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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

1 Curriculum Modification Reflects the Growth of Computer Systems Technology Hong Li and Ashwin Satyanarayana { hli, asatyanarayana }@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Computer Systems Technology New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay St, N-914, Brooklyn, NY 11201. education curriculum [6]. The curriculum must be flexible as

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alisa Morss Clyne

pulmonologist from Drexel College situation. The first question helped the faculty respond quicklyof Medicine taught students the basics of cystic fibrosis and to student frustrations—either individually or to the entirelung function testing, allowing the students to practice reading class. The second question enabled students to reflect on theirreal patient lung function tests. For the laboratory component, own experiences. The third question tested student depth ofpig lungs from the slaughterhouse were treated in various knowledge, and showed that only a few students could relateways to replicate obstructive and restrictive lung diseases. concepts learned in the module to a new situation.Students then inflated the

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tristan Ericson; Scott Kiefer

accurately reflect the quality of work and commitment of eachmilestone grades in the summer of 2014, seven of them, 78%, student, but there still seems to frustration among the morereceived professionalism scores that were at least 6% below dedicated students.the class average. This correlation shows that the points To address the dissatisfaction of the more dedicatedsystem was correcting student grades in a direct relationship students, two additional changes will be implemented duringwith student time and effort put into the project as judged by the next build semester. First, every student is going to bepeer and instructor evaluations. asked to give a five minute

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

). The overall result given in Table II could be generated using  Please indicate how knowledgeable you are about skills and any assessment rubric or test and does not necessarily reflect attitudes for effective team communication. the advantages of the MDL-based assessment framework. The  Please indicate how confident you are about your advantages of the MDL-based assessment framework become communication skills in teamwork. apparent when the overall test score is broken down into the MDL

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ruth Ochia P.E.

this paper is to provide details of theunified bioengineering “overview” curriculum. The curriculum development of Temple University’s (TU)department has been hiring faculty from a wide variety of Bioengineering program as an example to other programs thatbioengineering specialties and the difficulty came with the may wish to include a broader spectrum of areas within theirdevelopment of the curriculum that reflected this diversity. undergraduate bioengineering curricula.The bioengineering curriculum was modified using thebackward course design concept [1] by looking at the contents II. CURRICULUM NEEDSof the proposed senior capstone classes and redesigning theseven

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Holly T. Frederick

foundationalstep increases the depth of student understanding in an area tools provide students with the information that is necessarywhere they expressed an initial interest. Students have to move forward to the second level of the taxonomy whichresponded very positively about the experience and reflected that focuses on Comprehension by Bloom or Understanding asit provides a unique learning opportunity. The framework can defined in the revised taxonomy. If students can explainbe adapted to a variety of disciplines. concepts, the ideas are clearer to

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Xuejun Qian; Seong W. Lee

: correct approach to dealing with severalBuilding envelope components have three important characteristics factors. In this approach factors are varied togetherthat affect their thermal performance: U-factor or thermal This study were used the factorial experiment to study the bothresistance; their thermal mass or ability to store heat, measured as individual and interaction effects of building envelopes. Analysis ofheat capacity (HC); and their exterior surface condition/finish (for variance (ANOVA) is a computational technique that enables theexample, are they light in the color to reflect the sun or dark to engineer to quantitatively estimate the relative contribution eachabsorb solar heat) [20]. U