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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20860Shaping the Undergraduate Mind through ResearchMs. Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University Brianna Lawton is a senior civil engineering major at Morgan State University who is not only an avid undergraduate researcher but has had various internships, one being with HDR Inc. while also serving her community on and off campus. She now sits as the President of Morgan’s chapter of Chi Epsilon, the no- table civil engineering honor society, while also mentoring young middle and high school students under the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20832Laser Music - Authentic Engineering Product Development for a Real Cus-tomerDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak enjoyed a 22 year career in the optical-fiber manufacturing industry living and working in 7 countries where he held a variety of hands-on technical and business-management positions. Starting as a R&D Engineer, Peter became fascinated by how a manufacturing business operates and made successive steps into engineering and manufacturing management culminating in

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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first was that theRVCC student Engineering Team delivered a fully-functioning product that met or exceeded theCustomer specifications and expectations. This was a significant achievement given thechallenging and open-ended problem, the Team’s initial knowledge level, and the brief executionperiod. The second was that the responsibility of designing and delivering a real product to areal customer, and under authentic engineering conditions, was effective in accelerating studentlearning of important skills that are often acquired later when employed in Industry. Theconcepts of focusing on the Customer, doing what you say you will do, aggressive prototyping,and determination and grit, became real.The result was a mature, cohesive, open-minded, and

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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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

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20818Improving fluid intelligence critical thinking via spatial reasoning ability incommunity college pre- engineering physics classesProf. Vazgen Shekoyan Dr. Vazgen Shekoyan is a professor of physics and his experiences include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Dr. sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala received his B.S. degree from University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and Ph.D from City University of New York. Currently, he is working as a faculty member at Queensborough Community College of CUNY.Dr

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

learn with the real world situation. One of the students mentioned “Before we startedthis class I was not exited for it. I even did not know what it is about. I thought GeotechnicalEngineering course is similar or another level of Geospatial Technology course. However, whenthe semester started we went to the construction site. From that visit the whole idea aboutGeotechnical Engineering changed. It was very interesting in my opinion. Also, meetingexperienced engineers changed all my thoughts about Civil Engineering. They are very preciseand careful in everything. I am being very honest and in my opinion, the site visit was very usefuland changed a lot in my mind”. The site visit really helped to connect theory with practice asanother student

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20815A Look at ABET Accreditation – Understanding the BasicsDr. Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College Rafic A. Bachnak is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Science, Engi- neering, and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. Previously, Dr. Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. Dr. Bachnak received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in