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

Autonomous People Mover Alex Avery, Joe Hudden, David Ruan, Eric Schulken, Cody Smith, Jessica VanGiesen, Michael Zielinski, Ray Ptucha Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA of majors work in groups to complete projects over the course ABSTRACT of two semesters. The class structure dictates that the firstMost automobile forecasters predict that by the mid-2020’s semester be devoted to design, research, and planning, whileautonomous driving will transform the automobile market. the second semester is to be

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Liyong Sun; Robert Edwards

students.Development Plan and Challenges:The activity of the classroom exercise is adopted from the Workshop Physics model [5] which islisted below:• use peer instruction and collaborative work;• keep students actively involved by using activity-based guided-inquiry curricular materials;• use a learning cycle beginning with predictions;• emphasize conceptual understanding;• let the physical world be the authority;• evaluate student understanding;• make appropriate use of technology;• begin with the specific and move to the general.The exercises described in this paper are intended to go beyond simple in-class demonstrations.We intend to use a guided inquiry approach in the design of the exercises. In this method thestudents must be actively involved in the

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

employment increase betweenDecember 2014 and December 2015, behind education and construction [2]. A significant factorin the growth of this sector was recent public and private investments across NYS.In Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2012 New York State of the State Address, he announced TheBuffalo Billion, where the state would invest $1 billion dollars in the Buffalo area forinfrastructure and equipment to attract private firms in the high-tech industry to the area. TheBuffalo Billion Investment Development Plan focused on three core sectors; advancedmanufacturing, health and life sciences, and tourism, to be developed through three corestrategies; workforce development, entrepreneurship, and Smart Growth [3]. These initiativespoint toward the future of

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Dimitri Papazoglou; Saneela Rabbani; Shouling He

,Engineering and Math (STEM) Program, sponsored by Vaughn College of Aeronautics andTechnology, for the Girl Scouts of Greater New York Nassau and Suffolk Counties. More than145 middle or high school girls were planned to attend the event. Since the girls would beseparated into multiple groups, with one group having less than 50 minutes in the workshop, theproject should be able to be finished within the time period. After a student had built the electricpiano, the product would be a gift for her and she would take her electric piano home. Therefore,the product should be relatively inexpensive.In terms of developing an interesting project for engineering education, a number of researchworks have reported the approaches and some of the survey results

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Victoria Sorg; Lilian Johnson; Alexandra Westbrook; Susan Daniel

and their parents to Cornell to participate inthe day-long WOMEN Event to encourage student interest in STEM fields and provide an earlystart on college planning. We target students from rural upstate New York where women are par-ticularly at risk for not attending or completing college [3]. The program includes hands-on labmodules, information about the college admission process, sessions highlighting STEM career op-portunities, and a panel discussion featuring current Cornell undergraduate and graduate students.CBE Women created engaging lab modules specifically for the WOMEN Event that illustratescollege-level concepts that are not usually taught in high school like virus engineering, polymers,and process engineering. While students engage

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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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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