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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mir M. Atiqullah; Norman Russell

Design, Building and Teaching with a Hydrostatic and Buoyancy Apparatus Mir M. Atiqullah and Norman Russell Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA.ABSTRACT A typical Fluid Mechanics laboratory includes various laboratory equipment andinstruments to cover standard topics. However laboratories may not include a hydrostaticdevice, assuming it is so straight forward that it does not warrant a laboratory instrument or alaboratory exercise. As part of the senior design class a group of students wanted to design andbuild a Fluid Statics device that will clearly verify the static force and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

Online teaching: Do you know who is taking the final exam? Qinghai Gao Department of Criminal Justice & Security Systems, Farmingdale State CollegeAbstract: In recent years Distance Learning has been steadily gaining popularity. More andmore courses are being taught online. However, one question remains for those who teachonline courses: who is doing the real course work? In this paper we will briefly survey thecommonly used methods to prevent students from e-cheating, attempt to answer the questionwhether present technology has made it possible to completely eliminate student dishonesty inDistance Learning. In particular we look at how biometrics as identification tools can be

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dennis Silage

standard text. However, in this approach to teaching digitalcommunication systems the μ-law companding PCM system is also simulated and the speechprocessing is audible.An analysis of BER in pulse code modulation (PCM) with AWGN and a speech signal can alsobe presented with the audible performance as a tangible reminder of the effect. These audio .wavfiles as input have been shown to entice the undergraduate student and provide a memorableexperience. They now have the opportunity to go beyond the lecture course or even the digitalcommunication hardware laboratory with its traditional experiments 1.MATLAB/Simulink by The Mathworks (www.mathworks.com) provides the comprehensivedigital communication system simulation environment and a recent text 2

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ani Ural; Joseph Yost

the end of the FEM module,the students have gained proficiency in creating FE models, and have increased theirunderstanding of the mechanical behavior of the SMARTBEAM and have obtainedcomputational results that they can compare to experimental data.(a)(b)Figure 3: (a) Finite element model of the cellular beam. (b) Deformed shape and displacementcontour of the cellular beam under four-point bending.2.3 Experimental Measurements With a firm understanding of basic flexural theory and data from a finite element analysis,the students are introduced to measured experimental behavior of a SMARTBEAM inVillanova's Structural Engineering Teaching and Research Laboratory (SETRL). The testinvolves four point bending as is shown in Fig. 4. Three

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Amit Bandyopadhyay

A Study in Learning Styles of Construction Management Students Amit Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., PE, F.ASCE State University of New York -FSCAbstractStudents take in and process information in different ways. College faculty members‘teaching methods are not all the same. However, rarely there are any efforts by facultymembers to harmonize their teaching styles with their students’ learning styles. Whenthere is a major mismatch between the learning styles of majority students and teachingstyles of the instructors both get frustrated. Although it is not possible for the instructorsto match individual learning styles of every student in the class, as long as there is abalance in teaching method in

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla S. LoPiccolo

studentspreferred modality.3 Teaching a lecture course that is not supplemented by a laboratorycomponent may offer a few challenges to „doing is understanding‟ and hands-on kinestheticlearning if the subject matter is a topic such as the construction of a foundation, or an energyefficient wall to roof detail. Other than incorporating field trips to construction sites and modelbuilding – which time may not permit – the use of videos, slides and construction details prevail.Over the course of their college education, engineering students in lecture style classrooms areshown visual aids to enhance spatial thinking in a variety of forms and from many sources.Spatial thinking is “the mental manipulation of objects and their parts in 2D and 3D space.”4One type

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

Engineering department and to quantify the extent to which the studentsattain these skills, information literacy modules were introduced into the civil and environmentalengineering curriculum at Villanova University. These modules, which were first introduced in2005 and are integrated throughout the curriculum, were developed by faculty in the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Department with librarians from Falvey Library at VillanovaUniversity. Prior research has shown that information literacy instruction is most successfulwhen it is associated with an assignment within a course as opposed to a stand-alone subject.Since the initial development of these modules, there have been several changes to thecurriculum and the faculty teaching the courses

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

From Design to Implementation with Simulink and LEGO NXT James C. Peyton Jones, Connor McArthur, Tyler Young Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control Villanova University, PA 19085The use of mobile robotics in teaching has the potential to be revolutionized by a) advances inlow-cost, computationally powerful target hardware, and b) automatic code generation or ‘rapidprototyping’ tools which allow these devices to be programmed directly from high-level Matlab /Simulink-based designs. This paper describes progress on a National Science Foundation andMathWorks sponsored project aimed at bringing all these elements together for practical use andbenefit in the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Dahm

nor the design problems can be well described as “multidisciplinary.” • Some program objectives are related to ability to perform hands-on experimental and laboratory work. Chemical Plant Design makes extensive use of simulation but has never been taught with a wet lab component (at least, not at Rowan).The next section describes a project-based course that complements Chemical PlantDesign.Junior/Senior Engineering ClinicRowan University has an eight-semester Engineering Clinic program intended to provideEngineering students with experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems. The sequence culminates in the Rowan Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, inwhich students work on real engineering research and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

faculty members and utilize afour meeting per week format, in which there are three 50-minute periods (Monday, Wednesday,and Friday) used primarily for lectures. The fourth period is a 165-minute “flex” period thatmeets on Thursdays, and can be used for lectures, laboratory exercises, exams, or for overarchingproblem solution periods.Aside from the integration of concepts described above and the use of overarching problems asdescribed below, Mechanics I and II are taught in a fairly traditional manner. Most 50-minutelecture periods involve a set of PowerPoint lecture slides that run on average about 15 minutes,and then the instructor solves two or three example problems for the remainder of the period.Students are assigned simple homework