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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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E. Hou; T. N. Chang; A. Dhawan; J. Ji; E. Luxford; D. Rodriguez; W. Stoddart; S. Siddiqui

running in parallel based on their respective immediateinputs, a feedback control data flow will continuously update the system priorities to adapt with theenvironment and in their decision making. The overall system architecture and its data flow are illustratedin Figure 2.1. Figure 2.1. Overall system architecture of Highlander Racing. In the Environmental Awareness Module, the outside world is continuously monitored by anarray of sensors whose outputs are weighted and fused according to the current mission state andcombined to provide static and dynamic mappings of objects. The Route Planner and Field of ViewPlanner can handle the objectives of advanced navigation by dynamically planning appropriate paths tocomplete

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

combine plumes. This tool uses “mapalgebra,” which allows raster data sets to be combined on a cell by cell basis with an algebraic expression(figure 7). This tool enables students to visualize the effects of not just one plume, but the combinedeffects of several as they work through an analysis of a local air quality plan. A region that may havebeen below an air quality standard as the result of the effects of one plume may become an area ofconcern when plumes overlap. This is a critical tool that students needed to use as they worked on theirdispersion projects. 5 Figure 7: Plume combination dialog boxSTUDENT PROJECTSAfter being introduced to Matlab and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

will be impacted earlier and with a greater intensity that is otherwisepossible.Since its inception, the Pre-College Center has sought to become a driving force in providing increasingaccess to scientific and technological fields to all students. Through its careful and thorough planning thePre-College Center has been remarkably successful in reaching those populations that are traditionallyunderrepresented. The Center’s models for success bring academic opportunities to children who needthem most in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas, as well asdevelopment and dissemination of resource materials, standards-based classroom lessons and practices,laboratory experiments and demonstrations to teachers to integrate

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Lou Harrington; Austin Bartlett; Quentin Willard; Jason McKay; Bruce Brown; Ernest Wong

provide NASA isintroducing it to a value-focused thinking (VFT) approach versus its current alternative-focused thinking(AFT) design. VFT tends to be a different way of focusing an organization’s goals and objectives into anaction plan. Values are what people really want, and VFT is markedly different than choosing 2alternatives and going with the one that fits the best. Oftentimes, when organizations rely on AFT, theyfail to take the time to reflect on what is really important to them. Ralph Keeney, a pioneer in the field ofVFT, introduces the concept of Constraint-Free Thinking: “thinking about values is constraint-freethinking . . . it is thinking about what you wish to achieve or what you

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elisabeth McGrath; Dawna Schultz

exposing allstudents (not merely those who self-select to take elective courses) to hands-on design and problem-solving and the application of science and mathematics principles toward the solution of relevant, real-world problems in the context of required K-12 courses, we expect that more students will be motivatedto enroll and succeed in gatekeeper courses in middle and high school and pursue engineering and otherSTEM careers.Inspired, in part, by Massachusetts’s leadership as the first state to introduce science and engineeringstandards1, program developers of Engineering Our Future NJ planned a two-phase campaign designed tostrengthen the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards2 to: (1) articulate engineering in thelanguage of the

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William E. Kelly

by faculty and administrators as adding value Page 1to their programs. Faculty members may also expect that good assessment will help themimprove their teaching effectiveness.ABET provides the criteria but it has been somewhat reluctant to define what constitutes goodpractice for assessment and improvement. It does, however, provide guidance through activitiessuch as workshops for faculty on engineering assessment practice.5 It also provides guidance onassessment planning through a section on the ABET web site maintained by Gloria Rogers.6There have been numerous sessions and papers at ASEE regional and national meetings dealingwith assessment. ASEE started early with its report on assessment

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Peggy A. Johnson

graduating classes of anyprofession, including medicine, law, and others (Tietjen, 2005). The situation in engineering practice isworse yet. The percentage of women engineers in engineering practice has never reached even10 percent(Isaacs, 2001). Data indicate that retention is not as big an issue as recruitment (Gibbons, 2004). In astudy conducted by the National Science Foundation (2005), it was determined that high school girls takescience and math courses at approximately the same rate as boys. However, boys enter universityengineering programs at much greater rates than girls. According to a survey published in the Chronicleof Higher Education (Hoover, 2006), only 8.4% of students entering college in 2005 were planning tomajor in engineering. A

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Charles H. Forsberg

with the predictions.Planned Future WorkThe author plans to expand the use of KSBs to a senior mechanical engineering lab (ENGG170) and the thermal/fluids senior design course (ENGG 143F).At Hofstra, engineering labs are generally given one semester after the correspondinglecture class. KSBs should be very useful in reacquainting students with the lecturematerial and with introducing topics not covered (or covered insufficiently) in the lectureclass. For example, ENGG 170 has a pump experiment which deals with two pumpsoperating individually or in series and parallel arrangements. KSBs could be developed onpressure losses in piping, pump head/flow curves, pump operating characteristics,theoretical performance of pumps operating in series and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shaina Slonim; Richard Puerzer

”, “faculty and student development”, and “supportfor the transformation of the teaching/learning environment.” Rogers also lists other methods ofassessment: “written surveys and questionnaires”, “exit and other interviews”, “standardized exams”,“locally developed exams”, “archival records”, “focus groups”, “portfolios”, “simulations”, “performanceappraisal”, “external examiner”, “oral exams,” and “behavioral observations.”4 In “Managing and Aligning Assessment Knowledge”5, Cecelia Wigal discusses how, at theUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga, assessment information was not accessible to faculty memberswhen the faculty needed it to plan and evaluate courses. Wigal recommends sharing assessment resultsfrom the individual courses with the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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R. Barat; G. DiBenedetto; T. Boland

Self-Rating Scale (0 = none, 5 = a lot)Course Objectives and StructureThe overall objective of our ChE FED course is to give freshman and transfer students an introductoryengineering design experience combining experimental and computational tools that is FUN!Specifically, the students will learn to work successfully in a team; to plan effectively; to design,engineer, and construct a working system that uses available resources, meets required objectives, andoperates within stated constraints; and, finally, to report on their results.The chemical engineering FED course meets three hours per week for fourteen weeks (one semester). Itis divided into laboratory and computer components. Each week, the students typically spend 1-2 hoursworking in

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

accessibility. They created detailed floor plans of the buildings using appropriate software CASE tools to provide visual information concerning entrances, elevators, area parking, departments and offices in each building. In addition, the corresponding times and distances between buildings were estimated. Parts of the project were accomplished in class, but most of the work was done outside the classroom and later in the computer lab. The results from the team project have been used in the development of two other comprehensive student projects assigned in another course, Readings and Projects in CS and ISs, as individual projects. The first of them resulted in a website offering on-line disability information about campus

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

provides input to the 2 Develop a following step following step Flowchart/ Design Diagram Test 3 Partial Test the Design Plan Build Each step may

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

1997 gave tax credits to middle and upper-middle income taxpayers. State governments followed similar patterns, creating plans that encourageparents to save. Although this ostensibly provides the same advantages to all taxpayers, in reality poorpeople don’t have any money to save – they need it in order to survive. This fact is convenientlyoverlooked in the presumptions behind these acts. States have also introduced various merit scholarships,tied to SAT scores, grade-point averages or class ranking, that are available to all students regardless ofneed. Although it could be said that these changes do not take money away from poorer students,cumulatively they add to the ideology that financial aid is widely available and remove

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tom M. Warms; Renee Drobish

. Also, students in the tracing groupwho did well in the final examination seemed to feel that the tracing method did indeed help them writeprograms.ConclusionsThe tracing system, as presented here, has been used in the classroom for a number of years. Apreliminary study provides indications that students do benefit from using the system. Additional testingin the classroom is in the planning stages.AcknowledgmentThe authors wish to thank Renata Engel of the Penn State College of Engineering for her encouragement,Sarah Zappe of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State for her assistance, and thestudents in Computer Science 101 Sections 1 and 2 during Fall 2006 at Penn State Abington for theirparticipation in the preliminary

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

III(Particle Formation and Functionalization) deals with fundamental research initiatives to develop theengineered particles that go into the fabrication of such products. Goals iii) and iv) are addressed bydeveloping strategic plans for education and outreach. These include undergraduate and graduateeducational vehicles and pre-college, professional and industry-oriented activities.Camp PharmaCamp Pharma was created in partial fulfillment of goals iii) and iv) and is the first step in the C-SOPS’sgoal of developing diverse and competent human resources including minorities and women at all levels(K-12, pre-graduate, graduate, post graduate, faculty) to help overcome challenges faced by thepharmaceutical industry.A complete bottom-up strategy

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Robert Russo; Hong Li

-8 - 8.5 -9 0 100 200 300 400 500 GlucoseConcentrationFigure 5: A plot of the waveforms includes VDC signal output from lock-in amplifier against glucoseconcentration in the open loop optical glucose sensing system. V. PLAN of STUDY in NEAR FUTURE We have attempted simplify further in order to obtain an improved system sensitivitywhich will be very important factor for achieving our ultimate goal of the noninvasive glucosesensing technology depicted in Figure 6. We

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

. 612. “Developing an Assessment Plan to Meet TAC/ABET Criteria 1-8,” Speckert, Best Assessment Processes VIII.13. ABET .14. Hofstra University 2006-2007 Course Bulletin . 7

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Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

things will result in a more “natural” inclinationtoward mathematics and science.Adult education in the form of learning, child-rearing practices, financial planning, and African-Americanand other cultural histories should be explored not only during African-American history month, butthroughout the year as a way of life. In learning about the importance of education to early African-13 Gerome Gloster, MD, “Role Models Needed in Health Care,” Pittsburgh Pa Post-Gazette, by ChristopherSnowbeck, Tuesday, August 20, 2002, http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020820hminority0820p3.asp.14 Tanisha Perez, UAW-Daimler Chrysler National Training Center Communications, 2/9/06, http://www.uaw-daimlerchryslerntc.org/resources/news.cfm?NewsID