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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

the project providesinformation for instructors to better understand how students learn in classroom. In this paper wepresent the practices and effectiveness of the collaborative instruction and just in time teachingpedagogy that we apply in the context of engineering technology education. We show howcollaborative efforts have been made by multiple faculty members to immediately teach studentsuseful skills and guide them in the understanding of engineering design principles in the area ofembedded systems. With the combination of these methods, students with minimal math orprogramming backgrounds were able to independently initiate, design and develop technicallychallenging projects for a nationwide competition. One of the team projects

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

. The demanding schedule resultsin just one free elective over the four year course of study. Graduates of the USCGA CEprogram have the opportunity to pursue a variety of career paths within the U.S. Coast Guard(engineering and non-engineering), therefore the CE program educational objectives (PEOs) arepurposely broad and aim to meet the needs of the U.S. Coast Guard in and out of the field ofCivil Engineering. The CE PEOs are to produce graduates who1: 1) Are prepared for professional practice in engineering positions as U.S. Coast Guard Junior Officers 2) Are prepared for a variety of U.S. Coast Guard career paths, based on their abilities to apply fundamental engineering principles in dynamic technological environments

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

; “ Engineering in the ModernWorld” at Princeton, which is also team-taught and does incorporate both papers and problemsets, may be the only even remote predecessor).The challenge in creating the laboratory component was to identify the readily availableinfrastructure and human expertise at UC-Merced around which one could build hands-onactivities. The combination of experts in the geo-chemistry and physics of clays and thepresence of a kiln on campus led Vardalas to the design of a series of labs around the role ofbricks in the Roman Empire. After a brief lecture on clay soils and the role of heat intransforming clay materials, we asked the students to identify and dig up the best availablematerials for bricks. To help them prospect for the brick