Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Renata Dukes; Kofi Nyarko; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

. Opening is a sequence of erosion and dilation while closing is the sequence of dilationthen erosion.Methods Figures 1 and 2 shows the runways for the two airports (and their IATA airport code)used for testing and verification of each phase within the project. Phase 1 of this project exploresfour edge detection techniques; the Canny, Sobel, Prewitt and LaPlacian of Gaussian operators.Phase 2 then selects the best operator and performs a series of image transformations that willisolate the runway lines of the airport. A connected component labeling algorithm is used toidentify various blobs in the transformed image and then remove smaller blobs that do not satisfythe threshold for an airport runway. Phase 3 compares Laws’ Energy Texture

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Donald D. Joye

engineer, should never be lost as part of the educational process,and cannot be reproduced by “virtual” laboratory experiences, useful though some of them maybe. Another compelling reason for hands-on experience in laboratory is preparation for research.This is often overlooked in these arguments, but lab can be a place where the student makes uphis or her mind that research may be interesting or not interesting to pursue. In my own personalexperience I can remember one lab in particular that was not particularly exciting, but stirred myinterest in research, because it was set up like a research project. Similar anecdotal stories havebubbled up from our students in my teaching experience at Villanova and elsewhere. In our laboratory

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryan Dallas; Parsaoran Hutapea

et al (Journal of Power Sources,84,45-51,1999)discusses that this nanoscale deformation causes changes to the porosity of the gas diffusion layer (GDL)which, in turn, alters the permeability and diffusion of the reactant gas and the transport of the liquidwater in the MEA. However, the deformation also decreases electrical contact resistance, which suggeststhere is an optimization of how much the MEA should deform. The focus of the project is to assess theeffects of compression and GDL nano-deformation on fuel cell performance. A testing system wasconstructed such that the stack compression can be altered without disassembling it. This is facilitated bya cell equipped with a compression plate with a compression adjuster and a dial gauge to

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

PATRICA A. S. RALSTON; JEFFREY L. HIEB

Report from 200519, Project Kaleidoscope Report onReports II18 and the President’s American Competitiveness Initiatives of 200717. Locally, the KentuckyCouncil on Postsecondary Education STEM Task Force11 has developed a state-wide strategic plan toaccelerate Kentucky’s performance within STEM disciplines. Both the STEM Task Force and theNational Science Board1 recognize the need to form strategic partnerships that inform K-12 students andparents about engineering. Despite these reports and recommendations three to five years ago, updatedreports Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Two Years Later and Rising Above the Gathering Storm,Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 523,24 show progress is not on target to address the needs,especially

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ramesh K . Agarwal

emissions are introduced in the context of current status and projected increase in noise and emissions in next twenty five years due to three fold increase in air travel (and as a result two fold increase in flying aircraft). If no new technologies are introduced and status-quo is allowed to remain, the aircraft emissions will contribute about 17-20% to total equivalent CO2 emissions from all sources worldwide, which will not be acceptable because of worldwide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to their adverse impact on climate.Inclusion of Sustainability in Aerospace Courses at WUSTLMEMS 5700: The concepts of drag reduction using active flow control and laminarflow wing are explained in

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

Engineering Education OR Just Education Keith M. Gardiner Lehigh UniversityCenter for Manufacturing Systems Engineering200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070 298 Engineering Education OR Just Education KEITH M. GARDINER Lehigh University Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070Abstract“Engineering Education for the Next Decade,” but let’s stretch and think farther out.Various national and international projections address

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sheikh Ghafoor; Stephen Canfield; Michael Kelley; Tristan Hill

move to solving advanced models thatdescribe how the world works. A recent model has been implemented in the college ofengineering at Tennessee Tech (TTU) to base the initial programming experience onhardware in the loop approach where the programming target is a micro-controller. Thiscourse has been offered in both C/C++ and Matlab programming language. From multiple previous implementations, we see that the students that engaged in thehands-on, hardware-based programming activities reported a more positive earlyexperience with programming and its relation to the engineering curriculum relative totheir comparison-group peers. The students participating in the project also reportedimproved confidence in their ability to learn and use

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Peter Spellane; Mohammad Razani

conducted an undergraduate research project “Proposing a New Study inNon-Invasive Amperometric Glucose Sensing Technology through the NYC-LSAMP SummerFellowship Program” – with a freshman student. Since a non-invasive method of monitoringblood glucose would present major advantages over existing methods which use invasivetechnologies, our group has studied the possibility of using a novel sensing technology, anamperometric glucose sensor, based on the information derived from the relationship betweenglucose molecules and their electrochemical impedance within physiologic glucose levels.Changes in glucose concentrations can be monitored by measuring the impedance within awide range of frequencies in order to optimize the impact of glucose solution

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F. Pinto; E. Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero

Antenna Beta cloth Rotating test fixture Square cut patch This table shows the return loss, gain, axial ratio, and half power beam width results from bothcircular and square cut patches that I measured in the chamber. Each test was run with either a circularpatch or a square patch that had different serials. The one that was the best was the circular patch #1because it met the requirements that were called for in this project. This graph shows the measured radiation pattern of circular patch #1. It

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

Fundamentals by Four Weeks Long EngineeringInnovation Summer ProgramAbstract: Preparing high school students for engineering disciplines is crucial for the sustainablescientific and technological developments in the USA. This paper discusses a precollege program, whichnot only exposes students to various engineering disciplines but also enables them to considerengineering as their profession. The four-week long “Engineering Innovation (EI)” course is offeredevery year to high school students by the Center for Educational Outreach, Whiting School ofEngineering, Johns Hopkins University. The EI program is designed to develop problem-solving skillsthrough extensive hands on engineering experiments and projects. A team consisting of an instructor

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Croft

that is verychallenging for the students, but also very rewarding. In the first course, Engr H191, students learnthe fundamentals of graphics through sketching and use of Autodesk Inventor, a GeometricModeling Program. They are introduced to hands-on labs and are required to do extensive labreport writing. There is a project in which two person teams design and build a cardboardmechanism (a bridge for a 16” span, or a Christmas ornament shipping carton). There is acompetition involving loading the mechanisms until they break and bonus points are awarded to thewinners. The second course, Engr H192, involves C and C++ programming. It also involvesadditional labs that require the students to do extensive lab reports. Another design project is

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ravi Shankar; Don Ploger; Oren Masory; Francis X McAfee

power near-neighbor communication links, with optical/ sonar /IR/RFtransceivers. These will allow the robots to self-organize in response to a chess move conveyed from aphone. Simple cameras will be used for robotic localization and navigation on & off the board. The highschool students will be able to program the robots with different behaviors and plan/play different typesof games/activities. This will increase their interest in the STEM curriculum and enhance their soft skills(team building, project management, communication, systems thinking, abstract thinking, and problemsolving); this will also bring to the fore innovation and entrepreneurship, two hallmark qualities of theUS economy, since these applications can be marketed, with

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dennis J. Fallon

population—if anything in makes good business sense. • Now Women make up around 20%. Only around 8.5% of PE are women. Similar numbers for African-American • We need to change the message • In this complex society we need to have everyone at the table.Global Threat • We were the center of all engineering education when I graduate • China (as well as India) are now producing many more engineers than we do each year • Their economy are growing at a faster rate than ours • A project now through technology may never sleep • However, we are still the hub of innovation and creative • Challenge will be to provide the students opportunity to develop this skills • In addition, I believe that we will need to develop the

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nikola Jovic; Abayomi Dairo; ASHENAFI TESFAYE; AIME VALERE; YANNICK ROLAND KAMDEM; Sasan Haghani; Paul Cotae

body position of the patient. The ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ are acceleration axiswhich represents the orientation of the wireless sensor on the patient. Even though the wirelesssensors we are using in this project have acceleration only in ‘x’ and ‘y’ direction, we included zaxis in the above diagram for better visualization of the orientations of the sensors. When thepatient is standing, positive y axis is going straight to the ground so in that event we haverecorded acceleration of Accy≈10m/s2. When patient is laying y axis is parallel to the groundAccy≈0m/s2 as illustrated in Figure 2.Despite limited daily activities of nursing home patients, we studied all possible activities thatnormal elderly patients would do. For each activity we have recorded

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

math curricula. In these sites, RET participants oftendo little hands-on research and are exposed to engineering projects through presentations or observing othersdoing research. This approach may give the impression that teachers are capable of developing curricularmaterials but only engineers are capable of solving authentic engineering problems. This `look but don'ttouch' model potentially reinforces the belief that their own students cannot be successful engineers. With thisRET model, participants are likely to gain a limited perspective on the field of engineering and not very likelyto be able to convey to their students what engineers actually do.A third approach to RET programs that we have developed tries to create a strong linkage

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul G. Ranky

Some Design & Validation Experiences of an Interactive Multimedia Resource Library for Teaching & Learning About Sustainable Green Engineering Paul G. Ranky, PhD Full Tenured Professor, Registered and Chart. Professional Engineer, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NCE, and the NJIT IT / IS Program, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: ranky@njit.eduPAUL G. RANKYPaul G. Ranky, PhD Full Tenured Professor, The Department of Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering, and the IT /IS Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. For abiographical sketch, including current projects

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

KENNETH WADE JACKSON

learning within the context of real world situations.Such innovation in engineering education while maintaining its traditional rigorpresents many challenges. These interrelated challenges include the following: (1)Critical STEM competencies and professional licensing capability must be impartedin a traditional four year program of study. (2) Lecture based courses are moreefficient. (3) Many faculty perceive the analytical, math-intensive courses inengineering science to have higher prestige. (4) Individual learning assessment inexperiential, project-based courses is less objective and the supporting assessmentpedagogies for engineers are not well developed. (5) Fewer faculty have experienceand training in teaching multidisciplinary design courses

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ossama Elhadary

research interests includeElectronic Commerce, Adoption of technology, project Management, and best practices inmanagement of IT. 232 Using Internships and Input from Businesses to Guide the development of a Computer Technician CourseAbstractThis paper discusses the process of developing a computer technician’s course for the Associatedegree program in computer systems. The paper discusses how the faculty perceived a need todevelop such a course, and the process used to develop it. Students who had internships wereasked to list the activities they did in their internships. And then this list was used to develop asurvey that was then sent to department’s advisory board, as well as to

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

of computerscience, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. This paper discusseslaboratory development and the hands-on learning experience within the context of thiscapstone course on robotics and mechatronics. Topics covered include the innovation ofteaching industrial robotics to undergraduate students working on solving real-worldproblems, particularly as it applies to multidisciplinary fields such as bionics and solarenergy.IntroductionThis paper presents the establishment of a robotics and mechatronics laboratory forteaching and research integrated with the emerging fields of bionics and solar energythrough an NSF project involving undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty atGoodwin College of Drexel University

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

our future sustainability, while discussing the role of technology inaddressing these issues. The final core class is a capstone class in which expert speakersare invited from the campus community and the Pittsburgh region to address topicsfollowing a particular alternative energy course theme. The students are required tocomplete an undergraduate research project that is related to this theme.The remaining 6 credits that students are required to complete as part of the minor arechosen from a number of upper-level courses focusing on specific areas of expertise in bothscience and business disciplines. This increases the accessibility of the minor to the widerRMU community and introduces alternative energy and sustainability to non

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

RUBA A. AMARIN; Issa Batarseh

of different majors from thePrinciple in Electrical Engineering (EGN 3373) class at the University of Central Florida, and resultswere analyzed to measure the students’ feedback about the Tutor-Me Module. 77.8% of the studentsbelieve that the eTutor is a good tool for improving the understanding of the concepts in the class,while 18.5% think that the eTutor tool was not the only reason behind the understanding of theconcepts but the Module is good and user friendly, and 3.7% reported that the tool was not effectivefor them. Fig. 7 reports the survey results. Most answers came positive, and the students expressedtheir willingness to use this tool for all their courses. VI. Conclusion The MeLearning project will take a major leap in

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alison N. Garbash; Jed E. Marquart; Hui Shen

79.9 10 132 20 263 40 525 60 787 80 1049 100 1311 Glass 3.08 17.1 2904. ConclusionsThe objective of this project is to compare glass and alternating polymeric optical lenses’responses to various thermal loadings. Two thermal loadings were applied on glass andalternating layer polymeric lenses to simulate the heat produced by

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tyler J. Perlenfein; Jason B. Baxter

-6.0 -8.0 -10.0 VFigure I. Light and dark curves showing optimized cell performance.The best-performing cells produced after optimization showed a Jsc of 8.2 mA/cm2, Voc of 535 mV, FFof 43.5%, and PCE of 1.91%.Though OPV solar cells are markedly less efficient than others in the industry, notably mono- andpolycrystalline silicon, this type of cell shows great promise in its potential to significantly lower themanufacturing and materials cost of the solar industry, and to provide a more flexible product toconsumers.Acknowledgements: 524Funding for this project was provided

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Clive L. Dym

and Patrick Little, Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999 (1st Edition), 2004 (2nd Edition), 2008 (3rd Edition, with E. J. Orwin and R. E. Spjut); Spanish translation, Limusa Wiley, Balderas, Mexico, 2002; Korean translation, Info-Tech Corea, Seoul, South Korea, 2008; Portugese translation Artmed Editora, S.A., Porto Alegre RS, Brazil, 2010.9. Philip D. Cha, James J. Rosenberg, and Clive L. Dym, Fundamentals of Modeling and Analyzing Engineering Systems, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000.10. Clive L. Dym, Principles of Mathematical Modeling, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, New York, 2004. (First edition, 1980, co-authored by Elizabeth S. Ivey.)11. Jennifer Stroud

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

PATRICK BOBBIE; Sheryl Duggins; VENU DASIGI

dominating the market, there are now manycompeting products available, including open source, however Blackboard is still the leadingeducational course management system [11].In addition to using Vista™ at [Our University], some professors are also experimentingwith Sakai-Globule, which is open-source, and is gaining popularity and is being used byinstitutions like Georgia Institute of Technology. Sakai, free software, provides capabilities 141for storing and managing course data, student profile and assessment data like exams,projects, etc., and revising of such data. Globule is integrative with Sakai by offering aserver-based environment for developing content for eventual ‘pushing’ to Sakai

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

steel rails, Octave Chanute moderated the information flow necessary to theinvention of the airplane, and today individual moderators volunteer their time to open- 416source programming projects [10]. Knowledge brokers or gatekeepers of publishedknowledge play a major role in keeping the knowledge disseminated relevant to theindustry or the science for which it was intended. The 19th century was also a time of rapid development in office technologies such astyping and shorthand dictation. In the 1880s, women began learning shorthand and, afterthe turn of the 20th century, they monopolized the fields of typing and stenography. Thus,although AIME did not include women and had only one female

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

to 5 members and assigned a structured task such as “multiple-stepexercises, research projects, or presentations.”9 Per Johnson et al there are 5 crucial componentsfor cooperative learning groups:10 a. positive interdependence between students (“all for one and one for all”) b. face to face interaction c. individual accountability d. emphasize interpersonal and small-group skills e. processes must be in place for group review to improve effectivenessLedlow adds that equal participation is also important: “the structure of the assignment shouldbe such that all students have to participate, and that there are mechanisms to ensure that theparticipation is fairly equitable. You may try assigning roles, adding steps to the lesson

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

YILI TSENG

, J. and Kramer, J., Concurrency, Wiley, 2006[22] Yang, L. and Guo, M., High-Performance Computing, Wiley, 2006[23] Arora, G. et al., Microsoft C# Professional Projects, Premier, 2002[24] http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2006/10/19/why-windows-threads-are-better-than-posix-threads/[25] Gropp, W. et al., Using MPI, MIT Press, 1999[26] Gropp, W. et al., Using MPI-2, MIT Press, 1999[27] Sanders, J. and Kandrot, E., CUDA by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2011,[28] Kirk, D. and Hwu, W., Programming Massively Parallel Processors, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010[29] Hwu, W., GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011[30] www.top500.org 641

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Devon; Richard Schuhmann

trick.39Corporate visual identity (CVI) drives corporations to regularly purchase products to enhancetheir prestige.40 For example, corporate offices are built symbolically robust and tall (e.g. SearsTower, Chrysler Building) or surrounded by highly engineered and groomed landscaping inorder to project an identity message of prestige. The engineering and costs embodied withinthese design choices are clearly in excess of purely utilitarian alternatives. Corporations may alsopurchase prestige products unrelated to their primary business, such as sports arenas to enhancetheir CVI. These arenas are often purchased with a quasi-permanent time horizon; some are lesspermanent than others (e.g. Enron Field aka Minute Maid Park