Purwar, A. (2016, June), Enabling Machine Design Innovation among Freshman Mechanical Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26952

\bibitem{asee_peer_26952}
  Purwar, A. (2016, June), \emph{Enabling Machine Design Innovation among Freshman Mechanical Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26952

Anurag Purwar.  "Enabling Machine Design Innovation among Freshman Mechanical Engineering Students".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://strategy.asee.org/26952 Internet.  16 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_26952}
  Anurag Purwar.
  "Enabling Machine Design Innovation among Freshman Mechanical Engineering Students".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://strategy.asee.org/26952 Internet.  16 Jun, 2024

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AB  - In this paper, the author is presenting his experience creating and teaching a new Freshman Design Innovation class for Mechanical Engineering students at Stony Brook University (SUNY) as well as developing a Machine Design app for iOS and Android platforms being called MotionGen that enables students to perform kinematic design of four-bar planar linkage mechanisms that can execute desired paths or motions.

Design is a creative endeavor of Engineers involving systematic creation of artifacts whose form and function achieve stated objectives and meet specified constraints. Engineering educators have determined that there is a critical need to introduce design concepts and projects early in a student's education, promote teamwork, and introduce modern engineering tools. The National Academy of Engineer's "The Engineer of 2020" report concludes that the passive, lecture-based instruction should be replaced or supplemented by active, integrated, project-based learning with significant design component. At the same time, recent years have seen a renaissance of maker movement, hobby shops, and economically successful trends enabled by democratization of manufacturing (3D printers and services), open-source software and hardware, and funding platforms. These trends have set up a perfect playground for engineering students to learn Engineering concepts and acquire valuable skills in a fun-filled design-oriented context. However, this goal would remain unmet unless there is a corresponding democratization of design capabilities. The National Academy of Engineering has declared “Engineer the tools of scientific discovery” as one of the grand challenges for engineering. An early stage, critical goal in the machine design process is generation, evaluation, and analysis of mechanism design concepts that can realize a given task. Lack of a systematic theory and simple, intuitive tools that allow both novice and experienced designers to design mechanisms for machine design applications has made achieving this goal difficult. However, the recent research results of the author in machine design and the use of intuitive multi-touch devices like iPads in education have the potential to be powerful enabler of design innovations. The author has implemented his recently developed algorithms for simultaneous type and dimensional synthesis of linkages into MotionGen, an app for designing planar four-bar linkage mechanisms. He has also created a new Freshman Design Innovation class that revolves around teaching and enabling freshman students to innovate mechanical devices by designing mechanisms using the app, assembling them into a 3D printed or laser-cut robot chassis, and finally programming them using a take-home Microcontroller Mechatronics kit. This paper presents the details of this class and the app and shows how Mechanical Engineering Educators could benefit from the resources developed by the author.
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