Paper ID #11235Self-Evaluation of Design Decision-Making Skills Gained through StudentGenerated Learning AidsDr. David C Jensen, University of Arkansas Dr. David C. Jensen leads the research effort for the Complex Adaptive Engineered Systems Research Laboratory. He has worked extensively in modeling, simulating, and validating complex engineered sys- tems. His research has been supported by awards through NSF, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and DARPA. He holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Arkansas where he also teaches courses in
more, the virtual simulator development gains students interest andmotivates student in learning robotics. It allows more lab-type of learning. Some homework canalso be readily verified using the virtual robot. For future teaching plan, the developenvironment will be open to students‟ choice. Other engineering tools, such as simMechanics,ADAMS will be considered for dynamics and control design purpose.References[1] T., Hakan; G, Metin; B, Seta, “Hardware in the Loop Robot Simulators for On-site and Remote Education in Robotics”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 22, Number 4, August 2006 , pp. 815- 828(14).[2] Costas S. Tzafestas, Nektaria Palaiologou, “Virtual and Remote Robotic Laboratory: Comparative
, AL, USA. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, University of West Florida (UWF), Pensacola, FL, USA. At UWF, Dr. Rahman contributes to the Ph.D. program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, and directs the Human-friendly and Interactive Robotics Laboratory (HIR Lab). His research and teaching interests include robotics, mechatronics, control systems, electro-mechanical design, human factors/ergonomics, engineering psychology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, CPS, IoT, computer vision, biomimetics and biomechanics with applications to industrial manip- ulation and
computational modeling. He runs the Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues Laboratory at Bucknell, where they use computational and experimental techniques to better understand the mechanics of musculoskeletal soft tissues and human movement. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Appropriate Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering: Teaching Best Practices through SimulationFinite element analysis (FEA) is a powerful computational tool employed in engineeringindustry, research, and in the classroom. While the finite element method was developed duringthe mid-twentieth century for civil and aeronautical applications, it has been adopted inmechanical
thecharacter and scope of the mechanical engineering profession. It is put forward in this paper thatstudents who understand the scope of their major are more likely to have a stronger belief in thecorrectness of their choice, thus resulting in fewer transfers out of the program. Through designof appropriate self-discovery laboratories, it is also hypothesized that freshmen students willdevelop a relational understanding between fundamental courses (i.e., physics, chemistry andmath) and future curricula. This is important as many engineering students transfer out of theprogram before reaching upper level courses.This paper will discuss the development and implementation of hands-on activities for freshmenstudents in the Mechanical Engineering (ME
their performance. The students were made aware ofthe fact that a material and the process for making it must be chosen in concert. This papersummarizes the overall experience of the mechanical engineering sophomore students onmaterial and process selection for a wide range of consumer products chosen by them.INTRODUCTIONProduct dissection (teardown) process has become a popular way to teach students aboutengineering concepts and design principles associated with engineered products around them.This process of reverse engineering helps the student design teams learn how the productfunctions and how the parts or subassemblies interact with one another. The reverse engineeringprojects have been incorporated as a laboratory component of a
emphasizedeclarative learning, memorization and recall.2, 3. When there is an emphasis on memorizationand not application or content understanding, retention of students within the math and sciencebased majors becomes problematic.4Recently, the engineering field has begun to incorporate learner-context teaching such as case-based instruction and other problem based learning methods in the classroom. Since World WarII, many educational reforms have been made in the field of engineering based on the idea thatunderstanding concepts in a meaningful context and understanding the science behind thetechniques learned in laboratories was an essential part of student learning. More recently,various reports (e.g., Engineering Education for a Changing World; Engineering
the Director of Accreditation and Assessment Services for the College of Technology at the University of Houston. His primary focus has been the practical application of assessment and evaluation strategies to enhance educational quality in the college and university. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Ramos worked as a researcher for the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, evaluating a systemic reform model designed to improve student academic performance in low-income, high-minority districts. He also worked as Evaluator for Boston Connects, a program designed to address non-academic barriers to success in urban elementary schools via a web of coordinated health and
. The flexibility and convince of learning on demandis an education trend that is constantly evolving. The pervasiveness of communication technology andconnected media enables educators to teach via nontraditional tools such as recorded videos, live streamingof lectures, and live discussion panels. Bourne et al. (Olin et al. 2005) listed three requirements for effectiveonline engineering education delivery. Those are 1) online courses provide comparable quality to thecourses offered traditionally, 2) Students can access the courses anytime and from anywhere, and 3) theonline offered topics cover a broad area of engineering disciplines.The third requirement is still a far reach for engineering education. Despite the apparent benefits of
used as a laboratory experiments to apply the first and second laws. Thereal-life experiments enhanced students learning of some thermodynamics principles. In a classproject, students were asked to select a commercial thermal cycle, analyze its performance anddiscuss the difference between the actual device and the theoretical model, Li and Zhou.29Toro et al.30 presented a desktop scale Rankine cycle with a solar-powered boiler for use as ahands-on laboratory experiment. Patterson31 collected real-life thermodynamic examples in abooklet to enhance teaching of thermodynamics. The examples were designed using parts of theconstructivist learning theory. Hands-on demonstrations built from common laboratorycomponents to enhance the learning in
. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an
Effectiveness and Promoting Undergraduates' Innovation Experiment by CDIO Management", Research and exploration in laboratory, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 90-92, 2010[7] M. Zhou, "Chinese university students’ acceptance of MOOCs: A self-determination perspective. " Computers & Educations, vol. 92–93, pp. 194-203, 2016[8] C. M. Santos, R. A. Franco, D. Leon, D. B. Ovigli, and P. D. Colombo Junior, "Interdisciplinarity in Education: Overcoming Fragmentation in the Teaching-Learning Process." International Education Studies, vol. 10, no.10, pp. 71-77, 2017.
AC 2008-1308: A VENTILATION SYSTEM CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTCharles Forsberg, Hofstra University Charles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he primarily teaches courses in the thermal/fluids area. He received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University), and an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is a Licensesd Professional Engineer in New York State. Page 13.129.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Ventilation System
Paper ID #29412Increasing Student Curiosity with Cooling SystemsDr. Jordan Farina, University of PortlandDr. Heather Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. She recently served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Rebecca D Levison, University of Portland
Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, in- cluding Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Sophomore Design and the ME Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior his appointment at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing thermal management solutions for telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.Mr. Jimmy Sandusky, Halton Company Jimmy Sandusky is the Research and Development Manager at Halton Company located in Scottsville, KY. Halton is an international manufacturer of products that deliver comfortable and energy efficient indoor environments. Mr. Sandusky is a graduate of the Western Kentucky University
engineering at Tuskegee University, AL, USA. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, University of West Florida (UWF), Pensacola, FL, USA. At UWF, Dr. Rahman contributes to the Ph.D. program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, and directs the Human-friendly and Interactive Robotics Laboratory (HIR Lab). His research and teaching interests include robotics, mechatronics, control systems, electro-mechanical design, human factors/ergonomics, engineering psychology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, CPS, IoT, computer vision, biomimetics and biomechanics with applications to industrial
motivation and learning can be achieved by making the students moreactive and in charge of their learning, which for example can be stimulated by involvement in“hands-on” activities like experiments and laboratory work 2. A project focusing on humanbody thermodynamics was developed as a complement to the traditional content of classicalengineering thermodynamics. The underlying idea was to exploit the general interest inhealth, food, fare and workout shared by many students, thus making the subject moreinteresting while at the same time extending the course to a wider arena. The project was usedin engineering thermodynamics courses for 4 different engineering programs at LinköpingUniversity, Sweden.During the project, the students worked in groups
modernengineering tools necessary for engineering practice.” Undergraduate engineering students willface these significant challenges and their education and training must adapt in order toadequately prepare the next generation of engineers for these new realities.Engineering faculty at MU started to develop an sustainable nanotechnology program forundergraduate students. We are developing a new course and laboratory modules throughenvironmental nanotechnology research to integrate them into the existing engineeringcurriculum. Research activities related to sustainable nanotechnology and challenges insustainable engineering education were discussed. By integrating the sustainable nanotechnologyresearch into the undergraduate curriculum, students will
AC 2012-5482: ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPEN SOURCE CFDSYSTEM TO FLOW VISUALIZATION IN FLUID MECHANICSRicardo Medina, California State University, Los AngelesMr. Ashkan Motamedi, California State University, Los AngelesDr. Murat Okcay, Interactive Flow Studies Corporation Murat Okcay, CEO, obtained his doctorate in mechanical engineering, specializing in fluid mechanics, in 1993 from Bristol University, England. After several years as a lecturer teaching fluid mechanics in the classroom and laboratories at the University he joined Smiths Industries Plc. and has continually pushed the envelope in the field of fluid mechanics as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, publishing papers and receiving patents for his designs
there was not a true laboratory component in the course.The concerns identified by the students were often a reflection of their experiences during theirco-operative education rotations. Every student at Kettering University rotates between anacademic term and a co-operative education term, where students will work as engineeringinterns. The students do this rotation twice a year from the moment they enter the university.Because of this constant exposure to industry, students learn many of the ‘soft’ engineering skillsthat are difficult to teach in a classroom environment. However, this experience makes thestudents at Kettering ‘non-traditional’ students. They tend to filter their academic experiencesthrough their work experiences. The students
the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an active member of ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrated Development of Programming Skills using MATLAB
Design and the Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil, designing and building oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamic systems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at Michelin Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design and manufacturing firms
a team. Although fundamental laboratories courses are provided to establish students’hands-on experiences and consolidate connection between theoretical background and practicalimplementation, students still have difficulties to incorporate multidisciplinary knowledge intosolving a real engineering problem in a more systematic way. Therefore, a one-year project-oriented capstone course, Special Topics in Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering,has been available at the junior year for undergraduate students in the Department of Mechanicaland Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan.In 2003, Ministry of Education (MOE) of Taiwan (Republic of China) revealed the White Paperon Creative Education
grants in physics-based virtual reality. He is now a tenured associate professor at San Diego State University, revisiting and researching human bone remodeling algorithms and muscle models using advanced tools of the cyberinfrastructure. He has created a curriculum in which students learn mechanics not by using commercial simulation software, but by creating their own. His interests include opera, sociology, and philosophy. He is currently enjoying teaching his two young children how to ride bicycles. Page 14.495.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Distance Learning and
multisemester dynamicsystems project. The salient feature of the project is that material from various courses (such asdifferential equations, mathematical methods, laboratory measurements and dynamic systems) isintegrated in a fashion that helps the students understand the need for basic STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) material.AcknowledgementSome of the work presented herein was partially funded by the NSF Engineering EducationDivision Grant EEC-0314875 entitled “Multi-Semester Interwoven Project for Teaching BasicCore STEM Material Critical for Solving Dynamic Systems Problems”. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views
professor of mechanical engineering at Tuskegee University, AL, USA. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, University of West Florida (UWF), Pensacola, FL, USA. At UWF, Dr. Rahman contributes to the Ph.D. program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, and directs the Human-friendly and Interactive Robotics Laboratory (HIR Lab). His research and teaching interests include robotics, mechatronics, control systems, electro-mechanical design, human factors/ergonomics, engineering psychology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, CPS, IoT, computer vision, biomimetics and biomechanics with
AC 2011-283: HERDING CATS: WEAVING COHERENT APPLICATIONTHREADS THROUGH A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMTO FACILITATE COURSE-TO-COURSE CONNECTIVITY AND IMPROVEMATERIAL RETENTIONDonald Wroblewski, Boston University Don Wroblewski is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston Univer- sity, and has been the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Aerospace Studies since 1998. He is a two-time winner of the department award for Excellence in Teaching and one of two inaugural winners of the College of Engineering’s Innovative Engineering Education Fellow award. He has been active in both curriculum and course innovations. He has developed 7 new courses including an on-line Mechanics course and
Paper ID #23532Using Distinctive Student Engagement Elements in a Technical Elective CourseDr. Rambod Rayegan, Prairie View A&M University Rambod Rayegan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Prairie view A & M University. He has a strong background in conducting research in building energy efficiency and renewable power generation for buildings. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at University of North Texas before joining PVAMU. He oversaw the research in the Zero Energy Laboratory at UNT and worked as a researcher at UNT in
practices as they relate to computational modeling. He runs the Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues Laboratory at Bucknell, where they use computational and experimental techniques to better understand the mechanics of musculoskeletal soft tissues and human movement.Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito
, Samuel and Jawaharlal, Mariappan. 2007. A General Purpose Sensor Board for Mechatronic Experiments. ASEE Annual Conference.13. Xu, Yan; Yilmaz, Muhittin; Babb, Allen; and Abdelrahman, Mohamed. 2012. A Learning Module Using Engineering Design Process and Legacy Cycle for a Freshmen-level Robotic Class.14. Wagner, John; Collins, Randy; Gramopadhye, Anand; and Shirley, Trey. 2009. A Mechatronics (and Material Handling Systems) Course: Classroom Topics, Laboratory Experiments, and Project. ASEE Annual Conference. Page 23.789.1115. Mullet, G.J. 2012. Teaching Networked Embedded Control at the Two-Year College Level. ASEE Annual