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Evaluation of High School Pre-Engineering Curricula through Missouri University of Science and Technology Student Survey Responses R. Joe Stanley, Ph.D. and Stuart W. Baur, Ph.D., A.I.A.AbstractProject Lead The Way (PLTW) is an example of a STEM education program that providesstructured curriculum to promote college preparation in these areas. There have been severalstudies that show the benefits of PLTW courses for K-12 students in the preparation for highschool students on statewide and national exams, high school academic performance, collegelevel academic performance in particular areas of study, high school student engagement, andother areas. This study examines the impact of PLTW courses on Missouri S&T

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all 50 states of the U.S. Missouri S&T is thestate of Missouri school for providing teacher training, professional development and programinformation for counselors and administrators in the Midwest region. PLTW provides programsto more than 5,000 elementary, middle, and high schools in all 50 states and the District ofColumbia1. As a rapidly growing program, the Missouri PLTW network currently has 238programs in 198 high schools and middle schools [2]. Project Lead The Way (PLTW) [1]currently has PLTW Launch (K-5), PLTW Gateway (Middle), PLTW Engineering (HighSchool), PLTW Biomedical Science (High School) and PLTW Computer Science (K-12)programs [1].There have been several studies comparing academic performance of PLTW students with non

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James R. Rowland

-disciplinary engineering education collaborations”, Journal of Engineering Education, 2008, 97(2), pp. 123-134.[4] J. R. Hackman, “The design of work teams”, Handbook of Organizational Behavior, J. W. Lorsch (ed), Prentice-Hall, 1987.[5] L. D. McNair, C. Newswander, E. Coupey, E. Dorsa,, T. Martin, and M. P. Paretti, “Self-organizing units to promote interdisciplinary teaming in a course for pervasive computer design”, Proc., ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 2009.[6] L. J. Shuman M. Besterfileld, and J. McGourty, “The ABET professional skills—Can they be taught?”, Journal of Engineering Education, 2005, 94(1), pp. 41-55.[7] C. R. Zafft, S. G. Adams, and G. S. Matkin, “Measuring leadership in self-managed teams using the competing

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Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

-based learning, architectural engineering, building technology, hands-onlearningIntroductionHands-on learning experience is highly desired in architectural engineering curriculum tomaintain longer retention of desired knowledge. To create an active learning environment istargeted and an educational model is developed for this purpose1. Building components’ designis the main application field of this model, since competency on this subject is necessary forarchitectural engineering students which is based on architectural materials and methods ofbuilding construction. The educational model has been already formalized2 and improved3 inMissouri S&T Architectural Engineering Program. The components of the educational modelcan be summarized in

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Ibrahim M. Alarifi; Abdulaziz Alharbi; Omar Alsaiari; Ramazan Asmatulu

structures. The undergraduate students were involved in every steps of these work andgrained a lot of new technologies, skills and experiences to share with their peers.AcknowledgementThe authors greatly acknowledge the Wichita State University for the financial and technicalsupports of this study. 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)References [1] Zhou, Z., Lai, C., Zhang, L., Qian, Y., Hou, H., Reneker, D. H., & Fong, H. "Development of carbon nanofibers from aligned electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofiber bundles and characterization of their microstructural, electrical, and mechanical properties." Polymer 50.13 (2009): 2999-3006. [2] Nataraj, S. K

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Sreelatha A. Subramanyam; David Beams; James K. Nelson

built. Figure 2 shows the flowchart of proposedalgorithm. Matrices A1, A2,A4 and S are explained in detail in below given example. 3 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)5. Validation of the Algorithm The above algorithm is validated with the help of the following example. By followingthe procedure given in the mathematical model, network equations are assembled from circuittopology, and the unknown values (node voltages and branch currents)are computed

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Luis Rodriguez; Gail Coover; Dalelia Davis; George Johnson; Oumar Kaba; Angela Frey; Andrew Pham; Amihan Huesmann

outcomes (retention/graduation rates and exit surveys) of the pilot run of the program measured so far bode well for the potential impact of the WiscAMP Excel Program on URM student success in STEM.Bibliography1. Dweck, C. S. (2006) Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Ballantine Books.2. Dweck, C. S., Legget, E. L. (1988) “A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality”, Psychological Review 953. Hurtado, S., Eagan K., HERI Research Brief (2010) Degrees of Success: Bachelor’s Degree Completion Rates among Initial STEM majors. Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA4. Figueroa, T., Hughes B., Hurtado, S. (2013) “Supporting Future Scientists: Predicting Minority Student Participation in

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

toengineering and computer science students who received S-STEM or STEP scholarships fromthe National Science Foundation through grants to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering atArizona State University. The most recent grants were an S-STEM grant (#1060226) for upperdivision native students and graduate students and a STEP grant (# 0856834) for upper divisiontransfer students from five non-metropolitan community colleges. For the last several years, atwo-credit Academic Success and Professional Development class has been required of thescholarship awardees. All of the class assignments have been designed to help the student dowell academically, socially, and professionally. An academic guide on how to learn is providedwith the use of the

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Goutham Chinni; Israel Belachew; Ramazan Asmatulu

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)applications. It is believed that these activities will motivate the undergraduate engineeringstudents to do further studies in these fields for their MS and PhD degrees.AcknowledgementThe authors greatly acknowledge the Wichita State University for the financial and technicalsupports of this study.References1) G. Phal, Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.2) H. Prankl, “Standardization of biodiesel”, Final Report, Federal Institute of Agricultural Engineering (BLT), Austria, 2000.3) S. Prasad, A. Singh

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Byron Garry

-Education--Ewell.pdf.4 Olds, B.M., B.M. Moskal and R.L. Miller, “Assessment in Engineering Education: Evolution, Approaches and Future Collaborations,” Journal of Engineering Education, 2005, 94(1):13-25.5 Ewell, P. “Assessment, Accountability and Improvement: Revisiting the Tension,” National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2009, Retrieved from http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/ occasionalpaperone.htm6 Morest, V.S., “Accountability, Accreditation, and Continuous Improvement: Building a Culture of Evidence,” New Directions for Institutional Research, no. 143, Fall 20097 Baehr, M. and S. W. Beyerlein, “Overview of Assessment, “ In S. Beyerlein, C. Holmes & D. Apple (Eds

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Shawn M. Hughes; Anh Pham; Kathy Huong Nguyen; Ramazan Asmatulu

- Conventional Electrospinning Processes,” Fibers and Polymers, 2013, Vol. 14, pp. 1235-1247.6. Asmatulu, R., Patrick, S., Ceylan, M., Ahmed, I., Yang, S.Y., and Nuraje, N. “Antibacterial Polycaprolactone/Natural Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposite Fibers for Bone Scaffoldings,” Journal of Bionanoscience, 2015, Vol. 9, pp. 1-7.7. Li, Y., Ceylan, M., Sherstha, B., Wang, H., Lu, Q.R., Asmatulu, R., and Li, Y. “Nanofibers Support Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Growth and Function as a Neuron-Free Model for Myelination Study,” Biomacromolecules, 2014, Vol. 15, pp. 319–326.8. Taylor, G. “Electrically Driven Jets,” Proceedings of Royal Society of London, 1969, Vol. 1515, pp. 453–475.9. Khan, W.S., Asmatulu, R., Rodriguez, V., and

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Jordan N. Foley; John W. Thompson; Meaghan M. Williams; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

. Table 1. Experimental Data and Calculated Flow Rates Run Mass of Measured Calculated Manometer Venturi Absolute Water Time Flow Rate Reading Pressure Venturi (g) (s) (g/s) (in water) (mm Hg) Pressure (kPa)* 1 4892 7.01 698 91.75 - 317 54.7 2 4861 9.03 538 61 - 189 72.4 3 4659 13.52 345 40.5 - 95 84.3 4 4628 8.19 565 75

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Sarah Jurak; Emil Jurak; Ramazan Asmatulu

the unethical treatment of the human subjects in the trials.The Tuskegee Study research started in 1932 when there was no definitive treatment of syphilisbut continued until the story broke in 1972 even though penicillin was developed as a treatmentin the early 1950’s. In the study, 412 poor African-American men with syphilis were followedand left untreated while 204 men free of the disease were used for comparison in order toresearch and document the progression of the disease over the lifetime of the subjects. Thesubjects were deceived in order to get them to consent to participate in the clinical research andthey were denied treatment even after an effective treatment was developed. 11As a result of the public outrage, the National

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Heath Schluterman; Candace Rainwater; Leslie Massey

topics such as fundamentals where some studentshad been exposed to the concepts in high school as well as in the chemistry and physics coursesthey were taking alongside the Introduction to Engineering class. Similarly, when it came tolearning to use Microsoft Excel, some student s were experts while others had never seen itbefore. Lecturing on how to use excel had the additional problem of one student halting theentire class of fifty since we were teaching sequential steps. In our flipped classroom model, thedevised process for each assignment was students watch video lectures, complete an electronic“Concept Quiz”, complete the necessary calculations or questions on a provided worksheet, andfinally complete the assignment by submitting the

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Jing Pang

Logicly. After they create the circuit, they canclick on the two input toggle switches to generate logic ‘1’ or logic ‘0’ inputs. When the outputis logic ‘1’, the bulb will be on with blue color. Otherwise the bulb will be off without color.Students can record the experiment data by observing different input logic combinations and thecorresponding output logic values. After this exercise, the lab instructor can organize groupdiscussion to ask students to summarize the behavior of the AND gate. Usually, after smallgroup discussion and then the whole class discussion, students can successfully draw theconclusion that only when both inputs are logic ‘1’s, the AND gate output will be logic ‘1’.Similarly, students can familiarize themselves with other

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Ali Salehnia

/2014V03/I15/IJRET20140315080.pdf, Accessed May 2015.[4]. L. Arthur, “What is Big Data”, htpp:://www.forbes.com/sites/liasaarthur/2013/08/15/what-is-big-data/, Accessed May 2105[5]. S. Penchikala, “Virtual Panel: Security Considerations in Accessing NoSQL Databases‖, Nov. 2011.http://www.infoq.com/articles/nosql-data-security-virtual- panel., Accessed May 2015.[6].Oracle Databases from web: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/overview/index.h tml,Accessed May 2015.[7]. Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) vs noSQL.http://openproceedings.org/html/pages/2015_edbt.html, Accessed April 2015.[8]. “Relational -database-management-system-rdbms-vs-nosql/,http://www.loginradius.com/engineering/relational-database-management-system-rdbms-vs

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Arash Jahandideh; Samaeh Aminikhangahi; Ali Salehnia; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

dynamic programming wasdeveloped and implemented to assess the sustainability of a project and possible pathway toreach certain product. The generalized algorithm proposed in the present study enables allindustries to model and carry out LCA analysis of their products in both economic andenvironmental aspect. The authors plan to add social analysis part to current model and alsovalidate the model using real world data.References[1] G. Finnveden, M. Z. Hauschild, T. Ekvall, J. Guinée, R. Heijungs, S. Hellweg, A. Koehler, D. Pennington, and S. Suh, “Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.,” J. Environ. Manage., vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Oct. 2009.[2] W. Kloepffer, “Life cycle sustainability assessment of products,” Int. J

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Susan C. Schneider

how an instructor can potentially modify existing assignments foruse with CPR. The results of a “practice CPR” assignment are used to highlight which areas ofthe CPR assignment preparation need to be given close attention in order to achieve meaningfulreviews.KeywordsWriting Assignments, Calibrated Peer Review, undergraduate laboratory in electricalengineering, memo writingIntroductionWriting exercises have been included in the upper division electrical engineering laboratorycourses since the beginning of our program, typically in the traditional form of the weeklylaboratory report. In the late 1990’s, influenced by an increasing exposure to the concepts ofWriting Across the Curriculum (WAC), Write to Learn (WTL), and Writing in the

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Lisa Anneberg; Luo Suyun; Zhang Hui

University and history: https://www.ltu.edu/news/history.asp2 Shanghai University of Engineering Science and history: http://en.sues.edu.cn/s/640/t/323/LTU, p/1/c/12073/d/12082/list.htm3 Luo Suyun and Lisa Anneberg, Student Attitudes on a Collaborative Engineering Undergraduate Program between USA and China, 2011 ASEE North Midwest Conference.Lisa AnnebergLisa has been with LTU for twenty-five years in the department of electrical and computerengineering. She primarily teaches digital courses. 3 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III

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Christopher M. Moore; Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

container homes have become very successful increating a modern, appealing interior design. Figure 6b features the interior of a cargo containerhome. The application of drywall, hardwood flooring, standard appliances and furniture, andlighting creates a home that is very similar to a modern home constructed using a standardmethodology (i.e. without using cargo containers). Figure 6. (a) Internal framing system for cargo container home9, (b) Cargo container home interior10.2. Educational adaptation“Materials and Methods of Building Construction” (Curriculum code; ArchE2103) course inMissouri S&T Architectural Engineering Program covers a variety of educational methodologiessuch as; traditional

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]. Available: http://search.asee.org/search/fetch?url=file%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2FE%3A%2Fsearch%2Fconference%2 F14%2FAC%25202007Full1853.pdf&index=conference_papers&space=129746797203605791716676178 &type=application%2Fpdf&charset= . Retrieved on June 02, 2015.9. Burkett, S, and Snead, C., “Picasso’s Clarinet: When Art and Engineering Collide,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2009,116th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX, 2009, AC 2009-32.. [Online]. Available: http://search.asee.org/search/fetch?url=file%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2FE%3A%2Fsearch%2Fconference%2 F19%2FAC%25202009Full32.pdf&index=conference_papers&space=129746797203605791716676178

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Francisco Lourenco; Nian Zhang; Sasan Haghani

Water Supply Reliability Study, 2013. http://www.potomacriver.org/publicationspdf/ICPRB13-07.pdf.[3] A Snapshot of Potomac Watershed Health, Potomac Conservancy, http://www.potomac.org/site/snapshot- watershed/index.php.[4] Potomac Conservancy, State of the Nation’s River, Potomac Watershed. 2007. Available: http://www.potomac.org.[5] US Army Corps of Engineers, http://washingtonaqueduct.nab.usace.army.mil/.[6] S. Haykins, Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation (Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1998).[7] K. Solaimani, "Rainfall-runoff Prediction Based on Artificial Neural Network (A Case Study: Jarahi Watershed)," American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 5(6), 2009, 856-865.[8] J. Zhang, C. Zhu, Prediction of Reservior

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Bijaya Shrestha

, 2015 7 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)AppendixThis author is proposing a mathematical framework to express the transformation process of astudent’s attitude from an initial state, i to a desired final state, f. In this formalism, a state isrepresented by a letter, s with the appropriate subscript and then enclosed between a delimiter (avertical line) on the left and a curly brace on the right as shown below:|sinitial } or in short |si } (A.1)By the application of an agent of change, which we will call as an Operator, Ō, the initial statemay be changed to another

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Mahbub Ahmed; Lionel Hewavitharana; Scott McKay; Kendra Ahmed; Mamunur Rashid

could be done as a student project, that waystudent(s) will enjoy doing the hands-on work. On the other hand, if a similar setup is purchasedfrom the market, that could easily cost between $10,000 to 20,000.Hydrostatic Force on a Submerged Surface Experiment SetupThe setup is widely used to find the total hydrostatic force and center of pressure of a submergedsurface. The proposed experimental setup is shown in Figure 2. A cylindrical quadrant is hingedat the axis of it. It has two concentric cylindrical surfaces such that the pressure forces on thesesurfaces pass through the center of the quadrant that causes zero moment. The entire quadrant isproposed to be made using a 3D printer. The quadrant will be placed in a fish tank. Rod andhinge

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. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 8(14), 2003, Retrieved from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=149. Tierney, R. and Simon, M., What’s still wrong with rubrics: Focusing on the consistency of performance criteria across scale levels. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 9(2), 2004. Retrieved from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=9&n=210. Atkinson, D. and Lim, S., Improving assessment processes in Higher Education: Student and teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of a rubric embedded in a LMS. Australasian Journal Of Educational Technology, 29(5), 2013, 651-666.11. Mertler, C., Designing scoring rubrics for your classroom. Practical Assessment, Research &

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problem solving skills of middle school students", The Clearing House, 75(4), 211–213, 2001.15. B. Barker and J.Ansorge, "Robotics as Means to Increase Achievement Scores in an Informal Learning Environment, Journal of Research on Technology in Education 39(3), 229–243, 2007.16. Beer, R. D., Chiel, h. J., & Drushel, R., "Using robotics to teach science and engineering", Communications of the ACM, 42(6), 85–92, 1999.17. Barnes, D. J., "Teaching introductory Java through Lego Mindstorms models", Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education,2002.18. Papert, S., "Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas", New York: BasicBooks, Inc., 198019. Rogers, C

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, 1995. 11. Bloom, Benjamin S., ed. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Longman, Newark, New Jersey, 1956. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 8 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) 12. Felder, R.M., and L.K. Silverman, L.K. “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education [Electronic Version],” Engineering Education, 78 (7), pp.674-681, 1988. http://www4.ncsu.edu./unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/LS- 1988.pdf, accessed July 10, 2015. 13.Biographical

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students could easilyface. The magazine published many of critical letters including one from a career advisor at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T) that read, “… (The student’s) word should mean something. … (Otherwise) his/her word may be questioned in the future. … (The students would) leave the company in a poor position. … We tell students to quit interviewing when they have accepted a job. It is like continuing to date after you are married.”Students frequently ask about professional expectations. At what point am I committed to take a job – after a verbal acceptance or after papers are signed? What if the company will not wait longer for an answer to a job offer? How long should one work at a

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/s based on the plot? 5. The experimental result is obtained from the setup of the following system in the figure below. a. Write the equation of motion. b. The mass of the hanging weight is 500 gram. Using the frequency obtained from experimental result in problem 4, calculate the spring constant k.

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

6/2015. 6 Aikenhead, G. S. and Ryan, A. G, “The Development of a New Instrument: Views on Science— Technology—Society (VOSTS)” Sci. Ed., Vol. 76, 1992, pp. 477–491. 7 Mack, P.E., Campbell, T. and Abd-Hamid, N.H., “Issues in Survey Assessments of STS courses”, Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, October 2008, Vol. 28, pp. 408-413.Timothy Burg, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State UniversityDr. Burg has extensive experience in industrial applications of robotics and nonlinear controldesign techniques and the academic investigation of the basis and future directions of thesetechniques. He moved to Kansas State from Clemson University in 2014. Prior to that, heworked for Michelin