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Douglas R. Carroll

Including Distance Technology in the Traditional Classroom Douglas R. Carroll Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractThe author has been working for several years toward developing a cost effective way to bringdistance education technology into the regular classroom. Two methods have been studied. Forthe first method a high quality digital tablet and a noise canceling microphone were installed onthe podium in a regular classroom. The total cost was about $2500.00 per classroom. Thissystem allows faculty to transmit and record their lectures. Faculty have found this system to beeasy to use and very reliable.The second method was to have faculty bring a

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Julia L. Morse

A Simple Approach to the Introduction and Assessment of Lifelong Learning in a Freshman-Level Technology Course Julia L. Morse Kansas State University SalinaAbstractEngineering and Engineering Technology programs have been struggling with practical ways toincorporate the assessment of lifelong learning. In this simple approach, a freshmanmanufacturing processes course introduced students to the expected practice of lifelong learning.Students were required to pursue and document three hours of independently pursued“Professional Development Opportunities.” Introduction to the requirements providedopportunity to discuss the breadth of available

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Lawrence Whitman; Karen Reynolds; Zulma Toro-Ramos

StateUniversity. She was Technology Center Manager for the College of Education before joining theCollege of Engineering in 2008. Karen is the Assistant Affiliate Director for Project Lead TheWay (PLTW) in Kansas.Zulma Toro-Ramos serves as Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Industrialand Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. She received a B.S. in IndustrialEngineering from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.S. in Industrial and OperationsEngineering in from the University of Michigan. She also holds a Ph.D. in Industrial andSystems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Toro-Ramos has been inacademic administration for over sixteen years. Her research interests include engineeringProceedings of the

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E. Specking; Edgar C. Clausen

were charged $350 to coverdaily lunches, two snacks per day, supplies, a t-shirt, insurance and other camp related expenses.College of Engineering scholarships were available for students in need. ESA participants werecharged $650 to cover three meals per day, two snacks per day, a t-shirt, insurance, supplies,resident hall costs and other camp expenses. The Razorback Solar Boat Competition wassponsored by the College of Engineering and the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority(ASTA), whose funding for the program came from NSF. Students in the Razorback Solar BoatCompetition were awarded scholarships based on need, as either partial or full scholarships.Students in How It’s Done—Chemical Engineering Style were awarded scholarships from

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Jonathan Cefalu; Timothy Roemer; Pawel Kosakowski; Shankar Krishnan

Incorporating 3D RP Process in Biomedical Engineering Design Jonathan Cefalu, Timothy Roemer, Pawel Kosakowski and Shankar Krishnan, Ph.D. Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MassachusettsAbstractDesign, prototyping and analysis are vital skills to be obtained by Biomedical Engineering(BME) students. These skills should be taught to the BME students during their design courses.Introducing the design process with prototypes gives students a better visualization of a finalproduct in three dimensions. While machining the designed part would be the ideal method, it isnot always practical within the confines of an academic term. The most

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Michael Reynolds; Nick Huisman

. The emergence ofthe online Master’s degree may foreshadow further usage of the Internet in undergraduateeducation. Industrial engineering and engineering management programs are far more Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5represented, as a proportion of total programs, in online graduate education than inundergraduate education. The number of schools offering an engineering PhD online is stillrelatively low.Table 1: List of schools that offer engineering graduate degrees online. Arizona State University Stevens Institute of Technology

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Robert I. Egbert

fundamentals of theengineering design process.Over the past four years the author has been responsible for teaching the introductoryengineering course for students on the Missouri State University (MSU) campus who areparticipating in the Cooperative Engineering Program operated by Missouri University ofScience & Technology (Missouri S&T) in cooperation with MSU.During that time, a number of different ideas and topics have introduced in the course. Somewere successful but others failed for a variety of reasons. This paper discusses both thesuccesses and failures and offers suggestions for other teaching similar courses.IntroductionOn August 21, 2006, the Governor of the state of Missouri, along with the Curators of theUniversity of Missouri

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Robert M. O'Connell

Professional Engineer. He recently completeda Fulbright Fellowship in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems at the Dublin Institute of Technology inDublin, Ireland, during which he studied modern teaching and learning methods for engineering education,including various forms of group-based learning.Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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David Che; David Clark; Tom Magnone

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORomNNCSUQ6. IFI Inch Fastener Standards Book, 8th Edition, http://www.indfast.org/shop/display_products.asp?cat=37. INDUSTRIAL FASTENERS INSTITUTE, http://www.indfast.org Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 178. Globalizing manufacturing engineering education, Stephan, K. & Vedaraman Sriraman, IEEE Technology andSociety Magazine, vol.24, no.3, p.16-22, 20059. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman10. http://www.prosperousamerica.org/2011/02/23/dave_frengel11. http://www.prosperousamerica.org12

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James L. Huff; Todd A. Patten; Richard L. Wells; Monte Cox

aHaitian Creole word that means ―together.‖ This word captures the spirit of a collaborativeservice-learning partnership involving the Peltan Christian Primary School in northern Haiti, andthe professional counseling and engineering departments at Harding University. Bothdepartments seek to partner with this primary school by primarily focusing on their relationshiptogether while working on projects related to HCD that appropriately grow out of therelationship.The Ansanm partnership is interdisciplinary in nature as both Harding‘s engineering andprofessional counseling programs interface with the same Haitian partners. As the engineeringdepartment designs appropriate technology systems for the partners in Peltan, Haiti, theprofessional counseling

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Rebeca G. Book

Women Recruitment/Retention in STEM Fields Rebeca G. Book Pittsburg State UniversityAbstractNumbers in the United States are down in the STEM (science, technology, engineering,mathematics) fields compared to other countries. A look at the minority or women in STEMshows an even lower number. What can be done to improve these numbers? Once the minorityor woman student is in the program, how can they be retained? This paper will give suggestionson where to recruit and pointers on how to reach out to women students. Hurdles to recruit andretain women students will also be examined and how to overcome them.IntroductionThe STEM (science, technology

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Patricia S. Buford

package; a bi-lingual user’s manual; delivery of computers to point of use. Guatemala was selected because ofcontacts in the area.BackgroundRequirements for engineering accreditation have changed significantly beginning when theABET Board of Directors adopted the new Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC-2000) in 19961. Thischange came as a result of the engineering community realizing in the 1990’s that the world waschanging in a revolutionary way due to technology and a change of direction from nationalsecurity to international economic competitiveness2.As a result, engineering faculty of accredited programs constantly grapple with how to ensuregraduates achieve the ABET defined a-k student outcomes in their curriculum. For a little over a

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Marwan Abumahaimed; Joseph J. Rencis

Mechanics of Materials, Machine Design, and Vibrations Finite Element Learning Modules for Undergraduate Courses Marwan Abumahaimed/Joseph J. Rencis University of Arkansas, Fayetteville/Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper presents four finite element learning modules that have been developed for mechanicsof materials, machine design, and vibrations that can be integrated into these undergraduatecourses. A simple cantilever beam example is considered, solved by hand and also, solved usingthe commercial finite element code ANSYS®. ANSYS© has been employed since it is widelyused to analyze engineering problems in the industry. The cantilever beam is modeled using

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Jeffery S. Thomas; Malcolm E. Hays; Megan J. Meyer

ofthe 2006 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Chicago, Illinois. Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 26Biographical InformationJEFFERY S. THOMASJeffery S. Thomas is an assistant teaching professor in the department of Civil, Architectural and EnvironmentalEngineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics in2009 and a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering in 1995 and 1996 from Missouri S&T. He is a licensedprofessional engineer.MALCOLM E. HAYSMalcolm E. Hays is an

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Steve Menhart

Direct Versus Indirect Assessment Methodologies Steve Menhart Department of Engineering Technology University of Arkansas at Little RockAbstractThe paper discusses direct and indirect student assessment methods, used by the Department ofEngineering Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), and their possibleapplications, including the limitations of their use. Faculty members are familiar with the directassessment of their students via exams, quizzes, and reports etc. Indirect assessment methodsinclude surveys and questionnaires. At the conclusion of almost every college-level coursestudents are asked to

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B. Zhang; H. Misak; P.S. Dhanasekaran; D. Kalla; R. Asmatulu

Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology and Its Products B. Zhang1, H.Misak1, P.S. Dhanasekaran1, D. Kalla2 and R. Asmatulu1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 2 Department of Engineering Technology Metropolitan State College of Denver Denver, CO, 80014, USAAbstractNanotechnology increases the strengths of many materials and devices, as well as enhancesefficiencies of monitoring devices, remediation of

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Julius Marpaung; Louis Johnson; William Flanery

through the main ECEN Facebookaccount. Information or comment regarding our recent activities and videos may be found athttp://www.facebook.com/osuece.ConclusionVideo games have been integrated into our society for many decades and were initially developed forentertainment purposes only. As technology advances, more and more educators have found videogames as one of many learning tools at their disposal. The availability of many modern FPGAs andembedded processors at an affordable price has opened many interesting projects of which many formereducators could have only dreamed. Often time students find that programming or engineering classesare hard to understand due to their lack of interest. It is up to the educators to keep up with the

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Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds

Engineering Education 3controlled and adapted, accelerating the learning process. Simulation Games are not limited toteaching cognitive learning goals. Moreover, skills like decision making, communication, and 4networking are implicitly promoted.‖Pablo Moreno-Ger, a member of a team of researchers from Madrid’s Complutense Universitywho are analyzing the educational and technological aspects of integrating virtual graphicadventures into online education platforms, states ―video games in virtual educationalenvironments are a complement to traditional teaching for the student.‖5 Making use of theinteractive

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Thomas R. Marrero

   Project-based Learning: Centrifugal Pump Operations Thomas R. Marrero Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe a new project-based experiment on centrifugal pumpperformance and operation. A low-cost modular, table-top centrifugal pump system wasdesigned and constructed for use by undergraduate chemical engineering students. The use of thepump system resulted in an increased hands-on experience. Laboratory activities includedgenerating pump performance

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Wayne Helmer; Damon Mobbs

inthe class room.Introduction and BackgroundRP technology and systems have been around for a number of years. This technology hasfound application in industry, governmental engineering laboratories, manufacturing facilitiesand all types of schools. As the sophistication of this technology has increased the base priceof these units has decreased. RP are now cost effective in graduate schools, technical schoolsand secondary and primary educational facilities. New improvements in the technology havemade RP units available to almost any school in our country. The terminology used in the rapid prototyping industry is not completely consistent. Some differentiate “RP” from “3D Printing” Theoretically RP includes more expensive machines and

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Sohum Sohoni; David Fritz; Wira Mulia

the Learning Back into Learning Technology. Emerging issues in the practice of university learning and teaching, 2006: p. 67-76.28. A. Cheville, C. Co, and B. Turner. Improving Team Performance in a Capstone Design Course Using the Jigsaw Technique and Electronic Peer Evaluation. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Expo. 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii.29. A. Cheville, C. Co, and B. Turner. Communication as a Proxy Measure for Student Design Ability in Capstone Design Courses. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Expo. 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii.30. A. Dong, A.W. Hill, and A.M. Agogino, A Document Analysis Method for Characterizing Design Team