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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Yanwu Ding

discrete-time convolution, difference equations, discrete Fourier transform,Z-transform, filter designs, impulse, and frequency responses of discrete-time systems. Toimprove students’ skills in practical signal processing techniques and application, a new graduatecourse, EE887D Signal Processing Applications and Techniques, was offered in fall 2012. Bothcourses integrate practical projects using real-world data, thus providing students the opportunityto work on real signal processing techniques via Matlab programming. In this paper, we presentan overview of these projects.1. IntroductionSignal processing finds numerous applications in event detections, signal separations, parameterpredictions, and estimations in various systems. At Wichita

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Thomas Mertz

Project #2.The third project was completed by six teams of three students each; the one and only evaluationyielded these rankings: Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 Average Ranking 4.00 3.67 3.50 3.33 2.50 1.00 3.00 Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4These numbers suggest that the students did carry the lessons of quality and continuousimprovement over to the live project. In other words, once the project environment itself moreresembled the real world, the students’ behavior

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Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

-Discussed everyday uses of HPC such as simulation to better simulate a real world computation time sensitive t s p erfo r m Stu den weather forecasting, and medical

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Asad Esmaeily

thecourse progress and covers all of the basic components of the material addressed in this course.In a survey conducted at the end of semester, students consistently and unanimously have stated thatthe project effectively provides them with a better learning experience.The project is also a complete review of the course material combined with real-world application andhands-on experience which helps students to have a deep understanding of the subject matter andmaintain their knowledge on reinforced concrete structures years after graduation. This claim is basedon the responses from our former students graduated more than 5 years ago, in 2004 and after.Hands-On Experience with Reinforced Concrete Design Asad

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Lee Gatton; Saeed Khan

domainfor technologies for care taking for the elderly, toward promoting ageing in place (i.e., at home),motivating cognitive and physical exercise toward delaying the onset of dementia, and providingcompanionship to mitigate isolation and depression.” 1 The experience gained in this type ofproject include1-3 software development for real-world applications, practical troubleshootingexperience, project management, time management, and report writing. All of which, from aprospective employer’s viewpoint, is highly desired in any technical field. This type ofbackground on a student’s resume will make them standout in the job application process.Small business research companies can benefit in a number of ways from this type ofcollaboration with a

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

withthe conveying gas will begin to fall out of the gas stream. The test lab facility at K-Tron currently consists of a test line, which is a scaled downversion of a real world conveying system. To test the saltation velocity, material is poureddirectly into the unpressurized test line, where it rests until air flow is introduced. Due to itsstationary initial position, the airstream tends to flow right over the materials top surface. Thistesting method requires a higher air flow rate before the majority of the material can besuspended in the air stream, which causes engineers to overdesign a system for that material,increasing costs. This project will explain the process the group utilized to design, build, and test anapparatus to

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

combine the parallelcomputing concepts with the skills of parallelizing real world problems. Throughout the coursewe will use applications in linear algebra, scientific/engineering problems, and nanocompositesas examples in the lectures to relay the fundamental concepts, as frameworks for homeworkassignments, and as case studies for programming Lab assignments and team projects. Studentswill be engaged both in classroom and out-of-classroom actively by participating in theclassroom discussion and laboratory exercises designed to engrain the concepts being taughtthrough the lectures.4.1 Structure of the Lab AssignmentsWe will design two types of Lab experiments: Individual Lab assignments and one final team-project. All assignments will have a

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Charles McIntyre

, material estimating, projectscheduling, procurement and delivery, actual construction, inspections, change orders, projectdelivery, demolition, and a final project report. The “revised” course was delivered during the2013 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 number of engineering/design projects that canbe integrated into the structure of classroom activities,4

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Madhulika Srikanth; Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu

concealed andglancing at the neighbor’s paper is easy.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education a) b) c) Figure 1: Various cheating ways in the colleges: a) the shirt cuff method, b) the long sleeve method, and c) the calculator cheat sheet method.1.2 Smart Phone Applications Used by Students in Engineering FieldThere are several applications for solving various problems for engineers related to electrical,electronics, hydraulics, and calculus which are commonly used by engineers and engineeringstudents. With an access to the smart phone during the exams, the students can

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John L. Krohn

obvious that there is a need for agreater level of involvement and instruction on experiment design and preparation with the teamsleading up to the week/day of their experiment. While the main purpose of this methodology isfor the students to experience experiment planning and design, the laboratory instructional needsof the other students cannot be compromised to the extent it was during this past course offering.In addition, the student designed labs could be taken a step further in order to try to simulate inthe problem assignment a task that might be more representative of a real world experience. Aninitial idea along this vein is to describe a phenomenon that is affecting a product and ask theteam to devise an experiment to measure some