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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gad J. Selig

is included. The science and art of entrepreneurship continues to Index Terms—Incubator, Entrepreneur, Accelerator, evolve and adapt to an ever changing business and economicIntrapreneurs environment. A recent refinement with entrepreneurship education that is gaining broad acceptance is “business I. INTRODUCTION modeling” versus “business planning”. Champions of business

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Khaled Almgren; Christian Bach

digitized. Businesses is much more than that. It is a system whereby you have anare depending on technology to help them enhance their entire electronic organization. However, everything newbusiness processes. Companies are looking for an information brings new challenges. ERP has not only brought obstaclessystem that can handle massive workloads. This is where to system developers, but to organizations, as wellEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems come into play. (McGaughey & Gunasekaran, 2007).An ERP integrates different subsystems into one huge systemthat shares one database. It enhances productivity and brings The ERP

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

, discussions, and oralinterest solving energy issues, and spread awareness across their presentations; and to improve student skills in critical thinkingown communities. and problem solving, especially engineering problem solving, Keywords—renewable; sustainable; curriculum; and sharpen student skills in math and science. The variouseducation; energy; awareness; lesson plans; wind lessons plans are framed around a hands-on wind turbine project to achieve these objectives. I

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Teresa Piliouras; Pui Lam Yu; Kristin Villanueva; Holly Robillard; Yingxin Chen; Michael Berson; Jeanne R. Lauer; Garret Sampel; Daniel Lapinski; Maigh Attre

technologically proficient isThese gaps are manifest when students leave school and persist also an indicator of a country’s ability, as a whole, to competeuntil they retire from the job market. In the National Evaluation on a global stage.Technology Plan (NETP), the Department of Education proposes In 1989, the Department of Labor conducted a large-scalefive (5) goals to address this deficiency. In this paper, these goals survey of employers in the United States and asked them toare used to conceptualize solutions to improve teaching andlearning outcomes related to workforce and college readiness. identify the

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

became a college in 1984 under the their vision, mission and objectives to those of the college.name of college of architecture and planning. In 1974, both the The collaboration with industry in stated in the mission ofchemical engineering department and petroleum engineering college of engineering [4]:department were established. In 1988, surveying engineeringwas established as a program within the civil engineering “To provide high quality education programs that address thedepartment. An industrial engineering program was changing needs of future engineers, serve the profession andestablished in 1982 in the mechanical engineering department contribute to the advancement and well-being of the society

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Marwah Almasri; Khaled Elleithy

, distributed sensors, or any other data either from the Orient stage which has all data alignment processes anda database or from human input [8]. situation predictions. The third stage is the Decide stage which In addition, on the right side, there is the Human Computer is responsible for making decisions. The fourth and the lastInteraction (HCI), which allows various kinds of human inputs stage is the Act stage which includes the responsive systemsuch as data requests, reports, and commands. HCI provides that executes the plan [10]. According to [11], the Observemultimedia methods for the purpose of interacting with human stage of the OODA model corresponds to level 0 of the

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

environment.project must be able to read, accurately interpret and work The AISC Steel Sculpture was the example used for thiswith the project drawings. project. “It is crucial for anyone involved in construction and II. S URVEY R ESULTS manufacturing projects to have the ability to read and understand blueprints and building plans. Whether you're In October 2013, notification of a Construction Drawing in the field or in the office, you need to know how the Survey was sent to all the department heads and chairs that site plan affects the building plan, …” [1] are registered with the Department Heads Council (DHC

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

observation and integrated into the classroom. However, it was limited to usingevidence. Section V will discuss plans to move forward based WolframAlpha or Excel to perform repetitive calculations andon the experiences so far. create graphs of experimental data. The physics students use Excel regularly to create graphs of experimental data, including II. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES performing calculations to add other columns of of calculated At Haverhill High School, there is an interest in integrating data. Because of Excel has a large market share, the studentscomputer programming

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Faisal Z. Miqdadi; Abdulla F. ALMomani; Mohammad T. Shadid Masharqa; Nabil M. Elmousel

to plan and prioritize [4]. For example, having a clear Our team did it at places where most students gather, duringpurpose is positively correlated with perceived effectiveness the lunch break, such as the student center and canteens.and morale, and negatively correlated with distress [4]. In Moreover, we exploited the times when students are mostlyaddition, avoiding distractions and interruptions such as free, such as in buses when they are coming to or leaving theprocrastination correlates negatively with work related P.I. After we received the results, we analyzed, arranged anddistress. On the other hand, estimating the time correctly displayed them through a complete interpretation

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Longyin Sun; Christian Bach

confrontedmanagement sciences and find out the perspectives of the researches with different plans, choices, and uncertainties on certainto reinvestigate the importance of decision and management sciences degree that are relevant to decision results. Decision maker hasand factors that have influence on it. The theoretical foundation of to balance various pros and cons and risks of all choices, so asthe paper was a comprehensive literature review on studies of to reach optimal decision results. Since the 1950s, scholars haddecision and management sciences from different angles. Through begun to study on decision-making.the grounded theory, a model was developed and evaluated usingquestionnaires and interviews. The suggested model is

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Nan Feng

events, and services of the brand have a better chance to create their own brands and activities, such as the ability targeting one of the key to the audience the relationship between planned. Hypothesis: Brand sponsorship has a positive effect on building strong brands. Factor 3: “The model highlights four successive and progressive stages

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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James Accuosti

curriculum [7] secondary education settings, students are ready to use thewhich puts more stress on curriculum administrators to technology at their disposal [14]. We will look at four broadintegrate technology into lesson plan requirements. Owen and factors, all of which are independent from each other butDemb have found there is much pressure to use technology in possess a connection to our goal of educaitonal technologythe classroom as well as other education environments, implementation (See Fig. 1).including those at the college-level [8]. With the variety andaccess at our disposal, funding for integration projects havesprouted left and right [9] which exacerbates the

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Zachary Boorman; Richard Freitas; Kristie Kordana; Adam Stanley

child transportation system is a device could be implemented into the design instead of having eachfor children ages of four to ten. By conducting research, the member work exclusively on a separate subsystem. Further-task was to build a device that is inexpensive, safe and visual- more, one member has responsibility for project managemently appealing to both children and their parents. Design re- and planning to keep the team organized and on track whilequirements included the ability for the device to collapse and another brings his experience with fabrication to constructionfit into a carrying case that is lightweight and comfortable. and device development. The final two members contributeThe

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ye Zhou; Amir Esmailpour

problemsstorage from different locations and processes data withoutdata modeling. This process will be idle since MapReduce Since many issues have surfaced since Hadoop wasengine does not work until getting the data. With traditional developed, users in big organizations complain that Hadoopdatabases, different systems fit into different data modeling is sometimes slow. Many developers in this area try to findand minimize data transfer. However, Hadoop will ignore the best way to satisfy real-time processing applications,all execution plans and optimizes plans for data modeling which need high-volume data streams, instead of traditionaland processing of raw data. Therefore MapReduce has database systems [1

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sultan Alghamdi; Christian Bach

for C. F3: Data Managementmarketers to plan and forecast their markets. This is because “The successful implementation of relationship marketingthe data collection technologies like the open source, data demands the integration of timely and accurate market,mining, and data warehouse technologies assist marketers to consumer, and product information [15] p.64.” Organizationsgather, analyze, collect, and store huge amounts of data on are expending great efforts in using the latest informationtheir markets in terms of consumer experiences, competitors’ technology to maintain and build information systems. Theexperiences, and brand experiences. effective use of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

previous major’s requirements.undergraduate students. We find that advising support software Ideally the student and advisor keep in regular contact; thetools can augment the student-advisor relationship, particularly advisor plays a supporting role in the student’s continuedin terms of course planning, but cannot and should not replace development and formulates short and long term goals for thein-person advising. student based on their individual needs and interests. The reality is that most students see their advisor once per semester Index Terms—Computer

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Joseph A. Levert; Andy Grosso

memberseries of sponsored projects by the U.S. Navy. This sponsor agencies to participate:was a highly respected senior leader who actively reached-out Through a dedicated website, social media posts, outreachto establish the collaboration. The second author’s credibility to higher education and NYSID members, and part-timestems from long-term, respected, non-profit experience, and interns, NYSID has actively recruited participating schoolsthis credibility also stems from NYSID’s credibility as a not- and agencies in Project CREATE.for-profit member organization that represents 177 communityrehabilitation agencies and their corporate partners. c. Forward planning by NYSID, member

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Mike Kelley; Steve Beyerlein

I. INTRODUCTIONEngineering programs often contain a “Professional Issues” To guide the discussion after reading the scenario, students arecourse to cover professional skills, such as ethics, which are given discussion prompts in the form of a series of questionsrelated to the professional practice of engineering. These that direct the participants to identify problems, considercourses commonly utilize case studies focusing on ethics as stakeholder perspectives, and outline a plan to learn morethe basis for student discussions.1 Measuring the student about the problems. The EPSA discussion prompts are shownlearning resulting from the case study process is

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Melody Baglione

following is a discussion of the plan to measure student learning by measuring and comparing what TABLE I students know and can do at a minimum of two points in time. FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES For this project, baseline surveys are implemented at the 1 Students will be able to characterize the proportional, integral, and beginning of the ESC161 course, an interim survey at the end derivative terms in a controller and tune controller parameters to of the ESC161 course, and a final survey at the end of ME151. improve the performance or stability of systems. 2 Students will be able to

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Richard Mendoza; Brian Stuckman; Anthony Melkonian; Alexander Gilman

Mathematics at Rogerflow into the containment unit so that the fans are not working Williams University. He has accepted a Product Design Engi-against a vacuum. Spatial constraints and fluid flow efficiency neering Position at Carling Technologies after graduation.issues make this solution difficult, but not impossible. The se- Anthony Melkonian is from Plymouth, MA. He is majoring incond method for venting would be to vent from the Mechanical Engineering at Roger Williams University andcontainment unit to directly outside of the pinball back glass. plans to begin his career as a mechanical engineer after gradua-This method employs the same duct-and-fan approach as the tion.previous method, except that the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David Cain; Brian Layng; Kyle McNulty; Ryan O'Connor; Tomas Estrada

than 77 would cause the lowest value to become the new 0% website [4]. [7]. V. P E R F O R M A N C E A N D T E S T IN G VI. R E F L E C T IO N S A N D D IS C U S S IO N Due to inclement weather we have set-up a small indoor With many hours of planning, decision making and testing track used for testing our code. The test track is black while a few key take always we have learned from the project thus the outside track is red. We believe that the indoor track is a far is to set goals for each week. Having pre-established goals sufficient test analogue. We rigorously testing but are

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Matthew Baideme P.E.; Cristian Robbins; Jeffrey Starke

how the structure of the debate. The three phases that incorporate allstudent’s peers viewed his or her performance or how that of the performance measures of the debate structure are Plan,student viewed his or her own performance. Execute, and Reflect. This thread incorporates a refinement This paper fills that void first by establishing a metric loop so that lessons learned about how to perform effectivelythrough which to assess in-class debates and then comparing and efficiently are captured during each student’s personalfour types of assessment (instructor, peer debaters, audience, reflection and then transferred to the student’s nextand self) to determine if there were

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Muhammad Aliuddin Khan; Muhammad Hashim

in theorganization. [3]. D. Organizational Change Managing ApproachesB. Change Forces When change management taken place in the organization, now the question is how best one can manage change. ThereThe following are the main forces which bring change in the are four approaches to change management. Lewins classicorganization. These are as under but it may depend on the three step model of change process, kotters eight step plan,organization environment and the context of the organization. action research, and organizational development.Change in new

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Girma Tewolde

Apps Apps Apps Apps Appsprogramming. The program was launched in 2010 as a Afternoon I Robotics Robotics Robotics Robotics Roboticsweeklong day camp, with 4 hours of activities per day. Thepilot program was primarily focused on building LEGO Afternoon II Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile MobileMINDSTORMS [9] robots and programming them using the Apps Apps Apps Apps AppsROBOTC [10] language. ROBOTC is a C-based, easy tolearn, robotics programming language for educational The list of topics and hands on activities planned for therobotics and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Fernanda Gobbi de Boer; Carla ten Caten; Istefani Carisio de Paula

discussion and share with peers whatever new pieces oforder to assess each student’s learning process. The specific information they learned. Guiding the entire process is thegoals are: (I) to plan the experiment to solve an everyday tutor, whose responsibility is to support students in each stageproblem of the production engineer; (ii) to analyze the results of the PBL.obtained with the experiment and investigate which factors of aproduction process impact in assembly time; (iii) to assess to Among the main advantages of PBL, [13

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Peter J. Zeno

mainly to the using out of range values for the algorithm or more threadsadvent of GPGPU programming languages, such as NVIDIA’s than planned are performing operations on the data.CUDA and Kronos Group’s OpenCL, and the need to gain Each block’s shared memory is only accessible to theback performance increases that have been lost by the leveling threads in that block. Additionally, registers/local memory isout of processor clock speeds. Despite the simplification of only accessible to a particular thread. Shared memory (48 KBprogramming GPUs by use of GPGPU programming max) and local memory are minimal, but fast. Accessing thelanguages, it is still a very complex task to coordinate

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Timothy A. Zimmerman

robot capable of be performed in regards to its application to robotics. Some ofperforming obstacle avoidance using neural networks trained the research being performed includes: navigation and pathwith simulated sensor data. The only sensor used for detecting planning [1], [2], physical orientation determination [3],the environment was an infrared distance sensor attached to a obstacle and collision avoidance [4]–[6], manipulator andhobby servo, allowing for 180° of sensor visibility. In order totrain the neural networks, simulated sensor data was created motor control [7], and programming of the robot byusing LabVIEW and presented to a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joseph Chen; Mark Molnar

different team members to rotate into the • Develop a project management plan leadership position at each stage. This may mean that each h f team, in order to accommodate projects of different scale, may Stage 2 – Measurement/Analysis Phases have a different scheduling (see Fig 2). At the end of each stage, the team submits its work for review, allowing feedback • Collecting base line data • Determine process

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

integrated into the rubric. Overall, the rubric and our through a survey which is included within the students’assessment plan focuses on four categories: effective eportfolio. By having their supervisors fill out the survey, notteamwork (cited highest as a skill desired in job applicants by only do faculty have another tool for assessment but also thethe National Association of Colleges and Employers, 2012); student is encouraged to explore the experiential learningprofessionalism (including ethics); the importance of being a nature of the internship with their mentor. The validity of thelife-long learner; and integrative learning (including survey of course depends on employers/mentors

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rahmi Allamadani; Feng Chen

for this type of application can improve the current designthe types of planes that are compatible with it. The advantages of steam catapults for several reasons. For example, byto using electromagnetic catapults are much greater thancurrent systems in place it will be the goals of this project to increasing the amount of current in the coil at the end of thefurther explore these possibilities. The steam powered system track the speed of the launch will be proportionallycan launch a 45,000 pound plan from 0 to 165 mph in only two increased. In addition, this design will reduce the amount ofseconds under the distance of 100 yards. Our goal will