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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yumin Zhang; David Probst

mental functioning, and they canbe of great help in engineering education, as well as in other areas. A salient feature of thehuman brain is the lateralization, where the two hemispheres have different functionality.Traditional education methods overemphasize the left brain skills. Now is the time to have amore balanced approach. This can be done in two different levels: curriculum design and courseinstruction.    Bibliography[1] P. F. MacNeilage, L. J. Rogers and G. Vallortigara, “Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain”,Scientific American, July 2009, pp. 60.[2] Linda Williams, Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind, Touchstone, 1986.[3] Eric P. Jensen, Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching, 2nd edition, Corwin Press, 2008.[4

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling

years of the degree and additional interactions with seniordesign students; there is not a graduate engineering program in Fort Smith. With this in mind,the student population used in research projects is limited to freshman, sophomores, and seniordesign students, reducing the scope and complexity of the research that can be conducted. Theseconstraints have prompted evolution of the processes described in this paper.The Electric Vehicle Project (EVP) began in 2006 with a student led proposal submitted toBaldor Electric Company, the largest domestic producer of electric motors and drives, whichnetted the research team donated supplies and services. EVP is a multi-year research projectemphasizing the construction and testing of an electric

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; John Watkins

successful career as an engineering professor, the mentorneeds also to build a trust and become a friend that could help the protégé in othermatters such as personal life (e.g., buying a house, retirement planning, etc.) andto provide guidance to the protégé to have a successful career. The protégésresponded with: have an inquisitive mind and respect the mentor's experience,keep my mentor informed of my academic (including teaching, research, andservice) activity so advice can be obtained from my mentor, be courteous,including being mindful of my mentor's other time commitments, be willing tolearn and try new things, be honest to and respectful of my mentor. Several morecommented on the need to be respectful of the mentor’s time. The

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

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