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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

andoutput audio signals are compared to demonstrate the functionalities of the filters as well as thebasic DSP theory such as A/D converter, D/A converter, digital filtering, and frequency analysis.Our design also makes use of DSP Builder and the IP (Intellectual Property) cores providedoriginally for Altera’s Stratix II and migrate them onto Cyclone II. This approach saves us fromwriting VHDL/Verilog codes for DSP functions from scratch and speeds up the designconsiderably.The designed experiments can be used either in an upper undergraduate level electronics orembedded systems course or in a stand-alone DSP course for both EE and CmpE. This approachoffers excellent integration of the DSP component with other components of the curriculum

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

Inc., the program has been an incubator/technology center engaging students and technology-based companies in project work thatprovides students employment with the challenges and excitement of real professional practice.Over 1500 internship positions have been offered to 575 students working on a range of design,prototyping, and testing projects for over 84 client companies.The challenges of educating the 21st century engineer call for innovative approaches in bothcurricular and co-curricular programs. The global economy and highly competitive workplace oftoday are creating needs for a solid technical education combined with professional practiceexperiences in the undergraduate curriculum. Many programs focusing on industrialpartnerships

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Ramesh V. Narang

An Innovative Approach of Team-Teaching Measurement Uncertainty and Metrology Ramesh V. Narang Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne1. IntroductionMeasurement plays an important role in all steps of the production process. Metrology is thescience of measurement and it is a well-established discipline that is used to gain valuableproduct and process information. To be productive, this information must generate knowledgethat is used as a basis for better product and process design.Much of today’s industry and technology relies on accurate measurement. Manufacturedproducts are measured by instruments to check their conformance to

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Walter O. Craig

advisory board can serve as a powerful tool to help the school or department in theaccreditation process. The board can also serve as a fund raising mechanism by having itsindustrial partner give grants for scholarships for incoming freshman, or monies to help purchaseequipment and supplies to maintain a laboratory of the department. The industry advisory boardmembers can also serve as mentors on an industry sponsored project. Another important purposeis to advise the department in the area of curriculum development. Industry participation incurriculum development will ensure that ET students are taking the necessary classes to givethem the industry skills to compete globally with other engineering technology graduates.The Industry advisory board

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Surendra Singh

engineering practice is alsonecessary.” The internship program in the electrical engineering department at The University ofTulsa falls outside the educational requirement. It is not required for the students to undergo thetraining. Rather, students who are interested in getting industrial experience are welcome toparticipate. The importance of providing industrial experience to the students while in school hasbeen recognized by the educational as well as the industrial community. Several schools havebeen successful in establishing such programs [3],[4]. But how to fit such an experience in thetightly knit four-year curriculum is still an open question. Some schools that have a co-op Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

laboratory exercises. ThePartnership Program consists of three parts: 1) instruction at the institutes using a number ofhands-on activities that will be used in the classroom; 2) follow-up activities at the middle andjunior high schools and; 3) evaluation, both during and after the summer institutes.In evaluating Year 1 of the program, several important lessons were learned:• Arkansas Science Curriculum Frameworks are structured with minimal overlap from grade to grade, making it difficult to structure activities that fit equally well in each middle school grade levels.• Despite the imperative to directly align experiments with the Curriculum Frameworks, teachers and students thoroughly enjoyed experiments with an engineering theme.• None

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

methods for improving or supplementing the teaching of heat transferincluding the use of spreadsheets to solve two-dimensional heat transfer problems7, the use of atransport approach in teaching turbulent thermal convection8, the use of computers to evaluateview factors in thermal radiation9, implementation of a computational method for teaching freeconvection10, and the use of an integrated experimental/analytical/numerical approach that bringsthe excitement of discovery to the classroom11. Supplemental heat transfer experiments for usein the laboratory or classroom have also been presented, including rather novel experiments suchas the drying of a towel12 and the cooking of French fry-shaped potatoes13. Suggestions for theintegration of heat

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kamesh Namuduri

an associate degree in an IA discipline obtained atany collaborating community college to pursue a four-year degree program at WSU in the samediscipline. The third task is to develop professional development programs for community college facultyand K-12 teachers pursuing education in Cybersecurity and Forensics. The fourth task is to developprofessional certification and training programs for security professionals in order to prepare them for thechallenges and demands of the workplace. The four tasks are described below.Task 1 - Common IA Education and Training Program The first task is to establish a core body of IA knowledge for an associate degree program at communitycolleges. The proposed curriculum activities includes identification

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

of their curriculum that speak towriting the same importance as they would courses integral to their major, even going so far as tothink that writing is an exercise that is reserved for composition class alone.7 For example, aMechanical Engineering student would probably find a course in thermodynamics to be moreimportant than a course in technical writing because the former is perceived to be more directlytied to their degree plan and overall aspiration to perform competently as a mechanical engineer.Further, students may not see the need to hone their language and communication skills becausethis need has not been communicated to them. Most of engineering curriculum is built aroundthe language of mathematics. Students are taught to explore

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn

. These are accumulated on an annul basis for outcome assessment. • Portfolio material is organized using a standard format for all courses. • Feedback Mechanism: Course instructors self-evaluate their portfolio and suggest course changes to the CAC. The CAC reviews these suggestions as well as students’ performance in Criterion 3 and, when needed, proposes corrective actions to faculty for approval. The integrated assessment of Program Oucomes is assessed by the CAC on an annual basis.Senior Exit Survey • Each semester, all graduating seniors complete the Senior Exit Survey form. This is both a quanitative and qualitative measure. • Results are summarized by the department chair and reported to the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

the help of initial National ScienceFoundation funding and supplemental outside agency funding5. At Harvard new students in theMechanical Engineering department are introduced to mechanical engineering through anapplied product design development project6. To complete the projects students are introducedto initial engineering science and design concepts, 3-D modeling, as well as prototypedevelopment using manual and CNC machining. At Purdue ME students learn integrated design,development and manufacturing experience through construction of a brass hammer with awooden handle, or an aluminum cardholder7. Various manufacturing methods are introduced indevelopment of the hammer, including drilling and milling brass hexagonal block to create

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Johannes Strobel

of problem solving in the workplace. Forinstance the SCANS Report “What Work Requires of Schools” [1], states that problem solving isan essential thinking skill for workers. Engineers, physicians, managers, etc. are hired, retained,and rewarded for their abilities to solve workplace problems. For engineering education, thismeans a challenge to integrate workplace real-world problems into the curriculum and stayingabreast with new challenges and changing roles of engineers in the workplace.If education programs are to fulfill these challenges, a better understanding of the nature ofworkplace problem solving is necessary. This holds especially true for instructional andeducational strategies that heavily utilize problems, like ‘problem-based

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry A. Glasgow

. She noted that the activity was well-suited to visual and active learning styles.Developing an Appropriate Field Experience Our objective is to provide experiential opportunities of somatically relevant scale thatemploy contextual learning to accomplish the reconnection of chemical engineering students tothe physical world. The significance of this approach was noted in 1995 in the NSF Report 95-659, “Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change.” The panel members observedthat “…the learning experience must move from the lecture..” and that “…contextualexperiential learning must be integrated within the classroom.” The advantages offered bycontextual instruction (CI) have been recognized by education professionals everywhere

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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

facultyengaged in learning communities include: continuity and integration in the curriculum, facultydevelopment opportunities, broadened knowledge of pedagogy, promotion of collaborativeteaching and learning, increased collegial trust, satisfaction with student success, and decreasedisolation4.Clearly, learning communities produce multiple benefits for institutions, faculty, and students.They also create many challenges in finance, organization, and maintenance. However, it islikely there is a challenge and need that has not yet been identified. There is a noticeable void inthe literature discussing learning communities related to the notion of a community of learners.What might be the power of and what might be additional benefits if learning

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose

when they are integrated into the vehicle or systemto meet the requirements of the customer. Success as a systems integrator requires a goodunderstanding about customer needs, design constraints, manufacturability, and operator life-cyclecost issues to name just a few examples. Successful systems engineers must therefore be able tocommunicate with and understand the issues that are dealt with by a multitude of different peoplesuch as marketing, design engineers, manufacturing technicians, and maintenance personnel. Thissuggests a need for introducing more multi-disciplinary concepts using a team-based approach todesign problems in the Aerospace curriculum. The third and final lesson learned was the new emphasis on reducing cost. This need

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

theapplication of modern production systems and the integration of sustainability,and concludes with student project experiences.Introduction and motivationTextbook and lecture methods are much more effective when complemented witha computer simulation. Simulation allows students to make decisions in dynamicreal-world environments. The output from the simulation allows the student toevaluate the impacts of decisions and make necessary adjustments while learningnew problem solving strategies. The manufacturing environment provides anexcellent application of computer simulation. The complexity, uncertainty, andinterdependencies are hard to convey from a textbook alone. Therefore, facultyuse simulation to enhance their teaching effectiveness.Studies show

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

structural materials; nanoengineeredsensors and innovative sensor technology; database development for nanocomposites andmultifunctional materials; service as clearinghouse for academiagovernment-industrylinkage and exchange of information on new technologies resulting from center’s activities;and facilitation of a modern workforce and new industries via technology transfer.CNCMM provides a viable means of enhancing Kansas’ relatively new nanocompositesindustry by establishing an excellent research and education center for nanocomposites andmultifunctional materials with focus on naval structures and homeland security issues.IntroductionA major priority of CNCMM’s effort is in the area of “Blast Damage Protection of Naval& Aero Structures and

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

been the integration of information literacy (or informationfluency) instruction into the existing course curriculum. The projects process andprogress have been shared in various professional communites.5, 6 For example, thecollaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflect the information literacythemed projects have produced campus-wide information literacy perception assessment,inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy across the curriculumand seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course via courseassignments (e.g. University General Education Chemistry course information literacyassignment). The collaboration has amplified teaching effectiveness of each unit