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Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

  methods   of   heat   transfer.   Heat   transfer   will   be   analyzed   at   two   reaction  time  periods:  (a)  Transient  state  period  (heating  period)  (b)  Steady  state  period  (period  at  constant   reaction  temperature).   Transient  state  analysis:   This  calculation  involves  the  energy  needed  to  bring  reactor  to  the  desired  reaction  temperature  of  65°C.   Basic  equation  introduced:   𝑄 = 𝑚 ∙ 𝐶! ∙ Δ𝑇   where

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Lunal Khuon; Timothy Camise; Clayton Bannan; Kevin Buckley

ceases to increase. In the finger- pulse approach to automatic blood pressure measurement, a finger-pulse sensor is used to acquire a finger-pulse signal. The first pulse detected indicates when to read systolic pressure. Diastolic pressure is measured at the time when the pulse amplitudes level out. A typical finger-pulse signal is shown later in Figure 10(b).Automatic Blood Pressure Measurement Device Block Diagram Figure 1 is a general block diagram of the device that student teams assemble for the project.The sensors used by each team will be a subset of those shown, depending on their approach(as described above). Each team is randomly assigned a digital processor (supported with adevelopment system). The current processors in

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Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

Students1) Major: Within School of Engineering 1) Personal statement that provides evidence of2) Citizenship: United States citizens, U.S. academic drive, career goals and explains why Permanent residents, United States Nationals, you should be selected for the scholarship. and Refugees 2) One letter of recommendation from MSU faculty3) Academics: (ideally, from School of Engineering faculty) a) Full-time first or second year undergraduate 3) Demonstrate eligibility for need-based financial student aid as determined by MSU Financial Aid b) Have a

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Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

Michael Michael Preston. "Teaching and Learning with VideoAnnotations." Http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net. 8 Mar. 2011. Web. 03 Apr. 2012.. [7] Michel R.G., Cavallari J.M., Znamenskaia E., Yang K.X., Sun T., Bent G.“Digital video clips for improved pedagogy and illustration of scientific research - Withillustrative video clips on atomic spectrometry” (1999) Spectrochimica Acta - Part B AtomicSpectroscopy, 54 (13), pp. 1903-1918.[8] Christopher Lopata, Kathleen A. Miller and Robert H. Mille, “Survey of Actual and PreferredUse of Cooperative Learning among Exemplar Teachers”, The Journal of Educational ResearchPublished by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. , Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 232-239, (Mar. - Apr., 2003),Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org

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

. Mattern, S. Packman, “Research Report No. 2009-2: Predictive Validity ofACCUPLACER® Scores for Course Placement: A Meta-Analysis,” The College Board, NewYork, 2009 [On-Line].http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/pdf/09b_765_PredValidity_WEB_091124.pdf[3]. Hodges, C. B., & Kim, C. (2010), “ Email, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and achievement ina college online mathematics course,” Journal of Educational Computing Research, 43(2), 207-223.[4]. Attewell, P., Lavin, D., Domina, T., & Levey, T. (2006). New evidence on collegeremediation. Journal of Higher Education, 77(5), 886–924.[5]. COMPASS (2009). COMPASS Guide to Effective Student Placement and Retention inMathematics. Iowa City, Iowa: ACT.http://www.act.org/compass/pdf

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Robert T. Bailey

traditional approach by the author. There were 10 femalesand 37 males.Cohort R (revised) consisted of 42 students (19 females and 23 males) from our two most-recentStatics classes (fall 2010 and fall 2011). Both classes were taught by the author using the revisedapproach.Because there is always the possibility that one cohort happens to be more academically adeptthan the other, the prior academic performance of each cohort was examined in terms of theirgrade point average (GPA) in prerequisite mathematics and science courses, specifically,Calculus I (MA251), Calculus II (MA252), Physics I (PH201), and Physics II (PH202). TheGPA for these courses was calculated using the following four-point scale: A 4.000 B 3.000 C

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M. Nazrul Islam

Security Technology: A New Field in Engineering Curriculum M. Nazrul Islam Department of Security Systems State University of New York – Farmingdale E-mail: islamn@farmingdale.edu AbstractSecurity of information as well as physical resources has become a crucial component inresearch and development. A significant amount of research interests and grants has beendedicated towards development of strong, efficient and robust security techniques and systemswhere both the academic institutions and industries have been involved actively. The

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Testing Jigsaw Learning In a Freshman Laboratory Course Orla LoPiccolo, M Arch, RA, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture and Construction Management State University of New York - Farmingdale State CollegeAbstract:In Jigsaw Learning,1 a peer-to-peer teaching method developed by Elliot Aronson and hiscolleagues, every student in the class is placed in 2 sequential groups – an “expert” group tolearn a section of a course topic (a jigsaw puzzle piece) and a jigsaw puzzle group where theyjoin with different course topic “experts” to share and learn from each other,– thus completingthe course topic as a whole in a group (the completed jigsaw

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Raenita A. Fenner; Suzanne Keilson

Student Journaling/Documentation and Problem Solving Enhancement Raenita A. Fenner* and Suzanne Keilson Department of Engineering Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21210Development of personal problem solving skills is an important milestone inthe development of an engineer. The development of problem solving skillsmay even be more essential for electrical engineers who often study abstractconcepts which must be studied via inference from measurement. Additionally,there are many topics in the electrical engineering curriculum which requirea level of intuition which is gained over time with practice. Examples ofsuch topics are linear circuit analysis

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Wenli Guo

Increase Chinese Students Enrollment in a Community College Program Wenli Guo Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364More and more Chinese students are coming to school to study in the U.S.A. every year. A fewyears ago, there were 10 million students in China who took the college entrance examination,and China's universities could only accommodate 5.7 million Chinese students despite the factthat there are more community colleges or private colleges established in China. This statistichas not changed substantially since. With the rising strength of the Chinese economy, it's anatural solution for Chinese students to come to America for a collegiate

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Martene Stanberry

“My First Year Teaching In a College Of Engineering” By Martene Stanberry, Ph.D. The first year of teaching as a faculty member in a College of Engineering provided mewith many opportunities for professional growth. It served as a time to set a foundation on how Iwill teach, do research, and serve the university and community in which I am a part. During thistime it was important to meet the challenges and expectations of the Department of MathematicalSciences, the College of Engineering, and Tennessee State University (TSU) as well as achievethe career goals and aspirations I had set for myself. There are several important factors to consider when making the transition to

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A New Old Approach to Teaching Microprocessors: Update and Lessons LearnedAbstractIn 2009 we described a hands-on approach to teaching microprocessors in which students hand-wired a Z80-based microprocessor system and programmed it in machine code. The constructionof the microprocessor system was accompanied by lectures in a variety of topics includingcomputer organization, instruction set architectures, the Intel family of microprocessors, andhigh-speed techniques such as pipelining and superscalar processing. The course has now beentaught twice and undergone a number of modifications to both the content and the Z80 systembuilt by the students. In this paper we report on those modifications and

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Todd Holden; P. Schneider; E. Cheung; J. Prayor; R. Duran; J. Ye; George Tremberger Jr; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

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Wenli Guo; Vazgen Shekoyan

centrally hosted eLearningNote that homework was graded without any environment offering a wide range of course delivery,comments by the instructor. assessment and collaboration products and services. In b) Students should reflect on what they did or particular, it allows students to create ePortfoliosthought wrong in their original solution. They should (electronic portfolios). The primary purpose of havingwrite an explanation on what was wrong in their student ePortfolios is to engage students throughoutoriginal answer and why it was wrong. Without this his or her academic career. By having an electronicstep students were not allowed

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. 4” L-brackets are attached to the deck, which is then attached to the rampsusing ¼ x 20 flat-head screws and wing nuts (Figure 4 b.). Figure 4 c. shows the pier foldedunder the ramp for storage. The bridge assembles and disassembles in less than 5 minutes andrequires two people.Figure 4. Details of the bridge: a. Three sections disassembled; b. center section attached toone ramp; c. Ramp wall folded for storage.To make the race more realistic a drag race starting format is used. This format requires a dragrace “Christmas Tree,” seen on the right in Figure 5. The sequence starts when the car is“staged” by rolling it toward the starting line until it breaks a laser beam. This position isindicated by the four yellow lights at the top of the

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

.  Lab Report 4 is worth 50% of your Design Project 4 grade.2b. Research and InvestigateGather information to build a knowledge base to meet the design challenge.Knowledge and Skill Builder 4: Bumpers, Angles, Rubber Bands, and Pinballs(a) Create three bumpers of different angles and various sizes of rubber bands. Stretch the rubber bands between some nails or pushpins on the board. Bumper 1 Bumper 2 Bumper 3 Bumper Angle Rubber Band Size(b) Raise the top edge of the board 5 inches and experiment with the pinball and bumpers. Which bumper produced the best bounce? 1 2 3 [circle one] Explanation:(c) Raise the top edge of the board 8 inches and experiment with the pinball and

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Bruce Char; Jeremy Johnson; David Augenblick

cost may beamortized by grading savings in several offerings over time of large courses.References[1] Maplesoft, Maple 15 User Guide. Maplesoft, 2011.[2] ——, Maple T.A. 7 User Guide. Maplesoft, 2011.[3] Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning for the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sci- ences and Education, How People Learn, expanded edition ed., J. Bransford, A. Brown, and R. Cocking, Eds. National Research Council, 2000.[4] H. Pashler, P. Bain, B. Bottge, A. Graesser, K. Koedinger, M. McDaniel, and J. Metcalfe, “Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning: A practice guide (ncer 2007-2004).” U.S. Department2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

keybased partial fingerprint selection.AcknowledgementPortions of the research in this paper use the CASIA-FingerprintV5 collected by the ChineseAcademy of Sciences' Institute of Automation (CASIA).References[1] M. Wadman (1999). Biometrics group counters privacy fears. Nature, 398(6727): 451.[2] B. Schneier (1999). Inside risks: The use and abuse of biometrics. Communications of the ACM, 42:136.[3] J. Grijpink (2005). Two barriers to realizing the benefits of biometrics: a chain perspective on biometrics andidentity fraud as biometrics' real challenge. Computer Law & Security Report, 21(2): 138-145.[4] M. Bronstein & A. Bronstrein (2002). Biometrics was no match for hair-raising tricks. Nature, 420(6917): 739.[5] I. Buhan & P. Hartel

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Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

complete their laboratory assignments. (a) (b) Figure 1(a): Virtual instrumentation interface seen by online students. (b) Sample view fromlaptops of two online students that can use the same Agilent equipment remotely at the sametime . Table IV shows the pedagogy we used to convert a RC filter laboratory experiment that isdesigned for a F2F laboratory to one that can be conducted completely online using the sameequipment. The picture on the right of Fig. 2 illustrates one of the results of the “RC TimeConstant Evaluation” laboratory experiment conducted by an online student. After the studentscomplete Part I of the laboratory experiment using the Agilent oscilloscopes

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Muhammad Faysal Islam; Mohammed Nazrul Islam

between environment andorganization and technology is between science and organization. Therefore, systemsengineering is an overlap of all three elements and driven by information flowing through eachelements. The technical process of systems engineering involves defining system requirements,design, development and testing where the managerial process involves resource allocation,planning, monitoring, control, risk and change management. (a) (b) Figure 4: Systems engineering as a combination of science, environment and organization (a), technical and managerial processes of systems engineering (b)According to Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is a temporary

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for students who pass exam.  It is counted as a part of the capstone course grade.  Part of the Senior capstone grade.  AGC chapter pays half the fee.  Counts as exam score in one of the program’s courses.  Five (5) overall points added to the Capstone grade.  Tied to a grade item in the final senior semester management of construction course.  Part of Capstone; makes a letter grade difference if not passing. If they had an “A” and failed, the “A” becomes a “B”.  The exam is paid for if the student passes the exam.  Capstone course; if student takes the exam the test result comprises 50% of the grade.  Yes; industry Advisory Council pays $75 of the fee for the first 40 students that sign

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Mauro J. Caputi; George DeMarco; Jacqueline Pierson; Brittney Schmidt; Evan Sick

cracks in the shell). The egg may be surrounded with a protective covering.However, the covering cannot penetrate the shell or be bonded to it. GDC B – Vertical Limit Design and construct a mechanical system that will deploy froma prescribed initial size to a freestanding structure that reaches as high as possible. Deploymentmust be automatic upon activation of a trigger mechanism. The base structure is to be fixed tothe floor. For example, the system may be composed of a mechanism for extending a boom ortruss structure. GDC C – Reward Design and construct a mechanical system that will launch a YorkPeppermint Pattie taped to a CD so it hits an 9' W x 6' H target placed as far from the launchpoint as possible. The target will be

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Mauro J. Caputi

discussthe multiple-section Project Lab and the associated Design Projects. Part Three will discuss howthe Lecture and Project Lab build towards the last half of the semester with the Grand DesignChallenge project and competition.THE PREVIOUS COURSE Prior to Fall 2005, Hofstra Engineering required First-Year students to take ENGG 9A -Introduction to Engineering, a 2 credit lecture-only course meeting twice a week. The maincomponents were the typical subjects taught over the past two decades, namely engineeringproblem solving, introductory information outlining the various types of Engineering majors,along with overview material on a variety of topics such as ethics, design, statistics, computerprogramming, plotting, and report writing. Two or

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Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference, Delaware, April 2012 Introducing Aerospace Engineering to High and Middle Schools Sean Pratt, Yapah Berry, Olivia Reed, and Gaffar Gailani Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Technology Dept. New York City College of Technology 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201AbstractIn the past there was a common belief that research should only be introduced at the graduatelevel or at least the senior undergraduate year. Research in the freshman year was not even atopic for discussion. Today, throughout CUNY, colleges are stepping forward andconducting research at all

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Todd Holden; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger Jr; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

as indicators used to define latent variables “English Aptitude”and “Math Aptitude” in SEM. The dataset consists of 167 graduates over ten years in acommunity college. An initial confirmatory factor analysis model suggests that “EnglishAptitude” and “Math Aptitude “has a correlation of 17%. A follow up SEM suggests that“English Aptitude” has a 32% loading onto the ‘Math Aptitude”, which has a 97%manifestation on the graduation GPA. The “English Aptitude” has a 53% manifestationon the remedial zero credit high school math course grades. The SEM results give aquantitative assessment for the remedial program effect on overall graduation GPA in thisexplorative study. The SEM of evaluative scores/grades in an introductory physicscourses (N = 80

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Hector Medina

The Unique Experience of Being Educated in VCU’s New Nuclear Engineering Program By Hector Medina Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering; 401 West Main Street. P.O. Box 843015 Richmond, VA 23284-3015 medinahe@vcu.edu means and research from within journals dealing withINTRODUCTION pedagogical matters. Due to the prospect of a dramatic increase in the Spontaneous Innovationdemand for nuclear professionals, a number ofuniversities are either strengthening

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SeductionCorporate Reasons Better tutorials More repeatable documentation Certification and Standards Knowledge base Failure documentation Project Process EvolutionNotebook Assessment Form Project Writing Problem WritingNotebook Writing is not DeadIn the 1970’s, at Harvey Mudd College, engineering notebooks could be found in sophomorelevel engineering course rooms. Old donated equipment was being worked on. Previous andcurrent students left their notebooks in the classroom. The initial student motivation was to digup information. Today students initially search the internet. Yet reading each other’s notebookstaught a lot more than technical detail.Before the summer of 2011, US patents began with writing