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Raymond Addabbo

The Integration of Technology, Writing and Mathematics into an Introductory Matlab Course for Engineering Students Raymond Addabbo, Ph.D. Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology 86-01 23rd Ave. East Elmhurst, NY 11369 raymond.addabbo@vaughn.eduAbstractIn this paper we will present material used in the Vaughn College Introduction to Matlab course.CSC 215 is offered to engineering students that have had a course in calculus and writing.The objective of the first half of the course is to teach students basic programming. What isunique is that the programming techniques

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Arthur D. Kney P.E.; Nancy Ball; Traci Shoemaker; Danuta Bukatko; Angela Moran; Joe Colosi

@desales.eduAbstractThis experience connects world-traveling college students with elementary and middle schoolstudents currently in traditional classroom settings. The purpose is to spark excitement forscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) using a non-traditional approach.The focus of the program is to strengthen STEM learning in K-7 students while alsostrengthening the academic value of college trips. Active curricular participation andcollaboration between traveling college students and K-7 classrooms make this a transformativeeducational process.During winter and spring breaks, U.S. college students travel around the world to gain a globalperspective on many issues; however, their experiences are rarely shared. The developing modelis

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American Society For Engineering Education Spring 2010 Middle-Atlantic Section Conference ENGINEERING EDUCATION:GLOBAL CHALLENGES, LOCAL SOLUTIONS April 16-17 2010 , ACOPIAN ENGINEERING CENTER LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Easton, Pennsylvania Leading Engineering Technologies, LLC1BIOGRAPHIES OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERSAlexander W. Masetti Renata S. EngelVice President, Continuous Improvement Professor & Associate Dean Undergraduate StudiesAlexander W. Masetti was appointed vicepresident, continuous improvement, in Renata S. Engel is associate dean for

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Vladimir de Delva; Keith McIver; Katherine Whitaker; Stephanie Farrell; Mariano Javier Savelski; C. Stewart Slater

processing. The Center, led by Rutgers University, is focused ondeveloping structured organic particulate systems used in pharmaceuticals and theirmanufacturing processes. Rowan University is an outreach/education member institution toexpand the impact of the Center through the field of SMET education and outreach. Our currentwork focuses on the development of problem sets for introductory chemical engineering coursessuch as material and energy balances. These include problems in basic concepts inpharmaceutical technology and drug delivery related to unit conversions and engineeringcalculations. Mass and energy balance calculation problems focus on pharmaceuticalmanufacturing operations such as blenders, dryers, tablet presses, etc. The modules

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Barbara E. Mizdail

projects. Such anapproach will produce engineers capable of imparting knowledge integrated from a holistic viewand applying a systems approach to practical solutions. The old principles where an engineerunderstands a single system and attempts to assemble the resulting systems from that perspectiveare no longer viable. Engineers of the 21st Century will face issues in an exploding environment,expanding their vision from local issues to worldwide concerns while interacting with businessesglobally.Learning how to be productive contributors in our continuously changing world is the challengeof the engineering student. To facilitate in this learning, the Pennsylvania State University –Berks College has offered engineering and engineering technology

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William Hornfeck; Ismail Jouny; John Nestor

educating engineers to tackle global issuesis related to their urgency. Engineers are being asked to find technological solutions to problemsthat not only have global proportions, but present “tipping-point” deadlines. That is, beyond apoint where solutions need to be found, is a region where perhaps no satisfactory solution ispossible. Examples of such problems are global warming, feeding the world’s population, orstorage of nuclear waste. Problems such as these present engineering challenges that beginnovations, imagination, and technical know-how. In addition, such problems tend to havesocial, political, economic, and even psychological aspects.Beyond the necessity of instilling a global awareness in our engineering undergraduates, is thealready

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Carl A. Erikson

communicators of their creative ideas to solve societal needs, to invent new processingtechniques, to reduce wasteful use of resources, to express their ethical concerns about products,and to inform the public on issues of mutual concern.From the National Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineer of 2020”, the attributes of the 21stcentury engineer include the following: As always, good engineering will require good communication…. We envision a world where communication is enabled by an ability to listen effectively as well as to communicate through oral, visual, and written mechanisms. Modern advances in technology will necessitate the effective use of virtual communication tools. The increasingly imperative for

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Beth Richards; Karen Walsh

“Nerds Write!”: First-Year Writing Course for Engineering Students at the University of Hartford Beth Richards and Karen Walsh University of Hartford brichards@hartford.eduAbstractTo meet the engineering and technology challenges of the 21st century, engineers andtechnologists of the future, in addition to technical skills, need to master the significantinterpretive, rhetorical, and analytical skills required to communicate effectively. But how canthat happen, in a university’s first-year, general-education, required writing course, particularlywhen many first-year engineering students would rather be

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Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

Developing a Senior Capstone Project Course in Integrating Undergraduate Teaching and Research Sunghoon Jang+, Kenneth Markowitz+, and Aparicio Carranza* + Department of Electrical Engineering Technology * Department of Computer Engineering Technology New York City College of Technology of CUNY 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Abstract: In this current study, we will discuss how to develop a course module of seniorcapstone project as an activity of the NSF STEM grant proposal which has been awarded in theyear 2006. The

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Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

developed for non-engineering studentsat Princeton University2, Hope College3, and other institutions have proven to be effective inachieving outcomes such as technological literacy and appreciation of engineeringmethodologies.We found the example of a team-taught class at the University of Colorado, Boulder, particularlyinspiring4. Their flow visualization course serves as a technical elective for advanced mechanicalengineering and art students, with a substantial graduate student enrollment. Students arepartnered with classmates so that the engineers share their expertise in fluid mechanics andlaboratory technique, and the art students help their teammates with photographic equipment andtechniques. At Lafayette College, our objective was to

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Robert Avanzato

advantages of virtual prototyping and thefuture of virtual worlds will be discussed.2. Virtual Design Case StudiesIn the following section, several examples and case studies of the successful applicationof design in Second Life will be presented. One of the unique features of a virtual worldplatform is the ability to design 3D structures which encourage a high degree ofnavigation, interaction, collaboration and exploration.2.1 Memorial University Virtual Shipyard ProjectStudents at Memorial University in Canada designed and built a realistic shipyard facilityin Second Life [5]. This innovative approach was facilitated by the Distance Educationand Learning Technology (DELT) services of the university. The engineering coursetitle was “Marine

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William Jemison; Christopher Nadovich

testing and verification of design elements. Learning theimportance of testing and planning are valuable lessons that many of the studentstake away from this first semester of senior design, but many equally importantdesign and engineering project lessons are skipped. Most significant of theseomissions is that students are not yet introduced to a true, team-oriented workingsituation. Even though they are grouped in two-student “teams”, most issues ofteam dynamics cannot arise in such a small group. Another limitation of this firstsemester project is that students work in one narrow technology. Students are notchallenged by any significant multidisciplinary requirements. Although studentsare expected to successfully complete their designs on time

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AS Ward; MN Gooseff; RY Toto; SE Zappe

outside” of the simulationallowing them to better understand the underpinning concepts, an ability not likelyfeasible in most physical lab experiments.5 The work of McAteer6 and colleaguesexemplifies how technology mediated practical work can change lab practice in the lifesciences. The authors found that there were no differences between simulated and virtuallabs in the way that students talk about experiments or the way that the students engagethe instructor and their peers. The value that online labs in engineering may provide isfurther reflected in a recent literature review by Ma and Nickerson7 who sought tocompare the value of hands-on labs, simulated (or virtual labs), and remote labs. Theyfound that most of the labs discussed in the

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

-2006 senior projects used finiteelement truss analysis to find acceptable designs for the rebar truss pump frame. Although theproject is relatively low technology, the use of modern engineering tools is still needed.The narrative also provides insight into the challenges of working on a long-term project withstudents. Students, especially those taking the Senior Project sequence, tend to limit the scope ofthe project to what can be finished before they graduate. As a result, work on the pumpprogressed in a piecemeal fashion- focusing on performance, then cost, then reliability. Ideally,these factors should be accommodated in a single design cycle, but the two semester limit of theSenior Project course over focused the student’s scope. When

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Peter J. Shull; Jessica M. Crandall

addition to the primary goals, the coursecovers professional skills with a focus on personal responsibility and awareness.Typically, ten sections of the course are taught in the fall semester of each year. The majority ofthe students were white males (~80 to 85%) with ~15 to 20% women and ~0 to 10% otherethnicities. All of them were engineering or 4-year engineering technology students ranging inage from 17 to 21 with a few adult students (>24 years of age).MethodsThe specific exercise was designed to teach both a stated goal and unstated goal. The stated orovert goal was to help students develop the ability to visualize how a 3-D object might beunfolded into a 2-D object. Apart from an important general skill for engineering students, thisis a

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Anil B. Shrirao; Raquel Perez Castillejos

Microfluidics Labs Using Devices Fabricated By Soft- Lithographic Replication of Scotch-Tape Molds Anil B. Shrirao* and Raquel Perez-Castillejos*,† * Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and † Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ, USAAbstractWe present the use of Scotch® tape to fabricate microfluidic devices in basic teaching labs ofhigh schools and colleges; this technique is an alternative to using photoresist in a cleanroom.Microfluidic devices, beyond their multiple applications as portable, biomedical, analytical labson a chip, provide the opportunity to creating fluidic environments dominated by

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

require new residentialconstruction to be 50% more energy efficient than the baseline code starting January 1, 2014,rising a further 5% every three years subsequently.5 This Act will significantly improve energyefficiency, but will also require current students to be more conversant in energy efficientconstruction methods than the traditional teaching regarding construction using 2x4 woodplatform frame or cavity walls.Methodology:This study protocol was based on 2 lower level construction methods classes, with a combinedtotal of 34 students. These classes are part of the Bachelor of Science programs in ourdepartment (Architectural Engineering Technology and Construction Management EngineeringTechnology). Each group is of similar intellect

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Christopher L. Reitsma

Reinvigorating Microcontroller Laboratories with Experiences and Applications of Common Devices Major Christopher L. Reitsma, Dept. of EE&CS, United States Military AcademyAbstractMany non-engineering Cadets at the United States Military Academy take a sequence of coursesin Electrical Engineering as part of their requirement to earn a Bachelor’s of Science. The finalcourse in the sequence incorporates the programming of a microcontroller, including theutilization of analog and digital circuits, and implementation of robotics as part of militaryelectronic systems. Because of the limited programming experience of these students, the courseuses the BOE-Bot containing a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller

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James D. McGuffin-Cawley

“Relating the Increasing Scarcity of Mineral-Based Materials to the Materials ScienceCurriculum"James D. McGuffin-CawleyDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringCase Western Reserve UniversityCleveland OH 44106-7204Abstract: A new course was developed and offering as a senior technical elective orbeginning graduate course with the title" Strategic Metals and Materials for the 21stCentury" with the stated objective of creating an understanding of the role of mineral-based materials in the modern economy focusing on how such knowledge can and shouldbe used in making strategic choices in an engineering context. The success at garneringstudent attention will be discussed. A novel aspect of this course is the use of currentliterature

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Bahar Zoghi Moghadam

design and Delivery” Hoboken, NJ:John Wiley, 2005 8. Levine, A.D., and T. Asano, “Recovering sustainable water from wastewater”, Environmental Science and Technology, 38,201A-208A,2004 9. Mihelcic,J.R and J.B.Zimmerman, Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability and design, New York: John Wiley, 2008 10. Otterpohl, R., U.Braun, and M.Oldenburg, “Innovative technologies for decentralized water, wastewater and biowaste management in urban and peri-urban areas”, Water Science and Technology, 48, 23-32, 2003 11. P.T.Anastas and J.B.Zimmerman, the twelve principals of green building, Environmental science and Technology, 38, 94A-101A, 2003 12. U.S. Green Buildings Council, LEED Rating System

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M Nazrul Islam

numberof malicious activities in the computer network. Also the topic is getting more involved into theengineering curriculum in order to prepare the future engineers and scientists to efficientlyhandle the emerging security threats. One of the most important objectives of informationsecurity systems is to secure the confidential information, which includes personal identificationnumber, personal data, as well as graphical information like photo, fingerprint. Securinginformation can only be done through the use of cryptography technology, which involvesencryption of the information before transmission and then successful reproduction of theinformation at the receiving end. Traditional encryption schemes suffer from poor securitybecause a random

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Andrew Grossfield P.E.

analytically educated populace, we need tomodify the organization, timing and delivery of the presentation of the mathematical conceptsand facts. Drop “no child left behind” with its drilling and testing and instead provide ourchildren with an introduction to the spirit of mathematics as it may have developed in Euler’smind. That is, the mathematics to which we introduce the nation’s youth should deal withquantitative problems immediately confronted by the students and should be treated as research.The engineering and technology communities who see declining enrollments may welcome anyimprovement in the conventional introduction of mathematics. The grade school students,teachers, and even parents might welcome having more understandable texts and

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Alfred A. Scalza

quantifiable. Over a period of 13 years from 1996 to 2009 Ihave kept grading sheets for the classes I taught in Construction Management and CivilEngineering. There were 48 classes averaging 25 students per class. Overall, I compiled arecord of the grading trends of 1148 students. As a full time professor I see approximately 80students per semester ( 4 classes of 25 students each but some are in more than one class).Farmingdale State College enrollment has risen from 5045 in the year 2000 to 6988 students inthe year 2009. The School of Engineering Technology has grown from 842 to 997. Our owncurriculum, Architecture and Construction Management, has grown from 133 in the year 2000 to276 in the year 2009. In fact we grew at a steady rate up to 286 in

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Hu J. Cui; Seong W. Lee; Alexander K. Kinyua

Exhaust Temperature Analysis of Biodiesel Fuels Using MATLAB Hu J. Cui, Seong W. Lee, Alexander K. Kinyua Morgan State University, cuihujun@gmail.com, seong.lee@morgan.edu, alex_kinyua@bigstring.comAbstract The primary goal of the engineering curriculum is to provide the student withnecessary skills to perform effective problem solving. Another goal is to teachundergraduate & graduate students how to transition from textbook problems torealistic engineering problems and processes. Students in the Industrial EngineeringDepartment at Morgan State University, participate in ongoing projects at thelaboratories of Center for Advanced Energy Systems & Environmental

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M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

Energy Conservation: Heat Transfer Design Considerations Using Thermodynamic Principles M. Minnucci, J. Ni, A. Nikolova, L. Theodore Department of Chemical Engineering Manhattan CollegeAbstract Environmental concerns involving conservation of energy issues gained increasing prominence during andimmediately after the OPEC oil embargo of 1973. In addition, global population growth has led to an increasingdemand for energy. Although the use of energy has resulted in great benefits, the environmental and human healthimpact of this energy use has become a concern. One of the keys to reducing

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Andrzej Zarzycki

Designing Curriculum for Digital-native Architecture Students Andrzej Zarzycki New Jersey Institute of Technology andrzej.zarzycki@njit.eduIntroductionThis paper discusses a pedagogical approach toward teaching the first-year curriculum in anarchitectural program. It focuses on two courses. The first is a design studio, a 5- to 6-creditclass, taught in a small group of 12 to 15 students with a high number of contact hours, usuallyaround 12 hours per week. The other course, also geared toward first-year students, is offered ina lecture format with 30 to 36 students and covers the relationship between digital tools andconcepts