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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

platform provides animmersive environment which supports the team design process, the reviewprocess and the presentation process.There are examples of successful utilization of virtual worlds to supportcollaborative design in the literature.Ehsani and Chase [1] discuss the uses ofvirtual worlds with distributed design teams to reduce the time to developprototypes and reduce overall costs, and they included the review of several case Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 15studies in the architectural and construction field. One such

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eileen Haase PhD; Harry Goldberg

demonstrations. Fridays were used for team based learning andclinical/research discussions. First exposure to each week’s course material was usually throughshort videos, simulations, and animations. A sample week is illustrated in Fig 2. Figure 2: Sample week depicting the variety of teaching methods for enzymesSpring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUFor example, during the module on Enzymes, students view short videos, read sections of thetextbooks, and/or practice using simulations to gain an introduction to enzyme kinetics,competitive and non-competitive inhibition, and allosteric modification. Lecture time is used toderive equations and graph data with various inhibitors and activators, while incorporating theuse of

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peggy Leonowich-Graham; Katie Blue; Steven Condly

IT105 in that students covertopics more rapidly and work additional class exercises; however, both courses have the samegraded requirements.Students are taught in sections of no more than 18 students. Sections that included femalestudents were set to a ratio of 50/50 or close to 50/50. This high mix of females in a section wasdone intentionally based on prior research in that area .4 Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityResultsAt the end of the Spring 2010 term, 300 cadets enrolled in IT105/155 were surveyed. Thesurvey items and associated descriptive statistics are found in Table 1. Table 1. Descriptive Statistics

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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George Tremberger; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Rex Taibu; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. A physicsclass on Electricity and Magnetism has a good platform to include EEG topics while a physicsclass in modern physics provides ample opportunities to include muon decay when teachingrelativistic correction and scattering cross section. The sustainability of such triggered learningmotivation through the teaching of perspectives in science, technology and society could beenhanced if an independent college course in Science, Technology and Society has a STEMcourse as pre-requisite. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUThe learning assessment rubric of Highly Competent, Competent, and Needs Improvementversus Participant Deliverables was used. An improvement was observed in the grades ofdiscussion

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ryan Richards; Abdullah Konak; Michael R. Bartolacci; Mahdi Nasereddin

-373.19. Konak, A. (2014). A cyber security discovery program: Hands-on cryptography. Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2014 IEEE,1-4.20. Nasereddin, M., Clark, T. K. and Konak, A. (2014). Using virtual machines in a K-12 Outreach program to increase interest in information security fields. Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2014 IEEE,1-5.21. Konak, A. and Ryoo, J., and Kulturel-Konak, S. (2014). Student Perceptions of a Hands-on Delivery Model for Asynchronous Online Courses in Information Security. ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Fall 2014 Conference, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA,1-7.22. Konak, A., Clark, T. and Nasereddin, M. (2014). Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle to Improve Student Learning in

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

Unconfident to 4-Very Confident)Teamwork AttitudesIn this section, we compare the overall attitude toward teamwork and the perceived value ofteamwork across the grade standing. The attitude and perceived value questions wereoperationalized with a four-point Likert scale, ranging from (1)-“Strongly Disagree” to (4)-“Strongly Agree”. To measure the overall attitude toward teamwork, the following fourquestions were used (Cronbach's α=0.730):  I usually have a negative experience with teamwork (reverse coded)  I would rather work on team projects than on my own  I like to participate in teamwork  I am usually motivated to participate in teamworkSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityTo

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Clemente

based laboratory or in-situ testing, and instrumentation and monitoring of theconstruction process are recommended to confirm critical design assumptions, or to verifyengineering analyses, to detect unanticipated field conditions or incorrect constructionprocedures, and to gain still more relevant information in order to make adjustments that willcorrect or resolve construction issues. Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2Basis of Applied Geotechnical EngineeringThe basis of geotechnical engineering is rooted in an

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Melanie Villatoro P.E., New York City College of Technology; Karla Karolin Peña, Student; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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Paper ID #243992018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6The Effects of Peer-Led Workshops in a Statics CourseMelanie Villatoro P.E., New York City College of Technology Melanie Villatoro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology at NYC College of Technology. She teaches a variety of courses in the civil engineering major including statics, strength of materials, concrete, steel, soil mechanics, and foundations. Melanie’s approach to teaching builds on developing rapport with her students. She is highly effective in

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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

Paper ID #243982018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Non-Ductile Reinforced Concrete ShearWall BuildingDr. Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Felipe Perez is an Associate Professor of structural engineering in the Civil Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As civil engineering curriculum chair and coordina- tor of semester conversion, he successfully led the conversion of the civil engineering curriculum from a quarter system to a semester system. He is a member of the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip Samuel P.E.; Kathryn Jablokow

, andwe must resolve problems in ways that are not preferred. This non-preferred behaviour iscalled coping behaviour, and it comes at a greater psychological cost11. We will discusscoping behaviour further in Section 3.Returning to Figure 1, the outer circle represents the relevant solution domain for a particulardesign problem, i.e., the complete set of possible solutions for that problem. A student’scognitive affect boundary will filter out the opportunities that are inconsistent with his/hermotivational and emotional constraints (e.g., beliefs, values, needs). The same student’sFall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universitycognitive level boundary will filter out possible solutions that are beyond his

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

thedigital design course focuses more on software design, microcontrollers, and sensorinterfacing. The Robo-Hoops contest challenges student teams to design and implementautonomous, computer-controlled mobile robots which are capable of picking up and Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2shooting or dunking small (4-inch diameter) foam balls into a basketball net. Thecompetition is divided into 2 phases. In the first phase, each robot is operated in solo orunopposed matches, with the goal to score as many points as possible within a

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Yongwook Kim, Manhattan College; Salvatore Florio; Qian Wang P.E., Manhattan College

and Finite Element AnalysisIn the AISC Steel Manual [1], out of the most popular steel columns used for buildingconstructions, W14 sections were chosen for the research. The W14 sections are wide-flangeshaped steel members with a nominal depth of fourteen inches. To model the steel member,Lagrangian meshes were used for a solid mechanics analysis. To model air domain around thecolumn, Eulerian meshes were used for computational fluid dynamic analysis. See Figure 1 foran overall model view. Figure 1. Overall Model Geometry for Blast Analysis of a Steel Member Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUThe two meshes were solved independently via corresponding solvers, and simultaneously theyinteracted

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Villanova University, October 15-16, 2010 A Novel Set of Core Courses for a new MS Sustainable Engineering Degree Program Bill Lorenz and Pritpal Singh College of Engineering Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania 19063 USA William.lorenz@villanova.edu, Pritpal.singh@villanova.eduAbstractA new MS Sustainable Engineering degree program has recently been launched by VillanovaUniversity’s Engineering College. The program is open to all engineering and science undergraduatemajors

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael S. Lehman

Co- Executive Director of the Baker Institute. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityThis new graduate offering with a focus on innovation is a residential, full-time, twelve-monthprogram that differentiates itself in the market via its “dedicated approach” to entrepreneurialengineering education - a dedicated curriculum, a dedicated space and a dedicated faculty.This dedicated model, as detailed in the sections below, has been designed as the foundation foreducating students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds in engineering (includingmechanical, electrical and chemical), business (including finance, accounting and marketing), thenatural sciences (such as physics and biology) and

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Lisa L Greenwood, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Maureen S. Valentine PE, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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Paper ID #244072018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Setting a Course for Student Success: Standards-Based Curriculum and Capacity-Building across Risk Prevention Management System DomainsDr. Lisa L Greenwood, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Lisa Greenwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Envi- ronmental Management and Safety at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Greenwood has been involved in national and international environmental standards development for over 15 years, and re- cently led the U.S. delegation on

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adekola Owolabi

feed inspiration”. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUIn a study that involved over 200 engineering consultancies it was discovered that “thesecompanies don’t just wait for inspiration to strike, and they don’t just wait for customers todeliver problems to them. They actively seek opportunities for the sort of innovation that willproduce Intellectual Property (IP) that they can sell. What was interesting was that this searchwas not just an individual, ad hoc process, but was something deliberate and thoughtful, and thatthe companies developed methods for pushing their thinking and then propagated those methodsacross the company.”From this study, it is obvious that innovation is an integral part of any

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

Paper ID #244002018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Disruptive Technologies: An Educational PerspectiveDr. Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia Wagdy H. Mahmoud is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Electrical Engineering Department at UDC. Mahmoud is actively involved in research in the areas of reconfigurable logic, hard- ware/software co-design of a system on a chip using reconfigurable logic, application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), digital logic design, image compressions, digital signal processing, computer architec

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

undergraduate education.II. Current State and Attributes of MOOCsOver the last few years the MOOC market has been able to grow and take hold. Free educationalmaterials have been available through the internet for some time but the course created bySiemens in 2008, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, is considered the first MOOC.3 4 Atthe end of 2014, roughly 2,400 courses were available, reaching ~17 million students, doubling Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityfrom the year before due to an estimate growth rate of two new courses being offered each day.5The majority of English speaking courses at this time are provided by Coursera, Khan Academy,Udacity and edX. Miriada X in Spanish, FUN

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

overview of the discipline. Temple Universitystates that Gen-Ed (General Education) is about making connections between academicknowledge and the world. It is impossible to learn it all so Gen-Ed is designed to preparestudents for the future by showing them how information from different disciplines isinterrelated1. This is an important concept to consider when designing such a course in a subjectthat is dense in theory. Students, above all, need to understand how their academic knowledgecan be linked to their reality. When teaching non-majors, student engagement is an important Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityfactor to acknowledge, and teaching methodology has a more profound impact. The

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ronald E. Barr

at 5 pm, and then downloaded to aEuropean site at 12 midnight. Thus, the global engineering project is a 24/7 reality. But, it is notjust the internet that has created global competition in engineering. Other countries around theworld have been ramping-up their science and engineering education output, while America hasseen a decline. According to the NSF “Science and Engineering Indicators” report [2], theUnited States has experienced a decline in its science and engineering position in the world.Figure 1 shows a ratio of the number of science and engineering degrees earned by the 24-year- ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference April 28-29, 2006

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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Paper ID #243882018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Improving critical thinking through the cognitive loading control of workingmemory in introductory physics classesDr. Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Dr. Vazgen Shekoyan is a professor of physics and his experiences include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Dr. sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala received his B.S. degree from University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and Ph.D from City University of New York. Currently, he is working as a faculty member at Queensborough Community College of

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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Paper ID #244842018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6STEM Awareness Starts at the Elementary and Middle SchoolsDr. Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College Rajarajan Subramanian is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. Previously, he worked for four years as Transportation Engineer at Maryland State Highway Administration. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in engineering from the Depart- ment of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida. He has 25

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Christopher Lawrence Norve, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #244062018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Technological Advancements Applied to Cardiac CareChristopher Lawrence Norve, Wentworth Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering Student at Wentworth Institute of Technology Expected Year of Graduation: 2020 Area of Interest: Emerging Trends in Biomedical EngineeringDr. Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology Dr. Shankar Krishnan is the founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering program and an endowed chair professor at Wentworth Institute in Boston since 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree from the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20860Shaping the Undergraduate Mind through ResearchMs. Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University Brianna Lawton is a senior civil engineering major at Morgan State University who is not only an avid undergraduate researcher but has had various internships, one being with HDR Inc. while also serving her community on and off campus. She now sits as the President of Morgan’s chapter of Chi Epsilon, the no- table civil engineering honor society, while also mentoring young middle and high school students under the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David W. Dinehart; Timothy Harrington; Matthew Bandelt; Adam Beckmann

you are learning in school 5. Learn to work in teams 6. Make some new friends while having fun Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityCurriculumAt the first meeting of NovaCANE the group brainstormed ideas for topics to include in thecurriculum. After a list of about ten projects were established, each student picked one or twoprojects to lead. Each project had two student leaders who were responsible for preparing thelecture and procuring the supplies for the activity. This section provides a brief description ofthe lecture topics and group activity. The learning outcomes of the club were highlighted at thebeginning of each meeting; then lessons learned from the previous meeting

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines and the method of assessingstudents’ global competency. The challenge of assessing and enhancing global awareness callsfor universities in the United States to integrate internationalization into their educationalrequirements in order for students to succeed in our global society. The goal of this research isto develop a set of assessment tools that allow students’ global awareness level to be measured.The specific focus in this paper is measuring the interest level of students in the STEMdiscipline.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIn order to begin to measure students’ global awareness, it is first necessary to define

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

domesticstudents, other than those in programs directly sponsored by their companies, are enrolled in theSwE Program. Table  1 shows the SwE student demographics by enrollment status and visa status.Table  2 shows the number of graduates per year. For fall 2014, although enrollments are up,there is currently only one full time domestic student. The percent of women enrolled is ~25%.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University  The graduation rate for SwE Masters and Graduate certificate students is estimated to be>80%.1* Table  1:  SwE  Enrollment  Profiles  from  2011  to  2013     (left:  Full  time  vs.  Part  time

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lunal Khuon; Timothy Camise; Clayton Bannan; Kevin Buckley

infuture offerings. For the statement ”I learned a great deal in this course”, mean responseswere ”4.4” and ”4.6”, for the first and second sections respectively. Again, for the secondsection, the score was in the top quartile for all College of Engineering classes. On the CATS,students are also given space to write comments. Comments were predominately positive (e.g.”awesome”, ”really made learning the material fun and interesting”, ”enjoyed learning aboutcomputers/electronics applications”, ”course was very enjoyable and productive”, ”was a goodglimpse of the engineering process”). Spring 2012 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 20-21, 2012, University of DelawareInitial Assessment ResultsFor each of the four project objectives stated earlier

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

enrollment of all sections e Three-year average (2009 to 2011) Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityTransition to the Inverted Classroom FormatThe decision to shift from a more classical course structure to an inverted classroom format inthe Structural Design course discussed in this paper was motivated by a number of factors.Foremost was the recognition that it makes little sense to focus most of the precious class time,where faculty and students are able to interact, on the lowest two levels of Bloom’s taxonomy(knowledge and comprehension), while using primarily problems related to the third level of thetaxonomy (application) for evaluation of student performance on exams. The inverted