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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Jose M Reyes Alamo, CUNY - New York City College of Technology; Yu Wang, The New York City College of Technology; Renata Budny, New York City College of Technology

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General Education and accreditedEngineering Technology fields by creating a framework for other disciplines to use as a model.We show the feasibility of this framework with data collected from the Department of ComputerEngineering Technology.KeywordsABET, Accreditation, Course Coordination, General Education.IntroductionThe New York City College of Technology (CityTech) is a senior college of the City Universityof New York (CUNY) with current enrollment of 17,282 students (63% full time, 37% part-time)and 1,512 faculty members (414 full-time, 1,098 part-time)1. CityTech is composed of threeschools: School of Professional Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Technologyand Design. The College experienced 50% growth in past 12 years

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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seconds. The customer did not indicate orsuggest how to achieve the required product performance – those decisions were left entirely tothe student Team.IV. Idea Generation and ExplorationIn response, the Engineering Team conducted a brainstorming session to generate ideas toaddress the Customer’s requested product. The brainstorming used standard rules where eachteam-member sequentially gave one idea and where all ideas were listed without discussion orcritique. The idea was to generate as many specific and open-ended ideas as possible. The resultwas a large list of ideas that covered a broad spectrum of possible technologies and solutions.The Engineering Team recognized that they needed to learn more about many of the ideas beforedecisions

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

, teaching and research in civil engineering. His academic background and professional skills allows him to teach a range of courses across three different departments in the school of engineering. This is a rare and uncommon achievement. Within his short time at Morgan, he has made contributions in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. He has been uniquely credited for his inspirational mentoring activities and educat- ing underrepresented minority students. Through his teaching and mentoring at Morgan State University he plays a critical role in educating the next generation of underrepresented minority students, especially African-American civil engineering students. He is also considered to be a paradigm

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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the project – not even the type of product to be made. Theproject started on the first day of the semester, September 2, 2016, with a meeting with theCustomer to learn the details of the product request and specifications.The Customer requested a laser-music product that uses only modulated laser-light to transmitmusic across a room to six optical receivers with audio-speakers. The customer did not indicateor suggest how to achieve the required product performance – those decisions were left entirelyto the student Team. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUIII. Idea Generation and ExplorationIn response, the Engineering Team conducted a brainstorming session to generate ideas toaddress the Customer’s

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Eileen Haase PhD, Johns Hopkins University

TAs prior to the start of each module.During these sessions, both lab managers and TAs work through the mathematical equations ofeach module and practice obtaining data using the available equipment. Lab managers haveaccess to the lab 24/7 and may practice using the equipment on their own prior to meeting withtheir groups. The role of the lab manager for each of these modules is to ask the freshmenquestions to ensure a uniform learning experience. Specifically, the lab managers ask: 1. What mathematical equation(s) will you use to model your system? 2. What assumptions did you make to develop your model? 3. How will you test your model in lab? What experimental protocols will you use to verify the model? 4. How does the predicted

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

agreed that thefield trip during the first week of class has greatly facilitated their comprehension of the technicalcontent of the course (Statement 5), even though the majority of the students did not have prioknowledge in geotechnical engineering or geology before the site visit (Statement 7). The resultsequally suggest that students generally felt that the construction site visit increased theirappreciation of the importance of geotechnical engineering (Statements 2, 3, and 4). Overallstudents also generally agreed that the site visit increased the technical value of their work(Statements 1, 5 and 6).The students are engaged throughout the semester in discussion about the linkages between variouscurricular topics (e.g. soil classification