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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

musical environment Create a new musical experience for a traditional musical form (or composition) Create an educational tool (app) that enables a group of people (socially limited, disabled, culturally deprived populations) to communicate or experience emotion or feeling through music Create a musical composition with an audience in mind Figure 2. Abbreviated course content for K-State’s versions of the course.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6Assessment

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Michael C. Reynolds

a significant hurdle for sophomores in engineering. Many are intimidated and don’t know where to start. • Many students don’t ask the question, “Does my answer make sense”. • Students are often frustrated with their Physics course and feel like it moves too quickly through topics.With these observations in mind, the goal was to create a class that would try and remedy someof these problems. It was hoped that the creation of this class at the freshman year would have ameasurable effect on student success in the sophomore year. The goal of this paper is to examinewhat effect the Engineering Analysis course has on the sophomore engineering and physicsclasses.Description of Engineering Analysis CourseThe engineering analysis

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia L. Morse

report on possible sources of quality problems. We were being incongruous inexpecting students to be mindful of engineering considerations, while mainly asking foroperator-level deliverables in the lab portion of the course.Of course, hands-on experience building mechanical designs is still needed. We required anapproach to balance the need for students to practice both process skills and the application ofengineering-level process knowledge.The strategy we developed involved the modification of part-building assignments to present thebuilding of the part as a step necessary in some engineering task. The engineering tasks werekept at an introductory-level, reasonable for first-year students, often presenting examples ofengineering testing

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

put in place to help you learn more?  What have you learned about your own learning process during the nanolab sessions?  Did the nanolab sessions change your mind after the completion of these events? Figure 2. The results of the survey question “What do you like about the course”.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationMost of the high school students returned their questioners. Figures 2 through 6 show the resultsof the survey questions for the assessment of the nanolab activities for the high school students.These questions provided useful information about the students’ interests, future plans, and theircapabilities, and confirmed the types of learning styles

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephen A. Dyer

Thinking via Pictures: Getting Students Started through Graphing Stephen A. Dyer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USAAbstractVisual languages are among the most important to the STEM disciplines, but most students en-tering a STEM curriculum seem to have little ability to think or converse in any visual language.Further, there are few curricula that include a formal course in either basic graphics or the art ofapproximation. One foundational visual language is that of two-dimensional presentation of quan-titative information and mathematical relationships. This paper offers some topics to

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Richard Zajac

available between the announcement of the event and the actual competition,usually about three months. These challenges are thus grounded in a real-life problem, andfoster skill sets that straddle the boundaries between physics, engineering, math, andprogramming.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2The Line Follower Challenge as a Mentoring AnalogyThe Line Follower event has been a staple of the competition since its inception. As we shallsee, it is also a keen metaphor for the real goal of a STEM mentor: guiding and inspiring thestudents. Discussion of the line follower also serves to

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

Thinking in Parallel: Multicore Parallel Programming for STEM Education 1,* A. Asaduzzaman, 2 R. Asmatulu, and 1 R. Pendse 1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and 2Department ofMechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260 *E-mail: Abu.Asaduzzaman@wichita.edu; Tel: +1-316-978-5261AbstractAcademic research and engineering challenges both have increasing demands for highperformance computing (HPC), which can be achieved through multicore parallel programming.The existing curricula of most universities do not properly address the major transition fromsingle-core to multicore systems and sequential to parallel