Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

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

other invited speakers at society-sponsored events reflect the diverse membership of thesociety5.Industry also has a responsibility to accelerate readiness of the female workforce, which will helpalleviate skills availability issues, and bridge the communication gap between IT functional jobs andbusiness leaders’ vision with academic institutions.Honorary societies, funding agencies - including federal agencies and foundations, along with thecongress, should take the necessary steps to encourage adequate enforcement of female workforcedevelopment.Women are well positioned to make major advances in interdisciplinary research. They like to integrateacross various academic fields and use multi-pronged, multi-disciplinary approaches. They work well

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

demonstrated by students’ performance on standardizedachievement tests poses a special challenge due to the rigid instructional schedules that are often used intoday’s classrooms. Career imprinting will require teachers to have more latitude in their dailyinstructional schedules so that they can guiltlessly deviate from “test-prep or time on task driven” agendasto “capitalizing on teachable moments” and “student interest-driven” agendas which will afford learnersthe opportunity to reflect on what they are learning. This will not only make it possible for them to puttheir newly acquired knowledge into the context of what they already know but will also motivate them to 7think outside of the

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Traci Kelly

realities of client needs. We also feel stronglythat having engineering-only teams for projects such as these does not reflect the actualbest-practices in industry today. Thus, Dr. Bradley and I recruit actively from business,technical communication, graphic design, journalism, political science, and other majorsto bring balance and perspective to our teams. The multiplicity of goals and tasks, combined with the mixed-major approach tothe IS teams, presented Dr. Bradley and I with quite a challenge. We needed to formulatecomplex arrangements and team structures to accommodate this myriad of needs. Weknew that we had to accomplish many tasks, including • meeting College of Engineering standards for the courses registered

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Mariappan Jawaharlal

Rose Float Design Course Mariappan “Jawa” Jawaharlal Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768AbstractDesign competitions provide a rich learning experience by combining both theory and practice.More and more engineering schools are taking part in student competitions such as FormulaSAE, Mini Baja and autonomous vehicle projects as a way to provide team-based, hands-ondesign experience to their students. These design competitions offer an excellent opportunity forstudents to reflect on the world around them and develop practical solutions.Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Teruni Lamberg

development is effective on an ongoing basiscan lead to more effective professional development. We used this approach in the NortheasternNevada mathematics project and discovered that were able to communicate better, capitalize oneach other’s expertise and learn from each other.References1 Ball. D. L. (1997). Developing mathematics reform: What don’t we know about Teacher learning—but would make good working hypotheses. In S.N. Friel & G.W. Bright (Ed.), Reflecting on our work: NSF teacher enhancement in K-5 mathematics. Lanham, NY: University Press of America.2 Kelly, A. (2003). Research as Design. Educational Researcher, 32 (1), 3-4.3 Cobb, P., Confrey, J., diSessa, A., Lehrer, R. and Schauble, L. (2003

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Wolf-Dieter Otte

introduced a radical teaching paradigmshift from the traditional “teacher-lectures-class” methodology to a student-driven approach.The single intention of this change was to get students involved in the class as much as possible.The paper presented reflects on the results of this successful experiment. It describes how tocreate a “conversational environment” using a combination of techniques that foster discussion,thinking and understanding.Important roles in creating a conversational environment play modern technologies likevideotaping, podcasting and wikis, which are discussed in detail.“Tell me and I will forget.Show me and I will remember.Involve me and I will understand.” Chinese proverbThe frustrations of everyday teachingIn the

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Justin Reginato

companies, can quickly translate to entrepreneurship education because they have experience working with corporate resources.• Entrepreneurship need not be presented solely as a subject regarding creating businesses. Entrepreneurship can be taught from an engineering perspective of resource allocation, and thus fulfill ABET standards.• There is no dominant design for engineering entrepreneurship courses. Most courses seem to reflect the interest of students and/or the expertise of the faculty providing the courses.• For small universities, it is important to solicit feedback from multiple professors and industrial partners. If engineering entrepreneurship is going to be taught from the perspective of intelligent

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew T. Siniawski; Adam R. Carberry; Rafiqul I. Noorani

BFigure I. One of the ‘winning’ bottle opener designs. A) 3D CAD image from the design intent document indicating various features, and B) the final CNC milled part.Research MethodsOur study consists of a one-phase analysis regarding students’ conceptions of the design andmanufacturing project. Students were asked at the end of the course to reflect on and respond totwo open-ended questions regarding their conceptions of learning design and manufacturing: 1. Describe what you learned about design and manufacturing as a result of working on the bottle opener design project. 2. Describe the aspects of the bottle opener design project that you most and least liked and why.The questions were designed to identify general

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jesus Acosta-Iriqui; Eniko T. Enikov

engineering fields. However, onewoman student participated in the second year of the program and one cancelled her participationin year three. Several women students participated in the program during its four year. Studentsindicate that special outreach efforts were made through women in engineering groups.Expanding the participation of women in the program was major accomplishment.Students should be asked to perform some summative activity to reinforce their learning.While the experience of participating in the program was clearly beneficial for the students, theywere not asked to reflect upon their experiences to help formalize what they learned. During thesecond and third year, returning students were asked to give presentations to peers

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim

familiar with theconcept of building assessment, gaining a clear understanding about sustainable developmentand sustainable construction, and help students understand the relationships betweensustainability and building materials, building forms, and building systems, using BIMtechnology. The visualization approach using BIM will enable students to implement high-performance green building strategies to explore how the buildings would be “greened.”AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-1140941. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

andfollow-on performance reflect valid techniques but seem limited by the dimensions andperformance parameters given in the initial aircraft description. Some aircraft parameters werenot available in published form before the course began so these were measured from aircraftdrawings or assumed from similar aircraft. These assumptions in initial conditions andsomewhat limited application to full-scale aircraft contributed to most of the differences in thedata plots. However, the close agreement is very encouraging to the student groups andstimulates interest and understanding of the course material and follow-on design course.In order to give the students the best possible chance at predicting aircraft performance, theinstructor will contact

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Georgette; Brian Self; James Widmann; Kathryn Bohn; Eric Wang

-Based Activities to Repair Student Misconceptions in EngineeringDynamics. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography1. Laws, P., D. Sokoloff, and R. Thornton, Promoting Active Learning Using the Results of Physics Education Research. UniServe Science News, 1999. 13.2. Prince, M. (2004) Does Active Learning Work: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Engineering Education, pp 223-231.3. Bransford, J., A. Brown, and R. Cocking, How People Learn: Body, Mind, Experience and School. 2000, Commission on Behavioral and Social Science and Education, National Research Council

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ibraheem A. Kateeb; Khaled F. AlOtaibi; Larry Burton; Michael S. Peluso; Evelyn R. Sowells

4150 8 TowerCo 3295 9 Mobilitie 2586 10 Verizon Wireless 1400 Total: 88512Note: American Tower Corporation”s tower count reflects only domestic structures. Thecompany owns additional towers internationally. Its most current total tower count isapproximately 38,000 6.There is a stark difference between the structure of the American wireless industry and its safetyrecord versus that of the rest of the world. International benchmarks are more difficult to

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Frank Caserta; Robert J. Lind; Loutfallah G. Chedid

the task reflects on the individual and how thisreflection matches with self-concept; 2) intrinsic or interest value, the enjoyment of doing thetask; 3) utility value, the perceived future value of doing the task; 4) relative cost, the price ofsuccess or failure in terms of effort, time, and/or psychological impact[8,10].Jones, et al. reported that students’ expectancy and value-related beliefs decreased over the firstyear[11]. Expectancy-related constructs (that is, the student’s judgment of his or her ability toperform a task in engineering or his or her belief in the possibility of success in engineering)predicted achievement better than value-related constructs (that is, the enjoyment of engineeringtasks (interest) or the identification

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Yakov Cherner; Gary Mullett

systemcalibration and then to test the system. Students can vary such parameters as emitter power, alignment, and distancebetween light source and receiver; change size and transparency of the target; and make sensitivity adjustments. Thediagram in the right panel of the simulation (B) illustrates the impact of each parameter and the detectioncapabilities of the sensor. In very interactive and visual manner students can learn how the size of a target can affectdelectability and what target reflectivity and transparency are suitable for detection by a standard optical sensor.They can also observe the effect of making sensitivity adjustments for objects at various distances from the target.The virtual laboratories implement technologies that can provide

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

. Goal Setting: At the beginning of each semester, students set academic and personal goals which they are encouraged to post in a visible place. More than half of the students (56%) reported posting these goals. At the end of the semester, they reflect on the goals and what factors impacted their ability to achieve these goals. b. Internships: The coordinator for student work experience provided a workshop for students on applying for internships and research experiences. Additionally, information on security clearances was provided. Internship strategies were also discussed during monthly meetings. Over 85% of the students obtained

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Benjamin D. McPheron

vision. The resulting work must then be collected into a short (4 page) research paper 3 © Amer ican Society for Engineer ing Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer encein the IEEE format. The research paper is submitted to a blind review process to assess studentlearning that is detailed in a later section.The first project provided to students is an application of signal processing to reverberation.Reverberation is the collection of reflected sounds from the surface of an enclosed space. Thisresults in a muddy or darkened sound that differs from the direct sound. This acousticphenomenon

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael J. Davidson

appropriateto structural design. 2 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceBrief History of ComputingThe following discussion presents a very brief history of computing on our planet, Earth. Thisdiscussion in a large part reflects the authors 40 plus years’ experience in the field of structuralengineering. It is not intended to be a fully documented history of computing. Abacus1 – One of the earliest known methods of computing can be traced back to about 2400 BC. The inventors were the Babylonians and Egyptians. The version of the abacus

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

prefer to learn via tacit or experiential knowledge(Figure 2). Reflecting on the original goal of this assessment, creating an exciting and inclusiveclassroom experience, there continued to be a need to alter course pedagogy from the dominantlearning style to create a classroom experience that would appeal to a more diverse studentpopulation. By framing the course such that all student learning preferences are fullyrepresented, a more inclusive learning environment is fostered resulting in a broader populationof students being educated and inspired as they progress through this foundational course. 4 © American Society for

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Tahany Fergany; Amal Abd El?Raouf

ofcurrently available technology to dynamically adapt presentation of course material tostudents with different backgrounds and varying degrees of ability. To meet this goal, aninstructional deliverable system must be employed to accommodate the followingdifferent learning styles:  For active learners, allow self-motivated pursuit of information.  For reflective learners, provide the opportunity to investigate and understand inter-relationship of material. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education   For sequential learners, provide the opportunity

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Steve Klosterman; Simon Pitts; Steven McGonagle; Carey Rappaport

; assess extent to which you are understood. 13. Connect – Across Disciplines, Skills and Cultures: Appreciate, engage, and connect with those who have different perspectives. 5 14. Negotiating and Compromise: Appreciating the need to identify potential disagreement or conflict, negotiate to find mutually acceptable solutions.GEL begins by creating self-awareness within the cohort. Through reflection and self-assessment, the candidates go through a series of exercises, including Myers-Briggs, theThomas-Kidman conflict style instrument and others to help them learn their natural style,personality and tendencies. Always revealing, the candidates rate themselves on a scale of 1-10,10

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Alan Hadad; Akram Abu-aisheh

founding of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Engineering Council for Professional Development (ECPD) as an accrediting agency in the mid 1930’s were reflective of the efforts of higher education to respond to this need for quality assurance in the educational preparation of engineers. In 1980, ECPD metamorphosed into the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).  At the technician level, the response was less organized and more diffuse, with the emergence of many post-secondary trade schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Such schools were highly focused upon the requirements of a specific industry, and were almost always private, for-profit entities outside

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Bassem Alhalabi; M.K. Hamza; Ali Abu-El Humos

facilitated in learning the material 70 Performing the experiment via on CL has facilitated in learning the material 80The equity between remote labs and software simulation reflects the fact that remote labs need moreenhancements in terms of the hardware and software used to develop the remote labs environment shouldthe remote labs be able to relinquish software simulation and be at the same time a substitute for realphysical labs. Segment 4- Questions Set 4 Result (%) The experiments procedures and purpose was clearly understood using RL. 75 The experiments procedures and purpose was clearly understood using SS. 67.5 The

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

goals are achieved attheir corresponding aspiration levels. This also implies that embedding Eq. 15 into the model is notrequired since the results would remain unchanged.5. Conclusions and Future ResearchThe proposed paper attempts to find “best” solutions to factors that would ensure sustainability of theSchool of Engineering at the University Bridgeport. In this regard, a Preemptive Goal Programmingmodel is applied to the first five goals of the School. Even though it is mathematically cumbersome toformularize the relationships between the goals and model variables given that the model reflects reality,it provides interesting results depicting the effects of various goals on the remaining system variables andgoals. Hence, the model can also

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

other invited speakers at society-sponsored events reflect the diverse membership of thesociety5.Industry also has a responsibility to accelerate readiness of the female workforce, which will helpalleviate skills availability issues, and bridge the communication gap between IT functional jobs andbusiness leaders’ vision with academic institutions.Honorary societies, funding agencies - including federal agencies and foundations, along with thecongress, should take the necessary steps to encourage adequate enforcement of female workforcedevelopment.Women are well positioned to make major advances in interdisciplinary research. They like to integrateacross various academic fields and use multi-pronged, multi-disciplinary approaches. They work well

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

possibly change a few key factors and then predict what the state of thesystem would be at the end of the next cycle. In general, almost all black-box based learningenvironments have the following characteristics: small group collaborations that spread throughout thelearning experience, opportunities to formulate policies that help in decision making, and opportunities toanalyze results and reflect upon the decision making process.4. Conclusion We present two approaches that greatly involve in system dynamics based learning environments. Weargue that the black-box approach has certain advantages but it is only appropriate as long as we have asimple problem domain. As learners become more proficient in using the simulation, they need to accessthe

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

demonstrated by students’ performance on standardizedachievement tests poses a special challenge due to the rigid instructional schedules that are often used intoday’s classrooms. Career imprinting will require teachers to have more latitude in their dailyinstructional schedules so that they can guiltlessly deviate from “test-prep or time on task driven” agendasto “capitalizing on teachable moments” and “student interest-driven” agendas which will afford learnersthe opportunity to reflect on what they are learning. This will not only make it possible for them to puttheir newly acquired knowledge into the context of what they already know but will also motivate them to 7think outside of the

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Manan Joshi; Sarosh Patel; Lawrence Hmurcik

IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY SMOOTHENING AND AMPLIFICATION Manan Joshi, Sarosh Patel, Dr. Lawrence Hmurcik Electrical Engineering Department University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT 06604Abstract - The electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a graphic recording of the time-variant voltagesproduced by the myocardium during the cardiac cycle. The P, QRS, and T waves reflect the rhythmicelectrical depolarization and re-polarization of the myocardium associated with the contractions of theatria and ventricles. The electrocardiogram is generally used clinically in diagnosing

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

engineering solutions included moving to more eye safe wavelengths for the laser, includinga power control mechanism so that the laser emits the minimum power required to accomplish themission, and developing a system that allows the operator to know if any off-axis reflected light becomesblinding to those in the area.[5] These solutions were fed back to the engineering teams for integrationinto the system as a whole. Once the engineers on this project completed their component designs, systems decision processsupported assessment of the relative value of these designs in order to make a recommendation to theclient. Figure 4 shows the results of this analysis for each of the design alternatives

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

Development.Jackson has been a member of ASEE for many years which reflects his profound interest in Education.During his Shell career he attended Ontario Institute for Studies in Education as a part time Masters ofEducation student. As a result of a transfer out of the country he was unable to complete this degree.