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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Kingma, Washington State University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; John B. Schneider, Washington State University; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Dawn Wiggin, University of Washington ; Kirk A. Reinkens, Washington State University; Scott Winter, University of Washington

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

universities to advance STARS students’ academic preparation, primarily in mathematics; develop their learning skills; and help them complete some required coursework. The specific curriculum for each university is described separately below. • Academic Advising: Each STARS student is required to meet with an academic adviser at least six times per year for academic planning and to address any academic or personal challenges the student may be facing. Each university has a team of culturally competent advisers with extensive experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and socio-economic levels. • Residential Living-Learning Community: Research at WSU shows that living in a Living

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rabiul Islam, Oregon State University; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

)will provide explicit evidence of what is important for students to know, how much they knowabout these important concepts, and how and where to focus transportation engineering designcourses.The specific aims of the research include the following elements: 1. To determine engineering student and practicing engineer misconceptions related to traffic signal operation and design, 2. To explain patterns in misconceptions across novice student, expert student, and practicing engineer categories, and 3. To demonstrate data driven curriculum design through the application of misconceptions to conceptual exercises.Project Activities and OutcomesThe planned activities for this study were focused around achieving the specific

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Julia Ziyatdinova; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University ; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

societies. Themultidisciplinary activities of the Center became a good foundation to develop a professionaldevelopment system in the region and a unique regional model of continuing professionaleducation.It is well known that the majority of the industrial trainers at enterprises are highly skilled intheir technical fields. However their skills in teaching are low and they cannot plan classes Page 24.1272.3and organize a good interaction when teaching the young employees. They do not know well 2the peculiarities of the adult psychology without a special

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Miscellaneous Topics in Energy Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaime Ramos-Salas P.E., University of Texas, Pan American; Jesus Alejandro Valladares, The University of Texas Pan American

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

imprecise models will give an over-estimate of the clear sky irradiance.The most advanced models that take the atmospheric absorption into consideration give an underestimate with a high degree of accuracy. Given this fact, we would expect that the CI might reach values that exceed unity. Cloudfocus which might cause the measure to pike well over the clear sky model will also contributefor these values to reach higher values than unity.VI- How are we going to teach this? Our objective is to add new instructional strategies and content to the ELEE 4373 courseabout Renewable Energy. The textbook for this course [11] includes a Chapter about the SolarResource. It is in this context that we plan to add homework set to calculate the

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Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Mladenov, Kansas State University; Tara Kulkarni, Norwich University; Mara London, Gonzaga University

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Environmental Engineering

initial investmentin time is likely to be cut substantially the next time the activity is used, as instructors gainexperience and confidence. For example, planning the rubber egg activity (Table 4) in Fall 2013required time for acquisition of materials, set up of the demo, development of lecture notes to tiein to course content on the carbonate system, and rehearsal with the activity to ensure it wouldproduce anticipated results, a total of ~ 1.5 hours committed to preparing for the activity. In thespring 2014 semester, the amount of class preparation devoted to this activity was approximately20 minutes.4. ConclusionsIn general, student attitudes indicated they were receptive to the use of demonstrations, videosand other in-class activities

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson PE, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

various phases of project to assure steady progress throughoutthe term on the projects.3) Provide template for manuscripts that requires students to produce a document of a highlyspecific configuration.4) Distribute the final papers to promote cross-pollination of ideas and allow content to beincluded as part of course content (e.g., final examination). In addition, provide opportunity forstudents to present their work as an oral presentation. These together promote students teachingstudents. Watch for errors in presentations and/or papers and delicately highlight such errors tothe class.5) Plan on increased grading time earlier in the term (paper drafts) as compared to conventionalend of term projects, increased administrative tasks related to

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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First-Year Programs

andmaking presentations, all while working as a part of a team. This project was designed to meetmany of the course objectives as well as to develop skills that will be needed in many of theirfuture engineering classes.This paper presents an overview of the project and individual assignments as well as theoutcomes and feedback from the students that participated in the project. The plans for furthermodifications and improvements to this project and assignments will also be presented.IntroductionThe Introduction to Engineering course at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) is a one creditcourse that is designed to be an introduction to engineering as a career. It discusses the majorfields of engineering and the typical responsibilities of an

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Leslie Crowley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Continuing Professional Development

scholarship. We plan to have at least one member of the SIIPadministration team present at each of these meetings to provide just-in-time faculty training andto facilitate the agreed upon evaluation efforts of the faculty. Additionally, this constant presencewill allow the administration team to better publicize and celebrate the efforts and successes ofthe faculty communities.We believe that this new administrative structure for SIIP can create a new paradigm for facultydevelopment and the sustainable adoption of evidence-based pedagogies. Rather than focusingon changing the practices and beliefs of individual faculty, the goal of faculty development willbe to change the practices and beliefs of faculty communities. We believe that this new

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

workshop to disseminate curriculum teachers to practice or develop lesson plans for integrating themodules that high school teachers (teaching primarily AP technologies for classroom usage.computer science and introductory programming courses) can A. Our Modelimplement in the classroom that provide students with anexposure to the versatility and applicability of the The first phase of our model focuses on helping teachers toprogramming skills they have learned throughout the school learn the technologies in an active learning environment.year. Educators can use the modules from the workshop to They participate in

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Holly T. Frederick

, a the topic of erosion and also brings information from thephased project has been developed that carries students course into the topic by considering different characteristics ofthrough the phases of learning so that they are ready to address soils and how they may be relevant. The second phase alsothe engineering design problems creatively and with asks students to write an action plan to address the topic ofdeveloping confidence. interest. They must move toward analysis of the concern in a The handout that describes the project is provided with the more real and tangible way by presenting suggestions ofcourse syllabus and the work is carried

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hui Zhang; Joseph Chen; Kai Zhang

sectors, in hospitals, and known. When the reader detected the RFID tag, the robot’sother areas. However, research on reliable and efficient location on the pre-stored map would be recognized by thelocalization is still a major issue. navigation planning module, and the next step’s directionMobile robots were located with the help of Dead-reckoning would be decided. However, there was no accurateby measuring the displacement with respect to the initial localization, as the RFID tags could be detected at a distancecoordinates and initial orientation [1]. This method is limited, of even 1m from the reader. The difference of RFID signalas

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

-concept for a new and promising eleectrochemical cell plans for these students, as well ass managing their activitiesdesign for ammonia production, as well ass a direction for and tracking their progress. The feellow spearheaded a co-opfuture development activities. program with the University of Connecticut C Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng gineering, where students III. SMALL BUSINESS EXPERIEN NCES participate in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Mohammad Daneshzand; Reza Zoroofi; Miad Faezipour

administration. The results of this work show that anset method (blue) segmentation. antihistamine drug (Azelastine) has good effect on swelling of nasal mucosa and will reduce it. As a future direction of this work, we plan on estimating the total volume of trachea and see how its volume will change after histamine injection. REFERENCES

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Arar Alkhader; Junling Hu; Akinwumi Akinkunmi; Prabir Patra; Xingguo Xiong

planning. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine. 85 (2007), pp.41–50. ! Examine the intermitted protocol and make detailed [11] Rewcastle JC, Sandison GA, Hahn LJ, Saliken JC, McKinnon JG, comparisons between both protocols Donnelley BJ. A model for the time-dependent thermal distribution within an ice ball surrounding a cryoprobe. Phys. Med. Biol. 43 (1998), pp. 3519–3534. [12] Gage A, Baust J. Mechanisms of tissue injury in cryosurgery

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

discussion of plans for ongoing and future work. Both Survey Instrument 1 and Survey Instrument 2 were administered as a pre-intervention to assess the students’existing conceptual frameworks at the beginning of the course. Groundwater Flow - Darcy’s law provides an accurateThe intervention in this context refers to lectures and class description of the rate of ground water flow (Q) determinedactivities to familiarize the students with hydrologic by head loss (dh), the hydraulic conductivity (K), the cross-engineering concepts; there was no attempt to review the sectional area

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

WANG Zhiguo; GONG Bengang; YANG Shanlin

2009 Global Congress on Intelligent Systems(GCIS2009)，Xiamen，enterprise when the production system is operating, so that the China，2009.5.19.optimal solution can be attained. “Harmonizing Cluster [13] FengYingjun，Zhang jie. The theory and application of multi-objectiveResults” based on the method of multi-objective optimization planning of large-scale systems[M].Beijing：Science Publisher，2013.

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

-cubed weighted FourierTransform results are shown in Figure 5. The seed tissuesample has shown smaller bond length value as compared to Besides providing hands-on experience for students, thethe skin by about 8 pm using the FDG software. The WIN- EXAFS project also offers an opportunity for the students toXAS software gave a larger separation of about 12 pm. Since appreciate the concept of optimization beyond numericalFDG software has been used traditionally and that it would be calculation with software packages. The Brookhaven beambetter to be conservative in the shift calculation, the 8 pm time is a finite allocation in a specific duration and planning isseparation result is shown in Figure 5

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

through this journey would help freshmen students chooseto identify whether academic remediation can improve their major so that they can be prepared to make betterstudents’ college outcomes. In college mentoring, the mentorsoften counsel students on (a) how to acquire better study decisions for his/her educational and vocational career. Inskills, (b) how to identify additional academic resources at mentors’ interactions with students, they work to help studentstheir respective institutions and (c) how to assess their life prioritize their studies, plan how they can be successful, andoutside of school. identify

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

actual project envisages the realization Qualification Frameworkissues on the current topic; material presentation skills; ideas in the Central Asian counties and the creation of theexperimental skills; multimedia tools, tests for self-checking. Guidelines for National Qualifications frameworks. It is planned to improve their educational systems by further Index Terms—learning outcomes, competences, learning development of existing requirements to educational standardsmethods, student activities, multimedia tools, HyperCam, in particular fields on the base on new European

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

scientific community share resources and collaborate, unitessubjected to dynamics loads is presented in [2]. the experimental facilities. The NEES website provides data The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake curation, a curated central data repository; telepresence;Engineering Simulation (NEES) is the product of more than a simulation, computational, data visualization and collaborativedecade of planning by the earthquake engineering community. tools; hybrid simulation and multi-site hybrid simulationThe NEES network infrastructure encompasses management capabilities; user support services; middleware; and a cyber-headquarters; 14 earthquake

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

William Alpert; Alexander Vaninsky

efficiencies of public and private institutions of #4958749, 2009, pp.168-172. higher learning.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 22 (6), 1988, [26] X. Zhu, “Evaluation and analysis on benefit of college resources input of pp.259-269. China,” Advanced Materials Research, 2011, pp. 328-330, 2358-2361.[2] W. Bennett and D. Wilezol, “Is college worth it?” Thomas Nelson, 2013. Web sites[3] J. Brown, C. Fang, and F. Gomes, “Risk and Returns to Education,” [27] http://deazone.com DEA website National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper #3838, 2012

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kyle Pustola; Can B. Aktas

(U = .40, SHGC = .5, Tvis = .63)comprehensive EPW climate data to model the exterior • No full-house ventilation systemconditions, and uses user input to determine the wall and roof • Infiltration: Ducted HVAC system w/ sealed ducts (3.8type and layout, insulation, window type and layout, floor SLA)plan, building orientation, level of air infiltration, ventilation • Furnace: 78% AFUE (Annual fuel utilization efficiency)systems, electrical use, and even photovoltaic (PV) panels and • Air Conditioner: 13.0 SEER(Seasonal Energy Efficiencysolar hot water systems. The user can customize up to nine Ratio)different scenarios (designated as “schemes” by HEED) andcompare one against the other

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

Authors

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

Authors

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

Authors

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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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

Authors

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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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Mohammad Amin; Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Bhaskar Sinha; Debra Bowen

- 3questions. This survey form also allows students to write their comments. Survey participations in onsiteclasses are always found to be higher in number than the online classes. The university requires that thissurvey be distributed by one of the students and the instructor is requested to leave the classroom.Survey data is analyzed by the NU Office of the Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA). Asummary of the survey data with student comments are made available to the respective instructors,department chairs and school deans for review and comments. The authors of this paper always reviewtheir course survey reports from OIRA carefully and adjust their future teaching plans by improving theirpedagogical approach to teaching and adopt