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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Walter W. Buchanan; Robert J. Herrick

the Franklin Institute of Boston) in 1947. [1] Theseprograms very successfully educated engineering technicians and made them a valuable part of theengineering team.After Sputnik was launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union, leaders in the United States became veryconcerned that the Russians were surpassing the U.S.A. in engineering. As a result, moremathematics and science was pumped into the engineering curriculum. Something had to give andthat was experiential learning laboratories with most of the engineering classes. As a personal aside,when one of the authors majored in electrical engineering at Purdue University, only five or six ofhis engineering classes had laboratories with them. Later when he became a faculty memberteaching electrical

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Ilan Alpert

the Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium (CIBAC), the focus of thepilot study was on implementing Single-Scale Retinex (SSR) in MATLAB, and working onwriting VHDL code to simulate SSR onto an FPGA. The SSR in MATLAB was simulated on anInfrared (IR) image taken from an airplane with a forward-looking infrared camera (FLIR),as depicted in Fig 1. For coding in VHDL, a 5x5 pixel array was used to test the algorithmwritten. 26Fig 1. Original FLIR image of runway MATLAB is a numerical computing environment that can be used with many differentequations and mathematical formulas for simulation. The focus of the present study was onimage enhancement, so the built-in image processing toolbox

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RUBA A. AMARIN; Issa Batarseh

. Eachsection discusses a new theory and concept that are supported with examples and problems [1].Different topics are presented in discussion text material that provides full understanding of theconcept while maintaining user’s self-remediation and self-paced learning. At the end of eachsection, QuizMe Modules are provided to quiz the students’ understanding of the section [2]. Also,Design Modules (DM) are intended to help students develop their ability to design real life problems,and to link the theories they study in books with real design challenges, while the Practical RelevanceModules (PRM) are set to enhance the student thinking about real life problems and also teachstudents how to relate the theories they have learned with practical

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Raymond Addabbo

evaluate if it will work.7. Future Directions: It is my hope that Matlab will become the primary computing tool atVaughn College. Matlab has many features that are not studied in CSC 215 that can beincorporated into other courses, such as the ODE solvers, symbolic capabilities andSimulink. Currently, Vaughn has a required seminar for freshman that covers informationliteracy. It would be very helpful for freshman to have enough Matlab skills so that they cangraph functions and incorporate them into a document. Finally, as was discussed in theintroduction about computer skills being deemphasized, I would like to see computation tobecome an equal partner in the engineering programs. 22Bibliography 1

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Dennis J. Fallon

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Mir Atiqullah; Norman Russell

drag in automobiles. For an average vehicleabout 50-60% of power is used to overcome the aerodynamic effects to cruise on highway.Of course at low speeds it is the rolling friction of tires that consumes most power. Astreamlined vehicle shape that generates low drag force is very important to get better fueleconomy of vehicles at cruising speeds. The drag force varies directly as the square of therelative speed, given everything constant, such as geometry, orientation,, flow direction,object size, fluid density and viscosity. The equation for drag force Fd is given in equation 1below, (1)Where, ρ is the density of the fluid, v is the

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Frank M. Croft

fundamentals and programming classes in two separate sequences: TheFundamentals of Engineering (FE) format and the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors (FEH)format. Both sequences include hands-on labs, with engineering “up-front” and team baseddesign/build introduced early and often.In the FEH format, the students enrolled had to be admitted to the University Honors Program.This means they had to achieve score of 30 on the ACT, be ranked in the top 10% of their highschool graduating class and have a sustained record of extra-curricular activities and demonstratedleadership. In the FE format, students had to be admitted to the College of Engineering.Historically, the timeline for implementing the First-year Sequences is shown in Figure 1. Planningfor

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Cecelia Wright Brown; Kofi Nyarko; Kevin Peters

ofresearch and anecdotal evidence that suggested girls are not traditionally encouraged to pursuecareers in STEM. The mental image of a “computer geek” is rarely a female. It was anticipatedthat girls could be encouraged to embrace science and mathematics, thus erasing the traditional“geek” image and discouraging girls from associating high achievement with a negative image ora specific gender. According to the “Keys to Math Success,” a report prepared by the MarylandMathematics Commission [1], African American students not only have significantly lowerlevels of performance overall, but their performance declines slightly between fifth and eighthgrade. In Tables 2 and 3 male students in Maryland scored significantly higher than females.Table 1, on

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Sara A. Atwood; Tomas Estrada

downconcerns immediately prior to performing the task. Rather than focusing the person ontheir anxiety, expressive writing is thought to mitigate anxiety by stopping the cycle ofrumination on negative outcomes.6These psychological interventions have been applied to students taking exams in recentstudies. Miyake et al.1 used a values affirmation prompt in a double-blind randomizedstudy of college students in an introductory physics class in an attempt to close thegender achievement gap. Half of the students were asked to select their most importantvalues from a list and write about why they were personally important, while the otherhalf selected their least important values and wrote about why they might be importantto other people. The exercise was

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Ramesh K . Agarwal

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

their understanding of the world. This effort included a wider rangeof classes that would count for general science credit. In the promulgation it was stated “faculty in all schools and colleges are encouragedto think across disciplinary lines about the best ways to convey the kinds of sophisticatedknowledge that will produce Temple graduates able to see connections in seeminglydisparate information.” This new program summed these efforts with the motto "Dare toknow!" In a descending order, a series of general to specific skills and requirements wereoutlined. Accordingly, each course had to accomplish the following required goalsassociated with the general education program: 1. Develop students’ thinking and communication

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Kehinde Abimbola; Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott

Digital Logic is traditionally taught in the sophomore or junior year ofthe electrical engineering curriculum. The conversion from a face-to-face course with alaboratory course to an online course was facilitated by the eight components of The 2008 –2010 Quality MattersTM Rubric. The course has been delivered for three semesters.IntroductionIn 2010, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University(MSU) decided to convert some courses to an online format. This was initiated for students whocould not attend courses during the day time, when most undergraduate courses are offered, dueto work or other obligations. The first courses to be converted were Electric Circuits [1] andIntroduction to Digital Logic, a sophomore

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

about the relative decline in the United States in the science and technology market place andthat the competitive nations had increased public funding for research and development makingsignificant investments in higher education. The report included many statistical studies such as:a Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. NationalAcademy of Science, ISBN 0-309-65442-4, 592 pages (2007).aOffice of Assessment and Institutional Research at City Tech 102 1- The United States graduates more visual arts and performing arts majors than engineering. th 2- We are ranked 27 among developed nations in the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Radian Belu

can be relevant to current leading edge research and technology.The paper also presents the development of an interdisciplinary course on alternative energy aspart of this effort to include renewable energy and sustainability into our curriculum. Themotivation for the course is outlined and detailed description of the topics covered in the courseand the course outcomes are given. The course and the projects are also part of the efforts of toestablish a renewable energyconcentration at our university.1. IntroductionClimate change, green house gases, high oil price, limited world oil reserves are driving theincreasing search for new alternative and green energy resources. These environmental concernsand the ever-increasing needs for electrical

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PATRICK BOBBIE; Sheryl Duggins; VENU DASIGI

instructors, or learners and learners, from limitation of time and spacethrough the asynchronous and synchronous learning network model” [12, pps.1183-1184].Maddux et.al. [13] suggested that higher education is on the cusp of a revolution due to severalrecent changes in technology including:1 “Recent rapid growth of broadband Internet connections in private homes…2 Recent widespread availability of free or inexpensive programs that make use of voiceover Internet protocol and video over Internet protocol…3 Transition of the World Wide Web from a space where users search for and readinformation to an environment for collaboration…4 Much wider and currently rapidly increasing availability of high quality educationalwebsites.”This

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

the state-of-the-art laboratories allows Drexel todevelop learning schemes for engineers in the Greater Philadelphia Region’s keyindustries. Four laboratory development efforts are described in this paper.1. Web-enabled Robotic LabOur Laboratory facility (constructed with the support of Yamaha Robotics) is shown inFigure 1. The equipment includes the following: Yamaha YK250X, Yamaha YK150X,Yamaha YPX250, Yamaha YP330A, Yamaha RCX40 /w opt. on-board Ethernet card,Yamaha RCX40 /w opt. on-board Ethernet card, Yamaha PRCX-T, Yamaha QRCH,Yamaha DRC-R, DLink DCS-5300, machine vision DVT, Conveyor Dorner 6100 Series,HP m1050e, and Allen Bradley 1756 Series PLC. The PLC is capable of connecting tothe Ethernet and can also be controlled using a PC

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

service-learning.However, it is a well established fact that we learn through combinations of thought andaction, reflection and practice, theory and application (Kendall, 1988). Effective learningcan be achieved while discussing intellectual, civic, ethical, moral, cross-cultural, career, orpersonal goals (Kendall, 1990; Lisman, 1998). “Students from middle schools are mastering 149academic content standards while immersed in hands-on, technology-integrated projectsthat provide learning experiences that are not usually possible within the confines of thetraditional classroom” (Bradford, 2005, p.1). This emphasized that service learning isintegral in school learning process. This process becomes more

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Radian Belu

knowledge of electromagnetics. The EMC course can alsobe beneficial for non-electrical major students. The author also discusses various issues andmethodologies used during the projects’ development and the lessons’ learned.1. IntroductionWith the desire for constantly increasing speeds from today's electronic circuits, the need for anunderstanding of the basic concepts of EMC becomes more critical for graduates of electricalengineering. Today's digital and analog circuits often operate at frequencies that are considered 59to be the part of the microwave spectrum. Additionally, with the increase of wirelesscommunications and networking, and the low power devices that make this possible, and non

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Richard Devon; Richard Schuhmann

theproponents more than the different degrees of veracity or completeness of the model. They tendto focus on different characteristics of PLCs, which makes dialog difficult. However, weassume at outset that product life cycles all really have the following characteristics, regardlessof the world view taken.1. Products come and go.2. PLCs create Flow-Throughs (FTs) of energy and materials. 1893. The Total Flow-Through (TFT) of PLCs transforms society and transforms the environmentin ways that may or may not be sustainable, and that may or may not create a better world.4. The TFT has major impacts on things such as productivity, human health and happiness,resource depletion, environmental impacts, species

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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J.B. Conrad; J.M. Ryan; C.J. Egelhoff; E.M. Odom

, C.J. Egelhoff1 and E.M. Odom2 1 United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 2 University of Idaho, Moscow, IDAbstractHere we present an alternative approach to solving beam deflection by applying energymethods to the moment curvature equation and integrating numerically. The approachcapitalizes on fundamentals augmented by Castigliano's Second Theorem and theHeaviside step function, together with a modern equation solver. By carefully writingcorrect governing equations and then using a modern equation solver, the analyst cansave time on calculations and spend additional time contemplating the meaning andusefulness of the results.By way of examples, we demonstrate this straight-forward, five-step

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

, chemistry, biology and environmental science. RMU's focuson communication and business skills gives graduates an advantage in the job market. Allof our students enjoy small class sizes and personal attention that make RMU a specialplace to learn.It is this interdisciplinary background and strong vocational emphasis, along withPittsburgh's status as a future energy capital that makes RMU the ideal environment fortraining our future workforce for careers in the alternative energy sectors, and providinglocal employees with science and business graduates with a strong background inenvironmental issues and sustainability.On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, President Obama outlined the importance of energy [1]:“The time has come, once and for all, for this

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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JIM SHIH-JIUN CHEN; ALANI INTINTOLO

touch (hands-on) and sight(graphs and demonstrations). Active learning along with teamwork also contributes to agood learning practice.The Diamond Peer Teacher (DPT) Program was experimented for the first time inEngineering Statics during the Spring 2011 semester. The program provides upper-levelundergraduates at Temple the opportunity to experience the challenges and rewards ofcollege-level teaching, to develop their own pedagogical skills by working closely withtheir faculty mentors, and to provide supplemental instruction in lower-level courses.The DPT had a GPA over 3.5 and received an A in Engineering Statics last year. Whenthe student performance of two (2) sections were compared, section 1 without andsection 2 with the peer teacher, the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Renata Dukes; Kofi Nyarko; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

always long, runway direction changesare likely to be small, runway local average gray is likely to vary only slowly, runway widthvariance is small and runway width change is likely to be slow, gray level variation betweenrunway and background is likely to be large and runway local average intensity is often large(because runways are always white) 1. Although these approaches to runway detection aresuccessful, the methodology only satisfies finding the major runway line within the image. Otherresearchers approach runway detection by performing improved chain codes based edge tracking(ICCBET) with the Hough transform. The chain coding method helps in determining whether aparticular line is straight or curved. The process is completed with the use

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C.J. Egelhoff; J.M. Ryan; E.M. Odom

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ossama Elhadary

internshipexperience.At the beginning, the faculty in charge believed that this new course will mainly cover a lot ofelectrical concepts like voltage measurement, circuits, generators. As we started gettingfeedback from business, it became clear that businesses were seeking other skills. Table 1. showsthe results received from 65 IT professionals. Electrical Course Content Survey Not Questions Extremely Sometimes Needed 1 Measurement of voltage and current, Ohms Law 25 33 42 2 D C Series, Parallel circuits, power. Kirchhoff Laws

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Scott Foerster

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Bill B. Elmore

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Clive L. Dym

. Dym, W. H. Wood and M. J. Scott, “Rank Ordering Engineering Designs: Pairwise Comparison Charts and Borda Counts,” Research in Engineering Design, 13, 236–242, 2002.4. C. L. Dym, “Social Dimensions of Engineering Design . . . An Engineer’s Perspective,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 19 (1), 3–5, 2003.5. C. L. Dym and H. E. Williams, “On the Analysis of Small Displacements of Truss Joints,” International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 31 (2), 132–140, 2003.6. C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching and Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), 103–120, January 2005.7. H. E. Williams and C. L. Dym, “Using Rotations

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

securityto carry out comparative study of biological mechanisms and computer security algorithms, butalso encourage faculty to develop new curriculum that can facilitate this objective. Due to theinterdisciplinary nature of the subject, it is necessary to involve faculty from both computerscience and biology to train students with the knowledge that are transferrable acrossprofessional boundaries.1. IntroductionBiology has broad impact on computer technology. In particular, biological phenomena havebeen a rich source of inspiration for computer security professionals. Famous computer scientistSeymour Cray [1] once described a biological cell as a computer system consisting of thefollowing components: several thousand microprocessors  ribosomes (RNA