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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Aspects of Collaborations Between College of Engineering at King Saud University and Industry Abdullah I. Al-Mhaidib, College of Engineering, King Saud UniversityAbstract—The mission of most colleges of engineering in many II. ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIAuniversities is to strengthen the partnership and cooperation withthe different institutions of the society. This paper presents the Engineering education in Saudi Arabia started in1962 whenvarious aspects of collaborations of college of engineering at King the first college of

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Ketul B Shah; Aritra Ghosh; Md Naim Hossain; Young Lee

1 Enhancing Engineering Educational Using Virtual Lab Technology Ketul B Shah Aritra Ghosh Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department Texas A&M University - Kingsville Texas A&M University - Kingsville Kingsville, TX-78363. USA Kingsville, TX-78363. USA ketul.shah@students.tamuk.edu aritra.ghosh

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Energy For Education Bringing reliable energy where its needed most: Schools. Moijue Kaikai Dr. Erin D. Baker Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department Associate Professor, Director, Wind Energy IGERT University of Massachusetts at Amherst University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA Amherst, MA mkaikai@umass.edu

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Enhancing Assessment of Experiential Learning in Engineering Education through Electronic Portfolios Gary P. Halada, Member, ASEE, and Nancy McCoy Wozniak learning space, and provide data which can be evaluated.Abstract—Electronic portfolios (eportfolios) are proposed as an Electronic portfolios are proposed as an ideal tool for thisideal mechanism to enhance experiential learning in purpose, one which is especially valuable for the assessmentundergraduate internships. Eportfolios can enhance

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James Accuosti

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Factors Affecting Education Technology Success James Accuosti Dept. of Technology Management, School of Engineering University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT, USA jaccuost@my.bridgeport.edu Abstract— The purpose of this paper is to examine particular music [1], biology [12], to literacy [13], to college-leveland relevant factors that affect the outcome or implementation of economics

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Richard Millham

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Does Self-Regulating E-Learning Assist inSecondary School Preparation for Engineering Education? Richard Millham Surendra Thakur Chan Malan Durban University of KZN e-skills CoLab MMI Foundation Technology Durban, South Africa Durban, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa richardm1@dut.ac.za thakur@dut.ac.za cmalan@iafrica.com Abstract- One of the most prominent issues in engineering education is the proper preparation of prospectiveengineering students in the subjects of mathematics

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Keith M. Gardiner

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Professional Education for the 21st Century Workforce Keith M. Gardiner Lehigh University, Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 610-758-5070 kg03@lehigh.edu The scale, scope and pace of technological change has grownAbstract—This paper offers a brief history of the

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Mohammed-Noor Naher Al-Maghrabi; Ahmed A. Abdou El-Abbasy

engineering and tsunami research security framework [3].facility sites located at universities across the U.S. -- available Nowadays, there is a lot of educational software forfor testing on-site, in the field, or through telepresence; and structural dynamics. Frame3DD is free open-source softwarecyber infra-structure operations that connect the work of the for static and dynamic structural analysis of 2D and 3D framesexperimental facilities, researchers, educators and and trusses with elastic and geometric stiffness. It computesstudents. The NEES assets jointly provide the means for the static deflections, reactions, internal element forces,collaboration and

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Use of Smart Table in Educational Institutions to Enhance Student Learning Performance Naif Jalal (Office Mgr, Texan Cardiovascular Institute, TX, US )and Dan Tenney ( Quality Executive, 3M Co., StPaul MN US) work related responsibilities. Technology has brought Abstract— Technology has influenced various changes to various fields and sectors across the globe.industries, including the educational sector. One such area which has been significantly influencedSMART™ Table can be regarded as

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Web-based Personalized Laboratories for Engineering Students Enid K. Sichel, Member, IEEE , Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan Abstract. We developed software that provides intelligenthands-on bench-top dynamic help to students as they study inlaboratories for introductory circuit analysis. Tutoring help is Theavailable at “teachable moments” as opposed to students waitingdays or weeks for traditional teacher-graded labs reports.Quantitative and qualitative studies show that using the softwareleads to improved learning, verbalization and

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Fernanda Gobbi de Boer; Carla ten Caten; Istefani Carisio de Paula

real problems. For the creation of thiscolaborative learning environment, the use of the Problem Based relation and the development of the expected abilities in anLearning method provides a motivational situation favorable tolearning, besides engaging students more intensely. Therefore, engineer, methods such as collaborative education, activethe students were requested to obtain the adequate solution for a learning and team work have become more and moreproposed problem, which was related to a fictitious production important for students, for they allow interpersonal skills, suchline, using an experiment project. At the end of the activity it was

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Tara Kulkarni

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Service-Learning Projects in Environmental Engineering Courses: Models of Community Engagement Activities Tara Kulkarni, Member, ASEE institutions engaged in S-L. For example, the Service Center at Abstract—The curriculum for an introductory environmental the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) refers to S-Lengineering course was enhanced with the addition of Service- as “a pedagogy that involves the interaction of academicallyLearning (S-L) based

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Carli D. Flynn; Cliff I. Davidson; Sharon Dotger

understandingcan persist throughout their educational career and may hinder were considered, including equation based, graphical, andtheir ability to learn new material [1, 2]. Concept inventories illustrative or descriptive understanding. It was hypothesizedare multiple choice instruments that have been used in several that a lack in any of the three types of understanding of aengineering disciplines as a way to provide reliable and valid fundamental engineering conceptual framework would impedeassessment of students’ misconceptions. Some of these student understanding of advanced engineering concepts.inventories include assessments of conceptual frameworksrelated to rate processes. However, they are usually

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Joseph A. Levert; Andy Grosso

to international activities. This paper will focus on service-now economically perform this task. The wider collaboration of learning projects with local communities.Project CREATE also enables NYSID to advance its outreachmission. The structure of Project CREATE enabled all parties to One of the first and largest organizations to enable localsucceed in a win-win-win fashion. service-learning is Engineering Projects in Community Index Terms— Assistive Technology, Engineering Education, Service (EPICS) which was established by Purdue UniversityProduct Design

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

approachesMoodle, tests for self-checking, Flash-animation, EJudge and the Tuning Programme.system. In March of 2012 in al-Farabi Kazakh National University the Project of Kazakh - Indo - US Collaboration for Engineering Education (KIUCEE) is started. Kazakh-Indo I. INTRODUCTION American project for faculty staff professional training and skills maintenance on natural

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Teresa Piliouras; Pui Lam Yu; Kristin Villanueva; Holly Robillard; Yingxin Chen; Michael Berson; Jeanne R. Lauer; Garret Sampel; Daniel Lapinski; Maigh Attre

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) A Deeper Understanding of Technology is Needed for Workforce Readiness – Playing Games, Texting, and Tweets Aren’t Enough to Make Students Tech-Savvy Teresa Piliouras, Raymond Yu, Kristin Villanueva, Yingxin Chen, Holly Robillard, and Michael Berson, Best We Can Be, Inc. Jeanne Lauer, Garret Sampel, Daniel Lapinski, and Maigh Attre, AITE High School countries around the world [1]-[12]. Abstract— Technology skills

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) The Enhancement of Students Learning Through COMSOL Simulation Projects Yves Ngabonziza and Hendrick DelchamAbstract - Research has shown that student participation in overall impact on their college success [9]. This study alsoresearch activities increases faculty/student interactions outsidethe classroom, increases student involvement in their learning, showed that research at the undergraduate level helps withaddresses different learning styles, provides opportunities to see retention and encourages students to pursue

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Developing a Software Defined Networking Curriculum through Industry Partnerships Carolyn J. Sher-DeCusatis and Casimer DeCusatis IT job market. Abstract—Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emergingtechnology which radically improves cloud computing and other This new, cost effective model for IT relies more stronglytypes of data networking. We discuss a new SDN undergraduate than ever before on dynamic, high performance networkseducation program, developed

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A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

education points to hands-on experiences asof fundamental concepts during undergraduate engineering a necessary ingredient in the learning process. A participant ineducation. We describe recent experience at the University of the recent 2013 ASEE University/Industry perspectivesMassachusetts in introducing a laboratory component into the workshop stated this succinctly, “Students must experience aFundamentals of Electrical Engineering course taken by 170upper-level mechanical and industrial engineering hands-on example of every fundamental taught in order toundergraduate students. The lecture part of the course exposes reinforce it

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Arthur Rozario; Justin Paruvaparampil; Keis Sultani; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Andres Mora; Catherine Carti; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Wenli Guo; Andrew Nguyen; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

engineering, biomedicalamong engineering students and engineering technology students engineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing aand will be a good model project for future students. research project in a laboratory and presenting the results in conferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. Keywords— Photon diffusion; turbid media; mHealth This interdisciplinary project carries an added education valuemonitoring; mobile phone camera; iris response; index finger for showing a student the difference between an engineeringdiffusion property; blood vessel absorption effect

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Lessons Learned from Development of a Software Tool to Support Academic Advising Nicholas Mattei, Thomas Dodson, Joshua T. Guerin, Judy Goldsmith, Joan M. Mazur should also be able to guide the students in selecting courses Abstract— We detail some lessons learned while designing and that are best suited to their abilities and goals. Finally,testing a decision-theoretic advising support tool for advisors should be able to refer students to support services,undergraduates at a

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Thair Jamal Khdour; Shaima Salem

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) The effects of integrating knowledge management with E- Learning systems Thair Khdour Shaima Salem Computer Information Systems Department Amman College for Financial and Managerial Science Albalqa Applied University Albalqa Applied University Salt 19117 Jordan Amman Jordan khdour@bau.edu.jo shaima_mis@yahoo.com Abstract—since the

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

become proficiency with finished by June 2014. It continues to evolve each day asreading and using construction drawings as an engineer. more content is added, more questions are discovered andAdditionally there is the challenge and excitement from the more answers are found. As a team we collaborate weeklyadded pressure of being able to provide others with a and brainstorm ways to enrich the value and usability of theteaching tool via a 3-D interface. The Book is designed to be

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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Exploring Electrochemical Technology: A Perspective on the ASEE/NSF Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship Julie N. Renner and Kathy E. Ayers write research proposals for the small business to review Abstract—The American Society for Engineering Education before accepting them into the program. Companies benefitadministers a postdoctoral fellowship program supported by the financially, paying only a modest amount toward the

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Abrar Mohammed Alajlan

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) High-Level Abstractions in Wireless Sensor Networks: Status, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Future Directions Abrar M. Alajlan, Khaled M. Elleithy, Member, IEEE Several programming approaches have been proposed toAbstract— Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained a lot assist WSNs programming. Two broad classes of WSNsof considerations in recent years and have significant impacts on programming models have been explored lately; localdifferent application

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Ruzanna Davtyan

PRESS. FELDER, R. M., & SILVERMAN, L. K. (1988). LEARNING AND TEACHING STYLES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION. ENGINEERING EDUCATION, 78(7), 674-681. GARDNER, H. (1985). FRAMES OF MIND: THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: BASIC BOOKS. GERLAI, R. (1998). CONTEXTUAL LEARNING AND CUE ASSOCIATION IN FEAR CONDITIONING IN MICE: A STRAIN COMPARISON AND A LESION STUDY. BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 95(2), 191-203. HONEY, P., & MUMFORD, A. (1986). USING YOUR LEARNING STYLES: PETER HONEY MAIDENHEAD,, UK. HULL, D. (1995). WHO ARE YOU CALLING STUPID?: THE REVOLUTION THAT'S CHANGING EDUCATION: CORD COMMUNICATIONS.JOHNSON, E. B. (2002). CONTEXTUAL

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Thomas Goddard; Konstantin Litovskiy; Nathan Nichols-Roy; Matthew Reed; Igor Shvartser; Nicholas Smith; David Zeppa; Linda Werner; Julia E. Rice; Hans W. Horn; Amanda C. Engler

published research.chemistry. We discuss our initial experiences to build a The purpose of this paper is to describe our initial experiencescross-disciplinary project team whose goal is to contribute building a cross-disciplinary project team1 to address theto an open source software tool used by scientists for project goal: identifying polymers in published research. Thispolymer discovery. work is part of a two-quarter long software engineering project; the student team consists of computer science, math, I. INTRODUCTION and chemistry majors at the University of

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Ammar Odeh; Khaled Elleithy; Miad Faezipour

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education E (ASEE Zone 1)Steganography in Text by Using MS Word d Symbols Ammaar Odeh, Khaled Elleithy, Miad Faezipour Computer Science & Engineering University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT06604, USA aodeh@bridgeport.edu, elleithy@bridgeport.edu, mfaezipo@bridgeport.edu

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

tocurriculum. The critical thinking skills obtained through the provide theoretical and educational resources to augment thelogical process of writing code and computational methods will high school curriculum. Each week, the graduate fellow andbetter equip the students as they enter college and careers the physics teacher collaborated to determine what resources[2],[3]. would be available to integrate into the physics curriculum. Often it was difficult to match the resources to the curriculum. Many institutions have implemented the use of computers,programming, and computational methods into science

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Wei Lu

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Phylogenetic Analysis Using Bayesian Model Wei Lu, Ph.D. ,P.Eng. Member, IEEE Mike Hanrahan, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Keene State College. USNH Keene State College, USNH Keene, NH USA Keene, NH USA e-mail: wlu@keene.edu e-mail: mhanraha@keene.eduAbstract - Bayesian inference has been widely applied for