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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

performance with more widely used handpumps.DiscussionThe narrative of this project’s history clearly demonstrates that the student’s participation helpssatisfy the general ABET Program Outcomes13. All of the senior projects required designingexperimental apparatus, developing a plan of study, and inferring the necessary changes in thepump design (Outcome b). The 2006-2007 project is the best example of satisfying thisoutcome. The students constructed a test apparatus and performed over 450 hours of automatedpumping for durability testing. The team tested several variations of three distinct piston sealdesigns and analyzed the results to find the best combination of longevity and efficiency.Any student designing or redesigning a subsystem of the pump

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

AS Ward; MN Gooseff; RY Toto; SE Zappe

fluid (bythe design component of the labs. No Armfield, Ltd.). SAE 50 (left) and NAPA 20 (right)comparison of student responses or scores on oils were used for the experiment.   the virtual labs with traditional assessment data (i.e., scores on exams, course grades) hasbeen made at this time.Future WorkA second delivery of the virtual labs is planned for the Fall 2010 semester. Student andinstructor feedback from the pilot project will be used to revise the content and deliveryof both experiments. Additional student feedback from the same measures will becollected, both after each lab and at the end of the course. Student feedback, data onlearning outcomes and student

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter J. Shull; Jessica M. Crandall

Toyota World No. 1 Car Maker,” Reuters.com. Reuters. http:/www.reuters.com/article/businessnews/idUSN2424076820080124. Retrieved 19 April 2008.4. M. Adams, P. Componation, H. Czarnecki, and B. Schroer. “Simulation as a Tool for Continuous Process Improvement,” Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 766-773, 1999.5. D. Reis and LPena. “Linking Customer Satisfaction, Quality, and Strategic Planning,” Revista de Administracao de Empresas, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 42-46, 2000.6. M. E. Pritchard and G. S. Wilson. “Using Emotional and Social Factors to Predict Student Success,” Journal of College Student Development, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 18-28, 2003.

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

://www.lego.com/ 14. A. Behrens, et al. “MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms- A freshman introduction course into practical engineering”, IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol.53, No.2, (2010), 306-317 15. T. Chikamasa, “Embedded coder robot NXT instruction manual”, www.mathworks.com/ matlabcentral/fileexchange/13399/, 2009. 16. McNinch, L. C., Soltan, R. A., Muske, K. R., Ashrafiuon, H., Peyton-Jones, J. C. “An Experimental Mobile Robot Platform for Autonomous Systems Research and Education”, Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, (2009): 412-418 17. McNinch, L. C., Soltan, R. A., Muske, K. R., Ashrafiuon, H., Peyton-Jones, J. C. “Application of a Coordinated Trajectory Planning and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary P. Halada

respond to aneed by building or creating something along a certain set of guidelines (or specifications) whichperforms a given function. Just as importantly, that device, plan or creation should perform itsfunction without fail. Everything, however, does eventually fail and, in some cases, fails withcatastrophic results. Through discussion and analysis of engineering disasters from nuclearmeltdowns to lost spacecraft to stock market crashes, this course will focus on how modernengineers learn from their mistakes in order to create designs that decrease the chance andseverity of failure.” The course is 3 credits and, while required for Engineering Science majors,is open to any student in the University who has completed at least one science or

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

for Mechanics II than Mechanics I. Apotential reason for these lower ratings is identified in the section of this paper entitledChallenges.More comprehensive assessment plans based on evaluation of student work (especially in-classquizzes) and short student surveys given immediately after overarching problem solution periodsare in the process of being developed.ChallengesThe use of overarching problems worked well in the first year of the restructured mechanicscourses. The primary challenges are, as with any example problem, in developing theappropriate depth of examples to foster student learning without it becoming too laborious tosolve in the class time provided. In general, the overarching problems in Mechanics I seemed tobe of

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank T. Fisher; Hong Man

) fabrication of nanoshells for surface-enhanced Raman scattering, (c) nanohydrogels.ConclusionsThe methodology of video documentation and multimedia presentation of undergraduateresearchers working in various nanotechnology labs is being pursued in order to provide anengaging exposure to academic research and an introduction to nanotechnology accessible forstudents early within the undergraduate curriculum. Such modules may greatly increase thenumber of students exposed to such research while leveraging the excitement and wonder ofacademic research to create a compelling learning experience. The ultimate objectives of thelong-term research plan envisioned for this effort are 1) invigorating the first year

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

618The required deliverables included:a) a proposal letter written to the principal of a school to propose use ofthe module in a class; b) a detailed outline of the module, which also served as a teaching plan; c) anassessment tool(s); and d) a presentation and poster, which was presented at the MCSI summerUndergraduate Research Program (URP) symposium. Through iterative design, the interns refinedtheirmodules and associated materials to achieve the final product. The interns were given the flexibility to workon the deliverables in any order, while the deadlines remained fixed. In addition to the green building tour, thestudents also participated and interacted with undergraduate and graduate students in several activities overthe five weeks

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Junichi Kanai

Days Spring 2005 Fall 2005 Spring 2006 Figure 3. Cumulative Number of Students Activated their Accounts Since the Beginning of a Semester 5When students posted their design ideas and plans, not only teammates, but also faculty advisers wereable to review the information and provide any necessary feedback to the students without waiting for thenext scheduled class. Similarly, faculty advisers can respond to students’ questions and concerns. Thisquick turnover of information had a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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M. Ali Montazer

regardless of size, budget and product mix.More recently, as a decision support tool, simulation modeling has also become aneffective and easy-to-use tool in implementing Lean / Six sigma programs. West Point, NY - ASEE Zone I 2008 ConferenceLean / Six Sigma ConceptsThe concepts of Lean / Six Sigma trace their origins in Industrial Engineering whereunderstanding the basics of production systems for planning, scheduling, and controllingproduction amounts and timing are fundamental to the discipline. In its simplestmeaning, Lean refers to efforts to eliminate waste in a system or a process, maintainingcontinuous improvement, and bringing greater efficiencies to the production operation.The paperback book by Womack et al (1991

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tom M. Warms; Renee Drobish

. Also, students in the tracing groupwho did well in the final examination seemed to feel that the tracing method did indeed help them writeprograms.ConclusionsThe tracing system, as presented here, has been used in the classroom for a number of years. Apreliminary study provides indications that students do benefit from using the system. Additional testingin the classroom is in the planning stages.AcknowledgmentThe authors wish to thank Renata Engel of the Penn State College of Engineering for her encouragement,Sarah Zappe of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State for her assistance, and thestudents in Computer Science 101 Sections 1 and 2 during Fall 2006 at Penn State Abington for theirparticipation in the preliminary

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

III(Particle Formation and Functionalization) deals with fundamental research initiatives to develop theengineered particles that go into the fabrication of such products. Goals iii) and iv) are addressed bydeveloping strategic plans for education and outreach. These include undergraduate and graduateeducational vehicles and pre-college, professional and industry-oriented activities.Camp PharmaCamp Pharma was created in partial fulfillment of goals iii) and iv) and is the first step in the C-SOPS’sgoal of developing diverse and competent human resources including minorities and women at all levels(K-12, pre-graduate, graduate, post graduate, faculty) to help overcome challenges faced by thepharmaceutical industry.A complete bottom-up strategy

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Robert Russo; Hong Li

-8 - 8.5 -9 0 100 200 300 400 500 GlucoseConcentrationFigure 5: A plot of the waveforms includes VDC signal output from lock-in amplifier against glucoseconcentration in the open loop optical glucose sensing system. V. PLAN of STUDY in NEAR FUTURE We have attempted simplify further in order to obtain an improved system sensitivitywhich will be very important factor for achieving our ultimate goal of the noninvasive glucosesensing technology depicted in Figure 6. We

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

. 612. “Developing an Assessment Plan to Meet TAC/ABET Criteria 1-8,” Speckert, Best Assessment Processes VIII.13. ABET .14. Hofstra University 2006-2007 Course Bulletin . 7

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

not, a student wishes to be moved toanother group because his team members are “not pulling their weight”. The good working groupsquickly learn to organize, plan, lead and control, and these are the basic foundations of a workingorganization.Organizational BehaviorOrganizational Behavior is an applied behavioral science that is built on contributions from otherbehavioral sciences and applied to the office and in this case to the classroom.The first of the contributing behavioral sciences is Psychology which is a science that seeks to measure,explain and sometimes change the behavior of humans. This is the first and most basic level and pertainsto the individual, in our case the student. Here we are interested in learning theories and how

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

W. Riddell; E. Constans; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; P. Jansson; M. Simone; P. von Lockette

replaced by a different project,which is not discussed in this paper. Brief descriptions of the four projects, extracted from thepapers referenced above, follow.The first design project in SEC I is the bottle rocket project. In the bottle rocket project, studentsuse 0.25 inch thick foam board, duct tape, a 2 liter soda bottle, modeling clay and water to designrockets that can be launched from a nozzle by using pressurized air. This concept has been usedat other universities to teach core engineering principles9, and NASA has proposed standards andlesson plans to use for grade 5-12 students10. Student teams design rockets in the first lab period, Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Conference Session

Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Funk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Leilani Marie Pai, Denison University; Johan Benedict Cristobal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

, “He made a comment about how I would only be successful in thecareer just because I am the diversity quota, and that all the things that [I had accomplished]... isjust because they needed the diversity person.”Beyond facing challenges in interpersonal interactions with peers, participants identified hurdlesrelated to the structural and cultural domains of power. Kalani and Diana struggled to transfercollege credits into the university’s degree plan. Diana felt dismissed by advisors, and struggledto belong in her major. She later found an advisor who supported her success and helped herswitch to a different computing major, Yet, her experiences in computing did not changesignificantly. Rather, Diana expressed the continual pressure to fragment

Conference Session

Krusty's Creations: Robotics and Electronics in Springfield STEAM, Hey Hey!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shauna Adams, Purdue University; Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez P.E., Purdue University; Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University; Peter Bermel, Purdue University; David R. Ely, Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis; Hayley Joy Grisez

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

about post-high school plans. The pre-and post-surveys asked participants about their career interests or anticipated majors.Parts of the Knowledge, Awareness, and Motivations (KAM) survey tool were modified toevaluate awareness, exposure, career interest, and motivations. The KAM survey is a modifiedversion of the Motivation and Exposure in Microelectronics Instrument [6], an instrumentderived from the Nanotechnology Awareness Instrument [7]. The instrument was initiallydeveloped to assess changes in awareness, exposure, motivation, and knowledge ofnanotechnology [7]. To measure students’ self-efficacy and career outcome expectations, weadministered a modified Social Cognitive Career Theory Survey (SCCT) [8]. TheMicroelectronics SCCT Survey

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Farzad Moazzami; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

arequirement for future online students because we plan to form partnerships with test centers orlearning centers to allow them to take their exams from other locations. The ECE courses with online video lecture were offered during the Fall 2010 semester ashybrid courses and the Spring 2011 semester as completely online courses. The results shown inFig 4 are based on the students who enrolled in the Electric Circuits courses. The data shows thecomparison of the results for the 12 students enrolled in the online or hybrid courses during theFall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, versus those enrolled in the F2F courses in the Fall 2010semester (28 students) and the Spring 2011 semester (33 students). The results indicate that thesuccess of students

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

becomestudent members of their professional society, be active in the student chapter if there is one, andthen do the other things described.Finally, we need to directly assess student performance. Here, in contrast to most otheroutcomes, we may directly assess performance with a survey. It is direct if the survey is askingfor factual information, not judgements or opinions.A good place to do such a survey is in the senior exit interview. For example, one of thecommercially-conducted exit survey products [10] asks the following questions: • I have a good understanding of the professional opportunities offered by my chosen major. • I am planning to obtain an advanced degree in my field within the next 5 years.This same product

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tatiana Malyuta

continue to be the important part of the course. We plan to emphasize the design of databases for business processes. Above this primary data layer, the IS can contain data that defines the processing itself, or, we say, data serves as or defines the subject of processing. We call such data metadata. Today, metadata is usually presented by the semi-structured data model and implemented with the help of XML. Design and implementation of metadata have to be discussed separately. Above the tier of metadata, the IS may contain data that explains metadata: its structure, purpose and relationships. This tier helps to integrate data and functionality of the IS with other applications. Such

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Justin Highley

courses was based on presenting the same amountof material from the original Thermodynamics (ME301) and Fluid Mechanics (ME362) courses.Additionally, the new courses would be designed such that the Civil, Environmental, andEngineering Management majors would take only ME311 in order to create room for anotherelective in their academic plan. Based on this requirement and the desire to ensure their successon the FE exam, the ME311 curriculum focused on the topics that not only lent themselves tointegration, but also other topics on the FE exam (hydrostatics, internal flow). With these topicsidentified, the remaining subjects from Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics were placed intoME312. The breakdown of subjects into the two courses can be seen in

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Clemente

understanding of geology and the principlesof soil mechanics.1,2 Knowledge of rock mechanics, flow of water through soils and theimportance of drainage3 is very important too.Typically, the applied geotechnical engineering process is initiated by a study of the regionalgeology, followed by planning and implementing a subsurface investigation program consistingof the drilling of boreholes in order to identify the soil, rock and groundwater conditions. Theborehole also permits an indirect measure of the density and shear strength of the soils by way ofthe Standard Penetration Test, which produces the number of blows per foot of penetration of astandard hammer to drive a standard split spoon sampler. There are many textbooks (Refs. 4-7),journals and

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeeRoy Bronner; Amen Ra Mashariki

relativelynew development approach referred to as Managed Architecture. Managed Architectureis an approach focused on the evolution of existing software assets 11, 12.It involves the following activities: • Extracting an Architecture Model from existing code • Refactoring of the Architecture Model • Using the Architecture Model for impact analysis and modernization planning • Proactive enforcement of architecture integrity Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5If implemented correctly Managed Architecture can be a good

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

Education and Practice. 131:4, 218-222.7. Friesen, Marcia, K. Lynn Taylor, and M.G. Britton (2005) “A Qualitative Study of a Course Trilogy in Biosystems Engineering Design”. Journal of Engineering Education. 94:3, 287-296.8. Grigg, Neil S., Marvin E. Criswell, Darrell G. Fontane, Laurel Saito, Thomas J. Siller, and Daniel K. Sunada (2004) “Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: Five-Year Review”. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 130:3, 160-165.9. Light, Richard J., Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett (1990) By Design, Planning Research on Higher Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 296p.10. Newstetter, Wendy C. (2005) “Designing Cognitive Apprenticeships for

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

publications.ConclusionThe design and implementation of this classroom has been both an exciting and challenging experience.We have stretched the limits of some the technologies for use in a classroom; for example, the number ofvisual displays, the distances for transmission high definition digital signals from the computer source tothe screens, etc.The response by professors and students has been very positive. Some faculty will be using all of thetechnology available to them as they change their instructional techniques while some will probably useonly the basic features of the classroom. One workshop has already been offered for faculty andadditional workshops are planned during the spring semester for faculty to maximize their use of thisclassroom.Many students

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

futurepublications.ConclusionThe opportunities for PK-12 students to be exposed to engineering and its benefits to the world in generaland to each individual in particular are infinite. Through strategic planning and the creation of real-worldconnections, students can be inspired to consider engineering as a “normal” part of everyday living whichprovides a pathway for the development of creative ideas that can impact the world in both positive andnegative ways. Through “career imprinting,” PK-12 students can be encouraged to fully connect learningand living so they more intimately understand why what they are learning really matters. They will then,hopefully, choose to become engineers who are committed to making the world a better place to live,work, and play now as

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yiming (Kevin) Rong

started project preparation (named PQP at WPI) before the trip. During PQP, thecommunication among project partners, co-advisors, and sponsor company mentors were established. Thestudents worked on problem definition, background knowledge and information acquisition, as well asmaking a project plan. Then the mixed student teams spent significant amount of time working in theproject sponsoring company in full time with engineers to work out valuable results of the projects. The MQP in China program has been expanded to involve more universities and companies,including the Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, and two local companies sponsoring twoprojects. In 2008, fifteen WPI students will go to China and Korea, working with twenty one

Conference Session

Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Engineering Education Across Diverse Learning Environments

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lilianny Virgüez, University of Florida; Debarati Basu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Gloria J. Kim, University of Florida; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

administering a survey at the end of the course. This survey wasadapted from the nanotechnology awareness instrument originally developed by Dyehouse et al[17]. Specifically, we focused on the exposure and motivation scales of this instrument, designedto assess students' levels of exposure to and motivation for learning about nanotechnology. Toalign it with the context of this paper, we substituted the term "nanotechnology" with"semiconductors." The concept of exposure relates to activities that students have activelyundertaken, such as reading about semiconductors while the concept of motivation aims tocapture the types of future studies or work related to semiconductors that students plan to pursue.The rationale to utilize this existing instrument