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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Michael C. Reynolds

course meets two days a week and is typically a course for firstsemester freshman. The pre-requisite is placement in either a pre-calculus math course, CalculusI, or higher level math. The course is designed to be interactive and team based. Each week anew topic is delivered and there is typically some type of group exercise related to the topic.Much of the work is done in groups, but some work is done individually as homework as well.The two topics with the greatest emphasis are vector mathematics and computer programming.Table 1 shows the topics of the course by week. With vector mathematics students learn whatvectors are and some of the things they can represent. Students learn how to add vectorsgraphically as well as analytically. The class

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David C. Paulus; Daniel M. Settlage

whichUAF classes are taught on the UAFS campus via video link for the second two years of thecurriculum.Because of technical difficulties with the live video link system, Blackboard Collaborate wasused instead, and a screen-shot is shown in Figure 1. Students would log-in to Collaborateduring normal lecture time and participate in the live lecture by pushing their “Video” and“Audio” buttons in Collaborate to be seen and heard by the rest of the class. Students could alsouse a “Chat” feature to make comments and ask questions by typing. The instructor’s Audio andVideo link were always engaged, and live lectures were given using PowerPoint slides and bywriting and drawing on the “white-board” feature in Collaborate using a Bamboo brand tabletand

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Tom C. Roberts; Shagun Sharma

6 to 7 weeks of the course focused on student self-assessment: Covey’s 7-Habits, Myers-Briggs,time management, personal goal setting, resumes and dress for success. The course text changed fromCovey’s 7-Habits of Highly Effective People to Rath’s StrengthQuest in 2010 in collaboration with uni-versity leadership studies program. Course instruction throughout the semester included guest speakers(campus & industry professionals) with support from learning assistants.During the last 7 weeks of the course students were introduced to Continuous Quality Improvement(CQI) concepts including the Deming Improvement Cycle (Figure 1). Other course topics included: teambuilding, ethics, leadership concepts, and, project management tools (scheduling

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; Candace Rainwater

this paper, we present the eight projects developed for the course along with anassessment of students’ perceptions associated with the theme-based projects.IntroductionThe Freshman Engineering Program (FEP) at the University of Arkansas (UofA) was establishedin 2007 with the primary objective of increasing the retention of new freshman in the College ofEngineering (CoE) to their sophomore year. This objective supports college-wide retention andgraduation rate goals. Thus far, there have been increases in both retention and graduation ratesas shown in Figures 1 and 2. Therefore, we believe we are providing our students with a solidfoundation for success in engineering study.A key component of the FEP is the Introduction to Engineering (Intro

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas O. Spicer; Edgar C. Clausen

up to date with current developments(the importance of life-long learning).Results and DiscussionAs would be hoped, the number of corrections on each “Pop Quiz” went down over the course ofthe semester, but no data about the number or type of corrections on papers were collected. In anattempt to determine the effectiveness of this approach, an anonymous student survey wasconducted. Seventeen students were surveyed, and the results are shown in Table 1. All studentsin CHEG 4332L in spring 2013 participated in the survey. The survey was distributed at thefinal Drill session, and students were given the entire class time to complete it.Table 1. Feedback from the student survey (N = 17)Question Response

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Madhulika Srikanth; Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu

Beware of High Tech Cheating Techniques and Their Effects on Engineering Education 1 M. Srikanth, 2A. Asaduzzaman, and 1,* R. Asmatulu 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.edu; Tel: (316) 978-6368AbstractCheating is an immoral way of achieving higher graders in the schools by breaking the rules andregulations and gaining an unfair advantage in this competitive environment. This dishonestbehavior has

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Steven Colgrove; Adam Svoboda

capture.GetWindowDC, Acquire the device context of the window and create a compatibleCreateCompatibleDC device context for the bitmap.BitBlt [1] Perform a bit-block color transfer of the data from the source device context into our bitmap objectPrintWindow Used to send a redraw to windows whose borders are not rendered using GDI, but DirectX (Windows Aero/DWM, Vista+).Technical Challenges One of the most challenging parts of the project was a result of a TCP socket sizelimitation in Windows XP. Initially, images transferred over the network were only partiallyreceived on the other end. The maximum TCP buffer size in Windows XP is 17,520

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

Section Conference of the American Society forEngineering Education 3 inter-culture communication, the adaptability of different working environments, the competence of information searching and processing, and the favorability of teamwork.Basic Structure of Practicum PlanExperts from administrative and enterprise sections in related areas of the railwayindustry participate in drawing up of the practicum plan and work with educators inour department to build the basic structure (as Figure. 1).The structure design follows the rules of learning sequence. For example, the abilitytraining should be carried out from easy projects to harder ones gradually

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

Pursuing a Personalized Program to Prepare for an Academic Career at an Engineering Department without a Formal Teaching Curriculum Amaka Waturuocha1, Laura Ford1, Christi Patton Luks1 1 University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAAbstractTypically, when applying to graduate school for doctoral programs, students are not 100%certain of the route their careers will take: industry, academia or both. Most times though, theylean more towards one of these options. In such a case the potential graduate student tailors theirapplications /interests to schools with the kind of curriculum that fits their particular needs. Oncein graduate school

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Joseph Strathman; David C. Macke; Steve E. Watkins

Steve E. Watkins Missouri University of Science and TechnologyThe IEEE AESS Student Chapter at the Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri S&T) is developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for student competitions, suchas the UAV Outback Challenge (www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/). This competition,sponsored by the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, lends an opportunityfor student-led teams to improve designs for autonomous, search-and-rescue vehicles. Thesecond-generation UAV for Missouri S&T is based on a fixed-wing airframe designed incollaboration with an Aerospace Engineering Senior Design class to meet requirements of 1) aflight time of approximately one-hour, 2) a load

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Wade Winfrey; Kale Morris; Coady Morris; Raju Dandu

the camera. We considered a couple ways to do this. We could either modify theexisting hardware to accommodate the new servos and gear drive system or completely redesignand build a new frame. It was decided that designing and building a new frame was out of thescope of this sophomore design project.At this point, servos and gears needed to be selected and ordered. For the pan, we used thesmallest possible gear that would fit comfortably on the shaft of the original frame and still offerenough space to mount it to the tilt assembly. Then a simple 2 to 1 gear reduction system wasused to maintain only 180 degrees of servo rotation. Bushings were designed to mount the freegears to the existing frame at the right heights. For the tilt, a 1 to 1

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Richard Zajac

, bendy line of black electrical tape to its dead-end and back in the shortest amount of time (a.k.a. “Line Follower”); Maneuvering through a rectangular-grid maze, whose dimensions are usually provided in advance (a.k.a. “Maze Madness”); Fine-tuning the robot’s speed as it crosses a series of irregularly spaced lines so as to maintain an average rate of one line crossed per second (a.k.a. “Speed Limit”); A one-on-one duel to force a competitor’s robot out of an area designated by a black surface (“SumoBot”).These events provide problem-solving challenges to small teams of 1-5 students, to be solvedwithin the contraints imposed by the limited contents of a standard Lego Mindstorms kit and thelimited time

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lee Gatton; Saeed Khan

priced. Ofthese a kit consisting of a blood pressure monitor, activity monitor, and weight scale wasselected from Lifesource. Also an oximeter was selected from Contec. To this setup was added aHP Mini-Dell netbook computer to provide a platform for running the robotics software(Microsoft Robotic Development Suite), the monitoring software, conversational software andthe interfacing software. The MS Kinect motion sensor will also be added to this mobileplatform to provide more accurate location and mapping as well as human detection.A pictorial diagram of this setup is show in Figure 1.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1 Robotic platform and

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William Pepper; Caleb Crawshaw; Chester Ewing; Eddie Rego; Raju Dandu

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Darrell Schielke; Joshua Jensen; Byron Ronnebaum; Raju Dandu

, and createsvibrations that can cause damage to the entire system. The shear protector developed by K-Tronconsists of two polystyrene plates shown in Figure 1 that clear most of the material from theairlock blades. A solution to the shear problem would allow K-Tron to provide their customerswith a much more efficient airlock system that would lower costs by eliminating damagedproduct and reducing the need for replacement equipment.Figure 1: Existing Shear Protection Assembly Figure 2: Shear Protector EdgeTechnical ApproachThe final idea that we decided upon was if material never came in contact with the problem edge,then it would be unable to shear. We decided we would create a softer edge shown in Figure 2with enough flexibility

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Franck Yonga; Martin Malchow; Michael Mefenza; Christophe Bobda

RazorCar: A FPGA-based Prototyping Platform for Autonomous Driving Systems Franck Yonga1, Martin Malchow2, Michael Mefenza1, Christophe Bobda1 1 CSCE Department - University of Arkansas - USA 2 Chemnitz University of Technology - GermanyAbstractIn this paper we present the RazorCar, a FPGA-based radio controlled car that is able toautonomously realize driving scenarios such as obstacles detection/avoidance, self-parking, orstreet lane following. It is part of a project that aims at providing a prototyping environment forthe design of generic hardware/software architectures for self-driving systems. Experiments on

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Asad Esmaeily

address this need, a “project” component was designed and implemented as a part of the “Design ofReinforced Concrete Structures” (CE 544) course.ProjectThe project included the design, construction and testing of a reinforced concrete beam. The projectwas introduced to students by providing the drawing of a reinforced concrete beam, on which thedimensions, and initial reinforcement for flexure and shear was provided. (2 )-# 3 B a rs T o p -G ra d e 6 0 1 " C le a r C o ve r d = 1 6 .2 5 " d '= 1 .5 6 2 5

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Asad Esmaeily

, online quiz dates and times and the datesSTATICS Online Asad Esmaeily, PhD, PEto take the proctored midterm and final exam were clearly stated on the course schedule and explainedin an introductory video covering the course general information. Here is a list of these resources and abrief description comparing the traditional and online formats and pertinent challenges andopportunities.Textbook: while homework problems were posted on the class site, no e-book was available to studentsonline. Students could use the same hard copy as used by in-campus students or its electronic version.Figure 1: The main page of the course.Class Notes: notes for each lecture were prepared as PDF

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

Thinking in Parallel: Multicore Parallel Programming for STEM Education 1,* A. Asaduzzaman, 2 R. Asmatulu, and 1 R. Pendse 1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and 2Department ofMechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260 *E-mail: Abu.Asaduzzaman@wichita.edu; Tel: +1-316-978-5261AbstractAcademic research and engineering challenges both have increasing demands for highperformance computing (HPC), which can be achieved through multicore parallel programming.The existing curricula of most universities do not properly address the major transition fromsingle-core to multicore systems and sequential to parallel

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Jessica Barnett; Erin Ogle; Kevin Garman; Kayla Wehkamp; Chris Shultz; Breanna Stout; Eric Spurgeon; Chloe Boudreaux; Philip Barnes; Phil Mahoney; Alison Cioffi

J. Barnett1 • E. Ogle1 • K. Garman1 • K. Wehkamp1 • C. Shultz2 • B. Stout1 • E. Spurgeon3 • C. Boudreaux1 • G. Brady1 • P. Mahoney1 • A. Cioffi1 1Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering • 2Department of Civil Engineering • 3Department of Mechanical Engineering • Kansas State University Introduction Task 1: Motion Machine 16 lb bowling ball with pins 10 ft. awayFountain Wars is an interactive competition where

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Charles E. Baukal; Lynna J. Ausburn; John E. Matsson; Geoffrey L. Price

Engineering Students’ Learning Strategy Preferences Charles E. Baukal1,2, Lynna J. Ausburn3, John E. Matsson1, and Geoffrey L. Price2 1 Oral Roberts University, 2University of Tulsa, 3Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractThe learning strategy preferences, as measured by the ATLAS test, of 195 engineering studentsat two Midwestern universities were studied in relation to gender, class in school, major,ethnicity, native country, and native language. The overall learning strategy preference profile,which had not been previously measured for engineering students, was 33.3% Navigators, 39.5%Problem Solvers, and 27.2% Engagers. This profile was not statistically significantly differentfrom the expected values for the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Yanwu Ding

discrete-time convolution, difference equations, discrete Fourier transform,Z-transform, filter designs, impulse, and frequency responses of discrete-time systems. Toimprove students’ skills in practical signal processing techniques and application, a new graduatecourse, EE887D Signal Processing Applications and Techniques, was offered in fall 2012. Bothcourses integrate practical projects using real-world data, thus providing students the opportunityto work on real signal processing techniques via Matlab programming. In this paper, we presentan overview of these projects.1. IntroductionSignal processing finds numerous applications in event detections, signal separations, parameterpredictions, and estimations in various systems. At Wichita

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Andrew Braham; Ashlea Milburn Bennett; Jeton McClinton

Using LinkedIn in the Classroom Andrew Braham1, Ashlea Milburn Bennett1, Jeton McClinton2 1 University of Arkansas, 2Jackson State UniversityAbstractIncoming students are increasingly comfortable using social media to communicate. Themajority of pre-university students report daily usage of social media websites. Therefore,faculty at universities should consider the use of social media in the classroom as the primarymode of out of class communication between faculty and students. LinkedIn is a professionalnetworking website that can fill this need. This research examined the use of LinkedIn for anupper level Civil Engineering technical elective at the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Nur Ergul; Ramazan Asmatulu

Promoting Nanotechnology Education to Midwestern High School Students for Higher Enrolment Rates in Engineering Education 1 M. Ceylan, 1A. Usta, 2F.E. Barut, 3N. S. Ergul, and 1,*R. Asmatulu 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 2 Northeast Magnet High School, Wichita, KS 3 Andover High School, Andover, KS *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.edu; Tel: (316) 978-6368AbstractNanotechnology education has been gaining much attention worldwide, and offered by manyuniversities and

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Garth V. Crosby

curriculum. The first method is to supply the studentwith a laboratory kit via the postal system. The student then would be required, after limitedassembling of the kit, to perform the experiments by his/herself, without interaction withothers, based on written instructions. Assessment of learning is done through the evaluationof the results reported by the student, which is submitted to the instructor via snail mail orelectronically. The main problems with this approach are: 1) the pedagogical approach doesnot encourage nor facilitate collaboration, hence the students have to conduct theirexperiments on their own with little or no interaction with other students or the instructor, 2)typically, the kits do not have advance instruments such as

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephen A. Dyer

consider forthose interested in helping students (1) build basic skills in producing graphs quickly and (2) gainexperience in thinking about and understanding relationships, using graphs as aids.IntroductionThis paper is simply a call to acquaint students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics(STEM) with the skills involved in the display of quantitative information. For the typical STEMundergraduate, whether freshman or advanced, the art of thinking graphically seems largely nonex-istent. There are certainly some graphing aids available. Essentially every college freshman ownsa graphing calculator. They were required to use them in their middle-school and high-school mathcourses. But how many of those calculators provide enough

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

WSU students.These assessment studies showed that more than 95% of freshmen students who joined thenanotechnology training sessions during these last two semesters indicated that they planned onremaining in their current programs in the following years. As a result, this study shows that thenanotechnology education is one of the major options for keeping freshmen students in theirprograms.Keywords: Freshmen Students, Retention and Success, Nanotechnology, Hands-on Experience.1. Introduction1.1 MotivationRetention and success rates of freshmen students at Wichita State University (WSU) are one ofthe most important measures of performance. Although a number of different programs in thecolleges have been implemented to increase retention and

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Scott Bell; Tim Frey; Angie Miller; Eugene Vasserman

 2 students is optimal and 3 is better than 1  Summer camp: 4 weeks, 4 days/week, 2.5 hours/day clear objectives vital with multiple teachers  15-20 new students each week small demos/projects > big demos/projects  5 pre-service music and art teachers Pre-service teachers picked up Scratch quickly  1 in-service middle school math teacher Students gravitated towards video games even though we en-  Pre-service teachers gradually took over teaching couraged other project ideas

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Abayomi Dairo; Nikola Jovic; Paul Cotae

, underwater acoustic communication, FSK modulation. Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 37I. Introduction Acoustic underwater communications are governed by three factors: limited bandwidth,time-varying multipath propagation, and low speed of sound in water [1] and [2]. In underwaterenvironments, radio waves do not propagate well due to above environmental conditions soacoustic channels are employed. The propagation speed of acoustic signals in water is about1.5x103 m/s, five orders of magnitude lower than the radio

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nadia Benakli; Satyanand Singh; Ashwin Satyanarayana; Arnavaz Taraporevala

. Technology has led to the emergence of several tools that assiststudents to learn and understand abstract concepts using visualization. As instructors we usetechnology, with an emphasis on visualization, to allow students to test conjectures and addlegitimacy to their guesses. Armed with this knowledge, students are motivated to come up withtheoretical proofs to support their conjectures. Students gain a better understanding of theconcepts and develop self-confidence in the discipline. According to the Visual TeachingAlliance [1], “Approximately 65% of the population are visual learners”, “The brain processesvisual information 60,000 times faster than text”, “Visual aids in the classroom improve learningby up to 400%”.Visualization software emerged