Navigating the COVID landscape with a Mechanical Engineering Junior Laboratory Prof. Charles S. White Department of Mechanical Engineering, Norwich UniversityAbstractAt the author’s institution, all Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students are required totake a two semester laboratory course sequence covering topics in measurement andinstrumentation. As with most hands-on instruction, the restrictions imposed by the COVIDpandemic required significant adjustments to the course, especially the number of studentsthat were permitted in the laboratory space at any given time. In this paper a comparison ismade between the Fall semester course from before the pandemic (Fall 2019) and the samecourse
in the next section.Table 2: This table shows the activities throughout the module and the week they occur within a15 week semester. Lectures show the week they occur and assignments include the week they areassigned and due. It also describes the learning outcomes for each activity. Activities are listed inchronological order. Learning Outcome(s) (in parentheses are the associated Activity Week Occurred ABET Student Outcomes) Personal and - Describe and reflect on current state and desired future Professional Assign: Week 1 states as a person, student, and professional. (SO7) Interests & Due: Week 2
assignments at every step of the EDP.At the end of the semester, most teams have to-scale, functional prototypes.Table 1. Sample Design Projects Project Client Project Goal Duke Lemur Center Develop an enrichment device for the aye-aye lemurs that delivers a small amount of food Dr. S. Rent Develop a device that simultaneously measures the temperature of five newborns placed in one crib (for use in Ethiopia) X-Prize Team Design a drone that can attach to a tree branch to deliver a camera Museum of Life & Design a device that randomly delivers food to skunks in their enclosure Science Bridge2Sports Develop an easy method for wheelchair users to
Drivers 2 Slingshot Atmega328P SlingshotsDigital: 2 DriversPulse: Pop(s) PopsBus: Flipper DriversAnalog: SwitchesPower: (a) System Diagram
, exploring the world of craft cocktails, and making a fuss over her Boston Terrier, Gatsby. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Understanding Gen Z’s Declining Engagement with WE@RIT, a Woman in Engineering ProgramIntroductionAround 2016-2017 we began noticing sharp declines in current student engagement with ourwomen in engineering program, WE@RIT, within Rochester Institute of Technology’s KateGleason College of Engineering. The program itself was launched in the early 2000’s during theMillennial era, and the programming playbook was one of large, one-off events spearheaded byone full-time Director, and a handful of student employees. That
competition either as part of student teams or asfaculty advisor. The competition website includes competition guidelines, evaluation rubric,submission files to be part of the design proposal, winning packages, resources to help studentteams, and deadlines [1].Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) conducts an annual airport design competitionfor university-level students in which U.S. student teams propose innovative designs to solvechallenges facing U.S. airports [1]. Undergraduate and/or graduate students are eligible toparticipate in the competition either as part of a course or as an independent project with facultysponsor(s). The students, either individually or in a team, prepare a 40-page design packageproposal addressing innovative
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