develop aphysical model of the actual system that they attempt to analyze - this is already done for them inthe problem. An example of this can be found in any dynamics book; the work-energy chapterinvariably contains problems with springs attached to different slender rods in a variety ofdifferent contrived orientations.We have attempted to improve student analytical skills and to provide real world context to thestudy of rigid body dynamics by creating a catapult project. Students are given rubber bands,catapults, rulers, weights, and a scale. They must determine how to model the arm, the energystored in the rubber bands (e.g., linear or non-linear springs), and the ensuing projectile motion.Their computations are then tested on launch day
Wheelock, Great Hearts Academy, Irving, TX Raziye Aghapour, Soulmaz Rahman Mohammadpour, Jaivardhan Sood, Victoria C. P. Chen, Ph.D., Erick C. Jones Jr., Ph.D. Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractWe present K-12 educational lesson plans towards conducting college level research in engineering.These experiences are an extension of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences forTeachers project (EEC-2055705), where math and science K-12 teachers are trained to conductresearch on sustainable and resilient engineering systems in various disciplines. For
composites and micro-autonomous surface vessels.Peter A. Sousa, United States Coast Guard Academy Engineering Lab Technician in the School of Engineering and Cyber Systems at the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). After serving as a Machinery Technician in the United States Coast Guard I worked for a top-end yacht service company before joining the USCGA. My area of expertise include fabrication in metals, wood and composites, and operation of a variety of CNC machines ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Assessment and Experience of Boatbuilding-based PBL in Two Naval Architecture ProgramsAbstractNumerous studies highlight the advantages of Project
during their internships. He also suggested that the participantsfound the most significant useful construction skills that applied to the students’ career includedsafety, project management and construction graphics as career skills necessary to enter theconstruction industry by the respondents.Internship ProgramsIn academia, there are many different approaches to providing an internship experience for thestudents. There are some construction management programs that have a formalized internshipprogram where students are required to intern at a company for a specified number of hours.Other universities may offer an un-structured internship program where the students intern with acompany as an elective class. At XX University, the internship
printing to teach these topics in an integrated manner within the time constraints ofa three-credit-hour course. Couplings between CAD and CAE tools (motion simulation andanalysis) and 3D printing were leveraged to reinforce student learnings on topics frommachine elements and mechanics, and provide opportunities through project-basedassessments to reflect on their design choices and use economically-available designperformance results to introduce design refinements.The course was very well-received by the students who reported that they found itmotivating and stimulating, and that it enhanced their knowledge, skills and confidence. Thepaper presents an overview of the course and summarises experiences, challenges, lessons,recommendations and
can be challenging toimplement. Team teaching is defined here as each instructor teaching a different section of thesame course and coordinating on the material and overall course schedule. Some advantagesare that instructors can divide the workload, generate and develop new ideas, build on oneanother’s strengths, ensure consistency among different class sections, and effectively integratenew faculty member into the teaching team. Students see uniformity across sections, interestingand applicable projects, and assessments that are fair and consistent. Challenges can includelower levels of autonomy, communication problems, and a risk of students in different sectionscopying work. This workshop will be taught by an experienced Fundamentals of
engineering, research, and teaching experience in Construction Management, Materials and Methods, and Structural, Civil, and Geotechnical Engineering. His research areas are Structural Resilience, Sustain- able Construction Methods and Materials, Sustainable Development, Structural Retrofitting, Damage and Collapse Patterns, Soil Improvement Methods, and engineering education. He has a broad engineering experience in large and small-scale projects, including large dams, bridges, and buildings in different fields of Construction, geotechnical and structural engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Teamwork Assessment Methods in Undergraduate Projects and Lab CoursesTeamwork
consists of a one-hour lecture, a three-hourpractical measurement/demonstration session (often involving calibration techniques) anda three-hour laboratory usually using the measurement techniques talked about in theprevious measurement/demonstration session. The last half of the course is a laboratoryproject, accomplished in teams of two. The students accomplish a written test plan andmake a presentation on the test plan early in the course to get the necessary backgroundinformation. This enables the students to purchase required materials and beginfabrication, if necessary, for the final project early in the course. Topics have included aforce balance for the wind tunnel, automated velocity control for the wind tunnel usingLabview, internal
projects, which appears to have increased their hands-on knowledge andskills with respect to advanced design and engineering analysis software.Introduction With the advancement of computer aided design (CAD) software and the user-friendlyinterfaces of engineering analysis packages for finite element analysis, computational fluiddynamics, and multiphysics solutions, engineering curricula are being revised to train industry-ready engineering graduates with up-to-date technological software and hardware.Implementation of advanced design tools allows students to learn rigorous hands-on tools andapply their knowledge to solving real-world design problems, with computational resources andcloud computing capabilities. At Howard University, the
minorities in CS and related disciplines.DesignThe design of ERSP is based on four pillars:1. A course-supported apprentice model2. A dual-mentoring framework3. A team-based environment4. An inclusive selection processERSP students work in teams under the guidance of a research faculty member, as part of anactive research project. This apprenticeship is supported by a required course that introducesstudents to research in a structured class setting: topics, findings, how to read and evaluate aresearch paper, and a variety of research exercises. The students are mentored by both ERSPmentors and a member of the research project (faculty, or graduate student). The program isteam-based, building a strong sense of student community and support
effective, responsible, andaccountable to the communities they hope to serve? How do engineering students understandhow to work in these organizations that historically have not been part of traditionalengineering career pathways – “The Road Less Travelled”? This paper presents a conceptualmodel for understanding, partnering, and building relationships between engineering teamsand NGOs, organizations that rarely figure in the employment landscape of engineering. Itproposes that sustainable community development (SCD) projects require a level ofembeddedness in communities, engagement, continuity and logistical maturity that mostengineering schools with community-engagement programs are ill equipped to provide bythemselves but that in partnership
as availability of instructional resources to support this initiative.The course involves a 10-week project, along with weekly engagement and reflection activitiesthat are designed to promote critical thinking and collaboration. Students were required toparticipate in a moderated discussion forum at least twice every week.• Discussion Forum: Each student was required to initiate a new topic of discussion (initiation thread) related to the overall theme of the week as well as engage in a discussion with posts from one or more peers (engagement thread). Both initiation and engagement threads were meant to allow for weekly reflection among students and low-stakes assessment by course facilitators. Measures such as number of posts
Paper ID #17715WIP: Introducing Active Learning in a Software Engineering CourseDr. Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than thirty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is associate professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. He established the GAME Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has
. Understanding students’ prioritization and re-prioritization on designstrategies after undertaking a design project allows an opportunity to see how students’conceptions of design develop. This work-in-progress uses a conceptions of design researchinstrument adapted to be sensitive to students’ design experience with a simulated engineeringdesign environment (Energy3D). Students select the five most important and five least importantdesign activities from a list of twenty and provide an open-response regarding one of theirselected terms for both most and least important terms. The survey was administered as a pre-and post-test assessment in three middle schools in the Midwest with over 700 students. Throughstatistical analysis of changing terms of
. NIDCD NLM NIMHD NIDCR NIBIB NCCAM Total = $31.2 B NHGRI NIAAA NINR FIC NEI NIAMS NIEHS NCI NIDA OD/CF NIAID NIA NCRR NHLBI NICHD NIGMS NIDDK NIMH NINDS Research Project Grants (RPGs): The Mainstay of NIH Sponsored ResearchAwards as percentage of all research
yearengineering students experience ENGR 1411 (Introduction to Engineering) and ENGR 2113(Statics). An open-ended project is presented to ENGR 2113 students where they are tasked todemonstrate a concept learned in statics. This requires the student team to design and build inorder to demonstrate. Chapter exams were revamped into 50/50 competencies. These competenciesare content based versus chapter based which enhances a student’s connection within content.Finally, the development of the Engineering Learning Laboratory for Statics allows upperclassmento mentor and support first year engineering students.THE PROBLEMA study from 2014 found that students in a traditional style classroom are 1.5 times more likely to fail inSTEM curriculum than those that are
. Finally design for manufacturability is used in relation to productdevelopment.The purpose of this course is to graduate engineers who can do some design. Being inEngineering Technology practical applications of design are taught in order to show studentshow to use tools in industry over traditional engineering science. Project based learning is usedto allow the students to explore topics in a form that will enhance their work experience and givethem the information needed to be valuable to employers. Project based learning is a popularway to develop design principles for engineering students.1Graduates of a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program must ….” understand thedesign of products and the equipment, tooling, and environment necessary
involved in project analysisand justifications since graduating with a BIE degree in 1970. Since 1993, the author has beenteaching engineering economy on a regular basis in a variety of programs and for a variety ofaudiences at both the undergraduate and graduate level. During this time the author of this paperlist 58 different courses on his cv in programs as diverse as industrial engineering, engineeringmanagement, manufacturing engineering, industrial management, and technology management.During the past thirteen years, the author has regularly attended the annual ASEE conferencesand attended countless sessions. These sessions have been eye-opening and thought provokingand well worth the time to attend. At the same time it has educated this
belief may stem from theinternal confirmation of understanding that hands-on work provides. Students seem to gainconfidence when they are able to apply class material successfully to real-world systems, rathersolving text book problems on paper. It is not yet clear where the critical learning takes place,whether in the lab or in the associated lecture, but it is obvious from our experience thatlaboratory work catalyzes student understanding and excitement about mechanical engineering.Based on student feedback and our belief in the value of project-based and experiential learning,we have developed a practice-integrated mechanical engineering curriculum that spans the fullfour-year undergraduate experience. Our goal is to ingrain theoretical
compiling bug lists – noting products or situations that they think could beimproved. The students form teams and decide on which of their bugs they want to address. Acreative problem solving approach is demonstrated to the students who generate and evaluateconcepts for their solution. The teams then construct increasingly refined prototypes of their newproduct idea. Serving as the culmination of the experience, a Freshman Design Exposition is heldin which the general public, other students, and judges view and provide feedback to thestudents’ inventions. During the following academic year, the best projects are asked to entertheir designs in an Idea Pitch competition which leads to the Top Dawg business plancompetition where their ideas can be
SoutheasternLouisiana University (SLU) have initiated a joint project to build computing facilities and curricular programswhich will provide outstanding educational opportunities for computer science and industrial technology majors.Among the aims of this collaboration is to create a model computer integrated manufacturing facility, built onexisting and recently acquired equipment and facilities. Moreover, this project is a part of an IntegratedUndergraduate Technology-Rich Curriculum. In its publication Report on the National Science Foundation Disciplinary Workshops onUndergraduate Education [2] the National Science Foundation had this to say about undergraduate computerscience laboratory facilities: “The laboratory infrastructure is not in
) to software and computers to philosophies such as JIT (Just In Time), TQM (Total QualityManagement), and CIE (Computer Integrated Enterprises). Each innovation places new demands on theexisting system into which they are introduced. The engineering manager is often asked to provide the needed leadership in these innovation-basedprojects because of this individual's technical expertise and training. Technical expertise in (1) the specificinnovation and (2) project management in general is not enough. The successful selection, planning, andimplementation of innovation within an organization requires that someone in the organization sell the change.The classic marketing process of identifying the target market(s) and selecting the
learning skills. The computer classroom I used has twenty PCs for forty students,an instructor’s podium with PC and control of computer screen and document projection. The space wasdesigned for this use with built-in desks, carpeting and environmental control of temperature and lighting. Thecomputer access allows students to “do” as well as “see and hear”, a combination nearly twice as effective as the 6latter alone . It engages students in a learning environment that is closer to the contemporary engineeringenvironment. And it allows the intensive use of computer software, not only contemporary engineering softwarebut also electronic learning materials such as interactive books. A communication suite on the file server includesemail
science and engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Students’ Perceptions of Software RisksAbstractRisk—the possibility of an unsatisfactory outcome—is an essential vehicle for a softwaredevelopment project to progress. Iterative and incremental process models like spiral advocatethe continuous identification of the items likely to compromise the project’s success and theearly resolution of those top-ranked risk items. Although the concepts and principles, such as riskexposure and project top-10 risk-item monitoring, are commonly taught in undergraduatesoftware engineering courses, little is known about how students, especially those working inagile software teams
Roberts University is continuing the development of a fully functional flight simulator toassist in the design of original aircraft. Through faculty and staff guidance and a plethora of datafrom the previous team's endeavors, much progress is expected by April 2020. The ultimate goalof this project is to develop an innovative approach to deepen the understanding of aircraftdesign through the use of the flight simulator. With this technology, students can producerealistic motions of flight through virtual reality and six degrees of freedom of a Stewartplatform with revolute joints. The flight simulator provides a state-of-the-art learning tool for students. Linking theHTC vive virtual reality headset to the mechanical part of the system
Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE). Mechanical Engineers whohave completed a four-year degree with 3-10 years of work experience are eligible to apply.ASME has established this annual opportunity to develop Early Career Engineers (ECE) intofuture leaders within the community, strengthen their connections with peers and mentors, andexpand overall membership levels across the profession.Selected into the 2018-19 ECLIPSE Program, I had the opportunity to complete a project for theBoard of Governors (BOG) in collaboration with an assigned coach. My experience included theprivilege to participate in several networking and training events, travel to a series of engineeringconferences including the IMECE (International Mechanical Engineering
MECHANICAL ENERGY USING MODEL ROCKET ENGINESAbstractTo provide the first-year engineering students with a hands-on experience in an engineeringapplication using both chemistry and physics, this team project uses a set of chemical and physicalenergy concepts and MS Excel based analysis. The main objective of the project is to calculatehow much of the potential maximum possible chemical energy is converted into propulsion whenusing model rocket engines with solid fuel. The secondary objective is to determine the effects ofincreasing conversion rates on the performance of a model rocket. The solid fuel or propellant usedin common model rocket engines is black powder. Compared to composite and hybrid engines,engines with black powder are cheaper and
in assessing inventory and manufacturing equipment, and a manufacturing and product engineer for a Fortune 100 Fluid Power company fulfilling an integral role in developing a robotic welding program to produce hydraulic cylinders. Texas Hydraulics. • Project engineer for the USAF, moving manufacturing facilities from Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas to Tin- ker AFB, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. DME, Defense Military Engineers, subcontractor to Lockheed Martin. Academic Teaching: • Currently subjects, Undergraduate MMET 301 Mechanical Power Transmission MMET 401 Fluid Power Technology • Professional Development and Continuing Education Short courses Pump 101 Basic Pump Fundamen- tals Pump 102 Advanced Pump
, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Antonia Ketsetzi Antonia Ketsetzi is a graduate student in the Department of Teaching Learning & Culture at Texas A&M University. She received her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute in Crete. She received her M.Sc degree in Environmental Technologies at University of Crete in Greece. Ketsetzi’s research is in How People Learn / Engineering Design and evaluation of educational innovations. She also serves as a Research Assistant in the project. Antonia Ketsetzi, M.Ed. Texas A&M University ketsetzi@tamu.eduDr. Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M
of Structural Steel DesignABSTRACT Students entering college settings are: increasingly computer literate, users of digitaltechnologies, visually driven, and have been exposed to active learning styles in high schools. Notionsof technology, visual learners, and engaging environments are directly and indirectly shaping how weare expected to teach. When students are asked their preferences in classroom learning, the author hasnoticed that responses vary with preferences for PowerPoint slides, chalkboard notes, projects, flippedclassrooms and utilization of computer software. Based on these common and upcoming learningmechanisms, the author is experimenting with implementing different techniques in a