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John E. Patterson

. Theinformation is collected and presented in both specific readings for various cities or maps that areavailable per month and annual maps. The amount of radiation that a specific area receives isprimarily based upon the latitude and angle of the sun (which varies with the time of year). Anarea of the world that is near to the equator will receive a greater amount of radiation than that ofareas that are closer to the poles. As the sunlight passes through the earth’s layers of atmosphereand clouds a certain amount of radiation is diverted. In addition the there is a percentage ofenergy that is absorbed by earth with a percentage being reflected back into the sky7. The mapsthat are used are assembled and published by NREL6. Assumptions of the annual

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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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Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

andphysical aspects. Both consciousness and the body are associated because they affect each other.One study, about the relationship between brain signals and the body investigated heart ratepatterns1. The results showed notably different effects in the nervous system. Neuroscientistsrecommend certain activities and sports to trigger the temporal lobe which generates gammawaves2. Research exhibits the brain, and classifies more than one source in the brain that generatesgamma waves. However, stress and anxiety are reactions reflected on the physical body andthrough emotions. If they are reduced, and relieved, the body acts differently, even though somepeople do not know how to manage their emotions and heal their stress3. Investigation focused

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Paul B. Crilly; Richard J. Hartnett

well as other instructors impacted by the course. Attendeesinclude faculty members both inside and outside of the program. At the conclusion, the draftdocument is revised to reflect the input of the EOCR attendees.B. EOCR Outline and ContentThe EOCR document provides the faculty a comprehensive snapshot of the course and includesthe following:1. Executive summary of course2. List of EOCR attendees3. Pending issues from the last EOCR4. Summary of course changes in statement-resolution format5. Course description including the objectives, a syllabus, a list of learning objectives, and a list of ABET a-k student outcomes, etc. 3

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Felipe Pait

, conference talk, at least as much for establishingthe professor’s voice as for the scientific content of the documents themselves.Authority comes from the Creation, which only reveals itself by reflection, by experiment, byconsideration of accumulated wisdom, and by recognizing and overcoming errors. Perhaps it isthe thorniest concept for the gentile, especially the Meridional, oppressed by centuries of forceddeference to political authority and to political intermediaries of the Word. Authority imposesitself by knowledge; by authorship while it renews itself continually; otherwise it dissipates intomere respect for the memory of the knowledge of the elderly. It differs from vulgar authority thatsubjects by the force of rules and the control of

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

background to higher education.Recently, the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Engineering performed a reflectiveself-study, a peer evaluation, a student feedback/focus group and a student survey to determinehow to redesign the introduction to engineering sequence10. This redesign was purposefully per-formed as a student centric reflection and evaluation. The freshman year experience redesign co-incides with the appointment of a new Dean in the College of Engineering as well as with thedeployment of several ‘ maker’ initiatives, including: (1) an NSF grant to examine the impact ofHands-On Design and Manufacturing Experiences in Mechanical Engineering (Hands-OnMADE4ME: Hands On Machining, Analysis and Design Experience for Mechanical

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Gazi Murat Duman; Elif Kongar

successfulapplication of DEA. It has been stated that input and output variables for DEA should reflect theretail firm's objectives and sales. Previous studies have proposed different measures of output, bothin monetary units (such as sales revenue, profit volume and value added) and in non-monetaryunits (such as customer store loyalty and satisfaction, and service quality) 2, 22, 23, 25.3. Material and MethodThe DEA approach has been well studied since Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes 26 first proposed theiroriginal DEA model. As Gattoufi et al.27 demonstrated in their taxonomic review, different DEAmodels have been applied to evaluate the performance and efficiency of entities in various fieldsfrom the finance to retail industries. Liu et al. 28 listed additional

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

prefer to learn via tacit or experiential knowledge(Figure 2). Reflecting on the original goal of this assessment, creating an exciting and inclusiveclassroom experience, there continued to be a need to alter course pedagogy from the dominantlearning style to create a classroom experience that would appeal to a more diverse studentpopulation. By framing the course such that all student learning preferences are fullyrepresented, a more inclusive learning environment is fostered resulting in a broader populationof students being educated and inspired as they progress through this foundational course. 4 © American Society for

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Benjamin D. McPheron

vision. The resulting work must then be collected into a short (4 page) research paper 3 © Amer ican Society for Engineer ing Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer encein the IEEE format. The research paper is submitted to a blind review process to assess studentlearning that is detailed in a later section.The first project provided to students is an application of signal processing to reverberation.Reverberation is the collection of reflected sounds from the surface of an enclosed space. Thisresults in a muddy or darkened sound that differs from the direct sound. This acousticphenomenon

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Michael J. Davidson

appropriateto structural design. 2 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceBrief History of ComputingThe following discussion presents a very brief history of computing on our planet, Earth. Thisdiscussion in a large part reflects the authors 40 plus years’ experience in the field of structuralengineering. It is not intended to be a fully documented history of computing. Abacus1 – One of the earliest known methods of computing can be traced back to about 2400 BC. The inventors were the Babylonians and Egyptians. The version of the abacus

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

the evaluation we included only those students who attended the class tillthe end of the semester and took the final examination. This pilot study was conducted in theFall, 2014 semester. The experimental and control groups had 21 and 29 students, respectively.QCC is an open-admission community college located in one of the most diverse places in thecountry (Queens); this diversity is reflected in our student population as well. 7 students of theexperimental group population identified themselves as Asian, 7 as Hispanic/Latino, 1 asAfrican-American, 5 as two or more races and only 1 as White. In the control group 9 studentsidentified themselves as Asian, 4 as Hispanic/Latino, 1 as African-American, 6 as two or moreraces and 5 as White. Both

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Sigrid Berka

international researchopportunities, international internships, attribute of a global engineerGlobal Engineering Education ContextThe need to educate globally competent engineers to meet the demands of the global engineeringprofession and market and the challenge to come up with related curricular reform has beenemphasized by engineering educators 1, engineering societies 2, accreditation agencies 3 andglobally operating companies 4 for many years. At the ASEE 2014 annual conference inIndianapolis, a workshop 5 led by Steven Hundley and Lynn Brown summarized the concertedefforts and outcomes of several years of research by the American Society for EngineeringEducation’s Corporate Member Council, reflecting the voice of industry to define “TheAttributes

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Md. M. Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed

each purpose differently(Fink, 2012)1.Harnish and Bridges (2011)3 investigated whether the tone of a syllabus depicts instructor’ sattitude towards teaching. An experiment was conducted in which the course syllabus wasmanipulated to reflect a friendly or an unfriendly tone so that student’ s perceptions about theinstructor could be explored. Results supported the hypothesis that a syllabus written in afriendly, rather than unfriendly, tone evoked perceptions of the instructor being more warm,more approachable, and more motivated to teach the course. 2