Craugh, L. E., & Lust, E. E. (2015, June), Lawnmowers and Prospective Engineers:  A Recruitment Exercise  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24392

\bibitem{asee_peer_24392}
  Craugh, L. E., \& Lust, E. E. (2015, June), \emph{Lawnmowers and Prospective Engineers:  A Recruitment Exercise}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24392

Linda E. Craugh Ph.D. and Ethan E.  Lust.  "Lawnmowers and Prospective Engineers:  A Recruitment Exercise".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24392 Internet.  06 Oct, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24392}
  Linda E. Craugh Ph.D. and Ethan E.  Lust.
  "Lawnmowers and Prospective Engineers:  A Recruitment Exercise".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24392 Internet.  06 Oct, 2024

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AB  -                     Lawnmower DAA Exercise as a Recruiting ToolEvery College of Engineering faces the challenge of recruiting and retaining students in theirmajors. [this institution]’s students face a strict requirement to complete their coursework in fouryears in addition to a myriad of other demands on their time and attention, making their selectionof major even more consequential. _____________ Summer Seminar is a week-long, on campusimmersion program designed to provide rising high-school seniors insight into the uniqueenvironment and requirements of this school to help them make more educated choices withregard to both school and potential major. Candidates get a “week-in-the-life” exposure to theculture of the institution plus structured time with the various academic departments—periodswhen the departments are actively recruiting future majors as well as educating the potentialstudents about what it means to major in their field. These academic periods also present thefuture students with the hallmarks of our academic program: small class sizes, teaching-focusedfaculty, and a significant STEM component to all fields of study.The Mechanical Engineering Department developed a new disassemble/assemble/analyze (DAA)exercise involving a push lawnmower as its presentation for _____________ Summer Seminar.The students (who had no particular technical preparation) were divided into small teams andguided through a discussion of what it means to be an engineer and a qualitative overview ofdesign, solid mechanics, material properties, and thermodynamic principles as applied to theconstruct of a small machine. This paper will describe that project-based learning exercise indetail and propose options for extending and adapting it for use as a module within or as aframework for an introductory course for mechanical engineering majors.
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