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Hussain A. Alhassan; Eman Abdel Fattah

REFERENCES [1] Y. Rodriguez-Gallo Guerra, J. P. B. Rodriguez, and C. R. Beltran, “Development of laboratory practice on WiMAX IEEE 802.16d physical layer,” Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching (TAEE), pp. 216 - 221, 2012.Bit Error Rate [2] M. D. Patidar, R.; Jain, N.K.; Kulpariya, S., “Performance analysis of WiMAX

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Ammar Odeh; Khaled Elleithy; Miad Faezipour

and the directoractivities and student recruiting and advising. of the D-BEST Lab since July 2011. Prior to joining UB, she has been a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Texas at DallasDr. Khaled Elleithy is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the collaborating with the Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems and theSchool of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He has research Quality of Life Technology laboratories. She received the B.Sc. ininterests are in the areas of network security, mobile communications, and Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran

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Nicholas J. Macedo; Tracie L. Ferreira

This work was funded by the University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). IACUC approved protocol #13-01. Much thanks to Mr. Vijay Boominathan for all intellectual support when working in the laboratory. References EMBRYO STAGE TOTAL RNA (µg) A260/ 280

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Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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Carlos A. Munoz

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Object Tracking Using Autonomous Quad Copter Carlos A. Munoz Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA. carlosm@bridgeport.edu, Abstract - To have a quad copter autonomously catch There are even some future jobs that could potentially be(tap) an object by receiving XYZ coordinates given by

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Isaac George Macwan; Zihe Zhao Omar Sobh; Prabir Patra

drop assay. A through XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) elemental analysis.hanging drop assay is a laboratory technique to determine the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) can show themotility of the cells, where a specialized glass slide having a morphology of the surface of the bacterial cell. The sampleconcave cavity is used and a drop of cell suspension is placed preparation for the SEM has six steps in general, which areon a cover-slip, over which the glass slide is placed and the chemical fixation, wash, dehydration, mounting, coating andentire assembly inverted so that the drop containing cells imaging. Glutaraldehyde is used for chemical fixation. Aboutremains hanging between the cover-slip and the glass

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Keith M. Gardiner

changes in technology since with a concomitant focus on explanations, descriptions andthe eras of log tables and slide rules there has been less change well-structured laboratory notes to be created by the student.in testing, grading and pedagogy. The academic workplace is This would incorporate ‘Project-Based Learning’ (PBL) orvery different and disparate from the industrial workplace ‘Learning by Doing.’ This ‘Experiential Learning’ defines aenvironment. Our present pedagogical systems have barely pedagogic method going back to the time of Confucius aroundchanged in a structural and format sense; ‘Yes,’ there are 450 B.C. [20].additions, and extras inserted into an overloaded curricula but

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

developed by Stanford University andvirtual laboratory for networking and distributed systems contributed to the open source repository. Students canresearch and education. GENI has created a nationwide download this and other design elements from the open sourcenetwork interconnecting Linux-based compute resources at repository, or program their own applications using Xilinx ISEmajor universities; a recent example of the GENI backbone is Design Suite software (donated by Xilinx Corporation). Theshown in figure 1. Academic membership is available at no NetFPGA cards have four connections for SFP+ optical orcost, and provides access to this equipment and a supporting copper transceivers, which we have

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

how the computer revolutionized physics research andintroduced into the classroom. We will discuss the design investigated how to use computers as tools to emphasizeof the programming lesson modules and how they are physical concepts. They tested the using computers in physicsincorporated into the physics curriculum. The difficulties, courses at the University of Maryland and concluded that thesuccesses, and failures of this experience will be presented. students scored better on laboratory reports and felt more satisfied with the nature of the work. They also stated that Keywords—R programming; high school; physics

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

academic advising tools. However, we argue that theCentre of Excellence Program. continued development of online advising tools has not kept N. Mattei affiliated with NICTA, University of New South Wales, Neville pace with development of course delivery, educational theoryRoach Laboratory, Level 4, 223 Anzac Pde., Kensington NSW 2052 about online education, or education evaluation systems. InAustralia. (Nicholas.mattei@nicta.com.au; +61 2 8306 0464). T. Dodson affiliated with Department of Physics and Astronomy, the process of designing an advising support system, we haveUniversity of

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Vazgen Shekoyan

make them transforming the transitional problems into reduced-specificitysuch. Context rich problems have real-world context settings. problems.To increase motivation, one can start problems with “Youare…/you have been…” and then describe situations in such IV. DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS OF THE STUDYcontexts that can motivate the solver to find an answer (e.g., Course Descriptionstart the problems with statements like: you have been hired as The General Physics I (PH-201) course at QCC is an… and your job is…; you are watching TV about… and algebra-based 3 class hours and 2 laboratory hours course (4wonder…; etc). More suggestions on making problems credits). It is a

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Yuanyao Liu; Zhengping Wu

. Higher thresholds reduce the search space ofnode outages, workload logs and error logs in Los Alamos prediction process. Because the prediction process is triggeredNational Laboratory. The data spans 22 high-performance by the threshold, higher threshold setting triggers fewercomputing systems that have been in production use at Los prediction processes.Alamos National Lab (LANL) between 1996 and November2005. The data contains an entry for any failure leading to anode outage that occurred during the 9-year time period andthat required the attention of a system administrator. For eachfailure, the data includes start time and end time, the systemand node affected, as well as categorized root causeinformation