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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

(NYPIRG) as a community client isdiscussed in this report. NYPIRG is an organization with concerns on social issues. Theirwebsite has a clear description of its mission. The New York State's largest student-directedresearch and advocacy organization is NYPIRG 2. The current focuses are on environmentalprotection, consumer rights, higher education, government reform, voter registration, masstransit and public health. NYPIRG is a nonpartisan and not-for-profit group with the aim oftraining students and other New Yorkers to be advocates.NYPIRG conducts student meetings and student generated quantitative reports would promoteconversations with substantial evidence in social learning and enhance informal STEM (ScienceTechnology Engineering Mathematics

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rachel A. Brennan

fundamental technical skills (29% SA; 67% A), inspiredthem to learn more than if it had been a theoretical problem (38% SA; 62% A), and believed thatit was a better learning experience than a typical classroom activity (45% SA; 50% A). Workingwith a team made students more effective collaborators (14% SA; 71% A), contributed to theirlearning in the course (19% SA; 48% A), and enhanced their leadership skills (19% SA; 62% A).The international aspect of the project enhanced student learning (19% SA; 62% A), encouragedthem to think about social impacts while creating engineering solutions (38% SA; 52% A), andinspired them to deliver a quality design for the community (33% SA; 62% A).This work is significant because it is one of the first international

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

measure the perceived benefits of teamwork, the following five questions were used(Cronbach's α=0.817):  Teamwork improves the quality of final project outcomes  Teamwork keeps me more engaged and interested in project tasks  Teamwork helps me learn new concepts from others  Teamwork makes it possible to complete class projects on a timely manner  Teamwork helps me to improve my communication skillsAs shown in Figure 4, a strong relationship was observed between the class standing and theteamwork attitude and benefits. The third and fourth year students had a slightly more positiveattitude toward teamwork and marginally higher perceived benefits from teamwork than the firstand second year students. A one-way ANOVA was

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David W. Dinehart; Warren Chan; Dorothy W. Skaf

. Comparing batteries and solar cells c. Investigating surface tension d. Testing a wooden I-joist Figure 3. Examples of activities for the joint campus visit.College Student OutcomesService learning in first-year engineering courses has been shown to positively impact severalengineering leadership skills, including communication, problem solving, team skills, creativityand self-confidence2. For the NovaCANE students, the technical concepts involved in thepresentation are fundamental and are not a major area of growth, however the students growprofessionally by coordinating and delivering the learning activities at the host schools.Informal assessment indicates that NovaCANE students feel their experiences have

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

selected basedupon each institution’s STEM outreach activities. All the participating intuitions have extensiveSTEM education outreach programs for K-12 students and are actively engaged throughout thelocal community. Figure 1: One of the customers discussing educational needs of a device with students (left), examples of final product designs developed by students in phase 2 (center), and the customer attending prototype demonstration to give feedback (right).Assessment and analysisStudent assessmentTo understand how the course helped strengthen the 21st century skills among the students, anassessment instrument was designed and administered. The assessment allowed for self-evaluation conducted by the students and independent measures of

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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

learning2,3 that since 2009 changedthe overall student learning experience. The phrase Nexus Learning encompasses four overallapproaches: 1) students are active and engaged; 2) they are involved in learning how tocollaborate and work across disciplines; 3) their curriculum focuses on real world problems;professional training, and experiential learning; and 4) with all of these learning experiences Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitystudents are drawing upon and integrating a strong knowledge of the ways of thinking of theliberal arts and sciences. By themselves each approach is not unique, but the combination of realworld learning with pedagogies that ensure active engagement and effective

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

specification fidelity, clerking and sourcing in theengineering process. We discuss implementation, outcomes, and student feedback to these real-world exercises.I. IntroductionEngineering projects need parts, and teaching the sourcing and procurement of parts within a 16-week course has the risk of incurring schedule and cost delays, but the benefit of immersing thestudent in the necessity for fidelity and ability to deal with under-defined real world problems aswell as handling human factors in communications. Teaching good sourcing and procurement ofparts in engineering leads to better senior project outcomes and better primes students for theirfuture jobs, as well as providing skills for entrepreneur-minded learners who thrive on real worldtasks. In

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Garrett M. Clayton; Allen Tan; Jordan Ermilio; Aaron Wemhoff

impact in the international engineering community. 2) Introduce future engineers to humanitarian engineering issues. ASME identifies engineering solutions for the developing world as one of the key issues facing engineering in the next 20 years1. By working in a developing country on humanitarian Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University engineering issues – specifically issues associated with explosive remnants of war (ERW) remediation – students are able understand and meet the unique constraints that exist when engineering in this context (e.g., cost constraints and availability and/or quality of materials).As mentioned, the goals of this collaboration are

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

/entrepreneurs­incubator.html​ ), located in downtown Lewisburg adjacent to the SBDC, founded in 2012, provides space for student, faculty, and community ventures, and organizes regular StartUp Lewisburg Tech Meetups. The Bucknell Entrepreneurship Network was created to engage alumni. A sophomore residential experience was created in 2014, called the Entrepreneurship & Innovation House, where “entrepreneurship is  taught through hands­on programs and conversations with successful alumni.” In 2013 we became one of 19 schools nationwide to offer the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program (​ www.grandchallengescholars.org/​ ) that is “a combined curricular and extracurricular program designed to prepare students to solve the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

teaching engineering solution approach involving concept generation,selection, prototyping and validation. In majority of cases, significant emphasis is put onteaching the engineering solution strategy for a specific problem statement that was introduced tothe students. Rarely is an emphasis placed on problem identification. Innovation often takes a bighit due to insufficient experience in identifying unmet needs, especially in the field ofBiomedical Engineering that fosters on the mission of improving society, human health andhealth care. This paper includes details of integrating clinic and classroom settings to teachBiomedical Engineering students about observation and identification of an unmet biomedicalengineering problem, followed by

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ryan Richards; Abdullah Konak; Michael R. Bartolacci; Mahdi Nasereddin

computer laboratory (CVCLAB) which hosts a collection of virtual machines on which students can test their skills without affecting physical computers in Penn State’s physical network. Students are granted full administrative privileges on the virtual machines and can perform high risk operations that are not usually allowed on the campus computers and networks. In the last three years, we have investigated the utilization of virtual machines for teaching information security skills in both group and individual settings. In this paper, we discuss the impact of collaborative activities performed in the CVCLAB on student learning based on our empirical studies. We conducted a series of experiments in

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityCOE faculty members have yet to include modules in their classes designed to instill theentrepreneurial mindset in their students. Professors spearheading the engineeringentrepreneurship minor have visited several classes to guest lecture on the engineeringentrepreneurial mindset and have spoken to all freshmen in the Introduction toEngineering class. Nevertheless, it is important to get additional full-time engineeringfaculty engaged in the process of instilling the entrepreneurial mindset throughout thestudents’ undergraduate careers. 2.   Entrepreneurially Minded Learning – EMLThe Kern Family Foundation started the KEEN with the goal to "graduate engineers withan entrepreneurial mindset so

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

reflectnarrowing focus on theory produced positive outcomes that we will discuss in the results sectionof this paper. The following is a list of topics discussed in the course in sequence and how theywere restructured to better engage students: Table 1. Course Syllabus Before and AfterTopics 2012 Syllabus 2014 Syllabus Communication Systems, Digital vs Analog Information revolution: information, signal and1 signals message Networks from the telegraph to the internet,2 Digital representation of information

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

mission topromote the economic benefits of this technology across the state, Marist has formed academicpartnerships with other public, private, and Ivy League schools, including NYCCT/CUNY, aswell as industry partners including IBM, Brocade, Ciena, Adva, and many others. Thecollaboration between multiple industry sponsors and academic partners provides a forcemultiplier which increases the impact on a student’s education, and is based on the NationalScience Foundation’s Industry and University Cooperative Research Center (IU/CRC) model22.By training students with cybersecurity principles that are of interest to the lab’s corporatesponsors, this lab provides a very high placement rate for students after graduation. CUNYstudents have the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Isaacs; Anthony Bellezza; Vicki Brown

a successful engineer.Entrepreneurship is the development of a new business, idea, product or service concentrating onopportunity identification and evaluation as well as resource gathering leading toward the start-up and growth phases1,2. There have been several studies that show addition of entrepreneurialeducation within universities has a positive impact on the future entrepreneurial successes ofengineers3-6.To expose students to the entrepreneurial process, a competition was created at WidenerUniversity through The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). The goal was tooffer students exposure to product design recognition and principles; including both theidentification of a potential market and the analysis of a proposed idea

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

, teamwork has become ubiquitous inresponse to the growing requirement for graduates to acquire teamwork skills and abilities duringtheir undergraduate education. Increased amount of teamwork in technical programs has alsoraised the concern of whether individual students are achieving the expected technical andprofessional learning outcomes from teamwork. Peer evaluations are frequently used to evaluatethe individual team members’ contributions to the collective outcome of the team. Peerevaluations can positively impact student attitudes toward teamwork by allowing them to havepartial control on their individual grade and providing them an outlet to express theirdissatisfaction.9 Peer evaluations tend to reduce social loafing14,8, which has a

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

operationalizable, despite the morass they findthemselves in.Over the course of the term, students engage in qualitative research, analyze case studies ofspecific “real world” built environment situations, consider various alternatives, and modelsuccessful outcomes. The course involves self-evaluation, exploration of various career options,and the development of a keen understanding of the cyclical nature of the built environment.These allow one to remain nimble in today’s fast-paced arena.By developing an understanding of the importance of adaptation, defining what personal successmeans, and creating unique competitive advantages for themselves and their companies, studentsposition themselves for, and foster, opportunities throughout their careers

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

somebody’scommunication...it takes less time and is more efficient…” and is a good arena to “complete thathandout together as a team…”IV. Discussion and Future workOnline peer tutoring is a challenge for two main reasons. The first, which was highlighted severaltimes in our qualitative analysis, is getting the students to interact with the peer tutor. Since thecourse is online and asynchronous, it is difficult for the tutor to force interaction, let alone timelyinteraction, to capture and motivate student engagement on the topic of the week. Possibly addingan assessment evaluating the student interaction with peer tutors would help.The second main issue that was highlighted by the qualitative analysis was lack of tutor confidence.The typical face-to-face peer

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael S. Lehman

Bloom’s Taxonomy as they leverage the knowledge and comprehensiongained in the (IPD and entrepreneurship) process courses for their own projects, focusing onapplication, analysis, synthesis and evaluation in the (IPD and entrepreneurship) project courses.1Live case studies, class trips and hands-on workshops are crafted to help translate theory topractice.During the first week of the spring semester, the students engage in an intensive immersionexperience referred to as TE Week, an educational model that serves as a platform forcollaboration among TE graduate students and faculty, Lehigh’s Office of Technology Transfer(OTT), and innovative faculty researchers who have disclosed inventions to OTT.From the curriculum standpoint, graduate students

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

skillsSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityFigure 4. Students’ self-reported responses of their ethics and values as related to anentrepreneurial mindsetFigure 5 shows the students’ self-reported assessment on how they feel they compare with theirpeers in a number of areas. In this chart the students feel very confident about their team work,leadership, persistence, and problem solving and communication skills relative to their peers.The areas in which they feel least confident are tolerance for ambiguity and willingness to takerisks.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityFigure 5. Self-reported students’ abilities relative to their peersFor those students who have taken

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian

to serve thestudents community with the updated knowledge in the respective field so that they can face thereal world situations with minimum problems. In this paper, some of the latest methodologies, techniques, usage of various internet sitesand software are explained. Particularly, the usage of different internet websites for constructionoriented purposes is very helpful for the students to learn about how the construction companiesdo business in the real world. To complement their learning experience, the site visits, the videoshows on construction, guest lectures and shadowing the Construction Managers at theconstruction sites are very helpful. They also get involved with writing a report on how to do aconstruction project by

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Scoles

based on the examples in the “Stand-Alone Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityPhotovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices” document from SandiaNational Laboratories8 with supplements. These are the same projects that were used in previousface-to-face and flipped-classroom versions of the course. System solutions typically includewind and photovoltaic energy sources and energy storage in lead-acid batteries. Student groupshave 3-4 members, and are mixed between the three student populations (Main campus, NJcampus, co-op). Group work is supported by collaboration tools built into Blackboard Learn,including the Collaborate communications tool, wikis and a file exchange area