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

mechanism to ensure a high quality education, there are manyother issues that programs must address in the self-study report. Issues range from ensuring thatpolicies and guidelines, which meet ABET criteria, are in place to having proper documentationthat provides needed evidence. This paper briefly reviews ABET accreditation policies andprocedures and provides details regarding the basic requirements that need to be fulfilled toensure a successful ABET visit. This is discussed from the perspective of an institution that hasbeen recently visited for its engineering technology programs and is preparing for a similar visitfor its engineering programs. This information is especially helpful to an engineering programthat plans to go through

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Kee M Park, Queensborough Community College

experience using SolidWorks and AutoCAD software to best place the newequipment in order to optimize the existing floor space. The students first obtained the overalldimensions of equipment, created the 3D model of the equipment and then placed eachequipment into the given space. Figure 3 shows the initial design of the AdvancedManufacturing Laboratory using SolidWorks software. Once all the equipment and the classroom space have been optimized, the final floor plan has been issued for renovation of the newlaboratory (see Figure 4). The laboratory has three sections:  Subtractive Center: The 12 Lathes, 3 Drill Presses 5 Mills and a plethora of manual equipment afford students hands-on exposure to machining best practices. The OMAX

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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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- Communicate with the customer, understand the customer’s needs, and negotiate achievable needs, conduct interim demonstrations, collaborate with the customer, and deliver the product on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit and Determination – Anything that can go wrong will go wrong – push through.II. Voice-of-the-CustomerThe Engineering Team consisted of four RVCC Engineering students. The Team was notinformed of any of the details of

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David RB Kraemer, Johns Hopkins University

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15 20 25 30 35 40 -50 time(s)Figure 2. Position data, from acceleration data integrated twice.The real-world acceleration measurement experiment proved to be an interesting exercisefor the course. The author plans to use this experiment in the future, and to assess itseffectiveness. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSU

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had

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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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Yongwook Kim, Manhattan College; Salvatore Florio; Qian Wang P.E., Manhattan College

are needed for faculties, who wish to make most use of available resourcesand to result in any meaningful research outcomes. In this study, detailed planning and strategiesare discussed for successful undergraduate research, followed by demonstration of sometechnical outcomes of the research.2. MethodologyAfter September 11, blast effects caused by possible terrorist attacks have been consideredincreasingly in structural designs. Certain attempts to attack major transportation andgovernment infrastructures have been discovered or prevented, but some others causedcatastrophic results, leaving significant fatalities, damages and interruptions to the facilities [7].Most available engineering approaches for blast resistant design were developed

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

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givenunit (e.g., building, office, household, etc.) or a specific tap/ faucet within the unit. The protectionof water treatment systems against potential chemical and biological terrorist acts is also becominga critical issue in water resources planning. Advances in nanoscale science and engineering areproviding unprecedented opportunities to develop more cost effective and environmentallyacceptable water purification processes.There is an urgent need of developing effective and economical feasible solution for the bestmanagement practices to minimize storm water runoff, reduce soil erosion, maintain groundwaterrecharge, and minimize surface water and groundwater contamination from combined seweroverflows[2]. In the last decade, researchers from

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Jose M Reyes Alamo, CUNY - New York City College of Technology; Yu Wang, The New York City College of Technology; Renata Budny, New York City College of Technology

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Coordination process, the faculty noticed a lot of similarities amongthe General Education Student Learning Goals and the ABET criteria. The faculty worked onmapping the selected courses and goals with the criteria they already evaluated for ABETaccreditation. This led to the creation of a framework to facilitate the mapping between GeneralEducation and accreditation standards. Our preliminary results have shown that during and afterthe implementation of the Course Coordination efforts and the awareness of SLGs, the students’correct answers related to the outcomes increased.In the future, the Department of Computer Engineering Technology plans to work with theCourse Coordination Working Group and go over the entire list of General Education

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

with the traditional laboratories. The increase ofscientific curiosity and interest have been shown to be significant factors in engaging students whichresults in improved learning. The DB PBL can also be supplemented with the traditional lab experiencesin materials science for a full range of advantages including expended knowledge. However, there arelaboratories in engineering and science that the DB PRL approach may not work for. Such labs oftenrequire sophisticated instrumentations for measurements and analysis.Throughout the DB PBL experience in Solid Mechanics Lab, the challenges of procurement of parts andmaterials were significant. As such advanced planning is critical. To not jeopardize the freedom of thestudents for a flexible

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Peibo Guo, Conestoga High School; Kail Jialang Yuan; Zuyi Huang, Villanova University

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’ answers to the open ending questions show the following positive feedback on thedesigned web-based training approach: 1) it is possible to attract high-school students in STEMfields by providing interesting mini-projects that are related to their daily life (e.g., bioenergyproduction and waste water treatment); 2) the web-based training approach was effective inconveying the training materials; 3) Skype meetings were helpful but students preferred in-personmeetings; 4) the web-based training approach offered flexibility in students’ schedule; 5) after thetraining, students liked the research in STEM field and planned to find a STEM major for theircollege study. Students also mentioned that this project was suitable for students interested

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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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emphasized were those directly useful for engineers in aprofessional/industry environment and included: - Focus on the Customer - Communicate with the customer, understand the customer’s needs, and negotiate achievable needs, conduct interim demonstrations, collaborate with the customer, and deliver the product on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit and Determination – Anything that can go wrong will go wrong – push through

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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weights of this course that was taught by the first author from August2016 through December 2016. Table 1. Composition of ARCH 311, Fall 2016 (School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University) Components Grading Weights Lowest Grade Dropped Assignments 30% No Group Project 10% NA Semester Exam I 13.3% Semester Exam II 13.3% Yes Semester Exam III 13.3% Final Exam 20% NAIn this course, students were exposed to the lab after the first exam to

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

which includes conditionals, loops, user defined functions with output facilities. The term “environment” is intended to characterize it as a fully planned and coherentsystem, rather than an incremental accretion of very specific and inflexible tools, as is frequentlythe case with other data analysis software. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSU R is designed around a true computer language, and it allows users to add additionalfunctionality by defining new functions. Advanced users can write C code to manipulate Robjects directly. Many users think of R as a statistics system, but in general, it is an environmentwithin which statistical techniques are implemented. R can be

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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

train students in fluid intelligence via Python learning. On the other hand ourcommunity college is part of CUNY; our mission would be to train our students to transfer tosenior college engineering programs in City College, Stony Brook University, etc. The usualpractice of asking 7th semester engineering students to take the FE exam in City College, StonyBrook (Princeton has a practice of “6th semester taking FE exam” 9), etc. has always beenstressful for our community college pre-engineering students when planning their transfers. Ourstudents could use a practical blueprint on how to improve fluid intelligence learning other thanvia the Python coding modification platform. Over the years, we had found that practical issuessuch as drawing to

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had