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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

Engineering curriculum includes a varietyof required core courses in the humanities, science, engineering, mathematics, professionalmaritime studies, organizational behavior, management, leadership and law. The curriculum isbroad and provides a solid background in the structures, environmental, geotechnical, andconstruction sub-fields of civil engineering. The Civil Engineering program places emphasis onhelping students make connections between theoretical fundamental principles and realengineering practice1. As such, the courses are structured to help students develop the skillsrequired for the real-life practice of civil engineering. This approach is in line with Chinowsky2who proposed that civil engineering programs broaden their curricula by

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Sigrid Berka

candidate to use speech processing to detect the emotion of a speaker’s voice. His part of theproject was to write a Matlab program which would take a recorded sample of speech, and processit to try and figure out the fundamental frequencies of the speech. He was given a well-documentedalgorithm to learn and put into code – for the first half of the project he analyzed the algorithm,learned how and why it worked, and programmed it into Matlab code – all this including thecoding was done in German. He spent the latter half of his time researching and consulting with theproject sponsor, trying to learn ways to improve the program through pre- or post-processing of thesignal. In addition, he also attempted to implement some noise reduction into the

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

engineering disciplines should a student decide to transfer to a different department. Additionally, Matlab is used in downstream courses. Engineering Communication: Finally, a couple of lectures were devoted to effective engineering communication. This included report writing, graphical communication (graphs and sketches) and presentations.Despite the known drawbacks of lecturing, the lecture component of this course was included asa venue for announcements as well as content delivery. Lectures were designed to be as interac-tive as possible with student activities (e.g., Bob McKim’ s/Tim Brown’ s 30 circles creativity ac-tivity11 and hands-on computer programming) to engage students. Future course offerings willexplore more

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Elizabeth MH Garcia

the course description, outcomes, schedule, andtextbooks. It was decided that for each concept or equation, an image would be used alongside.Images are “powerful memory enhancers for most engineering students”3.Dynamics was by far the most approached course for a concept map by other institutions. Fang5introduced a “Tree of Dynamics” to encourage students to look for the linkages between topicsof this challenging course. Fang5 correctly stated that Dynamics is often found to be one of themost challenging courses in undergraduate engineering with its numerous fundamental concepts.This leads to students failing to know what concepts to apply and when5.The author first used the schedule of lectures (summarized in Table 1) to develop a draft of

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

pedagogies (e.g. traditional chalkboard writing, presentations, field trips,labs, etc.) to appeal to different student learning preferences and create a more inclusive learningenvironment. Utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, instructors focused on the first twodichotomies, Extroversion vs. Introversion and Sensing vs. Intuition. With an innovativeapproach towards CE Materials, the goal of stimulating independent thinkers and assistingstudents with the retention of core course material is being achieved across a range of studentlearning preferences. By teaching the course in a way that encompasses all learning preferences,a greater breadth of students can succeed in and enjoy a civil engineering curriculum.IntroductionTypical civil engineering

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

department of Chemical Engineering for the past 13years. The theme for the workshop is “ How to Engineer Engineering Education” and the targetgroup is engineering and science faculty, and graduate students. The workshop is designed to 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceenhance the teaching expertise of participants by receiving instructions on the followingactivities in an engaging and interactive group environment11. a. Writing clear instructional objectives at appropriate cognitive levels b. Using active, cooperative, & problem-based

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Bo Tao; Gloria Ma

students in classes such as statics,semiconductor materials, and computer graphics it is necessary to improve their performance oncomputing components of 3-dimensional vectors. We wrote a computer graphics, animatedapplication in MATLAB to provide students with a method to improve their performance oncomputing 3-dimensional vector trigonometric components. MATLAB is a good choice fordoing numerical computations and GUI interface writing; however, the object-oriented animatedgraphics were difficult to program. We assessed one group of first-year engineering students on3-dimensional vector trigonometric computations who had access to the MATLAB applicationbefore the test. We assessed another group of first-year engineering students without access

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Felipe Pait

alone withoutbooks or references is free to feel piqued.Voice implies in autonomy, a concept which goes beyond the act of speaking and asking in theclassroom, although even these quotidian activities may be repressed via complex processes Being the translation from the Portuguese of a part of a book in preparation 1. A “ When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”which by reasons connected to my cultural inheritance I am not capable of comprehending. Thestudent needs to learn to talk about the subject with his own voice. This is as true in supposedlyimpersonal subjects typically studied by engineers as anywhere else. The minimal pre-requisite issimply talking — or writing. Its opposite is the unidirectional