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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

86to TAC/ABET by January 31, 2009 for a re-accreditation report evaluation. The reportdescribing the actions taken to correct the shortcomings identified needed to be submitted toTAC/ABET by July 1, 2009. One of the program weaknesses reported by the TAC/ABET wasCriterion 3 (Assessment and Evaluation) which states “Each program must utilize multipleassessment measures in a process that provides documented results to demonstrate that the resultof the assessment of program objectives are being used to improve and further develop theprogram in accordance with a documented process” [3]. According to the TAC/ABET visitingteam, a continuous improvement plan has been written but has not been fully implemented. Theresponse to this assessment was to

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Issam Damaj; Ashley Ater Kranov

, quality assurance, policy management, review systems,and fundraising - all within the context of sustainability. The KPMs, and accordingly the criteria,are best understood in terms of the detailed KPIs. Student Learning by Coursework Program,Criterion II, monitors curricular issues related to SoTE. Here, the criteria also looks into programeducational objectives, student outcomes, assessment plans, curricula, and issues related toplagiarism. Criterion III, Student Learning by Research Program, measures the sustainability ofthe research program including research support. Faculty Research and Consultancy, CriterionIV, looks mainly into the sustainability of faculty research objectives, professional developmentfor research, consultancy activities

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Yu Wang; Alex Wong; Aparicio Carranza

experiments inMicrocomputer Systems Technology course in a four-year computer engineering technologycurriculum. Section II discusses Laboratory Environment and Preliminary Study. Section IIIoutlines the planned labs of the USB I/O expansion peripheral for PC. The conclusion is includedin Section IV.II. Laboratory Environment and Preliminary StudyThe x86 processor laptop or PC based computer consists of Visual C++ 2010 Express runningMicrosoft Window 7 Operating System. To expand the I/O capabilities of a PC, the DigilentUSB I/O Explorer board (Figure 1) has to be connected to USB port of laptop or PC computer.This I/O Explorer is highly evolved device and provides various on-board I/O devices, such asswitches, buttons, LEDs, speaker/buzzer. A number

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hong Li; Ali Setoodehnia

learning approaches thatenable them to learn at their own pace by leveraging their comfort with technology in a settingthat is fun, collaborative, and often team-based. Many universities have developed and offeredhybrid or fully online coursesas a viable alternative to a traditional classroom. The onlineeducation has become very popular, especially for working professionals who are looking forcareer advancement, career changes, or the chance to earn a degree at their own pace. In onlineclasses, students are able to plan their own time for class activities and participations followinginstructions. Not only students have to adapt their learning, but also educators must change theway they have been teaching traditionally in classroom to accommodate

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

time.Completion of all-encompassing reports will include formal: surveys, evaluations and feedbackalong with individual and group evaluations of goal completion. The rating and evaluationprocess is imperative to the individual student projects and to the NA educational system as well.If goals are unattainable the results will be well documented along with the reasons for failure.Most projects will require a multiplicity of disciplines such as rights management, data storage,system design, system migration and upgrade, security, mashing, performance issues, WAN,LAN, router configuration, user training and many more. A project plan will incorporate aProgram Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) that will help with time management. Othercritical project

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

sections is 3.9 — i.e. the average responsefor all 3 sections “agreed” with the statement, “The Visual Dictionary of Building MaterialsProject was a good learning experience for this course.”Approximately 57% of the students in all 3 sections exceeded the standard for this project, 18%met the standard, 11% approached the standard and the remaining 14% did not meet the standardfor this project.Conclusion:There is a qualitative benefit to incorporating a visual dictionary into a freshman course. Theauthor plans to keep this project in the coursework for freshman and encourages other faculty toimplement it into their courses. Further research on this topic with a larger sample sizes and aquantitative pre and post-test is recommended.References[1

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kalyan Mondal

set ofpractice questions in the final examination. Out of 12 students taking the test, only one studentobtained a failing score in this segment. This student happened to fail the course as well. Theaverage score of the class for this segment of learning outcome was nearly 82%, including thegrade of the failing student.In the next offering of the course, a more comprehensive rubric will be developed and used forstudent learning outcome assessment of Secure Programming principles. In future, we plan todevelop and inject some of the security concepts in the first programming course taken by allengineering and engineering technology majors in our university. References[1] Gary J. Bronson, C++ for

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anatoliy Gordonov

courses are presented. The results of the research may be useful for those who are planning to develop new security courses or introduce a richer security component in the existing courses. Key words: Computer security, human factor, security education, motivation.Introduction The success of any security policy heavily depends on the human factor. In otherwords, no system can have a high level of security if people who develop, install, and use itdo not understand what problems insecure use can cause. The answer seems to be verysimple: teach those who deal with computers proper rules of security, and this will solvemany problems. Unfortunately, it is not always true. Many of the security rules

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aiman S. Kuzmar

programs, ABETcurriculum criterion [7] statesthat “the technical content of the program must focus on the applied aspects of science andengineering.” Statics is one way to fulfill this ABET requirement for many EngineeringTechnology programs.Construction Management:The Occupational Outlook Handbook by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics [8] states:“Construction managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from earlydevelopment to completion.” Construction Management is a vital field nationally andinternationally. Construction activities serve as an index to the strength of the economyin the USand across the World [9]. Poor construction indicates a poor economy status and vice versa [10].Many universities offer various

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

: http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~mahmud/iegr363/5 Gilroy, M. (2009). Higher Education Migrates to YouTube and Social Networks. The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 12-14.6 Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational Research. In J. W. Creswell, Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (pp. 375-421). Person.7 Salimian, M. (2012, Oct). Facebook - Masud.Salimian. Retrieved from www.facebook.com/masud.salimian: www.facebook.com/masud.salimian8 Salimian, M. (2013, March). YouTube - DRSalimian. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/DrSalimian: 3URFHHGLQJV RI WKH 6SULQJ 0LG$WODQWLF 6HFWLRQ &RQIHUHQFH RI WKH $PHULFDQ 6RFLHW

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Farzad Moazzami; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

arequirement for future online students because we plan to form partnerships with test centers orlearning centers to allow them to take their exams from other locations. The ECE courses with online video lecture were offered during the Fall 2010 semester ashybrid courses and the Spring 2011 semester as completely online courses. The results shown inFig 4 are based on the students who enrolled in the Electric Circuits courses. The data shows thecomparison of the results for the 12 students enrolled in the online or hybrid courses during theFall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, versus those enrolled in the F2F courses in the Fall 2010semester (28 students) and the Spring 2011 semester (33 students). The results indicate that thesuccess of students

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David A. Vaccari

becomestudent members of their professional society, be active in the student chapter if there is one, andthen do the other things described.Finally, we need to directly assess student performance. Here, in contrast to most otheroutcomes, we may directly assess performance with a survey. It is direct if the survey is askingfor factual information, not judgements or opinions.A good place to do such a survey is in the senior exit interview. For example, one of thecommercially-conducted exit survey products [10] asks the following questions: • I have a good understanding of the professional opportunities offered by my chosen major. • I am planning to obtain an advanced degree in my field within the next 5 years.This same product