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

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

, and educators have advocated moving from educating engineers in a waythat reinforces that engineering is a purely technical endeavor to one that recognizes that it issociotechnical, and happens in a global context. As part of a National Science Foundation -funded project, our engineering program is exploring ways for engineering educators to do thiswithin required engineering courses. In this paper, we present an example of how content relatedto sociotechnical and global context was integrated into a required senior-level Heat Transfercourse in mechanical engineering. We describe the design of the Social Relevance and GlobalContext Module and its use with students in Fall 2017. The module is designed for use in theHeat Exchanger section of

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Youssef, San Diego State University; Enrique A. Ainsworth, University of California - Los Angeles; Casey Ann Shapiro, UCLA Center for Educational Assessment; Hannah Whang Sayson, UCLA Center for Educational Assessment; Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, University of California - Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

Design for Electrically Controlling Suspended Magnetic Microbeads. These effortsyielded multiple peer-reviewed journal papers that were coauthored by undergraduate studentsand their graduate mentors and faculty members. Table 3 shows a summary of key assessment findings. Results are based on a sample of51 undergraduate students from the first two years of assessment with participation rates of71.4% and 81.8%, respectively. Approximately 40% of the sample were women and 60% werefrom underrepresented racial minority backgrounds. These results provide insight into theprogram evolution as well as the granularity of students’ gains and satisfactions. The resultsshow students have an overall positive experience and develop both their technical