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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ted E. Batchman

of the ASEE and IEEE. 29 Reflections on Engineering Education: Past, Present, FutureAbstractSpending almost a half century in engineering education as an undergraduate student, graduatestudent, lecturer, professor, department chair and dean, has given me an opportunity to witnessmany changes. From the slide rule to the tablet computer, the changes have been rapid andpresented a number of challenges to engineering faculty. We have been faced many questions.What are the fundamentals of engineering? How many credits does it take to educate an engineer?What are the expectations for faculty? The foundations we have established over the past yearsand are currently building on must serve us

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

andCommunity Services contended that service learning is an educational process by whichparticipants learn and extend through direct involvement in service that is conducted inand meets the needs of a community. It is coordinated between a school/institution andcommunity service program or targeted community group. This concept encourages thelifelong learning of participants, and includes structured time for participants to reflect onthe service experience (http://www.vaservice.org). Since technology is such an integralpart of life long-learning and our ever-changing society, the union of service learning andtechnology will afford opportunities that will enable continued growth of a globalcivilization. According to the International Technology

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Sara A. Atwood; Tomas Estrada

high2, and high anxiety students in high-risk testing situations.3 The psychologicalinterventions have included the following: values affirmation at one or two points duringthe semester in which the student reflects upon values or topics important to them toenhance their self-worth,1,2 or expressive writing in which the student writes downconcerns about the exam immediately before taking the test.3 Based on these recentlypublished studies, we hypothesized that in a mid-level engineering course, examunderperformers could mitigate the effect of anxiety and improve their exam scores bywriting a values affirmation essay immediately prior to the exam.Our study focused on one mid-level course (thermodynamics) within theABETaccredited general

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

students to consider not only technology issues in the Third World but also non-technicalissues of social, economic, cultural, and political concerns. The service learning pedagogicalapproach provides the content, engagement, and reflection components to achieve the successfuleducational goals of the Department.IntroductionThis paper is an update of two past Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conferences papers [1,2]In addition several other papers on the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) and theCollaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research ( Collab ) have been written forother national organizations’ conferences such as ASA [3] and AAC&U [4] as well as otherregional conferences such as the St. Lawrence Chapter of ASEE [5]. These papers give

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Artur Liamin; Jeffrey Gorn; Timothy Golden; Ezekiel J. Blain; Bryndol Sones; Timothy H. Trumbull; Brian Moretti; Don Gillich

USMA teamedwith RPI Faculty to offer students an opportunity to gain experience with the RCF. This experience wasdelivered using multiple videos that first present lectures given by RPI instructors about the concept ofthe lab and then the conduct of the laboratory itself.Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.This blended learning opportunity enables cadets to broaden the skills and knowledge gained in theclassroom to the laboratory environment. It is essential for the cadets to work with the West Point sub-critical assembly prior to the conduct of this blended learning experience, as it

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L. Ralph; Singli Garcia-Otero; E. Sheybani

is fixed and one is mobile. The two mirrors will reflect the beams of light back to the beamsplitterwhere they interfere and leave the FTS through the detector. Below are the results.The peak at the center is the ZPD position ("Zero Path Difference"). Here, all the light passes through theinterferometer because its two arms have equal length. As the two beams cancel each other out, the signalbecomes a straight line. 540Next, low pass, high pass, and band pass filters were studied and the frequency of each filter wasmeasured using the network analyzer. A low-pass filter is a filter that passes low frequency. Figure 1(a)below shows the results of a low pass filter. Most low pass filters have a

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Clive L. Dym

are offered [1].This paper is intended as reminder toengineering and design educators that 2. Environmental Driversissues of sustainability are inherent in and The starting point is a reiteration (andcentral to the ethical obligations of both recycling!) of a warning provided by the latepracticing engineers and teachers of John H. McMasters. He identified a perfectengineering. storm of forces that reflect major changes in the environment. McMasters’ perfect storm 1. Introduction identifies the following four

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

2030 and even 2050. Think of 2030,two decades will have flown by, or looking back we may reflect on 1990. Times were verydifferent then and will likely be even more different in the future. Today there are newcompanies, new ‘toys,’ high technology cellular devices, marvelous digital cameras, andpolitically significant social movements all catalyzed by these innovations. Have oureducational methods changed in parallel?What of 2031? The US will likely no longer be a primary ‘top-of-the-heap’ nation; what isthe U.S. prognosis? In particular, education practices have not experienced major curricularearrangements since the traumas of Sputnik. U.S. science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) rankings are below world-class. Our students

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

development. All of the above activities are mainly good for the economybecause they contribute to widening the tax base but side effects are also possible, such as highpopulation density, pollution, contamination, congestion, high cost of living, etc.Infrastructure and social behavior: Infrastructure greatly reflects on social behavior. Examplesrelated to behavior on the road include drivers staying in lanes versus chaotic traffic; driverscourteous to pedestrians versus disregard to foot traffic; waiting in line versus aggressivelycutting through it; interaction with other people using gentle language versus offendingvocabulary or aggressive hand gesture; etc. Social behavior reflects on the society as a whole.People with smoothly functioning

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

paper describes the early publication history of the American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME), founded in 1871, as they sought to create an industrial knowledge-base. AIME was a professional society dedicated to gathering, verifying, mediating and publishing current written, drawn, and quantitative knowledge about the iron and steel industries. As the number of technological discoveries increased and the industry became more complex, AIME split into divisions reflecting the current fields of growth. By the end of the 20th century, most of the divisions of AIME stopped publishing, signaling a decline in the steel industry in the United States. The theme here is that

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

the Jigsawclassroom activity was made evident by the results of the post-test above. Their negativeresponse to active interdependent group work is also reflected in their majority vote forPowerPoint lectures – a largely passive exercise unless the faculty incorporates activequestioning and problem solving within their presentations.Conclusion:The Jigsaw Learning activity described in this paper was performed in the third week of afreshman class. While this activity appeared to succeed as an “ice breaker” for the students, itfailed in student retention of subject matter. This outcome, as reflected in the quantitativeresults, is largely based on the fact that the Jigsaw groups did not function as efficiently as afaculty member in teaching the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andy S. Zhang; Farrukh Zia; Iem Heng

robot chassis, differential system, and steering system. Studentswere taught to take into consideration of all the features in design, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance,and recycles when designing or choosing a component to optimize the design.The electrical and electronics design includes selection of robot controller, chemical sensors, wirelesscommunication tools, and design of electrical/electronic circuits.The software design includes the development and testing of robot control algorithms and sourcecodes. The scope of the engineering work reflects actual engineering activities in the industry related toproduct design and development.The concepts of temporal constraints and spatial constraints were introduced to help students to consider

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kyle D. Gilroy; Mohammad S. Islam; Robert A. Hughes; Svetlana Neretina; Brandon Lee; Ying Sun

. Introduction One of the foremost challenges facing next generation photovoltaics is to advancedesigns which deliver flexible, low-cost alternatives to the rigid-substrate silicon-basedarchitectures which presently dominate the marketplace1-4. The emergence of companies such asNanosolar5,6 and Konarka7, which offer high-volume printable solar cell fabrication processes,reflect both the allure and promise of fabricating low-cost, efficient solar cells usingconventional printing-press technologies. Inkjet printing offers a printing technology which ispromising but has, thus far, remained untapped in terms of use in commercial photovoltaictechnologies. While the inkjet process lends itself to the fabrication of organic solar cells 8, theformation

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S. Jimmy Gandhi; Michael McShane

Definition Anthony Giddens (Former Globalization can be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relationsDirector of London School of which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by Economics) events occurring many miles away and vice versa. The concept of globalization reflects the sense of an immense enlargement ofFredric Jameson (Professor of world communication, as well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which Literature, Duke University) seem far more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Richard Devon; Richard Schuhmann

. But the“end of shopping” is certainly a teachable moment.All technologies have life cycles, even those intended for permanence, but how these life cyclesare described varies considerably. The differences among models of the PLC is one way ofcapturing how very differently people may view the same product. Products mean profits or jobsto some, pollution or unacceptable injury and death rates to others, bring great utility or pleasure,or are an intrusive and unwelcome presence in a household, community or nation.The benefit of this analysis is to explore how what we view as design knowledge is not onlyvariable in very significant ways but how those ways reflect different world views embedded indifferent social formations and different

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Cecelia Wright Brown; Kofi Nyarko; Kevin Peters

relations with others.As the girls move into the high school Personal Assessment Activities -It is important forenvironment we want them to learn to utilize students to evaluate and understand their inner feelings,their own intra-personal intelligence dreams, relationships with others, strengths and weaknesses. The program encouraged the girls to recognizing their individual strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

, is what we call in the trade a teachingchallenge. ABET has inculcated the concept of self-reflection and addressing how wesucceed in teaching base concepts. Grades and student feedback are neither alwayssufficient nor accurate in determining teaching success. Instructors must take an active,critical role. Accordingly, each of these courses have been analyzed regarding keyconceptual elements and refinement has taken place, further verifying that teaching is anevolutionary process based on more than the internal shifts that come with inculcating newresearch. Engineering has an important, integral knowledge base that can be made availableto a broader audience while fulfilling general education requirements. It can be arguedthat the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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PATRICK BOBBIE; Sheryl Duggins; VENU DASIGI

is driven by the demand for increasedconvenience and access for students, there are important studies pointing to the enhancedpedagogical value of online education. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Educationsuggests that learning outcomes can be better achieved in certain groups of older learners in theonline mode than the traditional face-to-face (F2F) mode of learning [14]. The results are evenbetter for those taking the course in the hybrid mode. However, the study cautions againstattributing the improvement to the online medium per se. One way to look at the results is thatthe conventional F2F mode is missing something that the online mode provides, e.g., extra timefor independent reflection, which is perhaps particularly

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

decisions in developing our new minor. In addition, a breakdown of the coursestaught within this minor and the reasons for choosing these particular courses for inclusionare provided. The emphasis throughout this process, as reflected in the resultant minor, isthe interdisciplinary collaboration between science and engineering faculty to create abroad program capable of addressing our future societal needs.II. Structure of Alternative Energy and Sustainability MinorThe Alternative Energy and Sustainability minor is comprised of a total of 15 credits. Thefirst 9 credits of the minor consist of three core courses which are required by all studentspursuing this minor. Two of the core classes offer an introduction to the issues of energygeneration and

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Barrie Jackson

application, while not appropriate for alllearning styles has shown to be effective for most students. This paper will discuss the Technology Engineering and Managementprogram, what we hope to accomplish and present some feedback from TEAMparticipants over the years. Introduction What I hope to achieve in this paper is a considered reflection on my personal experiencein the field of Engineering Education, what I have observed over some twenty some years as anadjunct Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. It is of interest to me the history of theevolution of Engineering Education to the point where research is the driving force of mostUniversities. Having been a practising professional for over thirty years, I am aware that

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

, such as a competitive jeopardy game on the four topic areas, which was moderated by twoundergraduate research students.Intern ModulesStudents were unfamiliar with the subject of sustainability at the start of the internship. Linking their selectedtopic to a content area served as a lens to situate their module and supported their emerging understanding ofthe subject. Students’ choice of a content lens reflected their interestsand tended to be their favorite schoolsubject. For example, one of the female interns enjoyed mathematics and used that as a lens for her unit onEnergy. Below is an excerpt from the module abstract (written by the student):The module focuses on linking sustainability and energy to mathematics. The module explores

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Rajavel; M.G. Prasad

unflanged with an end correction of L  L  0.6a . 733 R 0  1  0.01336ka  0.59079ka2  0.33576ka3  0.06432ka4 ------ (6) R  R 0e(( 0.63930.1104ka )*ka*2i ) ------ (7) ~ 1  R  Z r  ( c / s)  ------ (8) 1  R  Where a is the radius of the pipe, s is the cross sectional area of the pipe, ρ is density, c is speedof sound,k is wave number and R is reflection coefficient. The physical and electrical analog forcalculation of source strength is shown in Fig 2

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Radian Belu

concepts, which areindirectly taught in the undergraduate subjects on a Power Electronics, Digital and AnalogCircuits, Antenna Design, Electromagnetic Fields, and Microwave Engineering. In addition to 61these, students should be aware of various examples given by the teachers in the above courses,for examples when discussing reflection interfaces, references may be made of the shieldingeffectiveness of various materials. Adding an EMC class to an already packed curriculum is notan easy task and hard choices are necessary. Most EMC classes are offered at graduate level oras senior electives for electrical engineering students6-8. Moreover, these courses often require asprerequisite one or two

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KENNETH WADE JACKSON

for the 21st Century-Balancing Engineering Science,Information Technology and Multidisciplinary Studies Kenneth W Jackson Ph.D., P.E. Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractEducating engineers for success in the 21st century workforce will requirecontinually adapting the curriculum subject matter to reflect relevancies to publicand corporate stakeholders. The planet’s population is growing to unprecedentedlevels and making vital resources even scarcer. For decades after World War IIengineering education tended to focus primarily on engineering science or physicsusing reductionist analytics. The less mathematical sciences of design, synthesis,systems, organization and planning became relatively minor parts of anundergraduate’s

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Radian Belu

calculations of theseprojects. Their results reflect that they have understood well all the basic ingredients of themodeling techniques and design of the renewable energy systems. They were also very pleasedwith the approach used to teach them. Our experience with the incorporation of renewableenergy topics in the senior project design courses demonstrated that the abstract knowledgeacquired by the students during their first three years of studies was put into practice. Thestudents in these projects gained extensive knowledge of electronics and mechanical componentsand their characteristics, environmental and structural constraints, separating different aspects ofthe project, such as generator or converter type, its parameters and characteristics

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul G. Ranky

specific learning objectives.Therefore, a multi-touch, blended learning program must:• Support the learner’s ability to recall and repeatedly apply the content in their workenvironment.• Reflect and be tailored to support organizational methodologies, culture and technicalreadiness in order to assure an engaged and productive workforce.Case in Point: Blended LearningA U.S. Government agency developed an integrated approach to contracting training using acombination of web-based training, classroom instruction and practical exercises. In order toengage students across offices, generations and work groups, the agency developed a blendedlearning solution, with 35% of the program deployed through web-based learning and 65%through instructor-led