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Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

diagnosis -Give the students more opportunity to -Students worked in pairs to run the simulation customize the simulation in Scratch and learn activity, varying number of threads and model -Explained the basics of multithreaded programming fundamentals resolution and recorded the elapsed time computing and trade-offs that may be

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

education.”The U.S. National Academy of Engineering identified 14 grand challenges in engineering.4 Oneof these was to advance personalized learning that recognizes individual preferences andaptitudes to help motivate learners to become more self-directed. While that challenge wastargeted at the development of learning software by computer engineers, it applies to all types oflearning and learners, including engineering students.One way to address individual differences in how students learn and to personalize learningoptions is through the concept of learning style. Learning style (also referred to as psychologicaltype5,6) refers to how students preferentially perceive (e.g., sensory vs. intuitive), howinformation is most effectively perceived

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Tom C. Roberts; Shagun Sharma

tuition rates.In the mid-1990’s the Dean’s Office worked with electrical and computer engineering faculty to createand implement a one hour sophomore level required course “DEN 275: Introduction to Personal and Pro-fessional Development” – enrollments increased. The course content was designed to meet ABET a-kcriteria. Student Learning Outcomes (SLO’s) included: Understand and apply personal and professional development concepts in leadership, teamwork, and continuous quality improvement. Learn about and apply the basic concepts of several personal assessment tools. Practice technical writing and oral communications skills. Develop a personal plan for improvement.Civil engineering soon followed and

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Robert M. O'Connell

An Online Instructor Training Course in Student-Centered Active Learning and Team-Based Learning (TBL) Robert M. O’Connell Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211AbstractDue to the success of various student-centered active learning strategies, an initiative isunderway to encourage faculty throughout the college to increase the use of student-centeredactive learning in their courses, and to instruct them in how to do so. The purpose of this paper isto describe an online training course that is being developed to assist engineering

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Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

experiences abroad to determinethe locations believed to be interesting to prospective students as well as demonstrating orallowing for observation of international projects, thus contributing to the learning objectives.The Geneva Motor show was selected as the primary location because it has wide appeal and theteam felt that students could observe the results of high impact international projects in manyfields including automotive, engineering, marketing and business as well as computer andelectronic engineering, all fields that our potential students would identify with. Once the motorProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Thomas O. Spicer; Edgar C. Clausen

Strengthening Writing (and Reading) Skills in a Senior-Level Lab Course while Reinforcing Life-Long Learning Skills Thomas O. Spicer and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractEngineering faculty typically rely on a summative process to improve students’ writtencommunication skills (such as graded written reports, a common part of engineering laboratorycourses), but formative exercises may be more effective in actually providing helpful feedback tostudents. The series of student exercises discussed in this paper were found to be helpful bystudents in improving their writing skills. The

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

parallel programming that focuses on higher-level programmingstrategies for computational problems and especially on ease of programmability.The rest of the paper is organized as follows: proposed approach to develop/update pedagogy forteaching parallel programming is presented in Section 2. Learning materials are discussed inSection 3. Section 4 summarizes the course overview. In Section 5, the Steady State HeatEquation is studied as an example of CUDA/GPU assisted multithreaded parallel programmingmodel. Finally, this work is concluded in Section 6.2. Proposed ApproachWe propose an approach for teaching undergraduate/graduate students how to design anddevelop parallel algorithms for multicore architectures. The key success and challenge of

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Scott Bell; Tim Frey; Angie Miller; Eugene Vasserman

Empowering Pre-Service Teachers to Utilize Programming in the Classroom Scott Bell Angie Miller Tim Frey Eugene Vasserman Kansas State University USD-383 School District Kansas State University Kansas State University Computing and Info. Sciences College of Education Computing and Info. Sciences Used Scratch development environment1

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Stephen A. Dyer; Frederick Burrack; Craig Weston; Kenneth Medema; Linda Head; Philip Mease

-state.edu) is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department atKansas State University. Research and teaching interests include signal processing, the development of advancedinstrumentation, low-noise analog design, audio electronics, electroacoustics, and multidisciplinary education. Healso maintains an active interest in music, playing piano, organ and bass in various local bands and ensembles.FREDERICK W. BURRACK (fburrack@k-state.edu) is the Director of the Office of Assessment at Kansas StateUniversity, and is an Associate Professor in K-State’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He also oversees thegraduate program for the Music Program. Burrack’s research interests include student-learning assessment methods,cross

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Michael C. Reynolds

related math, solving systems of linear equations, andcomputer programming. Teaching vectors and computer programming typically comprise aboutfive weeks each of the 16 week class, with the remaining weeks for the other topics or exams.The course emerged from the following observations made by faculty:Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education • Many sophomore engineering students struggle with learning vector related math fast enough to keep up with the pace of the Engineering Statics course. • While most students can solve systems of linear equations, they often choose slower methods. This can slow them down greatly on exams. • Learning to program a computer can be

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Md. Mamunur Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed; Khalil Dajani; Jobaidur Rahman Khan; Haider Bhuiyan

, students respond to a number of questionsthrough a numerical rating (i.e., 1 through 5). These questions can be divided into two categories.In Category 1 questions, students evaluate themselves based on their learning experience.Examples of Category I questions include, “Were you prepared for class?” or “Were youintellectually challenged by the course plan?” Based on students’ feedback, a numerical index,known as the Student’s Self-Evaluation (SSE) Index can be calculated. The SSE is the averagevalue of students’ rating in response to each question. A higher index value typically indicates ahigher level of students’ satisfaction of their learning experience, and lower index value can beinterpreted as a lower level of students

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Yanwu Ding

, L., “The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools,” The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2008.[2] Ennis, R. H., “A Concept of Critical Thinking,” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 81–111, 1962.[3] Scriven, M. and Paul, R, “Defining Critical Thinking,” The Foundation for Critical Thinking, accessed on 11-28-2006 from http://www.criticalthinking.org/aboutCT/definingCT.shtm.[4] Donawa, A.M., Critical Thinking Instruction and Minority Engineering Students at a Public Urban Higher Education Institution, Proquest Information and Learning Company. Ann Arbor, MI.[5] The MathWorks (2008). MATLAB® The Language of Technical Computing, Version 14, MathWorks Inc., Natick, MA.[6

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Thomas Mertz

continuous improvement.Bibliography 1. ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs, 2012 – 2013,” (Accessed 2013). Available WWW: http://www.abet.org/DisplayTemplates/DocsHandbook.aspx?id=3144. Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5 2. American Society for Quality, “Continuous Improvement,” (Accessed 2013), Available WWW: http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/continuous-improvement/overview/overview.htmlBiographical InformationTHOMAS MERTZAssociate Professor, Computer Systems Technology, Kansas State University – Salina (tmertz@ksu.edu

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Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

. The experimental and practical courses are divided intoseveral modules such as the module for basic skills, for specialized skills, forsynthetic ability and for innovative ability. They are arranged into eight semesters andemploy various learning styles and evaluation strategy according to their relations andpositions in learning sequences. The national experimental and engineering educationplatforms are basis of this practicum plan to enhance practical skills and innovativeability of the students.IntroductionThis paper presents an overview of the changes in practicum plan made as a result ofthe curricula system reform project granted by the Ministry of Education (MOE) ofChina and the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government of China within the

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Emilio C. Piesciorovsky; Noel N. Schulz

Protection Power System Course and Smart Grid Laboratory Integration Burns & McDonnell – K-State Smart Grid Laboratory Emilio C. Piesciorovsky and Dr. Noel N. Schulz Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Engineering College, Kansas State University 1. Introduction 4. Experiment and Demonstration 5. ConclusionsIn the spring of 2013, the Protection Power System 4.1 Objectives

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Franck Yonga; Martin Malchow; Michael Mefenza; Christophe Bobda

interest of researchers in other fields, such asmachine learning or image processing, in order to enhance the investigation and deployment ofhigh-qualitative solution for intelligent driving systems.Bibliography1 World Health Organization, “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: saving millions of lives,”2011. Available WWW: http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade-of-action2 University of Oxford UK, “The RobotCar,” (October 2012). Available WWW:http://mgr.robots.ox.ac.uk/robotcar/Bibliographical InformationFranck Yonga is a PhD student at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Arkansas. Hisresearch interests include embedded systems and hardware/software co-design. E-mail: yfrancku@uark.edu. Proceedings of the

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Asad Esmaeily

’ learning experience, it was offered as a hybrid course during the Fall 2012 semester at theKansas State university. The course was a combination of traditional class lectures and online lecturescovering one session of the three weekly lectures. Class size was around 120 students from three majorareas of civil, mechanical and architectural engineering. For large classes like this, close instructor-student interaction in class is very limited. Setting office hours and weekly help sessions by instructorand teaching assistants is a way to address this deficiency. For a successful online offering of the coursestudents should have access to all of these resources.During fall 2012, while a third of lectures were online, all other resources were provided

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Stephen A. Dyer

Thinking via Pictures: Getting Students Started through Graphing Stephen A. Dyer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USAAbstractVisual languages are among the most important to the STEM disciplines, but most students en-tering a STEM curriculum seem to have little ability to think or converse in any visual language.Further, there are few curricula that include a formal course in either basic graphics or the art ofapproximation. One foundational visual language is that of two-dimensional presentation of quan-titative information and mathematical relationships. This paper offers some topics to

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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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Julia L. Morse

demonstrations available on the Internet.Students in the newly-modified course returned significantly improved end-of-course evaluationscores and no negative comments. Overall student attitude demonstrated significantimprovement. The success demonstrates possible techniques for achieving the fine balancebetween lab learning objectives that straddle machining skills and engineering design andproblem-solving.IntroductionA hands-on design-to-build experience is frequently applied in the freshman year of engineeringand engineering technology programs as a means of engaging students early in the curriculum.Some freshman project programs rely on previous student backgrounds and their ability to jumpin and apply more approachable tools and technologies

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Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

highest possible knowledge in theirfield. On the contrary, it only gives a person the keys to the vault of knowledge: to question all,to “think out of the box” and to learn continually. In the course of obtaining a doctorate degree,an individual does not necessarily acquire all the skills to be an effective teacher, activeresearcher and good academic citizen1: expectations of any new faculty member. The road tobecoming an efficient and effective professor is a deliberate one that requires planning.However, some essential skills can be picked up during graduate studies such as research skills 2through RA assignments and a few teaching skills through

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Dustin Ewing; Aaron King; J.W. Clark; Steven Pihl; Raju Dandu

droppedinto an already flowing air stream where it starts suspended, and remains that way. The resultsprove that the new design provides a more accurate way for K-Tron to compute saltationvelocity. As a result, the provided system will enable a more adequate analysis for K-Tronemployees to quote new systems for the customers in their field. Old Method New Method Material Material Flow Time Material Material Flow Time Weight Velocity (s) Weight Velocity (s) (lb/cu.ft) (ft/min) (lb/cu.ft) (ft/min) Plastic

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Garth V. Crosby

STEMcareers. However, recruitment is only one side of the coin. In order to solve the projectedshortage in STEM professionals, there needs to be greater focus on the expansion of accessto qualified non-traditional students. Online/distant education is an appropriate vehicle toutilize in this expansion of access.However, there are several challenges to offering an entire program in electrical engineeringand/or electrical engineering technology online. One of the most significant of thechallenges is the difficulty of offering high quality, instructor led, lab experiences overdistance. Another challenge is to achieve this at a low cost. A solution to these problemswould be a low cost, physical laboratory kit that each distant learning student would

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; Candace Rainwater

withinthe course. The sections of Intro were divided into four themes: biomechanical, computing,robotics, and structures. Students spent about half the semester working on activities andassignments associated with “essential topics” 1, and the remainder of the semester was spent onthe theme-based projects.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2 Figure 1. Freshman Engineering Program Retention Report Figure 2. Freshman Engineering Program Graduation ReportTheme and Project DescriptionsWhen students arrived for summer orientation in June 2012, they were

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Daniel R. Miskin; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

Feisel andRosa4 attribute this shift to the increasing complexity and cost of laboratory equipment and thechange in motivation of the faculty, but also note that that the integration of the computer intothe laboratory has been a positive influence.Fortunately, the trend away from laboratory instruction is reversing, and laboratory pedagogy isnow recognized as a fertile ground for engineering research.1 This is important since a majorityof engineering students learn best when exposed to hands-on exercises and activities.4 Althoughthere have been a variety of approaches for developing hands-on activities, Penney and Clausen5-15 focused on the development of fluids and heat transfer exercises that can be used in theundergraduate laboratory or as