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design process will require many iterativesteps requiring applications of higher order skills in the cognitive domain of Bloom’sTaxonomy1, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, or in revised form of Bloom’staxonomy2, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The revised form replaces noun in each skilllevel to the corresponding verb form and exchanges the places of top two levels. Both originaland revised taxonomy are shown in Figure 1. (a) (b) Figure 1 Original (a) and revised (b) Bloom's taxonomy3 A capstone design course, a culminating course designed to showcase students’ ability toapply engineering design process, is a required course in every engineering

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Todd Easton

instructor divides the class into groupsand these groups have a discussion. The groups typically elect a spokesperson for the group.When the class rejoins, all groups report the discussion that occurred. The above research shows that both TTYP and SGD provide improved learning outcomesover a standard lecture. However, these methods still have several shortcomings. In both cases,the instructor has given the students time to discuss “the desired topic.” The students maybriefly discuss the topic, but then some discussions change to less desired topics, which results in 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015

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Ibrahim M. Alarifi; Abdulaziz Alharbi; Omar Alsaiari; Ramazan Asmatulu

TRAINING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON NANOFIBER-BASED SHM SYSTEMS Ibrahim M. Alarifi, Abdulaziz Alharbi, Omar Alsaiari, and Ramazan Asmatulu* Wichita State University at Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260 *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.eduAbstractThe undergraduate engineering students were trained on the structural health monitoring (SHM)systems for the detections of aircraft composite damages using carbonized electrospunpolyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers. The carbonization process was conducted in two different steps: i)oxidation at 270oC in a furnace for 1 hr, and ii) carbonization in an Argon

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Jing Pang

engage students in active learning4-5 for the logic designlaboratory class. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)In order to solve the above problems, this paper presents multiple active learning methods theauthor has applied in teaching the introduction to logic design laboratory class. First, the onlineinteractive logic circuit visualization can be used to get students’ attention and also demonstratethe functionality of the logic circuits. Next, the

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Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Applicability of Multiple Building Technologies in Building Components’ Design Education Semih G. Yildirim1, Stuart W. Baur2 1 Visiting Scholar, 2Assoc. Prof.AbstractProblem-based learning (PBL) as a part of course curriculum in architectural engineeringeducation has already been formalized through longer retention of desired knowledge. Thecomponents of educational model are defined as learning environment, formulation of PBL,applicable building technologies and

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Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

Analysis of Student Performance After Implementing Active Teaching Methods in an Engineering Classroom Cory Mettler1 and Nathan Ziegler2 1 Instructor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota State University (SDSU) - email: cory.mettler@sdstate.edu, 2Director, English Language and Culture Institute at SDSU – email: nathan.ziegler@sdstate.eduAbstractThere is an abundance of data that suggest that implementing active teaching methods in the classroomproduces a deeper, longer lasting understanding and increased enjoyment of course material. However,most engineering educators do not employ these techniques. This study

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

“Guaranteed 4.0 Plan” by Donna O. Johnson.1 In Fall 2014, there were 32scholarship students enrolled in this class (7 in graduate school); however, the class was alsoattended by 32 students who did not hold scholarships. Some of these students had held the$4,000 scholarship, however the scholarship funding had ended in the spring 2014 semester. Thesame assignments were required of all students.A question which is often asked in the review of such a program is, “How important is thescholarship?” in this case a $4,000 scholarship for the academic year. The upper divisionstudents selected for the undergraduate scholarships had a minimum 3.0 GPA, were enrolledfull-time in engineering or computer science, were U.S. citizens, permanent residents

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Lisa Anneberg; Luo Suyun; Zhang Hui

States and ChinaOverviewLawrence Technological University [LTU, 1] and Shanghai University of Engineering Science[SUES, 2] were founded in 1932 and 1978, respectively. These specific particular datesrepresent two unique timeframes in the two countries where farsighted individuals implementedtheir “dream of preparing students for leadership in the new technical era into reality.” [1] Themotto of LTU is ‘Theory and Practice”, while SUES “integrates classroom-based learning withwork-based learning.”[2] Our two universities share similar student populations, mission/vision,and leadership.In fact, the vision of LTU is "To be a pre-eminent private technological university producingleaders with an entrepreneurial spirit and global view." Likewise, SUES

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Bijaya Shrestha

1 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)dollars, of course. Within the system of online education, a classroom does not need to have aphysical structure nor a chiming bell to tell if the class has begun or ended. Time and space areno longer the binding factors, at least, not in the sense of our old school ways. Any time, anyplace, a class can be joined, an exam taken, and a grade earned, within the framework ofestablished schedule, of course. What a concept! Even more interestingly, what a great part ofreality! This wave of online education along with everything else that goes on in the online worldis spreading all over. Even on the other side of

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Ali Salehnia

type, volume, velocity and dynamic structure of the new data sets. So, organizations with lotsof data, either have to purchase new systems or re-tool what they already have [1, 4, 5, and 8]. Big datadeals with volume, velocity, variability and variety. Velocity obviously refers to how quickly thestreaming data is captured [1, 6]. As more data are created and streamed the high variability and highvolume as well as variety of formats are at issue [2, 5, and 7]. The incoming data from a Web log,unstructured content from the Internet, need to be captured, tagged with metadata and hierarchical filesystems.As the volume, complexity, variety and velocity of digital data grow faster by the day, we need to findsolutions to use these data in productive

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Jordan N. Foley; John W. Thompson; Meaghan M. Williams; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

the Bernoulli Balance to model fluid systems.Keywordsventuri meter, Bernoulli balances, laboratory experiments, fluid mechanicsIntroductionLaboratory practice, where students design and conduct experiments in support of classroomactivities, is an essential part of the educational process. It has been shown that a majority ofengineering students learn best when exposed to hands-on exercises and activities.1 A variety ofnovel techniques have been described in the literature for delivering lab content to the studentsincluding the use of the Kolb’s experiential learning cycle in conjunction with a virtuallaboratory,2 combining LEGO® Dacta building blocks with LabVIEW™ software3 and the useof hands-on demonstrations in place of full-scale lab

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Norman D. Dennis; Edgar C. Clausen

the college, a developmentalworkshop was created for the clinical faculty within the college of engineering with a vision ofmaking clinical faculty more engaging and organized instructors. The workshop was modeledafter the very successful week long ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop. Participants were notonly exposed to various teaching pedagogies, but were actually required to incorporate thepedagogies into a practice class, presented to their peers and to master teachers.IntroductionAccording to the ASEE Engineering Data System,1 engineering enrollment at U.S. universitieshas increased 56% since 2005 (421,072 to 655,160). At the same time, the number of tenuretrack faculty has remained level at approximately 26,000, while the use of non-tenure

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Building and Assessing a Hands-on Learning Experience for Robots in Business and Society Timothy Burg1, Pamela Mack2, Ian Walker2, Richard Groff2 1 Kansas State University,2Clemson UniversityAbstractAn undergraduate course is being developed for non-engineering majors to address the need forgeneral competencies in ethics, science, and technology. Robotics is a field of science that israpidly transforming our lives. Participants in the course will learn the history, mechanics andsoftware, and

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James R. Rowland

candidate and final feedbackapplications of interest to the team, specific use of team member skills, arbitrating differences ofinterpretations regarding technical concepts, team dynamics in moving the project forward to asuitable conclusion, and required collaborations with the professor who serves as a teamconsultant during key parts of the experience. The contributions of this paper are (1) adescription of team accomplishments on the projects, (2) a literature survey of engineeringeducation research on dynamic teaming applicable to other projects as well, and (3)improvements in teaming for the KU projects over the past decade.IntroductionA team has been defined as individuals cooperating to accomplish a common goal, whereas agroup is a number of

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Sarah Jurak; Emil Jurak; Ramazan Asmatulu

withbiotechnology and synthetic biology. It will also touch on how these issues are handled globally.KeywordsBiotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Bioethics, Recent Developments, Health and Environment,Engineering Education.Headings1. Introduction1.1 General BackgroundBiotechnology is “the study and manifestation of living bodies or their components (e.g.,molecules, organs, cells, and tissues) in order to improve their living conditions.” 1 Syntheticbiology is a sub-category of biotechnology and is the “designing and combining of biologicmolecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA) and proteins in order toprovide a better understanding of the biological phenomenon and produce biological systemswith certain functions.” 2 Synthetic

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

. In this paper, the authors will 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)describe the challenges faced by the students and by the instructors in implementing thiscollaboration.Project Overview The authors of the paper had experience team teaching the Mass Transfer course atUniversity A. When one author moved to University B and was assigned to teach a similarcourse (Staged Mass Transfer), the authors decided that it would be interesting to continue thecollaboration and

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Byron Garry

to provideevidence of student academic achievement3. The ultimate purpose of engineering educationassessment (or any type of evaluation) should be to improve student learning, which begins withsetting objectives and renews itself with each assessment activity4.Ewell, a leader in higher education assessment, states5 that there are four guiding principles forresponding to calls for external accountability that also preserve and develop institutionalcapacity for evidence-based continuous improvement: 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference

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Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

student operation, robust, portable, and economically viable. In thispaper we describe the details of integration of our system into an existing introductory DCElectric circuits course and additionally, details of the planned study including implementationand assessment are discussed.KeywordsActive learning, DC Circuit Analysis, Portable Lab, Kinesthetic LearningIntroductionAt Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Electric Circuits 1 is an introductory engineering coursethat teaches students electrical concepts utilizing direct-current (DC) circuit analysis and basicelectrical devices. This course is designed to provide a foundation for a sequence of courses inalternating current (AC) circuits, electronics, electrical machines, and engineering design

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Cristinel Ababei; Anca M. Miron

results helps to: 1) foster self-learning, 2) engage students more and enable them to be pro-active and competition-aware, and3) enable a smoother transition from full-time student to full-time employee. We usedanonymous questionnaires as the primary methodology of data collection along with ratings ofthe projects in terms of extent of challenge/complexity and type of work (individual vs. team-work). The questionnaires assessed the following dimensions satisfaction, fairness, knowledgeacquired, challenge, feedback, and validation. Students are more satisfied with their learningexperience when they work in teams on more complex projects split into smaller subprojectsrather than working individually on projects, irrespective of their

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Luis Rodriguez; Gail Coover; Dalelia Davis; George Johnson; Oumar Kaba; Angela Frey; Andrew Pham; Amihan Huesmann

of national importance.This paper describes the development and implementation of teaching strategies for theWisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) Excel program. Theprogram involves: 1) selecting underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in scienceand engineering whose first year academic performance indicates they are at risk for leavingSTEM; and 2) providing an intensive 8-week immersion experience in STEM scholarship,research, academic and career exploration and advising. Collectively program faculty membershave identified a shared programmatic strategy with respect to supporting students’ cultivation ofa growth mindset [1], which has been shown to increase student persistence and performancewhile

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Christopher M. Moore; Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Educational Adaptation of Cargo Container Design Features Christopher M. Moore1, Semih G. Yildirim2, Stuart W. Baur3 1 Undergraduate Student, 2 Visiting Scholar, 3Assoc. Prof.AbstractCargo container homes have become increasingly popular around the world in the last 30 years.Because cargo containers are modular in design, they can be used to create efficient, cheaphomes. Repurposing cargo containers into homes is a sustainable construction practice due to themajority of the structure coming from recycled materials. Many design

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Mahbub Ahmed; Lionel Hewavitharana; Scott McKay; Kendra Ahmed; Mamunur Rashid

inmechanics of materials for distance education have been reported by Jamie Douglas et al.3.Charlene Yauch et al.4 have developed a sand casting lab for eight students under $1040. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)Teodora Rutar et al.5 have developed a low cost Thermodynamics lab to fulfill one of the ABETcriteria.The purpose of the current research is to describe the ideas of developing low cost experimentalsetups in the area of thermal-fluid science and share it with

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Kendra J. Ahmed; Mahbub K. Ahmed; Scott McKay

laggingcompared to their male counterparts especially in engineering. In the USA women make up 48%of the workforce but only make up 24% of the STEM workforce1. As well, women who do workin STEM related jobs make 33% more money than women who do not work in STEM jobs1.Historically some of the reasons that have been given to explain the gap between females andmales in STEM has been a lack of female role models that work in STEM jobs, genderstereotyping that leads female students to believe that they cannot study these male oriented 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III

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John Mirth; Andrew Findley

courses occupying 75% or more of the required course load for astudent’s four years of study. This leaves little room for studies outside of these areas, whichmay be to the significant detriment of the engineering student. Lichtenstein et al.1 demonstratedthat engineering majors gain the least benefit from their liberal arts education when compared toall other majors. One possible cause is the need for engineering students to make effective timemanagement decisions related to their studies, with the result of liberal arts courses beingshuffled to a lower level of importance. This unfortunate process creates engineers who areobtaining reduced value from their educational experiences with a potential handicap in theirability to see opportunities

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Sreelatha A. Subramanyam; David Beams; James K. Nelson

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) ENHANCING ON-LINE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION THROUGH A VIRTUAL LABORATORY Sreelatha A. Subramanyam1, David Beams1, and James K. Nelson1 1 College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USAAbstract On-line education is utilized extensively and has been found to be effective in a multitude ofsubject areas, including engineering education. However, for on-line education to be fully effective inengineering education, a means must be developed to provide on-line students with

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R. Joe Stanley; Stuart W. Baur

student careerchoices. Survey results from 120 current and graduated Missouri S&T (S&T) students arepresented. Survey results indicated that: 1) students taking PLTW courses felt better preparedfor their S&T experience in terms of hands-on experience, creative problem solving, teamworkand software experience and 2) 72.5% of the student respondents recognized engineering as theiroriginal career path and that PLTW promoted their career choices.IntroductionIn recent years, there have been numerous K-12 programs to promote science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programs that have promoted the growth andinterest of science and math related fields. These STEM programs branch across a variety ofareas and grade

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Julie L. P. Jessop; Samuel Van Horne

solve ChE problems. It meets 3 times a week for 50-minuteperiods and covers material that forms the foundation for all subsequent, required ChE courses.It also provides opportunities for students to meet and work with others who will be progressingthrough the ChE curriculum over the next three years.The instructor has been teaching the lecture-based form of this course, with class sizes of 25-30students, since Fall 2008. In 2011, she also began facilitating the web-based form of thiscourse, 1 offered only in the spring and summer sessions, with an average of 13 students per year.Since Fall 2013, she has implemented a flipped version of the course, 2 with class sizes of 45-55students.In this flipped version of the course, students use the

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Goutham Chinni; Israel Belachew; Ramazan Asmatulu

biodiesel properties and train the undergraduate engineeringstudents on the renewable energy systems for their future careers.Keywords: Waste Vegetable Oil, Transesterification, Biodiesel, Byproducts, Renewable Energy,Student Training.1. Introduction1.1 General BackgroundIn order to meet the economic challenges and sustainable developments, many countries havebeen seeking low cost energy sources [1-3]. During the past half century, the demand for oil, gasand coal all around the world tremendously increased with the increasing population andeconomic growths. The United States, Russia and China together produce about 31% of theworld’s energy, but consuming 41% of the produced energies. Biodiesel is one of the options tomeet the growing demands of the

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Puteri Megat Hamari

industrial-grade IC design tools were used as the primary toolset. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)This paper discusses the course content, hands-on exercises, final project design and theeffectiveness of using a state-of-the-art, industry-grade CAD tool in the introduction andinstruction of VLSI design to students.Course OutlineThe course material for EE584/484 covered everything from MOS transistor theory and CMOSprocess technology through circuit and logic design, to

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Heath Schluterman; Candace Rainwater; Leslie Massey

: 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) o Engineering Fundamentals  Significant Figures  Unit Conversions  Dimensional Analysis o Descriptive Statistics  Mean, Median, Range, Standard Deviation  Excel Functions: AVERAGE(),MEDIAN(), MAX(), MIN(), & STDEV() o Charts & Graphs (Excel)  Constructing Bar Graphs & Scatter Plots  Labelling: Titles, Axis Titles, Units  Trend linesThen during Introduction to