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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

Project-Based Approach to Intensify STEM Education Experience – A Case Study * Kishore K. Chidella, Srikanth Kumar Gampa, Abdulrahman Almohaimeed Department of Computer Science University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, 89154 *E-mail: kishore.chidella@unlv.eduAbstractThe evolution of engineering made an impact role in technology. Innovations with recenttechnologies brought a new lifestyle and wide variety of benefits. The engineering is animportant drive to bring the technological innovations, which raised the growth and prosperity ofUnited States (US). To obtain the scientific approach and to

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Muhammad Khan; Mohamed Ibrahim

2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Women in Engineering – Focus on Self-Efficacy in Modeling and Design through Project-Based Learning Muhammad Safeer Khan*, PhD, P.E., and Mohamed Ibrahim†, PhD * Department of Electrical Engineering, Arkansas Tech University † Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Arkansas Tech UniversityAbstractAbility to model and design engineering systems is central attribute of engineering education.With the rapid technological advances in diverse fields, the practice of engineering profession istaking place in a team environment. The diversity of engineering teams

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Jonathan Kuchem; Nicolas Libre

Implementation of Problem Based Learning into Materials Testing lab Jonathan Kuchem, Nicolas Ali Libre Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractEntrepreneurial Mindset Learning (EML) and Problem-based learning (PBL) are recent trends inhigher education that develop the necessary skills and enhance learning in engineering education.A problem-based learning project was implemented into Materials Testing Lab to promotestudent interaction in class and increase problem solving, time management, and teamworkskills. A three week project was developed in order to expose students to open-ended

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Michael Hennessey

(EML) into an undergraduate Dynamics course within a mechanical engineering program. A “KEEN” team project was given to the students in which they were asked to pretend that they were members of a startup company that would design, build, test, market, and sell a product with some dynamics content to it. As part of the exercise, the 20 teams worked on idea generation, concept development and identification of required activities, in addition to writing a draft Business Plan. Product ideas varied across different economic sectors including power generation, sports technology, transportation, food and beverage technology, and health care. Grading of the resulting reports incorporated factors such as: (1

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Charles Baukal; Mark Vaccari; Thomas DeAgostino; Carter Stokeld; Courtney Baukal

problems needs to betaught to students so they will be properly prepared when they enter the workforce. While theymay be exposed to this type of problem in their capstone projects, they usually encounter verylittle of it in their core engineering classes. These ill-defined problems may also be solved usinga variety of methods, to arrive at differing answers that still reinforce one another.Where possible, teachers should give some open-ended assignments where there may be multipleacceptable solutions (Baukal 2017). Students need to determine appropriate boundary conditionsand material properties for these “fuzzy” problems. Students must then defend their ownsolutions as is typically required in industry. This teaches them that many “real” problems

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Alana Gorski; Hannah Gross; Masoud Mojtahed Mojtahed

examines the design, research, and development phases of the firewall- seat componentfor the PNW FSAE car. This is one of many projects to be completed in the 2019-2020 season bystudents. These projects give students the opportunity to learn, develop, and apply skill sets crucialto the engineering field prior to learning them in the classroom. In addition, it will prepare them toenter the workforce directly out of college and allow them unmatched exposure to potentialemployers at the FSAE design events. Design and Development of an Integrated Firewall-Seat forFormula SAE car has allowed student researchers to gain a fundamental working knowledge ofvehicle engineering, the engineering V, design optimization, applied mechanics, thermodynamics

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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

Research Safety and Professional Development-A Graduate Course Focused on the Role of Safety in Laboratory Management Tammy M. Lutz-Rechtin Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractA graduate student laboratory-safety course has been developed that encompassed the essentialsof safety combined with addressing safety management soft skills. The structure of the courseincorporated lectures, guest speakers, student presentations, site visits, in-class discussions andproblem-solving. The culmination of the course was a final project report that required theincorporation of topics and skills learned into a safety

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Brett Whorley; Camilo Giraldo; Arjun Kamath; Molly McVey; Meagan Patterson; Carl Luchies

. Students were asked about their motivation to learn course content for eachmodeling platform as well as their confidence in their ability to utilize each software package tosimulate real-world mechanical systems. Survey data was analyzed via SAS 94 English (SASInstitute, Cary, NC, USA) for statistical significance. Modeling Dynamics terminates each semester with a significant group term project. Open-ended instructions encourage teams to develop a research question about a real-world dynamicalsystem that can be investigated using the simulation tools taught in the course. Students oftenselect to use their simulation term project to supplement Capstone Design or graduate researchtopics, which typically requires students to learn and implement

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt; Joel Versypt; Heather Gappa-Fahlenkamp

Capital event, select undergraduate researchers from public higher educationinstitutions from across the state presents their research projects in the rotunda of the state capitalbuilding to legislators, faculty, students, research administrators, and other guests. The event isopen to the public. Additionally, state and federal legislators are periodically invited to touruniversity facilities including new or renovated engineering research and teaching spaces or toview student posters or design project demonstrations.Activities presented to residents of retirement centersA local retirement center has a program called N2O (Never Too Old) Innovators for senior adultsto engage in design, entrepreneurship, and invention (Roach 2019). The group has

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Md. Nizam Uddin; Yeshaswini Baddam; Polo Osornio-Cornejo; Eylem Asmatulu

of electrospun nanocomposite fibers with variousnanoparticle inclusions: (a) REPS only, (b) 5 wt%, (c) 10 wt%, and (d) 15 wt%.4. Sustainability Training of Engineering Students Sustainability enables engineers to reduce environmental pollution, cost, and use of naturalresources in new designs and products. Due to the limited natural resources and lack of clean water,sustainability should be considered for design and manufacturing. Department of MechanicalEngineering at WSU has over 480 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, and a significantportion of them consider sustainability research projects during their studies. Mr. Polo Osornio-Cornejo (undergraduate student), Mr. Md. Nizam Uddin (PhD Candidate) and Ms. YeshaswiniBaddam (MS

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Yeshaswini Baddam; Md. Nizam Uddin; Thisath Don; Eylem Asmatulu

processing methods for 4D printing technology. Starting Smart Materials/ Printing External Form of Future Research Reference Composites Used Process Stimuli Material Produces Barium Titante BaTiO3, Digital electrical charge Investigate Piezoelectric BTO) nanoparticles Projection when stress is coefficient upper limits & polyethylene glycol printing applied and vice their relationship with other diacrylate matrix (DPP) versa parameters. [23

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Amardeep Kaur; Theresa Swift

components ofeach lab experiment. The lab manuals were also updated to include the current details andoperations of all the equipment and tools in use.In the third step, a list of viable alternatives to the robot kit was created. The prime objectives ofthis task were cost and time. The robot kit is priced at $80 and some students thought that it wasa hefty sum for a kit that was just used once and had no use for them later on. Instructors and thelab coordinator involved in the redesign project also felt that, for the learning outcome ofworking with printed circuit boards and learning soldering skills, there were cheaper optionsavailable and by creating a choice, students could choose projects that were fun and usable tothem. Two weeks were scheduled

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Md. Nizam Uddin; Fenil Desai; Arvind Murali; Andrew Swindle; Eylem Asmatulu

contact angle of carbonized electro-spun nanocomposite fibers with variousnanoparticles inclusion.3.3 Training of Engineering Students Sustainability of engineering education will be the drawing force for the technologicaldevelopment not only in Midwest, but also in the U.S.A. Nanotechnology is one of the leadingtechnology in number of different industries, including transpiration, energy, medicine, defense,electronics and other manufacturing industries, and this technology can address some of the majorconcerns in global water issues. Department of Mechanical Engineering at WSU has nearly 500undergraduate and 120 graduate students, and a big portion of these students considersustainability research projects on environmental issues. During

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A. Kunza; K.A. Brauning; A.S.A. Shairi; R. Asmatulu

characterizations parts of the project, engineering BS, MS and PhDstudents were involved in every step and gained huge hands-on experiences on composite tech-nology. These activities also synchronized the team work ability among different levels of engi-neering students to enhance the engineering educations.Acknowledgement The authors greatly acknowledge Wichita State University for financial and technicalsupport of the present study.References1) Brauning, K. A. “Mitigation of Machining Damage on Delamination of Fiber Reinforced Composite Tensile Coupons,” M.S. Thesis, Wichita State University, May 2013.2) Shirvanimoghaddam, K., Hamim, S. U., Karbalaei Akbari, M., Fakhrhoseini, S. M., Khayyam, H., Pakseresht, A. H., Naebe, M. (2017). Carbon

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Juliana Utley; Drew Gossen; Toni Ivey

not explicitlypoint out this connection will result in a lack of understanding of the role of mathematics andscience in the work of engineers (Guzey et al., 2016).Context for Study As a part of the Rural Readiness for Engineering Education (RREE) project, authorsengaged 20 elementary (grades 2 - 5) teachers from the state’s most comprehensive regionaleducation cooperative that includes 15 school districts across several rural counties, many withhigh Native American student populations in a one-day engineering education workshop. Theworkshop followed the prescribed EiE 6-hour workshop format indicated in their professionaldevelopment materials. To assist in the easy integration and eventual adoption of the materials,researchers selected

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Nicolas Libre; Stuart Baur

math and science relate to the field of engineering. Byseeing first-hand what engineers actually do, campers can better decide on a career or disciplinethey want to pursue. Whether a student is interested in clean energy, cars and motorcycles,explosives, or building bridges or towers, the camp will educate them through hands-onactivities, computer laboratory visits and practical demonstrations. The civil and architecturalengineering program is no exception to this exercise. Both programs offers a tour through someof the various research/laboratory facilities and provide similar demonstrations in statics andmechanics of materials. What the students saw in the labs is further reinforced in the classroomby conducting a project base learning (PBL

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Sattar Ali; A. Bilal Ozturk; Amanuel Wondimu; Eylem Asmatulu

to study the interactions molecular levels. The useof this highly efficient tool is expanding into multiple areas of research, especially the field ofplant science and agriculture. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita StateUniversity (WSU) has over 480 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, and some of the studentsbegan to work on microfluidics research projects during their studies. Mr. Sattar Ali (Ph.D.Candidate) and Mr. Amanuel Wondimu (undergraduate student) from the Department ofMechanical Engineering at WSU and Mr. A. Bilal Ozturk (Ph.D. Candidate) from Department ofTransdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, were involved in thepresent study, learned many new techniques and gained a lot

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Hailey Michael; Shankar Krishnan

among treatments.Patients are looked at from a disease cluster consideration, rather than as an individual patientrequiring personalized care. Large volumes of complex data, forming the big data, can bereviewed and analyzed to arrive at a personalized plan for patient case management. Theobjective of this project is to review examples of current applications of big data in healthcare,highlight the corresponding benefits, and make suggestions for future improvements.Big data analytics refers to the comparison and utilization of high volume, variety, velocity andveracity of relevant data to select a treatment approach for a given patient. Applying the analyticson relevant big data and zooming in on a specific patient’s case to determine

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Roy Myose; L. Scott Miller; Steven Skinner; James Myose

10Engineers are involved with all types of infrastructure construction while Architectural Engineersare limited to building constructions. In some respects, Architectural Engineering may be viewedas a specialized subset of Civil Engineering. The average number of Architectural Engineersgraduating from K-State and KU total 75 graduates per year. These graduates are likely to meetsome of the demand for Civil Engineers in Kansas for the appropriate types of projects. AlthoughKBOR concludes that the supply of Civil Engineers does not meet demand, perhaps the gap is notthat large. In terms of Electrical Engineering, there is a gap that is moderate or large depending onwhich demand estimate is assumed. Finally, there appears to be a sizeable gap where

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Roy Myose; L. Scott Miller; Elizabeth Rollins

improve student success would need to be implemented earlier in the Statics course. Aliterature survey indicates that there are a number of different possibilities for intervention in Statics.Burkhardt15 reviews a variety of these different techniques including increased contact time,supplemental instruction, active learning, project-based learning, and one-on-one tutoring. He notesthat the effectiveness of any given intervention is highly dependent on the appropriate implementationof that technique. As a result, Burkhardt concludes that there is a need for high-quality assessment ofintervention techniques. The results of the current study should provide a benchmark for theevaluation of the efficacy of any intervention techniques applied in a