Paper ID #17858Flipping an Engineering Thermodynamics Course to Improve Student Self-EfficacyDr. Karim Altaii, James Madison University Dr. Altaii holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and received his doctorate from The City University of New York. He is a registered Professional Engineer. He holds five patents in solar energy applications and in irrigation system. He is the director of two international summer programs. He is the Co-Director of the Advanced Thermal-Fluids laboratory. His primary interests are in renewable energy applications, fluid-thermal sciences, and international education.Dr. Colin J. Reagle
Engineering EducationC. Developing a Program in Mechanical Engineering in Concert with the IACEstablishing any new academic program requires a broad view and an open mind by the directoror coordinator of the program. The first step is to identify and accurately define the challengesthat exist, and must be met and overcome. Input from numerous resources is an absolutenecessity. These resources include the faculty, administration, and trustees of the institution;one’s network of colleagues from past experiences; access to similar programs at otherinstitutions (by either descriptive materials, Internet, or actual visits) as well as candiddiscussions with the heads of these programs; marketing research data; and above all, open andactive communications
AC 2010-1307: RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AT AN UNDERGRADUATEINSTITUTIONHui Shen, Ohio Northern University Dr. Shen is an assistant professor at Ohio Northern University. She teaches Statics, Dynamics, and Materials Science. She has conducted undergraduate research work for a few years since she came to Ohio Northern University.Richard F. Miller, Ohio Northern UniversityDavid Sawyers, Ohio Northern University DAVID R. SAWYERS, JR. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, where he teaches courses in General Engineering and in the Thermal Sciences. He received a BSME degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the MS and PhD, both in Mechanical
. Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the holder of Wormley Family Early Career Professorship at Penn State. His current research focuses on bio-inspired materials design with applications in water, energy, medicine, and environmental sustainability. For his research contributions, Dr. Wong was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and honored by the White House for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.Prof. Brian M. Foley, The Pennsylvania State University American c Society for
Paper ID #41693Using Video Creation to Develop the Entrepreneurial Mindset of EngineeringStudentsDr. Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mohammad (Rafe) Biswas is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler Houston Engineering Center in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He has taught courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory.Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr
thechanges, and reiterate the process for continuous improvement. The details of this process for a Page 6.929.1Dynamics course are given in the next section - this section focuses on one of the options for Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching/presentation of course content, i.e. teaching Dynamics in the context of a problem-solving framework.Historically, in the mechanical engineering curriculum Dynamics has been taught in a standardlecture/homework/exam format. Most of the material
Freshman Engineering and Mechanical Engineering courses, namely Materials Science and Engineering, Statics and Dynamics, and Materials Characterization. Dr. Dawan’s expertise is in micro and nanofabrication of materials and his research involves advanced manufacturing of multi-functional composites for application in energy, aerospace, and personal healthcare. Patent-pending proprietary technology derived from his research includes a nanotube enhanced 3D solar cell, and a 3D-printable carbonated polymer. He is currently the Director of the US Department of Energy-funded Energizing Minds through Advanced Clean Energy Education (EMACE) Inspires and Partnership programs and an Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Madison Wensheng Hu is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.Dr. Jennifer Detlor, University of Wisconsin - Madison Jennifer Detlor is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She earned a B.S in Mathematics, Chemistry, and English, a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She teaches core, large-enrollment courses at the first- through fourth-year level in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, such as statics, mechanics of materials, fluids, and heat transfer. Her research includes engineering education focused on
research interests focus on soft robotics and smart materials.Dr. Arash Afshar, Mercer University Dr. Arash Afshar is an associate professor at the School of Engineering at Mercer University. He holds an M.S. in Systems and Design and a Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a B.S. and M.S. in Solid Mechanics from Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. His teaching and research interests encompass solid mechanics, with a focus on composite materials, finite element analysis, mechanical design, and machine learning. Before joining Mercer, Dr. Afshar taught at Saginaw Valley State University and worked as a design engineer in the oil and gas and injection
AC 2012-4716: A THERMODYNAMICS SHORT COURSE FOR A SUM-MER OUTREACH PROGRAMMs. Natalie Barrett, Purdue University, West Lafayette Natalie Barrett is a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at Purdue University and is interested in re- newable energy. Barrett received a B.S.M.E. from Florida State University, a M.S.M.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a M.B.A. from Indiana University. She has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Professor. She has also worked in industry at Pratt & Whitney for several years and served in roles such as Integrated Product Team Leader and Affordability and Risk Manager for the F135 Engine Program
criticisms are voiced in meetings of collegeindustrial advisory boards, industry partners and alumni established in their discipline. In aneffort to address this, the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department ofYoungstown State University initiated a joint pedagogical experiment with the Department ofFine and Performing Arts (F&PA) at Youngstown State University. The goal of the experimentwas two-fold – to expose the engineer to an ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking environment and toestablish a means where effective communication with non-technical personnel was required.The experiment was jointly developed between the departments so that the students from bothdepartments would work towards their own pedagogical objectives. The goal of this
Session____ Introducing Data Acquisition and Experimental Techniques to Mechanical Engineering Students in the Freshmen Year Risa J. Robinson, John Wellin Rochester Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department1 IntroductionIn a recent survey of 420 engineers and engineering managers from 24 companies, the ability todesign and conduct experiments was rated as one of the highest desirable technical skills they lookfor in engineering graduates. 1 Specifically, the survey stated that employers want engineeringgraduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysis
Paper ID #46389Coming Unglued: Restricting Adhesives in Undergraduate Mechanical EngineeringDesign-and-Build Projects (Marble Machine Edition)Dr. Amanda Sterling, Auburn University Dr. Amanda Sterling is a mechanical engineer at Auburn University who specializes in engineering design, additive manufacturing, and biomechanics through research, teaching, and innovation. She has published articles on the microstructure and fatigue of additive metals, providing insights into advanced engineering materials. Her research leverages additive manufacturing to design corrective quadruped orthotics, blending art and mechanical design
progress toward a degree more quickly.Low Academic Preparedness. Many students enrolled in ME/CIVE majors are underprepared inSTEM subjects, particularly mathematics. ME and CIVE largely share the same curricular planfor the first two years, which assumes that first-year students enter the program “calculus ready.”Students who are unprepared to take calculus often take one or more semesters of preparatorymath which can delay their progress in their engineering curriculum or lead them to give up theirpursuit of an engineering degree. Also, in the first two years, students take the requiredmechanics core courses which include Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Thesecourses are the students’ first experience with engineering analysis
institutions to follow. Finite Element Taught at Prairie View A&MA Finite Element Analysis and Design class has been taught as a required subject in the UGMEprogram at Prairie View A&M University in the past thirty years8. The prerequisite of the FiniteElement Analysis and Design class at Prairie View A&M is mechanics of materials; another subject,heat transfer, is coded as a prerequisite with concurrency, i.e., if the students have not taken heattransfer before, they can register for heat transfer and finite element classes in the same semester. Therequired textbook in year 2021 was Finite Element Modeling and Simulation with ANSYSWorkbench9. The instructor added a Chapter 0 to the class before teaching the textbook
from allengineering departments, faculty members from the Literature and Languages Department, theMarketing Department, various staff members of the university, and engineering representativesfrom the company sponsor. Assessment Mechanism B was implemented in the Spring 2020semester in a structural analysis course. This assessment mechanism requires students to give anoral presentation on projects to the course instructor, non-engineering faculty members, andfellow class peers. Students are assessed based on technical aspects of the project along withtheir professional delivery of the material. The student teams are video-recorded and must re-watch their own recorded presentations and critique themselves for self-improvement using aprovided
Paper ID #47775The effect of imposed word limits on academic performance in technical reportswritten by Mechanical Engineering undergraduate studentsDr. Fabian Sorce, Imperial College London Fabian is a Teaching Fellow (equivalent to Assistant Professor [Teaching-Track]) in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and is responsible for the delivery of multiple sessions relating to Solid Mechanics and Design modules. Fabian has a particular interest in active, experiential and lab-based learning and uses his experience in characterising a wide range of materials from high performance polymer coatings
Paper ID #23557Designing 3-D Printed Heat Exchangers in a Senior-level Thermal SystemsCourseDr. Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University Gregory Michna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, held positions as a Lecturer at Iowa State University and as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and joined the faculty at SDSU in 2009. He teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and energy systems.Dr. Todd Letcher
was recently ex-amined using student feedback for introducing freshmen to the discipline. As a result, the first Page 26.706.5year mechanical engineering course was redesigned to cover: • Core topics in mechanical engineering: Topics such as forces, moments, materials sci- ence, thermo-fluid systems, and strength of materials are now introduced in the course. • Hands-on design, analysis and machining activities: Experiential learning has been in- troduced through project-based learning. • Curriculum and discipline essential skills: Curriculum essential skills such as Matlab computer
Paper ID #43416Classification of Alternative Grading Approaches: Review and Reflectionsfrom PracticeDr. Simon Li, University of Calgary Dr. Simon Li is an associate professor of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary. His research interests include mechanical systems of buildings and engineering education.Yves Pauchard, University of CalgaryDr. Ahmad Ghasemloonia, University of Calgary Dr. Ahmad Ghasemloonia received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tabriz in 2003 and his MSc in Applied Mechanics from Tarbiat Modares University in 2006 with a research
- 1311.Biographical InformationMOHAMMAD S. DAVOUDDr. Davoud is currently a professor and coordinator of the mechanical engineering technology program at GeorgiaSouthern University. He holds Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and is aRegistered Professional Engineer in Georgia. He is currently teaching courses in materials, manufacturingprocesses, and computer integrated manufacturing system. Dr. Davoud has conducted research in areas such asmechanism design and automation. His current research is in the area of thermo-mechanical analysis ofmanufacturing processes."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
Paper ID #15074Flipping the Design Class Using Off-the-shelf Content: Can it work?Dr. John-David S Yoder, Ohio Northern University John-David Yoder is Professor and Chair of the mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. He has previously served as Proposal Engineer and Proposal Engineering Supervisor at Grob Sys- tem, Inc. and Software Engineer at Shaum Manufacturing, Inc. He has held a number of leadership and advisory positions in various entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently a KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Ed- ucation Network) Fellow, and has served as a Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paper ID #6970Summer Faculty Immersion as a Strategy to Diffuse Engineering EducationInnovations: First Year ResultsDr. Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo Dr. Juan C. Morales is professor and department head of Mechanical Engineering at Universidad del Turabo. He also served as the ABET Coordinator of the School of Engineering until 2011 for the purpose of achieving the initial EAC accreditation of all the engineering programs at Universidad del Turabo. As ABET Coordinator, Dr. Morales had the privilege of working closely with the entire engineering faculty in the process of establishing a systemic and sustainable
Improved Learning Experiences in Introductory Mechanics Course by Using Flexible Periods - Analysis and Testing of a TrussAbstractIn 2009, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Villanova Universityreinvented its course sequence in undergraduate mechanics. Classic courses in Statics,Mechanics of Solids, and Civil Engineering Materials were restructured into a two-coursesophomore-level sequence (Mechanics I and Mechanics II), and elements of Dynamics wereintegrated with Fluid Mechanics and the associated laboratory to form the junior-level courseMechanics III. These courses emphasize real-world applications and are taught using anintegrated approach. For example, the first course intersperses topics
AC 2008-850: ME350 REMOTE EDUCATION: EXPERIENCES IN TEACHINGENGINEERING TO NON-ENGINEERING MAJORS STUDYING ABROADBrian Novoselich, United States Military Academy Brian Novoselich is a Major in the United States Army and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.Bobby Crawford, United States Military Academy Bobby Crawford is a Colonel in the United States Army and the Director of the Aero-Thermo Group in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and
asrepresented in Figure 1.Most of the coursework undertaken during the junior year involves design activities andinstruction, and students are assigned individual or team design problems on subjects related tothe course content. For instance, in the Thermal Fluids course, the assigned project may involveapplying first principles to design and build a sub-scale solar collector, while in the Mechanics andMaterials course, the project might involve the design of a chair or some other product requiringapplication of strength of materials principles. Typical projects for the Mechanical Systems courseinvolve the design of a linkage mechanism, or a cam driven system. In each case, the students mustgo through a process of synthesis and design tied to the
AC 2009-430: A SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE STEADY-STATE FIN HEAT TRANSFERMINI-LAB/DEMOMichael Maixner, United States Air Force Academy Michael Rex Maixner graduated with distinction from the U. S. Naval Academy, and served as a commissioned officer in the USN for 25 years; his first 12 years were spent as a shipboard officer, while his remaining service was spent strictly in engineering assignments. He received his Ocean Engineer and SMME degrees from MIT, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He served as an Instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School and as a Professor of Engineering at Maine Maritime Academy; he is currently a member of the Department
students must declare a major by the end of the first semester of their sophomoreyear. Therefore, if a student takes the course relatively early in their academic course of study,they may not have declared a major by the time they take ME 220. The department wanted toimpart on the students the perspective that learning engineering principles would be valuablethroughout their academic experience and beyond graduation, no matter their major or careeraspirations. DFME also wanted to give students exposure to more facets of engineering beyondstatics and mechanics of material by incorporating a basic engineering design curriculum. Thiswas intended to pique student interest in the subject while some were still in the process ofdeciding on a major, with
Paper ID #34113MATLAB Marina: The Primary Resource for MATLAB in a Freshmen Com-putingApplications for Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Priya T. Goeser, Georgia Southern University Dr. Priya T. Goeser is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University - Armstrong Campus in Savannah. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Her current research interests are structural health monitoring, functionally graded materials and innovative teaching methods in engineering education.Dr. Thomas Murphy, Georgia Southern University Dr. Thomas Murphy is an
AC 2010-47: ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS - A GRAPHICAL APPROACHIsrael Urieli, Ohio University-Athens Joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at Ohio University in 1984, following 22 years of experience in research and development in Israel and the US. Has been teaching Thermodynamics continuously since 1990. Page 15.498.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Thermodynamics – a Graphical ApproachAbstractThis paper presents the first open-source web-based thermodynamic learning resource. Thecompletely self-contained project is found at http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~thermo. This