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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jinmyun Jo

Preheating Effect on the Friction Stir Welding Jinmyun Jo Department of Engineering Virginia State University, Petersburg, VirginiaOne of the primary emphases of the engineering senior projects is to provide researchexperiences to senior students who plan to go to engineering graduate schools. This presentationdiscusses the process used and the results obtained during proposing and executing a researchproject. Preheating effect on the friction stir welding (FSW) process was proposed as the topicof the senior researches in which preheating effects were investigated using a sand insulator anddonor material. Thermal

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

Course Objectives and EvolutionThe 8 credits of senior design are associated with a year long Fall-Spring sequence of courses,each carrying 4 credits. The course has core junior-level courses as prerequisites so that studentsenter with some substantive computer science fundamentals. We list below the formal courseobjectives. In the two courses, students will: 1. Learn key elements in the development of a significant year-long computer science project: planning, specification, design, analysis, and implementation. 2. Apply concepts from software engineering to the project: requirements, specification, reuse, documentation, verification and validation, testing, configuration management. 3. Learn to write about and practice

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

member/author hascontacted local nonprofit agencies to offer service learning course project assistance. Theservice learning community partners that we have worked with on this project need the students’help to produce existing condition construction drawings, and energy efficient retrofit details, fortheir facilities. Many of them do not have any usable drawings of their facilities due to the factthey were not required to apply for building permits for their own facilities, or drawings werelost. They need drawings for a variety of reasons including space planning, emergencypreparedness and to initiate renovation and building addition projects with architects. In thisservice learning project, student teams serve local non-profits by visiting

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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AB Shafaye; Rafic Bachnak

. 2. Feedback on questions 6 through 11 Spring 2016 Mid‐Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8‐9, 2016 GWU   Figures 3 and 4 show the results of two additional questions regarding their future academicplans and career choices. Fig. 3 Student responses regarding their plans to pursue graduate studies Fig. 4. Student responses regarding recommending the internship program to others Spring 2016 Mid‐Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8‐9, 2016 GWU   The following paragraphs summarize student responses to the following open-ended question:Question: How could the internship experience be improved for future

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adekola Owolabi

engineering set-up and anybusiness model that is to appropriately capture and nurture the essence of engineering firms mustof a necessity be able to position innovation properly as a value proposition that is central andconnected to all activities of such firms.The Business Model Canvas is a model building tool that has had wide use since it wasconceived in planning for the future of an enterprise. It is used principally to identify the valueinherent in a business activity and how such value will be packaged and offered to the targetmarket. However, just like any other business concept, the Business Model Canvas has itsdrawbacks and researchers are quick to point to what it cannot do more than what it can do. TheBusiness Model Canvas proposed by

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Julius J. Marpaung; Jeff Burke; Josh Weibling

properly without a flicker and we have notbeen able to get such refresh rate using Arduino and Matlab. In fact, it was found that the processof shifting and displaying data to the LED matrix using only Matlab functions resulted in aprocessing time on the order of 1.2 seconds. Future Work We plan to add more multicolor LED matrices in order to come up with more games such asBattleship and add an MP3 shield to give it a sound. Conclusions The availability and affordability of a microprocessor such as Arduino have given educators amean to push students to a new level. More and more engineering students want to have a hands-on experience in early classes and here at

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lance Hoffman; Rachelle Heller; Costis Toregas

cyberlegislation currently proposed and under discussion. The course grooms GW'sCyberCorps students to succeed by developing their technical, analytical,managerial, presentation, and writing skills with regard to cybersecurity issues.The course also provides a baseline of relevant federal policies and mandates andgives an informed picture of federal government roles, responsibilities, andprocesses in cyber security. It reviews basics of the U.S. Constitution and law andsteeps students in the CSIA elements necessary to planning federal computersystems within a framework that is cognizant of privacy, cost, risk, civil liberties,and public acceptance. It routinely discusses contemporaneous speeches, reports,guides and laws that are shaping how the government

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jeffrey Birou; Alistar Erickson-Ludwig; Mira Olson; Kevin Scoles

 potential for alignment between the goals of the Peck Scholars  4​program and the school district’s sustainability plan​, which has the following focus areas: sustainability for education, consumption and waste, healthy schools, green school years, and energy and efficiencies.   In November 2015, initial collaboration began between the Peck Scholars program coordinator, Drexel University faculty and staff, and OEMS to clarify the objectives of this collaboration. OEMS wanted Peck Scholars students to design an irrigation system for one school’s garden, with the intention that the system could be easily replicated at schools throughout the district. This would require the Peck Scholars to also

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

, Nicaragua. The workshops wereorganized in collaboration with the Nicaragua-based nonprofit organization, the FabrettoChildren’s Foundation, with the objective of helping rural area students and teachers elaborate onnew ventures based on a product or service to address their community’s needs6.Research suggests that problem-based instruction and active learning strategies improvestudents’ overall problem solving skills7. The total number of workshop participants consisted of20 students and 5 teachers. Although we had previous workshop experience in the United Stateson the topics of idea generation and business plan development, adaptations to various workshopcontent and examples were made in order to assimilate the Nicaraguan culture and better

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Oludare Owolabi

about the architectural and structuralcomponents of the building. The briefing usually takes about an hour and the instructorinterjects intermittently to ensure that the necessary concepts are passed across to the students. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUFigure 1. The Engineering Mechanics Students on Field tour of one of the Construction Site on Campus. Figure 2. The project manager describing the design, plan and execution of the project.After the briefing the students are then taking round the site where they are shown how theconcepts they are learning in class are applied to the design and construction of the structuralelements of the building like

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian; Grady F. Mathews IV

most important motivation for teaching online. Public institutions continue to bethe most likely to believe that online education is critical to their long-term strategy.Approximately one-third of baccalaureate institutions consider online to be critical, a rate abouthalf that of other institutional types such as associate degree institutions.The percent of higher education institutions that currently have a Massive Open Online Courses(MOOC) increased from 2.6 percent to 5.0 percent over the past year. The majority ofinstitutions (53 percent) report they are still undecided about MOOCs, while under one-third (33percent) say they have no plans for a MOOC. Only 23 percent of academic leaders believe thatMOOCs represent a sustainable method for

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Oludare Owolabi

face class devoid of some of these activities. Itencompasses methodologies that are not only sustainable and scalable, but can be easily adoptedin any university in teaching engineering online classes.References[1] Schmieder, E. J. (2008). “The Tool to Interact with and Control Your Online Classroom Environment”. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning Vol. 5. No. 3 pp 39-50.[2] Sarder, M. B. (2014). “Improving Student Engagement in Online Courses”. Proceeding 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis IN, June 15-18, 2014.[3] U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning