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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Francis J. Hopcroft

and universities at the same time, is much less the norm. This paper describes severalprojects undertaken in two visits to a rural community in the rain forest of the southernAmazonas Department (state) of north central Peru. The community is Chirimoto; a small towndevastated by floods in 1979 from which it is only now beginning to recover. Electric power, forexample, which was destroyed in 1979, was finally restored in May of 2009, and then onlymarginally. Projects discussed include an Engineers Without Borders Assessment trip in Januaryof 2008, a second EWB assessment trip in June of 2009, and an Economic DevelopmentPlanning trip, combined with water and wastewater management planning and the architecturaldesign of renovations to a

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Peter Salvatore

. The Green Team is structured into twocommittees. One focuses on recycling and one focuses on sustainability. Both committeesdevelop new, innovative ideas to help improve campus wide sustainability efforts. The GreenTeam received the award for the Best Student Organization Executive Board in 2008.Within three years of signing the ACUPCC, WIT is required to create a Comprehensive ActionPlan (CAP) with a future completion date and interim milestone dates for becoming carbonneutral. The starting point for this plan is the completion of a comprehensive greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions inventory of the Wentworth Campus. The Green Team was recruited tocomplete this inventory and conduct other support activities such as Recyclemania to facilitatethe

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Chiara Silvestri; Suzanne LePage; Paul P. Mathisen

Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have made use of video-streamed tutorials to address this challenge. The goal was toenhance training of young engineers and illustrate abstract concepts related to course material. This paper describes the advantages and challenges associated with the use of these tutorialsin three case studies, which include integration of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software in agraduate impact crashworthiness course and Geographical Information System (GIS) softwareinto four undergraduate environmental planning courses. For each course, short tutorials weredeveloped using the Camtasia Studio Software Package, which captures parts of the screendefined by the user and records any action occurring in that area along with

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wei PAN; Yingbin Shi; Jeremy Li

Computer Simulation and Analysis of High-precision Automated Assembly Line in Telecommunication Industry Wei Pan Yingbin Shi Advisor: Prof. Jeremy Li Session: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital ageAbstractIn this project, a mechanism for inserting assembly technology is described. The process isseparated into two portions: pick-up and assembly. In the pick-up portion, process planning forindustry assembly is a very complex task, which is mostly dependent upon the combination ofexperience along with up-to-date assembly technology. Attempts to simulate the automatedassembly process have been largely unsuccessful and it remains a difficult task

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Hudson V. Jackson P.E.; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E.; Nathan Rumsey; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E.

design course, CE1402 Civil Engineering Design (CED), was developed tomimic the civil engineering experiences students will face when they enter the engineeringworkforce after graduation. While this capstone course model continues to develop with eachsuccessive year, assessment data shows that course and program objectives of graduatingstudents who can “plan, design, execute, and manage a complex open-ended civil engineeringproject” are being met [4]. In accomplishing this goal, students produce engineering designdocuments, construction drawings, cost estimates, construction schedules, and any othernecessary project specific documents. In addition, students communicate the results of theirproject via a technical report and a formal presentation

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nathan Podoll; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Hudson Jackson

coordinator works with the lab technician in developing new in-class models to demonstratesome of the principles covered in the course. A schematic of the planning process is shown inFigure 2. Planning Review Previous Coordinate Develop Course EOCR Resources Schedule Train New Instructors Figure 2: Planning PhaseThe next step is to plan the course lectures, meetings, exam dates and lab schedules. This step isdone to ensure the topics in the classroom and lab are coordinated to provide maximum topicreinforcement for students. Some planning

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Paul C. King; Gerarda M. Shields

.Offering this course before the subsequent IP courses were fully developed allowed the team todetermine the appropriate depth and breadth of coursework for the second and third years. It was also avaluable way to identify the pre-existing skill set of the incoming freshmen. While the second and third year IP courses are currently in the development stage, it is planned thatstudents will embark on solving real-world architectural and civil engineering problems in the form of acomprehensive project that will span multiple trimesters. Here, emphasis will be placed on teamworkand collaboration to simulate the interdisciplinary approach to problem solving that often occursbetween clients, architects, engineers and contractors in industry. Teams

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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John W. Duggan P.E.

-use ofconstruction materials such as ABC and soil can be achieved with a preliminary inventory ofABC quantities, an assessment of their quality, and carefully planned construction sequencing.Regulatory ReformBuilding code, subdivision requirements and state and local highway regulations present a hurdleto greater use of recycled ABC and urban soils in construction. In many instances, theseregulations specify virgin material and the prohibited use of recycled materials is either impliedor explicitly forbidden. Code reform to permit the reuse of ABC, provided it exhibits theperformance characteristics of virgin material, needs to be performed to encourage moresustainable construction. Some states, including Minnesota have adopted

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kevin John McDonnell; Anne Joan Caraccio; Nithin Susan Abraham; Nicholas Alexander Ruffini; Susan Gallardo; James Patrick Abulencia

will not be viewed as a short-lived venture.Project Scope: This specific Service-Learning project will be broken into two major parts. First is thedesign and construction of a low cost, easy to construct personal water purification system usingnatural materials found readily available to the surrounding area of Nagcarlan. To start theproject, the students will perform a literature review as well as a patent search to discover andunderstand current technologies and materials that can be used for water purification. Theliterature review will serve as a preliminary guide to help the students determine if the materialsthey plan to use have been found effective in contaminant removal. After the literature review is completed

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Robert Schudy

collaboration tools.Framework for Online EducationOur online courses are developed and taught by full-time PhD-level faculty, and a dedicated onlinefaculty coordinator oversees the program. Our online course development begins with peer reviews of theproposed course map, syllabus and development plan. The lectures, quizzes and other course content aredeveloped by the full time faculty who teach the courses. Our courses are then implemented byprofessional instructional designers, videographers and web animators. When the faculty member andinstructional designer are satisfied that the course has been developed well, we begin our post-development quality processes.Professional technical editors skilled in online course editing review all course content

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kara Cokeley; Claire Mockler; Min Feng Zheng; James Patrick Abulencia

alternativeenergy, they will be more interested, as it will not be something they are assigned to do. Theresearch will likely be more thorough and all around a better project because the students will beinvested in what they are learning and researching. After they have chosen a topic, they are towrite a proposal that is to be handed into their advisor before the year’s end. The proposal willinclude what alternative energy they are researching; what is the purpose of the research; whatare they trying to conclude; and how they are performing the experiment. Once the proposal isaccepted, the group should have several meetings with their advisor to start planning theirresearch and to develop a timeline of their project. At this point, materials should be

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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GLENN E. VALLEE; RICHARD P. BENIOT

susceptible to brittle failure during impact. The resulting strain ratewas calculated as 1559/s, far greater that that achieved in the drop tests. It is therefore concludedthat strain rate dependence of material strength may be neglected, since an increase in strain rateof several orders of magnitude resulted in a decrease in strength of only 20%.IV. IMPLICATIONS TO CROWN DESIGNAt the completion of the experimental portion of the project, the student was given the task ofdeveloping recommendations to improve crown performance. These improvements were firstconsidered from an engineering perspective and involved methods of reducing crown stresses.Then methods for implementing the engineering plan needed to be translated into an action planwhich could

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Alan Seelan; Jeongkyu Lee

Example.. Sysdba will be for methods to operate System Database Administrator SQL functions and Sysoper will be for the SystemStart the Program DeveloperWithout Debugging The Method are Execute, Explain Plan, Commit and There will be two buttons Rollback OptionsThe SQL Window is one will be Login andthe parent Form and another one to Cancelthe Login Form

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ross McCurdy

foundation of success for following projects. With the membersnow graduated from high school and enrolled or about to graduate from college, Protium iscurrently on hiatus. Protium fuel cell demonstration performance at the 2005 Fuel Cell Seminar in Palm Springs, California. 3Fuel Cell Model T As a component of the course, students learn about transportation applications of fuelcells and have researched and designed plans for a simple, yet functional 2-person fuel cell-powered Quadracycle. These research and design

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Salah Badjou

technologies to use.The virtual infrastructure: Based on the above research, workshops, and consultations, the author developed thefollowing plan in his current (Spring 2009) teaching of Electromechanical Design: 1- Use Blackboard for general announcements and as a resource for relevant tutorials and information of general interest to the class. In other words, in the author’s mind, use Blackboard essentially as an online specialized library for the group projects. The reason is that Blackboard could not provide all the functionality required of group projects such 4 as simultaneous online editing of documents. Actually

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Charles Thomas; Loren Byrne; Jeremy Campbell

graduate degrees and a major wereconsidered, the most appropriate program was identified to be a minor. 1Throughout the planning process, careful attention was paid to making sure the program did notbecome too focused on any one discipline, so that it will be possible for students from manydifferent majors to complete the minor. The minor is composed of three newly created, requiredcourses (Introduction to Sustainability Studies, Analysis and Decision Making for Sustainability,and Working Towards Sustainability), and three elective courses. The electives are chosen fromamong existing courses which contain a significant focus on sustainability issues

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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John Adams

Adams: Renewable Energy Education … Renewable Energy Education at Merrimack College John Adams, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 01845 Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractThis paper describes recent, ongoing and planned Renewable Energy (RE) education atMerrimack College. The primary RE education efforts have been through the departmentof Electrical Engineering (EE), with involvement from the department of CivilEngineering. In summer of 2009 the college installed a solar hot water (SHW) system inone of its student townhouses. The subjects of the advanced EE elective “EnergyMeasurement and Display

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Lisa Shatz

what future work you plan. • Concerns or problems should be discussed too. • The journal entries must be written with good English usage, in a clear and concise manner. • You should write a separate journal entry, for each team meeting (2 per week). • Sketches can be added on too. • Each individual must write his own journal entry.A week before their proposals were due, students were required to submit their proposals tome and to present their proposals to the class (students are given a rubric which was takenfrom Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory held in1998 on which the grading of all1 Students became familiar with Mathematica™ in their freshmen calculus classes.2 I also spent part of the class time

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ali Alshubbak; Saeid Moslehpour; Eugenio Pellicer; Joaquín Catalá

the method has been emerged in variousfields, problems and methodologies. Generally, the Delphi method was put in practiceby the RAND Corporation in the late 1950's as a forecasting methodology for militarypurposes[12].Several modifications and combinations were introduced to the Delphi methods. Hecht[13] presented a modified Delphi technique which depended on individual or smallgroup interviews at the first round, then face-to-face interviews during later rounds ofdata organizing and reporting; this modified technique consists of several steps whichare the need’s identification, ranking and relative importance assignation to eachidentified need, rank calculation of the identified need, feedback of rankings to campusadministrators, planning

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ismail I. Orabi

very brief recap of last week's project status. Also present items from the previous week identified by the instructor as needing revision or greater depth. • Present - current progress on the weekly deliverables including significant achievements and major problems. • Future - near term plans. Include action items as suggested by the instructor during the current presentation 1. Midway status Presentation: This is an oral update on your project. Attendees include fellow classmates and perhaps a few experienced designers. Students are given 20 minutes to present their progress plus 5 minutes for questions and answers. The majority of the presentation’s time is spent in

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

variations of the same original model. Studies byD’Arcy Thompson [ 4] immediately recall the phenotypical-visual transformability of distinctdesigns. When coupled with Dürer’s proportional studies of humans [figure 1], they track ananalogous conceptual trajectory of phenotypical developmental changes in an individual. Whilethis progression is well demonstrated in evolutionary biology and explains the progression ofspecies, an analogous conceptual framework is just beginning to be used in design and artisticpractices. [ 5]Drives for architectural ideas“In conceptual art,” according to Sol LeWitt, “the idea or concept is the most important aspect ofthe work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning anddecisions

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Junichi Kanai; Jeff P. Morris; Mark Anderson

the first year students was developed four years ago to address this need.This one credit course, titled Engineering Communication, covers technical writing related skills,data visualization, and project management. We plan to study the impact of this course and theseskills in students’ performance in engineering design courses in the future.References[1] Mark E. Hoffman and David R. Vance, "Computer Literacy: What Students Know and From Whom They Learned It," in SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005, pp. 356-360.[2] Mark E. Hoffman and David R. Vance, "Gender Difference Trends in Computer Literacy of First Year Students," in Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ali Moazed; Richard L Roberts; Xiaobin Le P.E.; Anthony William Duva P.E.

covered inlecture through solving problems designed by faculty and assigned to them. Each assignmentincludes hand calculations to verify the FEA solution. This also helps students debug theirsolution in case of a mismatch between the two solutions.II. IntroductionAs practicing engineers, the authors recognize the value of FEA in the product design anddevelopment cycle. Increasingly, companies are utilizing FEA to reduce their product designcycle, so why is it that most institutions suffice by introducing a theoretically based FEA course?If industry requires a certain skill, why do we not include this skill in the student’s training? If astudent is not planning to attend graduate school, what is the value of a theoretical FEA course?The

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrew C. Foley; Eben H. Phillips

Estimation Sketching & CAD Design Process Machining Techniques 11 weeks Project Planning Reliability EngineeringFigure 2 :Introduction to engineering design course timeline. (15 week course) Within central 11 week

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Daniel Domato; Marco Castaldi; James Patrick Abulencia

determining the relationship between water content of the biomass and thequality and quantity of syngases produced. The students will come to lab prepared with a datasheet for their planned experimental trials; they will need to determine which water contents theywill utilize during their procedure. It will be recommended that the students perform four runs atthree different water contents and a dry run. During each experimental trial the students will collect product gas at different timeintervals. The gas will be collected in air sampling bags and be tested in the GC during start upof the next trial to be more time efficient. In each trial, the gasifier needs to reach steady statebefore gas is to be collected, so this would be a good time to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Alva L. Couch

lectures, and preferred more time to absorb material before being put on the spotto apply material, while another top student considered the exercises to be too easy.Grade distributionsOne thing that did change substantively in Comp111 was the grade distributions on quizzesbefore and after the change(Figure 1). The in-class exercises were not planned in advance forComp111, but were instituted as an emergency measure because of surprisingly low first quizscores. On the second quiz, of comparable difficulty, students did much better. Though thesample size is too small for any conclusions, this suggests that structured in-class practice forquizzes is more effective at improving quiz scores than giving students a review sheet on whichto practice

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

simulation. Based on the research results, they have published studentposters/papers in various academic conferences. After graduation, some students chose tocontinue their Ph.D study in MEMS field, while some other students find jobs as MEMSengineers in industry.In addition to the MEMS curriculum in the EE graduate program, we are also makingefforts to extend the MEMS education to the high school students in nearby communities.We plan to arrange some presentations to the high school students, and invite some highschool students to do some student research in the MEMS field. This will help trigger theinterests among high school students toward science and technology, especially inMEMS field. Some of the students may be attracted into the field and

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tom Goulding

online asynchronously conference links. Much lessexperience. frequently they will use a WebEX or GoToMeeting tool to conduct synchronous conference.A one hour seminar can be extremely important ina low level mathematics class. Nevertheless,attendance seems to be mostly determined by a 4.0 SOCRATIC CAMPUS CLASSROOMstudent’s personal lifestyle and work schedule. Inaddition, attendance is often dictated by an online The Socratic campus classroom of the author hasinstructor’s skill at using a single hour to clarify similarities to his online classroom. Use of theconcepts found in an entire week’s lesson plan. Socratic GM

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ronald C. Lasky

intuitive math modeling skills.Another benefit of using the slide rule is that approximations become more evident. This may bewhy so few students seem to be familiar with the fact that sin x ≅ x for small x. If one uses aslide rule to calculate sin x, one quickly learns this truth as it is clear in using the scales. 5Almost all of my data are anecdotal. However, I plan to use the problems in the appendix as atest with volunteers to obtain some statistics. I hope to have the data by mid 2010.What is to be done?My thoughts, at this point, are that the following actions would be helpful to assure students havestronger math skills upon graduation with a BS

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

. 6 REFERENCES [1] D. Chubin, K. Donaldson, B. Olds, and L. Fleming, "Educating Generation Net-can U.S. engineering woo and win the competition for talent?," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 97, pp. 245-257, 2008. [2] J. Holley, "Generation Y: understanding the trend and planning for the impact," in 2008 IEEE 32nd International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 28 July 2008-1 Aug. 2008, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2008, p. 2. [3] C. Jones, R. Ramanau, S. Cross, and G. Healing, "Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university?," Computers and Education