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Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Paige Janae Harvey, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University; Edmund Himmie Smith, Morgan State University ; Marcial Tienteu; Vinton Amsley Morris, Morgan State University; Dennis Ndati, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Aaron A Mcclenton; Andre Latte Dean Jr., Morgan State University School of Engineering

Paper ID #35696An REU/RET Project: IoT Platform and Network Data VisualizationMs. Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University Otily Toutsop is a Ph.D. student with a concentration on secure embedded systems in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Morgan State University. She is also affiliated with the Cybersecu- rity Assurance and Policy (CAP) center. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Her research interests focus on IoT Security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical system, software security, home automation systems, and networking security. Her work has been

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Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology; Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

Paper ID #35675Online Hands-on Embedded System Project in Virtual ClassroomDr. Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Yu Wang received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2009. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Technology at New York City College of Technology. Her primary area of interest includes engineering education, formal methods for modeling real-time systems, digital design, FPGA hardware-based sys- tems, Agile testing, Machine Learning algorithms, and the applications of neural networks.Dr. Benito

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Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Rachida Satio Constance Kone, Morgan State University; ketchiozo wandji; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University; Caroline Kinyanjui, Morgan State University; Vinton Amsley Morris; Jay Jemal; Javaun Rose, Morgan State University

Paper ID #35701A Capstone Project: Designing an IoT Threat Modeling to PreventCyber-attacksMs. Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University Otily Toutsop is a Ph.D. student with a concentration on secure embedded systems in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Morgan State University. She is also affiliated with the Cybersecu- rity Assurance and Policy (CAP) center. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Her research interests focus on IoT Security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical system, software security, home automation systems, and networking security. Her work has

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Wenyen Huang, SUNY New Paltz; Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York at New Paltz; Seth Pearl, Pennsylvania State University

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Paper ID #35689A Pilot Interdisciplinary Robotic Mentorship Project to StudyEngineering Soft Skill DevelopmentDr. WenYen Huang, SUNY New Paltz WenYen (Jason) Huang, huangj18@newpaltz.edu, is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at SUNY-New Paltz. Jason has a particular interest in utiliz- ing technology for enhancing student’s understanding and improving teacher’s instruction in the STEM classroom. He is a former high school mathematics teacher.Dr. Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York at New Paltz Dr. Ping-Chuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of

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Zhiyuan Yu; Jiawei Gong, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

Jiawei Gong yuz29@miamioh.edu jzg317@psu.edu Engineering Technology Mechanical Engineering Miami University, Middletown, OH 45011 Penn State University, Erie, PA 16510 Abstract This research presents analysis of a quick return linkage mechanism utilizing computationalsoftware Mathcad and Inventor. It is implemented as a class project to enhance MechanicalEngineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology students’ understanding of linkagemechanism in courses Dynamics and Machine Dynamics. The objectives of the project are toteach (1) kinematic and kinetic analysis of linkage mechanism (2

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Donna M. Schaeffer, Marymount University; Jillian Drake, Marymount University

and open innovation engineering-related projects become more wide-spread and globally orientated, we must pay attention to cybersecurity issues that can emerge.The sharing of data and personally identifiable information are fundamental aspects ofcrowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives, necessitating the evaluation of the cybersecurityconcerns of user privacy, data confidentiality, data integrity and system availability. Lapseswithin any area of the cybersecurity realm can result in damages to reputation, cause for legaldamage or regulatory action. Governance of crowdsourced projects must include attention to both ethicalconsiderations, as well as cybersecurity issues, regardless of their scope and scale. Theexploitation of

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Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Aws AlShalash

project and research students.Aws AlShalash American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Improve Technical Communication using Scaffolding Method in Mechanical Engineering CoursesAbstractOne of the most effective and well documented ways, throughout literary sources, to educate anddevelop capable and independent professionals such as engineers combines lecture sessions withstep-by-step synergistic activities (experiments and reports). Therefore, many engineeringeducators are seeking experiential learning techniques and implementations that are innovative toassist students understand, exercise, and communicate engineering concepts they

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis P.E., City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; John Migniuolo, Mig-Tech Fluidics Design; Bernard Hunter

engineering careercounsellors. Our outreach effort consisted of a demo showcase of a robotic microfluidic liquid handler,which although was outside the scope of this study, was supported by our industry partners.From Fall 2019 to Spring 2020, we surveyed N=49 students across three different classes(Thermodynamics, AC circuits, and Control Systems) to first build awareness of the DNA instrumentationindustry. Selected students then participated in our yearly Undergraduate Research Program, whichfaculty designed as an 8-week authentic product development effort our industry partners.Student performance outcomes (project deliverables) included successful 3D print verification of our 32-channel dispenser design, raising awareness and self-attitude of

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

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and drop’ and object(sprite) centered programming to create their own versions of the classic Pong game. At the endof the first three weeks students presented their programs to the group.In the second three weeks students were provided with Arduino Uno development kits(https://www.arduino.cc/). They were introduced to the hardware of the Arduino microcontrollerwhich included breadboarding with switches, resisters, potentiometers, LEDs, phototransisters,and an LCD screen. They completed or attempted eight different projects that were detailed in aprojects book that accompanied the kits. This reinforced their exposure to softwareenvironments and fundamentals of programming as well as introducing them to the frustrations,care and patience

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Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University; Sacharia Albin, Norfolk State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University

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. As withmost 2020 summer programs, the SCR2 program was challenged by the novel corona virus(COVID-19) pandemic, which hit the United states during the recruitment period of theproject. Consequently, the project leadership team decided to offer the summer program remotely(on-line) rather than bring students to the participating three campuses across which the programis distributed. The planning and execution of the program during a global pandemic has broughtkey insights into techniques, methods, and technologies for effective cross-site communication,faculty advisor/mentor involvement, participant engagement, and leveraging the strong networkthat connects the participating schools. Essentially, a multi-site remote only combined REU

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Ivan L Guzman P.E., New York City College of Technology; Sara Gómez Woolley, New York City College of Technology

Paper ID #35692A Shoestring Grassroots Approach to Publishing an Open EducationalResource Engineering TextbookProf. Ivan L Guzman P.E., New York City College of Technology Dr. Guzman is an assistant professor at New York City College of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering from New York University (NYU). His research interest include transpar- ent soils, rapid penetration into granular media, sustainability and Green Roof farms. He has over 12 years of pre-academia professional consulting experience in government and private sector projects within the fields of geotechnical, structural and

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Paige Janae Harvey, Morgan State University; Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University

participants to acclimate to their research projects before the programstart.Throughout this work, participants were able to gain or further develop skills in some of thefollowing areas: Ethical Hacking, Data Science, Intrusion Detection Systems, Linux, MachineLearning, Networking, and Python, as well as interact with a designated smart device and testingenvironment. In the first summer, participants were assigned a smart glucose meter and taskedwith 1) exploiting the potential threats associated with installing smart devices onto unsecurednetwork configurations via address resolution protocol (ARP) poisoning, and 2) exploring socialengineering tactics through cloning the device user application. Additionally, in the followingsummer, participants

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Paper ID #35677Overview of Student Innovation Competitions and Their Roles in STEMEducationDr. Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Sadan Kulturel-Konak is a professor of Management Information Systems at Penn State Berks where she is also the director of the Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University. Dr. Kulturel-Konak teaches a variety of courses, such as Project Management, Statistics, Management In- formation Systems, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Engineering Entrepreneurship

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William Rigoberto Mercado, University of South Carolina Beaufort; Gabriela Maria Morales; Ronald Erdei, University of South Carolina

, South Carolina.With a student count of over 100, TCC finds themselves in a situation that using such a tool canbe an effective supplement to their organization’s operation. Yet, with their restricted resourcesstemming from their business model, such a tool cannot be adopted. With the adoption of the SC-ELS guidelines, TCC employ a largely manual process of progress report generation with severalpoints of failure.With this predicament in mind, a small team at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort havetaken the opportunity to work together with TCC to address the need for a better solution.Currently, the project has addressed the ability to generate progress reports dynamically by usingMicrosoft SQL Server, creating progress reports depending

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Rafic Bachnak P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

experiments on campus, six experiments that involved analysis andsoftware simulation, and a final project with an oral presentation. Some final projects includedhardware and software while others were limited to circuit design and software simulation. Thispaper briefly describes six remotely performed exercises that used Multisim to perform circuitanalysis and simulation and help students learn the course material. While there were severalchallenges, overall students were able to perform the experiments and successfully complete afinal project.IntroductionA report by the United Nations estimated that closures of schools and other learning spaces dueto the COVID-19 pandemic impacted 94% of the world’s student population in 2020 [1]. Thisincluded a

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W. M. Kim Roddis, The George Washington University

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the quantity of thewater supply was inadequate, as evidenced by the loss to fire of nearly two-thirds of the contentsof the Library of Congress in 1851. This prompted Congress to allocate funds and task the ArmyCorps of Engineers with determining the means to provide abundant and wholesome water.Montgomery C. Meigs was the engineer heading this Washington Aqueduct project. The GreatFalls on the Potomac River was chosen as the water source, providing both reliable quantity andhydraulic head for firefighting. A diversion dam at Great Falls fed the water into a 12 mile long,9 ft diameter conduit to the Dalecarlia Receiving Reservoir for initial sediment settling. Anotherconduit took the water to the Georgetown Distributing Reservoir for

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Kiril Alexandrov Nikolov, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Xuan Nguyen, The University of Texas at Tyler; Victor Eduardo Ortiz, The University of Texas at Tyler

the University of Texas at Tyler in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He teaches courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory at the Houston Engineering Center. He also has been advisor and mentor to several senior design project groups.Ms. Xuan Nguyen, The University of Texas at Tyler Xuan Nguyen is an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her interests include renewable energy, robotic, design, and automatic and HVAC systems. Also, she has a passion and interest in DIY projects

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Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus; Dimitrios Bolkas, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

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with the most connections with surveyingengineering. In future semesters, we will be gradually adding more courses that are integratedwith surveying RL problems (Table 2), increasing the impact of this project. We expect to addRL problems to one course each semester. In addition, in the future we plan to draw RLproblems from other engineering disciplines such as Civil Engineering, increasing the variety ofRL problems and providing a diverse experience to students. For instance, a very common civilengineering problem is to have a site surveyed and then the total impervious area is calculatedfor a storm-water management plan. When setting a concrete foundation on a rock subsurface theslope of the subsurface is needed to determine if the concrete

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Carl Liu, Brooklyn Technical High School; Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology

work was conducted as a research project during the 2021 STEM Research Academy Summer Internship sponsored by CUNY-New York City College of Technology. 1 Fall 2021 Middle Atlantic Conference November 12-13, 2021Introduction/Background Information Robotic manipulators have been widely used in the industry performing repetitive tasks. Our work investigated the inverse engineering of the C12XL robot. The performed analyses and derivations help for the design of other robotic manipulators of similar kind.Usage of DH convention to assign frames and

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Gabriela Maria Morales, University of South Carolina Beaufort; Ronald Erdei, University of South Carolina; William Rigoberto Mercado, University of South Carolina

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of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) studying Computer Science, soon to graduate in December of 2021. I am a first generation college student within my family in the United States. I take an interest in learning how technological solutions are utilized and the effectiveness of these solu- tions. Additionally, I want to be able to understand real-world problems and potential solutions to assess these issues. During the summer of 2021, I took the opportunity to work with an early learning organization, The Children’s Center (TCC), in South Carolina. Continuing the project started by a peer at USCB and working with another peer the summer of 2021, I learned the importance of working with real world problems and

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Harley H. Hartman P.E., Pennsylvania State University, York Campus

and removed from its original tubular frame. A newmounting base was designed and fabricated, and it was then placed in my garage where it sat forabout 25 years as an unfinished project.The project was pursued though-out the years, but only in the planning stages and the collectionof additional surplus parts to be used in the system. The control system was designed and re-designed several times but physical work, in earnest, did not begin until late 2010. By Fall 2012the system was functional. Additional control elements and features were added periodicallysince the initial commissioning of the system.Students were first invited and attended a demonstration in the Spring of 2013. Thesedemonstrations continued through Fall of 2019. My hope is

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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

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as the work of the individual. If groups of students are working collaboratively on acommon project that is allowed, collusion occurs outside of this context. The possession anduse of prohibited notes, books and material during examination and impersonation. There areother methods of deception as well. These include impersonation, which is a concern in anonline environment and contract cheating. These are examples of violation of the spirit of theacademic integrity policies and may be helpful if these are discussed with the class, defined andpresented to the students as such.What are common mitigation strategies? Inside the LMS are integrated features and tools toassist the instructor to developing some strategies to mitigate some of the

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

exposures made sure that thearchitecture faculty's preoccupation with classicism and technology was supplemented with at leastsome, albeit not well-formed, questions of relevance and ideology though they were still conceivedin terms of neo-rationalism. History was chronological and modernity an inevitable state of beingthat was to be accepted without question. However, there was a conspicuous absence of anti-historicist monumentality in student projects done at that time, and this promised to be a significantdeparture and set the school apart from others [1].Unfortunately, this phase lasted only a few years. Had the Department of Architecture remained withthe Faculty of Fine Arts its history would probably have been different. The teachers of

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Thomas S. Soerens, Messiah University

Create an assessment in addition to the standard IDEA forms o Invite open-ended feedback from studentsIt is possible that turning the ungraded tasks into graded assignments could lose the researchgroup aspect and feel of the model, but this would tighten up some of the inefficiencies in coursedelivery by this model. Inspired by the esprit de corps of the spring hazardous waste class, for afall upper level course with small enrollment of nine, the course project had loosely defined rolesin the hope that students would step up and run with the project. As it turned out, a couplestudents stepped up, but most others used the looseness to avoid doing their share of the project.So it could be that the spring group was the exception or maybe

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Joshua S Wiley, United States Military Academy; MICHAEL Robert GREIFENSTEIN, United States Military Academy, Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering; Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., United States Military Academy

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𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤 2 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤 3 The third framework is one of one-to-one correspondence with lag. The underlyingtheory behind this framework is that a “heavy” week for cadets, particularly in the sense ofacademics, will often result in their proffering of significant assessable work to professors andinstructors. Examples of such work are problem sets, tests, essays, papers, oral recitations, briefs,debates, projects, and lab reports. Faculty, in turn, must devote time to grading that work in someincreased proportion relative to a “typical” faculty week, just as cadets devoted more than typical

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Michael B. O'Connor PE P.E., New York University

Paper ID #35706The Use of Mixed Methods in Academic Program EvaluationMr. Michael B. O’Connor PE P.E., New York University Michael O’Connor, Retired Professional Civil Engineer (Maryland and California), M.ASCE, is a mem- ber of the ASCE Committee on Developing Leaders, History and Heritage, Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBoK), and Engineering Grades. Michael has been a practicing Civil Engineer with over 50 years of engineering, construction, and project management experience split equally between the pub- lic and private sectors. Programs ranged from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit district’s 1990’s

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Ashley Lytle, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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undergraduate degrees compared to the EU’s 1 milliondegrees and China’s 1.7 million degrees in 2016 (NSB, 2020). By 2025, the U.S. is projected tobe short 2 million STEM workers (National Science Foundation, 2018). A better understandingof the barriers that result in students disconnecting or dropping out of STEM fields is essentialfor increasing engagement and retention of STEM undergraduate students.There is a growing demand for skilled STEM workers in both the United States and around theworld. However, despite this growing need for a skilled STEM workforce, there is a highattrition rate among STEM undergraduate students, with 48% of students leaving their STEMfields (Chen, 2013). Leaving a STEM field may involve either changing to a non-STEM

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Eileen Deng, Rye Country Day School; Eunice Lee, Townsend Harris High School; Daniel Shameti, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY ; Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology

focusing on the cardiac health of adolescents would benefitthe most in using the random forest algorithm when doing supervised machine learningclassification studies. While there are a few modified versions of each algorithm studied that mayperform with a greater accuracy with the given data, the outcome of the random forest algorithmproving the highest accuracy nevertheless shows how future adolescent cardiac studies can delveinto modifying the random forest algorithm to perform at an even higher level.Discussion and ReflectionsMuch knowledge on the basics and fundamentals of machine learning and how it works was gainedthrough the execution of this project. Specific knowledge on how machine learning is a type ofartificial intelligence that splits

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Jacky Huang, Villanova University

, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2015,[5] P. Guo, K. Yuan, and Z. Huang, "Develop Web-based Modules to Educate High-School Students in Studying Microbial Fuel Cell Dynamics," presented at the 2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017.[6] S. Nersesov and Z. Huang, "Work in Progress: Development of MATLAB Instructional Modules for Engineering Students," in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, 2019.[7] Z. Huang, Doing Cool Research Projects in Simulating Biochemical Reactors on Computers by a Layperson: MATLAB and R Codes, and Instruction Videos. Lafayette hill: IVY STEM Outreach Publishing, 2019.[8] Z. Huang. (2021

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Andrew Grossfield Ph. D, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Calculus” ASEE Annual Conference, 2010A. Grossfield “Calculus Without Limits” CIEC Annual Conference. 2016A. Grossfield “Partial Derivatives and Tilted Planes in Three Dimensions” CIEC Annual Conference. 2018A. Grossfield “A Comparison of Differential Calculus and Differential Geometry in Two Dimensions” CIEC Annual Conference 2020S. Thompson Calculus Made Easy The Project Gutenberg EBookP. Dawkins http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu