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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Rex Taibu, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUA writing with logical consistency is a necessity at college level. The deduction logic of “Ifproposition, then conclusion” should be at mastery level. The generalization or inductionthinking in “If conclusion, then proposition” should be explained as well. A 2013 open accessarticle in Bloomberg.com published a tool for helping students to do the SAT logic questions 6.An excerpt is included below for easy reference.(Start quotation 6)“The SAT at its core is a test of reasoning, not a test of knowledge. Reasoning is technique thatpeople use to create conclusions from premises or evidence or determine whether a conclusion isvalid or invalid, based on premises. The most fundamental building blocks of reasoning comefrom

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Michael Mehari Shiferaw, Morgan State University; Sagar Sathyanarayanan, JSS solutions; Ravin Jajistar, JSS Solutions LLC

which includes conditionals, loops, user defined functions with output facilities. The term “environment” is intended to characterize it as a fully planned and coherentsystem, rather than an incremental accretion of very specific and inflexible tools, as is frequentlythe case with other data analysis software. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSU R is designed around a true computer language, and it allows users to add additionalfunctionality by defining new functions. Advanced users can write C code to manipulate Robjects directly. Many users think of R as a statistics system, but in general, it is an environmentwithin which statistical techniques are implemented. R can be

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

infrastructure. The students wererequired to write a detailed report in accordance with an earlier supplied rubrics, which served asan instrument to assess the student achievement from the real-life application pedagogy. In orderfor the author to validate that the students actually visited the site, the author adopted an innovativeapproach by requiring each student to produce a construction site tour video with each studentappearing in the video. The integration of the video production is the novel portion in this study.The students are usually accompanied by the the project manager durring the tour. In a report oneof the online students made the following comments: “The field trip was very informative and wefulfilled our objectives. It was no doubt a

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Kenneth E. Dudeck P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

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course (PSU EE 210) they learn the fundamentals of circuit analysis. Oneconcept they learn is Thevenin’s Theorem, where any linear circuit can be modeled as a Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUone-port device consisting of an AC voltage source, Vt, inseries with an impedance ZS. A complex load, ZL, can thenbe connected to the Thevenin equivalent source, as shown inFigure 1, to achieve maximum power transfer to the load.This occurs when the load impedance is chosen to be thecomplex conjugate of the source impedance: ZL =ZS*. Inthe case of pure resistance, the load resistance simply equalsthe source resistance for max power.In the second circuit analysis course (PSU EE 314), thestudents are introduced to the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Pamela Ann Brown, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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prepares technicians with special skills neededby the computer and electromechanical industry. The program follows a multidisciplinaryapproach; students learn the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical technology, computers,and data communications and networking. Graduates can diagnose and analyzeelectromechanical problems associated with the development, performance, and servicing ofcomputers and computer-based equipment, complex electromechanical industrial equipment andsystems, and robotics.For this CUREs implementation, the selected course is EMT2370: Computer Hardware Systems,this is a third-semester course. The course’s main goal is to help the students understand thefunction and relationship of different computer components such as the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

modifiedconstraints in terms of spatial reasoning with sketching and construction has been assessed as anindicator of fluid intelligence. The application of fluid intelligence assessment as an effectivetool to assure "not-teaching to the test" in flipped classroom pedagogy is proposed, with inputsfrom cognitive studies that Intelligence is one of the most heritable behavioral traits. Theassessment result differences in technology versus calculus physics classes in community collegepre- engineering curriculum are discussed.I. IntroductionThe critical thinking building skill in the high school years is customarily being measured via theSAT scores in critical reading, math, and writing. A college professor would need to work withthe incoming students for

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

engineering course that is required by all civilengineering undergraduate students. The Geotechnical and Laboratory course has the followingcatalog description: Basic physical and mechanical structural characteristics of geotechnical engineering applied tosoil classification, permeability and Seepage, In-situ stresses and Compressibility, lateral earthpressures, slope stability and bearing capacity of shallow foundations.The instructional objectives of this course are: 1. To present the fundamentals concepts, theory, and mechanics of soils for relationships to engineering designs in the environment. 2. To develop an ability to employ broad-based analytical tools for development of soil related concepts 3. To