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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 engineering senior  design projects already had industry sponsorship, and a significant number of Bucknell alumni  had also gone on to found businesses, such as Home Depot, Lending Tree, StellaService,  Kiva.org, Quidsi, The Pit, Y­Combinator, and Integra Life Sciences.      Strategic Planning and Innovation Working Group  Two key events marked a more intentional approach to building an ecosystem. The first was a  one­day summer retreat in 2010. At this meeting, co­led by an internal and an external  facilitator, a first draft of the image in Figure 1 was created as a way to graphically represent  the current status of the ecosystem. Video clips of the meeting can be found at

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

as a client, has beenfound to useful. There is ample evidence from the consumer market where EEG equipment isavailable for rental usage for those wanting to conduct neuro- feedback practice at home. Theclient (acted out by a professor) confidence criterion would be fulfilled by the various EEG dataanalysis learning activities such as N2 and P3 signal extraction when a company (acted out by astudent) can complete the noise-filter computation. The client confidence would increase withFFT outputs in various frequency bands beyond simple signal extraction. The company productoverview/summary is simply the student project report. The rich variety of EEG consumertechnology, including brain computer interface application, is a solid platform to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

choose,as they will be taking on a large percentage of the costs and debt. In 2011 Massachusetts parentsonly averaged ~25% of college cost leaving the student with nearly 75% of the cost.16 This canbe coupled with the documented decrease in parent’s willingness to take on college costs, down4% from last year in a Discover Student loan survey.17 With the expected increase in educationalcosts, overall cost of higher education is projected to conservably hit between $165,000 and$513,000. These costs are based on projections of state universities and private universities overthe next 18 years.18In regard to educational environment, the nature of a purely online education may not simply beforeign to many students; it may be much more challenging

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

, maximum of 5] forconstruction management graduates are4: 1) Knowledge of health and safety regulations (4.84) 2) Interpreting contract documents (4.73) 3) Listening ability/ Giving attention to details (4.65) 4) Knowledge of building codes and regulations (4.62) 5) Time Management (4.58) 6) Planning and goal setting (4.54) 7) Plans interpretation/ Blueprint reading/ Understanding construction and shop drawings (4.54) 8) Knowledge of construction law and legal environment (4.52) 9) Hands-on project experience prior to graduation/ Internship (4.48) 10) Marketing with clients/ Developing client relations (4.48) 11) Knowledge of construction operations (4.48) 12) Communication

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

same time durations. The results of this studywill provide faculty with an understanding of the relative benefit of providing guided notes or askeleton outline to their students. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIntroductionStudents succeed in learning when they are engaged and interested in a course, they have writtentheir own notes, and they have applied what they have recorded in an active manner.1 Activelearning has been proven to be a superior method of learning material instead of sitting still whilelistening to an instructor explain new information on a consistent basis. In order to applyconcepts to a project, problem or case study, students must first understand the basics of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn Gross

design capacity (including factor of safety) or nominal capacity. Figure 4 – Classroom Designed for Interactive Group LearningStudents perform the entire analysis for a unit loading of 1 kip per top chord joint. Specificcalculation steps that students follow are identified in Table 4. For each calculation step, thestudents must answer a pair of questions that relate to that step. The spreadsheet-based table ofnumerical answers shown in Figure 5 is projected onto the screen at the front of the classroom.Answers are methodically revealed during the period to keep students on pace, and theinstructors answer student questions when necessary. The instructors spend about 15 minutesemphasizing the key concepts at the conclusion of the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

class exercises,work is always done with this scenario as the foundation. In classes for majors, this is usually thereverse; students learn the tools first and apply them to real problems as capstone projects. Wefind our approach for the course yielded greater outcomes than the approach that is usuallyeffective for majors. Even though this reverse strategy seems sensible, students can still getdiscouraged or disengaged with some bland material. To address this and assure sustainableengagement in lessons, we use strategies we described in active learning: gamification and two-way teaching.4.1 Assignment Design based on GamificationThe gamification case study we present is a group assignment that focuses on protocol design.Through its completion

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Isaacs; Anthony Bellezza; Vicki Brown

aspects of the pitch as well asobtaining course credit. In the end, the authors saw no real difference between the two cohorts interms of motivation or excitement of project. This was reinforced qualitatively with nosignificance between the average scores of the two cohorts (Figure 2). To make any realconclusions based on the outcomes of the two cohorts, a larger sample number (number ofparticipating teams) is necessary.VI. AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank Dr. Chris Kitts (Santa Clara University) for the opportunity to participatein the Nike+ Digital Sports Product Concept Challenge; The Kern Entrepreneurial EngineeringNetwork (KEEN) for funding and Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) for supplying the sensors.VII. Bibliography1. National Academy of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Doug Kim

. 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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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Steven Shaffer; Martin Yeh; Thomas Iwinski

down from God on stone tablets. Fixed hardcopy textbooks are limited topresenting text and static images; whereas well designed online course allows forlinear and interactive animations as well as virtual instruments and tools thatpermit data input/output that demonstrate the process of programming in a waythat is impossible for any static text.How will your students practice programming? Will they simply re-type theexamples from the textbook (or worse, copy/paste them from an online text)?Using a professional IDE has the advantage of ecological validity, but may resultin an excessive cognitive load [13] for the student. Does an introductory studentreally need to select one of the seven different project types, just to create a“Hello, World

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

. Speakers will be faculty, career centerstaff, and members of industry. The initial title of the series is “Surviving and Thriving in Tech.” Component 12: Leadership and Soft Skills: These students are expected to enter theprogram with good interpersonal and communications skills – skills that are highly needed andcan give them a competitive advantage in the high-tech workplace. Leadership skills willexplicitly be addressed as part of the architecture and requirements courses. Throughout thecourse work, and especially in the design/build courses, these skills will be practiced andreinforced through class work and team projects. Component 13: Technical Skills: These students will gain excellent technical skills fromtheir classes and work

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Thomas Ask

beingcreative and therefore the individuals within the group also consider themselves creative.The connection between collaboration and creativity appears to be an innate need. Thepsychologist Howard Gruber notes: “Creative people must use their skills to devise environmentsthat foster their work. They invent new peer groups appropriate to their projects.” 5 Theimportance of contemporaneous collaboration can be seen in art and science such as with Picassoand Braque in their artistic pursuits leading to Cubism and Einstein and Grossman in developingmathematical expressions suitable for describing relativity.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityBounded RationalityCreative expression acts under the domain of the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

theCollaborative Virtual Computer Laboratory (CVCLAB) to create an environment whereinformation security students can meld theoretical knowledge of information security withpractical “hands-on” experience. The first prototype of the CVCLAB was built in 2009 andfunded by a grant from the Department of Labor through the Wall Street West project. Over theyears, we have improved the CVCLAB to support various hands-on activities. The CVCLABwas founded with the following objectives: ● Enhance the pipeline of information assurance and security employees to industry through outreach and continuing education: In order to recruit and train future information security professionals programs, we have organized information security themed discovery

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

lectures, and the problem sets that are solved either in class or forhomework. Additional components include integrated laboratory periods and calculation-basedsemester-long projects. In-class exams form the primary assessment mechanism for evaluatinglearning and establishing student grades.The increased focus on problem solving in an inverted format led to significant changes in theway that time is spent during class meetings. Prior to inversion about half of the total classmeeting time was spent on lecture content, and only about a quarter of the total class time wasspent on problems. The problems that were included were presented with the instructorcompletely leading the solution. In many cases, complete or partial solutions were given in