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

anduniversal similarities. Industrial Design: Design Process Engineering: Design Process 1. Market Research 1. Identify the Problem 2. Design Criteria a. Customer Criteria a. Customer Needs from Company b. Constraints b. User Observations 2. Literature Search c. “Mission” 3. Brainstorm Possible Solutions d. Design Brief 4. Apply Constraints to Eliminate 3. Brainstorm Possible Solutions Impractical Ideas “Initial Concepts” 5. Quantify Viable Idea with

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

Exploring Collaborative Research and Development Opportunities, between Two Universities, for a Capstone Electromechanical Engineering Technology Course for a Microprocessor Controlled Hand Opening Assistive Device (HOAD)Edward M. Land, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Marcus, Penn State University and JHUVisiting Faculty member; Harley Hartman, Penn State University; Capstone Project TeamStudents, Penn State University, Anthony Derosa, Seth Klepper, Eduardo Rayner, Justin Stahl;Collaborating Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Hansong LiAbstractTo cooperatively and synergistically develop a purpose-built, Hand-Opening, Assistive Device,enabling a stroke victim or other neurologically injured

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Rachel A. Brennan

, energy-intensive and chemically-intensive water treatment systems. In high-poverty equatorial coasts,the stable temperatures and predictable solar input greatly facilitate sustainable practices forwater treatment. These issues show a present and growing need for engineers trained in a broadsuite of sustainable water treatment technologies, and with an ability to work in interdisciplinaryteams in complex international settings.At our university, we have recently begun to develop a multi-disciplinary, collaborative,international initiative in Sustainable Engineering to train undergraduate and graduate students tomeet the current and emerging global needs of society, while enabling research by faculty ontopics with broad technical and scientific

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

(NGOs) for theresearch, development, and implementation of solutions to address this sector’s most difficulttechnical challenges. Based on GWHF’s expertise, this partnership has focused on providingengineering support for their initiatives through senior design projects.Funding for this collaboration is provided from GWHF through a State Department EducationGrant. Thus, the primary goals of this relationship are to: 1) Develop globally-engaged engineering researchers. The engineering landscape has become international, thus requiring globally-engaged, globally-minded engineers1. Through the experience of working on an international, interdisciplinary project, students come away with the skills necessary to make a significant

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 Pennsylvania, Lewisburg Downtown Partnership, Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania, Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER; ​ www.kinber.org​ ) – a $128 million high­performance, statewide broadband network for research and education purposes, for which Bucknell serves as a hub. We also have very strong ties to Geisinger Health System and have sponsored several students to be NSF Engineering Pathways to Innovation Fellows.   Ecosystem and University Change Models The Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz clearly articulated that the seeds of new businesses are planted in the connections between creative people (Florida, 2002), but that entrepreneurial action most often heats up during economic

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

target machines to simulatevulnerabilities often found in real-world systems, using Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu, Fedoraor CentOS.Following the initial setup period, teams of 2 - 4 students begin working their way through thesyllabus topics illustrated in Table 1. In a flipped classroom model, there are no formal lecturesand no exams, tests, or quizzes in this course. Instead, students are expected to complete weeklyreading assignments and submit completed lab projects. There are no fixed deadlines on labproject submission, although students are provided with a recommended timetable and arerequired to complete 9 labs during a 15 week semester (this accounts for 50% of their totalgrade). Class meetings are used to discuss the material and help

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

to address soft skills such as leadership,negotiation, and empathy. In the Construction Management program housed in the School ofEngineering at our institution, a pilot course titled Strategic Responses to Cyclical Environmentsis being offered. Students’ careers and their ability to make an impact in firms will be enhancedby leveraging their increased understanding of competitive advantage, positioning, and strategicplanning via this course.In response to the boom and bust cycle typical of the Architecture / Engineering / Construction(AEC) industry, students are learning to gather and process ambiguous information while forgingmeaningful plans for the future. Intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial initiative, tough analyticalthinking

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Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

projects in othercourses in the program as software systems design is not the first course in the program. However,none of those courses would have provided guidance or training in teamwork.We initially implemented the peer tutoring design in one section followed by a qualitative analysisto make adjustments to the peer tutoring model in the subsequent sections. A basic qualitativeinterpretive methodology allows the researcher to explore the lived experience of the student.Qualitative data provides the researcher with insight into the effectiveness of the peer tutoring.Following their completion of peer tutoring, the students had an opportunity to complete an open-ended survey. We analyzed their survey responses to purposefully choose a sample of

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Jacob J. Elmer; Noelle Comolli

the Brewery Process Design Project While many industrial processes may require one or a few different heat transfer concepts(HXC), the traditional beer brewing process utilizes almost every mode of heat transfer (see Fig.1). The brewing process begins with barley grains, which are “malted” by soaking them in waterto initiate germination and the production of enzymes that convert complex sugars into simplersugars for fermentation. However, germination must be stopped by drying the seeds in an oven(HXC = radiation, natural convection) before the seed consumes all of the available sugars. Thedried grains are then pulverized and soaked in hot (40-65oC) water in an insulated mash tun for1-2 hours (HXC = insulation, unsteady state

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Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

effectiveness of the proposed interest assessment framework.Keywords– assessment, global awareness, interestI. IntroductionEngineering educators and practitioners have recognized the necessity of educating globallycompetent engineering graduates, who will be capable of working globally in collaborative andcross-cultural contexts. According to a National Science Foundation (NSF) article1 titled,“Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan”, it is reported that the new challenges for scienceand engineering are becoming global, and these members of the workforce are being asked tocollaborate across national boundaries and with different cultural backgrounds.1 However,limited research has been conducted on the interest of global awareness among the

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Eric Musselman P.E.; Shawn Gross

involves moving most or the entire lecture component of the course outside theclassroom, allowing more time in class for active learning and group activities that may havetraditionally occurred outside the classroom. The lecture component can be delivered in multipleformats, with the most common approach being a video or screen capture of the instructordelivering the lecture. A strong indicator of the interest in the topic can be seen by conducting asearch of the 2014 ASEE conference proceedings for the term “inverted classroom” whichreturns 51 articles. Bishop and Verleger conducted a survey of the research on flippedclassrooms in 2013 and found 39 unique blog posts or online articles devoted to the topic.1The reasons for the substantial interest

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

proposing an engineering solution. The process starts withexposing the students to clinical settings where they have an opportunity to make observationwith an end goal of identifying an unmet need and presenting it to a group of external panel forits significance. This not only helps enhance their critical thinking and communication skills, butalso exposes them to the components of creativity, innovation ethics and ethical decision-making, global awareness, self-directed research, and life-long learning. These are some of themost important entrepreneurial skill sets needed in the workforce along with technical aptitude.Student evaluations and informal interviews with the students have revealed successfulimplementation of this strategy.I

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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

attitudevariations, which bear similarity to grade histogram. Examples of student entrepreneurialphysics based projects in space weather forecast, mobile-Health, solar energy in terms ofenhancing Entrepreneurially Minded Learning are discussed.I. IntroductionThe Kern Family Foundation has initiated a university network called Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) to promote the idea of entrepreneurship learning. Multiple grantshave been awarded to curriculums across the country to teach the engineering students aboutEntrepreneurially Minded Learning and assess the learning outcomes. The contrast of Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityentrepreneurially versus tradition engineering has been

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Carla Messikomer

specifications will usually be delivered under a lot of uncertainty. In aroutine manufacturing environment, the failure of a few products (out of a million) might not beregarded as catastrophic, however, the failure of a project deemed critical to the mission of acompany might lead to a crash of the entire company1. There is a research study that illustratesthis concern, it deals with the supermarket giant Walmart that required implementation of a newIT system at Levi Strauss that tightly integrates with its own supply chain: “Back in 2003, the US clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss made the fateful decision to upgrade its global IT system. The project was budgeted at $5 million and the advantages appeared huge. As Levi Strauss had

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

), especially historically underrepresentedgroups, such as women, due to global competition for science and engineering talent3, 4. Inaddition, while some research suggests a “leaky pipeline” for women, or women leaving STEMat each stage of their education and career, other research finds that women take various“pathways” to enter STEM fields or careers. In other words, while scientists and engineerstypically start their careers with enrolling in a bachelor’s program in a STEM field in a four-yearcollege, many enter STEM in other ways, especially with the intervention of higher educationinstitutions and federal agencies5. In addition, some individuals employed in science andengineering occupations have their highest degree in STEM but not necessarily

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

A Deep Dive Faculty Workshop for Infusing the Entrepreneurial Mindset into the Engineering Core Curriculum Gary A. Gabriele, Drosdick Endowed Dean of Engineering Edmond Dougherty, Director, Engineering Entrepreneurship College of Engineering Villanova UniversityVillanova University’s College of Engineering (COE) has embarked upon a two-yearplan to substantially increase the number of full-time faculty who employentrepreneurially minded learning (EML) concepts in their undergraduate courses. Theplan is an extension of the College’s initiative to convert core curriculum courses to aninverted or flipped classroom format. The EML concepts come

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

Energy and Power Generation, available at the Hazelton Campus, andApplied Materials at the DuBois Campus. Both these programs began admittingfreshman in the fall of 2010 and graduated the first class in spring of 2014. A thirdoption, which was added in fall 2012, is the Multidisciplinary Engineering DesignOption. This third option is available at both the Abington and Brandywine campuses ofPenn State. Initial graduates of this option are expected in spring 2016.Program SpecificsThe General Engineering program provides students with a broad foundation inengineering with specialization in a technically and professionally relevant area ofspecialization. The first two years of the degree align with other engineering programsand prepare students with

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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

moreopportunity for assessment of this important curricular goal.I. Identifying the NeedThe Electrical Engineering curriculum at Bucknell University has not undergone major revisionin some decades. After developing an entirely new Computer Engineering curriculum in 2009the department began identifying significant enhancements that could be made to both of theprograms which could provide more continuity in the students’ experiences of design,particularly courses in between the initial freshman design experience and the culminatingcapstone senior design course. The dearth of design experiences between the first and final yearexperience seems to be somewhat common in many ABET approved ECE curricula.1, 2, 3 Thedecision to implement a new junior year design

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

recent studies, good course material andstructure can be supplemented greatly by teaching methodology2. Research on active learningmethods has sown better educational outcomes improving post-secondary STEM education.Meta studies3 demonstrate failure rates of 21.8% with active learning methods versus 33.8% withtraditional lecture and note taking. Perhaps, more relevant to the mission of Gen-Ed, ConceptInventory tests probe the differences in thinking with respect to some concepts while correctingfor level of prior knowledge. On these assessments, active learning students showed animprovement of 0.47 standard deviations over the previous mean.In contrast to lecture, during active learning, students devote a large portion of time in class

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Clement Ekaputra; Zuyi Huang

2015 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference A Teaching Module for Educating High School Students in Process Control with a Simulink-Based ControllerAbstract: U.S. high school students are often weak in math and science, thus it is important tobroaden the participation of high school students in these fields before they start to loseconfidence and interest in them. One way to attract more high school students in math andscience is through interesting research projects. This work presents an example for educatinghigh school students to design a controller for a lab-scale microbial fuel cell (MFC) that cangenerate electricity from the organic compounds in the waste water. Upon the

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

this initial lab, students delved further and further into the world of ancient cryptography,covering the classic ciphers such as the Caesar, Affine, and Vigenere Cipher. During these labs,students were required to perform research into how the underlying algorithms of each ciphercould be modeled in MATLAB and then actually implement their own version of the cipher as afunction. In lieu of traditional lab reports, students were required to comment and documenttheir code as though it was going to be deployed by a software solutions company, providing theend user of their code with help files and constructive in-line commenting. Students were alsoeventually required to generate testbench files for their code, which accompanied theirsubmissions

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

and innovation skills are subcategorized into threeelements: creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communicationand collaboration.8 Life and career skills are subcategorized into the following categories:flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, andproductivity and accountability.8 The challenge in adopting the 21st century model in engineeringclassrooms is to strike a balance between teaching technical content and strengthening theaforementioned skills. It is challenging for engineering curricula to offer courses and lecturesthat can purely teach about 21st century skills.The objective of this paper is to illustrate how a project-based engineering design

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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

aspect. The pedagogy in teaching service learning with the NewYork Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) as a community client is discussed in thisreport. NYPIRG conducts student meetings and a quantitative report would promoteconversation with substantial evidence in social learning and enhance informal STEM learningoutside of classroom environment. Besides the regular learning goals related course technicalobjectives, the additional learning goals of enhancing social learning and communication skill bysupporting NYPIRG with physics modeling results have generated the following objectives. Thestudent learning objectives include the understandings of voter pattern analysis via the IsingModel, pedestrian dynamics via the Brownian motion model

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

. However, the recent research results ofthe authors in mechanism design and the use of intuitivemulti-touch devices like iPads in education have the poten-tial to be powerful enabler of design innovations. Mobiledevices and apps are increasingly being used by collegestudents in their education to replace paper textbooks withtheir electronic counterparts, to take notes, record lectures,do HW, manage classes, etc. However, they are poisedto transform the whole educational structure by creating a Figure 2: Example: A Sit-To-Standdigital framework for effective delivery and dissemination Multi-functional Mobility Assist Device employs two identical planar linkages,of course material and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

200-level course, then were able to track whether a subset Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityof the students were able to incorporate the lessons learned in the class as they approached theirsenior projects and club project builds. We also used sourcing by lab managers to teach theengineering concept of trade studies and used failures in initial ‘buys’ to build better habits in ourstudents.Good systems engineering involves understanding of all parts of the engineering process,including sourcing and acquisition of components and the role that shopping plays in designing,building, and integrating projects. Experiential learning in the classroom has to teach skills andallow for mistakes, yet

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Steven Shaffer; Martin Yeh; Thomas Iwinski

appropriate background and results of that humansubjects research. This paper adds to this prior work by reporting on the nextphase of designing the ideal mastery learning / assessment system for computerscience courses.The field of online learning has grown exponentially during the past two decades,and is now firmly entrenched in higher education. For example, [9] summarizes theorganizational, technical and legal issues of assessment systems used for onlinelearning.Combining the results of research in these traditions, along with commercialapplications and the pragmatic, “in the trenches” development experience of theauthors, enables the possibility of positing the ideal design for an online learningassessment environment for programming

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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

conductentrepreneurially minded learning in Physics class taken as a requirement in a communitycollege for engineering-transfer majors (*student author).I. IntroductionThe Kern Family Foundation has initiated a university network called Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) to promote the idea of entrepreneurship learning. Multiple grantshave been awarded to curriculums across the country to teach the engineering students aboutEntrepreneurially Minded Learning and assess the learning outcomes. The contrast of Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityentrepreneurially versus tradition engineering has been highlighted in a Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) video, which emphasizes the

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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