Conference Session

Teaching Methods in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Y. Yan, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

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Mechanical Engineering

, mechanics of materials, calculus, and kinematics and dynamic. She has also developed undergraduate fluids laboratories and supervised many capstone projects. Her interest in SoTL is evidence-based teaching strategies, student engagement, faculty development, and teaching and learning communities. Dr. Yan is a registered P.Eng. with APEGBC and has served as reviewer for various international journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Online homework assignments: instructor’s perspective and students’ responsesIntroductionWith the continuous development of technologies, creating online homework assignmentsbecomes possible. For large classes, online

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Anna Pereira, Michigan Technological University; Margot Hutchins, Michigan Technological Universtiy; William Helton, Michigan Technological University; Leonard Bohmann, Michigan Technological University; Chris VanArsdale, Michigan Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Engineering Education,” J. Engineering Ed., Vol. 94, No. 1, 2005, pp. 121-130.3. Kline, R., “World War II: A Watershed in Electrical Engineering Education,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Summer 1994, pp. 17-23.4. Dutson, A. J., R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby and C. D. Sorensen, "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 1, 1997, pp. 17-28.5. Howard, B. “Enough of this Science and Mathematics, Let’s Do Some Engineering,” Proc. of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999, Session 13d2, pp. 8-10.6. Nguyen, D. Q., “The Essential Skills and Attributes of an Engineer: A Comparative Study of Academics, Industry Personnel

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D. Ragan, The Citadel; Jason Geathers, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

long-term effects (timely graduation) of dropping any course.The Change of Major Form that also requires the Department Head signature. This allows theDepartment Head to provide a larger vision for working through academic difficulties as well ascollect critical data as to why students are choosing to leave engineering. During the mandatoryadvising each semester, students discuss their career goals, leadership opportunities, student clubactivities, pursuit of a minor, undergraduate research, and internships.Student Excellence Day. During the past three years, students have had the opportunity topresent their senior capstone, research, service, and competition projects late in the springsemester. Engineering students observe and question their

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kuntinee Maneeratana, Chulalongkorn University; Angkee Sripakagorn, Chulalongkorn University

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Mechanical Engineering

basic and intermediate mechanical engineering courses. This may be obvious asa very large amount of credits are devoted to these courses. However, the relationships are alsoquite low in the last three semesters, particularly the advanced solid and thermo-fluid designcourses (no. 39 and 42). This is quite notable as these semesters are devoted to the design andcapstone courses which represent the culmination of study and the design outcomes. Not onlyshould these situations be further investigated, it is quite clear that the final GPA is hardly a goodindicator of satisfactory outcomes.This disassociation is also particularly pronounced with the capstone Senior Project (Figure 5)with the highest average correlation being with the Technical Writing

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Forsberg, Hofstra University

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Mechanical Engineering

five of the lab experiments in the course. In light of Page 14.1306.7the very positive results, it is planned to extend the KSB approach to the otherexperiments in the course and ultimately to other courses (e. g., capstone design courses).Bibliography1. MSTP Project: Mathematics Across the Middle School MST Curriculum. Retrieved fromwww.hofstra.edu/mstp on March 5, 2009.2. Hunter, Margaret A. and Forsberg, Charles H.; Experiences of Engineering University Faculty in aMiddle School Math, Science and Technology Partnership (MSTP), Proceedings of the ASEE Mid-AtlanticSpring 2005 Conference; April 15 & 16, 2005; Fairleigh Dickinson University

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

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Mechanical Engineering

views ofthe rigor of the course and its impact on their learning experience. Results indicate theyperceived to have a superior grasp of concepts after designing and implementing their ownexperiments.IntroductionThe ultimate objective of any academic program is for students to gain the ability to transferclassroom learning to practice, for which they will be required to construct and apply knowledgetowards problem solving. For example, the consensus outcome for engineering graduates is theability to apply principles of engineering, science, and math to design and analyze real systemsor processes2 . Much debate however exists on the best learning practices to build these skills.Proponents of problem-based learning (or project-based learning

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Anna Pereira, University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Mitchell, Michigan Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

. 103. Feisel, L.D. and Rosa, A.J., (2005) The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education, J. Engineering Ed., 94(1), pp. 121-130.4. Kline, R., (1994) World War II: A Watershed in Electrical Engineering Education, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, pp. 17-23.5. Dutson, A.J., Todd, R.H., Magleby, S.P. and Sorensen, C.D., (1997) A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, 86 (1), 1997, pp. 17-28.6. Sheppard, S.D., Macatangay, K., Colby, A. and Sullivan, W.M. (2008) Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.7. NAE, (2004) The

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivier Putzeys P.E., University of Maine; Masoud Rais-Rohani P.E., University of Maine; Serge Raymond Maalouf, University of Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

attendance ischecked in every class with considerable penalty for unexcused absences. The course was taughtin two separate sections by two instructors.Summary of activitiesThe weekly activities listed in Table 2 are described in more detail in this section.Week 1 - A presentation was given to introduce students to mechanical engineering as adiscipline and the numerous career opportunities in the field. Students were also introduced tothe Department of Mechanical Engineering, including faculty members, research areas, thecurriculum, minors, advising resources, student clubs, and previous Capstone projects. Theassociated assignment asked students to write a short report (using Word) in which they (1)explain their choice of ME as a major, (2) select a

Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Chastain, Clemson University; Harvin Smith, Clemson University; Mason Morehead, Clemson University; David Moline, Clemson University; John Wagner, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Presentation of fundamentals of instrumentation, calibration techniques, data analysis, and report writing in the context of laboratory experiments.A brief literature review will now be presented on mechanical engineering laboratories. Schmaltzet al.1 reported on the senior mechanical engineering capstone laboratory at Western KentuckyUniversity that focuses on students undertaking mechanical, materials, and thermal/fluidexperiments. Important activities are the definition of requirements, design of methods andequipment, execution of test plan, analysis of results, and reporting. To ensure topical coverage,a design of experiments plan was created to implement, assess, and adjust the laboratoryexperience. Layton et al.2 discussed the need to identify

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingyu Wang, University of Oklahoma; Nyree Mason, Tuskegee University; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State University; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma Dr. Yingtao Liu is an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Before joining OU, he was an assistant research scientist in the AIMS center at Arizona State University from 2012 to 2014. His research expertise include the development, ad- vanced manufacturing, and application of lightweight composites and nanocomposites

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering problem-solving is for the most partpostponed until Term VI, where it is the primary focus of the Modeling and Simulation (ME345)course. The reasoning behind such placement within the curriculum is that students first musthave a thorough grounding in (mechanical) engineering fundamentals before such software canbe adequately presented to the students. In addition, coverage during Term VI prepares thestudents to use such tools on subsequent internship/co-op assignments and the capstone SeniorDesign project, as well as provide the relevant modeling skills desired by industry upongraduation.As envisioned, the proposed library of CAE learning modules will change our current coverageof CAE software by enabling such tools to be incorporated

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Robert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

the student, since fluid mechanics student outcomes are necessary for subsequentcoursework (e.g., heat transfer), laboratory work, and capstone projects.3. Actual Course Content ComparisonThermodynamicsThree sections of three-credit hour thermodynamics were taught at LTU during the Fall 2007semester by three separate instructors. One section of four-credit hour thermodynamics wastaught at UE during the Fall 2007 semester.For each of the four thermodynamics sections, the course content and number of classroom hoursspent on each broad topic are shown in Table 1. Nearly all the same material is coveredregardless of the number of classroom hours allotted for the course. LTU Section 1 barelycovered two-phase flow, LTU Section 2 did not cover two

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, University of West Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

], theauthors presented the development of an introductory mechatronics course for the students whohad completed their second year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’sdegree in an engineering discipline. In [23], the authors investigated the application ofagile methods enhancing mechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone course.In [24], Consi proposed a versatile platform for teaching mechatronics that considered a middle-ground approach seeking a compromise between free-form and set-piece projects that maximizedexposure to core mechatronics concepts while minimizing peripheral tasks, and importantly,preserving a good measure of creativity, and so forth.3.3 DBR ApplicationsResearch on DBR with applications

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy; Andrew Foley, United States Coast Guard Academy; Earnest Greene, US Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2009-1673: PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION UNITS, USING COMMONCOMPONENTS, FOR AN INTRODUCTORY THERMODYNAMICS COURSEMichael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy LCDR Michael Plumley is an Assistant Professor, and 1998 graduate, of the Mechanical Engineering program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He has served as coordinator for a variety of courses, including Capstone Design, Machine Design, Mechanisms, Heat Transfer, and Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems. He holds Master of Science degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamal S. Yagoobi, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

must be ableto promote prototyping and creativity. This suggestion was based on such spaces beingimplemented at many of the institutions represented by the workshop participants. A dedicatedspace helps develop a Confucian model of learning where students learn by doing. Anothersuggestion was to use this learning environment to teach reverse engineering techniques forunderclassmen as a way to understand how other engineers have solved specific designchallenges. One particular example used by the University of Notre Dame included havingsophomores reverse engineer projects from the previous year’s senior-level capstone designcourse.Case studies were suggested as a method to promote intellectual curiosity and passion.Participants noted the role of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; James William Altschuld, Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University; Daniel A. Mendelsohn, Ohio State University

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Mechanical Engineering

the labs and hands-onexperiences.This paper focuses on the new sophomore level design course which has been piloted as anabbreviated ten-week quarter long version in Autumn 2011 and Winter 2012. The sophomorecourse fills, in part, the major gap in design education that exists between the fundamentals ofengineering course sequence (and its honors equivalent, both of which serve as a prerequisite tothe major) and the senior-year capstone design course. And while the first year course sequencesinclude a design-build project, there exists a wide variance in the machine skills and experienceof entry-level Mechanical Engineering students. This new sophomore course attempts to level-set the practical knowledge of machining among students in addition

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas W. DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Elizabeth (Elisha) M.H. Garcia, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

efforts of the curriculum. Annual assessment doesn’t need to be a burden if it’s organically rooted in a course. • EAMU provides a more robust system that is more than just a pass/fail criteria, leading to better assessment. • Currently, the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Program is relying largely on analytic, in-class data for assessment. An additional layer that will be conducted through a capstone audience survey is planned to be implemented this year as a more holistic, qualitative approach, but the survey will be in the form of a rubric to overlay on the EAMU vector.ConclusionWhen programs adopt the new ABET Criterion 3 Student Outcomes, it is important to recognize that a robustassessment

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

in 1987, Cornell’s SibleySchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) has required that its majors fulfill itthrough a senior level capstone course taught by departmental faculty and graduate teachingassistants. As a lab-based course, that capstone focuses primarily on report writing and designingvisuals. While the instructors have been successful at empowering students to produce well-written reports and well-designed visuals, the recurring results of departmental surveys ofstakeholders (e.g., students, alumni, industry representatives) suggested that MAE needed to dosomething more to prepare students for workplace and research communication needs.In the early fall of 2015 and as a beginning step in their attempt to do more

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Lofton, University of Evansville; Jared T. Fulcher, University of Evansville; Dick Blandford, University of Evansville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Students in the BSME program complete a rigorous,project-based curriculum [7] designed to engage students in the engineering design-build-testprocess during all four years of undergraduate study. Program highlights include small classsizes, access to faculty, and an integrated study abroad option.The University of Evansville has implemented both admissions processes mentioned in theintroduction. Students entering the program directly from high school must meet admissioncriteria for ME Lower Division. After completing the required Lower Division courses with agrade of C- or better, students must apply for ME Upper Division status to complete the final twoyears of study.Lower DivisionLower Division is classified as the first two years of

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John A. Mirth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Kinematics CourseAbstractThe proper application of lean management techniques to manufacturing processes typicallyresults in process improvements. Many of the principles of lean thinking can also be applied tothe educational process. This paper examines the implementation of lean management principlesin the design and delivery of a traditional lecture-based engineering course – Kinematics ofMachines.The format of a typical kinematics course relies on lectures, homework, exams, and perhaps adesign project as a means for transferring knowledge from the instructor to the students. In thispaper, lean thinking principles are applied to redesign the kinematics course format to increasethe effectiveness and efficiency of the knowledge transfer process

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kamau Wright, University of Hartford; Paul E Slaboch, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

” 2 0 e. Blank (no response provided) 2 4 f. Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration 1 0 g. Heat Transfer 1 1 h. Vibrations I with Applications 1 0 i. Mechanics of Materials 1 1 j. Engineering and Environmental Acoustics 0 1 k. Graphic Communication 0 1 l. Capstone Design Project 0 3 m. Thermodynamics

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Christian J. Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University; Kumbakonam Ramamani Rajagopal, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

biological materialsbecomes even more necessary.While the need to integrate design into the curriculum has been well recognized, efforts to injectit into the curriculum have been primarily made only at the freshman and senior levels, the latterwhere students work on capstone design projects. Sophomore and junior level courses often donot develop knowledge and abilities of students with respect to the engineering design process.However, the mechanics of materials course represents an excellent opportunity tosimultaneously develop abilities for analyzing material failure and abilities to connect failureanalysis to the engineering design process. Engineering design provides a cornerstone of theproposed approach to the redesign of the mechanics of

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby Crawford, USMA

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Mechanical Engineering

ProgramAbstractAssessing the level at which a Mechanical Engineering program achieves its stated outcomes isessential, not only to a successful ABET evaluation but also to the continued improvement andeffectiveness of the program. While survey data is valuable, it should only be one component ofa broader assessment plan. The Mechanical Engineering (ME) program at the United StatesMilitary Academy (USMA) has employed a method to feed graded event averages and standarddeviations from student assignments, examinations, and projects into a multi-level assessmenttool that provides a valuable measure of how well the students are achieving the programoutcomes.In the fall of 2005, the need arose to objectively evaluate how well the students in a designcourse were

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

is well-established that students have difficulty transferring knowledge and skills betweencourses in their undergraduate curriculum. At the same time, many college-level courses onlyconcern material relating to the course itself and do not cover how this material might be usedelsewhere. It is unsurprising, then, that students are unable to transfer and integrate knowledgefrom multiple areas into new problems as part of capstone design courses for example, or in theircareers. More work is required to better enable students to transfer knowledge between theircourses, learn skills and theory more deeply, and to form engineers who are better able to adaptto new situations and solve “systems-level” problems. In this investigation, students in

Conference Session

Attracting, Developing and Retaining Talented ME Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Ella R. Sargent, University of the Pacific; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; John J Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Christopher Allen Wejmar, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Mechanical Engineering

and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University, and his MSME and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer-aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a ”Design Page 24.133.1 Technology” program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Innovations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Nagurka, Marquette University; Fernando Rodriguez Anton, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

components(including powertrain design.) Each student was required to complete the project, and fully justify all design decisions. Theproject served as a capstone experience, bridging many of the concepts of the course. One strongmessage that students drew from the experience was the reality of multiple designs – each withits own tradeoffs – that satisfied the challenge.Feedback and Assessment in the Machine Design Laboratory This section of the paper summarizes some of the feedback from students who conducted theexperiments in the Machine Design Laboratory. The “Design of Machine Elements” course hasbeen run only once with the new experiments. There are no results of a longitudinal assessmentstudy. In addition to direct questions to

Conference Session

Mechanics & Mechanics Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Campus; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #33623Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Statics Recitation CourseMr. Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University, Erie CampusDr. Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College Dr. Charlotte de Vries is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. She received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches First-year and Capstone Design, Dynamics, System Dynamics, and Instrumenta- tion

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-565: UNDERGRADUATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS THATACHIEVE DESIRED LEARNING OUTCOMESFiras Akasheh, Tuskegee University Dr. Akasheh is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University. He joined in 2008.Denny C. Davis, Washington State University Dr. Davis is Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University. He has led numerous multidisciplinary research projects to enhance engi- neering education. He currently leads projects creating and testing assessments and curriculum materials for engineering design and professional skills, especially for use in capstone engineering design courses. He has been a Fellow

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

and, further, that communication skills are very important in theworkplace.Mastery. Participants describe the various communication activities that they have engaged in,and some describe the particular competencies that they have mastered, as illustrated in thefollowing excerpts from portfolios and survey responses.In this first example, the participant describes in her experiences communicating in differentmodes and media and the importance of that communication to her groups’ work. A game capstone project "Paint bomber" is a good example of how exchanging thoughts and ideas with others was crucial to the game design process and very beneficial. I had to explain and describe our ideas to the rest of our classmates visually

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, andConclusions – Teamwork (3-5 students/team), 9 short form reports, individualME – 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone DesignDesign Project Documentation: Problem Definition, Progress report,Formal Design Reports Project Report ( 1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description of design approach, results, and conclusions, with supporting documentation Teamwork 3-5 Students/Team Multiple industry interactions, small group presentations