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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. L. Kolar; K. Gramoull; T. R. Rhoads; R. C. Knox

(NSF EEC 9872505). Briefly,Sooner City is a comprehensive, integrated, infrastructure design project that is threadedthroughout the OU civil engineering curriculum, beginning in the freshman year.Freshmen are given a plat of undeveloped land that, by the time they graduate, is turnedinto a blueprint for Sooner City’s infrastructure. Among other things, the projectpromotes five outcomes not always addressed by traditional curricula, but which areemphasized by the NSF Engineering Coalitions and ABET 2000: team building,communication, leadership, design, and higher level learning skills. For practicalpurposes, the original Sooner City project was implemented in the context of thetraditional “course-dictated” curriculum. While this strategy

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Dale E. Schinstock

Integrating Education in Mathematics, Physical Science, Engineering Science and Application in a Required Course Dale E. Schinstock Kansas State UniversityIntroductionThis paper addresses a common problematic scenario in engineering education through a specificexample of the overhaul of a required course in a mechanical engineering curriculum. Thecourse was designed with three major themes in mind: 1) often, less is more in the context of thetopical coverage and retention and understanding, 2) application of material and active learningare important motivating factors for the students, and 3) moving engineering application toearlier in the

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George D. Gray

conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 5 • Design Project I/IIThe laboratory component is an integral part of the CME program. Hands-on experiences areemphasized throughout the curriculum in various laboratory and lecture-lab courses. Studentsgain experiences in experimental methods in a number of laboratory course as well. Because ofthe hands on experiences and involvement with industry, the CME program has been involvedwith a number of regional and national engineering competitions. These include compositebridge building and solar car race competitions.The major contribution that this undergraduate CME program has

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Larry N. Bland

leaders. [18] The EPICS program has functioned in parallel with traditional engineering programs andis not integrated into all programs. Students have the option of choosing either approach as they "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 5pursue their engineering education. The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) recentlyreceived an NSF Department Level Reform grant to integrate service learning across the entireengineering curriculum. Their stated goal is “Integrate service-learning into the

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

A New Approach for an Undergraduate Mechanics of Materials Course that Integrates Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design Joseph J. Rencis, Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract This paper presents a description of a first undergraduate course in mechanics ofmaterials. Although many of the features of this course have been used by other faculty andpresented formally in textbooks, the authors believe they have united them in a way thatproduces a course that is unique and innovative. The title of the paper includes Theory,Analysis, Verification and Design to

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Karen S. Hays

Integration of Lab Safety Training into the Undergraduate and Graduate Chemical Engineering Programs Karen S. Hays Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractThe Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering is the University of Arkansas’campus-wide leader in the area of laboratory safety training for their undergraduate and graduatestudents. This paper presents an overview of the laboratory safety training program and how itwas integrated into the curriculum. It describes how students are educated about the basics

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Christi L. Patton; Daniel W. Crunkleton; John M. Henshaw; Douglas Jussaume; Robert L. Strattan

earned thestudents gain skills that will make them valuable employees upon graduation. Studentslearn to communicate their work in a professional manner at group meetings and inregular written reports. The students receive guidance, but ultimately must create theirown path for evaluating plans and must negotiate with one another when multiple pathsare offered. Students who participate in this project and enroll in this course havedistinctly proven that they can meet ABET criteria (a) – (k).In this paper, the authors will give an overview of the first year of this program, lookingparticularly at examples of the benefits to students and the difficulties encountered.Methods for integrating this into recruiting and retention programs will also be

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

temperatures as a function of time, as well as acurve showing a numerical integration of Equation 4 using the “best fit” experimental heattransfer coefficients. The experimental heat transfer coefficient for the smaller 4.1 mmthermometer at 309.2 K was 10 W/m2K, while the coefficient based on the Churchill/Churelationship was 5.6 W/m2K. The experimental heat transfer coefficient for the larger 6 mmthermometer at 315 K was 9 W/m2K, while the coefficient based on the Churchill/Churelationship was 4.1 W/m2K. Thus, a correction factor of 1.8-2.2 was needed in order to matchthe experimental data with the correlation. The need for the correction once again arises fromintroduced forced convection. It is very difficult to obtain and keep an ideal, free

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. L. Kolar; K. M. Dresback; E. M. Tromble

includesthe following: holistic, interdisciplinary approach to civil and environmental infrastructure prob-lems; collaborative research within and outside CEES that teaches valuable partnering skills; par-ticipation in CEES’s novel educational efforts, including integrated curriculum projects,multidisciplinary design experiences, team learning, team teaching, and K-12 alliances; a full yearin the classroom team teaching with a faculty member; and participation in new faculty seminarsand at least two educational methods courses. Table 1 below lists 10 measurable objectives takenfrom our GAANN contract, that we are using to track progress of the fellowship program. Ourbroad-based program exposes GAANN Fellows to all of the rigors associated with a

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Stephen B. Taylor; Darin W. Nutter; James A. Davis; Joseph J. Rencis

, Z.T., Mobasher, A., and Jalloh, A., Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum, Session 2266, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, St. Louis, MO, June 18-21, 2000.5. Karunamoorthy, S. and Ravindra, K., Integrated Curriculum Design in Mechanical Engineering – Opportunities and Challenges, Session 2566, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle WA, June 28-July 1, 1998.6. Wood, J.C., An Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Engineering Technology Freshman Curriculum, Session 2248, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle WA, June 28-July 1, 1998.7. Johnson, K.V. and Rajai, M., “Student in the

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Lorin P. Maletsky; Charles E. Gabel

attached to neighboring letters to form a word by using interlockingfeatures that were hidden when viewed from the front. Additionally, each letter was comprised oftwo separate pieces that were connected using visible features. To provide an additionalchallenge for the students, each letter was machined from a different material and each piece wasfabricated three times to demonstrate the concepts of mass production and interchangeabilitywith other parts. Pairs of students were responsible for the design, tool path generation, andfabrication of each piece. The project has taken approximately one month and has beensuccessfully completed during two offerings of the course.IntroductionIn design and manufacturing courses in an engineering curriculum

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A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

-dimensional solutions to these problems can be provided best by acoordinated, integrated team of educators, students, and employers working together tomaximize results.6,7 One study described the multi-disciplinary approach succinctly as atype of “bridge program” between attrition and retention of students, meaning that eachmember of the team functions as an integral component in guiding STEM students tosuccess.8One such example in the planning stage involves the overlapping premises of theexpectations of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) E: 2020 report and theexpectations of industry employers. Specific objectives target students, educators, andindustry employers with the following goals: • To meet national needs through increased and

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

students inEngineering Technology, Aviation (professional pilot, airframe and power plant), andTechnology Management. As other studies have found, tailored integration of course contentwith librarian partners causes significant differences in students’ use of high-quality informationresources. The results included an increase of over 200% in the search/retrieval numbers for asingle database compendium, Infotrac. We also documented significant gains in search/retrievalratios in the same database. Technical writing courses can be effective sites for implementingand assessing IL instruction, if tailored to the specific contexts of students’ disciplinaryprograms.Faculty/librarian partnership began with a joint review of literature in 2001, where we

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Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

as arising out of a longitudinal process of interactions between an individual with given attributes, skills, financial resources, prior educational experiences, and dispositions (intentions and commitments) and other members of the academic and social systems of the institution. The individual’s experience in those systems, as indicated by his/her intellectual (academic) and social (personal) integration, continually modifies his or her intentions and commitments.”10Tinto suggests that pre-college entering academic achievements directly impact persistence.More importantly, each affects departure indirectly through its effect upon “the continuingformulation of individual intentions and commitments regarding

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

needed to answer two questions: What are other engineering schools doing to increasetheir enrollment? And what do we need to change in our recruiting process? The search forthese answers prompted my university to fund travel to evaluate other universities’ processes,look for common themes, and develop an action plan for our department. This paper will lookat the methodology of my research, the results and conclusions.Methodology As I considered how to best answer these questions, I decided that qualitative researchmethods were most applicable to this process. Lincoln and Guba (1985) summarize well the keyqualitative process concepts of: natural setting, human instrument, tacit knowledge, qualitativemethods, iterative research, and case

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Brandon W. Olson

on performance, attitude, and group behaviors in a technical team environment”, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA: 1994.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 114 Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., Smith, K. A., “Cooperative learning returns to college”, Change, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1998.5 Jutras, P. F., “Developing student’s capacity for learning and thinking through integrated curriculum and team learning experiences”, Annual International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education, Portland, OR: 1994.6