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Christian E Lopez; Conrad S Tucker

Implementing gamification in engineering bridge programs: A case study exploring the use of the Kahoot! application Christian E. López 1 and Dr. Conrad S. Tucker1,2 1 Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University. 2 School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, the Pennsylvania State University.AbstractThis work introduces a case study in which the gamified application Kahoot! was implementedin an engineering bridge program. Students’ Hexad player type is assessed to gain a betterunderstanding of how their player type relates to their perception of application and the gameelements employed. Gamification has shown great

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Stephen Wilkerson; Joe Cerreta; Andrew D Gadsden

crop cycles currently dominatingMaryland and Pennsylvania farms. This program is formulated as a project-based learning(PBL) initiative. In particular, the program is a Capstone Design 2-semester course thatadditionally has design and build criteria as a requirement. Completion of this project is arequirement for graduation, and students usually take the capstone design course in their senioryear. Because this course is within the Engineering and Computer Science curriculum of thecollege, however, many of the topics that the students are required to learn are well outside oftheir typical course requirements. In this paper, we detail the approach to having undergraduatestudents research and master multiple technology areas and then apply them

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Elena Brewer; Anthony Dalessio; Sarah Giersch; Nancy Louwagie

Partnership to Teach Vacuum Technology CoursesIn 2014, SUNY Erie developed a two-year program in Nanotechnology and added courses insemiconductor fabrication to the existing two-year AAS program in Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET). A very rudimentary introduction to Vacuum Technology was included inboth the Nanotechnology program and semiconductor fabrication courses for the EET program.The vacuum-related portion of the curriculum was developed with input from theNanotechnology program at Pennsylvania State University. However, faculty at SUNY Erierealized that more extensive coursework in Vacuum Technology would enhance theemployability of students from both programs. Industries around the country require theiremployees to have a much broader

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Jikai Du; Chad M Walber; Shawn E Thompson; David J Kukulka; Edward Purizhansky

available on and off campus,but also make it possible for faculty to share best practices with each other. Furthermore, throughcollaborations, a faculty can serve as agent for change in his or her department. For example, afaculty can assist colleagues through instructional coaching method, and can also develop a plansensitive to his or her department’s needs. Overall, such collaborations can help to supportfaculty’s teaching excellence and to create a community across departments on campus.SUNY College at Buffalo Mechanical Engineering Program Industrial Advisory BoardBackground The mission of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program at SUNY College atBuffalo is to prepare students for careers in engineering technology that includes

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Luke Plante; Matthew Baideme P.E.; Kyle Murray P.E.; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus; Ryan Tuemler

Maximizing Student Creativity in Complex Wastewater Engineering Design Luke Plante1, Matthew Baideme2, Kyle Murray1, Jeffrey Starke3, Michael Butkus1, Ryan Tuemler1 1 United States Military Academy, 2Columbia University, 3Marquette UniversityABSTRACTWhile wastewater treatment in the United States is currently aimed at achieving pollutantdischarge limits, advances in biochemical treatment are shifting the industry’s focus to energyand nutrient recovery. Recovering nutrients from wastewater may very well be required forfuture wastewater treatment plants. Indeed, the term “wastewater treatment plant” is alreadychanging to “water resource recovery facility.” An emphasis on fundamentals

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Kyle Murray P.E.; Nathaniel Sheehan P.E.

influentialfactors that impact student retention, such as the method of instruction, classroom environmentalconditions, relationship dynamics between students and teachers, and assessment or testingpatterns. Past educational research and studies support the notion that student learning improveswith testing and that variables such as frequency of testing, feedback from testing, and delays inrecalling information have measurable impacts on student retention and performance [2, 3, 4]. Wesought to measure and harness the positive impacts of testing within an integrated,multidisciplinary environmental engineering program at our institution.The main focus of this study is to assess parameters involved in student testing and evaluate thesubsequent impact on

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Shuvra Das

Implementing the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics at University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Shuvra Das Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of Detroit Mercy 4001 W. McNichols Road Detroit MI 48221 AbstractIt is well known that many motivated and capable students abandon engineering programs whenthey encounter difficulties with the Calculus sequence. This results in the profession losing outon talented engineers. Engineering educators have worked on a variety of approaches toalleviate

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Jiayue Shen; Weiru Chen

engagement and learning experience but also effectivelyimprove academic performance. REFERENCES[1] J. Hartley and I. K. Davies, "Note‐taking: A critical review," Programmed learning and educational technology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 207-224, 1978.[2] T. Tips, "Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers," ed: Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.[3] M. Weimer, "Effective strategies for improving college teaching and learning," The Teaching Professor, pp. 1-9, 2014.[4] M. Prince, "Does active learning work? A review of the research," Journal of engineering education, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 223-231, 2004.[5] J. E. Caldwell, "Clickers in the large

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Michael Martin

/oes514012.htmJ, January 2019.[6] Rahemi, Elzawawy, Budhoo., 2018, “Advanced Manufacturing Engineering TechnologyProgram: A Program that Prepares Graduates for Today’s Manufacturing Industry,” 21168,Proceedings of 2018 Annual American Association of Engineering Educators Conference.[7](https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-Business-Profiles-MI.pdf),January 2019.[8] Martin, Polkinghorne, 2011, “Breaking Down Classroom Walls: Fostering ImprovedCommunication and Relations between Engineers and Tradesmen through a Joint SemesterProject”, 62229, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress& Exposition IMECE2011.[9] Baytiyeh, Naja, 2011, “Challenges Facing Graduating Engineers in their Transition

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Brandiff R Caron

-licensed1engineer in both Canada and the US will be familiar with the primary professional obligation of the engineer to“hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.”4 This is a required competency of theprofessional engineer. It is a competency that is nominally required for any engineer. This requirement isfurther enforced by the accreditation standards that exist for engineering programs in both the US and Canada.In the US, ABET is the accrediting body that requires the training of this professional competency. In Canada,the accrediting body is the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). While at first glance the twobodies (ABET and CEAB) seem to have similar standards, it will be argued here that the differences that existare

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Ugur Zel

/oralcommunication.Model Proposal on Applying Assessment Centers in Higher EducationNormally, administrators have 4 years of time to measure and develop students’ potential(competencies) in universities. This period is half less (2 years) in colleges which creates achallenge to run the same procedure. For the initial stage, we can assume that each student iscoming with a satisfactory potential which can be related to the accreditation of the selected facultyor program. Some universities apply tests such as GRE, GMAT, SAT and language efficiency testswhich may be accepted as a part of knowledge and cognitive ability dimensions of a competency.So, how will PAC work during a 4-year of university education? In Figure 1, a draft version of thePAC + IDP process is

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Mohammad Taslim; Kai-tak Wan

study, teamwork, and communication skills.* Corresponding Author: m.taslim@northeastern.edu Fig. 1. Dialogue team visits the Hanoi University of Science and Technology. 1Introduction Applications of Fluid Mechanics, which is a core Northeastern University (NU) Global course mandatory to all mechanical engineeringExperience Office (GEO) sets up a number of students, (ii) ME 4699 Exploring Engineering,special programs available to all students to provide History and Culture in Vietnam, which is aintellectually challenging and culturally enriching culturally related course

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Lisa Greenwood; Mark Indelicato; Miguel Bazdresch; Mike Eastman

succeed and thrive in the field.Keywords: engineering education, experiential education, problem-based learningIntroduction In recent years, the ability of engineering programs to attract and retain students andthe preparation of engineering faculty as engineering educators have come under scrutiny.Fear that the United States may lag behind the engineering and innovation curve, as otherProblem-Based Learning: A Tale of Three Courses 2nations enhance their technological capabilities, has led to numerous calls to improveengineering education (Sheppard, Macatangay, Colby, & Sullivan, 2008). Additionally, extensiveresearch has warned that the combination of a predicted demand for engineers and

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M. Nazrul Islam; Joseph Abel; Qinghai Gao

annual salary of$153,120, where the growth over next 10 years is expected to be 12% [3].However, there has been no undergraduate program to train the professionals for the growing fieldof information security. There are a couple of graduate programs in the field, which are not asefficient because very few professionals pursue any graduate studies. Typically the ComputerScience and related programs have been producing graduates who are working in the field. But thefeedback from the industry shows that these graduates don’t present sufficient skills in computersecurity. Based on industry needs and standards, we have developed an undergraduate curriculumin computer security technology that will train the students with necessary skills in hardware

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A. Richard Vannozzi; Leonard Anderson

the topics and tasks related to both their civil engineering education and their careers in civilengineering. Trends in the data indicate that including an active learning component in atraditional passive lecture series adds value for students in two worthwhile ways. The first beingan increased awareness of less traditional, yet critically important, professional communicationskills and second, students develop a sense of self efficacy in a public facing aspect ofprofessional life.Overall the structured active learning approach to the planning and execution of a traditionalweekly lecture series by the students was a success. The students found that both theplanning/execution of their weekly lecture and attending the lectures offered by their

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Ramachandran Radharamanan

Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS),Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Electronic Beam Melting (EBM), and Laminated ObjectManufacturing (LOM)1-2.At Mercer University School of Engineering, as part of the innovation and entrepreneurshipprogram, a new course on 3D Modeling and Rapid Prototyping (3 credits) was developed and isbeing taught to engineering students. The catalog description of this course includes: Productdesign, CAD and related software; basic principles, development, process chain of additivemanufacturing; photopolymerization processes; powder based fusion processes; extrusion-basedsystems; printing processes; sheet lamination processes; beam deposition processes; direct writetechnologies; design for additive

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Matthew Rhudy

Short Writing Assignments within a Laboratory Course to Improve Understanding and Interest in Course MaterialAbstractWriting exercises incorporated within technical courses has been shown to be effective inimproving critical thinking among engineering students. Specifically, short writing assignmentscan be implemented within upper level engineering courses to deepen student understanding ofconcepts. These assignments, while considered within some upper level courses, are notcommonly implemented within laboratory courses, which instead typically use laboratory reportassignments. Since students in our program already take another course which uses traditionallab reports, it is desirable to introduce some unique writing

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Nashwa Elaraby; A. B Shafaye; Steven Grosse

offered for Electrical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering Technology, and Computer Engineering students. It is the first cornerstone inlearning about circuits and digital logic systems. Figure 1 illustrates the digital logic hierarchy,and indicates the coverage of the logic circuit design lab.There are different ABET outcomes that relate to their lab experience. It teaches them to usecorrect lab equipment and tools, from digital meter and oscilloscope to digital logic analyzers. Ithelps them to develop their problem-solving skills, as they are required to design logic circuitswith given specifications and then verify their functions. They learn about test vectors andtroubleshooting to detect any errors or misconnections that caused unexpected

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Evan Lundburg; Erik Bardy

electrode carryinga high voltage over a grounded plate creating a corona discharge [5]. The high voltage causescharged particles to disrupt the flow of air, creating a corona wind [2]. The corona wind results inan increase of heat and mass transfer while not affecting the properties of the food product [2].The effectiveness of EHD convection is dependent on the electric field strength, as the high voltageflowing through an electrode must cause a flow of charged particles though the high resistance air.In addition, the ionization region is limited by the electric field strength [6].In 2006, the Mechanical Engineering Department and the European Study Center (ESC) launcheda program in Nantes, France, to allow mechanical engineering students to study

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Wei Xie; Jared Auclair; Jinxiang Pei

institutions(3 from IE related fields and 31 from chemical engineering and pharmaceutical science). Theresponsibility of the TAC includes ensuring that the relevant and high-quality projects are beingpursued to achieve the NIIMBL mission. Thus, the main focus areas for the TAC include: (1)applied research and technology, (2) identifying and reducing barriers to commercialization; (3)proposing actions to enable rapid innovation and commercialization; (4) initiating Project Callsand evaluating the proposals.The authors, Dr. Jared Auclair (from biochemistry) and Dr. Wei Xie (from Operations Research),serve as Northeastern representative Technical Activity Committee (TAC) for NIIMBL. Wecollaborate to develop new biomanufacturing technologies and training

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Pong P Chu

FPGAfabric into its future processors [2]. Most computer engineering curricula follow a “layered model,” in which transistor, logicgate, module, processor, operating system, and application programs constitute the individuallayers. The software development and the hardware design are covered by separate courses inisolation. The subject of software-hardware codesign is normally offered as a senior- orgraduate-level elective course and thus many students are not exposed to this subject. Thisarticle suggests a way to incorporate this concept in an introductory digital design course. Ourapproach is to use customized accelerators and I/O controllers as case studies. These casesincorporate basic digital design topics and show the partition and

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Praneetha Kuppili; Shrutika Ambade; Raj Tailor; M. Ali Montazer

answering the survey and the highest number ofresponses were from Computer Science and Forensic Science Majors. This is depicted in theFigure 1. 5 Figure 1: Histogram showing the major and the number of studentsTo understand the level of usage of websites by the freshmen, a question was asked in thesurvey in relation to the usage of websites. The responses were to be chosen from four variantsdepending on the usage. These responses are as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2: Histogram showing the usage of websites by the freshmenAnd then the question wherein the students were asked to choose the best application oftechnology to certain

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Pratik Dudhat; Qing Li; Sijin Ren

and variables,which are governed by constitution equations, requires perfect manipulation to get a generalequation which defines the full model. In other words, the mathematical work to combine the stressand strain equation with the electric flux density equation becomes cumbersome as the equationdevelops. So, it becomes very important to do programming for mathematical calculation work aswith the increase in the length of the equation the factor of human error also increases.To avoid such a time-consuming work, one can take advantage of software specially designed andprogrammed to do calculation task related to combined field equations. One of the well knowsoftware is ANSYS, which is used for solving coupled/combined equation of various

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Jimmy Ching-Ming Chen; Joseph Vaglica

enrolled in the construction management program atWayne State University Engineering Technology Division are encouraged to participate in theannual ELECTRI International/NECA Student Chapter Competition on electrical constructionmanaging projects. The main competition component is the challenge to propose an energyupgrade design and simulation for a facility providing community services to achieve a net zerofacility by incorporating energy saving measures and distributed energy resources based on theunique needs of the buildings and climate. Students are expected to provide detailed technicalsolutions in the proposal by examining the past year utility expenses, planning the renovationdesign, estimating new system costs, and demonstrating energy

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Pong P Chu

Hands-On Experiment Platform to Study the Power and Thermal Characteristics of Digital Systems Pong P. Chu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, US1. Introduction When a semiconductor device operates, it consumes energy and generates heat. The powerconsumption is a key issue in today’s digital system design. In a CMOS transistor, the dynamicpower is related to the charging and discharging of the load capacitance at the gate output and isproportional to the switching frequency. The power consumption of a large digital system,which contains millions or even