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Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

that I encounter are solving these engineering problems by handor Excel instead of utilizing the powerful resources that Python offers. This course might soundssimilar to Chemical Engineering Computing, but that course only involved barely relevantchemical engineering problems, except for the project at the end of the semester. This course isvery relevant to most ChE courses. I believe that students could better perform in the core ChEclasses if they took this course.This comment certainly resonates with the vision of the instructor: in the ideal case, this (orsimilar) course should be available to all chemical engineering students, rather than to those whochose it as an elective. The question then is where in the curriculum should it be

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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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Newark Public Schools. Her latest endeavors have introduced an increase in the number and quality of STEM-related opportunities with the Orange Public Schools as the Director of Mathematics and Science; expanding opportunities to underrep- resented populations of students to participate in STEM-focused offerings such as Robotics, engineering courses, and high-impact summer camps. In an effort to further ready students for college success through new models for learning, Dr. Powell, in collaboration with district leads, post-secondary partners, and industry experts founded by the STEM Innovation Academy of the Oranges. The Academy is a fully integrated STEM education model that uses engineering design, mathematical

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Rajpal S Sodhi, NJIT

ethics as a separate topic in an upper division course.ABET has developed guidelines for engineering institutions to integrate material on ethicsand professionalism in the curriculum. In the student outcomes, ABET requires thefollowing:An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situationsand make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions inglobal, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.Importance of ethics in industryAlthough people in the industry work on mutual respect and trust, but still there is a needfor established standards of behavior. According to the Preamble of the NJ Society ofProfessional Engineers [7], “engineering is an important and learned

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Laramie Potts, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of Technology

beyond technical skills. Critical thinking also requiresmeaningful and reflective judgement which leads to better logical conclusions of arguments.Critical thinking or reflective judgment is required to solve ill-posed problems [e.g., 26].Five phases of critical thinking include the trigger event, an appraisal, the exploration,developing alternative perspectives, and integration [e.g., 27 and references therein; 28]. In thefirst phase, the trigger event, unexpected events occur that result in a sense of “inner discomfortand complexity”. This means that the problem or situation arrests attention that makes animpression that warrants further attention. During the think phase, to be most effective, thestudents’ task must pique their interest and

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Ahm E. Rahman, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Anil Chandra Attaluri, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Amit Banerjee; Brian A. Maicke, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

early1990’s. It was understood that a FEM theory was not necessary to learn the usage of FEAsimulation. FEA simulation was included as a part of solid modeling in an engineering designgraphics course [11]. Ural et. al. [12] have developed a project for first year course incorporatingFEA simulation. In that project, the behavior of a SMARTBEAM® was examined usingexperimental measurement and FEA simulation and the results were compared. For all these firstyear courses FEA was used only as a simulation tool and the philosophy was that the underlyingFEA theory or the knowledge of mechanics was not necessary.Papadopoulos et al. [13] proposed a different pedagogy on integration of FEA practicethroughout the undergraduate CE/ME curriculum. They

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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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in Middle- and High-School Science and Mathematics Classrooms,” Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 2009.[11] H. Kimmel, R. Rockland, L. S. Hirsch, J. Carpinelli and L. Burr-Alexander, “Medibotics: An Engineering Program for Integration into Secondary School Science Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Engineering Education, Belfast, Ireland, August, 2011.[12] R. H Rockland, L. Burr-Alexander, H. S. Kimmel, J. D. Carpinelli, L. S Hirsch, and T. M. Tylutki, “Integration of Medicine and Robotics – an online teacher professional development program for STEM education,” Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.[13] R. H. Kay, and L. Knaack

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Kathleen M. Hill, Pennsylvania State University; Somayeh Asadi, Penn State ; Matthew M Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Tiffany M. Lewis

practices [5].The Building Education RET site is a collaboration between engineering faculty in ArchitecturalEngineering and science education faculty at the Center for Science and the Schools at PennState University. As designed, the program emphasizes the intersection of sustainability, systemsthinking, and the practices of engineers to provide a holistic understanding of the nature ofengineering research. In this paper, we describe the structure of the Building Education RETprogram from the teachers’ technical research to curriculum development, and finally curriculumimplementation. The level of integration of the engineering practices into secondary curriculumbased upon the teachers’ research experiences is explored. We present an exemplar case

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James Lipuma, NJIT; Cristo Leon, NJIT

taught the needed skills already on how to understand anassignment, design an effective means for conveying a core message, and understand how tojudge the scenario and goals aligned with the needs of the content and supporting materials. Though this is often not the case, the support and feedback, if any is provided, cannot domore than refine the content delivery for a narrow situation which the instructor generalizeswithout providing the means to understand and apply the feedback to future tasks within thesame class, other classes in the curriculum, or future needs within the field. Students need tohave clear explicit instruction and emphasis on a scaffolded, constructively-aligned system forapproaching oral presentations that begin with

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Nadir Yilmaz P.E., Howard University; Hyung D. Bae , Howard University

and increasing performance for unique applications (e.g. satellite, passenger aircraft,high-performance vehicle, electric mobility scooter, etc.).AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Autodesk for their generous support with software and services.References1. V. Singh and N. Gu, “Towards an integrated generative design framework,” Design Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 185–207, Mar. 2012, doi: 10.1016/J.DESTUD.2011.06.001.2. S. C. Chase, “Generative design tools for novice designers: Issues for selection,” Automation in Construction, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 689–698, Dec. 2005, doi: 10.1016/J.AUTCON.2004.12.004.3. X. Li, H. O. Demirel, M. H. Goldstein, and Z. Sha, “Exploring Generative Design Thinking

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

because of this new approach.Senior Design Project Curriculum at Villanova UniversityThe senior design sequence in the ECE department at Villanova University begins in the springsemester of the junior year with a proposal development course. The project proposal coursestarts with an introduction to ECE design which covers design topics such as organizing aproject, developing system specifications, preparing a system block diagram, organizing, andbreaking down a project into its sub-parts, consideration of appropriate standards that must betaken account in designs, how to prepare a proposal, technical writing, project management(including budgeting, work breakdown scheduling, human resource management, etc.) Thecourse also includes some technical

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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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Cesar Bandera, NJIT MTSM; Regina S. Collins, New Jersey Institute of Technology

search of solicitations from by federal agenciestasked with addressing such problems, and metacognition exercises to help students build self-efficacy. We then present a course “ENT330 Entrepreneurial Strategy” that implements thisframework in an undergraduate entrepreneurship education program offered by the school ofbusiness in a polytechnic research university. ENTR330 students search for codifiedopportunities with societal significance for technological innovations, including innovationsstudents developed in other engineering courses, and formulate sustainable strategies for thepursuit these opportunities.Discovering Codified OpportunitiesSmith, Matthews, and Schenkel (2009) characterize an entrepreneurial opportunity as well-documented