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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William W. Ryan; Tiffany Wiederstein; Danny King; Malcolm Fowler

, prepared students ultimately select engineering as a collegemajor and may help reduce attrition.Academically, most of the students who are accepted into the Academy have already beguntaking Pre-AP (Honors) classes and their average GPA is 3.0 or greater. The distinct advantageof completing their math and science at the Academy is that those classes will be comprised of ahomogeneous population of students with similar interests and skills. In addition, as noted above,the concepts taught in the core classes are enhanced and enriched in the engineering classes.As was pointed out by the university representatives in the early planning stages, many of thestudents are also actively involved in extra-curricular activities at their high school

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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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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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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

experiments on student learning has not yet been quantified,anecdotally students remarked, after the completion of the exercise, that they really learned a lotfrom these assignments. It is planned to offer this exercise again this fall, at which time thestudents will be surveyed relative to the value of the exercise.NomenclatureAS area for convection, m2Cp specific heat of the aluminum plate or cylinder, J/kg Kg gravitational constant, m/s2h convection heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 KhCORR correlated heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 KhEXP experimental heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 Kk fluid thermal conductivity, W/mKL length

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Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds

Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 72. Starr, Paul, July-August 1996, Computing Our Way to Educational Reform, The American Prospect no. 27: 50-60 [On-line], http://epn.org/prospect/27/27star.html. 12 July 2004. 13 July 2004.3. Turner, Wayne C., et al, Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1993.4. Geuting, Manfred: Planning Game and Social Simulation With-in the Education Range, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M., 1989.Biographical InformationMELISSA MILLERMelissa Miller is a sixth grade teacher at Lynch Middle School in Farmington, AR. She has

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Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

, projectscope, and project plan. After the presentation, the projects were better shaped with theinstructors’ help and each group started implementation. During the implementation period,meetings were held between the instructors and the students whenever it was needed. Theproblems occurring down the road were solved in these meetings. Finally, at the end of thesemester, the students would make the final presentations to report their achievements to thewhole class as well as to their sponsors.The students were enthusiastic and active in these real projects, and were eager to apply whatthey learnt from school to the real world 9. Fig. 4 illustrates an achievement after the studentsimplemented 5S principles (Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Schedule, Score) of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

engineering degree. Primary results from the survey indicated that there are three areas (orobstacles) where the “at high-risk” group differed significantly from those in the “at low-risk”group. Those areas are the students’: 1.) preparation for college while in high school, 2.) studytechniques, and 3.) expectations about the curriculum in which they are starting. Focusingefforts to improve in these areas could lead to increased retention rates. The University ofArkansas Department of Mechanical Engineering plans to continue surveying its freshmanclasses in the effort to learn and monitor its progress in their regard. In addition, theirmentorship program will attempt to assist incoming freshman through the development andencouragement of better study

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Alison N. Dunn; Jennifer M. Gray; Jerod C. Hollingsworth; Pei-Ting Hsu; Brian K. McLelland; Patrick M. Sweeney; Thuy D. Tran; Christopher A. von der Mehden; Jin-Yuan Wang

scale ofturbulence produced by the fan.The experimental coefficients for the rod within an annulus were 1.6 to 2.2 higher than theliterature correlation predictions. This finding likely results from the entering jet velocity fromthe hair dryer being 3.6 times the annulus velocity. This high velocity jet produces considerableturbulence as shear layers reduce the entering jet velocity to an annulus velocity which is only28% of the jet velocity.Although the effects of these experiments on student learning has not yet been quantified,anecdotally students remarked, after the completion of the exercise, that they really learned a lotfrom these assignments. It is planned to offer this exercise again this fall, at which time thestudents will be

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephanie Ivey; Anna Lambert

Mechanical Engineering at The University ofMemphis. Retained students had a stronger preference for abstract conceptualization, whilestudents that were not retained preferred concrete experience. Future plans seek furtherexamination of these findings through refinement of the study instruments combined with repeatdata collection and expansion of the methodology to include data from three other engineeringinstitutions in the 2005-2006 academic year.IntroductionAs engineering educators attempt to respond to the ever-changing technological and globalissues associated with 21st century advances, statistical data relating to retention levels forstudents majoring in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields continues to bealarming, with high

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

encourage teams to work quickly and accurately. 6) Develop a more accurate means of assessing the student strengths that are used to organize teams. This will help to ensure that each of the teams enjoy a healthy composition of skills and experience. The educational advantages of team based learning, for students and instructors, more thanjustify the additional effort and planning required. The simple and relatively crude examplespresented here demonstrate that the approach is effective even with limited experience orsophistication. The recommendations and improvements, listed above, should help other newTBL instructors to recognize and avoid a few of the pitfalls and problems that result frominexperience. Students seem to