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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Todd Easton

instructor divides the class into groupsand these groups have a discussion. The groups typically elect a spokesperson for the group.When the class rejoins, all groups report the discussion that occurred. The above research shows that both TTYP and SGD provide improved learning outcomesover a standard lecture. However, these methods still have several shortcomings. In both cases,the instructor has given the students time to discuss “the desired topic.” The students maybriefly discuss the topic, but then some discussions change to less desired topics, which results in 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015

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

TRAINING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON NANOFIBER-BASED SHM SYSTEMS Ibrahim M. Alarifi, Abdulaziz Alharbi, Omar Alsaiari, and Ramazan Asmatulu* Wichita State University at Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260 *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.eduAbstractThe undergraduate engineering students were trained on the structural health monitoring (SHM)systems for the detections of aircraft composite damages using carbonized electrospunpolyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers. The carbonization process was conducted in two different steps: i)oxidation at 270oC in a furnace for 1 hr, and ii) carbonization in an Argon

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Paul Nissenson

section were granted access to the video tutorials and both sections performedsimilarly on quizzes and exams. Surveys given at the beginning and end of the course gaugedstudents’ opinions on the course material and format. Students in the hybrid section held a muchmore favorable opinion of hybrid courses by the end of the course compared to the lecture-onlystudents and had a lower absence rate from in-class meetings. Feedback about the hybrid sectionwas overwhelmingly positive and both sections felt the video tutorials helped them learn thematerial.1. IntroductionDuring the past decade, numerous technologies have been developed that make it easier forinstructors to extend their reach well beyond the classroom, allowing students to learn at a

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Lavanya Kumari

software development process. In Matthias Jarke’sarticle “Requirements Tracing” 18, he defines requirements traceability as the ability to describeand follow the life of a requirement, in both a forward and backward direction, throughout thesystem life cycle.Figure 1: A view of software requirements traceability2. Always consider the architecture of the system to be built.Software architecture is the skeleton of the system to be built. It affects interfaces, datastructures, program control flow and behavior, the manner in which testing can be conducted, themaintainability of the resultant system, and much more. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

offers a Masterof Science degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (MS-CSIA). Hands-on labs are acore component of the MS-CSIA curriculum. Providing students with labs that utilize theapplication tools and techniques used by industry can be expensive. The MS-CSIA programdeveloped a set of labs utilizing the open source Network Security Monitoring tool SecurityOnion along with publicly available network traffic captures with malware to create a set ofchallenging and realistic labs.Security OnionSecurity Onion is an open source Network Security Monitoring (NSM) suite of applications usedto provide full context and visibility into network traffic[1]. Network Security Monitoring isbased on the collection, analysis, and escalation of

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Kamran Abedini

school curriculum fully support theireducation and it is hard to question why a course in biology or chemistry is needed for a medicalschool student. However, where and why linear algebra is used for design of a healthcare facilitycould be a legitimate question for a freshman. It is time to re-engineer the engineering educationto ensure that an engineering student fully realizes the importance of learning every course andknow the relationship of pre-requisites and the sequential course design. Figure 1 shows anexample of a typical homework in an engineering course. A freshman could fail to see theapplication of wisdom and creativity in such assignments. In engineering orientation coursesmost of the time is spent on briefly explaining what

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Michael Kinsler; Colin McGill; Giovanni Rodriguez; William Berrios; Jeremy Chow; Amelito Enriquez; Paul Grams; Xiaorong Zhang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Kwok-Siong Teh

study in engineering.1. IntroductionThree-dimensional printing is a rapidly developing technology that revolutionizes the design andfabrication process of products by increasing the speed and efficiency in which complex, three-dimensional (3D) objects can be created1,2. However, given the technology is relatively new,there are many aspects to 3D printing that still require optimization in order to achieve a high-quality print within a reasonable time and cost. Many 3D printers extrude the thermoplasticsacrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or poly lactic acid (PLA) as print materials and create a 3Dobject by extruding many fine layers over one another until the object is complete2. Thesepolymer thermoplastics behave similarly, yet adhere to

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

deployment of theinternet present challenges to vetting of educational content that extend far beyond peer reviewsof academic journal papers. Vetting, in this context, implies the process of examination, review, Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 471validation and authentication of instructional content relative to a standard of excellence and fact.Five identified aspects of the vetting process are: 1) the creator of the content; 2) the content; 3)the qualifications of the assessor: “vettor”, reviewer

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M. Mohammad Ali; Hassan Badkoobehi

reliable sources and to use this data Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 556with statistical techniques, such as regression and factor analysis, to determine the variation ofselected collapse criteria and collapse-related soil parameters in three dimensions.Mathematical Details:Kriging is a geostatistical technique to interpolate the value Z(x0) of a random field Z(x) at anunobserved location x0 from observations zi=Z(xi), i= 1,….n of the random field at nearby locationsx1,…,xn. Kriging

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Jing Pang

engage students in active learning4-5 for the logic designlaboratory class. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)In order to solve the above problems, this paper presents multiple active learning methods theauthor has applied in teaching the introduction to logic design laboratory class. First, the onlineinteractive logic circuit visualization can be used to get students’ attention and also demonstratethe functionality of the logic circuits. Next, the

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Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Applicability of Multiple Building Technologies in Building Components’ Design Education Semih G. Yildirim1, Stuart W. Baur2 1 Visiting Scholar, 2Assoc. Prof.AbstractProblem-based learning (PBL) as a part of course curriculum in architectural engineeringeducation has already been formalized through longer retention of desired knowledge. Thecomponents of educational model are defined as learning environment, formulation of PBL,applicable building technologies and

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

Analysis of Student Performance After Implementing Active Teaching Methods in an Engineering Classroom Cory Mettler1 and Nathan Ziegler2 1 Instructor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota State University (SDSU) - email: cory.mettler@sdstate.edu, 2Director, English Language and Culture Institute at SDSU – email: nathan.ziegler@sdstate.eduAbstractThere is an abundance of data that suggest that implementing active teaching methods in the classroomproduces a deeper, longer lasting understanding and increased enjoyment of course material. However,most engineering educators do not employ these techniques. This study

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

“Guaranteed 4.0 Plan” by Donna O. Johnson.1 In Fall 2014, there were 32scholarship students enrolled in this class (7 in graduate school); however, the class was alsoattended by 32 students who did not hold scholarships. Some of these students had held the$4,000 scholarship, however the scholarship funding had ended in the spring 2014 semester. Thesame assignments were required of all students.A question which is often asked in the review of such a program is, “How important is thescholarship?” in this case a $4,000 scholarship for the academic year. The upper divisionstudents selected for the undergraduate scholarships had a minimum 3.0 GPA, were enrolledfull-time in engineering or computer science, were U.S. citizens, permanent residents

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Lisa Anneberg; Luo Suyun; Zhang Hui

States and ChinaOverviewLawrence Technological University [LTU, 1] and Shanghai University of Engineering Science[SUES, 2] were founded in 1932 and 1978, respectively. These specific particular datesrepresent two unique timeframes in the two countries where farsighted individuals implementedtheir “dream of preparing students for leadership in the new technical era into reality.” [1] Themotto of LTU is ‘Theory and Practice”, while SUES “integrates classroom-based learning withwork-based learning.”[2] Our two universities share similar student populations, mission/vision,and leadership.In fact, the vision of LTU is "To be a pre-eminent private technological university producingleaders with an entrepreneurial spirit and global view." Likewise, SUES

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Bijaya Shrestha

1 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)dollars, of course. Within the system of online education, a classroom does not need to have aphysical structure nor a chiming bell to tell if the class has begun or ended. Time and space areno longer the binding factors, at least, not in the sense of our old school ways. Any time, anyplace, a class can be joined, an exam taken, and a grade earned, within the framework ofestablished schedule, of course. What a concept! Even more interestingly, what a great part ofreality! This wave of online education along with everything else that goes on in the online worldis spreading all over. Even on the other side of

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Ali Salehnia

type, volume, velocity and dynamic structure of the new data sets. So, organizations with lotsof data, either have to purchase new systems or re-tool what they already have [1, 4, 5, and 8]. Big datadeals with volume, velocity, variability and variety. Velocity obviously refers to how quickly thestreaming data is captured [1, 6]. As more data are created and streamed the high variability and highvolume as well as variety of formats are at issue [2, 5, and 7]. The incoming data from a Web log,unstructured content from the Internet, need to be captured, tagged with metadata and hierarchical filesystems.As the volume, complexity, variety and velocity of digital data grow faster by the day, we need to findsolutions to use these data in productive

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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

the Bernoulli Balance to model fluid systems.Keywordsventuri meter, Bernoulli balances, laboratory experiments, fluid mechanicsIntroductionLaboratory practice, where students design and conduct experiments in support of classroomactivities, is an essential part of the educational process. It has been shown that a majority ofengineering students learn best when exposed to hands-on exercises and activities.1 A variety ofnovel techniques have been described in the literature for delivering lab content to the studentsincluding the use of the Kolb’s experiential learning cycle in conjunction with a virtuallaboratory,2 combining LEGO® Dacta building blocks with LabVIEW™ software3 and the useof hands-on demonstrations in place of full-scale lab

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Norman D. Dennis; Edgar C. Clausen

the college, a developmentalworkshop was created for the clinical faculty within the college of engineering with a vision ofmaking clinical faculty more engaging and organized instructors. The workshop was modeledafter the very successful week long ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop. Participants were notonly exposed to various teaching pedagogies, but were actually required to incorporate thepedagogies into a practice class, presented to their peers and to master teachers.IntroductionAccording to the ASEE Engineering Data System,1 engineering enrollment at U.S. universitieshas increased 56% since 2005 (421,072 to 655,160). At the same time, the number of tenuretrack faculty has remained level at approximately 26,000, while the use of non-tenure

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Building and Assessing a Hands-on Learning Experience for Robots in Business and Society Timothy Burg1, Pamela Mack2, Ian Walker2, Richard Groff2 1 Kansas State University,2Clemson UniversityAbstractAn undergraduate course is being developed for non-engineering majors to address the need forgeneral competencies in ethics, science, and technology. Robotics is a field of science that israpidly transforming our lives. Participants in the course will learn the history, mechanics andsoftware, and

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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James R. Rowland

candidate and final feedbackapplications of interest to the team, specific use of team member skills, arbitrating differences ofinterpretations regarding technical concepts, team dynamics in moving the project forward to asuitable conclusion, and required collaborations with the professor who serves as a teamconsultant during key parts of the experience. The contributions of this paper are (1) adescription of team accomplishments on the projects, (2) a literature survey of engineeringeducation research on dynamic teaming applicable to other projects as well, and (3)improvements in teaming for the KU projects over the past decade.IntroductionA team has been defined as individuals cooperating to accomplish a common goal, whereas agroup is a number of

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Sarah Jurak; Emil Jurak; Ramazan Asmatulu

withbiotechnology and synthetic biology. It will also touch on how these issues are handled globally.KeywordsBiotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Bioethics, Recent Developments, Health and Environment,Engineering Education.Headings1. Introduction1.1 General BackgroundBiotechnology is “the study and manifestation of living bodies or their components (e.g.,molecules, organs, cells, and tissues) in order to improve their living conditions.” 1 Syntheticbiology is a sub-category of biotechnology and is the “designing and combining of biologicmolecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA) and proteins in order toprovide a better understanding of the biological phenomenon and produce biological systemswith certain functions.” 2 Synthetic

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

. In this paper, the authors will 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)describe the challenges faced by the students and by the instructors in implementing thiscollaboration.Project Overview The authors of the paper had experience team teaching the Mass Transfer course atUniversity A. When one author moved to University B and was assigned to teach a similarcourse (Staged Mass Transfer), the authors decided that it would be interesting to continue thecollaboration and

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Byron Garry

to provideevidence of student academic achievement3. The ultimate purpose of engineering educationassessment (or any type of evaluation) should be to improve student learning, which begins withsetting objectives and renews itself with each assessment activity4.Ewell, a leader in higher education assessment, states5 that there are four guiding principles forresponding to calls for external accountability that also preserve and develop institutionalcapacity for evidence-based continuous improvement: 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

student operation, robust, portable, and economically viable. In thispaper we describe the details of integration of our system into an existing introductory DCElectric circuits course and additionally, details of the planned study including implementationand assessment are discussed.KeywordsActive learning, DC Circuit Analysis, Portable Lab, Kinesthetic LearningIntroductionAt Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Electric Circuits 1 is an introductory engineering coursethat teaches students electrical concepts utilizing direct-current (DC) circuit analysis and basicelectrical devices. This course is designed to provide a foundation for a sequence of courses inalternating current (AC) circuits, electronics, electrical machines, and engineering design

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Cristinel Ababei; Anca M. Miron

results helps to: 1) foster self-learning, 2) engage students more and enable them to be pro-active and competition-aware, and3) enable a smoother transition from full-time student to full-time employee. We usedanonymous questionnaires as the primary methodology of data collection along with ratings ofthe projects in terms of extent of challenge/complexity and type of work (individual vs. team-work). The questionnaires assessed the following dimensions satisfaction, fairness, knowledgeacquired, challenge, feedback, and validation. Students are more satisfied with their learningexperience when they work in teams on more complex projects split into smaller subprojectsrather than working individually on projects, irrespective of their

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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

of national importance.This paper describes the development and implementation of teaching strategies for theWisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) Excel program. Theprogram involves: 1) selecting underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in scienceand engineering whose first year academic performance indicates they are at risk for leavingSTEM; and 2) providing an intensive 8-week immersion experience in STEM scholarship,research, academic and career exploration and advising. Collectively program faculty membershave identified a shared programmatic strategy with respect to supporting students’ cultivation ofa growth mindset [1], which has been shown to increase student persistence and performancewhile

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Educational Adaptation of Cargo Container Design Features Christopher M. Moore1, Semih G. Yildirim2, Stuart W. Baur3 1 Undergraduate Student, 2 Visiting Scholar, 3Assoc. Prof.AbstractCargo container homes have become increasingly popular around the world in the last 30 years.Because cargo containers are modular in design, they can be used to create efficient, cheaphomes. Repurposing cargo containers into homes is a sustainable construction practice due to themajority of the structure coming from recycled materials. Many design

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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

inmechanics of materials for distance education have been reported by Jamie Douglas et al.3.Charlene Yauch et al.4 have developed a sand casting lab for eight students under $1040. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)Teodora Rutar et al.5 have developed a low cost Thermodynamics lab to fulfill one of the ABETcriteria.The purpose of the current research is to describe the ideas of developing low cost experimentalsetups in the area of thermal-fluid science and share it with

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Kendra J. Ahmed; Mahbub K. Ahmed; Scott McKay

laggingcompared to their male counterparts especially in engineering. In the USA women make up 48%of the workforce but only make up 24% of the STEM workforce1. As well, women who do workin STEM related jobs make 33% more money than women who do not work in STEM jobs1.Historically some of the reasons that have been given to explain the gap between females andmales in STEM has been a lack of female role models that work in STEM jobs, genderstereotyping that leads female students to believe that they cannot study these male oriented 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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John Mirth; Andrew Findley

courses occupying 75% or more of the required course load for astudent’s four years of study. This leaves little room for studies outside of these areas, whichmay be to the significant detriment of the engineering student. Lichtenstein et al.1 demonstratedthat engineering majors gain the least benefit from their liberal arts education when compared toall other majors. One possible cause is the need for engineering students to make effective timemanagement decisions related to their studies, with the result of liberal arts courses beingshuffled to a lower level of importance. This unfortunate process creates engineers who areobtaining reduced value from their educational experiences with a potential handicap in theirability to see opportunities