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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Danai Chasaki

Design of a freshman mini-project in Computing Danai Chasaki, Villanova UniversityComputing and Information Technology are among the fastest growing fields in the U.S. andparticipating in efforts to attract and retain students in this major is critical. Universities andcolleges can recruit new students from their own campuses by restructuring freshmanintroductory courses to make them more relevant to student lives. The Computing field offers aunique opportunity for exciting industry-sponsored mini-projects that involve hands-onexperience and link the applicability of computing skills to the industry world.In this paper, we discuss the design of a seven week long project-based course offered

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

Initial Lessons from Nexus Learning for Engineering Students Achieved Via Interdisciplinary Projects for Outside Clients Matthew J. Traum, Christopher F. Anderson, Christopher M. Pastore, Michael J. Leonard School of Design & Engineering Philadelphia UniversityAbstractPhiladelphia University’s approach to education is called Nexus Learning. It emphasizes active,engaged learning; collaborative and interdisciplinary team work; and experiential real-worldlearning. Emulating professional practice, students participate in curriculum-integrated projectsfor external clients. These real-world projects are intentionally organized with a broad andchanging

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

Strengthening 21st Century Skills in Undergraduate Students through Project-Based Design CourseDeeksha Seth, Gabriel Carryon, Dr. James TangorraDrexel UniversityAbstractThere is sufficient evidence to support that the need for innovators in the country appeals for amakeover in the engineering pedagogy at a K-16 level. Studies suggest that problem-basedlearning methods can aid in nurturing the development of 21st century (C21) skills namely: “(a)Creativity and Innovation, (b) Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and (c) Communicationand Collaboration”. To that end, a project-based engineering design course is developed andtaught to undergraduate mechanical engineering students at Drexel University. The

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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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Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

describe the course’s desired student learningoutcomes which were developed based upon needs identified in the preparation of studentsentering the senior design experience. For previous ECE students their first exposure to manydesign concepts and tools was during their senior year course. Building key design skills andconceptual understanding via exposure to multiple small, open-ended projects that increase incomplexity through the semester during their junior spring semester will enable students to entertheir capstone course the following year in a higher state of readiness. The course providesexposure to multiple design processes prevalent in academe and industry and encouragesstudents to internalize the key steps common to nearly all

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

. IntroductionThe ultimate goal of engineering education is to graduate engineers who can design andimplement solution to existing societal problems. To accomplish this goal, meaningfulengineering design experiences are integrated into the curriculum as early as during the firstyear. In addition to the cornerstone project course such as introduction to engineering design, thefirst two years of the curriculum are devoted primarily to the basic sciences, followed byadvanced courses in the last two years that familiarize the students with discipline specifictechnical contents. To conclude the engineering design learning experience, engineeringundergraduate education has a capstone senior design project course that allow students toimplement design process

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

The Neglected Art of Sourcing in Engineering Education Alex Antunes, Angela Walters & Amanda Raab, Capitol Technology UniversityWe present methods for teaching schedule and cost delays in engineering projects as experientialteam learning within a classroom, without incurring unscripted schedule or cost delay to thecourse. Matching design and schematic specifications to a single vendor solution is a necessarybut rarely taught step in engineering. Engineers need parts, but most courses magically provideeither kits, chosen parts, or single-sourced components to speed student focus on the coreengineering topics. Sourcing of parts, however, involves real world process- and people-relatedissues that can add schedule and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Scoles

thermal, active thermal, photovoltaics), hydroelectricity, biomass, batteries andgenerators, and ocean energy. After an introduction to US and world energy consumption andgeneration in the first week, a new energy source is introduced roughly every week of the 10week quarter.Projects in the course involve the design of a small off-grid energy system to meet a specificenergy need in a specific locale. System solutions typically include wind and photovoltaic energysources and energy storage in batteries. Student groups have 3-4 members. Group work issupported by collaboration tools built into Blackboard Learn, including the Collaboratecommunications tool, wikis and a file exchange area. Execution of the project is assisted with afree legacy version

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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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Rachel A. Brennan

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.As part of a new program in Sustainable Engineering at Penn State, a senior-level, electivecourse in Ecological Engineering was offered for the first time in fall 2014 with a focus onempowering real coastal communities in the Caribbean to improve their quality of life andprotect their natural resources. In this course, undergraduate and graduate students worked inmultidisciplinary teams to design ecological wastewater treatment systems with an emphasis onproducing beneficial byproducts of food, income, and/or education for the targeted community.The team project was

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William Lorenz; Ross Lee; Karl Schmidt; Pritpal Singh

entire life cycle of the product, service or built environment issue ofinterest. As an example of applied engineering principles, the foundation idea of this type ofassessment is the “material and energy” balance. Scope&of&Interest&is&Across&the&En1re& Product,&Process,&or&Project&Life&Cycle& M, E! M, E! M, E! M, E! M, E! M, E! R! !w!! a!! ! !! !! a M! t erial M! !t! ! !! !! a er ia l M! !n! !a! !u

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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

of the instruments for assessing teamwork KSA. Broadly, teamworkassessment instruments can be categorized into two groups: peer evaluations and tests. Peerevaluations mainly focus on student projects and aim to achieve a fair summative evaluation ofthe individual contribution of each team member to project outcomes. Teamwork tests focus onmeasuring teamwork knowledge and/or personal traits, such as leadership, that are known to beimportant for teamwork. Teamwork tests are widely adopted by the industry for the selection ofteam members.1Existing instruments for assessing teamwork KSA do not include items to measure studentinterest for learning teamwork. Recently, we have proposed an assessment framework based onthe Model of Domain Learning

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michael S. Lehman

: IPD Process-2 Systematic Innovation Development (IPD) Process-1 Methods TE 407: Intellectual TE 461: IPD Projects-1 TE 462: IPD Projects-2 Property Creation and Management TE 302: Methods in TE 403: Entrepreneurial TE 404: Entrepreneurial Visual Thinking Startup Process-1 Startup Process-2 TE 303: Methods in TE 405: Entrepreneurial TE 406: Entrepreneurial Prototyping, Modeling Startup Projects-1 Startup Projects-2 and TestingAfter developing core skills utilized in the innovation process, students then focus on design –design of a product/service and design of an associated business model. Students progressthrough the levels of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E Kelly

, April 10­11, 2015 Villanova University  do if they are serving as an ABET program evaluator and find that a program is not meeting ABET Criterion 3 (f)? What is the obligation for those members that are licensed?   The NAE Online Ethics Center is expanding its support for engineering ethics education by providing more and better resources for faculty members.  The author is the co chair of the outreach and engagement working group for this NSF­funded project which has just completed the first of five years.  The purpose of this paper is to provide an  overview of the OEC and the OEC expansion project.  II.The Current OEC Site   The resources on the current OEC site are extensive and include: case histories, annotated bibliographies, teaching

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

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

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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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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

evaluation is one of the best ways to assess thegroup dynamics of a team project. However, there are a few tools available for facilitating peerevaluations and efficiently compiling meaningful information designed to assess one teammember compared to the team as a whole. In this paper, we introduce the Peer Evaluation &Assessment Resource (PEAR), which is a web-based solution that was created to efficientlyassess the teamwork skills of students through peer and self-evaluations. The PEAR applicationallows instructors to form teams from their student rosters and choose a rubric to assess theirteamwork skills, abilities, and contributions. In addition to the rubrics built into the PEARsystem, instructors can also create custom rubrics based on the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

3 Office of Program and Institutional Research Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 USA Kathleen.nazar@villanova.eduAbstractOver the last eight years, Villanova University has been creating a culture in which engineering studentshave been provided opportunities to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. These opportunities include anengineering entrepreneurship minor open to engineering students of all majors, extra-curricular activitiesranging from short 15-20 minute events to competitions spanning several months, inter-university seniordesign projects, and embedded activities in core engineering classes. The question arises as to howeffective these

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

designed toprovide students, from day one, a resource to experience what working on real world problemswith team members from other disciplines is like and how they can work together and bringexpertise from their specific subset of skills to the project at hand. At the freshman level theclass is held twice a week, one 55 minute lecture, and one 165 minute lab. In the lectures, eachinstructor covers a core set of topics which focus on Engineering Fundamentals such asProduct Development, Reverse Engineering, Design Tools, Ethics, Team Development,Problem Solving, and many more1. These lectures are fairly uniform across each section of theclass to help provide all freshman students with the same set of skills when enteringSophomore year and Sophomore

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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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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

inneuroscience has been observed to be reduced with reward such as snack allowance before classand instructor guided flip classroom exercise, consistent with neuroscience data. Relationallearning in the theory of cognition has been found to be effective to increase fluid intelligence asreflected in technical feasibility test performance. When a potential client-professor explains aneeded job/project to a contractor-student, the using of pictures and graphs with fewer verbalwordings for less memory loading has been found to be valuable. The student performance onthe client- contractor simulation has been assessed as good for those students showing interest.Student feedback includes observed non-participation, indifference, and enthusiastic

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

following:   • Understand a basic introduction to cybersecurity principles and best practices • Programming security scripts and compiled code based on open industry standards, and contributing to open source software projects • Understanding recent use cases in information security as a basis for future threat assessment • Hands-on experience with penetration testing environments and implementations using open source code and hacking toolsThe Computer Engineering curriculum at City Tech allows students to earn a two year Associateof Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree in either Electro-Mechanical Technology. After completingtwo years of additional coursework, students can earn a B.Tech. degree in Computer

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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

Service Learning and Humanitarian Application Pedagogy in Community College Pre- engineering Physics Class Sunil Dehipawala, George Tremberger, Wenli Guo, Eva Hampton, Todd Holden, David Lieberman, and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Physics DepartmentAbstractQueensborough Community College in New York City has an active Service Learning Pedagogyacross various disciplines including physics; and we have taken the service learning opportunityto introduce our physics class students to humanitarian application as well. Collaborationbetween faculty and community partner in designing a project based on the partner's specificgoals and needs is an important

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gang Feng

conduct active-learning activities, such as in-depthproblem solving, project-based learning, in-class discussions, and team collaborative learning.The flipped classroom model relies on that students actively manage course requirements andpre-/in-class learning activities. Therefore, the pre-class activities and in-class attendance aremandatory.Here, we developed the video lectures using Camtasia Studio software package by TechSmithCorporation. The reason to choose Camtasia Studio is due to its following key capabilities:(1) two channels of recording: screen recording and an additional webcam recording, (2)powerful video editing capabilities, such as multi-track timeline, visual effects, and noise-cancellation, (3) the capability of embedding

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

. IntroductionThe complexity of engineering problems tend to require a team approach in order to solve them.Thus, team projects are often part of the engineering curriculum. In addition, teamwork is oftenused as a learning mechanism and means for assessment. The intention is that students help oneanother through social construction so that they can tackle problems and projects of greater scalesand complexities than achievable individually, and that the team setting reflects the real context ofworking in industry. However, there are numerous questions and challenges to student teams. Inaddition to the usual challenges of student dissatisfaction with teams due to unfair distribution ofworkload and responsibilities, we have found that effective teamwork does

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

Collaborations to Promote Critical Thinking through Summary Writing in the Physics Classroom Wenli Guo and Weier YeCity University Of New York/Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 AbstractThis co-teaching research project is an innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration between theDepartment of Physics and the Department of Academic Literacy. Since the study involves theintegration of physics learning and summary writing, the content-area teacher and the languageinstructor closely worked together in the same classroom to meet the needs of individual

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

students’ curiosity and creativity towards technical issues through hands-onlessons and activities. The organization was initially limited to graduate students in structuralengineering and focused on the 6th grade at an inner city school. The organization hastransitioned over the past 6 years into a largely undergraduate club with numerous urban andsuburban schools participating. Student teams from all discipline areas (Civil andEnvironmental, Chemical, Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer) visit several schools andcomplete projects with 6th, 7th and 8th grade students with the themes of infrastructure, greenengineering and chemistry, and mechanical/electrical engineering, respectively. The programculminates in a campus visit by the middle