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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Enhancing Engineering Curricula Through Laboratory-based Learning: Pedagogical Approaches, Challenges, and Innovations Marvin Gayle, Danny Mangra Queensborough Community College The City University of New York [CUNY] Queens New York, USA Abstract—Laboratory-based instruction is a critical underscore ways to evaluate the effect of laboratory education oncomponent of engineering education. It

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Uma Balaji

industry-standard and open-source tools in the course is I. INTRODUCTION assessed through an anonymous student survey, and its findings on student engagement and learning outcomes areIn many universities, Communication Systems is offered as an discussed.optional elective for electrical engineering students. Electivecourses within the major typically carry three credits and arelecture-based, often lacking a laboratory component. Teaching II. TOPICS COVEREDCommunication Systems as a three-credit course involves The course

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Steven Bercik; Mehmet Furkan Baylan; Ansa Brew-Smith; Don Heiman; Bala Maheswaran; Haridas Kumarakuru

the electronic Of the challenges faced, ensuring the proper functionality laboratory teaching assistants, Harrison Adler, Nathanielof the switchboards was the greatest. With various laboratory Beaver, and Nicholas Otero, for their invaluable support in theequipment including a digital multimeter and a function teaching lab. Additionally, the authors wish to acknowledgegenerator, as well as meticulous bookkeeping, a careful the staff at the University of Northeastern’s Makerspace atanalysis of each component was conducted. Faulty elements EXP building for their essential guidance in the developmentand incorrect connections were located and fixed. The final of a physical device. Finally, the

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Joseph P. Duszak; John F. Drazan; Cynthia A. Bautista

teaching technical skills (n =19), while immersion (n = 6), soft skills (n = 6), and other topics(n = 5) have also seen deployments in the field. This technologyhas shown potential in knowledge acquisition (n = 8), self-efficacy(n = 9), engagement (n = 8), and satisfaction (n = 6) among users.Future work should look at how soft skills and immersion arebeing taught using virtual reality, and how smartphone-basedvirtual reality head-mounted displays can be used to provide alow-cost and portable means to access nursing simulationcontent. Fig. 1. Oculus Quest 2 VR HMD Keywords—Virtual Reality; Simulation; Nursing Education; ODigital Technology

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Samuel Servati; PS. Dhanasekaran

thatengineering education while ensuring its effectiveness combining structured rubrics with qualitative feedbackand sustainability [4] . One of the primary obstacles in provides the most effective assessment model [4].implementing PBL is the high demand for resources, Another significant challenge of implementing PBL isespecially in institutions with limited budgets. Many faculty adaptation. Many educators are accustomed tohands-on projects require specialized equipment, raw traditional lecture-based instruction and may lack thematerials, and laboratory spaces, which may not hands-on experience required for guiding studentsalways be readily available [7]. CNC-based projects, through PBL projects [8]. A professor

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Nadia Albishi; Peter Cavanaugh

development courses and teacher A. Introductionleadership development in Saudi Arabia, with a focus on The field of education is experiencing change, which has notfostering innovation and technology integration in education. only affected students’ learning but also necessitatedThe research aims to explore how these courses can enhance corresponding adjustments to teaching strategies [19]. In Sauditeachers' competencies while addressing the unique Arabia, a nation adjusting to technological advancement,sociocultural, educational, and technological contexts ofSaudi Arabia. A

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Marlon Jost; Umme Hani Bootwala; Don Heiman; Haridas Kumuraku

The logical circuit's design was optimized to exhibitlearning experience, employing a reward system designed largely unpredictable behavior and possess a unique solution.to foster persistence and critical thinking. The project also To ensure that the circuit only had one solution, the logic gatesexplores the educational potential of the puzzle box as a tool comprising the circuit were limited to AND gates and NOTfor teaching foundational engineering logic to young gates. This had the added benefit of limiting the supplies neededchildren. to physically implement the design. To

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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B. Kris Jaeger-Helton

-MACHINE SYSTEMS COURSE AND ROLE OF AI Along with the assignment write-up, students were asked tooutline the advantages and drawbacks of using AI for such A. HMS Course Profileacademic work. Of the 56 respondents, there were 115 open-ended responses indicating the merits of using Gen AI for this Human-Machine Systems (HMS) is a 5-credit senior-leveltype of project and 121 responses outlining the less effective and engineering course at Northeastern University, with multipleconcerning aspects of its use. The primary categories of positive assignments and laboratory sessions over a 15-week semester.responses reflected how students felt AI benefited them in This course focuses on the science behind safe