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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sandeep Dilwali

student to become familiar about the fields of STEM being taught, and yet not become overwhelming or boring. 7. While the period of study was limited to three weeks, through an intensive schedule of lecture and laboratory study, the students obtained an extensive sampling of the subject matter in each of these disciplines, encompassing some of the breadth of learning that a college student would obtain while at college for three weeks. 8. The program was a full day program during Summer vacation 9. Concurrent with the learning regarding these five disciplines, the program provided students with regular occasions to learn about the opportunities available to those who pursued the science, technology, and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

major.IntroductionPartnership between an Educational Institution and Secondary Schools is not a new concept infostering learning among students. There are many universities that work closely with highschools to develop a relationship to help fit students’ needs. Universities and high schoolstraditionally maintained collaborations by including student job shadowing, outreach activities,faculty exchanges, and recruiting. The purpose of these partnerships is to expose high schoolstudents to the major so they can plan ahead to meet the needs of industries, governments,national laboratories, and the training need. The goal of any university engineering technology curriculum is to provide theinformation and skills so each student so they can be successful in their

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David Hergert

phone is processed using software on the cell phone. As another example, a recent NewYork Times article states “House hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point theircellphone at the sign. With a click, their cellphone screen displays the asking price, the numberof bedrooms and baths and lots of other details about the house.” [1]The interest the author has in this technology has more to do with reading laboratory datacollection and verification in a distance education program. The B.S. ElectromechanicalEngineering Technology degree program is offered by distance to eleven community collegesthroughout the State of Ohio. A new Industrial Automation course in the program requiresstudents to use lab equipment located at the community

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao; Xiaowen Zhang; Michael Anshel

, J., and Gershenfeld, N. (2002). Physical One-Way Functions. Science,297:2026-2030.[3] Williamson, M. (2002). Biologically Inspired Approaches to Computer Security. HP TechnicalReport: HPL-2002-131.[4] Cray, S. (1996). An Imaginary Tour of a Biological Computer (Why Computer Professionals andMolecular Biologists Should Start Collaborating). Remarks of Seymour Cray to the Shannon Center forAdvanced Studies, University of Virginia.[5] Ibrahim, S., and Maarof, M. (2005). A Review on Biological Inspired Computation in Cryptology.Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, 17 (1): 90-98.[6] Ramzan, Z. (1998). On using neural networks to break cryptosystems. Technical report, Laboratory ofComputer Science, MIT.[7] Socek, D., and Culibrk, D. (2005). On the security

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Neil J. Hutzler; Joanne S. Chadde; David Heil; William E. Kelly

Laboratory.6 Pearson, G., & Young, T. (Eds)., 2002. Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know moreabout technology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.7 Richards, L., 2007. Getting the word out. Prism , 16 (no.5). American Society for Engineering Education.8 DeVore, P. W. (1992). Technological literacy and social purpose. Theory into Practice 31(1), 59-63.9 Fogarty, R. (1991). The mindful school: How to integrate the curricula. Palatine, IL: IR I Skylight. ISBN0- 932935-31-1.10 Zuga, K., 1992. Social reconstruction curriculum and technology education. Journal of TechnologyEducation 3(2), 53-63.11 Wiggins, G., and McTighe, J., 1998. Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association forSupervision and Curriculum

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harvey I. Lyons

andinterest in further pursuing the formal course structure in engineering technology. The functionaloutline developed in this program provided a direct method for continuing that effort throughoutthe remaining undergraduate years. The continuing design activities are described below.Continuing Design ProgramThe engineering technology program, by virtue of its hands-on approach to technical applicationand reasoning, helps to develop a realistic foundation for extending the design effort throughoutthe curriculum. The project design skills and learning aids developed earlier have been found bythe writer to be readily applicable in the Junior year as part of the laboratory component in theMachine Design course. Here, open-ended design projects, based

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Laura Borowski; Mary Lowe; Robert Bailey

incorporate the soap film apparatus and thenumerical simulations into undergraduate physics and engineering laboratories at Loyola.Key Words: Soap film apparatus, Reynolds Number, vortex, laminar, CFD* undergraduate student, Department of Engineering** faculty member, Department of Physics*** faculty member, Department of Engineering 1Introduction and BackgroundHydrodynamics, a branch of fluid mechanics, deals with flows of fluids with no density change.The hydrodynamic phenomena investigated in this study were the wakes behind solidobstructions in liquid flows. While other investigators have extensively studied the wake behinda single cylindrical obstruction (see, for example references 1,2