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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

TAC ABET criteria encouraged technical writing faculty/librarians to instructdatabase use beyond the offerings in Engineering Compendex and IEEE. Students wereshown how to place technology issues in a broader social and industrial context, forexample, by utilizing peer-reviewed journals in academic, business and industry fields inExpanded Academic Index or Business and Industry indexes. The technical writingfaculty incorporated IL outcomes into her syllabus in the fall of 2002. (Other colleges,for example Arizona State University-East, have also experienced successful integrationsof IL into a polytechnic curriculum by focusing on course outcomes in a technical writingcourse, where partnerships between technical communication and the library

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jason Weiss; Farshad Rajabipour; Thomas Schmit; Sebastian Fait

Experience with the Use of Interactive Classroom Technologies for the Implementation of Problem-Based, Peer-Interaction Learning Environment in Civil Engineering Materials Jason Weiss, Farshad Rajabipour, Thomas Schmit, Sebastian Fait Purdue University, School of Civil EngineeringAbstractAre you a faculty member who is curious if the class is following what you are presenting?Have you ever been curious to know what the student in the third row is thinking while you aretalking? Do you spend many sleepless nights wondering how you will increase classparticipation? This paper describes the implementation of an interactive classroom technologythat was designed to

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

develop the relationships and trust that are required for effective cooperative learning. 5) Solutions to the team assignments are discussed in the same class period they are given, thus providing students with nearly simultaneous reinforcement or correction. 6) Exams and quizzes are composed of an individual portion as well as a team portion that they complete together. 7) Peer evaluations are used to distribute the credit of team activities. Evaluations are typically based on attendance, contribution and preparedness. Team activities represent a significant portion of each individual’s overall grade (30% - 50%)Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Scott C. Smith

instructions, including conditionalbranches, and adding instruction prefetch capability so that the branch instructions were able tobe executed in one clock cycle. Furthermore, the students were required to write an assemblylanguage program to perform a sign magnitude multiplication using the microprocessor, andwrite a testbench, which initially loads the program from a text file into the microprocessor’sprogram memory, executes the multiplication program and writes the resulting product to themicroprocessor’s data memory, and then writes the contents of the data memory to a text file andchecks the calculated product to ensure that it’s correct. The project was performed in5 randomly selected groups of 4 members each. Groups of 4 were chosen because

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stuart Bernstein

ENGAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH SERVICE LEARNING Stuart Bernstein University of Nebraska, Lincoln at OmahaAbstractIn the Personnel & Supervisory Methods class (CET 4200) the students start off by writing apaper describing what they expect to get from the class. I received comments such as, “nothing,I think this is going to be a big waste of my time” , and “I’ve spent the past six months as anassistant project engineer and already know how to manage people.” That kind of negativeattitude can be difficult to overcome, but each year I have tried new exercises in an effort tomake this an important and enjoyable class.Due to the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

utilityand functionality. This project allows each university team to follow General Motor’sreal-world Global Vehicle Development Process to participate in hands-on research anddevelopment with leading-edge automotive propulsion, fuels, materials and emissions-control technologies.Interdisciplinary Team StructureABET and employers have encouraged engineering programs to emphasize diverseinterdisciplinary teamwork. A project of the magnitude of Challenge X is best done insuch a diverse group. Prior to writing the proposal a team of faculty from fourdepartments (Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical Engineering plus Computer Science)agreed on an approach to the project. The faculty then recruited students from these andother departments to write a

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephanie G. Adams; Jeffrey W. Rieske

3manufacturing processes. Students conducted research on a topic related to industrialengineering. The research projects were narrow enough for completion during the allocated time,yet broad enough to present a variety of research challenges. The basic activities of the summerresearch experience were: 1) on-site orientation; 2) reflective journals; 3) Spanish languageinstruction; 4) research methods seminar; 5) field research project; 5) oral and writtenpresentations; and 6) assessment and evaluation. Time at the end of the program was planned forthe synthesis of the students' findings and for writing, followed by the oral presentation anddiscussion of results in a group setting. The remainder of this article shares the experiences ofone of the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

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

throughout each semester; • The Educational Psychologist/Researcher is a member of the faculty of the College of Engineering and Director of the Writing Lab Center, and is trained in both data collection/analysis procedures, and in teaching and research in technical communications; • Industry partners of the CSEMS program include the Tennessee Valley Association (TVA), Wright Technologies, The Solae Company, and Memphis Light, Gas, and Water, and these team members provide internship and co-op opportunities for CSEMS students.Results to Date: In the 2002-2004 period, 59% of the CSEMS participants receivedbachelor’s degrees from The University of Memphis, and 34% were still activelyengaged in the