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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Seamus Freyne

clearlyrecognized that every engineering challenge will demand an interdisciplinary effort.On the basis of this collection of essays, how do the students’ priorities agree with ournational priorities at the moment? How do the students’ priorities reflect what the mediasays? Do the students’ responses accurately portray the best job opportunities of thefuture? The results of this ongoing survey may be useful to engineering students as theychose specific majors and, eventually, embark on various fields of work.

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Robert Russo; Hong Li

reflection from an ideal optical system with amirrorlike reflector, conventional optical rotation due to glucose solution should be cancelled11.However shining light travel through cornea/aqueous interface will create optical rotation mainlydue to glucose molecule. Optical glucose sensing techniques using the optical rotatory effect of glucosehave many advantages over currently existing invasive and noninvasive methods, sincethe method is based on shining a brief pulse of light into the front of the eye.Measurements in a living eye present many challenges because the tissues are morevariable than nonliving optical components. Our previous research has shown that we canisolate the lens/aqueous reflection and detect polarizational changes12

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Suzanne Keilson

materials. In some ways this is analogous to the principle of least action which gives rise to theforms of the trajectories of objects, such as the curve of fastest descent or the brachistochrone problem. Infact the calculus of variations and the principle of least action were seen as teleological, meaning theyseem to reflect design and purpose. What we have learned from recent research in complex systems,nonlinear dynamics, and cellular automata is that relatively simple, but nonlinear, governing equationsand relationships among parts can lead to complex phenomena and also what has been called “emergentbehavior” or “self-organization”.This hypothetical watchmaker is where the engineer and educator come in. It is now necessary for us todevelop a

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

=vertical stability parameter (a function of downwind distance x, and stability) [m] This equation assumes total reflection of pollutants from the ground, but does not account for aninversion above the effective stack height that would cause additional reflection. By convention, the baseof the source stack was at x = y = z = 0: 2 plume z x stack x=y=z=0

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Vincent Winstead

bothcalculus and algebraic concepts.IntroductionModern automotive vehicles are filled with new and complex technologies. This is reflected most notablyin more recent entries in the automobile market, namely hybrid-electric vehicles. These developmentsinclude combining a torque producing chemical energy engine with torque producing electrical energymotor/generators, regenerative braking, advanced engine displays and advanced high speedcommunication networks among others. This has led the traditional engineering disciplines of electricalengineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and automotive engineering to broaden theirscope and consider areas of overlap. It has, in part, blurred the lines delineating the subject matter ofthese

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anilkumar Bhate; M.G. Prasad; Lex McCusker

engineering manager who surveys today’s workforce is likely to see a labor force that is significantlymore diverse than that encountered by engineering managers in the recent past. Current trends indemographics indicate this diversity will continue to grow. This is as true in engineering as it is in mostdisciplines. In the coming decade, the new entrants to the labor force will reflect a steady increase in the 1percentage of women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and immigrantsmoving into the workplace. In this environment, the companies that are most successful in managingworkplace diversity will have a distinct advantage over those that ignore the demographic changes

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lou Harrington; Austin Bartlett; Quentin Willard; Jason McKay; Bruce Brown; Ernest Wong

provide NASA isintroducing it to a value-focused thinking (VFT) approach versus its current alternative-focused thinking(AFT) design. VFT tends to be a different way of focusing an organization’s goals and objectives into anaction plan. Values are what people really want, and VFT is markedly different than choosing 2alternatives and going with the one that fits the best. Oftentimes, when organizations rely on AFT, theyfail to take the time to reflect on what is really important to them. Ralph Keeney, a pioneer in the field ofVFT, introduces the concept of Constraint-Free Thinking: “thinking about values is constraint-freethinking . . . it is thinking about what you wish to achieve or what you

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

current or future job responsibilitiesin addition to students’ academic studies.Instructors’ aspects focus on covering the curricula requirements, providing the needed theoreticalbackground to students, incorporating the practical orientation of the material taught, and educatingappropriate ethical and moral principles.Industry needs knowledgeable workers, skilled software and hardware users, and software engineers whoare capable of accomplishing miscellaneous computing applications and are valuable members of thesociety.The development of computing projects reflects the above three views and leads to the achievement ofimportant results such as acquiring relevant knowledge and skills needed for the future students’profession and graduate studies

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci; Pathickal Polouse

enoscope is a very simple device, it is a mirrormounted in a box at a 45 degrees angle, positioned so that you can see the reflection of a vehicle whenit passes the box, which signals you to start the stop watch. It is good to have the students “wrestle”with this problem before the instructor suggests alternate solutions to this problem. Once the test siteis established (considering the grade of the roadway, presence of traffic signals, etc.) the team is readyto collect data. Since this is fieldwork you may want to cover safe practices on the collection of datanear a roadway and the possibility of the students’ presence influencing the results (drivers slow downwhen they see persons on the side of the road observing the operation of their car

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tom M. Warms; Renee Drobish

= sqrt(sumOfSquares); return hyp;} 4Tracing functions with reference parametersWhen a formal parameter is a reference parameter, any change in its value is reflected in a change in thevalue of the corresponding actual parameter. The tracing system uses a double arrow to indicate thisrelationship between actual and reference parameter. In the following program, a function namedgetAnswers calculates the sum and product of two input numbers. When control is transferred togetAnswers, value parameters num1 and num2 take on the values of the corresponding actual parametersx1 and x2. Reference parameters total and prod also take on the values of the corresponding actualparameters, sum and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adriana Popescu

Princeton University reflects the national trend and the figures reportedover the past five years show a consistent increase in the percentage of undergraduate internationalenrollment, from 7.5% in academic year 2002/03 to 9.2% in 2006/077. The international graduate studentenrollment has decreased following the events of September 11, 2001, but the 2006/07 data shows thatthis decrease is stabilizing as the percentage of international graduate students remained at same level asfor the academic year 2005/06, 38.6%. Historically, engineering departments have been hosts to largenumbers of international students, especially in graduate programs. The School of Engineering andApplied Science (SEAS) at Princeton is not any different, as its graduate

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

to and experience with using learning journals should increase their effectiveness. In order to succeed in the modern world, engineers must be conscious of the world around them.This need for global awareness is reflected in ABET outcome “h,” “that…students attain the broadeducation necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,environmental, and societal context.” Learning journals and rubric assessment provide one way to helpstudents develop and demonstrate deeper understanding of course content in relation to this desiredoutcome. Sources Cited and Referenced1. “The Research Agenda for the New Discipline of Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

. 3Pursuing scholastic goals is also considered being uncool or acting white, i.e., being anti-intellectual.Anti-intellectualism, as defined by Richard Hofstadter is “a resentment and suspicion of the life of themind and of those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition constantly to minimize the valueof life…. [and] is usually the incidental consequence of some other intention, often some justifiableintention.”10Engineering scientist, Keith W. Jones’ description supports this definition. He states, When the ability to understand and manipulate science, technology, mathematics, and abstract ideas reflects our intelligence, we try to play it down. Of course, as most of us know, in some parts of the African American

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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E. Hou; T. N. Chang; A. Dhawan; J. Ji; E. Luxford; D. Rodriguez; W. Stoddart; S. Siddiqui

, GPS (Global Positioning System), wheelencoders. To minimize lead time and cost, commercial off the shelf units are used.2.1.1 Perception The LADAR system will be used primarily for obstacle detection. Because of the high-resolutionoutput, we will be able to differentiate obstacles with relative ease. We also plan to use a ground scanningLADAR unit for lane detection. The drawback to LADAR is in the reflections. The Radar andUltrasound sensors will be used as bump-detection mechanisms. These will be low-range systems thatdetect the presence of objects. The vision systems will be used for road detection as well as obstacle avoidance. Also, since theDARPA specified waypoints would be sparse and not guaranteed to be accurate, our

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

the militaryleaders of the future.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense or the UnitedStates Government.[1] U.S. GAO, GAO/NSIAD-94-95, Military Academy: Gender and Race Disparities 13 (Mar. 17, 1994)[2] Sayles, A., Picart, J., Nadeau-Schaff. “Leading Diversity: How Diversity Works.”http://www.eecs.usma.edu/[3] United States Military Academy. Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World, 2003.(at http://www.dean.usma.edu/support/aad/efaocw.pdf)[4] Felder, R.M. and R. Brent, "Understanding Student Differences." J. Engr. Education, 94(1), 57-72(2005). An exploration of differences in student