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

nanomedicine research project that could beconducted from at least two different perspectives within different laboratories (and ifappropriate, via an internship as well). For some students, the proposed research was acontinuation of their primary thesis project; for others, it was an opportunity to develop a newsecondary research direction. Trainees were asked to select at least one scientific co-mentorduring the application process; however, many took the initiative to cultivate additional mentorsover their 2-year training period (Table 1). Sources of formal and informal mentorship wereidentified from trainee progress reports, meetings, interviews, and publications. Table 1. Trainee utilization of mentoring during their Nanomedicine research

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

instructor input balancingstudent interest and ensuring that groups represent a range of talents and abilities. As part of thecapstone preliminary exercise, students work in teams to prepare research papers, project postersand presentations that demonstrate their research and initial planning for designing their capstoneprojects. This combination of content delivery not only teaches the cadets basic skills ofconstruction management and kicks off their capstone projects, but also introduces them to theCivil Engineering Officer specialty within the Coast Guard.Instructional MethodsIn order to fully expose students to construction project management and civil engineeringwithin the Coast Guard and civilian sector, the CPM course is developed as a unique

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Ashwag G. Battarjee

the patient on time, efficiency and equity. Previous research and cohort studiesdocument the use of quality as a vital tool in global health. These researches raise a number ofissues that can be used to improve quality.In this paper, a systematic literature review was conducted. Data was collected from alreadypublished materials on health care quality. The data was analyzed through content analysis todetermine the major perspectives. The results indicate that the main quality aspects that improveglobal health are the use of information technology and e health solutions, use of strategic humanresource management, training health care workers, reducing disparities when providinghealthcare services, developing good policies that improve

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

with quarterly updates on companies and trade association partnerships. After launchingthe Certificate, our report will also include course development updates, research initiatives, andregular updates on the number of students graduating through this certificate program and thecompanies that are hiring them.References1 Labor Statistics Occupational Projections 2010-2020, March 2012, pg. 4.2 McKesson Corp Analyst Report, February 2015, pg. 2.Walter BuchananWalter Buchanan is the past J.R. Thompson Chair Professor at Texas A&M University. He is aFellow and served on the Board of Directors of both ASEE and NSPE, is a Senior Member ofboth IEEE and SME, is a Past President of ASEE, Past-Chair of the Professional Engineers inHigher

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John E. Patterson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference A Quantitative Forensic Investigation of Causal Factors which Impact Residential Structures during a Major Hurricane John E. Patterson, PhD Norwich UniversityAbstractThe forensic investigation of damaged residential structures following a hurricane allowsstudents to examine the forces of a hurricane on a residential structure. This researchinvestigates the actual damage. This is not a predictive model, but a statistical model thatexamines the causal factors of the damage. This provides the students with numerouspossibilities for interdisciplinary research in design, construction

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Yu Wang; Farrukh Zia; Ohbong Kwon; Xiaohai Li

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Collaborative Instruction and Team Based Project Learning - An Effective Strategy to Conduct Technology Education Yu Wang, Farrukh Zia, Ohbong Kwon, Xiaohai Li Dept. of Computer Engineering Technology New York City College of Technology The City University of New YorkAbstractCollaborative instruction is a teaching model that involves multiple instructors for a common setof educational goals, which can integrate the strengths and shared interests of faculty memberswith different expertise and research focuses. Just in time teaching for

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Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala

course. In the experimentalsection of the course the instructor formed collaborative/cooperative groups and assigned thegroups to work on topics beyond the expected level of the course. Students explored the topicswith applications to real life and solved more complex problems. They also presented some oftheir findings to the class. The control section of the course was taught with traditional lectures.We compared students’ understanding of basic physics principles, their problem solving skillsand attitudes towards physics and physics learning in both groups. In this paper we present theresults of the analysis of the pilot implementation.KeywordsPhysics education research, collaborative group learning, cooperative groups, problem-solving

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Educating the Engineering Educator Moses Tefe1 and Tara Kulkarni2 1 Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield VT/ 2Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield VTAbstractEngineering education research largely focuses on student learning to meet industry demands,with little attention paid to faculty. An assumption is that professors get their “ training” atgraduate school. This may be true of content areas, but most graduate education occurs in largeresearch focused universities. With limited and variable training across institutions, theconsensus is that many graduates are

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

student retention of distress identification.Coupling the initial explicit learning environment with the tacit pavement mapping activityreaches a broader range of student learning types and ensures that all students are exposed to thiselement of the course in a method that is most meaningful to them.Future Course Proposed ChangesEven with current course alterations, the percentage of primary classroom deliver methodsclearly favors the explicit learner. To appeal to both dichotomies more equally, this course couldbenefit from additional tacit instruction. In an effort to add more tacit instruction to thecurriculum, two additional changes are planned for incorporation in the coming semester: 1) Student in class research and presentation 2

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Benjamin D. McPheron

2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer ence Audio and Vision Pr oj ects Augmenting a Studio Style L ab Exper ience in a Signal Pr ocessing Cour se Benj amin D. M cPher on Roger Williams UniversityAbstr actEngineering students greatly benefit from laboratory education and team projects, as these typesof experiences prepare students for internships, research projects, and entry into the engineeringprofession. Unfortunately, laboratory classes can be difficult to fit into the course load of anengineering program at a liberal arts-focused university, where students are exposed tosignificant breadth, as well as

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Junling Hu; Ruoxu Jia; Xiao Huang; Xingguo Xiong; Kai-tak Wan

initial diameter, and Vi is the impact velocity.Significant research has been dedicated to the study of droplet impingement under variousconditions, experimentally, numerically, and analytically4,5. Sikalo and Ganic4 and Sikalo et al.5conducted experiments to study the droplet impact of three different fluids on surfaces withvarious conditions, including dry and wet, smooth and rough, hydrophilic and hydrophobic, andhorizontal and inclined. Rein6, Yarin7, and Marengo et al.8 provided comprehensive reviews ofdroplet impact phenomena under various impacting conditions. 1 © American Society for Engineering

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John E. Patterson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Experimental Use of Recycled Materials to Construct a Solar Water Heater John E. Patterson, PhD Norwich UniversityAbstractWith increasing use of solar water heaters it is important that Construction EngineeringManagement students understand the basic operation of the system. Understanding the theoryprovided in a classroom and reinforcing these concepts in a lab demonstrates the function andefficiency of the systems. It is the purpose of this research for students to build and test varioussolar water heater alternatives using recyclable materials by

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Bo Tao; Gloria Ma

theirresults to an animated problem solution tool. Animation is often used (e.g. WorkingModelsoftware [14] to stimulate student interest. In the preliminary study, we animated a vectorrotating and describing a unit circle. We tested the students initially on calculating the length ofthe shadow of a leaning tree. In the study with and without an application animating a rocket’ saltitude with various elevation angles, we tested the students on calculating the height of abuilding given a base-line and elevation angle.In detail, a vector is a number with a direction associated with it. Freshmen students canremember how to calculate sums of numbers, but not sums of vectors in 2-dimensions[1,2,3].This difficulty may be made worse in the case of vectors in 3

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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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Michael J. Davidson

result of the computer and electronic calculator was significant. As an example, the solution of engineering mathematics involving trigonometry went from the use of 10 place logarithms to two bottom pushes on the electronic calculator. Initially, these calculators were not programmable and many did not provide a hardcopy of the results. Further development lead to the personal computers and then the laptop computers. Today, the laptop computers used are orders of magnitude more powerful than the initial mainframes allowing engineers to solve large complex structural systems at their desks in seconds. Left behind in this discussion of the computer is the development of software to use with the

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Tooran Emami Ph. D.

Northeast Section Conferencewhere, yss is the steady state output value, y0 is the initial output value, vmax is the maximuminput value, and vmin is the initial minimum input value. SRV02-DC Motor Step Response Modeling 8 yss Measurement Data 6 Amplitude 4 2 y0 0 64 65 66 67 68 69

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itscontent, how it was taught, and how the outcomes were assessed. Consistency is especiallyimportant in programs where program changes are initiated by assessment results. This certainlydoesn’t necessarily imply that new faculty cannot change the course, but only that coursemodifications are done in an orderly process with the full knowledge of what occurred in the pastso that previous mistakes are not repeated or the proverbial wheel is not reinvented. Whether ornot there is high turnover, the EOCR creates a culture of assessment and expedites faculty “buy-in” into the assessment process.C. EOCR SolutionTo overcome the above challenges, as well as document continuous improvement we describe arelatively simple EOCR process. Our EOCR process is

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

performance on class projects as well as tests.The quantitative analytic methods that have been employed include descriptive statisticalanalyses to determine frequencies and averages. The qualitative methods were guided by Miles& Huberman’s1 framework of creating an initial coding schema, refining the codes, andexploring emerging themes and trends. Qualitative data are coded based on a schema thatexamined the relationship between actors (such as faculty and mentors), activities (such as thementoring supports), outputs (such as number of students and hours the course was offered) anddesired outcomes (such as interest in Clean Energy) and confidence to succeed in College.Results/FindingsThe ECE recruited and provided an early college experience to

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Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

the program’ capstone design course to meet the EngineeringAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC of ABET)curriculum requirement of a “major de ign experience”. Senior status is required to enroll in CIVE 650and t e cour e i c eduled in t e enior’ final ummer eme ter. In this course, students utilize acquiredknowledge and developed skills from the previous program and other coursework to create civil designsand solve practical problems encountered during the design process. While developing their designs,students work cooperatively in a four to six member intra-discipline design team, demonstrate oral andwritten communication skills and apply independent research skills while interpreting

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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