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Lunal Khuon; Timothy Camise; Clayton Bannan; Kevin Buckley

Contrasting Blood Pressure Measurement Approaches in a Freshman Engineering Design Project Lunal Khuon, Timothy Camise, Clayton Bannan and Kevin Buckley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 A freshman engineering project is described within the context of a year-long freshman engineer-ing project course sequence in The College of Engineering at Villanova University. The project titleis “Automatic Blood Pressure Measurement”. The objectives are to: exemplify the engineering de-sign/development process; expose students to multidisciplinary aspects of engineering; motivate stu-dents to continue their pursuit of an

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Muhammad Faysal Islam; Mohammed Nazrul Islam

Incorporating Systems Engineering and Project Management Concepts in First Year Engineering Curriculum Muhammad Faysal Islam1 and Mohammed Nazrul Islam2 1 Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC 2 Department of Security Systems, State University of New York, Farmingdale, New York AbstractDuring the first and second years of undergraduate engineering programs, most students focustheir studies to build a solid foundation of mathematics, writing composition, engineeringgraphics, programming languages, economics, and other social

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

DESIGN 15 - Designing the Human-Made World The First-Year Introductory Engineering Design Course PART 2: THE PROJECT LAB Dr. Mauro J. Caputi Tiffany LaBozzetta Michelle Llanos Assoc Prof of Engineering Junior Year Student Sophomore Year Student HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Hempstead, NY HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Mary Kate Sirianni Necol Habib Sophomore Year Student First-Year Student Biomedical Engineering Civil Engineering

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

Engineering HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY HOFSTRA UNIVERSITYINTRODUCTION The First-Year Introductory Engineering Design course at Hofstra University is examinedin detail. Because of the broad scope of components informing the course, it will be presented ina Series of three parts. Parts One and Two previously discussed the Lecture and Project Labsections, respectively. Part Three, discussed in this paper, focuses on how the Lecture andProject Lab build towards the last half of the semester with the Grand Design Challenge projectand competition.BRIEF REVIEW As previously discussed in Part Two, for the first five Seasons of DESIGN 15, the ProjectLab was comprised of six projects and one student presentation. During

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Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

New York. This six weeks program is designed for high achievingminority high school and middle school students. The program extends over six weeks periodand its goal is to encourage those students to pursue careers in engineering and science whenthey go to college. The curriculum is designed to be introductory to engineering and science.This is well aligned with the goals of NASA CIPAIR funding that our MechanicalEngineering Dept. has received. Another partner in this project is Louis Stokes for MinorityParticipation in Science and Engineering (LSAMP) who supported the undergraduatestudents for two full academic semesters, spring and fall of 2011, in their effort to design acurriculum in aerospace to be taught in Proyectoaccess summer

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Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

students can relate to. The goals were to 1) generate a scenario wherestudents can better learn course material by requiring them to teach their peers, and 2) create arepository of videos that can be used in subsequent iterations of the course.Surveys were given out to the student participants at the conclusion of the project, and consistedof five questions evaluated using a five level Likert rating scale, as well as three free responseprompts. The major conclusions derived from the data are: 1) this assignment was enjoyable toexecute, and useful for participating student to learn major concepts in the course, 2) the videosgenerated were useful in teaching their classmates, and 3) this assignment can be extended toother courses. Overall, the paper

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Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

      1. Objectives:   Villanova   University’s   (VU)   College   of   Engineering   has   taken   a   fresh   toll   on   how   freshmen   can   be   more   integrated   into   exploring   the   various   disciplines   in  engineering   through   engagement   in   hands-­‐on   –   or   what   we  call  experiential  -­‐  engineering  projects.  The  two-­‐semester  program  is  structured  to  provide  freshmen  with   the  basic  fundamentals  in  engineering  while  incorporating  micro-­‐projects  outside  the  classroom  followed  by

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lessons learned. Inaddition, we describe three student projects that were based on the Z80 system.IntroductionUndergraduate courses in microprocessors are typically based on simple training kits orsimulators based on processors such as the 6800 or 8085 connected to system components suchas memory, clock, etc.1 In these courses, the internal architecture as well as the remaining systemcomponents and interconnects (memory, clocks, buses, etc.) were described conceptually and theemphasis, in terms of the hardware usage, was on learning and using the instruction set andinterfacing peripheral devices. Since those early times, microprocessor technology hasprogressed to the point that a trainer employing a Pentium or Core 2 device would

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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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SeductionCorporate Reasons Better tutorials More repeatable documentation Certification and Standards Knowledge base Failure documentation Project Process EvolutionNotebook Assessment Form Project Writing Problem WritingNotebook Writing is not DeadIn the 1970’s, at Harvey Mudd College, engineering notebooks could be found in sophomorelevel engineering course rooms. Old donated equipment was being worked on. Previous andcurrent students left their notebooks in the classroom. The initial student motivation was to digup information. Today students initially search the internet. Yet reading each other’s notebookstaught a lot more than technical detail.Before the summer of 2011, US patents began with writing

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

An Innovative Approach for Implementing an Online Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program for Community College Students Yacob Astatke, Craig Scott, Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Petronella James ABSTRACT The demand for electrical engineers in the State of Maryland is projected to increase over thenext few years with the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). This event is projected to bringnew positions to the state, primarily in the Harford and Anne Arundel County areas. In an effortto provide additional educational opportunities, the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) at Morgan State University (MSU) developed an off-campus program atHarford Community College (HCC) leading to

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Mauro J. Caputi

discussthe multiple-section Project Lab and the associated Design Projects. Part Three will discuss howthe Lecture and Project Lab build towards the last half of the semester with the Grand DesignChallenge project and competition.THE PREVIOUS COURSE Prior to Fall 2005, Hofstra Engineering required First-Year students to take ENGG 9A -Introduction to Engineering, a 2 credit lecture-only course meeting twice a week. The maincomponents were the typical subjects taught over the past two decades, namely engineeringproblem solving, introductory information outlining the various types of Engineering majors,along with overview material on a variety of topics such as ethics, design, statistics, computerprogramming, plotting, and report writing. Two or

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Martene Stanberry

met my students I showedthem that I truly cared about their success in the mathematics course as well as in life. Academicand professional growth take place in the classroom and outside of the classroom and both areimportant factors in student development and maturity. Therefore, I also mentored and advisedstudents on academic scheduling, academic and career goal setting, summer opportunities,research, and service. Further, I have developed research projects that allow students toparticipate and get involved with mathematical modeling and coding test problems in Matlab. It is critical to establish a strong foundation of how you will teach and continue tomaintain involvement in scholarly activity like grant writing and participation in

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Hector Medina

by a forced level of creativity. Students joining the burgeoning nuclear educationdepartments are confronted with unique pedagogical Open Innovation and Networkingchallenges. But, the author has believes that: “Any complex challenge has N finite number of Interdisciplinary collaboration will become a majorfundamental steps that explain it. Knowing what those component of these research projects. The Materialssteps are is the duty of an effective and responsible Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness, foreducator. On the other hand, an apt pupil is expected to instance, is a recent proof of this being a concern, at allunderstand what those fundamental steps mean

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M. Nazrul Islam

Digital Forensics 8 Hardware Design Programmable Logic Gates System Integration Smart Card TechnologyTeaching MethodologiesThe proposed curriculum will be highly application-oriented. So the courses need be taughtpreferably in lab environment. Each course will assign some practical problems to the studentswho will design, develop and test the technology to solve the problems. In addition, a significantemphasis will be given to senior design and project, and internship training.Students and GraduatesThe security technology curriculum will involve a great amount of applied technologies. So thestudents will require a high level

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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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Todd Holden; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger Jr; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference Delaware April 20-21 2012ConclusionsThis explorative project shows that structural equation model is capable of providingquantitative information on the causative hypotheses/elements such as pre-requisites in asequence of courses. The LISREL software is fairly easy to implement and it is hopedthat the presented results would popularize the application of SEM in engineering andtechnology program pedagogy.AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged.References1. Bollen KA, Noble MD 2011, “Structural equation models and the quantification ofbehavior”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 13;1082. LISREL softwarehttp://www.ssicentral.com/3. Taasoobshirazi, G. and

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

Scholars in Engineering: A Scholarship Model for Student Mentoring and Retention Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein, John Wheatland, Craig Scott, Yacob Astatke Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, 21251AbstractThis paper describes a scholarship project, funded by the National Science Foundation toaddress the significant challenge of retention of students with financial need in engineering atMorgan State University, a public historically black university located in Baltimore, Maryland.Although our university is one of the top producers of underrepresented engineering graduates atthe undergraduate level in the

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balancing act for the professor.Freshmen students are especially vulnerable as they may not be used to the 3 hour or more class,and they may lack the concentration necessary to carry them through. They may sit in traditionallecture rooms with sociofugal rows where they wait for information to be disseminated formemorization and later regurgitation in exams, papers or projects. Faculty endeavor to explainand connect large amounts of course material while maintaining student interest and attention.Students who are actively engaged show increased learning. Per Umbach, P, and Wawrzynski“students report higher levels of engagement and learning at institutions where faculty membersuse active and collaborative learning techniques, engage students in