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M. Nazrul Islam; Joseph Abel; Qinghai Gao

importantbecause it involves removing the data when it is no longer necessary. The sixth principle to theGDPR standard is being able to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of the data [7].The most salient feature of the curriculum is that it is aligned with industry needs and standards.It will have collaborations with outside agencies and experts in the field to provide the studentswith better learning outcomes. Several agencies and standards are already being considered,including, Palo Alto, Red Hat Academy, and Amazon Web Services.CONCLUSIONAs cybersecurity is on the rise in today’s world, we need a lot number of professionals withexpertise in security tool design and development. The computer security curriculum is developedwith the state-of-the

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Pong P Chu

integration of a large system.They demonstrate how to integrate software and hardware in the same system and how thecustomized hardware and the software complement each other. The remaining article is organized as follows: Section 2 discusses the development and theplatform setup; Section 3 provides the detailed description of one case study - an ultrasonicdistance sensor controller core; Section 4 lists other possible project ideas; and the last sectionsummarizes the article.2. Curriculum Development and Codesign Platform Current Digital Design Curriculum To manage complexity, computer system development emphasizes the abstraction and adoptsa layered model. The computer engineering curricula basically follow the model and organizethe

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Wei Xie; Jared Auclair; Jinxiang Pei

An Integrated Research, Education/Training and Industry Practice Framework to Accelerate the Innovation in Biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing and Eliminate Drug Shortage Wei Xie, Jared Auclair, Jinxiang PeiAbstract: The biomanufacturing industry is growing rapidly and becoming one of the key driversof medicine and life science. Since biopharma manufacturing is based on living organisms, thereexists inherent uncertainty in raw material supply, production process, storage and delivery,which leads to highly volatile outcomes. Even though rich data are collected during drugdevelopment and production processes, industrial practitioners tend to lack knowledge on bigdata analytics, risk analysis, real-time control and

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Joseph Benin P.E.; Avinash Srinivasan

adapt to enable the best intellectual development and character building. While CharlesBabbage designed the first mechanical computer as early as 1822 [1], the digital computersare relatively new and have been with us since the 1930s [2]. In recent years, computerprogramming has shifted from being a skill for an elect few computer scientists to enteringthe main stream of education [3]. At the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), learning computer programminghas been an integral part of the Electrical Engineering curriculum for decades. While initiallyfocused on hardware-friendly languages like C and C++, this was later expanded to includeMATLAB and C#. In keeping with the principle of continuous improvement and providing ourstudents

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Jikai Du; Chad M Walber; Shawn E Thompson; David J Kukulka; Edward Purizhansky

learning, and how tobetter infuse 21st century skills into the classroom. As a result, new teaching strategies arenecessary so that faculty can have deeper understanding of students and can develop moreconfidence in working with today’s students. Such new strategies will help the transformationand adoption of high impact educational technology, and deepen faculty’s passion for teachingand the process of learning. Collaborations between faculty and industrial partners can be an efficient approach toimprove engineering technology education [16-20]. Such collaborations may includecollaborative lab delivery, student research mentorship, senior design project supervision, etc.Such collaborations can not only get faculty familiar with resources

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Matthew Rhudy

motivating for engineering students. Laboratoryexperiences can also be effective in developing creative problem-solving skills and usingcommunication2, which has been identified as a critical skill for modern engineers3. Criticalthinking is an important skill in any discipline and is often refined through well-designed writingassignments4. Writing exercises incorporated within technical courses have been shown to beeffective in improving critical thinking among engineering students5. Specifically, short writingassignments can be implemented within upper level engineering courses to deepen studentunderstanding of concepts6. These assignments, while considered within some upper levelcourses, are not commonly implemented within laboratory courses

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Leonard Anderson; Aslah K Alshaiea

independently in the following semester to complete therequirements of CIVE5500. As reported by the student, the team experience and only graduatingone semester beyond the student’s original graduation date proved to be very valuable for thestudent. This paper presents the methodology of how an off-track student can be integrated intoan existing capstone design group to provide the student with an intradisciplinary team designexperience.IntroductionThe Capstone Design experience in the Department of Civil Engineering at Wentworth Instituteof Technology in Boston, Massachusetts is a two-course sequence – CIVE4000 and CIVE5500.In the spring semester students are required to take CIVE4000 which is a 4-credit course with 1hour of lecture and six hours of

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Mana Seifaei; Salah Badjou

robot, as discussed below. Robotic systems are known to representexcellent examples of mechatronics systems [1]. In view of the EE curriculum at Merrimcak,which is similar to typical EE undergraduate programs, EE majors have no knowledge ofmechanics beyond the introductory general physics course that they take in their freshmen year.Clearly, such a limited background in mechanics is not enough to perform adequately in acapstone mechatronics design. The faculty co-author’s solution was to use an approach that hehad already successfully experimented with when teaching electromechanical engineering atWenwtorth [3-4]: introduce concepts on demand, whenever they are needed. He did that throughappropriate tutorials that he customized to the needs of

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Shuvra Das

this problem. A fairly well-known approach, first proposed by faculty from Wright StateUniversity, involves teaching an Engineering Mathematics class to freshmen engineeringstudents. This class, typically taught by engineers (and not mathematicians), covers only thosetopics from the entire Calculus curriculum that are actually used in early engineering courses suchas Physics, Statics, Dynamics, Circuit Theory, etc. Passing this course allows students to continueinto freshmen and sophomore level engineering classes while they are still continuing to finishthe traditional sequence of Calculus courses. This class was recently added to the engineeringcurriculum at University of Detroit Mercy. In this paper the author will present the course

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Elena Brewer; Anthony Dalessio; Sarah Giersch; Nancy Louwagie

of experienced, skilled workers and therecognition of the lengthy time needed for an individual to develop this technical skill setcontributes to increased hiring needs1.This paper will:  Introduce Vacuum Technology curriculum development efforts in the Western NY area;  Describe the motivations of SUNY Erie in pursuing partnerships in developing the curriculum;  Discuss the logistics and policies required to form a partnership across institutions and state educational systems to teach Vacuum Technology courses;  Describe the successful teaching modalities for vacuum technology courses; and,  Analyze the results of the partnership and discuss future plans for the partnership.2.0 Motivation for Developing a

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be configuredduring synthesis.Figure 7. Block diagram of thermal monitor subsystem Figure 8. Block diagram of heat generator core Figure 9. Block diagram of LUT-FF chain5. Curriculum integration In the past, it is hard to obtain the device junction temperature and adjust the systemoperating frequency. When the subjects of power analysis and thermal management arediscussed in class, the exercises and homework assignments are mainly theoretical analysis onpaper. The thermal monitor core and heat generator core can be used for hands-on experiments toobserve the power and thermal behavior of physical digital systems. Two experiments aredescribed in the following subsections. These experiments are part of the computer engineeringlab

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Jimmy Ching-Ming Chen; Joseph Vaglica

by incorporating energysaving measures and distributed energy resources. The proposed systems for upgrading facilitiesinclude lighting and integrated window treatments/controls, and the re-design of an energyefficiency program that responds to the unique needs of the building and climate. Students areexpected to provide detailed technical solutions in the proposal by examining the past year utilityexpenses, planning the renovation design, estimating new system costs, and demonstratingenergy efficiency improvements. In addition, students are required to seek funding sources, suchas state grants and tax benefits.The criteria of the competition include not only technical factors but also broader impacts to thecommunity. Student teams

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Seth W. Percy; Joshua E Perry; Carlos L Lück

-printed enclosure laboratory experiment implementation,resembling a handheld commercial conclusion, acknowledgements, andmultimeter. Students use the kit to design a references.multi-scale DC voltmeter, DC ammeter andAC voltmeter on a breadboard in the II. BACKGROUNDcircuits laboratory. A parts list and 3D The multimeter has been an essential tool formodel files are publicly available online for the engineer in practice. As technology hasother institutions and individuals to utilize. transitioned into the digital age, it has becomeThis project was student-led with close prevalent within the modern industry to usedigital handheld units. This device

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Stephen Wilkerson; Joe Cerreta; Andrew D Gadsden

lessons learned in the first year, students were broken intofour groups or teams: the Airframe Team, the RPIC Team, the Video Analysis Team, and theFlight Controls Team. Their respective assignments, which are shown in Appendix A of thispaper, were, for the most part, selected by the students themselves. As would be expected, the Airframe Team was mainly composed of mechanicalengineers who understood lift design, loading characteristics, and the importance of structuralstrength in picking an airfoil profile and design. The team also needed to work with the otherteams to integrate the components needed for the aerial photography mission and autonomousflight mission. Fortunately, mechanical drawings and building techniques were well within

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Lisa Greenwood; Mark Indelicato; Miguel Bazdresch; Mike Eastman

using the radios. Among them are the implementation of an amplitude-modulatedanalog radio, a Morse-code on-off keying (OOK) wireless telegraph system, and a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) transceiver. The most successful student-led project in terms of studentlearning and motivation has been the capture and processing of weather images produced bythe National Oceanic and Aeronautics Administration (NOAA) satellites (Bazdresch, Velayudhan& Johnson, 2016; Velayudhan & Bazdresch, 2016). These activities have increased students’motivation, and have resulted in deeper and more meaningful learning. It has been long recognized that courses based on SDR can be highly integrative forcurricula in electrical engineering undergraduate