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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

needs or wants?” - Estimate demand for a new product or service?”Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University - Present a product or service to obtain funding?”These questions requested a response on a 4-point scale ranging from “Not at all” to “Greatly”.There were a total of 15 questions in this section of the survey.The third section of the survey instrument was directed at students who participated in extra-curricular activities. As described in the introduction, many entrepreneurially-minded extra-curricular events are held around campus at Villanova University. These range in time spans ofone hour to several month-long competitions. The third section of the survey was designed toaddress how these

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Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

Rubrics, andSelf Evaluation Rubrics. Each section allows the instructor to create, modify, or delete the itemsin the respective section. By clicking the “gear” icon, the dashboard gives the instructor accessto other functionalities including access to results and statistics of assessments and the ability tosend students emails documenting feedback on their assessments. The dashboard also showsassessment completion status (i.e., how many students have completed a specific assessment) byfilling the bar under “Completion” and turning it green (see Figure 1) when all students havecompleted that assessment.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University Figure 1. Instructor

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. Rappaport (2002) Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice. Prentice Hall2.  Cisco Systems (2012) Challenges of unlicensed Wi-Fi deployments: A practical guides tocable operators. Cisco Systems3.  Carr, J.; Frank B. (2007) Active learning using guided projects in an upper year ECE course.Presented at 2007 ASEE Annual Conference4.  Border, D. (2012) Developing and designing undergraduate laboratory wireless sensornetwork. Presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference5.  Crilly, B (2013). A novel approach to teaching an undergraduate electromagnetics, antennaand propagation course. Presented at 2013 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University

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Gang Feng

can beimmediately addressed; (2) the further discussions of knowledge, such as solution proceduredevelopment and problem-solving demonstration, may be more effectively taught throughflipped classroom format, so that the students can view the video lecture multiple times if theyhave missed a key step.4-6 An end-of-semester survey was given to the students in each semesterin order to evaluate the effectiveness of the hybrid teaching approach, particularly the flipped-classroom method. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIn teaching ME 2100 Statics, based on the nature of each specific section, it can be taughtthrough either lecturing or flipped classroom approaches. If one section is taught

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Jacob J. Elmer; Noelle Comolli

consider possible preventative measures.Designing a Heat Exchanger to Chill the Wort The wort chiller is designed to be the most challenging section of the brewery designproject, since heat exchangers are commonly used by chemical engineers in industry. Studentsare asked to design a heat exchanger that can quickly cool 250 gallons of hot wort (T = 100 oC)down to 20oC within 30 minutes. Students are given absolute freedom to define all of the othervariables in this system by selecting their own coolant fluid, heat exchanger, and pumps.However, all of their decisions must be carefully justified. For example, students can choose to Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityuse river water as a

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Firdous Saleheen; Salvatore Giorgi; Zachary Smith; Joseph Picone; Chang-Hee Won

this is the not format most conducive to learning4. Space constraintsare mitigated by dividing the students into multiple sections. In each section, the students aregrouped in a team because of equipment shortages. Sometimes, scheduling constraints force alab to be performed out of sequence with the lecture. Because of time constraints, studentsreceive a less-than-ideal exposure to the concepts and the associated instrumentation.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityA better alternative can be an open laboratory where the students can return to repeat and refinetheir experiments. Palais and Javurek defined the open laboratory as “a single large roomcontaining equipment for performing experiments

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

but also to ensurethat these graduates are prepared to be leaders and innovators in emerging STEM fields. A partof this reform depends on the quality of undergraduate engineering education experience. Inaddition to providing strong analytical skills, undergraduate engineering education needs tostrengthen skills that prepare graduates to work within rapidly diversifying STEM fields. Futureinnovators need to be prepared to adapt to modern technology, collaborate with people fromoutside their discipline, and be able to apply their skills to solving new problems. Anderson et.al.cite attributes such as problem-solving, team work, clear communication, effectively working Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova

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Vijay Kanabar; Carla Messikomer

grown into a global company, its IT system had become fragmented and antiquated, with different systems in operation in different countries. So switching to a single integrated system seemed eminently sensible. Very quickly all hell broke loose. 6 Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityAccording to Bent Flyvbjerg and Alexander Budzier the researchers at the University of Oxfordin the UK, implementing the project created unanticipated set of problems as Levi Strauss foundthat the new system could not fulfill orders and had to close its three US distribution centers for alengthy duration: “In 2008, five years after it began the project, the company took a $193 million

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Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger; Wenli Guo; Eva Hampton; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

opportunityto introduce our physics class students to humanitarian application as well. QueensboroughCommunity College introduced servicing learning via the quotation from US Government Learnand Serve America 1 "Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integratesmeaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience,teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities." Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityCollaboration between faculty and community partner in designing a project based on thepartner's specific goals and needs is an important aspect. The pedagogy in teaching servicelearning with the New York Public Interest Research Group

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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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Ryan Richards; Abdullah Konak; Michael R. Bartolacci; Mahdi Nasereddin

-373.19. Konak, A. (2014). A cyber security discovery program: Hands-on cryptography. Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2014 IEEE,1-4.20. Nasereddin, M., Clark, T. K. and Konak, A. (2014). Using virtual machines in a K-12 Outreach program to increase interest in information security fields. Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2014 IEEE,1-5.21. Konak, A. and Ryoo, J., and Kulturel-Konak, S. (2014). Student Perceptions of a Hands-on Delivery Model for Asynchronous Online Courses in Information Security. ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Fall 2014 Conference, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA,1-7.22. Konak, A., Clark, T. and Nasereddin, M. (2014). Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle to Improve Student Learning in

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Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

Unconfident to 4-Very Confident)Teamwork AttitudesIn this section, we compare the overall attitude toward teamwork and the perceived value ofteamwork across the grade standing. The attitude and perceived value questions wereoperationalized with a four-point Likert scale, ranging from (1)-“Strongly Disagree” to (4)-“Strongly Agree”. To measure the overall attitude toward teamwork, the following fourquestions were used (Cronbach's α=0.730):  I usually have a negative experience with teamwork (reverse coded)  I would rather work on team projects than on my own  I like to participate in teamwork  I am usually motivated to participate in teamworkSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityTo

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Michael S. Lehman

Co- Executive Director of the Baker Institute. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityThis new graduate offering with a focus on innovation is a residential, full-time, twelve-monthprogram that differentiates itself in the market via its “dedicated approach” to entrepreneurialengineering education - a dedicated curriculum, a dedicated space and a dedicated faculty.This dedicated model, as detailed in the sections below, has been designed as the foundation foreducating students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds in engineering (includingmechanical, electrical and chemical), business (including finance, accounting and marketing), thenatural sciences (such as physics and biology) and

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Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

undergraduate education.II. Current State and Attributes of MOOCsOver the last few years the MOOC market has been able to grow and take hold. Free educationalmaterials have been available through the internet for some time but the course created bySiemens in 2008, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, is considered the first MOOC.3 4 Atthe end of 2014, roughly 2,400 courses were available, reaching ~17 million students, doubling Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityfrom the year before due to an estimate growth rate of two new courses being offered each day.5The majority of English speaking courses at this time are provided by Coursera, Khan Academy,Udacity and edX. Miriada X in Spanish, FUN

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

overview of the discipline. Temple Universitystates that Gen-Ed (General Education) is about making connections between academicknowledge and the world. It is impossible to learn it all so Gen-Ed is designed to preparestudents for the future by showing them how information from different disciplines isinterrelated1. This is an important concept to consider when designing such a course in a subjectthat is dense in theory. Students, above all, need to understand how their academic knowledgecan be linked to their reality. When teaching non-majors, student engagement is an important Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityfactor to acknowledge, and teaching methodology has a more profound impact. The

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Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines and the method of assessingstudents’ global competency. The challenge of assessing and enhancing global awareness callsfor universities in the United States to integrate internationalization into their educationalrequirements in order for students to succeed in our global society. The goal of this research isto develop a set of assessment tools that allow students’ global awareness level to be measured.The specific focus in this paper is measuring the interest level of students in the STEMdiscipline.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIn order to begin to measure students’ global awareness, it is first necessary to define

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

domesticstudents, other than those in programs directly sponsored by their companies, are enrolled in theSwE Program. Table  1 shows the SwE student demographics by enrollment status and visa status.Table  2 shows the number of graduates per year. For fall 2014, although enrollments are up,there is currently only one full time domestic student. The percent of women enrolled is ~25%.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University  The graduation rate for SwE Masters and Graduate certificate students is estimated to be>80%.1* Table  1:  SwE  Enrollment  Profiles  from  2011  to  2013     (left:  Full  time  vs.  Part  time

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Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

enrollment of all sections e Three-year average (2009 to 2011) Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityTransition to the Inverted Classroom FormatThe decision to shift from a more classical course structure to an inverted classroom format inthe Structural Design course discussed in this paper was motivated by a number of factors.Foremost was the recognition that it makes little sense to focus most of the precious class time,where faculty and students are able to interact, on the lowest two levels of Bloom’s taxonomy(knowledge and comprehension), while using primarily problems related to the third level of thetaxonomy (application) for evaluation of student performance on exams. The inverted

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

. Until recently, it was not cost effective to provide Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitystudents with access to real world examples of IT infrastructure. There have been several reportson the need to reform engineering and computer science education6,7, as well as reports on thetransformative power of early curriculum redesign efforts in this field8. As part of thistransformation, the gap between teaching methods and practitioner’s skills can be addressed, atleast in part, through new teaching models such as flipped classrooms9,10 and increasedacademic partnerships (the latter have also been shown to help foster interdisciplinaryeducation).In this paper, we discuss a new undergraduate

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Matthew J. Traum; Christopher F. Anderson; Christopher M. Pastore; Michael J. Leonard

learning2,3 that since 2009 changedthe overall student learning experience. The phrase Nexus Learning encompasses four overallapproaches: 1) students are active and engaged; 2) they are involved in learning how tocollaborate and work across disciplines; 3) their curriculum focuses on real world problems;professional training, and experiential learning; and 4) with all of these learning experiences Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitystudents are drawing upon and integrating a strong knowledge of the ways of thinking of theliberal arts and sciences. By themselves each approach is not unique, but the combination of realworld learning with pedagogies that ensure active engagement and effective

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Sridhar Santhanam

has been taught usually in atraditional lecture format. While there are many advantages to this mode of instruction, there arepromising active learning approaches that can be adopted to improve student learning outcomesand student faculty interaction.Recently, innovative changes have been introduced at other institutions in the manner in whichcontent is delivered in introductory Mechanics courses. Some of these innovations1,2 havecentered around the use of technology, in particular the use of software based interactive,adaptive eLearning modules. For instance, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has developedeLearning content for Statics1 through a non-profit venture called the Open Learning Initiative Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE

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Thomas Ask

or when seeking to harmonize with a brand identity.References (1) Pascal, P. (1670), Pensees Section IV, 277. Web. 9 Mar. 2015. . (2) Schmitt, G. (1994) Case-Based Design and Creativity. Automation Based Creative Design: Research and Perspectives. Ed. Alexander Tzonis and Ian White. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 43.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University (3) Schmitt, G. (1994) Case-Based Design and Creativity. Automation Based Creative Design: Research and Perspectives. Ed. Alexander Tzonis and Ian White. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 43. (4) Singer, J. (1999) Imagination. Encyclopedia of Creativity. 3 vols. Ed. Mark A. Runco and Steven R. Pritzker. San Diego: Academic

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Arthur Rozario; Zhenkang Yang; Abe Yang; San Peng; Qing Guan; Ying Dong; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

conductentrepreneurially minded learning in Physics class taken as a requirement in a communitycollege for engineering-transfer majors (*student author).I. IntroductionThe Kern Family Foundation has initiated a university network called Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) to promote the idea of entrepreneurship learning. Multiple grantshave been awarded to curriculums across the country to teach the engineering students aboutEntrepreneurially Minded Learning and assess the learning outcomes. The contrast of Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityentrepreneurially versus tradition engineering has been highlighted in a Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) video, which emphasizes the

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

, Drawings, Illustrations, Scale, Lines, Sections,Unit Conversion, Units in Equations) Title Blocks)Engineering Design Introduction (ID Need,Define Problem, Search, Constraints, Criteria,Alternatives, Analyze, Decide, Specifications,Communicate)Figure 1: Excerpt from the Pathfinder Online E-Book used for the Freshman Clinic Sequence Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityThis paper is focused on the second semester where students are introduced to the concepts ofreverse engineering, product development, and experimental design. There are upwards of 15sections of Freshman Clinic II containing 20-30 students each, in the Spring 2015 semester,and with the growth which the Rowan University

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Anurag Purwar; Pranav Korrapati; Q. J. Ge; Xin Ge

Design Innovation class work has been supported by a SUNY IITG award.1 Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityenabled by the spreading of membership based DIYand/or DIWO (DoITWithOthers) hobby shops suchas MIT’s hobby shop4 and TechShop.5 Another is the availability of low-cost digital manufac-turing tools or 3D printers and online 3D print services such shapeways.com6 and open-sourceelectronics prototyping platforms, such as Arduino.7 And, a third one is the crowd-funding ofinnovative projects at kickstarter8 or indiegogo.9 Not only have these hobby shops, 3D printingoutfits, and non-traditional funding platforms become profitable businesses, they are also servingas casual