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Norman D. Dennis

1 2 3 Engaging Engineering Students through 4 Improved Teaching 5 6 7 Norman D. Dennis 8 University of Arkansas 910111213 Abstract1415 National enrollment statistics show that engineering programs historically lose more than 55% of16 their entering students to attrition of some form1. Whether this attrition is to other academic17 programs or from college altogether it is clearly a problem that must be reversed if we are to18 attract and retain the best and brightest minds to the engineering profession for the future. While19 there are a wide variety of reasons for the poor retention of

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Stuart Bernstein

must keep in mind this course deals with the development of the students’ personnelmanagement skills and is therefore conducive to role playing exercises and service learning Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2projects. However, as will be pointed out further on, there is no reason why these methodsshould not also be used in other engineering design and theory courses.Open DiscussionsLecturing is the least effective method of teaching. Studies show that students hear 80% of whatis said to them, comprehend 80% of what they hear, and retain only 20% of what theycomprehend1

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Brandon W. Olson

A Practical Application of Team Based Learning to Undergraduate Engineering Coursework Brandon W. Olson School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of OklahomaAbstract Team based learning is a powerful pedagogical tool that has demonstrated, throughpersonal experience, an ability to simultaneously improve student interaction, conceptualunderstanding, commitment, and cooperative skills. While this technique is organized aroundstudent teams, it is far more than just “group work”. Team based learning, developed in part byDee Fink of OU’s instructional development program, is

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

Freshman Retention Study in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas Stephen B. Taylor, Darin W. Nutter, James A. Davis, Joseph J. Rencis Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701abstract Retention of freshman students has become a focal point for many engineering collegesthroughout the country. With many literary sources written on the retention of students inengineering programs, there are many references that address why some students leave withoutcompleting a degree and why other students stay to ultimately complete a degree. It is

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Ameya A. Chandelkar; Deepak G. Bhat

A High Temperature Hardness Testing System for Mechanical Characterization of Engineering Components Ameya A. Chandelkar and Deepak G. Bhat Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of ArkansasAbstractMechanical properties of materials at high temperatures often show a significant departure fromroom-temperature behavior. In the study of materials science, an understanding of mechanicalbehavior as a function of temperature is quite valuable. One of the elegant ways to determinetensile strength of metallic alloys is to measure the material hardness, in which the hardness actsas a “strength microprobe.”1With this aim in mind, we put together a high-temperature

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Dale E. Schinstock

Integrating Education in Mathematics, Physical Science, Engineering Science and Application in a Required Course Dale E. Schinstock Kansas State UniversityIntroductionThis paper addresses a common problematic scenario in engineering education through a specificexample of the overhaul of a required course in a mechanical engineering curriculum. Thecourse was designed with three major themes in mind: 1) often, less is more in the context of thetopical coverage and retention and understanding, 2) application of material and active learningare important motivating factors for the students, and 3) moving engineering application toearlier in the

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Bryan Hill

Implementing a Mailing Campaign for Undergraduate Student Recruitment Bryan Hill College of Engineering University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 ABSTRACTThe process of recruiting a high school student to enroll into a university is a veryintricate and intense process. Why is this complicated? You must read a 17 or 18year olds mind in order to obtain this information, which is very tricky if notimpossible sometimes. How do you keep the interest of a student? What buttondo you have to push for them to read the information you send them? How manytimes and when should you contact a prospective

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

Technology Management Program. The centerpiece of this initiative is a comprehensive design of a newentrepreneurship program. The curriculum will rely on engineering and businesscourses. One unique feature of this program is that we propose to engage freshman inthe curriculum. We see this as a benefit to retention of students with both technical andbusiness interests. . In the “capstone” classes, students will be organized in E-teams with varyingeducational backgrounds. The six prior Entrepreneurship courses in concert with thebusiness courses will provide the students with the tools needed to successfully developtheir products. These E-Teams will include Oklahoma inventors that commonly have aproduct concept in mind with little insight

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Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

colleges and universities, U.S. News and World Report highlighted the potentialbenefits of such programs by stating that “reform-minded colleges across the country are turningto innovative programs like learning communities and intensive semester-long freshmanorientations to engage students in academics and hopefully offer measurable success in the formof higher retention rates and higher graduation rates”9At the University of Missouri-Columbia, residentially-based engineering FIGs have become amajor component of the first-year experience. Since the program’s inception in 1995, over 1000engineering students have participated. During the fall semester of 2004, 150 of the 426 (35%)incoming students chose to participate in one of the nine engineering

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Larry N. Bland

Deans Counciland the Corporate Roundtable, ASEE, 1994. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 116 Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,Project Kaleidoscope Report On Reports 2002. www.pkal.org7 Hazeltine, B. and Bull, C., (1999) Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices, Implications, Academic Press, SanDiego, CA.8 How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, Expanded edition, National Academy Press,Washington, DC, 2000.9 Tsang, E

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

. In our approach both qualitative and quantitative critique of the answer is considered. Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5Problems in statics require only Steps 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. These five steps have not been employedin the treatment of statics problems in any statics or mechanics of materials textbook.Furthermore, Steps 1 through 8 have not been suggested in any mechanics of materials textbook. Pedagogically the step-by-step solution format allows a student to build a structure intheir minds of how to efficiently approach a problem and solve it. The authors

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Warren Lewis

and Edge Cam have seen the benefits of the latest technologies, and are currentlyusing it in training courses. After attending training with these companies and witnessing firsthand the impressive nature of new video technology, specifically a program called Camtasia, Ibegan to research it, learn it, and use it in the past year. The following paper will discussCamtasia and how to use it, how to integrate it with other media and software, how it can benefitstudents and professors alike. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 2The Technology and How to Use It