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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Yu Wang; Alex Wong; Aparicio Carranza

/output expansion peripheral for PC computers. Today, many microcomputers and laptops no longer use the parallel interface. Instead, they use the USB interface as an alternative. In this paper, an innovative Digilent PC-based USB I/O Explorer is being investigated for the Microcomputer Systems Technology course. The Digilent USB I/O Explorer provide various on-board I/O devices, which allows our students to write PC based software (C/C++) to interface to the external electronics devices, such as analog-to- digital and digital-to-analog converter. The laboratory development is intended to give students better understanding of USB peripheral device. From this experience, students

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Bryndol Sones

243 THE MCNP MODELING AND SIMULATION THREAD IN THE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING CURRICULUM AT WEST POINT Bryndol Sones bryndol.sones@usma.edu U.S. Military Academy West Point, NY 10996 Abstract: The Nuclear Engineering (NE) curriculum at West Point is reinforced by the modeling/simulation offered by the Monte-Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP5/X) developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bryndol Sones; Frank Wattenberg

classrooms have evolved into activity-based studios for student learning and assessment, and Physics Education Research (PER) has emerged as a research field at many universities. This philosophical change in the way teachers think about student learning has been accompanied by new classroom technologies that included video analysis techniques, student response cards (clickers), and a robust suite of sensors that bring classrooms and laboratories to life with the ease of plug-and-play data acquisition. PASCO Systems is one such sensor suite adopted at West Point in its introductory physics and math courses. In the context of studying a vertical spring-mass system, a motion sensor that uses the echo of

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

survey, Graduating senior survey, Lecturesurvey, Laboratory survey, Faculty survey, and the result of outcomes a-k. Once the change hasbeen agreed upon the present process makes no attempt to link the change to any one of theassessment tools. A summarized list of the assessment and evaluation feedbacks is as follows: Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 87Course-Level Assessment:Mechanisms used in course-level assessment include the course, lecture, laboratory, exit surveys,senior seminar, comprehensive (exit) examination

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

but as an enhancement to the learning process. The growth of the Internet and the ubiquitous nature of students’ access to multimedia materials and the wealth of amateur and professional videos on a wide range of manufacturing processes make their inclusion in the classroom and lab a logical expansion and necessity. The manufacturing related courses are among the natural candidates for such experiments. They often require instructors to attempt to describe processes that the schools laboratories lack the equipment to demonstrate. This paper reports an on-going effort to investigate whether such an approach yields better learning results and the degree and best

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Masoud Fathizadeh; Gil Cabrera; Mark Werthman; George Zawislak

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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ASM Delowar Hossain; Zory Marantz; Djafar Mynbaev

in electronic coursesof the two-year engineering–technology program: We need to start with very basics ofsemiconductors and transistors and finish by introducing the principles of operation of modernIC circuits. In our department, we traditionally have an extensive theoretical electronics courseand independent laboratory course, both being taught at the second semester. The other 3rd-semester laboratory course entitled Communications Electronics is more specialized, as the titlesays. These three courses, clearly, are not able to cover all the needed material; we see thesolution on in a careful selection of the topics.In search for the criteria for this selection, we investigate the problem from various directions.First, we investigated the

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Avanzato

constructed within the virtualworld [5].Students in engineering classes at our campus have also designed interactiveengineering exhibits and various prototypes to support coursework. An interactive mobilerobotics virtual laboratory was developed to instruct virtual users in the basic programmingtechniques to direct a robot to successfully navigate a maze. Due to the persistence of virtualworld platforms, this virtual, interactive robotics laboratory (as well as all other virtual worlduser content) is available online at all times to an international audience [6]. In general, virtualworlds offer more immersive and powerful user (avatar) interaction, collaboration and in-worldbuilding, but may offer less in the way of accurate and precise models that

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

Technology and Construction Management Engineering Technology programs inour department. It is also a prerequisite course for a number of other courses in both programs.CON 161 is a 2 hour and 50 minute per week lecture course that introduces students toconstruction material characteristics, residential and small-scale commercial buildingconstruction methods, and the construction industry as a whole. Other than a soil sieve test,CON 161 lacks a laboratory component. Assessment of student learning in this course hastraditionally been either via weekly quizzes, mid-term and final examinations. Faculty membersteaching the three sections of this course normally draw construction details on the board andsupplement their teaching with PowerPoint

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

“An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Sequence inElectrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Assessment Results” IEEETRANSACTIONS IN EDUCATION, VOL 43, 2 MAY 2000.[5] L. Barry, J. Ekstrom, S.Gorka, G. Hislop, R. Kimali, E. Lawson, et al., “CurriculumGuidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology”, Association forComputing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, Information Technology, 2008.[6] www.acm.org.[7] Shiao-Li Tsao, “A Practical Implementation Course of Operating Systems: Curriculum Designand Teaching Experiences,” Shiao-Li Tsao, 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems, 2008.[8] J. Rugelj, J. Marzo, S. Knockaert, R. Van, J Salonen, K Bjorn, K Vaz de Carvalho

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David A. Vaccari

createcapstone projects that involve students from multiple engineering disciplines. While this cansatisfy the requirement, a closer reading yields both a different interpretation and an approach toassessment: Students can demonstrate the ability required by criterion 3-d by showing theirunderstanding of what information they need to share with other specializations as part of thedesign process. For example, plants designed by chemical engineers or environmental engineersrequire data from laboratory-scale tests, and their design specifications are in turn used by civilengineers and power engineers, among others, to complete the project. Many product designsrequire interaction between mechanical and electronic engineers.This interpretation does not

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott A. Sinex

, spreadsheet simulations, random and systematic errors Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 223Introduction:Getting students to deal with measurement error is not a trivial task, but is the hallmark of a goodscientist and engineer. So many K-16 laboratory activities tend to explore a single dependentvariable as the independent variable in changed. Then students address the question: “Whaterrors influence your results?” This is an important question to address; however, novicelearners need to investigate error not have it thrown in as an after