Conference Session

Development of Computational Tools

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University; Yong Zhu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30458

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #7188Development of A Mechatronics Studio Course in Mechanical EngineeringDr. Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University Dr. Biswanath Samanta is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University at Statesboro, Ga. His expertise and research interests include broad areas of system dynamics and control, robotics, mechatronics, intelligent systems, advanced signal processing, prognostics and health manage- ment, and applications of computational intelligence in engineering and biomedicine. Dr. Samanta has developed and taught numerous courses in these areas and supervised students at both

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 13

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Kinane, University of Michigan; Kaitlin Tyler PhD, ANSYS, Inc.; Alan Taub; Abdon Pena-Francesch

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #39215Sustainable Materials Design in Undergraduate Engineering EducationCecelia Kinane, University of Michigan Cecelia Kinane (she/they) is a PhD candidate in the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program at the University of Michigan. She earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of St. Thomas (MN). Their current research focuses on developing new polymeric materials for soft robotics for biomedical and environmental applications. Their professional interests include developing undergraduate engineering courses and culture that supports and serves students from all backgrounds.Kaitlin Tyler PhD, ANSYS

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

) delivering lectures or conducting recitations. Amongst thoseprograms, a maximum of 25% of meetings were run by TA’s.This chemical engineering course currently draws enrollment for students in many other majors,including:  Civil, environmental engineering  Aerospace engineering  Agricultural and biosystems engineering, biomedical engineering, biological engineering  Nanosystems engineering  Paper science  Materials science and engineering  Mechanical engineering  Textiles engineering  Physics  Chemistry  Engineering management  Pharmacy  Engineering physics  Petroleum engineering  Industrial engineeringNo historical data on enrollment from other disciplines was available.A

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

fewothers. [3] In terms of incorporating courses into the curricula to achieve these objectives, twoapproaches are often seen. First, the lab course may be ‘attached’ or integrated into a course thatotherwise has a focus on engineering concepts and content presented in lectures. For example, Leet. al. outline a Mechanics of Materials course offered in a 3-2-4 format (3 hours lecture, 2 hourslab, 4 credit hours) which includes material testing and simulation labs. [4] Miller discusses analternative format that completely blurs the lines between lecture and lab, with three 110 minutesessions a week.[5] This coupling of theory and practice has advantages in helping students gaininsight into foundational principles. However, accomplishing course

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hossein Moini

mechanical engineering students on the integrated design andmanufacturing of intelligent systems. Specifically, students become familiar withmicroprocessors/microcontrollers and active materials as smart sensors/actuators that can be furtherinterfaced with conventional mechanical systems. Experiments cover software and hardwaredevelopment, interfacing electronic devices and mechanical mechanisms, and investigation of theadaptive capabilities of smart/active materials. In addition to the structured experiments, a designproject is also part of the lab activities. The design project involves design,manufacturing/assembly, and testing of integrated microprocessor-based systems composed ofanalog sensors & actuators, digital electronic devices, and

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

three-phase WEC process is (1) to develop awriting plan based on discipline-specific writing outcomes desired for graduating majors, (2)implement the plan and (2) assess the plan and revise based on the assessment. The plan formechanical engineering defined nine attributes of mechanical engineering writing and 14 desiredwriting ability outcomes for graduating majors. Stakeholders agreed that problem sets were thenumber one form of writing for engineering students and that attention paid to writing a problemset would help students to learn the material. The plan was implemented by targeting three corecourses for explicit writing instruction and raising the awareness of writing in other requiredcourses in the program. Assessment is on-going and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

Conference Session

DELOS Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2008-1600: A WRITING-INTENSIVE FLUID MECHANICS LABORATORYPhilip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Page 13.134.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008A Writing-Intensive Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Philip J. Parker University of Wisconsin-Platteville Page 13.134.2BackgroundCE330, Fluid Mechanics, is required of all Civil and Environmental Engineering students at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville. This four credit class consists of three 1-hour lectures andone 2-hour laboratory each week. Approximately 40 students enroll in the course each semester.When I teach the course, my

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2008 GSW

Authors

Yu-Lin Shen

Session 18-1Designing Evaluation Problems for Enhanced Learning of Engineering Materials Yu-Lin Shen Department of Mechanical Engineering University of New Mexico AbstractIntroductory materials science is a key course in most undergraduate engineering programs. Studentsare introduced basic concepts about the structures and properties of materials used in modernengineering. Materials science differs from many other engineering courses in that the use ofadvanced mathematics, while important, is not as extensive

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2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Maila Hallare; Tanjore Jayaraman

Interdiffusion of Mathematics and Materials Engineering: Co-Teaching with Impact (A Work in Progress) Maila Hallare1,* and Tanjore V. Jayaraman2,* 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, US Air Force Academy, CO 80840 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, US Air Force Academy, CO 80840 * Equal contributionAbstractMechanical engineering students frequently encounter concepts of diffusion, particularly in materials science andengineering, where Fick’s Laws describe the mass

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Ashby

teaching of materials today is still coloured by its more recent history, in which thephysicist and chemist played a great part. The starting point (taking the physicist’s view) isSchroedinger’s equation; the reasoning leads on to concepts of atomic bonding, to thegeometry of molecular and crystal structures, to crystal defects and the glassy state, to alloytheory and phase stability, the kinetics of phase transformations, the mechanisms of plasticityand fracture … and so on, gradually moving up through the length-scales from the atomisticthrough the microscopic to the macroscopic. This understanding is the foundation on whichthe subject rests, and for that reason there is a reluctance to approach it in other ways. But itis a path that creates a

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College

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Engineering Physics & Physics

structure and properties, with afocus on the mechanical properties of materials, but then contains four units that considerapplications of materials science to address environmental and energy issues. The four units arematerials for solar energy conversion, smart materials and energy applications, materials forgreen buildings, and materials life cycle analysis.This modified course aims to serve two groups of students: physics and chemistry majors with aninterest in MSE and environmental studies majors. This paper provides an overview of how thecourse has evolved, including the learning goals, course content, and assessment tools, as well aspossible future directions for this course. In addition, the paper discusses the successes andchallenges in

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

Session 2168 Application of LabVIEW for Undergraduate Lab Experiments On Materials Testing Ismail I. Orabi University of New HavenAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of LabVIEW, in a torsion experiment in the MechanicsLaboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Haven, to allowthe acquisition of real time data for display, analysis, control and storage. The input moment andthe angle of twist are measured directly from torsion transducers. The real-time measurementsand display acquired waveforms

Conference Session

A Virtual Community of Practice for Developing and Implementing Evidence-based Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas; Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Joseph De-Chung Shih, Stanford University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Richard E Eitel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE)

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Chemical Engineering, Materials

Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University. She received her B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor, a M.B.A. from Lawrence Technological University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Materials Science and Engineering.Dr. Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley Shannon Ciston is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Education in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communications and pedagogy, and conducts engineering education research on identity and motivation in non-traditional adult

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

workcompleted in this early stage.BackgroundThroughout history, major advancements in technology have been marked by materials: from theStone Age to the Bronze Age to the Silicon Age. Each new technical innovation has requireddiscoveries in materials to surmount barriers and limitations. This leads to an overlap betweenmaterials science and almost every other engineering field. Electrical engineers use materialsscience and engineering to produce computer chips, lasers, and superconductors. Structuralmaterials such as concretes for roads and metals for buildings and bridges are crucial to civilengineers. Mechanical engineers must consider the strength and long term reliability of thematerials used in their designs. Light weight, strong materials are

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

James V. Masi

performed are second semester junior year and either semester senior year. The students are first given lectures on fracture mechanics, metals, alloys, and composites. They should have already had a laboratory experiment on metallography and sample preparation. A video on the deterioration of restorative materials in the oral environment is used as a backdrop for the experiments. Objectives The objectives of these experiments are to show that the area of biomaterials, especially dental materials (natural and synthetic), contain all of the elements of good and bad design, with the caveat that a person’s health is directly involved. The students learn the

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Irma Rocio Vazquez; Sakineh Chabi

1 Solar Fuels: Importance of Material Compatibility in Their Production Irma Rocio Vazquez, Sakineh Chabi Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico AbstractResearch and implementation of clean energy alternatives are paramount, not only for the earth butto more efficiently harness energy from renewable alternatives, such as the sun, which provides10,000 times the daily global energy demand. Artificial photosynthesis, or so-called solar fueltechnology, presents an alluring prospect in harnessing solar energy and offers a

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott R. Short

of the materials-related emphasis of the curriculum of theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University. These courses are offered eachsemester and average 30 students per semester. Until recently, none of these courses included a laboratory inwhich students could gain direct, hands-on experience into the behavior of materials. The lack of anundergraduate laboratory specifically focused on introducing the undergraduate mechanical engineeringstudent to the world of materials was viewed as a weakness in our curriculum by the author. Moreover, in theopinion of industry, there is an immediate need for engineers conversant in the fundamental principles ofmaterial behavior best reinforced by direct, hands-on laboratory

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

course. One of the primary objectives of thecourse is to introduce the concept of stresses, strains and displacements in structures and theircomponents due to different types of loads. The perception is that if one can determine thesequantities for all types of loads, including the loads that cause failure, one will have a completepicture of the mechanical behavior of these structures (Gere and Timoshenko, 1997). Anunderstanding of mechanical behavior is essential for the safe design of all types of structures,whether airplanes and antennas, buildings and bridges, machines and motors, or ships andspacecrafts. The contents of the Strength of Materials course at OU can be divided into thefollowing three broad categories: (1) Material Behavior

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurence Logue; Kathleen A. Hall

analysis of objects and structures. The topics covered include FEMprinciples, element geometries, element types, material properties, boundary conditions, modelloading, and accuracy and precision. These topics are discussed in lectures as well as in aseries of exercises in which students model and analyze several different systems. Non-linearmaterial models are introduced which show permanent deformations and residual stresses. Thepaper focuses on our successes, our less-than-successes, and our proposed plans for futuredevelopment and improvement.I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at Southern Polytechnic StateUniversity (SPSU) was forced to completely redesign its curriculum recently when theUniversity System of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Seung H. Kim; James Scudder

Session 2249 Design a Lab Manual of Plastic Materials Testing Course Using Multimedia Seung Kim and James Scudder Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Rochester Institute of TechnologyINTRODUCTIONEducation technology is on the brink of a new era based on the rapid advancement in computerand communication technologies. For the past several years, computer technology has been usedin education to prepare students for tomorrow’s technological changes. The paradigm of teachingengineering technology courses has been challenged by making undergraduate

Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Paul Cooper, Northern Kentucky University

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Instrumentation

materials will have the following advantages. Theycan be made with desired microstructures that result in superior mechanical, chemical,environmental, and thermal properties. In terms of mechanics, they can be made tough byincorporation of deformable polymers into the composites, the design can be flexiblesuch that they can be made with various geometries: hollow with insulation materials inthe holes to become thermally insulated, they can be reinforced by the incorporation offibers (natural and synthetic) and they can be made with fire retardant materialsincorporated on the interior and exterior surfaces.In-situ manufacturing of the materials also allows integration, such that each componentwill be an integral part of the fabric of the structure

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-682: EMPHASISING PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING ELEMENTS INTHE TEACHING OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGYJosef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology Page 15.453.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Emphasizing Professional Engineering Elements in the Teaching of Materials TechnologyABSTRACTThe re-development of pedagogy and curriculum in the Materials and Manufacture subject inthe School of Architectural, Civil and Mechanical Engineering (ACME) at VictoriaUniversity (VU) in Melbourne was driven by changing pedagogical philosophy ofengineering education at the university. The new pedagogical approach was to focus awayfrom the traditional

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

2006 and 2007 guidelines called for no I-beams) and the wood measured4’ x 4’, instead of 3’x 3’. The reasoning behind the change in the amount of material was to forcestudents to be more creative. It was observed that students had extra material and were not optimizing itsuse. The 2006 results are the control group for the results presented here. This project was alsoemployed during the 2006 Engineering Summer Camp in order to have a different type of control group.High Schools students, with no formal course in Strength of Materials, were given basic information interms of moment of inertia, bending and mechanical properties. They had no restriction in terms of theshape and were given a 3’ x 3’. They had not been exposed to common type of

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

2006 and 2007 guidelines called for no I-beams) and the wood measured4’ x 4’, instead of 3’x 3’. The reasoning behind the change in the amount of material was to forcestudents to be more creative. It was observed that students had extra material and were not optimizing itsuse. The 2006 results are the control group for the results presented here. This project was alsoemployed during the 2006 Engineering Summer Camp in order to have a different type of control group.High Schools students, with no formal course in Strength of Materials, were given basic information interms of moment of inertia, bending and mechanical properties. They had no restriction in terms of theshape and were given a 3’ x 3’. They had not been exposed to common type of

Conference Session

ETD - A Technology Potpourri III

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University

Paper ID #37053Acquiring Testing of Materials Experience Through 3DPrinting (WIP)Ahmad Fayed (Dr.) Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, Southeastern Louisiana University. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Acquiring Testing of Materials Experience Through 3D Printing (WIP)AbstractIn a multidisciplinary Engineering Technology (ET) program with 5 different concentrations, itis not possible to cover the detailed theory and applications of all high-level classes. For thisreason, many

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

Session 1358 The Design of Material World, an Internet-Based Educational Environment Jed S. Lyons and Stephen R. McNeill Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 292081. ABSTRACTEngineers need a solid understanding of the relationships between material processing, propertiesand structures to make informed material selection decisions for design applications. Hands-onlaboratories help students develop this understanding. However, time constraints, equipment costsand safety concerns severely

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Rogers, Benedictine College; Taylor Goring; Joel Michael Iwanski

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #41259Pass-Fail Grading of Technical Writing in a Material Science LaboratoryProf. John R. Rogers, Benedictine College Dr. John Rogers is a member of the Benedictine College School of Engineering faculty where he teaches courses in mechanical engineering including materials engineering laboratory, mechatronics, vibrations, and design. He earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003. He has a range of engineering and teaching experience. As an ocean engineer, he developed towed systems for underwater listening, and structures that reduce ship noise. As a structural

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Eshan V. Dave

not provided here forbrevity, the list of topics, approximate number of lectures and a brief description is as follows: (1) Behavior of Materials (3 Lectures): This block discusses various types of physical and mechanical behaviors of solids and fluids. Topics such as elasticity and inelasticity, linearity and non-linearity of materials, constitutive equations etc. are discussed during this block. One laboratory session is conducted to familiarize students with various measurement devices as well as to conduct laboratory safety training. (2) Steel and Aluminum (4 Lectures): Manufacture of steel and aluminum are discussed along with mechanical and physical properties of interest, laboratory procedures to

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

AC 2004-145: USE OF CAMBRIDGE ENGINEERING SELECTOR IN AMATERIALS/MANUFACTURING COURSERichard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar Page 9.1350.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Use of Cambr idge Engineer ing Selector in a Mater ials/Manufactur ing Cour se Dr. Richard B. Griffin, MEEN Dept. 3123 Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3123Abstr act During the 1998-1999 academic year, Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M Universitydecided to combine a materials course that