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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F.T. Fisher; R.S. Besser; K. Sheppard; C.H. Choi; E.H. Yang

of Given the factors above it is clearly necessary to develop ananotechnology and its applications to a broad undergraduate means to engage students with the vibrant and diverse themesengineering student population. Two new courses introduce emerging from contemporary nanotechnology developmentscontemporary themes of nanotechnology within the early in the higher education experience. The primary goal ofundergraduate engineering curriculum. An additional optional, our program is to create a nexus between nanotechnology andbut strongly promoted, research component engages students in undergraduate engineering education in order to expandvibrant faculty-based nanotechnology

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ruth Ochia P.E.

1 Development of an undergraduate bioengineering curriculum that mirrors the breadth of the field Ruth Ochia, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Bioengineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA of areas of concentration, this curriculum set up might be moreAbstract—Temple University’s Bioengineering undergraduate difficult.program was launched in Fall 2013 and initially comprised a The purpose of

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

Abstract—Computer System Technology is an there are a large number of careers that graduates from ITenormously vibrant field that emerged at the end of the programs enter [8]. Those careers show an enormous diversitylast century as our society experienced a fundamental and the knowledge base and skill sets required for eachchange from an industrial society to an “information consequently vary widely as well. The curriculum shouldsociety.” This in turn demands changes to the curriculum therefore be designed in a way that gives an institutionof Computer Systems degree programs at colleges and considerable freedom in tailoring the curriculum to the needsuniversities so

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

 is to  teach  Fundamentals”. Motorola’s  executive  V.P.  said,  “You  will  be  history,  and  to  prove  my  point I am awarding $1 million to Purdue University to come out with an integrated curriculum, 6which will  accomplish  both”.  I  came  overwhelmed  with  enthusiasm  and  shared this conversationwith  our  former  Chancellor  William  T.  Hogan  who  said,  “This  is  our mission  in  the  university”.  I  felt deeply relieved, that we were doing the right thing. The author involved leaders namelyRobert Meisenhelder and Mike Walsh from Analog Devices, George LeVan, Andy Hunt and JimOerth from Skyworks Solutions, John Beck and Rob Richardson from Intel. The issue ofintegrated

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alisa Morss Clyne

student knowledge and retention, studies I. INTRODUCTION suggest that PBL enhances students’ abilities to apply their knowledge both immediately and in the long term. Thus theB ioengineering suffers from a significant lag between laboratory bench discovery and realimplementation. A primary challenge in engineering education world PBL approach can help integrate classroom learning, research

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Russell Woleslagle; Brian Swartz P.E.

advisors at all levels, but as much as possible the students are involved with the leadership. Forstudents to use many of the skills they developed in the example, there is a student board of directors that vets newprevious three years towards a real, or at least realistic, project project proposals to consider whether the incoming projectobjective. aligns with the ethos of the Collaboratory and is poised to be Messiah College Engineering recently replaced the senior successful.capstone with an Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC). In the The

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Seri Park

Module III aims to develop an entrepreneur view in theA. Module I: Inverted Classroom overall engineering economics curriculum. Specific plans Concept of inverted classroom is a key element in this include:proposed work. Research has shown that active learning breeds  Link Risk Management topic with the Entrepreneurship.the best retention rates [1]. However, in order to do the type of  Semester-long group project assignment focusing on a newactive learning proposed, the instructors must engage the product invention. Tasks will include but not limited to:principles of inverted classroom by recording lectures which o Market survey, feasibility analysis

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak; Gül E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan E. Esparragoza

ofEngineering graduates. In fact, the lack of professional skills in pedagogical initiatives.project teams has been identified as one of the top contributors tothe high failure rate of complex engineering projects. As a Beard et al. [3] suggest that an assessment plan to evaluateresponse, academic programs have incorporated professional curricular efforts that aim to integrate professional skills intoskills in their curricula, which led to the challenge of assessing the programs should include standardized rubrics for targetedrelevant student development appropriately. This paper proposes courses in addition to comprehensive exit

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

workshop to disseminate curriculum teachers to practice or develop lesson plans for integrating themodules that high school teachers (teaching primarily AP technologies for classroom usage.computer science and introductory programming courses) can A. Our Modelimplement in the classroom that provide students with anexposure to the versatility and applicability of the The first phase of our model focuses on helping teachers toprogramming skills they have learned throughout the school learn the technologies in an active learning environment.year. Educators can use the modules from the workshop to They participate in

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kyle V. Moses; W. Michael Petullo

- cision reduces accidental complexity, as it transforms the task The routine art in the field of computer software construc- of verifying the use of buffers in a number of applicationstion does not yet produce software which preserves confiden- written in an unsafe language to the task of verifying a type-tiality, integrity, and availability when exposed to the Internet. safe programming language’s implementation. This is signifi-This is evident as researchers continually find exploitable flaws

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tristan Ericson; Scott Kiefer

schedule. This milestone system added structure to the projectthe projects are to be completed well. As a result, many and increased timeliness, but the instructors were confrontedstudents express dissatisfaction with the capstone course in with an unanticipated side effect. If a milestone wastheir course evaluations. Much of the dissatisfaction completed poorly, and the student(s) received an appropriatelyexpressed by good students comes from weaker students “just low grade, there was no