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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jonathan Krones, Boston College; Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell

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course for BC’s newDepartment of Engineering which will enroll its first class in fall 2021. Seventy students enrolledin MMW, representing all the BC undergraduate schools and a number of different STEM andnon-STEM majors.As a designated “Complex Problems” course, MMW includes three pedagogical components:lectures, labs, and reflection sessions [1]. Lectures examine topics from major branches ofengineering (civil, mechanical, and electrical) and the history of science and technology since1800, with a focus on sociotechnical systems and their relationship to gender, race, disability,immigration, and nationality. Labs involve hands-on engineering modeling tasks as well as amulti-week human-centered design challenge focused on issues of access and

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Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

semesters and an average of 142 students eachsemester provided feedback. Five questions were posed to the students to allow the students toreflect on their experiences within the course. The results based on the answers to these questionsover the three years, or six semesters, were then compared to see if there was a trend in theresponses.BackgroundOver ten years ago, Michigan State University created a first-year program that included both anacademic program and a residential, co-curricular component [1]. The academic, first-yearprogram consisted of two courses that students take as they begin their engineering curriculum.One of those courses is EGR 100, an Introduction to Engineering Design course, and subject ofthis examination. The goal of this

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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geometricdesign to first-year civil engineering students.Introduction Visualization of the problem and its solution can play an essential role in the education offirst-year engineering students. Therefore, the laboratory modules that contain an engineeringproblem and solution to that, might be a very useful tool for engineering education [1]. Recentlymany universities switched the introduction to engineering design course from lecture-basedcourse to laboratory-based one [2]. To develop an appropriate laboratory module for the firstyearengineering students, it is very important to understand the students’ view of an engineeringproblems. A couple of factors that should be considered in designing these types of modules arethe students’ level of

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Meagan Eleanor Ita, The Ohio State University; Laine Rumreich, The Ohio State University

explore the effectiveness of a trainingmodule for first-year engineering undergraduate teaching assistants (UTA) through a qualitative analysisof responses to three open-ended prompts. All UTAs are themselves undergraduate students at thesophomore through senior level. UTA responses to the following prompts are explored in this paper: (1)Craft question(s) you might use to spark curiosity, (2) Brainstorm source(s) apart from the requiredcurriculum that students can use for design inspiration, and (3) Provide an experience from your ownundergraduate experience you perceive as EM-aligned.Training Module & Analysis Methods Our training module consisted of a text document containing descriptions of EM and the 3Cs, aninstructional video for

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Alandra Kahl, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Lesley M Berhan, The University of Toledo; Bryan Thomas Bosch, The University of Toledo

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studentpersistence at the University (2nd to 3rd year retention). These specific outcomes were comparedto two distinct controls to measure rate of success, outlined below.UNDT Population (Control One): Population of students who were admitted to the College ofEngineering, but not to their chosen major based on the admissions criteria outlined previously.Most students were not admitted to their major based on their ACT/SAT score.Exploratory Studies population (Control Two): These students were not admitted to the Collegeof Engineering based on their admissions criteria, and were enrolled in University College priorto the inception of the GEARSET program (comparative data to prior year outcomes).Tables 1 and 2 reflect the raw data for past cohorts within

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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William Sierzputowski, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Hands-on Math Modeling through Building and Programing Intelligent,Adaptable Display Systems with LEDs and Arduinos [GIFTS]As math modeling is a critical component of engineering, it is important for first-year students tobecome comfortable and proficient with basic math modeling skills and concepts. To helpsupport student understandings, a multi-day activity was facilitated in a first-yearmultidisciplinary engineering course.1. Construction of circuit Students learn to solder LEDs, resistors, and a pin header to a premade programmable circuit board (PCB; see Figure 1). This circuit has six LED lights connected to a common ground. An Arduino

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Teri Kristine Reed, University of Cincinnati; Stephanie G. Adams, University of Texas at Dallas; Carmen Sidbury, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.

the workshop is to share information on how a faculty and/or staff member (orteam of faculty and staff members) can implement ways to engage first-year students in thebroader discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As various initiatives such as the ABETEAC Criterion 3, Outcome 5, “an ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals,plan tasks, and meet objectives” (emphasis added), along with deeper outcomes createdinstitutionally and specifically for first-year students, such as 1) Develop skills for cross-culturalcommunication; 2) Design a process to communicate technical information via written, oral andvisual methods and

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Roger J Marino P.E., Drexel University; Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Johanna P Casale, Drexel University

professionals frommany disciplines outside of engineering. Collaborative efforts have been made among facultymembers at four U.S. Universities to broaden the students’ awareness of this subject throughlecture and experiential classroom activities. Additionally, a common lecture was presented tothe students at all four institutions.Much discussion has been held in recent years concerning the advantage of having engineeringstudents work on multidisciplinary design teams. The Multidisciplinary Division of ASEE hasaddressed this issue at its annual convention for over a decade, and its recently issued Survey forSkills Gaps in Recent Engineering Graduates highlights this need yet again [1]. Benefits ofmultidisciplinary teamwork have been identified to

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jorge R Lara, Texas A&M University; Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University; Patrick Linke

apost module assessment was administered to gauge student learning. The pre and post moduleassessments were analyzed to develop the learning objectives based on the questionnaire results.The paper concludes with an assessment of the effectiveness and student engagement. Thisinnovative design thinking will create a new mentality in FYE engineering students.IntroductionWith the prerogative that the world is becoming unsustainable because of the technology in use.Engineering education in sustainable development is a topic being into context for the last fewdecades. Because of this interest, now, the most representative engineering associations in theworld [1], [2], [3].[4], concur to the suggestion that engineering education for

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Cecelia M. Wigal, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

meeting times. Before selecting a board, however,the instructor should determine the importance of the (1) size of canvas, (2) collaborationfeatures, (3) file attaching features, (4) presentation options, (5) mobile device accessibility, and(6) asynchronous use, for their instructional needs. Student reaction to the boards should also beconsidered. Since some students’ first reactions are to experiment with the board’s functionality,it may be necessary to select a board that includes locking features. It may also be beneficial todesign an initial activity that encourages investigations of board features. Although the freshmanlevel students most frequently amused themselves with board features, they greatly benefitedfrom the collaboration

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Andrew Skelton, York University; Jermin Bates, York University; Julia K Frank, York University

Experience (FYE) programming is the First Year Seminarcourse taken for credit in the first year of college. Such courses have been extensively researchedand identified as a high-impact practice [1]. At many institutions, including most Canadianinstitutions, such seminars are not prevalent, so alternative models of delivery are needed.The purpose of this study is to investigate the cost and benefit of maintaining the high-impactnature of such programming while embedding into a curriculum. From the student perspective,the benefit (skills improvement, academic success, and direct academic reward) must bebalanced with the cost (time, effort, and motivation) to ensure sufficient engagement as to havean impact on student outcomes. We will present results

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Debjani Sarkar

, K-12 students, first-year engineering students, technical writers, mathematicians,statisticians, publishers, and university students. The workshop will be particularly beneficial forall who need to write and publish technical and scientific documents that incorporate tables ofcontent, indices, mathematical text, tables, scientific figures, multi-file projects and references,both on print and pdf files, and researchers who work collaboratively.Overview:LaTeX is a document preparation system based on a typesetting system called TeX, originallyproposed by Donald Knuth in 1979 [1] and recently became extremely popular. A studyconducted by Authorea [2] suggested that 92% of scholarly articles in Mathematics and Statisticsare written in LaTeX, 60

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University

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there would be no difference in average load-bearingcapacity between the Control and Test group’s structures.With the COVID-19 global pandemic, we were tasked with providing a virtual design experienceusing Zoom sessions. We will also provide a discussion of the individual design challenges thatinvolved building a bridge from 1/2 sheet of paper that spanned the opening of a ceramic mugand held as much ballast (in the form of coins) as possible without failing.IntroductionBaylor University holds weekend-long Invitation to Excellence (I2E) events to recruit high-achieving high school seniors. Each prospective engineering student attends two engagementsessions: one hosted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the other by

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Anoop Singh Grewal, Arizona State University

, the self-rated competency was similarly high, but the displayed understandingsignificantly improved. In the application problem, students clearly showed the value ofinvolving the customer multiple times in the EDP, in iterative design-and-improve cycles. Thefurther reflection questions in the survey indicated that the students were able to understand EMconcepts, make actionable and effective plans to apply EM both in their upcoming courses orside projects, and their future career as engineers.IntroductionGamification is an interactive way to promote active learning, especially in an online classroom.It has been tried in a variety of scenarios in engineering education and otherwise [1-3]. Asimulated scenario in a game-based activity provides a

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Mark Easley, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Work in Progress (WIP): Adapting the TI-RSLK Robot to Teach Basic Embedded System and Programming ConceptsIntroductionThe University of Central Florida (UCF) has the nation’s largest on-campus undergraduateenrollment that includes nearly 11,000 engineering students (1,200+ who are freshmen). Fornearly 20 years, UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) requiredfreshmen engineering students to take ‘Introduction to the Engineering Profession’ (EGS1006C) in the fall. The one (1) credit hour course includes a weekly 50-minute seminar lectureand a weekly 80-minute lab that is taught by a Teaching Assistant (TA) who is also responsiblefor grading student work. The EGS 1006C seminar lecture

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Constantine Mukasa, Northeastern University

effects are unwanted in the academic world.Regardless of the intention, higher education institutions have implemented ethical codes thataddress plagiarism. Those caught are punished based on the established ethical standards to curband eliminate this behavior [1]. Additionally, there has been an array of technological tools thathave been integrated into courses by instructors to detect and address plagiarism. Therefore, wefocus on a tool used to detect plagiarism in a First-year programming course.Typically, plagiarism is considered in writing assignments and research papers, where tools suchas Turnitin are used to highlight plagiarised work. Turnitin is a web-based software that checksand compares submitted work to several online databases and

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel

at the University of Arkansas.Mr. Brandon Crisel, I am an 11 year veteran instructor at the University of Arkansas with a BS and MS in Mathematics with emphasis in Statistics and applied Math as well as a MS in Industrial Engineering. I began working in the Math Department, teaching service courses. While there, I taught College Algebra, Math for Elementary Teachers 1&2, Mathematical Reasoning, and Finite Mathematics. I also helped spearhead our department’s online initiative to both flip classes while simultaneously creating an online program for our service courses. I was also the Testing Coordinator, where I managed the Testing and Tutoring Centers and their staff. I also created, maintained, supported, and

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Haritha Malladi, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

project-based learning, whose learning outcomes focus on improving these technical and durable skills.The first module is a mechanically oriented product design that incorporates physicalprototyping. Students worked in teams to develop a three-dimensional model that can beassembled using parts that were laser-cut from a single 8x10 sheet of wood. The second modulefocuses on performing life cycle assessment to compare the environmental impacts of commonconsumer goods. Student teams picked two common product choices and performed astreamlined analysis to determine which product consumed fewer resources and/or releasedfewer emissions. Prior work by the authors describes these modules in detail [1], [2].At our institution, Introduction to Engineering

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Edward Z Moore, Central Connecticut State University

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hours of directinstruction. Test results after training showed significant improvement by students who receivedthe intervention despite the extreme brevity of instruction. Considering only those students whoneeded training, scores rose by 18.6% after receiving training. The magnitude of improvementwas found to be statistically significant. These results are consistent with the improvements seenin previous research which generally involved more extensive instructional efforts.IntroductionSorby [1] presents several different attempts to define spatial skills. None are labeled ascompletely satisfactory, recalling Justice Potter’s 1964 analysis of what constitutes lewdness: “Iknow it when I see it”[2]. Tartre [3] divided spatial skills into

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Farrah Fayyaz, Concordia University

. 1 “Making learning whole” with the use of Pre-recorded Videos for Basic Engineering CoursesAbstractThis research is mainly an effort to improve teaching and learning of basic engineering coursesto take care of the learning needs of the students. Main courses targeted for the discussion in thispaper are two undergraduate electrical engineering courses namely Circuit Analysis and Signalsand Systems. Most of the students in these courses are new to the university style teaching and inaddition in both these courses the course content is lengthy and complicated. This presentsnumerous challenges for teachers as well as students to conceptually learn the course content.The author started using pre-recorded

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Jeffrey Koller; Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University

“lecture" based. This is the scenario wherea professor stands in front of the room and talks at students and in turn they are expected toseamlessly absorb and understand the content. However, in the past several decades, pedagogicalresearch has proven that this is not a very effective way of teaching [1]. Research has shownthat by including active learning exercises in an engineering classroom, student’s learning andretention is significantly increased, and the achievement gap between underrepresented studentsand their counterparts can be narrowed [2, 3]. These exercises are often loosely defined as “anyinstructional method that engages students in the learning process" [1]. There are a variety ofstyles and approaches to active learning in an

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Shari Klotzkin, Binghamton University; Howard S Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; David Klotzkin, State University of New York at Binghamton

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address this gap, a week-long Arduino workshop was developed to give middle schoolstudents an opportunity to actively engage in fun and educational STEM activities. Thechallenge was to see if an engaging STEM program on electronic hardware could be deliveredremotely [1]. With the aid of a very capable electronic simulator program, the content could beeffectively delivered and even implemented on real hardware.The class met twice daily for a week and culminated with each student presenting theirindividual project on the final day. The lessons were structured as a brief demo by theinstructors, followed by a mini-project, such as interfacing with an LCD display. Whileworking on the activities, students were assigned to one of three breakout rooms

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Matthew M Johnson, Penn State University; Tiffany M. Lewis, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools; Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University; Chantal Giroux Balesdent, Penn State University

affordances of online digital tools in the facilitation of these experiences and in datacollection, and we make suggestions for other uses of this approach.Rationale Recent STEM education reforms have emphasized the importance of engaging studentsin the practices [1-2]; and habits of mind [3-5] of engineers in K-12 settings. In response toengineering standards at both the national and state levels [1,2,5], curricula have been developedto help teachers overcome their lack of experience with engineering. However, two importantaspects of teaching and learning engineering have been understudied: 1) the ways in whichteachers learn about engineering, and 2) how they transfer that learning to the classroom tosupport their students as engineers

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Yixin Xiong, Penn State University; Stephen Porter, Penn State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University

myDAQ by asoftware interface for virtual experiments. The output of the board can be digitized and sent to thestudent's PC for visualization. The proposed setup can be time-shared with multiple students and canalso be easily replicated. This framework is modular (i.e., other components like an extra breadboardwith new designs can be added) and is also useful in the longer-term by allowing the students topersonalize their learning. The effectiveness of the board has been assessed via a limited piloting ontwo Senior Undergraduate students who have been involved in this project.1. IntroductionThe existing research and curriculum alarmingly lack hands-on learning of analog and mixed signal andRadio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuits (ICs). Analog

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Alexander J De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

but notsufficient for success in an engineering career. In addition to instilling high levels of contentknowledge within their students, it is clear that engineering programs must prepare their studentsto effectively apply their content knowledge in a range of contexts.Expertise refers to individuals who possess a level of content knowledge necessary to be able tooperate productively within a given field (Bransford, 1999). In general, a few identifyingcharacteristics of experts and expertise have been described: 1) their knowledge is more than aset of memorized facts or processes related to the field, 2) experts are able to notice meaningfulfeatures and patterns of information that is hidden to novices, 3) experts organize their

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

toclean water and sanitation in the community of San Pablo, Belize in 2000 [1]. This experiencemotivated him to engage engineering students in the design and deployment of clean watersystems in this rural community. He was further inspired to launch the Engineers withoutBorders organization in 2002 [1]. Most of the opportunities focused in the water, sanitation andhygiene (WASH) areas and primarily attracted civil and mechanical engineering students inglobal development projects. The first humanitarian engineering minor program was started atthe Colorado School of Mines in 2003 [2]. Again, the engineering majors who were primarilyattracted to this program were civil and mechanical engineers. Water distribution projects havebeen designed by US

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Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

measurement instruments. They also coach students on how to developgood habits in the electrical engineering laboratory that will accompany them into theirprofessional life. Furthermore, the interaction between instructor and students in the laboratoryenvironment is more dynamic compared to lectures and helps to develop a fluid conversationbetween them [1]. A rigorous yet relaxed laboratory setup is a place in which students can makemistakes without the strong consequences that arise from similar errors in higher stakesassessments such as examination. Also, mistakes made in the lab also serves to avoid them inthe future. Ideally, this experimental work should also encourage students to work beyond theminimal requirements for a given laboratory

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Thomas E Ask P.E., Pennsylvania College of Technology

paradigm of the time. Thus the scientist cannot avoid bringing a definite belief system in the area of study [1].In addition to the non-mechanistic design elements desired by a community or material culture,the personal appeal of a design to the designer is an important non-mechanistic element. Whenone designs something that is personally alluring, this allure can be in the domain of ideasconnected with beauty, elegance, or personal history. These elements of design are summarizedin Table 1, which shows a design element and the corresponding epistemology and method. Table 1 – Structure of Design Elements Design Elements Mechanistic Non-mechanistic Non-mechanistic

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Orla LoPiccolo M. Arch, PDip (CM), Architect, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

engineering technology degree programs alsoface similar questions as to how their program differs from engineering programs. The answersto these questions are invariably that engineering technology programs are based on the practicalapplication of engineering with graduates working to support licensed engineers/architects. Inaddition, engineering programs are theory and design based with graduates focused on designingand managing projects [1]. Students enrolled in Architectural Engineering Technology Programswho plan to become registered architects face an additional challenge however depending on thestate that they plan to seek licensure. Unlike other engineering technology programs andengineering programs which are both accredited by ABET, Bachelor