Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, Ohio State University; Alexandria Julius, Ohio State University; Raeal Moore, Evaluation Data Solutions, LLC; Teresa Shiverdecker, Ohio State University; Michelle R. McCombs

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Teacher and Student Content Knowledge Gains: Effects of a MaterialsScience - Focused Professional Development ProgramAbstractThe Professional Development for Materials Science-Focused High School Courses programaims to give educators tools rooted in materials science to expand their teaching methodologyand inquiry-based learning techniques. Now in the fifth year of the program, the current formatincludes a forty-hour intensive ASM summer camp for teachers preceding the academic year, anonline two credit hour graduate course on the fundamentals of materials science, in-classroomsupport to aid teaching and experimental methods, and full group meetings four times throughoutthe academic year

Collection

2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Jeffrey S. Bates; Taylor D. Sparks

request, two faculty membersgained approval for a new course entitled Materials Innovation. The purpose of this course was tointroduce MSE students to problem solving, the engineering design process, and technologycommercialization. Students designed a project based on design constraints, materialrequirements, and user needs. Students made team decisions, developed prototypes, and presentedtheir solutions to Industrial Advisory Board members to receive expert feedback. This paperdiscusses what worked well in the course, and lessons learned from our first attempt.KeywordsTeaching innovation, materials science and engineering, engineering design process, creativeproblem solvingIntroductionMany undergraduate students choose to study engineering

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

student engagement3. Some programs utilize alaboratory component to the materials course in an attempt to give some hands-on experience. As a result of time limitations, most of the topics and concepts found in the typicalmaterials science course for mechanical engineering students are not treated in a mathematicallyrigorous manner. The most common math skills utilized in such courses include algebra,trigonometry (perhaps), derivatives (slopes of curves) and exponentials (kinetics related). Manyof the topics covered require more conceptual reasoning than mathematical modeling. Thesefactors make the materials course a unique experience for the typical undergraduate engineeringstudent. Engineers with manufacturing responsibilities

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

allowed us to let freshman participate in semiconductordevice fabrication. This paper focuses on the content and teaching of “Applied MaterialsScience”.IntroductionThe purpose of engineering education is well described by the words of Stephen van Rensselaer,the founder of the first civilian engineering college :“...instructing persons, who may choose toapply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life"1. This meansdesign. Many engineering curricula are either introducing or attempting to introduce designthroughout the various courses in their curricula2, and those who do find it successful3. Designrequires materials selection and the evaluation of alternative materials4. Thus, if design is goingto be integrated

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 1526 A Hands-on Workshop on Novel Process Engineering C. Stewart Slater and Robert P. Hesketh Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract This paper describes a NSF-funded Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop on NovelProcess Science and Engineering. The project DUE-9752789 supports two hands-on, industry integratedworkshops that will have a major impact on upper and lower level

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paris von Lockette, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

aspects of materials science, numerical methods, andprogramming in an integrated fashion. During the second teaching of the course, it was modifiedto enhance its delivery by focusing on the aspects which gave the students the most difficulty inits first offering: syntax and organization of operations in programming. This was achievedthrough the use of Matlab as a meta-language platform, development of Matlab tutorials for thecourse, and an emphasis on algorithmic thinking.In this paper, algorithmic thinking involves developing a complete understanding of theoperations required via hand calculations and block diagrams before attempting to generate anycode. Students were graded on their ability to relate what the program/algorithm should do

Collection

Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

MUJAN SEIF; MATTHEW BECK

help you learn about (1) polymers, and (2)body text: introduction; background; procedures; results and materials science and engineering as a discipline?” Responsediscussions; and conclusions. For the purposes of this study, options were on a four-point scale, with “Not at all,” “A littlea subset of student artifacts were re-assessed independent of bit,” “Some,” and “A lot” equating to 1 through 4, respective-grade earned for class, focusing solely on whether the reports ly. Student responses averaged 2.9 and 2.8 for “polymers” andclearly demonstrated that the hands-on polymers experience “MSE as a discipline,” respectively, indicating that studentsitself motivated student engagement and/or achieved the

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

. Budhu confirmed this whencomparing virtual pre-labs to traditional in person labs [19]. An in-depth review by de Jong andothers compared the benefits of both physical (hands-on) and virtual labs [20]. They concludedthat both provide some of the same benefits to students which can increase engagement, interest,and motivation to continue in science and engineering. The study also suggested that acombination of both physical and virtual labs could provide even more benefits than one or theother. This has been confirmed by other researchers [11, 21].Virtual labs have been shown to have similar benefits. Some have noted that in-person aidedlearning in labs is still best, but virtual reality learning is a reasonable substitute. Virtual labsincrease

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2007-1906: MATERIALS SELECTION EXERCISES BASED ON CURRENTEVENTSMary Vollaro, Western New England College Mary B. Vollaro is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Vollaro received her Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut and she has held engineering positions in industry in the materials science area. She is currently Chair of the ASEE Materials Division and works closely with longtime ASEE partners, The National Educators Workshop (NEW). Page 12.1038.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Disciplinary Engineering Education Research – Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mackinley Love, University of Calgary; Philip Egberts, University of Calgary; Joanna Wong, University of Calgary; Miriam Nightingale, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

strong impact on the learning experience and should receive training toensure consistency and that learning objectives are met.1 IntroductionIn the past five years, nearly half of undergraduate mechanical and manufacturing engineeringstudents enrolled in a mandatory third-year materials science course at the University of Calgaryconsistently report on their end-of-course surveys that their laboratories are not linked to theirin-class learning or to their careers following graduation. There have also been calls from thelocal engineering industry, the local government [1], and University of Calgary administration [2]for more industry-relevant learning to be included in post-secondary curricula. Previous work bythe ASEE has established that the

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

ConceptInventory (MCI) has been developed and tested on introductory materials engineering classes atASU and TAMU. The 30-question, multiple-choice MCI test was developed from a literaturesurvey of assessment research in science and engineering in conjunction with extensive studentinteractions. A key aspect of the MCI is discovering the student misconceptions that can be usedas the incorrect answers for each question. Hestenes et.al.1 refers to these appealing, butincorrect, choices as “distracters”, a term which has been adapted in the literature. The subjectof this paper is the description, approach, methodology, and techniques used to develop the MCIand also a discussion of early results on the nature of the broadly held student misconceptionsrevealed

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Roth; Fredrick Nitterright, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

AC 2004-650: BROADENING THE SCOPE OF A MATERIALS SCIENCE COURSEBY EXPERIMENTALLY TESTING THE EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY ON AMETALLIC TEST SPECIMEN’S MATERIAL PROPERTIESFredrick Nitterright, Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeJohn Roth,Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie Page 9.270.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session Number: 3264 Broadening the Scope of a Material Science Course by Experimentally Testing the Effects of Electricity on Metallic Test Specimen’s Material Properties John T. Roth, Fredrick A

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto; Simo Pajovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cheuk Yin Larry Kei, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, York University; Scott D. Ramsay, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Paper ID #29934Use of a Low-Cost, Open Source Universal Mechanical Testing Machine inan Introductory Materials Science CourseMiss Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto Crystal Liu is a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on engineering design and education. She obtained her BASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019. She has worked in product development and is interested in application of technology and design in engineering education research.Mr. Simo Pajovic, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts

Conference Session

Fostering Diversity and Innovation in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bianca Estella Salazar, University of California, Merced; Melissa Almeida, University of California, Merced; Zenaida Aguirre Munoz Ph.D., University of California, Merced; Maribel Viveros, University of California, Merced

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

Paper ID #42652Sparking Engineering Passion: Hands-on Science and Engineering Adventuresfor Diverse Future InnovatorsBianca Estella Salazar, University of California, Merced Bianca earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from California State University, Channel Islands, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Quantitative Systems Biology program at the University of California, Merced. Her research investigates the impact of non-verbal communication on cognitive processes within collaborative learning settings.Melissa Almeida, University of California, Merced Melissa Almeida, a Ph.D. student in Cognitive and

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

as well as video clips, magneto-rheological material specifications, and images of current applications. An email addressand telephone number is also provided. mrfluid@lord.com 1-919-469-2500, ext. 2150.http://www.lord.com/Procedure:Safety Considerations:1. Protective eye wear is mandatory for all those in the lab area.2. Read the operating instructions that accompany the active magneto-rheological clutch assembly and power supply.3. Obtain a "Material Data Safety Sheet" on the fluid from the supplier. Read the sheet completely and ask questions to any information you do not understand.Observing the tunable clutch assembly:1. With the power supply off, notice how easily the shafts can be rotated by hand.2. Increase the power output

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

ofmethods developed to help do this. ASM International has published books that help.1, 2, & 3Several textbooks have collected data on materials and their properties. 4 & 5 One of the mostcomplete is Callister’s text, Material Science and Engineering where the author has collected arange of data on approximately 70 materials.6 The CD that comes with the text is searchable. M.F. Ashby developed a series of selection charts some years ago where he demonstrated that awide range of materials properties could be collected and plotted on the same abscissa andordinate.7 Using the idea of these Ashby charts, a company Granta Design, Ltd., has developed asoftware package, Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES), which includes a wide range of dataon

Conference Session

Hands On Experience

Collection

2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Troy Cristobal, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Conference Submission

Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Work in Progress: Hands-On Activity for Conceptual

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schubert, Packer Engineering; Matthew Beatty, Naperville North High School

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Harvesting of Lunar Iron: Competitive Hands-on LearningAbstractElectromagnets can be used to harvest free iron from lunar soil, known as regolith. Iron isimportant to the US plans for a lunar outpost. It does not rust in space, making it an excellentconstruction material. Circumpolar railroad tracks would allow a slowly-moving train to followthe sun, making agriculture possible, and enabling continuous operation of factories producingsolar cells and oxygen for life support and propulsion. Designing an iron harvesting apparatusfor the unique lunar environment requires that students re-think tacit assumptions about howthings work.Within the context of a 33-student summer program, two college interns

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

none. On the other hand, the MEundergraduate program offers two compulsory courses: Mechanics of Materials and Materials Science,as prerequisites for this very basic course on Manufacturing Processes.The goal is to make all the students of ME and IE undergraduate programs feel prepared andcomfortable in the class lectures. And there is no easy, quick-fix engineering solution! A similar scenarioexists in a general course on Vibration. In chemical engineering, vibrations are generated from thechemical reactions in the reaction towers; in civil engineering, there are seismic vibrations; inmechanical engineering, there are machinery vibrations arising in the machine tools like lathe, millingmachine, grinder, etc. Vibrations produce ‘chatter marks

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

certainly requires learning many new concepts and a new vocabulary of terms.In order to facilitate this process some enhanced learning techniques have beenincorporated into this course.Enhanced teaching Methods:Various methods used at the Oregon Institute of Technology and other collaboratingUniversities have evolved over several years while working on an National ScienceFoundation (NSF) grant incorporating ‘Just In Time Fast Formative Feedback’. Thesemethods were initially applied in 100 and 300 level ‘Materials Science’ courses forengineers and engineering technology undergraduate students. It was soon realized thatthese methods could easily be effective in other engineering courses and this is when itwas decided to integrate these ideas into an

Conference Session

Design Education in Manufacturing Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

astructure that they have probably taken for granted. They will understand how this might behelpful to them in their lifetime. This bridge design project is a motivational, fun, andenlightening project that provides students a hands-on opportunity while combining andpracticing math, science, and project management skills.References1. University of California Davis, Teaching Resources Center. http://trc.ucdavis.edu/2. Chang, Guanghsu A. “Building a bridge” PowerPoint lecture materials, Manufacturing Engineering Technology Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato 20093. Limbrunner, Georage F. and Leonard Spiegel “Applied Statics and Strength of Materials” fifth edition, Prentice Hall, upper saddle river, New Jersey, 20094. O’Kelly

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David Alexander; Ronald Smelser

hands-on exercises is as effective inteaching engineering laboratory skills as the traditional on-campus laboratory course.I. IntroductionThrough a State Board of Education grant, the Mechanical Engineering Department at theUniversity has begun to develop a series of distance education courses1. These courses areunique in that they are adapted from traditional hands-on laboratory courses taught in Mechanicsof Materials and Controls and Instrumentation. The first phase of the distance educationprogram was to develop a pilot course in mechanics of materials and offer it to on-campusstudents. A new distance course was recently designed and offered to seven students during the1998 fall semester.The course is a one semester two-credit introduction

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Williams, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-2503: A COLLEGE-WIDE MATERIALS TESTING LAB: A UNIQUEAPPROACH FOR HANDS-ON EXPERIENCEJohn Williams, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign John Williams is Manager of the Materials Testing Instructional Lab (MTIL), a College of Engineering facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his doctorate in Engineering Science and Mechanics from N. C. State University in 1978. He joined UIUC in his present position in 1994 as an Academic Professional. Page 11.18.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A College-wide Materials Testing Instructional Lab

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Douglas, University of Wisconsin Colleges; Mark H Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #7167Development of Low-Cost, Hands-On Lab Experiments for an Online Me-chanics of Materials CourseDr. Jamie Douglas, University of Wisconsin Colleges Jamie Douglas is an Assistant Professor with the University of Wisconsin Colleges Online and at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley. She completed a bachelor’s in civil/environmental engineering from the University of Illinois (UIUC) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2007. She currently lives in Appleton, WI with her husband and two children.Dr. Mark H Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County Mark

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shannon G. Davis; Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Bradley M. Dearing; Edgar C. Clausen

UASPP: Helping Middle School Teachers Devise Their Own Hands-on Engineering and Science Activities Shannon G. Davis1, Bryan W. Hill1, Carol S. Gattis1, Bradley M. Dearing3 and Edgar C. Clausen2 College of Engineering /Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering2 1 University of Arkansas Technology Department3, Illinois State University High SchoolAbstractThe University of Arkansas Science Partnership Program (UASPP) focuses on the professionalgrowth of 6th, 7th and 8th grade science teachers through summer institutes and follow-upactivities. Teachers are teamed with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Jennifer Kadlowec; Anthony Marchese; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

. We have developed a series of hands-on modules that introduce freshman engineering students to chemical, mechanical, and electricalengineering principles through application to the human body. Students are engaged in thescientific discovery process as they explore the engineering systems within the human bodyusing exciting hands-on “reverse engineering” methods. The modules explore respiration,metabolism, pulmonary mechanics, the cardiovascular system, work and power, electricalsignals, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Through the investigation of these systems,students learn basic concepts of mass and energy balances; fluid flow; work, energy, andefficiency; forces and levers; material strength and stresses; and electrical signal

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven S. Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jay Wierer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Discovery often outweigh the absolute measurement fidelity inexperiments across all levels of the electrical engineering curriculum.References1. Digilent Analog Discovery Board. https://store.digilentinc.com/analog-discovery-100msps-usb-oscilloscope- logic-analyzer/.2. J. C. Morales, et al., “A Plan to Diffuse Mobile Hands-On Teaching and Learning in Puerto Rico”, Proceedings of the 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA. June 2015.3. K. Connor, et al., “Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-on STEM”, Proceedings of the 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA. June 2015.4. J.M. Robertson, et al., “Exploiting a Disruptive Technology to Actively Engage Students in the Learning

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Osta, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

government leaders have experienced a renewed realization of the importance of developinga high-tech industrial manufacturing base in America in order to solve some of the mostchallenging issues confronting the world today and restore the global American economiccompetitiveness. Manufacturing education and training seems to be a likely answer. In 2011approximately 4.5 % of engineering students in the US graduated with a Manufacturing degree1.Currently ABET requires manufacturing to be an optional consideration for measuring learningoutcomes for engineers.Studies reveal that one the biggest challenges facing the US is increasing student interest andretention in materials science and manufacturing undergraduate disciplines1. Along with

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Marie Olaskowitz; Shane T.J. Kemper

Session 1566 Building a Hands-on Mechatronics Lab Stacy Marie Olaskowitz, Shane T.J. Kemper California State University SacramentoAbstractPractical hands-on experience is critical for the engineering student of the newmillennium. The demand on the educators of today is to prepare students to meet thechallenge that tomorrow’s industry will bring.This paper presents a methodology used to design and build a mechatronics laboratory.It can help those involved with the responsibility of designing and constructing amechatronics laboratory. The paper provides the reader with an “out of the box”strategy to meet a

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

percentage of the distance cohort did not get the desired hands-on experience in thecurrent project formulation. Requiring each team member to contribute to either fabrication ortesting in the future is one possible approach.References [1] Cavalli, M.N., J. Neubert, et al. (2014). Comparison of On-Campus and Distance Learning Preferences in a Junior-level Materials Science Course. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE. [2] Ibrahim, W. and R. Morsi (2005). Online Engineering Education: A Comprehensive Review. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE. [3] Goodson, C., S. Miertschin, et al. (2009). On-line Distance Education and Student Learning: Do They Measure Up? ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE