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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

. In addition, one section of 22Graphics I students manually prepared existing condition drawings for one veterans’ facility,bringing the total number of students who have completed a service learning project in twodifferent courses to 230 students and 52 building measured for seven community differentcommunity partners. Service learning is defined by Bringle & Hatcher as "a course-based,credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs, and reflect on the service activity in such a wayas to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, andan enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility.” 1 This

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E Kelly

  The UN Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Next Steps   William E Kelly  Adjunct faculty member, Sustainability  Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering  George Mason University   The United Nations (UN)  Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals became effective January  1​1, 2016.​  The UN Division of Sustainable Development works with nine major groups to facilitate outreach, engagement and information sharing; engineering is part of the Science & Technology

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak

. Therefore, multi-disciplinary problem solving teams have been animportant part of the contemporary organizational culture today. However, analyzing a problemwith a multi-disciplinary perspective demands more than putting together a team of membersfrom various disciplines and backgrounds. The multi-disciplinary nature of a team does notguarantee successful team performance. The research shows that the performance of a teamdepends on how effectively team members are able to share information, assign tasks based onthe strengths of team members, coordinate tasks, and provide feedback to one another.1 Forexample, the high failure rate observed in information technology (IT) projects has beenattributed to the lack of professional skills in project teams

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adekola Owolabi

business model is a description of how a business intends to operate and make money. At themost basic level, it involves a producer making something and selling it directly to customers ata profit. A lot more creativity is needed to get noticed in a time-pressed world. A business isprobably facing global competitors, and in many instances a widely dispersed audience who areincreasingly difficult to reach in a cost effective manner. As a result, numerous alternativestrategies have emerged to get a product to market, safely into the hands of the consumer andbusiness model innovation has become increasingly popular.In literature, [1] business models are considered essential aspects of successful businesses, astheir main purpose is to differentiate a

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Mariusz Nuckowski

provides better rulesfor understanding the factors that influence better student outcomes.1. IntroductionEducation is a crucial element in our society. Business Intelligence (BI)/Data Mining (DM) techniques,which allow a high level extraction of knowledge from raw data, offer interesting possibilities for theeducation domain. In particular, several studies have used BI/DM methods to improve the quality ofeducation and enhance school resource management. Hence, the ability to predict students’ academicperformance is very important in educational environments. Predicting academic performance ofstudents is challenging since the students’ academic performance depends on diverse factors such aspersonal, socio-economic, psychological and other

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Oludare Owolabi

results andexam results, suggests that the online tutorial usage patterns of high achieving students are moreeffective in terms of overall course achievement. Other learning activities implemented thatprovide opportunity for interaction that support active learning as well as promote mastery of thecourse learning objectives are: (1) discussion forum, (2) hands-on project aimed at enhancing theunderstanding of three dimensional concepts/problems (3) field experiential learning activity and(4) videos. Virtual class rooms, online office hours, webinars and real-time collaborative softwarewere other tools implemented that helped learner actively engage in the course by facilitatinginteraction with the instructor, course materials and other learners

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ralph C. Tillinghast; Edward A. Petersen

and Mathematics (STEM)outreach is well documented. The methods by which this is accomplished vary and depend onthe specific needs of the student or STEM stakeholder being supported. Further the outreachprovider can vary in size from single high school students doing experiments with youngerstudents, to scientists and engineers (S&E’s) visiting classrooms, and to fortune 500 companiesdonating vast sums of money to build STEM infrastructure.1 Each of these has the potential toinfluence students and impact STEM careers. This paper looks to document what the authorsconsider a large STEM organization. The STEM outreach provider being described is one of theU. S. Army’s research centers, the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lance Hoffman; Rachelle Heller; Costis Toregas

and September 2015, online surveys and a focus group were usedto assess the GW SFS program. Specifically, three surveys were developed andlaunched to gather information from the following stakeholders: 1) SFSApplication Reviewers, 2) GW Faculty who taught SFS classes, and 3) currentstudents and alumni of the GW SFS program. In addition, current students whowere enrolled in the Seminar class participated in a Focus Group in which theywere able to provide detailed responses to questions related to their experiencewith the program. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWU 5Overall, faculty reported that SFS students in their classes demonstrate a higherlevel of motivation, commitment to cyber-security

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jeffrey Birou; Alistar Erickson-Ludwig; Mira Olson; Kevin Scoles

 the model of an EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) class. In this paper, we present the academic sequence and structure of the Peck Scholars Program, intended goals and learning outcomes of the program, and challenges faced during project implementation. We also present a recent project developed in a capstone course, an automatic water delivery system for vegetable plots at an urban school.  I. Introduction   1​The Paul Peck Scholars (PPS) program​  is an application based leadership development program for undergraduate engineering students. Through this program, students learn that the essence of leadership and innovation lies in the ability to communicate effectively, apply

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Julius J. Marpaung; Jeff Burke; Josh Weibling

At the University of Houston, we focus on hands-on learning in our curriculum. We begin byintroducing Arduino and Matlab in our freshmen introductory level course, ECE 1331: Computerand Problem Solving. In spring 2016, students have the opportunity to program Arduino usingMatlab in conjunction with an LED matrix to design a game as other institutions [1-4] have alsoused Arduino in their classrooms with great success. Although Dr. Marpaung has received apositive feedback in regards to using a Zumo bot in classroom [5], he believes that he can alsoenhance students’ hands-on learning experience by offering them a different set of projectsinvolving an LED matrix. Lab Assignments Laboratory assignments are

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Oludare Owolabi

define the learningprocess. Its premise is that five types of thinking, or the five "dimensions of learning," areessential to successful learning. The framework ensures that instruction takes into account allfive of the critical components of learning which include 1) Positive Attitudes and Perceptionsabout Learning; 2) Thinking Involved in Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge, 3) ThinkingInvolved in Extending and Refining Knowledge; 4) Thinking Involved in Using KnowledgeMeaningfully; and 5) Productive Habits of the Mind. The author has taught the course twentytimes (20) at Morgan and each time he taught the class students were taken to construction sitewhere they were able to visualize and experience the application of principles of statics

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; George Tremberger; M. Chantale Damas; Alexei Kisselev; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

Integration of teaching topics to enhance undergraduate research experience in Synchrotron based X-ray absorption EXAFS for corrosion study and Electroencephalography EEG application projects Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, George Tremberger, M. Chantale Damas, Alexei Kisselev, David Lieberman, and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Physics DepartmentAbstractThe hypothesis of integrating teaching topics to enhance undergraduate research experience inSynchrotron based X-ray absorption EXAFS for corrosion study and ElectroencephalographyEEG application project has been studied. The procedures are (1) using electrostatic

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lin Lin

Hands on Education in Integrated Curriculum Lin Lin University of Southern Maine1. Introduction:It has been demonstrated by numerous studies that the combination of theory and hands-onexperience is a critical component of engineering education [1]. To teach engineering studentshow to design an experiment, preform a test, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, etc. arecritical. Hands on laboratory experiences can be delivered in various ways. They are eitherintegrated into courses that contain both lectures and lab components or offered separately as labcourses.Traditionally, mechanical engineering programs offer 2 or 3 mechanical lab

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda S. Hirsch

).EvaluationDuring the summer of 2008 girls completed the Middle School Attitudes to and Knowledgeabout Engineering Survey (MATES)36 and the Draw an Engineer Test37 at the beginning (pre-measures) and the end of the program (post-measures). The girls were also asked about whetherthey had heard about jobs in math, science and engineers before and/or if their parents, teachersor school counselors had talked to them about jobs in engineering. Possible responses wereNever, 1-2 times or Many times.In addition to attitudes towards engineering, the MATES measures knowledge about careers inengineering with a multi-part open-ended question that requires students to “Name five differenttypes of engineers” and to “give an example of the work done by each type”. Each

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rachael Bevill; Srineil Nizambad; Chung Hyuk Park; Myounghoon Jeon; Ayanna M. Howard

Multisensory Robotic Therapy through Motion Capture and Imitation   for Children with ASD    1​ 1​ 1​ Rachael Bevill​ , Srineil Nizambad​ , Chung Hyuk Park​ (PI)  1​  ​Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science,  The George Washington University, DC  {rbevill, skn5, chpark}@gwu.edu    2​ 3​ Myounghoon ​ Jeon​  (PI

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eileen Haase PhD; Harry Goldberg

complexity of student heterogeneity:almost half of the students completed AP Biology in high school, while many only have a weakbiology background. At the start of the course, the students were asked to complete a survey usedto assess their learning preferences1. Almost two-thirds of the students (62%) were multimodal,learning through a combination of visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic modes. For the 38% ofstudents who preferred a single learning style, most preferred read/write (18%) modes oflearning. Only 3% of students had an aural learning preference, while 9% had a visual learningpreference, and 8% leaned towards kinesthetic (Fig. 1). We used this information to support ourview that a diverse learning environment with a variety of

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul Azzi; Conor Sheridan; Matt Spadafora; Chung Hyuk Park; Myounghoon Jeon; Ayanna M. Howard

Music-Based Emotion and Social Interaction Therapy for Children with ASD Using Interactive Robots Paul Azzi1, Conor Sheridan1, Matt Spadafora1, Chung Hyuk Park1 (PI) 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, DC {pazzi, conorsheridan, mspad3, chpark}@gwu.edu Myounghoon Jeon2 (PI), Ayanna M. Howard3 (Senior Consultant) 2 Department of Cognitive and Learning Science, School of Sciences and Arts, Michigan Technological University 3 School of Electrical and Computer Science, College of

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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George Tremberger; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Rex Taibu; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. IntroductionAn Intelligence test result analysis had identified test motivation as an important factor in lowstake intelligence testing condition and also as a strong predictor for test scores in college 1, 2.Recently personal qualities such as self- control, grit and growth mindset has been studied inrelationship to the more explicit cognitive skills such as intelligence and knowledge, and thereport recommended more measurements on personal qualities for education purposes 3. It wasreported last year that learning motivation could be traceable to a genetic origin 4, and thatSTEM attrition among college students when compared with other majors such as business is aconsiderably large 48% 5. Faced with an open admission policy in a community college

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian; Grady F. Mathews IV

of student evaluations. This paper will ascertain the benefits and pitfalls ofusing online medium for Civil and Construction Engineering education. This paper will alsoexplore the possibility of blending the online tools with the class room setting mode to teachCivil Engineering courses. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUCurrent status of Online CoursesOver 6.1 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2010 term; anincrease of 560,000 students over the number reported in the previous year. The number ofstudents taking at least one online course was increased by over 1 million to a new total of 7.1million as per 2013 data. There were 412,000 more online students in fall

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

would you make? What are your interests? What do you think you can use this 3Dprinter for in the future?” Students are then introduced to the idea of “Painstorming”, in whichthey are expected to identify problems or “pain” of common products and make creativerecommendations or design changes to ease the user’s pain. The last component of the workshopincludes mentor-taught business model lessons. This session usually covers the afternoon part ofthe workshop. Participants are then grouped into teams, and each team is coached by a PennState Berks Entrepreneurship student (Figure 1). At the end of the session, the teams presenttheir business concepts and models, and a winner is selected. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Benito Mendoza

the challenge of creating and administering internetworks. The most known example ofinternetworking is the Internet, which is is a network composed of individual networks alsoknown as autonomous systems (AS). Each AS is own and administrated by private entities orenterprises. The Internet consists of every AS or enterprise network around the world andbillions of end user devices connected using Internet service providers (ISPs) [1].Implementing a functional internetwork involves many challenges in the areas of connectivity,reliability, network management, and flexibility. Engineers, network administrators, andtechnicians that understand the technologies, standards, and equipment to keep enterprisenetwork operations running are in high demand

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Kimberly Riegel; George Tremberger; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, andconsistency in each college course, the expository facet in the teaching of physics to engineeringand technology students has been expanded to encompass areas concerning safety, energyefficiency, material integrity and client/customer needs. Included in the range of assessablestrategies is (1) the application of specific problem solving perspectives in which situations otherthan those detailed in required lecture textbooks are assigned and (2) the explicit writing oncause and effect relationships in the discussion section of a lab report with emphasis on the issueof correlation and uncertainty. The critical learning assessment rubric used in this study rankedstudents' abilities using the measures of

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jinmyun Jo

behavior of these materials were analyzed during FSW in terms oftemperature measurements. Both research and design components were included in the researchprojects, and the latter component was required by the senior design course.1. Introduction College of Engineering and Technology (CET) of Virginia State University requires seniorstudents to take senior design courses as part of the graduation requirements. Almost all of thesenior students work on industry-related design projects for the senior design projects becausethe design process should be included as a requirement of senior design course1. Further, thesenior design project coordinator and the project advisors examine whether the project meets thedesign requirements as well as ABET's

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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JERRY-DARYL FLETCHER; LeeRoy Bronner; Yacob Astatke; Odesma Dalrymple

and allows the aligning of the assessment methodology.I. BackgroundWhat is teaching effectiveness and what does it look like? This is a pivotal question to the studyas it dictates the direction of the research. In order to assess teaching effectiveness the inevitablequestion of what defines teaching effectiveness must be considered [1]. The literature is repletewith the application of measures and methods for evaluating teaching effectiveness yet aconcrete definition of what constitutes effective teaching in higher education is far lessforthcoming. Teachers often feel frustration while undergoing assessment of their effectivenesswithout a proper definition [1]. To define teaching effectiveness in higher education there mustfirst be an

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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AB Shafaye; Rafic Bachnak

% [1]. In the case of engineering, the overall four-year graduation rateis 22% in public schools and 45% in private schools [2].Internships have been used at many institutions of higher education to improve student retention[3], enhance student learning [4], or offer hands-on practical experiences [5-8]. This paperprovides details about an internship program in the School of Science, Engineering, andTechnology (SSET) at Penn State Harrisburg that has been in place for several years. Surveyresults show that the program has contributed to student retention and success and has influencedtheir future career goals.II. Background InformationThe mission of SSET is to provide excellence in undergraduate, graduate and professionaleducational programs

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rahul Simha

,studentsgettoseeveryconcretelymanyofthedetailsthatareoftenhiddeninthesymbolicapproach.Combiningthetwomodes,symbolicandcomputational,andbalancingthemisthecentralgoalofourapproach.2.0SomeillustrativeexamplesSinceourfocusisonpost-secondarymathematics,webeginwithoneexampleeachfromcalculusandprobability.Exampleproblem#1:evaluate !.! sin 2𝜋𝑡 𝑑𝑡 !Symbolicapproach: Computationalapproach:(Java)(1) Lookuptheintegral: (1) Writecode −cos 2𝜋𝑡 double delT = 0.05; 2𝜋(2) Plugvalues

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Best of DEED

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University; Erin Susan Araj, Santa Clara University

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Design in Engineering Education

 can be set up to view the eFolios with permission.   A Digication template was made for the course as an example scaffold for students. The template included a home section to serve as a welcome page, a biography section for their own biography as well as for team members, a ‘journey’ section for their individual project contributions, a team documentation section for all team related/contributed documentation, a reflections section for assigned reflective pieces, and a final project section to serve as a repository for their final project documentation. A screenshot of the template portfolio is given in Figure 1 where the different sections can be seen at the top menu ribbon. Template text and/or examples were added in all sections to

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

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Mathematics

either enrolled or recentlycompleted (i.e. 1 week after the course completion) a Numerical Methods or Analysis course at alarge Midwest university during a particular semester in the United States. Each participant wasasked to complete a questionnaire consisting of calculus concept questions and interviewed forfurther investigation of the written responses to the questionnaire. The research question isdesigned to understand students’ ability to apply Riemann’s limit-sum definition to calculate thedefinite integral of a specific function. Qualitative (participants’ interview responses) andquantitative (statistics used after applying APOS theory) results are presented in this work by usingthe written questionnaire and video recorded interview

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Assessment of Learning in BME

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aldin Malkoc, Arizona State University ; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University

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Biomedical

Paper ID #15725Value of Student Resources in Materials Science and Biomedical EngineeringCoursesMr. Aldin Malkoc, Arizona State University Aldin Malkoc, BSE is a student in the Barrett Honors College and School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Aldin is enrolled in the 4+1 program to receive his Bachelor’s in Engineering Science in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2016 and his Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2017. The primary focus in his master’s thesis will pertain to the study of nanoparticles in biosensor

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Mechanical Engineering Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Mechanical Engineering

, all engineering programs requesting accreditation for the first time or seeking re-accreditation by Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET must demonstrate thatprogram meets a set of criteria that include both the general criteria for baccalaureate andassociate degree programs and the program criteria required by the program lead society (e.g.,ASCE, IEEE, ASME) [1]. The programs must also meet all the requirements listed in theAccreditation-Policy-and-Procedure-Manual of ABET [2]. The general criteria consists of eight(8) components: (1) students, (2) Program Educational Objectives (PEO), (3) Student Outcomes(SO) (4) Continuous Improvement, (5) Curriculum, (6) Faculty, (7) Facilities, and (8)Institutional Support and Financial