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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Graham Walker

An Experimental Process Course Graham Walker Mechanical engineering department Manhattan College1 Introduction In many industrial environments today an engineer is expected to perform tests or simpleexperiments. This will become ever truer in the future as more and more design is done offshore andoutsourced to countries such as India and China. Consequently, it will become even more important forfuture engineering graduates to be familiar with testing and experimental procedures. A typical engineering curriculum has a number of laboratory courses distributed throughout itsfour years

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

, 5and other programs. The framework for deploying student problems, called the Problem Set Manager,allows faculty to devise problems that underscore foundational design and programming concepts andthen develop an XML-based file that includes the problem context, example input and output and a set ofspecified inputs and expected outputs. These problems are exposed via the network and cadets can testtheir programs against these specified test cases to determine if they have arrived at a solution thatproduces the correct output. While the Problem Set Manager is integrated into the IT105 Editor, it canalso be run as a separate module in conjunction with alternative IDEs. The most significant applicationin this project is the IT105 Editor. This

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vincent Winstead

mathematics and physics mirror those of the electrical andmechanical engineering disciplines with the exception of calculus. This department does not requireadvancement in the area of calculus beyond methods of integration, typically covered as a subset of topicsin the second semester calculus course. Further, methods of partial and ordinary differential equations arenot a part of the required curriculum. The Automotive Engineering Technology curriculum does includecourses in direct current (DC) circuits and statics, dynamics and mechanics of materials as well as basicconcepts from thermodynamics.The Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology department includes the Electrical Engineeringprogram. It incorporates a broad curriculum focused in

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul G. Ranky

, and therefore want it immediately…The important observation here is that all of these attributes should be respected,and that the education system should adjust to delivering these customerexpectations at a high quality level. In this paper some tested pedagogical as wellas advanced educational technology methods and tools are discussed, anddemonstrated to satisfy the above requirements for both live and distancelearning (DL) classes.IntroductionThe objective of this research was to create a case-based / problem-basedteaching and learning curriculum for Millennial generation engineering and ITstudents. In order to satisfy the need of an integrated, simultaneously analytical,computational, interactive, as well as practical, real-world-focused

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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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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

calculations quickly, but unfortunately can only plot in one dimension, and the results are still difficult to visualize. To address these limitations a Geographic Information System (GIS) based custom application was developed that coupled ESRI’s ArcMap 9.1 with Matlab. Using inputs of stack height, wind speed, atmospheric stability, and source emission rate, the application creates an array of downwind ground level plume concentrations that are plotted onto a city map. The sum of these concentrations on the city’s features such as schools are calculated. Though this application creates only a simplified model of the atmospheric dispersion process, it proves valuable in instruction since it is

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

underrepresented groups (ethnic and racial minorities, women, and thephysically challenged) in science, technology and engineering, where they havelong been underrepresented. K-12 Programs at NJIT and elsewhere have theirorigins over 30 years ago with most of these programs aimed at increasing thepool of minorities entering engineering and science and, in the past decade,research programs for undergraduates have been added to further increase thispool. Undergraduate research at NJIT has been an integral part of the curriculum,as an elective course, in each of the two senior year semesters since the 1960’sbut on occasion juniors have been allowed into these courses for credit. The UREProgram (1990) and the McNair Program (1999) were added and in some cases

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Kathleen Sernak

world problem solving via innovative creativemeasures. The overall objectives of the program are to:• Provide exposure to engineering careers and make engineering more relevant to middle school educators,• Ensure that teachers are academically prepared to successfully integrate engineering content into their existing curriculum,• Support teachers and students in exploring and understanding engineering content in K-12 education through professional development activities, and• Serve as a national model for other undergraduate institutions in integrating engineering content in K-12 education.This is the first Rowan initiative to integrate engineering content in the middle schoolcurriculum and train teachers regarding

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

in,engineering careers.6 The curricula focused on pre-engineering skills and included instructional strategiesthat emphasize connections between science, mathematics and real-world engineering. The Outreachcomponent involved the implementation of an “Engineering the Future” outreach program, acomprehensive information campaign about the rewards of science, engineering, mathematics andtechnology (STEM) professions to students, parents teachers and counselors.7NJIT's Pre-College Center is dedicated to helping schools and school districts in providing all children theopportunity to learn and meet the high academic expectations of the NJ Core Curriculum ContentStandards. Our activities are based on the belief that all children, including those

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elisabeth McGrath; Dawna Schultz

partnered with the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, the NewJersey Department of Education and Verizon Communications to co-sponsor a one-day summit at Stevensin May 2007 for principals and administrators to share a vision of the technological competencies neededby citizens and workers in the 21st century. This conference will present research on student impact of K-12 engineering programs; provide an orientation to exemplary K-12 engineering curriculum resources;showcase best practices and strategies for integration of engineering/technology into existing curricula;and link K-12 engineering efforts to New Jersey’s policy and plans for STEM education and workforcedevelopment. Five New Jersey engineering universities will present

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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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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

STEM capacity. 3. Continuity: Having institutional and programmatic opportunities that support advancement to increasingly rigorous content.NJCATE’s Adventure Ride Learning Module served as a guide for TechXploration. Theprogram integrates problem solving, teaming, mathematics, physics and communication skillswith technical components. The core of the module is the hands-on activity of designing andbuilding a scale model of an amusement park thrill ride.TechXploration was designed to increase the participants’ interest in and knowledge of technicalcareers and to build confidence to pursue them. TechXploration is also designed to work withthe parents, teachers and guidance counselors to increase their awareness of the viability oftechnical

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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

Authors

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

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. 1 At Rowan University, all engineering students participate in an eight-semester coursesequence known as the Engineering Clinics. In the Junior and Senior years, these clinic coursesinvolve multidisciplinary student teams

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shaina Slonim; Richard Puerzer

entire faculty. Doing this supports an integrated curriculum. In “Fabulous Fridays”6, Susan Lord writes about what she incorporated into an optoelectronicscourse to measure the lifelong learning outcome. She had students explore areas in depth “by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice.” For a semester, Lordheld the last fifteen minutes of each Friday class open for students to lead discussions on an article theydistributed to the class on Monday. Lord also states that these ideas can be incorporated into any classthat must reach the lifelong learning objective.requirements When coming up with ideas, I had to meet certain criteria other than measuring the objective.One

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

of view, this means every group is on a different page and having adifferent set of problems. This does present logistical challenges, but it also allows students atdifferent levels to progress at their own pace within the same course, thus maximizing individualstudent achievement. It also fosters student interactions with stronger students helping theweaker students with both reaping benefits.The successesThe real success of the curriculum change is seen in the students’ fourth semester capstoneprojects. We now require the capstone project to be microcontroller based and treat the designcourse as a follow-up course to Introduction to Microprocessors. This year’s collection ofprojects include an autonomous robot, a basketball shot clock