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Muhammad Faysal Islam; Mohammed Nazrul Islam

science disciplines. Along withpreparing students for discipline-specific engineering courses, these remedial classes aim tobroaden their horizons and develop interdisciplinary skills for career success. However, neitherthe holistic views of interaction between different systems nor the complexity behind theirmanagement are provided to the engineering students. As a result, the engineering graduates veryoften find it challenging interacting and coordinating with different branches or sectors of theirworkplaces. It is important to mention that the number of engineering graduates pursuing careerin other disciplines are also increasing.Project management deals with planning and managing resources to implement real lifesolutions, and hence can

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Martene Stanberry

point because theseindividuals can lead you to other great resources including other people, technology, usefultextbooks, and helpful online resources. Some of the online resources include: Paul’s OnlineNotes, Khan Academy, and Math Insight. All of these supports provide assistance and guidancewhen planning lessons, creating exams and assignments that are reasonable yet challenging forstudents, and deciding how to link classroom knowledge to application problems and studentresearch. Seeking advice from mentors, colleagues, and other experienced teachers helped metremendously during my first year. These individuals provided valuable information about bestteaching practices, useful textbook and online resources, and how to balance the various

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  9% III. MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS  4% IV. MATERIALS, METHODS, AND PLAN READING  10% V. BIDDING AND ESTIMATING  17% VI. BUDGETING, COSTS, AND COST CONTROL  10.5% VII. PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL  16.5% VIII. CONSTRUCTION SAFETY  7% IX. SURVEYING AND PROJECT LAYOUT  2% X. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION  18.5% At the author’s university the AC exam has been used as an assessment tool for nearly 10 years. Theperception was that an established standard exam would bring benefits to

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Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

RGS, Youths between the agesof 8 and 18 average seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of video games, television andcomputers. The report also stated that 93% of students in 5th through 8th grades are taught thephysical sciences by a teacher without a degree or certificate in the physical sciences.The department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Technology at New YorkCity College of Technology is currently focusing on aerospace industry. Receiving fundingfrom NASA was one of the main factors motivating this focus. The plan is to involveundergraduate students in desiging and teaching a curriculum in aerospace for high schooland middle school students who will attend the Proyectoaccess summer program in HostosCommunity College in

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mauro J. Caputi

process, be a more creative and efficient designer, understand the consequences of design decisions, and create products, systems, or plans, that are sound, good, innovative, safe, and useful. Educators with more extensive design experience than my own have established andmaintained during the past 40 years that creativity, imagination, a step-by-step process of design,and many other factors work together to form a valid Science of Engineering Design. I now feelfar more confident that DESIGN 15 is serving the needs of our First-Year Engineering students.THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Because of my love of TV and movies, and being blessed with an entertaining andhumorous personality, I decided to run the Lecture class as if it

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mauro J. Caputi; George DeMarco; Jacqueline Pierson; Brittney Schmidt; Evan Sick

recorded is the distance the vehicle travels backwardsalong the trajectory line after the vehicle stops its forward travel. The backward travel distancecannot exceed the forward travel distance. 2PLANNING ASSIGNMENTS The first three weeks of the GDC are used to progressively plan the design of the GDCproject. Three Planning Assignments (PA) were developed requiring Teams to work throughDesign Steps Two through Five for their GDC project outside of Lab. The PlanningAssignments are completed and returned with constructive feedback and comments before theTeams begin construction on the GDC projects in the Lab. A list of the Planning Assignments with a brief description of each is as

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Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

, we except them tobe able to build their own RC circuit using the Mobile Studio Board in Part II of the lab. Wedesigned part I of the laboratory experiments for the online students to make sure that they firstunderstand the concept discussed in the theory section of the course. We then expect the onlinestudents to design and build a new circuit in part II that replicates the results of the originalexperiment. We plan to conduct additional laboratory experiments in the Spring 2012 semesterwith two or more online students working together as laboratory partners. We have currentlydesigned two additional laboratory experiments that can be conducted completely online usingthe Agilent X-Series Oscilloscopes with integrated Function Generators. The

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in Figure 6.The total cost for five racecars, bridge, and Christmas tree was about $2,300. The VEX robotparts are regularly used by students for other projects and can be used for VEX competitions.In the future we plan to include a short quiz to test the knowledge gained by the students intopics such as torque, gear ratios, acceleration, and top speed. Correct answers in the quiz will berewarded as time subtracted from the team’s best elapsed time.Figure 5. Drag race start. The “Christmas tree” on the right used in starting each race. Theuppermost staging lights are on. The tree is 42½” high by 19” square at the base. Figure 6. Elapsed time display.ConclusionsThis paper described the development of a one-day

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

. Mentoring is also provided in partnership with industry. 3 3. Professional Development: Activities for SiE students are selected to support student academic success while at Morgan, and to prepare them for graduate school or the workforce. At least two workshops are available each semester around four themes; Personal Development, Career Planning, Graduate School and Communication. 4. Community Building: Activities and interactions are structured to encourage interaction and a sense of community. These include monthly meetings and informal gatherings.Participant Recruitment, Selection and ProfileCurrent first and second-year undergraduate engineering students and newly admitted

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Lunal Khuon; Timothy Camise; Clayton Bannan; Kevin Buckley

use are: Figure 1: General block diagram of an automatic blood Pressure measurement device. Spring 2012 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 20-21, 2012, University of Delaware 1. a Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320c6416 DSP chip, supported by a TMS320c6416 devel- opment board and TI’s Code Composer Studio (CCS) software development environment; 2. a TI Cortex -A8 ARM processor, residing on an IMAP35x processor package supported by a BeagleBoard development board running the Linux operating system.We plan to add a Micro-Controller Unit and a Field Programmable Gate Array to this list. The A/D converter employed depends on digital processor used, and resides on the devel-opment board. Specifics of the analog “Signal

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Wenli Guo; Vazgen Shekoyan

Feedback: Overall, students liked the was able to understand what the question was reallyopportunity of recovering homework grades. asking.”Appendix B has some sample feedbacks from 2. “I made errors in many of the areas covered butstudents. They appreciated self-corrections' positive the self-corrections helped me focus on the areas that Iimpact. Students were motivated to continue this needed more work and needed to review.”activity. 3. “With self-corrections I feel that it actually Future Research: We are planning to conduct a helped a whole lot in improving my understanding onfiner-grained analysis of students

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mauro J. Caputi; Tiffany LaBozzetta; Michelle Llanos; Mary Kate Sirianni; Necol Habib

format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins

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Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Grace Mack

implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough