Mechanism of the week: An approach for improving student engagement, interest, and understanding of course material

Rhudy, Matthew B.

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“…The goal of the study was to determine if the design project supported the development of the student outcomes as intended and to evaluate the students’ experience with the project; recent works have used a similar methodology to evaluate a PBL exercise in a fluid mechanics course, 20 remote lab experiments in a controls course, 21 and hands-on mechanism demonstrations in a machine dynamics course. 22…”

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Developing and assessing a collaborative open-ended design project with a renewable energy focus in an introductory thermal sciences course

Gibbons

2023

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education

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This paper describes the development and assessment of a collaborative open-ended design project for a second-year Introduction to Thermal Sciences course, in which groups had to design a renewable energy portfolio that would meet the University of San Diego's energy needs. The project was broken into three individual tasks, and the deliverables were a technical report and an oral presentation. Final reports submitted by groups in spring 2022 were directly assessed using rubrics to determine the efficacy of the project at meeting four of the student outcomes addressed by the course (1—ability to solve complex engineering problems, 2—ability to apply the engineering design process, 4—consider the impact of engineering solutions, and 7—ability to acquire and apply new knowledge). Four out of the six groups achieved student outcome 1, and five of the groups achieved student outcomes 2, 4, and 7. A self- and peer-evaluation form was used to indirectly assess student outcome 5—ability to function effectively on a team, and results showed that 27 of the 29 students achieved the outcome. Indirect assessment was performed using an anonymous survey instrument, and students’ responses about how the project improved their abilities in all skills that were assessed were statistically different from neutral in the positive direction. Students’ responses about their perception of the project organization, tasks expectations, timing, and difficulty were also statistically different from neutral in the positive direction. Open-ended feedback indicated that students appreciated learning about renewable energy, having real data from a realistic customer, and the amount of autonomy they were given.

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Developing and assessing a collaborative open-ended design project with a renewable energy focus in an introductory thermal sciences course

Gibbons

2023

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education

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Postdigital concerns relating to teaching and learning of machine drawing

Gummaluri

2023

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education

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The freshmen of the engineering curriculum are trained in the engineering drawing skill set which includes the generation of orthographic projections of any given component. When these freshmen are promoted to the next subsequent academic year, they are ready to learn the generation of three-dimensional computer-aided drawing (CAD) geometric models from the given orthographic projections. In today's postdigital era, the challenges and issues faced by these sophomores in generation of spatially visualized CAD geometric model is discussed in this work. A perceptive visual image of stop valve in a CAD-based environment is formulated, as the stop valves play a major role in product as well as process-oriented industries. The impediments faced by students in generating the spatially visualized CAD geometric model in the postdigital era have been discussed and deliberated at a stretch. Students’ performance assessment before imparting training versus after imparting training in CAD-based geometric modeling skills by employing perceptive visual imagery method is recorded in this work.

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Mechanism of the week: An approach for improving student engagement, interest, and understanding of course material

Cited by 2 publications

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Developing and assessing a collaborative open-ended design project with a renewable energy focus in an introductory thermal sciences course

Developing and assessing a collaborative open-ended design project with a renewable energy focus in an introductory thermal sciences course

Postdigital concerns relating to teaching and learning of machine drawing

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