key Examples from Accredited UniversitiesFollowing are summaries of how professors have successfully used technical standards in theclassroom. The overviews and syllabi of selected courses are available in their entirety on the“Peer-to-Peer Resources” page of the ASTM International Students and Professors website.10Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s “Properties of Engineering Materials II”11 is offered as a thirdyear second semester course within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Thiscourse teaches the

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Johnson, Central Washington University

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this learning curve resulting in a series ofshort videos with subsequent incorporation into the curricula.In this study, the use and effectiveness of video in a modified ‘traditional’ introductory castingcourse is explored. First, specific video equipment is listed, and the creation and editingprocesses described. Then the videos were used in casting classes, and the students wereallowed access outside of class.A positive educational impact due to the videos was evidenced by instructor and studentfeedback. A casting operations metric was presented, with measures including time-on-taskanalysis. A more rigorous assessment of educational impact was implemented in a spring course.IntroductionMotivation for this project was to improve both the

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University; Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University

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project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science.Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University Rebecca Rosenblatt is a graduate research associate in the physics department working towards a PhD in physics education at The Ohio State University. She is currently investigating the evolution of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration, and she is working on this project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science. Page 15.1124.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student Understanding

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University

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Materials

AC 2010-1276: STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANICALPROPERTIES OF METALS IN AN INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS SCIENCEENGINEERING COURSERebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University Rebecca Rosenblatt is a graduate research associate in the physics department working towards a PhD in physics education at The Ohio State University. She is currently investigating the evolution of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration, and she is working on this project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science.Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University Andrew F. Heckler is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. His original area of research was in

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Kessler, Iowa State University; Prashanth Badrinarayanan, Iowa State University

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relationship between the glass transition temperature and degree of crystallinity?4. Determine the melting point of each specimen? Does melting point depend on degree of crystallinity?5. Does the observed enthalpy of melting depend on the degree of crystallinity of the specimen?Lab 5: RHC DSC. In the next lab, Lab 5: RHC DSC, a prototype rapid heating and cooling rateDSC was used to investigate the same PET material. The course instructor’s research team atIowa State University has been serving as a “Beta”-testing site to evaluate TA Instrument’s (NewCastle, DE) pre-commercial rapid-scanning DSC (Project RHC DSC). This advanced instrumentis capable of making controlled scanning measurements at heating rates of over 1000 K/min andsimilarly fast

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

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with essays, Likert type questions, and end-of-class reflections. Page 15.1390.3Module Usage Type 1. Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) ModulesThe POGIL method tries to engage students in the learning process by having them buildconceptual understanding of a topic rather than memorizing facts or applying algorithms.According to their website, this method uses guided inquiry – a version of the Socratic method inwhich students use carefully designed materials that guide them to construct new learning.5When one goes to the POGIL website (http://www.pogil.org/) project materials are availablecommercially for guided inquiry

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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collaborative learning activities.Simultaneously, there was a change to a collaborative term long research project in the coursefrom individual term long projects. Additionally, all active, in-class exercises were completed inthese same collaborative teams this academic year. No attempt was made to separate the effectsof these two, simultaneous changes. A separate paper3 covers the initial observations fromchanging to the collaborative approach for completion of the research project and a more detailedpaper that includes the outcomes for this academic year is being prepared. No doubt part of thechange in the outcomes described in this paper is due to the increase in the amount andfrequency of collaborative work as outlined in the research literature16

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University

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Materials

explore something that they find interesting about this course.” – “The freedom to do the test we wanted to do. It satisfied my curiosity.” – “This lab allows us to learn more about what we find interesting. We learn more from labs that we designed ourselves.” – “I liked that we were able to select our own project based on things that interested us, and also that we had to figure out our own procedures which allowed us to really learn what I was doing.” – “I liked the idea of planning our own lab and figuring out how to properly create samples and perform the experiment.” – “I like how we had to be responsible and complete a lab on our own.” – “Experience in using the equipment