Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna L. Gorlewicz, Vanderbilt University; Robert James Webster III, Vanderbilt University

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Mechanical Engineering

B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. In 2008, he joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering, where he currently directs the Medical & Electromechanical Design Laboratory. His current research interests include medical robotics, image-guided surgery, continuum robotics, and engineering education. Webster received the NSF CAREER Award in 2011, and the IEEE Volz award for Ph.D. thesis impact in 2011

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Mechanical Engineering

terms ofthe cognitive and affective development of the student3. The main method used to assess astudent’s knowledge is through examination under a controlled environment. Assessment inengineering courses often boils down to seeing if the student can apply mathematical andphysical principles to solve a given problem. This method of grading students is retained in thispaper.Consistency in class coverage, rigor and assessment from semester-to-semester, regardless of theinstructor, is critical to consistent preparation of students for careers in engineering. As such thisis often demonstrated in the ABET accreditation process4. Abnormalities in grade distributionsare often an indicator that the preparation of students is being affected by the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin's University; Irina Gendelman, Saint Martin's University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2012-4064: SYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE LEARNING FOR UNDER-GRADUATE THERMAL ENGINEERING COURSES: TRIALS AND IM-PROVEMENTSDr. Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin’s University Amanie Abdelmessih is professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department, and Director of the Thermal Engineering Laboratory, Saint Martin’s University. Abdelmessih has industrial, teaching, and research experience. Abdelmessih started her career in the paper industry, then she taught in several higher education institutions, with the last 15 years at Saint Martin’s University. Abdelmessih has per- formed research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Research Center, Ar- gonne National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

Systems at Regis University in Denver, Colorado from 1999 to 2008. In this position he led the university's move to online education in graduate and undergraduate programs. Sam also served as co-director of the online joint-degree program with the National University of Ireland in Galway, Director of the Center for Database Research, and Co-Director for the National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence. Sam has worked in higher education since 1999 after completing a 23 year career in the field of information systems and technology. Sam maintains a publishing track in Information Systems and eLearning research

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher E. Larsen, University of Missouri; Rose M. Marra Ph.D, University of Missouri, Columbia; Nai-En Tang; David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, Columbia; Robert Andrew Winholtz

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Mechanical Engineering

-Funded ”Supporting Collaboration in Engineering Education” that produced the research reported in this article. Over his 40 year career, Dr. Jonassen also taught at the Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Syracuse University. He published 37 books and hundreds of articles, and papers on instructional design, computer-based learning, hypermedia, constructivism, cognitive tools, and problem solving. He has received dozens of awards and was posthumously inducted as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. The last 10 years of his life were devoted to the cognitive processes engaged by

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Joseph Rencis; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Chuan-Chiang Chen, Tuskegee University; Essam Ibrahim, Tuskegee University; Vladimir Labay, Gonzaga University; Paul Schimpf, Eastern Washington University

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Mechanical Engineering

University, Pullman, WA. His research interests include modeling of and the development of computer-aided design software for RF/microwave integrated circuit devices used in wireless and satellite communications.Paul Schimpf, Eastern Washington University Paul H. Schimpf received the B.S. E.E. (summa cum laude), M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1982, 1987, and 1995, respectively. Dr. Schimpf began his academic career in 1998, and is currently Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. His research interests include numerical methods for forward and inverse solutions to partial differential equations, with

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, University of Michigan

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Mechanical Engineering

Timoshenko’s arrival tothe U.S., engineering education was not a priority of the higher education discussion.In many ways Timoshenko noticed the lack of concern within American colleges anduniversities toward applied sciences. For instance, one of his constant critiques was the nature of Page 22.1255.8the work and career of faculty. According to Timoshenko, the chairs in an engineeringdepartment must be filled by people who have demonstrated scientific achievement, but inAmerica he found other criteria. Professors were promoted based on the years of service andteaching experiences, a “worse method.” In the U.S., they were distancing young

Conference Session

Materials, Manufacturing, and Machine Component Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Dore; Rodrigo Arturo Ramos, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Monai Stinnett, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #31009Design Course in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Jamie Szwalek is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.Dr. Yeow Siow, The University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Yeow Siow has over fifteen years of combined experience as an engineering educator and practi- tioner. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University where he began his teaching career. He then joined Navistar’s thermal-fluids system group as a senior engineer, and later brought

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego; Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Imane Khalil, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

challenges for educators [12].Engineering education scholars Juan Lucena and Jon Leydens suggest incorporating contextualdetail into more traditional technical problems that students are presented with. They proposedoing so by asking traditional technical questions in ways that require students to interrogatepotential circumstances of problems they are given in class [13]. This can be done in ways thatdo not forfeit the technical requirements demanded of an engineer, but rather complementlearning in the classroom to better mirror (and prepare students for) the socio-technical worknecessary for acting as Engineering Changemakers or, simply, for successful careers inengineering.This paper details the first iteration of a module to incorporate

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Aaron P Bauer, United States Air Force Academy; Blake Perez, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Milton Doria, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., United States Air Force; Luke Jensen, CREO

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Mechanical Engineering

. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Division at The University of Texas at Austin. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the ”Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering,” ”Uni- versity Distinguished Teaching

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Mechanical Engineering

approachin preparing graduates for engineering careers is to require students to attend classes, listen toinstructor’s lectures explaining the basic theories and concepts related to the subject; and observeor participate in solving example problems during lectures. Students are also asked to read thecontent of the required textbook describing the theories and concepts.Textbooks used in undergraduate engineering course cover basic concepts and theories in eachchapter and provide several example problems to help students gain a better understanding of thetheory and engineering applications. At the end of each chapter, textbooks frequently include alarge set of problems to be used as homework assignments. The purpose of homework is forstudents to gain

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex C. Szatmary, King's College

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Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Jose Antonio Riofrio, Quinnipiac University; Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #23589Development of an Introduction to Circuits Course and Lab for MechanicalEngineering Students via Systematic Design of InstructionDr. Grant Crawford, Quinnipiac University Grant Crawford, PhD, P.E., Colonel (retired) U.S. Army, is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of Career Development for the School of Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He is the former Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Grant graduated from West Point in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Me- chanical Engineering. He earned a M.S. degree

Conference Session

Teams, Teaching, Leadership, and Technical Communications in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, Cornell University; Rick Evans, Cornell University

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Mechanical Engineering

to near- and long-term assessment will enable not only MAE but also otherengineering schools and departments to offer concrete learning outcomes and produce actual datato support those outcomes.There is much yet to learn. We are looking forward to the insights that that data most certainlywill provide. Still, we believe that we have made a promising start toward planning andimplementing an alternative communications curriculum that empowers students to actually be“work-ready” as communicators when they begin their professional engineering careers. And,while we must be careful with our inferences so early in the research process and from such asmall sample size, we believe that it is at least safe to suggest that the pilot ENGRC 2250 has hada

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanveer Singh Chawla, Western Washington University; Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

Vehicle Research Institute operates as a technology development center that provides undergradu- ate students with opportunities for career specific training and research. Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, EPA, Paul Allen Family Foundation, BP, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Whatcom Public Utility District, Boeing, Janicki Industries, Northwest Porsche Club, Danner Corp. and Fluke. Past supporters include the De- partment of Defense, Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru), PACCAR, Mazda, Ford, Bentley (parent company Audi), Alcoa, Conoco-Phillips, CNG Fuels of Canada, Chrysler, and DaimlerChrysler. c American Society

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Mobrand, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Dannels16 draws parallels to the field ofcommunication, asserting that speaking is a contextually-motivated, cultural event. Withprofessional communication instruction becoming increasingly focused on cases and client-basedprojects, and with technology driving changes in workplace writing, writing curriculum ismoving away from formulaic responses to rhetorical situations in favor of providing studentswith some theoretical background in writing and rhetoric.17 Understanding students’ prior genreknowledge is believed to be helpful for designing educational experiences that assist students asthey acquire genre knowledge that will in turn give them strategies they can transfer to newcontexts, which will help them in their engineering careers.12, 18

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy C. Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Patricia Lea Hardre, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

theirprofessional careers. How can we address this gap?One way that not only provides the experience, but also leverages a number of other advantagesfor developing these skills, is experiential learning. If designed well, experiential learning not Page 22.681.9only provides authentic opportunity, but also supports self-determined motivation and regulation. 8  It can be structured to enable adaptive interaction among those with various types of expertise,sharing in a professional community, and building both competence and community.2.4 Need for / Value of Reflection, Self Interrogation, Self RegulationBuilding on ontological positions, the

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Joy Arbor, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

, the problem-solving techniques that are learned in one context can be generalized and applied to other contexts. Instructors can draw parallels between different types of problems and show how the problem-solving techniques can be applicable beyond a single class. This can be useful for those students who have less work experience as well as those who see their engineering degree as part of a career Page 24.1118.14 pathway into management, law, or other fields.VI. ConclusionThe students in this study were able to successfully connect the class with their co-op workassignments and other authentic experiences

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Briana B. Morrison, Southern Polytechnic State University; Fong K. Mak, Gannon University

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Mechanical Engineering