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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

code for a specific application. Such exerciseshelp students in appreciating the role of design support engineer. Many homework andexamination problems are set by providing working codes and asking students to modify thecodes appropriately per given specifications. In some cases, the header files in the code providedto students point to nonexistent folders. These forces students to learn how to search and findappropriate header file for inclusion in the project. Another common mistake by students is innot including an interrupt vector table file in programs based on interrupts. In such cases, thestudents find the code to compile and not run properly. By correcting for such omissions,students learn a valuable lesson of code debugging and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mark N. Valesey; Teresa L. Noto

. These mayinclude such areas as the general precautions which should be taken in the eventof an accident or emergency, and what to do if the vehicle battery discharges.Consumers may be intimidated by media projections of high voltage dangers andlikely need reassurance of the many safeguards that are in place to preventelectrical shock.The initial cost of these vehicles may be a little higher than their conventionalcounterparts; however over time the fuel cost savings will justify the originalinvestment. Another noteworthy savings is in reduced maintenance costs. TheEV does not have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and therefore, NEVERneeds its oil changed. Although the HEV and PHEV’s have internal combustionengines, their engines do not run

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

RAMAN LALL; TIMOTHY J. DONOHUE; JULIE C. MITCHELL

grant from the Department of Energy as partof the Genomics:GTL program (DE-FG02-04ER25627). The authors also thank Daniel Noguera andLaura Vanderploeg of the University of Wisconsin for support during the project.6. REFERE CES1. [Sjoberg et. al.] Sjoberg A, Persson I, Quednau M, Hahn-Hagerdal B The influence of limiting and non-limiting growth conditions on glucose and maltose metabolism in Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis strain. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 42:931-938 (1995)2. [Thomas et. al.] Thomas TD, Turner KW, Crow VL (1980) Galactose fermentation by Streptococcus lactis and Streptococcus cremoris: Pathways, products and regulation. J Bacteriol 144:672-682 (1980)3. Neves AR Metabolic Strategies to Reroute Carbon Fluxes in

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank Lanzer

Education 6is primarily due to the conflicting nature of the projects developed by these boys asopposed to girls. We had planned to follow this plan, i.e. two separate camps that cover thesame material. We were interrupted during this cycle with a state grant of nearly $10k,which we accepted but necessitated dropping the IWC. Proceeding with a more-inclusiveSTEM camp that included aspects of information security, we were also able to offer sixscholarships to students who would normally not be able to attend financially. Coincidingwith the camp dates was the opening of the movie Get Smart®. Thus, the name waschanged to TechnoSleuth Camp.It was decided that

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott C. Pender; Andrew J. Foote

. Much of the research for the first chapter of this project was done through the use of twoprimary sources. The first of the two sources was the Department of Commerce5 and the secondwas the Bureau of Labor Statistics4. The paper brings to life many eye-opening statistics aboutthe current job market as well as exploring the last decade of job shifts. Attempts are made toremove the current market collapse from much of the information. A major objective is to provethat American manufacturing while shrinking is not less productive. We have seen trends andshifts through American labor throughout our growth as a country. We saw the “death” of steelthroughout the country no more than twenty years ago. The country emerged from the seemingcrisis and

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Aldi

4/22/09Rochester Institute of Technology, ASEE Page 2 of 141.0 Abstract This project was out of necessity while in the process of developing composite drive-shafts and the need to be capable of creating test scenarios with combined bending and torsional loading. The new processing technique and novel fiber orientation for composite shafts aim to produce mechanical properties with high torsional stiffness while allowing angular misalignment. The shafts should allow for a similar result as a constant velocity shaft or universal joint except that the angular misalignment capabilities are provided through fiber orientation. In order to then

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michael G. Jenkins

, have validated the efficacy of the “do-say” activelearning conceptBibliography1. Jenkins, M. G., "Standards and Codes in Mechanical Engineering Education: Confounding Constraints or HelpfulHindrances?" Standardization News, Vol 27, No 9, pp 20-25, 1999.2. Bloom, B. S., ”The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives” in The Classification of Educational Goals: HandbookI, Cognitive Domain, by B. S. Bloomm Longman, New York, 1956.3. Sousa, D. A., “How the Brain Learns,” National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, Virginia,19954. Zachary, L. W., “Project LEA/RN Applied to an Engineering Mechanics Course,” pp 410-413 in Proceedings ofthe 1998 International Congress on Experimental Mechanics, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Bethel

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

-on laboratory demonstrations and projects. Topics include aerospace propulsion, astrodynamics,aerodynamics, stability and control of aircraft and spacecraft, structures and materials, and computer-aided design (CAD). Each of these topics includes either computer or traditional laboratory componentsto keep the students engaged. Some examples of the accompanying hands-on work include the designand construction of balsa wood gliders following the lecture on aerodynamics, and the designing of trussbridges using CAD tools, which are subsequently formed from ABS plastic using a rapid-prototypingprinter. These particular activities end with a friendly competition between students using both their balsaglider, flown for maximum glide distance, and

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bruno Osorno; William Oh

learningoutcomes. It will also identify what needs to be changed to improve the delivery of the material.This process will be carried on this semester in week 10 and 11 of the power electronics andphoto-voltaic (PV) course.ConclusionsIn [1], the major modeling features of the photovoltaic modules (equivalent circuit models andPCF) are presented. As for the this project, I-V characteristic curves of Solarex MSC-83 andST10 of Shell Solar’s photovoltaic modules were simulated successfully by using PSPICE. Acomparison of the maximum power specified by the manufacturer and the one obtained bysimulation yielded no significant error. This simulation exercise is expected to add to studentlearning Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

self-paced learning. Further, researchers realize the power of the web as a learning tool [6-7, for example].Through the web, students and teachers are able to draw upon the vast database of informationavailable through a flexible and global media. The purpose of this paper is to support the claim that computing continues to have amajor impact in engineering education as well as to project how computing can provide an evengreater influence in engineering education through digital tutors and web-based learning. Thepaper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides some information on the current state ofeducation in the US which warrants the need for improvement which Section 3 discusses thechallenges in using computing to address

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

James Helbling

weakness in recent alumni surveys. The ABETcriteria require engineering programs to show that graduating students have computer simulationand experimental experience as well as communications and ethics skills and have demonstratedthe use of that skill set to enhance the technical content of their curriculum. The application-based engineering approach and team-teaching with communications faculty as a part of thesenior design experience certainly helps to fill these requirements, and the auditors whole-heartedly endorsed the process.Additionally, alumni surveys have shown a reversal of the previous trend showing dissatisfactionwith technical writing and project management skills acquired at Embry-Riddle’s Prescottcampus, as shown in the following

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Frank Lanzer

Education 6is primarily due to the conflicting nature of the projects developed by these boys asopposed to girls. We had planned to follow this plan, i.e. two separate camps that cover thesame material. We were interrupted during this cycle with a state grant of nearly $10k,which we accepted but necessitated dropping the IWC. Proceeding with a more-inclusiveSTEM camp that included aspects of information security, we were also able to offer sixscholarships to students who would normally not be able to attend financially. Coincidingwith the camp dates was the opening of the movie Get Smart®. Thus, the name waschanged to TechnoSleuth Camp.It was decided that

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Scott C. Pender; Andrew J. Foote

. Much of the research for the first chapter of this project was done through the use of twoprimary sources. The first of the two sources was the Department of Commerce5 and the secondwas the Bureau of Labor Statistics4. The paper brings to life many eye-opening statistics aboutthe current job market as well as exploring the last decade of job shifts. Attempts are made toremove the current market collapse from much of the information. A major objective is to provethat American manufacturing while shrinking is not less productive. We have seen trends andshifts through American labor throughout our growth as a country. We saw the “death” of steelthroughout the country no more than twenty years ago. The country emerged from the seemingcrisis and

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

Manhattan College. During the study, the students learned about the interrelationship between two 1principal subject areas of chemical engineering: thermodynamics and heat transfer. The educational outcome of thisresearch project provided the students with a better understanding of how the two disciples simultaneously affectdesign applications. These concepts can be used when the student is given a task to design an applicable heatexchanger in the work field or an academic environment. The law of conservation of energy is defined by many as the first law of thermodynamics. Its applicationallows calculations of energy

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik

work up inthe race shop computer and meeting room. The result is that students are forced to return to theexcitement of racing just frequently enough that they are reminded of the excitement and stay engaged. 3Despite the programs focus on undergraduate studies, graduates that continue on for a master‟s or PhD,typically use the race shop as a hang out, working on pet projects, and continuing to support the raceteams they crewed on in their undergraduate years. This beneficial support of the teams complements thefaculty effort to guide and lead the teams through the engineering of the race cars.Students and race team internshipsBecause of the great need for race team engineers and because of

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

the end of the 19th century,Lukens began keeping records of the plate defects and their sources. All of these books were the end product of multiple routines of record keeping by people on thefactory floor and many of them have fingerprints and handprints on them. They are similar to the daybook, journal, and ledger, in that they record data into a transitional location before entering the finalresults into ledgers. However, they are different in that it was a works-wide record keeping project, ratherthan the work of a single clerk or owner. The processes were becoming more complex and more peoplehad to participate in the written record keeping in order to gain the knowledge necessary to analyze andcontrol the industrial

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

1989).Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in Computer 5Engineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases. For last one year, his research focused primarily onthe modeling and simulation of wide range parallel/distributed

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Syed S. Rizvi; Aasia Riasat; Muhammad S. Rashid

., [1999]. "Static and Dynamic Configurable Systems," IEEE Trans. On Computers, Vol. 48, Issue. 6, pp. 556-563, June 1999. 7Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in ComputerEngineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Auf Akhtar; Syed S. Rizvi; Khaled M. Elleithy

Guard, a built-in feature of Oracle DatabaseEnterprise Edition, guarantees a disaster recovery solution that is database aware and fully integratedwith other Oracle High Availability (HA) features.Adidas also has a number of new projects in development on Oracle Database 10g. Adidas plans to useData Guard10g Rolling Upgrades, a new feature that dramatically reduces the downtime required toupgrade from one database release to the next (Oracle 10.1.0.3 is the minimum database release requiredfor rolling upgrades). Like many Oracle users, Adidas will soon upgrade existing production systemsfrom Oracle9i to Oracle Database 10g. Adidas’s testing showed that in their environment, the upgradefrom Oracle9i to Oracle 10g requires a minimum of 25 minutes

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Nancy Ortins Savage; Samuel Daniels; Michael A. Collura P.E.

., “Enabling a Comprehensive Teaching Strategy: Video Lectures,” The Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008, 7, 71-86. 5. Carpi, A., Mikhailova, Y. “The Visionlearning Project: Evaluating the Design and Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Science Web Content”, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2003, 33, 12-15. 6. Nichols, J. Shaffer, B., Shockey, K. “Changing the Face of Instruction: Is Online or In-class More Effective” College & Research Libraries, 2003, 378-388. 7. Lents, N.H., Cifuentes, O.E., “Web-Based Learning Enhancements: Video Lectures Through Voice-Over PowerPoint in a Majors-Level Biology Course”, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2009, 39, 38-46. 8. Dutton, J., Dutton, M

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

to wake up capture data, perform calculations, take actions, communicate and then go to sleep; this concept goes against what the textbooks traditionally cover. Some of the new millennium jobs characteristic is that innovative systems and devices that will be designed and implemented should be energy aware, self sustainable and efficient. This posses an interesting question: “In a university environment: how can we transfer to the millennials all the concepts of classical microprocessor and microcontrollers systems using the latest in multimedia technologies, get the students to perform concurrent tasks while collaborating in teams, offer immediate feedback on their performance while making them responsible for the projects that

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Onesmo Ogore; Kushal Sherpa; Caleb Baron; Mansour Zenouzi; Shankar Krishnan

Design of a Simplified Hemodialysis Simulation Onesmo Ogore, Kushal Sherpa, Caleb Baron, Mansour Zenouzi, Ph.D., P.E., and Shankar Krishnan, Ph.D. Electronics and Mechanical Department Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA 02115Session 6: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design courseABSTRACTThe objective of the present study is to create a representation of a hollow fiberdialyzer which is a critical component of any hemodialysis system. This is done tofacilitate the understanding of the mass transport and fluid dynamics processesthat occur within the dialyzer, which affect the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Carli D. Flynn; Cliff I. Davidson; Sharon Dotger

subcategory of “rate vs. amount” were considered, as these Rachael Thomas, LaVerne Sessler and Meredith Sullivan, were the most relevant to the goals of the RACI. One set graduate researchers Peter Mkhatshwa, Jessica Whisher-Hehl, of two questions in HECI “rate vs. amount” category are and AnnMarie O’Neil, and Dr. Helen Doerr for their help in actually mass flow questions, designed as an analog to the this project. heat transfer problems. REFERENCES [1] R. T. Streveler, T. Litzinger, R. Miller and P. Steif, “Learning IV. ONGOING AND FUTURE WORK

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Mohammad H. Hashem; Ahmed A. Al Khawaja; Saleh O. Edhah; Usman I. Hashmi; Al Hareth S. Al Akill

atmosphere of college, poses a lot of astounding projects. Usually, this requires the students to takechallenges for students around the world. They will face additional classes to strengthen their linguistic abilities.various issues and they must learn how to cope and dealwith them correctly. Academic issues are quite common in When students start college, they deal with many financialcollege and have a negative effect on students’ performance. complications that have an impact on their academicThey can be related to the transition process, language and performance. [4] affirms that parents are realizing that theycultural differences, limited financial support and finally cannot continue

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sithisone Kalaya; Hussain A. Alhazmi

Fig. 3 Shown various distance reading from sensorsinstalled Putty release 0.63, a Telnet/SSH client for Windowsand terminal emulator. The software is being implemented to robot must make a 90o left turn when an object is detected inenable data transmission from the robot to a host computer. the range between fifteen to twenty centimeters this is toIn this project, we

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Bruce Char

like a software engi-neering project. This includes 1. Automatic testing. With non-trivial amounts of programming to generate variants, testing is a ne- cessity, if only to explore all the possible branches that the variant generation code might take. As problems are modified due to design changes or bug fixing, re-testing is a necessity. The amount of work needed for this requires automated test scripts to be able to reproduce and hopefully check that the programming is functioning as required. Having scripts also means that regression testing can be performed so that fixed bugs do not reappear. 2. Testing can reduce the likelihood of a student finding a flaw in a question variant (improper presen- tation, unsolvable