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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh

. Course modules include such entrepreneurship elements as: product design and development, LCCA -product design and development for the environment, entrepreneurial data mining, ethics and safety, intellectual property, Nanoresearch, sensitivity and breakeven analyses.“Productivity/S-Curve:” Market Entry Strategies The concept of “Corporate Darwinism”1 propounds the theory that even the most successful companies are susceptible to competition, and that opportunities exist for “start-ups.” Start-ups” with the right combination of product, strategy and business plan implementation can be competitive. The S-Curve (Figure 1)4-7 relates to technology adoption rate, and can be utilized to represent a corporation’s productivity or market share or

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Robert I. Egbert

. Others suggested a tour of some type of engineering facility.EGR 110 in the FutureEGR 110 will again be offered at MSU in the 2009 fall semester. Plans are to put some of thestudy habits and campus resources back into the course since students will no longer be takingboth EGR 110 and IDS 110. We will continue to use practicing engineers as guest lecturers. Wealso plan to add some simple laboratory exercises and/or demonstrations to the course.In addition, the administration at Missouri S&T has invited students in the cooperativeengineering program, to take a one day trip to the Missouri S&T campus in Rolla to see some of Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dennis Audo; Seth O'Brien

sturdy. The students are then asked why they think the house is so strong. Theimportance of planning is again mentioned. The students are all invited inside the house to seethe interior and look at how all the framing members tie together.The students then return all the tools and materials issued to them prior to leaving the assemblyarea. After all the students have left the assembly area and headed off to another activity theadult volunteers and boss disassemble the house and stack the pieces in areas according to theircolor in preparation for the next group of student builders. The structure is designed to beassembled and disassembled one hundred times before a new kit is required.An independent third-party evaluation of students

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

of the experiment • A discussion of the experiment, possible alterations and the problems/limitations for use in the individual classrooms • A discussion of how the experiment fits into the state mandated science frameworks • A daily evaluationAs an example, consider the production of ethanol by fermentation, the experiment of Day 6.The background focused on ethanol as an alternative fuel source (from sugars, corn,lignocellulosics), the yeast as a living organism and its ability to grow both aerobically andanaerobically, and the planned execution of the experiment. The experiment then followed,where the teachers compared anaerobic growth and production of ethanol vs. aerobic

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; John Watkins

exchange Mar. Paper Draft Apr. Research Plan May Celebration BanquetThe mentors were asked to basically be a friend and provide advice and counsel.The mentor was to schedule a lunch off campus once a month (the college pickedup the tab). During the lunch, the mentor was requested to follow the suggestedtopic for the month. Each mentor was provided a stipend and asked to buy thelunch; the college later reimbursed the lunch expense. Finally, both the mentorand the protégé were asked to respond to periodic surveys, which are discussed inthe last section of the paper

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Yumin Zhang; David Probst

the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3  Nationwide, engineering programs suffer from relatively low retention rates, and part of theproblem is that students fail to see the connection between the math/physics courses in the firsttwo years and the engineering courses in the last two years.If we plan a journey to somewhere by car, usually we need to get some assistance from an on-line map. There are two different kinds of information available: the first is a map with the travelroute highlighted, and the second is the detailed turn-by-turn instructions. The conventionalinstruction method in

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; C. Richard Cassady

FEP works in conjunction with the CDC toprovide a series of PDI workshops to our students. Students who complete the requirements forthe PDI Career Planning Program before graduating receive a Certicate of Recognition from theCDC and a Letter of Commendation from the Dean of the student’s college or school. During the2008-2009 academic year, 84 FEP students completed the program.Resumes and Job SearchThis resumes and job search workshop assists students with transitioning their high schoolresume to a professional resume focusing on university activities and accomplishments. Studentsare introduced to the co-op and internship opportunities available to engineering students as wellas the UofA resources available for securing co-ops, internships

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dan Bumblauskas

nearly a quarter of a million students in 2005, Open University is a pioneer in borderlessglobal education. The European Union (EU) has a plan in place called e-Europe8, whichrevolves around the growth and utilization of e-learning programs throughout the union. Thispolicy employs information and communication technologies (ICT’s) to instruct students throughvarious sources such as radio, television, and the Internet.China educates a substantial portion of their students via distance education. This can partly beexplained by the demographics of the nation as many still reside in small farming towns andvillages and require remote access to education programs. One technique China has utilized toeducate the masses is the implementation of The China

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu

assessment to facilitate continuousimprovement on biomaterials and related topics: 1) What are the three strengths of this course? 2) What are the top three things that you have learned? 3) What are the three improvements for this course that would help you learn better? 4) How can these improvements be made? 5) What action plans can be put in place to help you learn more? 6) What have you learned about your own learning process? 7) Is there anything else you would like the instructor to know about the class? Several different answers were received from the students depending on the background,field of interest, level of students (BS and MS) and employment. The common answers for thequestion number 1

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Viacheslav Adamchuk; Gwen Nugent; Bradley Barker; Neal Grandgenett

specificproblem solving approaches to successfully accomplish robotics tasks. Informal observations ofthe students had shown that they used a variety of problem-solving approaches - including trialand error as well as, less frequently, pre-planning and problem analysis.Similar to the learning instrument, participants scored significantly higher on the posttest(M=155.91, SD = 20.20) than on the pretest (M=147.52, SD = 22.03, t (133) = -5.09, p < .001)indicating the 4-H robotics and GPS/GIS summer camps have a positive short-term effect onattitudes towards STEM topics. While most sites had pre-post increases in attitudinal means, thet-results were not as significant as those from the content test (Table 3). Table 3

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kaylea Dunn

interpersonal skills essential (8)  Excellent organizational and planning skills (6)  Basic supervisory skills (1)  Attention to detail (4)  Strong work ethic essential to be successful (3)  Ability to communicate technical issues with a wide range of people (7)  Solve problems (6)  Work independently (1)  Business knowledge (2)  Theoretical understanding (8)Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 5  Writing skills (4)  Project management (2)  Time management skills (4)  Ability to travel (1)  Software

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Crystal A. Powers; Donald M. Edwards; Dennis D. Schulte

of the distance trials of all teams.Prizes - UNL Bookstore Gift Certificates for the top three teamsAll decisions by judges are finalOverall Sequence of Events 1. Use the design process to create the plans for your vehicle 2. Prepare PowerPoint slide(s) for a oral presentation the week before the competition 3. Prepare a poster presentation for competition day 4. Construct your vehicle and bring it to class on race day (don’t forget to bring extra materials in case your vehicle falls apart!) 5. Have fun, win the competition and the audience!! 6. Turn in your final written report on Friday of competition weekReimbursementUp to $16/team reimbursement is available. Included in this are funds to build the vehicle

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

.” needed.”Main point,  Main point not well planned  Main point obvious or  Main point somewhat original  Main point is originalfocus, and  Purpose unclear unimaginative.  Purposed fairly clear  Purpose very clearoriginality  Plagiarism a concern  Purpose somewhat vagueOrganization  Purpose statement missing or  Purpose statement vague  Purpose statement somewhat  Purpose statement gains inappropriate  Somewhat logical organization interesting audience attention  Main points unclear  Few supporting details

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Scott Smith

authors are planning to expand upon this work through the following: 1) Develop new educational modules focusing on additional asynchronous circuit topics, such that asynchronous circuit concepts can be incorporated into a larger variety of Computer Engineering courses. 2) Develop a synthesis methodology using the developed NCL library that can be incorporated into the existing CAD tools. 3) Complete the development of NCL design and optimization CAD tools, which work with the Mentor Graphics design tool suite, such that students can design and test large NCL circuits and can study the operation of the asynchronous CAD tools in the context of their synchronous counterparts. 4) Port the static and semi-static libraries to Cadence

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nicholas C. Vanderslice; Thomas R. Marrero

agricultural land was added.Two bio-char based trial plants have already been made or are in the planning stages, one inJapan and one in Australia. A full scale Australian plant would contain 50,000 ha of mallee, andthe trial plant in Australia was capable of producing “7500 MWh of electricity, 690 t of activatedcarbon, and 210 t of eucalyptus oil.”14A full scale plant would produce “40,000 MWh ofelectricity, 1050 t of eucalyptus oil, 2720 t of granular activated carbon, 1090 t of pelletisedactivated carbon and 294 t of powdered activated carbon.”14 The net present value of this plantwould be $7.8 million dollars. The Japanese plant contains 1,000 ha of mallee trees and will bescaled up to 10,000 ha if successful. The goal is to establish a carbon