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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

mere facts and data.Another property to keep in mind is collecting sources. Being able to validate your results andideas, and cross-check your information with what experts have said and/or are saying in thetopic of study.Being skilled in technical writing not only gives you a way to communicate your results to yourfellow peers and experts in the field of study but to those outside as well. The art of masteringgood technical writing skills aids in academia for grant writing funding proposal packages andin industry for project bidding proposal packages, therefore the training must start now inundergraduate research.III. Industry Terminology and TechnologyIndustry terminology and technology refers to the terms, lingo, and acronyms that are used

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

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

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students in explicit stages of research and culminates in a paper orposter. Mentoring is charged to the course instructor and sometimes peers. Most CUREsimplementations involve lower-division students and last for one semester of less. On the otherhand, most UREs implementations typically involve upper-division students [5]. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUWe believe that in engineering technology undergraduate programs CUREs and UREs shouldcomplement each other. CUREs should be included across the curriculum and at different levels.Our view is to incorporate basic research skills in early semesters and keep cultivating andexpanding them as students move up. We believe that with this approach upper

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

field trip, working with peers in class and completing frequent assessments of learning. Thepaper finally recommends that this high impact pedagogy be replicated at other colleges with acivil Engineering program. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSU1. IntroductionIt has been noted that not all students come to class with a clear idea of significance of the subjectmatter they are about to learn, it is therefore incumbent on the instructor that the students areassisted to grasps the value and importance of the subject. The quicker this is done, the earlierstudents will begin investing time and energy into the learning process. As on the first day of class,students usually arrive with a great sense of

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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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