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Conference Papers

1. Edwards, R. and G. Recktenwald (2007), Teaching core concepts in thermal and fluid sciences using devices familiar to students, Engineering Teaching and Learning Practice, St. Lawrence Regional ASEE Meeting, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This paper gives an overview of the hair dryer, blender, toaster, bicycle pump, computer power supply, sudden expansion, and tank draining exercises before we had an assessment data. Download PDF.
2. Edwards, R. and G. Recktenwald (2008), Guided inquiry in an engineering technology classroom, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Pittsburgh, PA, American Society for Engineering Education. This describes our experiences using the hair dryer exercise in an engineering technology program. Download PDF.
3. Edwards, R. and G. Recktenwald (2009), Simple experiments for the thermal and fluid sciences, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Austin, TX, American Society for Engineering Education. This paper reports on student reactions to the hair dryer, blender and power supply exercises with EET in an engineering technology program. Download PDF.
4. Edwards, R., G. Recktenwald, et al. (2009), A laboratory exercise to teach the hydrostatic principle as a core concept in fluid mechanics, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Austin, TX, American Society for Engineering Education. This paper describes our recent (2008-09) experience with the tank-filling exercise. Download PDF.
5. Hsieh, C., G. Recktenwald, and R. Edwards (2008), Implementing Inquiry-based Experiments in a Fluid Science Laboratory Class, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, American Society for Engineering Education. This paper presents our first assessment data for the tank filling, tank draining, and sudden expansion experiments. These results helped us make several improvements in the exercises and the assessment instruments. Download PDF.
6. Recktenwald, G. and R. Edwards (2007), Using Simple Experiments to Teach Core Concepts in the Thermal and Fluid Sciences ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Honolulu, Hawaii, American Society for Engineering Education. This is our first paper on the EET project. In it we describe the motivation from the literature, and our plans for implementing the EET exercises. Download PDF.
7. Recktenwald, G., R. Edwards, D. Howe, J. Faulkner, and C. Hsieh, (2009), The Engineering of Everyday Things: Simple experiments for the thermal and fluid sciences. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Austin, TX, American Society for Engineering Education. This paper summarizes in-class demonstrations for the blender and toaster, and describes formative assessment results for those demonstrations. The paper also reprises the assessment of attitude change for the tank filling, tank draining, and sudden expansion exercises in a required laboratory class for Civil and Mechanical Engineering undergraduates. Download PDF.
8. Recktenwald, G., R. Edwards, D. Howe, and J. Faulkner, (2009), A simple experiment to expose misconceptions about the Bernoulli equation. 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Lake Buena Vista, FL, November 13-19, 2009, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Download PDF.

Conference Posters

1. Recktenwald, G. and R. Edwards (2007), The Engineering of Everyday Things, Regional ASEE Meeting, Pacific Northwest Section. Washington State University, Pullman, WA. This paper describes our first results of using the tank draining, blender, and hair dryer exercises. The exercises have evolved since then. Download the poster as PDF. Download the poster content reformatted as a paper to make it easier to read.
2. Recktenwald, G., J. Faulkner, C. Hsieh, and R. Edwards (2008), Using a blender to teaching qualitative reasoning with the first law of thermodynamics, AAAS - NSF CCLI Conference, Washington, DC, AAAS. This poster shows what we mean by qualitative reasoning, and how simple measurements on the blender can confirm both qualitative and quantitative relationships derived from the First Law. Download the poster as PDF. Download the poster content reformatted as a paper to make it easier to read.