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Quinnipiac Mechanical Engineering Professor Earns Top Paper Award
Quinnipiac University mechanical engineering professor earns top paper award at American Society for Engineering Education conference
HAMDEN - John Reap, of Hamden, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Quinnipiac University, recently received the top paper award for the Northeast section at the American Society for Engineering Education Zone I conference hosted by Penn State University.
Reap’s paper, “Structuring Learning in a Makerspace Using a Design Method,” describes a pilot course meant to integrate the Innovation Hub’s Makerspace at Quinnipiac into the mechanical engineering curriculum with the aid of Taguchi’s Method, an engineering design method used to improve product quality. It recounts the achievements of mechanical engineering students who combined the creative “play” of makerspace with the structure and focus of an engineering design method.
“Recognition of this work’s value by the American Society of Engineering Education is gratifying, though the positive experience of the students in the pilot course proved even more satisfying,” Reap said.
Reap, who joined Quinnipiac in 2012, earned his doctoral and master’s degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College.
