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MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Instiutes for Research (AIR); David L Burris, University of Delaware; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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instructors [30, 31], we found the key to managing the largeenrollment of a technical communications course is using of well-trained teaching assistants toprovide students with timely feedback on weekly assignments. Our strategy was to provide theteaching assistants with continuous instructional support in the form of weekly meetings with theinstructor.Technical Communications is unique in that it featured a contextualized learning experience forcourse assignments, namely, asking students to communicate as if they were product engineers atMelissa and Doug®. In reality, Melissa and Doug® is a partner of the program and periodicallysponsors introductory design and capstone projects. These connections provide a realistic contextfor students when they

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

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help reinforce classroom knowledge and help students understandthe creation of and adherence to a timeline. However, the pandemic forced these projects to goremote. Some research has been done on hands-on team projects during the pandemic, such asstudying the impact of COVID-19 on senior capstone design courses (see, e.g., [13]), but there isless research on team projects in regular lecture and laboratory courses. As universities begin toreturn to pre-pandemic instruction methods and experiment with hybrid classes, it is important tostudy these courses in which students are again having to adjust study habits and team-workingbehaviors.We present a quantitative analysis of engineering students’ responses to survey questions relatedto their

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 7: Student Evaluation and Grading

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Ashley J Earle, York College of Pennsylvania

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Paper ID #38966Work in Progress: Specifications Grading in a System Modeling CourseDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent the past twenty-one years teaching mechanical engineering at four different col- leges. 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 An- gola, 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

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MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahra Pournorouz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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properties of synthetic oils. This was the first demonstration of the work ever done in this field and resulted in broad environmental and cost benefits, especially in energy storage and heat transfer applications. She has more than three years of experience teaching thermofluidic, mechanical design, and solid and structure courses and supervising senior capstone projects collaborating with industries such as Saint-Gobain, Klein Tools, and Parker. She also has served in leadership roles at the Society of Women Engineers and STEM advisory task force to represent diversity and inclusion and improve student success and retention for underrepresented students.” ©American Society for Engineering

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Institutes for Research; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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] also implemented scaffolds in project-based learningin freshman engineering design. Their results indicated that gradually tapering or “fading”adaptive, pedagogical scaffolds by the instructor advanced greater student mastery of designskills needed to complete project activities. Similarly, Cheville and Welch [19] found thatintegrating scaffolded project management activities in a pre-capstone electrical engineeringdesign course produced positive changes in student mastery of course learning outcomes andincreased successful completion of design projects by student teams. Overall, prior literaturesuggests that providing the right amount of material and pedagogical scaffolding, and fading thisdistributed scaffolding over time, provides learners

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 4: Professional Preparation

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talha Bin Asad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Beyza Nur Guler, University of California, Irvine

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ofknowledge results in longer times spent in any phase of the design process which impactscompany efficiency and productivity negatively. To address this issue, the participant’scompany implemented a six-month training program for recently graduated engineers. In terms of the mechanical engineering curriculum, the participant recommendedstructured capstone projects that ensure every group member becomes proficient in all phasesof the design process. For example, the participant noted that for hardware design projects,every student in a group must be involved in preliminary material search and documentation,creation of CAD drawings, alternative design production, and selection of the most cost-effective fabrication method for hardware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 14: Curriculum and Course Assessment in and Outside the Classroom

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Carol Geary, Virginia Tech; Natali C. Huggins, Virginia Tech

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2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nosakhare Iyobosa Idiaghe; Jessica R. Deters, University of Nebraska Lincoln

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Diversity

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been pivotal in the development of structural programs to promote research inpredominantly undergraduate institutions [2]. This has led to an increase in undergraduateresearch programs at different universities over the last 35 years.Several models for undergraduate research programs exist, in addition to REUs. These modelsinclude capstone experiences, senior theses, internships and co-ops, course-based undergraduateresearch experiences (CURES), wrap-around experiences, bridge programs, consortium/project-based programs, community-based research programs [1], [3]. However, most of these programsare relatively short-term (i.e., limited to one to two semesters) and thus constrain how deeplystudents can delve into their research.Earlier studies

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MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland, College Park; Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students.Dr. Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Natasha Andrade is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., The Ohio State University; Annie Abell, The Ohio State University

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State University. She teaches capstone design courses for mechanical engineering students, and a variety of product design elective courses for engineering students as well as for students of all majors at OSU. Annie’s current scholarship interests are focused on investigating the ways in which students approach open-ended, ill-structured, or ambiguous problems. Previously, Annie taught in Ohio State’s Department of Design and Ohio State’s First-Year Engineering Program, and has past experience working in prototyping labs. She currently serves as the Central-District representative on the IDSA Women in Design Committee, and is a general member of the American Society for Engineering Education

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MECH - Technical Session 11: Integration of Problem-Solving and Design Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick M Comiskey, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Prabhakar Venkateswaran, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Christopher Sevier, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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project where student groups present their analysis process. Students areallowed to choose the topic for their final project with guidance from the instructor. Often theseprojects pertain to their capstone design courses or student clubs such as SAE formula hybrid. MATLAB Grader was first introduced in Fall 2020 to the “Introduction to Finite ElementMethods” course primarily for the purpose of simplifying the linear algebra computationspreviously performed on hand-written assignments so that students could more easily focus onthe conceptual process therein [13] [14]. While this could have been done simply within thedesktop version of MATLAB or another coding language, there is a danger that errors would betoo difficult to diagnose by the

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MECH - Technical Session 4: Innovation in Engineering Education Methods

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa

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Diversity

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experience is limitedto a single capstone project undertaken in their final year [13-15]. Despite the fact that engineering and scientific knowledge has grown at an astonishing rate overthe past century, engineering still only nominally requires 4 years of training (i.e., a bachelor’s degree) tobe able to enter and operate in the engineering workforce. For comparison, the number of years oftraining needed to practice law has increased from 4 to 7 and to practice medicine has increased from 3 to10 over the same time period. Given the breadth and depth of the technical knowledge students need tomaster, there are very few opportunities to incorporate additional non-technical material into mosttechnical courses, especially the engineering

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 6: Dynamics and Kinematics

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dennis Mays Kutzer, United States Naval Academy; John S Donnal; Carl E. Wick Sr., United States Naval Academy

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University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). His research interests include robotic manipulation, computer vision and motion capture, applications of and extensions to additive manufacturing, mechanism design and characterization, continuum manipulators, redundant mechanisms, and modular systems.Dr. John S DonnalDr. Carl E. Wick Sr., United States Naval Academy Dr. Carl Wick is currently a Professional Lecturer with the Biomedical Engineering Department of the George Washington University where he provides technical assistance and advice to capstone project students. Previously he was associated with the U.S. Na ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The ScorBot

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tao Xing, University of Idaho; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho; John Crepeau, University of Idaho

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, University of Idaho Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 35 years. His scholarly interests include design pedagogy, program assessment, engine testing, and industrial energy conservation. He was the Mechanical Engineering department chair from 2015 to 2020. He is now retired, but remains involved in the freshman introduction to engineering and multi-disciplinary capstone design programs.Dr. John Crepeau, University of Idaho Professor John Crepeau received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. After serving as an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow, he began teaching at th