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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wooram Park, University of Texas at Dallas

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free vibration demonstration, the parametersof the device should be adjustable in vibration demonstration with the moving base.The author worked with his department to create a design project for a senior design team. Theauthor’s engineering school has been operating a well-established capstone design program forsenior students in engineering departments. We used the design education program as a vehicleto implement the educational apparatus. In the one-year course, the author played the role ofclient, and the student team carried out the design task with the allowed budget $2,000. Forpractical use of the device for the vibration course, the device should be deliverable on a cart byone person.III. Design details1. Type of motionMost theoretic

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Pierson; Benjamin Fleming; Han Hu, University of Arkansas

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original.Machine Shop TrainingTo complete their manufacturing projects, students will need to be trained on the rules ofworking in a machine shop, general safety precautions, and how to use tools important to theunderstanding of machining including band saws, files, taps, drill presses, calipers, and vices.Familiarity with the machine shop should be a prerequisite before lessons on manufacturabilitycan happen because, too frequently, students enter their senior capstone project clueless when itcomes to recognizing even many basic fabrication tools. Additionally, expectations for safebehavior, PPE, and supervision should be instilled early to maintain the integrity of working in aroom full of hazards that could potentially maim or injure. Small group

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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Frederic-Charles Krynen, Stanford University; Carl E. Wieman

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Paper ID #40075Enhancing Effectiveness and Inclusivity of Introductory, Project-BasedME Courses: A Cognitive Psychology ApproachMr. Frederic-Charles Krynen, Stanford University Fred Krynen is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Under the guidance of Professor Carl Wieman, Professor Shima Salehi, and Professor Sheri Sheppard, his research focuses on teaching methods as they apply to introductory university-level mechanical design courses. He is focused on measuring these methods’ impact on performance, retention and on the students’ sense of belonging in the physical space they occupy

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristian D. Jacome; Ting Dong, University of Florida; Matthew J. Traum, University of Florida

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potential for the capstone projects by reducing machining waste. This paper’s purposes are to 1) provide the necessary background information to fullyunderstand the key elements of metal casting in an engineering Capstone course and 2) documenthow the availability of in-house sand casting impacts students’ design thought process andenjoyment of the course. These goals provide direction for future capstone project curriculumdevelopment to exploit the potential of sand casting for prototyping purposes while remainingunder safe working conditions in the lab. This process can also lead to a significant cost reductionin the capstone project development and raw material purchase, as metal waste from subtractivemanufacturing processes can be

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alex C. Szatmary, King's College, England

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significant. Because the capstoneexperience is the part of the curriculum that best approximates professional practice, studentoutcome (SO) attainment in that course is particularly relevant to assessing the quality of theoverall degree program. Moreover, a team design project is a natural opportunity for assessingnumerous engineering skills, especially in design and teamwork.In the Mechanical Engineering (ME) program at King’s College (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), allseven ABET Student Outcomes are assessed in capstone design because our capstone course isintended to give students experience synthesizing the major engineering abilities for in anauthentic context. This level of assessment is manageable because the course spans two semestersand has

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland College Park; Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland College Park

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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. Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland College Park Received a BS in physics from MIT and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Penn- sylvania. Worked at Link¨oping University in Sweden and then Risø National Laboratory in Denmark as a research scientist before joining Santa Fe Science and Technology as the Vice President for Research

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Tolman, Utah Valley University; Matthew J Jensen, Utah Valley University

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electives) Courses teaching design 43% (7 core, 3 electives; 3 cornerstone/capstone) Faculty teaching design 70% (Possibly 4) Faculty incorporating design 100% (2 not teaching design process) project Weight of Design project (avg) 20% (range of 10-30%) Faculty Agreeing to standard 85% (no opposition in dept. discussion) process Willing to incorporate design 100% processIn a previous work a review of a variety of design processes was presented. [3] From this and areview of other processes [4]–[11] , a basic framework was determined based on what wasidentified by the authors to be the key and common elements of the various processes

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 10: Capstone and Design Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Delson, University of California at San Diego; James Lynch, University of California at San Diego

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emphasizesapplying dynamics modeling to predict hardware performance. Afterwards students work inteams of 4 or 5 on a capstone design project with sponsors from industry, the medical school,engineering faculty, and the community. This study was conducted during the mechatronicsproject in the first five weeks of the sequence, where emphasis was placed on curiosity in lectureand lab activities. The study took place during the winter quarter of 2023 with 131 studentsenrolled in the course. A survey was conducted at the beginning of the class and at week 5,which will be discussed in the Results section.The first 5 weeks of the class were based on a mechatronics project where students connected anArduino to a motor driver which was used to spin an acrylic

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 2: Thermo-Fluids Projects and Active Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manohar Chidurala, Western Kentucky University; Riley Bishop; Brandon Charles Sekula, Western Kentucky University; Nathaniel Burris, Western Kentucky University

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implies that the flow does not vary across the cross-sectional planeof the test section. It is crucial to achieving uniform flow because this condition occurs most oftenin realistic aerodynamic applications. After the test section, the air exits into the diffuser andthrough the fan to the right. As a Senior Capstone project for the mechanical engineering program in 2021, a team offive undergraduate students worked with a faculty advisor to utilize the wind tunnel. Theydeveloped a data acquisition system to experimentally determine the aerodynamic properties ofthe lift and drag force of objects in external flow [1], [2]. Figure 2 shows below a two-dimensional airfoil with air flowing from left to right. Thisillustrates the concept

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Kremer, Ohio University; Timothy Cyders; Cody Petitt; Kouree Chesser, Ohio University

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model is that increasing the level ofimmersion in professional scenarios will impact levels of student engagement and behavior. Totest this assumption, in the Spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year we initiated a pilotstudy of a full-immersion in a Tech Startup project. This project integrated curricular credit forcoursework whose core competencies aligned with the tasks of forming a technology startupcompany. Several courses from Ohio University’s Entrepreneurship Certificate Program and theMechanical Engineering Capstone Design (semester 1) and Experimental Design courses wererestructured to allow students to have a full schedule of classes immersed in real project work. Ateam of five students including two business students and three

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Brian Tang, Mission Technologies, division of HII

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, implementation, instrumentation, future work, theeducational experience of an international capstone, and lessons learned are also presented. Keywords: Atmospheric Water Generators, Water Scarcity, psychrometrics, Water, HeatExchangers, Instrumentation, Drinking Water, Irrigation Water, Geothermal Heat Exchanger,Underground Temperature Distribution. International Capstone Projects.1. Introduction The issue of water scarcity is a persistent problem affecting people worldwide despiterevolutionary accomplishments in clean water generation. It is estimated that four billion peopleexperience water scarcity at least one month per year [1]. While a few technologies likedesalination, reverse osmosis, and refrigeration dehumidifiers are used effectively

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zahra Pournorouz, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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and enhancing the thermophysical properties of synthetic oils. This was the first demonstra- tion 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 ther- mofluidic, 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 lead- ership 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

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 5: Preparing the Future Workforce

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Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, Texas A&M University; Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University; Carlos R. Corleto, Texas A&M University; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University

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Texas A&M, worked in in- dustry settings to develop various biomedical technologies, ranging from acute neonatal care to long-term space exploration.Dr. Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University Joanna Tsenn is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She coordinates the mechanical engineering senior capstone design projects and teaches senior design lectures and studios. Her research interests include engineering education and engineering design methodology.Dr. Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University Dr. Balawi is an

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuhao Xu, Prairie View A&M University; Bo Zhao; Steve Tung, University of Arkansas; Han Hu, University of Arkansas

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, UA students have solid CADskills. During advising sessions, many students (from GPA 2.6 to 3.9) also confirmed that theywere very confident with their CAD skills and found CAD among the most important skillsduring their internships. This strength relates to the CAD involvement in every semester’s coursesince the initial introduction. As shown in Fig. 1, CAD is initially offered to undergraduatestudents in the 3rd semester (labeled in yellow circle). Starting from the 4th semester, manycourses will have homework assignments or projects that require CAD, including coursesinvolving CAD for manufacturing such as Introduction to Machine Analysis, Mechanics ofFluids, Machine Element Design, Lab III, Capstone Project II (labeled in blue circles

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

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David Procopio; John Morris, Clemson University; John R. Wagner P.E., Clemson University

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increase the sophistication of MATLAB algorithms. By junior year, the required coursesinvolve MATLAB coding so that the students can now apply their software knowledge toengineering design problems and simulation projects. Senior year, the students apply the skillsthey learned thus far to their project oriented and capstone design courses. As Figure 1 shows,space may exist to implement PLM concepts as well as select software packages each year throughPLM software workshops for interested students. Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior ENGR 1020: ME 2220: ME 3330: ME 4010: Engineering Mechanical Mechanical

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

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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

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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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

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

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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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