Collection

2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Denis Serbin; Stephanie Lee

Connections & Knowledge Transfer between Engineering Thermodynamics and Mathematics (WIP)AbstractIt is well-established that students have difficulty transferring knowledge and skills betweencourses in their undergraduate curriculum. In order to assess the ability of students to transfer ideasbetween their classes, the connections students make between integral calculus and other subjectswas tested in a thermodynamics class. In this pilot study, students were posed the classicalthermodynamics problem of boundary work, which requires the application of calculus skills tosolve. After a first attempt to solve the problem with no instructor guidance, students were givena relevant calculus problem in order to activate their prior knowledge

Collection

2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

Authors

Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Wyatt Ethan Espell, USMA; Ashtyn McCall Hanna, United States Military Academy ; Andrew Joseph Ng, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus P.E., United States Military Academy; Erick Martinez, United States Military Academy; Patrick Thomas Swanton, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy; Jeremy Stephen Walker, U.S. Army Research, Development & Eng. Ctr.

modelled and experimental results as a means to validate the current researchapproach. The process of integrating a summer internship along with an independent studyexperience has strengthened the resolve of the authors that engineering is for everyone. Thestudent authors participated in the internship at various time in their undergraduate experience(two prior to Junior year and one prior to Senior year). Through researching methods to improveRO feed spacer design, the student authors were able to more completely appreciate the toolsobtained throughout their environmental engineering curriculum that supports their ability todevelop innovative solutions to ill-defined problems as well as to further attain the ABET EACCriteria – especially

Collection

2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

Authors

Marvin Gayle, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensborough Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

retainstudents across wide cross section of the population. While the diverse population of fiveboroughs of New York City provides a large pool of potential candidates, QCC attracts studentsfrom all five boroughs with a majority of student originating from Queens County. The collegealso attracts students from Nassau and Suffolk counties as well. This paper will present ourefforts to maintain and improve the diversity of our student body. The efforts are focused on ourhigh school recruitment effort, the Summer Robotics program, the Women in TechnologySummer Workshop, and the changes we initiated in our curriculum in an effort to maintain andhave our student achieve a successful academic outcome. Research shows that a first-generationcollege student needs