التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Interconnecting the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Through An Integrated Multicourse Model Rocketry Project |
| المؤلفون: |
Matthew J. Traum, Vincent C Prantil, William C Farrow, Hope Leigh Weiss |
| المصدر: |
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia |
| بيانات النشر: |
ASEE Conferences |
| سنة النشر: |
2013 |
| المجموعة: |
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE): Papers on Engineering Education Repository (PEER) |
| الوصف: |
Enabling Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Interconnectivity Through An Integrated Multicourse Model Rocketry ProjectAbstractConventional undergraduate mechanical engineering curricula are split into topical tracks where,from the students’ perspective, each division has limited interconnectivity or overlap with theothers. To provide students a more coherent and cohesive view, we created and delivered amulticourse curriculum-integrated engineering project that permeates and unifies five differentclasses within our undergraduate curriculum: 1) Design, 2) Dynamics, 3) Numerical Methods, 4)Fluid Mechanics, and 5) Thermodynamics. Students enrolled in classes containing rocket projectcontent design, build, flight test, and analyze model rockets through hands-on exercises designedto enhance their awareness of topical connectivity across the mechanical engineering curriculum.These activities challenge students to work on different aspects of the same rocket project acrossall four years of their degree program.Our method is to redesign discrete laboratory exercises already found in five existing requiredmechanical engineering courses to integrate the project within our existing curriculum withoutneed for administrative changes (i.e., no course catalog changes). At the end of each course,students evaluate the rockets they designed, analyze their design decisions, and reflect on theimpacts their choices had on rocket performance using distinct tools from the discipline of eachunique course.Among the novel aspects of our approach is to expand beyond a two-course project sequencespanning just one academic year, a technique already used in many engineering curricula.Instead, our project is integrated into a multi-year five-required-course sequence with at least onecourse appearing in each year of the four-year mechanical engineering curriculum. We expectthis approach to engender significant benefits to student learning. First, it promotes “spacedrepetition”, wherein learners encounter the same material in briefer sessions ... |
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http://peer.asee.org/19812 |
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