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Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn

Case Study of ABET Assessment Plan and Results Abu S.M. Masud (abu.masud@wichita.edu) Don E. Malzahn (don.malzahn@wichita.edu) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0035 ABSTRACTThe Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State Universityhas put in place a plan for assessment with respect to criteria 2 and 3 of EAC/ABET.This paper will explain our assessment plan, data collection tools used, and share someresults and experience. INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is

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Ken Barnard; Greg Stephens; Raju Dandu

; although the budget was limited and our expenses were less than $100.Our initial hurdle was to develop a plan, organize various groups, generate campus support andexceed expectations in order to make the day a success.Development of a PlanInitially the purpose of an Earth Day event was wide open. The Multicultural Committee askedus to conduct an event as part of their monthly cultural programs. We started in early to midspring by identifying those leaders on campus we thought would be helpful and could play a rolein the event and we invited them to a planning meeting. Attending the meeting wererepresentatives from Continuing Education, Student Services, Arts, Sciences and BusinessDepartment, Aviation Department, and Engineering Technology

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Kamesh Namuduri

are either currently offering or planning to offer Associate (2-year)degrees in the Information Assurance (IA) discipline in the near future. The mission of this consortium is“to promote security awareness within the region through collaboration with local communities,community colleges, private industry, and law enforcement agencies and to pursue education, training,and research activities in information assurance and security disciplines". The partnerships range fromsharing IA teaching materials and laboratory resources, to forming state-wide working groups andorganizing state-wide education and training workshops. This paper provides the details of the activitiesbeing pursued by Wichita State University to bring cybersecurity awareness in

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

encourage and promote the development of all members into citizens whointeract effectively with others and continue to learn for a lifetime. The stated student learningoutcomes were: • Learn and practice skills for making group and team projects more fun and more productive. • Be part of a safe place to give and receive encouragement and support for the variety of challenges you experience as a college student. • Develop skills to learn more in classes without relying on cramming before tests. • Figure out how you tend to work with others and how to better use your strengths. • Develop and carry out plans to actually use your new skills and knowledge for higher success and satisfaction as a student. • Learn and practice

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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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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

Support • Environmental Aspects • Socio-Cultural Aspects Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3 • Outcome Assessment Questions • Health Assessment for BenchmarkingFor specific projects, other technical information may need to be gathered during thistrip. Water quality testing and water supply analysis are generally recommended for allcommunities.Following the assessment trip, the students submit a report on this trip and prepare apresentation to the TAC for their implementation trip. At this stage the technical designand construction plans must be finalized. The students

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

results-driven outcomes. Thephilosophy of this approach focuses on three components: 1) a clear set of desired results byidentifying goals for students, identifying the specific information students will understand andwhat students would be able to do as a result of the learning activity; 2) identification ofassessment evidence, allowing teachers to develop performance tasks to evaluate student results;and, 3) creating a learning plan that includes activities for students, enabling them to achieve thedesired results.This approach allows us to address the lessons learned in Year 1, because the approach will workregardless of the framework standard or grade level. This approach also allows teachers to use

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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

,1999). Allowing the student to practice decision-making in this environment is theprimary objective of simulation. Traditional textbook and lecture methodsnormally have exercises designed around individual concepts. “This instructionalmethod, while somewhat attributable to the usual trend to compartmentalizecourse material into homogeneous blocks, is more often due to an attempt tomodel traditional manufacturing organizations in which the product designfunction, manufacturing engineering, and production planning are separatecorporate entities” (Randhawa and West, 1994).This paper reports on the use of simulation to enhance learning in a productionsystems course at Wichita State University. Production systems have becomemore complex due to

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

commitment and 40 hours per week, o Alternating placements: Full-time work placements alternating with fulltime classroom study. Two semesters totaling at least 30 weeks, o Parallel positions require a multiple-semester commitment and 20 hours per week, o Parallel placements: Half-time work placements coupled with at least half-time classroom study. Four semesters totaling at least 60 weeks, o Combination Alternating/Combination Parallel, and o Combination Alternating plans meet the defining features of full- time alternating models, in addition, they include one or more parallel components

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

automobile FM stereo. To facilitate a betterunderstanding of the current world-wide business environment, this project grouped the studentsfrom the five classes into five different plant locations. Each class represented their ownphysical site with identical departments of project management, facilities and technical areas. Asa result of the size and scope of the project, coordination of resources was combined in a cross-functional, cross-site interaction. Students took roles in this business model and wereresponsible for technical components, planning, logistics, milestones and final completion of theproject. This unique project environment gave first year students a realistic insight into theengineer’s lifestyle. Additionally, we believe these

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

ACRL points outcarefully defined roles, comprehensive planning and shared leadership as requirement ofsuccessful collaboration. Respect for each party is important in order to reach thecommon goal, fostering successful student learning.A faculty/librarian relationship at a regional university was formed among the librarydirector, technical service librarian, chemistry professor and English professor. Twofaculty members who attended the American Association Higher Education (AAHE)conference in 2001 started sharing what they learned from the conference with twolibrarians. This collaboration has produced fruitful outcomes in campus wideinformation literacy instruction and collaborator’s professional development. The focusof this collaboration has

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

industry, nanoelectromechanical systems,microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology applications for fuel and solar cells. In the Introduction to Nanotechnology course which is offered in Fall 2007, the similartopics will be covered at introduction level. There will be homework, term project, exams andlaboratory sessions. A nanotechnology laboratory is being developed in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Wichita State University, and dedicated to do a number ofnanotechnology experiments for students. We plan to have undergraduate students work on theelectrospinning method in the nanotechnology laboratory. Students will produce nanofibersusing the described electrospinning method and then characterize properties such as

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

relatedindustries are facing. Ultimately, the essence is to develop intellectual capital viacollaborative and cooperative inter-disciplinary research, education and knowledgetransfer. CNCMM research efforts are complemented by its education and workforcedevelopment thrusts. CNCMM plans to develop an interdisciplinary, graduate levelmaterials science and technology program with emphases in nanocomposites, computerproficiency and nanotechnology entrepreneurship. Shock From P(t) Explosive Detonation Ps Pressure (log scale) Bubble or Blast Pressure Po Micro

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

runsPlantScape software (Release 500.1). We plan to install the latest software version, ExperionTM,in the near future. More than 11,000 Honeywell automation systems have been installed since1974, giving Honeywell the largest installed base in the automation industry2. Using thisindustrial software in the unit operations and industrial control laboratories prepares the studentsfor using it on the job. The students will be familiar with the software that their plant operatorsare using, and they will already know how to generate step response curves. They will have seenadvanced control techniques implemented and know how to tune them.The first experiment is tuning a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback controller for theflow manifold used with

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ramazan Asmatulu; Waseem Khan; Humphrey Wamocha; Adebayo Adeniji

planned for ME students, including nanoparticle, nanowire, nanofilm, nanocomopiste andnanodevice fabrication and characterizations:2. FABRICATIONS OF NANOMATERIALS AND DEVICES2.1 Nanoparticle Fabrications Recently, a number of nanoparticles (magnetic, optic, conductive, semi-conductive, etc.)have been investigated to determine the properties of these functional materials. It is known thatnanosize particles have unique chemical, optical, electronic, magnetic, mechanical or tribologicalproperties when compared with their counter parts. The high saturation magnetization and/ormagnetic susceptibility of magnetic nanoparticles are of even greater interest for pharmaceutical,medical and electronic applications [5]. For example, magnetite (Fe3O4

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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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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

student team. Faculty gain valuable industrial experience and are able to work ‘onthe same team’ with students in an un-graded experience. Faculty are compensated asconsultants for short term involvement and in some cases, release time from teaching can besometimes be arranged for a longer engagement. Despite the benefits, not all faculty find theprogram to be an appealing professional development activity. The projects in the program maynot be a good match to their expertise or professional development plan and with clientconfidentiality limitations, publication of results and promotion/tenure benefits may be limited.The faculty who do work in the program often cite development of professional skills, projectmanagement, client interaction, and

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

talked about wood for 30 seconds, all he talked about is wood being like a bunch of straws. If weren't for mechanics of material's lab, I would not know what is he talking about”. – Hiep Nguyen, senior civil engineering student at UCDHSC, Spring 2007.In future classes, the authors plan to help students develop their own analogies. It is expectedthat these student-built analogies will add to the learning effectiveness. In addition, this maylead to additional analogies and demonstrations being incorporated into the class discussion.ConclusionThe authors have used the teaching aids presented in this paper as an effective method ofexplaining and demonstrating difficult topics in materials engineering. In addition, the

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Ramesh V. Narang

ANOVAmethod. Some found it interesting and useful while few thought it was too abstract and detailed.Students did comment that the class assignments (given in section 3.1) helped them to appreciatethe complexity of metrology. Overall student responses were positive and enthusiastic. Theonly consistent suggestions for changing the course had to do with (1) sufficient practice of theinstruments before gage R&R labs are formally conducted, (2) more examples on measurementuncertainty, (3) more experiments using GD&T, and (4) dissatisfaction with one of thetextbooks. Some also suggested to cover CMM programming in the course.5. ConclusionsBased on the course assessment, there are some significant changes planned for teaching themetrology course

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

andachieves necessary coverage in the limited number of hours. Some parts of the designed labmaterials will be used in a real-time DSP course and an embedded systems course in spring2007. A semester-long course using all the designed materials is also planned. As DE2 board isused in several of the CmpE courses at the University of Missouri-Rolla, this approach offersstudents more time on DSP education rather than taking time away teaching other unfamiliardevelopment tools. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3FPGA BackgroundA Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a re-programmable

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William M. Baer

an assumptionof guilt on all students. In this adversarial position students are even more likely to focus on thefinal grade and less on whether or not they learned in the process. Students will learn best if theyare in a trusting and invigorating academic setting. A balance needs to be drawn betweendeterring cheaters and building environments of trust.21 Education focuses on eliminating plagiarism by arming our students with the skills theyneed to avoid plagiarism. Just like other topics, educating students about plagiarism requirescareful planning, preferably at a time when the lesson can be put into practice. Even the mostprepared students will likely have questions or concerns, which when carefully addressed canenhance the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

first hand the issues involved in prototyping and product development.These laboratories are expensive to set up and even more expensive to maintain and staff withwell-qualified technicians. At Wichita State University (WSU) we have worked out a plan thatenables our students to use the laboratories at one of the local community colleges called theWichita Area Technical College (WATC). In this agreement the students are provided first handexposure to manufacturing techniques such as machining, welding, and composite blue printreading / fabrication, among other laboratory exercises. The laboratory sessions are taught byWATC instructors with extensive background and training dedicated to the variousmanufacturing areas. Students will be expected to