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Naima Kaabouch; Deborah L. Worley; Jeremiah Neubert; Mohammad Khavanin

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0041 Retention in Engineering Programs: Integrating Real World Problems in Calculus Courses To Increase Student Learning and Interest in Engineering Naima Kaabouch1, Deborah L. Worley2, Jeremiah Neubert3, and Mohammad Khavanin4 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, 2Department of Educational Leadership, 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, 4Department of Mathematics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USAAbstractAttrition in U.S. engineering programs has been a major concern for more than two decades.Several studies have shown that the most significant

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Nannan He

applied to formally verifying the real-world hardware designs in industry. Manyresearchers have explored its applications in software and system verification.Bounded model checking (BMC) is a variation of model checking which restricts the spaceexploration to execution traces up to a certain length k. It can provide a guarantee that the first kexecution steps of the system are correct with respect to the specified properties. If the propertiesare not satisfied, BMC can automatically return a counterexample of the length at most k. Theability to report counterexamples is the essential feature that has been used to generate test cases,which will be discussed in the following subsection. With the recent dramatic advances in SAT-solvers, BMC is

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Kevin Craig

electronics. Theory and bestindustry practice must be in balance when mastering these skills. Presently, we devote separatecourses to each skill and somehow think that learning each skill very well will somehowmagically enable the student to critically think and integrate all to solve a real-world problem.This approach is ineffective. As a result, the ABET-required senior capstone multidisciplinarydesign course too often becomes a design-build-test exercise with the emphasis on just gettingsomething done. Students rarely break out of their disciplinary comfort zone and thus fail toexperience true multidisciplinary, model-based system design. Two courses were created toaddress this. Electromechanical Engineering Systems (2nd-year) and

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Nannan He; Han-Way Huang

derived manually from high-level models. Multiple large EU-funded research projects havebeen initiated to promote the application of MBD in industry, and target at solving the challengesencountered in different real-world application domains 2, 3, 4.This paper presents our experience of integrating the MBD knowledge into a ProgrammingTools (PT) course. This course is an elective for junior and senior computer engineering orelectrical engineering students. Before taking this course, students have already had someprogramming experience. They have already learned to enter, compile, run, test, and debugprograms. The objectives of the course include teaching students modern programming tools,and their usage in the design and implementation of

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Andy S. Peng; Robert Nelson; Cheng Liu; Ahmet Turkmen; Wei Shi; Jia-Ling Lin

economic reasons cause the universities toconsider supplementing departmental personnel resources with part-time adjunct instructors inorder to alleviate the excessive academic workload required of the full-time professors. For 140computer engineering programs, it is highly desirable to recruit adjunct instructors from nearbyengineering communities. These instructors not only bring real-world experiences to theclassroom but also enable students develop the technical skills they will need to address futurechallenges. However, the adjunct instructors from the industry typically have full-timecommitments elsewhere and often find it difficult to accommodate typical in-classroom courseschedules.This paper

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Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Khaled Nassar; Mike Christenson

construction crews within theprofessional arena.Architecture students in particular rely heavily on verbal communication throughout their designprocesses. Although architectural design pedagogy is often conceived of as a visual, material,and/or spatial endeavor, verbal communication with student peers and studio leaders constitutesa critical component of the learning process. This is also generally true of architecture as adiscipline and professional practice.2 AEC practice as it occurs in real-world situations relies onthe use of artifacts (e. g., models, product samples, and drawings) to structure critically importantverbal exchanges between and among constituents.3 388Immersion in relevant situations

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Reza Fazel-Rezai; Sima Noghanian; Ahmed Rabbi

senior high school students to math and programming with application in engineering through hands-on real-world projects, b) Increase motivation and practice deep thinking using problem-based learning methods, c) Teach them a powerful programming language (MATLAB) that they can use it for many different applications, d) Recruit students into University of North Dakota engineering program, and e) Provide fun and exciting experience of how math can be used for engineering problem solving. 226Learning outcome of the camp can be summarized as: 1. Learn basic scientific programming skills and gain experience using MATLAB, 2. Gain confidence

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Han-Way Huang; Nannan He

power of 3 PW/MHz. Like the Cortex-M0, the Cortex-M0+ is also aperfect replacement for the 8- or 16-bit microcontrollers for the same reason.The Cortex-M1 is designed for implementation in FPGAs and has been licensed by Actel,Altera, and Xilinx. Cortex-M1 implements the same set of instructions as do the Cortex-M0 andCortex-M0+. This approach allows the designer to add circuits that implement the specialalgorithms required by the application but are not available in off-the-shelf microcontrollers.Using the 65 nm CMOS technology, Cortex-M1 can run at 200 MHz.The Cortex-M3 is designed for applications that require real-time performance and low powerconsumption. The target applications of the Cortex-M3 include microcontroller, automotive body

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Devin R. Berg

getting students to make the connectionbetween the classroom and the “real world”6. The initial pilot study presented here wasconducted in order to gage the base level of student participation in order to better inform andhelp shape the direction for the use of these methods in the future. 318MethodsThe application of this method of teaching was explored in an introductory mechanics coursetaken by students from both an engineering program and an engineering technology program. Asthis course is generally taken early in a student's undergraduate program, they often experiencedifficulty grasping the concepts presented and connecting them with real world experiences. Tohelp promote a deeper understanding

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Charles McIntyre

responsibilities that are required for atypical construction project, i.e., construction documents and codes, material estimating, projectscheduling, procurement and delivery, actual construction, inspections, change orders, projectdelivery, demolition, and a final project report. The “revised” course was delivered during the2012 Fall Semester to sixty-five (65) students. Student feedback was extremely positive.IntroductionCurrent research within the engineering disciplines indicates that a first-year (freshman) hands-on course that emphasizes real-world design experiences can increase recruiting and retentionrates and provide the groundwork for future academic “learning” in subsequent coursework.3,8,14Within the engineering disciplines, there exists a

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Annamalai Pandian

basedproject intended to force the students to interact with their peers to manage the time, the teamskill levels, team weaknesses, resources and delivery of the project report. This paper intends todemonstrate the students’ ability to transform themselves to competent problem solvers thruproject based learning. A typical classroom team project was chosen for the study.Literature ReviewThere are plenty of journal articles and conference proceedings available on manufacturingsystem simulation. The discrete event simulation modeling (DES) techniques have been used inthe industries to predict the manufacturing throughput. This project work is unique since, itintegrates the student’s classroom learning to solve the real world problem thru teamwork

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Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

Impact Student Retention x Real-World Science: In college-level research usually students contribute a part to a complex whole, supervised by faculty that are knowledgeable, rather than testing simplified hypotheses on their own; this model allows students to participate in the research project from its very conception to completion and dissemination of their findings at professional conferences. The emphasis is placed on presenting at university- level conferences to ensure proper mentoring, encouragement and academic accountability as opposed to local or intertribal conferences which tend to regard poster and power-point sessions as competitions, usually juried by non-science personnel, where

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Sousada Chidthachack; Mark A. Schulte; Forster D. Ntow; Jia-Ling Lin; Tamara J. Moore

analyses. • Both programs touch upon main topics and issues concerning the ABET professional skills and help students understand that the development of these professional skills are critical to prepare students to face real-world challenges. See results figures 2-5. • As expected, PBL students were able to relate their development of the professional skills to their curriculum that enriched their learning experiences. They articulated their understanding through concrete examples and highly appreciated the program. • While traditional students displayed progresses in developing the professional skills, they indicated that the curriculum was not able to provide them with hands-on experiences and

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Xiang-Fa Wu

. Cao, Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, Imperial College Press, London, U.K. (2004).16. S. Ramakrishna, K. Fujihara, W. E. Teo, T. C. Lim, and Z. Ma, An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers, World Scientific, Singapore (2005).17. I. S. Chronakis, “Novel nanocomposites and nanoceramics based on polymer nanofibers using electrospinning process-A review,” J. Mater. Processing. Tech. 167, 283-293 (2005).18. R. Ramaseshan, S. Sundarrajan, R. Jose, and S. Ramakrishna, “Nanostructured ceramics by electrospinning,” J. Appl. Phys. 102, 111101 (2007).19. A. Greiner and J. H. Wendorff, “Electrospinning: A fascinating method for the preparation of ultrathin fibers,” Angew

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Scott G. Gabert; Jeff C. Kaiser; Derek J. Snyder; Prakash Ranganathan; Reza Fazel-Rezai

in a real world application, where the switching would need to be completedover several miles or more. From the testing that was complete, the switching could only be completedover the range of approximately 100 feet. The Xbee pro that was used has a range of 300’ indoors, sowe believe that the limiting factor for the range is the Xstick. This particular component had nodatasheet, as the device is relatively new, so therefore the advertised range cannot be determined. For the software portion, initially the team wanted to be certain that this brand new technology ofXstick would work with the recommended software X-CTU and successfully switch the desiredMOSFETs in the circuit. One issue with the software was that the ability to perform

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Majura F. Selekwa

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0052 The First Lecture on Microcontrollers for Students with Limited Background in Electrical and Computer Engineering Foundations Majura F. Selekwa Department of Mechanical Engineering; North Dakota State University majura.selekwa@ndsu.eduAbstractIn the modern world, microcontrollers are found in almost every device with mechanical, chemi-cal, and electrical applications. In general these are single chip computers integrated with variousinput-output interface ports. There are thousands of microcontrollers in the market, and each hasits own way of

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Aurenice M. Oliveira

curriculum with the goal ofprovide students with content that is up to date and relevant to their field of study. A combinationof lectures, laboratory experiments, and course management software is used.Discuss real-world applications that are straightforward extensions of fundamental ideas.Examples should establish a clear relationship between EET and non-EET disciplines, and bealigned with the focus of technology degrees, which is on hands-on oriented learning with littleemphasis in math analysis. Show students why electrical engineering is relevant to their careers,and involve them in lecture demonstrations. Emphasize “transferable skills” and their relevanceto future careers: robotics, information system management. The use of examples

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Adam Kramschuster; Gregory Slupe

engineering students are tasked withincorporating design for manufacturability (DFM) in the design of a plastic component andinjection mold that will later be machined by a separate course that contains manufacturingengineering and plastics engineering students. After completion of the injection mold, it isutilized by the part designers (plastics engineers) to mold the components they designed. Eightgroups in each class work together on separate projects in and out of class. Checklists are utilizedto ensure design criteria are met while staying within the scope of the project and the capabilitiesof the university laboratories. The end result is a real-world experience of the workingrelationship between a customer and a supplier, complete with design