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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Eric D. Mead; Karen Reynolds; Lawrence Whitman

. There is, therefore, a broad base of knowledge using LEGO® bricks to expose students to a wide variety of concepts. Shocker MINDSTORMS The Shocker MINDSTORMS program at WSU utilizes LEGO® MINDSTORMS to encourage young students to explore, experiment, and experience STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning in a hands-on constructionist environment17. Shocker MINDSTORMS began in 2001 as a collaboration among faculty and staff in the WSU Colleges of Education and Engineering, WSU engineering students, and local industry. The intent was to involve teachers and students in hands-on learning by providing a framework that included teacher training, teacher and student support, and an annual culminating event where students

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Marcos Chu; Ruth-Miriam Garnett

prototyping is to develop an end product that closely reassembles theproduct that will serve a given purpose. The purpose of pre-engineering robotics competition isto give an opportunity for students to engage in engineering problem solving activity and be ableto see a concrete outcome. As students compete, they have an opportunity to work closely withprofessionals as they mentor the student robotics teams. Often we see on the news that American students are behind in mathematics and sciencescores compared to other industrialized countries. This is a valid issue to be considered whendeveloping an integrated systems engineering education curriculum. Although the fundamentalsare important, it is necessary to understand what skills are relevant

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Darrin S. Muggli; Brian M. Tande

curriculum design of theoverall dual-degree program.BC Engineering Mentorship Program: BC has an existing student mentorship team, made up ofeleven recent college graduates, whose focus is to interact with students to help them developpersonally and professionally. The BC Engineering Department has recently partnered with theexisting mentorship program to provide four engineering mentors (one in each discipline)focused on supporting engineering students. These mentors, who will be part of the campus-wide mentorship team, will make substantial connections with the students and aid their learning.These recent graduates are selected specifically for their ability to: make connections withengineering undergraduates, act ethically, mentor students, and

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Shannon L. Servoss; Edgar C. Clausen

integral part of Lab I, but internal standards were not used in GC analysis.Membrane separation was a protein separation process that was briefly described in Figure 1.Two membranes (50 kDa cutoff and 100 kDa cutoff) were tested for their ability to separatebovine serum albumin (BSA) protein from solution. This experiment grew out of facultyresearch efforts, and had not been used previously in summer workshops or teachinglaboratories.The acetic acid extraction experiment involved determining the distribution coefficient for theextraction of acetic acid in aqueous solution with ethyl acetate. This experiment was previouslyused as an end-of-semester Lab I project several years ago.GradingThe grading scheme for the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 semesters

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Robert I. Egbert; Douglas R. Carroll

electives, and addsto the quality of the program.Another success has been the integration and cooperation of the faculty in the program.Approximately half the engineering faculty work for Missouri S&T and half for MSU. Facultyteach courses based on their areas of expertise, rather than the university that they work for. Thefaculty in Springfield participate in the faculty meetings at Missouri S&T via teleconference.Faculty work together in developing curriculum and course outlines and the common finalexams.Problems – What Didn’tMost of the problems have been in the administrative areas of admissions, financial aid,registration and billing. All universities have automated systems for dealing with theseprocesses. The systems are programmed

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Harvest Collier; Diane Hagni

preparedness. Since the initialyear of the program in 2006, the percentage of students receiving at least one failing grade in anHGR component has risen from 21.3% in 2006 to 49.6% in 2011, although there have been noappreciable changes in the curriculum or type of instruction presented.In another measure of student preparedness, an average of 45% of the incoming freshman classat Missouri S&T for the last several years has been placed in Algebra or Trigonometry courses,instead of Calculus for Engineers, the first math class to count toward a student’s degreeprogram. This is due to the fact that, according to their placement exams, they are not ready forCalculus. Of the students placed in the most basic Algebra class (Math 2), about 50% of

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi Patton Luks

educate our students about the importance of integrity. Preventingcheating in our classrooms is an important way to do that.The Early YearsMy first introduction to students cheating occurred in an exam I was administering whilepursuing my doctorate. The students had been seated in columns with an empty space betweenthem to make it more difficult to view the work of others. Midway through the exam, one youngman suddenly began rubbing his eye and blinking as if he had something irritating it. I thought itodd when the gentleman reached into the seat beside him and picked up a mirror compact tocheck the irritation. When he then began leaning back further and further to gain a better view ofthe paper behind him, I recognized that he was attempting to

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lauren Cole; Lindsay R. Hoggatt; Jamie A. Sterrenberg; David R. Suttmiller; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

informationto the engineering students. A number of methods have been developed for enhancing studentlearning including multimedia developments,1,2 active, problem-based learning,3 collaborativelearning,4,5 and participation in cooperative education.6 Several papers have specificallyaddressed methods for improving or supplementing the teaching of engineering including the useof spreadsheets to solve two-dimensional heat transfer problems,7 the use of a transport approachin teaching turbulent thermal convection,8 the use of computers to evaluate view factors inthermal radiation,9 implementation of a computational method for teaching free convection,10and the use of an integrated experimental/analytical/numerical approach that brings theexcitement of