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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bahar Zoghi Moghadam

most widespread techniques used to purify drinkingwater. The average US house hold uses about 50 gallon per day per person which is seven timesmore than average in the rest of the world.[4] The World Health Organization declares goodhealth and cleanliness require a total daily supply of about 8 gallon per person per day. [2] Thegoal of this paper is to introduce the water efficiency to the freshmen students. 1  LEED: The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building RatingSystem, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a set of standards forenvironmentally sustainable construction. U.S. Green Building Council has had a wideacceptance to

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

compare performance of groups of students an Effectiveness Index (EI) (the average of the CIindices for all the students in a course) was developed. It was hypothesized that a significantimprovement in the EI may be used as an indicator of success of a new or different instructionalstrategy initiated to improve student performance. In that the EI is a measure of the averageindividual relative performance of all the students in a class it was the authors’ proposition that itprovided an objective measure of the success of a new instructional strategy such as the IndividualStudent Assignments proffered by the author’s paper presented at the Austin Conference [1].This paper will present an extension of possible other uses for the indexes (Capability

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Ali Daneshmandnia

Industry of UK) mostpeople never change their passwords and a third write them down on a paper.(Millman, 2007 1)The IDT study also found that about two third of the 1800 adults questioned never changed theirpassword. Malcolm Wicks, the minister of Science and Innovation in UK, maintained that in asurvey that was done, they found that the UK lost ₤ 440 million to credit card fraud last year and62 percent of companies experienced network security incidents. He believes that “large numberof people was careless with passwords, unwittingly exposing themselves and their company tofraud and theft” (Millman 3). This brings up the need for ongoing training for the users. End-user enrichment in working with computer must be ongoing. The IT department should

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josh DeRosa

will be discussed in this paper. Instrument strings made of carbon fiber are commercially available, but limited. Thesound produced by a music string is a function of their elastic constants, densities, and compositestructures [1]. Modification of these properties, using epoxy additives, can produce strings with awider range of sounds and applications. The work discussed in this paper was a continuation of coursework in composites lab atthe Rochester Institute of Technology. The course was project based; the project chosen was theconstruction of a carbon fiber 5-string banjo. The project was large, even for the two person teamwhich was formed. It was completed after the course had ended, which was well into the nextterm

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Suzanne Keilson

seen as an unnecessary additional expense imposed upon municipalities and thenfinally not just accepted but embraced by the entire population, especially for those who usestrollers, bicycles, carts and so on; a totally unintended user-group that greatly benefited from theinvestment.The Principles of Universal DesignTake from the work of the Center for Universal Design [1], the following was developed in 1997by a group of architects, product and environmental designers and engineers. These principleswere intended to guide a wide range of design disciplines and to be applied to the evaluation ofexisting designs as well as guide the design process and education designers and consumers.Universal Design is defined as “the design of products and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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

OPTIMIZI G ETHA OL PRODUCTIO SELECTIVITY RAMAN LALL1, TIMOTHY J. DONOHUE1;2, and JULIE C. MITCHELL1;3;4 *Corresponding author 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 2 Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706 3 Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706 4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706 Abstract Lactococcus Lactis metabolizes glucose homofermentatively to lactate. However, after disruption of the gene coding for lactate dehydrogenase, LDH-, a

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Chien-tsung Lu; Mark Sherman

Safety Management System (SMS) – Advocating A Software Prototype for the U.S. FAA FAR 139 Airports Submitted by Chien-tsung Lu Department of Aviation Technology Purdue University 1401 Aviation Dr. W. Lafayette, IN 47907 & Mark Sherman Department of Aviation Farmingdale State University Lupton Hall, Route 110 Farmingdale, NY 11735 1 Dr

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elimchili Lyaro; Jennifer Biddle; Jaclyn Stanfield

designed to allow people to use aportion of their commute time differently. One could read a book or newspaper, sleep, talk onthe phone, or work virtually without the potential for causing an accident. In essence this vehiclewill allow people to travel in their own personal vehicles while having the vehicle navigate themfrom their starting location to their destination.The SCS is intended to be used with a preexisting Modified HOV Lane System. The vehicle willhave the ability to operate in either Manual Mode or Smart Car Mode (SCM). The purpose ofthe system is to allow drivers to perform other tasks safely and efficiently during times thatwould otherwise be used to commute. A general block diagram is shown in Figure 1. 2009

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ahmad Al-Daraiseh

: Neural Networks, ART, FAM, GFAM, GEAM, Hybrid, Genetic Algorithm I. INTRODUCTIONTHE Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) architecture was developed by Grossberg (1976) [1].In 1992 Mr. Carpenter developed a Neural Network (NN) called Fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM) [2].FAM architectures became very popular and were used in the literature to successfully solvemany classification problems. Researchers then developed other ART NN‟s such as EAM [5]and GAM [6] that used different category representations to attain better performance and toreduce the effect of a phenomenon called Category Proliferation (CP) (Creating extra categoriesfor better performance especially when used with noisy data). The authors noted that FAM,GAM and EAM

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Dahm; Thomas Merrill; William Riddell

these new assignments, explaining how they are intended to promote and support entrepreneurship in engineering students, and discusses how entrepreneurship provides an excellent framework for meeting the main pedagogical objectives of the course: teaching technical communication and engineering design. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Design, Engineering Design, CommunicationI. Background and IntroductionProject-based learning has been gaining popularity in engineering curricula as a means to addressthe professional skills component (or A-K criteria) that were introduced by ABET in the 2000criteria. [1] The College of Engineering at Rowan University has adopted a sequence of courses,known as Engineering

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

technology and significantly enhance the students’ employment opportunities. Viewing the fact that there is and will be an ever-increasing demand for engineers and technologists in this field, Northwestern State University, at Natchitoches, Louisiana, introduced a one semester (3 credit-hour class and 1 credit-hour lab) course on Microcontrollers. In both our instruction and lab experiments we have selected the Microchip’s PIC 16 & PIC18 microcontroller family devices, namely 16F84A, 16F54, 16F870 and 18F452 for obvious reasons. We have attempted to provide our graduates adequate knowledge to design, test and analyze basic microcontroller-based circuits

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

robots. Once the target was detected the robots would reach the target using the PSO algorithm. Results of initial exploratory efforts were encouraging. The students got a first-hand experience of implementing swarm robotics as a real-time engineering application.Key words: Swarm robotics; swarm intelligence; Lego NXT; school students’ researchexperience; Java programming; demonstration.I. IntroductionRobotics is viewed as an emerging field that has potential to significantly impactthe nature of engineering and science education at all levels, from K-12 tograduate school [1-7]. A recent development in robotics is swarm robotics [8].The use of a large group (swarm) of small, simple and cheaper robots with

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tom M. Warms

thesefeatures, such as iterative and recursive functions, and value and reference parameters.Basic rules for tracingThe name of the function being executed appears above the vertical line. Names of identifiersare placed on the left side of the line and the identifiers' values on the right. Input values areunderlined, boxes indicate output, indicates the RETURN character, and returned values areencircled. Indeterminate values are indicated by '?'. In tracing each statement, the values thatresulted from tracing previous statements are available.Some introductory examplesFigure 1 shows a program to calculate the sum of two input numbers, along with its trace.(Figures 1 – 8 first appeared in [1]. The tracing method was described in [2, 3]; some

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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J. Ledlie Klosky; Gunnar Tamm

thisexperience, one might expect that the prin-ciple challenge for undergraduates would betechnical in nature, like computing stressesfor an unusual loading or solving a complexdynamics problem. However, we have no-ticed that the main difficulty is not studentability or training; the central feature of un-successful teams is a lack of motivation.“Regardless of the student’s learning styleand basic intelligence, he or she will not learnif not motivated” [1]. Teams that possessthe drive to finish rarely trip over technical Figure 1 Students display their tower and blades, ex-or resource issues but instead adapt and ecuted using only discarded materials (junk) and simpleovercome, achieving far

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

schools, interfacing with various audiences and employersof the construction industry, and an advocate to the program. The advisory board acts in advisorycapacity to the SDCET program, the School of Science, Engineering and Technology, and thecollege. Each member of the advisory board is chosen by their position and/or expertise in theindustry, government, and academics. The advisory board committee meets and reviewsapplicants’ resumes and then selects the applicant or applicants that are best fit for the advisoryboard. There is a cap of 22 members that can serve in the advisory board. The SDCET Advisory board has been identified by the college to be an excellentexample of an outstanding board 1. Their activities show how different an

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anthony Manno; Kamal Shahrabi

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Samanta

, medicineand econometrics, among others. Several methods have been used for predictionof real life complex, nonlinear time series commonly encountered in various suchapplication domains [1-3]. In recent years, there is also a growing interest inincorporating bio-inspired computational algorithms, commonly termed ascomputational intelligence (CI), in discovering knowledge from data, both ineducation and research [4-9].Among various CI techniques, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have beendeveloped in form of parallel distributed network models based on biologicallearning process of the human brain. Among different types of ANNs, multi-layerperceptron (MLP) neural networks are quite popular [4]. Recently singlemultiplicative neuron (SMN) model has been

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla LoPiccolo

immediately asked to list the five passive house concepts. The test results support existing studies that show 65% of students to be ‘visual learners,’[1] and that graphics with text provide a more effective means of introducing a new topic than video. [2] Key words: Passive house, video, graphic, visual learner.IntroductionPassive House construction reduces “the heating energy consumption of buildingsby an amazing 90%.”[3] With the passing of the American Clean Energy andSecurity Act (ACES) on June 26th, 2009, passive house construction is likely to bea requirement in the new nationwide energy code mandated by this Act. TheACES requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to: establish and enforce thisnew nationwide energy code and achieve a “30

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sarai Hedges

, lifelong learning, Six SigmaSix Sigma, started in 1986 by Motorola, has been defined in numerous ways. It has been called aphilosophy, a methodology, and a set of tools [1]. One of the more concise definitions is “adisciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects … in any process --from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.”[2] Six Sigma is now endemicto industry—automotive, chemical, financial, manufacturing, and retail to name a few—fromAmerican Express to GE, Advanced Micro Devices to Xerox and is credited with saving millionsof dollars while improving product or service quality and customer satisfaction. In June of 2008Allen Arthur, Sarai Hedges, and Virginia Westheider met to discuss using the

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Thomas R. Wedlick; Carol E. Reiley; Cynthia Ramey

provide a rewarding and exciting experience thatdraws students into studying the STEM fields within higher education. Preliminaryresults from a questionnaire administered the day of the competition showed that 43% ofstudents were more likely to go to college after participating in this event. A FAIR GAME: A LOW-COST EASILY IMPLEMENTED ROBOTICS COMPETITION LEADS TO DIVERSE ENTRANTS Thomas R. Wedlick, Carol E. Reiley, Cynthia Ramey Johns Hopkins University {tomw, creiley}@jhu.eduIntroductionThe engineering jobplace is expected to grow by 11% over the next decade [1]. Toprepare students to study these subjects in college, they need a sufficient background

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deborah Ihezie; S. Keith Hargrove

in Baltimore, MD. An assessment tool is used toevaluate MRAS’s current Lean manufacturing state in terms of actual manufacturing practicerelated to inventory cycles, production processes, maintenance procedures and operations,facility layout, quality control, and other key metrics used to improve manufacturing facilities. 

1. Introduction
 
Middle River Aircraft Systems (MRAS), a subsidiary of General Electric Co., was founded in1929 by aviation pioneer, Glen L. Martin. Its headquarters is located in Eastern BaltimoreCounty, Maryland. MRAS designs, manufactures, and services aero structures and nacellesystems for commercial, military aircraft, and government markets. It is also a supplier of jetengine thrust reversers as well as a digital

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank Lanzer

was one of the highlightsof the two week experience.Certain activities within the above topics were especially effective and worthy ofadditional details.1. Alice was used for programming along with the model developed by Adams for the Imaginary Worlds Camp. It was encouraging that many girls favored this activity.2. The West Point Bridge Design Contest was central to engineering design. All students enjoyed the contest after a discussion of why structures support loads and the effect upon materials chosen. Environmental aspects are considered as to designs that require excavation.3. Another product for construction of structures was a surprise sensation, Armadillo Run. Students proceed through a sequence of statics and dynamics

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Samantha Murray

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

activators transmit not onlytheir unique identification code, but location and status information as well. Tag signals arepicked up by network receivers up to 100 feet away, thus allowing a single receiver to collect tagdata from a number of activation points. Figure 1 (Source: AA3WK's) shows how RFIDtechnology works. Figure 1: RFID Technology DeploymentThe studied firm, Paper Products Inc (PPI, invented name to protect company’s privacy), is apaper-converting company with more than 50 years of operations in the Dominican market and isthe Number 1 paper-converting business in the DR.PPI’s principal products are valve and sewn paper bags for cement, flour, animal food, etc, madefrom Kraft paper; tissue paper and napkins

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Warren A. Rosen; M. Eric Carr

, students learn importantconcepts including the system bus, three-state logic, and active-low signals. Inaddition, the laboratory work is complemented by lectures and readingassignments on such topics as pipelining, superscalar processing, cache, andadvanced architectures such as Core Duo.Introduction Historically, early courses in microprocessors were based on simple training kits usingprocessors such as the 6800 or 8085 connected to system components such as memory, clock,etc.1 In these courses, the internal architecture as well as the remaining system components andinterconnects (memory, clocks, buses, etc.) were described conceptually and the emphasis, interms of the hardware usage, was on learning and using the instruction set and

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

A Living System for Teaching Engineering Principles Kauser Jahan1, Jess W. Everett1, Gina Tang2, Stephanie Farrell3, Hong Zhang4, Angela Wenger5 and Majid Noori6 1 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 3 Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 4 Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 5 New Jersey Academic for Aquatic Sciences, Camden, New Jersey

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B.W. Bequette

Creating Grade 11 and 12 Curricula Guided by both Project Lead the Way and NSF GK-12 D. Weber1,2, G. Reluzco1, D. Kaminski3, B. W. Bequette2 1 Mohonasen High School, Schenectady, NY 2 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 3 MANE Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NYAbstractA new challenge for a privileged group of graduate students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutein the 2008-2009 academic year is to participate in an NSF GK-12

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Graig Sauer; Jonathan Lazar; Harry Hochheiser; Jinjuan Feng

(CompletelyAutomated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart), but visualCAPTCHAs are inaccessible, and existing audio CAPTCHAs are very hard touse. We have created an alternative form of human interaction proof, which isboth secure and accessible. This presentation will give an overview of theHIPUU concept and evaluation testing.Introduction There are a large number of individuals who have impairments. Thenational Federation of the Blind estimates that 1.3 million people in the USA arelegally blind and 10 million people has some form of visual impairment[1]. Whilemany people with impairments face challenges on the web, because the web isprimarily a visual medium, people who are blind face the greatest challenges.These individuals also

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josh Wyrick; Catherine Booth

are required project-basedcourses that students take every semester. The Clinics enable built in flexibility in theengineering curriculum to include important technical and societal topics. This approach hasprovided significant opportunities for students to acquaint themselves with real-worldengineering issues, such as sustainability. Table 1 lists the general technical topics covered in theeight-semester Engineering Clinic sequence.Table 1. Overview of the technical topics covered in the eight-semester engineering clinic coursesequence.Year Fall Engineering Clinic Themes Spring Engineering Clinic ThemesFreshman Engineering measurements Competitive assessmentSophomore Multi-disciplinary

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Raluca I. Rosca

ofsessions. Eight people, including the author, participated in at least one of the diversity sessionsor used ETPP materials to complete their diversity statement, and seven of them answered theexit survey and interview of the 2005 ETPP-UF study. Out of these, two were post-doctoralassociates and six were engineering graduate students; six were women and two were men; threewere U.S. citizens or permanent residents and 5 were international students/post docs; four wereWhite, three Asian and 1 Hispanic.Diversity Sessions (ETPP-UF): ‘International Group’ Discussions, Fall 2004The first diversity session of the Fall 2004 offering had four participants: two post-doctoralassociates and two graduate students; two women and two men; two Taiwanese, 1 Indian