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

Collaborative Learning in Virtual Computer Laboratory Exercises Ryan Richards, Abdullah Konak, Michael R. Bartolacci, and Mahdi Nasereddin Penn State Berks Abstract Information security is becoming an important concern for many organizations. However, it is difficult to provide adequate amounts of hands-on learning opportunities for information security students due to campus information security policies, the high cost of specialized computer laboratories, and a lack of beneficial laboratory activities that satisfy students’ educational needs. At Penn State University-Berks, we developed a collaborative virtual

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

Virtual Teaching Assistant for Electrical Engineering Science: Initial Study Firdous Saleheen, Salvatore Giorgi, Zachary Smith, Joseph Picone, and Chang-Hee Won Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, USAAbstractThis paper presents a framework for a Virtual Open Laboratory Teaching Assistant (VOLTA)which provides personalized instructions for undergraduate students in an entry level electricalcircuits laboratory. Traditional closed laboratory environments do not provide 24/7 access tosuch labs hindering the learning-on-demand paradigm that is so critical to the laboratoryexperience. VOLTA offers an open laboratory environment with a virtual teaching assistantwhere the students enjoy a self

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Shawn Gross

Improved Learning Experiences in Introductory Mechanics Course by Using Flexible Periods - Analysis and Testing of a TrussAbstractIn 2009, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Villanova Universityreinvented its course sequence in undergraduate mechanics. Classic courses in Statics,Mechanics of Solids, and Civil Engineering Materials were restructured into a two-coursesophomore-level sequence (Mechanics I and Mechanics II), and elements of Dynamics wereintegrated with Fluid Mechanics and the associated laboratory to form the junior-level courseMechanics III. These courses emphasize real-world applications and are taught using anintegrated approach. For example, the first course intersperses topics

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Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

(more motivated) in an active learning approach. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11,2015 Villanova University   We believe that this updated pedagogy will help the students to become more confident and well equipped to share ideas and learn in a group-related laboratory activity. This active learning approach was implemented in a sophomore level electronics course, “ECE 2550: Intro to Electronics & Applications,” in the spring semester of 2014. In this flipped-lab setup, lab modules using a Multisim circuit simulator and a myDAQ data acquisition unit from National Instruments (NI) were developed to (1) provide opportunities for faculty to challenge the students to perform more complex electronic circuit

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Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

Villanova University. Quizzes have been incorporated into the course in a varietyof formats, and the students’ and instructors’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the quizzes andthe course as a whole will be presented.Evolution of Structural Design Courses at Villanova UniversityPrior to 2014, students pursuing Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) degrees atVillanova University were required to take a three-credit course CEE 3412: Structural Designand a separate one-credit laboratory course CEE 3912: Structural Engineering Lab. Thesecourses were typically taken during the second semester of the junior year and addressed thebehavior, analysis, and design of both structural steel and reinforced concrete members. Arequired course CEE 3401

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Kevin Scoles

Everything, MorrisCooke [Online]. Available: http://www.morriscooke.com/applications-ios/explain- everything-26. MovieCaptioner, SynchriMedia [Online]. Available: http://www.synchrimedia.com7. Quality Matters, A National Benchmark for Online Course Design, Quality Matters [Online]. Available: https:// www.qualitymatters.org8. “Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices,” Sandia National Laboratories, SAND87-7023, Updated 1995 [Online]. Available: https://www.wbdg.org/ccb/DOE/TECH/ sand87_7023.pdf9. HOMER, HOMER Energy [Online]. Available: http://homerenergy.com10. Respondus LockDown Browser, Respondus [Online]. Available: https://www.respondus.com/products/ lockdown-browser/11. PVWatts Calculator

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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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Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

they would order would be in perfect condition, and backups would not be necessary. Thestudents also did not include a possible substitute if one of their items could not be ordered.These assumptions made it harder for the buyer, and also increased the chance of disappointmentwhen their order was not met.In our after-action follow-ups with each team, the primary walkaway was that imperfect sourcingwastes time and causes frustration by both requestor and clerk. In some cases, lessons learnedfrom the earlier class led to success in this real-world buy.V. Laboratory ManagersStarting in January 2014, students have been employed as Lab Managers for an on-campusFusion Lab. The Fusion is a multidisciplinary lab run by the Astronautical

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Paul B. Crilly; Richard Hartnett

Navigation course where phased arrays areused to localize signals, indicates that students who did this experiment had better intuition and solidunderstanding about this subject than those who simply did simulations. It was especially gratifying toobserve their reactions when the perceived sound volume went from loud to almost complete silence withonly inches of movement. Thus we transformed an abstract set of equations into a sensory experience.While the 8-element array provides further confidence that the theory matched the experiment results, itwas much easier to perform the experiment using the 4-element array. This experiment will be integrated into the laboratory portion of the antennas course at the U.S. CoastGuard Academy where additional

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Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

to learning4.Description of the ActivitiesPH 101 Principles of Physics is a general education introductory physics course focusing onconcepts with minimum math requirements for non-science majors. This course has three 50-minute lectures and one 1 hr 50 minute long laboratory per week. This is a co-teaching researchproject involving inter-disciplinary collaborations. Co-teachers, Dr. Guo from the Department ofPhysics and Dr. Ye from the Department of Academic Literacy, are peers having equivalentteaching qualifications and thus can truly be partners in the instructional effort. To ensure thatinstructional strategies engage all students in ways that are not possible when only one teacher ispresent, throughout the semester, Dr. Guo and Ye

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Stephen N. Kuchnicki

course is taken by second-semester sophomorestudents, along with a corequisite laboratory course and an additional 11 engineering credits. Thegeneral purpose of both of the latter course designs attempted was to give students an impetus toremain current with the course material. The method with daily quizzes asked about current andvery recent material for this reason. The course setup using biweekly exams allows for studentsto refresh their memories on a smaller portion of the course material (about 14%, rather than 30%),and to refresh material that was introduced more recently.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityMethodology and AssessmentThere are several metrics by which the relative effectiveness of

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Edward M. Land; Michael Marcus; Harley Hartman; Anthony Derosa; Seth Klepper; Eduardo Rayner; Justin Stahl; Hansong Li

patient, to regain the use of their affectedhand. In 2010, a similar effort between these two universities described the development of apassive, spring-assisted appliance was used for rehabilitation and exercise. It also serves as anassistive device for daily use, permitting people with hand-extension disabilities [1,2] to regainpartial use of their affected limb. Qualified patients must have retained free arm movement,retain their grip but typically have no ability to re-open their affected hand. This paper describeshow each university was able to perform the needed laboratory work to harness a microprocessorto control the active HOAD appliance. This particular patented assistive appliance incorporatesshape-memory alloys (SMA) to open the hand

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

downsides to implicitlydeclaring variable in MATLAB?” and “What are two ways in MATLAB that you can checkwhat variables have been declared and the information about them?”, receiving scores of39.1% and 21.7% respectively. Some of the confusion was alleviated right after the quiz inlecture, however some students did require further small group explanations of the correctinterpretation of the questions.After the quiz, the first laboratory assignment was given and students had a majority of thein-class lab period to complete the work. In this lab, students were guided through the coding oftheir first MATLAB function, a piece of modular code which would be used in future labexercises which would pass in the user’s entered string and encode the message

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

whichdatabases are reliable. For example, MailOnLine has a news report March 5 2015 saying that“Scientists say toilet can be used to supply electricity in disaster zone” 28. Sentences like “'Workby the Bristol BioEnergy Centre hit the headlines in 2013 when the team demonstrated thatelectricity generated by microbial fuel cell stacks could power a mobile phone.”, and “Prof Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIeropoulos (Bristol Robotics Laboratory at UWE Bristol) ,added: 'One microbial fuel cell costsabout £1 ($1.5) to make, and we think that a small unit like the demo we have mocked up for thisexperiment could cost as little as £600 ($900) to set up, which is a significant bonus as thistechnology is

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

://www.senseandsensation.com/2012/03/taxonomy-of-creative-design.html. [Accessed 08 August 2014].[10] C. E. Hmelo-Silver, "Problem-Based Learning: What and How do Students Learn?," Educational Psychology Review, vol. 16, no. 3, 2004.[11] D. R. Brodeur, P. W. Young and K. B. Blair, "Problem-based learning in aerospace engineering education," in American Society of Engineering Education, Montreal, Canada, 2002.[12] H. Yoon, A. Woo, D. F. Treagust and A. L. Chandrasegaran, "Second-Year College Students’ Scientific Attitudes and Creative Thinking Ability: Influence of a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Chemistry Laboratory Course," in Affective Dimensions in Chemistry Education, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 217-233.[13

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 (social, economic, aesthetic, intellectual, etc.) to the classroom, campus and world”. The group ​ secured funding from the president of Bucknell and appointed two faculty as Fellows to help coordinate efforts to fund projects and people who are enhancing the innovation ecosystem, most often by engaging in a high­risk, high­reward project and/or one that will engage a diverse group of faculty, staff and students. To date, the group has funded 46 projects, many of which can be found on the group’s blog at www.bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/​ .   The University has long had fabrication facilities in the form of an Art Barn, a Product Development Laboratory and a Craft Center. But with a few exceptions over the years, these