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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

graduate ofthe program who is actively working in the construction management professionBased on student response and reflection by the course instructor on his experience with thisrestructured course, the instructor has developed a strategy for course improvement as outlinedbelow.  Add addition research questions to Assignment 1 - Construction Terminology and Accreditation.  Develop two “hands-on” classroom projects (Assignments 2, 4, 7, and 8). The first would be a traditional bid-build project similar to the Tektōn Hotel Plaza project, although a bit more complex (especially the change order). The second would be a design-build project where students would have to design a structure and then build it according the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

singlecore processors to multicore and many-core processors properly. Training students in thistechnology is critical to the future of exploiting new computer systems [5]. Today, with all theProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationadvances in hardware technology, we as educators find ourselves with multicore computers asservers, desktops, personal computers, and even handheld devices in our laboratories (Labs)while still teaching undergraduate students how to design system software, algorithms andprogramming languages for sequential environment [6]. The current practice is to introduceparallel programming at graduate-level (only at some high-ranked universities), starting withparallel

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

, manyaviation and flight safety related certifications. In addition to teaching a variety of Professional Pilot courses in ouraviation department, he has served as a Research Technologist in the KSU Department of Industrial Engineering andas a Project Engineer at Merrick & Company in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Email: troyb@ksu.eduSUE GUZEK holds a B.A. in Modern Language and an M.S. in International Project Management, a certificate inProactive Leadership and the French RNCP Professional Title of Export Manager. She served for 30 years in thefinancial services industry, the last 20 in instructional design and project management. Sue has also served as avisiting professor at a European graduate school of management. Email: sguzek@ksu.eduProceedings of

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

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

, devices, and/or systemsat the nanometer level. One of the dimensions in nanotechnology is between 1 and 100 nm [1-3].This technology involves in fabricating, imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matteron this scale. It is impacting a broad range of highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinaryfields, such as engineering, materials, colloidal science, physics, chemistry, mathematics,medical, nursing, biology, as well as education, art and social sciences and businesses [4-7].Because of substantial scientific and technological advancements, as well as massive public andprivate interest and investments in the field of nanotechnology, this technology has been growingfaster than any other ones for over two decades [8-10]. Along with

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

success rates, the level of these rates isstill considerably low at 70%, which needs to be improved up to 80% by 2020 [1-3]. Universityadministration, faculty members, parents, and students are all concerned about this and, hence,are looking for a solution to increase these rates at WSU.Our major goal of this study was to address the problem associated with retention and successrates of freshmen students through undergraduate research experience in the nanotechnologylaboratory at WSU. Also, we expect that this will considerably improve the graduation rate(40%) of first-time, full-time freshmen students at WSU. The specific objectives of this studywere as follows: (i) to educate freshmen science and engineering students based on hands-onexperience