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Kee M Park, Queensborough Community College

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20824Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory to Enhance STEM LearningDr. Kee M Park, Queensborough Community College Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College, teaching various mechanical engineering courses including statics, strength of materials, thermodynamics and fluids, and materials laboratory. Dr. Park has extensive industrial experiences, working in design of consumer products, design of power plants and research for U.S Department of Defense. Dr. Park’s research interest include STEM

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Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks ; Anuvrat Sheoran, Pennsylvania State University - Berks Campus

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20827A Lightweight Collaborative Virtual Computer Laboratory for Cybersecu-rity EducationDr. Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks Abdullah Konak is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Berks. Dr. Konak received his degrees in Industrial Engineering, B.S. from Yildiz Technical Uni- versity, Turkey, M.S. from Bradley University, and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Konak’s current research interest is in the application of Operations Research techniques to

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Mark Clement Joseph Thom, Howard University

. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has extensively published in journals and conferences and produced patents. He is also the founder and director of the Surface Engineering and Nanofluids Laboratory (SENL) with the state-of-the-art nanofluid characterization and testing capabilities in the College of Engineering and Architecture.Mr. Mark Clement Joseph Thom, Howard University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design-Build, Project-Based Learning in an Engineering Materials Laboratory Mohsen Mosleh and Mark Thom Department of Mechanical Engineering Howard University, Washington

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Eileen Haase PhD, Johns Hopkins University

newperspective, and a chance to interact with freshmen, peers and faculty in a relaxed setting.IntroductionAll freshmen college students face a range of decisions, including which academic discipline topursue, which social group to associate with, and which extracurricular activities to pursue, eachof which may have a profound impact on their future. Freshmen BME majors at Johns Hopkinsface additional decisions including which laboratory to work in and which focus area withinBME to pursue. Each student at Johns Hopkins must choose a focus area by the end of theirsophomore year, such as cell and tissue engineering, systems biology, imaging, instrumentation,or computational biology. At Johns Hopkins University, freshmen start their BME experiencewith a

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUrespond to customer critical comments on performance. The goal was to give students authentichands-on product development and project execution experience to relate to potential internshipand professional employers.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring Mechanical Dissection asa learning tool [5].The current “Illuminated Umbrella” project is a continuation of the pilot “Authentic

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David RB Kraemer, Johns Hopkins University

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be easily read on a laptop and plotted andanalyzed using a spreadsheet. Experiments can be chosen based on student interest, andhave included straight-line people-mover train rides, automobiles at constant speedaround a corner, automobiles traveling over speed humps, and elevator rides. Thisexperiment allows students to see the applications of dynamics equations in the realworld around them, and allows them to more deeply engage in the experimental aspect ofthe course.IntroductionFor an undergraduate Dynamics course, instead of a controlled and prescribed experimentin the laboratory, students were assigned to take data in the real world and analyze it. Anaccelerometer was used to measure motion, and students were required to analyze

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JIAJUN XU P.E., University of the District of Columbia

Multiscale Thermal Transport and Energy Convective Heat Transfer of Ethanol/Polyalphaolefin Conversion Laboratory (MT2EC) Nanoemulsion inside Circular Minichannel Heat Exchanger Fana Zewede1, Henok Argaw1, Naresh Poudel1, Musa Acar1, Thanh Tran2, Jiajun Xu1 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of

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relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring

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Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; AB Shafaye, Penn State Harrisburg

Electrical Engineering from Ohio University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the US Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ASEE. He has also served as an ABET Program Evaluator on several accreditation visits.Prof. AB Shafaye, Penn State Harrisburg AB Shafaye has been a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg since August 1986. He is currently the chair of Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology Programs. In addition, he coordi- nates the ABET activities for Penn State Harrisburg’s three engineering and three engineering technology programs. He

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Lei Wang, University of the District of Columbia

to design and final construction documentspreparation. Furthermore, they offer a powerful tool for implement various numerical methodssuch as finite element and finite difference methods, which can be used for undergraduate andgraduate research investigations of novel and complicated geotechnical problems.Geotechnical Data Management and Reporting ProgramsThe geotechnical data management and reporting software is used to summary the data collectedfrom the geotechnical field investigation as well as laboratory testing and generate the boring logand coring log as well as the geological profile for geotechnical report. This type of programsprovides an efficient way for managing the data from the field investigation and offers variousways for

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Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Pamela Ann Brown, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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studentsoverpassed those of students from New York State and the country. We believe that this is apractical course model can be easily replicated by programs with the same interest.I. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a high-impact practice leading to student success, engagement,interest in higher education, and skills development [1] [2]. There are two well-known modelsfor incorporating research experiences in a program: Undergraduate Research Experiences(UREs) and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) [3]. UREs representthe apprentice model. They feature individual students in faculty research laboratories andprovide the opportunity for one-on-one mentoring. On the other hand, CUREs are embedded intothe curriculum and are available

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College

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others on final examproblems related to their research topic. But after the research project their interest in science hasSpring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUincreased significant amount while control group only had slight increase in science interest.Further detailed study is required to achieve clear conclusion. References: 1. Thornton, R. K. and Sokoloff, D. R. (1998) Assessing Student Learning of Newton's Laws: The Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation and the Evaluation of Active Learning Laboratory and Lecture Curricula, American Journal of Physics 66, 338-352. 2. Brown, R.W. (1995). “Autorating: Getting individual marks from team marks and enhancing teamwork.” 1995 Frontiers in Education

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engineering. His academic background and professional skills allows him to teach a range of courses across three different departments in the school of engineering. This is a rare and uncommon achievement. Within his short time at Morgan, he has made contributions in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. He has been uniquely credited for his inspirational mentoring activities and educat- ing underrepresented minority students. Through his teaching and mentoring at Morgan State University he plays a critical role in educating the next generation of underrepresented minority students, especially African-American

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Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Monique H. Head, Morgan State University

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, which is not always aneffortless task even for civil engineering students. Laboratory tests help students to effectivelyabsorb engineering courses such as statics and strength of materials. Exposing students tolaboratory tests, besteads them to better visualize the connection between theoretical conceptsand the experimental nature of real building structures and materials. Implementing structuralmodeling software is also another value that can improve students’ understanding of structuralanalysis, particularly architecture students who have better understanding of three-dimensionalvisualization. Moreover, having a basic knowledge of a structural analysis software, that iscompatible with Building Information Modeling (BIM) products, makes it

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engineering. His academic background and professional skills allows him to teach a range of courses across three different departments in the school of engineering. This is a rare and uncommon achievement. Within his short time at Morgan, he has made contributions in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. He has been uniquely credited for his inspirational mentoring activities and educat- ing underrepresented minority students. Through his teaching and mentoring at Morgan State University he plays a critical role in educating the next generation of underrepresented minority students, especially African-American

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Michael Mehari Shiferaw, Morgan State University; Sagar Sathyanarayanan, JSS solutions; Ravin Jajistar, JSS Solutions LLC

to the S language and environment which was industrializedat Bell Laboratories. It was developed by John Chambers and his colleagues. R is considered tobe enhanced and has an upgraded implementation of the S language. Most of the code written forS runs unaltered on the R platform. R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, mainly linear andnonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification and clustering.R is also used as the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology and this platformprovides an open source route to participation in this activity. One of R’s key advantages is thatit is easy to work with and it is well-designed for publication of quality plots

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Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

VEX Robotics program. After graduation, Brianna plans to continue her academic studies in trans- portation engineering to earn a Master’s and eventually a Ph.D. She stated that conducting undergraduate research has opened her eyes to so many possibilities of what she could do with her future.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi, Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University fac- ulty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State University and the director of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing

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Vazgen Shekoyan; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

of fluid intelligence, with a base reference of algebra crystallized intelligence. Futurestudies could include an examination of the effect of the liberal arts fluid intelligence on spatialreasoning fluid intelligence building.VI. AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged. We thank AlexeiKisselev for laboratory support. We thank Dr. Eric Cheung, University of Illinois MedicalSchool, for discussion on neuroscience and its applications. We thank the anonymous reviewersfor their suggestions.VII. Bibliography1. Keith Devlin 2017. Number Sense. Edge.org Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUhttps://www.edge.org/response-detail/270972. Keith Devlin. 2017. All the

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Rex Taibu, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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. Nicolette Ognjanovski et al. (2017) Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons coordinate hippocampal networkdynamics required for memory consolidation. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15039 (2017)http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1503925. Karplus R. 1977. Science teaching and the development of reasoning. J Res Sci Teach. 1977;14:169.26. Bergquist W. 1991. Role reversal: Laboratory before the lecture. Physics Teacher. 1991;29:75–76.27. Stewart M, Stavrianeas S. 2008. Adapting the learning-cycle to enrich undergraduate neuroscience education forall students. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2008 Spring;6(2):A74-7.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2349362628. Hendel, RJ. Effective Verbal Persuasion in Prayer, Business, and TeachingWMSCI 2016 - 20th