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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Jikai Du

harvesting research on the project “Scattered Electric PowerConversion–Door Generator” during summer 2017. The project involves both mechanicalengineering and electrical engineering research. During the research procedure, a faculty mentorestablished clear expectations with the student about work schedules and responsibilities. Thefaculty mentor also provided timely feedback to the student. In the project, the student learned toformulate and test a theoretical model, develop an experiment plan, collect and analyzeexperimental data, develop prototypes, acquire knowledge of the scientific literature in therelated research area, and finish a final project report. In this paper, challenges and problemsfacing to both faculty and student are also

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Chaitanya K. Ullal; Elizabeth Herkenham; Amy H. Kim; Tara Chklovski

communicate these ideas as they formulated detailed lesson plans andtaught underrepresented school students and their families. The course was taught twice and the implementation assessed by an independentevaluator. In the first implementation, improved undergraduate student interest inresearch/teaching, and self-perceptions of teaching and leadership skills were observed. Thesecond implementation examined the perceived relative benefits of the various conventional andunconventional learning techniques employed in the course. Overall satisfaction with the coursewas high with practice assignments and classroom lectures being identified as most beneficial fortopics outside their own chosen topics, and teaching their own lectures and literature

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Joseph Stanislow; Wendy A. Dannels; Mel Chua

machine. TheHelmel’s VP of Sales and Marketing (hearing) reacted with surprise and delight. He wrote toAuthors: Stanislow, Dannels, and Chua Page 4 of 7 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, 2018 Cornell University April 20-21, 2018Prof. Dannels and Prof. Stanislow with his realization that their visual signalling modificationswould “...also be very beneficial to any user who works in a noisy environment and cannot hearthe beeps…” and outlined their plans to incorporate NTID’s visual signalling idea in all of theirfuture device designs. Their current designs already had a red power indicator LED mountedabove the CMM probe head, close to the location where Prof. Stanislow

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Dariush H. Zadeh; Shohreh Moini

wereselected by the faculty member who was going to teach the course. Students were giventhe choice to pick one of the topics and join the related team. The research work was carriedout parallel to the regular class activities with additional points for the final grade. Theapplied methodology was roughly planned as: ∗ The main goal would be to educate students and make them familiar with research activities and procedures rather than achieving demanding elaborate research goals and / or financial gains. ∗ The subject of study needed to have little or no need for financial assistance and the goals should be possible to be achieved without a budget. ∗ The subject of study needed to be simple and probably community related in a way

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Tabitha L. Sprau Coulter

. Lawrence Section Conference, 2018 Cornell University April 20-21, 2018Future researchThe data collected focused generically on aligning students enrolled in engineering technologycourses with motivational strategies. However, research has shown the importance ofunderstanding individual students’ learning personality profiles. While previous studies haveclassified the learning preference more engineering students gravitate towards, all students aredifferent. Particularly in smaller class settings, it becomes increasing important to ensureteaching styles are tailored to meet student needs. In the future, I plan to expand on this study byattempting to align learning preferences with data on how students perceive the effectiveness ofvarious