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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

: - Focus on the Customer - Communicate with the customer, understand, and negotiate the customer’s needs, conduct interim demonstrations, and deliver on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit– Never ever give up, ever.Voice-of-the-CustomerThe Authentic Engineering Experience Team of three engineering and one computer sciencestudent Sophomores was not informed of any of the details of the project until they sat in front ofthe Customer to learn

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Charles M Ouellette, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996; Luke Thomas Plante, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

is a 1996 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and obtained an M.S. from both the University of Missouri at Rolla in Geological Engineering and the University of Texas at Austin in Environmental Engineering. Most recently, he graduated with his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He teaches Water Resources and Planning, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Mr. Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy COL Jeff Starke is a Military Intelligence officer with command and staff experiences at the battalion, brigade, joint task force and combatant command levels. His most recent operational

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Joseph Michael Mahoney, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

gamedesign class was offered as a technical elective. This class combined a “humanities” viewpoint ofvideo game design (e.g. gaming psychology, theory of fun) with the “technical” side of computerprogramming and physics engines. Students compared and contrasted two games and wrote acritical analysis of a game. The majority of the class was spent conceptualizing, planning andcreating a video game. Groups learned the required programming skills as needed to implementtheir vision. Students completed a survey at the conclusion of the course. Generally, students foundthe course exercised their creative skills, motivated them to learn more programming and providedthem experience in project management.Keywordsvideo games, computer programming, elective

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania

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-basedElectromagnetic Fields (EMF) course. Projects provided an opportunity for the students to evaluateEMF theories with hands-on experiments. Students’ feedback showed that more than 80% ofstudents had positive learning experiences with projects. Overall, students enjoyed the coursestructure that adopted active learning techniques with projects. From the instructor point of view,managing projects in a theory-based course require early planning and continuous communicationwith students.References:[1] Y. Xu, K. Meehan and C. V. Martin, "Visualizing Concepts in Electromagnetic Fields: Hands- On Experiments," in American Society for Engineering Education, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2011.[2] R. M. Fedler, "Meet Your Students: 1. Stan and Nathan," Chemical

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

the last graded assignment prior to the exam available for pickup any time on theday before the exam. This is done voluntarily, so not all students decide to make the effort to pickup the assignment. This work aims to investigate the differences in grade performance of studentswho did pick up their last homework assignment with those who did not pick up their lasthomework assignment prior to taking a midterm exam.MethodologyData were collected for this study across two sections of dynamics implemented during the samesemester. Students in this course are typically sophomore students planning on majoring inmechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or civil engineering. The names of students whodid not pick up their homework assignment

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; Aiwu Zhang, Brookhaven National Laboratory; David Jose Buitrago, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough COmmunity College; Garrett Stoddard, Stonybrook University ; David E. Jaffe, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

of Notre Dame and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).PMT Dark Rate MeasurementsThe plan for the detector array includes 100 cosmic ray counters each comprised of a 1m x 0.3mx 0.02m plastic scintillator (Nuclear Enterprises 114), a photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu R2083in an H2431-50 assembly, or EMI 9954KB05), a low voltage DC to high voltage DC converter(XP EMCO G30); sets of counters in each school will use a QuarkNet data acquisition board [1]with a GPS antenna and receiver to time stamp cosmic ray events [2]. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksEach PMT generates noise; one type is thermionic emission of electrons from the photocathodewhich also occurs in the absence of

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Yue Hung, Farmingdale State College; Daniel Weinman, Farmingdale State College

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ComputerAided Drafting and Design (CADD) course. The first approach is the incorporation of hands-onexercises that follow Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. The second approach is the development of alearning community where it is built focusing on the Computer Aided Drafting and Design andManufacturing Processes courses. This paper provides an overview of the two approachesincluding their objectives, exercises, projects, and future plans. The design and development ofthe exercises and projects will be discussed in detail.KeywordsApplied learning, Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, Learning Communities, CADDIntroductionFirst year of college is an important year to freshman students. The new high school graduatesare required to learn college level course materials and

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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

objectives. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Oct 6-7 - Penn State BerksNicholas LaRosa is currently a sophomore at Raritan Valley Community College in the pursuitof a degree in Electrical Engineering. His areas of technical interest include 3D-printingtechnology, lean manufacturing techniques, and analog/RF circuit design. Among other things,he also enjoys cycling and reading in his spare time. In his career, he hopes to continue todevelop his leadership and engineering skills while working to make the world a better place inthe process.Samantha Fegely is also currently a sophomore at Raritan Valley Community College and willearn her Associate Degree in Business Administration in May 2018 and plans to major inMarketing for

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Khosro A. Shirvani, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

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elasticity of aluminum in Project 1 was 16%. For project 2, the minimum error inthe measurement of the shear modulus in project 2 was 5%. On the other hand, the maximumerror in the measurement of modulus of elasticity and shear modulus of aluminum in Project 1 andProject 2 were 73% and 21%, respectively. The feedback session identified factors that helpedstudent teams increase the repeatability and robustness of their testers and yielded a greatermeasurement accuracy.Throughout the DBT experience in the Solid Mechanics Lab, obtaining of some parts and materialsproved to be challenging, as the students were tempted to utilize sophisticated subsystems andcomponents in the design. As such, the advanced planning is critical. To further enhance