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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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Asad Esmaeily

introduction to fundamental concepts and engineering practice related toanalysis of systems in static equilibrium. As perhaps the most fundamental course underpinningprofessional-level study and engineering practice for the civil and mechanical disciplines, this courseprovides the necessary background for study of Mechanics of Materials, Structural Analysis, StructuralDynamics, and many other courses requiring a fundamental understanding of static equilibrium, andrelated phenomena. Through homework, quizzes, and exams, students demonstrate competence intopics that are needed for the later courses, as well as for problems such as are encountered on theFundamentals of Engineering (F.E. or Engineering In Training, E.I.T.) exam.The main resources for

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John L. Krohn

Design of Experiments: Student Response to an Experiential Learning Approach John L. Krohn, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Arkansas Tech UniversityAbstractABET Student Outcome b) calls for engineering programs to demonstrate that students have “anability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data”1. Ourdepartment, as likely have many others across the country, has historically addressed thiscurriculum requirement with instruction in statistics and uncertainty analysis either in lab orother courses. Does presenting the fundamentals of statistical analysis, uncertainty and errorpropagation truly give students the

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

demonstrations of important concepts in the classroom. Just asimportant, each of these activities can be easily constructed from materials purchased at minimalcost or simply found in most engineering shops.The purpose of this paper is to describe the experimental equipment and its use for measuring theflow rate at which an impinging fluid jet will lift a weighted deflector. Turbines are often usedto recover energy from a fluid. In a Pelton wheel turbine, shown in Figure 1, the energy isrecovered by directing the fluid onto veins or buckets. The force due to the impinging fluidrotates the turbine, and this rotation is used to convert the mechanical power into electricalProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

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

& Analysis Mechanical Engineering  Environmental  Dynamics Technology Pollution  Mechanics of  Fluid Mechanics MaterialsSouthern Arkansas  Introduction to  Industrial  ElectricalUniversity Engineering Materials Circuits Engineering Physics  Heat Transfer  Database  Survey of Mathematics &  Software Management Information Computer Science Engineering Systems Technology

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; Candace Rainwater

American Society for Engineering Education 3essence of the themes, the biomechanical theme has been renamed biosystems, and thecomputing theme has been renamed electronics.BiosystemsOne of the grand challenges from the National Academy of Engineering2 is to provide access toclean drinking water. In this theme, students’ first project is to develop a water filtration deviceusing inexpensive materials that would be readily available in most places around the world.Before building a working prototype, students research methods for combining the givenmaterials to make an effective filter to remove turbidity from a dirty water supply.The second project in

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

Effects of Hands-on Nanotechnology Training on the Retention and Success Rates of Freshmen Students at WSU M. Ceylan, A. Usta, E. Barut, and *R. Asmatulu Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.edu; Tel: (316) 978-6368AbstractRetention and success rates of freshmen students are of great interest in many universities, andmuch attention has been given to increasing these rates in the U.S. for more than two decades.Freshmen student retention and success rates at Wichita State University (WSU) are currentlyaround 70%, which is considerably lower than the

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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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E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Scott Jordan

Board enhanced the students' laboratory knowledge andproficiency compared with students who worked in two member teams utilizing traditionallaboratory equipment.IntroductionThe objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an individualized laboratory system todeliver a comprehensive laboratory experience for the purpose of enhancing the students'electrical circuits knowledge and proficiency in an introductory circuits laboratory.The engineering laboratory has traditionally been used to reinforce material presented in theclassroom and to introduce students to basic engineering applications and concepts[1] [2]. In thecurrent study, electrical circuits laboratory students constructed basic electrical circuits andperformed standard

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Julia L. Morse

problem-solving world: The labs take the opportunity to introduce students tohands-on machining and fabrication techniques, while the classroom and text material introducesa more general view of industrial manufacturing processes, emphasizing foundationaltechnologies, science, and simple math applications relevant to mechanical designers andmanufacturing engineers. The text is a standard materials and processes text often used in thesophomore or junior year of industrial or mechanical engineering programs.4 The course has onecredit hour of “lecture” credit meeting in the classroom, in addition to the two credit hours oflaboratory (four actual hours per week in the lab, meeting two hours, two days a week). Theclassroom meeting builds on text

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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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Michael C. Reynolds

the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationthe total number of students enrolled. Finally, this paper only considered prior semesterenrollment in Engineering Analysis. Any type of concurrent enrollment was rare and wasdisregarded.Results from Statics CourseThe fall 2012 Statics sections were the only ones considered in this paper since it is the only timewe have offered the course with students that have taken Engineering Analysis. Statics is acourse taken only by the Mechanical Engineering students in our program, thus this representsonly a subset of the students who take Engineering Analysis. Combined, the two Statics sectionshad 43 students, 23 of which had taken the Engineering Analysis course and

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

24% 23 23% 46 23.6% 23+ 8 8% 10 10% 18 9.2% Missing 0 0% 1 1% 1 0.5% Total 96 49% 99 51% 195 100%Table 2 shows the school information (class and major) for the respondents. The highestproportion of the subjects was Freshman and the lowest Graduate Student. Note that UniversityA does not have a graduate engineering program. The two most common majors represented inthe sample were chemical and mechanical engineering students. Note that University A does nothave chemical or petroleum engineering. In the Undecided/Other

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David C. Paulus; Daniel M. Settlage

Collaborate than the bottom students. In addition,the top students reported a greater comfort and ease with online participation and a better self-reported learning outcome than the bottom students did.BackgroundIntroduction to Machine Analysis (IMA) is a required sophomore-level mechanical engineeringcourse that teaches kinetic and kinematic analysis techniques for mechanisms. Mechanicalengineering students at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (UAF) enrolled in a five-weekface-to-face traditional IMA course in the summer 2013 semester. Dr. Paulus was hired as anadjunct professor to teach the course via live video link from the University of Arkansas - FortSmith (UAFS) because of the two-and-two transfer agreement between UAFS and UAF in

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

Design Lessons Learned While working with Bergkamp Inc. we were able to utilize concepts and knowledgegained from the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program at K-State Salina and apply themto a real-world problem. However, in order to tackle the design problem we needed to learn agreat deal more about the properties of propane and how it reacts to the different heated scraperdesigns. We did multiple tests with different nozzle outlet sizes along with different diametersand lengths of combustion chambers before finding the correct one that created the flame patternwe were looking for. As a result, it was not until after we found the correct flame pattern that werealized how the heated scraper was to be designed.Conclusion Our

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

the IEEE, ASEE, and the honor society of PKP, TBP, UPE, GoldenKey, and Who’s Who. He served as reviewer of NSF TUES (2011) and GRFP (2012), andEPSCoR RSV Panel-2 (2012) programs. He has served as Session Chair at various prestigiousconferences. He is currently serving as a TPC member of IEEE IPCCC 2013 and as an IPCmember of IEEE ICCIT 2013 conferences.Ramazan AsmatuluRamazan Asmatulu received his Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the Department of Materials Scienceand Engineering at Virginia Tech. After having the postdoc experiences, he joined thedepartment of mechanical engineering at Wichita State University (WSU) in August 2006 as anassistant professor, and received his tenure and promotion to be associate processor in July,2012. Dr. Asmatulu is

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Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

, operations management, sales, and marketing. Fred has alsoserved as visiting faculty for two years at a European graduate school, and for more than 15 years in outside sales ofadvertising, computer systems, and material handling systems. Email: fguzek@ksu.eduKATHY BROCKWAY holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a Master of Accountancy; is a CertifiedFinancial Manager, a Certified Management Accountant, and a Certified Public Accountant. Kathy has taughtmultiple courses in accounting, economics and finance, as well as operations management. She has worked inpublic accounting, consulting, and the health care industry. Email: kjbrock@ksu.eduTROY BROCKWAY holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Aviation Safety

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Andrew Braham; Ashlea Milburn Bennett; Jeton McClinton

. These types oftools serve four pedagogical affordances: promoting or integrating innovative learningapproaches, motivating student participation, presenting multimedia materials, and enablingstudents’ reflections. The Web 2.0 tools also serve two social affordances: support interaction indifferent scopes and communication in different formats, and two technological affordances: anopen and customizable environment and fast internet access. Two key benefits to theseaffordances are bringing the students to the center of the learning activities and learning process,and exciting and motivating the students to participate and grow. Wang et al. continued thisresearch focusing exclusively on using Facebook in the classroom3. The researchers in this