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Session Description

This session focuses on hands-on design projects to enhance learning in engineering. Topics include building wooden bike frames, creating low-cost heat exchangers, developing pneumatic breadboards, incorporating Arduino microprocessors, and project-based learning through silicone venous valve models.

For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Advocacy and Policy, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College

Moderated by

1. Dr. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali and Dr. Hadas Ritz

Papers Presented

1. The Wooden Bike Frame Challenge: Learning Statics Through Hands-On Design [view paper]
   Prof. Jenni Buckley (University of Delaware), Dr. Amy Trauth (American Institutes for Research), Dr. Alexander John De Rosa (University of Delaware), and Dr. Heather Doty (University of Delaware)


2. Low-Cost Hands-on Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger: Design, Manufacture, Test, and In-class Implementation [view paper]
   Aminul Islam Khan (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie (Washington State University), Dr. Prashanta Dutta (Washington State University), David B. Thiessen (Washington State University), Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D. (Campbell University), Dr. Olusola Adesope (Washington State University), MD SHARIFUL ISLAM (Washington State University), and Talodabiolorun Anne Oni (Washington State University)


3. Design and Development of a Pneumatic Bread Board and “Sandbox” for Students in Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design [view paper]
   Dr. Michael Cheadle (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Christian D Torres (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Theodore Zheng Hong Lee (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Corinn Sievwright (University of Wisconsin, Madison)


4. Using Arduino Microprocessors in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum [view paper]
   Dr. Scott F. Kiefer (York College of Pennsylvania), Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E. (York College of Pennsylvania), and Dr. Ashley J Earle (York College of Pennsylvania)


5. Project-based learning via creation and testing of a silicone venous valve model [view paper]
   Matthew S Ballard (Utah Valley University), Taten McConahay (Utah Valley University), Brett Swain (Utah Valley University), and Sarah Dayley (Utah Valley University)