How to engage engineering students in teaching linear elasticity through entrepreneurially minded bio-inspired projects
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Baltimore , Maryland
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June 25, 2023
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June 25, 2023
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June 28, 2023
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)
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12
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--43388
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https://peer.asee.org/43388
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92
Paper Authors
Jeffrey Jianfeng Ma Saint Louis University
Dr. Jeff Ma is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Saint Louis University. Dr. Ma attended KEEN Foundation-funded programs and workshops to learn fundamental pedagogical techniques of EML, ACL, and PBL to instill entrepreneur mindset into engineering students.
Lisa Bosman Marquette University
Dr. Bosman holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her engineering education research interests include entrepreneurially minded learning, energy education, interdisciplinary education, and faculty professional development.
Maged Mikhail Purdue University Northwest
MAGED B. MIKHAIL, PhD., is Associate Professor, Mechatronics Engineering Technology at Purdue University Northwest. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee (2013), M.S., Electrical Engineering, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee (2009) and B.S.,
Electrical Engineering, University of El Mina Cairo, Egypt (2001). His dissertation title was “Development of Integrated Decision Fusion Software System For Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring” and thesis title was “Development of Software System for Control and Coordination of Tasks among Mobile Robot and Robotic Arm.”
Khalid H. Tantawi
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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Dr. Khalid Tantawi is an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga . He holds a PhD and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a double MSc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace and University of Pisa. He served as a Program Evaluator for ABET- ETAC commission, as a trainer for Siemens Technik Akademy, and was the elected chair of the Engineering section of the Tennessee Academy of Science in 2022 and 2017. His research interests include MEMS, Lipid Bilayer Membrane sciences, and advanced manufacturing.
Beshoy Morkos University of Georgia
Beshoy Morkos is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology where he directs the STRIDE Lab (SysTems Research on Intelligent Design and Engineering). His lab currently performs research
Abstract
Based on numerous surveys, it is found that engineering students feel disengaged when learning mathematically intensive engineering subjects, e.g. mechanics courses. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how to engage engineering students using entrepreneurially-minded bio-inspired projects in teaching linear elasticity of engineering materials, a mathematically intensive course. The student participants are asked to conduct a literature review on several applications of bio-inspired architecture materials, current development of bio-inspired architecture materials and challenges of these materials, how the development of bio-inspired architecture materials was influenced by biological inspiration, and incorporate humanities and arts into design. At the last stage of this subject, the students are asked to write photovoice reflections about what they have learned from this bio-inspired project. The study then analyzes students’ photovoice reflections and thematic analysis is conducted for discovering patterns within the reflection results. The results from this work shows that the bio-inspired project can instill entrepreneurial mindset among students, enhance students’ creativity by combining art and STEM, sharpen students’ professional skills, and consequently dramatically engage students when teaching mathematically intensive engineering subjects. With the details related to instructor’s intervention and lessons learned in this project, other engineering instructors can easily re-create in the classroom.
Ma, J. J., & Bosman, L., & Mikhail, M., & Tantawi, K. H., & Morkos, B. (2023, June), How to engage engineering students in teaching linear elasticity through entrepreneurially minded bio-inspired projects Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43388
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