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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

case of a power failure due to an emergency (such as a fire), no access to the network infrastructure is possible. 3.2 Planning We started by connecting the dots together and putting together few plans. The moment we finish oneplan, we analyze its weaknesses and then plug a patch into it and come up with a better plan. 3.2.1 Plan I: Make it simple Since we have a network of cameras connected to a single recording machine which is Internetaccessible, install the application on a PC located outside the building to get a live picture of what ishappening during the emergency. If there is a power outage then the data network and camera networkwill not work. There is no intercom system to communicate the information to the people inside

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end of course surveys, constituent focus groups, senior exit surveys, and facultyobservations.The current capstone design course, Civil Engineering Design (CED), was developed tomimic the civil engineering experiences students will face when they enter theengineering workforce after graduation. While this capstone course model continues todevelop with each successive semester, the Civil Engineering Faculty at CGA feel thenew course is better able to achieve the course objectives of graduating students who can“plan, design, execute, and manage a complex open-ended civil engineering project”.1 Inaccomplishing this goal, students produce engineering design documents, constructiondrawings, cost estimates, construction schedules, and any other

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Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

identify local entrepreneurial opportunities that require redesign ordevelopment of a device that will enhance the quality of life of the local area. The students then work onredesigning or development of the device using local materials and input from the local community. Thebusiness students on the team perform a business feasibility analysis and present the plan to thecommunity, which can then develop these devices for the local or wider region.The first project undertaken through the program was redesign of a human powered grain crusher for acommunity in Senegal. The grain crusher being designed at Rowan University has undergone manyrevisions to make it more affordable and sustainable. It can be powered using a bicycle and therefore canutilize

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Gad J. Selig

Title: Transforming a Technology Management Master’s Degree Curriculum into a Successful Inter-Disciplinary Program for the 21st Century Needs of Global Organizations Dr. Gad J. Selig, PMP, COPDirector, MS in Technology Management and Dual Graduate Business/Engineering Degree Programs, University of BridgeportAbstractAs organizations develop their hiring plans in the areas of business, engineering technology and management, theyare seeking a greater number of individuals with multi-disciplinary skills, competencies and backgrounds to providethem with maximum flexibility for employer assignments, greater diversity in the work force and more effectiveemployees

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Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

personal problems, not academic problem. For this reasonall those involved need to understand the policies and procedures that affect students'financial aid as well as have a clear understanding of how to effectively advise thosestudents in financial need.The career development center on campus needs to go beyond their traditional role aswell. They need to help students understand how their chosen study plan will learn aninteresting career that pays well. If they understand their career options/goals then theywill have a better focus on their classes. Career services should also organize shortseminars to help students better make the connection between their academic planningand their career goals.Another way to help make that connection is by

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Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

verycontroversial subject that will never receive unanimous approval. The question governments are facedwith then becomes, what course of action should be taken in light of the fact that they will be damned ifdam and they will be damned if they don’t. The decision concerning building dams is not one that can bea simple yes or no. Ultimately a decision will be made to go ahead and build a dam or shelf the plan tobuild one. However, aside from being an analytical decision that requires careful weighing of the pros andcons, the issue is influenced by an undeniable weight of emotions. There are those who feel one way oranother about dam construction and have already made up their minds about the issue even beforelistening to any argument for or against

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Cory Gionet; Ashraf Ghaly

functions of the software, each studentwas required to design and to draw a 2D plan view of a house with at least two bedrooms, a living room,a bathroom, and an attached garage. This gave the students an opportunity to use many of the basicfeatures of the software, which served as a foundation for the much more intricate projects that wouldfollow. Figure 1 shows the 2D plan view the writer designed and drew within this theme.Preliminary 3D AssignmentBuilding on the previous week’s assignment, students were required to use the plan view developed forthe house to add the third dimension and show their creation in 3D virtual space. This assignmentenhanced students’ appreciation of buildings in 3D and illustrated the functionality of the software

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Daniel J. McCarthy; Michael J. Kwinn

astray.In this paper, we discuss the process we followed and the results of our efforts to deliberately assess thesystems engineering program and make changes as necessary. We discuss the effort to align the program,the ongoing assessment and evaluation plan we established to ensure we maintain alignment as we moveforward and then we summarize with some lessons learned and conclude. We begin with a shortbackground of the Department of Systems Engineering, the newest department at the United StatesMilitary Academy, and its namesake academic program. Page 1BackgroundIn 1989 the Department of Systems Engineering spun off from the former Department of Engineering(now the Department of Civil and

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Vicki V. May

Student Development of Class Notes using a Wiki as an Alternative to a Single Course Textbook Vicki V. May, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, and Instructor, Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Vicki.V.May@Dartmouth.eduAbstractHow often do we as faculty members complain about the textbook? Not to mention thecomplaints we get from our students. Yet, the first thing we often do when planning a courseis select a textbook. Selecting and relying on a single text tends to be teacher-centered andcontent

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David A. Gray

of Lloyd S.Nelson as quoted by W. Edwards Deming. 3. The question is, “If you can improve productivity, or sale, orquality, or anything else, by (e.g.) 5 percent next year without a rational plan for improvement, then whywere you not doing it last year?” A student cannot just sit and do nothing and expect grades to improve.That student has to evaluate his or her process and change it. The rational plan may be as simple as notwaiting until the last minute to study for a test. That is a process change, and implementation of the planshould result in improvement.Once students have bought into the idea that each is the principle owner of a process, we need to placethem in a position to manage it. Such management is their responsibility. Most

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

the device plan, the proof mass Msexperiences an inertial force -Ms·a along the opposite direction. As a result, the beams deflectand the movable mass and movable fingers move for a certain displacement x along the directionof the inertial force. The left and right capacitance gaps are changed, hence the differentialcapacitances C1 and C2 will also be changed. By measuring this small differential capacitancechange, we know the value and the direction of the experienced acceleration. This is the workingprinciple of the MEMS comb accelerometer. The comb accelerometer design also supports in-field built-in self-test feature. Among these capacitance pairs, most capacitance groups act as the sensingcapacitance and other few capacitance groups act

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wei Cao; Yanqing Gao; Jason Robert Mace

different operation platforms work together as aswarming group; the organization and function of a swarming team is just like bees or ants. Theindividual intelligent robot can run in either autonomous mode or cooperative mode. Normally, there isone or more ground station(s) to coordinate and initiate the swarming team. The path planning andobstacle avoidance will become a part of formatted cooperative team work. The communication between the ground station(s) and individual intelligent robots has beendeveloped in a systematic manner in the past decade. However, there is no convinced and reliablephysical communication means between individual robots available. And the fact of that there isn’t anymethodology of information exchanging between

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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John Adams; Charles Kochakian

although ABET1Criteria 3 (d), (f) and (h) are being achieved, morecoursework addressing these criteria could prove highly valuable. The decision was made thatincluding RFID in the curriculum, and crafting it in such a way that business students can take itat the same time, would significantly strengthen the curriculum in addressing those outcomes.The department’s overall assessment process, the assessment results leading to decisions onincluding the course and what to include in the course, and planned course assessment are alldiscussed below.First Offering of RFIDThe course was offered as a 3-credit advanced elective in the spring semester 2007. There wasone lead instructor, with lectures taught by one other EE department instructor and experts

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

three year grants guarantee that 90% ofmathematics and science teachers in the applying school districts fully participate in the conditions of thegrant. Those conditions involved engaging in common planning times, participating in 100 hours ofprofessional development each year of the grant, providing programs in an “extended day” format,acquiring increased content knowledge in mathematics and science and demonstrating improvedpedagogical curriculum plans in the classroom. The latter two requirements are externally validatedthrough the ETS Mathematics and Science Teacher tests and consultant observations of classroompractices.As the higher education partner, faculty members from mathematics, science and engineering departmentshad to agree to

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Imin Kao

teaching, and tocontinuously make improvements to the development of better approaches and the integration ofnew technology.3. Podcast as an Asynchronous Tool to Enhance the Learning ExperienceIn this section, podcast as an asynchronous tool to enhance the learning experience of students inengineering courses is discussed. First, the design and planning of courses/lectures is presented,followed by discussions on the issue of interaction with students. The assessment and peerevaluation are presented after that.3.1 Course Design and Lectures PlanningThe author found, through the experience of teaching engineering courses with podcasting, thatin order to publish lectures in video podcast format, course contents often need to be re-designedor re

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

Getting Students to Think Green: Incorporating Green Building Rating Systems into Undergraduate Reinforced Concrete Education Major Richard J.H. Gash, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY Major David Fedroff, United States Military Academy, West Point, NYAbstract This paper presents a plan for introducing undergraduate students studying reinforced concretedesign to sustainable engineering. As increased emphasis on sustainable development initiatives continueto gain popularity it is imperative that young engineers entering into the design and constructionindustries understand the potential that concrete has for building green. Beginning

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Richard B. Mindek

toexperiment with the program structure needed to control particular output devices. Student feedback todate suggests the availability of this platform, which encourages self-exploration, has had a very positiveimpact on student learning in a recently run graduate course. Plans for implementing an experientiallearning approach using an updated version of the same platform in the undergraduate engineeringcurriculum are also discussed.1.0 IntroductionA programmable logic controller (PLC) is a microprocessor-based control system used by industry tocommunicate with other process control components. It is used in process control for simple switchingtasks, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, complex data manipulation, arithmetic operations

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

science class. As you can see from Figures 7 and 8, both processes first define theproblem or the mission by examining facts, assumptions, and specified/implied/critical tasks. Bothprocesses then design alternatives and model or test those alternatives so they can be analyzed andcompared. Finally, both processes enable us to arrive at a reasonable decision and both are iterative innature with feedback loops to further refine the design or plan. While this interdisciplinary project wasdesigned to show our students the connections between organic chemistry, reaction engineering andseparations, but we were able to draw multiple connections across many aspects of our curriculum like thecase of engineering design and military science. The

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

. The art of finding a common ground and reaching acompromise regarding hotly contested issues is one of the important attributes designers need to possess.This course, entitled Artistic Engineering, explores some of the most complicated structures ever built andthe engineering and non-engineering challenges that accompanied their planning and construction. Afteraddressing the historical aspect of a given structure, students use a computer-based platform (SolidWorkssoftware) to virtually build a model of that structure. This process is similar to solving a jigsaw puzzle.The major highlight of this approach is its hi-tech nature. In this exercise students are given pre-madecomputer models that constitute the individual components of the entire

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Neal A. Lewis

made without incident. Routine quality inspection of the third batch revealed ametal contamination: small slivers of what appeared to be stainless steel were inside many of the gelatin 2capsules. A day later, the same contamination was found in the fourth batch. Further production wasstopped, and I was notified of the problem. Because the issue occurred at a contract manufacturer, it wasthe contractor’s responsibility to identify and correct the problem. I had already planned on being at theplant the following Monday. Some of our R&D people were already at the plant to assist in the startup,and they committed to help in the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

Guard, a built-in feature of Oracle DatabaseEnterprise Edition, guarantees a disaster recovery solution that is database aware and fully integratedwith other Oracle High Availability (HA) features.Adidas also has a number of new projects in development on Oracle Database 10g. Adidas plans to useData Guard10g Rolling Upgrades, a new feature that dramatically reduces the downtime required toupgrade from one database release to the next (Oracle 10.1.0.3 is the minimum database release requiredfor rolling upgrades). Like many Oracle users, Adidas will soon upgrade existing production systemsfrom Oracle9i to Oracle Database 10g. Adidas’s testing showed that in their environment, the upgradefrom Oracle9i to Oracle 10g requires a minimum of 25 minutes

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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A.E. Schuster; J.A. Sanchez; C.W. Swan; J.L. Durant; D.M. Matson

connected with a small non-governmental organization (NGO) called EpilogosCharities.Epilogos is located in the municipality of San Jose Villanueva, El Salvador and run by two former PeaceCorps volunteers. Epilogos was interested in working with Tufts EWB to improve access to drinkingwater in the village of Arada Vieja, a small community of about 120 people. A group of students beganworking to plan a site assessment trip to Arada Vieja. Communicating regularly with Epilogos, they 1worked to gain a strong understanding of the water system in Arada Vieja and of the community’s needs.The students researched various water pump technologies, developed a water quality testing schedule,drafted a health

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gregory S. Parnell; Michael J. Kwinn

SE301 experiment Redesign SE301 with text Course director Experienced faculty MS MS in systems PhD in engineering with job and (designs course and in systems engineering engineering or research experience in systems develops lesson or operations research operations research engineering plans) Civilian and senior military

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

one biomedical engineer) recently lived and worked inWindhoek, Namibia for seven weeks and developed a plan for erosion and flood control in theinformal settlements there. (See Vaz, 2000 and the WPI Global Perspectives web site.) This kindof project work has not been available to first-year students. Perhaps just as important, traditionalcourses in the first year have not always prepared students for project work in the junior andsenior years.When do students have enough background to start working on something interesting andimportant? Tryggvason and Apelian (2006) have argued that the engineer of the 21st century“knows everything” in the very real sense that advances in information technology have made all

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

responsibilities have minimal effects. Collaborative Competitive Similar proportions of men and women science and engineering doctorates plan to enter postdoctoral study or academic employment. Not very good at Good at math Female performance in high school mathematics now math matches that of males. Ignorant of [Aware of Although scientists like to believe that they “choose the opportunities opportunities] best” based on objective criteria, decisions are influenced by factors—including biases about race, sex

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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B.M. Wright; C.W. Swan; D.M. Matson

thecommunity leaders volunteered to pilot the project. He and his family participated in the preparation ofthe materials and the construction of the filter. As a liaison to FBU, he arranged for a representative tofilm the construction. Students provided a commentary in English and Spanish explaining the function ofeach component and the maintenance procedures. FBU planned to use the video to show leaders fromother communities the feasibility for application of this technology in rural Ecuador.After returning to the United States the EWB group analyzed the layout of the water systems, assessed thewater testing data and evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a community filter ormultiple individual units. At the same time, armed with

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Marie-Pierre Huguet; Tom Haley; Sehnaz Baltaci-Goktalay

Design BriefAt our institution, one of the most powerful tool that we use to design courses is the design brief. It is a highlevel design documents that maintains consistency with other courses, and adherence to sound instructionaldesign principles, and to specific instructional rules. It provides an instructional blueprint for thedevelopment and implantation of activities pertaining to the course. It is both a record of planned activitiesand a guide for the development and implementation of a course.It is composed of six main areas: General information about the course, an overview, a section dedicated tothe tools and technologies selected, another to the design of the user interface for the Web-based component,a third dedicated to the content

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

installation, with agoal of construction to begin as early as Summer 2008. The team had to address the design ofthe bio-digester within the physical, operational, and economic constraints of the farm. Duringthe project, the team became familiar with the construction process in the rural Vermont area andhow it pertains to this project. For the team, the learning objectives included designing thevarious components of the bio-digester unit, evaluating input alternatives to optimize methaneproduction, and developing an implementation plan for the digester considering a new KISSprinciple (Knowledge + Innovation = Sustainable Systems). Public Communication of Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation This project required developing an effective

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

students could complete theirhomework in two hours. Some students said that they like having time over several days to completeassignments. This suggestion is being taken into consideration for future projects. It could be possible todesign a game so that students could complete it at their own pace over the course of several days.Future research will focus on expanding the content and creating games that are more visual in nature.The use of interactive graphics will be utilized to help those students who learn better by visual methodsand provide alternative ways of learning. We plan to investigate more efficient ways to download studentscores and facilitate team interaction. In addition, we plan to investigate the use of Second Life foradditional

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client needs. Then careful planning is importantbetween the teacher and the client with additional consultation with other professionals asneeded before the assignment statement is drafted and given to the students. Sometimes studentstake an active role in developing project goals and tasking but it is important to monitor andredirect when necessary to keep the project on track. Intermediate deliverables are extremelyhelpful to keep students on track and to give some feedback on their progress and redirection asneeded.It is important to be upfront with clients about the limitations of educational class projects at theundergraduate level. Most clients are not teachers and they may not be fully aware thatmentoring students through projects means