Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conceptspresented in lecture through team-based studios (24 or fewer students). During students’ latteryears in their programs, discipline-specific laboratory and design sequences provide additionalopportunities to enhance teaming knowledge and skills. The three distinct instructional spacesare:Studios. Most of the large-enrollment courses consist of a lecture component supported bysmaller studio sections. During studios, students actively apply concepts and problem-solvingprocedures as they work in teams. The presented tasks are designed as professional engineeringproblems where learners take the role of practitioners working on a team. The orientation ispractice-to-concept, where the tasks require students to use core concepts and practices as toolsin

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janis P. Terpenny, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine M. Harmonosky, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Amine Lehtihet, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andris Freivalds, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elena M. Joshi, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jose A. Ventura, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Industrial Engineering

processesinvolved in the production of a range of components included in these products map quite wellwith the manufacturing capabilities of our laboratories; students are therefore able to undertakethe subsequent prototyping of some of these components.The class includes four (4) laboratory sections of 20 students each. Within each Laboratorysection, students were free to assemble into five (5) groups of four (4) students each. Theproducts included two (2) power washers (one gas powered and the other with an electric motor)and two (2) sets of battery-driven hand power tools. Products were randomly assigned to eachsection during each section’s assigned Laboratory meeting time. The objective of this classexercise was twofold. First, it allows students to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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Engineering Ethics

, all one has to do is torelax, make love, and hope: no devices, pharmaceuticals, instruments, or interveningprocedures are required. For others, however, the quest to birth a child can beemotionally arduous and financially taxing. According to the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention, up to 15 percent of couples are ‘unable to conceive a child with frequent,unprotected sexual intercourse over the course of a year,’ which categorizes them asbeing infertile [1]. Approximately 35% of infertility is due to male factors; 35% is due tofemale factors; 20% of cases have a combination of both male and female factors; and thelast 10% are unexplained causes [2] Many such individuals, and same-sex couples, havebeen successfully aided by laboratory

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

integration, testing, and the use of developmentand verification tools.Lecture courses should be accompanied with a series of laboratory exercises and a semester longproject. Theses laboratory exercise will help student learn the basic concepts of designingembedded systems and mastering the lectured materials. Laboratory exercises and projects canutilize popular kits such as the ARM-based Rapid Embedded Systems Design Education Kit orlow-cost FPGA embedded systems development boards. Laboratory exercises and projectsshould leverage proficiency gained from other core engineering courses such as C/C++programming language, assembly language, and computer organization courses in designingreal-world embedded applications.c. Cyber Physical Systems Design

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

day-long tour of renewable energy demonstration/research laboratories and engineeringmanufacturing facilities. TxState faculty and graduate students also provided information onSTEM career paths and an update of the Re-Energize program including research andscholarship opportunities.Objective 3: Design and develop a replicable renewable energy laboratory to carry out thetraining and hands-on activities proposed in the Re-Energize program. A replica of the lab willbe established at Eco Centro to operate independently once the training is completed. Activity 3.2: San Antonio College will nominate selected members of STEM faculty and encourage as well as support them to attend the designated Re-Energize professional development

Conference Session

COED: Online and Blended Learning Part 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Computers in Education

not workwith the current version of the software). Also, the book was discontinued and was prohibitivelyexpensive. Finally, the author attended a 10-day training session offered remotely by EON Realitystaff to develop expertise and learn advanced features of EON Professional. The above facts andactivities greatly influenced VR labs development for the VR course.This paper mainly describes students’ experiences with a novel required first-year graduate levelcourse on virtual reality (VR) taught at our Master of Science in Engineering with MechatronicsEmphasis (MS-Mechatronics) program. This three credit-hour semester-long course consists oflectures, laboratory examples, exercises, and projects. Since this work deals with human subjects,all

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani P.E., University of Maine; David S. Rubenstein, University of Maine; Wilhelm A. Friess, University of Maine

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Aerospace

experiential learning and computer applications in his courses, including the development of two websites, one devoted to analysis of aircraft structures and the other to statics. He has also led or contributed to the development or redesign of several courses in aerospace and mechanical engineering.Dr. David S. Rubenstein, University of Maine David Rubenstein has twenty-five years of industrial and research experience in aerospace guidance, nav- igation and control (GN&C) system design and modeling and simulation development. He has worked for a variety of major aerospace contractors including Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin), Raytheon Space andMissile Systems Design Laboratory and Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA

Conference Session

Cooperative and Project-based Global Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell Ph.D., Northwestern University; Akinniyi Adediran Osuntoki Ph.D., University of Lagos; Akinwale Oladotun Coker P.E., University of Ibadan; Matthew R. Glucksberg, Northwestern University; Tania Douglas, University of Cape Town; Kara M. Palamountain

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International

Development Project, Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project(WASH) as well as internationally-funded projects such as those of UNICEF, UNDP, UK Aid, US National Institutes of Health, WHO, World Bank etc. Professor Coker has presented papers in many international conferences in Africa, America, Asia and Europe since 1995 till date.Dr. Matthew R. Glucksberg, Northwestern University Matthew R. Glucksberg is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. His tech- nical expertise is in tissue mechanics, microcirculation, and optical instrumentation. His laboratory has developed image-based instrumentation to measure pressure and flow in the circulation of the eye, in- struments to measure the response of

Conference Session

Curricular Transformation

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Griffiths, University of Wyoming; Janel Seeley

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Educational Research and Methods

; a review ofTable 1. Schedule for class and laboratory. Week Class Lecture/Lab Section 1 1 1 Syllabus, Review of Mechanics 2 2 Circuits / Ohms law 3 Data acquisition / Signals and sampling 3 4 Planning a Monitoring program / Uncertainty / Accuracy 5 Strain Sensors / Vibrating wire gages 4 6 Foil Gages, theory and installation Section 2 7 Foil Gages, selection and voltage 5 8 Fiber optics / Load cells 9 Piezometers / Linear deformation

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Brian Sylcott, East Carolina University

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Mechanical Engineering

. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an

Conference Session

Virtual Reality, Simulation, and Optimization of Manufacturing

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University Northwest; Ge Jin, Purdue University Northwest; Justin David Heffron, Purdue University Northwest; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Cheryl A. Welsch, Eastern Iowa Community College; Wayne Merrell

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Manufacturing

; ConsiderationsIdentification of VR training topics for digital manufacturing educationVR, as an instructional training tool for Digital Manufacturing presents the potentials ofpromoting student interest in the training/learning process. VR is a proven tool that can engagelearners effectively and the enhanced engagement can be attained by actively involving theparticipant or trainee in the process (Toth, Ludvico, & Morrow, 2014, Chandramouli, Zahraee, &Winer, 2014, Jin & Nakayama, 2013, Jen, Taha, & Vui, 2008). Laboratory exercises inmanufacturing curriculum are not always able to meet the demands of the advancedmanufacturing need in their conventional form with the traditional experiments. Virtuallaboratories, on the other hand, can be built to

Conference Session

Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

military Frank: 7 years engineering Greg: 21 years engineering Henry: No professional experience James: No engineering experience Kimberly: 8 years, engineeringFour of the participants rose to positions of influence in their organizations before leaving to become facultymembers. Alan was the senior engineering manager, reporting directly to the CEO of his company. Codywas a senior developer in charge of overseeing the team of engineers on his projects. Ethan was a divisionmanager at a prestigious laboratory after completing his career in the military. Greg was the director ofengineering at his company before retiring.Henry began his teaching career immediately after earning his master’s degree in computer science. Jameshad a particularly

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David John Orser, University of Minnesota; Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota; John Sartori, University of Minnesota

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design industry for IBM and Broadcom for over ten years. He holds five US patents, several publications, and has circuits in over a billion chips around the world. His current research interests include laboratory teaching pedagogy, matrix converters in electric drives, and the application of power electronics in HVDC power systems.Mr. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, and the MS and

Conference Session

Clinical Learning Experiences in BME

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University; Stephanie M. George, East Carolina University

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Biomedical Engineering

Paper ID #22360Designing an Interprofessional Educational Undergraduate Clinical Experi-enceDr. Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University Barbara J. Muller-Borer, PhD is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Cardiovascular Sci- ences and the Director of the Cell-Based Therapy and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at East Carolina University. She serves as the graduate program director for the MS in Biomedical Engineering program and oversees curriculum development and assessment for both the undergraduate biomedical engineering concentration and graduate programs in the Department of Engineering. She received

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

John Robert Schedel Jr., United States Naval Academy; Angela Schedel, U.S. Naval Academy

2 Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department, United States Naval AcademyAbstractWithin engineering education, long-term retention of major concepts is a key objective. Numerousclassroom techniques combine to work towards this goal, including testing, laboratories, anddemonstrations. One highly effective, yet often underutilized, tool for improving long-termunderstanding is hands-on activities that students do at their desks, especially those involvingsimple items with which they are already familiar. Five characteristics are common to aproductive, in-class, reinforcement activity. (1) All students participate, preferably at their own desks. (2) Items involved are commonplace, familiar to the students, and low-cost

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Roth, Lafayette College; Laurie F. Caslake, Lafayette College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

ourselves.Structure of CollaborationBecause of our record of research in the area of bio-modification of soils, we knew researchersassociated with the newly funded CBBG who were conducting research in a related area. Wereached out to these colleagues and explained the collaboration we hoped to create. BecauseERCs are expected to develop and support numerous education and outreach efforts, ourcolleagues saw potential benefits of the collaboration for the CBBG and we began work with theERC’s leadership to develop a structure for the collaboration.The laboratory portion of the activities funded by the grant are scheduled during the academicyear, i.e., the funded research efforts occur when the undergraduate students are on our campusduring the academic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria J. Kim, Northwestern University; Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Timothy Reissman, University of Dayton; Mary Beth Finch, Northwestern University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

the learning objectives of the courses have been accomplished, theirconfidence in taking on new challenges in these domains, and the degree to which they feel thatthe HPL centers entered into the course. This last topic was addressed by a series of elements notdirectly asking about HPL, but framed to reveal this. For example, to understand whether thecourse was assessment-centered we asked their level of agreement with the statements, “Ireceived adequate feedback on my work,” and “I was able to obtain enough practice onimportant topics.”Another part of the quantitative study was gauging to what extent the teaching reflects HPL. Weexpected simply by using the laboratory kits and employing active learning, these courses will beassessment and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leda Lunardi, North Carolina State University; Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University; Katherine Cimorelli, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Career Success for Raleigh Future Scholars at North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe NC State University STEM Scholarship Program, sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation since September, 2013, is designed to give economically disadvantagedundergraduate students located in the Raleigh area the financial support, mentoring, and careerskills necessary to graduate from NC State University. These resources and aid lead students tobe more successful in their engineering and/or statistics careers. The program provides afinancial aid package equaling 75% of in-state tuition costs each semester. Several careerdevelopment activities, such as laboratory visits, mock interviews, and industry panels are alsooffered by this

Conference Session

Engineering/Engineering Technolgy Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

. These EPIC leaders attend class with their students and also hold study sessions outsideclass time each week. EPIC leaders work closely with STEM faculty to ensure that student needsare addressed during study sessions. The program has been proven to be effective in increasingstudent persistence and success rates, and have been expanded to a wide variety of STEMcourses including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science [17].E. Three-Tier Research Internship ProgramA growing number of studies document the benefits of research opportunities for undergraduatestudents [18-22]. Independent research experiences increase student engagement in theireducation, enhance research and laboratory skills, improve academic performance

Conference Session

Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam T Melvin, Louisiana State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

effective for a time;however, they did not address changes in technology or on-line resources that have more recentlybecome available and widely used. Moreover, the scenario-based videos were limited in scope toa single course in a single engineering discipline which restricted their overall utility across thecurriculum. Recent observations by the authors and input from current undergraduate studentsidentified new scenarios that needed to be addressed, including cheating in laboratory courses,cheating in project-based courses, and cheating on exams. Student Conduct professionals furtheroffered suggestions on the commentary provided by the video’s narrator to establish context forthe scenarios. This work in progress presents the updated set of

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University; Nicholas Patrick Totaro, Louisiana State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

engineering problem solving and design; engineering units;engineering report writing; oral report presentation; laboratory demonstration of biologicalengineering analysis.Students are able to take these courses in either order, though the vast majority takes BE 1250first. For a more in-depth look at the course sequence, consult Monroe et al. (2006) and Lima etal. (2001).ChangesDuring the past 25 years, a number of changes have occurred that have influenced thesecourses. These changes include an increase in student population and interest inbioengineering, ABET accreditation, and increasing collaboration among instructors. Each ofthese changes and the corresponding change in course(s) is discussed below.Changes in population and interests of

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 3: Case Studies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University; John Edward Patterson, Norwich University; Nadia Al-Aubaidy, Norwich University

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Construction Engineering

Classroom 224 sq.ft. 2017-2018 Race to Zero Multi-Family House 800 sq.ft/unit. 2017-2018Project DescriptionsEmbarc/DOG House – Solar Powered Lab1The first multi-discipline design build projectwas the design and construction of a solarpowered portable laboratory, shown in Figure 1.Architecture students worked on the design ofthe project, with structural work being donewithin the Civil Engineering department. Theproject was constructed by team of architectureand construction management students. Theproject was named “Embarc” by the architectsworking on the project and the “DOG house” bythe Department of Geology students who nowuse the laboratory

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s ”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

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2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Rod Blaine Foist, California Baptist University; Xuping Xu, California Baptist University; Timothy Gage, California Baptist University; Seth Truitt, California Baptist University; Matthias Hans Schmidt

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FYEE Conference Sessions

Foist, Xuping Xu, Timothy Gage, Seth Truitt, and Matthias Schmidt California Baptist University, rfoist@calbaptist.edu, xxu@ calbaptist.edu, MatthiasHans.Schmidt@calbaptist.edu, TimothyDean.Gage@calbaptist.edu, Seth.Truitt@calbaptist.eduAbstract - Recent National Science Foundation (NSF) curricula: subjects are taught in isolation, without properresearch, aimed at improving the Electrical and context, and do not adequately prepare students to integrateComputer Engineering (ECE) curriculum across all four that knowledge. In addition, labs were not used effectively.years, makes strategic use of laboratory projects. The That study recommended a “spiral model” and

Conference Session

Alternative Teaching Methods

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Scachitti, Purdue University Northwest; James B. Higley, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

learning outcomes with correlated course assessment grades and student subjective survey results Spring 2017, IET 22400 IET 22400 Instructor Update InformationDate Submitted: Spring 2017 Date to be Reviewed: May 2018Responsible faculty for the review: xxx Type of Update New Edition of the Text New Text Adopted New Software Teaching Method New Laboratory Equipment Lab Material Update Teaching

Conference Session

Electrical/Electronic ET Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University; Lijian Xu, Farmingdale State College; Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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Engineering Technology

,hardware, data sheets from Texas Instruments, other reference materials [10], and books. Thegoal was to take the initial complex material and concepts and synthesize that content into asound instructional format that can be used directly as class and laboratory lecture material.The collaborated effort resulted in different course and lab modules that can be used directly inclass lecture, discussion, or in a real-time distance teaching environment. The initial labs werereferenced from the COSMIAC workshop material and further refined and developed into moredetailed step-by-step guides that students can follow. All the course materials were tested byfaculty at ODU and FSC before being disseminated through the project LMS platform. Faculty atODU

Conference Session

Computing Technology Applications-II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamer Omar, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Srikanth Venkatesan, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Abdelfattah Amamra, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Computing and Information Technology

the role of these centers in promoting a cybersecurity culture and advancing thecybersecurity education process in these universities. The output of the survey shows that thefollowing cybersecurity centers are available to support the offered programs in the tenuniversities: 1. Purdue University; Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) [11]. 2. Georgia institute of technology; Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) [12]. 3. University of Washington; Security and Privacy Research Laboratory (SPRL) [13] & Tech Policy Lab (TPL) interdisciplinary lab [14]. 4. University of Maryland; Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) [15]. 5. University of Illinois at Urbana

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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Computers in Education

project proposals and the projects that they produce?Literature ReviewAs far back as 1998 researchers such as Edelson were conceptualizing authentic science practices2. Roughlyten years later, the researchers contend, “that laboratory-based school science teaching needs to becomplemented by … learning that draws on the actual world3.” This is authentic science practice3.Recently, researchers are showing that authentic STEM experiences4 include creating questions,investigating – which includes failure - and disseminating results to the community5. The majority of thetime at the university level, undergraduate research experiences are considered authentic scienceexperiences6. There is a large body of research on undergraduate research experiences7

Conference Session

ET Projects

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University; Robert Chambers; Nathan Henry, Bloomsburg University; Paul Michael Karcher

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

guitar tuner,and a ball balancing on a plate. Both projects focused on control system design andimplementation, encompassing sensors and actuators, interface electronics, hardware andsoftware integration, and control logic implementation in software (LabVIEW or Arduino).These end-of-semester course projects were carried out during the final four weeks of thesemester, preceded by ten weeks of structured lecture/laboratory session.IntroductionThe ability to conduct and design experiments is rated as one of the most desirable technicalskills of engineering and engineering technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with an ability to integrate hardware and software, andto formulate a range of

Conference Session

ET Projects

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghassan T Ibrahim, Bloomsburg University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

art technologies. Laboratoryequipment such as function generators, oscilloscopes are often misplaced when moved betweenthe various labs, consequently tracing their locations results in wasted valuable faculty andstudent time. A team of three senior Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) students weretasked to develop, in one semester and with limited budget, a basic yet smart IoT RFID basedtracking system capable of logging the location and time history of any laboratory equipment. The system was developed by integrating low cost state of the art devices, which includes theRaspberry Pi single board computer, low cost passive UHF (Ultra High Frequency) RFIDreaders together with industry standard EPC Gen2 passive tags, and a wireless local