scholarly journals USING PINE WOOD DERBY CARS TO INTRODUCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TO STUDENTS IN A FIRST YEAR GENERAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Torvi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Material Science ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering Drawing ◽  
Pine Wood ◽  
Report Writing

In order to introduce students to mechanical engineering, a first year design laboratory was developed based on pine wood derbies that are run in various children’s organizations. In these races, children and their parents design and build a car using a kit consisting of a pine block, metal axles and plastic wheels. This design exercise introduces students to several aspects of mechanical engineering, including manufacturing, aerodynamics, and material science. It also builds on courses that cover engineering drawing and report writing.

scholarly journals Design and Build at Home: Development of a Low-cost and Versatile Hardware Kit for a Remote First-year Mechanical Engineering Design Class

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Morimoto ◽  
He Liu ◽  
Cristian Tharin ◽  
Carolyn Sandoval ◽  
Christopher Cassidy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
First Year ◽  
At Home

Creative Thinking in a First Year Mechanical Engineering Design Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A Community of Practice Model

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Rush ◽  
David Wallace ◽  
Dava Newman
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
First Year ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Institute Of Technology

This paper investigates student acquisition of creative thinking skills in Solving Real Problems, a first year engineering design course in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This class was developed around a service-learning model where teams of two to six students worked with community-based partners to design products for use in their communities. Each team also had at least one faculty member and one teaching assistant working alongside the students as additional team members. Teaching techniques used in the class included multiple in-class idea generation exercises, individual and group assignments, concept, visualization, and fabrication instruction. There were thirteen students total enrolled in the class, two of whom were upperclassmen, one of whom was cross-registered from another university. The participants of this study are the ten first-year MIT students that took Solving Real Problems (2.00B) in spring semester 2007, consisting of five females and five males. At the end of the semester, eleven students total, including each of these ten first-year MIT students, participated in focus groups and responded affirmatively to the question “Thinking about Solving Real Problems in particular, do you think that the class improved your ability to be creative?” Thirty minute follow-up interviews with each student explored this improvement in creativity and make up the core data analyzed in this paper. Common themes discussed by students in relation to creativity include the interactive lecture and lab environment, the involvement of the professors and confidence and hands-on practice, suggesting a community of practice model of learning creativity in the classroom.

Correlating entrance data and first year academic performance of students enrolled in the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Porto

2021 ◽  
pp. 030641902110156
Author(s):  
TMGP Duarte ◽  
AM Lopes ◽  
LFM da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
First Year ◽  
Female Type ◽  
The University ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Over Time

Understanding how the academic performance of first year undergraduate students is influenced by home, personal and institutional factors is fundamental to delineate policies able to mitigate failure. This paper investigates possible correlations between the academic performance of students at the end of high school with their achievements at the end of first year university. Data for students in the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering (MIEM) program within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto are analysed for the period 2016/2017 to 2019/2020. The students’ performance is measured by two metrics and the students are structured as a whole and by groups, according to their gender (Male/Female), type of secondary school (Public/Private), living place (Away/Home) and the rank of MIEM in their application list of options (Option 1/Option 2–6). The information is organized statistically and possible correlations between the data are investigated. The analysis reveals limited correlation between the two metrics, meaning that all students may exhibit good or poor results at the end of first year in MIEM, independent of their status at entrance. An unanticipated pattern is exhibited for the group Option 2–6, since it shows that, despite entering into MIEM without top application marks, the students in this group can perform as well as the others. This behavior is consistent over time.

The Engineering Design of Helical Spur Gear Transmission with Single Gear Pair for Electric Scooter

2015 ◽  
Vol 764-765 ◽  
pp. 374-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Chang Hsieh ◽  
Tzu Hsia Chen ◽  
Hsiu Chen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Gear Transmission ◽  
Reduction Ratio ◽  
Gear Pair ◽  
Engineering Drawing ◽  
Electric Scooter ◽  
High Reduction ◽  
Cost Of Production ◽  
The Cost

Traditionally, the reduction ratio of a spur gear pair is limited to 4 ~ 7. For a spur gear transmission with reduction ratio more than 7, it is necessary to have more than two gear pairs. Consider the cost of production, this paper proposes a helical spur gear reducer with one gear pair having reduction ratio 19.25 to substitute the gear reducer with two gear pairs. Based on the involute theorem, the gear data of helical spur gear pair is obtained. According to the gear data, its corresponding engineering drawing is accomplished. This manuscript verify that one spur gear pair also can have high reduction ratio (20 ~ 30).

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