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R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; B. Zhang

extent that nanomaterials and devices will benefit or pose a riskto human health. Generally, health issues are divided into two aspects: (a) positive effects ofnanomaterials to cure deadly diseases, such as cancer, heart attack, and Alzheimer’s disease; and(b) negative effects of nanomaterials that cause the deadly diseases mentioned above [5]. Figure 1: Body entrances of nanoscale materials causing potential hazards.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education,Lawrence, KS, September 22-24, 2010 5It is known that several nanomaterials are safe and are used for various

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Josh Coffman; Joseph J. Rencis; Daniel J. Jensen; Ashland O. Brown; Jiancheng Liu; Kristen Kaufman; Christina White

8independent reviewers. Each reviewer independently evaluated each quiz. Independentreviewers were provided the Independent Reviewer Multiple-Choice Quiz Question AssessmentForm, in Appendix B, to record their evaluation. This assessment form is almost identical to theMultiple-Choice Quiz Question Checklist Form in Figure 1. One difference between the twoforms is that the checklist form items are written as questions and the assessment form items arewritten as statements. A second difference is that each item in the checklist form is evaluated ona 1 to 5 Likert Scale. The independent reviewer uses the Likert Scale to evaluate how well thequiz satisfies each assessment form statement. The scale used was as follows: (1) not at all, (2)needs improvement

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Troy Harding

fun.Instructor PerspectiveI analyzed 10 pair programming projects from fall 2006, 8 projects from fall 2007, 4 projectsfrom fall 2008, and 5 projects from fall 2009. The programs were compared to individuallyproduced programs in the areas of design quality, number of defects, and code style consistency.In the area of design quality I looked for things like modularity and efficiency of the code. Ifound little difference between the individual and pair produced programs. This was especiallytrue for the “A” and “B” students. For the poorer students, there was a definite improvementwhen paired with a better student. In the few cases where poorer students were paired together,what was most significant was that they were more likely to complete the whole

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E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Daniel Bullock; Carlos Castillo; Patricia Buford; Gill Richards

knowledge on the lab practicum results, thecontrol and solo groups were sub-divided into two partitions based on the students' grades in thecompanion circuits lecture course (CircuitsII). Students who earned an A or B in CircuitsII weresegregated from those earned a C or less. The A-B partitions included 80% and 60% in thecontrol and solo groups, respectively. A comparison between the lab practicum grades betweenthese two partitions for the control group yielded no significant difference. However, in the sologroup there was a statistical difference between the A-B and C or less partitions (D=0.33 andp<0.05). The cumulative distribution functions for the combined control group and the two sologroup partitions are shown in Figure 3. The A-B solo

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Dona Steffens Davidson; Kevin P. Drees

Quarterly.[Online]. 46(1), pp. 45-55.10. T. Bottorff, R. Glaser, A. Todd and B. Alderman. (2008, Oct). Branching out: communication and collaborationamong librarians at multi-campus institutions. Journal of Library Administration. [Online]. 48 (3/4), pp. 329-363.11. S. A. Ware and C. L. Young, “Virtual reference teams: collaboration and knowledge sharing across time anddistance,” in Proc. 2007 ACRL 13th National Conf., Baltimore, MD, 2007, pp. 79-82.12. T. Volkening, personal communication to authors, July 29, 2010.13. C. L. Borgman, D. Moghdam, and P. K. Corbett, Effective online searching: a basic text. New York: MercelDekker, Inc., 1984.14. Dialog (2008, Dec.) EI Compendex, EI Compendex 1990 (File 288), EI Compendex 1970 (File 278

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Shauna A. Morimoto; Anna M. Zajicek; Valerie H. Hunt; Joseph J. Rencis

and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 1928-1935, 2010.   Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education  15   8. Canes, B. J., and Rosen, H. S., “Following in her footsteps? Faculty Gender Composition and Women’s Choices of College Majors,” Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 486-504, 1995.9. Sonnert, G., Fox, M. F., and Adkins, K., “Undergraduate Women in

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Keith L. Hohn

Incorporating Creativity into a Capstone Engineering Design Course Keith L. Hohn Department of Chemical Engineering Kansas State UniversityAbstractCreativity is a critical part of engineering design that should be encourage and nurtured inengineering students. Two creative exercises were implemented into a senior chemicalengineering design course. The first exercise was designed to enhance student awareness of therole of creativity in engineering design. In this exercise, students were asked to create a piece ofartwork depicting their major (chemical engineering) in some way and to reflect on the processthey followed to produce

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Robert I. Egbert

A Laboratory Format for Improved Student Participation Robert I. Egbert Cooperative Engineering Program Missouri State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a format for engineering laboratory courses that improves studentparticipation in the laboratory experiments. Often in laboratory courses only one or twomembers of a student lab group actively participate in the laboratory exercise while others in thegroup stand around and observe. This is especially true in large laboratory sections with manystudent lab groups. This format helps ensure that all students in a lab group participate by givingeach member of

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Allen A. Busick; Melissa L. Cooley; Alexander M. Lopez; Aaron J. Steuart; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

Determining the Net Positive Suction Head of a Magnetic Drive PumpAllen A. Busick, Melissa L. Cooley, Alexander M. Lopez, Aaron J. Steuart, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractCavitation accompanied by metal removal, vibration, reduced flow, noise and efficiency losscan occur in the operation of a pump if the suction pressure is only slightly greater than the vaporpressure of the fluid. Cavitation can be avoided by maintaining or exceeding the required netpositive suction head, NPSHr. This paper describes a simple and inexpensive laboratory set-upfor determining the NPSHr and

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Heath A. Schluterman; Kellie Schneider; C. Richard Cassady

Evaluating Engineering Problem Solving Skills of First-Year Engineering Students Heath A. Schluterman, Ph.D., Kellie Schneider, C. Richard Cassady, Ph.D. University of ArkansasAbstractStudents in our Introduction to Engineering course sequence at the University of Arkansas oftentell us, “we know all of this already.” Therefore, in the Fall Semester of 2009, we administered apre-test during the first week of Introduction to Engineering I covering the engineering problemsolving topics to be covered during the semester. These topics included engineering problemsolving fundamentals, statics, statistics, and engineering economics. The results show thatstudents did

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Lauren M. Ronsse; Lily M. Wang; Clarence E. Waters

Industry Participation in the Interdisciplinary Team Design Project Course of a Master of Architectural Engineering Program Lauren M. Ronsse, Lily M. Wang, Clarence E. Waters Architectural Engineering Program University of Nebraska – LincolnAbstractThis is a case study of extensive industry participation in the capstone design course of theMaster of Architectural Engineering program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Thiscourse, entitled Interdisciplinary Team Design Project, pairs teams of professional engineers andstudents to provide mentoring, assessment, and feedback, as the students work oninterdisciplinary teams to design the

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Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Christa N. Hestekin; Nick Tschepikow; George S. Denny; Edgar C. Clausen

UAESP: A New and Improved Program for Helping Middle School Teachers Devise Their Own Hands-on Engineering and Science Activities Bryan W. Hill1, Carol S. Gattis2, Christa N. Hestekin1, Nick Tschepikow3, George S. Denny4 and Edgar C. Clausen1 College of Engineering1/Honors College2/ Northwest Arkansas Education Renewal Zone 13/ College of Education and Health Professions4 University of ArkansasAbstractThe University of Arkansas Science and Engineering Partnership (UAESP) was developed in2009 to enhance the professional growth of 6th and 7th grade science teachers in northwestArkansas through summer

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Ing-Chang Jong; William T. Springer; Rick J. Couvillion

advantage ofthis method over the traditional methods. This paper is aimed at (a) providing comparisons ofthis new method versus the traditional method of integration via several head-to-head contrastingsolutions of same problems, and (b) proposing a set of steps for use to effectively introduce andteach this new method to students. It is a considered opinion that the method of model formulasbe taught to students after having taught them one or more of the traditional methods.I. IntroductionBeams are longitudinal members subjected to transverse loads. Students usually first learn thedesign of beams for strength. Then they learn the determination of deflections of beams under avariety of loads. Traditional methods used in determining statically

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Thomas Mulinazzi; Steven Schrock

, it is necessary to have high grades in order to receivescholarships. This statement was told to one of the authors when he was making apresentation to parents in western Kansas.The high grading in high schools is not fair to the true “A” students. They get“As” and the not-so-good students also receive “As”. There does not seem to be muchdistinction between the “A” and “B” students since they all receive “As”. Several yearsago there were two students from a Kansas City area high school applying to the KUSchool of Engineering. Their high school graded on the percentage basis. One had a98.6% g.p.a. and was 82 out of 226 in her class. The other student had an 86% g.p.a. andwas 223 out of 226 in the class. It seems like the goal in high school is

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Erik Perrins

experiment involving δ(t) and h(t) is depicted in Figure 2 (b). Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3 x(t) y(t) δ(t) h(t) h(t) h(t) (a) (b)Figure 2: (a) Relationship between the input signal, x(t), the output signal, y(t), and the LTI system withimpulse response h(t). (b) Special experiment with input signal x(t) = δ(t), which produces the outputsignal

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Robert M. O'Connell; Gavin Duffy; Ted Burke; David Dorran

likely to be a “one-fits-all” prescriptive approach to tutoring. A tutor’s approachwill vary considerably depending on his or her personality and style, in much the same way thatthere are different ways to managing people in general. There is not necessarily a right or bestway. Instead, what might be needed is a set of guidelines that support a variety of goodapproaches.Bibliography1. Biggs, J. and Tang, C. (2007) Teaching for Quality Learning at University 2nd ed. Berkshire: SRHE & Open University Press.2. Prince, M.J. and Felder, R.M. (2006) Inductive teaching and learning methods: definitions, comparisons, and research bases, Journal of Engineering Education, 95(2), 123-135.3. Bowe, B., Flynn, C., Howard, R. and Daly, S. (2003

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Christopher C. Ibeh

thickness (10*10-9 m). In 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), banned the commercial manufacture, importation, processing and distribution of mostasbestos-containing products. The original 1989 EPA ban was vacated and remanded by the1991 U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals but the upgraded EPA ban remains in effect under A B CFigure 2: Some of the Many Different Forms of Asbestos [Courtesy: US Geological Survey]A = Serpentine Asbestos [(Mg,Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4, Magnesium/Iron Silicate Hydroxide)]B = Tremolite Asbestos; C = Presence of Asbestos in the Lung.the 1999 Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Asbestosmanufacturing has been discontinued in the US since

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Keith E. Hedges

strengthening forthe discovery group and knowledge acquisition for the remaining students. Each group hadindividual discoveries that occurred at different points in time and informed subsequent lectures.This lesson learned conveniently deals with structural concerns, and does not address the non-technical or cultural issues. Figure 3. National Palace, Port-au-Prince: (a) August 7, 2006;[8] and (b) January 14, 2010.[9]Who Let the Dogs Out?Expanding research questions to include a cultural emphasis is a slippery slope in an engineeringcourse. Who let the dogs out? refers to a breadth of content associated with disasters that seemsto go on forever. Unusual topics arose during the discussions such as economics, politics,anthropology, sociology, foreign

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Angel Riggs; Kirby Smith; Cindy Blackwell; Paul Weckler; Dan Tilley; Rodney Holcomb; Shelly Sitton; Ron Delahoussaye

teach students “people skills.” Interfaces, 26(5), 42-49. 3. Fitzpatrick, J., Sanders, J., & Worthen, B (2004). Program evaluation: alternative approaches and practical guidelines (3rd Ed.) Pearson Education, Inc. 4. Page, D., & Donelan, J. (2003). Team-Building Tools for Students. Journal of Education for Business, 78(3), 125.Biographical InformationAngel RiggsMs. Riggs is a graduate research assistant and Ph. D. candidate in the Department of AgriculturalEducation, Communications and Leadership.Kirby SmithMs. Smith is a graduate research assistant and Ph. D. candidate in the Department of AgriculturalEducation, Communications and Leadership.Cindy BlackwellDr. Blackwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of

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R. Asmatulu; W.S. Khan; E. Asmatulu; M. Ceylan

humans,as well as animals and plants. Bioethics deals with all of these issues in order to create a saferwork environment for students, scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses, and other individualsparticipating in biotechnology research, development, and education.Acknowledgment: The authors gratefully acknowledge Wichita State University for supportingthis work.REFERENCES 1. Mathuna, D.P.Ó. “Bioethics and Biotechnology,” Cytotechnology, Vol. 53, 2007, pp. 113-119. 2. Ignacimuthu, S.J. Bioethics, Alpha Science International, Oxford, UK, 2009. 3. Mepham, B. Bioethics an Introduction for Biosciences, Oxford University Press, 2005. 4. Paula, L. “Ethics: The Key to Public Acceptance of Biotechnology,” Biotechnology and Development

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Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

conductexperimental evaluation and testing. The rubric was less informative on engineering analysisskills as design projects varied in scope and coverage of these areas.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) asks that all engineeringprograms work to achieve a series of educational objectives including: a. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability d. an ability to

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Jim Lookadoo; Carl Locke

ABET Customers •Internally, It Is ABET CQIExternal Some institutions host ABET Simultaneous Visits where teams from two or more commissions are visiting at the same time Some programs have names that dictate ABET Joint Visits where multiple commissions must accredit a single program These situations involve accreditation customers that greatly benefit from harmonizationInternal Over ten years ago, ABET started requiring outcomes based management for all of its accredited programs. That requires a CQI component for us and ABET requires the same for itself. As it reviews itself, ABET sees the value in this approach for its own operations.So What? Well, it sounds as if this doesn’t really benefit my program directly. Actually

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Ramesh K. Agarwal

engines with improved fan (geared fan and contra fan), fan-exhaust duct-liner technology• New flight paths in ascent and descent flightSilent Aircraft SAX -40 Engine Noise Reduction TechnologiesSource: http://silentaircraft.org Source: ReynoldsAddressing Noise Reduction Goals Source: F. Collier, NASA Langley Innovative Aircraft Concepts/ Designs• Increase the L/D ratio: It is one of the most powerful means of reducing the fuel burn. There are three ways to increase L/D: (a) increase the wing span (b) reduce the vortex drag factor (c) reduce the profile drag• Reducing the profile drag has the greatest mid- to long-term potential – (1) The adoption of

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Andy Gill; Garrin Kimmell; Kevin Matlage

Improving the Presentation of Technical Material in Video Talks using Post Production Andy Gill1 , Garrin Kimmell2 , Kevin Matlage1 The University of Kansas1 , The University of Iowa2AbstractIn this paper, we present our experiences using our image processing toolkit ChalkBoard and othervideo processing tools to post-process a pre-recorded conference talk. With inexpensive videocameras, video services like youtube.com and vimeo.com, and widely available andinexpensive video editing software, we expect this new media to be increasingly used as amechanism to both promote research agendas and deliver technical content. In order to explore theuse of such

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Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Julie-Ellen Acosta

The Engineer as Leader: Course Design Don Malzahn1, Lawrence Whitman1, Zulma Toro-Ramos1 and Julie-Ellen Acosta2 College of Engineering, Wichita State University1 The Boeing Company2ABSTRACTEngineers must possess leadership skills even as new graduates. These skills can distinguishgraduates from one institution and another. The Industrial Advisory Board of the Wichita StateUniversity (WSU) College of Engineering has committed to direct involvement in the delivery of“The Engineer as Leader” course. The objective of developing a course that provides asignificant learning experience is realized through a constructivist approach. This paper presentsthe

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Dave Sly; Daniel Bumblauskas; Frank Peters

Development of an Engineering Sales Program with Industry Dr. Dave Sly, Dan Bumblauskas, Dr. Frank Peters Iowa State UniversityAbstractIowa State University recently established a program in technical sales for engineers. Todevelop the program, faculty and administrators reached out to an industrial advisory committeecomprised of organizations with a vested interest in the program; the organizations that hirestudents from the College of Engineering for career tracks in technical sales and marketing.The instructor used a combination of various sales techniques and strategies, from establishedtechnical sales programs to frame the syllabus for the course. A detailed course

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Michael Detamore; Paul Willhite

Planning for the ABET Program Outcomes in Life-Long Learning and Contemporary Issues Michael Detamore, Paul Willhite Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of KansasAbstractCriterion 3 in the ABET review presents two “softer” criteria in items 3i and 3j, which are “arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning,” and “a knowledge ofcontemporary issues,” respectively. Undoubtedly, a number of engineering programs will electto determine their own definitions and evaluation policies for these issues in a wide variety ofdifferent ways. This presentation is designed to be more of an open dialogue, initiated withexamples of how

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Ana T. Torres-Ayala; Daniel Bumblauskas; Matthew Verleger

ASEE Student Members’ Needs Analysis: Implications for the ASEE Student Constituent Committee Ana T. Torres-Ayala, Daniel Bumblauskas, Matthew Verleger University of South Florida, Iowa State University, Purdue UniversityAbstractThe American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) attracts student members, but untilrecently they were not formally organized and as a consequence their role within the nationalorganization was unclear. To help clarify their role and interests, a survey of ASEE studentmember needs was conducted by the Student Constituent Committee (SCC). An invitation toparticipate in a web survey was sent to all student members of ASEE (N=635). Ninety-seven(15%) students

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Douglas R. Carroll

The Perils of Cooperative Engineering Programs Douglas R. Carroll Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstract Cooperative Engineering programs are designed to allow a public university system tobetter serve the people of the state. Many prospective students are “place-bound” in the sensethat they cannot move and attend the main campus that offers an engineering program, eitherbecause they have a good job, or family commitments, or because they cannot afford the housingcosts associated with moving. In a Cooperative Engineering program, the “Main Campus” formsa cooperative agreement with the “Host Campus” which allows students to take

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

Industry-University Partnership Case Study Charles Baukal1, Joe Colannino1, Wes Bussman1 and John Matsson2 John Zink Co. LLC1/Oral Roberts University2AbstractThis paper describes a partnership between an engineering equipment manufacturer and a localprivate university. The industrial partner provides adjunct instructors to teach severalmechanical engineering courses, serves on the industrial engineering advisory board, andsupports the university in a number of other ways. The students benefit from being taught byexperienced industry engineers who have a passion for teaching. The industry partner benefitsfrom direct exposure to potential hires and providing an outlet for its employees to