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Lionel Hewavitharana; Mahbub Ahmed; John Hauver; Joseph Lonigro; Allan Derrickson

. This paper presents anattempt to develop a low cost prototype equipment for "Impact of a Jet" experiment throughsenior design course at Southern Arkansas University.Introduction“Impact of a Jet” is a common laboratory exercise offered by most undergraduate engineeringprograms. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the relationship between force and rateof change of momentum. In an undergraduate fluid mechanics course, theoretical equations forrate of change of momentum are usually derived from the Reynolds transport theorem.Almost all technical teaching equipment companies such as TQ equipment, EDIBON, and USDidactic produce and market an apparatus for the measurement of force on solid surfaces due tothe impact of a water jet. Most

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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin; Edgar Clausen

,APLU 2016). Major changes were made at these institutions, including the formation of theUniversity of California Center for Laboratory Safety (Gibson 2014).At the University of Arkansas (U of A), the Ralph E. Martin Department of ChemicalEngineering implemented a three-year safety strategy in 2014, resulting in increased safetycompliance, as well as impacting safety culture, both inside and outside the department.Although the department has employed a chemical safety officer for the last 17 years, safety wasviewed previously as something to be enforced rather than integrated into everyday lab work. In2013, implementation and education required by OSHA for a Globally Harmonized System ofClassification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) created an

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Rachel Mosier P.E.; Virginia Charter P.E.; Carisa Ramming; John Reck; Heather Yates

forfuture success even with low college entrance exams.These previous studies have provided the basic question for the new study; are learning stylescorrelated with discipline? Felder and Silverman (1988) sought to identify mismatches betweenlearning styles and the teaching styles of engineering faculty through a survey instrumentdeveloped from the learning style model from David Kolb (1984). The Felder and Silvermanmodel of learning styles is exemplified by a survey instrument developed called the Index ofLearning Styles (ILS) (1988). This instrument will be used as a basis for this study as well. TheILS includes active or reflective, sensing or intuitive, visual or verbal, and sequential or global.The survey instrument builds upon Kolb’s learning

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Edgar Clausen; Roy Penney; Robert Babcock

through interactions withother people. Fluid mechanics has been a popular subject for this type of classroom engagement,both in the laboratory and through classroom demonstrations. Kresta (1998) began using shortdemonstrations in the fluid mechanics classroom, and saw an increase in attendance from 30% toover 80%. Stern et al. (2006) developed a hands-on CFE educational interface for graduateengineering courses and laboratories. Loinger and Hermanson (2002) used an integratedexperimental-analytical-numerical approach in the teaching of fluid mechanics, and student © American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencesurveys showed that 90% of their students

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John Ciezki; Steve Watkins

ethics emphasize theresponsibility of engineers to consider the “safety, health, and welfare of the public” [2,3].Regulations, standards, laboratory practices, etc. reflect the importance of safety in engineeringwork. Also, the negative consequences associated with safety-related failures such as accidentsand product defects make such issues a priority for industry. Creating a safety culture isdifficult. It involves the performance of proper actions and the avoidance of improper actions.Any definition of safety must specify what is considered proper, what is considered improper,and what is an acceptable degree of risk.In engineering education, practical safety concerns are necessarily part of laboratory courses andsafety concepts are often

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Nicolas Ali Libre; Jeff Jennings; Amy Skyles

laboratoryredesign practices using best pedagogical methodologies. Skyles is recognized as the “go-to”person on the S&T campus for learning about instructional design of laboratory courses andexperiential learning activities, including DELTA Labs, which strive for the goal of DeliveringExperiential Labs to All.Skyles has a passion for learning and would consider herself a lifelong learner who is perpetuallytrying to discover new things and new ways of doing the things that she has already made a partof her life. Teaching and learning are both very enjoyable for Skyles and she is passionatelybelieves that using active learning strategies as well as flipped, blended and online learningmodels should be considered as a part of the standard way of teaching

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

and mass balances, and software to complete their design. Students work in groups andwrite a report summarizing their findings. The activity connects course concepts to real worldapplications and requires students to design their own case studies through exploring the researchand patent literature. These aspects engage students in topics they are interested in whilesimultaneously relieving the burden off of faculty for constructing new projects each courseoffering.IntroductionProblem-based learning and laboratory experiments are common teaching methods for theundergraduate kinetics and reaction engineering courses in chemical engineering (Silverstein2011). However, these approaches typically are concentrated on one course topic at a time

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Abu Asaduzzaman; Farshad Mashhadi; Manira Rani

approach helps improve students’ academicperformance. Some course-projects are selected for presenting in a university-wide research andscholarly projects symposium. Feedbacks from the student perception of teaching effectiveness(SPTE) and ABET evaluations show that the student-centered project-oriented approach ispromising to increase the learning experience in STEM education.Keywords: Hands-on experience; learner-centered education; microprocessor based systems;STEM education; team-project;IntroductionIn STEM education, important goals include generating skilled workforce to fulfil the industryrequirements and preparing researchers to deal with the future challenges. There are variousissues that to be addressed for success in STEM education at

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Nathan Hutchins; Kaveh Ashenayi

since severalof the guest lecturers’ have laboratory and circuits activities in their lectures. For this part of thePCB design project, the students function independently of the instructors, using the rulespreviously discussed. Of course, instructors and teaching assistants are around watching to makesure everyone is being safe and the equipment is being treated properly.Once the circuit designs are finalized and the students have worked out how they would make theboard (within defined restrictions) the lectures move to PCB design using Eagle. The learningcurve with PCB design is pretty steep so several hours are spent on making this transition assmooth as possible. Over this lecture we not only discuss PCB design recommendations, likeground

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Kim Fowler; Don Gruenbacher

scrapping ECE590 and its professional development/capstone requirements and turn it into a Systems Engineering class.” • “. . . the material was relevant. It did teach us quite a bit of stuff about the business of engineering that no other classes touched on.” • “Replace with senior level design class.” • “. . . spent a bit too much time on documentation. I realize today how important it is. . .” • “Have someone with actual experience in industry teach the course so that the expectations are reasonable.” • “Cost analysis”The comments and suggestions can be summarized into these four primary points: 1. Projects should be cross-disciplinary and sponsored by either businesses or other professors. 2

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Neville Tay; Xiu Jie Low; Vinay Patil; Eylem Asmatulu

at WSU and actively involving in teaching, research, and scholarship activities inthe same department. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering at WSU in May 2013, which was mainly focused on the “Life CycleAnalysis of the Advanced Materials”. Prior to the WSU, she also worked in the EnvironmentalHealth and Safety at WSU and Composite Manufacturing Laboratory at NIAR of WSU.Throughout her studies, she has published 7 journal papers and 23 conference proceedings,authored 7 book chapters, presented 8 presentations, and reviewed several manuscripts ininternational journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Asmatulu is currently conducting researchon “e-waste recycling, active carbon processing

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Virginia Charter P.E.

assessment across multiple accreditation agencies.” Journal of Industrial Technology, 20(4), 1-7.Ejiwale, J. A. (2014). “Limiting skills gap effect on future college graduates.” Journal of Education and Learning, 8(3), 209-216.Ezeldin, A. S. (2013). “International accreditation for engineering programs: Mission, learning objectives, and outcomes.” Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 102 (pp. 267-275). Elsevier Ltd.Feisel, L. D., & Rosa, A. J. (2005). “The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education.” Journal of Engineering Education, 121-130.Felder, R. M., & Silverman, L. K. (1988). “Learning and teaching styles in engineering education.” Engineering Education, 78(7), 674-681

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Gopi K. Mandadi; Subeshan Balakrishnan; Eylem Asmatulu

MechanicalEngineering at WSU and actively involving in teaching, research, and scholarship activities inthe same department. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering at WSU in May 2013, which was mainly focused on the “Life CycleAnalysis of the Advanced Materials”. Prior to the WSU, she also worked in the EnvironmentalHealth and Safety at WSU and Composite Manufacturing Laboratory at NIAR of WSU.Throughout her studies, she has published 8 journal papers and 23 conference proceedings,authored 8 book chapters, presented 8 presentations, and reviewed several manuscripts ininternational journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Asmatulu is currently conducting researchon “e-waste recycling, water recycling, active

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Nathan M. Schneider; Mark Janzen; Eylem Asmatulu

solarand wind energies and recycling and reusing of engineering materials.Mark JanzenHe graduated from Cowley County Community College in Spring 2012 with an Associate ofArts Degree. He is a BS student in Mechanical Engineering at WSU. He is expecting to join thegraduate school for his further studies in renewable energy and other related technologies.Dr. Eylem AsmatuluDr. Asmatulu is currently an Engineering Educator in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at WSU and actively involving in teaching, research, and scholarship activities inthe same department. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering at WSU in May 2013, which was mainly focused on the “Life CycleAnalysis of the Advanced Materials

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appeal to their desire to produce broader impacts on their local community.8. xperiential Ethics Instruction in Three Parts Alsion J Kerr, Chase Winterberg, Jeremy Daily, Bradley J. Brummel (The University of Tulsa, USA)Teaching students how to recognize and handle ethical situations is a challenging feat. Lectures and case studies only go so far towards providing students with the tools they will need tofaithfully conduct themselves throughout their career. Experiential role-play simulation serves as a promising auxiliary technique for teaching ethics. For the last seven years, the authors havebeen conducting an interactive ethics training program which involves simulating a litigation experience in which engineering students perform