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degree in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Master of Science degree in mechanicalengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004. He has served in various command andstaff positions during his Army career and during his tenure at USMA has course directed the aeronauticalsubdiscipline courses. He is the current faculty advisor for the SAE Design Build Fly team.

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David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

, each with a full suite of Pasco equipment and a desktop computer. As new technologies filter into the hands of physics, engineering, and science teachers, we are facedwith many questions. Are there valid reasons to use the technology to teach or is it solely for the sake oftechnology. Does the technology allow us to reach students we might not otherwise reach? Does thetechnology help our modern students to establish a link between “classroom physics” and “playgroundphysics?” In retrospect, we attempt to answer these questions based on three case studies conductedduring the Fall 2007 Introductory Newtonian Mechanics course and the Spring 2008 Electricity andMagnetism course. Over a two-year period, the United States Military Academy

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Tie Duan; Ronnie Baroud; Daniel Amato; Albert LaRoe

Real-Time, CNC Machine Tool Control with Linux: A Senior Design Project at MUSE Tie Duan, Ronnie Baroud, Daniel Amato, Albert LaRoe School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractAs machine tools age and their existing controllers fail, the machine tools must be either modernized orscrapped. This paper details the infusion of new technology and the resulting extended useful life of acomputer numerical controlled (CNC) tabletop lathe. This work was undertaken as a senior design projectby a group of senior engineers at Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE). Key to the successof the project was the ability to have a low cost, high

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Harry Knickle; Don Gray

Adding Automatic Control to the Senior Laboratory Experience Harry Knickle and Don Gray Chemical Engineering, URI ASEE 2008, West PointDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island knickle@egr.uri.eduIntroduction and BackgroundOur program has 2 semesters of senior laboratory requiring a total of 4 credits. We alsohad a second semester junior level required data acquisitions and control laboratory for 2credits. The Department decided to drop the junior course and integrate data acquisitionand control into the senior lab courses. One objective was to reduce the credit load.Another objective was to introduce larger

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Jalpa Bani; Syed S. Rizvi

A New Dynamic Cache Flushing (DCF) Algorithm to Prevent Cache Timing Attack Jalpa Bani and Syed S. Rizvi Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT – 06604 {jbani, srizvi}@bridgeport.eduAbstractRijndael algorithm was unanimously chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by the panel ofresearchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in October 2000. Since then,Rijndael was destined to be used massively in various software as well as hardware entities for encryptingdata. However a few years back, Daniel Bernstein devised a

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Kanchan Sharma; Isaac G. Macwan; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence Hmurcik; Xingguo Xiong

Design Optimization of MEMS Comb Accelerometer Kanchan Sharma, Isaac G. Macwan, Linfeng Zhang, Lawrence Hmurcik, Xingguo Xiong Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 AbstractMEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) refers to the technology integrating electrical and mechanicalcomponents with feature size of 1~1000 microns. MEMS comb accelerometers have been successfullyapplied for air-bag deployment systems in automobiles. In this paper, the design optimization of a poly-silicon surface-micromachined MEMS comb accelerometer is discussed. The device uses folded-beamstructure to

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M. Ali Montazer, University of New Haven

Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D. University of New Haven – Tagliatela College of Engineering West Haven, Connecticut 06516 AbstractWith funding support from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) /National Aerospace Leadership Initiatives (NALI), a Center for Simulation Modeling andAnalysis has been established at the University of New Haven. The objectives of theCenter are (1) to bring modeling and simulation techniques and tools, through faculty andstudent teams, to the Connecticut aerospace parts manufacturers to support their efforts inimplementing Lean / Six

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Sarosh Patel; Manan Joshi; Lawrence Hmurcik

, Computer Networking andWireless Communications.Lawrence V. Hmurcik is Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at the University ofBridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. He earned his Ph.D. in semiconductor devices at Clarkson University in 1980.He worked in Diamond Shamrock's research division for 3 years before joining the University ofBridgeport in 1983. Dr. Hmurcik has 50 publications and 5 grants. He is also a professional consultant with240 case entries, including 14 appearances in Court and Legal Depositions. Dr. Hmurcik's interests havechanged over the years: starting in Solar Cell technology in 1977, Dr. Hmurcik is currently pursuing workin Medical Electronics and Electric Safety

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Sarosh Patel; Khaled Elleithy

Hierarchically Segmented Routing Protocol for MANETs Sarosh Patel and Khaled Elleithy Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Bridgeport {saroshp, elleithy}@bridgeport.eduAbstract- With the rapid advances in wireless and semiconductor technologies mobile connectivity became cheap and ubiquitous. One ofthe major challenges facing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (also known as MANETs) is the absence of a proper routing protocol thatprovides good scalability, low overhead, low end-to-end delays, seamless connectivity and good quality of service. In

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Murat Demirci; Zheng Jeremy Li

AUTOMATED HIGH SPEED ASSEMBLY MACHINE DESIGNMurat Demirci Zheng Jeremy Li, PhDGraduate Student Associate ProfessorSchool of Engineering School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport University of BridgeportAbstractRecent years, automation is still important for industrial world and in the global economy. Because of theglobal competition, industries started to look for new technologies and designs in automation field. Thereis no more enough time, energy and material to catch people needs for industries in nowadays. Thus,automated systems are becoming more interesting and

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Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

1989).Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in Computer 5Engineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases. For last one year, his research focused primarily onthe modeling and simulation of wide range parallel/distributed

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Auf Akhtar; Syed S. Rizvi; Khaled M. Elleithy

routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of MOBICOM 2000, pages 255–265, 2000.[5] Pietro Michiardi and Refik Molva. CORE: A collaborative reputation mechanism to enforce node cooperation in mobile ad hoc networks. Sixth IFIP conference on security communications, and multimedia (CMS 2002), Portoroz, Slovenia., 2002.Author biographiesAUF AKHTAR has recently finished his M.S. in Computer Sciences and Engineering from University of Bridgeport. Hisresearch interest includes database design.SYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in Computer Engineeringfrom Old

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Saikat Ray

Indian school system. In India (excluding the Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) and Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), and a handful others) many Indian universities are just an examination body. Students study in various colleges that are affiliated with a given university and they all get the diploma from that university. These colleges, however, differ widely in quality. While some of them are reasonably good, many others are below the minimum standard  many do not even have professors to hold classes. Therefore the established culture is studying only for the examinations; the importance of classes is limited since the examinations are not set by the teachers.In summary, in

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Abdelrahman M. Rabie; Rahman Haleem

1 A Model for a Bi-lingual Curriculum Abdelrahman M Rabie, Associate Professor, ISAT Department, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA Rahman Haleem Assistant Professor and Director, Institute for Technological Innovations (ITI), Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAbstractThere has been an increasing demand for multilingual professionals, in various fields includingengineering, which in turn which in turn lead to the increased demand and

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studiesinvolving human subjects (Borrego, 2007). The predictive model discussed in this paper isbroadly applicable to the measurement of only student achievement, but is still a powerful toolfor making a direct measure of the impact of a particular change on the achievement of a studentgroup.The best metric by which to predict undergraduate student performance in engineering, science,and technology-related courses is a topic open to further exploration. Researchers have foundvarying levels of success using diverse student characteristics as indicators. For example, Eskewand Faley (1988) proposed a complex model of factors affecting student performance inbeginning accounting courses; among the factors found to be most significant were SAT scores,high

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Sarosh Patel; Viqar U. Mohammed; Varun Kumar Godula

TDM & FDM Overlays on Bluetooth Abdelshakour Abuzneid , Sarosh Patel Viqar U.Mohammed , Varun Kumar Godula Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Bridgeport {abuzneid, saroshp,vmohamme,vgodula}@bridgeport.eduAbstract- This work aims at providing a proof of concept for multiplexing in Bluetooth by using traditional(TDM and FDM) multiplexing overlays upon frequency hopping spread spectrum (Bluetooth Modulation) bymeans of a functional simulation. This overlaid multiplexing technique can simplify the point to multi

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Richard B. Mindek

Development of a Programmable Logic Controller Experiential Learning Platform Richard B. Mindek, Jr. Western New England College, Springfield MassachusettsAbstractAn experiential learning platform was recently developed to expose graduate engineering students, aswell as undergraduate junior and senior mechanical engineering students, to the concept, components,operation, and application of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The platform consists of aprogrammable logic controller, which can be programmed with a desktop PC, in order to control severalsimple output devices. The system allows students to write their own ladder logic programs, and

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Syed S. Rizvi; Aasia Riasat; Muhammad S. Rashid

., [1999]. "Static and Dynamic Configurable Systems," IEEE Trans. On Computers, Vol. 48, Issue. 6, pp. 556-563, June 1999. 7Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in ComputerEngineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases

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M.A. Abuhelaleh; K.M. Elleithy

Routing in Sensor Networks: Performance and Security in clustered networks M. A. Abuhelaleh, K. M. Elleithy School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT 06606 {mabuhela, elleithy} @bridgeport.edu Abstract- Due to high restrictions in sensor network, where the resources are limited, clustering protocols forrouting organization have been proposed in much research for increasing system throughput, decreasingsystem delay and saving energy. Even these algorithms have proposed some levels of security, butbecause of their dynamic nature of

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Padmini K. Ramalingam; Munther Abualkibash; Rajendra Tadvi; Jeongkyu Lee

ONTOLOGY CREATION FOR WIRELESS CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY VIDEOS Padmini K Ramalingam, Munther Abualkibash, Rajendra Tadvi, Jeongkyu Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06611, USA E-mail :{ pkuppusa, mabualki, rtadvi, jelee}@bridgeport.eduAbstractIn this paper we study multimedia ontology for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) videos byenhancing its existing data structure. The ‘wireless capsule’ is a tiny disposable video camera thattransmits 2 ~ 3 frames per second for a period of 8 ~ 11 hours. There are open problems in WCE,such as bleeding detection, as it is hard to identify accurately, using low-level features, i.e

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Eman Abdelfattah

Mobile Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols: Evaluation of Performance Eman Abdelfattah Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT 06604AbstractMobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are the only plausible choice when there is no infrastructurewireless network or it is too expensive to build one as in remote areas. They have the advantage of beingquickly deployable. Routing is needed to find a path between the source and the destination and toforward the packets even if the destination node is out of range of the source node. In ad-hoc networks,high mobility, low