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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elisabeth McGrath; Dawna Schultz

exposing allstudents (not merely those who self-select to take elective courses) to hands-on design and problem-solving and the application of science and mathematics principles toward the solution of relevant, real-world problems in the context of required K-12 courses, we expect that more students will be motivatedto enroll and succeed in gatekeeper courses in middle and high school and pursue engineering and otherSTEM careers.Inspired, in part, by Massachusetts’s leadership as the first state to introduce science and engineeringstandards1, program developers of Engineering Our Future NJ planned a two-phase campaign designed tostrengthen the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards2 to: (1) articulate engineering in thelanguage of the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

Diversity in Uniform: An Approach To Teaching Introductory Information Technology John C. Giordano J. Scot Ransbottom john.giordano@usma.edu scot.ransbottom@usma.edu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy West Point, New York, USA 10996 845-938-2200 In a school where every single student dresses exactly the same as every other student every day, oftencalled the “sea of gray”, where each person learns to sit, stand and walk

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

,students earn curriculum credit for their research work. Therefore, these twoprograms, coupled with the existing K-12 programs, result in a K-16 programcontinuum at NJIT, and elsewhere, to increase diversity in engineering andscience. THE K-12 PROGRAMS Among the earliest of the K-12 minority programs was NJIT’s UrbanEngineering Program developed over 30 years ago [1]. NJIT is ideally located inthe heart of Newark, New Jersey, a city with a large minority population. Incooperation with the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at NJIT andbordering on an inner city high school these programs began to evolve.Simultaneously, NJIT [2] began to focus on attracting young women into scienceand engineering. This was the start

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vincent Winstead

background inmathematics and simultaneously ensure its relevancy and technology advancement contemporaneousness.Students from different traditional engineering disciplines, such as electrical, computer and mechanicalengineering, and also from non-traditional technology-based disciplines have different courserequirements and depth in core mathematics, static systems, dynamic systems, systems modeling, powersystems and electronics. Developing a course curriculum which crosses over multiple programs anddisciplines and yet is relevant to a broad class of students is difficult. This paper describes some resultsfrom a concerted effort to accomplish the inclusion of a multi-disciplinary content in a new multi-department course series. The hybrid vehicle

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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M.G. Prasad

membershipof another Institution within the Accord without further examination or interview. The underlying rationalfor the agreement was the high level of mobility of today’s professional engineers and the internationaldelivery of engineering services3.The students in engineering educational institutions come with diverse background such as technological,cultural, economical, social, environmental, etc. The engineering educational curriculum of an institutionshould take into account of these various factors. Cultural diversity with various factors is like a complexsystem. In their paper 4 on approaching cultural diversity through the lenses of systems thinking andcomplexity theory, Terrikangas and Hawk conclude that diversity has been a key component

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Paul G. Ranky

, the new emerging opportunity for continuousprofessional development. The way we present challenges are similar to theway professional engineers, and engineering managers solve problems.Millennial engineering students like this approach. This is because we firstlook at the real-world customer requirement, then offer one or more solutionsby explaining real-world machines, or processes, or systems, or managementtasks and then discuss further development, service, maintenance, integration,connectivity and many other issues with several feedback loops, and then offerdiscussion opportunities for real or virtual teams. In all cases the librarymodules show high quality, interactive videos and often 3D objects and 360degree interactive panoramas so

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

with special needs, mustbe given the opportunity to achieve those skills and knowledge addressed in the content standards. TheCenter provides leadership in the development and assessment of science, mathematics, engineering andtechnology education. Its teaching and training approaches and methodologies are carefully planned inorder to make a crucial contribution to participants’ comprehensive development, providing teachertraining, curriculum reform and technical assistance to K-12 schools and districts, locally and across thestate. This approach provides the teachers with the skills and support needed to meet and implement intheir classrooms the high academic requirements demanded by the NJ Core Curriculum ContentStandards, school districts

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

Impediments to Increasing Diversity in Post-secondary Education Carol Siri Johnson Humanities Dept. New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstract Due to the increasing complexity in the financial aid process and the movement of available financial aid up the economic scale, poor people and minorities have less access to college, including engineering programs. Some impediments are lack of access to knowledge about college, increasing complexity and up-front costs in the application process and a gradual legislative and judicial change to provide aid to wealthier families. The latter changes

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

aligned to a reference map. This approach provides the 1additional benefit of increasing student exposure to information technology (IT), which helped theEnvironmental Engineering group to achieve the Academy’s IT goals. The custom application employs a simplified model of actual dispersion processes and does notaccount for all variables. This, however, is also its strength – students can understand the simple modeland see the impacts of the most important variables on atmospheric dispersion. As a result, the applicationproves valuable in instruction since it quickly demonstrates the “big picture.” In addition, students areable to use the application not only in visualizing the impact of

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Charles H. Forsberg

designs; Choice ofthe optimal design; Construction of a prototype or mathematical model of the chosen design;Testing and evaluating the chosen design; Modifying the design, as appropriate, based on thetest results; and finally, Documenting the solution.“Informed” design is a design process developed through the NSF-funded NYSCATE(New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technological Education) Project.1 In thispedagogical approach to design, students increase their knowledge and skill base beforeaddressing the specific design problem. This is done through the performance of short,focused activities known as “Knowledge and Skill Builders”, or “KSBs”.As an example of KSBs: One popular design activity for middle school students involvesthe students

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kalyan Mondal

2000, the University renewed and formalized the long-standing emphasis on global themesthrough the adoption of a new mission: to prepare students for world citizenship through globaleducation [1]. Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) being a leader in global education welcomesinternational students of diverse backgrounds to its engineering degree programs every semester.Most of these students possess high analytical abilities but have certain backgrounds that makethem struggle to conform to the US academic norms. This author teaches a core Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) course, EENG6633 [2] taken by first semester graduate students as well asfollow-up advanced courses on DSP applications (EENG7753) and DSP implementations(EENG7852). This paper

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

fromtwo vantage points. Faculty can use continuous quality improvement ideas in teaching course content andin assessment methods, while students can use continuous quality improvement ideas in developing anddemonstrating deeper understanding. 1search criteria and constraints Appropriate search criteria and constraints had to be determined before any ideas as to teachingtechniques and assessment methods could be developed. Perhaps the most important criterion was thatthe proposed ideas must reach all engineering students. Additionally, the selected methods must fitwithin current curriculum and program requirements, meaning that new

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

tointroduce emerging technologies relevant to regional industries, the Clinics provide the studentswith exposure to industrial projects with real deadlines and deliverables, and an opportunity todevelop their project management, teamwork and oral and written communication skills. This program offers the industrial sponsor a cost-effective approach to problem solving withpotential for a high return on investment through technical assistance from advancedundergraduate engineering students supervised by faculty. Successful projects have led to theseveral new process modifications and process units that have resulted in greener processes,increased capacity, higher product purity, decreased labor cost, and less process down time. Inaddition, the company

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

paper will discuss: • Format and structure of the academy • Recruitment, selection process and target demographic for participants • Mentoring process with college women majoring in engineering or technology, and professional female engineers • Designing and building amusement park rides • Hands on, trial and error approach. • What we learned and what we will do differentlyBackground:To address the need to inspire more young women to enter engineering and technology fields,NJCATE, A National Center for Advanced Technological Education at Middlesex CountyCollege initiated a project entitled TechXploration, A Technology Adventure for Teen Girls.Supported by the National Science Foundation, TechXploration is a three year project

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stephanie Farrell

-relevantproblems, gain exposure to company culture, and build a foundation which helps providemotivation for future learning in an academic environment. While these “real-world”experiences are highly valuable to students, they are still separate from the engineeringcurriculum and academic experience. It would be desirable to integrate more “real-world”experiences into the undergraduate curriculum at universities; however, industry-academicrelations have not, in general, been developed to their full potential. Rowan University hasdeveloped an Engineering Clinic Program which fosters collaboration between academia andindustry and provides “real-world” project experiences to undergraduate students. At Rowan University, all engineering students participate

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stefan A. Robila

Information Disclosure Incidents and Computing Education Stefan A. Robila Department of Computer Science, Montclair State UniversityAbstractWe present an introduction to security incident encountered by academic institutions and follow up withour approach to user education by infusing information disclosure incidents in two courses laying at theextremes of the computer science curriculum: a General Education Introduction to Computing and anAdvanced Topics Information Security course. The choice of the two courses is such that, while in theIntro to Computing course the students view the incidents from the user’s point of view (and are eithervictims of larger incidents or the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

THE TRANSITION FROM THE 8085 TO THE “MODERN” WORLD James S. Finne, PE Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Middlesex County College John Carpinelli, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Center for Pre College Programs New Jersey Institute of Technology William Barnes, PE Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractTeaching the Introduction to Microprocessors