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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Raul Armendariz; Chantale Damas; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

knowledge or experience learnedin the past 1. The role of physics department in a community college can be interpreted as auniversal donor to all engineering departments in terms of student transfer. The learning ofphysics problem solving in terms of fluid intelligence is an effective tool to strengthen thefoundation for technical flexibility to solve problems not learned before. And without fluidintelligence, a student would not even be interested in new horizons such as EntrepreneuriallyMinded Learning.It is important to understand the role of memory in learning when implementing a newpedagogy. Memory and learning are intricately related as revealed by psychology andneuroscience. The striatum and hippocampus are considered to be complementary

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University. This flipped-lab approach would (1) provide opportunities for faculty to challenge the students to perform more complex electronic circuit designs and (2) foster more productive and student-centered peer-to-peer interactions. This paper discusses the implementation of the pedagogy with examples of specific projects, faculty experiences and challenges, and student feedback with the new approach.I. Introduction Benjamin Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” In addition to the proficiency in the technical knowledge, it is important for the students to also become erudite self-learners and effective team players. To

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

semester2015. Course Schedule: Week 1 - General introduction to design process — review of course syllabus, deliverables and outcomes and Project 1: the design, Solidworks® modeling of BNC ‘dust cap’. Weeks 2 + 3 - Review of basic design process and principles and work on 3-D printing of BNC ‘dust cap’ - introduce presentation skills (3 D printing deliverable due). Week 4 – 6 - Review of detailed 7-step design process cycle including additional requirements of Project 2 – A Pod holder / storage / protection and use platform. Week 7 - Each team is assigned one function of the 5-week project: Solar PV lantern. Weeks 8 – 11 – Each team will work with in collaboration with other functional teams to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Scoles

Analysis Passive Solar in HOMER 6 Photovoltaic Chapter 9 (AES) PV panels in Groups defined, Systems pp. 39-42 (SE) HOMER projects distributed 7 Batteries and Lecture videos Batteries in Project Week 1 Generators HOMER 8 Geothermal Chapter 13 (AES) Generators in Project Week 2 Energy pp. 96-99 (SE) HOMER 9 Hydropower Chapter 3 (AES) Project Work

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian

. 1. Examination Module: There are two examinations given, one in the middle of the semester and the other one atthe end of the semester. Each examination is graded for 20% of the total grade for the course.The questions are selected from the entire textbook so that the whole syllabus is covered. Generally the students’ feedback is negative for the Examinations. About 20% of the studentssaid the examinations are good for construction management. 2. Classwork Module: Classwork comprises of 1. Short quizzes that include questions from the textbook which trigger the thinking capacity of the students. 2. Construction related articles reading from construction journals and magazines and answering the questions in the

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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

theinitial approaches to overcome them. Challenges and approaches to overcome them include 1)proceeding with projects where technical expectations exceed course content by applying Just-In-Time Learning, 2) overcoming apparent differences between design approaches inengineering and other academic fields by incorporating an interdisciplinary lexicon intoengineering courses, 3) using protocols for work presentation borrowed from other disciplinesthus allowing for effective team work, and 4) coordinating interdisciplinary team work sessionsand meetings with faculty and sponsors through deliberate course co-scheduling and classroomflipping.2014-2015 is the first academic year in which all these techniques have been analyzed inengineering courses on

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

Clinic. When it comes to the labs, it is up to the instructor tocreate whatever project he/she would like to do, with the only stipulation that the project mustbe able to have concepts from multiple engineering disciplines. This leads to a large variety ofexperiences between classes, with semester long projects such as Facial Recognition, BiofuelSynthesis from Restaurant Oil, Coffee Maker Design Analysis, Flood Mitigation Simulations,and Wind Turbine Design [1]. A common problem arising from this style of collaborativeproject work is that students who are enrolled in an engineering discipline not directly relatedto the project (i.e. “Out-of-Discipline”) tend to lose interest and in turn not gain as muchexperience as those who feel they would use

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Edward M. Land; Michael Marcus; Harley Hartman; Anthony Derosa; Seth Klepper; Eduardo Rayner; Justin Stahl; Hansong Li

and 78°F). Note: The appliance should survive accidental/ sporadic water immersions. 3.0 The HOAD (Hand Opening Assistive Device) consists of a: glove, housing, battery (commercial cell phone), sensors from controller/ with micro-controller, low-power indicator & an articulating thumb-follow assembly. 4.0 General Mechanical Requirements: Weight target between 4-7 ounces, finger extension reaction time of no more than 1-2 seconds, and a strength ratio of 1:5 of up to 5 pounds to open the fist against up to 25 pounds per finger of innate grip. 5.0 Power: Battery life target is based on a total wear time of 6-8 hours which may require a total of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

”. Various lesson plans [be] made available [to] that tutor…(so he) could best choosefrom that ….. tailored toward the course material…”Based on a qualitative analysis of these student interviews the following changes were made to thepeer tutoring model for the summer section of the same course: 1. Changed name of “peer tutor” to “keystone” in all course documentation. 2. Added more explicit instructions for the Keystone in the syllabus to describe the role, benefits, and activities of the keystone as well as describe the guidance that is available from the instructor. 3. Created “learning (or technical) notes” that will be shared by the instructor with the keystone at the beginning of each week. 4. Created an additional

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

in the inverted classroom format are well founded in theliterature. Active learning has been demonstrated to be beneficial for learning for the vastmajority of students in engineering classes.2 However, there is a general perception that with thefixed time available in the classroom and apparently ever increasing demands on that time, it is Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitydifficult to find the time to include significant active learning components. The invertedclassroom can be used to increase the classroom time for active learning without reducing thecontent covered in the course.3 Also, the inverted classroom allows for learning to occur in aformat that more closely resembles how

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

Building an Innovation And Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at Bucknell University  1​ 2  Joseph Tranquillo​, Keith Buffinton​ 1​ 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering​, Dean of the College of Engineering​     Introduction Universities across the country and globe have begun building, both strategically and organically, new programs, centers and regional partnerships to help develop the innovators of tomorrow (Byers et al., 2013; Neck and Green, 2011; Wei, 2005). As a result, the number of innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities on college campuses have grown