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Ameya A. Chandelkar; Deepak G. Bhat

material failure, eitherdue to wear, chemical corrosion or other factors. The durability of materials depends, in many Fig. 1: The evolution of materials through ages (from Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Third Edition, Elsevier 2005.)cases, on their strength and resistance to environmental factors. Materials that are found to bestrong, hard and durable at ordinary temperatures often show degradation in their properties atelevated temperatures. Thus, it has always been of paramount importance to understand thebehavior of materials at high temperatures, typical of many service environments, e.g. hightemperature ovens, automotive engines, power plant equipment, industrial gas turbines, jetengines and so on

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne Garcia

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Kathy Vratil Brockway

1 The Income Tax Return: A Framework for Engineering Economics Kathy Vratil Brockway Kansas State University at SalinaAbstract StatementThis paper will explore the use of the income tax return as a capstone project in an EngineeringEconomics course.IntroductionAs educators, we are faced with the task of connecting textbook theory to real-world application.In Engineering Economics courses, the income tax return is the ideal way to tie together all‘engineering economics’ topics while, at the same time, demonstrating the practicality of thecourse topics

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R. C. Clifft; Shivan Haran

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

1 Technical Writing as a Site for Assessing Information Literacy Judith Collins, Ph. D., Alysia Starkey, M.L.S., Beverlee Kissick, Ph.D., Jung Oh, Ph.D. Kansas State University-SalinaThis paper describes indirect measures of significant gains in Information Literacy at KansasState University-Salina’s College of Technology and Aviation, as indicated by an annual librarysurvey of users. The gains were achieved by faculty in technical writing (English) and librariansseeking to assess information literacy in a 300-level technical writing course for

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

Runga-Kuttaintegration, while varying the correlation coefficients to give the best fit to the experimental data.Finally, the experimental correlations were compared to literature correlations.The literature correlations were multiplied by a constant factor to obtain the best fit of theexperimental data. For the geometries tested, the experimentally determined multiplying factorswere: GEOMETRY MULTIPLYING FACTOR (hexp/htheory)1. Cooling, Upward-Facing Horizontal Plate 1.42. Cooling Vertical Plate 1.03. 4.1 mm Cooling Mercury-in-glass

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Kathleen Condray

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

1 Enthusiasm in the Engineering Curriculum Stephan A. Durham, W. Micah Hale University of Colorado at Denver / University of ArkansasAbstractWhat makes a teacher effective in the classroom? One measure taken in a sophomore level classat the University of Arkansas is to create enthusiasm about class topics. Civil engineeringstudents at the University of Arkansas are required to enroll in CVEG 2113, Structural Materials.This class introduces young engineers to materials used in today’s construction industry. Nearlytwo-thirds of the class material focuses on concrete materials

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Stephan A. Durham; Mark L. Kuss; Ernest Heymsfield; Hanna Sheppard

“Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 2theoretical specific gravity of asphalt mixtures. In the summer of 2005 a group of studentsshown in Figure 1, plan to evaluate a new non-destructive testing device used for determiningconcrete compressive strength. This research is state-of-the art and introduces students to thenumerous steps involved in research programs. Students are required to develop outlines for thetesting program, design and create material to be tested, and present their findings through apaper and presentation. Figure 1:Students

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Alison N. Dunn; Jennifer M. Gray; Jerod C. Hollingsworth; Pei-Ting Hsu; Brian K. McLelland; Patrick M. Sweeney; Thuy D. Tran; Christopher A. von der Mehden; Jin-Yuan Wang

exercise hasseveral benefits: • It provides an opportunity for students to have additional “hands-on” experience; • It demonstrates a physical application of correlations found in the textbook; and, • It helps to develop an appreciation for the limitations of the correlations.Experiment 1. Forced Convection Heat Transfer by Air Flowing Over the Top Surface of aHorizontal PlateObjectiveForced convection heat transfer occurs when the fluid surrounding a surface is set in motion byan external means such as a fan, pump or atmospheric disturbances. This study was concernedwith forced convection heat transfer from a fluid (air) flowing parallel to a flat plate at varyingvelocities. The objectives of this experiment were to: 1. Determine

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Hunter Epperson

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Ralph E. Flori

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Norman D. Dennis

1 2 3 Engaging Engineering Students through 4 Improved Teaching 5 6 7 Norman D. Dennis 8 University of Arkansas 910111213 Abstract1415 National enrollment statistics show that engineering programs historically lose more than 55% of16 their entering students to attrition of some form1. Whether this attrition is to other academic17 programs or from college altogether it is clearly a problem that must be reversed if we are to18 attract and retain the best and brightest minds to the engineering profession for the future. While19 there are a wide variety of reasons for the poor retention of

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Ralph E. Flori; David B. Oglesby; Nancy Hubing

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Carolyne Garcia; John Crone; Jim Gattis; Otto Loewer

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Ken French

seekers arrive at a widevariety of loosely linked facets of vortex tube information. In the first phase of the project commercial vortex tubes from Exair©5,6 are laidout on a table along with a digital vernier caliper and a 1" micrometer. Individually, thestudents measure dimensions and create drawings in a Solidworks© environment. Theystart by preparing isometric and orthographic drawings of the six elements of thedisassembled commercial tube. Finally they created an exploded isometric of the vortextube with balloon ID and an accompanying bill of materials. Typical student drawingsare shown as Figures 1-4.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1

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Carol Gattis

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Seamus F. Freyne

motivated to prepare for a game of academicbaseball than an exam. Of course, the skills students develop to excel at academic baseballwill also serve them well on most exams.A rigorous assessment of the value of academic baseball has not been accomplished yet.But as evidence of game’s popularity, attendance in a Mechanics of Materials course atOU in the summer of 2004 was roughly 80% on the days of a routine lecture, but nearly100% on game days, though no credit was given to students for attendance in class or awin in the game.Bibliographic Information1 Fink, L. D., Ambrose, S., and Wheeler, D., “Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1, January 2005.2 Smith, K. A

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Jim Gattis; Bryan Hill

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Kurt Gramoll

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Bryan Hill

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Bryan Hill

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George D. Gray

to thecomposites structure that they are issuing long term maintenance agreements with the aircraft, apractice normally unheard of in the industry. Boeing also believes that due to compositematerials’ resistance to condensation, it would allow engineers to increase cabin humidity toenhance passenger comfort. The 787 will also enjoy a 30,000 to 40,000 pound reduction inweight compared to its closest counterpart, the Airbus A330-200. Composites continue toreplace aluminum as the material of choice, and as a result, aluminum comprises only 12% of the787 airframe structure. In the future, Boeing estimates a 19:1 part count reduction wherecomposites will replace aluminum.It is evident that the use of composite materials and applications will

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Stephanie Ivey; Anna Lambert

-ranking administrators and researchers describing these trends as a “leak inthe engineering pipeline.” 1,2,3,4 Multiple confirmations of these trends are verified by veritablesources including “The Neal Report,” sponsored by The National Science Foundation (NSF) in1986, “The Report of Disciplinary Workshops on Undergraduate Education,” also sponsored byNSF in 1988, and the Sigma Xi National Advisory Group’s “Wingspread Conference” (1989).Most recent is a report issued from the National Academy of Engineering Commission, “TheEngineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century-Part 1,” (2004) and this reportboth confirms the previously mentioned studies and extends the focus to specific characteristicscommon to engineering students who

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Karen S. Hays

is necessary to either engineer the hazard outof the experiment, modify the experiment to eliminate the hazard or as a last resort, provide thenecessary personal protective equipment to protect the student/worker. When hazardouschemicals are present, the hazards are inherent; therefore, the faculty and students must betrained on those hazards and how to protect themselves from those hazards. That is whereHazard Communication comes into effect.The purpose of the Hazard Communication Standard as stated in 1910.1200(a)(1) “…is to ensurethat the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are evaluated, and that informationconcerning their hazards is transmitted to employers and employees. This transmittal ofinformation is to be accomplished

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Karen A. High; Paul E. Rossler; Martin S. High

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Beverlee Kissick; Saeed Khan

and religions.A circle has several definitions. An engineer’s working definition would probably be “aplane figure bounded by a single curved line, every point of which is equally distant fromthe point at the center of the figure7.” But a circle can be defined as “a group of peoplebound together by common interests7.”Emerson said “People see only what they are prepared to see8.” As educators, we areresponsible for helping students see and be open to new concepts. This paper usesEmerson’s envisioned circles to prepare our students for the brave new world.Model of GrowthBased on the discussion regarding Emerson’s circles of growth, we can conceive of amodel of concentric circles (Fig. 1) that lead an individual from her innermost world tothe

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Aravind Kailas; Sandra S. Courter

engineering class. At the University, I attended theNew Educators’ Orientation prior teaching my first engineering class. This two-daytraining prepared me for what is expected of a teaching assistant on day 1. The typicalduties of teaching assistants and the roles they play in student education were covered.International graduate students, in the field of engineering are often unfamiliar with thespecific engineering body of knowledge in an assigned course, as they may not have anydirect experience or they may have been exposed to the field in a different environment.As a new educator, I received a syllabus from the professor who often teaches thiscourse. The engineering department typically selects the course textbook for the assignedgraduate

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Deborah Korth

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R. L. Kolar; K. Gramoull; T. R. Rhoads; R. C. Knox

promotes faculty buy-inand minimizes institutional cost, we believe that the above outcomes may be more fullyrealized if the curriculum were more flexible, viz, provide basic engineering scienceskills and tools to the students on an as-needed basis to complete the project. Thus, theobjective of the planning grant is to pilot a project-driven, “course-less” curriculum. Inthis setting, “course-less” does not mean to “no courses.” Rather, there would be “less”of them, because traditional courses that teach basic concepts would be replaced withself-paced IT modules. The pilot study consists of four phases: 1) develop electronicmodules to deliver content from fluid mechanics on a just-in-time basis; 2) beta-test themodules with students who have not