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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Pinar Omur-Ozbek

that the views of marginalized groups are heard and respected. This approach helps to createan inclusive and equitable environment for all students. Suggestions for some of the modulenorms that may be proposed by the instructor include: 1-Stay open minded and engaged in theconversation; 2-Respect different opinions; 3-Challenge ideas and not the students.Teaching Social and Environmental Justice and EthicsThe roadmap to ethics and justice goes through awareness, knowledge, gaining skills, and action.Therefore, when covering EE in class, it is essential to start with the basics, including thedefinition of ethical, moral, and legal. Additionally, students can share their experiences withethical dilemmas, and the instructor can introduce the code

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Iris Bahar; Ashley Oelrich; Bridget Griswold; Eva Goetz

OelrichBridget GriswoldEva Goetz © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Multi-Disciplinary Design: Implications for CS and Engineering Pedagogy R. Iris Bahar1,2, Ashley Uelrich2, Bridget Griswold2, Eva Goetz3 1 Colorado School of Mines, Department of Computer Science, Golden, CO 2 Brown University, Department of Computer Science, Providence, RI 3 Eva Rose Goetz Art, Portland, MEAbstract: A new course offered at Brown University in fall 2021 entitled The Robots Are Coming!The Robots Are Coming! illustrates the power of

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Abolfazl Amin; Israd Jaafar; Abdennour Seibi; Sean Tolman P.E.; Matthew Ballard

associated with the pandemic the Engineering department hasexperienced a steady growth in enrollment. Figure 1 shows the increase in enrollment for eachdiscipline and the total number of students in the department from 2018 until 2022. As for theCapstone courses in the Engineering department were concerned, the focus of this paper was onthe ME program because it has been the largest program since 2018. The ME program continuesto have the maximum number of students compared to other engineering programs. Figure 2 alsoshows the increasing pattern of the number of students and Capstone teams in the ME program.Students at UVU consist of traditional, nontraditional, first generation, minorities, and studentswith full-time employment. However, the

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Ben Weihrauch

(University ofColorado Boulder, 2021d) with their academic major and curriculum. CEAS FGS also reportedhaving more marginalizing experiences in the classroom and considered leaving CU Boulderbecause of those experiences than CGS (University of Colorado Boulder, 2021d). Using all ofthese metrics for measuring persistence, graduation, and student success, CEAS FGS have lowerretention rates (Table 1) and graduation rates (Table 2) than CGS.Table 1Fall undergraduate student retention – entry college, College of Engineering & Applied Science,University of Colorado Boulder, 2010-19 10-year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Average

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Elizabeth Novosel

for future career opportunities [1], such as jobs involving datamanagement and analysis. To help fill this gap, academic libraries and other entities often offershort-format instruction on such topics, as well as in related topics, such as conducting literaturereviews, understanding the research lifecycle, and issues regarding scholarly publishing [2].Although commonly associated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)disciplines, data analysis and related skills and knowledge have become an important componentof research in many academic fields, including humanities and social sciences [3]. If training inthese skills is not integrated into their program’s curriculum, students may be expected to learnsuch skills on their own [4

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Dendy Sloan; Cynthia Norrgran

: 1) Eat healthily, 2) Sleep well, 3) Get 0.5 hours of exercise a day 4) It’s not the end of the world ifyou’re not at the top of your class, like in high school 5) Study, study, study, 6) Cherish your good friends7) Always keep your sense of humor. Recent discoveries in the realm of neuroscience now relate thebody, mind, and psyche as a functional unit with tremendous power for success and achievement. Thispaper describes how this new work in neuroscience supports the experiential advice you received andhow it was right.INTRODUCTIONWhen entering college, many of us received advice on how to be successful. This advice took manyforms, but essentially can be broken down into seven main ideas: eat healthy, sleep well, exercise daily,don’t

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John Annor; Francois Jacobs

-secondary construction education and trainingprograms to meet career demands. A follow-up study is currently being conducted to re-test themethodology employed in the initial piloted study, in which three instructors of record and sixindustry practitioners from various institutions were connected via the adopted video conferencingtechnologies (i.e., Zoom Meeting and Meeting Owl Pro).INTRODUCTIONIn a survey conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and Autodesk,91% of the responses from over 1000 construction firms in the US, expressed facing challengesin finding workers, leading to increases in construction costs and project delays [1] . With the USbeing part of nations around the world who seek to improve considerably their

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Pinar Omur-Ozbek; Ketul Popat; DaeSeok Chai; Christie Peebles; Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov

in areas such as water resource management, water quality management,water/wastewater treatment, environmental justice, sustainability and ethics. As a student in thecourse, you will interact with students and professors from the partner institutions in Central Asia.Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: 1. describe global water challenges we are currently facing 2. list global water challenges predicted in the upcoming decades 3. compare and contrast regulations around the globe for water sanitation and resource management 4. explain and compare cultural perceptions of clean water and water sanitation across countries 5

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2004 GSW

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Julian H. Kang; Narendra Nigudkar

. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCreation of a 3D modelWe used the 2D map of the campus as shown in Figure 1, which is publicly available in theWeb page, for creating a 3D campus model. This 2D map was imported into AutoCADenvironment and used as a template for creating 3D building models in the campus. Inorder to determine the level of elaboration of the 3D model, we reviewed the 3D campusmap, which is also available in the TAMU web page as shown in Figure 2, and concludedthat the same level of detail should be appropriate for spatial relationship study. Figure 1

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2004 GSW

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Ahmed Musa; Virgilio Gonzalez

Session 067 Development of an Undergraduate Communications Simulation Laboratory Ahmed Musa (1), Virgilio Gonzalez (2) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Texas at El Paso ahmed@ece.utep.edu (1), virgilio@ece.utep.edu (2) Mehdi Shadaram Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Texas at San Antonio mshadaram@utsa.edu AbstractThis paper describes the

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N. N. Sarker; M. A. Ketkar

as shown in Table 1. The Table considers three mid term tests of worth45%, five home works of worth 10%, one project of worth 5%, five pop quizzes of worth10% and a final test of worth 30%. Each of these items can individually be graded on ascale of 100. However, the total score for the semester can be translated into a final scaleof 100. Letter grades can be assigned based on standard procedure of ‘A’ for 90 or more,‘B’ for 80 or more but less than 90, etc. Letter grades can be assigned by scaling thestandard to any level as well. Table 1. Example grade distribution Grading Category Weight, % 3 Mid Terms 45 5 Home

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Ranjeet Agarwala; M. FARUQI

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M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram

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Eyad Masad; Dan Zollinger

applications at the highercognitive levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Nonetheless, the link between thetwo courses may be better established if the content of the course on Construction ofMaterials was revised to address all the styles of learning and bridge the ‘gap’ across thecognitive levels in order to better establish this link. This paper discusses the courserevision and the basis for them in terms of the course lectures as well as the laboratoryactivities and homework assignments. REVISIONS OF COURSE CONTENTSSeven conditions of learning identified by Knowles1 are deemed by the authors to beapplicable to the Construction of Materials course: 1. Students recognize the need to learn 2. Physical comfort

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2004 GSW

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Wayne J. Zimmermann

Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1 students to earn two degrees simultaneously while preparing for a professional career in engineering. Undergraduate students attend TWU for three years as mathematics majors in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, then continue their education at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UTD or the Dwight Look School of Engineering at TAMU for two additional years. After completion of the degree, students will receive the Bachelor of Science degree in

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2004 GSW

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Randall D. Manteufel; Jason B. Pleming

University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Bernoulli’s equation with loss coefficients is used to predict the tank drain time.As a first exercise, the students derive the equation for draining a tank of diameter Dt,through a hold of diameter Dh from an initial hi, to final hf, height. This often invites adiscussion of Torricelli’s Law because some students are familiar with it from previoustextbooks.4 Torricelli’s law states that water issues from a hole in the bottom of a tankwith a velocity of v(t ) = C 2 ⋅ g ⋅ h(t ) [1]where h(t) is the water height above the hole at time t, g is the gravitational acceleration,and C is the Borda

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2005 GSW

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Yesh P. Singh; Peggy L. Talley

Christ Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstresses, and temperatures, which can lead to cracking from creep, fatigue or theircombination. Shrouds are often used on the tips of gas turbine blades1. These shrouds preventleakage of the hot combustion gases over the tips of unshrouded blades, as shown inFigure 1. The arrow in Figure 1a shows the gas leakage around the blade tip. Figure 1bshows a shrouded blade with a labyrinth seal formed by the shroud rails and the shroudblock. Shroud Block

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2005 GSW

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Yavuz S. Tunc; Malur N. Srinivasan

Session Number: F2D2 Teaching Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates about Nanomaterials Malur N. Srinivasan and Yavuz S. Tunc Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710 ABSTRACTNanomaterials have attracted enormous attention in the recent years. They have small featuresize (crystallite size) in the range of 1-100 nm and are structurally quite distinct from traditionalcrystalline materials whose feature size may extend from several micrometers to severalmillimeters, and traditional amorphous materials, which

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2005 GSW

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Wendy Wagster; Robert A. McLauchlan; Ranjeet Agarwal; Christa Ramon; Brett Keener

were surveyed. Of these two hundred andseventy students, one hundred and nineteen were female (just under half of the studentssurveyed). Twenty-seven were part time (registered 1-11 hours), one hundred and sixtyfive were involved in athletics, of which, seventy-six were involved in a NCAArecognized sport.This paper is organized as follows. Section two deals with alcohol consumption modeland indicators, Section three discusses Neural Networks modeling and training, Sectionfour deals with simulation results and Section five concludes the paper. Alcohol Consumption ModelIn order to predict vulnerability of a student towards drinking during college years,several factors had to be taken into account.Input1: Gender

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2005 GSW

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Wendy Otoupal; Pete Hylton

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationvarious parameters and developed mathematical relationships. This allowed them toproject the best types of beams for construction. Rather than being force-fed rotelearning techniques, the Key Middle School students participated in inquiry basedinvestigations.After only two years of working with the Key students and this inquiry based learningapproach, significant gains in ISTEP math scores could be noted, as shown in Table 1. Table 1 Comparison of ISTEP Scores for Eighth Grade Math6 Before and After Introducing Mathematics with Real World Correlation Year

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2005 GSW

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Wayne N.P. Hung; V. Jorge Leon

, themanufacturing contribution to GDP increased to 35.4% in China, 25.4% in Indonesia, 30.6% inMalaysia, and 27.6% in Singapore2. Shrinkage of manufacturing sector in the US has led tomassive lay-off events starting around September 2000. A year later, the aftermath of theterrorism event in September 2001 worsened the situation as shown with higher and/or widerpeaks in Figures 1 and 2. The number of manufacturing-related mass lay-off was as high as 652events in July 2000 and affected 99,807 workers, but the startling lay-off events jumped nearly100% to 1144 and 1125 in July and November 2001, respectively. At least 150,000manufacturing workers were unemployed at the end of those months. Figure 3 shows thedeclining number of employed manufacturing workers

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2005 GSW

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W.N.P. Hung; H-J. Sue; B.R. Varadharajan

equipped with a digital position reader at 1µm resolution. The hole was located away from the clamped end and at a distance of8.5mm from the free end of the beam. It acted as the stress raiser with a known stressconcentration factor to accelerate the fatigue test and eliminate inconsistent clampingeffect at the end of the cantilever specimen. The testing frequency was capped at 10 Hzso that thermal degradation will not be a factor in the fatigue test. Figure 1 below shows aschematic of the experimental setup. A cantilever specimen was subjected to flexuralbending with the help of a minishaker. Operational frequency of 10 Hz was provided by afrequency generator to the minishaker and the amplitude of vibration was verified with anoscilloscope as

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2005 GSW

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W.N.P. Hung; M.M. Agnihotri; J. Wang

alloying materials like nickel, cobalt and chromium might cause allergies andcould prove to be carcinogenic8.To overcome these drawbacks, biodegradable polymers have been developed. The first use ofbiodegradable polymers was for a resorbable suture (Dexon) in 1962. Polydioxanon (PDS),Polyglycolic acid (PGA), Polylactic acid (PLA) and their copolymers are being used forproducing these polymers. In the initial stages of healing, these polymers maintain theirmechanical strength and fragment fixation. As the bone healing progresses, the implantgradually decomposes (Figure 1) and the loads are transferred to the healing bone9. Thesepolymers gradually undergo hydrolysis10, the byproducts of which are eliminated throughnatural metabolic means. The

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2005 GSW

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W. Roy Penney; Lauren N. Leach; Jeffrey R. Dorman; Edgar C. Clausen; Daniel E. Fluornoy; Alice K. Keogh

, Laboratory II,junior level chemical engineering students were required to (1) perform simple heattransfer experiments using inexpensive materials that are readily available in mostengineering departments and (2) compare the experimental results with literaturecorrelations. The design, implementation and analysis of two of these experiments aredescribed in this presentation.Laminar flow heat transfer coefficients were measured for the flow of ethylene glycolthrough 11 ft x 3/16 in i.d. coiled copper tubing by heating the coil in an agitated waterbath at about 150ºF. The temperature of the exiting ethylene glycol was recorded as afunction of flow rate and was used to determine the duty of the copper coil and theexperimental heat transfer coefficient

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2005 GSW

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W. Roy Penney; Nathaniel S. Weston; Megan V. Park; Edgar C. Clausen; Dave C. Marrs; Anthony M. Scalia

for CHEG 3143, HeatTransport, and CHEG 3232, Laboratory II, junior level chemical engineering studentswere required to perform simple heat transfer experiments using inexpensive materialsthat are readily available in most engineering departments. The design, implementationand analysis of two of these experiments are described in this presentation.The thermal conductivities of polycarbonate, polystyrene and plywood were individuallydetermined by sandwiching the test material between three 1 ½ in x 12 in x 18 inaluminum plates. After the center plate was heated to 70-80°C, the “sandwich” wasassembled and insulated on all sides. The temperatures of the center plate and one of theouter plates were measured with time and used to calculate the rate

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2005 GSW

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

is no required textbook for the course and the primarylecture content has been prepared over the years by the first author. The major lecture topicscovered in the course have included: 1. Musculoskeletal Physiology and Anthropometrics; 2. Analysis and Simulation of Human Movement; 3. Biomechanical Systems and Control; 4. Computer Graphics Modeling and Simulation in Biomechanics; and 5. Experimental Techniques in Biomechanics. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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2005 GSW

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Tomás Quintero; Hector Estrada

is rare, are to be thought of as life-threatening incidents. Also, because of their highunpredictability, these events incite severe anxiety to those threatened. In fact, each year, overthree billion person-hours are spent under severe weather watches4. Though one may live inOklahoma or Kansas and not be affected by a tornado one year, he or she may very well becomea victim in any year to come, and in some cases you may become a victim more than once in alifetime as depicted in Figure 1. Regardless of circumstances, a safe room has the potential foreasing people’s restlessness and saving their lives when they find themselves in the path of astorm. Genesis of Shelter Development Post-storm documentation studies

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2005 GSW

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Todd E. Raborn

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2005 GSW

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Titilope Z. Alagun; Shahryar Darayan

the solar power and tracker unit.A simple connection block diagram is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1. Simple Connection Diagram of Fully Automated Chicken Farm Unit Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Part 1 – Software Program in C LanguageThe software program for the chicken farm unit is divided into three codes. The operatorof the chicken house sets the required conditions for each program. 1. Relay.Exe: This program uses ‘int main (int argc, char *argv[])’ command to read the argument in the DOS prompt. This program converts a two

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2005 GSW

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Timothy I. Matis; Linda Ann Riley; James H. Matis

. focusthe curriculum on teaching students to think about contextual problems from a statisticalviewpoint (Wild and Pfannkuch 1, Pfannkuch and Wild 2, Moore 3). In response, there are anumber of new textbooks and enrichment materials targeted for the Advanced PlacementStatistics curriculum, which develop the role of statistical thinking in addressing problems ofpractical interest. Other recent publications, such as the NCTM Navigation through DataAnalysis series 4, provide materials and activities for students to learn statistical thinking by‘interrogating’ data. The educational modules presented in this paper supplement these othermaterials by introducing the field of probability modeling and simulation for students’ statisticalthinking. In order