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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Osman Yasar, State University of New York, Brockport; Jose Maliekal, State University of New York, Brockport; Peter Veronesi, State University of New York, Brockport; Leigh J. Little, State University of New York, Brockport

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

practices and crosscutting concepts todeepen understanding of content as well as cognitive processes that permeate the fields ofboth science and engineering. These recommended practices are listed below.27 1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 2. Developing and using models 3. Planning and carrying out investigations 4. Analyzing and interpreting data 5. Using mathematics and computational thinking 6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering) 7. Engaging in argument from evidence 8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating informationClearly, one of the principals of science and engineering education is to cultivate

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Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaclyn K. Murray, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

encompass threeessential components of creative performance (CoCP): 1) domain-relevant skills, 2) creativity-relevant processes, and 3) task motivation, embedded within an individual’s social environment.The level of proficiency with the three components of creative performance affects the outcomeof the creative process. Robust domain-relevant skills and knowledge, as defined by adiscipline’s community of practice, includes facts, routine procedures, and special techniquesunique to the discipline. For example, a knowledge of Newton’s laws, an ability to solve routinestatics and deformable bodies problems, and skill for computer-aided design software arenecessary for designing a cantilever beam to support a 600 square-foot flag flying from the top

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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony McClary, New Mexico State University, College of Engineering; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Steven J. Stochaj, New Mexico State University; Luis Antonio Vazquez Ph.D., New Mexico State University; Karen Trujillo, New Mexico State University ; John Kulpa, New Mexico State University; Germain Degardin, New Mexico State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

program for high school students— NM PREP Academy—had a measurable effecton student confidence (a subcomponent of self-efficacy) and content knowledge. We also aimedto gain a greater understanding of how similar short-term intervention programs could be used toincrease interest, participation, and persistence in STEM-related careers, as well as to understandwhich specific portions of the program were most closely related to the students’ gains in eitherknowledge or confidence. Our research questions were as follows:1. Did the confidence and/or content knowledge of the students change as a result of engagement in the pre-engineering program?2. Was there a relation between changes in student confidence and knowledge?3. Was there a relation

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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College Chicago

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #17782Scientists for Tomorrow - A Self-Sustained Initiative to Promote STEM inOut-of-School Time Frameworks in Under-served Community-Based Orga-nizations: Evaluation and Lessons LearnedMr. Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College Chicago Marcelo Caplan - Associate Professor, Department of Science and Mathematics, Columbia College Chicago. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am involved in the outreach programs and activities of the department. I am the coordinator of three outreach programs 1) the NSF-ISE project ”Scientists for To- morrow” which goal is to promote Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Rokooei, University of Nebraska, Lincoln at Omaha; James D. Goedert Ph.D., P.E., University of Nebraska, Durham; Asregedew Kassa Woldesenbet, University of Nebraska, Lincoln at Omaha

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Construction

. Thus, Group A, whichhad prior knowledge, included senior and junior construction students while Group B mostlyconsisted of freshman students. The majority of both groups were male students (93%).Previous Virtual Learning Experience:Previous encounters with virtual learning or educational simulation applications can influencestudents’ perceptions about the impact and capabilities of simulations and help them to embracethese tools rapidly. Although a majority of both groups did not have previous experience withsimulation applications, Group B indicated more unfamiliarity, as shown in Table 1. Table 1: Previous virtual learning experience Previous Experience with Virtual Learning and Simulation

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eddie Rivera Olivencia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Jose L. Perdomo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Antonio A. Gonzalez-Quevedo P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Construction

Implementation Survey Development Figure 1: Research Methodology Phases(Rivera Olivencia and Lopez del Puerto 2016)professionals. Once the interviews phase was completed and the data gathered was analyzed theauthors went on the field and conducted a survey to construction workers in different sitesaround the island. These results assisted the authors on the development of the training module.For the first phase the authors targeted safety managers, safety directors, supervisors andcoordinators for this phase. Health and Safety Specialists from Puerto Rico OSHA were alsocontacted to participate in the interviews. The participants were divided in two groups;Construction Company Managers (CCMs) and PR

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

)composed of academic and industry leaders, leaders from ABET and the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) was chartered to advise on how to increase flexibility in theengineering accreditation criteria while maintaining a strong emphasis on educational qualityand to recommend ways to facilitate recruitment of outstanding engineers from industry andeducation to lead the ABET accreditation process. The committee identified three major barriersto change: 1) excessively long, prescriptive and detailed accreditation criteria, 2) a complicatedand user-unfriendly evaluation system, and 3) difficulty attracting technically active mid-careerprofessionals. ABET with support from the National Science Foundation convened consensus-building workshops

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faisal Aqlan, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Yuan-Han Huang, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); E. George Walters III P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Osama T. Al Meanazel, The Hashemite University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

involves gathering of customer requirements, identifying productspecifications, generating design concepts, evaluating the designs, and selecting the best design.Results show that students’ design skills can be greatly enhanced by integrating the two courses.1. IntroductionInterdisciplinarity is becoming a critical issue for teaching design skills1. Integrating EngineeringDesign courses with Manufacturing and Ergonomic courses can effectively enhance students’design skills. Aligning product design and manufacturing education with market needs isimportant to overcome the skills gap and other challenges faced by students2. Moreover,ergonomic consideration is crucial for product design and development in today’s global market.Ergonomics, which is the

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Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Molly H. Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Joanne Lax, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

: Returners, writing transfer, industry, graduate programs, academic writingIntroductionAlthough the majority of new engineering graduate students are recent university graduates,there is a small contingent that comes from several years in industry. Some want or needadditional education in their field, and others may be pursuing new interests. In recent years,there have been several studies on “returners” in engineering graduate programs, defined byPeters & Daly as those graduate students who, after receiving their bachelor’s degree, work forfive years or more before pursuing a graduate degree.1 In fact, one study suggested that returningto pursue a graduate degree after about five years in industry is optimal timing.2In another study, ten

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

decide for an alternative that is notaligned with those ethical principles and values.A formal justification for the need to incorporate ethics in engineering curricula can be made byreferencing ABET, which requires “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global andsocietal context” (ABET, 2007, p. 1). Informally, two examples can set the ground.Example 1: Challenger. In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated during launch,instantly killing its crew. Assessment of failure root cause, led to concluding that launch wasapproved despite the predicted operating temperature for one of its components (the O-ring) wasgoing to be -3 degree C

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie R. Metzinger, Purdue University; Jessica Anderson Cabral, Purdue University; Bradley Louis Benhart, Purdue University; Patti Morgan, Purdue University; Scott Douglas Santon, Purdue University

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Construction

thinking skills in order to apply construction knowledge in a holistic, sustainable manner. Summarizing and expanding upon the UN’s learning outcomes, Lozano, Ceulemans, &Scarff Seatter, (2015) developed four learning outcomes for SDE specifically related to corporateorganizations: 1. Understand organizations, their elements, and their attitudes, and how they influence and contribute to sustainability; 2. Understand the different types of change and how they can be managed in the corporate sustainability context; 3. Be able to recognize drivers, barriers to change, and strategies to overcome the barriers in a sustainability context within the organization; and 4. Critically reflect on

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yilei Huang, South Dakota State University

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Construction

project to demonstrate the use of BIM in various CM subjects11, 12.The CM program at Arizona State University offered Introduction to BIM as a 1-credit computerapplication course to teach the concept of BIM process and applications of BIM software6. Theprogram further offered a 1-credit BIM lab to accompany the CM capstone course ProjectManagement. The BIM lab covered a range of BIM-related CM topics including site logisticsvisualization, model-based estimating, 4D scheduling, and clash detection using a variety ofcommercial packages such as Revit, Navisworks, SketchUp, Bluebeam Revu, and DESTINIProfiler. The capstone course itself also incorporated BIM contents on developing a BIMExecution Plan7.The CM program at University of Texas at San

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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership; Michael D. Boatright, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

national conferences and is in the works to publish academic articles. He has also served on various educational committees and is currently working on a PhD in Literacy Education and Leadership. His life-long educational goal is to get students reading and interacting with a book to gain deeper levels of understanding about the text, their world, and themselves. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 1 Native Spanish-Speaking Adolescents’ Information Gathering Processes While Solving Problems through Engineering (Fundamental)In order to produce viable engineering designs

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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nora Honken, University of Cincinnati; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

DescriptionThe Work Systems Design course at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus,provides junior-level students their first formal design experience in the IE ProgramCurriculum. The course prepares students in work systems design where human beings playan important role. This is accomplished through the alignment of systems, jobs, products andenvironmental conditions to the characteristics and human abilities to achieve mental andphysical well-being. The expected course outcomes include: (1) application of designstrategies for work systems design, (2) design of products, workstations and systems usingdata and design principles, (3) evaluation of the physiological requirements of a task, (4)identification of occupational risk factors, and (5

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pranshoo Solanki P.E., Illinois State University

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Construction

evaluated through the course evaluation and surveyquestionnaire. The specific survey questions are as follows:Q-1 Green Concrete project helped you in understanding sustainability concepts.Q-2 Hands-on-activities through Green Concrete project increased student participation andimproved student learning in this course.Q-3 In the future, this course should continue Green Concrete project.Q-4 Green Concrete project presentation and report improved your learning in this course.Q-5 I am able to accurately define what is meant by sustainable design practice in constructionprojects.Q-6 The lessons in this course provided me with an awareness of sustainable design practices.Q-7 I tried to relate material covered in lecture(s) to group project assignment.Q

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Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chi-Ning Chang, Texas A&M University, Department of Educational Psychology; Brandie Semma, Texas A&M University; Debra A. Fowler, Texas A&M University; Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University

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Graduate Studies

system level arecreated. In view of this, the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White Housereleased the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) in 2011 [1], which indicates that the traditionalmaterials development cycle is not the most optimal approach to addressing the lack oftechnology-enabling materials; instead, the better way to accelerate the discovery anddevelopment of materials is by the synergistic combination of experiments and simulationswithin an informatics framework [2].This aspiration needs significant workforce development as the next generation of scientists andengineers should be able to connect materials data to better-informed materials synthesis andcomputational analysis, and use engineering design methods for the

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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James J. Scire Jr., New York Institute of Technology

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

1 devised a clever way to involve freshman engineering students in designthrough the design/redesign of paper clips. Using minimal resources and with minimalprerequisites, students were exposed to the compromises involved in the design of a real product 1 .In another example, Latcha and Oakley 2 describe a Capstone course where students design andconstruct toys or games. This course exposes students to the severe economic constraints oneffective toys and gives them the opportunity to have their designs presented to industry.Both of these project examples involve teaching practices that are recognized throughout thegreater community of educators as high-impact practices 3 . Design project work, especially withconstruction, requires that

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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

development, and fuel cell technology. He was instrumental to the development of hundreds of new inventions and intellectual properties for many local industries and inventors.Daniel Weinman, Farmingdale State College Mechanical Engineering Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Enhancing Freshman Learning Experience in Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) Through Applied Learning Experiences: Connecting the Dots Gonca Altuger-Genc1, Yue (Jeff) Hung1, Daniel Weinman1 1 Farmingdale State CollegeAbstractEngineering design is an integral part of the freshman learning experience in

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

participate in the survey, a 2-point incentive was offered on their final grade. In theend, a total of 28 out of 39 surveys were successfully received.The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete. Thequestionnaire was carefully crafted so that only important questions regarding lab environment,simulation tools, and designed labs, were included. The first part of the questionnaire dealt withthe lab environment. The second section concerned with Packet Tracer. The last section focusedon Riverbed Modeler. The types of questions included in the survey were Likert-scale and open-ended questions.Figure 1 showed the survey result of lab environment, which revealed that a large majority ofrespondents expressed a

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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

, according to a 2016 July Money Magazine”Value of College” survey.KeywordsRandom sequence analysis, mRNA sequence data, NASA SDO data, NR2F2 gene.IntroductionThe mixing of noise and signal is a fact in science and whether it is possible to extract usefulinformation from the noise component is an issue of particular interest. A well-known 2016example is in the detection of gravitational wave with substantial noise 1. The recent discovery ofa 4-exoplanet system in tau-Ceti is another example 2. Our community college has a NSF- REUprogram that offers research opportunities for community college engineering and science studentsin the New York Tristate area. Among our various REU projects, the extraction of informationand facts from data mining of random

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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

Society for Engineering Education, 2017 FiERCE: Empowering Girls in Engineering Through Role-Models and Mentoring Laura A. Bayerle1, Dr. Marietta R. Scanlon2 1 St. Ignatius Loyola Regional School, West Lawn, PA 2 Division of Engineering, Penn State BerksAbstractLeveraging current research indicating that the presence of mentors and role-models areinstrumental to the recruitment and retention of females in engineering, the primary purpose ofthis study was to examine the effect of role-models and mentors on the attitudes and self-confidence of middle school girls towards engineering. Participants were cohorts of middleschool aged females, paired with Penn State University (PSU) female undergraduate

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

in the following.Day 1: In the morning session, the participants were introduced to the field of cyber security usingseveral short videos and discussions. Afterwards, the Collaborative Virtual Computer Laboratorywas introduced, and the students were shown how to log onto their individual accounts and accessto their Windows 7 and Backtrack virtual machines. In addition, the participants were introducedto the command prompt and basic networking commands. Netcat was used in order tocommunicate over the network and allowed students to create files and share them with each otherthrough the network.Day 2: The morning of day 2 was focused on informing the students on not only what the differentprotocols are, but also what their importance is 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

Community College (RVCC)Authentic Engineering Experience Team of three engineering and one computer science studentsophomores received a request from a Customer, an avid backpacker, for a tent light whichprovides readable light for two people for thirty minutes without the use of batteries. In addition,the tent light would also function as a GPS receiver/Cell transmitter sending location coordinatesto a phone or web-site at the Customer’s home. Other constraints, such as weight, dimensions,and water resistance were defined, but the Customer did not indicate or suggest how to achievethe required product performance – those decisions were left entirely to the student Team. TheCustomer required a finished product by the delivery date of May 1, 2017

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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

topotential internship and professional employers.KeywordsSupply Chain, Lean Manufacturing, Entrepreneurial, Hands-on, ManufacturingIntroductionAn innovative inter-disciplinary project was launched at Raritan Valley Community College(RVCC) in Fall 2016 where Engineering and Business students participate hands-on in theoperation of a supply-chain manufacturing business. The product, the “IllumiNUT”, is acustomized green-energy shake-light that provides battery-free light just by shaking it (Fig. 1).The IllumiNUT product was originally developed by a group of four RVCC Engineeringstudents in Fall 2015 and later adopted as an entrepreneurial venture in Fall 2016 by the campuschapter of the international student-business organization, Enactus. The

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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

due to the lack of hands-on activities [1]. One of the reasonsbehind this waning of interest is the missing connection between theory and applications. Withoutestablishing this link, EMF courses fail to attract and engage engineering students.Teaching EMF requires special care and attention from the instructor. Traditional EMF class tendsto concentrate on abstract theory and numerical analysis. A lecture based engineering coursefocusing on legacy materials is not an effective style of learning since engineering students areadopted to hands-on activities and learn better from course related activities and sensoryinformation [2] [3]. Various active learning techniques including problem solving in class, peerdiscussions, clicker responses

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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

apply theseconcepts in the form of a working speaker. In order for Vaughn’s Society of Women Engineers tofocus on minority students, a Title 1 Elementary School, i.e. a school with high numbers or Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berkspercentages of children from low-income families and therefore requiring assistance from thegovernment, was chosen.This paper will present the rationale behind the choice of building a speaker as an engineeringworkshop topic, which is arranged in the second section. Secondly, the content of the workshopand how it was introduced to the students shall be provided in the third section. The result of theworkshop and its conclusion shall follow in the last two sections

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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

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). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Latent variable modeling with applications to education assessment and NSF-REU projects for engineering students Vazgen Shekoyan, Raul Armendariz, Sunil Dehipawala, Rex Taibu, George

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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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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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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Mid Atlantic Papers

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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

1-5 Department of Computer Information Technology and Graphics, Purdue University NorthwestAbstractCybersecurity is critical to the national infrastructure, government, military and industry. Todefend the U.S. against the cyber threats, a significant demand for skilled cybersecurity workforceis predicted in government and industrial sectors. To address this issue, Purdue UniversityNorthwest has successfully launched four GenCyber summer camps for 181 high school studentsin Chicago metropolitan area to stimulate the high school students’ interest in the cybersecurityfield and raise their awareness of cybersecurity and safe online behavior. PNW GenCyber summercamp activities were delivered in the format of game based learning and hands-on