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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

Shockerphant Aerospace: Towards a sustainable model for teaching production system concepts Lawrence Whitman, S. Hossein Cheraghi, Janet Twomey Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wichita State UniversityAbstractUnderstanding cause-and-effect relationships is key to evaluating and designing aproduction system. Traditional instruction methods including textbook study andlectures introduce students to concepts, theories, and formulas involved inmanufacturing systems. Developments in simulation technology have enablededucators to give students a "real-world" model to apply the theories andtechniques learned in the classroom. Simulation has proven to be effective

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Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

Integration of Management Principles in an Open-Ended Community Service Project Kevin R. Lewelling, Kevin S. Woolverton, and Michael C. Reynolds University of Arkansas - Fort Smith 5210 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72913-3649AbstractThe University of Arkansas at Fort Smith has developed a unique engineering project for firstyear students to experience the business world while gaining an understanding for engineeringtasks and how engineers function in the workplace. This project included five “Introduction toEngineering” classes, each tasked with designing, funding, and implementing a synchronizedholiday light show which could be received on any

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Shannon G. Davis; Carol S. Gattis; Edgar C. Clausen

University of Arkansas Science Partnership Program: Lessons Learned In Evaluating Year One Shannon G. Davis1, Carol S. Gattis2 and Edgar C. Clausen3 College of Education and Health Professions1/College of Engineering2/ Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering3 University of ArkansasAbstractThe University of Arkansas Science Partnership Program began in 2006 and focuses on theprofessional growth of 6th, 7th and 8th grade science teachers through three summer institutes andfollow-up activities. Teachers are teamed with engineering faculty to improve teaching skillsand to increase teachers’ use, understanding and application of

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Joseph J. Rencis; Sachin Terdalkar

stress S max in Figure 2a at a local stress-riser in the truss element isdefined as follows: Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4S max = K t S ave (1)where Save is the uniform normal stress in the truss element at the location of the stress-riser and K t is the theoretical stress concentration factor (based on theoretical elastic,homogenous, isotropic material). The application of the theoretical stress concentration factor K t for static loadingdepends on the material type as follows:• Ductile Material ( ε f

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Meader Woo; John M. Watkins

controller. The continuous time plant is given by 100 G ( s) = . ( s + 1)( s − 1)The system is sampled at 0.01 seconds. Because the system is unstable, an initial controller isneeded to stabilize the system. The following PID controller stabilizes the system. 12.1187( z − 0.99)( z − 0.9613) D( z ) = z ( z − 1) Now using Simulink we can connect this system to the DSA block as shown in Figure 2. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American

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W. Roy Penney; Rachel M. Lee; Meagan E. Magie; Edgar C. Clausen

⋅ N t (7)The unfinned area of the air side tubes was calculated from the average distance between fins,and the number of fins in the horizontal and vertical directions using the equation: Aunfin = 2 ⋅ S ⋅ t radiator ⋅ N f ,horizontal ⋅ N f ,vertical (8)The total heat transfer area on the air side was then calculated from the area of the fins, theunfinned area and the fin efficiency by the equation: As = Aunfin + A fin ⋅η (9)The heat transfer area on the ethylene glycol solution side of the tubes was calculated from theheight, length and width of the tubes, using the equation: Asol = 2 ⋅ (H tube + 2

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Jeff Parker; Ping Liu

equalization first verified in Matlab on PC. It is further collaborated afterprinciple [1],[2], especially when source alphabets from a M - being implemented on TI TMS320C6713 DSP board in C.PSK constellation. Since proposed by [1],[2], CMA has beenextensively studied. An excellent review about this algorithm II. S YSTEM M ODELcan be found in [3]. The convergence property of CMA has Consider a widely adopted input/output model in a commu-been analyzed [4]. Connection between CMA and Wiener nication system with a blind equalizer [5], which is shown inreceivers are also build based on a novel geometrical concept Fig. 1:[5]. It has been proved that the zero cost can

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

rigorous classroom work with hands-on exposure toapplications of what students are learning. For over two decades, Rose-Hulman has beenevolving methods to prepare students to meet the increasing demands to be significantlyproductive in shorter and shorter amounts of time. Traditional, single discipline focusedlaboratory experiments do not adequately convey current professional requirements. Since the1980’s, the Institute has increasingly used realistic experiences to educate students about themultidimensional challenges of actually implementing innovation. In 1999, building onsuccesses of earlier efforts in new product development first in applied optics and later in abroader range of disciplines, Rose-Hulman launched a unique incubator/new

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Larry A. Glasgow

3 4571856 therefore, < V >= = 8.9 x107 ft/s. So, π (0.1278) 2 d ρ (.1278)(8.9 x10 7 )(55) Re = = = 1.66 x1012 μ (0.56)(6.72 x10 − 4 ) This Reynolds number verifies turbulent flow. L w = gΔz + 1 V 2 f so, power=1.66x1016 hp. 2 RhThe student knew what was needed and followed the necessary steps. However, he made aconversion (dimensional) error in the very first step and failed to recognize that his computedaverage velocity was ridiculously large (the

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

silicon atoms with a size of 2 nanometers or less and, because of their thin size, may be embedded into matrix composites without causing • Table II: Textural Properties of Mixed Metal Oxide Nanoparticles SrTiO3 Crystallite Surface Total Pore Avg Pore 2 Sample Size (nm) Area (m /g) Volume Size (d), Å (cc/g) CM-SrTiO3 145 1.0 0.003 93 S NCM- 25 17 0.12 290 SrTiO3 SrTiO3 25 82

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

. • Value people, hard work, humor, knowledge and service.1 O’Donovan, E. “Professional learning communities” District Administration 43.3 2007 Vol.2 p942 Kraat, S. B. Ed. Relationships between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians. New York: Haworth20053 Elmborg, J.; Hook, S. Ed. Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration.American Library Association 20054 Information literacy in action: collaboration, retrieved February 2007, from Association of College andResearch Libraries Web site:http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitresources/collaboration/collaboration.htm5 Oh, J.; Collins, J.; Kissick, B.; Starkey, A. “Information Literacy Teams: Bridging the Fluency Divide”2005 ASEE Conference

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Ken Barnard; Greg Stephens; Raju Dandu

contamination which pregnant women andchildren are particularly vulnerable. One in six of the four million babies born in the U.S. eachyear have a blood mercury level above EPA set safe levels and high enough to cause learningdisabilities, impair motor skills, and affect intelligence (Kerry & Kerry 2007).Burning fossil fuels increase levels of pollutants and greenhouse gasses. Burning of coal addsmercury, sulfur oxides, and fly ash, among others to our atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuelsalso adds carbon dioxide to our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which means ittraps more of the sun’s energy that would otherwise be radiated out to space. Carbon dioxidelevels have been increasing exponentially since the mid 1800’s when humans

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Ramesh V. Narang

well and it will be maintained. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 7 Table 5 Assessment Evaluation of the Metrology course.No. Learning Outcomes Program 6* 7 8 S/NS** Outcomes1 Variable Gage R & R – long form a, b, c 1 1 4 NS2 Variable Gage R & R – short form “ 1 2 S3 Attribute

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

communication skills; • be mastered in the principles of business and management; • understand the principles of leadership; • have a strong sense of professionalism and ethical standards; and • be lifelong learners.A number of noted engineering education leaders have responded and commentedon these reports. Butcher claims the reports call for, “ingenious leaders —ingenious engineers” and calls these engineers, “well-rounded RenaissanceEngineer”[s] [3]. Turns, Atman, et al., [4] use these reports as an input to what anengineer needs to know. Dym, et al. present how engineering education is beingchallenged to require students to consider additional design constraints required aspart of a “new fundamentals” [5]. In response to

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Johannes Strobel

Effects of Argumentation Scaffolds on Argumentation and Problem Solving,” Educational Technology: Research & Development, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2002, pp. 5-22.[16] Dunkle, M.E., G. Schraw, and L. D. Bendixen, “Cognitive Processes in Well-Defined and Ill-Defined Problem Solving,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, USA, 1995.[17] Hong, N.S., D. H. Jonassen, S. McGee, “Predictors of Well-Structured and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in an Astronomy Simulation,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2003, pp. 6-33.[18] Rich, B., Schaum’s Principles of and Problems of Elementary Algebra, New York, New York

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

students that took the Communication Networks Modeling,Simulation and Testing class during Fall 2006: Jesse Bruce, Lucas Folegatti, Robert Hegedus,Chris Magnussen, Jason McConnell, Ryan Schroederr, Justin Vierra, John Vaughan, and CharlesWatkins. Charles Watkins’ model is shown in this paper, and Robert Hegedus’ full reportinitiated the idea of publishing this work.References[1] “Can WLAN Switches Support Voice?” Business Communications Review, pp. 42-47, October 2006.[2] Gast, M. S., “802.11 Wireless LANs – The Definitive Guide,” Chapter 25 – 802.11 Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly Media.[3] E. Ferro and F. Potorti, “Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Wireless Protocols, A Survey and A Comparison”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol.12, No.1, pp

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Keith L. Hohn; LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin; Julia Keen; Hani Melhem; Anil Pahwa; Jan Wiersema; Barb Licklider

also found that theexperience was very positive for these new students. These qualitative results suggest that thelearning communities can be very useful for new engineering students by helping them meet andget to know students who are in the same classes as them and who have many of the sameconcerns.BibliographyProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 111. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs”, ABET, http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2007- 08%20EAC%20Criteria%2011-15-06.pdf2. Laufgraben, J. L., & Shapiro, N. S. (2004

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Saeed M. Khan; Gregory Spaulding; Deanna Livengood; Paul Benjamin; Justin Schemm; Kenton Dreilling; Chase Maxton; Fred Kreiman

: We rolled the large Cantenna to a distance of about 200 yards fromour building (Technology Center) and hooked it up through 2511 PLUS EXT2 wirelesscard to a laptop which was running Net Stumbler. We then turned the antenna to face theTech Center. Using our antenna we were able to pick up 8 access points with 4 of themhaving a signal to noise ratio (S/N) greater than or equal to 20 dB (a threshold required “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 8for proper access). We then replaced the large cantenna with a smaller one and we

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Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Mandar V. Joshi; Sagar R. Gosavi; Daryl Beetner

Proceedings of 2007 Midwest Section Conference of American Society for Engineering Education 10at UMR to design vital building blocks (such as adders, multipliers, accumulator units) usingNCL. Now due to the availability of the powerful Altera DE-2 FPGA board it is even possible toverify the entire building blocks like that of a multiplier (as in our case). The multiplier that wasused to for verification was an 8 bit 2’s complement multiplier implemented using Booth2algorithm. The design flow has been illustrated in Figure 11. Fig. 10 Waveforms showing the 1 bit output of the data out of RAM Fig. 11 Design flow for

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

by U.S. Mail in a sealed envelope with company letterhead and/or logo to thefollowing address:Dr. Theodore ManikasDept. of Electrical EngineeringThe University of Tulsa600 S. College Ave.Tulsa, OK 74104-3189Please evaluate the student using the 1 to 5 scale where 5 is the highest score and 1 is the lowestscore. The numeric evaluations correspond to letter grades of:5 = A, outstanding work4 = B, above average work3 = C, average work2 = D, below average work needing improvement1 = Failing work. Evaluation Criteria Score (1 to 5)1. Attendance, timeliness in arriving for work, completed

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Surendra Singh

6experience while in school. The students have benefited by getting “real-world” engineeringexperience. The companies have been able to boost their sales and enhanced their product linewith minimal investment.Bibliography:[1] S. Lekhakul and R. A. Higgins, “Senior Design Project: Undergraduate Thesis,” IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 37,no. 2, May 1994, pp. 203-206.[2] K. J. Zdunek, “Engineering Education: A Young Engineer’s View,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 18,n0. 2, March 1980, pp. 14-18.[3] G. W. Schmid-Schonbein, “The Industrial Internship Program at UCSD Bioengineering,” Proc. 1st JointBMES/EMBS Conf. Serving Humanity, Advancing Technology, Oct. 13-16, Atlanta, GA, pp. 1258.[4] L. M. Waples and K. M. Ropella, “The Biomedical Engineering

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

. The questions span a broad range. Forexample, the application requires them to list the positive and negative impacts(economic, environmental, social, cultural, and ecosystem) their project will have on thecommunity. They must describe local construction techniques and what skills they havethat the community does not have. The students must describe the beneficiary group(s)in terms of ethnicity, tribal and religious affiliations, spatial organization, primaryoccupations, current income, and decision-making structures of all the sub-groups. Theyneed to know the local culture, customs, and hazards. The students must convince EWB-USA that they know enough about the area for EWB-USA to approve the project.The processes of EWB-USA require the

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

-solving abilities should be placed on ensuring they arecompetent to express their ideas via written communication. The methods offered herein seek tointroduce writing into the engineering curriculum; future research will be directed towardsProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5understand the effectiveness of these and other methods in producing wholly competentcommunicators.References1. Artemeva, N., Logie, S., St. Martin, J. (1999). From page to stage: How theories of genre and situated learning help introduce engineering students to discipline-specific

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

. This agreement was part of an overall effort to improve educationalopportunities between both WSU engineering and WATC engineering technology students. Theintent was to share common facilities, curriculums and development opportunities to controlcosts and reduce duplication of facilities and equipment. Potential areas of collaboration include: 1. Collaborative Senior Design Project(s) 2. Collaborative efforts on Formula and Mini Baja SAE car development 3. Joint educational research and development proposals and projects 4. Joint technology research and development proposals and projects The agreement between WSU and WATC enables Mechanical Engineering students touse the laboratories at WATC. All the laboratory experiments will

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Ing-Chang Jong

. Otherwise, erroneous re-sults will be reached. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 13References1. Timoshenko, S., and G. H. MacCullough, Elements of Strength of Materials, Third Edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1949.2. Singer, F. L., and A. Pytel, Strength of Materials, Fourth Edition, Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.3. Beer, F. P., E. R. Johnston, Jr., and J. T. DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials, Fourth Edition, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, NY

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.2. Dice (2007). http://wilderdom.com/images/dice.gif Accessed June 10, 2007.3. Marbles (2007). http://www.photoblogster.com/images/20060211182945_marbles.jpg Accessed June 10, 2007.4. Hamburger Helper (2007). http://www.wackypackages.org/realproductsscans/2005/hamburgerhelper.jpg Accessed June 10, 2007.5. Somayaji, S. (2001). Civil Engineering Materials, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.6. Atomic Fireball (2007). www.lincolnpennycandy.com Accessed June 10, 2007 “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Wei Zhang

organization andarchitecture with hands-on experience. In Proc. of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference, November 2002.[5] M. T. Niemier and P. M. Kogge. Teaching students computer architecture for new,nanotechnologies. In Proc. of the Workshop of Computer Architecture Education, 2002.[6] L. Pascual, A. Torrenti, J. Sahuquillo and J. Flich. Understanding cache hierarchyinteractions with a program-driven simulator. IN Proc. of the Workshop on ComputerArchitecture Education, June 2007.[7] Y. N. Patt and S. J. Patel. Introduction to computing sytems: from bits & gates to C &beyond. McGraw-Hill.[8] R. E. Bryant and D. O'Hallaron. Computer systems: a programmer's perspective.Prentice Hall, 2003.[9] J. Saltzer and F. Kaashoek. A

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Yahong Rosa Zheng; Sarat K. Chitneni; Daryl G. Beetner

computerengineering will provide students with state-of-the-art engineering education. Further the DE2board would open limitless possibilities to undergraduate students in design projects.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank ALTERA Corporation and their university education programfor the generous donation of the DE2 FPGA boards and the prompt technical support. The workis supported in part by AFOSF under grant FA9550-07-1-0376.References[1] Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering, IEEE Computer Society,2004.[2] Dawoud, D.S., Masupe, S., “Design and FPGA implementation of digit-serial FIR filters”, AFRICON, 2004. 7thAFRICON Conference in Africa, Volume 1, 2004, pp. 203 – 209.[3] Valls, J., Peiro, M.M

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these examples: Aspects of my participation that were successful Aspects of my participation I would improve in the future1 Information Literacy competency standards for higher education. (2000). The Association of Collegeand Research Libraries. Retrieved November 29, 2006 from http://www.ala.org/acrl/comstan.html.2 Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. CambridgeUniversity Press.3 Donath, L, Spray, R.T., Alford, N., Elisabeth ,M. et. al. (2005). Characterizing discourse amongundergraduate researchers in an inquiry-based community of practice. Journal of Engineering Education,94 (4), 403-17.4 Imel. S. (2000). Contextual learning in adult education. Practice Application Brief N. 12