Paper ID #40426Teaching Fluid Mechanics through PhotographyAzar Panah, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Panah is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Penn State University at Berks and her specialty is in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Her research interests include unsteady aerodynam- ics of biologically-inspired air vehicles. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Teaching Fluid Mechanics through PhotographyAbstractAs part of the General Education (GenEd) program at the Pennsylvania State University, weoffer an experimental course on
National Engineering Education Research Colloquies” and ”The Research Agenda for the New Dis- cipline of Engineering Education.” He has a passion for designing state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Inno- vation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While at Texas A&M University Imbrie co-led the design of a 525,000 square foot state-of-the-art engineering education focused facility; the largest educational building in the state. His expertise in educational pedagogy, student learning, and teaching has impacted thousands of students at the
the inclusion of additional classes focusing on PLM. Thisresults in PLM being a largely unknown subject among undergraduate classes. Informal pollsamong senior undergraduate mechanical engineers at Clemson University, in the SoutheasternUnited States, showed less than 10% of students had heard of PLM by the last semester of theirprogram. Though not intended to be conclusive, this observation can demonstrate the lack offocus on PLM within a traditional program. 3. Initiatives for Teaching PLMTo increase understanding of PLM tools and processes, Clemson University instituted theProduct Lifecycle Management Center (PLMC) with the mission to “foster learningenvironments through dedicated laboratory(s), workshops, and industry outreach efforts
Paper ID #38621Effectiveness of Transfer Focused Writing Pedagogy on Undergraduates’Lab Report Writing in Entry-Level Engineering Laboratory Courses atThree UniversitiesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineer- ing and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In par- ticular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering
Undergraduate Programs, the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories, and an Associate Teaching Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interest is developing new engineering laboratory curricula to empower students’ higher-order thinking skills by solving real-world problems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023A Laboratory Course Design Strategy to Increase Student Confidence: Connecting Material Testing Standards to Course Material and Real ApplicationsAbstractThis paper presents a laboratory course design strategy to align material testing standards withhands-on experiments, game-based learning, and real-world
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Press, 2018.[2] Y. Liu, "Design of instructional tools to facilitate understanding of fluid viscous dampers in avibration and controls class and course assessment," 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual ConferenceContent Access, 2020.[3] C. C. McDaniel and G. C. Archer, “Full-scale Mechanical Vibrations Laboratory,” In 2013ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 23-628. 2013.[4] A. Danesh-Yazdi, Y. Wu, and O. Onipede, “Interactive Simulation Modules (ISMs) inVibrations,” 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.[5] T. M. Ericson, “Lessons for Effective Use of MATLAB and Simulink to Explore AdvancedTopics: Application in a Vibrations Course,” 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference ContentAccess, 2021.[6] A. Rezaei and A. Davari, "Teaching
common feature in many engineering courses,including introduction to engineering courses and senior design projects across universities in theUnited States [16]. PBL is of significant impact practices in teaching and learning [13]. Such alearning experience can be of benefit to students by consisting of these components relevant toengineering education: 1. making clear the PBL goals for knowledge, understanding, and skills, 2. providing engaging problems at a suitable level of challenge and open-endedness to motivate students, 3. allowing for sufficient time to for students to explore and learn new topics in terms of breadth and depth, 4. motivating students by relating to real-world problems to allow for authentic
four materials courses, EGR254 Materials Engineering,ME306/MSE20000 Materials Science, CE20400 Civil Engineering Materials – Laboratory,and MSE34400 Materials in Engineering (formerly CE/ME33001 Structure and Properties ofMaterials), and their applications to the courses on different subjects instructions.It is fair to assume that ABET accredited engineering programs have similar curriculums. AtPNW, the authors’ first teaching, learning, and instructing experiences were mostly in itsmechanical and civil engineering programs. It was decided to use said programs as the maintemplate to explain MSE’s teaching, learning, and instructions’ connections to differentengineering subjects’ courses. The core MSE and non-MSE courses and the relevant
the instructors. Thus, the hands-on laboratories provide an experience-based learning opportunity. In the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa, the robotics classesare designed to teach students the basics of robotics and robotic kinematics. Robotics is a verylarge interdisciplinary field with multiple job opportunities ranging from programming tomanufacturing [5]. Given the overwhelming breadth of potential material, the class of interest inthis study primarily focuses on teaching students the basics of robotics with respect to anindustrial setting. The topics covered include three-dimensional (often nonlinear) concepts likerotation matrices and forward kinematics. Since the class consists exclusively of
associated controls teaching platform. That platform includesa suite of proprietary hardware, and it works in concert with LabVIEW™ software from NationalInstruments. By 2018, several of the QUBEs had ceased to function, out of an original set of tenunits. That year, internal ME department research was conducted to investigate the cost of QUBEreplacements. At that time the version of the QUBE owned by KU had been discontinued.According to Quanser, there were two QUBEs left (in their possession) from that outdatedhardware generation. The ME department did not purchase those units, which ended the use ofthe QUBEs in MECH-431, as there would have been too many students in each laboratory groupassigned to each remaining (functioning) QUBE.Regarding the
was as good(87.8%), if not better, than other students (77.6%). However, under-represented minorities(65.4%) and first-generation students (64.7%) did not fare as well. A number of studies havedemonstrated that first generation students, in particular, face some unique challenges [2]–[5].These students can lack the cultural capital their continuing peers have including the skills andknowledge to build social networks with their academic peers and the ability to tap institutionresources.These observations have encouraged us to consider implementing changes to our freshman levelcourses that can support the development of social networking skills and encourage theidentification and use of resources such as faculty and graduate teaching assistant
Publishing, 2021.16. Deniz, Sabri, Ulf Christian Müller, Ivo Steiner, and Thomas Sergi. "Online (remote) teaching for laboratory based courses using “digital twins” of the experiments." Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 144, no. 5 (2022): 051016.17. Maksimović, Mirjana, and Nikola Davidović. "The role of Digital Twin technology in transforming engineering education." In 9th International scientific conference Technics and Informatics in Education, pp. 264-270. 2022.18. Zacher, Serge. "Digital twins for education and study of engineering sciences." International Journal on Engineering, Science and Technology 2, no. 2 (2020): 61-69.19. Sepasgozar, Samad ME. "Digital twin and web-based virtual gaming technologies for
developadvanced manufacturing research and a rapid prototyping-based teaching laboratory, materialextrusion and material jetting-based AM machines were acquired. The overall goal of thisinitiative is to support design and manufacturing-based educational activities and createopportunities to engage undergraduate students in research. However, there were no such formalcourse offerings on the AM that would allow students to learn and engage in the full spectrum ofthe AM process such as 3D design with optimization in mind to hands-on experience inmanufacturing and testing of these designs. In Spring 2023, a senior elective on AM was offeredfor the first time in the Mechanical Engineering Program. In order to fulfill the growing demandfor a skilled workforce
Paper ID #41336Enhancing Mechanical Vibration Education through Virtual Labs: A Focuson Rotor BalancingDr. Carmen Maria Muller-Karger, Florida International University Associate Teaching Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Florida International University. Full professor at Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela from 2002 to 2016. With a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in the area of Rotodynamics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science in the area of Biomechanics from the Central University of Venezuela. Main interest in Simulation in
Paper ID #41327Implementation of a Standalone, Industry-centered Technical CommunicationsCourse in a Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate ProgramProf. Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. At University of Delaware, she teaches a range of courses across the curriculum. She is also the Co-Founder and Board President of The Perry Initiative.Dr. Amy Trauth, American Instiutes for Research (AIR
Paper ID #42965Reflections of Undergraduate Engineering Students Completing a Cross-DisciplinaryRobotics Project with Preservice Teachers and Fifth Graders in an ElectromechanicalSystems CourseDr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa is an Associate Professor and director of the Collaborative Robotics and Adaptive Machines (CRAM) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. Dr. Kaipa received his BE (Hons.)Dr. Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University Dr. Jennifer Kidd is a Master Lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old
Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high-performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala held a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente where he taught and developed courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Hydraulic Machinery, as well as different Laboratory courses. Additionally, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to the industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of
traditionalundergraduate mechanical engineering controls course that incorporates research withexperiential learning. The ten-week course provides students an opportunity to use moderncomputer tools to aid in the simulation and control of space mechanisms. In particular, the coursefocuses on the mathematical modeling, simulation, and control of an innovative planar pick andplace mechanism capable of dynamically changing its topology within its workspace. Thisimmersive educational experience allows students to connect fundamental mathematicalmodeling of a physical system to the real-time control of physical hardware. This paperdocuments the structure of this new course, its learning objectives, and outlines the uniqueproject and laboratory experiences that
demonstrate engineering principles.Cong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I am currently working as a systems engineer in the aerospace industry, I contributed to this project as an undergraduate researcher and helped create early versions of the simulation using MatlabDr. Benita Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Benita Comeau teaches a laboratory course on micro/nano engineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Chemical Engineer by degree, and received her BSE from the Univerisity of Michigan and PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Ms. Emily Welsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ms. Welsh works as an educational technologist
Paper ID #42557Using Arduino Microprocessors in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent over twenty years teaching mechanical engineering at four different colleges. He started at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the traditional role of teaching and administering a modest graduate research program. At Trine University, a small private school in Angola, Indiana, he focused on undergraduate education while teaching ten different courses ranging from introductory freshman courses to senior capstone. Scott also served as an advisor to many
mechanical vibrations and controls course byadding laboratory and modeling/simulation components into its curriculum [5-8]; renovate a MEsenior design class through implementing industry-sponsored group projects [9, 10]; revamp aprogramming course via teaching C# and MATLAB to ME students [11]; enhance an engineeringdesign course by designing a group project for this course [12]; and make the topics in athermodynamics course easy to understand by developing instructional courseware for that course[13, 14]. Moreover, Liu and Baker designed a new course assessment tool to effectively collectstudent feedback through a mixture of closed- and open-format questions, formative andsummative questions, and Likert scales [15, 16]. This paper illustrates how
Paper ID #43596Student Use of ChatGPT to Write an Engineering ReportDr. Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Randall Manteufel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has won several teaching awards, including the 2012 University of Texas System Regents Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2013 UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2019 College of Engineering Student Council Professor of the Year Award, 2008, 2022, 2024 College Excellence in Teaching, and 2005 Mechanical
Paper ID #38579Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self EfficacyinDifferent Learning FormatsTara EsfahaniDr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National
recycled to perform casting.Background & Theory Sand casting is associated with a limited number of Capstone senior design programs offeringbachelor’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering [i]. However, the technique is absent inthe mechanical engineering Capstone literature; presumably because it is not used elsewhere tosupport ME senior design. Some casting examples do exist in ME manufacturing laboratoryclasses [ii,iii], but predominantly simulation is used in leu of the physical casting process to aidstudent learning and understanding of underlying phenomena. [iv,v] To incorporate sand casting applications in an ME Capstone senior design course, we deployedthe “Energy Engineering Laboratory Module” (EELM) pedagogy. EELM
from MIT, Master of Science in Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Bach- elor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and is currently teaching at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa teaching a variety of courses including Intro to Engineering, Heat Transfer, Control Theory, Electronics, and Senior Design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Design of Entrepreneurially Minded (EM) Effective Learning Strategies for Engineering Students: Course Structure, Grading Rubrics, Syllabus Design, and In-Class Mini Labs for Student Motivation and Learning
University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the ASME Best Teacher Award and earned the ACUE Certificate in Effective College Instruction. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Comparative Study on the Role of Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Assignments and Project-based Learning on Student Performance in an Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics CourseAbstractThis paper compares and evaluates the role of two group-based active learning
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