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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Laura Bayerle; Marietta R. Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

higher GPA than men as a result of their self-doubt.8-11 Inaddition, between 5th and 9th grade, gifted girls, perceiving that smarts aren't sexy, hide theiraccomplishments, indicating a strong argument towards providing girls with a segregatedenvironment while pursuing STEM interests.12 Key findings with respect to increasing studentinterest in STEM indicate that the most important methodologies for high impact programs Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksinvolve exploring STEM long term,13 inspiring career exploration,14 and exposing participantsto role-models. Although hands-on activities generate an interest in STEM, it is the interactionwith role-models that is instrumental in generating a

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Emily Alexandra German, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Niki Taylor Taheri, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

, 86-01 23rd Ave, Flushing, NY emily.german@vaughn.edu, niki.taheri@vaughn.edu, shouling.he@vaughn.eduAbstractEfforts to raise student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)careers have increased in recent decades. The goal of such efforts is to satisfy the urgent need forscientists, engineers, and technologists due to the consistent growth of innovative engineeringproducts, such as smartphones, autonomous vehicles and so on. Educational research shows thatthe efforts to interest students in STEM majors and careers can be as early as in the elementaryschool level, the time when students begin to develop interests in engineering products aroundthem. In this paper, we present one approach towards

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Paper ID #20983IllumiNUT Shake-Light Manufacturing: An Engineering/Business Interdis-ciplinary Supply Chain ProjectDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak enjoyed a 22 year career in the optical-fiber manufacturing industry living and working in 7 countries where he held a variety of hands-on technical and business-management positions. Starting as a R&D Engineer, Peter became fascinated by how a manufacturing business operates and made succes- sive steps into engineering and manufacturing management culminating in the construction, start-up, and operation of an optical fiber factory in

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Paper ID #20984Green Energy Tent-Light with GPS Locator: A Real Product for a Real Cus-tomerDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Physics at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC). His interests focus on exposing students, under ”authentic engineering” conditions, to vital skills and practices used by professional Engineers. Prior to joining RVCC in 2014, Peter enjoyed a 22-year career in the fiber-optics manufacturing industry, living, and working in 7 countries. Peter’s work involved him in R&D, Engineering, and Manufacturing

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough COmmunity College

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

NASA databases. Examples of RNA sequence withreference to Shannon-entropy based bioinformatics and SDO magnetic topology analysis withreference to solar physics are presented. The contrast to Brookhaven Synchrotron and high energyphysics data analysis is also discussed. The feedback of administrating REU projects to ourphysics teaching for engineering students was found to be valuable and the examples of magneticreconnection and geomagnetic induced current are presented. Therefore community college REUproject provides connectedness awareness in the linking of previous published reports, criticalthinking in result interpretation, and career development when going onto a senior college REUprogram, the top three benefits of college education

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Ethan Patrick Adams, Penn State University: Berks Campus; Patrick Joseph Scanlon; Joseph Torres, Penn State Berks GenCyber; Tricia Clark, Penn State Berks; Terence Laughlin, Blue Mountain High School; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks

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GenCyber program are to inform and educate K-12 students about the various career pathsin cyber security related fields and to provide them with the foundational skills and understandingof cyber security. The camp’s curriculum is unique in the way that it includes minimalistintroductory lectures to familiarize students with foundational cyber security concepts, manyhands-on activities using a remote virtual computer laboratory, and discussions with a strongemphasis on informing students of the potential career paths in information security. The studentslearn techniques for information system protection, destruction, and restoration by incorporatingseveral cybersecurity first principles. Each summer camp runs for five days, with each dayfocusing on

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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

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decision making in this example, students can develop a betterconceptual understanding of magnetic reconnection at the introductory calculus physics level.KeywordsCritical thinking, memorization, facts, judgment, asymmetry, Biot-Savart lawIntroductionA July 2016 Barnes & Noble College and Money.com article reported that “Today’s collegestudents are more interested in gaining exposure to new ideas and developing critical thinkingskills that lead to a fulfilling career versus chasing financial success”1. The magazine alsopublished more detailed data on what students and parents consider the top three benefits of acollege education. The survey showed that 84% of students and 95% of parents regarded thedevelopment of critical thinking to be a top

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Tak Cheung; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Rex Taibu; Vazgen Shekoyan

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

challenge to illustrate what kind of courses they would faceafter transferring to senior colleges. The latent variable method in discovering the presence ofinternal force in a physical situation would help STEM students to get a deeper understanding ofthe difference between a career in chemistry or one in chemical engineering. The latent variableapproach has been used in chemical engineering and there is an online free textbook by ProfessorKevin Dunn of McMaster University that describes it 1. The latent variable approach in industrialelectronics, brain computer interface applications, and structural equation modeling of powerquality event data in electrical engineering have been published 2, 3, 4. The application of the latentvariable approach in

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensboro Community College

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and right motorsNational Instrument (NI) Multisim software provides the electronic circuit simulation platformwith virtual and practical components. The NI Multisim program is widely being used in industrialand academic fields in electronics, thus, training the students with the skills of the program willbenefit their technical career development. The circuit diagram of the project drawn in Multisimis shown in Figure 2. Multisim also allows the virtual simulation of the circuit, which helps fortroubleshooting errors and improving circuit design as well as giving the visual understanding ofthe circuit structure. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berks Figure 2: Circuit

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

, which could potentially make it capable to provide real-time ergonomic feedback and HF&E educational content to students while in engineering labenvironments.Case Study and Initial ResultsA Co-robot system that could potentially provide real-time ergonomic feedback and HF&Eeducational content to students in engineering lab environments could help reduce their risk ofWMSDs. Similarly, it has the potential to augment their knowledge of HF&E principles andmethods, which can have a valuable impact on their future careers. Nonetheless, even thoughstudies indicate there is a need to improve engineering student knowledge of HF&E, the needand potential benefits to students from implementing such a Co-robot system, needs to be

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Ge Jin, Purdue University Northwest; Michael Tu, Purdue University Northwest; Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest; Justin David Heffron, Purdue University Northwest; Jonathan Kakahiaka White

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Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksawareness by playing various cyber security computer games during the first two days. Each classhas about 25 students and they have competed for 3D Secure Online Behavior game, CyberDefense Tower game and Single-player Gencyber Card game. We picked one winner from eachcompetition and awarded the winner with a small gift on the last day of the summer camp. Thepost-camp survey of camp participants indicated that game based learning for cybersecurityenhanced student’s knowledge in cybersecurity, and understanding of the cybersecurity firstprinciples, and educated a digital citizenry with security awareness, and motivated them to pursuehigher education and careers in the field of cybersecurity. One

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University; Kristen A Lee, Menlo College

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

whether students over time perform at higher rates than previous years. Ideally, to testgains across a given span of time, data is collected longitudinally, tracking an individual acrosstheir college career. Because we assume that regardless of student ability and demographicbackground, as whole, students will have higher learning gains as they progress through theengineering program, we assert that by aggregating and averaging out values over different classstanding groups can provide insights similar to that of a longitudinal study.Figures 1 and 2, where average scores are examined across learning components and stage levelsfor different class levels. The results show a general upward trend for both variables: learningcomponents and development