Learning Mechanical Design Through Lightweight Prototyping

Introduction In our mechanical engineering curriculum, we teach a required upper level mechanical engineering course entitled “Mechanical Design”. This course is primarily focused on teaching students how to apply theories of stress and strain prediction to determine if arbitrary mechanical parts and structures are likely to fail under static and … Continue reading

Microteaching/Recording of Technical Oral Presentations

Microteaching/Recording of Technical Oral Presentations Course Information Course Name: EBS289F (Special Topics in Food Engineering: Engineering Food Digestion) Enrollment: 7 Brief Description of Course: Graduate course with the following learning objectives: (i) apply quantitative approaches to characterize human digestive processes; (ii) evaluate methods used to study aspects of digestion and design experiments appropriately; … Continue reading

Fishbowl Activity for In-Class Problem Solving

Course Information Course Name: Fundamentals of Bioengineering Enrollment: 99 Brief Description: This is a 4 unit, 2nd year required course for Biomedical Engineering majors, and addresses fundamental bioengineering concepts through the application of conservation principles to biomedical engineering problems.  Students meet for two 1hr. 20min. lectures and one 50 min. … Continue reading

Integration of Aspen Plus Learning Modules into a Process Design and Economics Course

Integration of Aspen Plus Learning Modules into a Process Design and Economics Course

Name of Tool/Strategy: Aspen Plus Chemical Process Modeling Course Information Course Name: ECH 158A, Process Design and Economics Enrollment: 144 Brief Description of Course: Senior design experience in process and product creation and design with multiple realistic constraints. Cost accounting and capital investment estimation. Profitability analysis and techniques. Description of Tool/Strategy Implementation Learning … Continue reading

Utilizing Documented Problem Solutions in a Thermodynamics Course

Utilizing Documented Problem Solutions in a Thermodynamics Course Course Information Course Name: EMS 160: Thermodynamics of Materials Processes and Phase Stability Enrollment: 54 Brief Description: This is a lecture-based course that covers the thermodynamics of material systems and material reactions. This class is very quantitative, focusing on thermodynamic derivations and … Continue reading