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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Marwan Abumahaimed; Joseph J. Rencis

. Experiential learning prepares students to visualize real lifeengineering problems and opens their minds to think more broadly and innovatively.Recent studies and research in undergraduate engineering programs proved that experientiallearning plays a key role in enhancing engineering students‟ analytical and problem solvingskills. The ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to identify,formulate, and solve engineering problems is a major point stressed in these articles.28,29According to these studies, most of the students‟ feedbacks was favored to apply what they Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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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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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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James G. Steuber

complicated by the traditional assessment tool; i.e., the examination, which usuallyrequires a unique solution leaving little room for design decisions. In the following manuscript: thecurrently most-favored pedagogy for teaching design, project based learning (PBL), is reviewedand discussed; A novel project developed for a machine component design course in an effort tomotivate students and provide practical experience is presented; And, several tools useful for thedesign of machine components and in-class assessment of a students ability to design a machineor machine component are presented.1 BackgroundImproving the design sequence in engineering curricula is the object of intense discussions innearly every engineering department and the topic of

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Sohum Sohoni; David Fritz; Wira Mulia

best practicesProceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5With these goals in mind, we designed the following set of course objectives: 1. List the main parts of a microprocessor 2. Draw a block diagram of CPU internals, and label each part 3. Process data presented in various representations 4. Differentiate between general purpose microprocessors and embedded processors w.r.t to limitations, styles of programming and resources 5. Explain the effect of storing all information in the form of a finite number of bits (quantization) 6. Design an algorithm to solve a