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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

Modernizing Engineering and Technology Programs in the General Education Curriculum through Two-Way Teaching and Gamification Michael Korostelev, Ning Gong and Ralph Oyini Mbouna Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122, U.S.A.AbstractFor many undergraduate humanities majors, STEM courses comprise a small portion of theirgeneral education curriculum. As technology becomes so prevalent in the lives of students,engineering departments have begun offering their own condensed general education classes.Traditional engineering teaching methods must be altered to accommodate non

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Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

evaluated bythe program curriculum committee to consider the implementation of more sweepingprogram changes. In this manner, the smaller course CQI loops feed into the largeroverall program loop.Results and ConclusionsThe General Engineering program had its first graduates in spring of 2014. There werefive graduates from the Alternative Energy and Power Generation option, and sixgraduated from the Applied Materials option. During the fall of 2014, the program wasvisited and reviewed by ABET at all four campuses spanning the three options as a singleprogram review. The General Engineering program received a successful accreditation.ABET did however express two concerns which are presently being addressed, andwhich specifically relate to the multi

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

Building The Two-Way Bridge:A Software Engineering Master’s Program for Liberal Arts Graduates Abstract Recent reports have highlighted an urgency of developing and retaining a homegrownworkforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), especially historicallyunderrepresented groups, such as women, due to global competition for science and engineeringtalent. While scientists and engineers typically start their careers with enrolling in a bachelor’sprogram in a STEM field in a four-year college, some go into STEM in other ways, especiallywith the intervention of higher education institutions and federal agencies. In another word, someindividuals employed

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

40 locations globally(including the US) to volunteer on service projects. These projects include engineering and non-engineering activities, but the success of the engineering service learning program has beensignificantly influenced by the culture of service that exists at Villanova University and theAugustinian values which are routed in service to society. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University2.3. Golden West Humanitarian Foundation (GWHF)GWHF is recognized by the international humanitarian ERW remediation community as one ofthe premier non-governmental organizations for the research, development, and implementationof solutions to address this sector’s most difficult technical challenges

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Vijay Kanabar; Carla Messikomer

Integrating Project Management Knowledge Modules in Engineering Education Vijay Kanabar, Carla Messikomer, Boston University, Project Management InstituteAbstractA survey of twenty-two programs by Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2013 revealed thatthere is an opportunity to strengthen undergraduate project management (PM) education inengineering schools and colleges. In response to this need PMI sponsored a “for academics byacademics” global curriculum project to baseline undergraduate PM competency. This newcurriculum framework was launched in February 2015. It was the result of five exploratoryworkshops involving eight-five faculty as well as a

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Firdous Saleheen; Salvatore Giorgi; Zachary Smith; Joseph Picone; Chang-Hee Won

Virtual Teaching Assistant for Electrical Engineering Science: Initial Study Firdous Saleheen, Salvatore Giorgi, Zachary Smith, Joseph Picone, and Chang-Hee Won Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, USAAbstractThis paper presents a framework for a Virtual Open Laboratory Teaching Assistant (VOLTA)which provides personalized instructions for undergraduate students in an entry level electricalcircuits laboratory. Traditional closed laboratory environments do not provide 24/7 access tosuch labs hindering the learning-on-demand paradigm that is so critical to the laboratoryexperience. VOLTA offers an open laboratory environment with a virtual teaching assistantwhere the students enjoy a self

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

Engineering Program will experience overthe next 2-3 years, we could see this number double. Each section’s “Theme” is determinedby the instructor for that section, leading to sections which are dealing with sensor networkdevelopment, magnetic nanoparticle testing and fabrication, and many other multidisciplinaryprojects. Students typically choose their section based on scheduling considerations rather thanon content or professor since students do not know prior to the first day of class which sectioncorresponds to what project. This is done to encourage students to co-mingle between the areasof study and experience projects which they would most likely never pick on their own. In themidst of the stereotypical first week madness, all students meet in

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

. Future projects include the articulation with 4-yr engineering programs focusing onEntrepreneurially Minded Learning and the collection of physiology data such as EEG data toelucidate the building of fluid intelligence.VI. AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged. We thank theanonymous reviewers for their suggestions.VII. Bibliography1. Rogier A. Kievit, Simon W. Davis, Daniel J. Mitchell, Jason R. Taylor, John Duncan, Cam-CAN* & RichardN.A. Henson (* authors not listed, total authors = 59) (2014)Distinct aspects of frontal lobe structure mediate age-related differences in fluid intelligence and multitasking.Nat Commun. 2014 Dec 18;5:5658. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6658.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

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

mix of students from many different disciplines and academic programs includingbusiness, occupational therapy, industrial design, architecture, textile design, and fashion design.Engineering students in this university case study are relative latecomers to these collaborations.Therefore, the engineering program found itself having to adapt to the culture and expectationsof other disciplines more than is usual for engineering undergraduate programs to fullyparticipate and integrate into the culture of Nexus Learning and real world experiential learning.Based upon observations from ongoing Nexus Learning interdisciplinary projects that includeexternal clients, the obstacles engineering students and faculty encountered are stated, as are

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

Detroit Mercy, and Baylor University, Villanova engineering students havehad the opportunity to engage in joint senior design projects with peers at partneruniversities. Villanova has also been very engaged with other KEEN colleges incompetitions and in sharing classroom materials and experiences.Despite much success to date, there remains a low participation rate for full-timeengineering faculty in KEEN-related activities beyond the core faculty teaching in theengineering entrepreneurship minor program. Faculty workshops have been held the pasttwo years with members attending from all four engineering departments. In addition, anentrepreneurship workshop was held for the department chairs last year. However, most Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE

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Doug Kim

Teaching Wireless Communication Systems to Engineering Technology Students – A Practical Approach for Understanding Path- Loss Concepts Doug Kim Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Farmingdale State CollegeThe wireless communication is one of more intriguing topics for the students in electrical orcomputer engineering as well telecommunication programs as the industry has been growingvery rapidly. To effectively teach the fundamentals and applications of wireless systems inclassrooms, it is inevitable that the students need to be introduced to some advanced mathematicssuch as

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

Conceptual Learning. 31 International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports.9. McPherson, M. N., & Guthrie, B. M. (1991) In J. D. Wilkerson (Ed.) The implementation and evaluation of a computer assisted learning program in undergraduate biomechanics. Proceedings of the Third National Symposium on Teaching Kinesiology and Biomechanics in Sports. 73-76.10. Knudson, D., Bauer, J., & Bahamonde, R. (2009) Correlates of learning in introductory biomechanics”. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 108, .499-504.11. Hsieh, C., & Knudson, D. (2008) Student factors related to learning in biomechanics”. Sports Biomechanics, 7(3), 398-402.12. Hsieh, C., Smith, J.D., Bohne, M., & Knudson, D. (2010) Factors related to students’ learning of

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

, and wealth dynamics via theFokker Planck equation. The introduction of a client’s request in terms of pictures and graphicsare essential to keep the student cognitive load within his/her capability. The related numericaltasks with Excel software technology have been observed to reduce the anxiety of physicsconcepts encountered by community college pre- engineering physics students. A humanitarianapplication in the area of voice pattern analysis in the context of victim-offender mediation, atopic in computational social justice, is also discussed.I. IntroductionQueensborough Community College in New York City has an active Service Learning Pedagogyacross various disciplines including physics; and we have taken the service learning

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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

-student would be feasible with programming.The VBA engine embedded in Excel is available to eliminate the need to use the Solver forstudents with some programming experience. A brain generated EEG signal upon stimulususually contains a negative pulse near 200 ms (N2) and a positive pulse near 300 ms (P3). TheP300 event-related potential (ERP) is a popular choice for brain Computer Interface (BCI) study.VBA has no trouble doing the decoupling while the Solver would need some good initialguesses. The Emotiv EEG has raw signal output as well so signal averaging procedure can alsobe taught 5. The details of statistical error analysis on repeated measurements and eye brinksignal removal were omitted for most students except those interested in

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

course coupledwith a real customer can enhance the learning and innovation, and life and career skills describedwithin the framework for 21st century skills.8 A project-based design course is developed andtaught to undergraduate mechanical engineering students at Drexel University and is coupledwith the K-12 educational programs at local high schools and museums. The course encompassesthe development of an educational product that can teach both biological and engineering topicsto K-12 students through active demonstration and experimentation. Educators from high schoolsand museums actively participate in the course as customers of the product. The course involvesteam work, collaborations with customers outside the engineering field, and oral

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Michael S. Lehman

apply knowledge and skills developed duringthe first eight months of the program in the context of a Lehigh created and IP-protectedtechnology. During the five day experience, students create tangible mock-ups and prototypes, acustomer-validated business model, a company structure, proposed licensing agreements and aprofessional presentation related to commercialization of an invention.TE Week was developed specifically for the graduate program by Michael Lehman, Professor ofPractice, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics with primary teachingresponsibilities in the Master's Degree in Technical Entrepreneurship program, in collaborationwith Yatin Karpe (Associate Director of OTT), Tom Meischeid (Director of Office of Researchand

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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

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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

: - exercise curiosity about the surrounding world?” - persist through and learn from failure?” - identify new business opportunities?”A total of 22 questions were included in the first section of the survey.The second section of the survey was directed at students who had taken classes in theengineering entrepreneurship minor program. These questions were focused on assessing to whatextent the engineering entrepreneurship minor courses had successfully developed skills andmindset traits related to engineering entrepreneurship. Examples of questions that were askedare:“To what extent did your participation in the engineering entrepreneurship minor develop yourabilities to: - Design and develop a new product or service to meet a customer’s

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

school students for more in-depth projects andlaboratory demonstrations. Undergraduates coordinate schedules with the schoolteachers anddevelop and deliver the technical content and activities. These responsibilities require theengineering students to draw on critical skills such as organization, communication, leadership,teamwork, management and creativity. Undergraduates that participate have opportunities tocontinue in the program through their graduate studies. As with many service-learning activities,all participants become learners and are enriched by the shared experience.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityBackgroundVillanova Community Action by New Engineers (NovaCANE) is a service-learning

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Jessica L. Isaacs; Anthony Bellezza; Vicki Brown

Sports Concept Design: An Entrepreneurial Co- and Extra- Curricular Activity 1 Jessica L. Isaacs, Ph.D.; 1Anthony Bellezza, Ph.D.; 2Vicki Brown Ph.D.;Widener University: 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Civil EngineeringAbstractA new special topic course and an extracellular activity were created in Spring 2014 within theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Widener University aiming to introduce students tothe process of designing and development of new technologies. Students were asked to develop anew sports-related application for an existing sensing system by Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) andcreate an elevator pitch to sell their idea. Seven

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Rajarajan Subramanian

interact with the work force that is involved inchallenging construction aspects. 5. Guest Lecture Module: The speakers from the Governments, Private Construction firms, Engineering Consultingfirms, Law offices and Architects offices are the main pillars of this guest lecture module.Typically they give 50 minutes lecture sharing their experiences with the students about theconstruction, design and law related matters. The students ask lot of questions regarding the realworld day to day functions in their organizations. After listening to their lectures, they write apage report featuring their lectures in the summary format. Most of these speakers are either leaders in their organizations or the policy makingadministrators. It gives the

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

Strategic Responses to Cyclical Environments: An Entrepreneurial ImperativeEllyn A. Lester, Assoc. AIA Linda M. Thomas, JD, PhDConstruction Management Program Program Director, Construction ManagementCivil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering Civil, Environmental and Ocean EngineeringSchaefer School of Engineering and Science Schaefer School of Engineering and ScienceStevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of TechnologyEngineering education centers on accreditor-mandated core knowledge. The skills andknowledge required to tackle engineering problems are the focus. Only recently has engineeringeducation expanded to include the liberal arts and

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Anurag Purwar; Pranav Korrapati; Q. J. Ge; Xin Ge

pathwayto innovation and enables realization of the true benefits of the democratization of manufacturingand programmable electronics.9 AcknowledgementThis work has been financially supported by a TALENT grant42 from Stony Brook University’sTeaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Program and a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technol-ogy (IITG) award1 to the PI Anurag Purwar and Co-PI Jeff Ge and Patricia Aceves.References1 Purwar, A., Ge, Q. J., and Aceves, P., 2014, “Freshman Design Innovation: SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG), $60,000, State University of New York (SUNY)”, .2 The National Academy of Engineering, 2005, Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engi- neering Education to the New Century, The National

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

, having effective teamwork skills inengineering contexts is important. Multi-disciplinary teams bring together a pool of talents,experiences, and knowledge base, which cannot be embodied in an individual. However, themulti-disciplinary nature of a team does not guarantee successful team performance. Theresearch shows that the success of a team depends on how effectively team members are able toshare information, assign tasks based on the strengths of team members, coordinate tasks, andprovide feedback to one another.1 It is essential that engineering graduates have teamwork KSAto function effectively in teams. Engineering programs have responded to this need byincorporating teamwork into all levels of academic curricula.Table 1 summarizes a set

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Thomas Ask

College of Technology anaffiliate of Pennsylvania State University, located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The surveyedstudents were enrolled in three undergraduate design related majors: industrial and human factorsdesign, computer aided product design (recently changed to engineering design technology) andHVAC design technology. These are identified after their curriculum designators as BID, BENand BHD respectively.Student traits can influence results. While organizing student traits by major can nurturestereotypes, the study’s findings differ sufficiently by degree program that some sort ofcharacterization is helpful. Industrial and human factors is an art-based design program,computer aided product design is an engineering based program with

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Shawn Gross

I.Literature on Interactive LearningIn the past twenty years there has been a pedagogical shift towards problem based learning, theincorporation of concept oriented examples, and the use of interactive learning activities withinundergraduate engineering, science, and medical school curricula4-7. Assessments havedemonstrated8-11 that students generally learn better when taught in these environments.Consequently, these initiatives have been adopted by many engineering programs.12-14 Manyambitious faculty members have implemented problem based learning within individual courses,while some departments and colleges have incorporated the philosophy systemically throughoutentire programs.15-17Structure of “Flex” PeriodsThe Mechanics I course at Villanova

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Clement Ekaputra; Zuyi Huang

assumptions”. If theUSA is to remain at the forefront of innovation, the quality of education at the high school stagemust rise. Whether it is a substandard STEM teaching force or a general disinterest in the STEMfields, it is unclear, but a way to attract more students’ attention to these topics is through earlyresearch experience and projects. Such experiences should boost the interest and confidence ofstudents in STEM related areas, and encourage them to pursue higher education and degrees inthem, while giving them an introduction to such topics. The goal of this work is to demonstratethat education in engineering, such as process simulation and control, at a high-school level canbe effective in garnering interest and knowledge, with a project in

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Jacob J. Elmer; Noelle Comolli

Unifying Multiple Concepts with a Single Semester-Long Project: A Brewery Design Project for Heat Transfer Courses Jacob J. Elmer and Noelle Comolli Villanova University, 217 White Hall, 800 East Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085Abstract Student learning and retention of material can be significantly enhanced by assigninggroup projects that challenge students to apply concepts covered in class. However, a keychallenge in many engineering courses is developing projects that effectively relate the multitudeof distinctly different concepts taught throughout the semester. For example, most heat transfercourses cover several different modes of heat transfer, including conduction

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Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

doctoral courses, covering all academic fields, fromEngineering to Art History. Still not fully understood is whether this emerging MOOC marketwill be a disruptive innovation through all academic areas or if only focused areas will bealtered. This paper utilizes a Systems Engineering lens to explore whether MOOCs should beconsidered a disruptive innovation or if they are just another teaching method to support thecurrent educational market place. Although MOOCs may influence all educational levels, thispaper is focused on their impact on the undergraduate arena. A review of the current state andattributes of MOOCs will be presented along with a descriptive analysis if this emergingtechnology has the potential to be a truly disruptive innovation

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

Technical Virtual Lab17 Network Security VMWare None None Yes Design The Computer Science Technical Open None None Yes Collaboratory18 and Engineering Design SourceSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIn addition to their technological and financial advantages, VCLs also promise new opportunitiesfor enhancing student learning through collaborative and inquiry-based approaches. Since VCLsdo not require physical network connections, it is easier to create network topologies in VCLs