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Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis A. Silage, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Perspective, IEEE Press, 1994.2. John D. Ryder and Donald G. Fink. Engineers and Electrons: A Century of Electrical Progress, IEEE Press, 1993.3. Dennis Silage and Keya Sadeghipour. “ME for EEs: Where are all the ME courses in the EE curriculum?”, Proceed. ASEE Annual Conf., 2016.4. Dennis Silage, “EE and ME: Together Again”, Proceed. ASEE Annual Conf., 2013.5. Denice D. Denton. “Engineering Education for the 21st Century”, J. of Engineering Education, 1998, pp:19-22.6. Erik De Graaff and Wim Ravesteijn, “Training Complete Engineers: Global Enterprise and Engineering Education”, European J. of Engineering Education, 2010, pp. 419-427.7. Dennis Silage. “What’s all this interdisciplinary stuff anyway?”, Proceed. ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

committee member for IEEE Globecom, ICC, ICCCN and VTC conferences, and a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.Dr. Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University Agnieszka Miguel received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Wash- ington, and MSEE and BSEE from Florida Atlantic University in 1996 and 1994. Dr. Miguel’s profes- sional interests involve image processing, machine learning, and engineering education especially active learning, diversity, retention, and recruitment. Her teaching interests include MATLAB, circuits, linear systems, and digital image processing. She is a member of the IEEE, ASEE, SWE, and Tau Beta Pi. Cur- rently, Dr. Miguel is the Chair of the ASEE

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Multidisciplinary Design Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Nicole Hesson, York College of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Education, 2017 Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning to Community Service Multidisciplinary Capstone ProjectsAbstractSignificant research has shown the positive benefit of service and community-based learning onstudent diversity, engagement, and retention. Elements of service-learning have beenincorporated across disciplines into traditional classes as well as capstone experiences. Whileproviding significant benefits, challenges also exist in managing relationships with externalclients, finding administrative support for these experiences, and engaging students in moreopen-ended projects.Recognizing these benefits, new capstone projects have been introduced at our mid-sized mid-Atlantic college over the last two

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The Best of the Computers in Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

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Computers in Education

Life.IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol. 9, No. 1, January-March, pp. 18-30.Avanzato, R. (2013) Collaborative Design Using Virtual World Technology, Proceedings of the Spring2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Brooklyn,New York, April 27, 2013Callaghan, MJ. (2009) Integrating Virtual Worlds & Virtual Learning Environments for OnlineEducation, CE-GIC 2009 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Conference Games Innovation, pp. 54-63.Considine, C. L., & Seek, M. W., & Lester, J. (2014, June), Strategies for Effective Online CourseDevelopment Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.https://peer.asee.org/23038Kinney, L., & Liu, M

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Qualitative Research Methods

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

to enable diversecontexts to ease comparison and contrasts across participant views (Morelock, Matusovich,Cunningham, & Hermundstad, 2016). The first research site (PubU) was a large, public,research-focused university in the Mid-Atlantic United States (PubU). The second research site(PriU) was a small, private not-for-profit, teaching-focused university in the Midwestern UnitedStates. The student population at PriU was less than 5000 (approximated at the time of theinterview), while that for PubU was larger at approximately 35,000. A comparative descriptionof the sites is available from Morelock et al. (2016) to provide an overview of the differencesbetween the two sites. Table 1: Comparison of

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Design & Development Projects and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mingshao Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Zhou Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Nima Lotfi, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Manufacturing

System Instruction to Improve Undergraduate Education.” In Proceedings of ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring 2016 Conference, Washington, DC, USA.[17] Teichman, A., Levinson, J., and Thrun, S. 2011. “Towards 3D Object Recognition Via Classification of Arbitrary Object Tracks.” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4034-4041.[18] Janoch, A., Karayev, S., Jia, Y., Barron, J. T., Fritz, M., Saenko, K., and Darrell, T. 2013. “A Category-Level 3d Object Dataset: Putting the Kinect to Work.” In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, pp. 141-165. 10[19] Socher, R., Huval, B., Bath, B., Manning, C. D., and Ng, A. Y. 2012

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sherry Liao, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

, otheruniversities can adopt and adapt these activities to use in their programs.1. IntroductionChoosing a major is a daunting task for many first-year college students, especially if the choicesspan fields with which students have little exposure and experience. It is estimated that 20 – 50%of first-year college students enter college as “undecided” about their major[7]. In order toprovide first-year engineering students time to discern, a set of resources and course activitieswere created and assessed in an introduction to engineering course. The results of two studies arepresented in this paper.The structure of the remainder of the paper is as follows. The next section describes theeducational theory relevant to this study, models of introduction to

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Innovative Pedagogies for Facilitating Student-driven Learning Experiences

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John W. Lawson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Civil Engineering

., Usher, E. L., Li, C. R., Economy, D. R. and Kennedy, M. S. (2016), Measuring UndergraduateStudents' Engineering Self-Efficacy: A Validation Study. J. Eng. Educ., 105: 366–395.8 Burton, J. D. and White, D. M. (1999), Selecting a Model for Freshman Engineering Design. Journal ofEngineering Education, 88: 327–332.9 Gunn, C., & Somerton, C., An Engineering Laboratory Experience For A Freshman Engineering Class Paperpresented at 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah.10 Alava, J.D. and Gardiner, K.M. The Development of the First Year Engineering Experience. Proceedings of Fall2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University. (http://www.asee.org/documents/sections/middle

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Assessment & Grading in Mechanics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics

Course.” Proceedings of the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring 2015 Conference. 4. Estell, J.K, Yoder, J.-D., Morrison, B. B. and Mak, F. K. (2012). “Improving upon Best Practices: FCAR 2.0.” Proceedings of the ASEE 2012 Annual Conference and Exposition.

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon L. Isovitsch Parks P.E., University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Laura J. Dietz, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Environmental Engineering

.25886.Donnell, Jeffrey A., Betsy M. Aller, Michael Alley, and April A. Kedrowicz. 2011. "Whyindustry says that engineering graduates have poor communication skills: What the literaturesays." ​American Society for Engineering Education.Garcia Lorca, F., & Ferguson, D. M., & Condoor, S. S. 2015. “Reinforcing CommunicationSkills Through Participation in a Team-based Weekly Innovation Challenge,” 2015 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24664Lewis, N. A. 2008. "The engineer as a professor: Bringing experience to the engineeringclassroom." ​ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section meeting, US Military Academy at West Point, NYLoendorf, W. 2004. “Transitioning From Industry To Education: The First Year,” 2004 ASEEAnnual

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nisha Kondrath, Villanova University; Mark A. Jupina, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

/30474592_1_navy-yard-high-schools-school-day[4] Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, Active learning: Getting students to work and think in the classroom, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 1993.[5] http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/373060f.pdf, accessed online on Mar. 17, 2017.[6] N. Kondrath and M. A. Jupina, “Combining individual lab work outside of class with group peer-to- peer learning in class to increase student ability in electronics design,” in Proceedings of Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Villanova, PA, Apr. 10-11, 2015.

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Horizontal and Vertical Integration

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Z. Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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Civil Engineering

The study was implemented in tandem at two different universities (denoted Univ 1 andUniv 2 in the data comparison tables). University 1 is a small, public, undergraduate onlybaccalaureate university with an art and sciences focus in a rural area of the Mid-Atlantic region.University 2 is a midsized, public, master's university in a medium density city in the West NorthCentral Region. The same semester-long project was assigned in a steel design class at university1 and a reinforced concrete design course at university 2. The background of the students wassimilar at both schools; the students had completed statics, mechanics of materials, and structuralanalysis courses. Most students at university 1 had already completed a reinforced

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Clinical, Patient, and Innovation Experiences in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Huffstickler, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Keefe B. Manning, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Margaret J. Slattery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

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Biomedical

Design and Perform an experiment and 4 collect data (test the hypothesis) 6 Idea evaluation 5 Analyze the data 6 Interpret the data and draw conclusions 7 Implementation Planning 7 Publish results 8 Monitoring 8 RetestContext of Study: The CREATE REUThe first year of this NSF funded Biomedical Engineering REU program was held over 10 weeksduring the summer of 2016 at a large Mid-Atlantic

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John C. Kelly Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, University at Albany-SUNY; Ali Reza Osareh, North Carlina A&T State University; Lisa D. Hobson, Prairie View A&M University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards

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Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue University; James Thom, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

operations.An initial assumption was that interested students might already have some extent of spaceoperations knowledge taken from a U.S. perspective, so looking at the industry from theEuropean side of the Atlantic, seemed to be a good way to provide additional perspective.The use of the Handbook of Space Technology proved to be both bad and good. It was bad fromthe perspective that since the sections of the book were provided by so many differentcontributing authors, the focus, continuity of level of detail, and style were not sufficientlyconstant for the interested neophyte beginning study in this discipline. Additionally, manycontributing authors provided an inconsistent of presentation of formula variables and theirdefinitions. The book was good

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammed BOUGAA, CentraleSupelec and EISTI; Stefan Bornhofen, EISTI; Alain RIVIERE, SUPMECA; JEAN-CLAUDE TUCOULOU, AFIS ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE D'INGENIERIE SYSTEME

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Systems Engineering

approach in their projects and promot-ing it to smaller entities [5] [3]. On the other hand, academic institutions and researchers, mostoften in collaboration with industries, investigate new paths to teaching SE. They are typicallyinterested in defining competencies which best characterize a system engineer, in order to de-sign an efficient pedagogical model and an appropriate learning environment. In addition tothese questions, the present paper particulary focuses on SE standards and on how they can andshould be used for SE learning purposes.The next section of this paper presents a state of the art introducing a number of significantworks related to SE education. The following sections convey our own vision of teaching SE,together with a

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The Best in DEED

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Emilia Dewi Tanu, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

courses.While LA programs were initially developed for science and math courses, many LA programssupport LAs in a wide range of disciplines. This paper describes a pilot adaptation of the LAprogram for engineering design courses that we have developed at the University of Maryland,College Park Campus. All LAs assist in 14 separate sections of University of Maryland’sengineering design course for first-year undergraduate students. Our seminar integrates topicsfrom the discipline-general LA pedagogy seminar (cognitive science of learning, facilitation ofclassroom discourse, collaboration, metacognition) with topics especially relevant to engineeringdesign (design reviews, design thinking, expert-novice practices in engineering design,engineering

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Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jill Marshall, University of Texas, Austin; Ara Winter, University of New Mexico, Department of Biology; Yang Liu, University of New Mexico, Department of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

recordedstudent activity; they coded the qualitative data, including detailing how they developed thecoding scheme and how reliable their coders were. For instance, one study found that studentsspent more time engaged in mathematical and graphical modeling than physical modeling, incontrast to previous research findings, but seldom used mathematical modeling to inform theirdesigns, echoing findings in the previous section about the challenges to integrating engineeringand mathematics content successfully [72]. In a study of high school students who hadcompleted engineering courses, student design process was compared to expert design process,finding that the students spent significantly less time gathering information, making decisions,and evaluating the

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of technologists downstream from the designer. (Further relevant aspects,primarily trade-offs, of this are discussed in the section on concurrent development.)Perseverance, likewise, is also an essential characteristic of engineers as well as artists. Forartists, the very process of nurturing a vision from conception to execution is often a matter ofperseverance. Obstacles include the financial difficulty of obtaining materials. This may rangefrom the metal sculptor’s purchase of raw materials and tools to the musician’s purchase ofappropriate gear or rental of studio space. Once those resources are present, for the lone artist,there is the challenge of mastering all the techniques and tools necessary to realize a vision, andfor the artist