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Balancing the Disciplines--Recalibrated

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Program Descriptions and Learning Analytics

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41497

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41497

Download Count

288

Paper Authors

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Jonathan Aurand Dunwoody College of Technology

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Jonathan Aurand has been teaching mechanical engineering at Dunwoody College of Technology since 2016. Prior to joining the faculty at Dunwoody, Aurand practiced as an engineer in the power industry serving as a consulting engineer for Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) in combined cycle power plants. Aurand is a registered professional engineer in Minnesota and holds an MSME degree from the University of Minnesota. He currently resides in Minneapolis, MN.

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Peter Walls

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Peter Walls is a Senior Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, MN. He has a broad background of industry experience in New Product Development, Mining, Manufacturing, Defense, Biotech, and Research & Development. Peter received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.

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Abstract

This complete paper is a continuation of the work reported in the work-in-progress paper by the authors in the 2021 conference. Balancing the Disciplines is an interdisciplinary design project for use in Introduction to Engineering courses. At Dunwoody College of Technology, the course titled “Introduction to Engineering” is taken by electrical, mechanical, and software engineering first-year students. The team-based project involves designing, building, programming, and calibrating an electromechanical balance. This project makes use of the skills and interests of each represented discipline.

In the prior work (“Balancing the Engineering Disciplines!: An Interdisciplinary First-Year Design Project”), the authors laid out the project in detail and proposed changes to further improve the flow and educational value of the work. Many of these changes were incorporated for the fall 2021 course offering. This paper addresses those changes and compares student feedback results with the prior offering in fall 2020. Instructor feedback is included, and further refinements are also proposed.

Aurand, J., & Walls, P. (2022, August), Balancing the Disciplines--Recalibrated Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41497

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