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Karen S. Hays

Integration of Lab Safety Training into the Undergraduate and Graduate Chemical Engineering Programs Karen S. Hays Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractThe Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering is the University of Arkansas’campus-wide leader in the area of laboratory safety training for their undergraduate and graduatestudents. This paper presents an overview of the laboratory safety training program and how itwas integrated into the curriculum. It describes how students are educated about the basics

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Aravind Kailas; Sandra S. Courter

Teaching an Undergraduate Engineering Class for the First Time Aravind Kailas and Sandra S. Courter College of Engineering University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractMany international graduate students in engineering departments are hired as teachingassistants to teach a course at the undergraduate level as their first college teachingassignment. Many new educators (international graduate students like me) are oftenunfamiliar with the specific engineering body of knowledge in an assigned course and thelearning style of the students. The international student community usually comes fromvarious engineering disciplines. Making a good first

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Martin S. High; Paul E. Rossler

Law in the Engineering Curriculum at Oklahoma State UniversityMartin S. High, Ph.D., P.E., J.D.Associate ProfessorSchool of Chemical EngineeringOklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK 74078Paul E. Rossler, Ph.D., P.EAssociate ProfessorSchool of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK 74078A novel curriculum has been designed involving the legal aspects of engineering as they apply totechnology practice. The purpose of the curriculum is two-fold: 1) to make technical professionalsaware of how engineering practice relates to an organization’s legal duties and 2) to encouragethose professionals to engage in policy debates that shape business regulation and the commonlaw. From an educational perspective

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Danielle Julie Carrier; Katherine S. Vaughn; Carl Griffis

The spring freshman Biological and Agricultural Engineeringcourse at the University of ArkansasDanielle Julie Carrier, Katherine S. Vaughn and Carl GriffisBiological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas,203 Engineering Hall, Fayetteville, AR, 72701The objective of this presentation is to report on the content of the spring semesterBiological Engineering freshman design class. In this class, contact with students is donethrough a 60-minute lecture that is interfaced with a 170-minute laboratory. Thisfreshman class is the second of our design studio sequence that extends through to thesenior year. The purpose of the class is to introduce the students to design, namelythrough the understanding of the problem, pertinent

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Karen A. High; Paul E. Rossler; Martin S. High

A Proposed Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Program at Oklahoma State University Karen A. High, Paul E. Rossler, Martin S. High We are developing an entrepreneurship curriculum at Oklahoma State University(OSU) through the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT) andthe William S. Spears School of Business (SSB) that will: − Provide entrepreneurship experiences that complement a multidisciplinary curriculum; and, − Leverage current initiatives, such as the CEAT Legal Studies in Engineering Program, the SSB Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, the CEAT New Product Development Center, and the CEAT Engineering and

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A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

Enhancing Engineering Education to Reflect the ProfessionalExpectations of the 21st Century: Examples from In-Process Programs A. Lambert, D.J. Russomanno, P. Palazolo, S. Ivey The University of Memphis AbstractThis paper examines complex issues associated with 21st century engineering practice asdescribed through comparisons between a controversial report, The Engineer of 2020:Visions of Engineering in the New Century, and our own engineering students of 2005.According to this report and other recent studies published by leaders in engineeringeducation, engineering students of the 21st century will possess a markedly different setof skills and

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Alison N. Dunn; Jennifer M. Gray; Jerod C. Hollingsworth; Pei-Ting Hsu; Brian K. McLelland; Patrick M. Sweeney; Thuy D. Tran; Christopher A. von der Mehden; Jin-Yuan Wang

, graduated in 0.01 s time intervals • 3-speed Black & Decker window fan, model DTS50D/B Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3Experimental ProcedureThe schematic drawings of experimental apparatus are presented as Figures 1 and 2 andphotographs are presented as Figures 3 and 4.Setup/Testing 1. Weigh each of the aluminum plates on an electronic balance. The average weight was 14.35 kg. 2. After placing two aluminum plates inside the insulated heating box, place the nozzle of the hair dryer into the hole in the lid, and heat the plates

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Dale E. Schinstock

the system. Where theOLTF magnitude is large the closed loop transfer function (CLTF) magnitude is approximatelyone and the error is small, meaning the output will track the command. slope in region near xc crossover should e x Op G (s ) G ( s ) = x / e = OLTF ga fr be -20 dB/dec h i at ’ + en

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Beverlee Kissick; Saeed Khan

benefit other areas. It canbe used as a motivational instrument to develop student interest in areas that do not havea direct connection to science and technology. It can also used to enhance theirunderstanding of their emerging roles in the global marketplace. Diversity educationneeds to be cross-curricular. Faculty members are role models who can help studentsform cross-curricular circles.References1. Khan, S. “Teaching diversity at the College of Technology & Aviation,” Conference proceedings of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 5 – 8, 2003, Boulder, CO., pp F3D-24 – F3D-282. Wilson, F. “Emerson” Review of two books, “Emerson” by Lawrence Buell & “Emerson” by Kenneth S. Sacks, July 8, 2003

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Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

colorful and animated - The key points of the slide should be written in bright colors. Proper animation (such as video clips, flying effect, flash effect, etc.) will make the lecture more interesting and easier to understand.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3Technique 3: ask teaching assistant(s) to help class preparationAt Kansas State University, large classrooms (capacity more than 200 with movable chairs andmovable tables) are heavily used during the semester. The time interval between two largesessions is normally 10 minutes. In this case, a teaching assistant

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Brandon W. Olson

effectively replace other lessinteractive techniques such as working through problems at the blackboard or flashing throughpower point slides. These simple exercises provided dramatic proof of how a small alteration inpresentation format can have a substantial impact in student involvement and interaction. Theseparticular examples seemed especially effective in generating dialog and discussion. A Student is calculating the convective heat transfer coefficient for fully developed water flow (Vave = 0.2 m/s, T = 30C) through a rectangular constant temperature tube. The student’s calculations (shown below) contain several common errors. Determine which of the following sections have errors and which are correct. Do not consider cascading errors

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F. Edwards; T. Daniel; W. Hale; A. Hanson; E. Richardson

faculty to TEACH them. There has been a rejection on the part ofthe students of ownership or responsibility for the learning process. The common complaintamong faculty is that the students seem to retain less and their ability to perform critical thinkingwith the material they retain is greatly diminished compared to students 20 years ago.This increased focus in the engineering educational system on learning styles has been paralleledby a growing phenomenon in the lower educational levels; home schooling. It is suggested thatit might be profitable to look to the home school community when considering this conundrum.In the early 1980’s, the general public had not heard of home schooling. Today home schoolingis a widely used and growing educational

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Seamus F. Freyne

motivated to prepare for a game of academicbaseball than an exam. Of course, the skills students develop to excel at academic baseballwill also serve them well on most exams.A rigorous assessment of the value of academic baseball has not been accomplished yet.But as evidence of game’s popularity, attendance in a Mechanics of Materials course atOU in the summer of 2004 was roughly 80% on the days of a routine lecture, but nearly100% on game days, though no credit was given to students for attendance in class or awin in the game.Bibliographic Information1 Fink, L. D., Ambrose, S., and Wheeler, D., “Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1, January 2005.2 Smith, K. A

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

students to focus on the basic fundamental physics of the problem rather than on thealgebraic manipulation required to isolate the required solution variable(s). The paper will first discuss Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design, to emphasize thefocus of our approach to teaching mechanics of materials and to indicate how it differs from pastand current textbooks. The paper then considers three simple mechanics of materials examples,one of which considers design, to demonstrate our approach.Theory The theory and topic coverage is typical of a traditional one semester introductorymechanics of materials course. Considerable attention is focused on concepts and procedureswhich the authors have found to be difficult for the student

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

. (2002). Is information literacy relevant in the real world? Reference Services Review.30 (1), 7-14.4 Office of Economic Cooperation and Development. (1996). The knowledge-based economy. Retrieved 20 June 2004 from http://econ.snu.ac.kr/~kl/knowledge.html.5 Black, C., Crest, S., and Volland, M. 2001. Building a successful Information Literacy infrastructure onthe foundation of librarian-faculty collaboration. Research Strategies. 18 (3), 215-25.6 ABET Technology Accreditation Commission. 29 November 2004. 2005-2006 Criteria for accrediting Engineering Technology programs. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org 8 July, 2005.7 D’Angelo, B.J. and Maid, B.M. 2004. Moving beyond definitions: Implementing Information Literacy across

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Avery Schwer; Donna Dufner; George Morcous

" 4similar to the current problem and reuses them to solve the problem (Morcous et al.,2002). Each case records problem attributes and corresponding solutions. The inference engine of a CBR system performs two main tasks: I) case retrieval bysearching the case library for the case(s) that best match the current problem; and ii) caseadaptation by revising the retrieved case(s) to fit the current problem context. A CBRsystem also supports the storage of new cases and the updating of existing cases enablingthe system to “bootstrap itself” or learn. To achieve our short-term objectives listed earlier, data from a large number ofconstruction projects completed within the last seven years will be obtained from majorconstruction companies in Omaha

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Norman D. Dennis

(Excellence 7 in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop, or ETW for short. 8 9 The ETW99 was designed by faculty of the U. S. Military Academy and delivered to 24 faculty10 members with 1-4 years of teaching experience. This workshop was the first in what was11 expected to be a series of annual teaching workshops for C.E. faculty. Concurrent with this12 workshop nine senior faculty from engineering programs around the country formed a program13 design team which was charged with to observing the ETW and making recommendations on14 content and conduct of future teaching workshops that could be delivered in other venues. The15 result of this design activity was the versions of ETW conducted in 2000 and subsequent yeas at16 the

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Julia L. Morse

Possible Points Program Number(s) Points Earned Outcome 1 Electropneumatic System Design 29 Pneumatic system design 1-1 Appropriate component selection/combination for desired functionality: a □ Compatibility of actuator and DCV 3 A1, A2 b □ Appropriate DCV energizing features (solenoids, spring returns) 2 A2 c □ Appropriate pneumatic flow design (tubing connections, DCV design ) 2 A1, A2

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Larry N. Bland

of the American Society for Engineering Education" 1225 International Engineering Program, June 2005, http://www.uri.edu/iep/pdf/facts_figures/2001-2002/gender.pdf.26 Vader, D., Erikson, V. A., Eby, J. W. (2000); “Cross-Cultural Service-Learning for Responsible EngineeringGraduates,” Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering. Washington, D.C.:AAHE.27 Kelley, B. S., Fry, C. C., Sturgill, D. B., Thomas, J. B.(2004) “Faith-Based and Secular Experience onRebuilding Engineering and Computer Science Higher Education in Kurdistan of Iraq,” in

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R. L. Kolar; K. M. Dresback; E. M. Tromble

, Division of Undergraduate Education, Arlington, VA, DUE Staff Report NLF940621, 1994.8. Fink, L. D., Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., San Francisco, 2003. Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 109. Galvin, M., “Communication Skills Become Ace in the Hole,” NSPE Engineering Times, pp. 1,10, Feb. 1996.10. Hauser, D. L, E. S. Halsey, J. M. Weinfield, and J. C. Fox, “What Works and What Doesn’t in Undergraduate Teaching,” ASEE Prism, pp. 21-24, Nov. 199511. Heinz, H. John

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Larry N. Bland

A key activity was obtaining the purposive sample by identifying and gaining access toindividuals and schools who would become the subjects of this research. The selection processbegan by looking at private, Christian universities with an ABET accredited engineeringprogram. I was most interested in schools that had either grown rapidly or were regionallylocated. Cedarville University of Cedarville, OH created its engineering program and quicklybecame accredited in the early 1990’s. Over the next ten years, their engineering department "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

Churchill and Chu8.Experimental Equipment List • Hartman Pro-Tech Model 1600 hair dryer, 1600 watts • 25 ¼ in x 22 in x 16 in cardboard heating box, used for heating the plates • 1 3/16 in thick Styrofoam® insulation, lining the cardboard boxProceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3 • Wooden stand to hold and elevate the aluminum plate • 18 in x 12 in x 1 ½ in aluminum plate, with a black painted finish • Omega HH12 thermocouple reader • 1/8 in diameter x 12 in long sheathed thermocouples • Stopwatch, graduated in 0.01 s time intervals • 1 3/16

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George D. Gray

of experience workingwith metals and now must begin working with composites. In this industry, one course does notfit all, because of such varying degrees of the knowledge base along with the specific applicationrequirements put forth by the industry users. Working with such dynamic materials andprocesses in conjunction with meeting the needs of designers and manufacturers will continue tochallenge educational institutions in the future.IntroductionThe vast world of composites has grown rapidly and significantly since its first large scaleapplications within the military sector during WWII and the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Theunique combination of performance benefits offered by composite materials has now propelledits use into almost

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Roy A. McCann

’s. For example, the popular textbook 2by Fitzgerald, Kingsley and Umans1 was originally published in 1952. The sixth edition was re-leased in 2003, with a portion of the publisher’s summary statement as follows: “To a great extent, the fundamental concepts have not changed over the years since Pro- fessors Fitzgerald and Kingsley wrote the first edition of this text. As a result, significant portions of the material found in the fifth edition will be familiar to readers of the previ- ous editions. In recognition of this fact, coverage of the basics of these machine types has increased significantly in the

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Jason Weiss; Farshad Rajabipour; Thomas Schmit; Sebastian Fait

Engineering Materials Classes at PurdueThe School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University has long been dedicated to teachingstudents about engineering materials. This dedication began in 1883 with a laboratory for testingmaterials in the college of engineering [1]. In 1899, this lab was moved to the school of civilengineering and eventually became the foundation for CE 231 – Engineering Materials I and CE331 – Engineering Materials II. While these courses were referred to as the "Busting Labs" atthe turn of the century, since the 1960's these courses have strived to provide students with aProceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Brian Oliver; Carl Greco

Beat Number Figure 8 (d) 2nd order approximation of PVC response for patient ecg_3Table 1: Model Parameters for PVC response 2nd Order Model [h(z)] Damping Factor Natural Freq.(rad/s)Patient N3828-26 − 65.512 -.835 8.18 1 − 1.36 z 1 + 0.669 z 2Patient PH-170 − 11.678

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Nathaniel Scott; Carl Greco; Todd T. Schlegel

beats.ConclusionsThis work was accomplished as part of a project in biomedical signal processing class. It hasbeen demonstrated that a real-time cardiac repolarization analysis can be accomplished with theaddition of an application program coupled via a named pipe client with an existing cardiac dataacquisition system. Once the real-time TWR calculation program has been enhanced, clinicalstudies will begin to evaluate the practical relevance of the real-time TWR parameter.Reference1 D'Aunno DS, Dougherty AH, DeBlock HF, Meck JV. Effect of short- and long-duration spaceflight on QTcintervals in healthy astronauts. Am J Cardiol. 2003;91:494-7.2 Zabel M, Acar B, Klingenheben T, Franz M, Hohnloser S, Malik M. Analysis of 12-Lead T-wave morphology forRisk

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Stephen B. Taylor; Darin W. Nutter; James A. Davis; Joseph J. Rencis

academicpreparation and unrealistic expectations 2. The AAP’s aimed at students that may have receivedinsufficient academic preparation provide academic support in some of the more troubling areasfor freshmen such as Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics 1,2,14,15. Some of these programs are setupto help freshmen with their acclimation to college by teaching fundamental skills such asstudying, time management, and communication 14,15. Most of these programs are short courses(under six weeks) and can be executed in the summer just before classes begin. The offering of a hands-on course has become more of a norm for curricula since theearly 1990’s. This increase of hands-on courses is the result of COE programs trying to appealto students and has proven to

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Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

-3.260 1.109 8.638 1 .003 .038a Variable(s) entered on step 1: FIG, ACTCOMP, HSrank.Academic Success of First-year StudentsUsing the same sample, a one-way ANOVA was used to compare first semester mean GPAbetween the FIG and non-FIG participants for the entering class of Fall 2003 term. As indicatedbelow in Table 3 and Table 4, although there appears to be a sizeable difference in GPA betweenthe groups, the difference was not statistically significant after accounting for entering ability.Table 3: Mean first semester GPA for entering engineering class of 2003Dependent Variable: First GPA Std. FIG Mean GPA Deviation N No 2.61740 .954725 308 FIG FIG

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Ing-Chang Jong

., s = rθ (6)where s is the arc subtending an angle θ in radian included by two radii of length r. In virtualwork method, all virtual displacements can be compatible virtual displacements, and these twoterms can be interchangeable. Displacement centerRelations among the virtual displacements of certain points or members in a system can be foundby using differential calculus, or the displacement center,5 or both. The displacement center ofa body is the point about which the body is perceived to rotate when it undergoes a virtual dis-placement. There are n displacement centers for a system composed of n pin-connected rigidbodies undergoing a set of virtual displacements; i.e., each member in