Paper ID #31059Interdisciplinary Mini-mester course on Rapid Prototyping for ProductDesignDr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research interests are in the area of engineering design, and manufacturing process development for the polymer-based micro additive manufacturing process. Dr. Jariwala has participated and led several research projects from funded by NSF, the State of Georgia, and Industry sponsors on technology com- mercialization. At Georgia Tech, he is responsible for
, starting with a test flight of different Styrofoam gliders. Students then examineinterior layouts, learn 3-D modeling using design software, and finally, re-design a plane using abalsa glider as a model.8th grade course: “Robot Rescue”Students further their understanding of the engineering design process and entrepreneurship. Thecourse begins with a short design challenge that requires the students to design and 3-D print acell-phone holder. Students then conduct experiments using a bio-inspired walking LEGO©robot. The course ends with an open-ended challenge to design a rescue robot capable ofnavigating variable terrain. During these challenges, students use LEGO® MINDSTORM NXT,3-D CAD modeling software, and 3-D printing technologies
viability. She is also working to understand how these methods affect students’ knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes in regards to prototyping. Jessica is also working on a startup designing prosthetic limbs for individuals living in rural regions of developing countries. She has studied the design thinking process at the d.school in Berlin and holds design thinking workshops and classes for students and companies around Penn State.Dr. Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research
understanding of themselves and of team dynamics.AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science andTechnology, and the University of Toronto Open Fellowship Fund. Page 25.94.11References[1] ABET. (2011) Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2012 - 2013. [Online]. http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditation_Process/Accreditation_Documents/Current/e ac-criteria-2012-2013.pdf.[2] J. D. Bronzino, D. J. Ahlgren, C.-L. Chung, J. D. Mertens, and J. L. Palladino, "Design and Teamwork: A Must for Freshmen," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 184
important results within the framework it is necessary tocontinue to build a comprehensive set of assessments which can be used to facilitateunderstanding of the role that variability plays in capstone courses. As the field ofengineering education strives to understand capstone programs, it is important to continueto address the innate challenges associated with assessing such a complex class.Bibliography 1. Bailey, R and Szabo, Z (2006). “Assessing engineering design process knowledge,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 22, Number 3, pp 508-518(11). 2. Dutson, A. J., R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby and C. D. Sorensen, 1997. A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project- Oriented Capstone
multi story concrete parking structure that compliedwith local building ordinances. Rather than an academic literature review, the team of civil andenvironmental engineering students, needed to understand building codes. Rather than bench-toptesting, the team needed knowledge of construction best practices and how to estimateconstruction costs. Moreover, the software necessary for a construction project is different andthe final results must be provided to the client in industry standard drawings rather than beingpackaged for publication in an academic setting. As a final example, consider a team working onthe Society of Petroleum Engineers Drillbotics competition. These mechanical and electricalengineering students designed a robotic system to
Paper ID #25477Teaming with Confidence: How Peer Connections in Problem-based Learn-ing Impact the Team and Academic Self-efficacy of Engineering StudentsMs. Marsha Maraj, Imperial College London Marsha has been an educator in higher education for over 14 years. She is currently a Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (ICL) where she teaches mechanical design to third-year chemical engineering students. She is enthusiastic about using collaborative approaches and student partnerships in the scholarship of learning and teaching. Her current educational research
during the summer. Despite the challenge of fully understanding the process of Engineering research andimplementing the knowledge into their own curriculum, overall, teacher participants expressedtheir increased understanding of research in the field of engineering accomplishments with theirCAD program design and 3D printing skill sets. In the follow-up survey, one RET teacher statedthat he recommended engineering career to his students by introducing industry partners andtraining programs. Additionally, teacher participants found the program helpful by networkingwith fellow teachers and university faculty who actively conduct research. A male high schoolmath/physics teacher said, I have established important contacts with the
Paper ID #8175Designing the Design Experience - Identifying Factors of Student Motivationin Project-Based Learning and Project-Based Service-LearningMs. Lauren A Cooper, University of Colorado Boulder Lauren is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research in engineering education is focused on understanding the impacts of project-based learning and project-based service-learning on student motivation.Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder Daria Kotys-Schwartz is the Design Center
development. He currently is working with Dr. Kirti M. Yenkie to explore different teaching methodologies to strengthen the understanding of theoretical concepts for undergraduate students.Miss Swapana Subbarao Jerpoth, Rowan University Swapana S. Jerpoth received her B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, India in 2017, and her M.Tech degree in Petrochemical Engineering from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, India in 2019. She joined as a Ph.D. student in the Chemical Engineering Department, Rowan University in 2019 and is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Kirti M. Yenkie. Swapana’s current research interests include sustainable process design and
vital to the engineering process that it should betaught and used as an essential part of engineering education and professional practice”. [3]The human mind is a complex system closed to typical forms of experimental observation of itsoperations. Documenting and analyzing its internal workings during design may seem to be animpossible task. However, researchers have found that sketches and design journals can providemuch insight into the student’s cognitive processes during design. [4-6] Research methods arerequired that can be applied to individual student design assignments to determine their level ofdesign process understanding. Page
application oriented environment.Gene Dixon [2] described how to formulate capstone project problem statements, and how toassess and evaluate them. Formulating a problem statement in any engineering project seemschallenging for senior capstone students. Gene described the findings from a qualitativeexploration of problem statements and problem statement assessments and evaluation directed at Page 23.730.2determining what characteristics are valued in developing a problem statement. The explorationwas undertaken in an effort to align faculty and students in understanding the value and contentof a quality design problem statement for use in a two-semester
AC 2012-3497: INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN: ARCHITECTS,STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGERSMr. James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University Jim Guthrie is an Assistant Professor for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Poly- technic State University at San Luis Obispo. Professor Guthrie came to Cal Poly with over 30 years of structural engineering experience and is a registered Professional and Structural Engineer in the state of California. Jim Guthrie received a B.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Califor- nia at Davis in 1972 and an M.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973.Dr. Allen
Session 2225 Capstone Design Courses and Assessment: A National Study Larry J. McKenzie, Michael S. Trevisan, Denny C. Davis, Steven W. Beyerlein Duke Energy/Washington State University/University of IdahoAbstractABET EC 2000 Criteria 3 and 4 specifically focus on student learning objectives and associatedassessment and evaluation practices that are often integral to capstone design courses. This paperreports findings from a two-phase study conducted to better understand the nature and scope ofassessment practices within capstone design courses across engineering disciplines, and in particular,the extent to
Page 26.364.8student engineers charged with making a collective decision would enhance their “groupperformance” (i.e. greater participation) or increase “centralization” of communication around afew key players.III. MethodsIn our full study we seek to observe and understand the specific role of face-to-face, verbalcommunication in the product design process of two separate student teams in ProductEngineering Processes, a senior capstone mechanical engineering course at MIT. In the firstpart of the study, which is presented in this paper, we focused on how students approachcommunication as an essential team task by audio recording two critical design decisionmeetings, transcribing the audio files, and examining the transcripts for duration of
design-based engineering class to facilitate community and to achieve an educational equivalence as theface-to-face version of the course. Prior to the transition, the instructor conducted informalinterviews with students, faculty, and others who had experience with online learning. Inaddition, a literature review was done in order to understand what key aspects were to keep inmind when designing a course online. Both revealed the LMS plays a large role as thefoundation of the class and guiding students through their UX. The instructor is the backbone asthe designer of the course, but also the leader in creating an online community. When studentsbelieve their instructors care, they are more motivated and engaged in the coursework.With respect to
incorporating the forward thinking and preplanning of thepart and/or assembly required by the new CAD technology.In general, the drafting and design world has undergone drastic technological changes. Thesechanges have had a huge effect on technology and engineering education. The course objectivesand assessments at the state level has been a subject of discussion for several years, particularlybecause of the fast pace change in technology and how it is reshaping the industry. Thispresentation/paper will explain how the use of online course content and the flipped classroommodel was used to increase the amount of material presented in the classroom and enhance thelearning and understanding of the student with applied skill development.For the purpose of
catastrophic or simply costly due to pump inefficiencies whenoperated outside of its intended operating range. Therefore, undergraduate mechanical engineersshould be well trained in this design or selection process through analytical and experimentalmethods learned in engineering science and experimental course work, respectively.In this light, to gain an understanding of the operation of the centrifugal pump4, first consider theenergy transfer of a pump by applying the steady state form of the energy equation as follows: Ç V2 Ç V2 Q% - W% s ? m% outlet Èh - - gz Ù / m% inlet Èh - - gz Ù (1) É 2 Ú
andHarvey17 et al in a similar survey in Britain.However, placing the blame on university education is of cold comfort if engineeringeducation cannot meet professional needs. There is an evident and obvious need for the re-appraisal of engineering education and its fitness within the university institutional setting.The values of different pedagogical approaches are discussed below.Curriculum for Engineering EducationConstruction of a professional educational curriculum without the understanding of theprofessional contextual epistemology, and without of a professional ideology and philosophypresents a major problem for engineering. One commentator suggests that there is nouniversally accepted characterization of engineering knowledge18. Professional
understand” and the presention was “welldone and polished.”[14] The systems engineer on the team and the design reviews evaluated by allthe advisors helped ensure the quality of the deliverables.ConclusionsWe have found that our delineation of multiple faculty roles within our two-semestermultidisciplinary capstone project course has provided significant benefits. We have been able toincrease project realism in terms of project scope, multidisciplinarity, and customer engagementand increase student engagement and depth of understanding while not over-burdening ourfaculty. While our faculty model is particular to our institution, we believe that our noveldiversification of faculty roles could, with some adaptations, be profitably applied by
followingengineering disciplines were represented by the team: civil, architectural, industrial, chemicaland mechanical. The team performed a structural analysis of an historically significant buildingon campus, the Maybeck Chapel, designed by renowned architect Bernard R. Maybeck. Datacollection involved using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, tocapture aerial photographs of the structure for detailed analysis. The selected methodology forconducting the project was a typical Engineering Design Process used primarily as a teachingtool to demonstrate the value and effectiveness of adhering to a standard, structured method foridentifying the project objectives; collecting data; organizing and analyzing the accumulatedinformation; and
judgmentby requiring the student to select appropriate cables. This problem is designed to be more difficult and complex than the typical textbookexercise. The capstone problem requires a comprehensive understanding of several principlescovered in statics. In addition, the problem suggests a parametric solution. The student mustestimate anchor locations and solve the geometry multiple times to produce an optimal solution.Thus, the problem has been designed to use software packages such as Microsoft Excel,MathCAD, Engineering Equation Solver, or Matlab. The problem increases interest in thecourse by examining a real life problem at a scale students relate to and asking the students togive their feedback. According to one course instructor, the
0.40 Wooden spoons - medium 1 0.30 Table 2 – Material List For Wind EnergyProject 4 – Data Collection and PresentationMechanical engineering technology students are often placed in lab situations where they need totake a relatively large amount of data. They must design data sheets that not only provide aplace to record the data, but also are laid out in a logical, easy to understand format. One suchexperiment that is used in the thermal and fluid sciences lab at PSB is a first law of Page 22.1066.7thermodynamics energy balance of a hair dryer6. As part of this
Paper ID #22073Customer Review-driven Function Formulation for Design EducationDr. Ang Liu, University of New South Wales Dr. Ang Liu is a senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, AustraliaMr. Yuchen Wang, University of New South Wales Yuchen Wang is an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student in University of New South Wales,Australia. He assists in engineering design education, meanwhile, his student off-class research focuses on space theme projects such as sun sensor and thermal controller.Dr. Yun Dai, University of Southern California Dr. Yun Dai is a
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Structural System Selection for a Building Design based on Energy ImpactABSTRACTA building structure’s ecological impact due to the embodied carbon in the building materials chosen hasbecome an increasingly prominent factor in the selection of building structural systems. Understanding therelative embodied carbon of different structural systems allows students to make informed decisions in thedesign process that better achieve the increasingly demanding goal of producing sustainable architecture. Theinclusion of this topic in academia has the benefit of giving students experience with energy assessment toolsthat could be utilized in the profession upon their graduation.This paper presents
and structural designer, he has worked on a range of projects that included houses, hospitals, recreation centers, institutional buildings, and conservation of historic buildings/monuments. Professor Sudarshan serves on the Working Group-6: Tensile and Membrane Structures of the Inter- national Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Aerospace Division’s Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee, and the ASCE/ACI- 421 Technical Committee on the Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs. He is the Program Chair of the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also a member of the Structural
Paper ID #14954Design and Development of Online Applied Thermo-Fluid Science CoursesDr. Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc is an Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Farmingdale State College in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. She is serving as the K-12 STEM Out- reach Research and Training Coordinator at Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State College. Her research interests are engineering education, self-directed lifelong learning, virtual laboratories, and decision-making framework development for design and
that are not readily available in textbooksor even on-line sources. Secondly, many design problems require the use of moderncomputational tools such as commercial or other software programs. Having been introduced tothe use of these particularly for solving heat transfer problems prepares them better for theirfuture career as practicing engineers. The modeling and simulation part of the project instills abetter understanding of how one implements the boundary conditions to the numerical solutionof a heat transfer problem as opposed to how boundary conditions are applied in the theoretical/analytical solution of the governing equation for simple problems that can be solved that way.This particular project also forced students to consider
Disagree Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 mean1 The course was appropriate with sufficient preparation from pre- 1 5 15 5 1 1 2.9 requisites2 The course provided guidance on how to formulate an 1 2 2 10 8 5 4.0 engineering design problem3 The lab complemented my understanding of the lectures 2 6 10 5 5 3.94 The course helped me make progress in Solid works and 3D
Course has to be measured for the mapped criteria. Table 1. ABET Criteria (a-k) and additional ME Program Criteria (l-s). a An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering. b An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. c An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. d An ability to function in multidisciplinary teams. e An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. f An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. g An ability to communicate effectively. h The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and