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MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Lyle Gestson, University of Portland; Matthew Stephen Barner, University of Portland; Rhianna Fitzgerald; Jordan Farina, University of Portland

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Paper ID #44307Developing a Learning Innovation for an Undergraduate Mechanical EngineeringCourse through Faculty, Engineer, and Student CollaborationDr. Sean Lyle Gestson, University of Portland Sean Gestson graduated from the University of Portland (UP) in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering with a research emphasis in engineering education from Oregon State University (OSU). During his time at OSU, Sean taught multiple undergraduate engineering courses including, geotechnical engineering, highway design, surveying, and senior capstone design. His

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MECH - Technical Session 6: Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Strategies

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Lurana Crowley, Washington State University

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students tothe program. However, the program struggled with the historically high DFW rates in both theintroductory mechanical engineering course and Statics. Through a series of faculty meetings inAY 2018-2019, the program decided to emphasize the following two aspects in the introductorymechanical engineering course: 1) improving students’ interests in mechanical engineeringdiscipline and career, and 2) instructing foundational engineering principles to enhance students’success rate in Statics, a 2nd year course. Most students who pass Statics pass other 2nd yearcourses to enter the 3rd year.2.2 The Introductory Mechanical Engineering Course Contents in 2019 and 2020.Table 1 summarizes the course topics and the design project offered in-person

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 4: Professional Preparation

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University; Timothy Cyders; Cody Petitt; Kouree Chesser, Ohio University

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/internships but to complement them. Our ME programdoes not have required co-op experiences, though over 75% of graduating seniors consistentlyreport having completed at least one engineering work experience. A limitation we haveobserved with our current co-op/internship system is that a large majority of students experienceonly one or two types of roles and industries before making decisions about their career options.This seems to lead to bias in decision making, where either one good or one bad experience hasan outsized effect on career decisions. The diversity of experiences embedded in the Pro-opmodel is an effort to help students experience a larger variety of roles and types of work.Pro-Day experiences include immersive experiences in local

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MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland, College Park; Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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of engineers.Moreover, students require these skills in order to take thoughtful actions at decisionpoints in their careers. A subset of the team of faculty who organized the workshop, plusan important addition to the team, a member of the university’s Transformation &Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), is responsible for creating the content of thecertificate, implementing it, and managing it.The certificate system being considered is formatted to be consistent with a plannedteaching academy being developed by the TLTC. The team has been awarded a grantfrom TLTC to explore how unit-specific certifications can be co-developed andexpanded across the university. The focus of this effort is to develop a certification thatmakes sense in

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

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Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB’s Center for Con- trol, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award and a UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self Efficacy in Different Learning

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nosakhare Iyobosa Idiaghe; Jessica R. Deters, University of Nebraska Lincoln

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enrolled in at least threeundergraduate courses each semester during the 2022/2023 academic year. Each of the studentswere part of a privately funded program that allowed them to participate in undergraduateresearch in collaboration with faculty members of the department of Mechanical and MaterialsEngineering. The students were paid for 10 hours of research per week throughout the academicyear. Due to budget constraint, the program is only able to fund 16 students in an academic yearafter a competitive selection process, of which 12 of these students consented to participate inthis study. The goal of the undergraduate research program is to enhance student outcomes,including retention, academic success, and the likelihood of pursuing graduate

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hiram Cover, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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the possibility of a disruption event. This study follows the LMS feature useby mechanical engineering instructors through five spring semesters and seeks to identify LMSfeature use trends.II. BackgroundCharacteristics of instructors who follow a more learner-centered instruction format typically: (1)prioritize student learning over covering material, (2) share decisions regarding attempts toimprove student learning, (3) foster a knowledge base and develop learning skills based on priorknowledge, (4) encourage students to take initiative in their learning, and (5) primarily utilizeassessment to promote learning rather than evaluating performance [5]. A 2016 study including30 engineering faculty members from freshman and sophomore level

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MECH - Technical Session 2: Enhancing Learning through Hands-On Design

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew S Ballard, Utah Valley University; Taten McConahay, Utah Valley University; Brett Swain, Utah Valley University; Sarah Dayley, Utah Valley University

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impossible to truly learn without the learner being active in someway [2]. Active learning helps students to ascend above the initial cognition levels of rememberand understand from the revised Bloom’s taxonomy [3], requiring learners at the least to applyand analyze. Project-based learning is an important active learning technique, which allowsstudents to build upon what they already know from previous courses [1] and further deepentheir knowledge as they evaluate and create. In addition to deepening their knowledge of specifictechnical competencies from the engineering curriculum, project-based learning allows studentsto acquire skills that will be vital to them throughout their careers, including problem solving,communication, teamwork as well as

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., The Ohio State University; Annie Abell, The Ohio State University

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faculty members and encouraged them to leavefeedback in the form of specific comments tied to one of the program goals, student learningobjectives, or student proficiencies.This information was shared with the larger faculty of the department in November 2023 andtheir feedback was collected. The faculty members who participated with feedback providedinsightful comments and ideas that helped the committee integrate That feedback was reviewedand incorporated into the central document containing the program goals, student learningobjectives and student proficiencies, which is included as an appendix.Much work is still to be done on this project. The committee plans to complete the followingwork by April 2024: • Solicit feedback the department

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda C. Emberley, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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on what may be missing from these bins. Thesediscussions provided further insight into the goals of the curriculum. Overall, this process gaveus a good starting point for developing the goals of the curriculum. It allowed us to get a varietyof perspectives from the department without burdening any one person with a lot of time input.However, the large number of inputs from many different people also made it hard to manage.Iterative process to develop curriculum Our next stage of the process involved an iterative process of surveying our department,developing drafts, and editing those drafts. During the summer of 2022, two faculty members (the authors of this paper) volunteeredto be the Q2S leads for the department. We set out

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MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John T Solomon, Tuskegee University; Hang Song, Auburn University; Lauren E. Beckingham, Auburn University; Karen McNeal, Auburn University; Kelly Lazar, Clemson University

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knowledge and higher-level environmental behavior, manifested by theirwillingness and preparedness to pursue careers in the industries developing sustainableresources, have been explored. With a focus on imparting these qualities, a pedagogicalsystem with a comprehensive pool of interventions has been designed and implemented in asenior-level mechanical engineering course in the HBCU. The paper summarizes the surveydevelopment process and explores the impact of the intervention on students' ecologicalknowledge, behavior, attitudes, and job decisions, which will help develop strategies forpreparing the next-generation, diverse renewable energy workforce. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The holistic need for reducing