2009 Midwest Section Proceedings Archive (PDFs)

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
September 16-18, 2009

Conference Program

Session 101: First Year Engineering- A Critical Time

Moderator: David Jones

• What to Teach in a Freshman Engineering Course? Experiences in the First Year of the Missouri S&T/MSU Cooperative Engineering Program, Robert Egbert, Missouri State
• Integration of First-Year Engineering Students into Research: 4 Year Data from the Electrical Vehicle Project, Kevin Lewelling, Arkansas-FortSmith
• A First-Year Experience Course Sequence for Engineering Students at the University of Arkansas, Kellie Schneider, Heath Schulterman, Richard Cassady, Arkansas-Fayetteville
• The Incredible Edible Car: An Instructive and Fun Design Exercise for Engineering Freshman, Crystal Powers, Don Edwards, Dennis Schulte, Nebraska
• Teaching Engineering for Students with Right Brain Dominance, Yumin Zhang, David Probst, SE Missouri State

Session 102: Communication, Education, and Research

Moderator: John Ballard, Univeristy of Nebraska

• Cross-Sectional Assessment of Technical Writing: Tool Development and Preliminary Data Analysis, Bruce Dvorack, Dennis Schulte, Mary Garbacz, Sherri Aldrich, David Admiraal, Julia Soulakova, Nebraska
• Impact of Bio-Char on Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere, Nicholas Vanderslice, Thomas Marrero, Missouri-Columbia
• The Business of Engineering Education, Douglas Carroll, Missouri S & T
• A Practical Faculty Mentoring Program, Lawrence Whitman, Zulma Toro-Ramos, John Watkins, Wichita State
• The Case for Leadership Skills Courses in the Engineering Curriculum, Kaylea Dunn, Olson Assoc./ Nebraska

Session 103: New and Improved Courses

Moderator: Alisa Gilmore, University of Nebraska

• An Improved Instrumentation and Controls Course for Agricultural and Biological Engineering, George Meyer, Nebraska
• Biomaterials Course Development for Undergraduate Engineering Education, Ramazan Asmatulu, Wichita State
• Intergrating Asynchronous Paradigms into VLSI Design Course, Waleed Al-Assadi, Scott Smith, Missiouri S & T

Session 104: Pre-College Students

Moderator: Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska

• UASPP: Three Years of Helping Middle School Teachers Devise Their Own Hands-On Engineering and Science Activity, Shannon Davis, Bryan Hill, Carol Gattis, Bradley Dearing, Christa Hestekin, Edgar Clausen, Arkansas-Fayetteville
• Contruction Related Activities for Students in 1st-8th Grade, Dennis Audo, Seth O'Brien, Pittsburg State
• Use of Robotics, GPS and GIS Technologies to Encourage STEM-Oriented Learning in Youth, Viacheslav Adamchuk, Gwen Nugent, Bradley Barker, Neal Grandgenett, Nebraska

Session 301: Hybrid Approaches to Engineering Education

Moderator: Francis Thomas, Kansas University

• Online Distance Education: Hybrid Coursework and Research Methods, Dan Bumblauskas, ABB Inc./ Iowa State
• Improvement in Laboratory Skills and Knowledge Achieved Through Individual Student Lab Participation, Carl Greco, Jim Reasoner, Arkansas Tech
• The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Learning, Michael Reynolds,David Paulus, Arkansas-FortSmith
• Using Storytelling to Meet the Technology and Information Literacy Needs of Millennial Students, Greg Stephens, Kansas State-Salina
• An Academic Home Run: Baseball, Umpiring, and Mathematics, Robert Homolka, Kansas State-Salina

Session 302: Creative Methods of Teaching

Moderator: Michael Jorgensen, Michael Jorgensen, Wichita State University

• Suboptimizatioin of Motivation Approaches in Engineering Education, Ray Luechtefeld, Steve Watkins, Missouri S & T
• Solving Bream Deflection Problems using a Traditional Approach, Joseph Rencis, Hartley Grandin
• Desktop Learning Module Heat Exchanger Performance, Colin Paul, Melinda O'Neil, Roy Penney, Bernard Van Wie, Paul Golter, Robert Beitle, Edgar Clausen, Arkansas-Fayetteville
• Importance of Nanosafety in Engineering Education, Ramazan Asmatulu, E. Asmatulu, A. Yourdkhani, Wichita State
• Advanced Nanotechnology Entrepreneurial Education, Christopher Ibeh, Pittsburg State

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