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Viacheslav Adamchuk; Gwen Nugent; Bradley Barker; Neal Grandgenett

The Use of Robotics, GPS and GIS Technologies to Encourage STEM-Oriented Learning in Youth Viacheslav Adamchuk, Gwen Nugent, Bradley Barker, Neal Grandgenett University of NebraskaAbstractIn our technology rich world, the educational areas of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) play an increasingly essential role in developing well-prepared specialistsfor the 21st century workplace. Unfortunately, interest in theses areas has been declining for afew decades. Various innovative educational initiatives in formal and informal learningenvironments have been undertaken nationally to attempt to encourage STEM-oriented learning.Funded by the National

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Greg Stephens

colleges are pursuing the benefits of storytelling in theirKnowledge Management courses. A new academic journal titled Storytelling, Self, and Societystarted in 2004. GoldenFleece, a professional organization of organizational consultants andstorytellers was formed in 2007. And technology such as You Tube and digital storytelling hasopened the door to this medium.Early advocates of storytelling in higher education started the recent movement by highlightingthe deep tradition explained by David Kolb in Experiential Learning: Experience as the Sourceof Learning and Development who said learning comes from a sequence of experience, Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Douglas R. Carroll

Science and Technology. He recently became the Director of the CooperativeEngineering Program, a cooperative program between Missouri S&T and Missouri StateUniversities. Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; A. Yourdkhani

is one of the fastest growing fields. It is basicallyfabrication, manipulation, and characterization of materials at the nanoscale (usually between 1and 100 nm), which will significantly affect economic, educational, and social developments inall areas, such as engineering, science, defense, biomedical and biology [1]. It is also one of theleading technologies for educational revolution in the new millennium. Nanotechnologyeducation is being offered by many universities around the globe for the integration of allengineering and science courses for the future generation [1]. Several nanotechnology programsand centers in the U.S. have been undertaken by the government and by private sectors tointensify the teaching, research, and development

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Yumin Zhang; David Probst

advancement of technology has provided the tool to teach bothhemispheres at the same time.Bottom-Up ApproachAs mathematical derivation plays an important role in traditional engineering courses, theconventional teaching and learning methods are optimized for the left hemisphere. If we make ananalogy of engineering education as the construction process of a building, the dominantapproach is similar to laying down the bricks layer by layer from the bottom up. In the past, thisapproach achieved considerable success, and most faculty members were educated in this way.However, in the information age students are surrounded by so many distractions, and thistraditional approach becomes problematic. For example, cell phone and human networks havepenetrated

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R. Asmatulu

Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET). The survey results are given in Table 3. As can be seenfrom the survey results, most of the engineering students who took the survey scaled between 6and 10, which confirms that newly developed biomaterials course is well understood andestablished. 1) Please rate your level of understanding of the fundamental concepts in biomaterials, 2) Please rate your ability to apply the fundamental principles of biomaterials, 3) Please rate your ability to apply modern analytical techniques to biomaterials, 4) Please rate your ability to apply computational techniques to biomaterials, 5) How do you rate your ability to effectively communicate technical information in writing? 6) How do you

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Ray A. Luechtefeld; Steve E. Watkins

Suboptimization of Motivation Approaches in Engineering Education Ray A. Luechtefeld, Steve E. Watkins Missouri University of Science & Technology ray.luechtefeld@ieee.org, steve.e.watkins@ieee.orgAbstractEngineers of the 21st century will be called upon to work and learn in ways theirpredecessors never experienced. They will face novel, ambiguous, complex problemsthat will require adaptability, innovation, and leadership. To meet the challenges theirstudents will face in the future, engineering universities need new approaches andstructures to motivate their future graduates. The use of extrinsic (rather than intrinsic)motivation to prod

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Kaylea Dunn

1 The Case for Leadership Skills Courses in the Engineering Curriculum Kaylea Dunn Olsson Associates, Lincoln, NEAbstractLeadership courses are often encouraged, but not mandatory for an undergraduate engineeringdegree. The research presented here focuses on implementing specific undergraduate leadershipcourses as part of an American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditedprogram at a Midwestern University.The purpose of this study is to identify what professional skills engineering companies expectstudents to develop through coursework before

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George E. Meyer

Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Susan Fauer Company, Inc., pp.201-207.3. Carr, J.J., 1996. Elements of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.4. Dally, J.W., W.F. Riley, and K.G. McConnell, 1993. Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements, Second Edition. John Wiley and sons, inc., New York.5. DuBois, D. and E.F. DuBois, 1961. A formula to estimate the approximate surface area if weight and height are known. Archives of Internal Medicine, 17:863-871.6. Johnson, C.D., 2006. Process Control Instrumentation Technology (8th Edition). Pearson, Prentice Hall. Columbus, OH.7. Khalid, S.F., 2000. LabWindows/CVI Programming for Beginners. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.8. Khoo

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Robert I. Egbert

the freshman engineering courseto include topics such a teamwork, professionalism and ethics, and fundamentals of theengineering design process.This paper describes the development of an appropriate introductory engineering course forstudents on the Missouri State University (MSU) campus who are participating in thecooperative engineering program operated by Missouri University of Science & Technology(Missouri S&T) in cooperation with MSU.IntroductionOn August 21, 2006, the Governor of the state of Missouri, along with the Curators of theUniversity of Missouri, the Chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri S&T), and the President of Missouri State University (MSU) signed a Memorandumof Understanding that

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Shannon G. Davis; Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Bradley M. Dearing; Christa N. Hestekin; Edgar C. Clausen

UASPP: Three Years of Helping Middle School Teachers Devise Their Own Hands-on Engineering and Science Activities Shannon G. Davis1, Bryan W. Hill1, Carol S. Gattis2, Bradley M. Dearing3, Christa N. Hestekin4 and Edgar C. Clausen4 College of Engineering1/Honors College2/ Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering4 University of Arkansas Technology Department3, Illinois State University High SchoolAbstractThe University of Arkansas Science Partnership Program (UASPP) was developed in 2006 tofocus on the professional growth of 6th, 7th and 8th grade science teachers through summerinstitutes and follow-up

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Kevin R. Lewelling

vehicle that possesses modern featuressuch as air conditioning. The heart of the research project is using a Controller Area Network(CAN) to improve vehicle range and battery management. Additionally, this project has beenenthusiastically supported by local businesses and has been used to interest precollege agestudents by exposure to this technology in a public school setting.Actively engaging first-year engineering students is critical to program retention and developingexcitement about the profession1,2,3. Involving these students in one’s research project is alogical step with benefits for the learner 4 and educator. The student benefits from seeing theapplication of the engineering process and experiencing tangible results of their work

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Dan Bumblauskas

,improvements in video capturing technologies and delivery methods have created a marketplacefor undergraduate and graduate engineering coursework and research. Many universities haveextension and outreach departments which serve the local community and states in which theyare based. Engineering distance education programs have been an organic growth opportunityfor such extension divisions. For example, Stanford University’s Stanford Center forProfessional Development (SCPD) in1998 announced the first entirely online degree program inelectrical engineering1. In addition to entirely online degree programs, hybrid programs whichinclude both on-campus and off-campus work are gaining popularity. While initially containedto executive and corporate business

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Christopher C. Ibeh

. Technology Adoption or Market Share C B A Time Figure 1: The S-Curve "Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education" 3 Product Design and Development (PD&D)PD&D is the core module of this course. Course being interdisciplinary (Table 1 – CourseParticipants’ Demographics), foundational

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

u(x) ub p, force/length x F F a b a b x Figure 1. Material Law Formulas for a uniform bar with end centric axial and centric uniform distributed loads plus temperature change. Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Scott Smith

Integrating Asynchronous Paradigms into a VLSI Design Course Waleed K. Al-Assadi Scott Smith Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering Missouri University of science and Technology University of Arkansas Roll, MO 65409 Fayetteville, AR 72701 Abstract As demand rises for circuits with higher performance, higher complexity, and decreased feature size, asynchronous (clockless) paradigms will become more widely used in the semiconductor industry, as evidenced by the International Technology Roadmap for

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Dennis Audo; Seth O'Brien

-held GPS receivers. The first group to retrieve all their objectsis declared the winnerBibliography1. NAWIC Block Kids Building Program Official Oral Interview Questions/Revised March 20032. NAWIC Block Kids Building Program Judging Form/Revised March 20033. http.//www.ifihadahammer.com/Biographical InformationDennis AudoMr. Audo is an instructor at Pittsburg State University in the Department of Construction Management/ConstructionEngineering Technology; teaching Estimating I & II, Materials Testing & Inspection and The Construction Industry.Prior to teaching at PSU Mr. Audo worked in the construction industry for 27 years serving as a Field Engineer,Quality Control Manager, and Estimator for general and sub contractors prior to

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Nicholas C. Vanderslice; Thomas R. Marrero

. Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 17Gaunt, J. L. and J. Lehmann (2008). "Energy Balance and Emissions Associated with Biochar Sequestration and Pyrolysis Bioenergy Production." Environmental Science and Technology 42(11): 4152-4158.Glaser, B. (2006). "Prehistorically modified soils of central Amazonia: a model for sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first century." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 362: 187-196.Glaser, B. and K.-H. Knorr (2008). "Isotopic evidence for condensed aromatics from non-pyrogenic sources in

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Robert D. Homolka

, has umpired collegiate baseball for over 30 yearsincluding a stint in the Major Leagues and umpiring the Collegiate World Series twice.Using Baseball Problems In Mathematics ClassesHome run trot--the batter’s eye a tapemeasuring the distance12 Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3One strategy illustrated to show how outfielders catch a fly ball is the linear optical trajectory(LOT) model which received national attention in 1995. This model uses equations to relate themotion of the fly ball to the motion of the outfielder using a mathematical foundation. The