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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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approach in Grades 9-12 whileemphasizing the “soft-skills” necessary for today’s workplace–collaboration, communication, creativity,problem-solving, and perseverance. Founders of the Academy saw PBL as a dynamic approach to teaching.Within this type of active and engaged learning space, students are inspired to obtain a deeperunderstanding of the subjects they're studying as teachers are providing the scaffolds necessary to helpcraft the experiences.Figure 1: Design Thinking Model #1Image credit: Beth Holland courtesy of Stanford-School In the Summer of 2017 and prior to enrolling students, the Academy contracted with an entitywell known and highly regarded for its implementation of PBL designs and trained its founding body ofteachers on

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Justyn Allen Bunkley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Marc J Louise O. Caballes, Morgan State University; Margaret Ajuwon, Morgan State University; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Design Analysis of Rocket Tail Fins Aimed at Higher Apogee by Computer Simulation Justyn Bunkley1, Marc J Louise Caballes2, Margaret Ajuwon2, and Guangming Chen2 1 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2 Morgan State University Corresponding author's Email: justyn.bunkley@gmail.comAbstract: The Rocketry Team at Morgan State University is developing a single-stage liquid-propellant

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dylan Louis Vongrej; Juan F Galindo-Maza, Raritan Valley Community College ; Luke P Ingenito, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Darwin Arias Lizano, Rutgers School of Engineering; Jenna Nugent; Kate Rybak; Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College / Arts & Design Department; Peter Raymond Stupak, Main Engine Start a NJ Non-Profit Corporation

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Infections”. Research interests include microelectronics and applications, direct digital control devices and low voltage circuitry.Jenna Nugent Jenna is a Site/Civil Engineer at Langan Engineering and Environmental Services. She has experience and interest in site design and stormwater management.Ms. Kate RybakProf. Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College / Arts & Design Department Darren McManus is an Associate Professor in the Arts & Design Department at Raritan Valley Com- munity College in New Jersey where he teaches Visual Design 1, Visual Design 2, Digital Artmaking and Typography within the Graphic and Interactive Design Program. He is an award-winning, exhibiting painter and practicing

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ryan Hare, Rowan University

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- and post-intervention. We further verify the game system’s educational utility through an example case of the game adaptation, showing the full process of adapting to a student and providing educational assistance. By sharing our testing and verification, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our intelligent educational game system. In addition, we provide developmental insights for other researchers in this area who seek to implement or improve their own systems.1. IntroductionA recent trend in engineering education is the adoption of problem-based learning (PBL)approaches [1]. PBL immerses students in problem-solving by engaging them with a real-world(or simulated) problem scenario. Within PBL implementations

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Ashley Lytle

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schools to promote and cultivate additionaldispositions within their students that better enable them to adapt and employ their disciplinaryknowledge. The concept of an “adaptive expert” (AE) has been previously developed within thelearning sciences to describe an individual with deep content knowledge but who also displaysadditional cognitive characteristics that better enable them to employ their knowledge and skillsin practice. Four constructs have been identified in the literature as forming the basis of thisadaptive expertise: 1) multiple perspectives (MP), 2) metacognition (META), 3) goals andbeliefs (GB), and 4) epistemology (EPIST).Upon entry to an engineering program, it is likely that students will present with different levelsof

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch

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by the NJ Manufacturing Extension Program on National Manufacturing Day, 2018; Leading Women Intrapreneur, conferred by NJ Leading Women En- trepreneurs, 2018; and Best 50 Women in Business, conferred by NJ Biz, 2016. In 2018, she was the Principal Investigator of three NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) grants: (1) Construction & Utilities Talent Development Center, (2) Construction & Utilities Talent Network, and (3) Technology Advisory Network (TAN). Among her numerous publications, her co-authored paper, M- 0utreach for Engineering Continuing Education: A Model for University-Company Collaboration,” was awarded one of five Best Paper awards out of 1700 submissions presented at the

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Amy Voss Farris, Pennsylvania State University; Anna Eunji Kim, Pennsylvania State University

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contexts in which machine learning operates. We report the connections theysaw and discuss the relevance of machine learning as an example of reasoning about complexengineered systems for young students and for teachers.IntroductionHumans are frequently embedded in contexts in which machines learn from their everydayactions. However, constructing explanations about the underlying causal mechanisms of amachine learning system (such as predictive text when texting a friend, or image recognition incollections of photographs) requires individuals to examine an engineered system in ways thatconsider parts of the system and the relationships among multiple parts of that system [1], [2].These reasoning abilities are germane to engineering disciplines

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Mark R O’Shea, California State University Monterey Bay

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Department of Biomedical Engineering. Previous to that he served as Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies for the Newark College of Engineering of NJIT. His re- search in industry was in the area of pacemakers and defibrillation, and his research at Medtronic Inc led to five patents. He was a principal investigator for a three year, $1 million NSF grant entitled Medibotics: The merging of medicine, robotics and IT, and was a co-principal investigator for a $2.5 million grant on pre-engineering workforce enhancement from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, as well as a principal investigator for a Whitaker Foundation grant. His current research was in biological signal processing, related to cardiovascular

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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(STEM) field. Involvingundergraduate students in research will make them take more interest in studies and motivate them topursue graduate degrees. The undergraduate students at Pennsylvania State University where I teach getinvolved in research usually conducted in the summer period for an 8-week or 10-week duration. Thename of the program is “Multi-campus Research Experience for Undergraduates” (MC-REU) and it isadministered by the College of Engineering at Penn State.Similarly, there are many academic institutions in the United States that got involved with researchundertaken by undergraduate students. The goals of the undergraduate research programs are (1) topromote undergraduate students participating in research early in their academic

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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success in anengineering degree program [1-4]. Students with low spatial visualization skills (SVS) are morelikely to leave engineering. Since women and underrepresented groups are disproportionatelyaffected by low SVS, providing students with the opportunity to train and practice their spatialskills is vital to maintaining diversity in engineering [4-7].The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test of Rotations (PSVT:R) is a standardized test commonlyused to assess spatial ability [8]. A score of 70% or higher is considered passing. Students whoscore below 70% are identified as having low SVS and at-risk for leaving the engineeringprogram. These students are usually encouraged or required to participate in a spatial skillstraining program to improve