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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Josh Coffman; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis; Ashland O. Brown

, andengineering educational conference papers reveals that the topics of fatigue and finite elementsaddressed together are almost non-existent. In this work a simple cantilever beam fatigueexample is considered and is solved by hand and the commercial finite element code ANSYS®Academic Teaching Introductory Release 11.0. The hand solution is included to emphasize theimportance of verification when solving a problem using the finite element method. The targetaudience of this paper is an instructor who would like to integrate fatigue into a finite elementcourse or fatigue finite element (FE) analysis into a machine design course.IntroductionFatigue is a material based phenomenon that causes failure in machine parts at stress valuesmuch lowers than static

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Chih-Hao Wu; Kim Troboy; Tracy Cole; Loretta Cochran; David Roach

considered the ways in whichethical decision-making is taught to students at their institution and the learning objectives oftheir programs. Both groups integrate ethics across the curriculum by introducing ethical issuesand discussion of problems or hypothetical cases in different courses in ways that are relevant tothe course content. For example, marketing courses include discussion of ethical issues inadvertising. In the Introduction to Engineering course, students view a video depicting an ethicaldilemma such as “Incident at Morales”20, hear a lecture from the instructor, engage in a classdiscussion, do a reading assignment that includes other scenarios, and write a report analyzingthose scenarios. Arkansas Tech University offers an elective

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James A. Ejiwale

behooves graduates of Industrial Technologyprograms to be aware of this new workforce. Therefore, the knowledge of the challenges that thisworkforce may pose and how to manage them is essential to help minimize the negative impactof virtual work on productivity.What is e-Leadership? 1According to Avolio, Kahai, & Dodge (2000), [e] “-leadership is defined as a social influenceprocess to produce a change in attitudes, feelings, thinking, behavior, and/or performance withindividuals, groups, and/or organizations. Notably, e-leadership in an organization can occur atany hierarchical level. It may involve one-to-one and one-to-many interactions within and acrosslarge units and organizations or it may be

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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W. Roy Penney; Kendal J. Brown; Joel D. Vincent; Edgar C. Clausen

-270. 9. Henda, R., 2004, “Computer Evaluation of Exchange Factors in Thermal Radiation,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 126-131. 10. Goldstein, A.S., 2004, “A Computational Model for Teaching Free Convection,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 272-278. 11. Olinger, D.J., Hermanson, J.C., 2002, “Integrated Thermal-Fluid Experiments in WPI’s Discovery Classroom,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 239-243. 12. Nollert, M.U., 2002, “An Easy Heat and Mass Transfer Experiment for Transport Phenomena,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 56-59. 13. Smart, J.L., 2003, “Optimum Cooking of French Fry-Shaped Potatoes: A Classroom

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Dan Allison; Colin Davidson; Martha Shawver; Shelly Belles; Chris Wilkinson

A Global Design Competition Lawrence Whitman, Zulma Toro-Ramos, Dan Allison, Colin Davidson, Martha Shawver, Shelly Belles and Chris Wilkinson Wichita State University Spirit AeroSystemsAbstractIndustry has made it clear that engineering graduates should be more prepared tointeract in an integrated product team with colleagues around the world. WichitaState University has initiated the Spirit Global Design Challenge mainly due toindustry and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)and the College of Engineering’s Engineering 2020 program which have stressedthe need for engineering graduates to function on multi-disciplinary teams and ina

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

engineering faculty to improve teaching skills and toincrease the teachers’ use, understanding and application of hands-on exercises. The 27participants in the Year 2 (2007) Institute developed 18 open-ended design briefs and activitiesfor use in their classrooms during the academic year.Follow-up visits showed that the participants were very active in using design activities duringthe 2007-2008 school year. The 21 surveyed teachers used 73 teacher-developed designactivities for an average of more than 3 activities per teacher. Best of all, 19 new designactivities were developed by the 21 surveyed teachers after the Institute, and one teacherdeveloped six new activities for the classroom.Following a very successful Year 2 Institute and follow-up

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Chang-Soo Kim; Steve E. Watkins

effective learning experience. Theseinclude the selection of appropriate project topics, the structure of the course contents relatedwith laboratory and lectures, and the enhancement of the laboratory infrastructure for higherflexibility in process practices and higher enrollment.IntroductionThe area of integrated optical devices in microscale, including passive microoptical componentsand solid-state photonic devices, has already emerged as a substantial area within the broadscope of the various engineering disciplines. The need of enriching curricula in this area haslong been the subject of matters 1. Also, developing affordable teaching laboratory in this area tosupport accompanying lectures is becoming important with the constraints of academic

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Timothy J. Annesley; David P. Miller

Oklahoma offers aRobotics Lab course, which fulfills the requirement for experimental elective in both the AE andME degree programs. The course is typically taken by junior or senior undergrads, though theoccasional graduate student may also enroll. Many colleges and universities now include one ormore robotics courses in their curriculum. Many are being used in CS departments to promotethe CS curricula and increase the otherwise declining number of CS majors.10, 6, 4 Our class hasalmost the opposite motivation. The fields of ME and AE are both becoming more softwaredependent -- yet many of the undergrad majors say that they selected one of these fields becausethey do not like working with computers. This robotics course forces them to face