reports, exams and quizzes)to evaluate students’ growth, a number of questionnaires were administered during the semester.The quantitative metrics as well as students’ feedback indicated overall student growth duringthe semester. Students reported that changing teaching approaches kept them motivated andengaged in the activities associated with the lab. These findings entice the authors to consider thethree-way approach in future semesters and to refine it by building on its strengths. Page 14.133.9Bibliography1. Fink, L., Ambrose, S., and Wheeler, D., “Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era,” Journal of
identifiesexpected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and providesevidence of improvement based on analysis of the results in each of the following areas: 3.3.1.1educational programs, to include student learning outcomes . . .”6Within the Mercer School of Engineering this assessment is conducted by an evaluation ofstudent work from one open-ended experiment assignment. All reports for this lab assignmentare assessed by a team of three faculty members [usually including the course instructor(s)]. Thefaculty members assess each of four tasks separately7,8: design of experiment, conduct ofexperiment, analysis of data, and interpretation of data. Each lab group’s performance withrespect to each task is scored on a 1 to 5 scale
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will be 8 characteristic points corresponding to the 4 revolute joints. In absolutecoordinates, the location of characteristic point 5 is, for example, x5 = X2 + r5•cos( 2+ 5) y5 = Y2 + r5•sin( 2+ 5) (1)where X2 and Y2 define the absolute location of the mass center for body 2, and 2 is the CCWrotation of body 2’s body-fixed coordinate system. In this example, if link 2 has its massdistributed symmetrically with respective to the line between its revolute joints, the body-fixedcoordinate system x-axis can be lined up with the coupler link line shown and 5 will be zero and 4 will be . With the same symmetric mass distribution assumption, the other characteristicpoint (xi,yi
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some assumptions. Identifies context(s) when presenting a position. May be more aware of others’ assumptions than one’s own (or vice versa).By necessity the rubrics are written such that they can be applied to the broad range of topics thatfall under the FYS umbrella. Particularly relevant to the premise of the FYS Bridge course arethe rubrics that address establishing the background, exploring ambiguity, questioningassumptions, and identifying context, but applied to challenges in engineering, technology, andscience in society. With this in mind, the authors have selected tentatively the following topicsand readings for the course:The questions that science, engineering, and the humanities can answer… and those theycan’t. Selected
sessions and three exams. In every lecture-lab session, lecture time is about 40-45minutes and students spend about 60 minutes exploring the concept(s) in a laboratory setup. Amicrocontroller with programming activity is integrated in almost every laboratory experiment.The main objective of this course is to learn by doing the hands-on activities. Here is the list ofelectrical and electronic components this course used to facilitate laboratory experiments: • Arduino Uno R3 • MOSFET, diode, and LED • H-bridge, op-amp, and buzzer • Temperature sensor, flex sensor, touch sensor, light sensor, and weight sensor • Stepper motor and dc motor • Discrete electrical componentsStudent Learning OutcomesThe mechatronics course at
democratization of manufacturingand programmable electronics. The design experience in the class provides students an outlet forexercising their creativity at the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy. ∗A web-based, private beta version was provided to students in the Fall 2015 to assist them with their projects.Figure 5: A few pictures of the projects from the Final Robot Design Project Demo day, Fall 2015;see complete gallery of pictures at https://goo.gl/photos/WhYmy4kxFoStwNQz7References1 Shen, Q., Al-Smadi, Y. M., Martin, P. J., Russell, K., and Sodhi, R. S., 2009, “An extension of mechanism design optimization for motion generation”, Mechanism and machine theory, 44(9), pp. 1759–1767.2 The National Academy of Engineering, 2005, Educating the
that the former includes professionalskills and competencies such as industrial engineering and management, communicationskills, ethics etc, whilst the latter focuses on preparing students for a future academic career.Serving all needsAfter five years of studies, a student following the system(s) described above could be entitledto three degrees. These degrees have slightly different learning goals. In order to award allthree degrees, the university needs to assess and assure that the learning goals are achieved.How can this be monitored, and is it even possible? Some previous publications [3, 4] suggestthat it is possible but requires a lot of effort in adapting program goals to course goals andensuring a high standard in the curriculum
faster adaptation to nanotechnology-related industrial job positions.1. INTRODUCTIONNanotechnology is a new, fast-developing, and cutting-edge field in engineering and science. Itis is an important concept that positively affects the economy, environment, and every field ofour society. Nanotechnology is also the backbone of high-tech industries and widely used inconsumer products and industrial applications.It can be considered as industrial revolution and also the fastest growing industry in history. Inearly 2000’s United State (US) government spent more than $422 million on nanotechnologyresearch and development[1-3]. The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s (NNI) memberagencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of
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average Nusslet number at location LPr Prandtl numberRa Rayleigh numberRaL Rayligh number at location LT fluid temperature, ºCTı fluid temperature far from the wall, ºCTw wall surface temperature, ºCu x component of the fluid velocity, m/sv y component of the fluid velocity, m/sx distance along surface of heated plate, in or mmy distance away from heated plate, in or mmc thermal diffusivity of the fluid, m2/s volumetric thermal expansion coefficient = 1/T for an ideal gas, K-1 kinematic viscosity of the
choiceof the external analysis type option. Next, air was chosen as the default fluid. A computationaldomain with the same size as the wind tunnel test section was chosen for numerical simulations.The size of the computational domain in the streamwise direction was 0.3 m in front of theleading edge and 0.548 m after the trailing edge. In order to get a reasonable calculation time, a2D plane steady flow calculation was selected. A free stream velocity of 20 m/s, a wall surfaceroughness of 100 micrometer and a turbulence intensity of 1% were chosen for the settingsfollowing the CosmosFloWorks wizard. Figure 5 shows the pressure distribution around theairfoil with a clear low-pressure bubble above the airfoil and a stagnation region close to
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lighting (primarily electricity usage). Figure 1 is a visuallyeye-catching illustration to open a presentation on energy. This figure, as well as many of theillustrations in this paper, was taken from the U. S. DOE Energy Information Administration(EIA) document, Annual Energy Report 20081. Every June, the EIA issues a detailed reportcataloging the energy usage of the previous year. The yearly issue thus provides an easy way toupdate energy usage and statistics. The current and previous editions of the Annual EnergyReport (AER) are available at www.eia.doe.gov/aer.An irrefutable fact is that the developed countries (the United States, Japan, the UnitedKingdom….) use more energy per capita than the less-developed countries (Mexico,Indonesia
the natural frequency of the system, and the output voltage was measuredacross the capacitor. The circuit resulted in a transfer function as shown in Equation (2). 1 T ( s) = R 1 (2) 2 s + s+ L LC The transfer function was used to create Bode plots of gain and phase angle for thedifferent values of inductance. The plots were then used to predict the
Page 23.984.3Engineering strain, ε, is ratio of the change in an object’s length to the object’s initial length andis given by,where, .L0 is the original length of the object and Lfinal is the object’s final length. For an object thatstarted with a length of 3 cm and was determined to have a final length of 1.25”, what would bethe value of the engineering strain?Problem 2 HorsepowerA 2405 lb Yaris has run out of gas 1/4 mile from the nearest gas station. By pushing the car, itaccelerates from a velocity of 0 m/s to 1 m/s in 1 minute. After the first minute, the car moves ata constant velocity. You can assume that the rolling resistance of the tires is negligible and thatthe road is
) ρwhere K is the bulk modulus of the fluid and ρ is the density. Water at standard temperaturepossesses a speed of sound of near 5000 ft/s—much higher than the speed of sound in air atstandard temperature, about 1100 ft/s. For fluid in a confined area, such as a pipe, the speed ofsound or the water hammer wave velocity is as = K (2) ⎛ K ⎞ ρ ⋅ ⎜1 + ⋅ c⎟ ⎝ E ⎠where E is Young’s modulus of the pipe material and “c” is a constant that depends on the pipe’selastic properties and constraints. For a schedule 40 6-inch nominal pipe, the water hammerwave velocity is about 4400 ft/s
2019 Full-Time Faculty (M) Daytime 7 Spring 2020 Full-Time Faculty (M) Daytime 12 Full-Time Staff (K) Daytime 13 Fall 2020 Adjunct Faculty (S) Evening 4Team Projects 1 and 2The first project is a self-directed exploration of applying strain gages to a beam. Students mustfirst identify sources for answering comprehension-level questions regarding the strain gage andbridge circuit. For instance, “In your own words, define the gage factor and describe why itmatters” or “In your own words, describe the purpose and process of balancing the bridgecircuit”. Next
“Simulation…hasbecome ubiquitous in engineering education.” More recently, Magana [4] presents research donewith a panel of 18 experts from academia and 19 from industry, on what modeling andsimulation (M&S) practices should be integrated into engineering education. There wassignificant consensus on the need for skills related to validation, acknowledging uncertainty inthe interpretation of simulation predictions, and developing intuition and being critical of results.Developing a healthy doubt of computer-generated results in students is an issue that others haveaddressed [5], [6]. Both the increasing use of M&S, and the need for the credibility of M&Sresults to be questioned, is addressed in the ASME Guide for Verification and
proper calculations. Itis recommended that standard units of m, m2/s and s are used to avoid errors. It is possible to useother units provided they cancel properly or a correction is made to the answer to cancel outremaining factors. The conduction coefficient, k, is an optional input which is not necessary forthe constant surface temperature formula but required for the other two formulas. A second Page 13.894.10optional input is BC which is the heat flux for constant heat flux formula and the convectioncoefficient, h, for the convection formula. The BC input is not necessary for the constanttemperature formula. There is a check for
enthusiastic and came prepared to discuss their own ideas to the class.Expected attributes for choosing an idea for the capstone project: Keeping in view that acapstone course is an assimilation of the knowledge gained from several of the undergraduateclasses that they took, the students were given guidelines for choosing a project idea. Some ofthese are: (a) is it a new or original ideas and design of the system? Or, (b) is it based on designimprovements and/or modification(s) of an existing design? (c) complexity of the problemchosen, (d) relative complexity of projects chosen between the teams, number of members in agroup (work load), (e) anticipated depth of analysis using math and CAE tools to carry outmultiple analyses – structural, dynamic
results of the pre- and post-surveys are shown in Table 1. The results improved from pre- topost- in all nine skills. Furthermore, the difference in the averages was shown to be statisticallysignificant (p-value < 0.01) in all nine skills.Table 1. Pre and Post Survey Results. The increase in the averages from pre- to post- werestatistically significant (p-value < 0.01). S# Skill. Each skill starts with “I feel confident about my abilities in…” Pre Post Avg. Avg. S1 Skill 1: Figuring out the magnitudes and directions of external loads acting 3.1 4.3 on the system. Textbook problems usually give the external loads but in
implemented:a National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s Grand Challenges hands-on design project infreshman Introduction to Engineering course; a truss bridge hands-on design project insophomore Solid Mechanics course; a manual toy hands-on design project in junior/seniorMechanism Analysis and Design course. The goal was to provide students with hands-on designexperiences throughout the mechanical engineering curriculum. In this paper, the implementationof these hands-on design projects will be described. Students’ performances in these designprojects will also be presented. Student perceptions of these hands-on design projects have beenobtained through an end-of-semester survey and results will be discussed. Overall students feltvery positively about
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