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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

-cubed weighted FourierTransform results are shown in Figure 5. The seed tissuesample has shown smaller bond length value as compared to Besides providing hands-on experience for students, thethe skin by about 8 pm using the FDG software. The WIN- EXAFS project also offers an opportunity for the students toXAS software gave a larger separation of about 12 pm. Since appreciate the concept of optimization beyond numericalFDG software has been used traditionally and that it would be calculation with software packages. The Brookhaven beambetter to be conservative in the shift calculation, the 8 pm time is a finite allocation in a specific duration and planning isseparation result is shown in Figure 5

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

Education and Practice. 131:4, 218-222.7. Friesen, Marcia, K. Lynn Taylor, and M.G. Britton (2005) “A Qualitative Study of a Course Trilogy in Biosystems Engineering Design”. Journal of Engineering Education. 94:3, 287-296.8. Grigg, Neil S., Marvin E. Criswell, Darrell G. Fontane, Laurel Saito, Thomas J. Siller, and Daniel K. Sunada (2004) “Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: Five-Year Review”. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 130:3, 160-165.9. Light, Richard J., Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett (1990) By Design, Planning Research on Higher Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 296p.10. Newstetter, Wendy C. (2005) “Designing Cognitive Apprenticeships for

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

futurepublications.ConclusionThe opportunities for PK-12 students to be exposed to engineering and its benefits to the world in generaland to each individual in particular are infinite. Through strategic planning and the creation of real-worldconnections, students can be inspired to consider engineering as a “normal” part of everyday living whichprovides a pathway for the development of creative ideas that can impact the world in both positive andnegative ways. Through “career imprinting,” PK-12 students can be encouraged to fully connect learningand living so they more intimately understand why what they are learning really matters. They will then,hopefully, choose to become engineers who are committed to making the world a better place to live,work, and play now as

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Bahram Nassersharif

publications.ConclusionThe design and implementation of this classroom has been both an exciting and challenging experience.We have stretched the limits of some the technologies for use in a classroom; for example, the number ofvisual displays, the distances for transmission high definition digital signals from the computer source tothe screens, etc.The response by professors and students has been very positive. Some faculty will be using all of thetechnology available to them as they change their instructional techniques while some will probably useonly the basic features of the classroom. One workshop has already been offered for faculty andadditional workshops are planned during the spring semester for faculty to maximize their use of thisclassroom.Many students

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Biswanath Samanta

theirapplications. The students applied the CI algorithms in their term projects. In addition, an exploratoryproject to provide research experiences on swarm robotics to high school students was initiated. A groupof three simple mobile robots (Lego NXT) was used to study search and rescue operation. PSO was usedas the main algorithm. Figures 5(a) and (b) respectively show the two assembled LEGO NXT robots andthe paths of the swarm of three such robots [47]. Undergraduate students are also engaged as summerinterns for research experiences with university and external support. The author is working on offering asimilar elective course on CI at the graduate level in his current university. The offering of summerinternship is also being planned for

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Buket D. Barkana; Nelson Ngoh; Allen Cook

transmission of light raysbrought about digital imaging and seeing. Students realized practically how the convex andconcave lenses were used to correct myopia, hypermetropia as well as astigmatism and diplopia.Our original plan was to explain rather general mathematical principles of logic, algorithms andrecursion formulas used in computer engineering, and then illustrate these principles in light ofspecific content materials in the course. Our first meeting concentrated on truth tables, basicprinciples in Boolean algebra and elementary circuit design, with specific problems involvingsimple series and parallel circuits. For some of the students the material was a review, othersfound it a bit challenging.While all had backgrounds in various sciences

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Cullen A. Jones

action. Fig. 8: A simple wall constructed of wood blocks provides a model of a masonry lintel and arch action SummaryHopefully, readers engaged in teaching design and construction of reinforced concrete and masonry structures findthese ideas for training aids and demonstrations helpful. As they guide future engineers to create solutions in themost ubiquitous construction material of the last two centuries, it’s important that instructors get the points across tothe broadest audience possible. Those interested in plans and specifications of any model presented here can sendrequests to cullen.jones@usma.edu. References[1] ACI Committee

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Sarah Tasneem

aspects of programdesign that are persistent. No matter how small a program is, each and every program should have thebasic structure with three main parts as follows: Input Data, Process Data, Print Result. Moreover, thesteps of Program Development Life Cycle (PDLC) do not change. PDLC provides an organized plan ofbreaking down the complete program development into manageable tasks. Each of the tasks needs to becompleted before one proceeds to the next phase. The phases are namely: defining the program,designing the program, coding, testing and debugging, documentation, implementation andmaintenance. As the focus of the paper is on the beginning programmer, we omit the maintenance partin our course. During this phase of the course, students

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Gaetan Garcia; Matthew R. Stein

deliverable.Students work in teams of two for all assignments an must deliver a work allocation plan prior tocompleting the assignment, • Objective 13: Sensory Awareness. Use the human senses to gather information and to make sound engineering judgments in formulating conclusions about real-world problems.Students uses their own senses of vision and hearing to diagnose problems and determine success.Appendix A contains objectives are not accomplished by this laboratory experience either due to theintrinsic nature of the laboratory or due to the remote location of the students. For example, althoughthe laboratory in local form presents significant safety issues to the students, remote students areisolated from these issues.From the analysis above, we

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mauro J. Caputi; Tiffany LaBozzetta; Michelle Llanos; Mary Kate Sirianni; Necol Habib

format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Grace Mack

implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough

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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Junichi Kanai; Mark Anderson

students 'ramp up' in theproject. As the students come to understand the problem and generate solution concepts, thenumber of issues will rise. A plateau may occur as the students become involved in bringing theirconcepts into practice. When the students have selected a concept to follow, the number of issueswill steadily rise again as they record and resolve implementation problems and refinements.We have found that students and coaches can better track progress when well defined milestones,or 'versions' as they are called in Redmine, are used in the project plan. When new issues arecreated, they may be tied to a version. Redmine can then list the issues that must be achieved toreach a version, providing a 'to-do' list for the team. Issues may be

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

Figure 9 This exercise requires the use of an air flow bench to make the measurements, making thisthe most expensive of the suite of exercises. Commercial versions of this type of flow bench canbe purchased, however, both Portland State and Penn State Erie have built their own at a greatlyreduced cost. Plans for building a flow bench will be part of the final report for this project.Sudden Expansion Exercise The sudden expansion experiment was deployed in an introductory fluid mechanics coursefor third year Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering students during Fall 2007.Figure 10 shows a schematic of the laboratory apparatus. A blower draws air through a ductconstructed from tubing of two diameters. The transition between diameters

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Thomas F. C. Woodhall

objectives to the students, it also is intended to motivate students. AsOehlers points out, there is a body of work that shows how students are directly motivated bywhat they are being assessed on5. By pointing out to students the benefits of advancing throughthe problem definition phase, they are likely to engage more actively in the process. Couplingwith this is an emphasis that the final product of the design process is not the sole criterion onwhich students will be evaluated and creativity early in the design is stressed. It is important thatthis is made clear to both the assessor and the student. While the output of the phase, acomprehensive plan of approach and a well defined understanding of the needs and issues of theproject, is important

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Olga Lepsky; Michael Werner

atthe end of the course agreed that the hands-on coding, tweaking and benchmarking approach had significantlyadvanced their problem solving abilities.Looking forward, we hope to extend this teaching technique into some new areas including graphics programming,network protocols, and parallel processing. We also plan to conduct an empirical study statistically evaluating theeffectiveness of this method for teaching algorithms. REFERENCES[1] Barsky S. and Thomo U., “A new method for indexing genomes using on-disk suffix trees,” CIKM, 2008, 649-658.[2] Bshouty N., “A Lower Bound for Matrix Multiplication,” SIAM J. Comput, Vol. 18, 1988.[3] Leiserson C. and Stein R., Introduction to

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

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Ethan Danahy; Morgan Hynes; Leslie Schneider; Danielle Dowling

software will offer students and teachers more flexible and efficient tools that address some of theseimplementation challenges. For example, a significant obstacle to using an inquiry approach in the classroom is thelack of experience teachers possess in engaging their students in argumentation and convergent sense-making.InterLACE will address this issue by developing tools that grant students a forum for their ideas and give teachers away to aggregate and analyze this data. We realize that a software tool alone is not the ultimate cure, therefore weare equally focused on providing professional development that would instruct teachers on how to facilitate acollaborative inquiry process during design-based projects. Going forward, we plan to test

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

different historical contexts.Rather than require students to write the standard history term paper, we assigned a term projectto study the relationship of design to performance in ancient naval vessels in the Aegean. Thestudents were challenged to make connections between their hands-on experiences and the largerhistorical and geographic contexts. In other words, interdisciplinary, experiential learning wasapplied not to the technical component of engineering education, but to the societal contextcomponent. The preliminary results were encouraging. Plans are underway to adjust and re-offer the course, and to disseminate it more broadly.KeywordsHistory, society, laboratory, engineering, educationBackgroundAs the authors have discussed previously1

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew Stein

that can benefit students significantly when introduced in the sophomore year. Allof the conjectural results described in the first section were confirmed by direct survey. The authorconcludes that the inclusion of SolidWorks not only improves the teaching of Dynamics, butstrengthens the entire engineering program by equipping students with the tools for lifelonglearning early in their career. 8 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference We plan on continuing this use of SolidWorks in the Dynamics course and may expand itsapplication to other

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

through this journey would help freshmen students chooseto identify whether academic remediation can improve their major so that they can be prepared to make betterstudents’ college outcomes. In college mentoring, the mentorsoften counsel students on (a) how to acquire better study decisions for his/her educational and vocational career. Inskills, (b) how to identify additional academic resources at mentors’ interactions with students, they work to help studentstheir respective institutions and (c) how to assess their life prioritize their studies, plan how they can be successful, andoutside of school. identify

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

actual project envisages the realization Qualification Frameworkissues on the current topic; material presentation skills; ideas in the Central Asian counties and the creation of theexperimental skills; multimedia tools, tests for self-checking. Guidelines for National Qualifications frameworks. It is planned to improve their educational systems by further Index Terms—learning outcomes, competences, learning development of existing requirements to educational standardsmethods, student activities, multimedia tools, HyperCam, in particular fields on the base on new European

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohammed-Noor Naher Al-Maghrabi; Ahmed A. Abdou El-Abbasy

scientific community share resources and collaborate, unitessubjected to dynamics loads is presented in [2]. the experimental facilities. The NEES website provides data The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake curation, a curated central data repository; telepresence;Engineering Simulation (NEES) is the product of more than a simulation, computational, data visualization and collaborativedecade of planning by the earthquake engineering community. tools; hybrid simulation and multi-site hybrid simulationThe NEES network infrastructure encompasses management capabilities; user support services; middleware; and a cyber-headquarters; 14 earthquake

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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William Alpert; Alexander Vaninsky

efficiencies of public and private institutions of #4958749, 2009, pp.168-172. higher learning.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 22 (6), 1988, [26] X. Zhu, “Evaluation and analysis on benefit of college resources input of pp.259-269. China,” Advanced Materials Research, 2011, pp. 328-330, 2358-2361.[2] W. Bennett and D. Wilezol, “Is college worth it?” Thomas Nelson, 2013. Web sites[3] J. Brown, C. Fang, and F. Gomes, “Risk and Returns to Education,” [27] http://deazone.com DEA website National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper #3838, 2012

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kyle Pustola; Can B. Aktas

(U = .40, SHGC = .5, Tvis = .63)comprehensive EPW climate data to model the exterior • No full-house ventilation systemconditions, and uses user input to determine the wall and roof • Infiltration: Ducted HVAC system w/ sealed ducts (3.8type and layout, insulation, window type and layout, floor SLA)plan, building orientation, level of air infiltration, ventilation • Furnace: 78% AFUE (Annual fuel utilization efficiency)systems, electrical use, and even photovoltaic (PV) panels and • Air Conditioner: 13.0 SEER(Seasonal Energy Efficiencysolar hot water systems. The user can customize up to nine Ratio)different scenarios (designated as “schemes” by HEED) andcompare one against the other

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Gowtham Raj Vuppari; Navarun Gupta; Ahmed El-Sayed; Xingguo Xiong

droughts, and altered of AI-based early warning systems, enhancing response timesprecipitation patterns have resulted in arid environments, and assisting policymakers and emergency responders inrendering trees extremely combustible. Intense winds, executing more efficient wildfire management methods. Theparticularly in areas susceptible to wildfires such as California, remaining tasks have been planned out as follows. The literatureexpedite the propagation of fires by transporting embers over is summarized in section 2; the proposed methodology fordetecting wildfire is explained in depth in section 3, the findings deep-learning architectures. The test results showed that theand

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Boluwatife E. Faremi; Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas; Amir Mohammad Karimi Forood; Josef Kundrat; Hugo F. Posada-Quintero; Ann Marie Hoyt-Brennan; Wendy A. Henderson

, University ofConnecticut, and the Faculty Pilot Grant Program, Penn Nursing, Universityof Pennsylvania. (a) (b) Fig. 1. Experimental view of the AIHT platform during experiments (a) Instance of a scenario illustrated with vignettes b) Trainee Nurse using the AIHT platform. of concept rather than definitive evidence. The planned expansion to 40 participants will provide a more robustEDA peaks compared to the trust-building phase, potentially evaluation of the

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Nusrat Zahan; Sidike Paheding

resolution,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Internationalimage models. We plan to investigate more sophisticated aug- Conference on Computer Vision, 2015, pp. 1823–1831.mentation techniques, such as generative adversarial networks [12] R. Timofte, V. De Smet, and L. Van Gool, “A+: Ad-[19] and adaptive transformations [20], with the goal of ap- justed anchored neighborhood regression for fast super-plying these methods to underwater super-resolution systems resolution,” in Computer Vision–ACCV 2014: 12thacross various aquatic environments. Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Singapore, Sin- gapore, November 1-5

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

implement will reduce the amount of material that can be covered.A study was performed to investigate the effects of implementing three easy to perform, easy toprepare active teaching methods. Initially, four outcomes were analyzed in this study, including: 1. Time spent on lesson planning will not increase by a significant amount. 2. The amount of course material covered will not decrease. 3. Student mastery of the course material will increase. 4. Student enthusiasm for course material will be greater during Active Teaching classes.The first part of this study, performed in Spring 2014, demonstrated that no significant increasein effort was required to prepare lectures that included these methods5; this included preparinglectures

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

student operation, robust, portable, and economically viable. In thispaper we describe the details of integration of our system into an existing introductory DCElectric circuits course and additionally, details of the planned study including implementationand assessment are discussed.KeywordsActive learning, DC Circuit Analysis, Portable Lab, Kinesthetic LearningIntroductionAt Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Electric Circuits 1 is an introductory engineering coursethat teaches students electrical concepts utilizing direct-current (DC) circuit analysis and basicelectrical devices. This course is designed to provide a foundation for a sequence of courses inalternating current (AC) circuits, electronics, electrical machines, and engineering design

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Arash Jahandideh; Samaeh Aminikhangahi; Ali Salehnia; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

dynamic programming wasdeveloped and implemented to assess the sustainability of a project and possible pathway toreach certain product. The generalized algorithm proposed in the present study enables allindustries to model and carry out LCA analysis of their products in both economic andenvironmental aspect. The authors plan to add social analysis part to current model and alsovalidate the model using real world data.References[1] G. Finnveden, M. Z. Hauschild, T. Ekvall, J. Guinée, R. Heijungs, S. Hellweg, A. Koehler, D. Pennington, and S. Suh, “Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.,” J. Environ. Manage., vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Oct. 2009.[2] W. Kloepffer, “Life cycle sustainability assessment of products,” Int. J