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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mir M. Atiqullah; Norman Russell

Design, Building and Teaching with a Hydrostatic and Buoyancy Apparatus Mir M. Atiqullah and Norman Russell Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA.ABSTRACT A typical Fluid Mechanics laboratory includes various laboratory equipment andinstruments to cover standard topics. However laboratories may not include a hydrostaticdevice, assuming it is so straight forward that it does not warrant a laboratory instrument or alaboratory exercise. As part of the senior design class a group of students wanted to design andbuild a Fluid Statics device that will clearly verify the static force and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ani Ural; Joseph Yost

Integration of Finite Element Modeling and Experimental Evaluation in a Freshman Project Ani Ural1 and Joseph Yost2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PAAbstract Engineering analysis, design and research rely on computational and experimentalevaluation. In order to prepare undergraduate students for engineering practice and graduateschool, it is necessary to build knowledge in both areas throughout the engineering curriculumstarting from the first year. The engineering curriculum mostly focuses on laboratory courses

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dennis Silage

standard text. However, in this approach to teaching digitalcommunication systems the μ-law companding PCM system is also simulated and the speechprocessing is audible.An analysis of BER in pulse code modulation (PCM) with AWGN and a speech signal can alsobe presented with the audible performance as a tangible reminder of the effect. These audio .wavfiles as input have been shown to entice the undergraduate student and provide a memorableexperience. They now have the opportunity to go beyond the lecture course or even the digitalcommunication hardware laboratory with its traditional experiments 1.MATLAB/Simulink by The Mathworks (www.mathworks.com) provides the comprehensivedigital communication system simulation environment and a recent text 2

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Duy K. Dao; Shankar Krishnan

and tested on five sets of normal andabnormal ECG signals. The results appear to be reasonable. The detection of AF is quitechallenging and the work on a suitable algorithm to take into account different morphologicalcharacteristics is in process.Students correlate the linkage between the theoretical aspects of signal processing taught in classwith an application to solve a real-life practical problem in the laboratory. This proposed labassignment also leads to open-ended problems and thus will triggers improved creative problem-solving capabilities of the students.In conclusion, a set of laboratory experiments is designed involving signal processing techniquesapplied to solve multi-disciplinary biomedical problems. Approaches on such

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Edward F. Glynn; Frank E. Falcone

creation of a new fall semester, sophomore-year course titled Civil Engineering Fundamentals. Fundamentals is a 4-credit course that hasthree 50-minute lectures and one 150-minute laboratory session each week. There are twosections with a limit of 30 students per section. The course includes material that had beenpreviously presented in four courses, two of which are no longer part of the BSCE curriculum.Fundamentals is designed to help the students develop analytical, experimental, interpretive andfield-based skills and procedures for use in subsequence courses. Fundamentals is a criticalcourse in the curriculum because it serves as a foundation for most of the technical courses thatfollow. The faculty in the CEE Department provided input for the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

engineering geology Junior Soil Mechanics Laboratory Case study of a civil engineering Spring (CEE 3901) failure Senior Foundation Design Evaluation of the resources available Fall (CEE 4801) on a geotechnical engineering project Solid and Hazardous Waste Term paper on a contemporary Fall (CEE 4331) solid/hazardous waste issue Advanced Transportation Design solution for a highway Fall Engineering (also open to juniors) focusing on highway safety (CEE 3235)Activities and outcomes

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Dahm

nor the design problems can be well described as “multidisciplinary.” • Some program objectives are related to ability to perform hands-on experimental and laboratory work. Chemical Plant Design makes extensive use of simulation but has never been taught with a wet lab component (at least, not at Rowan).The next section describes a project-based course that complements Chemical PlantDesign.Junior/Senior Engineering ClinicRowan University has an eight-semester Engineering Clinic program intended to provideEngineering students with experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems. The sequence culminates in the Rowan Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, inwhich students work on real engineering research and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

the LEGO NXT brick (a powerful 32-bit machine), directly from a high-levelSimulink environment. The motivation and design decisions underlying the development of thetoolbox have been discussed, together with some details of its architecture. From a user’sperspective, the VU-LRT blockset provides a strong base set of input/output blocks which can beused like any of the other standard Simulink blocks in student designs. Further work is requiredto add ‘external mode’ capability to the toolbox, but Bluetooth and USB communications arealready in place. Future work will also focus on the design of exemplary laboratory moduleswhich demonstrate how the toolbox can be used to enhance student learning in a classroomenvironment.AcknowledgementsThe

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Amit Bandyopadhyay

many have somewhat contradictory implications for educationalpractice. With the emergence of several schools and resulting competition among them,spokesmen seemed to lose their reservations about the tentative nature of their practicalsuggestions. More and more recommendations were made as scientific facts rather thanas tentative descriptions for the real world outside laboratory. Although there is anexpectation among psychologists and educators that it should be possible to derive quiteexplicit prescriptions for educational practice from the comprehensive learning theories.If an educator is going to select a learning theory, it would seem reasonable to expect thathe/she would pick the theory which provides the most complete and valid

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla S. LoPiccolo

study showed that students who used their own notes scored nearlytwice as high as students who used notes either given to them by the teacher or from anotherstudent.7 ) The active process of copying drawings and diagrams by hand as part of note-takingis turning into passive observance and a procrastinated review of supplied informationimmediately prior to an examination.The goal of this paper is to further the author‟s study of the use of visual aids in classrooms thatare not supplemented with a laboratory component for hands-on learning. The visual aid beingtested is one type of symbolic representation – a construction detail. In this study, studentretention after examining a labeled hand-held detail drawing without reproducing it is

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

– 401.[9] F. Hao, R. Anderson, and J. Daugman (2005). Combining cryptography with biometrics effectively. TechnicalReports, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.[10] U. Uludag, S. Pankanti, and A. Jain (2005). Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints. Proc. of Audio and Video-basedBiometric Person Authentication, pp: 310-319.[11] A. Kumar, and A. Kumar, A. (2008). A palmprint-based cryptosystem using double encryption. Proc. of SPIE,6944:1-9.[12] K. Rabuzin, M. Baca, and M. Sajko(2006). E-learning: Biometrics as a Security Factor. International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI'06), pp. 64.[13] S. Asha and C. Chellappan. Authentication of e-learners using multimodal biometric technology

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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

faculty members and utilize afour meeting per week format, in which there are three 50-minute periods (Monday, Wednesday,and Friday) used primarily for lectures. The fourth period is a 165-minute “flex” period thatmeets on Thursdays, and can be used for lectures, laboratory exercises, exams, or for overarchingproblem solution periods.Aside from the integration of concepts described above and the use of overarching problems asdescribed below, Mechanics I and II are taught in a fairly traditional manner. Most 50-minutelecture periods involve a set of PowerPoint lecture slides that run on average about 15 minutes,and then the instructor solves two or three example problems for the remainder of the period.Students are assigned simple homework