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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William W. Ryan; Tiffany Wiederstein; Danny King; Malcolm Fowler

college engineering programs. An answer to both questions has been found with thedevelopment of high school pre-engineering academies. The development of these academieshas brought K-12 educators, career tech educators, and university educators together to design apathway that uses the strengths of each partner to better prepare students for entry into, andsuccessful completion of, university engineering programs. The initial motivation for theseacademies was acknowledgement that the attrition level of students pursuing engineering degreesis far too high. That attrition rate is greater than 50% nationally. The rate in Oklahoma at someschools is greater than 60%. This attrition can be attributed to three primary factors: 1. Students

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Chris Ramseyer; Beth Brueggen

endeavor. Besides helping to build community between the students, it was important thatthe leader was able to get to know each student individually. This helped to avoid studentsfeeling that they were slave labor. From experience it was known that the lab would beextremely hot and humid during most ofthe summer. A social component wasvital. It was decided that providing lunch,cooked and served by the faculty advisor,on Fridays might meet this need. Whilethe menu was never complicated, pizzaand hamburgers were never served.Figure 1 shows the students eating kabobsduring the first Friday lunch of thesummer. It was hoped that Friday lunchwould help build the sense of communityquickly and also that it would also sendthe message that the principle

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

presented sequentially in the following order: 1. Planar Equilibrium Analysis of a Rigid Body 2. Stress 3. Strain. 4. Material Properties and Hooke’s Law 5. Centric Axial Tension and Compression 6. Torsion 7. Bending 8. Combined Analysis: Centric Axial, Torsion, Bending and Shear 9. Static Failure Theories: a Comparison of Strength and Stress 10. Columns Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3A design case study of a hoist structure is included at the conclusion of each topic to reinforcethe concepts presented.Analysis A primary goal in this course is to

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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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Ashok Saxena

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Christi L. Patton; Daniel W. Crunkleton; John M. Henshaw; Douglas Jussaume; Robert L. Strattan

also participated.The work for Year 1 of the competition required students to create a conceptual design oftheir hybrid vehicle system and the initial control strategy. This necessitated breakingdown the barriers between the disciplines. Students began to look at engineering from amore global perspective as they addressed problems outside of their own field.Graded Components and FeedbackThe Challenge X competition has required a significant demonstration of written and oralcommunication skills. Selection to this competition was based on a 10-page writtenproposal. During Year 1 of the Challenge X competition the team was required to • submit five written reports ranging from 5 – 15 pages in length using SAE technical paper format

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Scott C. Smith

group selection method was. The collected information was then examined andthe pros and cons of each approach were tabulated to form an opinion of which, if either, of thetwo group selection methods is significantly better than the other.Project #1The first project entailed designing a Huffman Decoder Chip, which was to be done in groups ofup to 3. The class divided itself into 9 groups, including 3 groups of 1 student, 1 group with2 members, and 5 groups of 3. The overall average on the project was 85%-87%, depending onhow the average was calculated, which was a mid to high B. Table 1 shows the grade distributionbroken down by group size. Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationOf

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Kellie Schneider; C. Richard Cassady

Designing and Implementing a First Year Experience Course in Industrial Engineering Kellie Schneider, C. Richard Cassady, Ph. D., P.E. Department of Industrial Engineering University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701Abstract Two years ago, we were asked to revitalize the First Year Experience course for theDepartment of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. This paper summarizes ourefforts in designing and implementing this course. The main objectives of this course are to (1)get students introduced to and involved in both the Department of Industrial

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Avery Schwer; Donna Dufner; George Morcous

dependable suggestion of correctiveactions. Knowledge-based systems have been developed to support these tasks using rule-based expert systems. However, these systems have serious limitations in theirfunctionality, expandability, and knowledge acquisition. A “proof of concept” prototypeof the PMIS will be developed for the construction domain because of the long history ofconstruction project management and the availability of successful and unsuccessful caseexamples of construction projects.1. Introduction Project management informatics is an emerging area of study that blends the fields ofEngineering Management, and Information Technology. Diverse and new softwareapplications and networking media have pushed the value of competent project

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

presents the authors’ experiences and the effectson students’ learning when these techniques are applied.KeywordsActive learning; Engineering education; Large-class teaching.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, IMSE 250 - Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and Systems -is a required course for students majoring in industrial engineering, manufacturing systemsengineering, and mechanical engineering. This course is also taken by students in otherengineering disciplines, humanities and sciences. It is intended to not only provide engineeringstudents with technical knowledge for further study in their disciplines, but also exposehumanities and social sciences students to manufacturing engineering. IMSE 250 is a largeengineering class (115

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Nathaniel Scott; Carl Greco; Todd T. Schlegel

, CR1-6) issampled at 1 KHz and the DC offsets are removed. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is thenperformed on the array and the TWR calculated from the eigenvalues returned by SVD: 8 8 TWR = ∑ ρ i2 / ∑ ρ i2 i=4 i =1The program plots one user specified channel of data, the current and previous T-wave in theuser specified channel, and finally the TWR parameter.The TWR calculation program will be used to process a variety of clinical patient records toverify its practical relevance.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Ken Vickers

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

meet the challenges in their future careers. In thispaper, the instructors of IMSE 564 will share some experiences in teaching the course, anddiscuss how the learner-centered environment was established for the class.KeywordsEngineering education; Lean manufacturing; Learner-centered environment.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, Product and Process Engineering (IMSE 564) is an engineeringcourse offered once a year to the senior undergraduates by the Department of Industrial &Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE). It is a required course for the students whose majoris Manufacturing Engineering, and the students with other majors may take it as an elective. Inthe course, the students learn how to design the economic production

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

3background The national average for the number of students that graduate from engineering is abouthalf of those that start 1. Freshmen expect engineering to be demanding but often getoverwhelmed by the volume of the material and find it difficult to successfully manage their timeand use of resources (course drills, tutoring, faculty office hours, etc.) 2. This may be a majorreason why academically capable students select a different career after a short time inengineering without any real exposure to engineering courses 2. Engineering programs have experienced high attrition rates for many years and as a resulthave caused the perception that this is the norm 2. Studies have shown those freshmen that areacademically capable of

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Min Zou; Li Cai

New Approach of Teaching Engineering Laboratory at UndergraduateLevel with Emphasizing on Creativity, Teamwork, and Communication Min Zou1 Li Cai2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Department of Industrial Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 AbstractTraditional undergraduate engineering education has been focused on transferringknowledge from textbooks to students. In today’s highly competitive real world,creativity, teamwork, cutting-edge knowledge, effective communication skills

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Lance C. Perez; Jerald L. Varner; Michael F. Anderson

A TIMS Based Laboratory for Undergraduate Probability and Random Processes Lance C. Pérez, Jerald L. Varner, Michael F. Anderson University of Nebraska, Lincoln/Clarke CollegeIntroductionThe Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska has implemented anIntegrated Signals and Systems Laboratory (ISSL) based on a single experimental platformthroughout a sequence of four courses at the junior and senior levels [1]. This laboratory isfunded by a Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Adaptation andImplementation (A&I) track, grant from the National Science Foundation. The four-coursesequence is ELEC 304 Signals and Systems, ELEC

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

report.Students are provided with a concrete mixture proportion shown in Table 1 which serves as thecontrol mixture. The control mixture is part of an ongoing research program and has beenbatched numerous times; therefore the fresh and hardened concrete properties of the mixture arewell documented. Along with the mixture proportion, the students are also provided the 28 daycompressive strength of the mixture and the cost of the mixture per cubic yard. The cost of theindividual ingredients of the mixture is also provided to the students along with the materialproperties (Table 2). Students are allowed to use any material in the concrete lab, and they arealso encouraged to search literature for HPC mixture designs. Proceedings of the 2004

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Rebeca G. Book; William Pfannenstiel

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Marjorie Donovan; Oliver Hensley; James Otter

).Introduction The satisfaction index, a new concept developed by this paper’s authors; is a derivativeof the EKE (Essential Knowledge Elements) protocol of the CUES-Assessment Model.CUES-AM is an integral part of epistecybernetics. Epistecybernetics, a new system’sapproach to knowledge governance and stewardship was originated by Hensley et al(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) : The satisfaction index can be used to provide a quantitative assessment andevaluation of the satisfaction level of participants in a given program or course. A literaturesearch especially of the consumer industry indicate that most satisfaction-based assessmentsurveys are qualitative(8)(9)(10) in nature. CUES-AM consists of the following innovativecomponents and modules

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

A New Approach Where Students Question, Test and Verify the Solution to Their Problem Joseph J. Rencis, Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract This paper assumes the importance of educating our engineering students to question, testand verify “answers” to all of their problem solutions. It presents an approach currentlypracticed by the authors in teaching an introductory mechanics of materials course. In problemsolving, emphasis is placed on: (1) writing the governing equations in symbolic form with a bareminimum of algebraic manipulation, (2) solving the equations with a commercially available,student choice

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Cathryne Stein

Botball are threefold: 1. to create more technically literate students and teachers; 2. to encourage more students to go into science, engineering, math, and related fields; 3. to use robotics to engage students in engineering, science, and math, and help them understand how and why they can use the tools of math and science to do important and creative work.Botball uses the activities of robot programming, design, and construction as well aswebsite development to get students excited about being on the creative side oftechnology.Our strategy in pursuing these goals involves providing both a short and long termapproach towards improving the effectiveness of schools in teaching science, math, andtechnology. Specifically, we

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Jason Moore; Mitchell A. Thornton; Ronald W. Skeith

diagram. Figure 1: Example of Datapath block diagram Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference In addition to datapath block diagrams, students also utilize Algorithm StateMachine (ASM) charts for the control logic of the circuit. ASM charts are very similar toflow charts used for software design. The three basic components that make up a ASMchart are listed below [1]: State box Decision box Conditional output box When combined appropriately, the above components can create an ASM chartthat completely describes the control logic. Although ASM charts are like fingerprints inthe

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Angie Crist; Russ Newcomer; Michael Propst; Pedro Leite

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Bernard; Judy Collins; Fred Guzek; Pedro Leite; Jung Oh; Gail Simmonds

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

report.Students are provided with a concrete mixture proportion shown in Table 1 which serves as thecontrol mixture. The control mixture is part of an ongoing research program and has beenbatched numerous times; therefore the fresh and hardened concrete properties of the mixture arewell documented. Along with the mixture proportion, the students are also provided the 28 daycompressive strength of the mixture and the cost of the mixture per cubic yard. The cost of theindividual ingredients of the mixture is also provided to the students along with the materialproperties (Table 2). Students are allowed to use any material in the concrete lab, and they arealso encouraged to search literature for HPC mixture designs. Proceedings of the 2004

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Saeed M. Khan; Beverlee Kissick

The Design of a Knowledge Based Survey Scheme for Quantifying and Propagating Diversity Skills in Science and Technology Dr. Saeed M. Khan and Dr. Beverlee Kissick College of Technology and Aviation Kansas State University-SalinaDIVERSITY EDUCATION AT COTA:During the past few years, Drs. Kissick and Khan have been promoting diversity atKansas State University’s College of Technology and Aviation (COTA. The authorshave detailed their efforts in this endeavor through three recent conference proceedings[1-3]. They have stated their objectives in this promotional effort, and have studied thecompliance of their program with

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Jung Oh

lists atomic symbol, atomic number and atomic mass for eachelement. With only symbol in the periodic table (e.g. potassium expressed to as 19K39.10),students sometimes have difficulty in connecting the symbol, K, to the potassium metal.My goals in a hands-on periodic table project and creative presentation are: (1) to makestudents illustrate the chemical symbol in personal way based on collected informationand what they have learned about the element, (2) to connect student learning to personalinterests and to have them enjoy an “ownership” of learning, and (3) to foster connectionbetween the basic science and engineering courses students take.Assignment and Students’ Work ExamplesThis assignment is introduced with the following information: To

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Marcus O. Durham; Robert A. Durham; Rosemary Durham

international face ofupper level engineers, time is invested in understanding cultural nuances and remotemanagement. Industrial interaction is promoted by bringing in specialty topics such as qualityand legal. Since the topics are very diverse, a single text was not available. The authorsdeveloped a text that was totally on-line {1}.IntroductionEngineering management is almost an oxymoron. Engineers, by definition, are trained to dealwith things and how things work. Management, by definition, is training to deal with people andhow to get them to work. Those are as dissimilar as imaginable. In fact, entering universitystudents often refer to the first semesters of the engineering program as pre-business. Is thatbecause early engineering training is so

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S. B. Pidugu; S. Midturi

applications of fuel cellsand to stimulate enthusiasm for engineering and technology at a crucial stage in their education.Three high schools were selected and the project began in Fall 2003. The project wassuccessfully implemented during Fall 2003 at Central High School located in Little Rock.IntroductionThe EPA’s draft on Strategic Plan (2003-08) sets out five goals—Clean Air, Clean and SafeWater, Protect and Restore the Land, Health Communities and Ecosystems, and Compliance andEnvironmental Stewardship—and describes the work they plan to do over the next 5 yearstowards achieving the set goals [1]. Community awareness of environmental issues is vital to thesuccess of such a strategic plan, and this project, as small as it is, can make a

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Troy Harding

course improvement. Thispaper describes the project and its challenges.IntroductionThe Engineering Technology Department at Kansas State University is moving to more of anoutcome-based model for its degree programs. The biggest motivation behind this move comesfrom two accreditation agencies. The North Central Association provides accreditation for K-State University as a whole. In addition, most of the programs in our Engineering TechnologyDepartment are accredited by Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET).1 Both of these agencies emphasis the need for astudent learning assessment plan that specifies the desired outcomes that graduates shouldachieve. Furthermore, there should be a