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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas Mertz

of ABET EngineeringCriteria 3, commonly known as Outcomes 3a–3k [1]. Outcome 3e states that students should beable to function effectively on multidisciplinary teams. This started me contemplating how toincorporate team projects into my courses. The second event was being assigned to teach acourse in database management systems, a subject I had not studied (let alone taught) since 1977.Thus, I decided to embark on a cooperative learning experience, fortified by the excitement ofteaching a new subject and trying a new pedagogy. I assigned one major term project in thecourse to be completed by student teams. Other aspects of the course retained the traditional mixof lecture, homework and tests. Not knowing I was walking well-trod ground, I

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Norman D. Dennis

these courses as either a standard 3-credit hour course or as a 4-credit hour culminating design course. If taken as a 4–credit hour course the student is requiredto complete a multi-faceted design project to partially satisfy the culminating design experiencerequired by ABET. In order to fully satisfy the culminating design experience the studentswould be required to take two of the four available classes for 4-credit hours and complete a 2-Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conferencecredit hour Professional Topics course. The current and revised curriculum for the civilengineering program is illustrated in Table 1. Courses that are in bolded typeface are new ormodified courses that would serve

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Christi L. Patton

Focus on Tar Creek By Christi L. Patton The University of TulsaAbstract Tar Creek is #1 on the EPA cleanup list and it is located about 90 miles from theUniversity of Tulsa campus. While the legislators and residents debate what should bedone to clean up the area, freshman Chemical Engineering students research the historyof Tar Creek and use this as a starting point for lectures and lively discussion on safetyand ethics. Throughout the course students perform practice calculations that are basedon the information gleaned through research. During the last weeks of the semester thestudents participate in a research project that

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judy Collins; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh; Alysia Starkey

to people with knowledge, potential mentors *Resource investigation skills *Effective IT Skills For recording and disseminating information *Skills of Cooperative Problem- Solving Teamwork Open Dialogue Skills Flexibility Willing to take educated risks Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference *Ability to Review Risk Review risks, opportunities and successes. Learn from failures * (these entail IL skills) Table 1: Information Literacy from Employers’ Perspective: Knowledge Skills of the

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia Morse; Jung Oh

: (1) Documentation for evaluation of teachingperformance (commonly termed summative evaluation) and (2) a tool for improvement ofteaching (formative evaluation).Most often the impetus for a faculty member to develop a teaching portfolio typically comesfrom the need to provide more thorough support documentation for others to make evaluations ofone’s teaching performance. For example, the teaching portfolio (or pertinent sections) could besubmitted for: Promotion and tenure considerations New position applications Annual evaluations Application for awards Grant applications (especially ones related to teaching)The authors see an emerging application of the teaching portfolio: as a documentation tool forcourse

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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George D. Gray; Raju Dandu

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Suzanna Long; David G. Spurlock

disciplines. Other than computer and aerospaceengineering, which had a 4% and 13% increase, respectively, engineering departments witnessedan average decrease of 5%.1 Student recruitment and retention is of primary concern for academic institutions.Examination of diversity issues may provide insight for institutions seeking to counter thedecrease in engineering enrollment numbers. Understanding factors affecting decision-makingcan provide vital information as well. The stereotypical view of engineering students is white and male. However, the face of thebeginning engineering student is changing. Academic institutions can positively impact theirenrollment figures by recognizing this change and marketing to minority student groupsincluding women

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ing-Chang Jong

in the direction of the force or moment,respectively, during the action. It is the force or moment, rather than the body, which does work.Before reaping advantages in the virtual work method, it is well to refresh certain fundamentalconcepts, which sometimes appear as challenges to beginning students.Work of a force.The work U1→ 2 done by a force F on a body moving from position A1 along a path C to positionA2 is defined by a line integral. It is given by 1-4 A2 U1→ 2 = ∫A F ⋅ dr (1) 1where · denotes a dot product, and dr is the differential

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roger G. Harrison; Matthias U. Nollert; David W. Schmidtke; Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

“Introduction to Research” at Brooklyn College, studentswere required to select a research project provided by a chemistry professor (1). Then, studentswrote a rough draft of the proposal; and then, after receiving feedback from the professor, theywrote a final draft. In another course entitled “Chemistry Research” for undergraduates atYoungstown State University, the students were required to select a research proposal topic,write a rough draft of the proposal, and then write a final draft after receiving feedback from theprofessor (2). For both of these proposals, the time allotted for writing both drafts of theproposal seems unrealistically short for undergraduates (5 weeks at Brooklyn College and 2weeks at Youngstown State

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Scott Shepard

searched for (and found) what we believe are the underlying, common, key motivationalelements: (1) genuine interest of the instructor; (2) good instructor-student rapport (the instructor’s genuineinterest should spread naturally to the student, without the pressures that far too often occur in graduateresearch); (3) a simple, but adequately accurate, theoretical model of the problem; (4) a “mystery” to beresolved; (5) some “gee-whiz” aspects in the experimental apparatus (such as magnetic levitation devices,lasers, etc.); (6) actual quality in the measurement capability of the instruments; and (7) the capability of“closing the loop” between the experiment and a simple theory.Herein, we illustrate these seven points within the context of a specific

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

neuralnetworks are applied to high speed applications with complex nonlinearities and the trainingalgorithms are different for the different neural network architectures. In this paper, thefeedforward neural network is discussed in detail with the backpropagation training [1-5] forimplementation in JAVA.A feedforward neural network can consist of many layers as shown in figure 1, namely: an inputlayer, a number of hidden layers and an output layer. The input layer and the hidden layer areconnected by synaptic links called weights and likewise the hidden layer and output layer alsohave connection weights. When more than one hidden layer exists, weights exist between thehidden layers.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Z. Carpenter; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane

white gaffer's tape markings. The carpet can be rolled upand stored when not in use. The field was not near the regular computer labs but waswithin TU's wireless LAN coverage. Laptops were available for use by the students formaking small corrections to their programs and downloading to the rovers at the fieldsite.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceRover Components (detail):Each robot will fit in a cube 15 inches on a side when the arm is in its upright position.The controller used for the rovers was the 2004 EDU Robot Controller by InnovationFirst [1]. The EDU controller collects signals and processes them using a Microchip18F8520 PIC microprocessor. The program in this micro controller

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Pat Ackerman; Kathy Brockway; Raju Dandu; Pedro Leite; Jimmy Splichal

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Steve Menhart

interfacing to external memory so as to operate in an expandedmode, it seems very unlikely that this would ever be necessary, given the amount of single-chipmode memory available. All I/O lines and control signals are routed to two 50-pin interfaceconnectors, allowing the full use of all of its numerous ports. Figure 1 shows theAdapt9S12DP256 development board. As can be seen the board is remarkably compact, anddesigned to be modular and stackable with other types of boards. For student lab use, printedcircuit boards have been designed and constructed here at UALR. These boards plug into eachof the header strips, with each board having a set of terminal strips mounted to it. This allowsstudents to connect their experiments to the board, with

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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F. G. Edwards; E. W. LeFevre; W. M. Hale

formula; but, it is possible to evaluate understanding usingother types of questions.LearningLevels of learning have been categorized by numerous researchers (Bloom, 1956; Biggs &Collis, 1982; Pask, 1975; Säljö, 1979; Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) giving the engineeringinstructor some guidance as to the types of questions to ask to determine the level of learningthat the students have obtained. Bloom identified three domains of learning: 1) Cognitive, 2)Affective, and 3) Pshyco-Motor. Cognitive learning refers to knowledge skills, which is the areaof learning we are interested in for teaching engineering (except possibly for ethics). Cognitivelearning was further subdivided into levels of understanding, which from lowest to highest are

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Tim Bower

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

Can ABET Professional Skills Stimulate Curriculum Changes That Aid in Student Recruitment? Larry N. Bland John Brown UniversityIntroduction In November 1996, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)board of directors approved one of the most significant changes to accreditation of engineeringprograms in modern times. Previous accreditation requirements had been a very rigid set of rulesfrom almost thirty pages of detailed requirements that covered course requirements, credits anddistribution, faculty staffing, and laboratory facilities. [1] The new criteria became known asEngineering Criteria 2000. These

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

training resources environment, an alternating pace, and a triple level of follow-up.According to Knowles, the following are the skills required for a learner to become involved in aself-directed learning project.7 Each student should examine each and ask themselves thequestion: "How much of each competency do I have?" 1. The ability to develop and be in touch with curiosities. Perhaps another way of describing this skill would be "the ability to engage in divergent thinking." 2. The ability to formulate questions, based on personal curiosities that are answerable through inquiry (in contrast to questions that are answerable by authority or faith). 3. The ability to perceive yourself objectively and accept feedback from others

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Carol Gattis

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ing-Chang Jong

the force or moment, respectively, during the action. It is theforce or moment, rather than the body, which does work. In teaching and learning the virtualwork method, it is well to refresh the following relevant basic concepts: Work of a forceIf a force F acting on a body is constant and the displacement vector of the body from positionA1 to position A2 during the action is q, then the work U1→ 2 of the force F on the body is1-4 U1→ 2 = F ⋅ q = Fq (1)where F is the magnitude of F, and q is the scalar component of q parallel to F. If the force isnot constant, then integration may be used to compute the work of the force. Work of a momentIf a moment M (or

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Andy Matthews; Jerri Dwyer

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kamesh Namuduri; Ravi Pendse

experiences in enhancing the ECE curriculum at Wichita State University,our efforts in getting the curriculum certified by the Committee on National Security, andour collaborations with the neighboring universities and community colleges to bringawareness of information security in the community. 1. Introduction This paper discusses our experiences in introducing information assurance andsecurity (IAS) curriculum in the ECE department at Wichita State University. Whileproviding specific details of implementation at WSU, this paper also provides a generalstrategy and outlines the steps that one can follow to develop such degree or certificateprograms. It discusses the steps involved in introducing IAS

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Vickers

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Laura P. Ford; Christi L. Patton

competitionitself to gather names and information from the students.The first information form is the “Pizza Ticket”. The schedule for the competition is postersession, distance announcement, lunch, car race, and awards ceremony. The high schoolstudents fill out the pizza ticket and turn it in as they get their food. The pizza ticket serves twopurposes: (1) we get the demographic information that we are interested in and (2) we can keepthe University students from eating the lunch before the high school students do. The pizzaticket is shown in Figure 1. The pizza ticket from the 2003 race did not prompt the students formajor, and the majority of the students simply answered “college”. Results from the 2004 ticketswere much more specific

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

is the literature review 1. This means that students need tobe familiar with the current related research in their selected areas, and must be able to reflecttheir knowledge of this work in their research papers. Unfortunately, many graduate studentslack sufficient experience in compiling information from a variety of technical sources andpresenting these results. There are a variety of useful handbooks that describe the mechanics ofwriting, such as the texts by Davis 2 and Day 3. However, instructor guidance is necessary to aidstudents in both the selection of an appropriate research topic and the selection of relatedresearch articles 4. This paper describes a specific procedure for implementing this process. Proceedings

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lucas Howard; Jonathan Hayes; Pat Buford; Wayne Helmer

of students is not economical or readily available.To satisfy the dual requirements of diversity and cost efficiency, two students, one electrical andone mechanical, were offered special topic engineering credit to design and build this fluid flowequipment under the supervision of faculty mentors.MAF TheoryAutomotive mass airflow sensors (MAF) are used to calculate the amount of air entering theengine intake of an electronic fuel injection system. There are two types of automotive MAFs,digital and variable voltage (analog). Both use a “hot-wire” principal.The hot-wire principal uses a resistor (usually a coil of wire) that is heated by a constant voltage.The coil of wire is placed in an airflow-sampling channel. See Figure 1. The entering

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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B. Terry Beck; David A. Pacey

students still have rather limited practicalunderstanding of how to apply these basic principles to laboratory measurements thatinvolve real time-varying signals. Courses involving the detailed statistical treatment oftime-dependent random signals are not part of the MNE curriculum since they generallyhave prerequisite requirements beyond the reach of our typical undergraduate students.In addition, while available course textbooks (e.g., [1], [2]) usually provide a gooddiscussion of the statistical treatment of random errors, they do not generally address thepractical issue of how to actually perform independent sampling of time-series data.The Sampling ProblemIt is typically assumed that the samples of measured variables used in statistical

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dennis Audo; Seth O'Brien

). This annual event is open to children that are currently enrolled in grades 1 through 6.Prior to the event, event staff solicits prizes from local merchants. These prizes are as closelyrelated to construction as possible. For instance the local lumber company donates hammers,wrenches, and tool pouches. Some merchants donate gift cards so that the event staff canpurchase prizes to their liking.The day of the event every student is required to have an Official Registration/Entry form signedby a parent of legal guardian in order to participate. (See registration form Appendix I).Students are assigned to groups that correspond to their grade level. Each student is given 100regular sized Legos, a small rock, a piece of string no longer than 12

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu

replacements [1-5]. The main issue in the applicationsof biomaterials is that they must be biocompatible with the body and mechanically durable, all ofwhich must be proofed before placing into the body. These biomaterials are usually subjected tothe same requirements with the new drugs put in the market [2]. In the present course, ourengineering students learn all the subjects specified here in detail. Biomaterials can be in the forms of metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers andcomposites. Figure 1 shows the several biomaterials utilized for a variety of medical purposes[1]. Metals and alloys are used as biomaterials due to their excellent mechanical, surface andthermal properties. Some of the metals and alloys include 316L stainless steel, Ti

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Viacheslav Adamchuk; Gwen Nugent; Bradley Barker; Neal Grandgenett

youth in rural communities, often sufferingdirectly from poor performance in STEM areas. Thus, GIS maps allow users to visualize geographicdata to aid agriculture-related decision-making processes. Data used in the GIS maps can also beobtained using small handheld GPS receivers, which are easy to use even at a middle school age.Combined, the GPS and GIS technologies provide a powerful set of tools to analyze and interpretspatial information, and represent a useful context for applied learning.The long-term goal of the program described in this paper is to improve STEM learningoutcomes and attitudes of 11-15 years old youth. Using robotics and GPS/GIS concepts, theprogram seeks to: 1) promote youths’ interest in STEM fields, 2) introduce basic