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Walter W. Buchanan; Ali Mehrabian; Alireza Rahrooh; M. Kudret Yurtseven

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Planning for a Health Care Technology Certificate Walter W. Buchanan Texas A&M University Ali Mehrabian, Alireza Rahrooh Daytona State College M. Kudret Yurtseven Izmir UniversityAbstractHerein will be described the planning to reactivate a Health Care Technology Certificate in theDepartment of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution in the College ofEngineering at Texas A&M University College Station. The

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

planned and executed. Contemporary issues of the industry are also analyzed,including sustainable design. A unique requirement of the course is the completion of cross-disciplinary design project with two other courses offered during the same semester. The designaspect requires students to prepare detailed construction cost estimates that are properly indexedand identify applicable planning components, benefits of alternatives based on engineeringeconomic principles, and determine essential project activities and completion times utilizingproject-scheduling procedures. This approach has worked well because it provides theappropriate breadth and depth in project management and construction principles as well asdesign concepts for successful

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Paul B. Crilly; Richard J. Hartnett

, (b) Programreview and (c) End Of Course Review (EOCR). Throughout this process the stakeholders of 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencestudents, alumni, graduating seniors, and faculty are involved to address the appropriate ABETcriteria. This process is not confined to a single program, but when appropriate, reaches out toassist other programs and departments for mutual benefits. A similar assessment system ispresented by Pierrakos and Watson4. To be sure any plan involves the assessment of facultyeffectiveness, teaching5-6, and

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

course completion, students should have a basic understanding of the material andengineering properties associated with civil engineering materials and should be able to articulatehow these properties affect selection in construction and in service performance.MBTI MethodologyThe goal of redesigning CE Materials was to stimulate independent thinkers and assist studentswith the retention of core course material across a range of student learning preferences bydesigning new and innovative lesson plans. These lesson plans aim at presenting the material ina way that all learning types are reached so that overall a greater breadth of students willsucceed. In order to determine the best methods to accomplish this objective, the Myers-BriggsType

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obtained employment from her/ his advisor, the possibility for such employment is a benefit for the students.FailuresOverall, the faculty involved in teaching CIVE 650 Civil Capstone Design did not identify any majordrawbacks to requiring the student groups to identify and obtain the services of at least one ExternalCollaborator (Mentor). As describe above and documented in t e tudent’ end of semester courseevaluations, the program seemed beneficial. As with most beneficial endeavors, there was an increasetime requirement by both the students and faculty to initiate and coordinate the process. The resultshowever appear to far overshadow this slight increase in time commitment.Lessons LearnedIn the planning stages of CIVE 650 Civil Capstone

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to acknowledge instructor’ s passionfor the subject, and his or her teaching philosophy. Littlefield (1999)2 suggested that a syllabusserves several purposes, it sets the tone for a course, motivates students to achieve course goals,and serves as a planning tool for faculty, to name a few.In addition to being a cognitive map, syllabi can serve many purposes. A review of the currentliterature revealed that a syllabus can serve as a: (i) communication mechanism, (ii) a planningtool for instructor (iii) a course plan for students, (iv) a pedagogical resource tool for studentlearning, (v) an artifact for teaching evaluations of an instructor, and (vi) a contract of policiesand procedures between instructor and student. Instructors tend to rate

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

acrossdifferent courses in such a short period of time, four professors with different expertise in theDept. of Computer Engineering Technology at NYCCT joined together and utilized the approachof collaborative instruction combined with just in time teaching for this particular course.Student Centered Teaching and Faculty Collaborative EffortsCollaborative instruction integrates the strengths of multiple viewpoints and shared interests offaculty members with different expertise and research focus. For the two proposed projects , dueto students' technical needs, we conducted different practices. By implementing collaborativeand just in time teaching strategies, four faculty members collaborated to define commoneducation goals, plan a timeline, develop

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

Research and Methods Divisions of the American Society ofEngineering Education (ASEE) and funded by participant registration fees. All NETI programsare codirected by three persons: Rebecca Brent (President, Education Designs, Inc., Cary, NC,Richard Felder (Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University),and Michael Prince (Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University).NETI has been hosted every year for the past 24 years and has trained 1312 participants from244 different institutions. The objectives of NETI-1 is to give the participants a hands-on trainingin the elements of effective teaching, which include course planning, lecturing, active learning,assessment of learning, and dealing with a variety of

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John E. Patterson

Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceSystem VariationIn examining available online plans, several plans utilize differing materials. This research isbased on the premise of using low cost materials and incorporating repurposed recyclablematerials. Jose Alano and his family have constructed a system using PolyethyleneTerephthalate (PET) bottles (soft drink bottles) and used black painted tetra pack cartons (milkcartons). The basic system has a CPVC pipe inside a PET bottle (which functions as the glazing)with the tetra pack carton cut in a manner in which the carton makes contact with the pipe as acollector plate (Figures 1 and 2)3. Both the pipe and the tetra pack cartons are painted matteblack to

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Bo Tao; Gloria Ma

is needed to determine if a larger statistical sample of students will yield a greaterdifference in the ability of students to do 3-dimensional vector calculations. That is to say, alarger statistical sample of students might yield significance at the standard P=0.05 level. AcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the significant help in planning this research studyrendered by Ray Nagem of Boston University, Robert Lind and Michael Werner of ourUniversity. References[1] Ma, G., personal communication, 2013[2] Lind, R., personal communication, 2012[3] McCusker, J., personal communication, 2012[4] Caserta, Frank, R. Lind, L.G.Chedid, Why do students at

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

ge clean energy energyAs depicted in Figuree 2, a total of o 21 students who particcipated in thee 2014-20155 cohort ofstudents reported increased know wledge of eng gineering, annd confidencce in their abbility to succceedin collegee-level engin neering courrses, interestt and confideence in studyying STEM, and interestt andconfidence in studyin ng about cleaan energy . Interview daata collectedd from studennts alsocorroboraated the survvey findings. For example, participatting studentss stated: “I “ planned to o major in ph

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Gazi Murat Duman; Elif Kongar

Section ConferenceSince DEA is a data dependent technique, the accuracy of the model results are highly correlatedwith the quality of the data inputted to the model. However, in many cases the input and outputdata could not always be measured and/or collected accurately due to increased variety of dataproviders and/or subjective nature of the data. In the future, we plan to apply the fuzzy set theoryinto the model to overcome this shortcoming.References1 Choi, K.W., Roh , Y.S., and Yoon, J.-H.: ‘ AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OFPRODUCTIVITY OF A CHAIN RESTAURANT USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA)’ ,International Journal of Quality and Productivity Management, 2007, 07, (01), pp. 47-672 Donthu, N., and Yoo, B.: ‘ Retail productivity

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Prerana Pal Karmokar; Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry; Elif Kongar

addition to time, cost calculation ability is also important in project management software.This feature involves a series of activities for estimating, allocating and controlling cost within 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencethe project. It involves determining a project and approving the required budget . It is alsoresponsible for process planning that defines critical and non-critical tasks with the goal ofpreventing time frame and bottleneck problems.Furthermore, an efficient resource management is also needed for

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different historical contexts.Rather than require students to write the standard history term paper, we assigned a term projectto study the relationship of design to performance in ancient naval vessels in the Aegean. Thestudents were challenged to make connections between their hands-on experiences and the largerhistorical and geographic contexts. In other words, interdisciplinary, experiential learning wasapplied not to the technical component of engineering education, but to the societal contextcomponent. The preliminary results were encouraging. Plans are underway to adjust and re-offer the course, and to disseminate it more broadly.KeywordsHistory, society, laboratory, engineering, educationBackgroundAs the authors have discussed previously1

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that can benefit students significantly when introduced in the sophomore year. Allof the conjectural results described in the first section were confirmed by direct survey. The authorconcludes that the inclusion of SolidWorks not only improves the teaching of Dynamics, butstrengthens the entire engineering program by equipping students with the tools for lifelonglearning early in their career. 8 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference We plan on continuing this use of SolidWorks in the Dynamics course and may expand itsapplication to other

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

experience and found it useful (no “ poor” rating and only one“ fair” rating). We would like to explore how our results might change if more topics and longerpreparation times are given to the class. We are also planning to conduct further analysis on whatfactors contribute to forming well-functioning collaborative groups in introductory physicscourses at community college settings. 8 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceQ4: How did the collaborative group work aspect of Q5: In addition to learning the content of the

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

and manufacturing processes available for freshman engineering need to be carefully considered. Softer materials are more than adequate for most freshman engineering applications (ie. Plastics, wax, silicone, etc.). This said, standardizing materi- als for freshman usage requires some planning and preparation. Class size and challenges of scale drive cost of deployment; hence, material and part selection plays an important role in the course deployment cost.Overall, from an instructional perspective, the course provides an overview of mechanical engi-neering and the mechanical engineering curriculum. The instructional team continues to iterateand improve based on end-of-year reviews and student weekly

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Sigrid Berka

, going back to the “attributes of a global engineer” we postulate that the local toglobal research/internship sequence described in the examples above enabled the students togo way beyond learning new technical skills in a lab environment. They had to possess at leastsome of the following attributes (from the list of 20 mentioned in the ASEE study cited above) tosuccessfully complete all three projects:On the technical level, they had to demonstrates knowledge of project planning, management andthe impact the project has on various stakeholder groups (team members, sponsors, clients, end-users)On the professional level, they had to embrace “a commitment to quality principles/standards andcontinuous improvement” and to apply “personal and