Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Mike McSween, Bentley Systems; Bradley E Workman, Bentley Systems Inc,

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6535Incorporating hydraulic design software into an introductory fluid mechan-ics course through virtualized, internet-delivered software applications.Dr. Isaac W Wait, Marshall University Dr. Isaac Wait is an associate professor of Engineering in the Division of Engineering at Marshall Uni- versity in Huntington, West Virginia. He conducts research and teaches courses in water resources and environmental engineering, and is a registered professional engineer in the States of Ohio and West Vir- ginia.Mr. Mike McSween, Bentley SystemsMr. Bradley E Workman, Bentley Systems Inc

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

First First Fluid MechanicsMechanics of Materials First First Mechanics of MaterialsEngineering Materials First First Vibration Engineering JUNIORComputer Aided Design Second Second Computer Aided DesignElectrical Engineering Second Second Probability and StatisticsIntroduction to Design Second Second Introduction to DesignIntroduction to Aerodynamics Second Second Mechanical Power PlantsMechanical Design First First Mechanical DesignDynamic Modeling

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #8392Particle Transport, Deposition and Removal- A Research Based CurriculumDevelopmentDr. Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University Dr. Ahmadi has been with Clarkson University (department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering) for 32 years. He has been serving as a Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering since 2005. Page 24.969.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Particle Transport, Deposition and Removal- A Research Based Curriculum

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

also license theirderivative work under a similarly permissive license. The aim of the resource is to serve as aquality open educational resource for engineering mechanics courses.According to Creative Commons: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others [2].The project is part of the larger open education movement, pushing to improve the access andaffordability of education using openly licensed educational content. Along these lines, the useof OER in the classroom has been shown decrease DFW rates (that is the rates of studentsreceiving Ds, Fs or withdrawing

Conference Session

ME Division 15: Grading Practices and Student Performance

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Hurlen, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #45713A comparison of students expected grades and their actual quiz performanceProf. Erik Hurlen, University of Washington Dr. Erik Hurlen received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Aerospace Engineering) from the University of California San Diego in 2006. He spent a few years in industry before returning to academia to teach Math, Physics, and Engineering at many community colleges in the San Diego Area. Dr. Hurlen was an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Mississippi from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, Dr. Hurlen returned to San Diego as a Lecturer in the

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

established. Students were encouraged to think of the mousetrapcar’s movement in terms of kinetic and potential energy, the use of levers and pulleys to producemotion and the effect of friction on the car’s performance. Throughout this and other stages,there was a continual classroom presence by the STEP Fellow. This allowed the students easyaccess and a convenient feedback mechanism for the teacher. The teacher’s insight on thepotential pitfalls and possible lack of building materials and space outside of class led to thededication of one class period for building the mousetrap cars.In the second stage of the competition, a simple working model demonstrating the ability toproduce forward motion with the mousetrap was required. This was included to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurence J. Logue

Session 1438 Teaching Mechanism Design Using Constraint-Based Design Tools in a CAD System Laurence J. Logue Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the use of a CAD system with parametric design capabilities to synthesizeand analyze planar mechanisms. The techniques used have been developed and used in a third-year course entitled Dynamics of Machines. Geometric and dimensional constraints are appliedto the skeleton diagram of a linkage created using standard graphical synthesis methods. Theconstraints used to emulate the behavior

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

Structure and AssessmentMET 210W is a three credit hour course that meets for 5 hours a week and is divided intolecture and laboratory time. As stated above it is the goal of the course to provide eachstudent with the necessary concepts and procedures to properly design and performanalysis of common machine elements in mechanical systems. Prerequisites for thecourse include statics, strength of materials, kinematics, and dynamics. Some sort ofAutoCAD or Pro-Engineer software experience is also necessary along with MS-Officeskills in creating engineering drawings and reports.The text book used in the course is Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, 4 th edition,by Robert L. Mott, 7. The authors feel this text does a great job in addressing all

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

the instructor supplies handouts on new material. It is also importantto choose projects that cover a range of thermal/fluid design issues, from the design of pipingsystems to the design of heat exchangers.It is important to use projects with clearly defined roles. Each team has a team leader andengineering economist and the three remaining team members are assigned the role of “analyst”.In the first project the analysts are differentiated by being given responsibility for differentgroups of refrigerants. In the second project one analyst is assigned responsibility for the waterclock mechanism, the second has responsibility for the auto-refill system, and the third isassigned the task of historian (to perform background research on clepsydras

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

students.However, due to substantially declining hands-on skills of the young generation, lack of contact withsimple tools and mechanical pieces, laboratory activities involving hands-on exercises will become amore important part of engineering technology curriculum. Such activities could involve simpleindividual projects and repetition of some of these projects with given time constraints forcingstudents to do initial planning of activities, hence fostering learning by including some degree ofrepetition. Studies of failures, especially mechanisms and structures, are also a very valuableapproach providing an insight on the nature of materials, manufacturing processes used and utilizationof products and tools. Additionally, industrial coop will need to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Madina Yermagambetova, Al-Farabi KazNU; Peter John Schwalbenberg

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

prepared and shown to swell more in the neutral pH environment of theintestines than in the acidic stomach environment. This paper describes an experiment tointroduce engineering students in a materials science class to stimuli-responsive polymers forcontrolled release applications. Students produce a pH-responsive hydrogel using a free-radicalsolution polymerization and analyze mechanical properties of the gel using tensile testing. Theyield stress was greater in the low pH environment simulating the stomach than it was in thehigher pH environment which simulated the intestines. Young’s modulus increased withpercentage of monomer in the formulation. Such a system would be useful for the oral deliveryof a drug that would be damaged by the low pH

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Y. Nozaki, Pennsylvania State University; Kathleen Jernquist, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

discussedin the introduction, the task of teaching students to “write like an engineer” consumes a significantamount of instructional resources, yet yields mixed results in terms of their effectiveness at teachingstudents to write within their academic major. The results of this work shed some light on one reasonwhy this may be the case: “engineering writing” displays significant, measurable differences betweendisciplines, and a student in a, say, mechanical engineering program may prepare written work for coursestaught by science faculty (physics courses), civil engineering faculty (statics, mechanics of materials),mechanical engineering faculty (dynamics, machine design), and electrical engineering faculty (electriccircuits, controls). In each case

Conference Session

Remote Physical Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Whitefoot, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey S. Vipperman, University of Pittsburgh

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. He currently teaches courses in measurements, acoustics, and random vibrations & signal analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Designing At-home Laboratory Experiments Using Smart Phones and Basic Test Equipment for Senior Mechanical Engineering StudentsAbstractA key educational component of laboratory experiments is the hands-on aspect:troubleshooting experimental setups, data collection and repeatability, honing data collectiontechniques to improve repeatability, and other forms of exploration and “learning by doing

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Roshina Babu, The University of Utah

Paper ID #45060GIFTS - A Hands-on Activity for Improving the Students’ Understanding ofCentroids in a Freshmen Engineering Mechanics Course.Dr. Roshina Babu, The University of Utah Dr. Roshina Babu is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Utah. She teaches courses in structural mechanics, civil engineering materials, and computer tools. Dr. Babu is interested in instructional design and developing experiential learning activities for undergraduate students. 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert T. Bailey P.E., Loyola University Maryland

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Mechanical Engineering

safety (FOS) of 2 in your bracket design with respect to yielding. 5. The bracket will be manufactured using the Stratasys Object Model 30 3D printer in the Mechanical Engineering Lab. The material of manufacture will be VeroWhitePlus. Assume that the yield strength of this material is 40% of the listed tensile strength and that Poisson’s ratio is 0.4. 6. The bracket should include geometric features that make it easy to properly align the cylinder. These features do not have to secure the cylinder against impacts, earthquakes, or other significant forces that could dislodge it. 7. The bracket will be anchored in place using two round-head steel machine screws (1/4 - 20 UNC × 1.25) and associated

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2008-2770: MULTI-MODE LEARNING AND FLUID MECHANICS TO FLUIDPOWER: AN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM REFORMAlamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan UniversityPavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan UniversityJorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan UniversitySam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University Page 13.912.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Multi-mode learning and fluid mechanics to fluid power: an undergraduate curriculum reform Abstract: Learning theoretical foundations without hand-on practices, lack of exposure to current technology and problem-solving tools affect both theoretical learning and job preparedness skill of engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Naser Haghbin, Fairfield University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Electric Motor poster draft for review. 15 Poster Presentation Present the project at the Innovation Annex. Diversity and inclusion were addressed by incorporating materials that cater to a widerange of interests and learning styles, making the course accessible and engaging for all students.After each project phase, structured feedback and reflection opportunities allowed students toengage with their learning process actively, receiving critical feedback that informed theirproject development and deepened their understanding of mechanical engineering principles.This feedback loop is essential for continuous learning and improvement.3.2. Implementation Throughout the combustion engine

Conference Session

Systems Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

Using Problem Solving Preferences to Promote Teaming in a Mechanical Systems Design Course James M. Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CAAbstract At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, MechanicalEngineering students are required to take a course in Mechanical Systems Design. It is ajunior level course where students learn the fundamentals of machine components (gears,bearings, screws, etc); furthermore, the students gain experience in the integration ofthese components into complex Mechanical Systems during a weekly 3-hr laboratory.During the laboratory portion

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

problem solving techniques. Thestudents worked in groups to solve several problems. We introduced fatigue by having themfatigue until failure two different sizes of paper clips in order to emphasize when an experimentis repeated the same answers are not obtained every time. Subsequently, the students wereintroduced to some simple statistical ways to analyze the data.Students were introduced to mechanical behavior of materials by doing Charpy Impact tests onsteel and aluminum at room temperature as well as the temperature of liquid nitrogen.Demonstrations of polymeric behavior at liquid nitrogen temperatures were also conducted.Students were introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity by making and playing with a “sillyputty” type polymeric

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Zecher, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

., Mechanics of Materials, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1976[4] Reddy, J. N., An Introduction to the Finite Element Method, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2006[5] Moaveni, S., Finite Element Analysis Theory and Application with ANSYS, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, UpperSaddle River, NJ, 2008[6] Hutton, D. V., Fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2004[7] Lawrence, K.L., ANSYS Workbench Tutorial, SDC Publications, 2006[8] Dadkhah, F. and Zecher, J., ANSYS Workbench Software Tutorial with Multimedia CD, Schroff DevelopmentCorp., 2007[9] Dale, Edgar, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching, 3rd Edition, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969)[10] Felder, Richard M, and Brent, Rebecca, “Understanding Student

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lan He, Beihang University; Jingjun Yu, Beihang University

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Mechanical Engineering

OptimizationFig. 1 Core curriculum of undergraduate students in mechanical engineering and the process of a projectIt is worth mentioning that the procedures of disassembly and assembly of an existingmachinery should be added at the very beginning to help students get started quickly and lookfor design ideas. According to current syllabus of mechanical engineering at Beihanguniversity, the core curricula related to “handwriting robot” project include Introduction toMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Drawing, C Programming Language, Mechatronics,etc. Also, some basic curricula, such as Engineering Mathematics, Material Mechanics,Circuits can be integrated into “handwriting robot” project. Considering a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin L. Wood; John Wood

Session 2566 The Tinkerer’s Pendulum for Machine System’s Education: Creating a Basic Hands-On Environment with Mechanical “Breadboards” John J. Wood*, Kristin L. Wood** *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University **Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe pendulum of engineering education is swinging from an emphasis of theoretical material to abalance between theory and hands-on activities. This transformation is motivated, in part, by thechanging students entering engineering programs. Instead of a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hajrudin Pasic; Gregory G. Kremer; Bhavin V. Mehta

andinstructional materials currently available to build a problem-based learning environment inEngineering Mechanics. Even though there are good examples of software and educational toolsavailable for Engineering Mechanics, to the best of the authors’ knowledge the current tools donot address problem-solving skills in a direct way. The best features of the current tools arethose based on improved utilization of technology, including: 1. the use of animation/visualization software such as Working Model® to graphically display or “animate” the mathematical solutions in order to help students make a connection between the equations and real physical motions. A example of this is Multimedia Engineering Dynamics 9, which is designed to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 14: Curriculum and Course Assessment in and Outside the Classroom

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Morris, Clemson University; John R. Wagner, P.E., Clemson University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #38552Application of Extracurricular Course Teaching Product LifecycleManagement Concepts to UndergraduatesMr. John Morris, Clemson University Doctoral student at Clemson University in Mechanical Engineering; PLM Applications Engineer for the PLM Center at Clemson University.Dr. John R. Wagner, P.E., Clemson University JOHN WAGNER joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson in 1998. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and Purdue University. Dr. Wagner was previously on the engin ©American Society

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Brian Sylcott, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of the three schools is similar. The number ofstudents in the machine design class is also similar at each school and ranges from 20-35students. The large majority of graduates from each program take a job in industry while a muchsmaller percentage go to graduate school.At ECU, the Machine Design course is taught as part of the Mechanical Engineeringconcentration, which is available to students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineeringdegree. The curriculum for the Mechanical Engineering Concentration is very much a classicmechanical engineering curriculum, with required course sequences in solid mechanics,dynamics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. Students are required to take two courses inmechanics of materials, however only one

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Messiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University; Taher Abu-Lebdeh, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

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Mechanical Engineering

from Louisiana State University. He taught civil and core engineering courses for about twenty years. Dr. Abu-Lebdeh research interests are in civil engineering and highway infrastructures, structural mechanics, and constitutive modeling of material behavior. He had co-authored about 17 papers, and research reports. Of this total, 12 papers have been published after peer review.Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University Devdas M. Pai is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. He teaches manufacturing processes and tribology related courses. A registered Professional Engineer in

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; Lawrence Hochreiter; Laura L. Pauley

school students, a more favorable impression of nuclear power as a viableProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationlong range energy source for the nation, and the initiation of an MNE concurrent majorsprogram at PSU, which grants two separate, but integrated, BS degrees in nuclear andmechanical engineering.Multiple Majors ProgramWith the merger, the faculty of both the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Programs closelyexamined the individual programs, in detail, for commonality. It was found that there wassignificant overlap between the two programs and the same detailed material was being taughtin both programs but sometimes

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 2 - Beliefs, Motivation, and Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deeksha Seth, Villanova University; Robert P. Loweth, Purdue University ; James C. O'Brien, Villanova University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #44342Integrating Engineering Design in Laboratory Sessions for Second-Year MechanicalEngineering StudentsDr. Deeksha Seth, Villanova University Deeksha Seth is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Villanova University. Her primary research interests includes integrative and interdisciplinary engineering education.Dr. Robert P. Loweth, Purdue University Robert P. Loweth (he/him) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research explores how engineering students and practitioners engage stakeholders in their engineering

Conference Session

ME Division 4: Broadening Participation and Building Resilience

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siu Ling Leung, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher John Greer, The Pennsylvania State University; Margaret L. Byron, Pennsylvania State University; Bladimir Alvarado Ramos; Reuben H Kraft, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Dawn Lesko; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

approach to integrating social, cultural, economic,environmental, historical, and ethical considerations into engineering education. Focusing on theMechanical Engineering curriculum, we discuss two collaborative strategies for designing courseassignments that employ storytelling and a case-based approach to expand students' awareness ofdiverse perspectives. Instructors piloted selected assignments and shared feedback on lessonslearned from these implementations. This work aims to inspire others to develop their ownteaching materials, fostering a sense of community within the field of mechanical engineeringand supporting future curriculum development in engineering education. It emphasizes theimportance of raising awareness of diversity and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech; Samantha Schauer, Boise State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

learning sciences, as she uncovers how individual performance is influenced by aptitudes, spatial skills, personal interests and direct manipulation of mechanical objects.Samantha Schauer, Boise State University Samantha Schauer is a student at Boise State University, graduating in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Applied Mathematics. Samantha works as an Undergraduate Research Assistant under Dr. Krishna Pakala. She is also actively involved in the Honors College, the Society of Women Engineers, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Happy Hours are a