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manufacturing system layout. 2 Figure 2: Hinge Block (All dimensions are in mm- Assume all unknowns)The team has developed a solid modeling of the part at each stage of the manufacturingprocesses using Solid Works software program. The various stages of the production part flowprocesses are shown in Figure 3. The final product model from the sketch is shown in Figure 4. Figure 3: Part-Process flow Cell 1 thru Cell 7. 3 Figure 4: Hinge Block The next step of the project is to develop a feasible layout options to produce the part. The various layout options are Figures 5, 6, and 7. The

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Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0004 Impact of a Research Experience Program on North Dakota Tribal College STEM Student Retention Audrey LaVallie1, Eakalak Khan2, and G. Padmanabhan2 1 Faculty, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota (e-mail: alavallie@tm.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mails: Eakalak.khan@ndsu.edu and g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu respectively)Abstract Recent educational research shows that students who engage in research projects aremore likely to

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-based research experiences that offered excitement of learning and innovationin multiple areas of manufacturing. Emphasis was placed on dissemination of student research.The paper highlights examples of completed student projects and articulates a vision for use ofendowment funds to facilitate student learning and faculty development in a student-centeredenvironment.IntroductionAs a special mission institution within the University of Wisconsin System, the University ofWisconsin-Stout is a comprehensive, career-focused polytechnic university with historicstrengths in applied learning and technology. The university’s manufacturing engineering B.S.degree program is one of the largest ABET-accredited programs in the nation [1]. Stout'sprogram is

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student. It is also desired that faculty-led student exchanges will continue on a periodic basis to provide opportunities to students who may not wish to miss an entire semester on their home campus. Finally, plans are already in the works to bring faculty from the United States to the h_da campus through professorships to teach and expand the number of courses offered in English. It is likely that one or more faculty members from the UW-Stout will participate in this endeavor. References 1. Institute of

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defined5 in relation to three types of knowledge that teachers may possess: (1)content knowledge - knowledge of the facts, principles and methods in the discipline that isbeing taught, (2) pedagogical knowledge - understanding of the learning process and theconditions that facilitate and hinder it, independent of the discipline in which the learning takesplace, and (3) pedagogical content knowledge. This last term was coined by Shulman8 to denoteknowledge and understanding of the learning process in the context of a particular discipline.SoTL encompasses studies intended to advance pedagogical content knowledge that are madeavailable for peer evaluation in the professional community.5Borrego has traced the change in engineering education research

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and justified. Suggestions for future development andconclusion on the study were made.1. Introduction1.1 Central role of mechanical design in undergraduate mechanical engineering education Mechanical engineering (ME) is one of the oldest and broadest disciplines of engineeringthat involves the production and utilization of heat and mechanical power for the design,production, and operation of machines and tools.1 Broadly speaking, mechanical engineersemploy the core principles of physics, materials science along with a variety of tools to analyze,design, manufacture, and maintain all mechanical systems such as manufacturing plants,machinery, transport systems, heating and cooling systems, space station, aircrafts, robots,medical devices

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Navaratnam Leelaruban; G. Padmanabhan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0011 An EXCEL Tool for Teaching Theis Method of Estimating Aquifer Parameters Navaratnam Leelaruban1, G. Padmanabhan2 1 Graduate student, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mail: n.leelaruban@ndsu.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mail: g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu)Abstract Hydraulic conductivity and storage

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Cristinel Ababei; Anca M. Miron

editions of the camp.IntroductionAccording to the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), women constitute45% of the workforce in the U.S., but hold only 12% of science and engineering jobs inbusiness and industry 1 . This situation is expected to get worse because, according to theU.S. Labor Statistics, more than 75% of tomorrow’s jobs will require use of computers,while fewer than 33% of participants in computer courses and related activities are women 2 .Even though undergraduate enrollment rose by 19% from 2000 to 2007 and there wererelatively larger gains in female enrollment (8.9 million female vs. 6.7 million male in 2007),the percentage of bachelor’s degrees in engineering and engineering technologies awarded towomen is only 17% 3

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Charles McIntyre

Change Order for the Tektōn Hotel Plaza project. ¾ Write a Final Project Report that provides your perspectives on the Hotel Plaza project. ¾ Identify organizations and professional societies that are relevant to your interests and goals. ¾ Extract and transcribe (write down) important points presented by the guest speakers.From these revised course objectives a number of assignments were develop. Each assignmentdirectly correlates to each of the course objectives, as shown in Table 1. Table 1. CM&E 111 Assignments Assignments Title Points #1 Construction Terminology and Accreditation

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

Exposition.The overall concept of the project is to provide remote access to a house. This conceptwas implemented in three major: sensor circuits, central control unit, and user interface as shown in Fig. 1 Fig. 1. A HEARTS system block diagram & capstone course elements 85 The key component in the system is the sensors. The sensor circuits serves for two functions: 1) sending data about thedevices and status in the circuit and 2) providing the ability to control devices remotely. Each sensor is able to collect therequired data and relay it to the central control unit (CCU). Sensor circuits were designed to control the measured circuitwhile not

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

charges fromthe DER’s during peak generation times, and can be used when operating in islanded mode [1]Furthermore, microgrids can enhance local reliability, reduce feeder losses, provide reactive power andlocal voltage support, remove transmission and distribution bottlenecks, increase efficiency throughcombined heat and power (CHP), and provide uninterruptible power supply functions [2] [3]. The maingoal of the project is to develop microgrid control that delivers power in the event of line failures, thusincreasing reliability. The secondary goal is having the ability to island the critical from the non-criticalloads using a ZigBee wireless network. The “higher priority” loads are therefore supplied with no disruptions in the event of any

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Thomas Shepard; Michaela Andrews; Cole Harris

details of the curriculum, lab exercise and physical thread stripping apparatus are provided aswell as major lessons learned and suggestions for improvement.IntroductionFirst-year engineering curriculum can potentially cover an incredible array of topics. Inevitablyan instructor must prioritize the topics and depth of coverage as they best see fit. Thisprioritization becomes of increasing importance in classes which involve students from multipleengineering disciplines as well as classes which are shorter than the more common four creditintroduction to engineering class. At the University of St. Thomas introduction to engineering isa 1 credit course which has both electrical and mechanical engineering students and is comprisedof a 100 minute

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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

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

part of the higher education systems[1]. Internettechnologies have had a significant impact on the recent development of engineering educationsystem[2]. In recent years, many institutions have deployed numerous online courses. Some ofthese online courses completely replace the need for traditionally in classroom courses. Whilethese online courses provide flexible scheduling and different learning experiences toengineering students, they generally lack the required interactive activities and precious face-to-face time between the course instructor and students. Meanwhile, the growth of computerengineering student enrollments coupled with budgetary constraints is challenging institutions toeffectively serve their students. Furthermore, the

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

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0021 Engineering Students Learn ABET Professional Skills: A Comparative Study of Project-Based-Learning (PBL) versus Traditional StudentsSousada Chidthachack, Marc A. Schulte, Forster D. Ntow, Jia-Ling Lin, and Tamara J. Moore 1 STEM Education Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities 1School of Engineering Education, Purdue Universitychid0008@umn.edu, schu2891@umn.edu, ntowx001@umn.edu, jllin@umn.edu, and tamara@purdue.eduAbstract This paper presents preliminary findings of a study that investigated the learning experiencesof students who enrolled in two

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Francis Peloubet; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

thefinal presentations. The presence of outside professionals would impress on the students theimportance of the capstone design project. Example projects assigned in this period includeddesign of an interstate highway rest area/information center and the design of a small regionalairport. Actual field sites were selected for these projects1.1992-96 NDSU switched to semester system in the year 1992. The capstone design course wasconverted to a 1-semester 2-credit course. At this time, firm goals were established for futureoffering of the course based on discussions by the faculty2.1. To provide an open-ended design experience encompassing the major subject areas of civil engineering;2. To allow students to address various socio-economic

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

future.1 Thus, within STEM curricula, a need exists to provide practical,hands-on training in gas turbine systems. In parallel, however, a pragmatic need remains tobalance energy-focused training with classical engineering and science fundamentals whilekeeping institutional costs manageable. New energy course content and the laboratoryapparatuses used to deliver it must be carefully evaluated and integrated so as not to overburdenSTEM programs or curricula.Three approaches predominate the instruction of gas turbine systems in current engineeringcurricula. First, gas turbine system theory can simply be taught in a lecture course without anaccompanying laboratory, 2 which deprives students of hands-on experience. Second, the “virtuallaboratory

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Christopher R. Carroll

Engineering department atthe University of Minnesota Duluth has used the Freescale MC9S12DP256 microcontroller (S12,for short) as the foundation for lab exercises. This is a 2nd-year required course in the ElectricalEngineering program. The prerequisite for this course is Digital Logic, where students learnfundamentals of digital circuit hardware design. This course is all about software, teachingstudents to program in assembly language, with the microcontroller as the vehicle.Formerly, the microcontroller course has used Wytec’s Dragon-12 board (Figure 1) to providethe user interface for the S12, including a speaker, 4-digit 7-segment multiplexed display, 2x16 194character alphanumeric Liquid Crystal

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Gretchen A. Mosher

engineeringand engineering technology students will conclude the paperTeam-Based LearningThe ability to work effectively in teams has been identified as an essential skill for newemployees to bring to the work environment upon graduation 1, 2. Furthermore, benefits to bothfaculty and students have been noted by those who have practiced team-based learning methods3.However, team-based learning also presents challenges to both students and instructors4. Inaddition to addressing both the benefits and challenges of team-based learning in engineeringand engineering technology, this paper will discuss the application of the Michaelsen, Knight,and Fink5 method of team-based learning (TBL) to a course in total quality management. Theprocess used to create and

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Cory J. Prust; Stephen M. Williams

evolved due to changes in employer needs, student traits, technology, and the facultymembers’ understanding of the needs of the graduates. 2An extensive, detailed, and highly structured packet lays out the entire course sequence and setsexpectations (e.g., assignments, grading rubrics, etc). 3 The packet was assembled after receivingstudent feedback that greater structure was desired in the courses since there was no textbook.The instructors re-designed the sequence with this student feedback at the forefront.Senior Design – The MSOE Electrical Engineering ApproachQuarter 1 – EE407. This is the first course in the three-course EE senior design sequence.Students form four-person (typical) design teams and define a design problem. In this first

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Roger Green

universityengineering programs, including the flipped classroom, problem-based learning, and on-lineeducation, including massively open online courses (MOOCs).I. BackgroundFrom kindergarten to graduate school, the vast majority of classroom experiences follow atraditional lecture format where a teacher delivers a mostly one-way communication of coursecontent with minimal audience participation. Participation, when it does occur, often follows aninitiation-response-follow-up (IRF) or similar model of questioning (see [1] for a discussion ofclassroom dialogue and interaction, including IRF). Traditional lectures are based on anauthority model where the teacher (the authority) sets class rules, controls the nature and flow ofinformation, and assigns and evaluates

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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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Nischal Adhikari; Sima Noghanian

advantages but serve the same purpose oftaking the CEM to a level of user-friendly applications.1. Overview of Wireless InSite (WI)  A brief idea of different WI windows is very handy in understanding the software and gives anedge over useless rambling over the help menu to figure out its functionality. Here are some ofthe WI windows that are used frequently throughout the process of simulation7.1.1 Main WindowMain window appears when the application is first started. Main window consists of all theoptions that would help to navigate through this software, and therefore, it is regarded as the“parent” window. This window consists of four different menu options: Project, Edit, View andHelp. All these options facilitate the user to get things done

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Jon J. Smith; Sima Noghanian

weighted inputs based on the parameter of interest’s value. They give resultsof a spectral-like function (pattern). Spectral-based methods come in two forms: beamformingtechniques and Sub-space based methods. In beamforming, the beam is “steered” to look throughthe entire range of values of the desired parameter by adjusting the weighting of sensors appliedto incident signals. The most common beamforming method uses Bartlett beamformer and iscalled the Delay-and-Sum method. Essentially the weights are constrained to a complexmagnitude of 1 and the phase is adjusted. The weighting essentially mathematically delays thesignals and adds the results to maximize the output. This is done for all values of the angleparameter. Peaks within the spectrum are

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Majura F. Selekwa

and limitationsin the available instruction time. The mechanical engineering program at North Dakota StateUniversity offers mechatronics education in one semester as a three-credit undergraduate course.Due to the spectrum of its contents, the allocated three credit time is inadequate for this course,as such it was necessary to carefully develop the teaching materials so that it effectively meets itseducational objectives, yet without overloading the students. This paper discusses experiencesgained in preparing and teaching this course over a time span of three years.1 IntroductionIt is a well known fact that most of modern products are an integration of mechanical sys-tems, electronic systems, control systems, and computer systems; they are

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, particles and rigid bodies, and 2D/3D analysis of particlesand rigid bodies in equilibrium. The task description provided to the students was keptintentionally brief, as shown in Textbox 1. The goal was to provide students with a set ofinstructions that were open to interpretation. In this way, it becomes possible to qualitativelyestablish a baseline for how students would approach this sort of task. By assigning the task inthis manner, it was expected that there would be a wide variety in the quality and completenessof student submissions. Find an example of an object that demonstrates particle or rigid body equilibrium around campus. Capture a photograph of it. Write a one paragraph explanation of the photograph that includes at

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Bob Fourney; Jason Sternhagen; George Hamer; Cory Mettler

for one hour. Studentswere divided into teams of (typically) two, and each team was loaned a CEENBoT3 roboticplatform (Figure 1) for the duration of the semester. Throughout the semester long course, thestudents became more familiar with the CEENBoT and investigated hardware and softwareadditions to enable the CEENBoT to complete various tasks. Figure 1. CEENBoT Robotics Platform (photo courtesy CEENBoT Inc.3). 328Since this course is taken during the very first semester after students matriculate, there is noprograming prerequisite. Rather, the students are presented with simple C functions orsubroutines which, for example, cause a wheel to turn at a specified speed. The studentsdownload

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written for one vendor to another.In order to simplify the conversion and makes the life of real-time operating system (RTOS) andmiddleware vendors easier, ARM Inc. created the Cortex Microcontroller Software InterfaceStandard (CMSIS) [1]. Microcontroller is often abbreviated as MCU. This standard defines: A common way to access peripheral registers and exception vectors. The names of the registers of the core peripherals and the core exception vectors. A device-independent interface for real-time operating system (RTOS) kernels, including a debug channel.CMSIS includes address definitions and data structures for the core peripherals in the Cortex-M4processor. The CMSIS simplifies software development by enabling the reuse of