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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

to address soft skills such as leadership,negotiation, and empathy. In the Construction Management program housed in the School ofEngineering at our institution, a pilot course titled Strategic Responses to Cyclical Environmentsis being offered. Students’ careers and their ability to make an impact in firms will be enhancedby leveraging their increased understanding of competitive advantage, positioning, and strategicplanning via this course.In response to the boom and bust cycle typical of the Architecture / Engineering / Construction(AEC) industry, students are learning to gather and process ambiguous information while forgingmeaningful plans for the future. Intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial initiative, tough analyticalthinking

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

Building The Two-Way Bridge:A Software Engineering Master’s Program for Liberal Arts Graduates Abstract Recent reports have highlighted an urgency of developing and retaining a homegrownworkforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), especially historicallyunderrepresented groups, such as women, due to global competition for science and engineeringtalent. While scientists and engineers typically start their careers with enrolling in a bachelor’sprogram in a STEM field in a four-year college, some go into STEM in other ways, especiallywith the intervention of higher education institutions and federal agencies. In another word, someindividuals employed

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David W. Dinehart; Warren Chan; Dorothy W. Skaf

programestablished within Villanova University’s College of Engineering in 2009. The group aims todevelop excitement and interest towards engineering careers, especially among under-represented groups, by offering hands-on educational activities in engineering and science at hostschools. The initial group membership was primarily focused on graduate students and upper-class undergraduates1 but has transitioned to more significant undergraduate membership. This isconsistent with a strong service-learning commitment among Villanova undergraduates and thefaculty.The founding group was comprised of primarily civil engineers who created activities associatedwith structural engineering for sixth grade students. Due to interest expressed by the hostschools, the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

solving given problems in routine ways.Lack of courses that integrate need identification in addition to encouraging exploration ofinnovative solutions while identify customer needs often limits break- through ideas andinnovation and subsequently to an unsuccessful industry career in the field of biomedicalengineering. This paper includes details of integrating clinic immersion experience in aclassroom-oriented Biomechanics course. A project based learning approach requires student tomake clinical observations and identification of an unmet biomedical engineering need, followedby proposing an engineering solution to the problem.II. Project based learningWhile problem based learning (PBL)7 and just in time teaching (JITT)8 teaching techniques

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

math, science and engineering fundamentals. The programprovides opportunities for team-based, industry supported research and design projects,thus preparing graduates for careers in for-profit or nonprofit organizations, or to furthertheir education in graduate school.The educational objectives of the General Engineering program are to produce graduateswho, during the first few years of professional practice will:  Be employed by industry or government in the fields, such as, design, research and development, experimentation and testing, manufacturing, and technical sales.  Assume an increasing level of responsibility and leadership within their respective organizations.  Communicate effectively and work

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

Living in an International World: Assessing Students’ Global Awareness Somer Chipperfield, Kelly Yoder, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Abdullah Konak Penn State Berks AbstractEngineers are now often working internationally and across diverse cultures in today’s globaleconomy. Therefore, students should become increasingly globally aware in order to be betterprepared for a career in an international knowledge-based society. Measuring students’ globalawareness is not a simple task. In this paper, our primary emphasis is on understanding Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

the concepts from the lab exercises later on intheir careers. In the section of Freshman Clinic taught by the authors, we have students fromall five available disciplines, and consequently, many of our students initially felt somewhatalienated from the cryptography based projects that would be performed during the semester.This paper describes how we structured our class materials to invoke interest from all fiveengineering disciplines and to motivate the students to perform at a superior level. The twomain focuses of the paper will be on (1) the use of the Flipped Classroom Method, wherestudents essentially self-teach the core material before the class and work on traditional stylehomework problems in the classroom, and (2) the use of smart

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

in their minds from their courses and research, studying for exams,reflecting on content, improving writing skills, and as practice for future career meetings andreports. Taking notes during a live lecture or online asynchronous lecture, such as in the‘Flipped Classroom’ not only helps students learn content and concepts, but it also boostsWriting Across the Curriculum efforts. With the advances in technology and teachingtechniques, student note taking has changed, if not totally become neglected by students.Besides writing and/or diagraming with traditional paper and pen, newer methods includewriting on a laptop or tablet or using digital recording devices. But students are rarely taughthow to take notes during their educational experience

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 to a cohesive set of educational experiences that instill an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset in students and prepare them for their future careers.    Overview of the Ecosystem  In this section we will contrast the state of the Innovation Ecosystem at Bucknell prior to 2008  with the changes that have occurred on our campus after 2008.     The University and College Missions  A theme of this article, supported by much ecosystem and change literature, is that an  innovation ecosystem must be supported by the wider institutional mission. As a liberal arts  institution, that contains within it professional programs, Bucknell’s mission statement is to  “educate men and women for a lifetime

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

Universitywithin time and budget constraints as some of the crucial skills that engineers must possess to besuccessful in the workforce.6The 21st century skills are a broad set of abilities that are essential for students to develop tosucceed in our current era7 and provide the nation with skilled STEM graduates. P21 frameworkfor 21st century learning is one of the models established to illustrate the adoption of 21st centuryskills in education.8 Within this framework for 21st century learning, there are four categories ofskills and knowledge that students should master in order to succeed in the workforce. These arecategorized as: 1) core subjects and themes, 2) learning and innovation skills, 3) technologyskills, and 4) life and career skills.8 Learning

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

Teamwork Efficacy, Attitudes and Interest: Insights on Their Relationships Kara Vance, Abdullah Konak, Sadan Kulturel-Konak Penn State Berks Gül Okudan Kremer Penn State University Park Ivan Esparragoza Penn State Brandywine AbstractStudents’ professional skills, such as teamwork, global awareness, ethics, and creative problemsolving, increase their likelihood for success throughout their education and career paths,especially in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Garrett M. Clayton; Allen Tan; Jordan Ermilio; Aaron Wemhoff

. Perspectives from the Ordnance Burning Filtration Hood advising team: The filter hoodproject has been ongoing for the past two years. In each of these years, a team of four studentswas involved. Interestingly, nearly all (6 of 8) of the students working on the project are fromthe Naval ROTC program at VU. Based on this, it appears that this project is drawing fromstudents that have a potential interest in exploring a career in the broad area of energeticmaterials (as it may apply to careers in the Navy).The fume hood project does not have the overall popularity of the EOD robot project. Threepossible reasons exist for the relative lack of interest, which may motivate project choices in thefuture. First, the students do not have a background in

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jacob J. Elmer; Noelle Comolli

the material is important.Indeed, Felder et al note that students are motivated to study harder when they believe that theywill actually need to use the course concepts later in their careers.6 While the benefits of PBL are easy to see, it is usually hard to find effective projects toimplement PBL in engineering courses. There are some online resources with examples ofproject-based or problem-based learning assignments that focus on one or a few concepts7,8, butit is much harder to find projects that utilize a majority of the concepts taught throughout aspecific course. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel brewery design project for PBLin a heat transfer course. Each of the fundamental heat transfer concepts are addressed

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityCOE faculty members have yet to include modules in their classes designed to instill theentrepreneurial mindset in their students. Professors spearheading the engineeringentrepreneurship minor have visited several classes to guest lecture on the engineeringentrepreneurial mindset and have spoken to all freshmen in the Introduction toEngineering class. Nevertheless, it is important to get additional full-time engineeringfaculty engaged in the process of instilling the entrepreneurial mindset throughout thestudents’ undergraduate careers. 2.   Entrepreneurially Minded Learning – EMLThe Kern Family Foundation started the KEEN with the goal to "graduate engineers withan entrepreneurial mindset so

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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

those focusing on taking the professional engineering exam as a first step in theirProfessional Engineer career pursuit. The indifference attitude could be attributed to shyness aswell as traditional academic experience based on rote learning, and not experiential learning.With the latest consumer market development of a related technology called transcranial directcurrent stimulation 16, 17, we expect the EEG platform will increase in popularity and help thoseshy students to engage the client-company simulation fully. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityEven though the project complexity at a community college level would be inferior whencompared to those available at the upper division of a

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

spirit,social intelligence, experience, character and values. To establish this more robust resume,universities need to adopt further educational models, such as cooperative learning, mentionedbefore, which incorporates many of these traits. Another area that the employers will need tofocus on is their interview systems or process, as it is more difficult to gage and measure some ofthese traits. This could be a way for employers to gain acceptance to alternate education Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitymethods, including MOOCs. Some marketplaces have already adopted a more, well roundedsystem for identifying top talent that does not filter by education level. A graphic arts career is

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Raul Armendariz; Chantale Damas; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

, as discussed above, to topics other than the Bohr atommodel.The student performance on the client- contractor simulation had been assessed as satisfactory (>75%) for the participated students. The rubric displayed in Figure 1 was followed. Studentfeedback includes observed non-participation, indifference, and enthusiastic attitude variations,which bear similarity to the grade histogram. The non-participation attitude could be attributedto a narrow mindset such as those focusing on taking the professional engineering exam as a firststep in their Professional Engineer career pursuit. The indifference attitude could be attributed toshyness as well as the traditional rote learning academic experience. A recent 2014 study onacademic

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

growing demand in this field4. While industrycertification programs are available5, they tend to emphasize memorization and repetition over adeeper cognitive framework or understanding. It can be quite challenging to prepare students forIT careers in this rapidly evolving field, or to integrate these offerings into a more traditionalundergraduate engineering curriculum. More hands-on experience is desirable, since studentsmust be prepared to deal with not only existing security threats but also new and increasinglycomplex exploits which emerge more frequently each year. However, students require a secure,isolated environment in which to practice their security skills without risking damage to thecampus data centers or servers on the Internet

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Carla Messikomer

Engineering DisciplineA subject that is broadly seen as being relevant across all engineering disciplines is ‘projectmanagement’, since the ‘project’ has become the way in which engineering organizations dotheir work4. As such undergraduates and graduates from engineering programs are invariablyexpected to have functional knowledge and skills in project management (PM) 2. A well-designed engineering curriculum should go a long way to preparing the future project managersinvolved in various engineering careers. Providing sound education to students and practitionerscan alleviate project failures. Engineers can be taught a baseline set of modern projectmanagement theory as well as practical tools and techniques that can be applied to both large

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

context which form stronger memories. As aresult, they form a deep understanding of the concepts that they will remember past class time.5. ResultsThe course, initially introduced in Spring 2013, has run for four semesters since. Its enrollmentranged from 25-35 students per section, with two to three sections being run every semester. Thestudents enrolled were from non-STEM backgrounds and since the course was not a pre-requisite, they were uniformly distributed in their academic careers. The course was run in atraditional lecture style, passive learning manner, for the first two semesters, Spring and Fall2013. Active learning strategies described in this paper were introduced in Spring 2014;gamification style assignments were introduced in Fall