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Ralph Belton; Ahmet Zeytinci

– Using Technology for Discussion, Debate, and Problem Solving in the MiddleSchool Curriculum PBS TeacherLine Course Syllabushttp://www.pbs.org/teacherline/courses/syllabi/05_tech190_30_syllabus.pdfRalph Belton, RA, CSI, NOMAChair of the Division of Urban Architecture and Community Planning at UDC. Currently,Director of the Construction Specification Institute Metro DC chapter. Has over 30 years ofteaching and architecture practice at Howard University and UDC. Extensive educational travelin Europe and Japan with students.Email: rbelton@udc.eduAhmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow NSPECurrently a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at UDC. Former President(twice) of the District of Columbia Society of Professional Engineers and

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Suzanne Keilson

extension of a 50 minutelecture, but encompasses you fully. It should also give you a lot more sympathy for K-12teachers. The benefit of assistants and multiple eyes and hands in the classroom becomesapparent, though many teachers do have to fly solo.Lesson 2: You need to be flexible and adaptable with your lesson plan. What you think willengage won’t and what you think won’t will. This presents a real challenge if you feel you havea particular curriculum or content you must cover. The tyranny of content is something that isexperienced by engineering educators at all levels. The question of breadth and depth has beenmentioned before, but bears repeating.1 What of this will students really retain? What is theessential content knowledge? Some

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Hong Li

story tells about an IT specialist of a small law firm who just started the newjob. About two weeks into the job, he did not have much to do besides a few simple tasks liketaking care of user logon issues. On the day when the lawsuit over the BP oil spill was settled, assoon as he arrived office in the morning, he was called to take on an urgent task: create aprogram for all clients of the firm (about 800) to estimate their compensation as victims of thegulf oil spill according to different installment plans they could elect to take. Moreover, theprogram has to be completed in 22 hours because the firm needs the feedback from clients toreport to the court what installment plan they elected to take. All specifications related to theprogram

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Abdullah Alkharashi; Mark Rajai; Alireza Kabirian; Saeid Moslehpour

. Lawmakers in the U.S. found it necessary to agree to a bipartisan plan to rescue the U.S.financial system. The agreement was to purchase $700 billion in bad debt. That represented thelargest involvement since the Great Depression. President George Bush vowed to restoreconfidence in the U.S. banking sector and to preserve the free market system. The governmentrevealed a $250 billion plan to buy banks’ stakes in order to show that the government was infact willing to shore them up. The U.S. Federal Reserve responded by cutting the interest ratefrom 1.5% to 1.0% (BBC News, August 2009). An important change in course occurred inNovember of 2008, when Mr. Henry Paulson stated that the U.S. government was going to usesome of the bailout money to help

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton

background, andstrong vocational emphasis, that makes RMU the ideal environment for training our futureworkforce for careers in the alternative energy sectors, and providing local employees withscience and business graduates with a strong background in environmental issues andsustainability.On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, President Obama outlined the importance of energy: “The timehas come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future. Now, thatmeans continuing our unprecedented effort to make everything from our homes and businessesto our cars and trucks more energy-efficient. It means tapping into our natural gas reserves, andmoving ahead with our plan to expand our nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants. It means

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Steven Chetcuti; Hans Thomas; Brent Pafford

videos succinct in order to maintain the students’ attention. For a normal lecture to aclass we normally have built in questions used to illicit student responses, but with video lectureswe had to plan how to incorporate that drawn information in a manner that would encourage thestudent to ponder the information without having to actually respond. Our initial conceived notion was to simply lecture and write our board notes on white piecesof paper with a camera over our shoulder; in the style of the math tutorial videos offered byPatrickJMT of justmathtutoring.com, who has created over 1500 math videos in this manner(many of which were utilized by the authors in graduate school and served as the originalmotivation for this project). This

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Aime V. Mbakop; Ashenafi Lambebo; Lalindra Jayatilleke; Sasan Haghani

6indicate that the pulse sensor used in the construction of BAN can producereliable data.IV. Conclusion and Future Research A low cost Wireless BAN, using off-the-shelf hardware was built andsuccessfully tested in real time where data was successfully captured anddisplayed on a website. The BAN collected the pulse rate, the temperature and thelocation of the patients. The captured data was made available through a graphingapplication programming interface, where data can be continuously monitored ona website. Future enhancements to safeguard the data, including the encryption ofthe patient data is under investigation. Currently the BAN is powered using a 9Vbattery. In the future we plan to investigate the use of body temperature or

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Adityen Sudhakaran; Toure Cort; Shankar Krishnan

Rapid Prototyping machine, a prototype of the design was fabricated and analyzed. The first prototype did not account for spacing between two moving parts and resulted in a static model. A revised version was fabricated taking the moving parts into consideration to make it a dynamic prototype. Future work is planned to design a suitable test fixture to perform pseudo in-vitro testing of the prototype aortic valve. The subsequent phase of the project could involve controlled testing of the prosthetic aortic valve on a specially designed test fixture or implanted in an animal to validate safe and proper functioning of the prototype In conclusion, utilizing SolidWorks to design and 3D Rapid Prototyping in BME design

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Aiman S. Kuzmar

. • At many universities and colleges, several courses fill up quickly. Students take short term courses over winter and summer intermission to keep up with their educational plans. • Taking summer and winter break courses can shorten the duration of college education. A student can finish a four year degree in three or three and a half years. • At many universities and colleges especially research institutes, faculty members are extremely busy. Offering short courses gives such faculty members the time they need to meet the demands of their research agenda and other obligations. • Some students prefer taking one or two courses at a time during summer and winter breaks instead of five or

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Adam Paczuski; S.M. Krishnan

ANALYZING PRODUCT FAILURES AND IMPROVING DESIGN: A CASE STUDY IN MEDICAL ROBOTICS Adam Paczuski S.M. Krishnan Ph.D. paczuskia@wit.edu krishnans@wit.edu Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115Abstract: Robotic assistance is utilized in complex surgeries due to claims citingbetter procedure planning, enhanced user training, and overall improved operationwhen compared with conventional surgery. Robot-assisted surgery seems to be anincreasingly viable and acceptable option to the patient community with continualadvances in technology. However, questions arise about the safety aspects of therobotic assistance in

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Alan Wheatley; David Baglee; Mike Knowles; Alastair Irons

Programmes, Engineering Council Publication,See:http://www.engc.org.uk/ecukdocuments/internet/document%20library/AHEP%20Brochure.pdf10. Bloom Benjamin S. and David R. Krathwohl, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: TheClassification of Educational Goals, by a committee of college and university examiners.Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, New York, Longmans, 1956.11. Krathwohl, D. (2002) A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview. Theory intoPractice, Volume 41, Number 4, Autumn 2002. College of Education, The Ohio StateUniversity12. ONS / The Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR):http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/products-and-services/idbr/index.html13. Charles Levy, Andrew Sissons and Charlotte Holloway; A plan for growth in theknowledge