Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 3: Advancements in Teaching Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler; Aaditya Khanal, The University of Texas at Tyler

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #41693Using Video Creation to Develop the Entrepreneurial Mindset of EngineeringStudentsDr. Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mohammad (Rafe) Biswas is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler Houston Engineering Center in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He has taught courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory.Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 4: Innovation in Engineering Education Methods

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breigh Nonte Roszelle, University of Denver

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

found that while the number of students who had been exposed to ideassuch as engineering design increased over a five-year period, the number of students with noexposure to engineering design remained the same, about 10% [1].The question for first year courses then becomes: How can we equally engage students withdiverse backgrounds in engineering knowledge? While this question is very broad, this paperlooks at a redevelopment of computer aided design (CAD) activities to help engage studentsacross a breadth of experiences. This redevelopment also had a secondary goal of engagingstudents in an entrepreneurial mindset, specifically having them consider creating value from thelearning experience by pushing through and learning from failure.Teaching

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danahe Marmolejo, Saint Louis University; Chris Carroll P.E., Saint Louis University; Scott A. Sell, Saint Louis University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #42950Work in Process: Transformative Integration of Problem-Based Learningand Entrepreneurial Mindset in Early and Middle Stages of Mechanical Engineering:A Focus on Statics and DynamicsDr. Danahe Marmolejo, Saint Louis University Dr. Dana Marmolejo has been an assistant professor of practice in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the School of Science and Engineering since 2022. With a background in Chemical Engineering, her expertise lies in Thermodynamics and Process Systems Engineering. Dr. Marmolejo’s primary focus is teaching engineering courses, mostly for first- and second-year students

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bo Yu, Utah Valley University; Anne-marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mike Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in a Core Junior-Level Mechanical Vibrations CourseAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of a project that incorporated prototyping and theentrepreneurial mindset into a core, junior-level Mechanical Vibrations course in the mechanicalengineering curriculum. The course underwent an update that included the modification of ahands-on prototyping project integrating aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset into the projectrequirements starting Summer 2021. The project required that all aspects were verified usingtraditional theoretical relationships, were

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 13: Technological Advancements and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Njoroge, University of Washington; Arwen Elizabeth Pearson, University of Washington; Heather Dillon, University of Washington

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

potential of concept maps as a supportiveeducational tool; they provide a visual representation of students' thinking enhancing first-principleapproach to engineering problem solving.This research aims to evaluate the benefits of concept maps as a teaching tool in mechanical engineeringeducation. The focus is on two aspects: technical concepts and entrepreneurial mindset concepts. For theentrepreneurial mindset, students were tasked with showing the role of engineers and computer scientistsin society in creating value, and the students were expected to highlight certain keywords whendeveloping the concept maps. For the technical aspects students were expected to create a logic flowusing concept maps that serves as a criteria in determining the

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Texas A&M University; Phapanin Charoenphol, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

team project.A team-based (4 students/team) semester-long project was assigned in the PBL section. Themain goal of this project was to motivate students to develop a deep understanding of contentknowledge and promote various skills (e.g., creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, andcommunication) by working on real-world, ill-structured problems in small teams. Additionally,this project was explicitly designed to foster students’ entrepreneurial mindset, empowering themto enhance their technical knowledge with a proactive, exploratory, and impact-driven approach.The title of the team project was ‘Aggieland Piping System Design’, and the objective was todevelop a sustainable and cost-effective piping system design that ensures a reliable

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; Soobin Seo, Washington State University; Tahira M Probst, Washington State University; Joseph M Hewa, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

jobs in harsh occupational environments with high health and safety risks [2-4]. Furthermore, engineering professionals of the future require more than just knowledge oftechnical design solutions to help address the grand challenges of the future of work at the human-technology frontier. Equally important to consider are the employee populations affected by theincreasing incorporation of robots into the workplace (e.g., social justice and equity implicationsof technology-induced obsolescence), entrepreneurial skills to bring innovation to practice (in2021 alone, more than $17 billion was poured into venture capital-backed robotic startups [5]),and the need to address the user experience through adaptive design of the human-robot

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Daly, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Mitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #43448Industry Perspectives on Mechanical Engineering TroubleshootingPatrick Daly, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mitra Anand serves as the Associate Director of Makerspace, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in addition to being an Adjunct Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Anand’s research interests lie in combining hands-on Maker skills with an entrepreneurial mindset and value creation, aiming to develop practical solutions for real-world problems. He is enthusiastic about innovation in engineering education, design thinking