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Robert I. Egbert

A Laboratory Format for Improved Student Participation Robert I. Egbert Cooperative Engineering Program Missouri State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a format for engineering laboratory courses that improves studentparticipation in the laboratory experiments. Often in laboratory courses only one or twomembers of a student lab group actively participate in the laboratory exercise while others in thegroup stand around and observe. This is especially true in large laboratory sections with manystudent lab groups. This format helps ensure that all students in a lab group participate by givingeach member of

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E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Daniel Bullock; Carlos Castillo; Patricia Buford; Gill Richards

Efficacy of a Final Lab Practicum and Lab Reports for Assessment in a Fundamentals Electric Circuits Laboratory E. Carl Greco, Jim D. Reasoner, Daniel Bullock, Carlos Castillo, Patricia Buford and Gill Richards Electrical Engineering Department – Arkansas Tech UniversityAbstractIn a fundamental electrical engineering laboratory course, the traditional team based approach tolaboratory structure with two or more members per lab team was not as effective for teachingbasic laboratory skills and knowledge as a lab structure that allowed students to performlaboratory exercises individually throughout the semester. The laboratory report was insensitiveand

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Carl Locke; Jim Lookadoo

 2010 – 2011 VERSION  2011 – 2012 VERSION – SEE CHANGES PRINTED IN 2010 – 2011 VERSION READ APPM  SECTION II.G PROGRAM REVIEWS PREPARE SELF STUDY  USE APPROPRIATE SELF STUDY QUESTIONAIRE – www.abet.org/forms.shtmlWHAT SHOULD WE DO TOPREPARE? Brief all Faculty & Staff on Process Make Sure Advising Sheets Prepared Properly – Transcripts Sent to PEV Collect and Organize Materials View Laboratories With “New” Eyes Program Head – Contact PEV/Team Chair  Depends on Commission Make PEV’s Job as Easy as PossibleWHAT HAPPENS DURING A VISIT? Team Chair Visits Dean, President, Provost, CFO , Registrar, Admissions, etc PEV’s Visit Program & Support Depts. Program Visit  Program Head  Faculty  Students  Staff

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Allen A. Busick; Melissa L. Cooley; Alexander M. Lopez; Aaron J. Steuart; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

Determining the Net Positive Suction Head of a Magnetic Drive PumpAllen A. Busick, Melissa L. Cooley, Alexander M. Lopez, Aaron J. Steuart, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractCavitation accompanied by metal removal, vibration, reduced flow, noise and efficiency losscan occur in the operation of a pump if the suction pressure is only slightly greater than the vaporpressure of the fluid. Cavitation can be avoided by maintaining or exceeding the required netpositive suction head, NPSHr. This paper describes a simple and inexpensive laboratory set-upfor determining the NPSHr and

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YoonJung Cho; Sohum Sohoni; Donald P. French

innumerous calls for reform in engineering education[1-3]. Regardless of the chosen response tosuch calls, it is clear that quality education requires the presence of instructors who have learnedto teach effectively. Unfortunately, because we often rely on “on-the-job” training, facultybecome skilled at teaching after receiving their doctoral degrees and “practicing” on students.For this reason, institutions commonly establish teaching effectiveness centers dedicated tofaculty development. Moreover, and of greater concern to us, much undergraduate teaching,especially during laboratories which may constitute 50% or more of the time that students are inthe classroom, is performed by Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) who may receive notraining in

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Douglas R. Carroll

laboratory classes is a challenge in the Cooperative Engineering programs.The Host campus will not have the resources to be able to duplicate all of the lab facilitiesavailable on the Main Campus. However, most of the undergraduate labs are relativelyinexpensive and can be duplicated on the Host Campus. In the programs that the author is mostfamiliar with, $500k was adequate funds to purchase the equipment necessary to teach themajority of laboratory classes for an engineering major. Students travel to the Main Campus totake the laboratory classes that cannot be duplicated. Classes can be taught on Saturdays andcoordinated to minimize the number of trips the students must make to the Main Campus. Cooperative Engineering Programs provide a way

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Robert M. O'Connell; Gavin Duffy; Ted Burke; David Dorran

ProgramThe study was conducted by the authors as part of a Fulbright Fellowship to study and conductresearch on active student-centered learning, including group-based learning, at the DublinInstitute of Technology (DIT) in Dublin, Ireland. To study group-based learning, the authorsserved as learning-group tutors in the laboratory sessions of three different lower levelundergraduate courses in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems. Those courses were onein basic instrumentation, one in signals and systems, and a robotics sumo-wrestling (Robo Sumo)project course. While the three courses were managed differently from each other in certainways, they had in common that their laboratory components followed similar formats. In theInstrumentation

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Angel Riggs; Kirby Smith; Cindy Blackwell; Paul Weckler; Dan Tilley; Rodney Holcomb; Shelly Sitton; Ron Delahoussaye

student teams; Faculty is also charged with curriculum development, coordination of lectures, grading, proof-reading student-team reports, and serving as team advisors; Graduate research assistant is charged with compiling, organizing and analyzing pre-, mid- and post-experience survey data, in addition to providing support for faculty presentations and papers; Classroom facilities and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering technicians, laboratories and equipment are provided for use by student teams; OSU Food and Agricultural Products Center technicians, laboratories and equipment are provided for use by student teams; and OSU New Product Development

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Michael Detamore; Paul Willhite

contemporaryissues in society. We propose that the definition of contemporary issues be broadly inclusive,emphasizing that students develop an awareness of contemporary and non-technical issues intheir major field and the role of engineering professionals in society globally to gain anappreciation and knowledge base for non-technical issues.Life-long Learning (3i)Life long learning can be evaluated in a number of different areas, depending on the nature of thespecific program. For example, students can be required in engineering laboratory courses toobtain data from outside sources (e.g., literature search, data in CRC handbook, etc.), with aquantitative portion of their grade being dedicated to this, which can ultimately be translatedback to quantitative

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Sara E. Wilson

sciences.At the graduate and post-doctoral level, responsible conduct of research and engineering ethicstraining for engineers has been less common outside of bioengineering. Unlike the biomedicalsciences, engineering research and graduate work includes a wide range of activities and studentsin these programs have a wide range of career opportunities, not all of which are covered intraditional in a traditional RCR course. Therefore, in order to address the NSF mandate withcourses appropriate to engineering students, it is critical that new materials and lesson plans becreated.Unique Elements of RCR for EngineeringResearchIn the biomedical sciences, much of the research performed focuses on hypothesis-driven,laboratory or clinical research. As such

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Christopher C. Ibeh

, blood, lymph Food, Water GI Tract, lymph*, Spleen, Heart Urine, Breast liver*, blood* milk* *Potential, unconfirmed routeinclude but not limited to: inhalation by the respiratory system, ingestion of contaminatedfood and groundwater, and the skin via laboratory activities and consumer products such ascosmetics, toothpaste, etc. Figure 21 is a schematic of the respiratory pathway. Atmosphericair passes through the nasal pathway to the alveoli where the respiratory gas exchange takesplace via diffusion through its semi-permeable membrane. The alveoli respiratory walls areonly one cell thick and its respiratory

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Lauren M. Ronsse; Lily M. Wang; Clarence E. Waters

project is designed by the students.For the spring 2010 semester, a three-story, 40,000 sq. ft. office building was selected. Two ofthe stories will contain the office of a local architectural engineering firm, which is intended inpart to be a laboratory space to showcase innovative building systems. The remaining story willbe a space for other tenants.This real-world building was under construction while students were working on the project.Though the students did not design the building systems used in the actual project, the architectand owner’s representative for the project participated extensively in the course. Theycommunicated the owner’s goals and requirements for the project, which included an emphasison incorporating sustainable design

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R. Asmatulu; W.S. Khan; E. Asmatulu; M. Ceylan

10 19. NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, Joint Programmatic Commission Science and Ethics, Bioethics Education, December, 2007. 20. http://web.gccaz.edu/~mdinchak/eng101/argbioethics.htm, accessed on July 7, 2010. 21. Asmatulu, R. “Biomaterials—Class Notes,” Wichita State University, 2008. 22. Asmatulu, R., Khan, W., Nguyen, K.D., and Yildirim, M.B. “Synthesizing Magnetic Nanocomposite Fibers for Undergraduate Nanotechnology Laboratory,” International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (in press). Biographical Information RAMAZAN ASMATULU Dr. Asmatulu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University for five years. He has conducted several

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Robert M. O'Connell

to compareand discuss their responses to the question and re-answer it. This opportunity for in-class peerinstruction usually results in improved student learning.Summative assessment in lecture-based modules is usually associated with “points” or “marks”that accumulate and are used to determine a student’s final “grade” in the course. In engineering,the most common summative assessment task is an ILO-associated question or problem on anexamination, given either at the end of the course or at a point in the semester after which theILO in question will no longer be revisited. Other summative assessment tasks include writtenlaboratory reports (if the module includes a laboratory component) and written papers, perhapson ILOs covered

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R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; B. Zhang

, 2006, pp. 964-967. Biographical Information RAMAZAN ASMATULU Dr. Asmatulu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University for five years. He has conducted several research in the area of nanotechnology, biotechnology and education, and published over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings. He has developed nanotechnology research and teaching laboratories, and taught courses in his areas.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education,Lawrence, KS, September 22-24, 2010 11 EYLEM ASMATULU Mrs

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

, proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2007-1562.12 P. Dunn, Creating industrial partnerships with construction-management technology programs, proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2009- 1114.13 F.S. Gunnerson, R.T. Jacobsen and G. Pillay, A strategic alliance between regional universities and industry at a national laboratory, proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 3895-3903.14 C. Baukal, J. Colannino, W. Bussman, and G. Price, Industry instructors for a specialized elective course, proceedings of

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Keith E. Hedges

dramatic event that has broad impacts in engineering. Educatorsmay identify a significant event as the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse. Although thisbecame a learning moment in engineering education, its discussion or laboratory reenactmentexhibits synchronicity between the instructor and the learner and not the learner and the event.This asynchronous experience has the students learning about the event with a historicalsensibility. All of the relevant conclusions from academia and practice are available in the publicdomain. When engineering programs lack courses engaging real-time phenomena, they mayinhibit students from thinking critically and formulating their own opinions and conclusions fromlive events. A need exists for exploring

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Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

faculty to include more Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education  6   evaluation components in their presentation or by changes in the measurement andinstrumentation curriculum.A challenge for the department during this period has been a large growth in the size of theundergraduate program, which has presented considerable strain on the laboratory classesincluding measurement and instrumentation classes. These results demonstrate that while theincreased

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Josh Coffman; Joseph J. Rencis; Daniel J. Jensen; Ashland O. Brown; Jiancheng Liu; Kristen Kaufman; Christina White

Tests and Assessments, Fifth Edition, Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA, 1993, pp. 36-60.11. Haladyna, T.M., Developing and Validating Multiple Choice Test Items, Third Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2004, pp. 14, 67-126, 187, 217-229.12. Hambleton, R.K., and Eignor, D.R., A Practitioner’s Guide to Criterion-referenced Test Development, Validation, and Test Score Usage, Laboratory of Psychometric and Evaluative Research Report No. 70, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1978, pp. 61-66. Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education