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Anne L. van de Ven; Mary H. Shann; Srinivas Sridhar

2011 2012 2013 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Year Year Figure 2. Cumulative academic outputs directly related to IGERT nanomedicine research projects (2006-2014), sorted by year of trainee entry into the program. From 1. 3 © American Society for Engineering Education

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

ill prepared to be teachers. If our engineering educators areineffective, they are not helping build a strong foundation for new engineers.This paper identifies four programs; ExCEEd, organized by ASCE; project Catalyst at BucknellUniversity; the National Effective Teaching Institutes (NETI) program, and the NSF SUCCEEDprogram. All of these have an underlying mission of providing additional training to develop andretain new engineering professors and help them become effective teachers. This paper providesan overview of these programs, and reflections of the authors’ experiences as ExCEEd graduates.KeywordsNew Faculty; Effective Teaching; ExCEEd Model, Project Catalyst 1. IntroductionAccording to Brent and Felder (2003)1 “ College

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Preparing Civil Engineers for Construction Project Management Colleen Symansky, Hudson Jackson, and Kassim Tarhini United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTAbstractPart of the Civil Engineering Program graduation requirements at the United States Coast GuardAcademy includes the successful completion of a two-sequence construction projectmanagement study. This sequence consists of a Construction Project Management (CPM) courseand a Civil Engineering Design (CED) Capstone course. The CPM course provides anintroduction to the management practices of the construction industry, specifically focusing onhow projects are

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Michael J. Davidson

analysis course is the succession of the statics and strength ofmaterials courses taken by the students in their sophomore year.IntroductionIn education today, the credit hours and contact hours in the degree programs are beingdecreased. Typically, structural analysis focuses on hand calculation techniques developed byour ancestors to solve problems. The Work Place solves these same problems usingsophisticated and expensive software. As educators, where is our focus, hand calculations usingmethods developed by our ancestors or software? The question: HOW MUCH, IF ANY, SOFTWARE SHOULD BE USED IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION?While the focus of this paper deals with structural analysis, much of the discussion is

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Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

Department of Civil Engineering and Technology began the dialog related to developing a CivilEngineering program at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Following the requirements of EngineeringAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EACof ABET)“Criteria For Accrediting Engineering Program ” and the recommendations of the American Society ofCivil Engineer (ASCE) report “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for t e 21 t Century Preparing theCivil Engineer for t e Future” , a new Civil Engineering program was developed. After much debate andeffort, in the fall of 2011 Wentworth Institute of Technology accepted its first class into a newly createdCivil Engineering Program. This class consisted of both freshman

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Mahbub K. Ahmed; Kendra J. Ahmed; Md. M. Rashid; Scott McKay

. Engineering programs are still mostly face-to-face all overthe US. However, there are some engineering programs in the US that are also offering some full online as well as hybridengineering courses. Whether a program or a course is online or not, the tests or the quizzes can be given online to students toassess their performance. Research on online teaching and online assessments that replace traditional paper-based tests andquizzes have been a point of focus by many researchers. It is a very common tradition for many instructors to provide a quiz onmaterial that he or she is going to cover next. That way the students can study and be prepared to comprehend the lectureeffectively. A study [1] shows that engineering students are more engaged if they

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Designing a Scalable Mechanical Engineering Freshman Year Experience for Relevant and Engaging Hands-On Experiences David Willisa and Jeremy Vaillantb a. Assistant Professor, U. Massachusetts Lowell1 1/ b. Graduate Student, U. of Massachusetts LowellAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation and results of a new Mechanical EngineeringFreshman Year Experience course being offered at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thenew course integrates meaningful hands-on experiences using inexpensive desktop CNC ma-chines, core concepts laboratories, Matlab programming and communications. The two

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Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

economics and industry of brick making in Rome andthe role of bricks in the Roman architecture and civil engineering. The students were also askedto extrapolate their insights to other ancient ceramic products. The students were enthusiasticabout this hands-on experience.In 2014, the IEEE History relocated to the Stevens Institute of Technology. As an institutionfocusing almost exclusively on the formation of engineers and related professionals, but with avibrant and dynamic humanities faculty whose mission is to enrich the educational experience ofits undergraduates and to create bridges between the humanities and social sciences, housed inthe College of Arts & Letters (CAL) and engineering, Stevens is an ideal laboratory to explorethe role of

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Can Real-life Projects in Engineering Classes Result in Improved Interest and Performance in Clean Energy Careers? Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Diane Schilder, Christos Zahopoulos Northeastern University/Evaluation Analysis Solutions, Inc. / Northeastern UniversityAbstractWith funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Northeastern University has beenoffering the Early College Experience (ECE) program to Boston Public high school seniors withthe goal of increasing their interest in Clean Energy careers. The ECE program has provided highschool students the opportunity to take a college-level Engineering Design course that

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Sigrid Berka

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Sigrid Berka University of Rhode Island Complementing on-campus engineering research experiences with tailored international research projects in partner universities and internships in industry abroad AbstractThe paper describes a tailored approach introducing International Engineering Program (IEP)students to research opportunities on campus which are then extended to their year abroad. IEPstudents are enrolled in a five-year dual degree program through which they pursue twosimultaneous

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Student Collaborative Group Work on Advanced Course Materials in an Introductory Physics Course for Engineering Technology Majors Vazgen Shekoyan and Sunil Dehipawala Physics Department, Queensborough Community College, CUNYAbstractWe studied the effect of exposure to physics topics beyond the expected course level on studentsin an algebra-based General Physics course. General Physics is a required course of EngineeringTechnology and Computer Technology programs at Queensborough Community College (QCC).During the study, same instructor taught two sections of the same

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Jeffrey R. Mountain

and evaluation tools and processesdeveloped for the course. It will also outline our ABET continuous improvement process forstudent outcomes assessment and highlight how the tools and processes used as the normalcourse grade evaluation process provided a clear path between the student work and the outcomeassessments.ABET Outcomes Assessment Process at NorwichAt Norwich University, the stated ABET a-k student outcomes have been slightly modified toreflect their application to the Mechanical Engineering program offered at Norwich. Due to theunique nature of Norwich as a Senior Military Academy and the initial home of the ReserveOfficers Training Corps (ROTC), each of the engineering programs at Norwich has adopted alocal outcome related to the

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Walter W. Buchanan; Ali Mehrabian; Alireza Rahrooh; M. Kudret Yurtseven

, healthcare distribution, healthcare certificate, industry-related courses,student interaction pedagogyIntroductionThe author has now taught the healthcare technologies course once, having already taught asimilar course when he was in the Purdue system. The plan is to include collaboration with andmentoring the other professor in the department who teaches the medical manufacturing coursefor the certificate. The last course in the certificate is a medical terminology course for healthcareprofessionals. It is taught outside the Department of Engineering Technology and IndustrialDistribution and always has a good enrollment. The plan is providing an opportunity for theauthor to not only develop and teach in this certificate program, but also to become

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

for EngineeringEducation (ASEE)[1]: learning in small groups, active learning, cooperative learning, project-based learning, contest oriented project approach, team/collaborative teaching, etc [2,4,5,6,7,8]. Forundergraduate engineering technology programs accredited by ETAC/ABET[3], graduates mustdemonstrate abilities satisfying ABET criteria. When faculty design and teach courses, we needto incorporate ABET criteria by applying effective teaching strategies. The ComputerEngineering Technology Baccalaureate (CEB) program at the New York City College ofTechnology (NYCCT) of the City University of New York (CUNY) follows 2+2 model (AASdegree + BTech degree). This technology degree program has an open-access mission. Studentsenter with

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Benjamin D. McPheron

. Engineering students associate lecture with an environment of testingand calculation, while they identify laboratory experiences as a place of applying andunderstanding1. The chief principle of engineering is the manipulation of the physical world forthe betterment of humankind, and thus most engineering students require the knowledge thatresults from hands-on experience2,3. As a result, it is important to incorporate a variety oflaboratory experiences into engineering courses, as these experiences prepare students for entryinto the profession of engineering.Engineering programs at liberal arts-focused universities face the challenge of fitting laboratoryspecific courses into their curriculum, as students are expected to become well

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Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

, scientistsfound that the brain communicates with the subconscious. It usually links to pictures and colorsmore than words to shift from one stage of brain signal to another or from a state of being such asdiscomfort to comfort and vice versa. For certain, working on internal and external factors is agreat combination that makes unstoppable improvement. People that master their comfortexperience life changes as a result. © American Society for Engineering Education 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceRelated WorkResearchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scientists have devoted much researchtowards brain signals and the investigation of how the brain relates with psychological

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Linfeng Zhang

system. Some labs may have to be cancelled in the Springsemester for the bad weather. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference In order to facilitate the power electronics development and solar energy education, asystem is needed to simulate the output from a PV module and the output from this systemshould follow the typical current-voltage curves of a PV module. In this paper, a simulator isdeveloped with a programmable DC power source, which is controlled by the programs. Theinputs to the simulator are zip code, date, and time. The

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Md. M. Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed

. • Course goals – broad, general statements that establish the direction of the course. Couse goals are not generally measureable. They should be clearly linked to program goals. For example, a goal of an Engineering Statistics course can be described as: “ Equip the student with skills in probability and statistics so that they are prepared to apply these skills in civil engineering coursework and build upon these skills through further study in probability and statistics.” • Course objectives – more specific than goals and address achievable, measurable skills, knowledge, and attitudes that students will need to acquire. Course objective may be further broken down into lesson, module, or unit objectives. The objectives of

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John E. Patterson

database has been assembled. Some of the data required forthe research was not held in existing files for the Kure Beach, NC area. Therefore, this data hadto be acquired in written format. Data acquired in this way was entered manually into thepreviously acquired data files in a new layer.The test model incorporates eighteen variables that each relates to the three main categories: thebuilt environment, the natural environment and historical surge data. In a post hurricaneinvestigation these are the available variables. The variables are presented in Table 1. The builtenvironment is represented by variables H1 through H7. The factors collected from ProjectImpact (a GIS program supplied by FEMA) 3 are indictors of historically data; they

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Gazi Murat Duman; Elif Kongar

systems.Dr. Elif KongarDr. Elif Kongar is an Associate Professor at the University of Bridgeport. During her tenure in theDepartments of Technology Management and Mechanical Engineering at the University ofBridgeport (UB), she established research and graduate concentrations and coursework in severalareas, including simulation and modeling, service management and engineering, and economic /environmental sustainability. She is also serving as the Director of the Technology ManagementPh.D. program while leading the development of blended and distance learning curricula at thedepartment. Her main area of research is economically and environmentally sustainable wasterecovery systems and operations. Dr. Kongar is the author of numerous journal and

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Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Khaled M. Elleithy

the data embedding and extracting processes. Fig. 2: Block diagram for data extracting stage. 5 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceExperimental Results and DiscussionA database of eight standard of Common Interchange Format (CIF) video sequences is used,with the video resolutions equaled to (288 x 352), and the format represented by 4:2:0 YUV.Video sequences are equal in length to 300 frames. A text file consisting of alphabet characters isused as a secret message. This work is implemented using MATLAB program to test

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Ashwag G. Battarjee

translates to better productivity and improvedpatient care. In addition to training, these workers need to be empowered and motivated so as todeliver the expected quality. Payment related to performance and appraising medical staffregularly will go a long way in ensuring that workers deliver and guarantee the patient safety.Evidence based practice is another recommended strategy for global improvements in theprovision of health care. This is whereby factual evidence collected and used in decision-making. 8 © Amer ican Society for Engineer ing Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer

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use in the United States1. Providing students withknowledge of solar water heaters is necessary of several disciplines. This project is connectedwith a mechanical and electrical course for Construction Engineering Management students.Purchasing test equipment is cost prohibitive for most programs. As an example; to deliver asufficient amount of solar hot water using commercially constructed systems for four to fiveresidents the cost varies from $8,000, to $10,0002. Utilizing several disciplines in the design andbuild process allows the students to work together and to have a greater understanding ofcomplexities of solar hot water construction and installation. The added advantage of usingrecyclable materials presents the use of alternative

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Prerana Pal Karmokar; Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry; Elif Kongar

the project management office in the front end of innovation. International Journal of Project Management , 408-421. 8 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference4. Baban, H., & Mokhtar, S. (2010). Online Document Management System for Academic Institutes. Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering , 315-319.5. Bernroider, E. W., & Ivanov , M. (2011). IT project management control and the Control Objectives for IT and related Technology (CobiT) framework . International