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PROGRAM ASEE Northeast Section Conference“Engineering Education in a Post-COVID World” Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Massachusetts October 21-23, 2021 Conference Sponsors: PROGRAM ASEE Northeast Section Conference“Engineering Education in a Post-COVID World” Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Massachusetts October 21-23, 2021 Conference Sponsors: 1ASEE-NE2021 Chair’s Message:We are honored and delighted to welcome you tothe 2021 American Society for EngineeringEducation – Northeast Section (ASEE-NE)Conference at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI). We are happy

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Charles White

Navigating the COVID landscape with a Mechanical Engineering Junior Laboratory Prof. Charles S. White Department of Mechanical Engineering, Norwich UniversityAbstractAt the author’s institution, all Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students are required totake a two semester laboratory course sequence covering topics in measurement andinstrumentation. As with most hands-on instruction, the restrictions imposed by the COVIDpandemic required significant adjustments to the course, especially the number of studentsthat were permitted in the laboratory space at any given time. In this paper a comparison ismade between the Fall semester course from before the pandemic (Fall 2019) and the samecourse

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Michael G. Schrlau

completed, theinstructor would view the feedback each student provided to assign a grade for the peer-reviewportion of the project grade.Results & Discussion Overall student course performance was compared between the courses with team-basedmodel projects and individual-based physical-model projects. To do so, the final course grademean and standard deviation (SD) were calculated for instructor-taught courses with teamprojects (Fall 2018 and Fall 2019 semester; total sample size, n = 93) and those with individualprojects (Fall 2020 semester; sample size n = 90). Student T-tests were utilized and P-valuescalculated to determine statistical significance in student grade means between courses with teamand individual projects, where statistical

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Kanwaljeet Singh; Christian Bach

, ultimatelybecome a component of most functions incompanies all over the world.[1]Many companies are applying RPA throughout the value chain to improve productivity. Thismeans that various tasks in all areas, such as production, sales, purchasing, finance, and humanresources, can be replaced with RPA [2]. Among them, the sector that actively introduces RPA isthe financial sector. It is designed for repeated back-office tasks that aren't generally client-facing.The duties are often operational in nature and cover a wide range of operations, including2021 ASEE-NE Conference Worcester Polytechnic InstituteStudent Paper October 21 -23

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Courtney D. Giles

STEM fields [1] – [3]. Althoughseveral examples exist in specific engineering disciplines and combinations of engineeringdisciplines [4], [5], [6], there are relatively few examples of first year, project-based courses thatintegrate engineering, mathematics, statistics, and computer science majors [7]. This work-in-progress paper describes a multi-disciplinary first year seminar that was developed in 2019-2020at the University of Vermont, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and firsttaught in Fall 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The course development process,structure, and adaptation to COVID-19, as well as observations and improvements following thefirst offering of the course are described.2. BackgroundThe College

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Shinae Jang P.E.; Sarira Motaref P.E.; Manish Roy

responsible for working with specific teams throughout thesemester to monitor students’ progress, provide guidance, and identify errors.4.3. Student’s feedbackThe teamwork activity was offered to students enrolled in class in 2018 and 2019 in a face-toface (f-2-f) format and in a hybrid format in fall 2020 and spring 2021. Table 1 summarizesstudents’ feedback on the effectiveness of this activity in their learning collected from class midsemester surveys. The results showed that the percentage of students who agreed or stronglyagreed about the effectiveness of the teamwork activity remained almost the same in the f-2-fmodality and slightly improved in the hybrid modality compared to the in-person mode. Morethan 70 percent of students agreed that team

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Basile Panoutsopoulos

alaboratory report, preparing for an examination, or doing homework.Further Work:Collection of data (examinations, course grades, student, and instructor comments) andcomparison of traditional and the proposed structure will provide valuable performance andsuccess conclusions.References:[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 (Last Accessed: 4th ofOctober 2021)[2] https://www.ccri.edu/catalog/cat1920/courses/engr/ (Last Accessed: 4th of October 2021)[3] https://zoom.us/ (Last Accessed: 4th of October 2021)[4] https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra (Last Accessed: 4th of October 2021)[5] https://www.blackboard.com/ (Last Accessed: 4th of October 2021)[6] B. Panoutsopoulos. “On a New Hybrid Laboratory Approach

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Nancy K. DeJarnette; Ruba S. Deeb; Jani M. Pallis

(education, engineering, math,and computer science) worked on this initiative during the STEM on Wheels mobile laboratorypilot year in 2018-2019. In addition to the professional team, the STEM on Wheels programbecame an ideal mechanism for the university’s National Academy of Engineering (NAE) GrandChallenges Scholars Program to provide outreach, serve as role models and increase their ownSTEM literacy and communication skills.This proposed K-12 STEM mobile laboratory project studied the impact of engaging NGSSaligned STEM lessons on both K-12 students and their teachers in high needs schools. Theresearch questions were as follows:Q1) What is the impact of providing engaging NGSS aligned STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering, and Math) lessons

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Kanti Prasad; Abdul Syed

Incorporation of Matching Networks within 5G Chipset for Mobile Communication 1 Kanti Prasad Ph. D.; P. E.; LSMIEEE; Fellow ASEE and 2Abdul Syed1 Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Dept., Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology – University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), MA and 2Post-Doc. UML, Adjunct Southern NH University, NH Corresponding Author: Kanti Prasad – Kanti_Prasad@uml.edu Subject area: Applied Research and Technology Innovation Abstract — In order to conduct applied research and carry out innovation in Monolithic MicrowaveIntegrated Circuits (MMIC) Design and Fabrication technology, theoretical

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Jay A. Weitzen; Dohn Bowden

Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, June 2019 [3] Weitzen, J.A. Webster, E. and A. Rux, “Flipping ECE Laboratories using Laboratory in the Box”, Proceedings 2014 American Based on the controlled experiments we conducted before the Society of Engineering Education National Meeting, June 4-6,pandemic and what we learned about the place of personal 2014, Indianapolis IN.learning devices during the pandemic, going forward, we plan [4] Weitzen, J.A, Webster, E. and A. Rux, “University ofto continue to require students to utilize both standard benchtop Massachusetts

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William Cutler; John Donaghue; Haridas Kumarakura; Don Heiman

teaching assistants for the Advanced Physics [12] Z. Jones, J. Hinds, S. Woznichak, and A. Calamai. Re-Laboratory section for which this experiment was visiting the room-temperature metastable 2e lifetimeintroduced. We would also like to thank the in ruby for an upper division phosphorescence labora-Northeastern University Department of Physics for tory experiment. Journal of Undergraduate Reports infinancially supporting our experience at the ASEE- Physics, 30(1):100004, 2020.NE 2021 conference. [13] G. C. Brown. Fluorescence lifetimes of ruby. Journal

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Kathleen A. Lamkin-Kennard; Margarent B. Bailey; Michael G. Schrlau

in competitions to date, winning numerous national andinternational competitions. RIT Formula has well-established tiered-based structures in whichmembers are promoted to progressively higher leadership positions based on prior experienceand accomplishments (Tall organizational structure). In 2019-2020, the Formula SAE Racingteam consisted of approximately 36 members, including 12 women, which is similar to thebreakdown for RIT.Table 1: Structural Differences between Hot Wheelz and Formula SAE Racing Teams Members Female:Male AALANA Organizational (# of students) (# of students) (# of students) Structure Hot Wheelz 51 50:1