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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Josh Coffman; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis; Ashland O. Brown

yield strength of the material. Fatigue failure is due to repeated or cyclicloading and unloading or fluctuating reversal in loading after a large number of cycles. Fatiguefailures are estimated to occur in 80-90% of all machine component failures and account for a4% loss in the gross domestic product of the United States and Europe.1 Fatigue failures are commonly found in components used for the automotive and aerospaceindustries. High cycle fatigue in the automotive industry is common in suspension systems,engine components, and components in the powertrain that include the transmission, drive shafts,and wheel assemblies. A connecting rod is an example of an engine component that experienceslarge stresses and a high number loading cycles

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R.E. Babcock; Mark E. Arnold

squares solution or withthe application of linear algebra for determining the best solution to overdetermined linearsystems of equations.For chemical engineers these systems commonly result from material balance analysis ofmulticomponent flow through processing equipment. Take the very simple example of a Prismmembrane system used in the senior lab course at the Ralph E. Martin Department of ChemicalEngineering at the University of Arkansas shown in Figure 11. It is used for separating apressurized air stream into an oxygen rich stream and a nitrogen rich stream. Figure 1 Prism Membrane Separation SystemProceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

subject names at the beginning. The three books were often cross-indexed withnumbers representing each subject name. Since legal tender was scarce and many agreements were madeon trust or by trading, the accounting books were seldom balanced. Business agreements and order specifications were done in person or by letter. Most of the lettersthat can be seen in the Lukens archives are about bargaining for the price of materials, especially bar iron,but some contained technical specifications. When letters were written by hand and paper was scarce,business owners often saved only incoming letters, usually in pigeon holes in desk shelves (Fig. 1). 2Figure 1 – Incoming Correspondence and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter Thomas Tkacik

. Like a professional race shop, jokes are often made about the unreasonable stressplaced on orderliness and cleanliness. This has significant beneficial effect on the marketing of theprogram. For a real shop, this orderliness positively affects the marketing to team sponsors and visitors.For the school, the effect is the same; however, the sponsors may be the same but the visitors are potentialnew motorsports candidates.A student visitor may have only changed oil on the family minivan but sees his/her comrades preparingfor the next race and is thrilled by the excitement and ease of participation. 2Figure 1. Large numbers of students are engaged by the shop facilitiesThe shop is a new facility

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gregory S. Parnell; Michael Kwinn

Engineering at West Point was established in 1989 as an outgrowth of theformer Department of Engineering (now the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.)Brigadier General (Retired) James L. Kays was the first head of the newly formed department and had theresponsibility for not only developing the academic programs under the department but also most of thecourses. The department was designed with four overarching objectives that have endured through threedepartment heads [1]: focus on cadet education; foster faculty growth and development; remain linked tothe industry we serve - the Army; and integrate state-of-the-art computer and information technology intothe education process.The Department established the Systems Engineering major after

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Omar A. Shehadeh; Aiman S. Kuzmar

. Further, it was limited to those engineering educators at only one university due tovarious logistical and limitations. The Hashemite University is a state university in Jordan. It isin the city of Zarka, the second largest city in Jordan behind its capital Amman. The university isa co-ed university and it has close to one hundred engineering faculty members in manyengineering fields. The Hashemite University was the choice because one of the authors is afaculty member in it albeit the fact that he is not an engineering educator.THE SAMPLEThe sample of this investigation consists of seven engineering educators. Efforts were made tocover as many engineering fields and academic ranks as possible. Details of these educators areas follows.1. Mr

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Barrie Jackson

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adam J. Czekanski; David-Michael P. Roux

with three or four answer choices. The review questions were based on the critical learningobjectives for these lessons and designed to interact with the clickers using Turning TechnologiesTurningPoint® 2008 plug-in software for Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003. Student responses to theclicker questions were recorded using a Turning Technologies TurningPoint ResponseCard® RF wirelessresponse system (Figure 1) or by raising hands.Figure 1. Turning Technologies TurningPoint ResponseCard® RF wireless response system. The system includes auniversal serial bus (USB) receiver and 25 response cards. The pen is shown is for size reference. 2Answering by using the clickers and raising hands were the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gad J. Selig

establishing and maintaining superior competitive advantages for their respective enterprises. • Provide students with a variety of career enhancement options responsive to growing employer and employee needs for multiple competencies and skills in today’s and tomorrow’s demanding global work place. • Obtain the commitment and sponsorship of business and government organizations and institutions for our programs, provide internship and job opportunities for our graduates, sponsor research and help to raise funds and support grant opportunities. 1 • Create an

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ryan A. Ebel; Donald S. Abbott-McCune; David Chang

, which is not implemented in any otherautonomous vehicle programs.III. Approach The AUGV project at USMA is a multidisciplinary activity with electrical engineering andmechanical engineering curriculum. Figure 1 shows the course map. This paper focuses on theAutonomous Vehicle block. The design project consists of building an autonomous vehicle which will Figure 1 Course Map 2incorporate applied knowledge of robotics. In an introductory mechatronics course, there needs to be adesign project which allows students to apply these concepts in a meaningful way. This is done duringthe last five weeks of the semester by inductive learning. Inductive

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Roger Chapman Burk

author’sbackground in the subject. The author found that this approach did succeed in attracting a variety ofstudents who otherwise would learn little of engineering, and in engaging them in the subject and givingthem a basic quantitative understanding of some aspects of the subject. Of course, the approach was notwithout its difficulties, including the problem of integrating very diverse material. On the whole, theauthor found that the approach worked well and recommends it for further development.The rest of this paper is in five parts: (1) An account of how and why the course was developed and itseducational goals; (2) The design of the course, including the syllabus; (3) Observations on the types ofstudents who took the course; (4) The students

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

theexisting infrastructure of wireless / wired network in a building, we can have in place an early responsesystem to disasters. This is important to save lives and get resolution for a disaster sooner. The idea hereis to eliminate or reduce additional cost for a dedicated infrastructure for early response system. Due tothe growth for the need of internetworking, most of the buildings have already a good base for such asystem. This article contributes to the solution of the problem by specifying a novel solution forintegration WLAN and existing infrastructure to the system of public safety and emergency earlyresponse.1. IntroductionRecently the Country was struck with many tragic events that resurface the need of a working emergencyearly response

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Imin Kao

analysis are used as an assessment tool to evaluate the effectiveness ofintegrating podcast to teaching. This pedagogical tool for asynchronous teaching and learninghas recently been employed in the online engineering program in the State University of NewYork (SUNY) at Stony Brook.Index Terms – Assessment, Asynchronous learning, Online courses, Video Podcast.1. IntroductionMillennial students grow up with exposure to technology and are quite adapted to live withtechnologies, including their products and benefits. As a result, they are also pushing, andperhaps challenging, faculty to expand their technical horizons. Both students and faculty todayhave available to them many technologies that did not exist a decade ago. Such technologies canprovide

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

Newton’s Laws.1 Cadets analyzed the motion of the front cart of theroller coaster as the cart executes a loop. Project tasks included the determination of the location and themagnitudes of the maximum and minimum speeds, location and magnitude of the maximum totalacceleration, as well as relating this maximum total acceleration to “g-forces.” After determining that thefront cart feels the greatest total acceleration at the 2 o’clock position, cadets are asked to analyze theforces on the cart at this location. 1a 1b 12 9 3 6 E (Exit) I (Inlet) Figure 1a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Junichi Kanai

production server and aback up server. 2Figure 1 depicts the structure of the system. The Course Documents and its sub-boards containedinformation useful to all students, such as a course syllabus and report templates, and are available toeveryone. On the other hand, project specific boards were restricted to the project members. For example,students who were working on Project Y had access to their working board, i.e., Project Y Spring 2006,and a board containing past work, i.e., Project Y Fall 2005. MDL Projects Forum

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrew Grossfield

toeveryone to ponder and contemplate at any time and can serve as a model for researching otherdisciplines.Forty years ago, mathematicians exhibited pride in their ability to hide geometric or visual representationsof mathematical concepts. The mathematics reform of the 1990’s sanctioned the representation offunctions as single valued curves. More remains to be done. Currently, Proof Without Words is anongoing feature of the MAA monthly, The College Mathematics Journal. Examine the wonderfulcompilations, Proofs Without Words 1 and Proofs Without Words II 2 by Roger B. Nelsen. Examine alsoMath Made Visual by Claudi Alsina & Roger B. Nelson 4. While mathematicians may enjoy the puzzlesprovided by Proofs Without Words, an effective pedagogical tool

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Abdelrahman M Rabie; Rahman Haleem

1 A Model for a Bi-lingual Curriculum Abdelrahman M Rabie, Associate Professor, ISAT Department, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA Rahman Haleem Assistant Professor and Director, Institute for Technological Innovations (ITI), Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAbstractThere has been an increasing demand for multilingual professionals, in various fields includingengineering, which in turn which in turn lead to the increased demand and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M.G. Guvench

minimum specifications and are required to apply thelearning they had into the design of a NMOS-input Operational Amplifier that can be implemented in an N-well CMOS process. The specifications include open loop gain, gain-bandwidth product, phase margin,common-mode rejection range, slew rate and output swing on a specified load including capacitive loading.The requirements are (1) to create a Mathematica file of their design calculations, (2) verify the design withappropriate SPICE simulations, (3) create a layout design that passes all design rules, and (4) write a reportand do a Powerpoint presentation to the class at the end. Projects that pass the design specifications andlayout rules can be sent out to be fabricated. However, typical turn

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wei Cao; Yanqing Gao; Jason Robert Mace

Robots and Mobile Robots An intelligent robot is different to the traditional mobile robot. The traditional mobile robot uses apowerful microcontroller to control the movement, with the help of sensing devices it normally is able tomake a tactic decision but could not do any sophisticate thinking since the limitation of the computationpower provided by microcontroller. The left of Fig.1 shows the Stamp Bobot which is equipped withStamp microcontroller and light, touch and other sensors. Fig.1 Traditional Mobile Robot (left) and Intelligent Robot (right) However, in order to enhance the capability, the intelligent robot adds a separate layer ofcomputation core, such as a laptop or a single motherboard, on the top of the movement

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

on a restructuring of schoolscience around real-world problems [1], inquiry based studies [2][3][4][5] including Design-Based Science(DBS) [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and Learning By Design (LBD) [16][17][18], augmented reality(AR) [19][20][21][22][23][24][25], and Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM)[26][27][28]. A unique feature of the TASEM program is that it, encompassing a number of inquiry-basedhands-on ideas, focuses on current and future technologies and it is capable of dealing with a variety of learningconcepts and environments studied by other researchers [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. BecauseTASEM is based on technology, it can address (a) technological learning issues in a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robin K. Burk

faculty member who served as a proxy client.The Systems Engineering SequenceThe Systems Engineering sequence for non-majors described in this paper was organized around aSystems Engineering and Management Process (SEMP), an iterative 4 phase model which combinesdecision analysis with traditional systems engineering techniques such as deterministic and stochasticmodeling, sensitivity analysis and lifecycle cost analysis. The sequence begins with SE300, whichintroduces systems engineering topics and the SEMP. SE350 teaches deterministic and stochasticmodeling and lifecycle cost topics. SE450, which completes the sequence, is a mini-capstone teamproject course.The SEMP model as taught during the 2006 academic year is described in Figure 1 below. The

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Neal A. Lewis

educational level of the instructor.Example 1. NyQuil LiquiCapsThe development and launch of NyQuil LiquiCaps works as a good story on several levels. The productwas test marketed during the cold and flu season of 1990-91 and launched nationally in the fall of 1991.The launch of a new product can be used as an example of project management. Here we have a newproduct idea that had not been done before. Several organizations were needed (Manufacturing, R&D,Marketing, Finance, a contract manufacturer, Distribution, Sales, and others), all having a vested interestin the success of the project. No one organization could successfully execute the project alone. Therewas a clear timeline, a clear budget, and a clear definition of quality and customer

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

inundationof areas with cultural or historical significance. This, unfortunately, is a non-reversible effect that erasesfrom the face of the earth monuments and places associated with events that are culturally important.It is worth noting that dams are not built only for the sake of building them. The thought of building adam originates as a result of a need. Those who get themselves into promoting dam building know, -1- American Society for Engineering Education ASEE Zone I Conference, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, March 28-29, 2008probably more than others, the negative impact of dams. They also know that dam building is a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A Gray

Accelerating Engagement of First-Year Students in Academics: Use of Ideas from Quality Literature David A Gray Messiah College Grantham, Pennsylvania Abstract: This paper discusses three ideas that stem from concepts in the literature of Quality that combine to promote a more rapid transition of first year engineering students from the high school environment to the academic environment of college. These three ideas are: 1) The student is the primary employee in the academic process, 2) Grade distribution interpreted in the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harry Knickle; Don Gray

analogsignal. Digital control is the simpler of the two control methods since only an on/offsignal need to be received by the device. For a solenoid valve a 5 volt signal might turnthe valve on while a zero volt signal would turn the valve off. An electrical heater isanother example of a device that can work with either digital or analog control. Theheater can either be on or off, digital control, or we can vary the current to the heater,proportional control. To send these signal we simply need an electrical switch. A simpleelectrical switch available commercially is called solid state relays. Other electricalswitches are available.The students also master the following skill list:1. CONNECT A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO A MICROCOMPUTER2. CONNECT THE

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Evanko; Arend Dorsett; Chiu Choi

applications of feedback control techniques.1. IntroductionThe ball-on-beam balance system is a classic example of feedback control systems. The problem is tomaintain the position of a ball at the center of a beam on which the ball rolls along freely. The ball willreturn to the center position after it has been displaced from this location. This system is an effectiveeducational tool for teaching feedback control principles. Some of these systems are commerciallyavailable[1,2,3].The set-up of our ball-on-beam system is shown in Fig. 1. The beam is a 55” long, grooved aluminumbeam that a regular rubber ball can roll along freely. The beam is mounted at the center to a servo motor,which can tilt the beam in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Abdelrahman Elleithy; Alaa Abuzaghleh; Abdelshakour Abuzneid

researchchallenge that has been approached in recent publications. In this paper we are discussing securitychanges of Wi-Max and suggesting a new authentication protocol.1. IntroductionThe next generation of the IEEE802.16/WiMAX will be the most important component of the wirelesssystem. The standard version of IEEE 802.16/WiMAX employed advanced radio transmission technologyfor example OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), adaptive modulation and coding, andEFC (adaptive forward error correction). The main purpose of using IEEE802.16/WiMAX is to providewell defined quality-of-service broadband wireless capabilities.IEEE 802.16/WiMAX technology needs a high rate transmission (about tens of Mbps), and strict quality-of-service for both indoor

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

technique that has the ability tohandle conflicting objectives in both preemptive and weighted manners. In this paper, we present apreemptive goal programming model for the School of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. Dataand case studies are provided along with a list of objectives for the Engineering School.Keywords: School of Engineering, Enrollment, Sustainability, Quality of Education, Preemptive GoalProgramming, Multiple Criteria Optimization.1. IntroductionToday, ever-decreasing budgets and dynamic variations in the number of both faculty and student bodiesare two major challenges that most U.S. universities deal with. In addition to the effort to solve theseproblems, every higher education institution also concentrates on ensuring

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

globalization and sustainable design anddevelopment. The course format consisted of three, 50-minute class meetings per week for the13-week semester (39 total class meetings). Class meeting times were used for lectures,workshops, and term project presentations. The first offering of the course was to a class of 16engineering seniors. COURSE TOPICS Course topics and the number of lectures, assignments, workshops, and in-class exercisesdedicated to them are presented in Table 1. Most topics involved traditional, stand-uppresentations. Often these presentations included in-class exercises that forced students toconsider and respond to the subject matter instantaneously. At other times, take-home mini-assignments were used to reinforce lecture

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

computerizedtomography (CT) to generate 3D modeling and simulation of the ankle complex using finite elementmodeling (ANSYS 8.1) for determining the optimal meniscus thickness. Typical lab modules developedand taught in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Programs include: 1. The CAD/CAM module:involves designing a spline with 6, 8, or 12 grooves using AutoCAD or Pro-Engineer, making the splineon a CNC machining center using the rotary axis (XZ-plane), measuring certain dimensions of the partmade, and making an error analysis; 2. The robot module: involves the use of a programmable five-axisrobot (CRS A255) for a Kool-Aid mixing application consisting of designing and building a fixture tohold a cup for Kool-Aid mix, cup for sugar, bottle of water, a