Paper ID #28121Board 13: Manufacturing Division: Improving Student Engagement in aSenior-Level Manufacturing Course for Mechanical Engineering StudentsDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering
from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is currently a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Nu- clear Society (ANS), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and a student branch advisor for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),Dr. Nazli Aslican Yilmaz Wodzinski, Minnesota State University, Mankato Nazli A. Yilmaz Wodzinski graduated from Clemson University with a Ph.D in Civil Engineering in 2014. She joined Minnesota State University, Mankato as a post-doctoral teaching fellow for 2015-16 Acedemic Year. She is still serving at the same institution as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and
University (Fort Collins, CO, USA) in 2018. There she gained experience working as a graduate teaching assistant for computer aided engineering, biomedical engineering capstone design, and biomedical engineering introductory classes. She served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the College of Engineering during the 2016/2017 academic year. Nicole is currently a instructional post-doctoral fellow in the Transforming Engineering Education Laboratory within the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Her engineering education interests include collaborative active learning, assessment methods and accreditation, and curriculum design. c American Society for Engineering
them develop stronger teams with more awarenessof the importance of professional skills for engineers. DBR is a method that was developed toaddress the limitations of laboratory experiments in the social and behavioral sciences. Findingthat very few, even well-tested laboratory studies had impact on actual teaching and learning,researchers developed DBR as a way to test theories about how learning can be supported. DBRinvolves building a theory that takes context seriously and instantiating the theory into a designfor learning [46]. Iterative testing of the design under real world conditions provides anopportunity to assess both the design and the theory [5], [6].We were guided by the following research questions:RQ 1: How do sophomores’ and
NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research
cause harm that goes undetected until well after the fact. Third, software oftenrequires maintenance. Unlike a commercial entity, students are transitory, thereby leaving theend user adrift if a problem occurs or if a modification is needed. Amongst those efforts reportedon regarding applying service learning in computer science [10, 11, 12, 13, 14], some haveinvolved experiences being conducted in the first year of study. Examples include creatinganimations for a community music outreach program [15], teaching basic computer skills toprison inmates [16], performing usability and accessibility audits of non-profit websites [9],conducting computing lessons in an after-school program at a local middle school [17], andapplying the entrepreneurial
Paper ID #28122Board 14: Materials Division: Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Struc-tures Using Computer-based VisualizationsDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is an Assistant Professor of Teaching Materials Science and Engineering at the Uni- versity of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ com- putational literacy and life-long learning of computational materials science tools. c American