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R.L.A. Jordan

Synchronous Distance Education in a Mechanical Engineering Technology CourseDecember 9, 2006Abstract: Instruction using the internet is not new and is being used more and more frequently. Some types of classes lend themselves very well to this mode of delivery; technical courses are more of a challenge. The need to use graphics and equations in the instruction and assessment increase the challenges of this type of instruction. Methods of delivery must be modified from face-to-face delivery, along with the methods of assessment. There are many facets to the education of an engineer or engineering technician. Some of the objectives of the engineer’s and engineering

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Walter O. Craig

INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARDS’ ROLE IN THE ACCREDITATION OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SCHOOLS Walter O. Craig, III Electronics Engineering Technology Department Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 craig@engr.subr.edu Fax (225)-775-9828AbstractThe industry advisory board is a partnership between industry and academia. The board iscomposed of members of various industries which have a vital interest and purpose in the schooland/or department. The purpose of an industry advisory board is to help the school/departmentwith the strategic planning and mission while providing advice on various important issues. Theindustry

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

“Building the Largest Cantenna in Kansas: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Engineering Technology Programs” Saeed M. Khan, Gregory Spaulding, Deanna Livengood, Paul Benjamin, Justin Schemm, Kenton Dreilling, Chase Maxton and Fred Kreiman Kansas State University at SalinaAbstract:This paper describes the design and development of a large 20 dBi (decibels isotropic)Wi-Fi antenna for a class project in the Communication Circuit Design course. This largeantenna is based on smaller Wi-Fi antennas commonly referred to as cantennas (gain ofabout 10 dBi). The smaller version is made with a single can (3-4 inches) in diameter andan

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Raju Dandu; John E. De Leon

Kansas State University’s ELITE Scholarship Program: Enhancing Lives through Technology and Engineering Dr. Raju Dandu, Associate Professor Dr. John E. De Leon, Professor and Head Department of Engineering Technology Kansas State University at Salina 785-826-2677 rdandu@ksu.edu jd17@sal.ksu.edu 2007 ASEE Midwest Conference AbstractKansas State University’s Engineering Technology programs

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

Teaching Hands-On Manufacturing Technology Fundamentals to ME Students at Local Community Colleges Behnam Bahr1, Kurt Soschinske2, George Gray3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas1, 2 / Department of Engineering Technology, Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas3AbstractSome Mechanical Engineering departments in the United States currently do not have enoughmoney to support and sustain modern machine shops, composite lay-up rooms, or weldinglaboratories within their program. Such shops are essential for new mechanical engineeringgraduates to understand

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Day W. Radebaugh

1 Complexity in Engineering: The Silent Killer Day W. Radebaugh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260AbstractA review of the list of recent technological disasters suggests that the risk to society oflarge-scale engineering projects has grown in proportion to the complexity of thedesigned system. Illustrative cases include the Challenger explosion, the power gridblackouts of

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

Developing and Funding Undergraduate Engineering Internships Theodore W. Manikas, Gerald R. Kane Department of Electrical Engineering The University of Tulsa Tulsa, OklahomaAbstractCooperation between academia and industry is essential due to rapid changes in technology andincreasing global competition. An important component of this cooperation is the establishmentof undergraduate engineering intern programs.Internship opportunities with engineering companies enhance undergraduate engineeringeducation, as students learn how to transform their theoretical technology background intopractical design

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

concern that engineering studentsof today may not be appropriately educated to meet the demands that will beplaced on the engineer of the future, without refocusing and reshaping theProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education rev5 2undergraduate engineering learning experience. In the first report, the groupprovided guiding principles that will shape engineering activities in 2020: • The pace of technological innovation will continue to be rapid. • The work in which technology will be deployed will be intensely globally interconnected. • The population of

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Ramazan Asmatulu; Mehmet B. Yildirim; Waseem Khan; Adebayo Adeniji; Humphrey Wamocha

, and it will be extended in the near future. 6Figure 5: Comparisons of human hair and pollen sizes with different size electrospun nanofibers.5. EDUCATION Nanotechnology education is offered either as an option or required courses by manyuniversities around the world. It usually involves a multidisciplinary natural science educationwith courses in engineering, physics, chemistry, math and biology. Additionally, nanotechnologyis also considered to be taught as part of science studies at high schools and middle schools. Thisemerging field of science and technology is leading to a technological revolution in the newmillennium [8-10]. The corresponding author has

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Johannes Strobel

library can be found at thehomepage of the Center for the Study of Problem Solving, School of Information Science andLearning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia (http://csps.missouri.edu). Details onthe creation of the library and an initial analysis of the contained data can be found elsewhere[37]. The main goal of the second study was to test the findings of the first study across a largerpopulation of cases.A. ProcessFindings from the first study were utilized to generate a rubric that was applied to 90 interviewsconducted with engineers on problem solving in a variety of different engineering fields. Therubric consisted of elements that were found from the single-case study, mainly theintertwindness of different problem types

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Ramazan Asmatulu; Waseem Khan; Humphrey Wamocha; Adebayo Adeniji

Improving the Nanotechnology Education for Future Engineers R. Asmatulu, W. Kahn, H. Wamocha, and A. Adeniji Department of Mechanical Engineering Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0133 Abstract Nanotechnology education offered by many universities in the USA involvesinterdisciplinary and multidisciplinary education with courses in nanotechnology, engineering,chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology. The challenge of nanotechnology education is toprovide advanced technologies to the students in a wide verity of fields. In the presentcommunication, we

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Larry A. Glasgow

Addressing the Disconnect between Engineering Students and the Physical World Larry A. Glasgow Department of Chemical Engineering Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-5102 785-532-4314 glasgow@ksu.eduAbstract There is ample evidence of a growing disconnect between engineering students and thephysical world. This chasm is being created by social and technological changes; in particular,the proliferation of microprocessor-based “virtual experiences” for children and adolescents hashad an inhibiting effect upon their

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Kimberly H. Henthorn

: How to Enhance Science Teaching using Classroom Response Systems” San Francisco: Pearson Education.6. Caldwell, J. (2007) “Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips” Life Sciences Education, 6(1):9-20.Biographical InformationKIMBERLY H. HENTHORN is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University ofMissouri-Rolla. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and herPh.D. in chemical engineering with Jennifer Sinclair Curtis and Kinam Park at Purdue University. Her researchinterests include particle characterization and transport, microfluidics, and computational fluid dynamics. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 8(3), 16.2. Bailey, D. (1983). Foreign teaching assistants at U.S. universities: Problems in interaction and communication. TESOL Quarterly, 17(3), 308-310.3. Boyd, G. & Hassett, M. (2000). Developing critical writing skills in engineering and technology students. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(4), 409-412.4. Bruffee, K. (1986). Social construction, language, and the authority of knowledge: a bibliographic essay. College English, 48(8), 19.5. Felder, R.M. & Silverman, L.K. (1988). Learning and teaching styles engineering education. Engineering Education, 78(7), 674-681.6. Oakley, B., Connery, B., & Allen, K. (1999). Incorporating writing skills

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

athttp://ece.umr.edu/documents/112_exp_4_10_Aug06-2.pdf.[8] José Ignacio Mateos Albiach, “Interfacing a processor in FPGA to an audio system”, Master thesis in Electronicssystems at Linköping Institute of Technology, 2006.[9] Altera literature documents: Quartus II v 5.1 Handbook, AN 306: Implementing Multipliers in FPGA Devices(ver 3.0, Jul 2004, data sheets provided with quartus software: DE2 pin table, Wolfson microelectronics WM8731Audio codec data sheet. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 10Biographical informationYAHONG ROSA ZHENGDr. Yahong Rosa Zheng received the B.S

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

Incorporating Altera FPGA Demo boards in Computer Engineering Labs Waleed K. Al-Assadi, Mandar V. Joshi, Sagar R. Gosavi, and Daryl Beetner Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65401 {waleed, mvjvx8, srggz3, daryl} @ umr.edu Abstract Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used as teaching tools in universitycomputer engineering laboratories. Numerous computationally intensive applications such as IPcores, ASICs and microcontrollers are prototyped on FPGAs to reduce the number of cycles andthe time to market. This paper

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Surendra Singh

involvement with OCAST helped me transition from being an intern to a full-timeemployee. My experience at Tucker Technology gave me a glimpse of what it was like in thework field. It also gave me an idea of what I was looking for in my career path. I gained someuseful skills working as an intern for Tucker Technology, but the job was more technical thanwhat I was interested in. I realized that my interests lay more in human relations and less in thetechnical area. After Tucker, I did an internship with PSO and found my niche. I do enjoy thetechnical side of my work, but more importantly I get to work with lots of different peopleincluding customers, contractors, and engineers. After three months as an intern, I was offered afull-time position and

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Roy Myose

learning tool whichbridges the gap between discipline-specific engineering science courses and the senior-year capstonedesign sequence. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 9References1 "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2006-2007 Accreditation Cycle,"October 29, 2005, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore.2 J.H. McM asters and J.M. Cummings, January-February 2004, "From Father, Faster, Higher to Leaner, Meaner, Greener:Further Directions in Aeronautics," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 1

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Day W. Radebaugh

what an engineer isentitled to claim to be certain, and what is regarded as uncertain should precede anyattempt to evaluate the ethical implications of the technology under consideration.I. IntroductionThere are eight categories of decisions that must be made during the course of anengineering project. The accuracy of these eight categories of decision depend in eachcase on the degree of certainty of the information used to make these respectivejudgments.I.A Project IssuesEvery undertaking, from the small to the large, the simple to the complex, is subject tothe dynamics of the project. We can associate 5 management dimensions with eachproject: scope (roughly, the requirements or objectives), deadline, budget, quality of thework

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Ken Barnard; Greg Stephens; Raju Dandu

Earth Day Teach-In: A Model for Industry, Community, and Education Collaboration Ken Barnard, Aviation Greg Stephens, Arts, Science, Business Raju Dandu, Engineering Technology College of Technology and Aviation Kansas State University at SalinaAbstractEarth Day is a driving force for environmental awareness around the world. It can also be aneffective event for educating the 21st Century Community and the Engineer community becauseengineers and technologists will play a vital role in civic engagement, green economicdevelopment, and global

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

Voice over Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Performance Analysis Ana Goulart, Charles Watkins, and Robert Hegedus Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M AbstractThe modeling and simulation of communication networks is a powerful tool that helps us designnew systems and analyze changes in existing networks. In this paper, we present a studentproject on the simulation of voice over 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs). Thenetwork model, performance analysis, simulation results and findings provide a good example ofexposing students

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

Rose-Hulman Ventures Outcomes from an Experiential Learning Program William A. Kline, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Engineering Management Thomas Mason, Ph.D. Professor of Economics Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IndianaAbstractRose-Hulman Ventures (RHV) began in 1999 at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as aunique program providing outstanding experiential learning opportunities for math, science, andengineering students. Funded by the Lilly Endowment

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

Research and Education at the Center for Nanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials [CNCMM], Pittsburg State University Christopher C. Ibeh1,2, Monika Bubacz2, Andrey Beyle2, Stefano Bietto2, Stan Scoville2, Dilip Paul3, Charles Blatchley3 1 – Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, PSU 2 – CNCMM, PSU 3 – Professor, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, PSU, Pittsburg, KS AbstractThe Center for Nanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials [CNCMM] at PittsburgState University, is an inter-institutional and multidisciplinary effort to implement theONR-sponsored “Multifunctional Materials for Naval

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William M. Baer

-31.[6] Poole, Clifton H. “Plagiarism and the Online Student: What Is Happening and What Can Be Done?” Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems 18.2 (Spring 2004): 11-14. “Proceeding of the 2007 Midwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education” 7[7] Townley, Cynthia, and Mitch Parsell. "Technology and Academic Virtue: Student Plagiarism through the Looking Glass." Ethics and Information Technology 6.4 (Dec 2004): 271-7.[8] SuperiorPapers.com. Visited on 3 July 2007 at http://www.superiorpapers.com.[9] Scanlon, Patrick M. and David R. Neumann. “Internet Plagiarism among College Students

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Meader Woo; John M. Watkins

are plans to replace the DSA with the DSAGUIduring the upcoming academic year. The DSAGUI is available from the authors upon request.References1 Watkins, J., “A Virtual Implementation Of A Dynamic Signal Analyzer Using Simulink,” Proceedings of the 2005ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in aGlobal World, Portland, OR, June 2005.2 Wang, F., Abramovitch, D., and Franklin, G., “A Method for Verifying Measurements and Models of Linear andNonlinear Systems,” Proceedings of the American Controls Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 1993.3 Lilienkamp, K. and Trumper, D., “Dynamic Signal Analyzer for dSPACE,” Proceedings of the dSPACE User’sConference, Dearborn, MI, May 2000.4

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

Cairo University,two MS degrees (CE and Applied Math) and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Since joiningProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 12KSU in 1991, he has taught 15 different engineering courses. He is currently the Undergraduate Program Directorfor CE Department. He is member of several organizations including ASEE, ASCE, AISC, PCI, and SEM.ANIL PAHWA received the B.E. (honors) degree in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology &Science, Pilani, India in 1975, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maine

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Douglas R. Carroll; Hong Sheng

conducted toevaluate student perceptions, which were very positive, and results are presented in thepaper.Introduction As we begin to offer the lower division engineering classes as distance education,one of the primary issues to be addressed is how to provide office hour type help for thedistance students. Many undergraduate students need help with the homework, andinternet based communication tools are the most logical choice for providing the officehour help. As we use the internet based communication tools, we find that they are veryconvenient and effective for the faculty and traditional on-campus students, as well as thedistance students. Class sizes are getting larger, and the amount of time that faculty canspend working individually

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

). “Evaluating online, blended and traditional postsecondary instructional methods as measured by student and instructor surveys.” 4th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications. Orlando, Florida = orlando paper. July 20-23, 2006.BiographySTEPHAN A. DURHAM is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health SciencesCenter in the Department of Civil Engineering. He obtained his MSCE and Ph.D. degrees from the University ofArkansas in the area of repair and strengthening of concrete bridge superstructures. He teaches a junior levelconstruction materials course. His interests include concrete materials and repair.W. MICAH HALE is currently an assistant professor at the

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Ramesh V. Narang

. Bucher, Editor, American Society for Quality, ASQ Press, 2004.RAMESH V. NARANG is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology program in the Departmentof Manufacturing & Construction Engineering Technology and Interior Design at Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Fort Wayne, at Fort Wayne, IN. He has received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering fromthe University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. His research and teaching interests include: automated feature recognition,lean manufacturing, metrology, ergonomics, cellular manufacturing, and statistical process control. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education