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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harold R. Underwood

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ernest Y. Wong

designed to develop versatile, creative, and criticalthinkers who can adapt to professional and ethical challenges” [1]. The relatively standardizedcurriculum that the cadets receive through their core courses (see Figure 1) enables USMA todesign not only a comprehensive academic program, but one that is integrative anddevelopmental as well. Consequently, cadets who graduate from West Point leave with a set of common skillsand knowledge. One of the most important skills they learn is the ability to leverage aspreadsheet. The basic spreadsheet proficiency that cadets gain in their freshman and sophomoremathematics, chemistry, physics, and economics courses develop into more refined spreadsheetmodeling and analysis skills that they acquire in

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andy S.J. Zhang

engineering.IntroductionMachine design is a major course in the mechanical engineering department thatis designed to teach the students the basics of designing products that containmoving parts. Traditional approaches to teaching machine design used toemphasize the engineering analysis of individual parts, such as gears, shafts, andbearings.[1-2] The advancement in computer technology over the past twenty yearshas created a new way to design a machine or a product called concurrent designand engineering. This new approach to machine design requires that theengineering analysis tools such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) andComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) packages be tightly integrated with designtools such as the solid modeling and virtual animation packages. With

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

unavailable to our ET undergraduate students. It is imperativetherefore that we develop the laboratory components of our new ET Photonicsprogram. This is particularly true because ET students learn best from a “handson” approach.II. Entangled Photons Applied to Quantum EncryptionThe fact that a Quantum Computer can (at least in principle) break the security ofany classical encryption code has spurred a tremendous interest in thedevelopment of Quantum Encryption (QE) – the only means of restoringcomputer data and telecommunication security. Once the realm of a select few ofquantum physicists, QE has now become a very important emerging technology.Our goals in this field are two-fold.Goal (1) is to help bring quantum encryption into actual/practical

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Chong Shen; Zhongwei Zhang; David Lai

this paper is organizedinto 5 sections. In section 1, we look at some related works have been done in the similar areasfor computer network. In section 2 we introduce our approach on using Java language to buildthe simulation package. In section 3 on the Implementation, a developed AQM animation packagewill be presented which helps students to understand how AQM works is described. In section 4,some analysis result generated by our graphical simulator is given. The paper is concluded by asummary and future works in section 6.2 Related worksComputer networks are an innovative approach of communication and understanding the conceptsof computer networking is essential for computer science students. Traditionally, dissemination ofcomputer

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Malgorzata Ciszkowska; Robert Russo; Hong Li

monitoring require obtaining ablood sample by pricking a fingertip with a needle or lancet (referred to as a "stick"), allowing thepuncture to bleed until a testing strip is adequately covered with blood, and then placing thecoated strip into a glucose monitor for testing. This method strongly discourages patients’compliance and has the following serious drawbacks: 1) The procedure is invasive. For many people, the prospect of performing 5 or 6 "sticks" daily is intimidating and painful. In addition, it provides a significant risk for infections. 2) The procedure for testing is laborious and it requires thorough hygiene (washing the hands, cleaning the area that is to be "stuck", etc.). Many people have trouble learning how to test their

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

. This resulted in a significant increase in the students’ enrollment. The FMS project opens the way widely for good collaboration between the IET department and local community colleges. The IET department opened its laboratories for the students of these colleges to perform some of their projects. Furthermore, collaboration started between the teachers of the community colleges and the IET department through some joint classes at the IET labs. Keywords: curriculum development, flexible manufacturing teaching.1. Introduction:Morehead State University (MSU) has an enrollment of approximately 9,500students primarily from eastern, northern Kentucky and Appalachia. Within theCollege of Science and Technology, the Department of

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Seymour Blank; John Hudesman; Robert Armstrong; Ed Morton; Adam Moylan; Neisha White

needs of these under-prepared students have focused on teachingcontent courses together with a variety of academic/study skills strategies. These have met with limitedsuccess. Our department has recently (2005/2006 academic year) received a National Science Foundation(NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase I grant to apply “Self-RegulatedLearning” (SRL) to two engineering technology courses. SRL involves teaching students a new way ofunderstanding their learning process and how to monitor and manage it. The SRL process includes an on-going three-phase cycle: (1) planning, (2) practicing and (3) evaluation. During the planning phase,students assess prior performance, set goals and choose appropriate learning strategies

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Salame Amr

and Learning in J. H. Schuh and E.J. Whitt (Eds.), NewDirections for Student Services, No. 78, Summer 1997, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass,pp. 17-30.¨ Wemmerlov, Urban (1990), A Taxonomy for Service Process and Its Implications forSystem Design, International Journal of Service Industry Management, 1(3), p. 29.