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Michael Detamore; Paul Willhite

Planning for the ABET Program Outcomes in Life-Long Learning and Contemporary Issues Michael Detamore, Paul Willhite Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of KansasAbstractCriterion 3 in the ABET review presents two “softer” criteria in items 3i and 3j, which are “arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning,” and “a knowledge ofcontemporary issues,” respectively. Undoubtedly, a number of engineering programs will electto determine their own definitions and evaluation policies for these issues in a wide variety ofdifferent ways. This presentation is designed to be more of an open dialogue, initiated withexamples of how

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Ana T. Torres-Ayala; Daniel Bumblauskas; Matthew Verleger

responded to the invitation. Ninety-three percent of respondents were graduatestudents.This paper presents the aggregate results of all 97 respondents. It includes a profile of surveyparticipants, motivations for joining the ASEE, experiences with the ASEE, interests andsuggestions. Additionally, this paper will discuss the implications those results had on the SCCExecutive Board's immediate plans for the 2009-2010 year, as well as on the longer termstrategic plan of the SCC.History of ASEE Student MembersSince its creation in 1893 the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) has attractedfaculty, administrators, and industry representatives committed to furthering education inengineering and engineering technology. The ASEE also attracts

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

Functional Objectives Students have Objectives clearly Objectives are Functional Not addressed all address design inadequately objectives do Available objectives and goals and client described or do not not appear to identified primary demands, but are match with design have been (key) and secondary incomplete or plan. considered. (desired) goals. Key missing some goals are matched in elements. design plan. Objectives identify key goals and match design plan. Engineering Analysis and Methodology The key design

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Ramesh K. Agarwal

connections.• Boeing is working with several airports, airlines and other partners in developing tools such as SARA (Speed & Route Advisor) for “tailored arrivals”.• SARA delivered traffic within 30 seconds of planned time on 80% approaches at Schiphol airport in Holland compared to within two minutes on a baseline of 67%.• At San Francisco Airport, more than 1700 complete and partial tailored arrivals were completed between December 2007 and June 2009 using the B777 and B747 aircraft. The tailored arrivals saved an average of 950kg of fuel and ~ $950 per approach. Complete tailored arrivals saved approximately 40% of the fuel used in arrivals. For one year period, four participating airlines saved more than 524,000 kg of fuel and

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Dave Sly; Daniel Bumblauskas; Frank Peters

structure, with anassociated lesson plan will be presented. A review was conducted of peer institutions withsimilar technical sales engineering programs included the University of Florida, and Penn StateErie - The Behrend College.Keywords: technical sales, sales engineering, industry collaborationDescription of the InnovationThe Iowa State University College of Engineering (COE) received a corporate gift from Tranecorp. to establish an engineering sales program within the college. The original gift proposalinitiated a review of sales and marketing positions for engineers, sales engineering programs atother universities, and a literature and industry review of sales engineering curriculum. Theseactivities were performed by a committee established

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

University. This evaluation was conducted as away to provide participant feedback to the Innovations Process faculty in order to benchmark thecourse. As a unique course funded by a USDA Higher Education Challenge grant this projectallowed the faculty of the interdisciplinary course to reflect on the first year of the project anduse feedback from the students of that year to make changes for future years.Student participants in the Innovations Process course are placed in interdisciplinary teams andchallenged to solve a real-world problem in partnership with a local (Oklahoma) sponsorcompany. The participants combine engineering, business and communications skills to developa prototype, budget analysis and a comprehensive communications plan with

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Lisa Anneberg; Suyun Luo

number of enhancements are planned for this global engineering education project. Some of the proposals in process include: 1. American students studying in China, with emphasis on the particular Chinese engineering courses and Mandarin/Shanghainese language immersion. In addition, the advantages of global/Chinese experience for the American student is invaluable. Two LTU American students have attended the World’s Expo in Shanghai in 2010. The exposure to the SUES program has provided the needed impetus to expand the program, as well as highlighted the necessary logistical requirements. 2. A variant of the 2-plus-2 program for Chinese students, where the Chinese undergraduate student would spend

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Douglas R. Carroll

program is acooperative effort between the “Main Campus” that offers the engineering degree and the “HostCampus” where the students attend classes. The engineering classes required for the major areoffered and transcripted by the Main Campus, but are taught on the Host Campus either astraditional classes or as distance education. The non-engineering classes (math, science, history,English, economics, etc.) are offered by the Host Campus. Engineering programs are composedof approximately 50% engineering courses and 50% non-engineering courses, so each campusteaches approximately 50% of the courses in the degree plan. The engineering degrees earned bythe students and the diplomas granted upon graduation are from the Main Campus. Teaching the

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

host field trips whereuniversities visit local industrial facilities to see actual equipment in operation. 22 Industry canprovide formal mentors for university students and participate in supervisory thesis committeesfor graduate students,13 including sponsoring industrial theses that are carried out in industry.21Adjunct InstructorsJZ has provided adjunct instructors for three different ORU mechanical engineering courses overthe past three academic years: ME331 Applied Thermodynamics (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall2010), ME433 Heat Transfer (Spring 2009), and ME444 Experimental Methods (Spring 2010).The current plan is for JZ to provide instructors for ME331 each fall and ME444 each spring onan ongoing basis. To date, all courses have been taught

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Sara E. Wilson

design and in career paths such as industry and government.IntroductionThe America COMPETES Act, which was signed into law Aug, 2007, increased researchfunding, but also contained mandates for those institutions seeking NSF funding. Specifically, inSection 7009 of the America COMPETES Act, the National Science Foundation was mandatedto require responsible conduct of research (RCR) training for all trainees on NSF fundedprojects: “The Director shall require that each institution that applies for financial assistance from the Foundation for science and engineering research or education describe in its grant proposal a plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research

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Troy Harding

collected through the use ofwritten reports and surveys. The author discusses what was learned about the impact onstudents’ attitudes, learning and quality of work. Challenges are also described, as well asrecommendations for enhancements.IntroductionComputer programming has traditionally been a solo activity. Even in teams of softwaredevelopers, the planning of the project may be done together, but the actually coding is typicallydone individually. In recent years the growing popularity of the extreme programming softwaredevelopment approach has brought attention to pair programming.1,2 Pair programming iswhere two programmers work together at one computer. They continuously collaborate ondesigning, coding, and testing the program. The person in

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

quality of the Matlab code that was needed to solve the problem. By the end of the termeach student had written and submitted one report. In addition, based on instructor and tutorobservations during project laboratory sessions, each member of the group was given a writtenassessment of his technical contribution to the project, his communication skills within thegroup, and his learning of Matlab. Thus, both assessment instruments, i.e., the student reportsand the instructor-written reports, assessed both group work and technical results. They werealso used both formatively and summatively, as in the Instrumentation course. The courseinstructor was reasonably satisfied with the assessment scheme used, but in the future he plans toProceedings of

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Keith E. Hedges

leaving your community andworld better than what you found it.”[11] Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education  8  Bibliography[1] Alexander, R. (Ed.). (1960, March 28). Sport: Poet of the depths [Electronic version]. TIME, LXXV(13).[2] Bilham. R. (2010, February 18). Lessons from the Haiti earthquake. Nature, (463), 878-879.[3] Creswell, J. W. (2005). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.[4] Connelly, F. M. & Clandinin, D, J. (1990). Stories of

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Andy Gill; Garrin Kimmell; Kevin Matlage

Engineering Education 2Special FeatureAt the University of Kansas, the Functional Programming group had grand plans to use what weknow and research (computer language technology) to help us enhance simple videos of whiteboardtalks. Unfortunately, before recording and producing these smaller talks and crafting our techniques,we found ourselves producing a 30 minute special feature. Here is our story.For over 20 years, the Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM) Symposium/Workshopseries has been bringing together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of programmanipulation, partial evaluation, and program generation. In Fall

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Dona Steffens Davidson; Kevin P. Drees

, with each of the following on a separate line in Compendex: Subject: metals and alloys (heading) Keyword: metallic matrix composites. Retrieve citations indexed by metallic matrix composites as a subheading attached to another heading unknown to the authors, as well as the case of metallic matrix composites as a keyword, appearing anywhere in the record, including the title, abstract and so on.From 1924-1968: Subject search: metals and alloys—metallic matrix composites, using the print index. From 1924 to 1968, this would require a search of 35 volumes inclusively. Originally, the plan was to have the student search the print indices to save money. Instead, Dialog was searched in phases and

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Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Christa N. Hestekin; Nick Tschepikow; George S. Denny; Edgar C. Clausen

were used to repeat this procedure with the three remaining emphasisareas. At the conclusion of these activities, the teacher subgroups presented all of the newlydeveloped design briefs to the entire group of participants, and a file containing all of the designbriefs was given to each participant. Twenty-one new design briefs/experiments were developedby the participants. Day 6 was used to make plans for mini-workshops and teacher visitation,and to discuss the workshop as a whole.Mini-workshopsOne day mini-workshops were held in October, December, February and May of the academicyear. The emphasis of each of the mini-workshops is detailed in Table 2. These mini-workshopsincluded presentations of design activities (and associated problems) by

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Christopher C. Ibeh

, actuation, thermal conductivity, sensing, healthmonitoring, self healing, energy generation, energy storage, etc. This effort emphasizes thefundamental understanding of the underlying science33-34 of how the bulk properties areinfluenced by such nano-attributes as dispersion, aspect ratio, interfacial phenomena, structure(primary, secondary and tertiary), purity, defects, etc. Transition of nanotechnology toaerospace and aircraft applications will be facilitated via such factors as technology readiness,verifiable distribution and orientation of nanoparticles, quality assurance and quality controltools and methodologies, certification plan, and the need for industry-academia-governmentcollaboration. This NASA effort has resulted in the development