2004 Midwest Section Proceedings Archive (PDFs)

39th ASEE Midwest Section Meeting
September 20, 2004- October 1, 2004
Kansas Technology Center

Conference Program

Session 1:

• The Research Proposal in Bioengineering Courses
• Focus on Tar Creek
• Transitioning a Microcontroller Course from Assembly Language to C
• A TIMS Based Laboratory for Probability and Random Processes
• Kindling Students' Interest in Virtual Work Method: Advantages and Challenges
• A New Approach Where Students Question, Test and Verify the Solution to Their Problem

Session 2:

• Innovative Air Flow Laboratory Equipment
• Environmental Awareness And Clean Environment Technology
• A Modular and Specifications Oriented Digital Circuit Design Laboratory
• Sampling Issues in the Design of Experiments for the Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory
• ACI Certification Available to Students in Civil Engineering
• The Concrete Contest: Introducing Students to High Performance Concrete

Session 3:

• Developing Graduate Research Skills using Guided Reading Assignments
• Engineering Management: A Course for Survival
• Teaching Neural Networks Concepts And Their Learning Techniques
• The Botball Educational Robotics Program: Engineering Outreach for Middle and High School Students
• Tapping in to the Power of "The Community Classroom"
• Attracting High School Students to Engineering by Adapting a National Collegiate Competition
• Information Literacy Teams: Bridging the Fluency Divide
• Collaborative Scholarship- A Success Story
• Experiences in Developing a Web-based Assessment System

Session 4:

• Testing in the Engineering Curriculum without Numbers
• Distributing the Capstone Design Experience
• An Analytical Method to Quantify Outcome Based Assessment (Presentation Only)
• A Moral Foundation: How to begin?
• The Design of a Knowledge Based Survey Scheme for Quantifying and Propagating Diversity Skills in Science and Technology
• Connecting Learning with Students' Interests and Daily Learning: It Is My Project
• Business Projects and Authentic Learning
• A Seven Point Paradigm For Motivation Within Undergraduate Research And Laboratory Projects

Session 5:

• "To Receive Full Credit, You Must Show Your Work". Documenting Teaching Excellence
• A Process Model for Establishing Engineering Technology Programs at Technical Colleges
• Meeting the Needs of Employers and Students: Implications of Global Business Trends and Changing Student Characteristics for Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs
• Small Autonomous Mobile Robots for Teaching Introductory Programming to Engineering Students
• Assessment By Design: The Satisfaction Index
• Experiences Using Team Projects in a Freshman Database Course

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