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Melody Baglione

of things that Preliminary results demonstrate the new hands-on and one might see if they were to go into the field of facilities-based teaching approach added realism to the course Mechanical Engineering related to HVAC, as is and improved the overall course experience. The assessment prevalent among engineering firms in NYC. Beyond of this new teaching approach and its impact on student that, I don’t think that it was particularly enlightening learning and motivation is ongoing. Further interviews, for a specific career-based besides a broadly improved observations

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Joseph Chen; Mark Molnar

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Reintroducing Six Sigma DMAIC Processes using a Hands on Approach Joseph C Chen, Ph.D. & PE & Mark Molnar the work force1. Thus it relies on the corporation toAbstract— In recent years industries and colleges have had a implement educational institutions to conduct further traininggreater need for improved six sigma training. Presented in the to their new engineers. One of such additional educationfollowing paper will be an up to date analysis of the

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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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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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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

engineers. Using a problem-driven approach to utilizetechnology is also becoming a central core of our jobs. computational methods encourages scientific discovery andProgramming is now an invaluable skill that employers are increases the student's interest in computing [2], which couldseeking in their new job applicants, especially in the fields of possibly influence a student's decision about their future career.Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Withtechnology being the forefront of out daily lives, STEM jobs In the fall of 2013, the concept of programming waswill only increase. In 2010, there were 7.6 million workers in introduced to two honors and one college prep physics classesSTEM

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

theirability to learn and their method of learning? How do they see Engineering students must develop a systematic, orderedtheir personal philosophy and their life goals developing as a approach to the gathering of data and solving of problems. Asresult of their learning activities? To assess student learning the student transitions into the workforce, she must continuallygains as accurately and completely as possible, it is critical learn and master new applications and materials, advancementthat educators build and use tools which can reach into this in design and technologies, and societal complexities. The978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEElifelong development, organization, and application of creative Value Rubric

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

ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2011.professional engineer’s everyday activities. The solution [6] G. B. RANDOLPH, Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: Writingdeveloped by the students was built through peer interaction Across the Curriculum Approach. Journal of Engineering Education,for the exchange of knowledge and experience, with the vol.89, n.2, 2000, p.119-122. [7] K. A. SMITH, S. D. SHEPPARD, D. W. JOHNSON, and R. T.guidance and supervision of the professor in charge of the JOHNSON

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

scarcely used in the engineering curriculum. There is anopportunity for computer-based teaching tools in engineeringand industrial technology programs [8]. In the chemicalengineering curriculum, for example, courses haveincorporated increasingly complex and realistic examplesthrough the use of spreadsheets, mathematical and processsimulation software, multimedia courseware, and resourcesavailable through the World Wide Web. Well-designed instructional technology can facilitate Figure 2. Students use the CIRCE software to sketch electronic waves. Three software levers (bottom and left) are used to fine-tune thelearning in ways that cannot be achieved in traditional

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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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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

201 class mainly covers various topics of Mechanics such asto success in introductory college physics courses1-3. Some Newton’s laws, momentum, energy, rotational motion, gravitystudies have found that students who perform better on the and fluid motion. This algebra-based physics course ismathematics portion of college entrance examinations receive required for engineering technology and computer technologybetter grades on their physics courses4-5. Many other studies students to fulfill their curriculum requirements. It has a college-level algebra and trigonometry course (MA 114 or

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

engineering. The FIGURE 2. Student-built state-machinepedagogical approach behind this design followscontemporary thinking about the undergraduate engineeringcurriculum, such as articulated in the NAE 2020 report, whichadvises, “Whatever other creative approaches are taken in thefour-year engineering curriculum, the essence of engineering –the iterative process of designing, predicting performance,building, and testing – should be taught from the earlieststages of the curriculum…” [3]. The system-level deliverablerequired the students to undertake a more open-ended problemsolving approach to realize a functioning “smart car” that wascapable or autonomously moving forward

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Ruzanna Davtyan

only when students process new information orenvironment, whether a classroom, a laboratory and encourages knowledge in such a way that it makes sense in their frame ofeducators to design learning environments to get preferred reference (Hull, 1995) p.23.” He also says that this approach tolearning outcomes. “learning and teaching assumes that the mind naturally seeks meaning in context and does so by searching for relationships Keywords—context, teaching, learning, style, student, teacher that make sense and appear useful (Hull, 1995) p.24.” This I. INTRODUCTION

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh, Senior Member, IEEE new smart grid workforce. In the Department of Electrical Abstract— In advanced Power Engineering and Smart Grid Engineering and Computer Science we have developed smartLaboratory environment students get opportunities to grid laboratory to support both undergraduate and graduatedemonstrate their ability to design and conduct experiments

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Keith M. Gardiner

communities at product end-of-life. This was a relatively novel construct whenthis time became very similar to the attitudes towards Sputnik it was first enunciated.and the threats posed by Japan in earlier decades. The earlier and immediate success of this internal cross- disciplinary curriculum reinforced the thesis that mostV. MICROELECTRONICS SKILLS SHORTAGES – PLUS A SOLUTION baccalaureate engineering programs were not developing theIn the late sixties and early seventies transistors and integrated ‘soft’ and somewhat intangible skills required of future leaderscircuits were

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

increased because they have been recognized as a useful external attributes accurately such as reliability, availability instrument for managing software process effectively. …etc. The following section focus on current used metrics and Software metrics allow to use a real engineering approach to their limitations. software development, providing the quantitative and objective base that software engineering was lacking. In fact, II. SOFTWARE METRICS their use in industry is becoming more and more In this section, we will discuss software metrics concept and widespread.[2] As regards the research in software metrics [2], classification along with their advantages

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

practices Often, engineering equipments are costly, and adding morehave been shown to improve student participation. There is credits and hours to an already packed curriculum isbroad recognition that meaningful learning in engineering impractical and too costly to students. In that regard, somerequires that students master fundamental concepts, rather institutions have embraced the use of virtual testing/simulationthan the memorization of facts and formulas [1

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

their of reading, interpretation and working with constructiongraduates in this area. drawings is incorporated (or not) into their undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. Keywords—construction drawings, engineering drawings, • Discuss from an undergraduate point of view theinteractive electronic books, 3-D images, structural steel rationale behind the development of the interactivecomponents, AISC Steel Sculpture, iBooks Author. learning tool for

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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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James Accuosti

[14], and elementary mathematics [15]. Of course,educational technology approaches in school classrooms. The like anything too good to be true, technology also brings someanalysis inspects factors that affect education success in general,but we concentrate on how they specifically affect technology as setbacks. For example, Bruce finds that the evolution ofan enhancement to integrated teaching. The presumption is that technology itself is rapid and it becomes increasingly difficulttechnology magically makes everything (tasks, learning, human- to evaluate technology as education tools [16]. Not tointeraction, etc.) “better”. On the surface It seems plausibly so, mention, even though studies of subject-specific

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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

, is faced with tight budgets, union restrictions,my passion with anyone I can. I would love to go to college implementing of Common Core standards, and meeting Noand study Robotic Engineering, a relatively new field, and Child Left Behind (NCLB) ‘Adequate Yearly Progress’develop robots like ASIMO in Japan or Valkrie, NASA's performance requirements. This makes it difficult to respondnewest humanoid, or else I might go into Aerospace to student and parent requests for enriched learningEngineering, which I have loved since I was little. opportunities beyond the normal curriculum and school day. I am Student President of Cyber Robotics, Inc., a 501(c)(3) Best We Can Be

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Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

analytical and experimental methods incorporate concepts experimental procedures and practical applications are beingmechanical engineering students learn in several core courses. introduced into the Mechanical Engineering Department’sHomework assignments and laboratory experiments exploring a Feedback Control Systems Course. Since 2008, the class hasphysical system serve to engage students and help them make incorporated a significant laboratory portion [2]. In these labs,connections between course material spanning the mechanical students become familiar with and perform experiments onengineering curriculum

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Mohammadjafar Esmaeili; Ali Eydgahi

. 07/10/2010.[2] C. Chatmon, et al. (ed.), “Active learning approaches to teaching [10] P. Pheeney, “Hands on, minds on: Activities to engage our students,” information assurance,” In 2010 Information Security Curriculum Science Scope, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 30-33, 1997. Development, October 2010. [11] M. Esmaeili and A. Eydgahi, “By the Students for the Students: A[3] C. L. Habraken, “Integrating into chemistry teaching today's student's New Paradigm for Better Achieving the Learning Objectives”, visuospatial talents and skills, and the teaching of today's chemistry's Proceeding of ASEE, Atlanta, GA, Jun 23-26, 2013

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Development of courses directed on formation of competences demanded on the market of IT technologies Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki, Madina Mansurova, Anna Pyrkova, al-Farabi Kazakh National University Labour Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of supplementAbstract—Important feature of new educational programs, Chapter 10-1 "National Qualifications System". In accordanceaccording to the State program of a development of education, is with the NQS Sectoral Qualifications

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

faculty can help new studentsorder to investigate these problems, we surveyed a bunch of PI to cope with this transition and develop better learningfreshman students and analyzed the results we retrieved. habits. If the high school curriculum is designed in a wayResults of the survey identified the issues students faced and which is similar to university level courses, the studentsour group was able to provide recommendations to overcome will be better equipped to handle their courses and will bethese issues. able to devote more time and energy towards other aspects

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

development. J. M. Mazur affiliated with Department of Education, University of We believe that some of our findings are particular toKentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 (jmazur@uky.edu).978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEEngineering, Computer Science, or other majors which have a either left school or moved to a non-engineering major. Astrong career focus within the curriculum. Indeed, we saw a more recent study conducted at Rowan University [10] — avery strong bias in the student responses toward advising college which has embraced current “best practices” withinformation related to the effect a given course would have on respect to student retention, and retention of female students intheir future careers

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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.