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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

depth, and presentationskills, which we believe are crucial for producing successful and engaged alumni.In the current version of the capstone, computer science students in the GW B.S. program takean 8-credit one-year course sequence in senior design for their course requirements. In thiscourse, students must demonstrate working software containing a significant algorithmiccomponent developed by the student, and for an application that is new to the world. The coursefeatures many elements including: design and software engineering, writing for broad audiences,oral presentations, staged development of the student product, use of modern software tools, andcontact with alumni to bridge students towards their future work environments. The

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

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

is fundamentally responsible for the observed deficiency in mathematicalvisualization among the academically weaker students would deserve more investigation; not tomention that critical thinking would depend on fundamental thinking process which is an activeresearch topic in brain scan studies 16.Writing with good reasoning is expected of a critical thinker-student. Critical thinking had beendescribed as “tends to be open ended and unpredictable, dialectical, and influenced by pragmaticand contextual considerations which are not easily assessed using the standard means of largescale testing, i.e., multiple choice tests; instruments like the California Critical Thinking Testhave therefore been criticized” in the field of informal logic 17

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Benito Mendoza

, labs, quizzes and practice certification tests. It consists ofseventeen chapters that include computer concepts, network devices and cables, fundamental andadvanced LAN switching, IP v4 and IPv6, basic and advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, EIGPRprotocols), WAN configuration and network management, and network security. The content andlabs are delivered online; thus, it gives instant, anywhere access through most major browsers onboth PC and Mac, and some mobile devices. The included hands-on labs let the students practiceboth hardware and software configuration tasks in a virtual environment.The course runs in a 15 week semester with two sessions of 3 hours per week. One session wemeet in the classroom and the other session is online. The online

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Edward A. Petersen

the most benefitfrom a school visit the engineer mentors spend time with teachers answering their questionsabout the future technologies which may be headed into the classroom. This often becomes avery beneficial informal professional development experience. An engineer in the classroommay inspire 20 or 25 students. An engineer who inspires a teacher will produce a return oninvestment many times greater when factoring-in the students the inspired teacher will influenceduring his/her remaining career. This third fundamental rule gave the STEM Education Officeits slogan, “Win the Teachers, Win the War, Lose the Teachers, Lose the War.” Providingprofessional development training for teachers is the cornerstone of Picatinny outreach. iv

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

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

the graded policy. Ifthe grading has little weight on writing an explanation, the students would simply ignore theverbal thinking aspect and just apply algorithm learning to get to the numerical answers asked inphysics questions. In a typical example where a block on a ramp is connected to a verticallyhanging block via a cord, the acceleration and tension can be calculated with algorithm learning.However, in a learning assessment in terms of verbal thoughts and writing skill, most of thestudents would fail to show in their writing that the acceleration answer must be less than 9.8m/s/s; and that the tension is the force that pulls up the block on the ramp and the same tensionprevents the vertically hanging block from free falling by acting as

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Oludare Owolabi

step solution of most problems are provided in each of the module. Thevideos have been developed in a screencast format and they are suitable for visual and auditorylearners, consequently giving students a chance to get some fundamental concepts clarified. Theadvantage is that the student can rewind and stop as well as watch the video clips as many timesas needed and learn the concepts at their pace. The online learning system used (The Black Board)provides the instructor with the ability to track how much time student spend on the videos. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUPreliminary analysis shows strong statistical association between the numbers of time spendwatching the video and final course