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James R. Rowland

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Control Systems Term Projects with Multidisciplinary Teams James R. Rowland University of Kansas 1520 West 15th Street, EECS Dept, 2001 Eaton Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045AbstractImprovements in multidisciplinary teaming are described for a two-phase Matlab projectperformed by over 300 seniors in the past 10 years in an undergraduate control systems course atthe University of Kansas. Aligned with engineering education research reported in the literature,these dynamic teaming concepts provide

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Stuart W. Baur; R. Joe Stanley

Missouri Instructor Survey Assessment of Project Lead The Way Programs Stuart W. Baur, Ph.D., A.I.A. and R. Joe Stanley, Ph.D.AbstractThere have been several studies that show the benefits of Project Lead The Way (PLTW) coursesfor K-12 students in the preparation for high school students on statewide and national exams,high school academic performance, college level academic performance in particular areas ofstudy, high school student engagement, and other areas. The challenge is how are schools beingprepared to attract students to such programs and are the students excited about the curriculum.This study examines the impact of PLTW courses at the middle through high school level.Survey results from 208 instructors who

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Cristinel Ababei; Anca M. Miron

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Emulating Working in a Company in the Classroom: A Case for Hands-on Multiple Projects Oriented Course Cristinel Ababei and Anca M. Miron Marquette University / University of Wisconsin, OshkoshAbstractWe describe the design, implementation, and outcomes of an advanced engineering courseemulating the working environment of a company. Shifting from a traditional teaching style toan approach where students must be completely involved in project-related research,implementation, preparation of deliverables, and presentation of

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Design Teams at a Distance: A First Attempt Christi Patton Luks and Laura P Ford Missouri University of Science & Technology/University of TulsaAbstract In the Spring 2015 semester, Chemical Engineering professors at two universitiesteaching a similar Junior-level course created a design project for teams formed with membersfrom each school. The intent was that students would have an opportunity to develop some real-world skills in teamwork when part of the team is working in another office across the countryor, as is

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Puteri Megat Hamari

industrial-grade IC design tools were used as the primary toolset. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)This paper discusses the course content, hands-on exercises, final project design and theeffectiveness of using a state-of-the-art, industry-grade CAD tool in the introduction andinstruction of VLSI design to students.Course OutlineThe course material for EE584/484 covered everything from MOS transistor theory and CMOSprocess technology through circuit and logic design, to

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Erik Mallonee; John Barkley; Ramazan Asmatulu

, biology, mathematics, and others. One of the major challengesof energy related education is to provide students in this field with the ability to understand thefundamental concepts. Another is to be able to retain students’ interest in the field, especially inthe discipline of engineering, at both the college and high school levels. In the present study, afirst year college student from a previous study was given the opportunity to, with guidance,improve upon a project related to the field of energy. The opportunity provided the ability toenhance the level of education and interest in engineering, as well as informing the student onthe social, economic, and educational implications of the engineering field. Opportunities of thisnature could help

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)current applications. We will answer questions such as “How does the Roomba robot clean thefloor in a house?” We will explore the economics of robots and their use as a tool to boostproductivity. The lecture topics will be reinforced with hands-on projects -- the students will useLEGO Mindstorms to explore robot construction and intelligence. We will analyze emergingtrends to develop our own predictions for the future of robotics. The projects will culminate witha design project where students work with a group to build their own walking robot. In theirfuture careers as business leaders, educators, physicians, etc. students will make decisions aboutrobotics; the course outlined below will provide the

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Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

fundamental types ofproject work can be distinguished in PBL; the task project, the discipline project and theproblem project 5. Limitation increases through the task project and the freedom increasesthrough the problem project. PBL is part of lab activities in ArchE2103 course and called as“term project”. Teamwork was essential to fulfill the term project successfully. Duration of thestudy is main determinative for the scope of the PBL module in the course. Students’ motivationis dependent on the degree of participation, in other words; increasing of freedom may result inpositive feedback from the students. Due to having limited time in a semester, it is necessary toput boundary on the term project. The boundary or the limitation is also called as

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Aleksandr Sergeyev; Nasser Alaraje; Scott Kuhl; Michael Meyer; Mark Kinney; Mark Highum

countries and territoriesas part of its annual Talent Shortage Survey4 and identified that employers are having the mostdifficulty finding the right people to fill jobs in Japan 81%, Brazil 63% and the US 40%. In fact,two occupations in the US: technicians (primarily production/operations, engineering ormathematics) and engineers top the list of 10 jobs employers have difficulty filling. In addition,the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports major skill gaps in the US.The 2013 ASTD report states that US organizations spent ~$164.2 billion on employee learning5in 2012. The US is facing an alarmingly high replacement need for STEM professionals6,7. Forinstance, the projected replacement rate in mathematical science is 29.5%, in

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

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)each steps were clearly defined initially. Therefore, students’ feedback was fairly positive as 8.27out of 10. Similarly scaled model assembly as term project was a task project having clearlydefined hand-outs (design guide) prior the activity. Whereas, students have to think outside thebox in cargo container design activity. In Table 2 number 1 and 3 activities can be named as thetask projects, but number 2 – cargo container design activity - was a discipline project. This canbe the possible reason of having lowest rate of educational significance. In terms of analogy of afootball game, this means that playing field is specified, some

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

laboratoryexperiences that achieve the same learning outcomes as face-to-face laboratories. To address this need, apilot computer program, Project VELVET (Virtual Electronics Laboratory for Visualized Education andTraining), for a virtual electronics laboratory is being developed. VELVET operates on Windows-basedcomputers in a real-time environment. It presents to its user a virtual breadboard into which componentsmay be inserted. A dc power supply and a signal generator are available to supply energy and signals tocircuits, and measurements may be made with a virtual millimeters and a virtual oscilloscope. Thealgorithm and sample screen images of the program are presented in this paper.KeywordsVirtual Laboratories, Electronics Laboratories, Engineering

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R. Joe Stanley; Stuart W. Baur

levels. Project Lead The Way (PLTW) provides STEM education curricularprograms in high schools and middle schools in 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

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deficiencies in higher level learning skills of engineering students isthrough experiential learning.Experiential learning Kolb6 stated that experiential learning is the process of making meaning from directexperience, i.e., "learning from experience". As early as 1976, American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) published a report on experiential learning where Harrisberger et al.7evaluated six different experiential learning programs in engineering with the intent to determinethe learning outcomes and learning potential of experiential project activities. The reportidentified the following skills and attributes that can be reinforced by a well-designed experientiallearning program: problem-solving skills, interpersonal awareness, creative

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Byron Garry

: take actions to continually improve process performance.For use by our COM Department11, we have developed and use this definition: Quality Control(QC) is an in-process or embedded technique: • In manufacturing, processes are monitored, to identify problems that could lead to non- conforming products • Corrective action can be taken quickly in assessing a course, after each semester. • Can also be used to test new materials, equipment, and methods. If a test did not work well, then fixing it can happen the next time the test is given.In our COM Departments program’s continuous improvement process, we use mostly embeddedassessments, that is, we use the assignments, quizzes, tests, labs, reports and projects that are apart of

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Susan C. Schneider

Disciplines(WID) 1, we began to include memos, progress reports, procedure instructions and final reports,all of which are likely to be used by our students when they are in their engineering jobs,including their co-op jobs. In particular, one of the expected outcomes for all our laboratorycourses is for the students to be able to effectively communicate the objective, the designprocedure, the experimental results, and the conclusion for a particular laboratory assignment(junior level) or electronic circuit/system design project (senior level).Current Laboratory Writing AssignmentsDifferent types of writing assignments are used in the final two laboratory classes in ourprogram. In the junior level “Instrumentation Lab”, students write three or four

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Lisa Anneberg; Luo Suyun; Zhang Hui

fulland adjunct faculty. Some courses are taken by both Automotive and Electrical engineeringundergraduates: project management, engineering quality control, and so on.LTU and SUES have had this evolving collaborative global engineering program since 2003. Itbegan with two important classes: Engineering Economic Analysis and Introduction toAutomotive Principles. These courses are typical in American engineering undergraduateprograms, and became stalwarts in the SUEs undergraduate programs as well. The total numberof students in 2003 was 120 sophomores and freshmen automotive engineering students. Thenext year, Engineering Materials, Matlab Programming, and Engineering Quality Control wereadded. For the 2015-2016 academic year, the list of courses

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Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

-yearenrollment growth projections in engineering, these problems will continue into the foreseeablefuture. In an effort to address the conceptual gap in electrical engineering learning within theframework of the resource limitations described above, Arkansas Tech University set out toinstitute a laboratory education method more closely integrated with the classroom lectures.Several requirements were developed for implementation of the new program.Lab exercises would be coupled with the university’s existing Electrical Circuits 1 course andwould consist of simple and focused experiments designed to reinforce the current classroomtheoretical concepts. To provide the needed synchronization between classroom and laboratoryexercises and provide immediate

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Arash Jahandideh; Samaeh Aminikhangahi; Ali Salehnia; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

World Resource Institute (WRI), have adopted life cycle thinking. As a result, thestakeholders are controlled to reduce the environmental impacts associated with their products.The LCA provides the quantitative and scientific bases for all the involved activities. Economic,environmental and social dimensions of sustainability need to be addressed in assessing thesustainability of a project, product, etc. Also, a scientifically based Sustainability Analysisnecessarily involves value judgments, assumptions, scenarios and uncertainties. Generally, LCAconsists of four steps including “Goal and scope”, “Life cycle inventory”, “Life cycle impactassessment” and “Interpretation” [1]. The LCA is typically restricted to environmental aspects,while

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Todd Easton

each student’s progress on learning outcomes.Furthermore, the instructor can provide learning experiences for each student in the class. Bychanging a course from lecture based to lecture based tutoring, the student ratings of theinstructor improved by a statistically significant amount.KeywordsActive Learning, Lecture Based Tutoring, Student Ratings1. IntroductionResearchers publish numerous papers and books on techniques and methods to improve studentlearning. From improved projects [Johnson (1999), Easton and Cassone (2006)] to activelearning techniques [Silberman (1996), Myers et al. (1993), Prince (2004)], the amount ofresearch done in improving learning is extensive. The goal of active learning techniques is tohelp students master the

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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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Heath Schluterman; Candace Rainwater; Leslie Massey

offered astwo, one-credit hour courses each semester of the first year. The students meet for two 50 minutelectures and one 50 minute drill section each week, as well as a 30 minute peer mentor meeting.This results in a total of 180 minutes of weekly contact. In general, lectures focus on engineeringproblem solving, drill sections focus on major selection and professional development, and peermentor meetings focus on personal and academic success. The lecture content is further dividedinto spending roughly half the time on theme-based team projects and the rest on basicengineering skills used by all engineering students.Course Content: Technical MaterialThe topics covered in the Introduction to Engineering I course include the following

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Heather McCain

Professor of the Practice at the University of Kansas and the soleproprietor of hjm Training and Consulting. She works with companies to implement continuousimprovement methodologies and provides training on quality, project management, and processimprovement. She was the Quality Manager for Consumer Product at Garmin International, aConsulting Engineer at Hallmark Cards, and held various positions AlliedSignal (nowHoneywell) Aerospace and Automotive. She has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Kansas 5 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference

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Robert M. O'Connell

, respectively.These results suggest that midterm exams, used properly for formative assessment, can beeffective at improving student learning, in response to initially-posed question. One area for 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)continuation of the project will be to examine why the improvement in scores for ILO pair 3,4 isconsistently smaller than for ILO pair 1,2.References1. Biggs, J. and Tang, C., Teaching for Quality Learning at University 2nd ed., SRHE &

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Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

means that fewerstudents dropped or transferred out of the program due to poor grades, boredom, or frustration.Overall, this study has been a definitive success. Every outcome in both parts of the study eitherwere successfully implemented or, at least, appear to be so according to the data collected thusfar. With no increased workload or loss of material coverage, and with such positive results, thisinstructor will continue to implement active teaching methods whenever possible.References1. J. Amador, L. Miles and C. Peters, "The practice of Problem Based Learning: A Guide to implementing PBL in the College Classroom," San Francisco: Jossey-Bass., 2007.2. J. Thomas, "A review of research on project-based learning," San Rafael, CA

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Norman D. Dennis; Edgar C. Clausen

”, as presented ion Figure 3, was purported to be the underpinnings of the teaching strategies needed to be an effective teacher. While the Model Instructional Strategies is “what the students need,” the ExCEEd Teaching Model is “what the teacher needs to do to effectively execute the strategy.” The remainder of the seminars were all linked to elements of the Instructional Strategy and the Teaching Model.3. Speaking. Relating to the element of engagement in the ExCEEd Teaching Model, the minimum essential qualities of verbal communication (projection, articulation and variation in volume, speed, and pitch) were demonstrated and practiced by the participants through several exercises. Several mechanisms for stimulating positive

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Goutham Chinni; Israel Belachew; Ramazan Asmatulu

., accessed in July 9, 2015.20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rataguera/draft, accessed in July 14, 2015.Biographical InformationGoutham ChinniMr. Goutham is a MS student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita StateUniversity (WSU), and has been working on the biodiesel related projects. He will graduate inMay 2016.Israel Belachew © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)Mr. Israel is a BS student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at WSU, and has astrong interests in the renewable energy systems. He will graduate in May 2015, and will join

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Francisco Lourenco; Nian Zhang; Sasan Haghani

regularly review and assess local trends and projections of how hydrologicconditions might change in the coming decades. Under the set of cooperative agreements whichgovern water supply planning and management in the Washington Metropolitan Area, the area’sthree main water suppliers are committed to conducting regular forecasts of future demands andresources.Climate change will likely add additional stress to a system facing the challenge of futurepopulation growth. The region’s suppliers are also committed by cooperative agreements toincrease water availability if assessments determine a need to do so. This could be done byfunding structural solutions and/or other means of ensuring a reliable supply. To this end, studieson alternatives to increase

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Sara E. Wilson

understanding of the literature and their own research findings. Such acandidate may have started under the direct guidance of the advisor, but has moved tothe role of independent researcher. This can be evidenced by a dissertation that is asignificant departure from the advisor’s writings, grants, and other work. It may also beevidenced by a dissertation defense discussion where the candidate is able to explain howthey moved the research in new and original directions. An acceptable dissertation levelcandidate will have developed some original ideas and contributions within adissertation project. However, their research is mostly based in the advisor’s researchdirection and proposals. An inadequate candidate has little understanding of theresearch

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Steve E. Watkins

Member Conduct Committee, “ IEEE Student Ethics Competition,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.ieee.org/about/ethics/competition.html.8. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), “Center for Engineering Ethics and Society,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.nae.edu/Projects/CEES.aspx.9. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), “Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.onlineethics.org.10. Cindy Williams, Intel’s Pentium Chip Crisis: An Ethical Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Of Professional Communication, 40(1), pp. 13-19, 1997.Biographical InformationDR. STEVE E. WATKINS is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MissouriUniversity of Science and

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Sarah Jurak; Emil Jurak; Ramazan Asmatulu

-controlled studies which would mean giving a placebo to a segment ofthe research subjects. This would insure that treatment would be withheld from a percentage ofthe research subjects and their babies would not benefit from the treatment if effective. Thereasoning of such a research project is that without the research there would be no effectivetreatment to prevent or reduce the incidence of infected fetuses, and therefore those babies whobecame infected with HIV through the pregnancy and/or breastfeeding would have been infectedanyway. In this study, when the treatment was shown to be effective, further research whichconcentrated on the dosage and regimen of treatment did not involve placebo-controlledstudies.18An article in the New England