Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel James Murphy, The University of Iowa; Martell Cartiaire Bell, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Jae-eun Russell

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

workshop participation, extracurricular activityparticipation, and interest in the AIMS program. Example workshops that students may haveparticipated in include Introduction to Python and Career Development, among others. Someextracurricular activities that students may have engaged in include a university-sponsoredHackathon, involvement in engineering student organizations, and other campuswideorganizations. We hypothesize that students who go out of their way to participate in additionalopportunities like workshops and extracurricular activities might be afforded more occasions todevelop their ESE and EJ. Interaction terms were not included for the ANOVA, in part due to therelatively small sample size currently available. The outputs used were

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Selma Awadallah, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Mohammad AlShaikh Saleh, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Adel Mohamed, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

) the level of their knowledgein engineering asset management, and 66.7 % stated that they have no experience in the area. Theresponses to the two survey questions are given in Figure 2 and Figure 3. Figure 2: Engineers’ response to the pre-course questions about their graduation year. Figure 3: Engineers’ response to the pre-course question about the knowledge in engineering asset managementFor the post-course survey, the engineers were asked about the course material and its relevanceto the industry. The majority agreed on the significance of the course in relation to the power sector(see Figure 3) and its effectiveness in preparing students for future careers in the area (see Figure4).The interaction between the engineers and

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Ioana Tiu; Koenraad Gieskes

engineeringand technical science majors.Background InformationAt *University*, only about 24% of students majoring in engineering identify as women. International datafrom the OECD (Organization for Economic and Co-Operational Development), who sends out surveys eachyear to over 80 countries, underscores a significant gender gap in engineering and information technology(ITC) fields with 3 out of 4 students in engineering and 4 out of 5 students in ITC being men (Morera et al.,2019). Despite women outperforming men on the Science Performance (PISA) test, a STEM basedassessment offered to high schoolers, a staggering 60% of women exit engineering careers, citing issuesrelated to pay and promotion disparities (Morera et al., 2019). Understanding why women

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas K. Ludlow

, understanding and being able to apply the key thermodynamic concepts thatthey will find useful in their future careers. This assignment was first attempted in the summer 2011 semester without much success.The primary difficulty was that the shortened format of the summer semester did not allow thestudents enough time to formulate and produce a video. Also with fewer students in the classthere seemed to be a lack of critical mass of students who had some experience with creatingvideos. The assignment was revised and given again during both the fall 2011 semester andspring 2012 semester. During both of these semesters the assignment was enthusiasticallycompleted by both classes. A modified assignment, as will be described below, was givenduring

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityCOE faculty members have yet to include modules in their classes designed to instill theentrepreneurial mindset in their students. Professors spearheading the engineeringentrepreneurship minor have visited several classes to guest lecture on the engineeringentrepreneurial mindset and have spoken to all freshmen in the Introduction toEngineering class. Nevertheless, it is important to get additional full-time engineeringfaculty engaged in the process of instilling the entrepreneurial mindset throughout thestudents’ undergraduate careers. 2.   Entrepreneurially Minded Learning – EMLThe Kern Family Foundation started the KEEN with the goal to "graduate engineers withan entrepreneurial mindset so

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Arthur Rozario; Zhenkang Yang; Abe Yang; San Peng; Qing Guan; Ying Dong; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

those focusing on taking the professional engineering exam as a first step in theirProfessional Engineer career pursuit. The indifference attitude could be attributed to shyness aswell as traditional academic experience based on rote learning, and not experiential learning.With the latest consumer market development of a related technology called transcranial directcurrent stimulation 16, 17, we expect the EEG platform will increase in popularity and help thoseshy students to engage the client-company simulation fully. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityEven though the project complexity at a community college level would be inferior whencompared to those available at the upper division of a

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

spirit,social intelligence, experience, character and values. To establish this more robust resume,universities need to adopt further educational models, such as cooperative learning, mentionedbefore, which incorporates many of these traits. Another area that the employers will need tofocus on is their interview systems or process, as it is more difficult to gage and measure some ofthese traits. This could be a way for employers to gain acceptance to alternate education Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitymethods, including MOOCs. Some marketplaces have already adopted a more, well roundedsystem for identifying top talent that does not filter by education level. A graphic arts career is

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

new technology, which can become skills for future careers [5].The study was conducted over two years with the class of 2012 and 2013. Each year the studentswere separated into groups to create an educational video that illustrates a fluid dynamics conceptthat both engineers and non-engineers can learn from. A list of possible subjects to focus on wasprovided, but students were not restrained to those topics. The project was first assigned to aclass of 2012 with 32 students. The students did not receive any additional resources, such asvideo editing software, to complete the project in the five week period. The next year the projectwas assigned to a class of 2013 with 35 students under the same conditions as the first year’sgroup. The desired

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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5 8I 4 9J 5 9I 1 4.5 3.333333ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Spring 2012 Conference, University of Delaware, April 20-21, 2012 Page 4 of 7Qualitative Results:The following is the list of questions given to the Jigsaw II students and their average responsesbased on a Likert Scale of 1(Strongly Disagree) to 5(Strongly Agree).1. I remember more when I explain what I have learned to someone else. 3.89 (Agree)2. Working in groups in class is similar to what I expect to be doing in my future professional career. 3.89 (Agree)3. Working in groups helps the

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

learning class is: “A course- based educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity and reflect on the experience in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility.”55. Fulfill the Mission of the College by increasing student engagement, connect with community partners and complete real world work outside of the classroom. The Mission Statement of our college includes a commitment to “service to society,” “enhance student activities and services beyond the classroom in order to support and enrich learning and promote career, social, and personal development for diverse

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Benito Mendoza

about internetworkingtechnologies into their resume. Now, after graduation, half of the students will have one morecredential that will help them to build their career path. The ones that were very close to themark to get the certification are encouraged to retake the exam after a review.VI. ConclusionsWe presented an approach to teaching internetworking technologies in an advanced computernetworking course. This approach has two main features: i) it follows a hybrid approach, and ii)it make uses of online and offline computer network simulators. With the hybrid approach, oneday the class met in the classroom for short lectures, some hands-on labs, and some shortquizzes. The online simulator allows the students to practice different problem

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

dedicated to the study of engineering5. Since its inception, the mission of WestPoint has been (with minor changes in the wording over the years): To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army6.West Point has many unique features that set it apart from civilian colleges. The first is that allstudents are referred to as “cadets” due to their status as active-duty members of the military—specifically the United States Corps of Cadets, a special component of the United States Army.All cadets attend

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey I. Lyons

academic environment that satisfies not only a disciplines’ technological requirements butalso the demands of the marketplace. Consequently, engineering technology programs should beconceived, structured and implemented accordingly.The writer entered the teaching profession after a significant experience in industry and has beeninvolved since with the development of engineering and engineering technology programs thatwill directly address the needs of industrial practice. At the onset of his academic career, thewriter conducted a comprehensive industrial survey to determine if a particular company’stechnical expectations and requirements were being met with recent mechanical engineeringundergraduates. Following are a sampling of industry’s

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participationin a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition. Villanova is also aparticipant for GEAR UP, a teacher training program to increase teacher and studentunderstanding of math subjects and to help them use robotics to accomplish their math goals.To provide educational and research experiences to high school students, an exploratory (pilot)project on swarm robotics was initiated in Summer 2008 in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Villanova University, Villanova, PA with a team of two high school students anda senior Villanova Mechanical Engineering undergraduate under the supervision of two Facultymembers. The plan was to test the

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Josh Wyrick; Catherine Booth

. They also can learn new engineering technologies within the Clinic context. Theexcitement of working on such relevant and meaningful projects, especially at the FreshmanClinic stage, is a driving force for sustaining a student’s interest through graduation and into hisor her career. The lab experiments described herein were designed for the first semester of theengineering clinic sequence (Table 1).Lab DevelopmentThe series of labs focuses on renewable energy and sustainable engineering. Because the studentthat comprise the class come from four distinct engineering disciplines, the lab themes wereapproached from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The labs had to be observably comparable, andtherefore they had to each have the same ultimate

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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technology in the field. They discussed proposals for new directions in order toprepare the next generation workforce, which will be expected to multitask and be conversantwith many types of information technology. The paper highlighted that most CE students areincorrectly convinced that they need not concentrate on computing technologies because it willbe unlikely that they will ever have to write code. One of the recommendations of the paper isthat CE students need a theoretical undergraduate course in computing using basic engineeringexamples and exercises as a baseline, even if they never apply those skills later in their career. 2Some other previous works investigate the issues of computing

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dale N. Buechler

admission requirements to ours who are most likelydealing with similar issues. The trends seen here will hopefully be used to help at-risk studentsearly in their career. The criteria in table 7 should provide a starting point. In this study, itappears that some courses are more important than others for all engineers to succeed in theirundergraduate work. From this study the mathematics portion of this more important list shouldinclude algebra, trigonometry, calculus I, and analytical methods for engineers. However,additional classes need to be added to this list for certain programs or specialty areas within aprogram and this list would need to be made known to the students. Our data indicates thatCalculus II and Calculus III, although very

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jesa H. Kreiner; Peter W. Othmer; Timothy W. Lancey

importance of avoidingobsolescence is being impressed throughout of the courses as is the need to pursue learningthroughout one’s career 6.Funding of the projectsThe California fiscal crises notwithstanding, the funds for the projects have for yearsoriginated as a result of the instructors’ entrepreneurial efforts and activities. The bulk of thefunds have been secured by submitting proposals to the CSUF student government’s IRA –Instructionally Related Activities fund which has enthusiastically supported the projectactivities. The fund’s resources hail from students’ fees. Proposals for the funding of theprojects undergo a rigorous scrutiny of a large committee consisting of students, faculty andadministrators. The committee then allocates the funds

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. Since then he has worked as a post-doctoralassociate at the University of Minnesota and subsequently as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University ofArizona. There, he established the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory with sponsorship from multiplefederal agencies (AFOSR, NSF, DOE, DE) and the private sector. Prof Enikov has also led numerous educationalprograms including summer school in micro-systems design held in Udine, Italy, 2004, student exchange programs withETH, Zurich, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Slovak Technical University of Bratislava. ProfEnikov is a recipient of several prestigious awards including NSF Career award (2001), US Dept

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

Researchers, Educators and Development)project. The collaborative undertaking involves partnerships with scientists, researchers,secondary school teachers, and college faculty from several institutions nationwide. It isdesigned to build an enriching and engaging curriculum development and deploymentprogram that would prepare undergraduate, middle and high school students for researchenvironments where cyberinfrastructure systems, tools and services are used effectively tofuel a knowledge-based economy.The deployment phase is a CIERRA for STEM field careers and 21st century education andworkforce component. This two-pronged approach could be considered as K-12educational, outreach, and training (EOT) stimulus and renewal strategy. CIERRA standsfor

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Josh Wyrick; Catherine Booth

. They also can learn new engineering technologies within the Clinic context. Theexcitement of working on such relevant and meaningful projects, especially at the FreshmanClinic stage, is a driving force for sustaining a student’s interest through graduation and into hisor her career. The lab experiments described herein were designed for the first semester of theengineering clinic sequence (Table 1).Lab DevelopmentThe series of labs focuses on renewable energy and sustainable engineering. Because the studentthat comprise the class come from four distinct engineering disciplines, the lab themes wereapproached from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The labs had to be observably comparable, andtherefore they had to each have the same ultimate

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Casey

technology in the field. They discussed proposals for new directions in order toprepare the next generation workforce, which will be expected to multitask and be conversantwith many types of information technology. The paper highlighted that most CE students areincorrectly convinced that they need not concentrate on computing technologies because it willbe unlikely that they will ever have to write code. One of the recommendations of the paper isthat CE students need a theoretical undergraduate course in computing using basic engineeringexamples and exercises as a baseline, even if they never apply those skills later in their career. 2Some other previous works investigate the issues of computing

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader

outcomes that we have defined for graduates of the Engineering Program. Theoutcome to “work toward integration of Christian faith, learning, professional life” is difficult tosatisfy through classroom instruction. The Modified Rower Pump project places its teammembers at the intersection of extreme human need, academic performance, and engineeringpractice. Our students have responded in the short term with quality designs and some havecommitted their professional careers to address similar human needs. Three of the project’salumni have chosen to work in Burkina Faso to promote the economic development of theMahadaga community. Such responses represent the highest level of learning in Bloom’staxonomy15: evaluation and commitment.Based on these

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew R. Stein

workingknowledge of electronics in their careers. The course is designed around a central project to develop anautonomous device capable of gathering and sorting small wooden balls by color and delivering these toseparate bins. Although these devices might informally be described as “robots”, they do not meet the ISOdefinition of a robot for many reasons; including that they are not freely programmable and do not performa multiplicity of tasks. Rather, they are electro-mechanical automatons that perform a specific task throughmechatronic techniques, and so are more accurately described as “mechatronic devices”.This paper will describe the pedagogical techniques I have developed for teaching mechatronics skills tothis population. I will highlight what I

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

design7, 8.The objectives of manufacturing engineering education, possible ways of introducing the subject into anundergraduate curriculum, and the urgency for improving it in the educational system that supply industrywith engineers have been discussed9, 10. Robotics in engineering education111, 12 and experiments in partacquisition using robot vision13 have also been presented and discussed. 1At Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE), the biomedical, mechanical, and industrialengineering students are prepared for careers in manufacturing and service organizations. The students aretrained from freshman through senior year in design

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kara Cokeley; Claire Mockler; Min Feng Zheng; James Patrick Abulencia

as they look to careers and to their futures. It is crucial for engineers and scientists to understand the details involved in biodieselproduction. It is imperative that researchers are aware of these details; from the different typesof algae to how algal growth is affected by many parameters, including temperature and carbondioxide concentration, to the methodology on how to extract the necessary oils from thesesources. It is possible to incorporate this topic into chemical engineering curriculum byintegrating alternative energy research as a six credit course, over two semesters. Performingindependent research at the undergraduate level allows students to benefit from a learningexperience that is not typical and advocates both

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Lisa Shatz

Challenger disaster. 1INTRODUCTIONThe importance of technical writing in an engineer’s career is hard to overstate; engineersspend a significant proportion of their time writing reports, memos, proposals, and givingpresentations, and good communication skills are part of the ABET outcomes. Therefore itis appropriate for engineering programs to include a course on technical writing.Numerous textbooks exist on technical writing and some do an excellent job of outlining theimportant features of good technical writing such as writing clearly, accurately, forthrightly,concisely; knowing who the audience is and why they are reading the document; how to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rathika Rajaravivarma

veryessential that the students acquire the skills to move towards the solution in alogical and systematic way. It will be beneficial if these skills can be adopted atthe very early stage of their course work and should be emphasized and practicedas the subject matter gets heavier. Collaborative learning skills must be broughtinto play. Other soft skills such as good communication, written and oral must be 2gained. Thus this course could potentially seed a number of the above mentionedattributes laying a firmer ground for success in the coursework and career. Figure 1: Retention outcomes with Active learning Methods in TeachingThe Envir onmentThe students who