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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Robert J. Prins, James Madison University

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Materials

. Page 26.1004.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 INTEGRATIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS & MECHANICS TEAM PROJECTAbstractThe multi-disciplinary engineering program at James Madison University includes courses thatintegrate topics that are traditionally taught as stand-alone courses. This offers a uniqueopportunity to draw student attention to the interdependency and interlinking between topics.One such course, ENGR 314: Materials and Mechanics has evolved from its initial casting astwo partial courses into a more integrated presentation. The primary integrating factor is asemester-long design project that requires students to use concepts from the entire course todesign an

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Somnath Chattopadhyay, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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been employed. Thiscourse is entitled “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Practice,” and is a required course formechanical engineering majors. The course comprised of three hour-long lectures every weekalong with a group project in reverse engineering. The lecture classes were devoted to the basicelements of mechanical engineering practice which came from a text entitled “An Introduction toMechanical Engineering.”[1] This text introduced the students to the vocabulary, skills, andapplications associated with the mechanical engineering profession. Chapter 1 of the textintroduces the profession of mechanical engineering, and the next seven chapters talk about thevarious disciplines within mechanical engineering with intent to develop useful

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A Virtual Community of Practice for Developing and Implementing Evidence-based Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas; Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Joseph De-Chung Shih, Stanford University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Richard E Eitel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE)

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Chemical Engineering, Materials

State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ethan Sclarsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Tyler Marquis Cooper, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Andrea Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University

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Materials

orthopedic disorders in today’s modernsociety, there is a necessity to engineer biomaterials that improve the quality of life for peoplewith painful and debilitating diseases. This will require educational institutions to providespecialized instruction in these areas. Yet, there have been relatively few published reports onbiomaterials and tissue engineering-related lab activities, and existing activities lack a foundationin materials science. A primary deliverable of this project is to address this need and thusstrengthen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education by developinginteractive experiments that introduce tissue engineering through a biomaterials designperspective, emphasizing mechanics, cell behavior, and drug delivery

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Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moises Hinojosa-Rivera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Martin Edgar Reyes-Melo, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; José Alejandro Cazares, Teacher

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Diversity

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Materials

-certified administrative processes. These good practices are havingimpact on an steadily increasing enrollment, a high employment rate and high satisfaction of theemployers. We firmly believe that one key factor that accounts for the attainment of our PEOs isthe strong collaboration with the regional industry which help us to offer a realistic project-basedexperience to our students which often results in successful research projects and publications.We also believe that our model can be of help for other Latin American engineering programstrying to evolve to international standards.IntroductionThe aim of these paper is to share, in a somewhat colloquial way, our experience in adapting ouracademic practices and processes to comply with the

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University; Katie D. Cadwell, Syracuse University; Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University

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Materials

“implant” for Distal Bicep Fracture in Athletes. bGiving the students a contextual project with relatable and recognizable applications helps ignitestudent interest and maintain engagement.Background for the design project is that approximately 5.2 million sports injuries occur everyyear which leads to yearly spending of $1.83 billion dollars on athletic injuries.12 Five percent ofthese injuries occur in the wrist or forearm, meaning that annually $91.5 million dollars is spentrepairing and rehabilitating forearm injuries. One of the most prominent forearm injuries is adistal bicep rupture. This occurs when the tendon that attaches the biceps muscle to the elbow istorn from its insertion in the bone (Figure 1). This injury occurs mainly in

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Terry L. Alford, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Brady J. Gibbons, Oregon State University

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Materials

Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Dale R Baker, Arizona State University Dale Baker is a science educator researching issues of equity and teaching and learning in

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claes Fredriksson, Granta Design, Ltd.; Hannah Melia, Granta Design, Ltd.; Justinas Cesonis, University of Cambridge

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Materials

appear central to the learning objectives of Materials Science andEngineering. Among the top candidates were: characteristic material properties of the mainmaterial groups, modification of microstructure by various (thermal/mechanical) processes,binary phase diagrams, micrographs and materials characterization and testing.Working in a project involving students of engineering and Materials Science, databases weredesigned containing facts and visual information for the purpose of introductory materialsteaching. A non-exhaustive review of existing teaching resources for these areas reveal thatmany are highly specialized on one topic (e.g., crystallography) or one group of materials (e.g.,metals). We are therefore exploring the ways to integrate

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Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Diversity

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Materials

grades as a function of time. The current grade is the sum of the student's earned Page 26.1665.2points to date, divided by the sum of the point values of those assignments.This grade-plotting assignment occurs towards the end of the semester, when only half a dozenassignments and projects remain (listed below the red line in the table). The students must alsoplot their projected course grades for the remainder of the semester, under two scenarios: [1]assuming a perfect score on all remaining assignments, and [2] assuming a zero grade on allremaining assignments. The first step is to create a table with the data:Assignment Date

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology

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Materials

that an NSFteam had fine-tuned over several years. The 3 credit course in Advanced Compositematerials consists of two lectures and a lab where hands on selection and application ofcomposite materials focuses on students designing and building projects in a compositematerials lab environment. ‘Just in time feedback’ mechanisms are used that providerapid formative feedback and reinforcement of a positive learning experience to enhancethe learning process such as: 1) ‘muddiest points’ and ‘most interesting points’identification and next lecture clarification, 2) three to five minute PPT and videosegments used in class to fortify concepts that have proved to be confusing or complex inthe past or in current lectures, 3) online postings of short

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac L. Howard P.E., Mississippi State University; Braden T. Smith, Mississippi State University

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spring 2014 panels as a service project as achapter officer served as a member of the panel voluntarily, not for credit in CE 3311. Thestudent chapter participated by drafting the survey given to students (survey was reviewed by theinstructor and adjusted slightly) that is presented later in this paper, administering the survey, andproviding the results after grades had been submitted to the instructor.3.0 AssessmentsSchilling et al.5 describes a taxonomy based approach (i.e. to assign a given written commentinto one or more categories) to qualitatively assess written comments on student evaluations. Asimilar approach was used in a few instances for the assessments that follow.3.1 Student EvaluationsFigure 3 provides a summary of

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Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University; Charles Pringle, Central Washington University

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Materials

the data: Students focused on a system or structure: 80From the data: Percent of students focused on a specific material: 12From the data: Percent of students focused on a specific part: 4From the data: Percent of students omitting societal effects of their system: 20From the data: Percent of students desiring group logistics: 12Students commented that the LCA activity sequence was valuable, as shown in the samplesbelow: “It was cool to actually be involved in the engineering aspect of a current world problem.” “The most enlightening aspect of this project for me has been researching and understanding the life cycle of a structure or piece of

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida

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Materials

group has to discuss their data and what theirresults mean in context of larger objectives of the lab. Since laboratories are collaborative multi-weekthemed projects, student may be at different points in their experimental process from week to week.There are rules for discourse and these are modeled for students by Teaching Assistant(TA) andInstructor. Peer students may ask only clarifying questions of the students and cannot make any othercomments. Within the speaking group, each member must speak, and groups have three minutes todiscuss their data without interruption. There is then three minutes of clarifying questions from peers. Thegoals for the discourse are to have students formulate, elaborate, analyze, evaluate and apply a

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Robert H. Hadfield, University of Glasgow; Andrew Phillips

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Materials

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aisling Coughlan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David R. Johnson; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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learning contexts.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tanya Faltens is the Educational Content Creation Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotech- nology (NCN) which created the open access nanoHUB.org cyber-platform. Her technical background is in Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While at Cal Poly Pomona, she taught the first year engineering course, mentored student capstone re- search projects, and introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering