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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Problem Solving

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Lauren Corrigan, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University

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particular focus on under-represented populations.Mr. Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University Department of Engineering Education c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Session W1A Work-in-Progress – When Students KeepTimesheets during a First-Year Engineering Project: Assignment Evolution and Student Perceptions Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety, Lauren N. Corrigan, and Paul A. Clingan The Ohio State University, kecskemety.1@osu.edu, corrigan.59@osu.edu, clingan.3@osu.eduAbstract – Using timesheets to keep track of work is a this project may be

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WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University; William T. Riddell, Rowan University; Karl Dyer, Rowan University

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. NZEBs are structures that produce as much energylight bulbs. Students measured the visible light output, as they consume over the course of a year. This energypower consumption, and surface temperature of four balance is achieved through production via photovoltaicdifferent bulb types (incandescent, halogen, compact cells and reduction of consumption through insulation,fluorescent, and LED) and then determined the supersealing, highly efficient windows, implementation ofefficiency of the bulbs and considered the implications overhangs and thermal mass, and using low energyfor a NZEB and their own home. In the lab, student appliances [1]. While “reverse engineering” the NZEB,teams

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ryan Baldwin

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in engineering topics. Any delay in thefirst semester. For students in Newark College of completion of the calculus sequence would have drasticEngineering (NCE) at NJIT, by design, the mathematics impact on the student’s time to graduate. Figure 1 shows theplacement drives the remainder of their courses as well. additional pre-calculus courses needed for NCE studentsThis means that poor performance on the Mathematics who do not start at the recommended starting point.Placement Test easily adds 1-2 semesters to students' Students that are placed in MATH108 may take up to a yearoverall graduation time. This also has a strong impact on or even more before they can take courses related tothe

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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; Jingru Zhang, Western New England University; Chang Hoon Lee, Western New England University

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settings, people with little historyfunctional teams. The sooner students can begin to develop working together and from various disciplinary andgood team skills, the better. “Why do some students experience backgrounds come together to create somethingflounder on their initial job assignments after graduation, that hadn’t existed before. This diversity of perspectivewhile others move quickly up the career ladder? One brings with it the opportunity for unique combinations ofcommon criticism voiced by employers is that new hires do knowledge that could not have occurred separately. It alsonot seem to function well in a team-based environment.” [1] brings with it the risk of an inability to

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WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Kerry E Patterson, Lipscomb University; Joseph B Tipton Jr., Lipscomb University

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selection. While the faculty in the college see value inelement of design. Various accreditation agencies like ABET these experiences, there was a major lack of designrequire that programs cover design and analysis under the experience in the course. Faculty perceptions of seniorconsiderations of global, economic, environmental, and design projects show a need to improve client interactions,societal contexts [1], but many programs expect these topics decision-making processes, holistic critical thinking, andto be covered in other courses rather than creating a sustainable design. A quick examination of the currentcurriculum focused on holistic problem-solving. Other curriculum shows

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University; Akshay Sharma, Virginia Tech + Autodesk

Course Dr. Cory Brozina Youngstown State University, scbrozina@ysu.edu Mr. Akshay Sharma Autodesk, Inc., akshay.sharma@autodesk.comAbstract - clear solutions [1]. Additionally, utilizing the engineeringIndustry and the world at large is becoming an ever- design process highlights the importance of developing theconnected state where there is greater importance on professional skills, including collaborating on a team [2]. Asatypical collaboration. The type of collaboration needed the

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Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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programming in its solution. All graphics and programming instruction and PROJECT BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE practice were conducted using a problem-based format. Self-efficacy among engineering students has been This study design is primarily quantitative, since itstudied widely, especially with respect to retention in contains an initial survey about perceived abilities in graphicsengineering programs among under-represented groups, such and programming, treatment in the form of instruction,as women. 1-6 It has been further related to retention through practice and grading in these knowledge areas

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vasudeva Rao Aravind, Clarion University; Marcella Kay McConnell, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

knowledgebackground in geometry and trigonometry. We made a computer based personalized tutoringsystem using state of the art tools provided by Carnegie Mellon University's Cognitive TutorAuthoring Tools (CTAT). In this work, we describe steps that went into building this highlyeffective tutoring system that challenges the students with a problem, provides immediatefeedback, and offers need based hints at different levels, leading the student to solve the problemcorrectly.KeywordsEngineering education, Physics Education, STEM education, Mathematics education, VectorAlgebra.IntroductionThe entire framework of physics in higher education is built on vectors 1 Students study classicalmechanics grounded in Newton’s laws, built on vectors. Principles of

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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canassign. This has been the traditional way of giving students homework. However, unless theseproblems are counted for credit some student may lack the motivation to practice using them 1.Other students may feel overwhelmed with the assignments or get frustrated when using acompiler or IDE as they may not understand where the problematic code might be 2.On the faculty side of things, assigning programming problems is always a challenge. Assigningtoo few problems poses the risk for students not practicing enough. Assigning too manyproblems may become a burden at the time of grading and providing feedback 3. More facultyare relying on online system for practicing programming in order to provide students with moreproblems to practice, give them

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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changes in the parabola shape while thehorizontal distance versus time is always linear in shape. The causation of higher v0 for longerflight time can be deduced inductively after doing a few graphs. A deductive calculuspresentation of differentiating v0 with respect to flight time would belong to the academiclearning approach2, which is teaching time efficient for those students very familiar withcalculus. Every student is expected to be familiar with the quadratic equation solution in algebrathat time = P + Q*sqrt(-1) or P – Q*sqrt(-1) when b*b is less than 4*a*c given the a*x*x+ b*x +c = 0 format. The minimum initial velocity to reach ground from a depth of -120 m can bedemonstrated by extrapolation (about 48 m/s) on a graph of Q*Q versus

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Yasser R Salem, University of the District of Columbia; Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia

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real user traffic can get through thenetwork. The attacker can immediately shut off most legitimate TCP sources even though the rateof attack is low and weak. The TCP operates on longer timescales of retransmission timeout (RTO)where the minimum recommend RTO is 1 second. In each period, the wave has a magnitude ofzero except of a one unit time. The wave, also, has a magnitude of a normalized burst. Commonto the above, attacks are a large number of compromised machines involved in the attack andapproach high-rate transmission of packets towards to hack nodes. An attacker which consists ofperiodic “on-off bursts” exploits the homogeneity of the TCP’s RTO mechanism. In the timedomain, this attack can be modeled by a set of three parameters in7

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Jeffrey L. Schwartz P.E., Queensborough Community College

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ancient method of Egyptian fractionscan be used for this purpose when teaching parallel resistors, whether a professor has a totalresistance or a particular resistor in mind, or whether they want to use standard manufacturers’values.KeywordsAlgebra, Electrical Engineering Education, IEC Standards, Mathematical Analysis, ResistorsIntroductionWhen teaching introductory electronics courses, I try to use examples with integer solutions inorder to give students a better sense of the quantities involved in the circuits. This is similar to“when a teacher is first introducing students to the Pythagorean Theorem, she usually likes to giveexamples that have easy numbers, ones that don’t get too ‘messy’ in their calculations.”1 Whenteaching the Pythagorean

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Paul Jason Weinberg, Oakland University

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, diagnosing related direction, rotation, lever arms, constraint via the fixed pivot, and tracing.These mechanistic elements are ordered as levels in the construct (Table 1). The mechanistic elementsare ordered from least to greatest hypothesized difficulty. == Table 1 ==Item Design 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of ColumbiaAfter the construct levels and associated performances were specified, twenty-one assessment itemswere developed. The AMRP is composed of items with short-answer questions that require participantsto draw predicted motion. (Appendix A)Developing Scoring ExemplarsOnce items were developed, scoring exemplars (i.e., scoring

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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Armendariz, Queensborough Community College Assistant professor of physicsKimberly Anne Riegel Kimberly Riegel has been an assistant professor at Queensborough since 2015. She completed her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University and undergraduate at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Her research interests focus on the area of the physics of sound particularly related to noise control using computational and numerical simulations.Dr. Rex Taibu Dr. Rex Taibu has taught studio physics classes for several years. His teaching experience has shaped his research focus. Currently, Dr. Taibu is actively engaged in 1) promoting scientific inquiry attitudes in students through designing, implementing, and assessing in

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

needed in older ones. In this paper, weprovide an over view of some of emerging disruptive technologies and discuss curriculumchanges needed to prepare our students for careers in the industries of the future.KeywordsCloud computing, cyber physical systems (CPS), embedded processing, internet of things (IoT),and machine-to-machine (M2M) learning.1. IntroductionIn the past decade, professional business, entrepreneurial and economics publications [1-11]have provided lists of emerging disruptive and potentially transformative technologies, and theirpotential applications that will have massive and broad impacts on the quality of life, businessand global economy. The list of identified disruptive technologies include cloud computing,mobile internet

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University

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1. Mock peer assessment. Early in the semester, a lab report assessment exercise wasperformed in class so that students had a better idea of what type of assessment they had to performin this class. In this exercise students were given a sample of previous semester lab report. Studentstogether with the instructor, performed the assessment of the lab report following a detailed rubric(Table I). The main objective of this exercise was to familiarize students with the rubric and theprocedures that are used to perform peer assessment. Of great importance is that students acquirea good sense of what is meaningful feedback, so that their peers can benefit from the peer reviewprocess, and enhance the quality of their technical report.- Step 2

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

, energy generation systems, consumer electronics, environment, and national security. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring Human-Co-Robot Interactions: Real-time Feedback or not? Christian E. López1, Conrad S. Tucker12 1. Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 2.Department of Engineering Design The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802Introduction Future State

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. His research interests include the application of wireless sensor networks in biomedical and environmental domains and performance analysis of communication systems over fading channels. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Geothermal Heating and Cooling at the Massachusetts General Hospital Zoe Zyvith1, Mark Trevena1, Ryan Lamantia1, Lana Sharp1, Andrew Yong1 and Sasan Haghani,2,3 1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854 2

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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University Northwest Dr. Nuri Zeytinoglu has been a faculty member at Purdue University Northwest since 1987. He teaches thermodynamics, mechanics of materials and computer aided design in the department of mechanical and civil engineering. Currently he is the program coordinator at Westville campus c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Identifying Boolean Logic Processes via the Basis of a NACA 2415 Airfoil Alexander Wray1, Nuri Zeytinoglu2, and Connor Feeney3 1 Purdue University North Central Mechanical Engineering Student 2 Purdue University Northwest Program Coordinator for Mech. Eng. Department 3

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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cognitive loading for engineering and technology students. A maximum workingmemory loading for a student can be assessed with a design that compartmentalizes the longterm memory, short term information storage memory, and short term working memory for themanipulation of information. Innovative learning examples such as kinematics with algebraiccomplex numbers, relative velocity matrix transformation from 1-Dim to 2-Dim with createdcollision parameters, and collision with apparent mass from spring energy were delivered tostudents while the working memory cognitive loadings were controlled. Our assessment showedthat a critical thinking element is only recognizable after a student could reach the workingmemory capacity required in the solving of a

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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employed.RIT Applied Critical Thinking Milestone AssessmentsRIT’s framework has evolved as we have refined our initiative. The overarching goal is to provideevidence of students’ abilities to demonstrate and achieve applied critical thinking skills that willserve them in the future. Table 1 below provides a summary of the university milestoneassessments and RIT’s developmental approach to defining and assessing applied critical thinkingskills, and are in addition to program- and course-level assessments. These university-levelassessments draw from general education and academic degree program goals and student learningoutcomes, experiential learning opportunities, the National Survey of Student Engagement(NSSE)6 and RIT’s Alumni Survey7

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

-Monitoring, HealthcareIntroduction According to the American Heart Association’s 2017 heart disease and stroke statisticsupdate, an estimated 92.1 million adults in the United States live with at least one type ofcardiovascular disease.1 This number is expected to grow, as 44% of the U.S. population ispredicted to have some form of cardiovascular disease by the year 2030. Cardiovascular diseasecontinues to be a problem of concern in the medical field, and new innovations in monitoring andmanagement of cardiac patients are needed. Currently, medical wearable technologies are risingto this challenge, as they provide effective collection of important physiological data using aninterface that is familiar and comfortable to the user. It is

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Pubudu Samarasekara; Khushpreet Kaur

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Microstructure of Iron in Thin Film Magnets Prepared by Spin Coating and Sol gel Techniques Sunil Dehipawala1,Pubudu Samarasekara2,khushpret Kaur1 1. Department of Physics, Queensborough Community College of CUNY, 222-05, 56th Ave, Bayside NY 11364, USA. 2. Department of Physics, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri LankaAbstractMagnetic thin films such as iron and nickel oxides have a variety of technological applications. Iron andNickel oxide thin films have been synthesized by the Solgel technique and spin coating method. Inaddition magnetic properties, Iron oxide thin films also exhibit semi

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia; Luis P. Aguinaga, University of the Distric of Columbia

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connectionsthat a node has is the most important thing.We define as: ∑ (1) 1 0 In this case the network can be characterize by the matrix DC or an equivalent vector DC 0 ⋯ 0 ⋯ ≡ ⋮ ⋮ ⋱ ⋮Closeness Centrality (CC) Now let’s say that the most important thing is that a node is close to another node. Orin other

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Chen Xu, New York City College of Technology; Ohbong Kwon, New York City College of Technology; Juanita But, New York City College of Technology; Benito Mendoza, City University of New York; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Robert Ostrom

of recitation workshop integrated with the PLTL strategies.The new course design was piloted in a semester and the results were compared with a controlledsection using a uniform final exam at the end of the semester. On average, the piloted PLTL sectionperformed approximately 15% higher than the non-PLTL sections.KeywordsEngineering Education, Peer-led Team Learning, Electrical Circuits, First-year Student 1. IntroductionNew York City College of Technology (City Tech) of The City University of New York (CUNY),is the largest four-year public college of technology in the Northeast and a national model fortechnological education. City Tech has an enrollment of more than 17,000 students in 26baccalaureate and 27 associate degree programs. The

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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, ExperientialLearningIntroductionMurray State University (MSU) is a four-year public university located in Murray, Kentucky.MSU serves an 18-county region located in western Kentucky, which is considered one of themost economically distressed areas of the United States 1. The eighteen counties of MSU’s serviceregion have a lower income per capita than the national average, with 15 counties having a lowerper capita income than the state of Kentucky2. For the 2015-16 academic year, MSU had a studentpopulation of approximately 11,000 students, with 50% of those students from the 18-countyservice area3. Located in MSU’s Jesse D. Jones College of Science, Engineering and Technology,the Institute of Engineering (IoE) offers five-degree tracks, Engineering Physics

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peng Li, East Carolina University

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movedto a centralized, cloud-based approach, in which the virtual environment is hosted in a private orpublic cloud. The students can log in to the cloud remotely to perform hands-on activities at anytime and at any place. In the past ten years, we have used multiple private and public cloudplatforms.Private CloudA typical private cloud is owned and managed by local institutions. Computing resources areprovisioned to internal users on demand. Table 1 shows the private cloud and virtualizationsolutions we have used, including commercial, non-free one such as VMware vCloud Director(formerly VMware Lab Manager), and free, open source one such as Virtual Computing Lab.Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) is a free, open source cloud computing platform that

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Tricia Kirkland

processing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Research Experience for Secondary School Teachers on Renewable Energy: Design and Implementation of a Small Scale Solar Tracker Rocio Alba-Flores1, Tricia Kirkland2, Lindsay Snowden1, Deon Lucien1, and Dallas Herrin1 1 Georgia Southern University 2 Southeast Bulloch Middle SchoolAbstractThis paper describes the experiences gained during the first year implementation of a ResearchExperiences for Teachers (RET) in Renewable Energy (ENERGY) at Georgia Southern University(GSU). RET is a NSF grant program that supports the professional

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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

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