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Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

earlier in the curriculum. Another approach isthe creation of project management workshops or one-day seminars. At Villanova University, the mechanical engineering capstone design course was revampedto include more project management activities. In addition to the standard triple constraint ofscope management, schedule, and cost control, the updated curriculum includes theimplementation of a communication plan, dashboard status reports, project commissioning &testing plans, and project close-out. Student teams are provided with effective templates tofacilitate implementation and the activities are integrated directly into the design process. Asurvey of graduating students found that 57% of students considered the project managementactivities

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Aatish Gupta, Rowan University; Lauren Mulvihill; Emmet Scott Sedar, Rowan University; Jenna Nicole Sperduto

siteas it does not require additional infrastructure. This must be quoted and purchased to allow thechange does include some logistical planning. All composting to take place. A method of transportationstudents, faculty, and staff must be informed of the from the Student Center to the site must bechanges that will be occurring. This change will force established as well.those wanting a meal provided by university diningwithin the Student Center to alter their lives in a Table 3: Timeline of milestone goals for thesmall way. Information concerning the alterations implementation of composting.must be displayed for some time, to allow a great Week

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Amitabha (Amit) Bandyopadhyay P.E., State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

, addresses important disciplinary content, invokes authentic or real-worldapplications and uses tasks that are instructionally meaningful. Learning is not only a one-waytransmission of information from teacher to students. Effective instruction engages students actively intheir learning. Learning to be meaningful and effective it must have clear goals. Assessment is a key partin defining these goals. The good teachers constantly assess how their students are performing, gatherevidence of the progress and problems, and adjust their instructional plans accordingly. The Applied andNatural Science Commission (ANSAC) of ABET has extended requirements for some of the soft skillassessments, that our construction management program now must fulfill. It

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Frank E. Falcone P.E., Villanova University; Gayle F Doyle, Villanova University

Paper ID #35290The Career Compass Professional Development ProgramProf. Frank E. Falcone P.E., Villanova University Professor Falcone is the Director of Professional Development & Experiential Education in the College of Engineering at Villanova University. His current primary focus is the leadership and management of the College’s Professional Development Program entitled CAREER COMPASS. His primary fields of technical interest and experience are in Hydraulics, Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources and International Water Resources Master Planning. In addition to teaching numerous technical courses, he has

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Adriana Fasino, Rowan University; Jessica Rodgers, Rowan University; Jay Kenneth Petersen, Rowan University ; Brandon Alexander Jarrett, Rowan University

plant layout inside residence halls and academic buildings must bedetermined which will act as a main attraction upon entering the building and be cooperativewith not only administration’s needs but also the needs of professors and students. Our plan ofaction addresses these issues and other possible problems successfully and effectively. Finally, when there is enough funding, the solution can be implemented on campus byfirst obtaining the plants, then scheduling and proceeding with their installation. Budgeting isestimated to be around $15,000 with a monthly maintenance charge of around $100. Fundraisingcan be taken care of through school sanctioned events or volunteering. There may be possibleobstacles when ensuring funding is

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Orla LoPiccolo M. Arch, PDip (CM), Architect, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

engineering technology degree programs alsoface similar questions as to how their program differs from engineering programs. The answersto these questions are invariably that engineering technology programs are based on the practicalapplication of engineering with graduates working to support licensed engineers/architects. Inaddition, engineering programs are theory and design based with graduates focused on designingand managing projects [1]. Students enrolled in Architectural Engineering Technology Programswho plan to become registered architects face an additional challenge however depending on thestate that they plan to seek licensure. Unlike other engineering technology programs andengineering programs which are both accredited by ABET, Bachelor

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Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University

the variousdisciplines of civil engineering. Applications of GIS are highlighted as the course steps throughdifferent phases of a civil engineering infrastructure project, including planning, data collection,environmental analysis, design, construction, and data collection for operations and maintenance.ArcGIS Pro software is used to teach core civil engineering topics throughout these projectphases such as zoning requirements and calculations, elevation surfaces, watershed delineation,earthwork volumes, and roadway profiles. Thus, the course covers basic principles to facilitate aworking knowledge of GIS, but also allows students to tap into the data revolution, leveragelarge spatial datasets to create sustainable designs, make informed

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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Chizhong Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology

the students,. The first part of the survey askedquestions such as “The activity helped me work better in groups”, “The activity helped increasemy understanding of engineering design process” and more. These questions requested a Likertscale response from 1-5 (1- poor, 5- excellent). The second part of the survey focused on whetherstudents were able to improve/learn/explore themselves. Figure 1 summarizes the studentresponses. FIGURE 1 SUMMARY OF STUDENT RESPONSE (ACTIVITY HELPED ME IMPROVE…) [21]General Advice for Planning the Activity: 1. Two minutes is a very short time for students to be able to make a strong pitch in first attempt. A mock rehearsal in the week before the

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Jordan F. Ermilio, Center for Humanitarian Engineering and International Development, College of Engineering, Villanova University

breakout into individual project teams. The general assembly session provides the structure for academicelements of the course with weekly assignments and lecture topics that include subjects related to workingwith humanitarian organizations in a developing community. Subjects within the general assembly includethe role of external support, sustainable development, practical skills related to fieldwork, project planning,data management, reporting and project presentations. The general assembly session is also used to addressadministrative aspects of travel related to logistics and risk management, as well as professionalism as itrelates to working in other countries such as social awareness, culture, history, gender dynamics,relationship building

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Melanie Villatoro P.E., New York City College of Technology; Laurin Moseley, CUNY New York City College of Technology

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outreach project at Daniel Hale Elementary School which provides civil engineering lesson plans, afterschool pro- grams, family workshops and field trips. Prof. Villatoro is the Project Director for the Peer Advisement program sponsored by Perkins and designed to increase retention of females across the School of Tech- nology and Design.Laurin Moseley, CUNY New York City College of Technology American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Benefits of the virtual platform for K-12 STEM OutreachAbstractThe number of students enrolling and graduating with STEM degrees in the United States mustincrease exponentially in order to meet the predicted job

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Patrick Tunno

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, and discuss the application process. • Make a compelling (clearly argued, articulated, inspiring, and well prepared) presentation about how their international experiences are relevant and beneficial to becoming a successful engineer. • Anticipate the cultural demands that may accompany international business travel and formulate a plan to compensate for such needs, including identifying appropriate resources to investigate how one can professionally engage with the target culture. • Discover opportunities for international internships, careers, and fellowships. • Reflect and build upon intercultural learning experiences and to consider ways to apply their knowledge, skills, and perspectives

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Elizabeth Dellorco, Rowan University; Anthony Vinh Bui, Rowan University; Jacqueline Johnson, Rowan University ; Matthew McBride, Rowan University

only continue to grow until it becomes a serious problem. Inthe words of a fellow student, Kayla Bensley, when asked what her school could do to improverecycling, she answered: “Rowan could do everything better because they do not do anything.When I lived in [the freshman dorm] there weren't any recycling bins on my floor at all, and it isconcerning how little they care. I am also pretty sure they do not recycle things put in recyclingbins.”Objective In order to be able to increase the recycling rate at Rowan University, there has to be aplan put in place. The start of every plan to raise awareness requires an introduction of theproblem to the campus community. As seen in other places similar to this university, a SWACOpoll in central

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Jennie Perey Saxe, University of Delaware

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communication competencies needed for successful civil andenvironmental engineering practice. To address this gap, the civil engineering curriculum addeda new course entitled Communicating with Stakeholders in Engineering. This course coverstopics including communication theory, stakeholder identification, communicating throughconflict, communication planning, implicit bias, public engagement principles, and more. Thecontent was selected to fill the gaps in traditional communication classes taken by civilengineering students to expose students to tools and approaches to workplace communicationand communication with public stakeholder groups. The topics covered in the course allowstudents to develop an understanding of and gain extensive practice with

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Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

continuity planning worksheets so they can detail how they will continue teachingand learning activities. Furthermore, looking toward the ensuing summer session and fall 2020semester, CAL developed a Blackboard-based workshop to train faculty to the level of “OnlineTeaching Certification” (OTC). This training was made mandatory for all UDC faculty under anewly designated “Emergency Remote Instruction” (ERI) mode. Most faculty utilized virtualconference software and email to continue engagement and communication with learners, movedcourse materials and submissions to an online management platform, and created and usedexisting videos and resources to deliver information. In the School of Engineering and AppliedScience (SEAS), one of the most important

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Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

” movement came from,provides a brief summary of its current sites for scholarly inquiry and practice, and depicts themotivations and our plans for the future mapping of this movement. While all engineering couldbe interpreted as an effort to “do good,” even indirectly, in our work we are interested in thekinds of engineering that are explicitly dedicated to do good for underserved populations overother goals such as financial profit, national security, technological efficiency, etc. Historical andcontemporary background of the engineering for good movement provides both an explanationof the origins of the practice, and motivations for the recent, increased participation in“engineering for good.” This contextualization of the practice is important

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College

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roadmap begins with awareness and Skill-building,the two of the areas cover in this paper. Nonetheless, the faculty undertook additional initiatives tocultivated relationships across several functional areas of municipalities (highlighted in red in AppendixA ) as front-end preparation work for potential student-faculty community relationships for fact-findingvisits. Figure 1. Early stages of educational milestones documented by the PIT-UNUnlike 4-year schools, establishing new and forward-looking curriculums at community colleges aredifficult to establish given administrative business plan emphasis on shorter terms initiatives for fasterinvestment returns via enrollment. With this constraint in mind, we developed a series of mini

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Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

programs [1], [7]. These names,often used by EE and ME departments for a minor, would not have promoted the requisitecooperation for the genesis of the BSE program.The BSE EME and EPE academic concentrations were deemed not to be majors per se sincethey result in a degree without such a designation, unlike a major in EE or ME resulting in theBSEE or BSME degree. In addition to these academic concentrations, which appear as such onthe transcript, the BSE degree program also provides less restrictive study plans in ComputerHardware and Software Engineering with computer science and Engineering Fundamentalsacross all departments of the College of Engineering.Interdisciplinary Program AdministrationThe interdisciplinary BSE program was initially

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

is lacking certainadvanced features that may become necessary if the audiences get much bigger.DropboxIt is another simpler way for online learners to work together. It helps in sharing, creating, andcollaborating among online learners’ teams. For example, a lesson plan can be written by aninstructor and can be shared among the students using Dropbox. One can also create a folder forthe online learning community and share it to make information available to everyone in theteam. Also, it offers the facility to work with other devices that operate iOS and Android. It isavailable free of cost with a small size of memory; however, one has to pay for more memoryuse.FlowdockThe chat option in the Flowdock makes possible the flow of communication

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Matthew M Johnson, Penn State University; Tiffany M. Lewis, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools; Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University; Chantal Giroux Balesdent, Penn State University

backgrounds and a high percentage of the students are potential first-generationcollege attendees. These populations are underserved in engineering. The study will thenresearch the ways in which a subset of the workshop teachers teaches engineering in theirclassrooms, using the workshop as a basis of comparison. We plan to use the knowledge we gainthrough this research to make recommendations for teacher educators about the needs of theseteachers and how to best support their use of engineering design projects in their classes. Originally planned as a two-day in-person workshop, the resulting workshop was a four-part series of half-day, synchronous meetings with eight rural teachers from three schools in ruralareas in the Mid-Atlantic region

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Jeffrey Koller; Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University

where the underlying theory and mathematics of the coursecontent was taught. These lessons were presented in a traditional classroom setting with shortactive learning exercises included into the lesson plan meant to keep students engaged, such aspolling, discussions, and think-pair-share exercises. On Fridays, students would attend a 50 minuteno-lecture Friday session that would take place in a classroom specifically designed for activelearning sessions. This classroom had large communal tables to best facilitate collaborative learn-ing and display monitors at every table. Students were asked to self-select groups during the firstno-lecture Friday sessions and then sit with this group each Friday.During the first few minutes of these sessions

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Yixin Xiong, Penn State University; Stephen Porter, Penn State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University

Paper ID #35261A Reconfigurable and Modular Hardware for Remote Learning of AnalogCircuit DesignMr. Yixin Xiong, Penn State University Yixin Xiong is a senior student at the Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in circuits and electronics. His interests in circuits were developed in a music pro- cessing circuit design project in a major course, and enhanced in later higher-level circuits design courses. He is planning to attend graduate school after graduation to study deeper in this field.Stephen Porter, Penn State University Stephen is a recent graduate of Penn State

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Mira S Olson, Drexel University; Joseph Hughes

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about contextsinto which their solutions will be delivered and assess the human, social and security impacts ofsolutions being explored. Systems engineering provides a framework and method forassimilating the multitude of interacting factors and dynamics in human, economic, social,natural and engineering systems into target design requirements.The plan of study for the M.S.degree was developed with input from over 30 faculty members from Drexel’s College of Artsand Science, College of Computing and Informatics, College of Engineering, College of MediaArts and Design, School of Education, and School of Public Health and is detailed below: 1. Core Peace Engineering Competencies (12 credits) – Introduction to Peacebuilding for Engineers

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Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

ResultsThe author has been developing and introducing some of the laboratory experiences describedabove for several years. It has not been until recently that he decided to formalize the process bydeveloping a comprehensive assessment plan to evaluate student perceptions of this approachand their engagement in the program. This assessment protocol was approved by the InstitutionalReview Board of Penn State as listed at the end of this paper. The first formal assessmentoccurred after the Fall 2019 term and was focused on comparing a subset of traditional and newexperiments. A second focus of this assessment was to better understand student perceptions onthe Microcontroller and EMG system. The author had planned to continue and expand theassessment

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University

majors. Projects ranged from printed circuit board designs for amission control panel for a local children’s museum to developing/running a virtual poster sessionplatform for Bucknell University’s annual River Symposium. In each instance, the senior ECE consultantwas charged with meeting with their clients to identify their technical needs and then to negotiate areasonable scope of work (given the 20/40 hour engineering time constraint). After agreeing on projectscope they were charged with creating a project plan, list of deliverables/milestones and a Gantt chartschedule. Clients ranged from professors and staff of the university to community partners. It was animportant aspect of the project that students would begin to take stock of what

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

-time event that thegroup created on their own to teach some probability theory and then provide a fun game toreinforce that learning. This was the ‘probability jeopardy’ event.Probability JeopardyThe event was planned completely by the students engaged with the service-learning option.The community partner provided some guidance from their experience about what would beengaging to their students and were also able to provide money for a small prize. The author hadinitially thought to engage parents and others in the event that would perhaps be longer and overmultiple days and would include discussion of the idea of expected value and how that impactspeople’s everyday understanding of decisions they make, such as buying a Lottery

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Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University; Andrew J Lopreiato, Northeastern University; Raiden L Schodowski, Northeastern Univeristy; Alec W Silverman, Northeastern University; Samantha L Bowman, Northeastern University; Caitlynn E. Tov, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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Ethiopian culturelectures. Since the students were traveling to a foreign country and collaborating withEthiopians, it is important that they are respectful of the values and culture of the people there.Furthermore, it is crucial for the students to recognize their privilege and cultural differenceswhen communicating with the hospital staff.ConclusionNU-IGH plans to continue and build upon its model from the surgical lamp project in futuredesign projects. Its design group’s next project after the surgical lamp is a low-cost ECGelectrodes project based on the group’s needs assessment from their last trip to SPHMMC. Onedesign goal the group is planning on integrating is the ability to mass produce a device locally inEthiopia. Designs that can be

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Eric B. Dano, BAE Systems

local customs or culture [51]. Any required administrative or logistics coordination withthese groups must be known in advance. These aspects of humanitarian systems requires strongeducation in the area of system thinking, problem solving, politics, international regulations,humanities, logistics and social sciences.Exemplars on how to introduce curricula to address the complex socio-technical competencieswhich make up humanitarian systems are detailed in [30], [52], and [53]. In [30], the USMilitary Academy established a 3 course Core Engineering Sequence (CES) with 10 of 40lessons dedicated to systems thinking applied to ill-defined problems such as providing nutritiousfood to remote island inhabitants and determining a plan for handling the

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Eileen Haase PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

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inexpensively andquickly ordered and mailed to their homes. Consequently, most teams focused on developing anapp to address their chosen issue. Students were asked to develop and test their projects as muchas possible, but the lack of supplies combined with the pandemic severely limited the ability ofany of the teams demonstrate more than a proof-of-concept. Teams who were interested incontinuing to work on their projects were encouraged to enroll in a follow-up course resulting inparticipation in a Business Plan Competition at the end of the spring semester.Quantitative data on student course achievement included completion of the university’s onlinecourses in Basic Human Subjects Research and Responsible Conduct of Research, and individualquiz and

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Thomas E Ask P.E., Pennsylvania College of Technology

matrix categorizing mechanistic versus non-mechanistic as visuallypresented in Figure 4. Mechanistic Non-mechanistic Stereotype Medium High Concept Medium High Contemporary High Low Visual Stereotype Concept Contemporary Figure 4 – Outline drawings of Class B fishing boats used in questionnaire [14]. Figure 5 – Lines plans for new Malaysian fishing boat [15].This qualitative analysis presented interesting insights, including a low concern for high seastates and water coming onboard as

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Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

work or home stress weresuddenly thrown into a new balancing act where work and home constraints were now happeningat the same time. Teaching from home became the new norm. However, many had never usedthe internet for instruction before. Additionally, their lack of pedagogical understanding ofonline design, facilitation and instruction left many at a loss for best practices.Much of the difficulty may be able to be attributed to the short window of planning andorganizing that needed to occur in March 2020. Then once entrenched in those emergencymeasures, instructors may not have felt it necessary, nor had the time, to modify instructionaltechniques during the spring of the 2020 school year.In hindsight the rapid transition in instruction during