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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh, Senior Member, IEEE new smart grid workforce. In the Department of Electrical Abstract— In advanced Power Engineering and Smart Grid Engineering and Computer Science we have developed smartLaboratory environment students get opportunities to grid laboratory to support both undergraduate and graduatedemonstrate their ability to design and conduct experiments

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Web-based Personalized Laboratories for Engineering Students Enid K. Sichel, Member, IEEE , Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan Abstract. We developed software that provides intelligenthands-on bench-top dynamic help to students as they study inlaboratories for introductory circuit analysis. Tutoring help is Theavailable at “teachable moments” as opposed to students waitingdays or weeks for traditional teacher-graded labs reports.Quantitative and qualitative studies show that using the softwareleads to improved learning, verbalization and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

. video and demonstration of practical tasks implementation,University defines its own list of disciplines and elective followed by comments on the used technology, approachescourses according to the labour market requirements. The and methods; results analysis of practical tasksresults of the surveys influence also on the contents of elective implementation, possible errors analysis, providing knowledgecourses which are included in the Annually Catalogue of for practical implementation.elective courses. For acquired knowledge application by the student can be used: laboratory practice

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Melody Baglione

(HVAC) systems and theircontrol laboratory experiments. New curriculum materials design encompasses many engineering concepts, why notintroduce basic operational principles of central HVAC systems leverage these systems to enhance student learning andand provide an overview of the control systems theory involved. motivation? Given that students are often familiar with typicalA value-added, mixed-method assessment strategy uses both home heating and refrigeration systems, introducing feedbackqualitative and quantitative techniques to closely track student control theory using HVAC systems may further improveperformance and outcomes. Preliminary direct and indirect

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Robot Artist - Automated Picture Portrait Abdulrahman Alkhodairy Sarosh Patel Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Paul B. Crilly

and Pinder [3] addresses the inherent difficulty of teachingtheory, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and interference EM, and Crilly[1], Xie, Liang and Wang [4] present(EMI), transmission lines, antennas, phased arrays, and laboratory based EM instruction methods. Rao [5], Iskanderwireless propagation. Projects range the prosaic EM [6], and Raida [7] addresses EM instruction using technology;experiments to more open ended design with multiple possible Zhou [8] uses the seminar approach to EM education.solutions. Index Terms – experiential learning, laboratory This paper will present a project oriented approach to teachingdevelopment, electromagnetics education, antenna and EM

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

students connect course theory to real-world systems. energy considerations and head loss calculations. Faculty andThe time constant of a fluid system consisting of a tank, inlet undergraduate research assistants are redesigning theflow, and outlet flow through a valve is determined by the Feedback Control Systems course to include a significantresistance and tank area. The valve resistance is non-linear and laboratory component.depends on the flow rate and tank level. Both the time constantaround an operational point and the average time constant This project is part of a larger initiative that

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohammed-Noor Naher Al-Maghrabi; Ahmed A. Abdou El-Abbasy

with dynamics and vibrations. of several buildings. They created one of the earliest multi-Dynamics and vibrations are yet extremely complex subjects and dimensional building models and studied its performance on ademand costly laboratory resources. Since the faculties ofengineering in these universities are new, there are no shaking table. During the 1940s an impact table for simulatinglaboratories for dynamics and vibrations yet. It was obvious that, earthquake ground motions was used to study the mechanicalwithout laboratory work, the students were not able to performance of large shear

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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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Christopher Palmieri; Judith Hooymans; Cole Gingrich; Tooran Emami Ph. D.; Aaron Dahlen; Joseph Staier

controller is implemented in MATLAB, data is Designs soon began on an automatic system that couldstored in MySQL, a python script directs the data, and the hold the vessel in place without the manual control. To doArduino micro-controller transfers data to the motors and this, the different thrusters would need to control the surge,from the sensors. A controller has been designed that sway and yaw of the vessel. With successful design andsuccessfully instructed the vessel to stay parallel to the walls of implementation, DPS became prevalent in the deep waterthe tank water laboratory test. This controller only uses theheading motors and leaves the positional motors off

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

forthermodynamics academic institutions, specifically for the engineering I. INTRODUCTION disciplines. The main problem is the provision of relevant and Enhancing learning and research experiences for meaningful practical experience where laboratory resourcesundergraduate students has been a subject of a number of such as hardware and infrastructure are limited [12, 13].educators and researchers; different pedagogies and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ketul B Shah; Aritra Ghosh; Md Naim Hossain; Young Lee

application available that can be used in medical Figure 1.projects [3]. J-DSP application is designed for educationalpurpose [4]. This application is used in the laboratories for The blocks are used to construct this architectureteaching Digital Signal Processing to students. with the aim to provide some logical divisions of the In case of environmental studies, now-a-days many resources in the system. The architecture organizes availableapplications are being developed in the market to study resources into the following blocks: sensors, mobile devices,environmental factors. One of them is used to measure web server and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert Hood; Mark Jacobs; James Masi; Kayla McCaffrey

were observed in a wind tunnel by using the transparent, the flow patterns are invisible without flowflow visualization methods of smoke and Schlieren photography. The visualization methods such as surface flow visualization,wind tunnel was constructed to have at least double the test section particle tracer visualization, and optical visualization. Surfacearea of the current fluid mechanics laboratory wind tunnel and was flow visualization utilizes oil or tufts applied to the surface ofable to achieve a wind velocity range from 5mph to 25mph. This the model. As the air flows over the model, the flow patternspaper is a summary of 3 projects performed by the authors at USM. can be observed. The use of smoke in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

future. 30 Civil Engineering Contracting and Electrical Engineering Construction Mechanical Engineering College of engineering provides specialized engineering Enterprises (CCE) training courses in different fields to the engineers as well as Industrial Engineering providing testing and taking advantages of the facilities and laboratories of the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ruzanna Davtyan

only when students process new information orenvironment, whether a classroom, a laboratory and encourages knowledge in such a way that it makes sense in their frame ofeducators to design learning environments to get preferred reference (Hull, 1995) p.23.” He also says that this approach tolearning outcomes. “learning and teaching assumes that the mind naturally seeks meaning in context and does so by searching for relationships Keywords—context, teaching, learning, style, student, teacher that make sense and appear useful (Hull, 1995) p.24.” This I. INTRODUCTION

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

V. FUTURE WORK controller laboratory for manufacturing engineering education”, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 24, The present work has done successfully for controlling No. 7-8, pp. 590-298.the single tank water level by using one motor. As PID is used [7] Rehg, J., “PLC laboratories – the next generation”, ASEE Annualfor controlling and monitoring for a particular motor/machine, Conference & Exposition, 2002. [8] Automating Manufacturing Systems with PLCs by Hugh Jack (Versionbut

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Arthur Rozario; Justin Paruvaparampil; Keis Sultani; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Andres Mora; Catherine Carti; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Wenli Guo; Andrew Nguyen; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

engineering, biomedicalamong engineering students and engineering technology students engineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing aand will be a good model project for future students. research project in a laboratory and presenting the results in conferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. Keywords— Photon diffusion; turbid media; mHealth This interdisciplinary project carries an added education valuemonitoring; mobile phone camera; iris response; index finger for showing a student the difference between an engineeringdiffusion property; blood vessel absorption effect

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, investigate the local environments of arsenic in an arsenicchemical engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical hyperaccumulator, Cretan brake [2]. It was reported that As-Oengineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing a has bond length values from 170 pm to 180 pm and As-S hasresearch project in a laboratory and presenting the results in bond length value of about 225 pm. Another report for Zn inconferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. tobacco roots also shows that Zn-O bond length values haveOur community college, Queensborough Community College more variation (196 to 207 pm) as compared to Zn-S inQCC

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sithisone Kalaya; Hussain A. Alhazmi

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Mobile Robots Exploration and Mapping in 2D     Sithisone Kalaya Hussain A. Alhazmi Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

education points to hands-on experiences asof fundamental concepts during undergraduate engineering a necessary ingredient in the learning process. A participant ineducation. We describe recent experience at the University of the recent 2013 ASEE University/Industry perspectivesMassachusetts in introducing a laboratory component into the workshop stated this succinctly, “Students must experience aFundamentals of Electrical Engineering course taken by 170upper-level mechanical and industrial engineering hands-on example of every fundamental taught in order toundergraduate students. The lecture part of the course exposes reinforce it

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Damien Laird; Jack Price; Ioannis A. Raptis

Email: Ioannis Raptis@uml.edu Email: Jack Price@student.uml.edu Abstract—Multi-robot teams with many members can be very to map new environments [6]. The iRobot Create was useddemanding in terms of both monetary and spatial resources, to exhibit the usefulness of even a robot with very fewmajor limitations in both laboratory and classroom settings. A sensors in certain swarm scenarios [7]. Scribbler representsreduction in both the size and cost of robots that remain capableof testing a myriad of algorithms allows for much more research a versatile robot for educational purposes with an accessibleand education in the field of swarm robotics. The developed

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Allen S. Guinoo; Joshua A. Stewart; Lin Lin

materials could be used as solar heat absorbersenergy generation in the United States provided by National inside the collector such as aluminum soffits or aluminumRenewable Energy Laboratory. cans. Most collectors also have an insulation layer. Some collectors are left empty inside. They are called flat collectors. Fuel costs for heating homes have been on the Air flow through the collector to absorber the heat, Figure 2rise. With certain fuels becoming scarcer, prices don’t have shows the basic structure of a flat collector. Some collectorsintentions of plummeting anytime soon. States that rely have

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Shiangyu Lin; Junyi Zou; Xingguo Xiong; Prabir Patra

overview of resist processing for[30] R. D. Mindlin ," Influence of rotatory inertia and shear on flexural deep-UV lithography " , AT&T bell laboratories, Murray Hill,, 1994 motions of isotropic, elastic plates ", Journal of Applied Mechanics, [43] "Chemical Specific Information — Piranha Solutions" , Laboratory 1951, Vol. 18 p. 31–38. Safety Manual. Princeton University.[31] Reddy, J. N., "Theory and analysis of elastic plates and shells" , CRC [44] C. Di Bartolomeo, P. Barker, M. C. Petty, P. Adams, A. P. Monkman, " Press, Taylor and Francis, 2007.: A photolithographic technique for patterning

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Richard Mendoza; Brian Stuckman; Anthony Melkonian; Alexander Gilman

, since it The cleansing and containment system of the project poses the risk of damaging the electrical components of therequired knowledge in similar engineering fields. While the pinball machine. The Pinventions team discussed possiblecontainment unit would not be subject to extreme heat or solutions primarily amongst themselves, as well as with thestress, it is crucial none of the fog escape from the unit. This client. The mechanics of having a system that ensures thecriterion brought the Pinventions team to the Laboratory containment system can transition from completely sealed toManager for the School of Engineering. His guidance allowed

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

MA 119) as a prerequisite (or a satisfactory score on the Manuscript received February, 14, 2014. This work was supported in part college mathematics placement test). The course consisted ofby the CETL of the Queenborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala teaches at the Physics Department of the Queensborough 3 class hours, 1 recitation hour and 2 laboratory hours (4Community College. (All corresponds should direct to Suni Dehipawala: credits).Phone 718-281-5720; e-mail: sdehipawala@ QCC.CUNY.EDU). The study population consisted of two Physics 201 sections Vazgen Shekoyan is at the Physics Department of the Queensborough

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Thomas Goddard; Konstantin Litovskiy; Nathan Nichols-Roy; Matthew Reed; Igor Shvartser; Nicholas Smith; David Zeppa; Linda Werner; Julia E. Rice; Hans W. Horn; Amanda C. Engler

to extend OSRA to extract polymer structures from text. Cross-disciplinary teams are usually located in different Currently, we expect to have code for vertical bracketdepartments across a single campus rather than in different detection by the end of the capstone course. Our progressgeographic sites. Our student team has laboratory space gives us confidence that we will have the horizontal bracketlocated in the Jack Baskin Engineering building on the UCSC detection feature

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tamer Abukhalil; Madhav Patil

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. UBSwarm: Design of a Software Environment to Deploy Multiple Decentralized Robots Tamer Abukhalil Madhav Patil Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory Laboratory School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

establish a network. In addition, the research fellow was asked to be part of multiple teams in a technical sup pport role by conducting laboratory experiments, supportin ng government reporting activities, acting as an academicc liaison, and providing technical guidance to engineers. This experience provided a broad technical exposure

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Marwah Almasri; Khaled Elleithy

popular topic among researchers as it incorporates newtechnologies and perspectives. Therefore, it is crucial to pay This model was introduced by the U.S. Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) [6]. However, it has been revised by other researchersattention to this type of network for exploring solutions to such as Steinberg et al [7]. The JDL model is one of the data-many problems. A WSN is composed of a huge number of based

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Daniel Gebremicheal; Paul Cotae

Science and Service System (CSSS), International conference, pp. 2004 – 2007, Jun.2011.[8] P. Cotae,” Blind Doppler Estimation and Compensation in the Underwater Communications,” Technical report submitted to the Naval Research Laboratories, Washington DC, Sept. 2009.[9] A. Patel and B. Kosko, “Stochastic resonance in continuous and spiking Nearon models with levy noise neyman-pearson signal detection,’’ IEEETrans on Neural Networks.,Volume.19,pp. 1993 – 2008,Dec.2008. 5