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David C. Paulus; Daniel M. Settlage

. The survey askedquestions relating to the following aspects of using Blackboard Collaborate: Technology,Accessibility, Participation, and Learning. All “questions” are actually statements written in theaffirmative toward Collaborate such that answers that strongly agree or agree with the statementProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3are a 1 or 2, respectively and answers that disagree or strongly disagree with the statement are 4or 5, respectively. An answer of 3 means the student feels neutral and neither agrees nordisagrees with the statement. Student

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Specifications,HayGroup (available at www.hayresourcesdirect.haygroup.com), 2005.11. D.A. Kolb, Experiential Learning, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984.12. E. Rutz and V. Westheider, Learning Styles of Engineering & Engineering Technology Students –Similarities, Differences and Implications for Effective Pedagogy, paper 2006-419, Proceedings of the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006.13. N.E. Cagiltay, Using learning styles theory in engineering education, European Journal of EngineeringEducation, 33(4), 415-424, 2008.14. S.K. Hargrove, J.A. Wheatland, D. Ding, and C.M. Brown, The Effect of Individual Learning Styles onStudent GPA in Engineering

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Stephen A. Dyer; Frederick Burrack; Craig Weston; Kenneth Medema; Linda Head; Philip Mease

theMusic Departments of both Rowan and K-State. The initial target audience at Rowan was first-year electrical and computer engineering majors and undergraduate music majors. The targetaudience at K-State was broader, including undergraduates and Master’s students, both in musicand in engineering. At K-State, Signals, Systems and Music was offered in two differentversions, one during Fall Semester 2012 and the other during Spring Semester 2013. For theECE students, it was a general-education elective. For the music students, the course was anelective for all but composition majors, for whom each semester was a required course. For themusic students, the Fall course was offered under the title Technology of the Electronic MusicStudio, and in the

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Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

degree plan to meet the following objectives:- To impart to students the knowledge and skills of transportation engineering, that of related industries such as electronics and mechanics, that of economic and management science such as economics and marketing, and that of humanities and social science such as philosophy and phycology to cultivate a systematic view in education and career of design and operation of traditional railways and urban rail transit systems.- To provide a good foundation in mathematics and information technology and a synthetic ability training for students. Enable them to be familiar with the methods and procedures of the comprehensive technology in railway engineering such as infrastructure

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Julia L. Morse

Encouraging an Engineering Mindset amid Skill Practice In the Freshman Manufacturing Processes Lab Julia L. Morse Kansas State University – Salina CampusAbstractAt Kansas State University’s Salina Campus, Mechanical Engineering Technology students areintroduced to Manufacturing Processes as part of the freshman experience, leading up to adesign-to-build project in the end of the second semester.1 Although the classroom content andlab discussion topics attempted to address engineering problem-solving and design decisions,student course evaluations revealed that for many, their focus in the lab was on basic machineoperation procedure. Students

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Nur Ergul; Ramazan Asmatulu

research centers globally because of its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinaryapproaches in many fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics,pharmacy and medicine. One of the major challenges of nanotechnology education is to providenew and exciting technologies/developments to the students in these fields. Nanotechnology hasalready made new products’ (over 1350 nanoproducts in the market now) lighter, stronger,smaller, functional, faster, reliable and durable. In the present study, we have selected 10 highschool students in Wichita, KS, and trained them in Spring 2013 about how to make differentnanomaterials and devices, such as nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanofilms, nanocomposites,nanotubes, hydrogels, and solar cells

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Madhulika Srikanth; Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu

been becoming a serious issue with the technological developments in many fields,and threatening the educational systems in engineering, science, fine art, law, nursing, medicineand pharmacies. Approximately, 70% of the public school students in the U.S. admitted that theywere involved in direct and/or indirect cheating actions during the exams, homework, termprojects, reports, papers and presentations using a variety of cheating techniques. These includeall kinds of using cell phones, camera phones, ear phones, MP3 players, graphing calculators,iPad, texting devices, monitoring devices, multifunctional watches, etc. These issues are morecurtail for the online courses, which have been gaining much popularity worldwide. In thepresent study, we

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Cindi Mason; Janet Twomey; Lawrence Whitman

Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Herresearch interests include intelligent computational methods and technology for environmental sustainability. Lawrence E. Whitman is the Associate Dean for the College of Engineering and Professor of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oklahoma StateUniversity. His Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Arlington, is in industrial engineering. Previously, he spent 10years in the aerospace industry. His research interests are in enterprise engineering, engineering education, and leanmanufacturing.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Md. Mamunur Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed; Khalil Dajani; Jobaidur Rahman Khan; Haider Bhuiyan

engineering andProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2mechanical engineering), engineering technology (civil and mechanical), computer sciencecourses as well as courses from other disciplines (i.e., Introduction to Arabic). The engineeringcourses include introductory and advanced undergraduate level, and graduate level – both lectureand laboratory based courses. The student satisfaction and teaching performance were measuredbased on the calculated SSE and SET indices.The necessary data were gathered from student evaluation forms from five different institutions.The name of institution, discipline, and list of courses are provided in Table

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Lee Gatton; Saeed Khan

University and Small Business Collaboration for Undergraduate Research Projects in Healthcare Robotics Lee Gatton# and Saeed Khan* # Gatton Research and Development * Engineering Technology Department, K-State SalinaAbstractThis paper will discuss the on-going research collaboration between a university’s engineeringtechnology department and an engineering research firm. The purpose and the reasons for thisjoint research project will be detailed from both the university’s viewpoint and the small businessviewpoint.This research project involves applying Social Assistive Robotic technology

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Thomas O. Spicer; Edgar C. Clausen

exercises were structured to help students be moreaware of new innovations and discoveries in science, business, and technology and consequently,to increase students’ awareness of the importance for life-long learning. The student exercisesrequired to students to read and summarize relevant information, and the summaries werereviewed in a classroom setting. Students found the exercises to have improved their writingskills and enhanced their understanding of the importance of life-long learning. Small changesin the process are to be considered in future courses.IntroductionIn addition to the five “hard” skills that primarily emphasize technical expertise, Criterion 3 ofthe 2013-2014 ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Program1 lists six

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Garth V. Crosby

Low Cost Collaborative & Portable Electronics Lab Kit Garth V. Crosby Department of Technology, College of Engineering, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleAbstractThe current growth in online program is exponential. However, undergraduate programs inengineering and engineering technology has not benefited from this growth as otherprograms. One of the main factors that encourage this disparity is the difficulty andinfeasibility of incorporating the required laboratory experiences into an online/distanceeducation program. In this paper, an attempt is made to provide a potential solution for

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Thomas Mertz

Teaching and Assessing Quality and Continuous Improvement Thomas Mertz Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractThis paper describes an attempt to teach and assess students’ commitment to quality, timelinessand continuous improvement in a computer software course. The paper discusses continuousimprovement and describes the course, the projects assigned to the students and the gradingmodel used to assess them. A summary is given of the students’ performance and theirperspective of the experience.IntroductionCriteria 3i of the 2012-2013

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Daniel R. Miskin; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

American Society of Engineering Education Midwest Section Annual Conference, 2012. 16. "Impact of a Jet." Fredrick Institute of Technology, http://staff.fit.ac.cy/eng.fm/classes/amee202/Fluids%20Lab%20Impact%20of%20a%20Jet.pdf, accessed December 5. 2012. 17. The Engineering Toolbox Programs, http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/forces-pipe-bends-d_968.html, accessed December 5. 2012. 18. Çengal, Y.A., Cimbala, J.M., Fluid Mechanics—Fundamentals and Applications, p. 238, McGraw Hill, New York, N.Y., 2006.Biographical InformationDANIEL R. MISKINMr. Miskin is currently a senior (junior when the lab work was performed) in Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of Arkansas. His lab report in CHEG

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Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

Technology, Engineering Technology,Technology Management, and General Business. Pedagogical techniques included face-to-faceas well as both synchronous and asynchronous distance delivery, in addition to a faculty-ledEuropean study tour. In order to stimulate students’ creative application of project managementtechniques, this one-week European field trip included visits to the Porsche and Mercedesmuseums in Stuttgart, Germany, a cog railroad ride to the auto-free village of Zermatt near thebase of the Matterhorn, attendance at the Geneva Motor Show, and a tour of the archeologicaldig beneath Saint Peter’s cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland. Pre-travel course work includedlectures, group projects, and audio-visual presentations, in addition to language

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

in different nanotechnology subjects, (ii) to promote interest in this emergingProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationtechnology, (iii) to create an awareness of nanomaterials fabrication and characterizationtechniques, and (iv) to provide students with fundamental knowledge and an understanding ofnanoscience, nanotechnology, and associated technologies.1.2 Student Retention and SuccessStudent retention refers to the extent to which students remain within a higher educationinstitution and continue on to complete their programs in a specified period of time. In spite ofthe personal, social, and economic values of a college education, it has been stated that everyyear, more freshmen

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

programming. They focus on applyingapplication program interface (API) libraries and techniques like open multiprocessing(OpenMP), message passing interface (MPI), and compute unified device architecture(CUDA)/graphics processing unit (GPU). This approach misses the goal of developing morelong-term abilities to solve real-life problems. In this article, we propose a novel approach toteach parallel programming that will prepare science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) students for present and future computation challenges. Proposed approach requiressome C/C++ programming knowledge. As a preliminary attempt, we introduce multithreadedparallel programming to our science and engineering students. Based on the Student OutcomesAssessment

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Asad Esmaeily

to an in-campus course when all of the aforesaid resources are available.STATICS Online Asad Esmaeily, PhD, PEReferences:Gramoll, K. (1999, June). Teaching Statics online with only electronic media on laptop computers. In theProceedings of the ASEE 1999 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, CD-ROM Session (Vol. 1668).Rutz, E., Eckart, R., E Wade, J., Maltbie, C., Rafter, C., & Elkins, V. (2003). Student Performance andAcceptance of Instructional Technology: Comparing Technology‐Enhanced and Traditional Instructionfor a Course in Statics. Journal of Engineering Education, 92(2), 133-140.Dollár, A., & Steif, P. S. (2007). An interactive online course on Engineering Statics

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Joseph Strathman; David C. Macke; Steve E. Watkins

Steve E. Watkins Missouri University of Science and TechnologyThe IEEE AESS Student Chapter at the Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri S&T) is developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for student competitions, suchas the UAV Outback Challenge (www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/). This competition,sponsored by the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, lends an opportunityfor student-led teams to improve designs for autonomous, search-and-rescue vehicles. Thesecond-generation UAV for Missouri S&T is based on a fixed-wing airframe designed incollaboration with an Aerospace Engineering Senior Design class to meet requirements of 1) aflight time of approximately one-hour, 2) a load

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John L. Krohn

Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2This last paper, “Incorporating Inquiry-Based Projects into the Early Lab Experience” byServoss and Clausen6 was presented at the 2012 ASEE Midwest Conference held at MissouriUniversity of Science and Technology describes a methodology with several similarities to theone independently developed by the current author and used in a sophomore level ChemicalEngineering lab course to address student attention and interest in the course.As further background to the method described here, a short history of the various approachesused within our department is in order. Mechanical

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consider forthose interested in helping students (1) build basic skills in producing graphs quickly and (2) gainexperience in thinking about and understanding relationships, using graphs as aids.IntroductionThis paper is simply a call to acquaint students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics(STEM) with the skills involved in the display of quantitative information. For the typical STEMundergraduate, whether freshman or advanced, the art of thinking graphically seems largely nonex-istent. There are certainly some graphing aids available. Essentially every college freshman ownsa graphing calculator. They were required to use them in their middle-school and high-school mathcourses. But how many of those calculators provide enough

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Andrew Braham; Ashlea Milburn Bennett; Jeton McClinton

Using LinkedIn in the Classroom Andrew Braham1, Ashlea Milburn Bennett1, Jeton McClinton2 1 University of Arkansas, 2Jackson State UniversityAbstractIncoming students are increasingly comfortable using social media to communicate. Themajority of pre-university students report daily usage of social media websites. Therefore,faculty at universities should consider the use of social media in the classroom as the primarymode of out of class communication between faculty and students. LinkedIn is a professionalnetworking website that can fill this need. This research examined the use of LinkedIn for anupper level Civil Engineering technical elective at the

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Yanwu Ding

] Stanley, W. D., Kauffmann, P. L., and Crossman, G. R., “A MATLAB-Based Upper- Division Systems Analysis Course for Engineering Technology,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, 2003.[7] Van Rensburg, B. W. J. “Structural Engineering Education: Effective Teaching and Learning,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education International Colloquium, Washington, DC, 2003.Bibliographical InformationYanwu Ding received the B.Eng degree (with honors) from Southwest Jiaotong University,Chengdu, China, and the M.Sc. (with Best Thesis Research Award) and Ph.D. degrees fromMcMaster University, Hamilton, ON. Canada. She is

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Franck Yonga; Martin Malchow; Michael Mefenza; Christophe Bobda

RazorCar: A FPGA-based Prototyping Platform for Autonomous Driving Systems Franck Yonga1, Martin Malchow2, Michael Mefenza1, Christophe Bobda1 1 CSCE Department - University of Arkansas - USA 2 Chemnitz University of Technology - GermanyAbstractIn this paper we present the RazorCar, a FPGA-based radio controlled car that is able toautonomously realize driving scenarios such as obstacles detection/avoidance, self-parking, orstreet lane following. It is part of a project that aims at providing a prototyping environment forthe design of generic hardware/software architectures for self-driving systems. Experiments on

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Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

for the Advancement of Women inScience and Engineering (KAWSE) 3 , which holds a variety of events each year to foster STEMinterest in middle to high school aged girls. Students who attend the Girls Researching Our World(GROW) and the Exploring Science, Technology and Engineering (EXCITE) workshops partic-ipate in numerous hands-on activities on campus. The goals of our 40 minute sessions were toencourage scientific interest, increase student awareness of the pervasiveness of computing, andshow the benefits and limitations of computing when tackling large scale problems.Instructional DesignIn order to show the benefits of high performance computing in some tangible way, we decidedto work with a simulation, and since students in our target age

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Dustin Ewing; Aaron King; J.W. Clark; Steven Pihl; Raju Dandu

BULK VELOCITY METERING APPARATUS Dustin Ewing, Aaron King, J.W. Clark, Steven Pihl, and Dr. Raju Dandu Kansas State University SalinaAbstract This project details an engineering design presentation addressed by MechanicalEngineering Technology Students at Kansas State University Salina, for a local company. K-Tron, a leader in pneumatic conveying and feeing systems, presented the need for a moreeffective and consistent method to effectively test the saltation velocity of materials theircustomers desire to convey, before beginning the design process. Saltation velocity is defined asthe actual gas velocity in a horizontal pipeline at which particles in a homogeneous mixture

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William Pepper; Caleb Crawshaw; Chester Ewing; Eddie Rego; Raju Dandu

Design Lessons Learned While working with Bergkamp Inc. we were able to utilize concepts and knowledgegained from the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program at K-State Salina and apply themto a real-world problem. However, in order to tackle the design problem we needed to learn agreat deal more about the properties of propane and how it reacts to the different heated scraperdesigns. We did multiple tests with different nozzle outlet sizes along with different diametersand lengths of combustion chambers before finding the correct one that created the flame patternwe were looking for. As a result, it was not until after we found the correct flame pattern that werealized how the heated scraper was to be designed.Conclusion Our

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Wade Winfrey; Kale Morris; Coady Morris; Raju Dandu

Dr. Raju Dandu and Justin Kuntz, Engineering Technology, Kansas State University Salina

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Darrell Schielke; Joshua Jensen; Byron Ronnebaum; Raju Dandu

K-Tron Salina Kansas State University Salina Layne Parry, Test Lab. Manager, K-Tron Salina Dr. Raju Dandu, Engineering Technology, Kansas State university Salina