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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Preparing Civil Engineers for Construction Project Management Colleen Symansky, Hudson Jackson, and Kassim Tarhini United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTAbstractPart of the Civil Engineering Program graduation requirements at the United States Coast GuardAcademy includes the successful completion of a two-sequence construction projectmanagement study. This sequence consists of a Construction Project Management (CPM) courseand a Civil Engineering Design (CED) Capstone course. The CPM course provides anintroduction to the management practices of the construction industry, specifically focusing onhow projects are

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Prerana Pal Karmokar; Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry; Elif Kongar

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference An Approach for Project Management Software Selection using Analytical Hierarchy Process Prerana Pal Karmokar, Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry and Elif Kongar University of BridgeportAbstractThis paper seeks to explore how considerations of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) can aidmanagement and administration of multinational organizations in solving multiple attributedecision-making problems. The focus of the paper is project management software selectioninvolving a large number of variables and constraints. Informed decision-making is vital for thesuccess of enterprises. The Analytic

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Benjamin D. McPheron

2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer ence Audio and Vision Pr oj ects Augmenting a Studio Style L ab Exper ience in a Signal Pr ocessing Cour se Benj amin D. M cPher on Roger Williams UniversityAbstr actEngineering students greatly benefit from laboratory education and team projects, as these typesof experiences prepare students for internships, research projects, and entry into the engineeringprofession. Unfortunately, laboratory classes can be difficult to fit into the course load of anengineering program at a liberal arts-focused university, where students are exposed tosignificant breadth, as well as

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Collaborative Instruction and Team Based Project Learning - An Effective Strategy to Conduct Technology Education Yu Wang, Farrukh Zia, Ohbong Kwon, Xiaohai Li Dept. of Computer Engineering Technology New York City College of Technology The City University of New YorkAbstractCollaborative instruction is a teaching model that involves multiple instructors for a common setof educational goals, which can integrate the strengths and shared interests of faculty memberswith different expertise and research focuses. Just in time teaching for

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Can Real-life Projects in Engineering Classes Result in Improved Interest and Performance in Clean Energy Careers? Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Diane Schilder, Christos Zahopoulos Northeastern University/Evaluation Analysis Solutions, Inc. / Northeastern UniversityAbstractWith funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Northeastern University has beenoffering the Early College Experience (ECE) program to Boston Public high school seniors withthe goal of increasing their interest in Clean Energy careers. The ECE program has provided highschool students the opportunity to take a college-level Engineering Design course that

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Jeffrey R. Mountain

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Capstone Project Selection and Evaluation Processes: More Fair for the Students and Easier for the ABET Evaluator Jeffrey R. Mountain Norwich UniversityAbstractWhile the specific focus of an ABET on site evaluation of student outcomes may vary year toyear, design outcome assessment (ABET c) tends to always be under scrutiny. Searching forevidence of addressing realistic constraints, as well as meeting any discipline specific programrequirements, can be a time consuming process for the evaluator, particularly if the capstonesequence spans two or more semesters. Capstone

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Sigrid Berka

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Sigrid Berka University of Rhode Island Complementing on-campus engineering research experiences with tailored international research projects in partner universities and internships in industry abroad AbstractThe paper describes a tailored approach introducing International Engineering Program (IEP)students to research opportunities on campus which are then extended to their year abroad. IEPstudents are enrolled in a five-year dual degree program through which they pursue twosimultaneous

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Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

External Collaborator/ Mentor Requirement for Senior Capstone Engineering Design Courses Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C., Michael Davidson, P.E.AbstractTo meet the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (EAC of ABET) curriculum requirement of a “major design experience” Civil EngineeringStudents at Wentworth Institute of Technology are required to successfully complete a Civil EngineeringCapstone Design Course during the final semester (summer) of their senior year. In groups of four to sixstudents, students develop, implement, and present a comprehensive, intra-discipline civil engineerdesign project. In the summer of 2014, the Faculty of the Civil

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

challenges of any FYE program is the recon-ciliation of student enrollment, student engagement and faculty time, budget, and space re-sources. Higher student retention rates are positive for the students, institution as well as the na-tional STEM needs; however, there appears to be no “ one size fits all” Freshman Year Experi-ence to guarantee student retention.Freshman engineering experiences vary from one engineering program to the next. Several engi-neering colleges have adopted a cornerstone-to-capstone approach that engages students with aproject intensive freshman year experience and then revisits this hands-on project philosophythrough the curriculum to later culminate with a senior capstone design project2,3. The projects inthe freshman year

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

with the distribution skills to managethese supply chains.The proposed undergraduate certificate in Healthcare Technology will consist of four, threecredit hour courses for a total of 12 credit hours. Core courses will include IDIS 489 (DistributorOperations in Healthcare) and a capstone course in Healthcare Technology, in which the studentwill work on an industry project with leading companies in the Healthcare industry. The thirdcourse will be a survey course in healthcare technologies from the Electronics EngineeringTechnology program (ENTC 489) within the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution(ETID) Department. The final course will be a Healthcare quality processes elective from theMechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

met once per week for two-and-half hours over 14 weeks. One of these sessions wasthe midterm (the final was given outside class during finals period) and the last class was thestudent presentations of the term project (more on that below). Two of the sessions weredevoted to small stand-alone labs, and third to introducing both the historical and engineeringaspects of the term project. The labs were conducted in groups but individual lab reports weredue. In addition, hands-on demonstrations were distributed throughout the lectures.There was no textbook, but book chapters and articles were made available on-line. For everyclass except the first, last and midterm, there were a number of required readings and two one-page reading reports were due

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Anne L. van de Ven; Mary H. Shann; Srinivas Sridhar

nanomedicine research project that could beconducted from at least two different perspectives within different laboratories (and ifappropriate, via an internship as well). For some students, the proposed research was acontinuation of their primary thesis project; for others, it was an opportunity to develop a newsecondary research direction. Trainees were asked to select at least one scientific co-mentorduring the application process; however, many took the initiative to cultivate additional mentorsover their 2-year training period (Table 1). Sources of formal and informal mentorship wereidentified from trainee progress reports, meetings, interviews, and publications. Table 1. Trainee utilization of mentoring during their Nanomedicine research

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

ill prepared to be teachers. If our engineering educators areineffective, they are not helping build a strong foundation for new engineers.This paper identifies four programs; ExCEEd, organized by ASCE; project Catalyst at BucknellUniversity; the National Effective Teaching Institutes (NETI) program, and the NSF SUCCEEDprogram. All of these have an underlying mission of providing additional training to develop andretain new engineering professors and help them become effective teachers. This paper providesan overview of these programs, and reflections of the authors’ experiences as ExCEEd graduates.KeywordsNew Faculty; Effective Teaching; ExCEEd Model, Project Catalyst 1. IntroductionAccording to Brent and Felder (2003)1 “ College

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Md. M. Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed

be arranged as modules, depending on the course and program.• Lecture and/or lab topics - describe the topic or theme of the lectures/labs. Topics may be subcategorized by lecture hour or by week. Topic should be descriptive enough so that students may best prepare for in-class time.• Events, assessments, and due dates: The schedule should include all assessments for lecture/lab; due dates for projects, special projects, and presentations. Also, include dates that are holidays, days in which classes will not be held due to instructor’ s absence or due to other reasons.F. How learning will be assessed• Grading procedure – this generally include in-class (i.e., exams and quizzes) and out-of-class assignments, multiple-choice

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceWe examined the groups’ responses to known robust CLASS sub-categories as well. The resultsare summarized in Table 6. The most striking positive differences for the experimental groupwere in the Personal Interest and Real World Connections categories. Surprisingly noticeablenegative shifts appeared in the Conceptual Understanding category.Student feedback: Students also filled out a survey on their experience in collaborative groupwork. They rated their overall experience in the collaborative group project very highly (Figure1). Figure 2 shows correlations between the students’ first midterm scores and student Figure 1: Students’ rating of their overall experience with collaborative work for

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caused failure ofthe structure. This research provides a basis for evaluation of the forensic investigation of thecausal factors which impact residential structures. The derived results are applied to preventsimilar damage in future impacts.When conducting research projects proper and applicable research methods are required to insureaccurate and reasonable procedures to complete the project. This project provides an avenue forstudents to perform pure research by collecting data following a hurricane and if possible, priorto the storm by examining the structures in a high probability zone. To conduct investigativeresearch, as in the evaluation of the damage caused to a structure in a hurricane, the chosenmethod must draw upon applied techniques1

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completed at least annually for every 2 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencecourse. The end result is a document that describes the essential content of the course (i.e.syllabus, learning objectives, outcomes, projects, sample exams, sample notes, etc.), assessmentdata and rubrics, and recommended changes. This EOCR package can then be used to (a) givethe next instructor a suitable starting point for when they teach the course, (b) provideassessment information for program reviews and curriculum revisions, (c) provide assessmentdata to serve as a

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Michael J. Davidson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Integration of Software in Structural Engineering Education Michael J. Davidson1, P.E Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the work place today, software is typically used by the structural engineer to analyze anddesign most elements of a structure. There is a wide variety of software available to thestructural engineer, allowing the engineer to analyze and design micro, macro and even allelements of a structure. In fact, it is common today for consulting firms and contractors to usemulti-discipline software that inputs the project, including

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examining various designs of solarwater heaters for both cost effectiveness and functionality. Experimenting with variousrecyclable and inexpensive materials maintains a low cost and demonstrates to students thatalternative systems are achievable at low cost. Recyclable materials such as aluminum cans asthe absorber plate and PET bottles functioning as glazing reduce the cost and reuse disposableitems. Two variations of test collectors were constructed to determine if the variations ofefficiency, compared to the original design.Keywords: Solar Water Heater; Recycled Material; Student Project; Cost EffectiveIntroductionThe installation of residential solar water heaters is on the increase. In 2010 there were 35,464solar water heating systems were in

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Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

isfamiliar with the situation or a similar scheme3.MethodologyParticipantsThere were 10 participants in this study, including both males and females. Participants were allover twenty one. All participants voluntarily participated in the study and each signed a consentform. The participants were informed about the study and its procedure, as well as the aimbehind the project before the study took place. Participant brain signals were recordedthroughout the study using a monitoring device. First, the participants were asked generalquestions about themselves, then questions of a more personal nature. Next, the participants wereinstructed in methodologies of how to deal with unexpected situations. Finally, they were askedto repeat the procedure again

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Linfeng Zhang

the current-voltage curves in the two modes.Therefore, the simulator can be widely used to replace a real PV module for the development ofMPPT converters and inverters.Key words: renewable energy, PV module, maximum power point tracker, converter, inverter1. Introduction PV module price has fallen 75% to below $1/w since 2008 [1, 2]. There are over 17,500MW of cumulative solar electric capacity operating in the U.S., enough to power more than 3.5million average American homes, 36%, over 49,000 installations, of all new electric capacity isfrom solar in Q3 2014. It means that a new solar project has been installed every 3 minutes. Thegrowth of solar industry boosts the economy and creates 174,000 jobs in the U.S. [3]. As a partof PV

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

interactive lesson then the presentation becomes tacit. To ensure guestspeakers are the latter, specific lessons are considered. To ensure a tacit guest speaker, thecourse instructors will only use guest speakers that would be able to give a more interactivelesson, based on the nature of their expertise and personality.Two topics that were considered for interactive guest speakers were the pavement constructionof Portland cement concrete and hot mixed asphalt. Ideally, the instructors will be able to reachout to construction managers of local ongoing pavement projects. The intention would be for thestudents to be able to walk a construction site while the guest speaker was explaining theintricacies of placing pavement. The class may have to start out

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Matthew Stein

% 2% 10 14% 58% 11 53% 16% Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly DisagreeThis section will consider the questions in order and discuss both the rationale for the question andmy interpretation of the responses.1. My prior coursework prepared me to use SolidWorks in this course. For the majority of respondents, prior coursework is a full semester of Engineering Graphics and Design three semesters prior and a single project in Statics one semester prior. Students indicated agreement by a margin of approximately 4:1, and this is interpreted as

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Paul B. Crilly

1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencewidely used undergraduate EM textbook that includes a good introduction of antenna theory.The classic antennas book by Krauss presents an in depth theory of antennas. Silver11 coverspractical antenna theory and practical projects for the practitioner.Portable Analyzer to Enhance the Laboratory ExperienceIn this section we will describe the various experiments that have been done using the portableanalyzer.A. Antenna radiation patternAs already stated, the portable analyzer has the capacity to both generate and receive an RFsignal. Thus we can measure the radiation pattern of the test or prototype

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Felipe Pait

capableof operating with the concepts acquired. Ideally, in order to execute an engineering project; or atleast to grow to a higher level of understanding, and begin a course of study that will lead there,without throwing out the ladder after having climbed its steps. In a minimal, almost caricatural,version, agency can mean solving homework exercises and answering exam questions. Notnecessarily irrelevant, as solution of problems correlates to understanding, this version becomescounterproductive when it replaces completely the more general idea of agency. The tail wags thedog, Goodhart’s LawA rears its ugly head. In the infamous closed–book exam, teaching rules, andlearning runs away. Whoever has ever heard of engineering done by an individual

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Naser M. Alajmi; Khaled M. Elleithy

25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations are distinguished inall the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses and Ph.D.dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed and introduced many newundergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching / research laboratories in his area ofexpertise.Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books by Springer. He is a member of technical programcommittees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as aguest editor for several International Journals. He was the chairman for the International Conference onIndustrial Electronics, Technology & Automation, IETA 2001, 19

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Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Khaled M. Elleithy

communications, network security, quantumcomputing, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than threehundred research papers in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr.Elleithy has more than 25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations aredistinguished in all the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MStheses and Ph.D. dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed andintroduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching /research laboratories in his area of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 booksby Springer. He is a member of technical program committees of many international