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Micheal Watkins

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Peter Mark Jansson

in engineering established by the National Academy ofEngineering. What might not be as familiar to many of them is one of the challenges known as“Engineering the Tools of Scientific Discovery” In the summary of this challenge provided onthe NAE website [1] one can read the following: “In the popular mind, scientists and engineershave distinct job descriptions. Scientists explore, experiment, and discover; engineers create,design, and build. But in truth, the distinction is blurry, and engineers participate in the scientificprocess of discovery in many ways. Grand experiments and missions of exploration always needengineering expertise to design the tools, instruments, and systems that make it possible toacquire new knowledge about the

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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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Pratik Dudhat; Qing Li; Sijin Ren

ANSYS Simulation of Piezoelectric Patch for Energy Harvesting Pratik Dudhat, Qing Li, Sijin Ren Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Haven1. IntroductionPiezoelectric materials have the capability to produce a voltage when deformed, and they deformwhen an electric voltage is applied. These are characterized as direct and indirect effects ofpiezoelectric materials respectively. The direct piezoelectric effect is utilized in energy harvestingmechanism since the system absorbs the vibration energy from the host structure and converts thatto electrical energy. Figure 1 Piezoelectric Harvester Schematic DiagramAs shown in Fig. 1, the

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Joseph Benin P.E.; Avinash Srinivasan

implementation of a 2.0 credit, highly-interactive and hands-on course titled Transition to Object Oriented Programming (TOOP). The paper specifically discusses the adoption of a home-grown Training Wheels platform within the Ubuntu operating system running as a virtual machine, C++ programming with Eclipse integrated development environment (also within Ubuntu), and finally the Arduino at Heart EMoRo robot.1 IntroductionEducation is a constantly evolving, ever-grounded process of systematic instruction thattransmits information for the reception of students. In the forming of constructive mindsand hearts. As advances in knowledge occur, both the methods and content of education 1must

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

, inwhich students were provided the on-site guidance on the instrumentation used in industry andhow to interpret such instrumentation. Requirements on how to write a professional lab reportwere also explained. Through such collaboration, not only students are able to experience a realindustrial measurement, but also industrial partner can be exposed to and recognized byacademia and has possible future employees better trained. In this paper, activities to improvesuch collaboration and expand it to other classes in the future are also discussed.Introduction High impact and innovative teaching practices have been extensively studied inengineering undergraduate education [1-8]. Traditionally, such practices may include relatingclassroom

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Stephen Wilkerson; Joe Cerreta; Andrew D Gadsden

and Pennsylvania fields are typically<100 acres. In fact, the average farm size in Pennsylvania is ~130 acres whereas the averagefarm in Kansas is ~750 acres (and other Midwest states are far larger). Moreover, thetopography of the farms in Maryland and Pennsylvania varies widely. Figure 1 shows aNormalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) image from a portion of a typical Pennsylvaniafarm consisting of corn, soybeans, and some plowed fields (mainly red) late in the season.Overall, NDVI is a methodology to examine whether or not the vegetation is healthy. Green inthis image indicates healthy vegetation, while the red areas on the image are primarily fields thathave no vegetation or crops just starting to grow

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Brandiff R Caron

engineering educators. Accreditation visits are a part ofthe regulatory framework that engineers must live within. While stemming from a “self-regulatory” framework,compliance is not optional. It is within this regulatory framework that the CEAB introduced the new outcomes-based graduateattribute accreditation system. This was borrowed very openly from the similar changes ABET made in theearly 2000s. However, there are a few notable exceptions. 1. A knowledge base for engineering: Demonstrated competence in university level mathematics, natural sciences, engineering fundamentals, and specialized engineering knowledge appropriate to the program. 2. Problem analysis: An ability to use appropriate knowledge and skills to identify

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Ugur Zel

Development Stage” which is designed to develop the areas of developmentidentified during the PAC process. Individual development stage should start in the second half ofthe 3rd year, so that students may have enough time to develop their development areas beforegraduation. 1Relating “Student Outcomes” with the concept of “Competency”The Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology revised its Criterion 3 student outcomes in fall 2017. The seven new studentoutcomes resulted, enumerated 1 – 7, replacing the previous eleven (11) student outcomes,designated a – k (Turner and others 2018). These changes to Criterion 3 will be implemented forthe 2019-20

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Jimmy Ching-Ming Chen; Joseph Vaglica

Green Energy Challenge – From Green Building to Smart/DC BuildingJimmy Ching-Ming Chen1 and Joseph Vaglica2Engineering Technology Division, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA;1. jcmchen@wayne.edu2. jvaglica@wayne.eduAbstractEnvironment impact and continuously increasing energy costs are driving the constructionindustry to pursue new design and technology alternatives. A thorough understanding of thescience of building performances and effective design is required to achieve maximum energyefficiency and best cost-performance ratio. Therefore, a paradigm shift is needed in a university’scurriculum by adding new materials and endeavors to train future workforce facing the challengesof green energy construction. Students

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Mana Seifaei; Salah Badjou

Design of a Solar-Powered Tennis-Ball-Fetching Robot in the Context of a Traditional Electrical Engineering Program ! Mana Seifaei1 Salah Badjou, Ph.D.1 ! (2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY, April 11-13, 2019)!AbstractThis paper discusses the implementation of a multidisciplinary mechatronics capstone designproject in the context of a traditional electrical engineering program in an undergraduate college.Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of electrical, mechanical, and control engineeringwith computer science

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Lisa Greenwood; Mark Indelicato; Miguel Bazdresch; Mike Eastman

Problem-Based Learning: A Tale of Three Courses 1 Problem-Based Learning: A Tale of Three Courses Lisa Greenwood, Mark Indelicato, Miguel Bazdresch, and Mike EastmanAbstractCourses in engineering and science are typically taught deductively, through transmission ofinformation from instructor to student, followed by practice problems to reinforce what wascovered in readings and lectures. Yet in our personal and professional lives, we learnexperientially – by facing a real situation and attempting to address it, and from our relatedsuccesses and failures.Experiential education emphasizes a mixture of content and experiences, connection oflearning to meaning and to

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Zhiyuan Yu; Jiawei Gong

concepts after one lecture. 33%students can correctly calculate the speed ratio after one lecture. Homework practices areneeded for the students to use the gear ratio equation correctly. 1. Introduction Strain wave gear was invented by W. Musser in 1955 [1]. Its application is in aerospace sincethen. The strain wave gear is a type of mechanical gearing system that has unique characteristicscomparing with cycloidal drives or planetary gears. It has the advantages of zero backlash, highprecision, and high gear ratio from 30:1 to 320:1 in a compact packaging. Recent years, its mainapplication is for robotic arm joint. Since the availability of robotic arm increases substantiallydue to its important role in automation, so the high-performance

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Salah Badjou

Development and Implementation of a Mechatronics Senior-Level Course in a Traditional Electrical Engineering Program ! Salah Badjou 1,2 ! ! (2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY April 11-13, 2019) !AbstractThis paper discusses the development and implementation of a mechatronics course in atraditional electrical engineering program in an undergraduate college. This course is at thesenior and first-year graduate levels, and designed for both electrical and mechanical engineeringmajors

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Seth W. Percy; Joshua E Perry; Carlos L Lück

made itconvenient to obtain all measurements neededfrom any given circuit using only a single setof probes. Modern designs have become verycompact to allow for the electrical engineer inpractice to carry a portable one with them withgreat ease. However, as comfortable andconvenient as it is to implement this tool, it iscritical for the engineer in training tounderstand a number of aspects such as thecore principles of its operation, the internal Figure 1. Conceptual representation of thecomponents involved, and how the concepts Galvanometers functionality. [8]originated in its design. Understanding theseaspects develops a deeper appreciation for itsusefulness and effectiveness as a tool. Perhaps the first concept to address is

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Shuvra Das

contentand the experience of teaching it to the engineering students along with its impact on retention,and student success. Specifically, the ability of these students to handle engineering sciencecourses without having finished the calculus sequence will be discussed with data from the initialofferings. 1. IntroductionThe Mathematics requirement of every Engineering program in the United States is a set ofstandardized courses. This set of courses is well known across the engineering educationcommunity as the Calculus Sequence and is typically a three-course sequence of Calculus alongwith a course on Differential Equations. This is a bare minimum and most programs haveadditional required mathematics courses such as Linear Algebra and/or

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Pong P Chu

shown in Figure 1. TJ: device’s internal junction temperature . TC: device’s case (external surface ) temperature . TA: ambient air temperature near the device . JA: junction-to-ambient thermal resistance . JC: junction-to-case thermal resistance . CA: case-to-ambient thermal resistance . P: total power delivered to the operating device . Figure 1. Thermal circuit model The basic governing equation is TJ = P*(JC + CA) + TA = P

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A. Richard Vannozzi; Leonard Anderson

ofacademic and scholarly pursuits for centuries. Utilizing a structured active learning approach tothe planning and execution of a traditional weekly lecture series, students took full ownership ofeach week’s lecture. Faculty involvement shifted from active planner and host to merely keepinga list of lecture details provided by students. This shifting of responsibility to the studentschanged the focus of the lecture series experience from a passive weekly event to a student-centered activity, the goal of which was to make their week of hosting successful.At the conclusion of the lecture series, students were asked to complete a brief questionnaireregarding: 1) The lecture topics; 2) The key active learning tasks, and; 3) Their perceptions abouthow

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Anuja Kamat; Naseer Yari

learning, using MasteringEngineering, and leveling the playing field. As expected, over 95% of students successfullycompleted the course. In this paper, the authors will describe the implemented changes in theStatics class.Introduction:It is recognized that learning styles of people can differ. Some learning styles include visual,verbal, physical, social, solitary, aural, and logical. A person could have one dominant learningstyle or have a mix of several learning styles. A class taught using several learning stylesincorporated can benefit all the students. This paper outlines an effort made to incorporate severallearning styles in the sophomore level Statics class.The methods included in this paper are: 1. Whiteboard – Reducing PowerPoint 2

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Michael Martin

degree program. Additionally, there is strong anecdotal evidence that once students with this knowledge got out in the workforce, it created additional demand from employers that were pleased in how the students were able to contribute immediately upon hire. INTRODUCTION Recent engineering education research has suggested that most engineering curricula does not promote attainment of many characteristics desired in practicing engineers [1][2], especially that in the skilled manufacturing field [3]. One skill set that has been identified as a need by local industry is computer numerical control (CNC) programming. This need was originally identified by the Northern Michigan University’s (NMU) Industrial Advisory Board, and has been reinforced

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Wei Xie; Jared Auclair; Jinxiang Pei

. Then, interdisciplinaryeducational and training programs, including hands-on training and experiential learning, areintroduced to seamlessly transform new knowledge to skilled workforce and industry practice.Therefore, the proposed framework can effectively facilitate the innovation of biomanufacturingindustry.Key Words: Academic, regulatory and industry collaboration; experiential learning;biomanufacturing innovation; continuous and flexible manufacturing; risk management andcontrolSection 1 IntroductionIn the past decades, pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars in the research anddevelopment of new bio-medicines for the treatment of many sever illnesses, including cancercells and adult blindness. The biomanufacturing industry is

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Nashwa Elaraby; A. B Shafaye; Steven Grosse

evaluation boards have a FieldProgrammable Gate Array (FPGA) with hard-wired connections to LEDs, seven-segment displaysand switches. Based on a survey conducted, many students appreciated the fact that they getintroduced to learning Hardware Description Language (HDL) but miss the hands-on circuitbuilding.To obtain primary comparison results, we had two students run the two types of labs in twoconsecutive semesters. As primary results, both students agreed that (1) physically building thecircuits gave them a better visual understanding of how different circuit elements wereconnected; (2) having the option to write Verilog behavioral coding, allowed them to drift awayfrom the structural coding that was supposed to enforce the logic design concepts

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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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Brittany Anderson; Rafic Bachnak

(blue or white),alphabetically by last name with each group containing 31 students. These groups were checkedfor equal diversity. The schedule for one session is outlined below in Table 1.Table 1: STEM-SEP Workshop Schedules STEM Summer Enrichment Program (STEM-SEP) Schedule Session 1 Group Blue Lunch 12 – 1 pm 9-12 noon 1-4 PM M Opening session: Registration, Presentation Math Applications - Multiple Dimensions T Math Applications - Code-breaking Chemistry Applications – Qualitative AnalysisWeek 1 W Civil Engineering: Building Materials

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Salah Badjou; Pierre-Richard Cornely; Richid Dahmani

Development and Implementation of an Innovative Hybrid Mechanical Engineering Course ! Salah Badjou, Ph.D. 1 ! Pierre-Richard Cornely, Ph.D. 2 ! Rachid Dahmani, Ph.D.3! (2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY April 11-13, 2019)!AbstractThis paper discusses the successful implementation of a hybrid pilot course of Engineering Stat-ics. This is a standard sophomore-level engineering course required of mechanical and mecha-tronics

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Leonard Anderson; Aslah K Alshaiea

Providing an Intradisciplinary Team Experience for Off-Track Students in a Senior Level Capstone Design Two Course Sequence March 26, 2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference By Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C.Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA Aslah K. AlshaieaStudent, Department of Civil Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MAAbstractPracticing Civil Engineers today must have the ability to work as a team member with other civilengineering

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Andrew Grossfield

to provide acommon-sense introduction to the theory of complex variables which will treat these questions.The theory of complex variable functions has a special place in the extension of ordinarycalculus to multivariable calculus. The algebra is the same as ordinary algebra but thevisualizations are those of non-linear mappings between a 2-dimensional domain and a 2-dimensional range. These are the simplest mappings between spaces both of whose dimensionsare greater than 1 and whose conformal streamlines are spectacularly beautiful and wonderful tocontemplate. The beauty inherent in holomorphic mappings can be seen in the YouTube video1by Douglass Arnold.The SettingFunctions of a complex variable cannot be viewed as the ordinary functions of

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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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Matthew Rhudy

, which instead typically uselaboratory report assignments. Since students in the considered engineering program already takea course which uses traditional laboratory reports, it is desirable to introduce some uniquewriting assignments to help develop their practical skills for their careers.The proposed study will assess the effectiveness of introducing unique short writing assignmentsinto a dynamic systems laboratory course which traditionally involved full laboratory reports asdeliverables. These assignments were designed with the following key objectives: 1. Reduce the length of the assignment 2. Provide real-world context and current applications of writingThe hypothesis of this work is that the shortened writing assignments will

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M. Nazrul Islam; Joseph Abel; Qinghai Gao

harmony as well as nationalsovereignty. Another study from Juniper Research in 2018 demonstrates that around 33 billionrecords will be compromised by 2023 [1]. Therefore, protection of digital information andinfrastructure has become an increasingly challenging task for the society and the industry.There is a huge demand of skilled and trained professionals to design, develop, monitor, analyzeand update security systems. As per the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of jobs in thecomputer and information security field in 2016 was 100,000 with a median salary of $95,510 peryear. It is also estimated that there will be a growth of 56% over the next 10 years [2]. The computerand information systems manager position has a demand of 367,600 with an