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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

taken of theprimary production database.The primary database is configured to ship redo data to the standby using Data Guard LGWR ASYNCtransport services. LGWR ASYNC ships redo data to the standby server as it is committed using anasynchronous process. The standby database receives the redo data and writes it to standby redo logs(SRLs). Then following a log switch on the primary, Data Guard archives the SRL and completes theprocess of applying the redo data to the standby database.Note that the process used by Data Guard to maintain the standby copy of the production database issignificantly different from that used by remote mirroring solutions such as SRDF. SRDF must replicate

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

. Students were directed to undertake engineering designs inspecialized areas of transportation engineering and technology. Design topics applicable to theseareas reported ranged from Flexible Pavements, Rigid Pavements, Asphalt Paving Technology,Pavement Rehabilitation, to Signalized Traffic Intersections. These topics covered not onlyconventional transportation systems but also intelligent transportation systems. The students’presentations were peer-graded.The significance of empowerment in design, discovery, and learning was extensively documentedby applying appropriate statistical tests. Assessment, grading formula and results are tabulated.The best papers maintained the standards for publication at appropriate local, regional and ornational

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Qing Li

and motivation,and institutional fit. After examining all these proposed characteristics, the author believes that there haveemerged three broad characteristic categories.2.1. What Characteristics of Engineering Students Have Been Measured?The first category includes characteristics that are shaped by external factors. Example external characteristics inthis category are institutional environment, curriculum requirement, peer or adult influences, average income ofengineers, etc. The common feature of these characteristics is that they are the engineering related properties ofthe community where a student is situated. An individual student is not able to change these characteristicsthrough personal endeavor. Instead, these characteristics will

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

engineering companies, the need for marketing and business development, project procurement, and project financing b. Legal aspects of engineering: contracts and agreements, terms and conditions of engineering services, legal adjudication including Alternate Dispute Resolution c. Professional risk management techniques: insurance requirements for design professionals, peer review processes, and product quality management d. Personnel/career management including professional licensure and society participation Additionally, the course presented an overview of future trends and challenges to theengineering profession, focusing mainly on

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jalpa Bani; Syed S. Rizvi

accessed inconstant-time rather than variable-time. This would disable any attacker from writing a spy program tobrute force the key and data out of the cache data stored during execution of the DCF algorithm. DCFalgorithm can be implemented successfully using C++ programming language. In the implementation ofDCF algorithm, cache is flushed periodically during encryption or decryption time. This would disablethe attacker from tapping the cache for data. On the downside, there was a (not so noteworthy)performance hit on the encryption process, but on a brighter note, the DCF algorithm stands strongagainst the cache timing attack. Page 7 of 8References[1] J. Daemen and V. Rijmen, “AES Proposal: Rijndael

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Frank X. Wright; Marie-Pierre Huguet

Institution-Name of School]’s Introduction to Management,MGMT-1100. This course is designated as one half of the Institute’s communication requirement, and, assuch, awards performance. “The course, by design, makes you “think” by exposing you to managementand business situations, calling upon you to decide “what to do.” This requires both individual andteam performance criteria promoting a participative and active learning environment. The four broadareas of evaluation are (1) class participation and attendance, (2) case write-ups and presentations, (3)final executive presentation and (4) special assignments1.” This paper outlines a nearly eleven-yearchronology of the student’s improved performance as I, the instructor, journeyed into the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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NADIYE O. ERDIL; KOENRAAD E. GIESKES

AN EVALUATION OF A LEARNING COMMUNITY PROGRAM FOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTSNADIYE O. ERDIL, Binghamton UniversityKOENRAAD E. GIESKES, Binghamton UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses a pilot program for a freshman engineering learning community at BinghamtonUniversity. The engineering learning community program is an integration of three courses, anintroduction to engineering course, a technical writing course, and a calculus course, for students whoreside in the same campus residence hall. The main objectives of the program are to improve studentretention, to increase faculty/teaching assistants/student/residential staff interaction, and to encouragestudent engagement and interest.This paper focuses on the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Michael Berry; Paul Russo; Joshua Wyrick

people and to promote better living standards for all walks of life.Anthropologic and Cultural Learning through Outreach EducationThe Ngonine, Senegal water distribution project is unique in how it led to a sense of cultural awarenessand global needs understanding on behalf of the participants influencing both their mindset and overalldemeanor. The event was an eye opening experience that truly touched our team’s lives. To see thisisolated and self sufficient community simply living, no more and no less, brought us back to humanity. Itwas as if we had peered through the modern fog of materialistic America into the essence of who we areas people, fundamentally human.Cultural and Social OutlookAlthough impoverished and afflicted with many ailments

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

classroom). Each projector screen will cover two of the flat screen LCD monitors when inuse. Therefore, the visual system in the room can be operated in one of three modes: 1. Four projectors 2. Two projectors and four LCD monitors 3. Eight LCD monitorsThe instructor station is an Intel Quadcore PC with a quad-port video board, 1 terabyte of disk storage,and 4 gigabytes of memory. The instructor station is also equipped with two WACOM pen screensallowing the instructor to write on the computer screen. We chose the Synchroneyes software to controlthe student workstations. With this software the instructor can broadcast their screen(s) to all studentscreens or project any student’s screen to their own screen.The technology environment for

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6. AutoCAD exposureThe laboratory portion of the course continued to provide time each week for students towork on their specific capstone design, but this designated lab time became slightly morestructured. The first month of the semester, the course instructor guided the students tofocus on the planning aspects associated with their project. This phase of the courseconcluded with Planning Presentations and a chance for the students to share theirresearch and project goals with their peers and instructors. The rest of the semester, thestudents spent in the design/build (depending on the project) phase of their capstoneexperience. The semester still concluded with a final presentation where the studentsreported their results and summarized