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J. E. Johnson; L. Stradins; S Springer; R. Asthana

other engineering programs that are offered by the Department of Engineeringand Technology, some of which are mentioned in the next section.Student Research DisseminationEssential to the evolving expectations of the academic career and the society served isdissemination of active-learning initiatives. The audience includes colleagues and students oncampus, administrators, community members, accrediting boards, leaders of other educationalinstitutions, and government representatives. For purposes of awareness, validation, andrecruitment of prospective students, various means of dissemination were employed during thisacademic endowment period. Crucial to the success of this endowment was providing a venuefor students to train for future

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Achintya N. Bezbaruah

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0047 WateRediscover: Promoting Scientific Research among Middle and High School Students across the Globe Achintya N. BezbaruahNanoenvirology Research Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 a.bezbaruah@ndsu.eduAbstractWateRediscover is a program coordinated by Nanoenvirology Research Group ofCivil and Environmental Engineering Department at North Dakota StateUniversity to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) research among middle and high school students from across the world.It is aimed at

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nurturingstudents is the hallmark of this program. Another salient feature of the TCURMP is theflexibility the TCC students and faculty have in the selection of any research topic of relevanceto their community. Under this program, instructors at TCC were asked to recruit interestedstudents and organize research projects of relevance to the community which would be for theduration of one or two semesters. Both individual and team projects were allowed but no morethan two students could work on each team project. Titles of student research projects developedin this program from 2007 to 2012 and their completion status can be viewed by clicking theResearch Initiative tab on the NATURE web site. The community-relevance aspect of the

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Nannan He

program and analyzes the properties of this running program.Dynamic analysis techniques have been used since the early seventies, initially mainly forperformance analysis purpose. This research focuses on the techniques that analyze programexecutions to detect derivations from specific requirements, like testing. The basic idea is toreceive events (i.e., test suite) from probes, run the system under analysis with these stimulievents and compare the observed actual events on-the-fly with the expected outcomes derivedfrom the specification.The combination of static and dynamic analysis techniques is an active research field which hasnot been fully explored yet 6. An influential recent work combines test case generation andmodel checking to

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Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Mike Christenson; David A. Crutchfield

Technology for Feedback proposal explicitly involved students in research from theproject’s inception. The project team also decided that student input was critical for determiningthe appropriate building dashboard product, considered as both a pedagogical interface and aresearch platform. Moreover, the project provided a beneficial opportunity for graduate andundergraduate research assistants to participate in the development of such an installation.Two research assistants were initially hired and assigned to develop a thorough criticalevaluation of available building dashboard systems. Following an initial cursory investigation ofavailable options, the students developed a framework/matrix of criteria that would allow for an‘apples-to-apples

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Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

presentedover the last two years, and what we have accomplished so far.Scholarship of Teaching and LearningThere has been a large change in how engineering education is practiced and viewed in the lasttwo decades. In the past, there was not a wide-spread, systematic approach on how to trainengineering faculty to teach. As Felder and Brent put it, “If you are like most universityprofessors, you were not taught anything about how to teach in graduate school or when youbegan in your first faculty position. All you had to go on was how your professors taught, butnobody taught them anything about teaching either.”1The lack of a well-researched, peer-reviewed, field of study on how to train university faculty toteach also extended to areas outside of the

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Luis Rodriguez; Gail Coover; Dalelia Davis; Angela Frey; George Johnson; Oumar Kaba; Andrew Pham; Kathlyn Bender

among Initial STEM majors. Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA 4. Figueroa, T., Hughes B., Hurtado, S. (2013) “Supporting Future Scientists: Predicting Minority Student Participation in the STEM Opportunity Structure in Higher Education.” NARST Meeting, April 2013. 442Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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David E. Fly; Muhammed Buğra Açan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0043 3D Printed Internal Structure: Influence on Tensile Strength David E. Fly P.E. Assistant Professor Muhammed Buğra Açan, Student Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 328 Fryklund Hall Middle East Technical University Menomonie Wisconsin USA 54751 Ankara, Turkey flyd@uwstout.edu mba-mail@hotmail.comAbstractThis paper discusses the research project and associated laboratory measurements that wereassigned to a visiting international undergraduate

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Achintya N. Bezbaruah; Rajani G. Pillai; Hannah Hood; Holly Erickson; Eric Dobervich; Jane Laux; Jamie Varholdt; Adam Gehlhar; Michelle Weber; Harjyoti Kalita; Talal Almeelbi; Mary Pate; Michael Quamme; Mohammad Enayet Hossain; Seydou Cisse; Amanda Grosz; Navaratnam Leelaruban

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0051 Promoting Nanotechnology among Middle School Students: Development and Implementation of Lesson Plans Achintya N. Bezbaruah*,#; Rajani G. Pillai**; Hannah Hood*; Holly Erickson***; Eric Dobervich***; Jane Laux***; Jamie Varholdt***; AdamGehlhar***; Michelle Weber***; Harjyoti Kalita*; Talal Almeelbi*; Mary Pate*; Michael Quamme*; Mohammad Enayet Hossain*; Seydou Cisse*; Amanda Grosz*; Navaratnam Leelaruban* *Nanoenvirology Research Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108; **College of Business, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102; ***West

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Zhiyuan Yang; Hope L. Weiss; Matthew J. Traum

video recorder, and freeimage capture software for data acquisition. Turbine power-versus-angular-velocity curves areproduced, which can be used for design, additional analysis, and teaching. An additional benefitof this technique is that turbine rotational inertia is determined independently of knowing therotor’s geometry. So, the experiment can be completed without dismantling the turbine; or, ifdesired, the measured rotational inertia can be independently verified by disassembling theturbine to measure internal component geometry and mass.In addition to obvious applications for anchoring classroom discussions in physics, mechanicaldynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics; this exercise offers unexpected teaching1 Undergraduate Research

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Wendy R. Stary; John R. Schultz

paper a joint venture between the UW-Stout and the University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Germany, Plastics Engineeringprograms, that began in October, 2010, will be discussed. The paper will focus on the desiredgoals and objectives for both students and faculty involved in the initiative, the many challengesinvolved in carrying out specific types of exchanges, outcomes from the activities carried outthus far, and a summary of proposed next steps for further development of the exchangeprogram.IntroductionProviding international and intercultural experiences that improve the communication skills andglobal perspectives of students is vital to the on-going success and prosperity of today’s globaleconomy1. Thus, much is being done in higher

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Steven Buchhop; Tate Carlson; Evan Edwards; Prakash Ranganathan; Reza Fazel-Rezai

. . 86 2. Block Diagram LabVIEW is able to perform the desired actions because of the programming performed in the blo ock diagram. The generalalgorithm to implement a control is as follow ws: Control Procedure • Initialize the Arduino • Define digital I/O • Begin infinite loop structure o Read the sensor inputs o Display data on GUI

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Nannan He; Gale Allen; Cameron Johnson

decreasing and the emphasis on research and journalpublications for tenure and promotion is increasing. At MSU Mankato state and industry supporthas come together with faculty interest for the past several years in the areas of automationengineering and manufacturing. Courses in industrial automation involving PLC’s, sensors, andactuators have been taught since 2006 using hands-on active learning techniques. An effort isunderway to increase the technical depth and broaden the training by exploring deterministictiming and modeling in complex real-time automation systems using traditional PLC and PC-based PLC equipment and future, large multicore computer designs.1. IntroductionIn Spring 2006, a laboratory and courses were first created for training

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

factors include quantitative skills, students’study habits, commitment to the program, involvement in extracurricular activity, andconnections to peers. In addition, math/calculus has been cited by students who switch awayfrom engineering as the most influential factor in their decisions. This paper describes anapproach to improve engineering student persistence when learning calculus without having tomake any changes in the current calculus curriculum. This approach is one the methods used inan NSF-funded initiative (Project DUE-0942270) at the University of North Dakota. The projectcombines several techniques, including the integration of stand-alone engineering modules to besolved by students outside class time and the use of engineering

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

the course content was delivered through online streaming videossupplemented by in-class question-and-answer sessions, continuation of new lectures, hands-onlab exercises, and team project discussions. The hybrid instructional model combines thebenefits accrued from the schedule flexibility of online courses while preserving the instructor-student face-to-face time provided in classroom lectures.Course DevelopmentThe course curriculum was designed to provide an introduction to fundamental concepts in thefield of computer networks. The design of the curriculum follows the framework shown inFigure 1. In this research study, a hybrid instructional model was specifically developed to teachan upper-division undergraduate computer engineering

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

programs: a project-based learning (PBL) and a traditionalengineering curriculum. The PBL students do not take classes; 100 percent of their learning isdone in the context of industry projects to develop graduates with integrated technical andprofessional knowledge and competencies. The traditional curriculum involves classroominstruction, homework, and assessments. Using a qualitative research approach, the current studyfocused on students that completed two years of a new PBL program in a Midwest university,and compared their learning experiences to students that are graduating from a traditionalprogram at a different university. Initial results suggest positive outcomes are more pronounced for students associated withPBL as compared with

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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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Wen-Chen Hu; Naima Kaabouch; Hung-Jen Yang; Hongyu Guo

hand, IDC, a market research firm, predicted that more users would access theInternet wirelessly via a mobile device compared to the users using wired connection by 20154.Among the wireless devices, many of them are small-screen handheld devices like smartphones.Nowadays students also like to access the online class materials anywhere via their mobilehandheld devices such as smartphones. However, traditional Web pages are distorted or becomeawkward to use when they are displayed on devices. In order to solve this problem, engineering 456faculty had to develop two versions of a Web page in the past, one for desktops or laptops andanother one for devices. It is time and effort consuming and the

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

, 7]. Thedropout rate is even higher for underrepresented groups, such as Native Americans, where itreaches nearly 70% [7, 8].Several research studies show that the significant factors of attrition in engineering programs arequantitative skill level, student study habits, commitment to the program, involvement inextracurricular activities, and connections to peers [5-11]. One of the most cited and influentialfactors in students’ decisions has been shown to be related to their experiences studying math,specifically calculus [9]. Additionally, those who do not complete calculus in their first semestersee ahead of them three more semesters of study that they perceive to be simply useless,unexciting mathematics. Even when successful, many

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

same spot, instead of having NMOS transistors between themain line ground and the source ground. This was not initially evident, and when the circuit wasconstructed this way, many problems arose with the several different grounds, which could havepotentially caused damage to circuit components. Therefore, even though the gate voltage of the PMOSfor cutoff must be higher than that of the gate of the NMOS for saturation, the design is more reliable. Fig. 3. DER placement and cutoff circuit 102 Mode Transistor in Power source Saturation Grid

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Francis Peloubet; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

, environmental, and political issues of an engineering project;3. To provide students an opportunity to function as a team in organizing and carrying out the design of an engineering project; and4. To provide students an opportunity to develop oral and written communication skills. Efforts continued to bring more real-world projects into the course. Initially, artificialelements were added to the projects selected for the course to include all aspects of civilengineering. Contour maps, soils data, traffic counts, water table data were made available forthe selected sites. From 1992-1996, some of the projects were borrowed from the undergraduatetheses completed by the NDSU Architecture department. This provided an opportunity for thestudents to

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Aurenice M. Oliveira

, non-majors, active learning, electrical engineeringtechnology.BackgroundIn recent years both universities expectations and student expectations of faculty have increased,not only a professor is expected to teach effectively, but also to manage other responsibilitiessuch as maintaining certain levels of research and other scholarly activities. Teaching freshmanand sophomore engineering students is crucial because it is during this initial period that studentsare more likely to change majors or drop out of college 1, 2. Many studies stress the importance offirst-year college experience, and indicate the first-year GPA as the best predictor of attrition.The adoption of an active learning format whereby student participation is highly encouraged