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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Kimberly Riegel; George Tremberger; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

Assessing critical thinking aspects involving cause and effect inquiry in the teaching of physics for engineering and technology students Vazgen Shekoyan, Sunil Dehipawala, Kimberly Riegel, George Tremberger, David Lieberman, and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Physics DepartmentAbstractThe subject of cause and effect analysis is an important part of the foundation of epistemology.In this study, the assessment of critical thinking has been implemented in the teaching ofintroductory physics curricula required for technology and engineering students. In addition tothe accepted critical thinking criteria, which include

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Julius J. Marpaung; Jeff Burke; Josh Weibling

At the University of Houston, we focus on hands-on learning in our curriculum. We begin byintroducing Arduino and Matlab in our freshmen introductory level course, ECE 1331: Computerand Problem Solving. In spring 2016, students have the opportunity to program Arduino usingMatlab in conjunction with an LED matrix to design a game as other institutions [1-4] have alsoused Arduino in their classrooms with great success. Although Dr. Marpaung has received apositive feedback in regards to using a Zumo bot in classroom [5], he believes that he can alsoenhance students’ hands-on learning experience by offering them a different set of projectsinvolving an LED matrix. Lab Assignments Laboratory assignments are

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian; Grady F. Mathews IV

learners andinstructors) is a key factor which defines the success of online education3.But unfortunately, engineering courses such as that are in need of laboratories, team works,construction site visits, field personnel’s technical presentations cannot be offered through onlinemedium. The physical interactions that are needed in the laboratories and construction sitescannot be offered by the online courses. Such collaborations of educational institutions withindustry and Government are necessary for Civil Engineering program’s success. UndergraduateEngineering students love to have hands-on experience for the most of the courses in theirCourse curriculum. The instructors who teach courses that are complemented by laboratoriesreceive high grade

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lin Lin

Hands on Education in Integrated Curriculum Lin Lin University of Southern Maine1. Introduction:It has been demonstrated by numerous studies that the combination of theory and hands-onexperience is a critical component of engineering education [1]. To teach engineering studentshow to design an experiment, preform a test, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, etc. arecritical. Hands on laboratory experiences can be delivered in various ways. They are eitherintegrated into courses that contain both lectures and lab components or offered separately as labcourses.Traditionally, mechanical engineering programs offer 2 or 3 mechanical lab

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ralph C. Tillinghast; Edward A. Petersen

educational careers. The decision was made to find a former high rankingmilitary officer with experience in the public school system including science teaching andadministration.Once found the program manager was allowed to add two more individuals to the office. Thefirst selection was a person with advanced computer skills and bilingual fluency in English andSpanish. The team was completed with the addition of a patent-holding engineer withentertaining communication skills effective with teenagers. This team provided in depthknowledge of: the customer (the schools), on-line digital communications, creating inroads intothe growing Hispanic population, becoming an engineer, what is involved in engineering, andwhat to expect as a member of a research

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Benito Mendoza

On Using Simulators and a Hybrid Approach for an Internetworking Technology Course Benito Mendoza | bmendoza@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Computer Engineering Technology New York City College of TechnologyThis paper presents an implementation of a hybrid course in advanced computer networksfocused on internetworking technologies. Professional networking equipment is expensive andsetting up a big enough networking laboratory can be costly. To overcome this problem, thecourse makes use of online and offline computer networks simulators that help the students topractice the concepts and skills required to obtain a

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Oludare Owolabi

knowledge andconceptual understanding to real-world problems or situations where the instructor directs andfacilitates learning [1]. According to Wurdinger and Carlson, 2010, [1] the classroom,laboratory, or studio can serve as a setting for experiential learning through embedded activitiessuch as case and problem-based studies, guided inquiry, simulations, experiments, or art projects. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUAccording to University of Texas at Huston, Learning Sciences [2] when students are givenopportunities to learn in authentic situations on campus or in the community like those providedin internships, field placements, clinical experiences, research and service-learning projects

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

and off-campus, they have little time to engage in co-curricularactivities outside of class time that would enrich their education. Opportunities to “go into thefield” through class site visits and field trips during class time, and individual or team researchprojects where students gather information from various sources, are welcomed by moststudents. These opportunities require them to explore their course subject outside of theclassroom. Service learning goes further than any of these teaching methods. It embeds thestudent, individually or in teams, into a credit-bearing learning environment where they have areal community client and a real project, and where they can see, and earn appreciation for, theirclass work and enhanced civic