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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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John Robert Schedel Jr., United States Naval Academy; Angela Schedel, U.S. Naval Academy

Paper ID #243562018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Straws, Balloons, and Tootsie Rolls: The Value of Hands-On Activities in theEngineering ClassroomCmdr. John Robert Schedel Jr., United States Naval Academy John Schedel is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a career Naval Officer, having served 22 years as a Navy SEAL and as an engineer- ing professor. He enjoys teaching a variety of undergraduate engineering courses related to structural engineering, mechanical design, project management, and economic forecasting

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; Kimberly Anne Riegel; Rex Taibu; Tak Cheung

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the Committee on K-12 Engineering Education in the National Academy ofEngineering and National Research Council Center for Education) on her report to Congress1,have been implemented in a program designed for teacher enrichment using optics and cosmicray projects. A teacher usually has a tight lesson plan calibrated to the requirement of a StateEducation Board and/or SAT/ACT requirement nationwide. The challenge of asking a teacher totrain a student’s mind for the development of an engineering mindset is not an easy task. Amongthe high school subjects, physics could be one of the subject that is amenable for modification interms of exposing students to design related to science knowledge. Given that physics is arequired subject for most

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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together to build, acquire tool safety, understand how to use tools, electronics, anddevelop a fictitious company that uses ROV’s for some particular challenge. Many of thestudents also join the engineering club to enter challenges using their underwater robots.These tasks require all students to communicate, strategize, plan, and decide upon solutions tocomplete the challenges15.ConclusionsSTEM programs should be started at the elementary school level because it is easier to align theyounger fresh minds on the path of STEM education by displaying it in different playful ways.After the Elementary School STEM education, the students need to be introduced to their careerpath to choose the field of study in STEM areas that they want to explore for

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona

usually focus on component design andtypically do not address upgrading the condition of existing structures. However, an aginginfrastructure demands that practicing engineers have the skills to design economical and effectiveretrofits. This is evidenced by the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE 2017 InfrastructureReport Card1, which reports America’s cumulative infrastructure grade point average at a D+.With this in mind, a capstone senior project was created for a team of six undergraduate studentsat California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Students worked on the seismic vulnerabilityassessment of a five-story non-ductile reinforced concrete building constructed in SouthernCalifornia. This paper summarizes the assessment

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vasudeva Rao Aravind, Clarion University; Marcella Kay McConnell, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Paper ID #243802018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6A Personalized Computer Based Tutor for Vector AlgebraDr. Vasudeva Rao Aravind, Clarion University Dr. Vasudeva Rao Aravind is an associate professor of physics at Clarion University. Dr. Aravind has a Ph.D from The Pennsylvania State University in Materials Science and Engineering and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India. Dr. Aravind is a highly accomplished scholar and researcher in the fields of materials science, condensed matter physics, materials for

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Baha Bachnak, The Pennsylvania State University; Nashwa Elaraby, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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Paper ID #24396Developing Lab Exercises for Logic Circuit Design using FPGAsMr. Baha Bachnak, The Pennsylvania State University Baha Bachnak is an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg. He is also a Schreyer Honors Scholar and has research interests in applications of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).Dr. Nashwa Elaraby, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College Dr. Elaraby is a faculty at Penn State Harrisburg. She received her PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Temple University in 2014. She received her B.Sc

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Jeffrey L. Schwartz P.E., Queensborough Community College

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ancient method of Egyptian fractionscan be used for this purpose when teaching parallel resistors, whether a professor has a totalresistance or a particular resistor in mind, or whether they want to use standard manufacturers’values.KeywordsAlgebra, Electrical Engineering Education, IEC Standards, Mathematical Analysis, ResistorsIntroductionWhen teaching introductory electronics courses, I try to use examples with integer solutions inorder to give students a better sense of the quantities involved in the circuits. This is similar to“when a teacher is first introducing students to the Pythagorean Theorem, she usually likes to giveexamples that have easy numbers, ones that don’t get too ‘messy’ in their calculations.”1 Whenteaching the Pythagorean

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Prof. Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An experiential learning strategy in introductory mechanics using transferrable knowledge from daily examples and feedback inquiry in the development of an innovative mindset Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, George Tremberger, Raul Armendariz, David Lieberman and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside NY 11364