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Howard Silver

alphabetic character pattern generation for neural network testing Pop-up menu activating the four function calculator Engineering applications with sliders controlling the slope of a plotted line, sample interval time for numerical solution of a differential equation, frequency of a sinusoidal input to a series RLC circuit and noise level and duration for signal detection using averagingHow to Start to Create a GUITo start, entering figurein the command mode opens a figure window as shown. The default titleis Figure 1 (or Figure 2, Figure 3, etc. if other figure windows are still open).>>figure>> Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the

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Yu Wang; Alex Wong; Aparicio Carranza

are also able to write application programs on the Windows operating system to access from a personal computer to various external Input/Output devices. The new labs developed on Digilent USB I/O Explorer aims to increase students’ competence in microprocessor system programming and improve the learning quality of Microcomputer Systems Technology course. Key words: Computer Organization, Microprocessor, Computer Interfacing Technology, USB I/O Explorer, Lab Curriculum,I. IntroductionComputer organization and Assembly Language are essential components for Computer Science[1], Computer Engineering [2], Software Engineering [3], and Information Technology [4]. OurComputer Engineering

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Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

often through casestudies published by both Harvard University and Yale University. More recently ElectronicsEngineering programs have espoused similar project based learning. The findings show that thebest educational methods force students to cooperate using their knowledge of interdisciplinarysubjects to solve problems within an environment using “incomplete or imprecise information”[1].For decades the instruction of Engineering and other disciplines have used “Capstone”, wherefinal projects are used to reinforce skills and foster design[2]. Since 1990 the NationalInformation Assurance Education and Training Partnership Program (NEITP) has beenresponsible for information assurance, awareness and training. They issue the IT

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Issam Damaj; Ashley Ater Kranov

methodology.Keywords: Technical Education, Engineering, Assessment, Measurement, Sustainability.Introduction:Sustainability is a buzzword in modern times. Many areas have been attracted touse the term Sustainability to refer to keeping up, prolonging, and enduring.Sustainability have been used in areas such as development, ecology, energy,biology, to name a few. According to [1], sustainability is the noun form of theverb to sustain, and it means to keep up, prolong, endure, etc. The termSustainability is sometimes coupled with the synonym Maintainability whichmeans to keep in an appropriate condition or to sustain against opposition ordanger. The main difference between Sustainability and Maintainability is theamount of energy and the type of effort needed

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Kalyan Mondal

programming courses.Key Words: Programming, Secure Coding, Integer Overflow, Input Validation, Buffer OverflowIntroduction:At our university, all engineering and engineering technology majors take a first course onprogramming – ENGR 1204 Programming Languages in Engineering (viz.http://www.fdu.edu/academic/1214bulletin/universitycoursedesc.pdf). This course involvesprocedural programming in MATLAB. Advanced programming course, ENGR 3200 is requiredto be taken additionally by the electrical engineering and electrical engineering technologymajors. Programming in C and C++ are introduced in this course using the text book [1] andintroduces both the procedural and object-oriented programming course topics. ENGR 3200 alsois a prerequisite course for the

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Chiranjit Das; Zeinab Al obaidi; Navarun Gupta

in treating the condition ata faster rate. Definitive diagnosis is possible only after the condition is severe. Many different methods have beensuggested using supervised and unsupervised classification techniques [#1]. Our method moves away from thosetechniques and introduces an innovative new idea of utilizing the information present in the image signal itself. Herewe introduce the concept of wavelet transform to reveal the information present at low frequency. This way we canthe segment the image which in turn helps us to classify the image.We take the help of Complex Wavelet Transform to reveal the information in the low frequency and also in turnhelp us to maintain the analytic conditions of the Fourier Transform

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Andy S. Zhang; Ali Harb; Iem Heng; Farrukh Zia; Alex Wong

communicatewith each other effectively. Undergraduate research activities included the design and integrationof effective mechanical systems and electronic systems; building; testing; and programmingphysical mechatronic products made by each design team.Keywords: Embedded system, mechatronics technology, undergraduate research projects.1. IntroductionEmbedded systems have become very popular in recent years in product designarena due to the dramatic reduction in prices of microprocessors andmicrocontrollers. An embedded system is a stand-alone specialize computingdevice or system designed to perform limited computing functions reliably,securely and cheaply [1]. Robot controller is one of the examples of an embeddedsystem in which the controller perform

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ASM Delowar Hossain; Zory Marantz; Djafar Mynbaev

gap continues to increase rapidly because electronics went throughanother technological revolution for the last ten years; the revolution that resultedin dramatic improvement of speed, miniaturization, functionality and otherparameters. This situation raises the question whether it is possible to teachmodern electronics, particularly in two-year programs. Obviously, it is not theconcern of our department only; this is a nation-wide problem that many expertsfrom industry and academia have realized [1]. Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

completed. The results of this study will provide faculty with an understanding of the relative benefits of integrating a visual dictionary project into their courses. Key words: student-produced visual dictionary, active learningIntroduction:A visual dictionary is a dictionary that combines drawings, diagrams or photographs andcorresponding text to explain the meaning of a word or term. There are visual dictionaries inbook and digital form. Visual dictionaries are usually broken into themes within one source[1] or dedicated to a specialized subject area such as language translation, architecture, anatomy,and even Star Wars Episodes. [2] Per Pappas, Glezer, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscienceat Georgetown University Medical Center

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Bryndol Sones

. MCNP5/X can be used to model various nuclear engineering scenarios to include fundamental nuclear and atomic interactions, particle/photon transport, radiation shielding and detection, and nuclear reactor analysis. In the NE field, MCNP5/X is well respected and reliable, and its results offer excellent visualization for modeled scenarios. At West Point, the faculty uses a cognitive apprentice model to implement student use of MCNP5/X over a two-year period of studies. This is a three-phase developmental model that starts gradually with (1) faculty demonstrations and then with (2) student coaching in the laboratory context during the first year of the NE curriculum

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Bryndol Sones; Frank Wattenberg

for student learning and assessment, and Physics Education Research(PER) has emerged as a research field at many universities [1, 2]. This philosophical change inthe way teachers think about student learning has been accompanied by new classroomtechnologies that included video analysis techniques, student response cards (clickers), and arobust suite of sensors that bring classrooms and laboratories to life with the ease of plug-and-play data acquisition. PASCO Systems is one such sensor suite adopted at West Point in itsintroductory physics and math courses. In the context of studying a vertical spring-mass system,a motion sensor that uses the echo of ultrasonic sound off of the bottom of the mass is a Proceedings of

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Anatoliy Gordonov

them a number of questions about various security problems. Before describing the results, let us give the structure of the questionnaire used,numbers and characteristics of the students who participated, and the way we analyzed thestudents’ answers.Altogether about 150 students participated in this survey. We separated them into threecategories: 1. Students who are not computer science (CS) majors and have some computer experience at the users’ level. These are non-science students who took an elective general education course “Introduction to Computer Technology”. 18% of the students participating in our study fall into this category. 2. Students who are CS majors and have some programming experience

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Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

Commission (TAC) of Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) developed a set of criteria for accreditingfor TAC/ABET degree program called TAC2K. This procedure requires thefaculty members of the accredited program to be heavily involved in theassessment and the continuous improvement of the program. The new criteriamandate a “closing the Loop” process to establish a continuous assessment andimprovement of the program. To accomplish the aforementioned process, Criteria2 (Educational Objectives) and 3 (Programs Outcomes) of the eight (8)TAC/ABET are required to be fulfilled [1].Programs must also assess student performance as part of their accreditationprocess. The assessment process includes collecting and analyzing the data

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Ali Daneshmandnia

Jacob Nielson (1993) and a software usability model (Kirner, Custodio, & Kirner, 2008), using seven characteristics—Learnability, Operationability, Efficiency, Memorability, Errors, Satisfaction, and Attractiveness—to evaluate Moodle. The data was analyzed by SPSS and was compared with a previous study of Moodle, in which students responded most positively to the attractiveness of the Moodle interface and least positively to its operationability. 1. IntroductionDistance learning tools have become the main focus of online education. What is crucial inevaluation of the efficacy of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is measuring itseffectiveness; user interface, and educational

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Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

appropriate videos and post it through discussion groups and Facebook. During the lecture and subsequent class discussion of the processes under review, students are expected to add to the transfer of knowledge by sharing points and information gleaned from the digital sources and their textbook. The lecture is supported by a weekly hands-on laboratory. Students are questioned, in a non-test environment, while working on their lab projects about relate theories and concepts.IntroductionIn an industrial Engineering curriculum, a manufacturing processes course meets three categoriesof students’ employment needs after graduation: (1) Students whose professional career directlyinvolves

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Bijan Bayat Mokhtari; Ethan Wong; Aidan Murphy; Andy S. Zhang; Fritzpatrick Roque; Iem Heng

: Cognitivelearning,experientialandcooperativelearning,hands-onlearning.1. IntroductionOne of the oblems pr that many engineering technology students face whelooking for their first engineering job is: Do you have relevant experiEmployers prefer graduates with relevant experience to those without Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education

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Scott A. Sinex

thought to an experiment.The NRC’s A Science Framework for K-12 Science Education [1] and the Next GenerationScience Standards [2] are setting the bar high to change how science and engineering areapproached in K-12. Plus mathematical modeling is an important part of the Common CoreStandards in Mathematics [3] in K-12, and at the college level, has been endorsed by AMATYC[4] and MAA [5]. Surely the college science, mathematics, and ASEE engineering [6]communities will need to respond as the 21st-century classroom evolves. We cannot just keeplecturing!In this paper, readers will see how animated interactive learning tools can be constructed from anoff-the-shelf piece of software, the spreadsheet, to get students to discover concepts involvingerror

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David A. Vaccari

(EAC) of ABET,engineering programs are required to have eleven documented student outcomes[1], commonly referred to as “a through k.” Five of these student outcomesrepresent technical attributes that engineering educators are familiar with teachingand assessing. However, six of these student outcomes are, for many facultymembers, difficult and purportedly subjective to assess. These include: (d) An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) An ability to communicate effectively (h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal

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Ahmed Azam

American Society of Engineering Education 24What is Cloud Computing?Cloud computing is essentially virtual servers that are available over the internet [1]. It isthe technical means by which everything can be delivered as a service over the internet,accessible from any device, any place, anytime. For example, if you log onto Gmail,iTunes or Facebook, you are on the cloud. In figure 1 you will see how cloud computingis designed to work with different technical devices and this is what makes it veryappealing, and it can also be attractive to businesses, DeVry in particular, in thefollowing ways [2]: Provides Flexibility – ability to work from

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Yacob Astatke; Farzad Moazzami; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

approach has increased student performance and satisfaction.Introduction Universities face an increasing
interest
in
providing
students
with
recorded
class
material because
today’s
students
expect
to
have
24/7
access
to
online learning
materialsfrom anywhere at any time [1]. “Millennial” students see
technology
integration
in highereducation as
a key component of their learning environment because they have grown up usingtechnology in every facet of their lives [ 2] .

The use of lecture
capture
technology
has
the
potential
to
fundamentally
change
the
way
instructors
and
students
interact
in
the
classroom [3],[4],[5] .
It also has the potential to change
the classroom environment and therelationship
between instructors
and
students
by

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fritzpatrick Roque; Aidan Murphy; Bijan Bayat Mokhtari; Joseph Kim; Alex Barbaran; Andy S. Zhang; Farrukh Zia

changes in resistances that are ultimately read as changes in voltage by the microcontroller. Utilizing a stretch sensing material, the onset of a loop during an endoscopic procedure was accurately determined. The effectiveness of each configuration in detecting the formation of a loop is studied. This loop detecting device was designed in a way that it can be attached to an endoscope without significantly increasing the diameter of the endoscopic tubing. Once a loop is formed, the device will send a warning signal so the doctor who performs the endoscopic procedure can adjust his or her operation to avoid harming the patient. Keywords: Endoscopic loop detection, medical device design, undergraduate research projects. 1. Introduction Endoscopy is

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Walter W. Buchanan; Muhammad H. Kehnemouyi

engineering societies to ask, “Whatdoes ASEE think?” Although research is very important at Research-1 universities, the public ismore and more demanding an emphasis on good teaching. This is especially true at publicuniversities, where state legislators and parents are demanding this, as the cost of highereducation rises. We know that decreasing financial state support is a factor in this, but we canstill work to provide good return on investment. ASEE can play a major role in this.This next year it would be good to concentrate on expanding our value to faculty at two-yearinstitutions and thereby increasing their membership, which is currently only 4% of our total.The cost of education at two-year institutions is much less than at four-year ones, in

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Avanzato

platform provides animmersive environment which supports the team design process, the reviewprocess and the presentation process.There are examples of successful utilization of virtual worlds to supportcollaborative design in the literature.Ehsani and Chase [1] discuss the uses ofvirtual worlds with distributed design teams to reduce the time to developprototypes and reduce overall costs, and they included the review of several case Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 15studies in the architectural and construction field. One such

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Aiman S. Kuzmar

taught Statics to Engineering Technologystudents at the same institute. He made several presentations and published paperson the differences on teaching Engineering Mechanics courses which includeStatics and Strength of Materials betweenEngineering and EngineeringTechnology students[1, 2]. In these papers and presentations, it was demonstratedthat teaching Statics to Engineering students should be different than teaching it toEngineering Technology students despite being the same subject because of thefundamental differences between the two disciplines. Engineering is based on Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education

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Masoud Fathizadeh; Gil Cabrera; Mark Werthman; George Zawislak

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