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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Israel Aguilera Navarrete; Alejandro Lozano-Guzman; Edna Alcazar-Farias

. S&T INDICATORSeducation and the value of S&T are the ones playing a leading Indicators represent in a quantitative way S&Trole in global development. These countries have been achievement levels and trends, and also evaluate the impact ofinvesting important economic resources for becoming active resources as these apply to our research efforts [11]. It is ofparticipants in the new “Knowledge Age.” This Age is course essential for every country to measure itsessentially characterized by an intensive use of knowledge as innovativeness precisely, in order to have sufficient validwell as trade in goods, processes, and services of high added information for appropriate

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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

. goals. AITE’s success in graduating college and workforce ready students can be attributed in large part to its adoption of G. Maigh Attre, 11th Grader at AITE High School best practices. It provides a technology-rich immersion “I may live in Connecticut, but I compete on the global experience for its students, and encourages hands-on,stage. One of the commonalities I share with my international experiential learning. Perhaps more importantly, the schoolcompetitors is

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

I. INTRODUCTION for baccalaureate programs [1]. This adjustment was to haveIt is acknowledged by many ‘experts’ that the World is far reaching impacts that may still haunt current practice. Ourchanging; it has been changing for many centuries. However American academic ‘models’ have gradually matured and nowmany of our cultural and social arrangements do not with modified formats are having some pervasive effects innecessarily keep pace with these changes. There are many other nations. Today US research universities are held in highdichotomies, and to some social change is

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

, withthe relevant issues for the present study. Concepts on PBL and B. Design of ExperimentsExperiment Project are elaborated. In section 3, the classroom As [15] claim, the consistency of the conclusions drawn from an experiment depends on how the experiment wasconducted. Therefore, the statistical planning of the complemented with a lecture class given by the professor ofexperiment supports the use of valuable sources in an efficient the discipline at the end of the practice moment.way, assuring the economy and the efficiency of the The crafting of the airplanes is

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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

andacademic advisors (e.g., you should take course X to better accomplished their goal of achieving a passing grade inprepare yourself for course Y). At the moment, only a few Algorithm Design and Analysis in four or fewerexisting systems attempt to do this [17]–[19]. Explanation is semesters from the current state.an important part of recommendation [20]. Involving users indialogue can improve the probability that recommendations The goal of this research is to explore the impact ofare considered valid and adopted [21]. explanation on the adoption of recommended courses of action The notion of uncertainty of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wafa Mohamed Elmannai; Khaled Elleithy

USA The sensors at the bottom of the ocean floor collect process(e-mail: welmanna@my.bridgeport.edu). and relay the data to the surface substation in the moving ship, K. Elleithy is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School ofEngineering at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA (e- which in turn transmit the collected information to the onshoremail: elleithy@bridgeport.edu). sink. A. Shrestha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science UWSNs deployment differs from terrestrial WSN asand Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA(e-mail: shrestha@my.bridgeport.edu

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

observation and personalized directed learning. Programs andAccording to Kolb, et al., learning as defined by experiential schools responded with processes for accreditation, best-learning theory is the “process whereby knowledge is created practices in curriculum design, and development ofthrough the transformation of experience. Knowledge results independent learning processes within the contact offrom the combination of grasping and transforming structured curricula – primarily internships and researchexperience.”[1] Kolb describes experiential learning as a experiences. While these have clearly helped inholistic process – joining the traditional concept of cognition complementing classroom based

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

. The students depend on thisguide heavily to get ideas about the algorithm and to check the computational thinking and allows for further inquiry of thesyntax of the commands. In addition to the reference guide, a physics content through simulations and graphical analysis.few short examples are given to demonstrate the functionality There is a currently a proposal to implement more formaland syntax of new commands. The students often refer back to formative and summative assessments and cognitivethese examples when trying to incorporate the new commands measurement practices starting in the 2014-2015 school year tointo program. The new commands are added to the reference determine the impact of programming