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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John Adams; Charles Kochakian

1 Inclusion of RFID in a BSEE CurriculumJohn Adams and Charles Kochakian, Merrimack College Department of ElectricalEngineeringAbstractThis paper discusses the evolution of a course in RFID which is now a required part of thecurriculum in Merrimack College’s BSEE program. In 2004 the department identified RFID as animportant emerging technology that would be timely to introduce at the undergraduate level.Initially, the department sponsored two seminar series with sessions taught by industryprofessionals, followed in 2007 with a full course in RFID. Advantages of RFID as a requiredcourse include using it to introduce

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

four distinct and disparatephases namely-Phase 1: Chip design – This basically involves the design of the chipbased on specifications provided by the customer, Phase 2: Mask Set – It involves theconversion of design’s layout and placement into set of masks e.g. diffusion, contact, andmetallization masks etc., Phase 3: Mask Transfer – This involves transferring the maskset onto a wafer substrate such as Si or GaAs etc., Phase 4: Packaged Chip – Thisincorporates inscribing, dicing, bonding and encapsulating chip in a plastic or ceramicpackage, depending on customer’s requirement.At UMass Lowell, the author founded the Microelectronics/VLSI program in 1984, at thetime, when only design tool available was DLAP (intense programming tool in

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

create anawareness of the skills and job roles required for future labor workforce demands in the engineering andtechnology services industry and argues that these current and future roles makes them more appealing towomen.Keyword: STEM, Women in engineering, U.S. Education, IT services, Service industries.1. IntroductionServices have surpassed agriculture and manufacturing as the leading contributor to gross domesticproduct in the world today. As the global economy has become more integrated, and the demand for aworkforce required to run service-focused organizations in an efficient manner grows, the level andvariety of skills needed in this new service economy have also changed and grown. Specifically; inregards to science, technology

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

Sophomore Junior Senior Figure 1. Typical Chemical Engineering Program Order of Electives Design Reaction Engineering Separations Organic Chemistry Yearling Cow Firstie Figure 2. USMA Chemical Engineering Program Order of Electives The arrangement, therefore, more closely mirrored the real world Chemical Engineering designprocess. In addition to its realism, the engineering design process used by our students, in addition to itsrealism also parallels the Military Decision Making Process (see Figure 8), thus reinforcing military as

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

probability of these students choosing a STEM major incollege is low. This ultimately will affect the production of U.S. scientists and engineers needed to solveour future technological and research challenges. 1To place the K-12 mathematics and science scenario in perspective, when compared to foreign countries,the U.S. significantly lags most with respect to performance. Table 1 presents a compilation ofmathematics scores of 15 year olds enrolled in secondary education institutions in OEDC (Organizationfor Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. This international comparison of mathematicsperformance by 15 year olds indicates that the U.S. falls almost at the bottom of the comparator

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

. The first programs within the CoE were Civil Engineering and Electrical 1Engineering. Today there are four degree programs in Chemical Engineering (Che), Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Science Engineering (ECE) andMechanical Engineering. All programs offer BS and MS degrees through the respectivedepartments. A five year program that combines the BS and MS degrees is also available in alldepartments, and an interdisciplinary PhD degree is administered and offered through the CoE.The CoE offers a common freshman year to all incoming students (Table 1). As can be seen inTable 1, the first year curriculum includes two semesters of calculus, two semesters of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David I. Schwartz

Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics David I. Schwartz Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Information Technology GCCIS, 70-2509 +1 585-475-5521 dis[at]it[dot]rit[dot]eduAbstractIn this paper, I develop a system for computational analysis of games that uses scoring functions tomotivate engineering mathematics education. Although many modern videogames have abandoned pointsas an archaic form of representing victory (or defeat

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John Hartke; Robert Kewley; Greg Kilby; Greg Schwarz; Gunnar Tamm

study and identify the specific design issues addressed by the student team. It willalso describe how the project was structured so that each student on the team had both an in-depthexperience within their discipline and learned how to integrate their discipline specific expertise in thelarger multidisciplinary project. Finally the paper will present the results of the students’ work andlearning outcomes.1. Introduction One of the desired outcomes of nearly all engineering programs is that the students participate ina project where their work is integrated into a larger multidisciplinary project. The multidisciplinaryproject adds more real-word constraints and considerations to the problem than a single-disciplinaryproject can offer

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yiming (Kevin) Rong

projectssponsored by global companies doing business in China. The students work on defining and solving real-world engineering problems in a very important and vastly different cultural environment. They gainknowledge and communication skills through conducting meaningful project, working in teams, anddeveloping leadership skills in a multi-cultural environment.1 IntroductionWith the development of global economy and the rapid shift of manufacturing to China, the demand forengineers with the ability to live and work in unfamiliar cultural environments is critically important forboth Chinese and US companies [1-3]. One result is leading to considerable redistribution of research,design, and manufacturing. In response to a world in which science and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Daniel J. McCarthy; Michael J. Kwinn

(SDP). (Parnell, et al, 2008) Thereader is referred to the recently released book, Decision Making in Systems Engineering andManagement” by Parnell, et al, for a more detailed description of this process. For the purposes ofdescription in this paper, we will limit our discussions to the first phase of this process, the ProblemDefinition phase, and most specifically, the first step, Stakeholder Analysis. In this step, the analyst Page 2conducts detailed background information searches and conducts interviews with significant stakeholdersto appropriately scope, bound and fully define the problem. Figure 1. Systems Decision ProcessIn our deliberate review of our

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dean Aslam; Aixia Shao

increasing presence of new technologies in consumer products, are now becomingenabling technologies for bringing nanotechnology into our daily lives. Perhaps the best example is anintegration of ever increasing functionality into cell phones (Fig. 1). The introduction of projectioncapability in cell phones in 2008 will initiate the integration of HDTV and computer (operating system,RAM and storage may be placed on a network server) in cell phones.The integration of an air quality monitor (equipped with nano sensors) Computer Networkinto cell phones, expected in the next few years, will provide ‘air Interfacelabeling’ making it possible to monitor the air we are breathing and HD Video, PDAany

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

. The SDOE graduate program(http://www.stevens.edu/sse/academics/graduate/sdoe/ ) has been very well received and delivered inmodular form world-wide to industry and government agencies that are involved with complex systems.The program was initially a certificate program directed to practitioners and working professionals butthis has subsequently expanded to include masters and doctoral degrees. The faculty and scope of theprograms has grown rapidly leading to the recent formation of a School of Systems & Enterprises  1(http://www.stevens.edu/sse) with a significant national and international impact in the systemsengineering field.The presence of a strong graduate-level activity in the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

groups who communicated themost during the exercise and proceeded with the game only when everyone understood the concepts,scored the highest. This paper will discuss pedagogical issues with learning in virtual worlds, discuss theeffectiveness of the game, and suggest methods to improve learning. Future research will focus on theuse of Second Life for expanded statistics sessions and for human factors and ergonomics labs.1. IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to enhance Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) 306 with technologywith the intended goal of improving student learning during homework sessions. ISE 306 is the firstcourse in a two-course sequence in engineering probability and statistics. It is a required course for allISE

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Vicki V. May

thechanges in quality affected by the group process.IntroductionHow often do we as faculty members complain about the textbook? Not to mention thecomplaints we get from our students. Yet, the first thing we often do when planning a courseis select a textbook. And often one of the first things we are asked about our course is “whattextbook are you using?” Selecting and relying on a single textbook tends to be teacher-centered and content-driven, whereas a learner-centered, outcome-driven approach tocourse design is generally recommended6 and results in more learning2. A more learner-centered, outcome-driven approach is easier today given the availability of digital resourcesand collaborative tools. Page 1 of 10Using

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

apre existing grinder.Of critical importance to the design was a wide range of adjustability so that the final product could fit avariety of bicycles. The stand would need to fit bikes with tire diameters ranging from 20” to 26”, andalso with varying rear axle widths. The design also had to allow for adjustment of the tension in the drivebelt, so it was decided that the grain crusher’s location would be adjustable to provide such tension. Theonly fixed components would be the center drive axle and its supports. An overview of the previousdesign is shown below in Figure 1 (Bonzella et al., 2006). An effort was also made to use as many off-the-shelf pieces as possible. This would limit machining time.Figure 1: Initial Design of the Bicycle

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

communication skills, and to establish peernetworks that the students can utilize through their engineering educational careers. This course has anaverage enrollment of approximately 400 students each year. Of these, a fair portion each year aregeneral engineering majors without a declared discipline (approximately 20% the last time the course was 1  offered). Many of the rest end up changing their minds about which discipline to pursue during the firstyear or two of college. Engineering Solutions seeks to ease the decision-making process by introducingthe students to the various fields of engineering in an unbiased fashion. For the past several years, thishas been accomplished through the use of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anthony Manno; Kamal Shahrabi

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

Statement, one of Union’s major goals is to further integrate engineering withthe liberal arts. The college recognizes that “students graduating from Union belong to a generation inwhich technology has revolutionized communication and that they are part of a world where theunderstanding and appreciation of a multiplicity of cultures and perspectives will be essential to theirsuccess.” -1- American Society for Engineering Education ASEE Zone I Conference, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, March 28-29, 2008The college acknowledges that “preparing students for the 21st century requires that we take Union tonew frontiers of technology

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

conferences.IntroductionThe weakness of the traditional lecture is well established by the regular calls from the academicworld to improve the standard of teaching (1-3). The lecture method of teaching must be replacedby providing more empowerment to students in various categories of learning such as design,discovery, innovation, and creativity (4,5).The objective of this paper is to describe the effect of various types of student empowermentprojects on student performance in a civil engineering course.MethodologyA course, CE 342: Transportation Engineering repeated over four years was considered. In theyear 2000, the course was taught in the traditional lecture format for nineteen students. Theaverage grade for this student population was sixty nine out of one

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Bhavana Kotla; Lisa Bosman

Interventions in the Engineering Classroom: Definitions, Benefits, and ChallengesAuthorsBhavana Kotla, Purdue UniversityLisa Bosman, Ph.D., Purdue UniversityIntroductionInnovation, design, and entrepreneurship are economic drivers promoting competition andgrowth worldwide, many of which would only exist with well-established continuousimprovement. Entrepreneurship is a field of study that involves discovering, evaluating, andexploiting opportunities [1], and thus, an entrepreneurial mindset can be described as theinclination to discover, evaluate, and exploit opportunities [2]. To stay a leader in the globaleconomy, innovative pedagogical interventions are needed to promote an

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Brian P. Murphy

andapprenticeships that will support it. The US Department of Labor clarifies that apprenticeshipscombine paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction to prepare workers for highly skilledcareers [1]. This literature review aims to reveal how to improve the educational opportunitiesfor current and future technicians in clean energy industries with a focus on the author's homestate of New York. New York State ranks among the top five states for green transition, such asthird by the US Green Building Council, and second in the US News & World Report, whichlooks across three dimensions: environmental quality, eco-friendly behaviors, and climate-change contributions [2].This topic is essential now as 2023 finished as the hottest year in recorded

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Rennick; Sophie Nasato; Samantha White; Mary Robinson

motivation than their male peers, but that eventswhich are designed to be welcoming to gender-diverse participants can increase their intrinsicmotivation.1 IntroductionCo-curricular STEM-focussed events like hackathons are growing in popularity at universitycampuses worldwide, however, there have been few examinations of differences in participationrates at these events based on student identity. This paper investigates motivational differences indifferent student populations when participating in hackathon-type events to better understandhow these events are serving the diverse student populations in engineering programs. It is wellunderstood that motivation influences the intensity, quality, and persistence of learning instudents [1]. Self

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Rottmann

unconsciously, socialized into a field with familiar cultural norms. Ilearned that positivism was a straw man; that “rational technicism” signalled instrumental ratherthan transformative intentions; that leadership marked privileged status for the promotion ofmale teachers in a feminized profession [1-5]; and that private research funding was ethicallyquestionable. From one month to the next, I entered a field where positivism was alive and well;rationality and “technical” work were the gold standards, leadership was marked by an invertedsocial hierarchy promoting women “up and out,”[6]; and industry partners functioned as a keysource of research funding. I found myself on the other side of a disciplinary fissure, exchangingwords like “transformation

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Daniela Galatro; Ya-Huei Chin; Bradley Saville

in different courses, including fundamentals [1],introduction to industrial case studies [1], life cycle assessment (LCA) [2], and use of greenengineering tools and computer-aided tools in chemical process design [3]. When clustering theseintegration strategies, they fall into the Body of Knowledge for green engineering in chemicalproduct and process design, which includes three elements [4]: (i) framing the challenge (e.g.,emissions, risk, and life cycle analyses, and environmental legislation), (ii) assessment and design(e.g., applying general principles at unit operation scales), and (iii) system perspectives (e.g.,integration of materials and energy flows among various unit operations) [4]. While traditionalengineering education is based

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Darren Singh; Raafat Khankan; Yousaf Ijaz; Damith Tennakoon; Mojgan Jadidi

Towards Development of an Interactive Mobile Application for Teaching The UNSDG D. Singh1, R. Khanakan1, Y. Ijaz1, D. Tennakoon1, M. Jadidi1,* 1 Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada * Corresponding Author: mjadidi@yorku.caAbstract In aim of a better, inclusive, accessible, and safer future, educational institutions are committedto integrating the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into their curriculumdesign and course delivery. Traditionally, a plain literary review of these goals has been adoptedby educators. This tends to leave students wondering what a realistic scenario would look like, andhow they would approach an

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Evalyna Bogdan; Heather Jean Murdock; Nadine Ibrahim

The Flood Resilience Challenge serious game to teach complex socio- environmental issues in engineering: Extended abstract 1. BACKGROUNDFlooding represents Canada's most frequent and expensive hazard, with its effects anticipated toescalate due to climate change and alterations in land use. Conventional engineering methodsexcel in addressing straightforward, linear issues, rather than wicked problems such as floodingand climate change [1]. Flood risk management cannot be tackled solely with technicalengineering strategies alone because it is embedded in complex social and political issues, andthere are many stakeholders with differing, and often competing, perspectives and interests.Engineers

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Fernando Altamura; Alice Cherestes; David Titley-Peloquin

variations of this formative assessment strategy in different settings,ranging from low-stakes quizzes in large (~150 students) first-year physics and calculus coursesto midterm examinations in smaller (~50 students) organic chemistry courses. Figure 1: Group part of a two-stage organic chemistry midterm examThere are several known benefits to the two-stage collaborative approach: ▪ Small group work encourages collaboration and helps develop a sense of community within the cohort. ▪ The group portion of the assessment is a form of peer tutoring, as stronger students help weaker ones. This is beneficial for all students involved.Low-stakes two-stage collaborative quizzes can be scheduled early in the term. We have

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

George Weinschenk; Koenraad Gieskes

-increased levelof engagement and interest in the exercise.Introduction / Motivation:Ethical considerations have been a part of the engineering and computer science professionssince their creation. Organizations like The Corporation of the Seven Wardens, its United Statesbased offspring, The Order of the Engineer, and National Society of Professional Engineers allhave had strong commitments to ethics in engineering for nearly a century. [1] [2] [3] TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has ensured the inclusion of ethicsas a part of undergraduate engineering and computer science programs with the topic beingpresent in their Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment since their implementation in1996 in EC2000, [4] with more

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Ioana Tiu; Koenraad Gieskes

face challenges inengineering majors and encounter wage discrepancies in the workforce, despite their demonstrated aptitude,is paramount.Figure.1: Statistics Taken from Eurostat on the Male-to-Female Ratio in Different Professions (Morera et al., 2019)Numerous studies have delved into the unique experiences of female students in comparison to their malecounterparts. Research indicates that female students encounter higher rates of gender harassment, (definedas any intimidating, offensive, or hostile behavior that disrupts their academic pursuits or campus comfort)particularly within STEM environments (Rincon et al.,2016). These hostile climates surroundingstereotypical assertions of female inadequacy deepen gender divides, ultimately hindering

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

J. Y. Janet Lam

Impact of lecture recordings in a post-COVID environment Ji Ye Janet Lam, University of Toronto1 IntroductionThe recording of lectures that are given during in-person teaching of on-campus courses has beena growing topic of study since before the COVID-19 pandemic [1]–[3]. The explosion in onlinelearning and increased digitalization of teaching is clear to anyone involved in education through2020–2022. In response to the sudden need for online learning, many (if not most) post-secondaryinstitutions invested in online educational technology [4], [5].As post-secondary institutions returned to in-person learning, the option to attend class virtuallyremained an option for some institutions [6], [7