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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

(DGE0841394), and Haverhill Public Schools. Resources Information Center, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, pp. 115-128, 1989 REFRENCES [5] J. M. Wilson, E. F. Redish, “Using computers in teaching physics,” Physics Today, pp. 34-41, 1989[1] D. Langdon, G. McKittrick, D. Beede, B. Khan, and M. Doms, “STEM: [6] H. Gould, “Computational physics in the undergraduate curriculum,”Good jobs now

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Improving Spatial Reasoning Ability While Learning Energy Efficient Construction: Students Who Build Physical Models vs. Students Who Develop 3D Computer Models Orla Smyth LoPiccoloAbstract: Olkun defines spatial reasoning as “the mental the development of students’ spatial reasoning inmanipulation of objects and their parts in 2D and 3D freshman non-design courses.space.” In a previous study, the author found that physicalmodel building increased student spatial reasoning by 12%on average, as compared to drawing the same topic as an II

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

instruction, they havewith broader issues of thinking, feeling, perceiving and presented particular challenges to assessment and evaluation.behaving. [2] In this work, the Kolbs explain the need toconsider the learning space, consisting of both the student and B. Electronic portfolios in engineering educationtheir environment, in the assessment of learning fromexperiences. The learning space in which experiential learning Multiple studies over the past decade have shown strongoccurs is broader than just the physical space, and includes the evidence that portfolios, and by extension, electroniclife experience of the learner outside the course or the portofolios (eportfolios), benefit student learning andclassroom, and in

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Joseph Betthauser; Daniel Benavides; Jeff Schornick; Neal O'Hara; Jimit Patel; Jeremy Cole; Edgar Lobaton

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) WolfBot: A Distributed Mobile Sensing Platform for Research and Education Joseph Betthauser, Daniel Benavides, Jeff Schornick, Neal O’Hara, Jimit Patel, Jeremy Cole, Edgar LobatonAbstract— Mobile sensor networks are often composed of agentswith weak processing capabilities and some means of mobility.However, recent developments in embedded systems haveenabled more powerful and portable processing units capable ofanalyzing complex data streams in real time. Systems with suchcapabilities are able to perform tasks such as 3D

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Richard Millham

, physics, and English during their senior secondary school years.South Africa is particularly disadvantaged in this regard as international assessments have shown South Africansecondary students have consistently been shown to perform poorly in this regard. In order to try to address thisissue, a proposed solution is through the use of IT (Information Technology) to provide individualized instruction inthese subjects using a multi-media platform. Some advantages of using IT for instruction is that it provides betterdifferentiation of instruction that can be tailored to an individual’s learning style and enables students to take chargeof their own learning. This IT solution, with the research conducted therein, was provided through a privately

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

carlacaten@gmail.com fernanda_boer@hotmail.com Istefani Carísio de Paula (Co-author) Professor of the Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil istefani@producao.ufrgs.br Abstract—Perceiving the need for an innovative and propose solutions for

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Tara Kulkarni

(for example at the University of Vermont11) to adocumented definition of S-L provided by Signon and Ramsey multi-disciplinary approach to use engineering principles andin the sixties, as a value added component in student learning solve problems in the community (for example the EPICSin the context of their positive contributions to their program founded by Purdue University12). Thus, there are acommunities. This definition is still the cornerstone of the number of studies that provide quantitative research basedmyriad interpretations of this term in various educational data on the impacts of such S-L integrations within

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Vazgen Shekoyan

research results” in The changing role of Physics Departments goal type on learning outcome and cognitive load”, Computers in in Modern Universities, edited by E. F. Redish and J. S. Rigden , Human Behavior, vol. 25, pp. 299-305, 2009. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 399, 213 (1997). [29] P. Heller, R. Keith, and S. Anderson, “Teaching problem solving[2] A. P. Carneval, L. J. Gainer, and A. S. Meltzer, Workplace basics: The through cooperative grouping. Part 1, Group versus individual problem skills employers want. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 1994. solving,” American Journal of Physics, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 627-636,[3] ABET

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Amer H. Daggag

in remote areas. Health issues include companies, environment and society.eyestrain and exposure to harmful substances caused by the The purpose of the research is to outline the possible ways thatcomputer systems. Safety issues deal with the potential hazard institutions or schools could use in the implementation of theto human health such as power surges and electric shocks. Green ICT. This research will help in the increasedEducational leg focuses on utilizing ICT including video understanding of the concept of Green ICT and options of ICTrecordings, broadcasts, images, texts, and worksheets for idea usage.generation and teaching purposes. To investigate these issues

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Andrew Martin; Christian Bach

, both engineering graduate students at University of Bridgeport, for developing the Mannoor conducted additional assays to determine the original idea for this paper with me in 2012.. I would also likelower limit of detectability with the goal of detecting a single to acknowledge Prof. Christian Bach, University ofbacterium. Biosensors were prepared with binding peptide Bridgeport, School of Biomedical Engineering for hislinkers for E.coli. bacteria. A single E.coli bacterium was then assistance in writing this paper and for teaching me how to dointroduced to the sensor surface. Their results showed a proper research. Special

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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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Franco Capaldi

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Mastery Learning in Statics Using the STEMSI Online Learning Environment Franco M. Capaldi An informal discussion with students who were currently Abstract—Statics is the foundation course upon which much of using online homework systems revealed that students dislikedthe Civil and Mechanical Engineering curriculum is based. A using these systems for several reasons. Students find itsolid understanding in this course can help to propel students difficult

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

software itself. In this way, Tweets becamedesignated by the laboratory manual. This research is also a useful tool – helpful, but not calling attention to itself.constrained by the physical realities of the lab, e.g., voltagenot high enough, oscilloscope results unclear. Oddly enough, An important barrier to the widespread use of mostwe have not had any serious equipment problems at the traditional computer-aided engineering teaching tools is thatschools where this software was tested, nor problems with they require increased faculty time including specializedsufficient lab bandwidth. Problems with d.c. microammeters faculty training. The software described in this paper, requiresor high-quality inductors

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

study. The paper ends with a discussion and an outline ofKeywords – Virtual Lab; Visual Editor; Android; Java; Sensor- our future work.network; Bluetooth; Wi-Fi; Web-server; Client-servercommunication; HTTP request/response; FTP protocol. II. BACKGROUND The notion of context and its implications for I. INTRODUCTION mobile learning has gained a lot of attention among The rapid development in mobile, wireless, and members of the research community in the last years. Asensor technologies provide new possibilities for augmented recent study conducted by

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Mike Kelley; Steve Beyerlein

student discussion when rating students’ discussions. During the in-class implantation, all data wasThis method is flexible, easy to implement, and can be used at collected as the discussions took place, with the assessorsthe course level for teaching and measuring engineering writing tally marks and notes directly on the relevant portionprofessional skills and the program level at the end of a of the EPSA Rubric.curricular sequence for evaluating a program’s efficacy

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Faisal Z. Miqdadi; Abdulla F. ALMomani; Mohammad T. Shadid Masharqa; Nabil M. Elmousel

performance of the Petroleum Institute (PI) malecareless and disorganized, which will affect him severely, students. That is, as our research study has shown thatespecially if he studies only for exams. successful students are good time managers. These results, On the other hand, the majority of the successful students however, can be generalized to male engineering studentsrarely or even never spend any time looking for lost notes and living in the United Arab Emirates. Finally, we would suggestpapers, and therefore, they are considered careful and further study on the female engineering students.organized. Organization will make students feel less stressed,getting them more into studying

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Girma Tewolde

Professor of Computer Engineering in the He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department of Kettering University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Kettering University,Flint, MI. His areas of teaching and research interest are in Embedded Flint, MI. His research interests are in Computational Neuroscience,Systems, Sensor networks, Mobile Robotics, Evolutionary Optimization Evolutionary Neural Networks, Embedded Systems, Mobile Robotics, andand Swarm Intelligence for optimization and engineering applications. He Artificial Intelligence.has published several journal and conference papers covering a range of hisresearch areas in

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

. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Engineering Education. vol. 101, pp. 421–438, July 2012. Among Five Approaches 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.[3] D. Hestenes, M. Wells, and G. Swackhamer. “Force Concept 2013. Inventory,” The Physics Teacher. vol. 30, pp. 141-158, March 1992. [7] M. Carlson, S. Jacobs, E. Coe, S. Larsen, and E. Hsu. “Applying[4] J. Richardson, “Concept inventories: Tools for uncovering STEM covariational reasoning while modeling dynamic events: A framework students’ misconceptions,” Invention and Impact: Building Excellence and a study.” Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. vol. 22, in Undergraduate

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

processes. The college of engineering, with its long tradition of excellence in research and teaching, will remain committedAs stated above, the college of engineering at King Saudi to taking and maintaining a leading role as one of the topUniversity was established in 1962. The college started with premier engineering schools in the region.three departments, namely the civil engineering department,electrical engineering department, and mechanical engineering The college defines its vision and sets up its mission anddepartment. The department of architecture engineering was objectives. The same is done by every department which linksestablished in 1968 which

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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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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

, chemical engineering, earth science, andimproves their critical thinking skills, and helps students microelectromechanical systems. COMSOL is an all-in-onemaster concepts instead of techniques. geometry creator and mesher, solver and post -processor and II. THERMODYNAMIC COURSE is user-intuitive software. The fact that COMSOL is user-During the thermodynamics course, students are introduced to friendly made it easier for the students to learn the software.basic physical concepts and applications of thermodynamics, The main challenge was to

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

students who took the course in the previous simply make all the difference. We also benefited from theyear and who will serve as undergraduate teaching assistants expert technical advice of ECE graduate student, Izzyfor the course during a current year. Our plan is for each of Masiunas, who served as graduate teaching assistant forthese 5 students to hold a drop-in lab clinic in the Innovation ECE361 and Mr. Mike Jacques, a seasoned veteran ofShop one day per week. In this manner, the shop would be engineering projects who enjoys giving time to students. Andstaffed with an experienced student TA every weekday. we thank middle & high

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

didn’t want or need to learn programming, (SUNY), and Marist College (home of the New York Statewhich was more appropriate for traditional computer science Center for Cloud Computing and Analytics), in addition to andegree programs. With the introduction of SDN/NFV, this ecosystem of active corporate sponsors and research affiliates.approach to network administration education needs tochange. For example, to provide high availability the network II. SDN CONCEPTS AND SKILLSadministrator no longer needs to manually provision two ormore redundant physical switches. Instead, using APIs in an A. Educational GoalsSDN network, it is possible to write a script instructing the New York

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Ali M. Elrashidi

Alexandria University in 2001, the MS Degree in fiber optics from the same[1] K. Tanaka, A. Agata, and Y. Horiuchi, “IEEE 802.3av 10G-EPON university in 2007, and he received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and standardization and its research and development status,” J. Lightw. Engineering in the University of Bridgeport from 2008-2012. From 2002 to Technol., vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 651-661, Feb. 15, 2010. 2008, he was with Physics and Electric Department, Alexandria University,[2] J. Buset, Z. El-Sahn, and D. Plant, “Experimental Demonstration of a 10 Egypt, as an assistant professor from October 2012 to August 2013 and in Gb/s Subcarrier Multiplexed WDM PON,” IEEE Photo. Technol

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James Accuosti

. Morrow, S. Barnhart and D. Rooyakkers, "Integrating Technology with the Teaching of an Early Literacy Course," The Reading Teacher,collected by various methods of research. We see teachers vol. 56, pp. 218-230, 2002.have power to control the amount of influence and variety in [14] W. L. Goffe and K. Sosin, "Teaching with Technology: May You Livetheir lessons. Professional development requires, if not, is in Interesting Times," The Journal of Economic Education, vol. 36, pp.gradually making a tech-savvy transition to support teachers. 278-291, 2005.The technology (as an entity) contains an inherent pedagogical

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Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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

. and that such systems can have a measurable impact on student satisfaction in the advising process [14]. II. MOTIVATION The perceived importance of advising support software in Academic advising, for many, is a full time job that requires the academic advising experience is also reflected by theas much commitment, preparation, and care as teaching. There actions of colleges and universities, many of which currentlyis significant research into the theory of advising by provide access to online advising tools of varying complexity.incorporating principled

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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

students who leave high school without getting aPutting a World-Class Education at the Fingertips of All diploma and/or who are unprepared for postsecondaryChildren. This report supported continuance of the goals put education [2].”forth in the first plan, and encouraged wider dissemination and978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEProceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) IV. HOW YOUTH USE TECHNOLOGY A. Jeanne Lauer, Teacher, Technology and Business, In contemplating how to revolutionize the teaching of and Site Coordinator for Virtual High School, AITEtechnology skills, it is helpful to consider how youth are using

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

. INTRODUCTION II. BACKROUND RESEARCH Energy for Education is an initiative set forth by the studentrun non-profit organization World Energy Project. The goal is Prior to developing any lesson plan, research wasto educate grade school students on energy issues -- globally conducted on topics, including: Energy in Springfield,and within their own communities – and on sustainable Currirculum Implementation, Mentoring Students of Color,practices used to resolve them. In order to achieve this, we and STEM Education.have developed a curriculum composed of a series of lessonplans in the classroom. This curriculum was developed in the A. Energy in