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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gad J. Selig

business development, leadership and people skills, new product, service and venturecreation, managing change and innovation proactively, strategic, tactical and project planning andexecution and many other skills. The program integrates the following disciplines as illustrated in Figure2: 4 Figure 2 - Inter-Disciplinary Business, Engineering, Technology & Leadership Competencies Business/ Leadership, Industry People & Knowledge Team Building & Process Skills

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Imin Kao

lecture notes. With the availability of tablet PC and many software, making a podcast is nolonger a difficult task. The training and teaching of the usage of the technology is alsoimportant, not just for the instructors but also for the students if they are required to producepodcasting projects as part of their learning experience. 32.3 Sound Pedagogy and AssessmentTechnology is only a means to deliver the contents, and should not replace sound pedagogywhich is the fundamental rubric. Pedagogy which promotes active learning using suchtechnology can enhance the learning experience of students. It is the author’s experience thatstudents of this generation, who are savvy in learning and using new

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ismail I. Orabi

exclusively on the web. The online class required students to attend four face-to-face meetings during which main topics of the course were discussed and exams of the course were administered, and projects were presented. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section: A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and online based delivery means. The class met regularly for lectures, assignments, and

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David Evanko; Arend Dorsett; Chiu Choi

below.2.1. SensorsThe Sharp GP2D12 infrared distance sensors[4] were chosen for the project because they were inexpensiveand sensitive enough for registering the location of the ball on the beam. Also the infrared beam isnarrowly confined that adjacent objects does not easily interfere with the detection of the ball position.The output of the GP2D12 distance sensor is a voltage that is exponentially related to the distance. Therange of the distance measured by the sensor is from 10cm to 80 cm. For the range over 40cm, thesensitivity decreases rapidly (see Fig. 2). To increase the sensitivity over the entire length of the beam,two sensors are used instead of just one. The two sensors are mounted on opposite ends of the beam. Thedifference of the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kanti Prasad

established simultaneously with thedevelopment of VLSI Design courses (16.502/16.470). In 1984, only text book availablewas Mead and Conway and DLAP was the prime tool for the experimental layout andsimulation. The projects were fabricated at M2C, and were tested at UMASS Lowellusing LV 500 tester.Full use was made of both of these in the class room as well as in the laboratory. Since itinvolved extensive use of programming in PASCAL, along with VAX operatinginstructions it did slow down the layout, so project such as Flip Flops, LIFO’s, FIFO’salong with basic gates could be completed. In 1985, Berkeley however, releases MAGICthrough M2C, which was a mouse driven drafting tool. It helped in getting bigger projectsconsummated during the semester such

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

Department of Physics has introducedPC-based video analysis as a means of enhancing both our interactive lecture curriculum and ourintroductory physics laboratory program. The impetus to implement video analysis focused on three keycapabilities; the capability to analyze physical phenomena which are more familiar to cadets, thecapability to create educational links between the classroom and the dorm room, and the capability tofacilitate a more interactive classroom.Method In the Fall of 2006, video analysis was introduced as a capstone laboratory project for the NewtonianMechanics course. Based on the feedback from this initial implementation, video analysis was used fortwo separate laboratories in the Fall 2007 Newtonian Mechanics course and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Richard B. Mindek

. The topicof PLC’s was covered as the eleventh of twelve three-hour lectures given over the entire semester. Thelecture was quite extensive, covering Chapter 8 in Reference [1], including the characteristics andelements of PLCs, the use of truth tables, Boolean algebra, ladder logic and associated symbolism, andexamples demonstrating discrete process control using both logic (event) driven and sequence (time)driven system changes. Students were then asked to read the corresponding material in the text [1] forhomework, given instruction for about 15 minutes on the use of the PLC platform and its associatedsoftware as described above, and then given a PLC project to complete. The project required students tocomplete the exercises, as outlined in

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

aligned with the realworld needs of business and industry. Several programs such as STEM summer programs and internshipshave been developed to address these issues, but to a large extent, such programs are short-term based.Additionally, they mostly target high school students; are only applicable in one grade level; or are onetime project-based events. What would be the impact of systematically exposing PK through high schoolstudents to engineering concepts, applications, and career opportunities on a long-term, continuous basisat each grade level? If students are constantly reminded that engineering is part of their daily lives, thiscould generate a lifetime interest in the engineering profession and engage them in benefiting humanity.The

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

2achieving this objective is the inclusion of a semester long multidisciplinary design project thatculminates in the end of the semester engineering competition (Weinstein et al. 2006). Theproject and competition are integrated into the engineering discipline introductions so thatstudents understand how the different engineering disciplines work together to achieve a unifiedsolution to a central problem.The objective of this paper is to describe the content of EGR 1700 and show how therestructured course format achieves the objective of introducing freshman engineering studentsfrom all departments within the college to the interdisciplinary nature of the engineeringprofession.EGR 1700 Course OverviewAs described earlier, there are two distinct

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vicki V. May

wiki. The students are allowed to use the wiki/class notes onall quizzes and the final exam.The class wiki project counts for 25% of the students’ grade in the course (with theremaining 75% split evenly between quizzes, assignments, and a final exam). I evaluate eachwiki section using the rubric shown in Table 1. At the end of the term, each person willevaluate the performance and participation of the group members, including themselves. Page 3 of 10 Table 1. Rubric for Evaluating the Class WikiCategory Full Pts No Pts Points Key Includes Includes

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

classes to support their new family.Suggestions to Solve Retention ProblemIn order to reduce student attrition rate, increase their success rate and improve studentretention the following suggestions are offered to assist in achieving these goals. Orientation and entrance measurement test Identify students at risk before enrollment Identify students at risk after enrollment Provide group discussions or have a course discussion section Provide effective homework assignments instead of busy work Provide mini projects, close to actual projects that they can find in the work place Send at-risk students to tutorial sessions Provide a mentoring program Have workshops and guest speakers on how their

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

meetings.First, due to the nature of our two-semester multidisciplinary senior design class, students from the highschool robotics class as well as the middle school science classes will partner with senior engineering andcomputer science students to experience the excitement of competition design projects. This year, amongother corporate sponsored projects, four senior design competition projects are included in the portfolio.They are the ASME Human Powered Vehicle, ASCE Steel Bridge, PEER Seismic, and WERCEnvironmental Engineering competitions. In each of these projects, direct connections between gradelevel and grade span expectations in the high school and middle school curricula have been identified.High school and middle school students will

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Roger Chapman Burk

, they are all required to take a broad core curriculum that includesphysics, chemistry, calculus, and statistics, as well as (for those not actually majoring in engineering) acore engineering sequence of three upper-division courses that introduce an engineering discipline such ascivil, mechanical, environmental, nuclear, or systems engineering. The author interacted with studentstaking the third course in the systems engineering sequence; he acted as a surrogate client for severalgroup projects. In conversation with these students, he found that they considered the sequence dry anduninteresting. They saw little point in learning the foundations of an engineering discipline that they werenever going to apply. They did not have the perspective

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Daniel J. McCarthy; Michael J. Kwinn

place” in the curriculum to do the assessment. Forexample, in support of assessing program outcome 5.1 “Design and conduct systems experiments,including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, “ one of the performance criteria we defined is “Useappropriate data analysis techniques including appropriate software data analysis tools to analyze theresults of a systems experiment.” Our assessment plan dictates that our students will be assessed againstthis criterion in the completion of a design project in the Statistics for Engineers course they take as partof the curriculum. Given that data analysis is a major topic in this course and the design project requiresthe students to do this type of analysis, this seemed like the “right place” to

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dean Aslam; Aixia Shao

toxins that might be threatening our health. This means that the Gamesimpact of those learning techniques and modules will be very high, GPS Air Qualitywhich explain (a) technologies that are in the market today as well as Monitor TVthe technologies that are going to be in the market in the near term,(b) how these technologies are used to build complete systems or Mobile Projection microvision.comMicrosystems, and (c) what technologies will be used to buildNanosystems. Thus, this paper reveals an innovative use of technologyto explain

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Barrie Jackson

students are advised to not participate puts mixed teams of engineering students,law students, business students and students from arts and science at work on a project for an industrialclient. We can often raise the awareness of Process Safety Management in these projects and very oftenin order for the students to visit a client’s operation they are put through a rigorous Safety Introduction bythe client. We encourage this and most of our contacts are more than willing to comply as they certainlysee the need for awareness of the issue by potential employeesConclusionProcess Safety Management is a vitally important aspect of Chemical Engineering whether involved indesign, operation or maintenance. We believe that we have a responsibility to our

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

do such a feedback from within to the outside world if anemergency to happen to one of the buildings in the University of Bridgeport, in particular, Engineering &Technology Building where we work most of the time. 3.1 Assessment We started to study how we can implement such a system in the engineering and technology buildingunder the following conditions: 1. Simple and cheap implementation since acquiring a huge budget for such a project was not feasible 2. Fixed system and dedicated to the building; works 24/7. 3. Can work in most if not all the emergencies. 4. In case of an emergency, it can send information from inside to outside. 5. Emergency responders can communicate directions and instructions

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

Publications/year 84 76 63 16Max Women Students 260 197 182 (14%) 17Min Attrition Rate (Max Retention) 3% 5% 7.5% 18Max Co-op and internship participation in co-op programs 95% 86% 80% 19Max # of Staff (Administrative Personnel) 10 5 5 20RO* # of Students per Class (Average) 25 35 * 30 21Max # of Projects sponsored by industry/year 50 30 25

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul G. Ranky

, and the EdinburghEngineering Virtual Library, UK. USA, 5 p., Vol. 3., May 2002[5] Ranky, P G, Herli Surjanhata, One-Jang Jeng, Geraldine Milano: The Design andImplementation of Digital Educational Knowledge Assets (DEKA) with SoftwareDemonstration (An NJIT and Industry Sponsored R&D Project. ASEE (AmericanSociety of Engineering Education) NJ Spring Conference, April, 2001 (eProceedings)[6] Ranky, P G, Ranky M F, Flaherty, M, Sands, S and Stratful, S: Servo PneumaticPositioning, An Interactive Multimedia Presentation on CD-ROM (650 Mbytes, 330interactive screens, 70 minutes of digital videos, animation and over 300 photos),published by CIMware (IEE and IMechE Approved Professional Developer), March1996. Multimedia design & programming

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Creep Response of Asphalt Mixture and Pavement Rutting Estimates, American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 1147, pp 329-347, Philadelphia, 1992.(8) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and S.Jahanian, A Pedagogical Strategy for gradual Enhancement of Creative Performance of the Students, European Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 24, No. 1, 1999.(9) S.Jahanian and Robert Brooks (a/k/a James Matthews), Multidisciplinary Project-A Tool for Learning the Subject, Journal of American Society of Engineering Education, April 1999, pp 153-162. 78910

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harry Knickle; Don Gray

friction factorwith hand valves and now are using digital signal controlled solenoid valves. Dataacquisition includes pressure drop and flow. The design for this project includedselection of the proper devices for the correct range of variables. Our second examplewas a laboratory cooling tower used to cool hot water with ambient air. Similar conceptswere introduced for this experiment. Our intentions are to automate other seniorlaboratory experiments. Each of these labs lasts 4-6 3 hour sessions (up to two weeks).To help prepare the students for these experiments we may give mini-lectures or havediscussions with the teams.In addition to the below listed experiments the students may spend time on a largedistillation column or a dual stage

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

Program of the National Science Foundationunder Award Number EEC-9986866.REFERENCES[1] Lipman, M. (1991). Thinking in education.New York: Cambridge University Press.[2] CTGV. (1992). The jasper series as an example of anchored instruction: Theory, program description, and assessment data. Educational Psychologist, 27(3), 291-315.[3] Krajcik, J. S., Blumenfeld, P. C., Marx, R. W., Bass, K. M., Fredricks, J., & Soloway, E. (1998). Inquiry in project-based science classrooms: Initial attempts by middle school students. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 7(3&4), 313-350.[4] Penner, D. E., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (1998). From physical models to biomechanics: A design-based modeling approach. The Journal of the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

the end of the 19th century,Lukens began keeping records of the plate defects and their sources. All of these books were the end product of multiple routines of record keeping by people on thefactory floor and many of them have fingerprints and handprints on them. They are similar to the daybook, journal, and ledger, in that they record data into a transitional location before entering the finalresults into ledgers. However, they are different in that it was a works-wide record keeping project, ratherthan the work of a single clerk or owner. The processes were becoming more complex and more peoplehad to participate in the written record keeping in order to gain the knowledge necessary to analyze andcontrol the industrial

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter Thomas Tkacik

work up inthe race shop computer and meeting room. The result is that students are forced to return to theexcitement of racing just frequently enough that they are reminded of the excitement and stay engaged. 3Despite the programs focus on undergraduate studies, graduates that continue on for a master‟s or PhD,typically use the race shop as a hang out, working on pet projects, and continuing to support the raceteams they crewed on in their undergraduate years. This beneficial support of the teams complements thefaculty effort to guide and lead the teams through the engineering of the race cars.Students and race team internshipsBecause of the great need for race team engineers and because of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and