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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

of experiments are reported in this paper focusing on learning of a number ofareas including materials, engineering (EE&ME), computers, and microsystems. The PLVDG-basedlearning modules will be marketed by Nanobrick.com.Introduction The prevalence of new technologies in old and new consumer products emphasizes the need to explain toboth the formal and informal learner about (a) technologies that are in the market today as well as those that willbe there in the near future and (b) how these technologies are used to build micro- and nano-systems. As theexplanation of the underlying concepts in new technologies can be very challenging , traditionally efforts toincrease impact of informal as well as formal learning techniques have focused

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Harry Knickle; Don Gray

Adding Automatic Control to the Senior Laboratory Experience Harry Knickle and Don Gray Chemical Engineering, URI ASEE 2008, West PointDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island knickle@egr.uri.eduIntroduction and BackgroundOur program has 2 semesters of senior laboratory requiring a total of 4 credits. We alsohad a second semester junior level required data acquisitions and control laboratory for 2credits. The Department decided to drop the junior course and integrate data acquisitionand control into the senior lab courses. One objective was to reduce the credit load.Another objective was to introduce larger

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

theexcitement of engineering, but also the holistic approach that the modern engineer must take to solvingengineering problems.Finally, these efforts have recently prompted educational research to try and identify key concepts in thesystems domain that students have problems learning and how the pedagogy can be best adapted tocorrect the misconceptions that hinder learning.References1. Pugh, S., “Total Design: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering”, Addison-Wesley, New York, 1991.2. Gallois, B. and Jain, R, “Introducing ‘Total Design’ in an Engineering Design Course: A Pilot Experience”, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Chicago, June 2006, Session 1425.3. Sheppard, K and Gallois

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Peter Thomas Tkacik

page and one hour requirement, how would you grade a ten page report discussing the resultsof four hours of lab work?Due to the competitive nature of the students who discussed their progress in class, this example wouldhave been a sub-par report. No team spent less than four hours on the flow bench. The average reportwas 12 pages and included six figures, an appendix, bibliography, and cover page. The grading wasbased on the report, not the flow improvement, so the students justifiably received A‟s and B‟s (mostlyA‟s) for their tremendous effort. Weak logic, grammar errors, and mis-spellings accounted for the lack of100% A‟s. The worst of the lot were still impressive and encouraging to the Professor.Figure 2. The powerful engine has an

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Saikat Ray

U.S.A. The primary avenue of getting a job in the U.S.A. for a person who is not a citizen or a permanent resident is the H1-B visa (work visa).2 Due to immigration policies, it is easier to get the F-1 (student) visa and convert the status into H1-B after completion of the degree than directly getting the H1-B1 . Anecdotes tell that in the flourishing dot-com era of late 1990’s, many post-bachelor’s Ph.D. students would belured away by the companies. That may be the reason that in some schools it is difficult, de jure or de facto, for afunded post-bachelor’s student to get an M.S. diploma even after completing the equivalent course works.2 Obtaining employment based permanent residency (the “green card”) for getting a

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Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

views of prosthetic devices on plantar flexionusing Figure 7 as 10 B (rigid ankle) and Figure 8 as 10 A (mobile ankle) which experienced much morestress in anterior pylon (similar to normal tibia on plantar flexion) and less stress in the inner socket thanthe rigid ankle (Fig. 10A). Figures 10-13 compare the resulting images of the overall von Mises stress.These images show the stress concentration levels around the residual limb-socket interface and about thesocket-shank interface. Superior Prosthetics recognized a significant difference in color variation betweenthe distributed loading and individual loading. Images of the distributed loading demonstrated lowercolor (or lower stress) regions. Corresponding Tables 1-4 compare the distributed

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M. Ali Montazer

company. We are proud at theUniversity of New Haven to have been of service to the local industry free of charge. Weappreciate their trust in us by letting our faculty guided student teams work on projectsfor them and look forward to continue the practice with other manufacturingorganizations.ReferencesAskin Ronald G. and Jeffrey B. Goldberg, “Design and Analysis of Lean ProducationSystems”, Wiley, 2002.Banks, J., J. Carson II, B. Nelson and D. Nicol, “Discrete-Event System Simulation” 4thEdition, Prentice Hall, 2005.Montazer, M. A., Kursad Ece, and Hakan Alp, “Simulation Modeling in OperationsManagement: A Sampling of Applications”, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conferenceof the Production and Operations Management Society, Savannah, Georgia

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David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

2d Figure 2a: Left exterior still photograph of the HMMWV before the frontal crash. Figure 2b: Left exterior still photograph of the HMMWV after the frontal crash test. Figure 2c: Interior still photograph of the anthropomorphic test dummy before the frontal crash test. Figure 2d: Interior still photograph of the anthropomorphic test dummy after the frontal crash test. B A Figure 3: Plot of the acceleration (in g’s) vs. time for the motion of the anthropomorphic test dummy during the frontal crash test.6 During our video analysis, we observed a maximum head acceleration (Peak “B” in Figure 3

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R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

error for all measured dimensions was found to be less than 2%. Theerror may be due to work material (blue wax), cutting tool, and improper part set up by the student team. (a) (b) Figure 5. (a) Design of a spline with 12 grooves; (b) Spline with 12 grooves (part made) Table 2. Absolute Percentage Error (APE) Measurement Desired Tolerance Actual APE Groove length 2.50 in ± 0.05 in 2.538 in 1.52% Groove width 0.25 in ± 0.005 in 0.253 in 1.20% Groove depth 0.25 in ± 0.005 in

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M.G. Guvench

geometric dimensions ofthe compensation capacitance (Cc in the circuit) based on which chip layout design will be made. Thecompensation capacitance is calculated to achieve the required value of Phase Margin ( > 45 degree) andGain x Badwidth Product ( > 0.5 MHz ). Detailed guidance for these can be found in Allen and Holberg’stext [1].Figure 2. (a) Mathematica Design Calculations (b) Transistor Sizes and Bias Currents CalculatedPSpice simulations are done starting with DC Vout-Vin transfer (Figure 3) which yields the input offsetvoltage, maximum and minimum output voltage levels. Slope of the DC transfer characteristics yields thelow frequency open loop gain (Av = 33,466). Note that with zero input the input offset of even 0.2mVcan

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permitted to listen to music of their choice. Their music choice normallyconsisted of music from multiple categories which prevented examining the effects of music bymusic type. References1. Dreher, B, “Let Music Move You”, Health, Vol 17, Issue 10, December 2003.2. Foss, R. “Music in Computer Science Courses Using inexpensive, exciting technology to teach programming principles. SIGSE Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 1989.3. Franklin, J.A.,”Computer Generated Music as a Teaching Aid for First Year Computing”,Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference on The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges CCSC '01, Volume 16 Issue 4, April

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(Figure 5). Several options are available to the user; thesecan be viewed and changed by clicking the OPTIONS button (Figure 6). And finally, thecontrols of the animation are familiar to any user; they are similar to those of a modern DVDplayer (Figure 7). Figure 6. OPTIONS Menu Figure 7. Controls3. Problem Solving MethodologyFollowing is an example of how a student can use the software.As shown in Figures 8 and 9, the student must solve for the two initial velocity vector angles thatwill cause the bullet to travel from point A to point B, with an initial velocity magnitude of 400m/sec. VELOCITY

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Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

understand this leap it is necessary to derive the irreversible bimolecular-type second order reaction2performance equation: Starting with the generic second order reaction: A + B → products (1.1) The corresponding rate equation is as follows2: dC A dC B (1.2)  rA     k tot C AC B dt dt It is possible to follow the derivation of this equation in Chemical Reaction Engineering, byOctave Levenspiel in Chapter 3. The following is the end result of the derivations

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andGPAi is that individual’s GPA at the start of the semester. PCE 300,i = GPAi ⋅ 0.0971 + 0.5432 (1) Table 1 Letter Grade, Grade Points, Percentage Relationship Letter Points Percent Letter Points Percent A+ 4.33 96.67% C+ 2.33 76.67% A 4.00 93.33% C 2.00 73.33% A- 3.67 90.00% C- 1.67 70.00% B+ 3.33 86.67% D 1.00 65.00% B 3.00 83.33% F 0.00 <65% B- 2.67 80.00%This

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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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Gregory S. Parnell; Michael Kwinn

Education, American Society of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp 193–197, April, 2001. 99. Kwinn, M. J., Pohl, E. A., McGinnis, M. L., and Carlton, W. B., “Capstone Design in Education: Systems Engineering and the West Point Way,” Proceedings of the12th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada.10. ABET EAC Committee, “Summary of Accreditation Actions for the 2002-03 Accreditation Cycle for the United States Military Academy,” 15 August 2003.11. Brown, S., Cho, J., Collier, N., Hill, N. and Kwinn, M. J., “Taking a Systematic Approach to the

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Yiming (Kevin) Rong

HUSTstudents and six KNU students working on eight projects, all of them are sponsored by industry. 2 Figure 1 shows several teams (with engineers) of 2005-2007. Figure 2 shows examples projects thestudents did in 2006. And Table 1 shows the details of the projects WPI and HUST students have workedon in the first three years of the program. Figure 1, The WPI-HUST teams in 2005-2007 (a) A four-step paper clipper packing machine (b) Original machine layout and materials flow (c) New machine layout and materials flow

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

] L.A. DaSilva, G.E. Morgan, C.W. Bostian, D. G. Sweeney, S. F. Midkiff, J. H. Reed, C. Tompson, W.G. Newhall, B. Woerner, “The Resurgence of Push-to-Talk Technologies”, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2006[6] J.Q. Bao, L. Guo, W.C. Lee, “Policy-Based Resource Allocation in a Wireless Public Safety Network for Incident Scene Management”, MobiCom ‘06 Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking[7] Certified Wireless Network Administrator, Official Study Guide, Third Edition.BiographiesDr. Khaled Elleihty received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and automatic control fromAlexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in computer networks from the same university in 1986,and the MS

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Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

Getting Students to Think Green: Incorporating Green Building Rating Systems into Undergraduate Reinforced Concrete Education Major Richard J.H. Gash, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY Major David Fedroff, United States Military Academy, West Point, NYAbstract This paper presents a plan for introducing undergraduate students studying reinforced concretedesign to sustainable engineering. As increased emphasis on sustainable development initiatives continueto gain popularity it is imperative that young engineers entering into the design and constructionindustries understand the potential that concrete has for building green. Beginning

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Imin Kao

). Without the facility andinfrastructure, this study and implementation of podcast technology would not have beenpossible. Specifically, Mr. Yersson Gaona has been instrumental in making possible therecording and production of video podcasting for the classes and contents of podcastingdescribed in this paper. Ms. Jennifer Adams manages the University podcast server on which thecontents of the classes are published and maintained. This teaching project was also partlysupported by a NSF grant CMS 0428403.References[1] Wikipedia, URL address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting.[2] Apple, Inc., “Podcasting Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ),” http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301880[3] Miller, David B., “Podcasting at the

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Carol Siri Johnson

, 1989.2. Hodgson, M., Conservation Distlist - Letterbooks, 2004, , accessed Sept. 8. 2007.3. Rhodes, B. and W.W. Streeter, Before Photocopying: The Art & History of Mechanical Copying 1780- 1938, New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & Heraldry Bindery, 1999.4. Aldrich, M.A.L., New York Natural History Survey 1836-1845, University of Texas at Austin: Austin, 1974.5. Mann, C.R., A Study of Engineering Education Prepared for the Joint Committee on Engineering Education of the National Engineering Societies, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1906: New York City, 1918.6. Ferguson, E.S., Engineering and the Mind's Eye, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999

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Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

Beyond Their Technical Capabilities: Providing Student Exposure to Professional, Communication, and Leadership Skills Christopher W. Swan and Julia Carroll Associate Professor and Graduate Student, respectively, Tufts UniversityAbstract Beyond their technical capabilities, future engineers will require strong leadership,communication, and professional skills to navigate an ever-changing field that is increasinglyinfluenced by issues associated with globalization and environmental sustainability. A newcourse on these “soft” skills has been developed at Tufts University. The course, recently taughtto civil and environmental engineering majors, was designed to introduce

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Kanti Prasad

of Electrical and Computer Engineeringand is the founding Director of Microelectronics/VLSI Technology program at UMassLowell. He holds his Ph.D. from University of South Carolina. He is a registeredProfessional Engineer, P.E., in the State of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is theASEE’s campus representative at the James B. Francis College of Engineering. He is alsothe transfer coordinate and the graduate Semiconductor/VLSI certificate coordinator. Hehas been teaching and has an industrial experience of 40+ years. He is the author of over200 theses, dissertations and papers published and presented in journals/conferences ofnational and international repute. 6. AcknowledgementsThe author is highly grateful

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

, D. and Pfirman, S., Women in interdisciplinary science: Exploring preferences and consequences. Research Policy, 2007. 36(1): p. 56-75.[19] Steinke, J., et al., Assessing media influences on middle school-aged children's perceptions of women in science using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST). Science Communication, 2007. 29(1): p. 35-64.[20] Hakim, C., Women, careers, and work-life preferences. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2006. 34(3): p. 279-294.[21] Joshi, K.D. and Kuhn, K.M., What it takes to succeed in information technology consulting: Exploring the gender typing of critical attributes. Information Technology & People, 2007. 20(4): p. 400-424.[22] Shanahan, B. A Climate for

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Anthony Manno; Kamal Shahrabi

integrated in our daily lives. As they realize itsimpact and that it is not complicated they become intrigued by it and therefore want tolearn more about it. This causes them to want a more in depth understanding of differentaspects of technology. As a result, this has become an impetus for some students to takeadditional technology courses and some have even changed their major to technologyoriented fields. Some other students want to take more technology oriented coursesbecause they now see that it is something that they need to know since it has such a largeimpact on society and their future careers.Introduction:General education is an important educational component for all undergraduate studentsand most colleges do put a big emphasis on it. But

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Barrie Jackson

The Role of Process Safety Management in the Chemical Engineering Undergrad CurriculumBarrie Jackson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario CanadaAbstractThis paper will discuss the role of Process Safety Management education in the Chemical EngineeringCurriculum.It is recognized that the core body of knowledge for a Chemical Engineer continues to grow, and therenever seems to be enough time to adequately cover it all, one has to consider which issues are moreimportant than others. Basic fundamentals such as the sciences and math are considered essential butthere is always a question about some of the peripheral subjects such as Process Safety Management.With the notorious incidents such

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John Hartke; Robert Kewley; Greg Kilby; Greg Schwarz; Gunnar Tamm

Multidisciplinary High Energy Laser Weapon System Student Design Study John Hartke, Robert Kewley, Greg Kilby, Greg Schwarz, Gunnar Tamm United States Military AcademyAbstract:With the recent advances in materials, electric power generation and storage, and solid state lasertechnology, the time has come to examine the application and feasibility of developing a mobile highenergy laser weapon system for the military. The high energy laser offers many advantages as a weaponsystem over conventional kinetic or explosive systems because of its power scalability, speed-of-lightengagement capability, and precision engagement capability. The development of such a

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Wei Cao; Yanqing Gao; Jason Robert Mace

Formation and Cooperation for SWARMed Intelligent Robots Wei Cao1 Yanqing Gao2 Jason Robert Mace3 (West Virginia University1 University of Arizona2 Energy Corp. of America3) Abstract This article discusses the feature of intelligent robots, and specially emphasizes the difference between the intelligent robot and the traditional mobile robot. The behavior of a Swarmed group of intelligent robots is presented. A new Master-Slave management model has been proposed by the authors and the developed Client-Server communication protocol is reported.Section I: Intelligent

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

ENGINEERING FACULTY INVOLVEMENT IN K-12 EDUCATION AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Philip L. Brach, PhD, PE, FNSPE, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Ahmet Zeytinci, PhD, PE, Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DCAbstractThe human mind is of its very nature inquisitive. It is a mystery of sorts why so relatively few individualspursue science and engineering careers, especially since they are well paying and very satisfying. Thispaper presents a history of the involvement of engineering faculty for more than 35 years in teachingstudents

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Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

amanno@kean.eduAbstract:Our current economic era has been called the Information Age due to its dependence onthe manipulation of information and the huge improvements in technology and science.In order for the United States to be able to compete effectively in the global economy itneeds to train and graduate students who specialize in the sciences and technology.Therefore, it has become a major issue confronting the country. That is why the authorsset out to find a way to keep students in science and technology programs since it isdifficult to recruit them in the first place. This paper will present a general strategytoward assessing student performance and how to retain students according to thoseresults.Introduction:In today’s modern society