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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Devinder Mahajan

Biomass Feedstock-based Technology Devinder Mahajan SBU-BNL Joint Appointment Professor and Co-Director Chemical & Molecular Engineering Stony Brook University, New York Site Director NSF Center for BioEnergy Research & Development [CBERD] www.bioenergynow.org Scientific Staff Joint Appointment Sustainable Energy Technologies Department Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York ABSTRACTThe use of

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kalyan Mondal

believe that students become well prepared for the real world by learning the tradeoffsbetween different approaches to the design and mastering them in a hands-on laboratoryenvironment.Microcontroller Architecture and Assembly Language ProgrammingOur students take a course on microcontroller based design as the sixth-semester course afterthey have learnt about the architectures of Intel 80xxx series microprocessors and theirprogramming in assembly language. They also learned in their fifth-semester microprocessordesign course the disassembly, memory, and register viewing processes. So in this course weintroduce students with microcontrollers that get used in the design of many embedded systems.A hands-on laboratory is an integral part of this

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Iem Heng; Farrukh Zia

industrial andembedded computer systems, in situations where low cost, low speed and single devicecommunication is needed.In this paper we present a survey of the teaching material (section 1), hardware considerationsand laboratory exercises (section 2) that we have developed and used in CET 3510 course, tointroduce the students to the new interfacing and communication standards; at a level that thestudents can understand and incorporate in their laboratory exercises. Then, a rubric forassessment of student performance for programming assignments in the laboratory follows(section 3).1. Introduction to Port CommunicationIn today’s society, technology influences our daily lives in a variety of ways. We are constantlydependent on the use of technology

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

conducted in a computer laboratory – a setting that has more distractions than thetraditional lecture room and therefore not the optimal venue for student note taking. Note taking,per Piolat, increases both students’ attention in class and their performance on tests, but it canalso interfere with students’ efforts to comprehend lecture content.1 In a separate study Kiewrareported that students typically record only about one -third of the important points in a lecture.2The goal of this paper is to show that guided note taking – faculty generated partial notes thatstudents actively complete during a lecture – improve students’ comprehension in a lecturelaboratory setting. In addition, this study furthers the author’s research in innovative

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Grant Crawford; Elizabeth Bristow

[8]. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference, April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYProgress was slowed only a few years later by the rise to power of the Taliban in 1995. Talibanleaders closed girls’ schools in areas they controlled [8]. In these areas and elsewhere, basic andhigher education continued to decline as the country was torn by insurgency and ethnic fighting[7].At present, Afghanistan is missing many of its former lead academics, who were killed or fledduring the turmoil [7]. In many fields and at many universities, higher education curriculum wasfrozen in the 1970s and the curricula, textbooks, and laboratory techniques are now decades old.Technical and

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nicholas Monsu; Kevin Timko; William Caracciolo

relief wells, costing approximately $100 million each, BP was finallyable to cap the well by drilling down and intersecting the well many feet below thesurface, and then filling the well with cement. Until that point, the well had been leaking5,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf every day [2]. Following the successfulcapping, many tests were performed to determine the cement could withstand thepressures of the well.Oil Cleanup Solutions Being TestedSeveral alternative solutions are being tested in the laboratory to find resourceful, andenvironmentally friendly ways to clean, reuse and dispose of oil that is recovered from oilspills.Hair BoomBackgroundHair does not use absorption to remove oil from water, but rather uses adsorption

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

students to submit, retrieve, and resubmit homework to correcterrors until perfect. They found that adaptive grading did not improve test scores.Flory and Hearn3 compared frequent homework with frequent quizzes and compared studentattendance in lectures in electrical circuit analysis courses. They show little significantdifferences between the two methods and final exam performance. Our method differs fromtheirs since we have required attendance and have replaced homework with frequent quizzes.Fisher and Shoales conducted a similar experiment in the United States Air Force Academy4,where course directors experimented with different methods of homework, quiz, and practicalexercise or laboratory assessments. They found that student performance on