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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

. Until recently, it was not cost effective to provide Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitystudents with access to real world examples of IT infrastructure. There have been several reportson the need to reform engineering and computer science education6,7, as well as reports on thetransformative power of early curriculum redesign efforts in this field8. As part of thistransformation, the gap between teaching methods and practitioner’s skills can be addressed, atleast in part, through new teaching models such as flipped classrooms9,10 and increasedacademic partnerships (the latter have also been shown to help foster interdisciplinaryeducation).In this paper, we discuss a new undergraduate

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

of the Architecture /Engineering / Construction (AEC) industry.“Construction is a cyclical industry that tends to go through periodic robust expansions andpronounced contractions,” explains Adam Hadi of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.3 Thesecontractions are more pronounced than general job losses in the economy. The effects ripplethroughout the AEC industry, albeit with some delays in the professional services sectors. Iffailing to teach positioning relative to future waves dooms one as a surfer, why would weeducate engineers and construction managers to work in cyclical industries without addressingpositioning, given the pronounced ups and downs expected during a long career?Finally, the top twelve desirable skills [Mean significance values

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn Gross

periods arespecifically designed to be active learning sessions, which allow for better integration ofindividual concepts to attain a higher level of application. While the 50-minute sessions involveshort lectures and the solution of multiple stand-alone problems, several of the flex periods areused for combined analytical and laboratory-type experiences that extend far beyond simplesingle-concept problems similar to those found in most textbooks. Other uses of the flex periodinclude computation-based overarching problems that involve a series of independent butcomplementary calculation steps to solve a larger problem, and comprehensive examinations.This paper discusses how the flex periods are used in the Mechanics I course, and presents

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Arthur Rozario; Zhenkang Yang; Abe Yang; San Peng; Qing Guan; Ying Dong; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

as a client, has beenfound to useful. There is ample evidence from the consumer market where EEG equipment isavailable for rental usage for those wanting to conduct neuro- feedback practice at home. Theclient (acted out by a professor) confidence criterion would be fulfilled by the various EEG dataanalysis learning activities such as N2 and P3 signal extraction when a company (acted out by astudent) can complete the noise-filter computation. The client confidence would increase withFFT outputs in various frequency bands beyond simple signal extraction. The company productoverview/summary is simply the student project report. The rich variety of EEG consumertechnology, including brain computer interface application, is a solid platform to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger; Wenli Guo; Eva Hampton; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

dynamics animation, 100 pedestrians, posed on UltramarineNeutrinos dot com 19, wasbased on the Kwak methodology of using exponential force representation. The python scriptprovided by UltramarineNeutrinos dot com had been checked out as well.The pedestrian dynamics example emphasizes on the representation of an empirical force basedon the observed velocity change per unit time. A recent paper discovered that the pedestrian’sprojected time to a potential future collision would form a universal scaling law 20.The datashowed that the interaction energy was well described by a power law with exponent 2, as shownbelow.E (τ ) ~ ( k/ τ 2 ) exp ( - τ / τ 0)Where k is a constant and τ is the time to collision, τ0 is the largest observed value in

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Matthew J. Traum; Christopher F. Anderson; Christopher M. Pastore; Michael J. Leonard

approach.Figure 4: (Left) Students from engineering, industrial design, and business collaborate to achieveall goals imposed on the team by their individual specific disciplines. (Right) an interdisciplinaryteam, including engineering students, pitches ideas in a “charrette” format to an industry groupfrom a sponsoring company.Project Technical Requirements Exceed Course Content CoverageUndergraduate engineering course content is traditionally relatively static. It can be difficult toalign this static content with the complexity of industry-sponsored projects through courseoutcomes and content coverage needs. In analog to practicing engineers in successful businesses,the engineering students must often work in technical areas beyond what they have

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Thomas Ask

smartphones has increasingly become the first step indesign for some students. Personal electronic devices allow students increased control oversome of their design environment as well as providing potentially increased distractions.Introduction“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know,” opined the French philosopher BlaisePascal.1 We grasp truth beyond our reasoning ability and we struggle to parse the allure of apoem or the beauty of art; they seem to stand apart from the world of science. Creativeexpression exists in design and this aspect of design is difficult to approach in a structured,positivist manner. Therefore, we peek around the edges of design in numerous ways. In theengineering disciplines this starts with mechanistic