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A. Kabalan

1 Think – Pair – Share: A Case Study in an Electrical Engineering Class A. Kabalan Introductory electrical engineering classes focus on Abstract—Think - Pair - Share is a pedagogical practice that introducing students to a set of new concepts which can beaims at increasing and varying student participation in the applied for practical purposes. In such classes students areclassroom. Research has shown that

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James Solderitsch

safely (e.g. pipeline sensors, controls, UAVs to monitor pipeline fields). If these services are disrupted, they can impact safety as well as brand reputation. Customers will embrace a more connected lifestyle only if they feel protected from unwarranted intrusions into their personal space, and can be given a clear understanding (a) IOT Complexity (b

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JERRY-DARYL FLETCHER; LeeRoy Bronner; Yacob Astatke

universities, includingpercent of the workforce whilst accounting for 13 percent of independent institutions within six years of initial enrollmentthe population. According to ASEE, only 4.3% of all [4].Engineering Bachelors’ degrees in 2013 were awarded to Sustainability: the ability of a system to successfully withstandAfrican American students. As a result of this disparity in the the test of time.representation of minorities in the engineering workforce therehave been several initiatives and programs that have been B. Introductionfunded by government and private sources to address theseneeds. A recent study done by the American Society for

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak; Gül E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan E. Esparragoza

learning outcomes forcomplete a summative evaluation of teamwork projects by professional skills are well-defined in the literature, and manyconsidering: (a) individual behavior of each member within the institutions have incorporated them into their program goalsteam; (b) individual contribution of each team member to the and objectives as required by the accreditation boards (i.e.,project; (c) project process within the team; and (d) project ABET). In the final level, these rubric items are also organizedoutcomes. Some online tools such as SPARK [30] and CATME and reformulated in terms of the MDL components (i.e.,[16] have been developed to manage self- and peer- evaluations knowledge

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Holly T. Frederick

. B. Phase 2 II. STUDENT PROJECT DESCRIPTION The second phase of the project asks students to delve In the Environmental Engineering Program at Wilkes deeper into a chosen area of interest. They may use theirUniversity, students in their junior year are transitioning into initial topic as a baseline or may build on a topic suggested bydesign work for their engineering discipline. The transition is another student. The focus of the second phase is to identifychallenging for students as they move from the classic the problem or concern with the chosen area. The secondproblem solving approach that is found in many

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Shanelle M. Harris; LeeRoy Bronner

the entity. The criterion section defines the conditions ∃ there exists,establishing the relationships between the state variables. The quantifiers are defined as: ∀ for all. b) Set Theory Set theory deals with sets, their operations, relationshipsand statements about these relations [8]. A set is a collectionof different types of elements. Sets can be defined as a Three other very key operators in developing statements incollection M of definite and distinct objects m of our intuition predicate calculus

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Abdullah Konak; Jungwoo Ryoo; Sadan Kulturel-Konak

presented. The objective is to introduce background on thea cookbook approach, students can achieve a higher level of subject matter and prepare students for the much more detailedlearning [4], [5]. We have also observed that student-to-student and technical knowledge that will be presented in hands-oninteractions in the CVCLAB have a significant positive impact activities. Consequently, more detailed reading materials areon the competency development of students [6]. typically included with hands-on activities. B. SEE-IT III. D ESCRIPTION OF THE O NLINE D ELIVERY M ODEL We have developed many narrated animations further to

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L. Simon

Development of a Web-based Computing Platform to Teach Controlled-Release Technology L. Simon addition, the influence of an array of conditions on a processAbstract— Traditional drug-delivery techniques, such as oral can be assessed immediately. However, learning throughformulations and injections, fail to establish continuous, targeted simulation, alone, has disadvantages, such as a lack of insightrelease of a medication to specific sites. In addition to problems into the mechanisms of action, but will

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Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

their grade level. This was quite those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those ofimpressive and showed that the teachers’ confidence levels the funding organizations.with using the various technologies had significantly REFERENCES[1] L. Blum and T. J. Cortina, “CS4HS: An Outreach Program for High School CS Teachers,” in Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2007, pp. 19–23.[2] A. Bruckman, M. Biggers, B. Ericson, T. McKlin, J. Dimond, B. DiSalvo, M. Hewner, L. Ni, and S. Yardi, “’Georgia computes!’: Improving the Computing Education Pipeline” in Proceedings of the 40th SIGCSE

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Velma Latson; Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Daryl Stone

The Impact of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to Teach Programming at a Historically Black College and University Velma Latson, Lethia Jackson, Courtney Lamar, and Daryl Stone Bowie State University vlatson@bowiestate.edu, ljackson@bowiestate.edu, clamar@bowiestate.edu, dstone@bowiestate.edu The MOOC was used in the Computer Principles and Abstract— There is little research that describes the Technology (COSC 111) course. This is an introductoryimpact of the incorporation of massive open online computer science course offered in

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Russell Woleslagle; Brian Swartz P.E.

> REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR PAPER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (DOUBLE-CLICK HERE TO EDIT) < 1 A Bridge in Panama: Case Study of Messiah College Project-Based Learning Russell Woleslagle and Brian Swartz The IPC formalizes a mechanism by which Engineering Abstract— The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and students can complete an internship with the CollaboratoryApplied Research offers unique collaborative project and receive academic credit for the work accomplished. Theopportunities for

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Leah M. Akins; Daniel C. Barbuto; Mark G. Courtney

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Kyle V. Moses; W. Michael Petullo

[12] and early work by Rushby edge to which educational experiences must bring students[30]. should they be prepared to craft robust software. IV. B LOOM ’ S TAXONOMY V. C ASE STUDY: ANALYZE A SECURITY EXERCISE From an educational standpoint, security failures are due to The Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Conference,practitioners attempting to manage the security problem at the hosted annually by the New York University Polytechnicless-sophisticated levels of Bloom’s hierarchy. A number of School of Engineering, includes a Capture

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Matuga Obed; Guangming Chen

interaction factors, we determine that there is interaction between A (Nurses) and C (Beds), B 0 (Physicians) and D (patients/day). This can be seen from the non-parallel lines by the significant factors. That means that we should look more careful into what kind of affectsDesign of experiments these are and how they affect the system. TheyIn order to determine the significance of the are described in more details in the contourresources in the

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F.T. Fisher; R.S. Besser; K. Sheppard; C.H. Choi; E.H. Yang

) award from the OfficeUndergraduate Involvement in Computer Science Research,” Proceedings of of Naval Research (ONR).the 8th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education, Cape Town,South Africa, 2005. E.H. YANG is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has been the recipient of a number of awards,12. A.L. Zydney, J.S. Bennett, A. Shahid, and K.W. Bauer, “Faculty including Lew Allen Award for Excellence, NASA ICB Space Act Awards,Perspectives Regarding the Undergraduate Research Experience in Science Bonus (Level B and C) Awards and

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Adel Setoodehnia; Andrew Pantaleo

1. Use equation 13 to calculate the displacement of the first segment of movement (distance when car is being pushed by( ) (22) the mousetrap) 2 .Use equation 14 to calculate the final velocity (vf)B. Procedure of Calculating Frictional Force 3. Calculate the inertia of the non-driven wheels using 1. Set up a Dynamic Track so that it can be tilted equation 18 2. Place the car on the track and tilt it so that the car rolls 4. Use equation 19 to calculate the initial angular velocitydown at a constant

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Tristan Ericson; Scott Kiefer

of this This work was submitted for review to be presented at the ASEE Mid- S. Kiefer is with York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA 17403 USA.Atlantic Fall 2014 Conference on October 3, 2014. (email: skiefer@ycp.edu). T. Erison is with York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA 17403 USA.(email: tericson@ycp.edu).the students in their design notebook along with their assigned B. Graded Milestonesgrade. Each student was also required to individually produce Several project milestones, with task completion dates, wereone written report at the midpoint of each semester, and a final given to each project subgroup at the beginning of eachreport at the end of each semester. As a subgroup, students

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Pritpal Singh; Maria Virginia Moncada

projects are proceeding relativelywell by working around many of these issues. Some changes are being considered for the nextround of projects based on the lessons learned from the experiences executing the program for thefirst time. Details of the changes to the program to make the projects run more smoothly will bepresented at a future conference.References[1] P. Singh, S. Kulkarni, E. Keech, R. McDermott-Levy, and J. Klingler, “Progress on Making Healthcare more accessible to Rural Communities in Waslala, Nicaragua, using Low-Cost Telecommunications, IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (Seattle, WA), Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2011[2] P. Singh, R. McDermott-Levy, E. Keech, B. Mariani, J. Klingler and M.V. Moncada, “Challenges and

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Mahmoud Elsayed; Paul Cotae

= 50KHz). SAM-1 acoustic transducers provided by Desert Star Systems, a hydrophone to measure sound underwater, and B. Noise an acoustic speaker to generate noise. The data was The ambient Noise in ocean can be represented as

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Seri Park

high. II. BACKGROUND This section describes the inter-relation between engineering B. Survey resultseconomics class (CEE 3705 Engineering Economics) and other To fully capture needs and importance of engineeringcore courses of CEE curriculum at Villanova University. In economics course contents, a survey was further conducted andaddition, survey results that reinforce the importance of distributed to various stakeholders’ including academia, publicengineering economics course are also presented. and private sectors. Survey results confirmed the importance of

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Kanti Prasad

Carolina. He is a registered Professional Engineer,P.E., in the State of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the ASEE’s  campus  representative  at the James B. Francis College of Engineering. He   was   inducted   in   the   ASEE’s   Academy  Fellows in 2012 based on his excellence on teaching research service to the ASEE. He is also thegraduate Semiconductor/VLSI certificate coordinator. He has been teaching and has an industrialexperience of 40+ years. He is the author of over 200 theses, dissertations and papers publishedand presented in journals/conferences of national and international repute. 7. AcknowledgementsThe author is highly grateful to the sponsors of the program from the Hi-Tech Industry

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Ruth Ochia P.E.

-med) and those that do not. Thisaddition, we were asked to change our first year curriculum to potentially allows for students to shift from one pathway tohave a “common first year” with the other departments within another within each grouping.the college, which included an Introduction to Engineeringcourse in the fall and a department-specific course in the B. Biologyspring. Finally, we were asked to reduce the number of Moving the biology course to the second year enablesrequired courses to allow more flexibility in schedules for the transfer students to get on track more easily, especially if theystudents. To this end we were asked to add two “free are moving from another engineering

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Xuejun Qian; Seong W. Lee

[23].simplification because the temperatures change constantly in thereal world. The steady-state heat flow (U-factor or R-value) is a part B. Building Energy Modeling and Statistical Analysis Toolsof the basic vocabulary of building energy performance because of In this study, building energy modeling software (TRACETM 700)it is easy to understand and use. However, U-factor can predict and statistical software (Minitab ® 17) was adopt as the modelingaverage heat flow rates over time and is commonly used to explain and analysis tools.the thermal performance of construction assemblies. For the U- To analysis and manage effectively a building’s energyfactors, they are the lower the better

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Alisa Morss Clyne

Problem-based Learning to Integrate Biomechanical Engineering Research and Design into Co-operative Education Alisa Morss Clyne, PhD biomechanical engineering courses within the department do Abstract—Mechanical engineers often have limited not leverage faculty research strengths or focus on translatingunderstanding of current biomechanical engineering research research into consumer devices. Furthermore, whileareas and how they apply to biomedical technology. Through a cooperative education

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Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

Abstract—Computer System Technology is an there are a large number of careers that graduates from ITenormously vibrant field that emerged at the end of the programs enter [8]. Those careers show an enormous diversitylast century as our society experienced a fundamental and the knowledge base and skill sets required for eachchange from an industrial society to an “information consequently vary widely as well. The curriculum shouldsociety.” This in turn demands changes to the curriculum therefore be designed in a way that gives an institutionof Computer Systems degree programs at colleges and considerable freedom in tailoring the curriculum to the needsuniversities so

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Carla D. Wheaden

1 The Degradation of Radome Panels due to Probabilistic Extreme Wind Events Carla D. Wheaden prediction of the occurrence of extreme wind events in Guam. Abstract—Radomes house and protect valuable satellite Wind gust maximum speed data were collected from aequipment worldwide, and the health of the structures is database of monthly wind measurements over a period of 20monitored by reliability engineers