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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Amardeep Kaur; Theresa Swift

effective engineers in practice (Krivickas and Krivickas 2007, Feisel andRosa 2013, Watai, Arthur and Brophy 2007).In the work presented here, a structured approach is taken to redesign and update The CircuitAnalysis Laboratory course at our institution. The course has not been updated or revised for anumber of years resulting in out-of-date equipment information in the manuals, lack of cohesionin the lecture and the lab courses, significant time spent by teaching assistants (TAs) in helpingstudents, and frustrated students. This report discusses the nature of the course redesigned,motivations that led to the redesign, feedback received from TAs and students prior to theredesign, and tools used to bridge the gaps between lab tasks performed and

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Meagan Olsen; Andrew Buck; W. Roy Penney; Edgar Clausen

Tank Depressurization Experiments for the Classroom or Laboratory Meagan Olsen, Andrew L. Buck, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasIntroductionAmerican Society for Engineering Education data show that engineering enrollment in U.S.universities has increased by more than 50% over the last ten years, while the number ofengineering faculty has increased by only 15% over the same time period (Yoder 2009, 2017).As a result, the average number of students in engineering classrooms has steadily increased, andthis increase has occurred at a time when our students enter the classroom with far lessexperience in the

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

Service-Learning with Three Other High-Impact Pedagogies”. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 24(1), pp.49-63. [4] Davies, A.C., (2013). The Impact of the Microprocessor. In Making the History of Computing Relevant (pp. 149-160). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [5] Feisel, L.D. and Rosa, A.J., 2005. The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), pp.121-130. [6] Felder, R.M. and Silverman, L.K., (1988). “Learning and teaching styles in engineering education”. Engineering education, 78(7), pp.674-681. [7] Goettler, R. and Gordon, B., (2009). Competition and innovation in the microprocessor industry: Does AMD spur Intel to innovate

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brett Whorley; Camilo Giraldo; Arjun Kamath; Molly McVey; Meagan Patterson; Carl Luchies

both graduate-level and senior undergraduate students. Mostenrolled students are Mechanical Engineering undergraduates who take the course as anadvanced elective, with the remainder coming from Mechanical Engineering or Bioengineeringgraduate programs. The course, which has reached capacity enrollment (30+ students) formultiple years, is taught in a computer laboratory with one student per computer. The instructoris accompanied by one graduate teaching assistant (GTA) during active learning class sessions.The overall learning objective of the course is to teach students to use modern computersimulation software to solve engineering problems in a virtual space. Students programsimulated models to represent realistic dynamic behaviors of

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jonathan Kuchem; Nicolas Libre

real worldproblems through experimental activities in the lab. Students carried out experiments, calculatedmaterial properties, and applied them to a real-world mechanics problem. The project details arefurther described and show success in implementing problem-based learning into a lab format.Students have stated improved learning through the use of problem-based learning.IntroductionEngineering consists of taking abstract problems and developing scientific and creative solutionsto solve them. Therefore, improving critical thinking and problem solving skills are essential forpreparing engineering students for dealing with real world problems. In engineering coursework,traditionally taught courses sometimes lack teaching students how to solve

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt; Joel Versypt; Heather Gappa-Fahlenkamp

toured ourengineering hands-on undergraduate teaching laboratory and has interacted with interdisciplinarysenior design teams and engineering and technology faculty. We are working with the programto partner with them on a senior design project to design, fabricate, commission, and testprototype kitchen cabinet systems to enable safer, more efficient access by individuals withmobility challenges that prevent them from effectively using standard systems.Another community center in one of the author’s hometowns has a weekly lunch for seniorcitizens. An outreach event was held during one of their lunches to demonstrate the sciencebehind a variety of kitchen chemistry applications. The rural community is not located near auniversity, and there are

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Alana Gorski; Hannah Gross; Masoud Mojtahed Mojtahed

machine shop. Within those three years of engineering classes, she was introduced tosoftware such as AutoDesk Inventor and Revit. This project will allow her to learn the skills to bean effective engineering student prior to her senior design project. Her three years of combinedexperience using Revit and AutoDesk Inventor gives her an ideal skill set to assist the FSAE team.This is her first independent research project in her educational career.Dr. Masoud MojtahedDr. Mojtahed is professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University Northwest where hehas been teaching, advising, and performing scholarly activities since 1986. During his tenure atPNW Dr. Mojtahed has served as the Mechanical engineering program coordinator, ASME facultyadvisor