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W.S. Khan; M. Ceylan; B. Zhang; R. Asmatulu

conventional light source. OLEDS use only half as much electricity.With organic photovoltaics, a nanometer layer of dye is encapsulated in solar cells in order to usethe energy of sunlight to generate electricity. They have become more cost effective and havemore and wide-ranging applications [8]. Green nanotechnology contains designing nanoproductsfor the environment and with the environment in mind for the future developments.3.2 Green EngineeringGreen engineering is the conceptualization, design, and processes and products while minimizingpollution at the source and risk to human health and the environment. This new energy conceptelaborates the idea that decisions to protect human health and environment have the greatestimpact on our society. Green

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Marcos Chu; Ruth-Miriam Garnett

held in the United States. Its mission is to engage the greatest minds inscience. Engineering education curriculum needs to include visits to Engineering Festivals. Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationTRADE STUDIES Trade studies are well understood in the engineering education discipline and in thebusiness environment. It provides the information necessary for making well-informed decisions.Decision-making is also well understood and needs to be part of the context of system thinkingfor the K-12 community to be relevant. The current challenge is that there is currently not astandard for K-12 engineering education [1] or a consensus on how engineering education topicssuch

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; C. Richard Cassady

engineering within each theme;  incorporate design aspects which must be completed through teamwork;  include both a hands-on learning experience as well as a computing aspect;  contain elements that are competitive in nature so as to spark most students’ interest.With these characteristics in mind, a list of potential theme ideas and associated projects wasgenerated. Four themes will be developed for the 2012-2013 school year includingBiomechanical, Computing, Robotics, and Structures. The FEP faculty will be teaching 16sections of Introduction to Engineering in the Fall semester, so 4 sections of each topic will beoffered.Biomechanical ThemeStudents will design mechanical systems to interact with living things. Potential projects for

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J. Brighter; W. Childs; D. Mobbs; Z. Ross

the realities of following a budget, a compacttimeline in which to perform the work, and the unanticipated events that always occur in such aproject. Looking back at the experience, our project could certainly have been completed moreefficiently. A pump was decided on and ordered before returning from Christmas break. The pumparrived on schedule; however, getting the clear acrylic pump volute machined properly soonproved to be more time consuming than predicted. This was the result of scheduling conflictswith a faculty member that was to direct our use of the equipment and the time required foroperating the equipment.Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Arkansas

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Andrew Matthews; Cagatay Mitil; Byron Okine; Derek Marzolf

ground on one end and aconducting rod on the opposite. The primary coil wraps around the secondary, forming a spiralinto the center of the base in the shape of a pancake. The current is then directed through theconducting rod to a spherical load which will discharge electromotive forces after reaching aparticular electrical surface charge density. A similar device is used as the receiver. The receiverconsists of coils which mirror those of the transmitter and its pancake shape. The receiver isconnected to devices such as a motor or light through its primary coil that will then make use ofthe received current. His design can be found in Figure 1.Tesla created this device with the mind set of powering entire households and companies. Theelectrical

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Adam Carberry; Daniel Bumblauskas; Alexandra Coso; Ana Torres-Ayala

chapters originated in 1993 when graduate students and faculty from PurdueUniversity established the first chapter with the following objectives in mind: - to mentor graduate students interested in engineering education, especially those considering academic careers - to educate undergraduate students about graduate schoolProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3 - to encourage underrepresented groups to pursue advanced degrees and academic careers.4During the decade following, other institutions such as the University of Michigan

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Bijaya Shrestha

Learning by engagement and empowerment - a pragmatic approach to enhance student engagement in a service course and developing relevance of such a course to their own majorsBijaya Shrestha, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Missouri S&TAbstractNew pedagogical approaches are developed and implemented in a service course in orderto enhance the engagement of students in the learning process. Service courses are oftenperceived to be non-relevant and lame by majority of engineering students. The newapproaches bring a climate where students are provided with opportunities to take chargeand explore. The idea behind the new approach is built around a good mix of technologywith old tools of the trade so as to

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Michael Reynolds

A Comparison of Student Performance in an Online, Hybrid, and Traditionally Delivered Numerical Methods Course Michael Reynolds, PhD Associate Professor and Head, Engineering University of Arkansas - Fort SmithAbstractNumerical Methods is a course dealing with solving engineering problems using approximatemathematical techniques. It has been taught by this author 13 times in the past nine years atthe University of Arkansas - Fort Smith campus. Six of those times the course was taught in atraditional lecture based format. Four times it was taught in a hybrid format where the classwould meet once per week while having most of the content

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M. Ryan Bales; Steve E. Watkins

concepts within manyfields including signal processing, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence. Surveillancevideo analysis entails several interesting, multidisciplinary, real-world problems that can betackled in depth from the perspectives of these topics. Several educational benefits can resultfrom discussing these topics within the context of the accessible problems of video analysis. • Students can study algorithms and concepts with a specific type of data rather than having to imagine abstract data without a specific goal in mind. • Everyday familiarity with vision and video eases debugging, as students can self-check results with what makes sense visually and intuitively. • Artificial

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Harvest Collier; Diane Hagni

in theUniversity of Missouri system, close to 90 percent of the 7,000-plus students enrolled areseeking degrees in engineering or hard sciences. There are approximately 440 full- and part-timefaculty members, the majority of which are tenured or tenure-track. Eighty-three percent are inSTEM disciplines.Many of these professors were teaching several years ago when it was common for freshmen inpacked lecture halls to hear, “Look to your right; look to your left. One of you won’t be here thistime next year.” Although that is no longer the accepted slogan at Missouri S&T, and studentsgenerally hear more empathetic messages from faculty on campus dedicated to their success,teaching strategies have not evolved all that much over the years

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Christi Patton Luks

, please keep in mind that ALL references, including “personal communications”, should be documented.I also include statements on exams and review sheets relating to what is and is not permissible.An example is: During the exam you may ONLY have: (1) the booklet of graphs & tables, (2) your calculator, andProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6 (3) a pencil and eraser. EVERYTHING else must be left under your chair or in front of the room. You may make any notes you wish in the booklet, but you may not add additional

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Brett Meyer; Timothy Wei; David Jones; Stuart Bernstein

Communications Commission (FCC) to deliver classes to studentsin remote locations (Casey, 20081.) In 1934 the University of Iowa delivered the firsttelevised class to students (Casey, 20081.) The FCC followed this by creating a band of 20television channels (known as the Instructional Television Fixed Service) to deliver low costcourses to the nation in 1963. New technologies have enabled the development of many newsynchronous and asynchronous methods.With the new technologies available for delivering distance education, there is relatively nolimitation to the development of delivery systems that can cater to all learning and teachingstyles. During the summer of 2011, the dean of the engineering college of a Midwestuniversity approached the other