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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Vincent Winstead

bothcalculus and algebraic concepts.IntroductionModern automotive vehicles are filled with new and complex technologies. This is reflected most notablyin more recent entries in the automobile market, namely hybrid-electric vehicles. These developmentsinclude combining a torque producing chemical energy engine with torque producing electrical energymotor/generators, regenerative braking, advanced engine displays and advanced high speedcommunication networks among others. This has led the traditional engineering disciplines of electricalengineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and automotive engineering to broaden theirscope and consider areas of overlap. It has, in part, blurred the lines delineating the subject matter ofthese

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Anilkumar Bhate; M.G. Prasad; Lex McCusker

engineering manager who surveys today’s workforce is likely to see a labor force that is significantlymore diverse than that encountered by engineering managers in the recent past. Current trends indemographics indicate this diversity will continue to grow. This is as true in engineering as it is in mostdisciplines. In the coming decade, the new entrants to the labor force will reflect a steady increase in the 1percentage of women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and immigrantsmoving into the workplace. In this environment, the companies that are most successful in managingworkplace diversity will have a distinct advantage over those that ignore the demographic changes

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lou Harrington; Austin Bartlett; Quentin Willard; Jason McKay; Bruce Brown; Ernest Wong

provide NASA isintroducing it to a value-focused thinking (VFT) approach versus its current alternative-focused thinking(AFT) design. VFT tends to be a different way of focusing an organization’s goals and objectives into anaction plan. Values are what people really want, and VFT is markedly different than choosing 2alternatives and going with the one that fits the best. Oftentimes, when organizations rely on AFT, theyfail to take the time to reflect on what is really important to them. Ralph Keeney, a pioneer in the field ofVFT, introduces the concept of Constraint-Free Thinking: “thinking about values is constraint-freethinking . . . it is thinking about what you wish to achieve or what you

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

project-based work and collaboration. Second Life also provides anopportunity for students to interact with other students and faculty from around the globe – toshare ideas in a 3D environment. One example of student projects designed and exhibited inSecond Life was a section of a contemporary fiction course taught at DeSales University by BethRitter-Guth in August of 2007. This author had the opportunity to personally evaluate the studentclass projects, interact with the 3D exhibits that were designed by the students to reflect theirnovels (e.g. Harry Potter castle), and discuss the projects directly with the students present at theexhibit site in Second Life. It was a very successful experience for judges, spectators and studentexhibiting their

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A Gray

context of control charts provides significant feedback that allows primary employees to evaluate their own process, and 3) The only way to improve the output of a process is to change it, ergo, “If you do not like your grade, change your process.” These three ideas paint a realistic picture of the college enterprise, and provide the students with context that allows them to evaluate their own progress and to make decisions directed toward improvement.Messiah College’s engineering department has long had concern for successful transition of first yearstudents into the academic rigors of our engineering program. Reflecting this concern, we

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

of engineering is quite difficult. Thesurvey data reflects the students’ perceptions of their understanding more so than it does their actualunderstanding. However, it can be argued that the students’ perceptions of their levels of understandingof engineering are crucial to their abilities to make important decisions early in their engineering careers.Perception of understanding leads to confidence in decision making. Therefore, a student who believeshe understands engineering is more likely to be comfortable with the decisions he makes in engineeringthan is someone who does not believe he has an adequate understanding of engineering. Although somemay say that a more holistic view of engineering is preferable to a compartmentalized view, the

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 6: Bring Your Own Experiment!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Md Rashedul Hasan Sarker, University of Indianapolis

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

years. There is no formal assessment has been taken after using this unitother than a reflection in laboratory reports. The author will conduct a formal and summative assessmentof this demonstration unit along with other demonstration units that are currently used in the classroom.References:1. Dollár, A. and P.S. Steif. Learning modules for the statics classroom. in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville. 2003.2. Vasquez, H., A.A. Fuentes, and R.A. Freeman. Improving student retention and engagement in statics through online formative assessments and recitations. in American Society for Engineering Education. 2012. American Society for

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Ade Mabogunje, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #44474Work-in-Progress: Human Capital Formation as a Framework for Entrepreneurshipand Venture Design EducationDr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a Research Scientist in the Designing Education Lab in Mechanical Engineering and co-founder of the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab in Career Education at Stanford University. She earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her PhD in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford. Her scholarship is focused on engineering and entrepreneurship education, portfolio pedagogy, reflective practices, non-degree credentials, and reimagining how

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Postcard Session (Best of WIPs)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Gordon Browne, The University of Illinois Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, The University of Illinois Chicago; Adrian P. Defante

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

entering industry, but recognition only represents base knowledgeacquisition based on Bloom’s Taxonomy principles. Here we describe a set of curricular modulesto enhance students’ understanding of standards in engineering practice that reflect learning at alllevels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (i.e. recognition/understanding, application, revision, and creation).The modules and their implementation will enhance students’ understanding of standards,including 1) searching and identifying appropriate standards, 2) writing appropriate protocols forthe verification of standards, 3) proposing revisions to standards, and 4) developing newstandards. With this methodology applied to different engineering/technical disciplines, we hopeto establish a distinct value

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 4

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg; Sarah Ochs, George Mason University

study if and how instructors engage in intentional action (Hauk et al., 2021), as well asexploring the importance of students’ in-class social interactions in instructors’ decisions aboutclass format and their readiness for change.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under AwardNo. 1821589 (DUE). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.ReferencesFreeman, Scott, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, Michelle K. Smith, Nnadozie Okoroafor,Hannah Jordt, and Mary Pat Wenderoth. 2014. “Active Learning Increases Student Performancein Science, Engineering, and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Apprenticeship Environment for AspiringEngineers,” Advances in Engineering Education, November 2016.[10] S. D. Brookfield, “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher,” John Wiley & Sons, 2017.[11] M. Hernández-de-Menéndez, A. Vallejo Guevara, J. C. Tudón Martínez et al., “Active learning in engineeringeducation. A review of fundamentals, best practices and experiences,” Int J Interact Des Manuf 13, 909–922 (2019).

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 13

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoc T. Nguyen, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Indiacoming in second with 21.05%, Mexico with 10.53%, and all other countries with 5.26%. Theresults of the first authors' affiliation country distribution in the mental health field in engineeringeducation research point to an American source for this kind of work. It is crucial to recognize anypotential biases in these results. The inclusion criterion of articles written only in English is onesignificant factor that may distort the representation of nations and thus artificially increase theamount of research from the United States. Moreover, the apparent dominance of Americanresearch may not fully reflect the amount of funding or involvement that practitioners in othercountries have given to research on mental health in engineering education

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 5

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Johnston, Arizona State University; Cody D. Jenkins, Arizona State University; Thien Ngoc Y. Ta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Ryan James Milcarek, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

mathematicians. He instituted similar study groups forAfrican-American students, which turned the tide on their high failure rates. Treisman’s modelhas been implemented in universities nationwide since, with consistently powerful effects,including at the University of Texas, Austin, where he currently teaches.Despite the demonstrated success of PLSGs over the past 40 years, we have yet to find empiricalevidence that the model's effectiveness has resulted from peer interactions. The current studysought to capture peer discussion features reflective of discipline-based cognitive processing. Wehypothesized that when group members asked questions and had discussions at higher levels ofthe cognitive processing dimension of Bloom’s revised taxonomy, a tool

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

J. Y. Janet Lam

advantages:The most commonly cited advantage of lecture recordings was as a safety-net for missed mate-rial. Twenty-nine respondents selected this option. Some of the free-form comments mentionedhaving the flexibility to accommodate occasional absences, such as team project meetings and inter-views. Others mentioned the value of being able to review the material for exams and assignments.Several free-form responses emphasized the value of be-ing able to pause a video, reflect, replay a section, etc. asa critical component of their learning process.Twenty-five respondents cited work/caregiving responsi-bilities as reasons for using lecture videos. Students whoare also employed could avoid scheduling conflicts be-tween lectures and, as they could watch

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Junnan Cao

the institutions could obtain higher reliableevaluation data which will better reflect the average and real performances of the instructors duringthe entire semester. This would also be fairer to the instructors and further encourage the teachersto be more dedicative and enjoyable in teaching.Therefore, the frequency of course evaluations can provide valuable insights into teachingeffectiveness and student learning experiences. Teachers should encourage active participation inevaluations to gather comprehensive feedback that can drive improvements in course delivery andstudent outcomes.ConclusionsIn conclusion, the evidence suggests that more frequent course evaluations can indeed have apositive impact on teaching and student learning. By

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Reilly Sullivan; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

combines internationalhumanitarian engineering education with activities to prepare them for their IHEE, to ensure theypossess the necessary skills and cultural preparation which could allow them to make valuablecontributions during the trip, and to reflect on the IHEE upon returning home so they couldintegrate it within their coursework [4,5]. Appendix A contains the major topics in the course.Though over 50 students were interested in attending the IHEE, many of whom helped to designthe course, only 17 students participated. This study seeks to understand why. Students whoattended the IHEE and those who were interested in the experience but did not attend wereinvited to participate in an institutional ethics-approved study. Pre-IHEE surveys

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Trystan S. Goetze

mechanic employed here drastically increases the chances of successwhen resources are invested in improvement of a particular attribute.Each round apart from the first also requires groups to make an ethically challenging choice. Forexample, round 3 asks how their engineering firm responds to public and political concern aboutthe long-term health and environmental effects of their ELM. They are presented with a choicebetween educating communities directly, or working to improve politicians’ understanding of thetechnology. Each choice has consequences for their progress in the game. Educating the publicsubstantially increases the group’s community health score, but slightly reduces two of theirELM’s attributes to reflect how much time and expense

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds; Ed Pohl

Tycoon 2 as theparticular game because of its appeal to the age level of students we were targeting and becausethe game is interactive and players have to make decisions not only to solve current problems ,but also to avoid potential problems as the park goes through its day to day operation.Students were required to investigate industrial engineering strategies within the game tomaximize the Park Rating (PR) for the theme park that they built. The PR is a score assigned bythe game that reflects the quality of the theme park based upon how well the park is designed andoperated. In order to achieve a high park rating, student teams had to construct an exciting parkthat also catered to the needs of park visitors. The highest PR possible is 1000

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rachel A. Brennan

materials to traverse the estuary, an educationalsign to describe the water treatment system, and an oyster aquaculture system at the mouth of theestuary to provide additional water quality polishing, as well as a protein and income source forthe community. This leading design now serves as a template for EWB to remediate this andother estuaries with similar detrimental impacts in Roatán. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityAssessmentIn an optional online survey conducted at the end of the semester, students in the new EcologicalEngineering class were asked to reflect on their learning experiences in the course compared toother courses taken throughout their time at university. The survey consisted

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michael S. Lehman

/services and associated business models, across a variety of industries, the“dedicated model” provides a common platform. Through the dedicated curriculum, the theorycourses were specifically designed to accommodate students from different undergraduatedegrees and real-world experiences. The project courses, tightly integrated with the theorycourses, accommodate the variety of directions the students may take. The dedicated space andassociated 3D printing technologies were designed and continue to evolve to support thecurriculum. And the dedicated faculty are aware of the many moving parts of the program,allowing for “real time” adjustments to reflect what is happening in technical and businessarenas.The result of this dedicated approach includes

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William E Kelly

 include ethics in undergraduate courses  is probably reflective of engineering today.  Across the board the most valuable teaching resource for faculty are case histories.    In terms of where faculty find ethics resources the OEC is an important source but discipline specific repositories and colleagues are rated the most important sources.    OEC researchers are currently developing a template for presenting materials. One possibility would be a module on a topic e.g sustainability that would include an introduction to the topic, a link to specific case on the OEC and links to supporting materials including pedagogical approaches and tools.   Sustainability ­ The proposed ABET program criteria for civil engineering if they are approved in the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Doug Kim

achieved throughincorporating both basic theories, path-loss observation, and model fitting with the measureddata.III. Approach – Theoretical BackgroundsIn the first part of approach, the fundamental theories of RF propagation are taught so that thestudents can have basic understanding under ideal conditions. Three different basic mechanismsof RF propagation, Reflection, Refraction, and Scattering can also be explained in this stage asthey are related to physical phenomena and can be understood without much mathematics.The first part of the course introduces the free space path-loss model theoretically as the basis forall other path-loss models. The path-loss in decibel from a distance, d under free spaceassumption is given by Eq. 11

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

content. Grade “GoingTodo, Doing, Rant triplets.” Make sure they arenot recording what they already know how to do. Make sure that they are Ranting appropriately.Rant means “Reflect, Analyze, NexT.” Count the triplets. More triplets, better writing, higherscore.The goal of introduction to engineering is to teach students what an engineering project is. Thecreative, fun part of this class is to move students from playing, to doing things first, to designand finally to problem solving. The notebook the forum in which this narrative can be seen. TheGoingToDo, Doing, Rant triplets map to the emergence of design in all of it’s art, science andbusiness aspects. Counting triples creates a student incentive to record more detail that leads tomore drawing

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

. • There are still some mention of other traditional informal educational settings, such as Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts or jobs. • Women are still under-represented and not receiving the kinds of experiences that would allow them to be on a par with their hands-on male peers.V. What to do?It is difficult to know if these results are particular to this educational institution, or where ittends to draw students from (the East Coast) or reflects general trends in American informalculture and K-12 experiences. If they are typical then we are still not effectively reaching themajority of American students formally or informally with exposure and knowledge ofengineering. These data can provide ideas for outreach and action, such as more

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rachael Bevill; Srineil Nizambad; Chung Hyuk Park; Myounghoon Jeon; Ayanna M. Howard

, referred to hereinafter as Romo. Romo is an iPhone rover type robot which focuses on demonstrating emotion through facial expressions.  The Romo character was modified from a bright blue monster to a baby penguin character, in order to be more appealing to children. Both Romo’s expression and the background color can be changed to reflect the appropriate emotion. Children with autism often see colors at a higher intensity than neurotypical children [5]. For this reason, all emotions are associated with pastel colors.      Figure 1 (left). ​ The emotional color wheel is used to help young children identify distinct emotions [3]. Figure 2 (right

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Victoria Schuele; Ronald Edwards; Don Gillich; Andrew Kovanen; Brian Moretti

portion of the required introductory physicsDisclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the position of the UnitedStates Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference April 29-30, Farmingdale State College, SUNYcourse generally taken during sophomore year. Cadets may validate this course through testingor by scoring a 4 or 5 on the calculus-based electricity and magnetism Advanced Placementexam during high school. With this basic background, cadets are able to understand theunderlying principles of the project. The pyroelectric crystal accelerator project

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tom M. Warms

the right, and the name of thefunction is written above a continuation of the vertical line. The values of the formal parametersare entered first, followed by a trace of the execution of the statements of the function body. Thereturned value is then encircled, and the trace returns to the left. Figure 6 shows a program inwhich a function is used to calculate the hypotenuse of a right triangle. In the trace, input valuesof 5.0 and 12.0 are assumed, and the function getHypotenuse returns a value of 13.0.Tracing functions with reference parametersAny change in the value of a reference parameter is reflected in a change in the value of thecorresponding actual parameter. In the trace, a double arrow is used to indicate this relationship.Figure 7

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

MARC2 allows students to synthesize theirdesigns and run assembly programs in hardware, improving student confidence and learning.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position ofthe University of _____, the U.S. Department of the Army, the U.S. Department of Defense orthe United States Government.Bibliography1. iRobot Create and Altera DE2 Board Laboratory Exercise developed by LTC Bob McTasney, United States Military Academy, 2008.2. Christopher Korpela and Robert McTasney, “An FPGA Multiprocessor System for Undergraduate Study”, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, 14 June 2009, pending.3. Creating Multiprocessor Nios II Systems, PDF File

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

to the accident. Whenfirst implemented, students were tasked with developing a step-by-step procedure, keeping inmind that the police were the end user/customer. Although students were free to create acomputer program, the teams rarely did so. During the fall 2010 quarter, students wereinstructed to create an Excel file with a user’s manual to perform the analysis. The paper willdiscuss student surveys, comparison of exam performance, responses on reflection exercises, andperformance on the Dynamics Concept Inventory.Introduction to MEAsThe Accident Reconstruction MEA was implemented in a Dynamics course at the CaliforniaPolytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. While the class is offered through themechanical engineering department

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lily Gossage

question heavily contrasted against Asian students’ response. 48 (41.0%) Asian studentsreported that their parents contributed to their career choice, as compared to 27 (18.0%) forLatino/Hispanic students. Figure 8. Latino/Hispanic Responses to Question 7.Question 7 asks students to reflect on their ENGR101 classroom experience and assignimportance to four curricular areas. 100 (66.7%) students reported that more emphasis should begiven to engineering innovation and less to community-based projects. Initially, these resultsappeared to conflict with the previous trends that ascribe Latino/Hispanic students’ inclinationtoward aligning career goals with communal goals. Upon further reflection, it is recognized thatstudents might