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Determining Student Self-Efficacy as Engineers Through a Multi-Cohort Mechanical Engineering Design Project

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Publication Date

March 22, 2024

Start Date

March 22, 2024

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March 23, 2024

Page Count

16

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45608

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Christopher Joseph Gioia Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-0631-5842

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Louis Edward Christensen The Ohio State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9982-1543

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Louis Christensen is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Slippery Rock University. His teaching interests include the thermal fluid sciences along with machine design. Louis studies the effect of design based learning on students engineering perceptions, and competence in addition to convective heat transfer in gas turbine engines.

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Abstract

A multi-class design project was conducted in the mechanical engineering program at XXXXX University. Sophomore students in Dynamics (ENGR 240), Junior students in Machine Design (MECH 410), and junior/senior students in Manufacturing Processes (MECH 320) worked together in groups to design, analyze, build, and test trebuchets meant to launch baseballs. This design project occurred during the entire spring semester of 2023. The different courses would complete their responsibilities and hand it off to the next course in the project throughout the semester starting in Dynamics, then Machine Design, and finally Manufacturing Processes. During this project feedback from the students was collected and observations made by the course faculty. This work will be presenting the details of the project and future data collection tools for pedagogical research. The goal of the research is to identify when students self-identify as engineers and what events contribute to their perceived identities. Self-reflections and design competence surveys will be collected from the sophomore and junior students participating in this project and as seniors when they complete their capstone design course. This work in progress paper presents the preliminary plan for data collection and analysis along with the current and future strategies to implement the multiclass trebuchet design project.

Gioia, C. J., & Christensen, L. E. (2024, March), Determining Student Self-Efficacy as Engineers Through a Multi-Cohort Mechanical Engineering Design Project Paper presented at 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 10.18260/1-2--45608

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