Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Butler, Mercer University; William Moses, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Duzer, E., and McMartin, F. "Building better teamwork assessments: A process for improving the validityand sensitivity of self/peer ratings", Proceeding of the American Society for Engineering Education 1999 AnnualConference, 1999.10. Arfken, D., and Henry, J. “A survey of engineers: writing attitudes and productivity”, 1986 Annual Meeting ofthe Southwest Educational Research Association, Houston, TX, 1986. Page 14.52.8 Appendix A MUSE Assessment of BSE Outcome 4 Design and Conduct Experiments and Analyze and Interpret Data

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

in a wind tunnel using a pitot/static probe. Here thestudents made use of the Bernoulli Equation that had been developed in class to calculatevelocity. The twist was that the report generated in Activity One was given to a differentteam to use, i.e., not the team that generated the report. The Activity Two studentsprovided a peer review of the Activity One report regarding ease of use and technicalcorrectness. The instructor then used this peer review to grade Activities One and Two. Page 14.1118.5The use of student generated reports, utilized by different students, is extremely valuablein emphasizing the importance of writing an industry report

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Juan Garcia, University of Texas, Austin; Michael Webber, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

-directed education is a podcast, which is an audioor video file distributed to an appropriate media player over the Internet. Our students ina multidisciplinary mechanical engineering class were able to go beyond being aconsumer and instead became creators of podcasts and active participants through blogs and aclassroom response system (clickers). With the use of new technologies and software tools,students were given the opportunity to create and post podcasts of their own research. Becausethe assignment was optional (students had a choice of writing a paper or creating a podcast ontheir original research) not all of the students created podcasts. Both types of completed projects(papers and podcasts) were uploaded to the class blog. In class

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

project and competed in the SAE mini-Baja in summer 2008. Thepaper describes the objectives and the structure of the course and the project stages through thetwo semesters. It also discusses the tools used to guide the students through the project such asweekly meeting, design review sessions, peer evaluation, and design and budget reports.IntroductionEngineering is building equipment, this how freshman students view it. As they start theirengineering education, they need to develop a solid foundation in mathematics and sciencesbefore reaching core engineering courses. At this stage, some students are not mature enough to Page 14.798.2understand

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilia Bratschitsch, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Adrian Millward-Sadler, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Some of the students may decide to compile their diploma thesis in samecompany. Therefore, we use the opportunity of the final seminar work to make therecommendation to them of whether to write the diploma thesis in English or not.The students are required to deliver a PowerPoint presentation of their internship work and toshow it to an audience of all their year-group peers and the internal supervisors. The contentshould not be chronologically structured but should focus on the main tasks, if there was more Page 14.733.7than one. Presenting the internship, the seniors came across as very poised, goal-oriented, and1 Our

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Jones, United States Army; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Anna Lambert, University of Memphis; Brian Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Stephanie Ivey

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Design Project. In addition to the change in themethod of data collection, there also may have been an element of peer pressure associated withthese findings; other group members were seen working in the background of the videotapes.The interview for group member six, though, was filmed in a different location and he was fairlystrong in his negative feedback. This would seem to discount the slight rise in positive commentsfrom 2/6 to 3/6 between the high stress and retrospective data points. Regardless, similar tocharacteristic two, there was a significant drop from the introduction data point for characteristicthree. Page 14.936.10TABLE #4