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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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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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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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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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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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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