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Gang Qiu; Abhijit S. Joshi; Christopher R. Dennison; E. C. Kumbur; Ying Sun

3-D Pore-Scale Resolved Model for Transport in a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery using X-ray Tomography and the Lattice Boltzmann Method Gang Qiu, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Abhijit S. Joshi Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Christopher R. Dennison Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

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JIM SHIH-JIUN CHEN; ALANI INTINTOLO

Visual DemonstrationMany students struggled with the selection and construction of FBDs and theidentification of known and unknown forces and moments. After showing numerousexamples, the authors found that most students had a much better understanding whenstudents are engaged in hands-on and/or sight experience when the instructor explainsthe force and moment principles. As shown in Fig, 1(a), this demonstration wasborrowed from an exhibit in Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. The instructor asked everystudent in the class to stand up and balance his/her body with one foot.After a while, every student found a balance by shifting his/her weight to above the foot.They also found that the one-foot stand was unstable as shown in Fig, 1(b), when

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Melissa P. Mackinnon; Kyle D. Gilroy; Aarthi Sundar; Robert Hughes; Svetlana Neretina

a shape change fromspherical to near-hemispherical. Large area scans revealed vast fields of these nanoparticles witha few scattered regions showing agglomerated clusters. Gold Nanoparticles on the Surface Before Annealing (a) (b) b 0 1 µm Gold Nanoparticles on the Surface After Annealing and Sonication (c) (d) 0 1 µm 0 1 µm Fig. 2 AFM images showing a comparison of gold nanoparticles on the surface of sapphire (a) before and (c) after annealing. Also presented are the corresponding

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L. Ralph; Singli Garcia-Otero; E. Sheybani

cut-off point of about 2 GHz.These particular filters allow all signals below 2 GHz to pass through. Any signal above 2 GHz isblocked from the filter. A high-pass filter's task is just the opposite of a low-pass filter: to offer easypassage of a high-frequency signal and difficult passage to a low-frequency signal as shown in Figure1(b). Most of the filters used had a cut off frequency of about 40 GHz. This means the filter pass signalsonly if the frequency is 40 GHz or above. If any frequencies below 40 GHz entered the filter, the signalwould be blocked. There are applications where a particular band, or spread, or range of frequencies needto be filtered from a wider range of mixed signals. Filter circuits can be designed to accomplish this

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Howard Eisner

. This approach is highly individualized, and has been the primary way in whichgraduate engineering education has occurred. 227Cohort-Based Graduate Education In distinction to the above approach, we now see the “cohort-based” approach. This approachrecognizes that, for graduate engineering, a large percentage of the students work full time ineither industry or for the government. Being part of the graduate engineering community, theirplaces of employment are anxious to see them improve their skills, and are also willing to pay formost of their graduate education. Typical numbers lie in the 75 to 100 percent of the costs, givensuccessful completions at or above the grade of “B”. Therefore

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S. Jimmy Gandhi; Michael McShane

evaluate the benefits of globalization from two perspectives: (i) From the perspective of theUS economy and (ii) From the perspective of the economies that the US has increasingly tradedwith since globalization has become more prominent in the last two decades. (i) Benefits of globalization from the perspective of the U.S: a. The U.S. has greater options to choose from when it comes to trading partners, which leads to greater competition, which in turn leads to lower prices and higher efficiency [15, 16]. b. U.S. companies are able to take advantage of cheaper labor in developing countries, leading to increased profits as well as lower costs of the end

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Alison N. Garbash; Jed E. Marquart; Hui Shen

the surface forms grooves when deformed. This is due to thedifferent thermal expansion coefficients of the two polymers. Under the same thermalloading, the two different polymers expand differently. As the number of layers increase,the deformation becomes more evident. However, the grooves become shallower and the 287surface becomes smoother. The model was sectioned in order to see the differentdeformations that occurred between the alternating polymer layers. (a) (b)Figure 6: 4 layer polymeric lens with heat flux. (a) overall deformation; (b) section view to show the local deformation

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Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

future career.4 In addition to earlyengineering exposure, a more practical aspect of attending an introductory engineering program may beto earn college credits from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). College credits have three utilities: (a)enhances the student’s college application, (b) makes college education more affordable, and (c) reducesthe course load in the initial year and allows the student to settle into college at a convenient pace.5,6 Atpresent there are a large number of introductory engineering programs, however, rarely are theseprograms ABET accredited and provide transferable college credits to high school students. On the otherhand there are a vast number of courses at community colleges and universities, which allow high

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

volunteer for extra professionaldevelopment opportunities,21B. Reynolds, M.M. Mehalik, M.R. Lovell and C.D. Schunn. (2009). Increasing Student Awareness of and Interest inEngineering as a Career Option through Design-Based Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 1-11.2 L. Desimone, A. C. Porter, B. F. Birman, M. S. Garet, and K. S. Yoon, The Newsletter of theComprehensive Center Region VI, 8, 2005, p. 3.and equality of access issues can arise, unless selection for admission into such programs explicitlyaddresses equity issues. A variation of the professional development approach that we explore in thispaper is the NSF's Research Experience forTeachers (RET) program, in which teachers are paid toparticipate in engineering

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Raymond Addabbo

Matlab: This first project requires students to become familiar with using m files. Basic matrix properties are taught in class. They are to write a m file that does basic matrix operations. They are also asked to graph several functions on one plot. Skills: For this first project students become familiar with the Matlab environment. They learn how to write and assign variables to matrices. Part of the functionality of Matlab is its ability to write special matrices, students are exposed to some of them. Syntax such as, parenthesis, brackets, semicolons, colons and periods are presented. b. Newton’s Root Finding Method: This project requires students to write a program to find the root of an equation

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Tom M. Warms; KAVON FARVARDIN

: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV. pp. 16-22.[4] T. M. Warms, Qiang Duan, and Kavon Farvardin, "Can Using a Formal System For Tracing Computer Programs Help Students Learn Introductory Computer Science?”[5] B. Eckels, “Thinking in Java”. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, fourth ed. (2006). 692

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Fani Zlatarova; Pavel Azalov

in their professional career along withsolid knowledge and skills in pursuing graduate degrees.Foremost, engineers are people of action. Engineering students deserve to be prepared for the challengesof their profession. They should be able to implement their creativity and make their dreams come trueby also relying on the computing power.References[1] Bäcker, A. Computational Physics Education with Python. IEEE Computer Society, Computing in Science and Engineering, May 2007, pp. 30-33.[2] Glotzer, S. C., B. Panoff & S. Lathrop. Challenges and Opportunities in Preparing Students for Petascale Computational Science and Engineering. IEEE Computer Society, Computing in Science and Engineering, September 2009, pp. 22-27.[3

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PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

need to combine theirknowledge of how X-rays penetrate various biological materials with their basicunderstanding of osteoporosis to come up with the correct answer (b): If Mary has osteoporosis, what will be observed in X-ray images of her hip bonesover time? a. The hip bone images appear lighter over time b. The hip bone images appear darker over time c. The hip bone images do not change over time d. The gray level of X-ray images has nothing to do with bone density Justification for this unique course is based upon its ability to fulfill virtually all ofthe goals outlined in the general and area requirements. Additionally, the classconsistently commands the attention of large groups of students. In

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Walter W. Buchanan; Robert J. Herrick

joined ALCOA's Wear-Everconsumer products division in 1972 after graduating from UD and then moved to Cutco in 1975.He guided the company through a management buyout from ALCOA in 1985 and continuedgrowth and acquisitions of other companies.Alfred B. England; 1982 BSET; One of the principals of Strandex Corporation, a company thatlicenses proprietary extrusion processes that use wood fibers and a variety of resins to producecomposite materials for deck board, and special extruded shapes used primarily in the buildingconstruction industry. He started his career with Milacron Company, where he rose to high levelmanagement positions and where he demonstrated creative approaches to the improvement ofextrusion processes.Daklak Do; 1989 BSET

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Renata Dukes; Kofi Nyarko; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

grayscale images. 207 Figure 1: Baltimore Washington Figure 2: Dulles International Airport (IAD) International Airport (BWI) BWI w/ Sobel Operator BWI w/ Canny Operator a) BWI – Sobel Operator BWI w/ Prewitt Operator b) BWI – Canny Operator BWI w/ LaPlacian of Gaussian Operator c) BWI – Prewitt Operator d) LaPlacian of Gaussian Operator Figures 3a – 3d: Sobel, Canny, Prewitt and LaPlacian of Gaussian Operator on BWI Figure 3a which uses the Sobel operator illustrates that

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Radian Belu

, MarcelDekker (2001).11. C. R. Paul, Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992.12. B. Kaiser, Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility, 3rd Ed. Norwood, MA, Artech House 1987.13. H. W. Ott, Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronics Systems, 2nd Ed. New York, Wiley, 1988.14. G. K. Deb, EMC Design Guide - A monograph published by G.K. Deb - Govt. of India Publications 1990.15. C.W. Trueman, An electromagnetics course with EMC applications for computer engineering students, IEEETransaction on Education, Vol. 33, pp. 119-128, Feb. 1990.16. Y. Zhao and K. Y. See, A practical approach to EMC education at the undergraduate level, IEEE Transactionon Education, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 425-429, November 2004.17. L. R. J

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Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

88Congress, Washington, D.C., November 15–21, 2003.6. Hu, H., Yu, L., Tsui, P. W. and Zhou, Q, “Internet Based Robotic System for Teleoperation, Assembly,and Automation,” International Journal of Assembly Automation, Vol.21, No.2, pp.143-151, 2001.7. Potgieter, J and Bright, G., “Modular Mechatronics Control System for Internet Manufacturing,”Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future,Porto, Portugal, pp. 529-536, July 2002.8. Taylor, K. and Dalton, B., “Internet Robotics: A New Robotics Niche,” IEEE Robotics and Automation,Vol.7, No.1, pp.27-34, March 2000.9. Pew Charitable Trusts, “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?” March 2010,www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports

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Nikola Jovic; Abayomi Dairo; ASHENAFI TESFAYE; AIME VALERE; YANNICK ROLAND KAMDEM; Sasan Haghani; Paul Cotae

specification. The sensor board MTS400CC has a set of three sensors:The Accelerometer, Light sensor, and Temperature sensor.MoteView was designed to be the primary user interface between a user and a deployed networkof wireless sensors. MoteView provides an easy means of logging wireless sensor data to adatabase, analyzing, and plotting sensor readings. Data presented in Figures 4, 5 and 6 have beenexported from Moteview to Excel. B. Hardware ComponentsFigure 1 presents the hardware connections and network topology used in this work. One of theMotes works as a base station and it is attached on the station called MIB520. The base station isconnected to the PC via USB adapter and allows the aggregation of sensor network data onto thePC. The sensor

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Clive L. Dym

Harvey Mudd College colleagues for thoughtfulconversations and useful suggestions: Professors Paul Steinberg, of the Department ofHumanities, Social Sciences and the Arts, and Pat Little, of the Department of Engineering. References[1] B. Bates, Z. W. Kundzewicz, S. Wu and J. Palutikof (Editors), Climate Change and Water, Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, June 2008.[2] J. H. McMasters, “A Paleoaerodynamicist’s Reflections—A Perspective on Airplane Design and the Biomechanics of Flight,“ Leonardo Times, 10 (3), 24–64, September 2006.[3] George F. Will, “Dark Green Doomsayers,” The Washington Post, 15 February 2009.[4] N. Oreskes, “The

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Richard Devon; Richard Schuhmann

other views, and then we will suggest a meta-model of 191the product life cycle that allows designers to see all the perspectives simultaneously and even toadd new ones. Models of the PLC: A SummaryOutline 1. The ecosystem view 2. The social transformation view 3. Institutional views: business and government 4. The prestige model of permanent technology 5. The user views a. The utility model b. The affective model 6. The rational (ethical) model1. The Ecosystem View: The Planetary PerspectiveThe conventional eco-cycle model of the PLC is shown in Figure 1-1. Traditionally, this PLCassessment is focused on the ecosystem, its resources, and its

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Qinghai Gao

necessary to involve faculty from computer securityand faculty from biology to break the traditional professional boundaries.Reference[1] Cray, S. (1996). “An imaginary tour of a biological computer (why computer professionals and molecularbiologists should start collaborating)”, Remarks of Seymour Cray to the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies,University of Virginia. Retrieved on September 23, 2011 from http://www.cccp2000.com/cray.html[2] Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K., &Walter, P. (2007). Molecular Biology of the Cell (5thedition), Garland Science.[3] Dasgupta, D. (2006). Advances in artificial immune systems. IEEE Computational IntelligenceMagazine, 1(4): 40-49.[4] Forrest, S., Somayaji, A., & Ackley, D

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Radian Belu

Basics; Electric machines for renewable 4. Solar energy fundamentals 5. Photovoltaic energy production; Photovoltaic systems 6. Wind energy resource characteristics 7. Wind energy conversion systems: aerodynamic and electric aspects 8. Wind energy modeling aspects 9. Fuel cell systems 10. Distributed generation and power qualityThis course supports the achievement of the following outcomes: a) an appropriate mastery ofthe knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of their disciplines; and b) an ability to applycurrent knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering andtechnology. Our upper-level undergraduate course on renewable energy and power systems wasfirst offered in spring 2009 quarter

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

. 105For the same period the increase in the enrollment in the associate degree programs in liberal arts andscience was only 14%. The transfer rate from the engineering program to 4-year colleges is less than20%. This collaboration between HCC and City Tech is laying the foundation for multidisciplinarycollaboration between engineering technology and the sciences at City Tech and the engineeringprogram at HCC. The departments on both sides are working on articulation agreement to ease theprocess of student transfer to the 4-year programs at City Tech.c New York City Alliance News, Fall 2010, page 7.(3.b) To improve curriculum by updating existing courses and introducing two new courses: Theproject has a big impact on the curriculum through the

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Valerie Lundy-Wagner; IRAJ KALKHORAN; MELINDA PARHAM; Yona Jean-Pierre; HAANG FUNG; LINDSEY VANWAGENEN

into college-level mathematics courses andsubsequently STEM bachelor’s degree programs.In the future the e-Math Forum will also be evaluated with reference to: a) improvement instudent preparation for gateway mathematics courses, and b) persistence through NYU-PolySTEM degree programs.We may also consider the benefits of expanding the e-Math Forum to all admitted NYU-Polystudents, adding a physics curriculum, evaluating it as recruitment tool for students living outsideof New York City, and conducting cost-benefit analyses.References1. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics (2009). Women, Minorities, and Personswith disabilities in science and engineering, NSF 09-305, Arlington, VA. Retrieved fromjttp

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YILI TSENG

Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. 1997[11] Sobell, Mark, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2006[12] http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/[13] Hughes, C. and Hughes, T., Professional Multicore Programming, Wiley, 2008[14] Hughes, C. and Hughes, T., Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++, Addison-Wesley, 2004[15] Reinders, James, Intel Threading Building Blocks, O’Reilly, 2007[16] Nichols, B. et al., Pthreads Programming, O’Reilly, 1996[17] Welling, A., Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Java, Wiley, 2004[18] Breshears, C., The Art of Concurrency, O’Reilly, 2009[19] Parhami, B., Introduction to Parallel Processing, Plenum, 1999[20] Buyya, R., High Performance Cluster Computing, Vol. 2, Prentice-Hall, 1999[21] Magee

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Barrie Jackson

While fundamentals are essential in the undergrad Engineering Education Curriculum They are by no means sufficient Barrie Jackson Department of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada 364 While fundamentals are essential in the undergrad Engineering Education Curriculum They are by no means sufficient Barrie Jackson Department of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada ABSTRACT As a chemical engineer with over thirty years

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Artur Liamin; Jeffrey Gorn; Timothy Golden; Ezekiel J. Blain; Bryndol Sones; Timothy H. Trumbull; Brian Moretti; Don Gillich

, Timothy H. Trumbull2, Brian Moretti1, Don Gillich1 1 Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 2 Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180AbstractCadets majoring in Nuclear Engineering (NE) at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at WestPoint have the opportunity to participate in a blended learning laboratory experience using the reactorcritical facility (RCF) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). RPI, through a grant from the NuclearRegulatory Commission, developed a series of laboratory modules and associated lectures using theirRCF. As a pilot

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Chris Decker; Aarthi Sundar; Robert Hughes; Svetlana Neretina

, PA 19122 754 Unconventional Nanopatterning Techniques for Gold Nanostructures Chris Decker, Aarthi Sundar, Robert Hughes and Svetlana Neretina Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 The fabrication of periodic arrays of noble metal nanostructures immobilized on a substratesurface are of technological relevance to numerous applications including photovoltaics, seedednanowire synthesis, waveguides, catalysis, chemical and biological detection, enhancement agents forlight emitting diodes and the fabrication of metamaterials. Presently, such arrays are obtained usinglithographic fabrication routes which are technically demanding

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Harvey Lyons

and introductory engineering technologycourses. The entering students were exposed to a multi-dimensional course whose basic purposewas to efficiently provide not only an understanding of what is involved in the ‘design process’performed in industry but also the opportunity to employ and develop those design functions andskills at the very outset of the students’ undergraduate experience. The several components ofthe course were integrated to include:  Use of technical resources  Technical report writing and oral delivery  Research into the functions of technical societies  Comprehensive discussions of fundamental manufacturing processes followed by design projects that would employ a given process towards the redesign

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Suzanne Keilson

Elements of Visual Literacy and Presentation Design from First Year Student Projects Suzanne Keilson SKeilson@loyola.edu 323 Elements of Visual Literacy and Presentation Design from First Year Student ProjectsABSTRACTA problem solving project has been given to first year students in an introduction to engineering classover a number of years. The students present their work including their process and method andproposed solutions at the end of the semester. These projects can vary from improved laundry oreating facilities to improved lighting on cars. The focus is on the problem solving process. Typicallystudents create presentations in software