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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

constructed only of parts that can beeaten. Student teams were formed within each learning community. These teams were taught asimple brainstorming technique, and utilized this technique to generate ideas for how to buildtheir scale. They then built the scale outside of the learning community meeting time, andbrought it to a large group meeting where all groups competed to see which scale could mostaccurately measure a small weight (several grams). Students were asked to reflect on how theirteams function on this task, how they contributed to the team, and how they could improve theirperformance on teams.Another engineering-related activity was to have students consider engineering ethics. Thisactivity was structured as an “academic controversy.” An

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

followed the design guidelines ofthe standard cantenna2. With the exception of the first section (smallest of sections), allother sections carry multiple modes and the number of modes in any section isproportional to the diameter. The large number of modes in the last section allows a fielddistribution that permits highly directive radiation patterns. Our version consists of sixdifferent cylindrical sections connected together by six 3-inch 34˚ flared or conicalsections (Fig. 2). Flared sections were used to minimize reflections at the junctions. The“Theory of Small Reflections3” suggests that a gradual change in waveguide dimensionswill keep the reflections small at their junctions. When we make the transition betweentwo cylinders the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

The journey to build a 21st century faculty-librarian relationship: A retrospective case study“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together issuccess.”-Henry Ford1This paper will reflect on how faculty and librarians built and fostered a successful cross-disciplinary relationship. The authors examine their journey to nurture an informationfluent learning environment. How did we foster the connectedness as a group? How didour diverse personalities impact the relationship? How did we create a win-winrelationship based on personal strengths? How did we benefit from social capital? Howdid we build co-mentorship? How did we practice being a community of learners? Howdid we employ

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

students have variouslearning styles; moreover, most students do not have learning styles compatible to such atheoretical task.5, 10 Therefore, engineering educators need to focus on teaching writing inmanners that can be learned by students.According to Felder and Silverman, there are eight learning styles: sensing, intuitive, visual,verbal, active, reflective, sequential, and global.5 It is important that the teachingmaterial/assignments/activities on a given topic address multiple learning styles such that theseexercises have a greater potential to impact the majority of students. A listing of four potentialactivities, and their learning style targets, designed to enable writing skill development in theengineering curriculum are given below

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn

graduates will be successful. o This is measured by the percentage of WSU graduates, directly supervised by the supervisor, who are considered to be above average compared to all engineering graduates supervised by the supervisor.IAC MeetingsThe Industrial Advisory Committee provides qualitative assessment of ProgramEducational Objectives through their discussions of summary data presented tothem. • Objective 1: Program graduates will be employed in specified job areas. o This is reflected in comments made by IAC members based on graduates employed in their own organizations. • Objective 2: Program graduates will pursue graduate studies. o Again, this is reflected in IAC member

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Collins

their information, plan and create their Power Pointpresentations. Given the time constraints of summer sessions, more recently theassignment has offered no face-to-face meetings, unless students arrange them on theirown initiative. Communication was conducted via message board, email, and file-sharing. Individually and collectively, all students were to integrate discipline-specificsecondary investigation with science literacy, information literacy, and virtual/face-to-face communication skills, which altogether, support life-long learning.All students were to search for information about how a particular chromatographytechnique/tool is used in their major fields, to write a summary reflecting the subject(chromatography) and the discipline

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Johannes Strobel

another, as well as with the existing conceptualizations of Jonassen [2,3].With its modified analytical induction, the multi-case lenses within a single case study designwas expected to produce additional insights into the three research questions and “bracketing”[23] prior conceptualizations for the moment. Strauss and Corbin defined this approach as "aqualitative research method that uses a systematic set of procedures to develop an inductivelyderived grounded theory about a phenomenon" [25, p.24]. The five processes of modifiedanalytic induction (mentioned above) reflect the systematic set of procedures within thegrounded theory paradigm.Collecting and coding the material constituted step one of the constant comparative analysis.Codes are

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Surendra Singh

completed and the ones currently on-going aredescribed in section III. In section IV, some of the comments from the interns and industrialpartners are provided. The comments reflect how the students and the host companies havebenefited from the internship program. The impact of the internship program on the department,the participating companies and the state of Oklahoma is outlined in section V. Finally, the mainconclusions of the work are provided in section VI.II. Internship Program:The agency that offers the internship program is Oklahoma Center for the Advancement ofScience and Technology (OCAST), an agency of the State of Oklahoma State. It administersseveral programs, one of which is the R &D Faculty and Student Internship Program (FSIP

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

and e-mails from Program mentors and staff to provide assistance to the teachers in the form of additional hands-on activities, clarifications and advice • Data collection by science teachers and a program evaluationThese follow-up activities provide the additional time needed for inquiry, reflection, mentoringand sustaining the long-term practice of including hands-on laboratory activities in theclassroom.Observations/Lessons LearnedIn evaluating Year 1 of the program though formal evaluations and follow-up activities, severalimportant lessons were learned. First, because of the way in which the Arkansas Science “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

previous global learning or study abroad experience; in this case, the student must prepare a two-page report outlining: • Summary of previous experience, including dates and locationsProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education rev5 9 • Description of the student experience (typically a reflective paper, though not restricted to this) • Contact information of faculty/sponsors involved in the global learning experience4. Service Learning: Students participate in a project in a credit-bearing classthat serves the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

student’s score is reflected with the top quartile receiving a full 30%,the second quartile receiving 25%, the third quartile receiving 20%, and the bottom quartilereceiving 15%.6.0 Discussion and summaryThe largest and most pervasive problem with the Light Show Project was communication. Eventhough each student was given tasks and the time for completion, the difficulty of dealing withless motivated individuals and communication failures regarding delays began to appear.Careful explanation of the importance of timely, well-written reports was also critical. Thesecond most apparent problem was personal execution. Just as in the real world, taskaccomplishment was delayed by various factors, pushing the whole project back in time due tothe linearity

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Barnard; Greg Stephens; Raju Dandu

affected. Many aspects of technology haveplayed major roles associated with the discovery, extraction, and the consumption of energy aswell as bringing efficiencies throughout the process. The problem now being recognized is that Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2the cheap fossil fuel era of the past cannot be sustained into the future. McDonough & Braungart(2002) stated, “The design of products and manufacturing systems growing out of the IndustrialRevolution reflected the sprit of the day- and yielded a host of unintended yet tragicconsequences”. Kerry & Kerry (2007

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

% Type 4: 10%Given this seeming imbalance, one might be tempted to assert that the overallinstructional method should reflect the preferences of the largest constituency (i.e. lecturealone). This opinion can be offset, however, by examining the learning modes thatstudents will use throughout their careers, not just in an academic setting. Practicallearning most often occurs with concrete experience and active experimentation, ratherthan abstract conceptualization. It is, therefore, important that students gain experiencewith all learning modes to better prepare them for their future learning environments. Given the importance of each learning mode to the overall educational health of thestudent, Harb et. al. suggest a practice of cycling

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William M. Baer

a brief lecture in one of the classes, but after reflecting upon theconversation I determined that I could do more to meet their needs. Some faculty mentioned thatthey didn’t have a lecture period to spare for information literacy, but would still like some sortof lecture on plagiarism to be available for the students. The final product is a series of shortvideos which can be inserted into a class’s BlackBoard site. The videos explain why informationshould be used ethically, the basics of copyright law, what plagiarism is, and how to cite sourcesproperly. A link to Plagiarism: A Student's Guide to Recognizing It and Avoiding It26 by CeciliaBarnbaum is also included. Barnbaum’s document gives several examples of commonplagiarism mistakes and

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

variety of ways including benefits forstudents and faculty in the program, the client companies, and the Institute as a whole. Similarbroad-based impacts have been noted with other programs.Since the start of the program, over 1570 internships have been offered to some 575 students.An internship is defined as a student working one academic quarter in the program, so onaverage, a student works 2.7 quarters in the program. Figure 2 shows the historical pattern of thenumber of internships offered by the program per quarter. The increase in student participationstarting in early 2005 reflects the expansion of the program to include client companies of allsizes through fee-based arrangements.Another measure of impact is the percentage of a graduating