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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Paper ID #243432018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Telemetry Project For An Introductory Communications Systems CourseDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood is an IEEE Senior Member with an Amateur Radio Extra Class license (KB3OOM). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and joined the faculty of the engineering Department at Messiah College in 1992. Besides teaching Com- munications Systems and other courses, he supervises undergraduate engineering students on credited work in the

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David Timothy Lee, George Washington University; Carl E. Wick Sr., George Washington University; Hernan Figueroa

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Applying Scrum Project Management Methods in Biomedical and Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Design Courses David Lee1 , Carl Wick1 , and Hernan Figueroa2 1 Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University Mar. 15, 2018AbstractThe Biomedical engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at GeorgeWashington University have traditionally used a waterfall project management methodologyfor their two and three semester capstone design courses. We noticed that this approach re-sulted in incomplete senior design projects

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Marcia Ford, Murray State University; Kevin T Perry AIA, Murray State University; Brian Giltner, Murray State University; Melanie McCallon Seib, Murray State University

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are the in the areas of construction materials and emerging technologies for the construc- tion and design industries.Mr. Brian Giltner, Murray State University Lecturer in the Institute of Engineering at Murray State University. Mr. Giltner is also a practicing civil and structural engineer with over 28 years of experience.Ms. Melanie McCallon Seib, Murray State University Melanie McCallon Seib is the Director of Education Abroad at Murray State University, where she has collaborated for office growth and study abroad program curriculum integration for nearly 17 years. She spearheaded creation of faculty recruitment, training, financial, and support structures at MSU to enable innovative faculty to build project

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; Kimberly Anne Riegel; Rex Taibu; Tak Cheung

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- novative inquiry based physics labs. 2) conducting research regarding the role of language in conceptual understanding. 3) exploring cosmic rays (detection, data collection, and analysis).Prof. Tak Cheung Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing an engineering mindset: teacher enrichment strategies employing project-based learning in optics and cosmic ray study Sunil Dehipawala, George Tremberger, Raul Armendariz, James Fakatselis, Vazgen Shekoyan, Rex Taibu, Kimberley Riegel, David Lieberman and Tak

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Anne Schmitz, Gannon University; Nicholas B Conklin, Gannon University; Quyen Aoh Aoh, Gannon University

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project whereby students in a biomedical engineering classproduced tutorial videos that demonstrated how to construct the Foldscope Microscope, aninexpensive paper microscope developed at Stanford University. The videos were then used in aSTEM outreach program for middle school students, in which the middle school studentsconstructed and used a Foldscope. The majority of students felt the project enhanced a number ofcommunication skills and broadened their perspective of how they could use their engineeringskills to serve others.KeywordsFoldScope, Origami Microscope, STEM Interest, Presentation SkillsIntroductionEmployment is dropping in manufacturing cities, deeming them the Rust Belt [1]. Rather thandeteriorate, these cities have started to

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Haiyan (Henry) H Zhang, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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ofdesign iterations, thus reducing cost and time to market with increased functionality. Traditionalprototyping techniques are cumbersome and expensive. This is especially true for modernprototyping technique of mechatronic devices. This paper is meant to be a study of modernmechatronics prototyping known as virtual prototyping with a mechatronics virtual prototypingproject, to explore information regarding the relevance of the research, technical terms used in thestudy, parameters within which the research will be conducted, as well as the processes involvedin completion of the project. Identifying the traits of mechatronic devices will pave the way forvirtual prototyping of said devices. These prototypes will include solid models, motion

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona; Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Building using Fiber Composite Jacketing Yasser S. Salem1 and Felipe J. Perez2 1 Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly Pomona 2 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly PomonaAbstractAs a senior capstone project, students worked on the vulnerability assessment and seismic retrofitof a six-story non-ductile reinforced concrete dual system building comprised of perimeter non-ductile reinforced concrete moment frames and non-ductile core shear walls. Students were giventhe as-built plans and specification of an existing building in Southern California that is consideredto be at risk, from an earthquake resistant standpoint. Students performed

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Alexander T Wray, Purdue University Northwest; Nuri Zeytinoglu P.E., Purdue University Northwest

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Paper ID #243582018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Identifying Boolean Logic Processes via the Basis of a NACA 2415 AirfoilAlexander T Wray, Purdue University Northwest Alexander Wray is a Masters-seeking Mechanical Engineer enrolled at Purdue University North Central. He conducts research into dynamic system modelling and CFD modal systems for the purpose of mod- elling arduous or complex systems. As well, he presents and assists with teaching projects to classes in Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics in undergraduate courses.Prof. Nuri Zeytinoglu P.E., Purdue

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

technologies through the ac- quisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a system capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and perfor- mance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Baha Bachnak, The Pennsylvania State University; Nashwa Elaraby, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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implemented using either a solderlessbreadboard, for simpler circuits, or an Altera Cyclone II FPGA board, for more complexmodules. A center focus of Carrol’s course is the “semester long project involving the design,implementation, and documentation of the computer processing unit (CPU) for a basic four-bitdigital computer called TRIS (Tiny Reduced Instruction Set Computer).” Including such aproject provided students with a clear goal in mind for the course, and set the importance for aclear road map of the course, list of topics, and nature of laboratory experiments [1].Carroll’s approach involving a semester long project also utilizes a similar method to teaching asthe “flipped course” method, which is discussed by Yelamarthi and Drake [2]. The

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Dilnesa T Nukuro, University of the District of Columbia; Zerihun G Biru Biru

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raised in Ethiopia. He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of the District of Columbia and is planning to graduate in Spring 2018. His research interests include the application of wireless sensor networks and cybersecurity. He was awarded the IEEE Region 2 Project showcase 2nd place at New Jersey in 2017.Mr. Zerihun G Biru Biru I was born and raised in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. I am currently studying Computer science in UDC. I would like to involved in application development and cloud computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Letter box Zerihun Biru1, Dilnesa Nukuro2

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Tricia Kirkland

panel were directly proportional.Transfer Experience to Classroom.As part of the RET-ENERGY program, the secondary education teachers developed a module totransfer processes, concepts and knowledge acquired during the summer program, to their ownsecondary institutions. In particular teachers working in the solar tracking system developed amodule on engineering authentic instruction for their own classrooms. Table 1 illustrates one ofthe modules that the participants developed as part of the RET-ENERGY experience.ConclusionsRET participants were able to collaborate and work in research labs under supervision of a researchfaculty mentor, and in cooperation with a graduate and an undergraduate student. The researchteam developed a project

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Mohammad Ali Rahimi, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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buildings can make a substantial impact on greenhouse gas emissions.By focusing on energy consumption, smart plugs can manage and improve power efficiency [1]-[2], [4], and [6]. The United States is the top smart home market on the globe with installations in9.7% of all households recorded in 2015 [9]. To further assist in the integration of smart energysaving devices, plug load metering provides medium potential energy saving at a reasonably lowcost [10]. Most plug load meters available today sit at the wall outlet and sell for around $50 withwireless connectivity or $20-$30 without wireless connectivity [1]-[2]. This paper presents theoutcomes of a course project on the design of a smart plug that incorporates measuring energyconsumption as well

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Beth Carle, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology; MICHAEL E LONG LONG, Rochester Institute of Technology

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practice.Intentionally, the application of critical thinking is systematically integrated within multipleopportunities for students to practice and broaden critical thinking skills, in general educationcourses, academic program courses, and experiential learning.As an example, design and problem solving projects are integral parts of all Mechanical,Manufacturing, and Electrical Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) program courses,with increasing complexity and integration of multiple domains as the students’ progress towardstheir capstone experiences. Approximately half of freshmen courses are in the engineeringtechnology core. This allows opportunities to help students immediately begin developing theircritical thinking and analytical skills and highlights

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Lisa L Greenwood, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Maureen S. Valentine PE, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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ISO’s revisions of the ISO 14001 and 14004 environmental standards. In addition to her academic preparation and experience, she has over ten years of experience in envi- ronmental engineering in the aerospace industry. Dr. Greenwood seeks to build student capabilities in standards implementation through project-based learning and problem-solving, in order to prepare them for successful careers in environmental, health, safety, and sustainability disciplines, and beyond.Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking in Academic Affairs and a professor in the College of Applied Science & Technology at RIT. She earned

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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including the historical context of STEM principles in the elementarycurriculum. Biographies in STEM have immense potential in the elementary classroom becausethey show that research and exploration are continually on-going; that is, one question arises fromanother question9.Do-it-yourself projects often involve the application of STEM competencies. Collaborating tocreate a geometry lesson, the school librarian might suggest engaging youngsters in creating theirown comic strips. Drawing books are as popular as graphic novels in elementary schools, andthese art books can be used to talk about using geometric shapes to create the images and framesin students' own comic strip creations. “Adventures in Cartooning” is a great guide to thecreation of

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John Robert Schedel Jr., United States Naval Academy; Angela Schedel, U.S. Naval Academy

Paper ID #243562018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Straws, Balloons, and Tootsie Rolls: The Value of Hands-On Activities in theEngineering ClassroomCmdr. John Robert Schedel Jr., United States Naval Academy John Schedel is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a career Naval Officer, having served 22 years as a Navy SEAL and as an engineer- ing professor. He enjoys teaching a variety of undergraduate engineering courses related to structural engineering, mechanical design, project management, and economic forecasting

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Zoe Zyvith, Rutgers University; Mark Thomas Trevena, Rutgers University; Andrew Yong; Ryan Lamantia; Lana E Sharp, Rutgers University; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia

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which systemis most efficient depending on the climate, soil conditions, and installation costs.Geothermal heating and cooling is often confused with geothermal power plants, which generateelectricity using heat from the ground5. This project focuses on simply using ground temperaturesto heat or cool a home or building, which in turn will save energy. This process does not generateheat but rather transports heat. The energy savings and elimination of carbon dioxide emissionscome from the elimination of using existing resources such as coal or natural gas to heat buildings6.Ecological Benefits of Geothermal EnergyA large ecological benefit to using geothermal energy is that it does not burn fossil fuels. Ageothermal energy system may produce as

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York; Jeffrey L. Schwartz P.E., Queensborough Community College

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TechnologyBuilding. The goal of this research is to estimate each PV module’s degradation rate and comparethe changes of the efficiencies over seven years in New York’s climate. Knowing how each typeof PV module degrades will provide crucial information to potential solar power users in NewYork.KeywordsResearch, Renewable energy, Solar PV efficiencyIntroductionAs part of the state’s NY-Sun initiative, use of solar power in New York State has grown 575%from 2012 to 2015 according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority(NYSERDA).1 Growth of solar power in New York City is even more remarkable. There are morethan 5,300 solar power installation projects across the five boroughs in 2016 in comparison with186 projects in 2011 and the

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Timothy Matthew Murray, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in- terests are biomedical signals and image processing, telemedicine, medical

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona

Shear Wall Building Felipe J. Perez1, Yasser S. Salem1, Brittany J. Myers1, Cristian Aguilar1, Garrett Jones1, Daniella Ginocchio1, Edwin Medina1, and Kevin Chin1 1 California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper presents results of a capstone senior project at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. Students conducted a vulnerability assessment of a five-story building constructed inSouthern California. The structure has non-ductile concrete shear walls at the core and gravityframes at the perimeter. Partial infilled walls exist within the perimeter frames, creating captivecolumns. Students studied as-built plans for the structure and conducted an assessment of

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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CUNY.Prof. Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Improving critical thinking through the cognitive loading control of working memory in introductory physics class Vazgen Shekoyan, Sunil Dehipawala, George Tremberger, Raul Armendariz, David Lieberman and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside NY 11364 USAAbstractThe critical thinking process in physics problem solving has been observed to relate to workingmemory

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Christopher Lawrence Norve, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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University of Rhode Island with research work done at Rhode Island Hospital. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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optimization of intelligent systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a sys- tem capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and performance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Dilnesa T Nukuro, University of the District of Columbia ; Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia

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Paper ID #243692018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6The importance of assessment of vulnerability for improving the robustnessof a computer networkMr. Dilnesa T Nukuro, University of the District of Columbia Dilnesa Nukuro was born and raised in Ethiopia. He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of the District of Columbia and is planning to graduate in Spring 2018. His research interests include the application of wireless sensor networks and cybersecurity. He was awarded the IEEE Region 2 Project showcase 2nd place at New Jersey in 2017.Dr. Paul Cotae

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Jose M Reyes Alamo, CUNY - New York City College of Technology

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courses that teach the basics are free while other courses are premium and paid. The CodeCademy style is more like a guided tutorial where the student have to complete a set of particular tasks as well as other problems where the student needs to complete the missing code. Good tool for beginners and for those wanting to refresh the knowledge.  Programmr 6 – provides coding simulators for several languages. Their courses are free and in the platform students can solve problems in Java, C, C++, Objective C, Angular JS. At Programmr the student can code, compile, and run projects in the browser in many of the most popular programming languages available. They have several courses as well as

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Paul Jason Weinberg, Oakland University

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Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education. Inaddition, mechanistic reasoning is one of the core competencies listed in the Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS) Engineering Concepts and Practices (NGSS Lead States, 2013). Mechanisticexplanations focus on the processes that underlie cause-effect relationships and take into account howthe activities of system components affect one another.While some assessment work has been accomplished in engineering education, to date mechanisticreasoning is an area where limited assessment development has been accomplished for pre-collegepopulations. The data in this study come from the calibration of the Assessment of MechanisticReasoning Project (AMRP) (Weinberg, 2012), designed to diagnose individuals

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

integration, testing, and the use of developmentand verification tools.Lecture courses should be accompanied with a series of laboratory exercises and a semester longproject. Theses laboratory exercise will help student learn the basic concepts of designingembedded systems and mastering the lectured materials. Laboratory exercises and projects canutilize popular kits such as the ARM-based Rapid Embedded Systems Design Education Kit orlow-cost FPGA embedded systems development boards. Laboratory exercises and projectsshould leverage proficiency gained from other core engineering courses such as C/C++programming language, assembly language, and computer organization courses in designingreal-world embedded applications.c. Cyber Physical Systems Design

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Andrew Grossfield P. E., Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

vectors ⃗ and ⃗ and the third operation produces ascalar and is called the triple scalar product, and denoted by ⃗ ⃗ .The dot product provides a means to compute the length of the projection of a line segment ontosome intersecting line. In the ordinary 2-dimensional space the projection of a vector ⃗ onto thehorizontal axis is |A| cos(φ) where φ is the angle between ⃗ and the horizontal axis.In 3-dimensional space if we have a vector ⃗ and a direction described by a unit vector ⃗ theprojection of ⃗ in the direction ⃗ is ⃗ ⃗ = |A| cos(φ). We would like our dot product to besymmetric in the two vectors and so the dot product is defined as: ⃗ ⃗ = |A||B|cos(φ). It can beproven that if the coordinates of the vectors are given in an orthonormal

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Prof. Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An experiential learning strategy in introductory mechanics using transferrable knowledge from daily examples and feedback inquiry in the development of an innovative mindset Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, George Tremberger, Raul Armendariz, David Lieberman and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside NY 11364