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Zachary Boorman; Richard Freitas; Kristie Kordana; Adam Stanley

transport children usually from infancy to 36 months of age.the new product. After evaluating the strengths and weakness- The product is designed for children from ages 4 to 10 andmany of the safety specifications for strollers are implementedin the design of the system. For example, ASTM F833 states, C. Evaluation of Competition“latching mechanisms must resist unintentional folding whena 45 pound force is applied five times in an attempt to fold the The Collapsible Kid Cruiser™ does have some com-product without the releasing a latch [1].” It is important to petitors that meet similar needs. Some

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Damien Laird; Jack Price; Ioannis A. Raptis

meets both of these qualifications. Inin the size of robots for use in multi-agent systems [1]. a very short time it has already been used to test point-to-The University of Paderborn made great progress in object point movement, object manipulation, and collision avoidancemanipulation with Bebot [2]. The E-Puck is a robust and algorithms. The diversity of these tasks proves the flexibilityversatile robot with excellemt communication capabilities [3]. of the new platform.The Jasmine robot is a small and well documented newly The paper is organized as follows: In Section II the ar-developed robot from the University of Stuttgart [4] . The chitecture of the Spider-Bot platform is

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

1 Software semantic metrics: A Survey Rasha Gaffer M. Helali Abstract— Software metrics are quantities estimates for ones [1]. Since internal attributes can be measured directly software product attributes which guide us in taking managerial from source code, external attributes measured indirectly and technical decisions [1]. The current used software metrics based on another internal attributes. Much research has been depend on syntactical source code at the same time they ignore its done on identifying

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Mohamed A. Ghalib; Yasser S. Abdalla; R. M. Mostafa

1 Design and Implementation of a Pure Sine Wave Single Phase Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications Mohamed A.Ghalib1, Yasser S.Abdalla 2, R. M.Mostafa3 1 Automatic Control Department, Faculty of Industrial Education, Beni-suef University, Egypt. master_bsu@yahoo.com 2 Electrical Department, Faculty of Industrial Education, Suez University, Egypt. 3 Electronics and Automatic Control Department, Beni

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Bi Yuying; Prabir Patra

living organisms, collagen forms about 25% of theisotropic characteristic in both 3D and 2D rendering. Statistical human proteome. Collagen is also one of the most functionalresults included that over one third percentage of GAGs were protein in living organisms with its hyperelasticity, flexibility,closed to perpendicular direction to collagen fibril with and persistency [1]. Understanding the geometry, mechanicalsymmetrical distribution for both 3D matrix and 2D plane cross properties and cross-link of collagen, precisely collagenousthrough collagen fibrils. The three factors tested in this paper: biomaterials can be produced and used in tissue culturing andcollagen radius, collagen distribution, and

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Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

usually designed for specificapplications. Most of the tasks in these applications arerepetitive and dull for manufacturing processes. For thispurpose predefined sequences and positions usually have to bestored in the robot’s built-in controller memory. Robots areoften employed to do tasks such as welding, assembly, andpackaging. These tasks are dull and boring, but robotsnowadays are very autonomous and can perform tasks otherthan the typical industrial jobs. Most of these robots are Fig. 1. IAI Table-Top robot.equipped with a serial port to control the robot dynamicallyand remotely if needed. In this case the built-in controller will II. METHODOLOGYact as a slave and the remote computer will

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Peter J. Zeno

design, is accomplishedparallelizable, time dominant code on a massively, parallel through visual/automated design tools from Cadence,processor architecture. Example program application areas Synopsys, Xilinx, and Altera, to name just a few [1, 2]. Forinclude: bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, video and image complex software system design, programmers performingprocessing, signal and audio processing, medical imaging, and object oriented design (OOD) use visual tools based on thecryptography. A low cost, low power, parallel computing unified modeling language (UML), and database designers useplatform for running these types of algorithms

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Sapan Parikh; Amish Patel; Syed Rizvi

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Increasing Quality of Service (QoS) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) by Using Timestamp Optimization Scheme 1 Sapan Parikh, 1Amish Patel, and 2Syed Rizvi 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bridgeport CT 06604 2 College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, Altoona PA 16601 3) Communication: Radio communication with

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Kai Hu

processing of these data. Figure 1:process, manufacturers sold products to retailers, and then sold Figure  1.  Use  RFID  technology  collection   products  information  in  supply  chain  model Remanufactured  Products

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Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

internationaloffer study-abroad programs. Traveling and studying in education, and the personal experience from the point of viewdifferent countries includes learning languages, meeting new of the authors. There are also some interviews with studentscultures, understanding new ways of work. Most important, it who have completed the program, and one with theopens the mind [1]. coordinator, Dr. Layek Abdel-Malek, at NJIT. Since its founding after the First World War in 1919, theInstitute of International Education (IIE) has continued to II. UMANE ATLANTIS PROGRAMpromote academic exchange between the United States andEurope. After World War II, the Institute helped

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Gautam Siwach; Amir Esmailpour

advanced ‘Hadoop distributed files system’data as formation of clusters and their interconnections (HDFS) technology framework. Fig.1 also shows thealong with their connections to the databases. We focused on prominent alternatives for datacenter interconnectivity.the security of big data and the actual orientation of the termtowards the presence of different type of data in an The clusters are the backbone in the big data architecture.encrypted form at cloud interface by providing the rawdefinitions and real time examples within the technology. Securing the technology for privacy and to resolve theMoreover, we propose an approach for identifying the

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Mohammad Naimur Rahman; Amir Esmailpour

switch architecture of datacenters and interconnectivity solution between them. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a typical data centerFurthermore we propose two networks interconnects: an optical with four layers hierarchical network architecture from bottomcircuit switch (OCS) handling long-lived bulk data transfer usingoptical network and a secondary lower bandwidth electronic to top, the first layer is the servers which are connected topacket switch (EPS) network for handling short data transfer. upper access layer switch. In this second layer, access switch

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Yenny Rua; Kaitlin Maciejewski; Russell Muren; Shanon M. Reckinger

removal oflightweight parts with complex geometries that are also cost material.efficient. 3D-printed microfluidic channels are of interest to The company that manufactures the 3D printer used in thisresearchers and commercial manufacturers. research, Stratasys, suggests the following cleaning procedure; Microfluidics has a wide range of applications, including 1. Remove the support material, preferably with the use of anthe fields of biology, chemistry, optics, information Objet Waterjet, 2. Immerse the part in 1-2% sodium hydroxidetechnology, and thermal technology. Small amounts of fluids, solution for

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Abubaker E.M. Elbalsohi; Junling Hu; Ruoxu Jia

) !" !" !" !"appropriately use them to model flow phenomena. Icaccarino ! 𝑘 = 𝑢!! 𝑢!! (8)[1] used a benchmark problem to compare two turbulence !models in three commercial CFD codes. This paper compared 𝑖, 𝑗 = 1,2,3 (9)five turbulence models using a bench mark problem – flow in

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Santoshi Kalyani Balasubramanian; Amir Esmailpour

. INTRODUCTION that is available. Hadoop is an open source implementation of The Organisation of this paper is as follows: Section 2Map Reduce consisting of two components [1]. The two describes the Literature Review, Section 3 covers themajor components are Hadoop Distributed File System scope of the problem and its impact. In Section 4 we(HDFS) and Map Reduce Engine. The HDFS runs on top propose and describe a potential solution for the problem.of the existing file system on each node in cluster. It isdesigned for very specific data access code. It runs themap reduce programs for distributed data processing,structured and unstructured data. The architecture

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Sundas Zafar; Aparicio Carranza

security systems lead Video ports, USB port, HDMI port, andEthernet port. With the Pi, users can create website [1]. Once it is downloaded, the SDspread sheets, word-processing, browse the card has to be formatted using the softwareinternet, play high definition video and much SDFormatter. Once it is formatted, themore. It was designed to be a cost friendly software Win32DiskImager has to be used tocomputer for users who needed one. There are write the image onto the SD card. The SD cardtwo models, Model A and B. Model B is the can then be inserted into the Raspberry Pi andfaster containing 512MB of RAM as well as booted up using an LCD display and athe ability to over clock [1

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Yuanyao Liu; Zhengping Wu

of the most important aspects and Critical events usually appear in some frequent event requirement in cloud computing environment [13, 14].patterns. These critical event patterns present system Reliability is the proper functioning of the system under thefull range of conditions experienced in the field [1]. In order to learning has been studied for decades [7, 8, 9, 11, 12].increase the reliability of systems, there must be some Agrawal also presents an Apriori-based method in [3]. Thismechanisms in systems can either avoid the system failures algorithm is Generalized Sequential Pattern algorithm (GSP).and faults or adjust systems to prevent the more serious GSP finds

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Carlos A. Munoz

replaced by quad copters such as firefighters [4] and deliverymeans of object detection using two cameras. This will be of Amazon packages [5] just to name a few.tested in a two-step process. First test is done on a flatsurface (table) and the second test is done on the air. Keywords — autonomous tracking; image processing;object detection; quad copter; I. INTRODUCTION The goal of this work is to create a program that canattempt to simulate a catcher. This will be attempted using aquad copter “Fig. 1.” that will mimic the action of a catcher.The idea came from watching kids always playing bythemselves throwing the ball to a wall or to the air and havingto go and get the ball themselves. What if we can use a

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Ruoxu Jia; Junling Hu; Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA.Shape Optimization Design and Material Selection for a Fitness Equipment Ruoxu Jia1, Junling Hu1, Xingguo Xiong2, and Linfeng Zhang2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA Abstract—Engineers face constant challenges to design There are tens of thousands of materials and hundreds ofproducts with optimal geometry, dimensions, and select optimal manufacturing processes to be chosen to shape, join and finishmaterials and

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Arthur Rozario; Justin Paruvaparampil; Keis Sultani; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Andres Mora; Catherine Carti; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Wenli Guo; Andrew Nguyen; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA.Measurement of Photon Diffusion with Mobile Phone Camera with Appications to mHealth Monitoring 1Arthur Rozario, Justin Paruvaparampil, Keis Sultani, Chantel Damas, 1Wenli Guo, 2Andrew Nguyen, 1 ShuaiXiang Zhang, Andres Mora, Catherine Carti, Vazgen Shekoyan, 1Sunil Dehipawala, 1AlexeiBrendan O'Brien, Students of Pre-Engineering Program, Kisselev and 1Tak Cheung, 1Physics Department , 2CUNY Queensborough

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Israel Aguilera Navarrete; Alejandro Lozano-Guzman; Edna Alcazar-Farias

policies related to monitoring processes which are self-defeating. OECDinnovation and competitiveness [1]. indicators may therefore not be the best way to reflect S&T In order to justify governmental investment in S&T, it is real conditions everywhere and under all conditions, evenespecially important for institutions spending public resources though they might be used and accepted all over the world for national and international S&T reporting. ΙΙΙ. CRITERIA AND CONSIDERATIONS Currently, there is threefold approximation of such a

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Constadinos Lales; Aparicio Carranza

700MHz by default,two different networks together using but can be overclock to 900MHz.public telecommunication such as the Furthermore, the Pi is powerful enoughinternet. To establish a VPN to support videos in 1080p usingconnection, one needs to connect to a OpenGL ES 2.0 and hardware-server. In this paper, we will be accelerated OpenVG [1].describing how we used the RaspberryPi (A cheap microcomputer) as a VPN After writing one of the operatingserver to a home network; in order to systems to the raspberry pi and placingcreate a VPN connection between a the SanDisk in the Pi’s slot, one is readyhome network and the public internet. to utilize the Pi. The Pi can be

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Thy Dinh; Bryan Slater; Farshid Zabihian

Tablesand transmitted back to NASA through an authorizedfrequency. With these tools we can and will build a satellitethat can perform the necessary tasks at hand. VI. THEORY The MOD5213 module that came in this TubeSat kit camealready assembled and left open is a rectangular area forinstallations of mechanisms or payload of choice (seen inFigure 1), and a SD card recorder for retrieval andtransmission of data. The theory of the payload that we havechosen here at WVU Tech is the use of the magnetometer or Figure 1: HMC2003 MagnetometerIMU, which is the default payload that came with this kit. TheHoneywell HMC 2003 (refer to Figure 2) is a magnetometerthat measures low earth magnetic field by using a tri

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kishan Gutta; Madhav Patil

has been in rapid development between individual wireless sensors and theand grown considerably in a variety of applications, remainder of the wireless sensor network, wirelessspecifically in industrial field, enabling the remote sensors must know when to act autonomously orcontrol and automation to improve the safety for collaboratively.plants and production facilities in food, chemistry, Wireless sensors can be used for theautomotive, railway domains[1]. Many researchers applications that are difficult to access due to the highand engineers have discovered that wireless sensors temperature, high pressure, and hazardous chemicalplay an important role in

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Bryan Slater; Thy Dinh; Branden Frazier; Farshid Zabihian

electricmotorcycle, the original gas-fueled motorcycle, and a Figure 1: Gasoline-fueled Kawasaki Ninja 250Rcommercial modern electric motorcycle. motorcycle, third generation [2] The original gas-fueled 1996 Kawasaki Ninja 250Rmotorcycle is depicted in Figure 1. This model of motorcyclehas gone through few redesigns through its quarter-centurylifetime [1]. Figures 2 to 4 show the converted Kawasaki Ninja250R motorcycle at WVU Tech. The converted motorcycleutilized a set lithium-ion battery. evaluate its cost and its environmental impacts. Finally, the electric motorcycle

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Robert Hood; Mark Jacobs; James Masi; Kayla McCaffrey

critical eye making certain everything remained in correct proportion. The simulation of the design A. The Wind Tunnel in FloExpress (Solid Works) was the next essential step as shown in Figure 2.A wind tunnel [1] consists of several distinct sections orstages. Moving in the direction of the airflow, the first sectionis the air straightener. The air straightener is a honeycombscreen that redirects turbulent air from its various entryvectors to a vector roughly in line with the long axis of thewind tunnel, thus “straightening” it. The next

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Daniel Katz

Statistical Programming Education Through Physics Research Daniel Katz Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01852, USA daniel katz1@student.uml.edu March 1, 2014 Abstract General Relativity (GR) is currently our best guess at how gravity works and is one of the most successful physicaltheories ever enunciated. However, aside from being completely incompatible with Quantum Field Theory (QFT),which is also astonishingly accurate, GR forces us to accept some strange

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Ziyan Qi; Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Md Tauseef Riasat

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Design of Efficient Pass-transistor Binary ALU Ziyan Qi, Xingguo Xiong, Linfeng Zhang, Md Tauseef Riasat Department of Electrical Engineering University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, USA ZiyanQi1985@gmail.com Abstract—Pass-transistor logic (PTL) uses pass transistors to be “1”, it relies on the charge previously stored in the outputdirectly pass logic levels from inputs to outputs to implement node

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Shiangyu Lin; Junyi Zou; Xingguo Xiong; Prabir Patra

Actuated MicroNozzle-Diffuser Pump. A thermal-bubble-actuated micropumpby the principles of liquid/vapor phase transition and nozzle-diffuser flow regulation is successfully demonstrated. Theactuation mechanism comes from periodically nucleating andcollapsing thermal bubbles. A net flow is generated from thenozzle to the diffuser by the nozzle-diffuser flow controller. As Figure 1.The structure of the micro pumpan application example in a microfluidic device, this valve-less Two microvalves are used to regulate the microfluid flowmicropump is used in a microfluidic system to enhance the inside the pump. As

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Xi Kang; Chengxin Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque

throughput of micro fluidicused to verify the effectiveness of the MEMS mixer device. systems and to realize the concept of micro-total-analysisCompared with passive mixer, the pressure disturbance design systems and lab-on-a-chip systems. Mixing on microscopicwith the straight channel diffusion model mixer is easier to scales is, however, difficult. Although diffusion on the micro-fabricate and it makes device smaller and cheaper. The scale is fast the Reynolds numbers are usually low (Re ~ 0(1)),fabrication flow of the MEMS mixer is also suggested in this and the flows are laminar [5]. In the absence of turbulence, itpaper. The proposed MEMS mixer can be used for lab-on-a-chip