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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University; Devin Connor Whalen, Bucknell University

) demonstrations of theirideas during the last 6 weeks of the semester. The results were very encouraging from thisproject-based learning innovation to our course labs. Our intent was to reinforce thefundamentals of circuits they had learned through the course with a real-world challenge to seehow many more things PV may be able to economically power in the future. This paper sharessome of the exciting project results as well as the student assessment of this novel lab addition.Why Photovoltaic Applications as Project-Based Learning and Extended Labs? Incorporating extended laboratories into core engineering courses can have numerousbenefits, such as promoting deeper learning and enhancing the application and retention offundamental concepts

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Joanna F. DeFranco, Penn State University; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University; Robin Havens Tate, The Pennsylvania State University; Sven G. Bilén P.E., Pennsylvania State University

meet this challenge at Penn State, we built andlaunched an online Doctorate in Engineering program aimed at working professionals who desireto advance their career by demonstrating the ability to conduct and lead applied research withinan industrial, military, organizational, or governmental setting.Penn State, long respected and consistently recognized for having one of the top engineeringprograms in the country, offers its online D.Eng. program through the Penn State World Campus.The courses are taught by Penn State faculty with strong academic credentials and real-worldexperience. The D.Eng. program positions doctoral graduates to advance to high-level leadershippositions in research and engineering in both the private and public sectors

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Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Jeong Eun Ahn; Ying Tang, Rowan University

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waterrelated careers and provide exposure to all of the opportunities [4]. The goal of WaterTalk is tohelp bring the real world data into the classroom. This can create a more real image for studentsof the processes of various water related fields. The activity also gives the students exposure todifferent forms of technology that they may not ordinarily have access to. Regardless of location,age, or physical condition, students using WaterTalk are able to remotely access the real timedata to learn [10]. We developed a remote sensing system for water quality parameters and also asensor for detecting chlorophyll that is indicative of algal blooms.The Virtual Reality Center, located off of Route 55 at the South Jersey Technology park atRowan University

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

nature of their practicalsuggestions. More and more recommendations were made as scientific facts rather thanas tentative descriptions for the real world outside laboratory. Although there is anexpectation among psychologists and educators that it should be possible to derive quiteexplicit prescriptions for educational practice from the comprehensive learning theories.If an educator is going to select a learning theory, it would seem reasonable to expect thathe/she would pick the theory which provides the most complete and valid description oflearning as it occurs in the classroom.ObjectivesThe objectives of this paper is to review a number of learning theories and learning stylesrelated to construction management students and report a case

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Carmen Cheng; Steven Rotolo, Northeastern University

would interact with the PAL. Our firstinvolved running different drills several times with 1 test subject. This could resemble when anindividual is training with the ladder and exercising different muscle movements. These drills,sometimes called by different names, were the “bunny hop” (fig. 11), "alternating feet" (fig. 12),and the “single leg in-and-out” (fig. 13). These drills were chosen because they are all relativelycommon among current agility ladder users and imitate real-world usage. Fig. 11: “Bunny hop” Fig. 12: “Alternating feet” Fig. 13: “Single leg in-and-out”For the second dataset, five different subjects performed the same drill, thus simulating whengroups of people take turns running an exercise. The chosen

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Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

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science students an opportunity to participate in authentic research experiences with faculty and graduatestudents. It has two components as lecture and research activities. Students spend two to four hours per week workingon research projects as a team. Introduction to Scientific Research is cross-listed among Computer, Electrical,Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science programs. The course objectives are (1) To identify real-worldproblems and survey their broader impacts, (2) To brainstorm possible solutions to real-world research problems, (3)To apply the scientific method while solving a real-world research problem, (4) To develop basic laboratory skills andsafety procedures relevant to the project, (5) To communicate scientific

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; David Robert Schneider; Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University

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their roles in curricular interventions. In particular, student innovation competitionshave long been essential to STEM education [1]. Research suggests that student competitionsprovide many benefits and experiences: experiencing teamwork [2], peer interactions andleadership, promoting creativity [3], gaining self-efficacy and enthusiasm, building a growthmindset, working on real-world applications, accessing informal mentorship, and connectingwith employers [4-6]. It is crucial to practice some skills, such as leadership within a technicaldomain, and participation on an engineering competition team is a popular activity in this regard[7].Another objective of student competitions is to foster an entrepreneurial and innovative mindsetamong

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Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

from research memos, notes, and informal student conversation weresubjected to the first cycle of thematical coding analysis using a combined descriptive andexploratory coding techniques. Three themes emerged from this pilot study. First, students placehigher value on hands-on versus demonstration style experimental labs. Second, arrangement ofequipment and student access and visibility of equipment is vital for both online virtual anddemonstration style labs. Third, the instructor’s style of engagement and way of connecting theexperiment to real world applications influences how students perceive and value the learningexperience. Connecting learning outcomes and student curricular roadmap to the mechanisms oflaboratory delivery should be

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Billal Tamer Gomaa, Penn State University

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LensAbstract:Physics generally falls under engineering programs yet is required for a multitude of differentmajors spanning many departments and disciplines including medicine. When people think aboutthe medical field, their mind immediately goes to classes such as biology, chemistry, anatomyand physiology. However, when looking at the prerequisite courses for medical school or testedMCAT content, there seems to be one subject that doesn’t fit in with the rest: physics. For years,pre-health students have joked that physics is much less applicable to their future careers than theother courses. The goal of this research paper is to tackle the general student assumption thatunderstanding physics will not help them in their respective fields by providing real

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Isabella Huang; Qianwen Zhao, Stevens Institute of Technology; Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Long Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

groupproject, depending on student preferences and the specific skills that they would like to gain fromthis project. The following Gantt chart is a typical timeline for a high school student workingindividually during school days, which means that the student only works on the project 1-2 hoursper day.ConclusionThe project-based design and development environment provides high school students with a greatopportunity to apply their learning from K-12 STEM courses to solve real-world problems. Usinghobby-level 3D modeling, mechatronics, software programming, and easily accessible materials,this project can be completed independently or added to high school robotics extracurriculars.Through designing and building the open-source desktop robotic

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Preethi Chandran, Howard University; Arlene P Maclin; John Harkless; Courtney J. Robinson, Howard University; Hassan Salmani; Sonya T Smith, Howard University; Gloria Washington, Howard University; Hessam Yazdani, University of Missouri

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years of their higher education, their chance ofobtaining a bachelor’s degree significantly increases. Since early engagement in authentic research has thepromise of students seeing that STEM work is interesting, rewarding, and important to real-world problems,the URE program presented in this paper was specifically designed to include only freshmen andsophomores with a primary objective of improving their retention and success in STEM fields. In thissense, it is aligned with the 2012 PCAST recommendations that “One way to engage and, therefore, retainstudents in STEM subjects is to involve them in contemporary, authentic research during the first two yearsof college” [16]. 82

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Adomas Povilianskas, Penn State University, ESM ; Henrietta R Tsosie, Pennsylvania State University

visualization. There are many words which can be used to describe concepts andphenomenon. Sometimes the meaning may be lost due to differences in interpretation oflanguage between the student and the teacher which may manifest due to cultural and ethnicdifferences. Visual aids allow the student to develop their own interpretation of the concept,using their internal language and understanding, which then can be guided by us the instructors.For instance, in Statics, the use of traditional methods of drawing isometric free-body diagramsand sketches representing vector mathematics concepts can be challenging; especially whilemodeling the physical world using vector mathematics in 3D space. In this work, we create and implement supplemental course

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Sean Knecht, Penn State University

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Multidisciplinary Capstone course has been designed to facilitate teamformation with students from across multiple engineering departments, providing an analogue tothe real-world engineering teams on which the students will find themselves in their careers.Each engineering department hosts sections of the course, with projects assigned to the coursesand their instructional faculty. The projects are sourced from industry or from Universityresearch laboratories, with the faculty and the sponsors refining the project, pre-semester, to bestelucidate the needs of the project from a student educational-background perspective. Students are assigned to capstone projects through a semi-automated system that takesinto account their project preferences, as