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David E. Fly; Muhammed Buğra Açan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0043 3D Printed Internal Structure: Influence on Tensile Strength David E. Fly P.E. Assistant Professor Muhammed Buğra Açan, Student Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 328 Fryklund Hall Middle East Technical University Menomonie Wisconsin USA 54751 Ankara, Turkey flyd@uwstout.edu mba-mail@hotmail.comAbstractThis paper discusses the research project and associated laboratory measurements that wereassigned to a visiting international undergraduate

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Zhiyuan Yang; Hope L. Weiss; Matthew J. Traum

techniqueincluding measuring the turbine’s rotational inertia, extracting power curves, and eliminatingoutliers from the data set. We suggest that these different experimental project components beconducted in several unique courses across a STEM program’s curriculum. The benefits ofshowing different aspects of the same experimental project across multiple courses have alreadybeen illuminated in the literature.15Experimental Demonstrations, Results, and AnalysisAll experiments we describe use an inexpensive optical tachometer to enable continuousmeasurement of the turbine shaft rotation rate, and a video recording device (we used the freevideo capture feature on an iPhone). The video-recorded tachometer readout provides timehistories of the turbine shaft

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Reza Fazel-Rezai; Sima Noghanian; Ahmed Rabbi

camp was to introduce basic math and engineeringconcepts through MATLAB programming and hands-on experiences to high schoolstudents. This camp was meant to be a good introduction to engineering and a tool forrecruiting students to the engineering programs. Activities such as MAT-ME can helpstudents to expand their understanding of math to its applications. Such a program hasbeen introduced in other states such as a program at Georgia Institute of Technology andthe Infinity Project sponsored by different US universities and high schools. This campwas a small step towards establishing a set of courses promoting math and engineeringamong high school students in the state of North Dakota.The objectives of the MAT-ME camp were to: a) Expose

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Roger Green

fear- and incentive-based controlmechanisms to achieve desired educational goals and outcomes. These control mechanisms canachieve results but may also undermine classroom cohesion, encourage an adversarialatmosphere, and be less effective than alternate approaches such as those based on leadershiptraining and research. This paper reconsiders engineering education through a leadershipperspective where teachers voluntarily relinquish control, seek influence over authority, nurturecooperation over compliance, pursue projects and activities in partnership rather than inisolation, and work to establish an environment of mutual trust. These characteristics ofleadership-based education are highly compatible with many current trends in

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Majura F. Selekwa

projects. Onthe first group, the author used the standard approach of presenting the microcontroller, discussand explain how to program it. Although in the end students were able to use the microcontrollerin their project, they always had many questions to ask. The second group realized very latethat they would need a microcontroller, so the author had to prep[are also a special training; thatis when the author used the approach presented in this paper. The first group of students wereinvited again to sit in this session. After six days of discussing microcontrollers, al;l studentswere satisfied and with the knowledge, and continued working independently to the end of thesemester. Although no statistical data was collected to evaluate the student

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Wendy R. Stary; John R. Schultz

institution. 27Goals and ObjectivesThe primary goal of the still-developing exchange program between the UW-Stout and the h_dais to provide continuous opportunities for students from either institution to easily travel andattend courses offered by the other institution. A secondary goal is to create a faculty exchangeprogram involving both teaching and collaborative research opportunities. In order toaccomplish these goals several objectives have been completed and still others are in the works.These include the development of faculty-led student exchanges, semester / yearlong studentexchanges, collaborative research projects for both students and faculty and faculty exchanges.The final goal is to

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Navaratnam Leelaruban; G. Padmanabhan

available in most of the class room computersand/or computer clusters in universities. Moreover, the target student group of this tool (junior,senior, and graduate students) is fairly conversant using EXCEL. Once the students understandthe fundamental concept of the curve matching in Theis method, it can be easily performed usingthis tool. Since the entire method can be performed exclusively in EXCEL, the instructor maydemonstrate the use of this tool following the step-by-step procedure described in the previoussection by projecting the laptop screenshots on to the large screen in the class room. In addition,the instructor may assign a set of problems on Theis curve-matching and encourage the studentsto use this tool for solving the problems. This

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Devin R. Berg

as project based learning4. The literaturesuggests that through these methods students engage higher-order thinking tasks which in turnpromote stronger development of necessary problem solving skills5. Students who learn by thesemethods have been found to have better overall achievement as well as improved criticalthinking skills4. These skills thus better prepare the student for life-long learning when comparedagainst a traditional lecture-only approach. By asking students to complete an assignment wherethey had to identify a system or object in static equilibrium, it was intended for the student tobegin to look beyond their textbook and relate the course material with their surroundings.Similar work by others has demonstrated success in

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Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

- a summary of presentations at ASEE Regional/Annual Meetings by SDSU faculty. Three presentations - 4/14/114. Problem-Based Cooperative Learning, a summary of Karl Smith’s 1½-day workshop presented at SDSU in July, 2011 - 10/6/20115. Embedded Assessment: Quality Control vs. Quality Assurance - 12/1/116. Use of Rubrics in Assessment - 2/9/127. Discussion of College of Engineering collaborative project proposals for the SDSU Academic and Scholarly Excellence fund – 3/22/128. Collaborative project proposals – 4/12/129. Active Learning – 10/9/1210. Academic Quality and Rigor – Grading. The College of Engineering portion of the campus- wide discussion – 11/13/1211. What is Rigor and Quality? – 2/18/1312. What is Rigor and Quality? – 3/15

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Majura F. Selekwa

modules was made of interactive sessions that mix both theory andapplications. Although there are cases when destruction of the components was deliberate per-mitted as way of teaching students, the instructor was always monitoring student activities andproviding close guidance to avoid unintended equipment damage; additionally, the instructor alsoprovided theoretical explanations of most observations as needed during the session. Unfortu-nately, there were certain theoretical facts that could not be directly be seen using these modulesonly; in that case, the instructor would conclude the session by discussing those unobservedtheoretical facts. At the end of the program, students were asked to complete a term project of developinga

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Aurenice M. Oliveira

% 11.8% C (70-74) 0.0% 2.9%Table 2: Student answers to grade based on learning for a data communication course. Note: In Fall 2011, one student (4.3%)answered “CD (60-64)”. Fall 2009 (42 Students) Fall 2010 (49 Students) Fall 2011(33 Students) Exam 1 Av. = 77.2, Sd=16.55 Av. = 83.7, Sd=13.24 Av. = 85.8, Sd= 18.12 Exam 2 Av. = 78.1, Sd=12.63 Av. = 65.3, Sd=21.20 Av. = 85.1, Sd= 11.63 Final Exam/project Av. = 74.5, Sd=15.66 Av. = 79.8, Sd=18.94 Av. = 80.6, Sd=12.38 Final Grade Av. = 77.9, Sd=13.95 Av. = 78.4, Sd=12.56

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Jon J. Smith; Sima Noghanian

simple array design, or used MATLAB® for developing simple DoA programs. Having thiscomplete program available with the source code now provides the instructors the tools to designmore sophisticated assignments and projects for better understanding of realistic array antennasused in wireless systems.AcknowledgmentsAuthors would like to acknowledge the financial support of North Dakota NASA EPSCoR(National Aeronautics and Space Administration Experimental Program to Stimulate 290 Competitive Research) and the support of University of North Dakota Electrical Engineering Department. Bibliography