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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

: “It happened in the third engineers during a given project contributes highly to theweek of the semester; I participated in a computer lab success of that given project. As [63] illustrated, lack ofwhere my class was taught how to use a sound proper communication that fosters a better understanding of arecognizable system.” Now, we know the participants of the team member’s role and the importance of his task in anarrative, where the narrative occurred, when it occurred and project can lead to unfulfilled targets regarding the project orthe events that took place. outright failure. In a multinational environment such as the3) Complicating

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Ruoxu Jia; Junling Hu; Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang

multi-criteria decisionnumber and connectivity of members; (ii) shape, which making [8].pertains to the location of structural joints; and (iii) sizing, In this project, Ashby’s material selection strategy is usedwhich involves defining member cross-sections [6]. The to choose material and manufacturing processes for a wallspecification of each aspect of the structure typically mounted pull up bar structure. A computer aided materialcorresponds to the three major stages of the engineering design selection software package CES Edupack is used to select theprocess as defined by Pahl and Beitz [7]: conceptual, material and process for the bar structure. The structuralembodiment (design

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Madhav D. Patil; Tamer Abukhalil

operations, task allocation, obstacle The swarm-bot research project [6], deals with designavoidance, and object transportation. and implementation of swarm robots (s-bots) with self Keywords—Heterogeneous Robot Swarm; Hardware organizing and self assembling capabilities, but each S-botArchitecture; Reconfigurable Robot Swarm. is physically identical (homogeneous) and uses same kind of sensors, actuators, microcontroller. S-bot can connect I. INTRODUCTION with other

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Mike Kelley; Steve Beyerlein

Washington Stateassessment consisting of: 1) a 1-2 page scenario about a University, University of Idaho, and Norwich University havecontemporary, interdisciplinary engineering problem 2) a used the performance assessment paradigm to develop anddiscussion period where a small group of students are asked to rigorously test the Engineering Professional Skills Assessmentaddress a series of leading questions about the scenario; and 3) (EPSA) as a vehicle for directly assessing ABET defined skillan analytical rubric which is used to evaluate the students’ areas5.discussion. The EPSA project is currently in the third year of afour year National Science Foundation sponsored

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Joseph Betthauser; Daniel Benavides; Jeff Schornick; Neal O'Hara; Jimit Patel; Jeremy Cole; Edgar Lobaton

[16]. The cost of run unmodified on the WolfBot. Simplified installation maycomponents per robot is under $550 for a single unit. As part be accomplished using the management interface described inof an educational activity, assembly can be integrated as a Section IV.C.class project for undergraduate students. Python has an extensive collection of mature libraries available for most common

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Jordan Cox; Farshid Zabahian

computer system is currentlybeing analyzed to find new ways to improve powerproduction. Permission to use the data had to be obtainedfrom the Enel Green Power regional manager. The data thenhad to be acquired from the Gauley River Project supervisor.Once the data was received, all the unnecessary recordingshad to be filtered out. An example of data retrieved from the Hydro after allunnecessary data was filtered out can be seen in Table 2. Theprimary formula that will be used can also be seen in Table 1  [1, 2]. Figure 1

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Jordan Cox; Derek Burdette; Christopher Shaffer; Farshid Zabihian

the UAV. The table includes the price, and thesupplier they were received from. However, this is a tentative The salesman and owner of the retail store where thelist of parts and subject to change due to the availability of pre-built UAV was purchased also provided useful insight inparts or difficulties applying the part to our application. to quadcopter technology. Instead of trying to supply the power we need by using a bigger motor, the ownerTable 1. Parts List and Budget Analysis for UAV Project recommended that the propellers be geared. Integrating a

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Israel Aguilera Navarrete; Alejandro Lozano-Guzman; Edna Alcazar-Farias

indicators only research work developed within an Academic take into account a limited sample of journals from under- Institution and its impact inside scientific and developed and developing nations, so research from these technological education and instruction. countries is bound to end up being underestimated • Research projects: this indicator shows types,1 internationally. Nor are patents completely adequate as disciplines, and quantities of research developed within indicators of S&T performance, if one is going to take into an Academic Institutions and its internal and external account the fact that a lack of material resources for

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ashenafi Lambebo; Sasan Haghani

acquisition unit,consist of a number of spatially distributed sensors with memory unit, and sensor boards. The microprocessor and thecomputing, processing and communication capabilities that can memory unit control how often the sensor measurements arecontinuously sense and transmit data to a base station, where taken or transmitted. The measurements can be taken in fixeddata can be processed and observed in real time. This project time intervals or based on an event driven model [2]. The dataprovides a detailed study and implementation of a WSN for real collected by the sensors is then sent to a base station where thetime and continuous environmental monitoring of greenhouse data can be stored for

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Richard Millham

tutorials in mathematics, English, and physics of English, physics, and mathematics. By selectingfor secondary school students are another option three students from each school, it was felt thatwhich was embraced by a professional body. This they would be able to provide a fair representationbody funded these tutorials for six hours every of each school within the network while not over-Saturday during term times at a university of burdening the resources of the program.technology. This group consisted of Grade 11students from schools in disadvantaged areas; A pilot project for this program began withteachers at each of the schools in these area, in

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Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project

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M. Ali-ud-din Khan; Muhammad Fahim Uddin; Navarun Gupta

appear in J. MIS, Loyola Univ. Maryland, 2013 M. Ali-ud-din khan is a recent graduate from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He has over 15 years of experience in Pharmaceutical companies holding various technical and managerial positions. He also holds MBA degree. XI. CONCLUSION He is currently pursuing a project HRP-ADH (Health Recovery Program-Big data has raw ingredients for tomorrow invincible

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Gad J. Selig

planning) and that the business will be an instant success. Long range financial projections are at best works of Some definitions are appropriate. An entrepreneur is using the WAG concept (wild ass guess) and thus, are heavilya person who perceives an opportunity and creates an discounted by investors. It is not an efficient use of time andorganization to pursue that opportunity. A business incubator energy to prepare elaborate pro-formas on untested concepts.is a facility that assists new ventures in growing a business. A new business concept is at best a set of unprovenThere are many types of incubators (e.g. general purpose [any

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Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

-experimental evolution report on suggested that the laboratory investigation of the thermo-elongation factor EF-Tu structural stability results using the stability of elongation factor EF-Tu protein by circularancestral protein sequence reconstruction modeling has been dichroism data would provide an opportunity to rewind theused in teaching community college pre-engineering students to tape of life using ancestral protein reconstruction modelingdo research. A project analyzing free energy and Shannon approach [1]. Furthermore they reported that the insertion ofentropy of the engineered DNA sequences would benefit students an ancient version of EF-Tu in Escherichia coli (E. coli

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Xi Kang; Chengxin Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque

frequency drops sharply as the length of the beam is increased. In this project, we set the length of the cantilever beam as 250µm.The integral in equation (4) can be solved for the voltage[10] Based on above analysis, a set of optimized design parametersto obtain: of the proposed electrostatic mixer are obtained, as show in Table 1. Design parameters valuesTherefore, the driving voltage for any tip displacement can be

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A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

button individual understanding of key lab concepts even if they 4didn’t get a chance to be heavily involved with the group request of student teams, but they will be encouraged to becompletion of the project. creative, especially with the mechanical aspects of the design, Battery drain was a constant issue during the first run of when approaching the realization of their car chassis. Thethe course. Students used combinations of AAA batteries, AA revised experiment kit will include the items listed in Table 2.batteries, and 9

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Breno Fabricio Lira Melo Sousa; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

year, the CyberCop company interaction honeypots and high-interaction honeypots, whereproduced the first product, Sting, which was later acquired by the low-interaction will provide fake services, and interactionNAI, in the end year the same year. In 1998, Martin Rash occurs with the attacker, giving you false information [3].created a honeypot for the U.S. government. In 1999, Lance Differing from low-interaction, high-interactionSpitzner created the Honeynet Project, along with a team of honeypots, will provide a real environment for the attacker,about fifty security experts [1]. where it can interact with both the operating system itself

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Jenny Au; Ololade O. Mudasiru; Kavitha Chandra

positions, the values are comparable with increase nonuniform case, the number of transducers has to increase.in N. The design considerations should take into account thistradeoff between the number of array elements and bound onthe variance of the sidelobes levels. ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) Authors acknowledge support from NSF GK-12 Vibes and Waves in Action project(0841392). REFERENCES[1] S. Yi, Y. Pei, S. Kalyanaraman, On the Capacity Improvement of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Remah Alshinina; Christian Bach

visualize the requirements of design-science research. Forcognitive information-processing patterns that increase the each specific project, it is important to know when and wherelikelihood of employing aggressive problem-solving strategies these guidelines are used and how are these beneficial in themanifesting in aggressive behavior. The positive aspects of the research process (10). While some researchers developresearch methods involving behavioral science were to take information systems that meet the management requirements,into account many factors that can influence a certain type of others methods where the management issues remainbehavior in human. On the contrary, the negative aspect was

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

solve. The second class the used. selecting complexity is determined by the program languages, 2. Project Metrics that are used to monitor project the problem modeling methods and the software design situation and status. And identify risk. E.g.. Staff methods. Lastly, The incidental complexity is determined by number and their patterns, cost, etc… the quality of the involved implementer.[7] The most common 3. Product metrics describe the attributes of the software used complexity metrics are Halstead metrics which product at any phase of its development. [10] Metrics introduced in 1977 by

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

between student action less time for analysis of student learning. Faculty are oftenand focused feedback, students often make the same type of absorbed checking student data and have little time to add newerrors week after week. Additionally, engineering laboratories student experiences that might be important and relevant todo not typically use efficacious forms of teaching, such as industrial practice. This problem is shared by most science anddiscovery-methods or project-based learning [1]. technology curricula and delays integration of new topics andUnderstanding how people think and learn has forced a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Salamahn Mill; Dafe Ukaivbe; Weiwei Zhu

greateramong which, we are particularly the technique proposed by than 95, and in cloud-shadow area its value of TM band 4Meng et al. [1]. The method is called closest spectral fit, or would be less than 55. Particularly, the ration of band 4 toCSF. band 3 can tell if it is in a water area with a cloud shadow. We devise an algorithm detecting CCS as the following. II. OUR PROJECT Algorithm 1: Detect clouds and cloud shadowsA. Closest Spectral Fit (psudocode) At the same spot yet different times, the

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David W. Kraft

doubling time of 63 years.become standard features of courses in Calculus. Althoughtextbooks typically include applications to the growth of Question (1): In how many doubling times will thepopulations and to continuously compounded interest density of human beings on Earth approach one personaccounts, such treatments are often perfunctory and do not per square meter of solid land surface? This requiresdisplay the ultimate outcomes of unchecked exponential solution of the equationgrowth [1]. A more thorough analysis is well within studentcapabilities and we present here several problems, oftenassigned as projects, to extend the students’ understanding of

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Using Mathematics Review to Enhance Problem Solving Skills in General Physics Classes Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, and Haishen Yao have found positive correlations between the scores of Abstract— Mastery in basic arithmetic, algebra, and mathematics pre-tests administered at the beginning of physicstrigonometry is necessary to perform well in physics courses. In courses and the grades received in those physics courses6-16.this project we studied the effect of

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Ruzanna Davtyan

D1   (O1 ) * p (E1/D1 ) = 0 (O2 ) * p(E2,/D1) = 1 -$0.46 -$ 0.46 * 0 -$ 0.46 * 1 III. DATA ANALYSIS D2   (O3 ) * p (E1/D2) (O4 )*p(E2,/D2) = 176/185 -$ 0.7725 For the purpose of this project the following decisions and -$15.45*.05 = -0.7725 $0.00 * 0.95events are considered: Table 4: Expectation Matrix D1 = Pay meter Comparing the expected values of either taking decision

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Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque; H. M. Imran Hassan; S. M. Abul Hossain

to other controller because of its discrete low error response characteristics. REFERENCES [1] Liping Guo, “Design Projects in a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Course in Electrical Engineering Technology”, the Technology Interface Journal/Fall 2009, Volume 10 No. 1, ISSN# 1523-9926

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Constadinos Lales; Aparicio Carranza

on our [4] “Open vpn” N.p.. Web. 22 Novhome network anywhere we go. 2013. http://openvpn.net/index.php/open V. Conclusions source/documentation/howto.html. [5] "Raspberry Pi Tutorials." Home.What makes the Raspberry Pi so special N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013.is its size and pricing. Raspberry Pi has [6] Muncaster, Phil. "Raspberry Pigiven us the opportunity to create $35 Puts Holes in China's Greatvalue projects that

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ruoxu Jia; Junling Hu; Abubaker E.M. Elbalsohi

hotdirection could be used to significantly reduce the number of channel with an averaged temperature of 330K and exits themesh and thus solution time, however, the general projection channel with an average temperature of 323.7K. Cold waterfunction in COMSOL does not work with the structured mesh. enters the cold channel with an average temperature of 300K and exits with an average temperature of 310.5K. However, IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS the temperatures at the channel centers only slightly changed

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

material;assessment techniques have been put forth to grade students’ ecology, health, energy, and pollution. The debate served asperformance in an in-class debate. Typically, teachers utilize the block’s nexus by helping students connect all of thea rubric divided into categories such as analysis, concepts using a realistic situation.communication, organization, etc. to assess the students’performance [4]. This type of assessment only accounts forthe teacher’s viewpoint on the students’ performance and does III. METACOGNITION ASSESSMENT MODELnot include peer or self-assessments. Walker & Warhurst The main objective of this project was to assess a student’s(2010) [10] attempted to include self

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Matthew P. Lutz; Michael Puddicombe; Jeffrey R. Mountain; Jack Patterson

introducing and exhibiting the most creative, market-ready,spaciousness through two bedrooms, an office space, and an open residential solar applications. Over its ten-year development,living space for lounging, cooking, and gathering—offering a the Solar Decathlon competition organizers have continuallymodel for affordable and sustainable living. This paper will adjusted and refined the competition criteria in an effort topresent design and construction details of Norwich University keep a fine balance between making the competition solely anΔT90 house which allowed it meet the project design objectives. exploratory design exercise and a pragmatic, hammer-ready