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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

Digital Media Enhances Manufacturing Processes Teaching and Learning Mr. Yaseen Mahmud, Dr. Masud Salimian Yaseen.mahmud@morgan.edu Masud.salimian@morgan.edu Morgan State University Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, Maryland 21251 $EVWUDFW The challenge of teaching a population of digital natives in the contemporary brick and mortar campus requires the use of innovative techniques not only to maintain student interest

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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ASM Delowar Hossain; Zory Marantz; Djafar Mynbaev

140 CAN WE TEACH MODERN ELECTRONICS AT A TWO- YEAR ENGINEERING-TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM? ASM Delowar Hossain, Zory Marantz Djafar Mynbaevahossain@citytech.cuny.edu zmarantz@citytech.cuny.edu dmynbaev@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering Technology New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201Abstract: Teaching electronics in career-oriented two-year programs is a challenge due to thepractical knowledge that must be

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Bryndol Sones

of X-raydetectors, neutron gas-filled detectors, alpha/beta proportional counters, and alpha PIPSdetectors. While we have no reactor or a high energy electron LINAC, we take pride in our sub-critical facility for fission, transport, and shielding experiments and a 3-MeV NEC Pelletron ionaccelerator for Ion Beam Scattering (IBS) experiments. Organic laboratory capabilities areenhanced by the presence of a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) research located atWest Point. The Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Center (NSERC) is collocated withthe NE Program and it serves to enable cadet research with DTRA and other DOD partners. Itsstaff of three Army officers all has MCNP expertise, and they provide periodic teaching supportto the NE

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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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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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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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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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David A. Vaccari

252 A HARD JOB: ASSESSING “SOFT” OUTCOMES David A. Vaccari, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE dvaccari@stevens.edu Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030Abstract: Under criterion 3 of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET,engineering programs are required to have eleven documented student outcomes1, commonlyreferred to as “a through k.” Five of these student outcomes represent technical attributes thatengineering educators are familiar with teaching and assessing. However, six of these studentoutcomes are, for many faculty members

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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