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Sudhanshu Sinha; Manohar Mareboyana

(ICSIP), 2014. segmentation based on adaptive reference images. European Signal Processing Conference, 1990Author Biography: Sudhanshu SinhaHe has two Master's degree one in Statistics and anotherone in Computer Science. Currently he works for providingtechnical support in planning, developing, modifying,testing, implementing, and supporting customers in aFederal Government department in USA. As a parttime, he teaches Visual C# 2010 at Bowie StateUniversity, Maryland as an Adjunct faculty. He is also aDoctoral student researching on the topic of ImageProcessing. He has over 22 years of experience in the fieldsof Client/Server, Internet, Intranet, Mobile, Database, andMainframe applications using various programminglanguages/platforms

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Mohammadjafar Esmaeili; Ali Eydgahi

and Attitude. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) along with theory H10. There is a significant relationship between Ease of Useof reasoned action and theory of planned behavior [13] have and Intention.been used widely in different domain to predict individual H11. There is a significant relationship between Attitude andintention to adopt or not adopt a specific behavior. According Intention.to the TAM, individual will adopt a behavior or technology if

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

. Layek Abdel-Malek gave his point of view as theuniversity gives the students a plan with the core courses coordinator of UMANE Atlantis and professor at NJIT.required to get the degree from that university, but in the end,each student has to know the courses that he has taken so far He mentioned that the UMANE program has a positivefrom different universities. So the student, of course with the impact on the classroom environment. He has found specifichelp of the coordinator, has to find and fix the courses required improvement in the two courses that he teaches: anand build a schedule, which is one of the hardest things to do. undergraduate Operational Research, which is a face-to-faceIt makes the students more self

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kishan Gutta; Madhav Patil

systems – Buildingharvester. Sensors are designed to be powered evacuation procedures can becontinuously. Stored and harvested power sources implemented using wirelesspose distinctly different design challenges [26]. sensors.   Generic techniques rely There are two major obstacles. The first is to heavily on strategies planned ingenerate enough power from the environmental advance of the actual event. Theenergy source. This involves an intermediate energy procedure is static, unable to adaptstorage device, usually a capacitor or rechargeable

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert Hood; Mark Jacobs; James Masi; Kayla McCaffrey

current laboratory wind tunnel. Itwill be for the purpose of instruction and simple research inthe fluid mechanics laboratory. This wind tunnel is used inthese projects to observe the start-up wind velocity ofshrouded, two-, three-, and multi-bladed horizontal axis wind Figure 2. Solid Works designturbine models. Flow patterns over the models will beobserved by using smoke, tuft, and Schlieren photography Accommodating the thickness of material without altering themethods. These observations are used to verify the Solid interior dimensions of the wind tunnel required carefulWorks modeling on each of the designs. planning and a

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Connor Needham; Jeremy Kacher; Mathias Boyle; Robert Hutchins; Susan Woodard

turbine design andThe team plans on giving back to the Roger Williams its functionality. This spot selection was also selected basedUniversity community by transferring the power generated by off of the prevailing winds at RWU. Most wind comes fromthe wind turbine to the electric car charging stations oncampus or by transferring the power generated to power the the north and south in this location and the parking structurelights for the parking garage and lot below. The team feels that will allow for undisturbed airflow as wind passes over the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tiago Martins Ribeiro; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

, they plan youdecreasing. The use of manual means to make products or form for an attack of a plantation or search of food.make deliveries as a quick way for the current market is not as In section II of this article will address concepts ofefficient as before. In this context comes the computer communication networks and their evolution in today's society.networks and its benefits to society today. Several current Section III is a new model of computational network that isapplications running on interconnected computer networks, so growing year after year, cloud computing. Section IVit is necessary to work together to improve current programs highlights the importance of

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Kai Hu

of Logistics Management (CLM), reverse logistics is a series of planning, IN 1998, the director of the American Reverse Logistics execution and control activities processes that management theImplementation Committee Dr. Rogers and Dr. products, inventory, finished goods and the correspondingTibben-Lembke published the first book of the reverse information flow, capital flow between the initial source oflogistics (Going Backwards: Reverse Logistics Trends and supply and the final consumption, the goal is to treatmentPractices), this book researched mainly

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

. THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF THE STUDY maturity, efficient production needs to be emphasized as a part of the organizational strategy. Technology related products are important because ofefficient production as the supply and demand needs to areas concerning education is an appealing notion. Thebe balanced in order to maintain profitability. [19] A plan of accumulating various applications in one productcase example of a technological product manufacturer, is primarily focused on efficiency and cost reduction,using “make-to-order model” for managing the supply whereas, the use of 3d

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madhav D. Patil; Tamer Abukhalil

detection, path planning and 2 20 89 48navigation, reconfigurability and rescue operation. 3 17 129 54 In this paper we describe a human rescue task and 4 14 176 63compare the results with increasing the number of robots 5 10 210 72in the swarm. To conduct this experiment we built smallarena and initially robots placed randomly in the arena. A 7 VII. CONCLUSION

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Keith M. Gardiner

technology (IT), project planningexecutive committee. His affiliations including ASEE, ASME, Sigma Xi and and management. The value of adapting IT for thethe Engineers Club of the Lehigh Valley. management and planning required by these advancedWeb site: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inmse/kg03.shtml technology products was highlighted. Computer Aided Design978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEE(CAD) and Numerically Controlled (NC) machine tools were appropriate Section structures and provided conferences,much sought after. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers publications and supporting events.spun off a special

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Martin Sinclair; Ioannis A. Raptis

roll angles for each individual cell. The control algorithmdistributed control algorithms across the entire system. The uses a hierarchical design where the higher level handles theclassical form of centralized decision making is restrictive for path planning and the lower level determines how to generatemany of the highly sophisticated processes used in modern the motion required to follow the path. Similar distributedsystems. LSANs provide robust and reliable performance

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Bi Yuying; Prabir Patra

GAGs density, were repairing.not statistically significant for the strength of Collagen-GAGmatrix in 3D rendering. However in 2D rendering, a significant A. Collagen Geometryfactor found was the radius of collagen in matrix for the GAGsdirected to orthogonal plane of Collagen-GAG matrix. Between Collagen is a highly structured hierarchical protein [2]. Thetwo cross-section selected from Collagen-GAG matrix model, the basic unit of collagen, tropocollagen(TC) molecule, isplane cross through collagen fibrils was symmetrically configured as a right-handed triple helical structure. TC isdistributed but the peak located at orthogonal plan was deducted approximately 1.5nm in diameter and

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Andrew Grossfield

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Visual Differential Calculus Andrew Grossfield, Ph.D., P.E., Life Member, ASEE, IEEE Abstract— This expository paper is intended to provide = (y2 – y1) / (x2 – x1) = = m = tan(α) Equation 1engineering and technology students with a purely visual andintuitive approach to differential calculus. The plan is that where α is the angle of inclination of the line with thestudents who see intuitively the benefits of the strategies of horizontal. Since the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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May Alzawawi

into However, that is not always the case: referring to Lamming the supply chain processes by first optimizing the needed & Hampson (1996) who reveal in their study: “In U.S.A., resources. Furthermore, the act of combining IT system can an estimated 75% of consumers claim that their purchases make things much easier by creating an effective supply are influenced by reputation and 80% would be willing to chain planning, implementation, and association [47]. pay more for environment friendly products” [52].• Poor Organizational Structure • Lack of Green Practitioners This can be emphasized from