Paper ID #43866Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in a Core Junior-Level Mechanical VibrationsCourseDr. Bo Yu, Utah Valley University Bo Yu is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the Utah Valley University. His teaching interests are in the area of system dynamics, vibrations, and controls.Dr. Anne-marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Anne-Marie Lerner is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Her professional interests include inclusive in-class and out-of-class supports, investigating effective teaching pedagogy for remote delivDr. Mike
Paper ID #42315Reflections on Integrating MATLAB Grader across a Mechanical EngineeringCurriculumDr. Patrick M Comiskey, Milwaukee School of Engineering Patrick Comiskey is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He received his B.S. from that institution and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, both in mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests are in the area of transport phenomena and engineering education.Dr. Prabhakar Venkateswaran, Milwaukee School of Engineering Prabhakar Venkateswaran is an Associate Professor of Mechanical
guidelines for applying problem solving skills andserves as a roadmap for integrating troubleshooting into academic curriculums. Table II. Framework for Teaching Troubleshooting Skills Elements Phases Tools/Methods for Teaching 1. Identification - System Diagrams Understanding the 2. Comprehension - Product Manuals Problem - Flow Charts - Mind Maps - Reverse Engineering Exercises 3. Data Collection - Product Manuals
Paper ID #44307Developing a Learning Innovation for an Undergraduate Mechanical EngineeringCourse through Faculty, Engineer, and Student CollaborationDr. Sean Lyle Gestson, University of Portland Sean Gestson graduated from the University of Portland (UP) in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering with a research emphasis in engineering education from Oregon State University (OSU). During his time at OSU, Sean taught multiple undergraduate engineering courses including, geotechnical engineering, highway design, surveying, and senior capstone design. His
Paper ID #43071Sustainability-focused Digital Case Studies: Enhancing Engineering EducationDeepika Ganesh, University of Michigan Deepika is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, School for the Environment and Sustainability. She specializes in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and is curious about informal education spaces, especially outdoor and digital spaces, and their role in contextual learning environments. Her most recent projects include program evaluation for the Next-Gen Scholars program aimed at first generation and underrepresented masters students in her department, and studying
supervision of Massimo Banzi [1]. The goal of this platform was to providean affordable electronic platform with a low learning curve that could be used by students in orout of a classroom [2]. In 2010, the Arduino UNO came onto the scene and sparked widespreadadoption in many universities across the world. Based on data from Google Scholar, there hasbeen an exponential growth in the number of papers with Arduino, Education, and Engineeringas keywords over the last twenty years (Fig. 1). Since modern engineering problems usually include electrical components, developing aworking understanding and comfort with microprocessors, sensors, and actuators is necessary fortoday’s mechanical engineers [3]. With this in mind, the Mechanical Engineering
mbiswas@uttyler.edu 1 psundaravadivel@uttyler.edu2, and aadityakhanal@uttyler.edu3,AbstractEngineering professionals are expected to conduct various methods of communication when theyenter the workforce. Video presentations are emerging as a preferred mode of communication formarketing and employment processes. However, such communication is uncommon for project-based learning (PBL) assignments in engineering education. Engineering professionals areexpected to bring some level of entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) skills to solve social orcultural problems with responses rather than solutions. Moreover, the latest industry trend showsthe incorporation of video presentations to showcase and pitch entrepreneurial endeavors.However, such
student’s perspective, “Honestly, no, I had no idea what engineering was, I was just like, ‘Okay, math and science school; we got it,’ and then like somehow that just kind of became synonymous with engineer-, with that definition. They’re like, ‘Oh you can be an engineer,’ I’m like, ‘Okay, I guess so?’ And I only really got a feel for what I’d be doing [after I got] up here....I don’t know what it [engineering] is.” (p. 12, [12])This frame of mind is pervasive among students in their first year of a program. However, there is alsoevidence to suggest that students still do not understand the nature of engineering practice upongraduating from an engineering program, especially when their engineering design
the 126th ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, 2019.[11] J. Rohde, L. Musselman, B. Benedict, D. Verdin, A. Godwin, A. Kirn, L. Benson, and G.Potvin, “Design Experiences, Engineering Identity, and Belongingness in Early Career Electricaland Computer Engineering Students,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 62, pp. 165-172,2019.[12] H. Darabi, E. Douzali, F. Karim, S. Harford, and H. Johnson, “Life after University forEngineering Graduates ASEE,” in Proceedings of the 124th ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2017.[13] C. Carroll, S. Sell, and M. Sabick, “Introduction to Entrepreneurial-minded Learning forFaculty of Foundational STEM Courses Using the KEEN Framework,” in Proceedings of the126th ASEE Annual
Paper ID #41299Work In Progress: Addressing the Great Debate on Best Control Platformsin Mechanical EngineeringDr. Lawrence Funke, Ohio Northern University Dr. Funke received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. He is currently an assistant professor at Ohio Northern University.Dr. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Merrimack College Maria-Isabel Carnasciali is the new founding Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences at Merrimack College (MA). Previously, she spent 13 years at the University of New Haven (CT) where her last role included four years as Assistant
as an individual agent [18], [21], [22]. Students exist in theworld of the classroom [18], [22], build emerging engineering identity [23], and bring their priorlives and understandings with them into the problem solving process. As each of these facetsfluctuates in a student’s mind, epistemic agency may appear to move between several sources.Something does not have to be an epistemic agent to be treated as if it were one. In the late1980s, Daniel Dennett described the intentional stance: when a person interprets an inanimateobject as having wants and beliefs [24]. Through the intentional stance, students can treatproblems as epistemic agents in the problem solving process. But why might they do this? In theculture of the classroom, students
, professionalorganizations, and engineering ethics. Planned Strategies for the CAM program: CAM scholarmeetings will include career and graduate school preparedness topics every year (with theassistance of the Career and Internship Center) so that the students are prepared at all academiclevels. E-portfolios will be created with applications for internships, jobs, and graduate schoolsin mind.5. Current Academic Tutoring. In addition to general academic tutoring available through theUniversity, the CET offers tutoring specific to engineering in lower-level classes at theEngineering Tutoring Lab. Tutors are advanced upper-level students. CAM scholarship recipientswill receive tutoring as needed. Planned Strategies for the CAM program: Additional tutors willbe hired
. (2012, June), Towards an “Adaptive Concept Map”: Creating an Expert-Generated Concept Map of an Engineering Statics Curriculum Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2—22122 [3] Starns, G., & Hagge, M. (2009, June), Quantifying Learning Through The Use Of Mind Maps And Concept Maps Paper presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1- 2—4982 [4] Novak, J. D., & Cañas, A. J. (2006). The Origins of the Concept Mapping Tool and the Continuing Evolution of the Tool. Information Visualization, 5(3), 175- 184. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500126 [5
successful initial ABET accreditation review. He received multiple research grants, he coordinated the campus-wide Research Fellows programs, and his dedication to teaching was recognized through the UIndy Teacher of the Year nomination in 2023. In the classroom, Saqib likes to challenge his students to tackle real-world engineering problems. He likes to use innovative pedagogical techniques and Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning (EML) to facilitate student learning. Beyond the classroom, he has a passion for mentoring students and helping them achieve their educational and professional goals. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using Concept Maps in an Undergraduate Heat
., Bodnar, C. A., Carnasciali, M. I., Cruz, J., Dillon, H. E., Kecskemety, K. M., and miskioglu, Elif, 2021, “Refining an Entrepreneurial Mindset Master Concept Map through Multi-Institutional Collaboration,” 9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium and 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE 2021).[10] Martine, M. M., Mahoney, L. X., Sunbury, C. M., Schneider, J. A., Hixson, C., and Bodnar, C. A., 2019, “Concept Maps as an Assessment Tool for Evaluating Students’ Perception of Entrepreneurial Mind-Set.”[11] Davies, M., 2011, “Concept Mapping, Mind Mapping and Argument Mapping: What Are the Differences and Do They Matter?,” High. Educ., 62(3), pp. 279–301.[12
that are notmultiple-choice but require a calculated answer. Mehrabian et al. [3, 4] discussed how shouldfaculty design online exams for students studying in engineering and technology related fieldswithout sacrificing the educational quality and exam security and also provided facultyexperiences on the topic. They presented following important recommendations to prepareonline-open book-open mind approach exams: the students should be tested more on theconcepts rather than the material that can be plagiarized easily and selecting random sets ofquestions from a pool of questions for each student. For the second part, more questions shouldbe setup in the learning management system so that the system can randomized the exam foreach student. Pohl
' scores onthe Entrepreneurial Minded Learning Assessment (ESEMA) surveys underscore the potential ofthese pedagogical approaches to augment both theoretical understanding and practical skills.However, the challenges encountered, such as the need for iterative prototyping and adjustmentsto project requirements, highlight the complexities inherent in implementing innovative teachingmethods.The implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning(EML) in foundational mechanical engineering courses, specifically Statics and Dynamics, hasyielded promising results. Despite the challenges presented by the traditional emphasis ontheoretical knowledge, the integration of PBL and EML has provided students with practical
Paper ID #43267A Comparative Study on the Role of Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Assignmentsand Project-based Learning on Student Performance in an UndergraduateFluid Mechanics CourseDr. Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Texas A&M University Dr. Arkasama Bandyopadhyay is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She previously earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests span the areas of distributed energy
, students areencouraged to make educated decisions quickly without deliberating too much. This helpsthem to shift their focus from the perfect solution, to an ideal solution that is based oninformed compromise.Students typically work in groups of fours. Rationale for groupings change but is eitherrandomised, or as in recent years, students have been grouped together based on theirprevious design peer-assessments, i.e. like-minded individuals are grouped together. After theinitial briefing session, a team-building exercise is held so that the students can start to get toknow each other. Previously, a pub-style quiz has been used with Imperial College Londontrivia, engineering trivia, and trivia relating to staff in the Department. Staff also engage
Paper ID #44081Exo Arm-An EMG Based Orthotic PrototypeMr. Matthew Paul Yoder, Wentworth Institute of Technology Matthew Yoder is a 2023 graduate from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently specialized in medical devices, working full time as a Mechanical Engineer at Lexington Medical where he is working on innovative surgical equipment.Dr. Ilie Talpasanu, Wentworth Institute of Technology Ilie Talpasanu: Ilie Talpasanu received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas in Arlington. He is Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, where he coordinated
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 #41240Using Artificial Intelligence Case Studies in a Thermodynamics CourseDr. Karen Supan, Norwich University Karen Supan is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the David Crawford School of Engineering at Norwich University. She teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and renewable energy. Dr. Supan has research interests in degradation kinetics of biomass materials, microgrid development for cold regions, and implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering classrooms. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using
Paper ID #41752A Framework for CAD Design Projects: Combining Scaffolded Milestones,Design Review, and ReflectionDr. Jamie Szwalek, The University of Illinois at Chicago Jamie Szwalek is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in Mechanical Engineering and has over ten years of teaching experience.Christopher Carducci, The University of Illinois at Chicago ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Framework for CAD Design Projects: Combining Scaffolded Milestones, Design Review, and ReflectionAbstractThis paper provides a framework
engineering, but then to explore expansion to other units across theuniversity.The team is considering a two-level set of accomplishments for the certificate. Thoughthe specific content of the certificate is currently under development, the team puttogether what each level of the certificate could look like. Each level would include 4steps that would be required for completion. An outline of the certificate plan follows.Level 1In Level 1 of the certificate, faculty members will be asked to investigate and plan acurriculum change in one of their courses. Along with this, faculty members will beasked to crowd-source in which courses sustainability outcomes are being taught orintroduced. The goal is to keep in mind that these changes need to be
all of them, and in instances, only pressures and temperatures were shown ondiagrams, not terms with units of power. Bejan 14 is an older textbook which does an excellent jobhighlighting conservation and account principles, but is limited in terms of its diagrams. None ofthe eight texts reviewed attempted a diagram of any kind for entropy and exergy.The limitations of existing textbooks in the thermal-fluid sciences in providing students withconsistent diagrammatic support to solve engineering problems has motivated the exploration of astraightforward unified approach to drawing these diagrams. With this in mind, the idea of using ageneralized accounting approach 15,16 to draw storage and interaction diagrams is explored in
Paper ID #41630Low-Cost Hands-on Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger: Design, Manufacture,Test, and In-class ImplementationAminul Islam Khan, Washington State University Aminul Islam Khan, PhD Assistant Teaching Professor Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ Aminul Islam Khan has received BSc and MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the most regarded and reputed engineering university of Bangladesh. After that he served as a faculty at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Then he completed PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University and joined as Assistant Teaching Professor at Northern
, 2014.[19] T. M. Fernandez, K. M. Martin, and R. T. Mangum, “Whose grade is it anyway?: Transitioning engineering courses to an evidence-based specifications grading system,” 2020 ASEE Virtual, 2020,[20] J. Bransford, A. L. Brown, and R. Cocking, “How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school,” 1999,[21] R. A. Streveler, R. L. Miller, A. I. Santiago-Román, M. A. Nelson, M. R. Geist, and B. M. Olds, “Rigorous methodology for concept inventory development: Using the‘ Assessment Triangle’ to develop and test the Thermal and Transport Science Concept Inventory (TTCI),” The International journal of engineering education, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 968–984, 2011,[22] T. E. Adams, S. L. H. Jones, and C. Ellis
Statics + class + lecture 3253 Statics + mechanical engineering 5269 Statics + mechanical engineering + intervention 709Figure 1 Research searching, collecting, including, and excluding process flowchartbackwards snowball method were therefore excluded from this paper, as they violated theestablished inclusion criteria. However, they could be considered for a future revision of thisreview with expanded limitations. As for citations that included previous iterations of studieswith overlapping datasets, they have been compiled alongside their final iterations if the studymet the required inclusion criteria. With that in mind, studies are
[5]. To address these challenges,we advocate for the development of cost-effective nanoengineering and nanoimaging interactiveeducational systems. This approach enhances the overall educational experience, better preparingstudents to contribute to the progress and applications of nanoengineering across diverse fields.With that objective in mind, our focus was directed towards enhancing the instruction of theAFM. AFM is an indispensable tool for researchers and engineers in nanotechnology, offeringexceptional resolution in material visualization through the interaction of a tip with the surfacematerial [6–8]. Nonetheless, the images generated by the AFM may not accurately represent thematerial surface due to the existence of image artifacts
Paper ID #43523Design and Assessment of a New Hardware-Based Dynamic Systems Coursefor a Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate ProgramDr. Jennifer Melanie Bastiaan, Kettering University Jennifer Bastiaan is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Kettering University.Prof. Kristy Brinker Brouwer, Kettering University Professor Kristy Brinker Brouwer currently teaches Mechanical Engineering courses, specializing in Dynamic Systems and Mechanics, at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design and Assessment of a New