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Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

Research and Education at the Center for Nanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials [CNCMM], Pittsburg State University Christopher C. Ibeh1,2, Monika Bubacz2, Andrey Beyle2, Stefano Bietto2, Stan Scoville2, Dilip Paul3, Charles Blatchley3 1 – Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, PSU 2 – CNCMM, PSU 3 – Professor, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, PSU, Pittsburg, KS AbstractThe Center for Nanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials [CNCMM] at PittsburgState University, is an inter-institutional and multidisciplinary effort to implement theONR-sponsored “Multifunctional Materials for Naval

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J. Collins

. . .”, “Changes that I am making(keywords or databases) . . .” “Initial session ending time . . . “ Appointments with thepartnering librarian and with the writing center are also recorded. (See Appendix B).When students document their search path, the chemistry faculty has found that studenttime is more effectively utilized throughout the research process, because search strategybecomes more deliberate and less random. The observations made during the summersessions led the chemistry faculty to collaborate further with the writing center to refinethe search-process assignment, which now includes planning and more careful annotationof the process. The worksheet provides sequential support to students while highlightingthe meta-cognitive heuristics so

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

need per class (two year requirement) leads to approximately 250 enrolledat any one time to meet the perceived demand.V. Resource planThis section describes an initial plan to close the gap between the current numberof students participating and the number required.Undergrad Research – The college has a multi-faceted approach to increase theopportunities for undergraduate research. All existing NSF grantees will bestrongly encouraged to recruit students for Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) for NSF grantees. Similarly, all new proposals (for bothexternal and internal funding) will be encouraged to have line item funding in theproposed budget for undergraduate students. New college funding has beenacquired to hire additional

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Johannes Strobel

Compound Problem Solving: Workplace Lessons for Engineering Education Johannes Strobel Engineering Education Purdue University, IN AbstractFor practitioners and researchers who incorporate real-world problems into their teaching, it isessential to understand real-world problem solving and the nature of problems for better designof the instruction. Several models exist that address the categorization of problems. DavidJonassen’s design theory of problem solving describes eleven different problem-types mappedon a four-dimensional scale. Real world

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

contacts may include the university development office and local engineeringprofessional society chapters. Many of our industrial contacts were developed through the localIEEE. While e-mail is a convenient contact approach for the initial contact, we found thatfollow-up telephone calls and on-site meetings helped to facilitate the development of internshipprograms, as most corporate officials prefer personal contact.Another issue with creating internships is funding them. While most companies have budgets tocover student salaries, additional external funding will strengthen an internship program. Thisadditional funding can supplement salaries and cover additional expenses such as supplies andtravel. Many state agencies have funding programs for

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Jeff Parker; Ping Liu

Prototyping a Digital Communication System with a Novel Blind Adaptive Equalizer Jeff Parker Ping Liu Dept. of Electrical Engineering Dept. of Electrical Engineering Arkansas Tech University Arkansas Tech University Russellville, AR 72801 Russellville, AR 72801 Email: jeff.parker@gmail.com Email: pliu@atu.edu Abstract— In this paper, an undergraduate research project, a few drawbacks. The CMA algorithm is dependent on thesponsored by

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Kamesh Namuduri

are either currently offering or planning to offer Associate (2-year)degrees in the Information Assurance (IA) discipline in the near future. The mission of this consortium is“to promote security awareness within the region through collaboration with local communities,community colleges, private industry, and law enforcement agencies and to pursue education, training,and research activities in information assurance and security disciplines". The partnerships range fromsharing IA teaching materials and laboratory resources, to forming state-wide working groups andorganizing state-wide education and training workshops. This paper provides the details of the activitiesbeing pursued by Wichita State University to bring cybersecurity awareness in

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

attend and participate in a MechanicalEngineering seminar series that will expose them to topics such as Ethics, Safety, EnvironmentalIssues, Global Collaboration, Energy Conservation, Entrepreneurial Aspects of Engineering,Engineering Professionalism, Sustainability, Manufacturability, Project Management, and othertopics of professional interest and use. Furthermore, students will have opportunities to work asa team on faculty’s research project or a creative project of their own. These hand-onopportunities will give Mechanical Engineering students a more insightful appreciation formanufacturing capabilities and limitations, and permit them to coordinate more effectively withengineering technologists to create more competitive products in the

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William M. Baer

publication4. McCabe found that there was no significant change in the incidenceof cheating on written work over a 30 year period with 65% of the students admitting to suchbehavior in 1963 compared to 66% in 1993. He did find, though, that “student comments in the1993 survey suggested that this younger generation of students was more lenient in definingwhat constitutes plagiarism.”5 The Internet has changed way students plagiarize to some extent because it has changedthe way they research. A wealth of information is now at the researcher’s fingertips. A libraryof information is brought strait to their desks. The phrase “cut and paste plagiarism” expressesthe ease of copying a sentence, paragraph, or more from an article into a term

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Larry A. Glasgow

with the physical world—must certainly have these four fundamentalobjectives. In addition, it is essential that such activities integrate multiple subjects, relate newinformation with prior experience and knowledge, emphasize spatial memory, and have a strongsomatic component.Initial Experience with the Field Activities In the fall of 2006 we initiated a series of field exercises designed to address thedisconnect between chemical engineering students and the physical world. Four groups ofvolunteers from Transport Phenomena 1 (ChE 530) totaling 27 students were provided with alarge-scale field experience in which water was: 1) pumped through a series of nozzles (tradingpressure for kinetic energy), 2) pumped into a 325 gallon tank to

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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

batch processes. Parts are processed and transferredaccording to the batch size indicated by the production order quantity. Parts inthe other workstations are processed individually. Each workstation has a specificprocessing time for each part as well as a resource that is required to process thepart. The correct material, resources and production order are required beforeprocessing can begin at the workstation. Initial parameters for processing times,lead times, scrap and rework rates were determined and the simulation was testedusing those values. Figure 1 shows the existing factory flow. Raw materials beginthe process through the first two operations. These processes occur in a batchenvironment and incur quality reject rates. The remaining

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

off by an atomic fireball. The stress-straincurve for steel can be described as “Traffic Gridlock on an Interstate.” The initial portion of thecurve resembles slow moving traffic that produces large amounts of stress for drivers. This isfollowed by a point on the curve or location on the interstate when traffic speed increasesresulting in decreased stress and much greater strain. This comparison continues through strainhardening until failure or the drivers reach their destination. Straws are an effective method ofillustrating the structure of wood. Wood is composed of hollow tube-like cells that resemble agroup of drinking straws. Laboratory experiments that examine the effects of water-to-cementratio and curing environment on concrete

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

with strict requirements on delays and packet losses. Aquestion arises on how the WLAN protocols - at the physical and medium access control (MAC) Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2layers - support the real-time voice applications. In more detail, what is the efficiency of theseprotocols to support a large number of simultaneous voice users?First, we presented our students with several articles [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] that discussed the performanceof 802.11 physical layer technologies (e.g., 802.11b and 802.11g) and VoIP traffic. Initially, thestudents were presented a

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

opportunities for meaningfulinternational experiences. Although a limited number of projects are available throughEWB-USA, the University of Tulsa chapter selected projects with local ties. The chapterinitially invited speakers to meetings to discuss past and present opportunities. Fromthese presentations two initial projects were selected. One group is working with amicro-community in rural northeast China to develop sustainable energy resources. Theother group is working with a rural community in northern Sierra Leone as it rebuildsfrom their long civil war.The EWB-USA Technical Advisory CommitteeEWB-USA has established a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to oversee allinternational travel. The TAC is composed of volunteer engineering professionals

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Meader Woo; John M. Watkins

excite a plant with a sinusoidal signal.After setting up the SIMULINK model, one only has to double click on the DSA block to openthe DSAGUI as seen in Figure 1. From there, the user must input values into the argument boxeswhich include: ωi and ω f , the initial and final frequencies in (rads/sec) that the DSA will sweepfor the frequency response, n , the number of frequencies at which the DSA calculates thefrequency response, and ts , the estimated settling time of a plant in seconds. If the samplingperiod at which the experiment or simulation is run, Ts , is entered the program will correct forthe phase loss due to sampling delay. The user can also enter the gain and offset of thesinusoidal output signal of the DSA block.Hitting the green

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

a servant leadership model? The authors share their retrospective analysisand lessons learned, in hopes of overcoming challenges in educating 21st century learners,strengthening cross-disciplinary learning environments, and enhancing faculty-librarianrelationships.In the rapidly changing 21st century educational environment, faculty and librarian’ssuccessful collaboration and communication can create a core community of learners.The concept of collegiality is discussed as one of most challenging and meaningfulcomponents of a successful collaboration between faculty and librarians.2, 3 Associationof College and Research Libraries (ACRL) information literacy web site presents manyresources and ideas including various collaboration examples.4

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Walter O. Craig

, providing an opportunity for communication of current and future industry and professional needs. • Identify actions the departments and the colleges should take to meet special student and industry needs. • Provide recommendations on initiatives that the program should undertake to continuously improve and to meet industry needs.Benefits of an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) 4 • Availability of well-prepared engineering technology graduates who understand the product realization process. • Opportunities to evaluate potential employees through internships, collaborative projects and classroom interactions. • Direct assistance in product and process design

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

each group are described in this section. The programming group wastasked with programming and synchronizing the holiday lights with the transmitted music; thisincluded learning a new computer program and a functional understanding of the closed localarea network. The structures group was tasked with researching, testing, and fabricating thestructures needed to support lights used in this display. The FM transmitter group was taskedwith researching, fabricating, and testing the low power FM transmitters needed in this display.Additionally, this group had to theoretically and experimentally determine antenna placement tocover a 5 acre parking lot. The logistics group was tasked with traffic and crowd control, projecttimeline and management

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

economy. At the end of the 20th century, figures showed thatIndiana ranked at the bottom of states for percentage of college graduates in its population andthat 63% of the graduates of the states science and engineering programs were pursuing careerselsewhere. Fostering better linkage of higher education and initiation of new businessrepresented a way to reverse such data and provide exciting opportunities for educated youngpeople to stay. On the same day Rose-Hulman’s award was announced, there was a comparablegrant to Indiana University to launch its major efforts in Informatics. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Keith L. Hohn; LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin; Julia Keen; Hani Melhem; Anil Pahwa; Jan Wiersema; Barb Licklider

communities werecreated and implemented where the focus was less on structure and more on becoming aneffective learner who learns from and supports the learning of colleagues? The LearningCommunity Initiative at Kansas State University was started with this end in mind.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 4Learning communities were formed in the College of Engineering at Kansas State University in2005-2006 and 2006-2007. The intention of these learning communities was to combine theknowledge of human learning and the power of learning organizations to construct a communityof learners who would

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Ramesh V. Narang

: greater concentration on ANOVA method as applied to determining sourcesof measurement variation, initial practice on instruments as a review of the introductory course,more examples on determining measurement uncertainty, and introducing the basics of CMMprogramming. Overall the course appears to be meeting its objectives and learning outcomesaccording to the student feedback and assessment evaluation. Instructor feedback is that studentshave been engaged in the course, with satisfactory exposure to the theoretical and practicalaspects in the field of measurement science. The structure of first grounding in basic theory andthen hands-on measurement setups with some demonstrations, and finally with an independentproject work appears to have worked