Conference Session

Technical Session 4a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Ruth E. Davis, Santa Clara University

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

evaluate theconstraints.”[1]Dr. Wm. A. Wulf, as President of the National Academy of Engineering, often spoke of theproblem of lack of diversity in engineering. He pointed to the need for a diversity of perspectiveand experience in order to avoid the opportunity loss of designs not considered, constraints notunderstood, processes not invented, and products not built. At the time Dr. Wulf wrote the quoteabove (1998), the percentages of women and minorities enrolled in engineering programs wasincreasing (very slowly, but the trends were in the right direction).Between 1998 and 2005, the trend was reversed; women’s enrollment peaked in 1999 at 19.8%and steadily decreased to just 17.2% in 2005. Table 1 charts the engineering enrollment bygender in

Conference Session

Technical Session 5c

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Deana R. Delp, Arizona State University

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

autism spectrum disorders. Intervention in School and Clinic, 42(5), 271-279.4. Nevill, R. E. A., & White, S. W. (2011). College students’ openness toward autism spectrum disorders: improving peer acceptance. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 1619-1628.5. Gobbo, K., & Shmulsky, S. (2014). Faculty experience with college students with autism spectrum disorders: a qualitative study of challenges and solutions. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 29(1), 13- 22.6. Hart, D., Grigal, M., & Weir, C. (2010). Expanding the paradigm: postsecondary education options for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities. Focus on Autism and Order

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Nashwa Nabil Elaraby, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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Diversity

parallel data computations, electronic circuit design, and neuronal data processing for Brain Machine Interface applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Detailed Lesson on Operational Amplifiers - Negative Feedback Nashwa Elaraby, Ph.D., Penn State HarrisburgAbstract: Operational Amplifiers present one of the important topics in electronic circuitscourses. Although they are widely taught, the model for the operational amplifiers with negativefeedback configuration is incomplete in most of the electronics textbooks1 2 3 4. The closed loopgain for the non-inverting amplifier is given as AoL/(1+βAoL)1, while the closed loop model forthe inverting amplifier is

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks ; Anuvrat Sheoran, Pennsylvania State University - Berks Campus

breach can cost a companybetween $90 and $305 per lost record, according to a study by Forrester Research.1 Notsurprisingly, cybersecurity tops the list of information technology priorities at manyorganizations. As a result, the rate of growth for jobs in information security is projected at 18%from 2014 to 2024, which is higher than the average job growth, according to the Bureau ofLabor Statistics.2 Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUTechnical skills required for cybersecurity jobs include incident response and management,firewall/router administration skills, OS analytics, intrusion detection, penetration testing, accessmanagement, web security, application security, malware prevention, and

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; AB Shafaye, Penn State Harrisburg

accreditation for the first time.IntroductionABET has a long history of accrediting engineering, engineering technology, applied science,and computing programs in the United States, and has been associated with quality educationthat seeks to assure that graduates of accredited programs are prepared for professional practice[1, 2]. In addition, graduation from an ABET-accredited program is a requirement for manyprofessional engineering licensing bodies. A recent report by the Center for American Progressstates “Unlike most institutional accreditors, ABET uses outcome measures to ensure thatstudents, employers, funding sources, and society can be confident that programs it accreditsmeet the quality standards to produce students who are prepared to enter

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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JIAJUN XU P.E., University of the District of Columbia

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Diversity

. Army Research office, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Geological Survey. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design and Development of a Portable Non-point Stormwater Runoff Collection and Treatment System Trinh Vu1, Robert Stephenson1, Tolessa Deksissa2, , Jiajun Xu1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the District of Columbia, DC 20008 USA 2 Water Resources Research Institute, University of the District of Columbia, DC 20008 USAAbstractWith the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Kee M Park, Queensborough Community College

Manufacturing Laboratory can serve the need to equip students to enter a competitiveworkforce with high technology skills, adaptability and critical thinking to accelerate in theirfields.A number of higher learning institutes have built undergraduate STEM facilities that incorporatethe unique attributes of teaching and research into a single academic center. One such example isa Monmouth College’s Center for Science and Business that incorporated multi-disciplinaryintegration of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, psychology, politicaleconomy, commerce, and accounting[1]. All the disciplines are located in one central buildingthat promotes innovative research, collaboration of departments, and the integration of thebusiness and

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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JIAJUN XU P.E., University of the District of Columbia

, PAOand new heat transfer fluids with significantly improved thermalproperties etc. 1-4 Nanoemulsion Future Studies 0.14 10

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Kenneth E. Dudeck P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

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Diversity

Outcome E in a Junior Level Circuit Analysis Course Using a Two Port Network Design Problem. By Kenneth E. Dudeck, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, Hazleton, PA 18202AbstractA major challenge in the education of engineers is to get student to develop criticalthinking skills. ABET[1] outcome E states that students should be able to “identify,formulate, and solve engineering problems”. Although a major amount of time in classis usually devoted to the process of solving engineering problems, not as much is allottedto the identification of a problem or the formulation of a unique solution to that

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Jose M Reyes Alamo, CUNY - New York City College of Technology; Yu Wang, The New York City College of Technology; Renata Budny, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

General Education and accreditedEngineering Technology fields by creating a framework for other disciplines to use as a model.We show the feasibility of this framework with data collected from the Department of ComputerEngineering Technology.KeywordsABET, Accreditation, Course Coordination, General Education.IntroductionThe New York City College of Technology (CityTech) is a senior college of the City Universityof New York (CUNY) with current enrollment of 17,282 students (63% full time, 37% part-time)and 1,512 faculty members (414 full-time, 1,098 part-time)1. CityTech is composed of threeschools: School of Professional Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Technologyand Design. The College experienced 50% growth in past 12 years

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

presence in an online classroom environment such as discussionforums, chat logs, web-based meetings, virtual class rooms, enforced sequential viewing of lecturevideos, and virtual class meetings, can all be used to enhance learner’s engagement andperformance in an online environment. Bull (2014)1 suggests adding an element to online coursesin which students are required to conduct an activity, and then discuss the results. Suggestions forthese activities include face-to-face interviews with professionals in a relevant industry,observations of actions in the natural world or a professional environment, service learningactivities, and capturing and sharing relevant photo and video footage from their area. Accordingto Woods and Bliss (2016)2, these

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Mark Clement Joseph Thom, Howard University

pioneer of project method in education, described to the PBL strategyand its effectiveness as “learning as wholehearted doing” [1]. A critical enabler in the PBL andsimilar concepts such as discovery learning, learning-by-doing, and problem-based learning isthe fact that such teaching techniques can exploit the curiosity and the sense of mastery andself-determination in students [2]. In a recent review, Thomas suggested some criteria for whata project must have to be considered an example of the PBL [3]. It was stated that PBL projectsi) are central to the curriculum, ii) are focused on questions or problems that push students toencounter the central concepts, ii) involve students in a scientific inquiry, iv) are highly student-driven, and v) are

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peibo Guo, Conestoga High School; Kail Jialang Yuan; Zuyi Huang, Villanova University

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Diversity

Peibo Guo1, Kail J. Yuan2, Zuyi (Jacky) Huang3 1. Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA, 19312 2. Radnor High School, Villanova, PA 19085 3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Villanova, PA, 19085Abstract: USA high-school students are falling behind their peers from other countries such asFinland and Korea in their mathematical performance. Solving ordinary differential equations(ODEs) is especially challenging to USA high-school and college students. It is thus necessary tore-generate the momentum of inspiring or stimulating high-school students to participate in moremath-related trainings or projects. In this work, we developed the first version of a web-basedtraining approach to

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Lei Wang, University of the District of Columbia

used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the program. The pile is a Pipe Pile – Close Endwith an outer diameter of 324 mm and the top of pile at 1 meter below the ground surface. Thegroundwater table is set at 1 meter below the ground surface. The boring log shows the soillayers composed by a stiff clay on the top 14 m and a dense, silty fine to medium dense sandfrom depth 14 m to 30 m (boring ends at the depth of 30 m). The soil parameters for each layersare given based on the laboratory testing results. Figure 1. Model Input for Soil Properties of Driven Piles ProgramBased on the given information from the example, the soil layers can be easily defined andvisualized using the Driven Piles program as shown in the Figure 1. The soil

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Eileen Haase PhD, Johns Hopkins University

students’ choosing. Each of the four mandatory modules are typically presented to students inan open-ended manner. There are videos with background information and some essential factsand equations posted on Blackboard, however, the goal of the course is not to have studentsfollow a detailed protocol to obtain specific values, but rather to design their own experimentalprotocol. The TAs and lab managers review and approve the protocol prior to the start of eachexperiment. The five modules are listed in Table 1 below. Table 1: Five Freshmen Modules Module GoalHuman Efficiency Calculate Human Efficiency by measuring output (exercise) and inputModel

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Monique H. Head, Morgan State University

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Diversity

thefuture materialization of an architect’s creative thought is an information chain, which finishes atthe building site by the realization of the building. Maturing thought crystallization is evidentalso in the educational process and this is determined by the level (intellect) of students, as wellas teachers [1]. In courses such as Statics, a fundamental engineering course which manyarchitecture students find to be difficult [2-4] is an opportunity to teach fundamentals andintegrate how engineers and architects work together. The difficulty has resulted in architecturestudents to perform poorly in Statics and other follow-on courses [5-6], which consequently hasoften discouraged students. On the other hand, studies on engineering students

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

continued growth of their critical thinking skill. A recent complaint bya Stanford professor on the Edge.org blog and Huffington Post said “All the mathematicalmethods I learned in my university math degree became obsolete in my lifetime” 1, 2. Aprofessor with physics education research interest, Rhett Allain of Southeastern LouisianaUniversity, advocated the use of numerical calculation in introductory physics instruction onMarch 4 2017 via social media 3. A natural extension to include a flexible programminglanguage, Python 4, has been demonstrated with examples which include the crashing of anasteroid into the Sun via a spaceship momentum transfer process 5, 6, three body collisionproblem 7, video game analysis 8, etc. These two proclamations

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College

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Diversity

work onphysics applications on students’ conceptual understanding, problem-solving ability and attitudeson physics and physics learning. Students spent time in groups outside of class exploring physicsapplications they encounter. We used students’ class tests, final exams, concept inventories andattitudinal surveys to evaluate the impact.Methods: In this study we used two different PH 201 sections of approximately 24 students ineach. One section, control group, received instructions using traditional lectures and recitations.Students in the other section divided into 5 groups with 4-5 students in each group. One of thetopics in mechanics such as 1-D kinematics, projectile motion, Newton’s laws, Momentum,Work-energy , was assigned to

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Pamela Ann Brown, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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Diversity

studentsoverpassed those of students from New York State and the country. We believe that this is apractical course model can be easily replicated by programs with the same interest.I. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a high-impact practice leading to student success, engagement,interest in higher education, and skills development [1] [2]. There are two well-known modelsfor incorporating research experiences in a program: Undergraduate Research Experiences(UREs) and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) [3]. UREs representthe apprentice model. They feature individual students in faculty research laboratories andprovide the opportunity for one-on-one mentoring. On the other hand, CUREs are embedded intothe curriculum and are available

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vasudeva Rao Aravind, Clarion University; Kevin D Croyle, Clarion University Of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

computer based tutor deployed in their classroom,was expected to fill that gap. The population of 26 students was provided 30 problems to besolved in the classroom. The instructor was available in the class for the students to ask questionsor solve technical issues, if any.A screenshot of the tutor screen provided to the students is shown in figure 1. The left panel onthe tutor consisted of a summary of all the rotational kinematic equations of motion. The studentswere expected to use these to solve for the unknown variable provided on the right panel. If astudent has trouble solving the problem, he/she can request a hint by clicking on the ‘hint’button. The student can indicate that they are done with the problem by entering the value of

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUrespond to customer critical comments on performance. The goal was to give students authentichands-on product development and project execution experience to relate to potential internshipand professional employers.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring Mechanical Dissection asa learning tool [5].The current “Illuminated Umbrella” project is a continuation of the pilot “Authentic

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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Diversity

College-CUNY Dr. Rex Taibu has taught studio physics classes for several years. His teaching experience has shaped his research focus. Currently, Dr. Taibu is actively engaged in 1) promoting scientific inquiry attitudes in students through designing, implementing, and assessing in- novative inquiry based physics labs. 2) conducting research regarding the role of language in conceptual understanding. 3) exploring cosmic rays (detection, data collection, and analysis).Mr. George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community CollegeProf. Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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David RB Kraemer, Johns Hopkins University

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Diversity

writing data to the SD card.ResultsStudents used filtering operations, such as the 3-point moving-average filterdemonstrated in class, to smooth noisy data. Acceleration data can be numericallyintegrated to calculate the velocity (given an initial velocity), and the velocity data can be Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUintegrated to get position data. An example is shown in Figure 1, where straight-lineacceleration of an airport tram was measured. These data were integrated to get avelocity time history, and integrated again to get a position time history. The totaldistance traveled by the tram was then compared to an estimate of the length of the tramtrack

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Michael Mehari Shiferaw, Morgan State University; Sagar Sathyanarayanan, JSS solutions; Ravin Jajistar, JSS Solutions LLC

. This includes mathematical symbols and formulae. Rruns on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems including FreeBSD, Linux,Windows and MacOS. R is available as a free software under the terms and conditions of GNUlicense in its source code form. R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation andgraphical display. Its applications include: • (1)Effective data handling, (2) Storage facility, (3) Graphical facilities for data analysis and display (hardcopy or on screen-display),(4) A suite of operators for calculations on arrays, (5) Coherent, integrated collection of tools for data analysis, (6) Simple and effective programming language

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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

-being of human life. The above have been substantiated in the paper by the first author throughher undergraduate research experience in geotechnical engineering. Lastly, incorporatingundergraduate research into the curriculum will expand students’ network of professionals,consequently facilitating the connection of the classroom studies with the industry. This displaysthem with a broad prospective of topics, challenges, and innovative research that they can relateto and work to resolve.I. IntroductionResearch is defined as: 1. a careful or diligent search; 2. investigation or experimentation aimedat the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light ofnew facts, or practical application of such new or

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

expectation and a range of emotions 1. What will thiscourse be life? What am I going to learn? Is this going to be boring? Subsequently, as instructorsaccording to McClure (2015)1, if we want our students to learn effectively we must createconditions that promote intrinsic motivation. Various researchers have studied and tried to identifythose factors that contribute to student motivation1. While intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and socialopportunities play a part, the thing that motivates most learners is the usefulness of the informationand its potential for impacting others2. According to Hoyt and Lee (2002)3, research has shownthat students’ initial motivation to take the course, regardless of who taught it, is an importantpredictor of student

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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

nonlinear explicit dynamicanalysis for investigation of high-intensity and short-duration blast effects on structures using afully coupled interaction technique between computational fluid and structural dynamics.To engage undergraduate students in the research, the main strategies to overcome the challengesdiscussed in Section 1 are composed of the following steps:  Summer research by faculty  Undergraduate research course for credit  Hiring undergraduate students for research  Presenting and publishing research outcomes2.1 Summer Research by FacultySummer break is typically the best time to make most significant progress in research. There isno interruption by teaching assignments, but continuous and significant amount of time to

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Trent J. Williams; Kyle Shuman E. Shuman; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

of a total of 52 questions. The background section consisted of 17questions and the knowledge portion totaled 35 questions. The questionnaire, which was in anencrypted link, was emailed to students located in the multiple campuses of a large university inthe Northeastern U.S. A total of 424 undergraduate engineering students (after eliminating thenon-complete responses) completed the survey. The range of students’ academic year standingincluded: 153 freshmen, 122 sophomores, 91 juniors, and 58 seniors as shown in Fig. 1. Of thesestudents 332 were male and 92 were female. The respondents had multiple ethnicities as shownin Fig. 2. All participants took the survey at their leisure within a prescribed period of time

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I - Skills Development

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2017 ASEE International Forum

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Daniel Christe, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

for open-ended STEAMchallenges created by the community, for the community to empower learners around the world.IntroductionBy 2050, global population is projected to reach ten billion, with 80% of the population living in cities,requiring twice as much energy compared to today’s civilization(1). Challenges such as creating anabundance of future of energy, water, and food belong are termed “wicked” problems(2), that requiretransdisciplinary collaborative approaches to address. However, many structural elements of the modernuniversity(3) (departments, grades, professional disciplines) were established to meet the needs of industryat the dawn of the industrial age, a time period when the average human life expectancy(4) wasapproximately forty