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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

,networks for cloud computing is also disrupting conventional manual commands.telecommunication companies and managed service providers(MSPs), who are rapidly trying to redesign their networks in This is quite different from the approach used by traditionalorder to remain competitive [2]. Applications such as social network switches and routers, which employ a distributedmedia, mobile access, video streaming, and big data analytics architecture (each switch only understands how to route dataare driving this transformation at an accelerating pace. It has packets to the next hop in the network). Since there is nobecome challenging for traditional college curriculums

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

; eroberts@haverhill-ps.org kavitha_chandra@uml.edu Abstract—Computer programming with the R education since the 1980s [4]. In early studies, Wise [4] foundlanguage was integrated into the physics curriculum at that activities with computers improved student performance.Haverhill High School in Haverhill, MA. The goal of this For example, one study showed that using computers toinitiative was to improve students’ critical thinking skills visualize data enhanced the students ability to recognize trendsthrough the challenges of writing code. This paper and patterns in graphs. Wilson and Redish [5] acknowledgedprovides an overview of how the R language was

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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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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

of the portfolio can be the student, a faculty member, anThe difficulty lies in understanding how the student administrator, or an organization; and the purpose of theexperiences learning within this broad conceptual space. How portfolio may be developmental, evaluative, and/ordo they connect learning in a course, a curriculum, or a representative. With the ever increasing use and advancementresearch or internship experience with their other activities? of technology, the electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) is emergingHow do they see how the interconnection amongst formal as a viable option to the traditional paper portfolio.” [6]curriculum and experiential learning activities influences

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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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Amer H. Daggag

, sustainable ICT practices. Green ICT has offered unifiedwho is the half of the responses are agree that lack of training network for communication and integration ofis an issue for green ICT implementation. While only 19% telecommunication, computers, audiovisual systems andindicated as neutral and 30% are disagree. storage devices. The different options for ICT application are in computer architecture, data networks and communication; Internet usage and multimedia application [7]. The issues that were seen to be prone

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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

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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James Accuosti

curriculum [7] secondary education settings, students are ready to use thewhich puts more stress on curriculum administrators to technology at their disposal [14]. We will look at four broadintegrate technology into lesson plan requirements. Owen and factors, all of which are independent from each other butDemb have found there is much pressure to use technology in possess a connection to our goal of educaitonal technologythe classroom as well as other education environments, implementation (See Fig. 1).including those at the college-level [8]. With the variety andaccess at our disposal, funding for integration projects havesprouted left and right [9] which exacerbates the

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

time. One can even "zoom in" for specificfelt that students could and should obtain this skill through details as needed.internships and other forms of work experiences: notthrough add material in the curriculum. Others felt that this For example, typically a teacher would talk about a kindtopic could be integrated into several required courses of weld (i.e. fillet weld), point to the symbols indicating thewithin a program. weld type on a construction drawing, maybe show a picture or two of a similar weld and then move on to the next topic. Two additional survey questions that might of interest An

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

became a college in 1984 under the their vision, mission and objectives to those of the college.name of college of architecture and planning. In 1974, both the The collaboration with industry in stated in the mission ofchemical engineering department and petroleum engineering college of engineering [4]:department were established. In 1988, surveying engineeringwas established as a program within the civil engineering “To provide high quality education programs that address thedepartment. An industrial engineering program was changing needs of future engineers, serve the profession andestablished in 1982 in the mechanical engineering department contribute to the advancement and well-being of the society

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

the gears, motors, and systems, with electrical engineeringcourse include differential equations and an undergraduate elements including transistors, integrated circuits, embeddedphysics course with an electromagnetics lab component. One microcontrollers, power-switching devices, LED’s, etc… Ourof the stated objectives of the course is “to provide the non-EE hypothesis was that a hands-on component would help tostudent with relevant EE concepts & device knowledge to reinforce learning of the fundamentals; provide a context foreffectively work in multi-disciplinary design, development, & students to work in groups on iterative design/building/testing;manufacturing teams

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Keith M. Gardiner

) Steering The program received good ratings and was in heavy demand.Council accepted a proposal submitted by Asbjørn Rolstadås A parallel program was launched in Belgium. The hypothesisin 2002, “GEM - Global Education in Manufacturing [6].” that formed the basis of the MTI curriculum was that a2002 also saw a paper presented to the International Council manufacturing system needed to be understood and managedfor Production Research (CIRP) on “Education for Future as a totally integrated operation from the initial productManufacturing [7].” It was notable that the general focus and concept out to delivery to the revenue customer and eventualtenor among the academic and professional

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

means of power electronics converters it is possible to varyPower systems protection. We have also developed number of their speed efficiently, leading to large savings in operationalnew undergraduate/graduate courses in the smart grid area that cost. Induction-motor drives can efficiently serve as highinclude Introduction to smart grid, Sensors & measurements,Distributed generation integration in smart grid, RF power adjustable-speed motor drives in process controlcommunications in smart grid, Advanced measurements in industry as well as in electric

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

and Reiner Dumke. Software Measurement: Establish, [32] T. Khoshgoftaar, “An Application of Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression Extract, Evaluate, Execute. Springer Verlag, 2007 for Software Fault Prediction,” Proc. 12th Int’l Symp. Software[8] Norman E. Fenton and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. Software Metrics: A Reliability Eng., pp. 66-73, Nov. 2001. Rigorous and Practical Approach. PWS Publishing Company, 1997. [33] W. Tang and T.M. Khoshgoftaar, “Noise Identification with the KMeans[9] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of Lips Algorithm,” Proc. Int’l Conf. Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Software Metrics SEI Curriculum

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

the student if they have to buy the supplies,and storage of multiple years of physical models may In a prior study9 , funded by a Title III Students Firstbe an issue for the institution. grant, the author tested the spatial reasoning ability of students also in 2 non-design engineering technologyWhile there is a variety of literature on spatial courses. A model building project was integratedreasoning and physical models, few studies have into each freshman course to encourage activecompared the effect of integrating student-built learning and to improve spatial reasoning. One groupphysical models or student-prepared

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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

pedagogical goals into the advising Several large public universities in the US license softwareprocess and providing practical directives for practitioners [1], from College Source, specifically their u.achieve product. This[2]. The availability of high-quality advising services has been course requirement checking tool is integrated with theidentified as an area of great importance in higher education. universities course signup system to provide customizedFrequent, high-quality academic advising has been shown to degree audits for students. Concepts from algorithmshave a positive effect on GPA, satisfaction in the advising developed for recommender systems have been integrated intoprocess, perceived value of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Melody Baglione

following is a discussion of the plan to measure student learning by measuring and comparing what TABLE I students know and can do at a minimum of two points in time. FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES For this project, baseline surveys are implemented at the 1 Students will be able to characterize the proportional, integral, and beginning of the ESC161 course, an interim survey at the end derivative terms in a controller and tune controller parameters to of the ESC161 course, and a final survey at the end of ME151. improve the performance or stability of systems. 2 Students will be able to

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Girma Tewolde

that integrates the academic curriculum with professionalof regional and national robotic competitions. This paper experience in the industry. So students see the directpresents a pre-college summer program in robotics and applications of their education in the practical world. TheySmartphone programming that is developed for high school also bring back their rich co-op experience to the classroomstudents with the goal of attracting them to the field of that further enhances their theoretical understandings.engineering. The program offers great opportunities for the To offer opportunities and attract highly motivated andparticipants

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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

advocates flexible“By 2020, America will once again have the highest scheduling and online learning to provide continuous, on-proportion of college graduates in the world.” – President demand learning opportunities. Ultimately, the report poses aBarack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009 grand challenge to the fifty states and federal government to The first National Education Technology Plan (NETP) – work together to build an “integrated end-to-end real-timeGetting America’s Students Ready for the 21st Century: system

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

of tutorial dialogue.BEETLE II is another tutorial dialogue system, this time toteach circuit analysis, whose interface included an area todisplay reading material, a circuit simulator, and a dialoguehistory window [12]. All interactions with the system weretyped. Students read curriculum slides and carried out Figure 6. Conceptual questions for transient voltages in an RL Circuit.exercises that involved experiments with a circuit simulator This conceptual problem is from the conceptual inventory of Rancour andand explained the observed behavior. The system also asked Helgelard, UMass-Dartmouth, see www.foundationcoalition.org.high-level questions, designed to accept unrestricted language

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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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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