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Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

. They are attending their last year of the program, the fourth year, at NJIT. This May 2014, they will The global environment of today’s industrial, service and graduate with a B.S. degree from each of the three universitiesbusiness sectors requires graduating students to be prepared to involved.work in cross-cultural settings. Graduating engineers today The topics that will be addressed include an explanation ofhave to work and to interact in a global environment. and the benefits acquired from this program, the challenges forCognizant, of this factor many institutes of higher education the institutions, the knowledge obtained from

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

edbaker@ecs.umass.edu Model Wind Turbine Students Testing their Wind Turbines Abstract-Many issues surround the global energy crisis, attending college and studying within the STEM fields, and toincluding climate change and peak oil. One crucial issue that is improve the skill sets needed to pursue any major in college.often overlooked is awareness about energy issues and thesustainable and renewable technologies being implemented andresearched to solve them. Spreading awareness among youth is a More specifically, the objectives of the curriculum are toway to engage the next generation in such topics, build their improve communication through writing

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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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Keith M. Gardiner

Manufacturing,” 3rd Conference Improving the Productivity offactory physical output or the point of final assembly and Technical Resources, IIT Research Institute, Chicago, Nov., 1982.subsequent distribution and service. An engineer that wishes [9] Gardiner, K. M., “The Pedagogic and Technological Evolution of a Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) Graduate Program,” Paperto solve problems, generate revenue, and assist an operation to 1561, 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 22-satisfy and even delight customers by establishing 25, Saratoga

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Shanon Reckinger; Blanca Aca; Katherine Pitz

Science andbachelor’s degrees in all fields from US universities exceeds Education (BASE) camp and was developed by Dr. Shelley Phelan, Professor of Biology at Fairfield University. BASE Manuscript received February 14, 2014. This work was supported by the Camp was designed to engage students in hands-on, research-the National Institute of Health (NIH) under Award R25MD006836 from the based experiences in the natural sciences and mathematics.National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparity Populations The goal is to inform the students of STEM research topics(NIMHD) . S. M. Reckinger is with the Mechanical Engineering Department at

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Marwah Almasri; Khaled Elleithy

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Data Fusion Models in WSNs: Comparison and Analysis Marwah M Almasri, and Khaled M Elleithy, Senior Member, IEEE the advantages and the disadvantages of each model to Abstract—In WSNs, hundreds of sensors collect data from the understand the different objectives for applying such models.environment but these sensors have limited energy. Therefore, This paper is structured as follows: section II, presentsenergy consumption is

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Vazgen Shekoyan

general It is possible to create reduced-specificity problems fromequations of the physics topic (expert-like strategy) instead of more qualitative, non-transitional problems by making the taskstarting problem solution by looking for a formula that of the problem a “tell-all” problem. For example, give acontains the specific variable the problem is asking for without situation and instead of asking for a specific quantity, askanalyzing the situation (novice-like strategy). “what can you determine about the problem situation using Note that whenever possible we have chosen context-rich this information?” In our study we focused mainly on[29] problems or made additional modifications to

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

. From the presentation of the problem, the students, in groups, In view of the increasing interest in PBL to promote active begin with the first analysis and discussion, based on thelearning, the general objective of this article is the elaboration knowledge they already possess. Then, individually, theyof an educational activity inspired by PBL, used in the search for new knowledge to, once more in group, widen theclassroom as support for the educational experiment project, in

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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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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

11364 Community College, Bayside NY 11364 Abstract—The iron and zinc environments in selected tissue complimentary variables has been a standard topic in signalsamples have been studied with EXAFS at Brookhaven analysis courses where data in large frequency range would beSynchrotron Light Source and the scientific process including needed to investigate small time scale information. Andata analysis has been used to show community college pre- EXAFS scan usually would cover a range of scattered waveengineering students about hand-on experience in student vector (wave vector k ~ 2*pi/wavelength) that corresponds toresearch projects. The EXAFS data collection was done using

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

colleges, and Abstract—In today’s competitive global economy, six out of retaining them so that they can succeed and graduate. In thisevery ten jobs require some undergraduate college education and paper we will focus on the latter and present one approach totraining. College retention therefore has long been the focus of increase college retention rates.research in education. The relationship between students andinstitutional characteristics, college graduation and retentionrates has been a frequent topic in the academic literature. For a successful retention program in any college, there must be a team of

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

education, and attrition rates (both more advanced systems that play a more active role in thedirectly and indirectly) [3]–[6]. Additionally, recent research interaction between student and advisor. A program at Austinhas shown that minority and otherwise disadvantaged students Peay State University can help students select courses basedcan benefit the most from quality advising services [7]. on their predicted grades, elicited interests, and graduation The links between the availability and quality of academic requirements [15]. Other researchers are working on advisingadvising services and lowered attrition rates may be of support systems which use collaborative filtering algorithmsparticular

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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

/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEProceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) generations are barely apparent. Young people … are use of e-learning and digital content in schools [24]. entering a much more demanding labour market, yet they In 2004, the third NETP was published: Toward a New are not much better prepared than those who are retiring.” Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the ACT has published similar findings. Between 2006 and Law and Today’s Students Are Revolutionizing Expectations.2011, it collected data on over 1.8 million high school students In preparing the NETP, the Department of Education surveyedwho took foundational

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

- Your department believes that theability to work with construction drawings is an important engineering program” and “4 - Your department believesskill for all students graduating from your undergraduate that this is an important topic and needs to be included in the Table 1 – Survey Demographic Data # of Ph.D. or M.S. Student Majors No Courses School Type Responses programs >200 Offered Private 7

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

actual project envisages the realization Qualification Frameworkissues on the current topic; material presentation skills; ideas in the Central Asian counties and the creation of theexperimental skills; multimedia tools, tests for self-checking. Guidelines for National Qualifications frameworks. It is planned to improve their educational systems by further Index Terms—learning outcomes, competences, learning development of existing requirements to educational standardsmethods, student activities, multimedia tools, HyperCam, in particular fields on the base on new European

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Leslie Chandrakantha

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Learning ANOVA Concepts Using Simulation Leslie Chandrakantha Abstract: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is an City University of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA. (phone:important topic in introductory statistics. Many students 212-237-8835,email:lchandra@jjay.cuny.edu).struggle to understand the ANOVA concepts. Statistical Their evaluation of the simulation suggests that it provided anconcepts are important in engineering education. In this effective supplement to book and lecture based methods ofpaper, we describe

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

The goals and objectives described in Section II were presented in Section V.assessed with a rubric that reflected those goals and objectives. The intentions of this work was to explore the possibilityThe rubric varied slightly with each assignment depending on of the integrating programming into a physics class andwhich goals or objectives were being stressed for a particular provide the graduate fellow with multiple lesson opportunitiesassignment. In general, the rubrics focus on the program to fulfill the requirements of the NSF GK-12 Fellowship.having descriptive comments, how well the program met the However

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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

seeks to find out student’s impressionother. about a particular course at the end of the semester. As5) Evaluation: This forms the emotional side of the narrative always, things can be improved and those willing to beand explains why the story is worth telling. It asks the participants can be interviewed about their experiencesquestion: “How did you feel during the experience?” In the regarding graduate education in the university. Narrativenarrative: “I was relieved and quite pleasantly surprised to analysis can then be used to review these stories and revealbe offered help.” Humans are emotional beings and are redeeming and

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Mohammad H. Hashem; Ahmed A. Al Khawaja; Saleh O. Edhah; Usman I. Hashmi; Al Hareth S. Al Akill

quantitative causing a lower GPA, as indicated in our results. data were collected that is easier to interpret as charts and tables. This method was of a great use for the topic as it was VIII. RECOMMENDATION easy to apply and analyze. It also gives general informationThe results gathered using the survey were quite intriguing. about what is dealt with within the PI. On the other hand,After all, they proved the hypothesis and helped there were some limitations that made restrictions on thediscovering more on the students’ performance and how it results. For example, some of the survey questions wereis affected

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

provides example summary comments from students.engineering topics, see example Tweets in Table 1. The goalwas to identify students’ qualitative knowledge about general The Tweets are a narrative summary of what studentstopics (e.g., inductance, capacitance) before and after each lab. understand before the lab and an assessment by the student of what he/she learned in the lab. Even with an understanding of For example, a pre-lab Tweet asks “What do you know Tweet shorthand, the students’ responses were hard to sortabout discharging a capacitor through a resistor. What happens because of

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Melody Baglione

Question: In your own words, what did you learn in learning aims as a Mechanical Engineering major at the lab today? Please elaborate. Cooper Union? Answer: Generally, in today's lab we learned about Answer: This project was part of the inspiration for my Ziegler-Nichols tuning, which involves senior design project. I am working with another methods for finding the minimum values for control that student on designing an energy dashboard which will make a system stable (instead of just guessing and educate both technical and non-technical audiences on checking). We specifically implemented two different the

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Khaled Almgren; Christian Bach

will cause many problems. As wegrow much more and control the software market, such as have seen in the CosmeticCo case, the company was put in aOracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, and BAAN (Robert Jacobs, 2007). bad place because the data format reports were causing The year 2000 is one reason why ERP systems have problems (Umble, et al., 2003).spread around the world. ERP system vendors have The seventh factor is extensive education and training. Itaddressed the issue of Y2K. These companies and other is very important to reduce user resistance, and we canmajor ERP systems have implemented packages, such as a achieve that by having training sessions. Educating andsystem package

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Usman I. Hashmi; Wessam W. Khalifeh; Abdullah M. Alhinai; Mohammad M. Alrefaai; Mohammad H. Hashem

hand,students should try to develop brainstorming techniques andresearching skills. A major problem arises when students are not ableto take courses and have lower credits because there is aclash in timings of the different subjects. In addition, manymajor courses are just offered in one semester and studentshave to wait a year to take it if they dropped them. Thisslows their graduation and demoralizes them from studying.The PI administration should find solutions for them likeoffering online courses. REFERENCES[1] B.Susan and G.Mark, “Making Transition Easier: Year 12 Students geta Head Start on University Education.” The International Journal ofLearning, Volume 17, Number 7, pp. 193-208, 2010.[2] J. van

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Arafat Abu Malluh; Khaled M. Elleithy; Zakariya Qawaqneh; Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Adwan Alanazi

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) EM-SEP: An Efficient Modified Stable Election Protocol Arafat Abu Malluh, Khaled M. Elleithy, Zakariya Qawaqneh, Ramadhan J. Mstafa, Adwan Alanazi Abstract— Recently wireless sensor networks (WSN) becamean interesting topic because of its increasing usage in manyfields; medical systems, environment monitoring, military I. INTRODUCTIONapplications and video surveillance. Usually sensors are placed in WSN is an emerging technology that helps to bringthe desired

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Verica Radisavljevic-Gajic

, dim{y (t )} = l = c < n = dim{x(t )} , c = rank{C} .T HE design of observers is usually considered as a graduate level topic and taught in a graduate level controlengineering course. However, in the most recent editions of where Hence, we have also assumed that there are not redundant measurements. In such a case, under certain conditions, weseveral standard undergraduate control system textbooks we can use an observer, a

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Paul B. Crilly

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) An Innovative Approach to Teaching An Undergraduate Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation Course Paul Crilly Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT Paul.B.Crilly@uscga.edu currents? EEs should know why HF, and not VHF signals propagate across oceans, why only local broadcast AM signals Abstract – In this paper an innovative approach is taken to are heard during the day, and the

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Andrew Grossfield

general-purpose plotting utility, Peanut SoftwareAndrew Grossfield Throughout his career Dr. Grossfield, has combined aninterest in engineering and mathematics. In 1960, he earned a BSEE at theCity College of New York. During the early sixties, he obtained an M.S.degree in mathematics at the Courant Institute of NYU at night while workingfull time as an engineer for aerospace/avionics companies. He graduated fromthe University of Arizona in 1968 after studying continuum mechanics in thedoctoral program. In addition to holding life membership in both ASEE andIEEE he is a member of MAA.