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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Jian Chen; Xingguo Xiong; Mirza Rishad Hasan

dissipation has a direct bearing on size, weight, cost, recovery full adder designs have been reported [15-18]. In and battery life. So power dissipation is becoming widely [15], a 16-bit carry-lookahead adder using reversible energy recognized as a top-priority issue for VLSI circuit design. recovery logic for ultra-low-energy systems is reported. In Nowadays low-power VLSI design has become a major [16], quasi-static energy recovery logic (QSERL) uses two design consideration. Various low power VLSI techniques complementary sinusoidal supply clocks and possesses have been reported [1-2]. Among them, energy recovery several positive characteristics of static CMOS logic. The technique [3-4

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Fei Mi; Zixun Tong; Xingguo Xiong

,biological processes like cell activation, enzyme reactionsand protein folding also require mixing of reactants for micro-channel, just trying to narrow down thoseinitiation, electrophoresis activation. Turbulence and equipments to micro-scale, mainly integrating theseinter-diffusion of them play crucial role in the process of micro-scale facilities into a lab-on-a-chip for the aimsmixing of different fluids. In this paper, the design of a new of bio-chemical disposal, diseases diagnose,kind of electromechanical active micro-mixer, which analytical examination, new drug development andincludes two inlets and one outlet under the electrostatic monitoring environment and so on [1

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Borui Li; Xiaowei Yu; Bo Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Lawrence Hmurcik

designverifies the correct function of the multiplier. In order forcomparison, an 8-bit static CMOS multiplier is also designed.PSPICE power simulation is used to simulate the powerconsumption of both reversible gate multiplier and the staticCMOS multiplier for the same given input pattern sequence.Simulation results show that reversible gate multiplier leads toeffective power saving compared to static CMOS multiplier. Keywords— Reversible logic, Reversible gate, Low power VLSI,Low power CMOS design. Fig.1: TSG Gate working as reversible full adder I. INTRODUCTION A

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Christopher Palmieri; Judith Hooymans; Cole Gingrich; Tooran Emami Ph. D.; Aaron Dahlen; Joseph Staier

System (GPS), the first DPS system had a ring of buoysvessel includes micro-controllers connected to the MD10C H- around the outside and the system measured ranges to thesebridges, to control thruster speed and are also connected to an buoys. The thrusters were capable of rotating a full 360on board computer. All inside components are attached to a degrees so that they could maintain a certain range to eachfuse block in order to protect the components. The networking buoy. Although this system could keep the platforms indesign consists of various programs to handle the data for the place, the thrusters were controlled manually [1].vessel and how the various systems communicate with eachother. The

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Timothy A. Zimmerman

robot capable of be performed in regards to its application to robotics. Some ofperforming obstacle avoidance using neural networks trained the research being performed includes: navigation and pathwith simulated sensor data. The only sensor used for detecting planning [1], [2], physical orientation determination [3],the environment was an infrared distance sensor attached to a obstacle and collision avoidance [4]–[6], manipulator andhobby servo, allowing for 180° of sensor visibility. In order totrain the neural networks, simulated sensor data was created motor control [7], and programming of the robot byusing LabVIEW and presented to a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ashenafi Lambebo; Sasan Haghani

rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section II,to continuously monitor the environment [1-[7]. we present the wireless sensor network architecture, including A wireless sensor network (WSN) generally consists of a details on the transmitter and the receiving node structures. Thelarge number of low-cost and low-power multifunctional data visualization and experimental results are presented insensor nodes that are deployed in a region of interest. In WSN, Section III. Finally, the conclusions are given in Section IV.the nodes communicate wirelessly over short distances and arecapable of organizing themselves in an autonomous multi

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

fields in the United States and STEM jobs are projected at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, MA. The decision toto increase by 17% by 2018 [1]. Because of this, it is now introduce programming to the students was a result of theeven more important to expose students to writing computer partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowellprograms. Not only does it prepare the students for the new job and Haverhill High School through the National Sciencemarket, it also teaches the students critical thinking skills that Foundation (NSF) GK-12 Fellowship program. The role of thethey otherwise may not learn through traditional high school graduate fellow assigned to the aforementioned classes was

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Walter Engels; Farshid Zabihian

beneficial little to no impact on the environment [2]. With only smallas well. In the open cycle warm seawater is located in a low- concerns being the building construction and the impact onpressure tank and caused to then boil [1]. The steam that fishing and the ecosystem of the ocean.comes from the low-pressure boiling system is enough topower a turbine thus creating work [1]. The cold seawater is Current advancements in OTEC power generation areused to condense the steam [1]. One benefit to the open cycle slow moving. When compared to modern power generationis that desalinated water is created in the cycle as a byproduct. OTEC cannot compete with fossil fuel sources or

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

. Without reinforcement, most fundamentals arestudents to linear circuit and system theory, digital logic design, never digested by the students” [1]. Second, there is the senseand electronics. The piloted lab component ran in parallel with that engineering students are missing out on some of thethe lecture component. In the lab component, students were excitement associated with “hooking things up” and “makingarranged into teams, assigned an experiment-kit, and charged things” in a way that leverages electrical engineeringwith designing, building, testing, operating and demonstrating knowledge. We have witnessed a dramatic nationwidecollision-avoiding robotic “smart cars.” Subjective assessment decrease in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Breno Fabricio Lira Melo Sousa; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

could be almost impossible to be solved Honeypots are tools used for monitoring attacks, collectingwithout the use of them. important information on trends and allowing enhance the methodology used the security of a company [1]. Every day we are faced with the increasingly smaller andmore powerful machines. Commonly, we can see that the We also have to point out that, unlike a firewall or IDSgrowing number of people who own devices with a lot of (Intrusion Detection System), a honeypot will not solve justprocessing power and storage in the palm of the hand, from the one problem or

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Thomas Goddard; Konstantin Litovskiy; Nathan Nichols-Roy; Matthew Reed; Igor Shvartser; Nicholas Smith; David Zeppa; Linda Werner; Julia E. Rice; Hans W. Horn; Amanda C. Engler

1 ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Dynamics of a Cross-disciplinary Corporate-Sponsored Undergraduate Computer Science Project Thomas Goddard, Konstantin Litovskiy, Nathan Nichols-Roy, Matthew Reed, Julia E. Rice, Ph.D., Hans W. Horn, Ph.D., Igor Shvartser, Nicholas Smith, and David Zeppa, and Amanda C. Engler, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

seeks to offerthrough a range of operational points can be determined through students a more complete understanding of mechanicalexperimental and analytical techniques. The time constant of an engineering concepts by providing hands-on experiences andexperimental liquid-level rig is determined by deriving a linearmodel of the system and experimentally determining the showing connections to professional practice [1]. Inductiverelationship between steady-state outlet flow rate and tank level. learning techniques, which engage students through hands-onThese

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Connor Needham; Jeremy Kacher; Mathias Boyle; Robert Hutchins; Susan Woodard

RogerWilliams University is working on will make it look like asmall house. This will also help blend it into the rooftops. The Figure 1: A labeled section view of a model of the turbine. This diagramclient had ideas of being able to incorporate trademark shows the parts of the turbine and the titles referenced in this paperbuilding designs into the roof in order to conserve the style ofthe building.HIPS WECS will give these urban areas the capability toproduce wind energy using a revolutionary enclosure whichchannels air into a chamber where fluid dynamics greatly II. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING This data will show

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Shanique Jiles

by many of the literary works Fig. 1. Infrared Proximity Sensor Long Range. (detect objects)that we have come across in our research. Aubrey Shick is aCarnegie Mellon University researcher. Shick is currentlydeveloping a robot, named Romibo, which will be usedtherapeutically to aid patients with dementia and autism [9].The hopes are that the robot will have human like behaviors,which will help exercise the memory of patients with dementiaand teach kids with autism pick up on human social cues.According to Ken Teh, there is a restaurant called Dalu Robot.This restaurant has become a hit among its customers becauseof the robots that have replaced the waiters. There are about

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tiago Martins Ribeiro; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

system is a “collection of independent In today's society, we find that more and more frequent usecomputers that appears to the user as a single, consistent of computer networks connecting people and machines. Thesesystem” [1]. Through this study we can work with prevention transformations are occurring in our society due to marriage ofand defense of attacks on networks, a topic that addresses this telecommunications and informatics, which greatlytype of study this work is the System of Prevention and contributed, to this occurring.Intrusion Detection - IDPS. Because of this junction, machines work harder and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

, required pumping power and pressure drop were alsorefrigeration, power plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum increased. The channel with a circular shape resulted in therefineries and sewage treatment [1]. There are many types of best overall performance. [10]heat exchanger designs for various applications. The major Recently, CFD analysis of heat exchanger has been used totypes of heat exchanger include double pipe, shell-tube, plate help design heat exchangers and to analyze their thermaland shell, plate fin, and phase change heat exchangers. The performance, effectiveness and temperature distributions. Thisflow in a heat exchanger can be arranged as parallel flow, paper simulated the heat

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohamed Tayseer; Fouad Zoghieb; Ismail Alcheikh; Mohammad N.S. Awadallah

tremendous popularity and the social impacts of social networks usage on collegeamong people all around the world, especially college students.The purpose of this research is to investigate if there is any develop their offline relationships. Offline relations arecorrelation between using online social networks and the basically those created by online activities and theacademic performance of college students and to find out influences of those relations on students’ social behaviorthe ways in which social sites can enhance the students’ and academic performance. Additionally, [1] and [2] showacademic performance. Moreover, we aim to discover how that social networks have

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Shawn Maxwell; Rajin Roophnath

integrate the hardware and concepts that underlie their elementary operation have beensoftware in an attempt to design a tiny quadcopter while keeping studied for quite a while. The first is the electric motor.it functional and useful in a military surveillance capacity. Michael Faraday, a scientist and experimenter, was the first to conceive a device which would turn electrical into mechanical I. INTRODUCTION energy. [1] Today, this device comes in two varieties, AC or brushless, and DC or brushed. A majority of quadcopters Advances in aeronautics

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ye Zhou; Amir Esmailpour

Figure 1: General components of Hadoop considerable power of computability, Hadoop sacrifices efficient data processing. In the real-time data II. PROBLEMS WITH HADOOP processing, Hadoop has lower speed than traditional Even though Hadoop has many advantages, it still faces DBMSs because it does not use high-level language, such some problems. The main issue for Hadoop is lower data as SQL and other query optimized languages. In this processing efficiency than traditional DBMSs [2]. paper, we discuss methods to improve efficiency. Such improvements increase the ability of data processing in A. Lack of query optimization real-time, hence making Hadoop

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yang Zhai; Jeremy Li

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Automatic Ink Injection Author: Yang Zhai Advisor: Dr. Jeremy (Zheng) Li Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bridgeport, CT, USA E-mail: yangzhai@my.bridgeport.edu E-mail: Zhengli@bridgeport.eduAbstract: This paper mainly introduces the automatic 1. The clip falls down until the end of the cartridge is in themechanism to inject ink into one kind of pen cartridges. output of the clip;The author designed an automated process

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra; Phyllis Nelson; Jolly Kuo; Shailesh Sujanani

retention byproviding engaging interactive online resources, including lectures, motivated by practical real-worldexamples and supported by embedded self-tests. These learning materials are being used to enrichstudent learning in the initial networks course, but can also be accessed by students in follow-on coursesto refresh their knowledge at any time. The original project focused on web-based learning materials,but is now being extended to include a variety of related tools including the web-based simulation toolsCircuitLab [1] and National Instrument’s myDAQ [2] measurement and instrumentation devices. Ourpreliminary assessment results indicate that the web-based resources improve students’ learning. Also,our surveys indicate weak students

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

outcomes (see Table 1).Further, hands-on experience facilitates the achievement of foundational outcomes (mathematicsand science), as well other areas of technical outcomes (for example, material science andmechanics). Thus, experiential learning does not necessarily have to begin after graduation.Rather, it should be incorporated in engineering programs throughout both undergraduate andgraduate curricula. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 256 Table 1. The BOK outcomes with respect to

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

to operate the training system. The goalof the training was to enable faculty members to teach the curriculum at their schools. Thetraining also included learning VLES principles to be able to teach the curriculum at theirschools online. Since the VLES incorporates a free open source framework based on Moodle, itoffers a simple tool for distance learning. Moodle is a learning platform designed to provideeducators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system tocreate personalized learning environments [1].Design and Development of the VLES and Supporting Instructional materialsFor effective delivery and feasibility of linking theory with experiential learning in virtuallearning environment, a server based

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Fariborz Tehrani; Nell Papavasiliou; Frederick Nelson; Carol Bohlin; Mara Brady

authorization in mathematics and/or science teaching, generally at themiddle school level. Engineering Literacy couples lectures on engineering topics with hands-onlaboratory experiences. The class meets once a week in the evening to accommodate workingstudents, particularly those teaching in after-hour school programs. Table 1 lists course topics forboth lecture and laboratory sessions.Table 1. Course topics. Lecture sessions Laboratory sessions: sample activities History of engineering Survey of ancient construction: small-scale laboratory Engineering philosophy and Public perception of engineering: public interaction and field survey Engineering trends, implications, Engineering report card: state of

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Ilmi Yoon; Eun-Young Kang; Oh-Young Kwon

in the game to retain players longer. Figure 1 shows thegeneral play time of stand-alone game vs. MMORPG game; games with social interactions keepplayers longer over time8. Popular MMORPG games tend to retain their players for a very longperiod time (months to years) and allow them to invite friends to play together (spread throughhuman network). Recently, Farmville, a relatively simple farm nurturing (crops or farm animals)Facebook game made a nice showcase of how quickly a game can spread through socialinteractions (80 million active players) and keep players playing repeatedly. Figure 1. MMORPG vs. non-MMORPG games, hours played by players; Source: Addiction to theInternet and Online Gaming. 70% of MMORPG players spend more than 10

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Marissa Buell; Nehad Dababo; Rene Figueroa; Peter Moala; Amelito Enriquez; Kanjun Bai; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen; Kwok-Siong Teh; Hamid Shahnasser; Wenshen Pong; Hao Jiang

students gain a strong fundamental understanding of basic electrical circuittheory, a learning-by-doing approach was designed for students who have recently taken a basicelectrical circuit course. Funded by a NASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements andPartnership Award for the Integration of Research) grant, four underrepresented minority (i.e., 3Hispanic and 1 Pacific Islander) students from a community college were recruited to design,assemble, and test a printed-circuit-board (PCB) based circuit in the summer of 2013. The circuitis capable of taking in power at 1.6 KHz with a very low voltage level (~200mV) and converts itto 5 V DC power to power-up biomedical implants wirelessly. First, the students were asked torun the circuit simulator (i.e

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Kathryn Bohn; Jeff Georgette; Brian Self; James Widmann

inquiry-based learning activities4. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 70Gyroscope IBLAThe activity was composed of three stations involving precision gyroscopes, a bicycle wheel withhandles, and a lazy-susan platform. The first station had students apply a moment to a precisiongyroscope by attaching a weight to the outer gimble and observe the resulting precession (Figure 1). Thesecond station had students translate the gyro around the flat table to demonstrate that angularmomentum is

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Matthew Adle; Justin Bostwick; Kyle Graves; Synjin Hipolito; Yong Gan

template synthesized from α-cyclodextrin and polyamines13. Nanocasting two- Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 12dimensionally (2D) ordered porous arrays using monolayer colloidal crystal templates has the advantageof generating hierarchical structures at micro and nanometer length scales. Polystyrene (PS) beads withthe size of 1 micron were used to form 2D ordered arrays14. The arrays were served as the casting moldsto make Co3O4 hierarchical structures.The external force-assisted nanocasting

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

methods (e.g. Principal ComponentAnalysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis) to a dataset of more than 14,000 arterial blood pressure pulsesand compare the results of valid pulse recognition using different classification techniques (e.g.parametric Bayesian, probabilistic neural network, nearest neighbor).Evaluating the Efficacy of TeachingTo assess the efficacy of teaching, we use two different measures: students’ grades; and students’teaching evaluation results. Figure 1 shows the boxplots of students’ grades (normalized to 100) forvarious exams in the chronological order taken throughout the semester. As the magenta dashed line onthe plot shows, average student grades improved over the semester. This observation can be explainedas follows: One of

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

to group discussions (both synchronous and asynchronous) and labs into onlinecourses in applied engineering and digital media design at National University.IntroductionThe past decade has witnessed more universities offering online courses and degree programs as bothtraditional and nontraditional students look for flexible undergraduate and graduate education options.Over 62% of US colleges and universities are now offering some sort of online programs with 6.7million students taking online classes in 2011, up from 6.1 million the previous year.1 One sourcepredicts that there will be more full-time online students than the onsite students in the next few years.2Those courses which are not delivered entirely online are still highly likely to