Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shengyong Zhang, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

number ofcommercial FEA software packages (ANSYS, for example) which make the learning processrelatively easy. There have been many publications on the integration of FEA into the machine design course[Richard, 2015]. Moazed etc. [2010] introduces the concepts of FEA to students in the strengthof material course during the sophomore year and again in the machine design course during thejunior year, addressing the issues relevant to the practice and use of FEA. Six universitiescollaborated and developed finite element learning models for different undergraduateengineering courses using commercial software [Brown, etc, 2008]. These learning modulesprovide undergraduate engineering students with new visually oriented insight into thetheoretical

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Cutler, Northern Arizona University; Perry Wood P.E., Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2018This semester has a total of 16 A’s for the group grade and 15 A’s for the individual grade,meaning that more students contributed equally in their groups. There are no grades lower than aC this semester, both with the group and individual grades. The reason for this improvement ingrade distribution from the Spring 2018 semester most likely relates to the lecture timing in thecurriculum as well as emphasizing the importance of the peer evaluation during the assignmentdate. These factors will be taken into consideration during the Spring 2019 analysis. Overall,more students received A’s and B’s in the Fall 2018 semester than the Spring 2018 semesterbecause of the improvement to the lecture content.The questionnaire is an ungraded assignment