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Kanti Prasad

Preparing Students with Industrial Collaboration in Meeting the Challenges in Engineering Design with Consummate VLSI Education Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For in-depth Microelectronics education, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities are requiredto complement theoretical instructions in order to validate the modeled microelectronicdesign from its conception to the finished chip along with its

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board (Figure 1). Figure 1: DE2 board controlling Create robot. 1EE484, Advanced Computer Architecture using VHDL, builds upon the computer architecturecourse. As noted in the title, the course utilizes VHDL throughout the semester implementingdesigns on the DE2 board. This senior-level elective uses multiple soft processor cores on anFPGA to study multi-core designs in a laboratory exercise. Our students instantiate multiplecores using the Altera Nios® II soft processor and associated Computer-Aided Design (CAD)tools. We demonstrate that multiprocessor systems can be developed, implemented, and studiedby undergraduate students due to the availability and accessibility of design tools and FPGAdevelopment boards. 2

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

, etc. Our experiments were run in a computer laboratory so that thestudents could immediately process their data on computers (Photo 1).Photo1. Laboratory Set UpThe experimental procedure may be summarized as follows: 1- First sound level readings were taken with no barrier to establish the ambient noise level. 2- The sound source is tuned to maximum level of irritation (radio frequency with no station) and the decay of the sound is measured and recorded as the sound-meter is moved away from the source. This represents the sound level at various distances from the source with no attenuation (see chart 1). You will notice the random nature of the plotted data. The students discussed the possible reasons for

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Warren A. Rosen; M. Eric Carr

, students learn importantconcepts including the system bus, three-state logic, and active-low signals. Inaddition, the laboratory work is complemented by lectures and readingassignments on such topics as pipelining, superscalar processing, cache, andadvanced architectures such as Core Duo.Introduction Historically, early courses in microprocessors were based on simple training kits usingprocessors such as the 6800 or 8085 connected to system components such as memory, clock,etc.1 In these courses, the internal architecture as well as the remaining system components andinterconnects (memory, clocks, buses, etc.) were described conceptually and the emphasis, interms of the hardware usage, was on learning and using the instruction set and

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rigid bodies. Students in all three cohorts had experiencedall lecture and laboratory instruction in their course. Cohort UW 121 consists of two standard sections of Physics 121. Cohort UWH 121 isone honors section of Physics 121. Both of these cohorts had experienced tutorials on forces andNewton’s laws and pre-lab tutorial on rotational motion. (One section in cohort UW 121 hadworked through the tutorial Dynamics of rigid bodies.4) The post-test was on the finalexamination for both of these cohorts. Students in cohort PRD 152 had worked through thetutorial Dynamics of rigid bodies, but had not worked through the tutorial Rotational motion.The post-test was on the final examination that was administered as a multiple-choice question

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Deborah Ihezie; S. Keith Hargrove

line of CNC-machined parts [4]. Some of itscustomers include GE, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin. 
Over the last four years, MRAS has seen considerable growth in revenues, with businessincreasing 74%. The organization continues to expand its workforce to meet increasingcustomer demand, hiring over 300 new employees since 2004. The one million square footfacility contains manufacturing, laboratory, and engineering facilities designed specifically forthe development and production of aerospace systems [4].According to MRAS, the organization is constantly finding ways to improve its programs andprocesses. The company remains committed to designing and building aerostructures for today'sneeds and tomorrow's vision, while

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Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

transponder was inventedby the British in 1939 and the first application goes back to World War II, when Britainpioneered the use of radio-wave navigation and identification of friend or foe aircraft for nightoperations5.A very early demonstration of reflected power (modulated backscatter) RFID tags, both passiveand active, was done by Steven Depp, Alfred Koelle and Robert Freyman at the Los AlamosScientific Laboratory in 1973. The portable system operated at 915 MHz and used 12 bit tags.This technique is used by the majority of today's UHF and microwave RFID tags. The firstpatent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles Walton in 1983 (U.S.Patent 4,384,288)8.RFID technology operation starts when tags awakened by low cost

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

has disseminated in a variety of ways. A dynamic website has beenestablished to disseminate our Aquarium Project [19]. All laboratory activities, handouts,experimental methods, quizzes and exams are posted on this website.We are working with NJAAS personnel to instrument an existing 100 gallon marine aquarium asseen in Figure 2 in their distance learning classroom to provide real time images and waterquality data that will be posted on their website and titled the NJ~QUARIUM. This is a uniqueopportunity for NJAAS as currently none of the NJ State Aquarium exhibits have real time dataand images online. The NJ~QUARIUM site will also generate excitement among students of allages. Students will not only visualize activities of different living

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

design “Community Design Laboratory” offers architecture studentsexposure to “multiple issues and techniques” in a multidisciplinary setting with landscapearchitecture and city & regional planning students. The course description includes “analysis ofnatural features, climate, existing land uses, quality of the built environment” and “developingLEED-ND compliance analyses.”Other notable architecture programs that offer courses in sustainable site planning and designtopics are:Pratt Institute, New York - the graduate program includes a seminar titled “SustainableDevelopment Seminar” with the following course description: “The purpose of the Seminar is toexpose Pratt Graduate Students and other interested parties to the issues of

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year frequency storm whichestimated to result in runoff from that particular surface. Equation 3 shows the overall runoffcoefficient: Σ (Equation 3) ΣFrom Equation 3 the overall runoff coefficient C is calculated as the land-area-weighted averageof the individual area coefficient Ci for each individual land area Ai. There are differentreferences to obtain the C value. The values of typical runoff coefficient for two years storms areshown in table 1 in Appendix A. Table 1 is from LEED-NC 2.1 with the pervious pavementgrids. In addition the pervious concrete values determine din the laboratory study at

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Raluca I. Rosca

through the 2005 survey and exit interview, and the 2009follow-up email survey. From these, we present only the data associated to the professionalcareer and the diversity statement.In the 2005 Exit interview, we asked the participants ‘What Job would you like to have in theFuture.?. In Table 1 we report the answers in order of preference, and we code them asfollows:-‘Industry-Research’= industry or research laboratory-‘Research Teaching’ =faculty in a Carnegie Extensive (Carnegie 1) institution-‘Teaching-Research’=faculty in a Carnegie Intensive (Carnegie 2) institution-‘Teaching’= faculty in a Carnegie three or a Community College.We compare those answers with the present-day work positions of people, as found on a generalinternet search or as

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Josh Coffman; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis; Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

this technique.”8 The Abstract Hypothesis/Conceptual stage in Figure 1 can have experiences encompassed in the following three areas: themodeling, analysis, and theory. One or more of these experiences may be used to engagestudents in the Abstract Hypothesis/Conceptual stage. Brown then goes on to say thatexperiences found in homework assignments, course projects, and the FE learning modules applyto the Active Experimentation portion of the cycle. Additional types of Active Experimentationclassroom activities are stated in Figure 1. These activities include laboratory experiments,product teardowns, testing using engineering tools and methods, and performing simulations.The fatigue FE learning module focuses mainly on the simulation activity