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criterion includes attainment of studentoutcomes, and continuous improvement. ABET’s Criterion 4, states the following2: “The program must regularly use appropriate, documented processes for assessing and evaluating the extent to which student outcomes are being attained. The results of these evaluations must be systemically utilized as input for the continuous improvement of the program.”Note the emphasis on assessment, documented process, attainment, and continuousimprovement.To achieve the ABET mandate for engineering programs, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy(USCGA) has adopted an assessment process as described by Colella3 and diagramed in Figure1. The process shown in Figure 1 describes the following: (a) Department review

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2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceHow to Make Our Syllabus Mor e Effective to Student’ s L ear ning Exper ience By Md. M. Rashid, P.E.1, and Mahbub Ahmed2AbstractSyllabus provides basic course related information to students, and creates a first impressionabout an instructor and his or her attitudes toward teaching. A syllabus is seen as an agreementthat serves as a “ virtual handshake” between an instructor and students regarding mutual rightsand responsibilities. Research indicates that a traditional syllabus contains checklists of itemsthat provide basic information such as course goals, course requirements, grading, schedule andso on. The existing literature contains many of

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1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencewidely used undergraduate EM textbook that includes a good introduction of antenna theory.The classic antennas book by Krauss presents an in depth theory of antennas. Silver11 coverspractical antenna theory and practical projects for the practitioner.Portable Analyzer to Enhance the Laboratory ExperienceIn this section we will describe the various experiments that have been done using the portableanalyzer.A. Antenna radiation patternAs already stated, the portable analyzer has the capacity to both generate and receive an RFsignal. Thus we can measure the radiation pattern of the test or prototype

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, validations.IntroductionThe United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) like many institutions around the worldenhances the control systems course with a laboratory for undergraduate Electrical Engineeringstudents. Computer Control Systems is a 3.5 credit hours course in which students meet in thelaboratory every other week. Many students have requested to develop additional laboratory forthis course based on hands on experience to apply the concepts and theorems from the classroomlectures to applications. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceOne of the challenges

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Bo Tao; Gloria Ma

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference CAN WE USE A MATLAB APPLICATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTPERFORMANCE ON TRIGONOMETRY OF 3-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR PROBLEM SOLVING? Frank Caserta, Jr.1, James McCusker2, Bo Tao1 and Gloria Ma1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology Wentworth Institute of Technology Abstract3-Dimensional vectors are a basic concept for electrical and mechanical engineering andcomputer science students. To improve the performance of

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students’ comprehension of physics concepts and problemsolving skills. Many published findings on physics education research cannot be generalized tothe entire student body of the country. Depending on students’ educational background andexperience, teaching techniques and methods should be modified. For example, even though thetopics covered and textbooks used by many universities to teach college physics are the same,teaching methods successful in a highly ranked university may not work at a community collegesetting. The general aim of this study is to find teaching methods that improve physics learningof community college level students. 1

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. Annually forthe past three years, Northeastern has selected students who are taking advanced mathematicscourses in high school to participate in the ECE. The ECE has offered participating students theopportunity to take the freshman Engineering Design course at Northeastern University and toreceive tutoring and support for the Advanced Placement (AP) calculus course they are taking intheir high school. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceBackgroundCourse DescriptionThe Engineering Design at Northeastern University is a 4-credit freshman

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-roundedindividuals while also pursuing deep technical knowledge in their engineering education. Inaddition to this challenge, undergraduate-focused schools require faculty members or adjunctinstructors to teach laboratory courses, due to a lack of graduate students, which limits theavailability of such courses. One possible solution to this issue is to institute a mixed learninglaboratory approach, in which eight lecture periods throughout the semester are replaced with in-class studio laboratory exercises and larger take-home lab projects are assigned to encouragestudents to refine skills by applying skills learned through in class lab assignments4. 1

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2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Designing a Scalable Mechanical Engineering Freshman Year Experience for Relevant and Engaging Hands-On Experiences David Willisa and Jeremy Vaillantb a. Assistant Professor, U. Massachusetts Lowell1 1/ b. Graduate Student, U. of Massachusetts LowellAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation and results of a new Mechanical EngineeringFreshman Year Experience course being offered at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thenew course integrates meaningful hands-on experiences using inexpensive desktop CNC ma-chines, core concepts laboratories, Matlab programming and communications. The two

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

for EngineeringEducation (ASEE)[1]: learning in small groups, active learning, cooperative learning, project-based learning, contest oriented project approach, team/collaborative teaching, etc [2,4,5,6,7,8]. Forundergraduate engineering technology programs accredited by ETAC/ABET[3], graduates mustdemonstrate abilities satisfying ABET criteria. When faculty design and teach courses, we needto incorporate ABET criteria by applying effective teaching strategies. The ComputerEngineering Technology Baccalaureate (CEB) program at the New York City College ofTechnology (NYCCT) of the City University of New York (CUNY) follows 2+2 model (AASdegree + BTech degree). This technology degree program has an open-access mission. Studentsenter with

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Jeffrey R. Mountain

EvaluationIntroductionA substantial part of any EAC-ABET self-study report and on site evaluation is devoted toCriterion 3 - Student Outcomes and the assessment of Criterion 3 as a part of Criterion 4 -Continuous Improvement. Although the Criterion 3 heading has changed over the years, fromProgram Outcomes to Student Outcomes, the outcome statements themselves have remainedunchanged since the 2010-2011 criteria 1-3. During the on-site review, program evaluators willtend to focus on areas that cannot be verified by the self-study report. While many of the student 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

providing more depthinto management, ethics, entrepreneurship, business communications and financial management.Chinowsky argues that this will establish a professional knowledge base that will be capable ofresponding to both technical and managerial issues. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceInformation literacy is infused throughout the civil engineering curriculum, including theConstruction Project Management course, to ensure that students not only develop the requiredcommunication skills but also identify the need for life-long learning3. In

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Sigrid Berka

international researchopportunities, international internships, attribute of a global engineerGlobal Engineering Education ContextThe need to educate globally competent engineers to meet the demands of the global engineeringprofession and market and the challenge to come up with related curricular reform has beenemphasized by engineering educators 1, engineering societies 2, accreditation agencies 3 andglobally operating companies 4 for many years. At the ASEE 2014 annual conference inIndianapolis, a workshop 5 led by Steven Hundley and Lynn Brown summarized the concertedefforts and outcomes of several years of research by the American Society for EngineeringEducation’s Corporate Member Council, reflecting the voice of industry to define “TheAttributes

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alone withoutbooks or references is free to feel piqued.Voice implies in autonomy, a concept which goes beyond the act of speaking and asking in theclassroom, although even these quotidian activities may be repressed via complex processes Being the translation from the Portuguese of a part of a book in preparation 1. A “ When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”which by reasons connected to my cultural inheritance I am not capable of comprehending. Thestudent needs to learn to talk about the subject with his own voice. This is as true in supposedlyimpersonal subjects typically studied by engineers as anywhere else. The minimal pre-requisite issimply talking — or writing. Its opposite is the unidirectional

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Michael J. Davidson

curriculum, the courses currently offeredto students focusing in structural engineering are shown in Table 1: 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceTable 1-Institute's Undergraduate Structural Engineering Courses Course CreditCourse Title Lecture Lab Hours CIVE Junior Year Structural Analysis 3

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, introductory Computer Applications for Engineering course in the freshmanyear does not alone achieve this educational objective. We believe objective k is only achieved byfour-year vertical integration of computer applications as engineering tools. But this is challengingin practice, as engineering courses are already packed with essential technical material and anyencumbrance to delivering this material is unwelcome. The classical mechanics course(Dynamics) described in this paper is an effort to satisfy the two conflicting goals of building skillswhile maintaining content. Other authors1,2 have cataloged the challenges of achieving thisobjective. 1

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Naser M. Alajmi; Khaled M. Elleithy

surveillance, and object tracking. The battlefield 1 © Amer ican Society for Engineer ing Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer encemonitors utilized in military operations have prompted the development of WSNs. In medicalapplications, sensors assist in patient diagnosis and monitoring. Applications are deployed tomonitor an area and then react when a sensitive factor is recorded3. There are also some potentialapplications such as environmental monitoring, factory instrumentation and inventory tracking.Selective For war ding AttackThere are several types of attacks that exist in WSNs. Most

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were given abreak. Next, they were instructed to relax and meditate about things that were occuring in theirown lives. Finally, they were asked to do math problems again. Each participant wore a device tomonitor the participants’ brain signals at all times. Using the results, we will be comparing thebrain signals, as well as the time taken with solving problems before and after the meditation.HardwareThe hardware that’ s used in this study: Windows 7 pro as the PC’ s operating system installed ona powerful machine with Intel Core i7 CPU and 16 GB of memory, and Figure 1: BioRadiowireless device (USER UNIT). Figure 2: The metal electro wires attached to the participant’ scerebral cortex on the surface without any open wounds. They connected to

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Ashwag G. Battarjee

1 © Amer ican Society for Engineer ing Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer enceusing lean methods. Lastly, the services must be equitable as this ensures that there are nodisparities in the quality of services to different people. The healthcare facilities and services canbe improved globally through quality improvement. This is done through a number of strategieswhich guarantee the patients safety and prevent the occurrence of new diseases.This report focuses on strategies that improve global health though quality improvement. Thepaper identifies the main strategies used to improve health care quality through a systematicliterature review of the current publications in

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are highly correlated withthe quality of the data inputted into the model.The proposed DEA approach calculates the efficiency and performance levels of 20 independentfranchise stores (DMUs). In this regard, various qualitative and quantitative data have beencollected for each franchise operating in the fast food industry. In order to provide a detailedanalysis, various DEA models were utilized to measure the stores’ performances from differentperspectives.Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis, Benchmarking, Service Engineering, PerformanceMeasurement. 1. IntroductionThe concepts of productivity and efficiency have always been and will be vitally important in thecompetitive business environments, where limited resources exists. Contemporarily

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access to different modes of thinking whichhelps to control frustration1.When people are attempting to figure something out, they usuallyassociate things that are familiar to them. Neuroscientists have detected that the diluted mode is 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencemost powerful when the brain determines a new strategy with an unknown scenario. This modeof thinking changes the brain from relaxation to frustration status2. Psychologists confirm thatthe brain can analyze any sudden situation. The brain then gives better performance if it

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Prerana Pal Karmokar; Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry; Elif Kongar

cancelled beforecompletion while too many others exceed their budgets, are completed beyond their target dates,or lack the expected quality. Therefore there is strong need for a project management softwarethat aid to overcome all the above-mentioned challenges. This paper would state the use of theAnalytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in order to determine the appropriate project managementsoftware for any organization according to a set of criteria obtained as a result of thecomprehensive literature review. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section

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Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Khaled M. Elleithy

of schemes are difficult to detect 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceby the steganalytical detectors. The security of the steganography scheme depends directly on theembedding efficiency6. Second, a high embedding payload means that the capacity of secretinformation to be hidden inside host data is large. These two factors, embedding efficiency andembedding payload, contradict one another. Once, the data embedding efficiency is increased,the data embedding payload is decreased. These two factors will change depending on the

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Linfeng Zhang

the current-voltage curves in the two modes.Therefore, the simulator can be widely used to replace a real PV module for the development ofMPPT converters and inverters.Key words: renewable energy, PV module, maximum power point tracker, converter, inverter1. Introduction PV module price has fallen 75% to below $1/w since 2008 [1, 2]. There are over 17,500MW of cumulative solar electric capacity operating in the U.S., enough to power more than 3.5million average American homes, 36%, over 49,000 installations, of all new electric capacity isfrom solar in Q3 2014. It means that a new solar project has been installed every 3 minutes. Thegrowth of solar industry boosts the economy and creates 174,000 jobs in the U.S. [3]. As a partof PV

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1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceand research universities. This provides the basis for a comprehensive analysis of thecommunity.Problem StatementCurrent hurricane models are mostly predictive in nature; they are designed to provide data fortypical damage that could be inflicted given the size and intensity of the storm. For students toexamine the damage to residential structures an evaluative statistical model is needed to analyzethe various elements of a hurricane incident and the physical makeup of the affected community.The model provides students with the opportunity to collect data, perform statistical analysis, anddevelop

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materials and the cost savings.To reduce the installation costs of domestic solar water heater (DSWH) inventive people aretuning to constructing their own systems using many different materials and methods. Inconducting an internet search of available designs, there are 830,000 posted. There are designsthat emulate production systems. These designs utilize innovative solutions at a fraction of thecost, enticing the constructing of systems. The cost effectiveness of constructing a DSWHsystem recues the initial installation cost and the reduction of energy consumption making thestructure 1 © American Society for Engineering

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Mahbub K. Ahmed; Kendra J. Ahmed; Md. M. Rashid; Scott McKay

1 Students’ Opinions on Online Assessments in an Introductory Engineering Course Mahbub K. Ahmed1, Kendra J. Ahmed2, Md. M. Rashid3, Scott McKay4Abstract—Online education tools and course assessment tools available in web-based software like Blackboard have been becoming amore and more popular supplementation to traditional face-to-face classroom instruction. An example of these tools is Blackboard'sassessment features that provide instructors with tools for building online assessments using different question types and differentquestion options. The purpose

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Lynn Byers; Corey Kiassat; Justin Kile

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A. Adebayo; E. Ososanya; W. Mahmoud; L. Thompson; S. Haghani; D. Shetty; Naresh Poudel; Ebenezer Acheampong; Batireedui Janjin; Niraj Khanal; Bhuwan Thapa; Bishal Khanal

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Junling Hu; Ruoxu Jia; Xiao Huang; Xingguo Xiong; Kai-tak Wan

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of Water Droplet Impingement on a Wax Surface Junling Hu*1, Ruoxu Jia1, Xiao Huang2, Xingguo Xiong3, Kai-tak Wan2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA 2 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 USA 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA *jjhu@bridgeport.eduAbstractThe impact of droplets on solid surfaces is important for a