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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Enrique Sola; Anne E. Mohan; James Patrick Abulencia

ASPEN, students at Manhattan College have been able to model theirsenior plant designs in order to better understand the thermodynamics behind their projects. PaulMarnell Ph.D. is a senior professor at the College and teaches the Plant Design course forstudents in their senior year. Although he allows the use of ASPEN, he is very clear about thefact that he wants each student to understand the calculations involved with each piece ofequipment. Dr. Marnell requires weekly meetings in order to assure that each studentunderstands the fundamental principles of the equipment in the design. Computer programs suchas ASPEN give students the opportunity to take vaguely defined problems and generate multiplescenarios from them, thus being able to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nancy Ortins Savage; Samuel Daniels; Michael A. Collura P.E.

., “Enabling a Comprehensive Teaching Strategy: Video Lectures,” The Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008, 7, 71-86. 5. Carpi, A., Mikhailova, Y. “The Visionlearning Project: Evaluating the Design and Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Science Web Content”, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2003, 33, 12-15. 6. Nichols, J. Shaffer, B., Shockey, K. “Changing the Face of Instruction: Is Online or In-class More Effective” College & Research Libraries, 2003, 378-388. 7. Lents, N.H., Cifuentes, O.E., “Web-Based Learning Enhancements: Video Lectures Through Voice-Over PowerPoint in a Majors-Level Biology Course”, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2009, 39, 38-46. 8. Dutton, J., Dutton, M

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

to wake up capture data, perform calculations, take actions, communicate and then go to sleep; this concept goes against what the textbooks traditionally cover. Some of the new millennium jobs characteristic is that innovative systems and devices that will be designed and implemented should be energy aware, self sustainable and efficient. This posses an interesting question: “In a university environment: how can we transfer to the millennials all the concepts of classical microprocessor and microcontrollers systems using the latest in multimedia technologies, get the students to perform concurrent tasks while collaborating in teams, offer immediate feedback on their performance while making them responsible for the projects that

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Onesmo Ogore; Kushal Sherpa; Caleb Baron; Mansour Zenouzi; Shankar Krishnan

Design of a Simplified Hemodialysis Simulation Onesmo Ogore, Kushal Sherpa, Caleb Baron, Mansour Zenouzi, Ph.D., P.E., and Shankar Krishnan, Ph.D. Electronics and Mechanical Department Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA 02115Session 6: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design courseABSTRACTThe objective of the present study is to create a representation of a hollow fiberdialyzer which is a critical component of any hemodialysis system. This is done tofacilitate the understanding of the mass transport and fluid dynamics processesthat occur within the dialyzer, which affect the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Jeng-Nan Juang

in a specified time. Data collected from theexperiment is presented in Table 1. For each trial run, the experiment was conducted three timesand the average airspeed was recorded in the table. Table 2 presents the raw data for theexperiments and was used for the Analysis of Variance – ANOVA [8] and Tukey’s test [9].The objective of this project is to perform the following statistical analysis on the data points anddetermine the validity of the results: Analysis of Variance [8], Tukey’s Test [9], Analysis ofResiduals [10], and Multiple Regression Model [11, 12]. The Two-Factor Analysis of Varianceperformed on the data allows testing the hypothesis that there is no significant effect for each ofthe factors, fan speed and channel height, and the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Charles R. Sullivan; Mark J. Franklin

consumption in real vehicles,popularly termed “hypermiling,” has spawned enthusiast web sites [2], [3] and competitions inwhich contestants often top 100 mpg [4]. This framework was used to engage students’ attentionas they strive to improve their own driving performance and compete with each other, and togive them an incentive to consider subtleties of vehicle power requirements, engine efficiencymaps, and their interactions. In this paper, we describe the technical development of thesimulator, the activities developed making use of it, and the class in which we used it.Technical Development of the Simulator We were very fortunate to be able to start this project with a highly developed open-source driving simulator, TORCS version 1.3.1 [1