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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohamed Tayseer; Fouad Zoghieb; Ismail Alcheikh; Mohammad N.S. Awadallah

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Social Network: Academic and Social Impact on College Students Mohamed Tayseer, Fouad Zoghieb, Ismail Alcheikh and Mohammad N.S. Awadallah Arts and Science Department The Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. motahmed@pi.ac.aeAbstract – Social network sites have spread widely all students. As students lead nomadic lives, they haveover the world and are used by various

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Tara Kulkarni

projects in the community. Senior year relevant service projects into the academic context.3”Civil and Environmental Engineering students worked on four California State University at Stanislaus regards S-L as beingprojects, including green roof and biomass energy considerationsat a local elementary school (engaging a fifth grade classroom), central to both students’ academic experiences as well as theirwater quality testing (engaging high school chemistry students), social awarenss4. Norwich University defines S-L as theresearching the environmental impacts from a proposed biomass incorporation of service into the curriculum5.plant

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Matthew Baideme P.E.; Cristian Robbins; Jeffrey Starke

their viewpoint [3].been used to bring more realism to the issue being debated. Debates have been successfully used in a variety of disciplinesIn a junior-level environmental science course, role-play to include sociology, history, psychology, biotechnology,debates were utilized to present and discuss controversial math, health, dentistry, nursing, marketing, and numerousenvironmental issues in realistic scenarios that occur other disciplines [4].throughout the United States. Using these debates as a Benefits of in-class debates include promoting activeplatform, a model to build, assess, and reflect on students’ engagement, which

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Mike Kelley; Steve Beyerlein

the issue. Since it was a ABET Skill 3g – Ability to 18 3.77 2.0 5.0 practice session 30 minutes was allotted. communicate effectively 5. Several students wrote about the process and exercise in ABET Skill 3h – Broad 13 3.95 3.0 5.0 their course journals. Overall those who discussed it understanding of the impact of engineering solutions in … were very positive about the experience. contexts ABET Skill 3i – Recognition of 12 3.62 2.0 5.0Instructor Questions [on

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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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Melody Baglione

of the II. BACKGROUNDconcepts being taught [1]. Several methods of inductive This project implements and evaluates several newlearning, in which students are actively engaged with practical inductive facilities-based and hands-on teaching methods in aapplications or experimental procedures, have been generally junior-level mechanical engineering Feedback Controlshown to provide engineering undergraduates with a broader Systems (ME151) course. ME151 is a continuation of theunderstanding of course material [2]. The case study approach Systems Engineering course

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohammadjafar Esmaeili; Ali Eydgahi

proposed to the tedious lectures. They need to actively be involved inmotivate students in the classroom environment. However, a few instructional activities; continuously be challenged by exitingstudies have examined the impact of such methodologies on problems, and work in a team [1, 2, 7]. It has been reported thatstudents’ tendency toward STEM classes. Although Activelearning studies have shown the overall satisfaction of students in students’ retention of the information will not be gained onlyproject-based classes, there is not enough evidence to show any by receiving it verbally or visually. It rather needs to be utilizedattitude changes

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

statistics. Furthermore, this improved • To explore the perceived limitations of SMART understanding has enabled the students to engage in Table of students and teachers critical thinking to manage their assignments and class • Research Questions activities more effectively. In addition, researchers have The study will focus on the research questions concluded that the use of smart technology bypresented as follows: educational institutions is a form of ‘pedagogical • What are the key features of SMART Table and innovation’ [16]. how they can be applied to educational B

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

properties ofstudents. When it is not and students complain, developers systems that interconvert work and heat, such as power plants,need to react quickly to modify the software. In the system propulsion systems, refrigerators, and heat pumps. Thisdescribed in this paper, students used Tweets to communicate system provides numerous simulations and interaction butto researchers about the quality of the software. This was students do not work with a physical system and do notunexpected, but welcome in that it pointed out flaws in the receive immediate feedback for their hands-on activities.Other intelligent tutors generate natural language dialogueswith students and might use deep parsers and generators,together with

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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

of wage and • Tools for working – information and communications proficiency gaps arising from a lack of education and technology (ICT) and information literacy; workforce readiness [1]: • Skills for living in the world – citizenship, life and “What people know and what they do with what they know career skills, and personal and social responsibility. has a major impact on their life chances. … Those with low ATC21S attempts to assess how the above skills (which are literacy skills are also more than twice as likely to bedeemed conceptual skills) are used in collaborative problem- unemployed. … improvements between younger and older978-1-4799-5233-5/14

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

in communication styles and thinking Claypatterns associated with the written work. Methods of dataanalysis followed a grounded theory approach. Groundedtheory was chosen since little research has been conductedregarding engineering students’ collaborative understanding offlow processes. Analysis methods are based on several well- Sand Silt Clay x x xsupported texts on this approach [5, 6]. Transcriptions weremade for the collected video and audio data for the threegroups. ATLAS.ti was used to compile and

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Girma Tewolde

fields.Computer Engineering Summer Day Camp program, we We will continue to improve the Computer Engineeringwere able to attract external funding from a community Summer Day Camps in the years ahead to further enhancefoundation. The program received a generous grant support its impact in attracting more and more talented students tofrom the Donald Lee Fund of the Community Foundation of Computer Engineering and other STEM programs, andGreater Flint, for three years (2013 to 2015). We are grateful Kettering University.to this support, which motivates us to further expand ourofferings by adding a new program targeted for intermediateto advanced level students

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

challenges in less technical areas also(g) an ability to communicate 1.56 (0.16) still exist – for example in helping students to present aeffectively professional identity and understand their professional responsibilities. We will respond in this area through(h) the broad education necessary to 1.5 (0.17) additional student preparation for internships (using on-lineunderstand the impact of engineering resources and by interacting more with students through theirsolutions in a global, economic, eportfolios).environmental, and societal

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

with dynamics and vibrations. of several buildings. They created one of the earliest multi-Dynamics and vibrations are yet extremely complex subjects and dimensional building models and studied its performance on ademand costly laboratory resources. Since the faculties ofengineering in these universities are new, there are no shaking table. During the 1940s an impact table for simulatinglaboratories for dynamics and vibrations yet. It was obvious that, earthquake ground motions was used to study the mechanicalwithout laboratory work, the students were not able to performance of large shear

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

science education, Educational for 15 to 30 minutes, sometimes see a different advisor eachtechnology, Engineering education semester, and sometimes see multiple advisors who are not necessarily in communication with one another. Advisors may I. INTRODUCTION have their own agenda. Some may want to make certain that At the University of Kentucky, students in both the College particular courses have high enough enrollment, while someof Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences are may

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

either Electro-Mechanical Technology, which run beneath IaaS.Electrical Engineering Technology, TelecommunicationsEngineering Technology, or Mechanical Engineering Previously, the Electro-Optic Technology course used aTechnology. After completing two years of additional basic text on fiber optics which did not contain any SDN/NFVcoursework, students can earn a B.Tech. degree in Computer material (Fiber Optic Communications by Joseph Palais [15].Engineering Technology. These programs are ABET We have developed a supplement to this course (based in partaccredited. on resources such as [16]) which explain SDN/NFV and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

the NSF GK-12 Fellow to teachto the classes. However, it was quickly discovered through (iv) apply the basic commands to control inputs and outputsclassroom observation that the programming lessons held asignificant impact on the students learning and their (v) apply the basic commands to create plots, including those with multiple sets of data on the same axesinterpretation of science. (vi) utilize the appropriate arguments in the plot, and This paper will give an explanation of how programming appropriate

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ruzanna Davtyan

) p. 45.” Kolb’s applying new concepts to the real world situations, solvingmodel shows general learning styles and their connection to CL(Kolb & Kolb, 2005). His research shows that “most students problems by communicating with each other, and transferringdo not fit neatly into one category or the other (Kolb & Kolb, that knowledge to an experience that they will have in the2005)” Almost all students can “learn by and benefit from all future. Teachers can do this by effectively engaging studentsfour experiences (thinking, feeling, doing, and watching) (Kolb into learning activities and eliminating the questions of “Why& Kolb, 2005) p.85

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nicholas S. Rosasco; Dane Brown

II. EDUCATIONAL JUSTIFICATIONintended to enlighten and educate students, by presenting both STEM outreach at the United States Naval Academyapplications and abstract concepts in an interactive, hands-on (USNA) entails a different approach to recruiting and retainingmanner. Modules that teach a wide range of topics, some technologists. We engage elementary, middle, and high schoolmultidisciplinary, are presented in short, informative sessions. students and teachers in a diverse range of science andThe module presented in this paper involved discussions of engineering activities [14] using Navy relevant curriculum, ournetworking and communications technology, as well as the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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James Accuosti

and businesses, community colleges have already exhibited anchanges the way or means in which we learn, we must innovative level of responsiveness and leadership withunderstand the way in which we absorb knowledge [6]. Straub technology-based programming [8].” Owen and Demb focusnotes that, as humans, we must understand how education on higher education, but if social forces constantly nag us withtechnologies contribute to our learning environments and the usual rhetoric about preparing our youth for a 21st centuryconvey knowledge. In addition, technology literacy is education, we, collectively, have to start with our youngest. Inincreasingly becoming mandated in K-12

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

of the problems that their1998, followed by a course on Sustainability in 2003 – these profession requires them to solve. There is inevitably aare now offered alternate years, as is the “Agility…” course. A requirement to understand the needs and be capable ofmajority of students take classes spread over 3-4 years, with communicating with accountants, planners, and a phalanx ofoccasional on-campus students taking 3 or 4 semesters. A web non-technical associates, not forgetting cultural and globalsite displays the 30 credit curriculum [12]. considerations and factors. Context here involves many ideas – as Adam Davidson

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Aziz Obaid Alotaibi; Christian Bach

delivering public services in Madinah of the 6th USENIX conference on Offensive Technologies. 2012. City: Case of Saudi Arabia. Transforming Government: People, USENIX Association. Process and Policy, 2010. 4(1): p. 14-36. 22. Hein, S.E. and K.A. Stalcup, Cyber Dimensions: Using World Wide12. Alarifi, A., H. Tootell, and P. Hyland. A study of information security Web Utilities to Engage Students in Money, Banking, and Credit. The awareness and practices in Saudi Arabia. in Communications and Journal of Education for Business, 2001. 76(3): p. 167-172. Information Technology (ICCIT), 2012 International Conference on. 23. Cheeseman, H.R