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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

tools. In the Spring semester, course topics focus onprofessional development, academic planning, and expanding basic engineering problem solvingskills.Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3Fall Semester Topics  Syllabus and Policies For many students, the fall semester of college is first time they are given a syllabus for a course. Therefore, the syllabus is discussed in detail. Students are also introduced to the FEP Assignment, Conduct, and Grading Policies. The FEP Assignment Policy clearly defines the guidelines for properly formatting handwritten

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Clark Shaver; Crayton Caldwell; Jim Lookadoo

opportunities in entrepreneurialismQuality of design and ingenuity as well as quality of prototypes are struggles inherent in thecapstone course. Pushing students to produce innovative, above average projects is central to thePittsburg State EET program as it is in many other programs as well. Another problem notunique to the entrepreneurial-based approach is timeliness. For many students, capstone projectsinclude late or all –nighters the week that the project is due. The planned renovation of the EETprogram attempted to approach the timeliness aspect. This issue was to be addressed not onlyfor timeliness sake, but also to assist in enhancing the overall quality of the project. Theentrepreneurial approach means a wide variety of projects. Without

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

allows a small group to clearly view the pump impeller. The device also gives a truerepresentation of cavitation with cavitation noticeable by hearing as well as seeing. This willallow students to recognize the sound when cavitation cannot be seen, which could be valuablein their future endeavors. With cavitation being a problem encountered in many engineeringworkplaces, this project will give students the knowledge necessary to understand, recognize,and correct the problem before it becomes a major problem.Lessons Learned While the design and implementation of our team’s pump cavitation demonstrationdevice was accomplished mostly according to plan, some valuable lessons were learned by theteam members. The team especially struggled with

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford; Weston Kightlinger

requires a pre-implementation report, which describes the community, its needs, thedesign, the expected impacts on the community, and assessment plan to evaluate the design. AProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4detailed health and safety plan is required. After these two reports were submitted, the studentsprepared and gave a 15-minute web presentation to a technical advisory committee ofprofessional engineers from four engineering disciplines. They asked for clarifications of a fewaspects of the report and required revisions before approving the team for travel.The chapter built a

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Robert I. Egbert; Douglas R. Carroll

, history, economics, English, as well as the freshman engineeringcourse.The first step in the program is to be admitted to MSU and begin taking the freshman levelcourses. All of the freshman level courses are offered by MSU. After students have completedthe freshman level courses in the program, they apply for admission to Missouri S&T. Studentsare considered to be “pre-admitted” to the program prior to being admitted to Missouri S&T.Once they are admitted to Missouri S&T, they are fully admitted to the program at bothuniversities. In the MSU system, students are “pre-admitted” to a degree plan until theycomplete the general education requirements, and then they apply for formal admission to theprogram. At Missouri S&T students are

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Alec Bowman; Chris Hedden; Gonzalo Garcia; Ryan Lykins

2waypoint along a track, the system follows an imaginary target moving along a trajectorybetween waypoints. When this pseudo target passes within a particular threshold distance fromthe track end, it moves to the next segment. By following the pseudo target instead of trying toattain the trajectory itself, the overall flight path is smoothed.The inherent nonlinearity of the aircraft together with its limited desired operation range makesthe use of on-line control law computation an ideal solution. The AFS employs nonlinear modelpredictive control (NMPC) to perform its guidance, navigation, and control for trajectorytracking. The combination of the nonlinear UAV model, the nonlinear guidance laws in bothlateral and longitudinal plans, the NMPC, and

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Ronny N. Galloway

On Demand Lecture Content for Online Courses Using Boogie Board Rip TM and Jing TM Screen and Audio Capture Ronny N Galloway PE Pittsburg State UniversityAbstractFeedback from students in the author’s online classes has demonstrated desire for betterexplanation of the text book material. One method of delivering on demand lecture contentto online students is described. The delivery, assessment, and technology used will bediscussed. Initial feedback from the students will be described, as well as, the author’sperspective on the tools versus other methods currently used for online course contentdelivery. Also, plans for use of this method in the traditional

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Shannon L. Servoss; Edgar C. Clausen

process forboth the instructor and students:  Step 1. Students in groups of 3-4 are given a brief summary of an engineering problem that includes a list of the materials and supplies that are available for solving the problem  Step 2. Students collect information from the literature and develop a plan for solving the problem  Step 3. The student group prepares a pre-lab report for approval prior to initiating lab activity  Step 4. The student group performs the experiment  Step 5. Each individual student (or, in some cases, student group) submits a written report, first as a draft and then for final approvalEach of these steps is discussed in detail in the following paragraphs.Step 1. Problem

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Kevin R. Lewelling

their academic training and/or industrial experience, their knowledge baseages becoming less relevant to current technologies being used. This results in a negativeimpact on student education. Technical knowledge has a shelf life of approximately 5 years;therefore a faculty member should consider a sabbatical leave within this time frame.Feedback from industrial advisory boards constantly support the notion that faculty membersneed to stay current and be willing to add new curriculum to their degree plans which reflectthese changes. In a normal academic year, there is little time for adding new knowledge tocourses or updating technical skills. This in itself provides clear evidence sabbaticals areneeded and helpful in meeting expectations of

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds; Ed Pohl

engineering concepts which were utilized as the park was beingconstructed, and as the park was modified based on customer satisfaction ratings.The third phase of our research was to incorporate our current Arkansas Curriculum Frameworksand national technology standards into our competition in an attempt to encourage teachers toparticipate as team sponsors in the program while assuring them that the state requirements forcurriculum were being met as students worked through the stages of the competition. This hasbeen a major concern for teachers because of accountability for student achievement on our statebenchmark assessments. We provided lesson plans for the initial phase of the competition thatwere aligned with Arkansas frameworks for middle school

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Harvest Collier; Diane Hagni

formal educational technology group on campus at the time, so CERTI, alongwith representatives from the IT department, put in place a controlled-growth plan to make surethat clickers had every chance to succeed and would be available to any instructor anywhere onProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 5campus. This was a formidable goal at that time when only a handful of classrooms wereequipped for multi-media presentations. The way in which clickers were rolled out to the campuswas so successful it turned out to be a prototype for how future technologies would beintroduced. A side benefit

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Eric D. Mead; Karen Reynolds; Lawrence Whitman

of planning and learning by students, coaches, teachers, and volunteers at all levels. Preparation The Shocker MINDSTORMS Challenge Steering Committee plans and coordinates the annual event. The Committee includes WSU faculty and staff from the College of Education and the College of Engineering, WSU engineering students, and volunteers from the community and local industry. This committee meets almost every week of the year to prepare for the event. The Challenge has grown to include teams from across the central portion of the state of Kansas. With three levels of competition on two different levels of courses, the competition takes up the entire Heskett Center gymnasium on the WSU campus. This area is the equivalent of three full sized

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Jeffery S. Thomas

condition andthen develop a care plan. At Missouri S&T, students were asked to analyze broken componentsand then develop a scenario involving all of those components and their associated failuremodes. Figure 1 shows some of the components that were made available to the students.Appendix A contains a photo and short description of each item.The term reverse is sometimes used to describe case studies on what not to do. Students wouldbe encouraged to not repeat the unfortunate situation described in the case study. Highlypublicized building collapses, stemming from an engineering or construction mistake, might beused in this type of case study. In this paper, however, the term reverse has more to do with themanner in which the case study is

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Darrin S. Muggli; Brian M. Tande

College in northeast Kansas.BC is implementing all aspects of a complete engineering program, while recognizing that themodel is flexible enough to be scaled down and adapted to other institutions’ plans. The BCEngineering Department is currently identifying the optimum on-site curriculum to complementeach UND DEDP discipline-specific degree, developing a procedure for laboratoryimplementation, and designing student support structures for this unique program to provide apathway for other colleges that wish to adopt the model. It is also currently exploring questionssuch as: What critical support services are required on campus to best support students? How canthe on-site institution develop its own laboratories in Phases 2 and 3 to complement

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Bijaya Shrestha

joys of engagement or the so called fruits of labor. So, this author introducedsome new pedagogical approaches that involved the students quite actively in theteaching - learning process. These approaches provided them with rewards for theirinitiatives and involvement. Students need to feel the pressure of a challenge in any givencourse but they also need to find a venue where a genuine conversation takes place andwhere they could see the connecting dots of their endeavor to their desired goals. Acarefully planned strategy can deliver such a climate.The issue raised in this article addresses an important S&T teaching and learning issuethat could go beyond the boundaries of this campus, many universities struggle in likemanner in its

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher James; B. Terry Beck

were all higher than the test section. This higher density balsa actuallyprovided even more strength than the test section showed, but since the test section met thedesign requirements, this added strength was unnecessary especially considering the resultingweight penalty.Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationChristopher James, Kansas State UniversityChristopher James is a senior in the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (MNE) Department atKansas State University. He served as Team Leader for the SAE Aero Design Team for the2011-2012 season and has been a member of the team for three years. Christopher is currentlyco-leading the team and plans to graduate

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

attendance of non-paper presenting students. As a result 11 students, nine ofwhom were from the University of Nebraska, attended the 2009 Midwest region meeting (DanSchulte, personal communication, December 14, 2010). This was a significantly larger cohortthan the three students who attended the 2010 Midwest region meeting hosted by the Universityof Kansas in Lawrence. All students who attended the 2010 meeting presented papers (FrancisThomas, personal communication, December 14, 2010). Planning is already in process to boostthese numbers for the 2011 Midwest region meeting at Arkansas Tech in Russelville and the2012 meeting at the Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla.Beyond student chapters, SCC, and region meetings, ASEE has

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Douglas K. Ludlow

thermodynamic properties of fluids; and heat effects of processes.The video needs to present factual information and descriptive techniques.Not only will you benefit from participating in the process to produce a short video covering somethermodynamics principle, in the future other students will have access to the short YouTube videos viaBlackboard so that the current and future students can benefit and learn in the asynchronous manner on an“as needed” basis.As you plan your video I would suggest that you go to the site: http://classes.mst.edu/chemeng141/There you can view the videos prepared by ChBE 141 students previously to get some sense what can bedone. Hopefully yours will be even more creative.Project specifics: 1) By “YouTube” format it is

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Benjamin Cooper; Steve E. Watkins

evolutions of electronic computing. Themanufacturing capacities that gave rise to the microprocessor had vastly greater potential thanthat used in mainframes. Photolithographic manufacturing allowed the time between successivegenerations of product to be very short. In 1965, Gordon E. Moore made this observation forsemiconductor product cycles since 1959 [2], but the industry expectation, known as Moore’slaw, has guided planning, development, and research ever since with high accuracy. Theeconomic consequence has been that products, once started, developed through a rapid numberof small accumulative steps. And once a manufacturer traveled some distance down this productdevelopment path, major design changes to a product–such as changing the overall