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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Carla Messikomer

revealed that PM courses exist in variousengineering disciplines ranging from computer and civil engineering to mechanical engineering.These courses could be stand-alone or integrated with other existing courses. They teachundergraduates several core project management concepts both from an applied and systemtheoretic point of view. Such courses typically have the following broad goals—providecomprehensive knowledge in the areas of project organization, project planning, project control,and project closing. An open ware hosted in the department of civil and environmentalengineering at MIT lists the following three course goals: 8  the theory, methods and quantitative tools used to effectively plan, organize, and control construction

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

program provides ample opportunities for Villanova students to strengthenprofessional skills that will support their own careers. There are many leadership positions, suchas club officers, site coordinators, supply managers and activity presenters that require studentsto organize and plan visits to the host schools. From arranging volunteers, to scheduling sitevisits, to ensuring the pick-up and drop-off of supplies, to preparing for and delivering thepresentations, students commit their energies and talents to ensuring the host school studentslearn from and enjoy the visit.Format and Content DeliveryThe content presented by NovaCANE is divided into a sixth grade group which focuses onstructural engineering and a seventh grade group which focuses

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E Kelly

 Science Foundation, the OEC is being expanded with the goal of being the “go to” place for ethics education in engineering and science.  This paper reviews the resources currently available and planned for the expanded OEC.  I. Introduction  Engineering codes of ethics have been around for over 100 years. The American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE)  adopted its first code in 1914;   ASCE’s first code focused on the engineer's duty to client and the profession.  ASCE’s latest code (Canon 1) includes sustainable  1​development along with public health,  safety, and welfare.​   Sustainability and sustainable development are metaethics issues versus the microethics that are commonly

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William Lorenz; Ross Lee; Karl Schmidt; Pritpal Singh

most of these courses are also offered in an online mode,MS students can receive their degrees 100% online.The program has minimum entry requirements and has attracted students from a wide range ofundergraduate engineering majors as well as chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science& urban planning. Most students being admitted to the program have GPAs over 3.3/4.0 andfour Fulbright scholars from South American countries are currently in the program. The MS inSustainable Engineering has been growing rapidly and now has over 75 students enrolled,making it one of the most popular graduate programs in the College of Engineering. There areopportunities for students to do international field research as well as working on

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

engineeringstudents, with more than 10 students traveling to the GWHF’s facilities in Cambodia for designreview and prototype testing. In this paper, the VU-GWHF partnership will be presented fromthe project partners’ perspectives. Project details, including scope, selection, planning andimplementation, will be discussed.1. IntroductionIn this paper, we discuss an ongoing international partnership between the Mechatronic SystemsLab (MSL) and Villanova Engineering Service Learning (VESL) at Villanova University (VU)and the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation’s (GWHF’s) Phnom Penh Design Lab (based inCambodia). GWHF is recognized by the international humanitarian explosive ordnance disposal(EOD) community as one of the premier non-governmental organizations

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Scoles

of voltage and current sources (and their paralleland series combinations), power, and energy are needed. Thermodynamics is not required, whichhas an impact only in geothermal energy content. Other desired skills are algebra, trigonometry,dimensional analysis (units), basic financial calculations, and facility with spreadsheets. Whileno marketing has been done, enrollments have been about 60 students, and in some terms allengineering departments are represented. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University Table 1. Course plan for ECEP 380 Introduction to Renewable Energy (Fall 14-15). Reading abbreviations: AES – Alternative Energy Systems and Applications1, AEF - America's Energy Future

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

Engineering’s strategic plan, we haveembarked upon a goal of producing entrepreneurially minded engineers. With thegenerous support of the Kern Family Foundation, we have been able to create a numberof programs that help our students develop, learn, and explore how entrepreneurialthinking can make them more innovative problems solvers.The KEEN program at Villanova has been very successful in forming a core group offaculty involved in deeply engaging students in entrepreneurial activities. Theengineering entrepreneurship minor, started six years ago through funding from the KernFamily Foundation, has grown to become the most popular minor among students in ourCollege. Furthermore, through collaboration with the University of Dayton, theUniversity of

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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

fully engaged in discussions during meetings. 4.25 4.67 0.003Overall, the students tended to rate themselves higher than how their teammates rated them.This observation is expected due to fact that students tend to increase their ratings as much aspossible when the course grade depends on peer ratings. In PEAR, therefore, student peer andself-ratings are reported separately. In addition, the average ratings were very high, excludingquestions 5, 6, 9, and 11. We observed several pitfalls that we are planning to fix in the nextrelease of PEAR as follows:Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University  Some students scored all questions, including the reversed ones, with the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 engineering senior  design projects already had industry sponsorship, and a significant number of Bucknell alumni  had also gone on to found businesses, such as Home Depot, Lending Tree, StellaService,  Kiva.org, Quidsi, The Pit, Y­Combinator, and Integra Life Sciences.      Strategic Planning and Innovation Working Group  Two key events marked a more intentional approach to building an ecosystem. The first was a  one­day summer retreat in 2010. At this meeting, co­led by an internal and an external  facilitator, a first draft of the image in Figure 1 was created as a way to graphically represent  the current status of the ecosystem. Video clips of the meeting can be found at

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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

focused test questions have been found to beuseful to direct the students to be aware of service learning in terms of building that ramp as acommunity service, and humanitarian aspect of engineering in terms of helping children. In factthe humanitarian aspect was inspired by the Dartmouth College Humanitarian Engineeringopportunity where their students would work overseas in projects like bringing clean water to acommunity in Kenya, etc 35.We also have the relatively obvious service learning project of asking education major studentstaking conceptual physics course to prepare a lesson plan in teaching elementary school studentswith a local elementary school as a community client. Learning outcomes include the control ofsyntax and mechanics as

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

have beenthree subsequent cohorts of graduates from the program.In addition to the curricular activities to teach undergraduate engineering students aboutentrepreneurship, we have also organized a number of entrepreneurially-minded extra-curricularevents on campus. These include short activities which last only a few minutes (elevator pitch-type events) through to multi-month long, business plan competitions. These activities mayinvolve individual students or teams of students presenting ideas to submitting fully developedbusiness plans and are open to students from all over campus, including engineering students.Of course, every student comes to campus with a range of already developed entrepreneurialskills and mindset. So while the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

problem solving skills. Barber, Pearson, & Cervetti8, from a different perspective,have also noted the importance of summarizing in the physics classroom by saying writingsummaries reveals gaps in learning and misconceptions. That is, instructors can use summarywriting assignments as an assessment tool to diagnose learning difficulties and assess studentmastery of physics concepts. However, our recent literature review indicates that little researchhas been conducted on summary writing in physics, especially in the field of collaborationsbetween physics and English instructors who share responsibility for planning, instruction, andevaluation for a classroom of students. One relevant article that catches our attention is a studycarried out at

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rachel A. Brennan

beneficial byproducts from within the treatmentsystem; and 3) educate the local community on the importance of treating wastewater andprotecting their environment.After completing a Site Investigation and evaluating potential technologies, the studentsformalized their strategies through a comprehensive Design Plan. Both Roatán teams convergedon similar engineering solutions for treating the wastewater, including the construction of aseptic tank, horizontal subsurface flow (HSSF) wetland, free water surface (FWS) wetland, and astormwater channel. The two teams differed, however, in their development of value addedprojects for the community. The leading team proposed a variety of features for the site,including a bridge made out of locally recycled

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Isaacs; Anthony Bellezza; Vicki Brown

2 0 1 0 1 2 6 0 0 0 4+ 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 + 6 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 7+ 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 2Teams were asked to effectively communicate their product/service concept in the form of a 90second video. Students were offered assistance from the university’s TV Club and access to theClub Advisor, an adjunct film professor. The TV Club was allowed to help students in bothfilming and planning of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Doug Kim

can be used while 802.11a or 802.11n should be used for 5.7 GHz band. Figure 1 andFigure 2 illustrate band plans for 2.4 and 5.7 GHz bands. A care must be given to use thechannels that are non-overlapping and experiencing the least amount of external interference.We also need to configure the access point so that it would not use Dynamic Frequency Selection(DFS) that automatically changes the channels based upon interference.B. Receive Power MeasurementsA spectrum analyzer is used to measure receive power. Some PC software may report thereceive power levels. However, since it is virtually impossible to avoid interference in Wi-Fibands in the presence of widely available campus-wide Wi-Fi as well as individual wirelessrouters, before receive

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

, or between academia and industry, would also benefit students in this field. We havebegun to explore collaborative opportunities in the region, and plan to continue developing futureefforts in this area.As part of an effort to promote economic development, in January 2013 the State of New Yorkapproved a $3M grant to establish the Cloud Computing & Analytics Center (CCAC) at MaristCollege (a 4,500 student private college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.). As part of this effort, Maristhas established a test bed for next generation cloud computing research, and also hosts cloudworkloads for local businesses and government organizations. The capabilities and educationalbenefits of the CCAC have been described previously18-21. In keeping with their

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

, miscommunication,disagreement, frustration and overall general confusion about the assignment and what isexpected”) and scheduling meetings (for instance “It's often hard to get our entire group to meetup all at one time, despite strict planning ahead of time, which makes it hard to get everyone upto speed on what is changed/what more needs to be done”). The latter were the most commonchallenges faced by students. Figure 2: Students’ response to oral presentations compared to written exams throughout the course. (a) Students opinion on whether oral presentations are better graders than written exams. (b) Student response at the end of the course towards their preference between oral presentations and written exams.Students’ overall 21st century

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

. We are currently further testing ourhypothesis that gamification and two-way teaching should not simply be the addition of gamerules to course content but to replicate the intrinsic motivation that comes from playing a game.In the near future we plan to further improve our lesson plans to better fit the student’s interestsand background. We also recognize that the scenarios should reflect the current culture and beupdated continually.7. Bibliography1. Temple University General Education Program (2015), http://Gen-Ed.temple.edu2. Wieman C. E. (2014) Large-scale comparison of science teaching methods sends clear message. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (111), 8319-8320.3. Freeman S, et al. (2014) Active learning increases

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

achieving planned student outcomes.The faculty of each course then prepares a Course Assessment Review report that usesMEGE data (both current and previous years) to critically reflect upon the results of anyprevious corrective actions or propose new changes to the instruction of the course for the Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitynext offering. This is a small course specific CQI loop that is completed every semester,for every course offered in the GE program.The individual MEGE data for each course are then mapped into the entire program gridto see how the all the course specific student performance indicators meet the entireprogram outcomes. This is done at each campus/option location, and also

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

projects instituted in this manner motivated the students to consider the big picture while designing the individual circuits, collaborating with their team members, and effectively contributing to peer-to-peer learning.III. Faculty Experiences & Challenges We believe that the active-learning approach implemented using the flipped-lab format shows promise in enabling the students to become better “self-starters,” so as to better motivate themselves and their fellow classmates to take a more active role in their education. Oddly enough, that is also the most challenging part of this experience. The lab modules had to be well planned and organized with clear expectations of individual responsibilities. Getting the students to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

ofintegrating creative thinking skills with cutting-edge technology.”12 Recent liberal arts graduatesalso have a higher unemployment and underemployment rate (60%) versus engineering (25%)or math and computing (35%)13 and as such, are a significant pool of potential talent. In this paper, we present the design, organization, and plans for an 18-month SwE-LAMaster’s Degree program, for academically talented domestic Liberal Arts graduates to increasethe number of highly skilled and talented software engineers in the workplace, especiallywomen. It is built on our existing MS in SwE and support services, with extensions andadaptations of various critical components including a mini-course (for recruiting), a summerbridge program, an on-going seminar

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stephen N. Kuchnicki

examination. This was intended as a benefit for the students in the course, reducing theknowledge base over which they needed to study. Even so, there is also a benefit to the instructor– with less material on each examination, the questions themselves can be more targeted to aspecific course outcome. Thus, mapping student responses to exam problems over to learningoutcomes for the course becomes an easier task. Further, the instructor is more able to respond togaps in knowledge exposed by early examinations and may plan to test outcomes with a weakerperformance more frequently. The instructor is also able to reallocate class time, if necessary, inresponse to weaker performances seen on course outcomes.ConclusionsThis paper has discussed three

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

2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityof a semester would apply to calculus based engineering physics is an interesting future project.A recent publication also supports the use of language skill in procedural learning. A study oninserting the human FoxP2 gene into mice found that the modified mice shown acceleratedlearning. The mice learned to master a procedural learning task of maze negotiation in 8 daysinstead of the usual 12 days 27. The FOXP2 gene has been accepted as related to humanlanguage development. Relational learning as a language development process would trigger theFOXP2 pathway and reinforce general procedural learning ability. We plan to extend our 9-concept fourth-order relational learning

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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

ofEngineering Education, Vol. 92 No.1, 2003, pp. 7-25.18 E. M. Cooney, K. J. Reid, “Assessment rubrics for TAC-ABET interpersonal skills,”Proceedings of the 111th Annual American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20 – 23, 2004.19 K. J. Reid, E. M. Cooney, “Implementing Rubrics as Part of an Assessment Plan,”International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 24, Number 5, September 2008, pp.893-900.20 M. J. Traum, D. A. Howell, L. C. Newman, “Engineering Design, Project Management, and Community ServiceConnected through Servant Leadership,” Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 23 – 26, 2013, 2013.21 M. J. Traum, S