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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

buildings tend to favor timber/masonry as the economical choice. And the consultingstructural engineering profession has indicated a strong benefit for the student entering the marketplace who have had these preferred materials design courses. Industry has also indicated thatstudents who have a more applied science and/or hands-on learning experience (robust) adaptquicker to work place environment. Considering the market place input from the partnership andwanting to offer students a more robust course offering, an engineering course in masonry designwas developed with direct input from a professional industry association. Emphasis was placed oncurrent industry practices – testing, quality of construction, and theory to code application. Inaddition

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John T. Tester

heavilyaddressed in the laboratory materials. 44% of the respondents were sufficiently clear in theirresponses that they indeed understood not only the need for flexible manufacturing (economics of 514using the equipment, scheduling as much product through the system as possible). The respondentsalso described how to redesign the operations (setups and procedures) of one particular componentto enable such operations to be accomplished in any order.Should the Manufacturing Processes lecture session be required for Mechanical Engineeringmajors?This question must be addressed before the laboratory question following is addressed. TheManufacturing Processes Lecture

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David F. Hosterman; Wblesther Gama; Andrew Vitaljic; Jonathan H. Poluan; Ali A. Ballout; Yong X Gan; James L. Smith; Jimmie C. Oxley

108 Cooperative Learning of Nanomaterials Manufacturing and Characterization through High Impact Practices David F. Hosterman1, Wblesther Gama1, Andrew Vitaljic1, Jonathan H. Poluan1, Ali A. Ballout1, Yong X Gan1, James L. Smith1, Jimmie C. Oxley21Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA/ 2Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RIAbstractHigh-impact practices such as first-year seminars, learning communities, service learning,undergraduate research, and capstone experiences are effective on enhancing learning

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Sandrine Fischer; Kelli Yogi; Eric J. White

construct mental representations thatreflect mechanism of textual comprehension more than physics-related thinking. For thesereasons, novices may have harder time stripping away excessive information in context-richproblems (cf. Table 1).The latter issue likely manifests itself in the way context-rich problems are visually attended to.Prior studies have shown that experts require shorter fixations, as well as fewer fixations andsaccades, to process different zones of a problem (e.g., problem statement vs. graph vs. multiplechoice widget8). In addition, novices may fixate on physics quantities differently based on theirstatus in the problem. Notably, novices have been documented to rely on backward inference,namely matching a formula that contains

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Lelli Van Den Einde; Nathan Delson; Sean Patno; Jason Hyunjin Cha; Elizabeth Cowan; Jessica Cho

spatial visualization brain-teaser, were given a mini-lectureon the topic of the day, reviewed tutorial material using the Developing Spatial Thinking6software, a web-based software package that was developed in the 1990’s containing animationsof how to visualize spatial visualization concepts, and finally worked on sketching and multiplechoice exercises via the iPad SVT™ App.Data was recorded every time a student submitted an answer for a multiple-choice or sketchingassignment. In addition, for each sketching assignment, an image showing the submitted sketchwas recorded, as well as whether the student chose to use the peek option and what attemptnumber the submission correlated to. These detailed data were analyzed for the 52 students whotook

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Paul Nissenson

the two sections were not taught in the same academic term. Thomas and Philpot (2012) examined students’ final exam scores and course grades in a mechanics of materials course.6 They found that there was no significant difference between traditional lecture-only sections and "inverted" (i.e., flipped) sections, but class attendance in the inverted sections was optional and primarily devoted to homework. Redekopp and Ragusa (2013) implemented many current best practices into a flipped computer architecture course including brief online assessments following video tutorials and in-class project work.4 They found that there was no significant difference between the two groups of students on "lower order learning outcomes" but significant

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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

retrain them in different disciplines ifnecessary.Engineering education in the US has traditionally involved the classical engineering disciplinescivil, electrical, and mechanical, as well as some special disciplines such as chemical, industrial,petroleum, among others. However, with the changing needs of our technical society, theworkforce now needs a wide variety of engineers with specialty skills. Even in the area ofelectrical engineering specialties are as diverse as information technology (IT), computers,networks, data systems, security, communications, and even mechatronics and nuclearengineering which may cross over several engineering disciplines. Also, we now have dozensof subdisciplines connecting engineering with wide variety of

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

” problemwhereby the teams of undergraduate students were required to develop an engineering solutionfollowing a systems engineering framework. The students worked closely with the industrymentors and utilized their knowledge of machine design, mechanism design, dynamics,materials, economics, engineering graphics, ease-of-fabrication, realism, etc., in order torealize a cost effective engineering solution base on customer requirements. The particularproblem used by HILTI was the re-design of a Cold Press Tool and Die Mechanism. Theproject involved the feeding of a metallic powder at a certain rate. This paper documents theuse of field-trip-based industry projects to motivate experiential learning at a polytechnicuniversity. The various stakeholders in

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Michael Kinsler; Colin McGill; Giovanni Rodriguez; William Berrios; Jeremy Chow; Amelito Enriquez; Paul Grams; Xiaorong Zhang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Kwok-Siong Teh

generation, prototyping, and testing underguidance. To this end, a team of four community college mechanical engineering sophomores,working under a NASA Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for Integration of Researchinto Curriculum (CiPAIR) grant, were tasked with conceptualizing, designing, and prototyping aclosed-loop temperature-controlled enclosure that encased a 3D printer using commerciallyavailable parts, as well as testing the properties of parts printed in such a controlled environment.Under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and a faculty mentor, the team learnedmechanical design using SolidWorks, material selection, hands on metal and plastics fabrication,heat transfer, as well as microcontroller programming using Arduino

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Lucie Alidieres-Dumonceaud; Chantal Charnet

limited because of the absence of the Internet(Hancock 2010)2. In addition to the approach chosen by Pike and Adams (2012)5 which aimsto “(...) identify what technology was available to student-inmates, how it was accessed andused to support learning and the cultural attitudes towards technology-supported learning inprison”, we would like to emphasize the adaptive nature of distance learning.Educational activities in prison are subject to penitentiary and educational mechanisms atwork. These activities help those studying to form an “inmate-student” identity (Vettraino-Soulard 1980)8 and Salane(2010)6. They underlie the idea developed by Smith andSilverman (1994)7. This idea places the priority on giving the inmate an activity toparticipate in, a

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Thomas M. Korman

asubcontractor quotation quickly and accurately and the difficulties encountered when compilinga final bid price under the pressure of a time constraint. Learning objectives for mostconstruction estimating course include educating students on the common practices of quantitytake off and surveys, material costing, evaluation of specialty and subcontractor quotations,overhead pricing and the compilation of a final cost estimate. However, most students do notunderstand the difficulty that a construction engineers undertake assembling competitive bidproposals on bid day. This paper will present a class exercise that can be used to simulate thecompetitive bid day environment.IntroductionThe instructional objectives of the competitive bid exercise are for the

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Norali Pernalete; Shima Hajimirza

323 Rehabilitation Robotics and Assistive Technology Experiences for Engineering Technology Students Norali Pernalete, Shima Hajimirza California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CAAbstractThe Engineering Technology Department at the College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP)offers degrees in two areas: Electronics/Computer Engineering, and Mechanical/ManufacturingEngineering technology. Engineering technology education is enhanced through the students’exposure to inter-disciplinary concepts that help them to generate better solutions to

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David J. Dimas; Faryar Jabbari; John Billimek

) Humanities/Social Sciences 20.0% Average of all courses 10.2% Math 6.6% Physics 3.7% Chemistry 2.2% Engineering 0.9%Study DesignDynamics is a key prerequisite course for engineering majors that freshman starts usually take intheir sophomore year. The normal sequence of classes in the junior year includes two quarters offluid mechanics beginning in the fall quarter followed by a heat transfer course in the spring.The first fluid mechanics course as well as two other required courses (Vibrations

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Kamran Abedini

, identify the design criteria and strategy (Biomimicry, Total Design,..), identify the manufacturing and assembly processes (Design for Maintainability, Design for Manufacturing or assembly), identify other options,..; What is the cost; Where is the product purchased from? Who makes them? 7- Identify the subjects and courses in the curricula applied to the design and evaluations: Wheels go over the floor carpet for which we should know the coefficient of friction (mechanical engineering, civil engineering, materials engineering); The height of the cart should be less than the height of the housekeepers, the weight should be so that it would not cause joint problems (human engineering, anthropometry, biomechanics

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Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

delay or end their information search attempts out of frustration rather than a sense ofcompletion4. Library anxiety as described by Onwuegbuzie5 can include “interpersonal anxiety,perceived library competence, perceived comfort with the library” as well as “location anxiety”of materials in the library, “mechanical anxiety” related to equipment and tools, and “resourceanxiety” regarding the delay in acquiring resources, which also can be described as interlibraryloan anxiety. While graduate students appear to have lower levels of library anxiety than doundergraduates6, it does affect them. Moreover, international students and those for whomEnglish is not their native language may experience increased levels of library anxiety7.Composition

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Estelle M. Eke

541 Introduction to Technical Problem Solving using MATLAB and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Estelle M. Eke Professor of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Sacramento. CAAbstractThe modern day engineering student is eager to combine theoretical principles with practicalaspects. This paper gives an overview of a junior level course titled “Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving,” that combines computer programming with engineering design. The use ofMATLAB and the LEGO Mindstorms NXT in

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Amelito Enriquez; Nicholas Langhoff; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shanasser; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Ed Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

To provide those experiences to SEI participants, fourculminating group projects corresponding to each of the four main areas of engineering (civil,computer, electrical, and mechanical) were designed. Each student selects two of the fourprojects based on their initial interests. The first week is devoted to completing the first groupproject, and the second week is for the second project, with group presentations on the last day ofthe institute. Project group size varies from 3 students to 6 students depending on student interestand the complexity of the project. Groupings for the first and second projects are different, andare based primarily on student interest as expressed on the opening day of the institute. Groupsworking on the same

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

369 Flexible and Enduring Engineering Education Built on the Basics and Reinforced through Practical Problem Solution Jeffrey Ashworth, William Crisler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Prescott, AZAbstractStudents in any discipline learn and retain more when exposed to material that stimulates theirinterest. In engineering, all students must understand certain basics in mathematics, physics, orthe concepts of their chosen discipline. A student may be able to memorize or otherwise masteran advanced concept without the basic knowledge to verify the technique

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

firstprovide instruction in technical communication (two-instructor team-teaching) and then to providesupplemental instruction in the design, analysis, manufacture, and testing of aircraft and unmannedaerial systems (multi-instructor teaching team) and how, over time, these teaching teams arebecoming the norm for all capstone courses at this university. Many instructors attempt to improvetheir engineering classrooms by enriching their teaching materials, teaching methods, or studentlearning strategy; however, these improvements tend to maintain the standard classroom practiceof assigning one instructor to one class. While a single instructor may be sufficient for traditionallower division courses, this paper argues that multiple instructors with

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Bari Ma Siddique

, learners have a certain measure of anonymity. Discriminating factors such as age, dress, physical appearance, disabilities, race and gender are largely absent. Instead, the focus of attention is clearly on the content of the discussion and the individual's ability to respond and contribute thoughtfully and intelligently to the material at hand. Creative teaching - In the online environment, the facilitator and student collaborate to create a dynamic learning experience. The realization of a shift in technology creates the hope that those who move into the new technology will also leave behind bad habits as they adopt this new paradigm of teaching. As educators transform their courses to take full advantage of the online

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Jing Pang

and mechanisms to design microprocessor components;  Apply logic concepts and mechanisms to analyze microprocessor components;  Formulate a specific hypothesis of microprocessor architecture. Thoroughly analyze the logic components required for microprocessor architecture. Carefully design and evaluate the functionality of each logic block;  Use schematic based tool to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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students and course material. In a rapidly evolvingtechnological space such as that developing with cloud infrastructures, both instructors andstudents must utilize Agile concepts, particularly in the NU course-per-month modality.In this paper, Allen illustrates the power of using multiple public cloud CSPs—Azure, Bitnami,and Maestro—at minimal or no cost.A Glossary of Information Technology and Other Terminology used in this paper is provided atthe end of the paper.BackgroundA. Wildfire Suppression HistoryAnnual suppression cost of wildfires has exceeded $1 billion in each year since 2000, accordingto the senior climate economist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. The average number ofbig western fires has risen from 140 per year in the

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Martin Koch

. Something that couldstill give our students an understanding of how things are made but additionally give them toolsto make things; to “Learn by Doing”.In computer science you can easily “make things” by writing new code. In foundry it becameclear that there was something I call “The Tooling Bottleneck” that greatly hindered making newstuff. The Tooling Bottleneck can be explained as the situation where you basically have to makeyour production tooling in order to get a prototype casting. A functional prototype is one that ismade in the desired material via the desired process. A conceptual prototype made out of plasticjust doesn’t cut it. So, how do we transform the course?In the early 90’s CAD/CAM was not readily available, especially in the