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Rebecca K. LaForest; Iulian Gherasoiu; Daniel White; Harry Efstathaidis

P-TECH: A New Model for an Integrated Engineering Technology EducationAuthors: Rebecca K. LaForest1, Iulian Gherasoiu2, Daniel White1, Harry Efstathaidis11 Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute2 College of Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWithin the past decade, the United States has seen an upswing in job opportunities in theindustries supported by science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) academicprograms. Nanotechnology, or the study of material properties at the nanoscale, has led thisrevolution which has created the steady wave of new jobs and investments, especially in NewYork State. This relatively new field of study has concentrated and benefited from

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Amanda Abrew; Melanie Villatoro P.E.

Broadening Participation of Female Students in Engineering Technology through a network of Peers Amanda Hayley Abrew & Melanie L. Villatoro New York City College of TechnologyAbstract There is a negative stigma centered on women’s capabilities in Engineering, which iscause for a stagnant rate of female retention in higher education. To move beyondstereotypical views of career choices for women in Engineering, the School of Technology andDesign developed a peer advisement program to increase retention and enrollment of femalestudents in associate degree programs in engineering technology. In its pilot phase, theprogram included civil

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Ryan Milcarek; Michael Garrett; Ryan Falkenstein-Smith; Jeongmin Ahn

papers discussing resilience in civil engineeringfor civil infrastructure resilience to earthquakes.18,19 Besides the literature, world organizations are calling for resilience engineering. Forinstance, the call for resiliency in cities, building and technologies is on the rise. The UnitedNations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction has issued the ‘Making Cities Resilient’ report, whichcalls for more careful planning of cities and the inclusion of the most vulnerable individuals withincities in order to improve the ability of the city to recover from disaster.20 While much of the focusin developmental studies has been placed on collaboration, strategy and strong governance, therehas also been mention of technological innovations that will

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Dimitri Papazoglou; Saneela Rabbani; Shouling He

Create Interests in Engineering with Girl Scouts Dimitri Papazoglou, Saneela Rabbani and Shouling He Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, 86-01 23rd Ave, Flushing, NY dimitri.papazoglou@vaughn.edu, saneela.rabbani@vaughn.edu, shouling.he@vaughn.eduAbstractThis paper presents an all-female workshop that exposes girls from ages eleven to seventeen toengineering concepts as well as creating an engineering product. We consider that girls in thisage period are crucial as many of them will soon venture into possible career options but aren'talways given the proper exposure to engineering. Thinking about most girls’ interests in this agegroup, we introduced the electric

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Victoria Sorg; Lilian Johnson; Alexandra Westbrook; Susan Daniel

Education, 2014.[3] K. Schafft and A. Jackson, Rural Education for the Twenty-first Century: Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World. Rural studies series, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.[4] C. Hill, C. Corbett, and A. S. Rose, “Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineer- ing, and Mathematics,” tech. rep., American Association of University Women, Washington, DC, 2010.[5] New York State Education Department, “NYSED Data Site: Counties.” https://data. nysed.gov/lists.php?type=county, 2015.[6] New York State Education Department, “NYSED Data Site: Glossary of Terms - Enrollment Data.” https://data.nysed.gov/glossary.php?report=enrollment, 2015. 6

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John Foo; Iwijn De Vlaminck; Kimberly Williams

Student Adaptation to the Modular Use of the Flipped Classroom in an Introductory BiomedicalEngineering CourseJohn C. Foo1,2, Iwijn De Vlaminck1, Kimberly Williams21. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2. Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYAbstractThe Flipped Classroom model moves direct instruction outside of the classroom, allowing moretime for student-centered in-class activities. Guides to Flipping the Classroom suggest investingtime at the start of the course to promote the Flipped Classroom model to students. However,this may not be the best use of time if the instructor only plans to use the Flipped Classroommodel to teach a small portion of the class. Reasons for not

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Liyong Sun; Robert Edwards

for an ideal fluid, which implies that the sum of potential, pressure andkinetic energy remain constant.INTRODUCTIONMany Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students at Penn State Erie tend to strugglewith some of the basic concepts in thermal-fluid science courses. One reason for this issue is thecharacteristics of the thermal-fluid sciences. Using the sight sense is an important way for peopleto explore the world. People see lots of moving objects in their daily life, thus it is very easy forthem to understand the concept of velocity. In thermal-fluid sciences, there are lots of conceptsthat are not visible, such as pressure, heat transfer, internal energy, enthalpy etc. Since studentshave few daily life experiences to relate to, it is

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Alex Avery; Joe Hudden; David Ruan; Eric Schulken; Cody Smith; Jessica VanGiesen; Michael Zielinski; Ray Ptucha

controlled using a braking actuator, a wickedrefinement of AV technologies. steering rack, and PWM signals from the microcontroller to the APM’s throttle controller. Two wireless PWM signals are II. BACKGROUND used for this mode of operation, one for brake and throttle and The avenue selected for the initial design and build work the other for steering. The APM can be put into an emergencyfor the APM was through a Multidisciplinary Senior Design stop state by activating the Emergency stop (E-stop) button on(MSD) class. In this class, engineering students from a variety the APM or

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Paul Cotae; Mahmoud Elsayed; Ira Moskowitz

grant W911NE-11-1-0144 and to the Army Research Office(ARO) for funding this research under grant W911NF-15-1-0481. References[1] K. Ovaliadis, N. Savage and V. Kanakaris, Journal of Engineering Science and technology Review 3 (1) (2010) 151-156.[2] B. Jagdishwar Rao and T. Prabhakar, “Underwater Acoustic Wireless Communications Channel Model and Bandwidth,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 6 No. 18(2011)[3] R. Shrestha, M. Elsayed and P. Cotae, “On the Mutual Information of Sensor Networks in Underwater Wireless Communication: An Experimental Approach” ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT