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Matthew R. Stein

(Figure 1), a classroom where students sit at work tables facing a whiteboard lecture area. The room is equipped with standard electronic equipment including power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters and soldering irons. The majority of students bring their own a laptop computer, as seen in Figure 1, and a few desktop PCs are available for students who

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Jerald D. Cole

classroomexperience. The bandwidth requirements for asynchronous text-based communications needed to support LMSs arecertainly lower—the opportunity cost being a loss of the sense of teacher presence. When it comes to presence, theproverb “out-of-sight; out-of-mind” seems apropos.Three issues have limited the adoption of synchronous conferencing solutions in education:(1) Many instructors are indoctrinated into prevailing models of asynchronous instruction, such as threaded discussion and email. They are not acculturated to and/or aware of the alternative.1(2) Channel capacity has proven to be a deterrent given the high cost of upgrading aging university network infrastructures to levels capable of supporting the traffic imposed by real-time dynamic

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S Claudina Vargas

curriculum revolves around creating learning environmentsthat motivate students engage themselves continuously in learning and discovering. [Thisinternalizes three fundamental truths: (1) human understanding and knowing have theirown dynamics, and students’ mental models are driven by these dynamics; they areevolving pictures and the ways in which they evolve are important. (2) Humanunderstanding and knowing grow from within the individual; knowledge-building can beguided and motivated, but it cannot be implanted or impose from outside. (3) Fuzzinessand unreliability can never be fully eliminated from the human perception of reality, fromour thinking and understanding, and from our experience of life; consequently, theseelements cannot be completely

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Kanti Prasad

the finished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of four distinctand disparate phases namely-Phase 1: Chip design – This basically involves the design of thechip based on specifications provided by the customer, Phase 2: Mask Set – It involves theconversion of design’s layout and placement into set of masks e.g. diffusion, contact, andmetallization masks etc., Phase 3: Mask Transfer – This involves transferring the mask set onto awafer substrate such as Si or GaAs etc., Phase 4: Packaged Chip – This incorporates inscribing,dicing, bonding and encapsulating chip in a plastic or ceramic package, depending on customer’srequirement. Most of these phases require industrial involvement to a great extent.The author proposed an

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Michael J. Rust; Abe Kamal

AN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR K-12 TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Michael J. Rust1 and Abe Kamal2 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering 2 Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Western New England College mrust@wne.edu AbstractThis paper describes an engineering workshop developed for K-12 teachers and students. Duringthe workshop, participants compete in a design activity that enables them to role-play asengineers. As a result, the attendees develop basic engineering

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Tahany Fergany; Amal Abd El?Raouf

students more comfortable practicing programming during the learning phase; andhence improve the students’ retention. On the other hand, the tool provides the instructor with a way to communicatewith students, monitor their progress and know about weaknesses and learning styles.Hence, the instructor can adjust his/her teaching method to match the students’ needs.1. Introduction The object-oriented design methodology has become one of the leading techniques inproblem solving. Compared to procedural programming, object-oriented programming ismore natural and reliable [1, 2, 3]. It also has a high potential for reuse, and a relativelyquick and easy way to implement and maintain. Recently, object-oriented programminghas been widely accepted

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Tom Goulding; Durga Suresh

settings.understanding of the ENIGMA functionality as well asa software architecture for the project. Our variation of the Socratic method has been under development for ten years. The method called the4.0. How the ENIGMA works? GM-Method has been discussed extensively inThe German WWII ENIGMA system encrypts previous papers. [2 - 6] Therefore, we will discussalphabetic messages in a manner that is reminiscent the method in a very abbreviated manner and only inof the ancient, well known and rather simple Caesar so far as it informs this case study.cipher. The ENIGMA, however, is a complex electro-mechanical device (Figure 1

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Vance Poteat

. Mostof the data is in the form of surveys and all of them confirm that cheating is not a rare event.Along with this, there are also reports and articles about wide spread cheating events that are also Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Educationof interest. The following is a summary of some of the more significant surveys and articles thatwith which this author identifies.One study [1] at Midwestern State University, which was conducted in 1984, 1994, and 2004,found the following: Table 1 – Midwestern State University 2004 Survey Results Type of Cheating

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Molly Clay; William Jumper; Kavitha Chandra

MathWorksInc..1 University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1 University Ave, Lowell, MA,Molly_Clay@student.uml.edu2 Lowell High School, Physics Teacher, 50 Father Morissette Boulevard Lowell, MA, wjumper@lowell.k12.ma.us3 University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1 University Ave,Lowell, MA, Kavitha_Chandra@uml.edu

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Barbara Fleck

technology course. Current Study Abroad Student Participation RatesCollege study abroad programs are available to many college students in the UnitedStates. Many high school students believe they will participate in these programs whenthey are in college, but actually only a small percentage do. In 2000, according to DavidWheeler:“48 percent of high school students said they planned on studying abroad. But in recentyears, only about 1 percent of college students did so annually. And while enrollments in Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Educationstudy-abroad programs are at a

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Biswanath Samanta

. Several novel applications of hybrid CI techniques proposed earlierby the author in engineering, manufacturing, biomedical and health care systems are discussed. Theexperiences of offering CI as a graduate course and a summer research project involving high schoolstudents are also presented. The importance of introducing CI techniques and their multidisciplinaryapplications as a senior level interdisciplinary engineering elective course and integrating these inresearch experiences for undergraduates and STEM education is discussed.1. Introduction Recently in US universities, there is a growing emphasis on multidisciplinary education and research,especially involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) [1-8]. The

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Bruce Char

problem. We have used these techniques the past four years in engineer- ing classes including some involving 600-1000 first-year students. Over 120,000 student responses are automatically graded annually for homework assignments and proctored exams.Keywords: Symbolic mathematical computation, test management systems, computer-based training.IntroductionWeb-delivery test management systems such as Maple TA[1] can invoke programs which use scientific com-putation libraries for question generation and automatic answer-checking and grading. They facilitate eval-uation and practice on technical subjects for large classes of students. We have used Maple TA each term tobetween 500 and 900 engineering students each term in the past five years to

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Navarun Gupta; Sarosh Patel; Bhushan Dharmadhikari; Manan Joshi; Lawrence V. Hmurcik

ELECTRICAL GROUNDING – THEORY AND APPLICATION Navarun Gupta1, Sarosh Patel2, Bhushan Dharmadhikari2, Manan Joshi2, Lawrence V. Hmurcik1 1. Electrical Engineering Department, 2. Department of Computer Engineering and Science. University of Bridgeport, CT navarung@bridgeport.edu, saroshp@bridgeport.edu, bdharmad@bridgeport.edu, mjoshi@bridgeport.edu, hmurcik@bridgeport.eduABSTRACTThe concept of an electrical ground is pivotal to the application of all electrical circuits.In our teaching of this concept, we discuss grounding from both a theoretical andpractical perspective. Practical knowledge is gained from

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John Finnie; Neil Fennessey

attainment ofvarious student outcomes. The objective of this paper is to show how a Communication Rubricfor grading student design projects could be used to provide some direct measurements ofattainment of student outcomes. DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT OUTCOMESThe ABET web site (WWW.ABET.ORG) provides information about accreditation, includingthe documents entitled “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs” for specificAccreditation Cycles (school years). A comparison of these criteria reveals that “directmeasures” for assessment are not specifically mentioned until 2011-2012. The definition sectionfor the 2010-2011 criteria defines Assessment as follows [1]. “Assessment is one or more processes that identify, collect, and

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Mohammad T. Ameli; Saeid Moslehpour; Massoud Pourhassan

LoadDispatch(ELD). By further refinement of ELD calculations, fuel costs of the generating plants andlosses of the transmission systems are minimized, thereby improving the optimization of generatingand transmission costs.1 - IntroductionThe monotonically increasing global price of fuels and the inflation trend necessitate the frequent,if not continuous, monitoring and re-evaluation of the optimized dispatch in utilization of the powernetworks. Some constraints add to, and amplify the complexities of ELD calculations including the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering

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Xingguo Xiong; Hassan Bajwa; Lawrence Hmurcik

published papers and posters in the VLSI related journals andconferences. 1. IntroductionVLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits) has been one of the most important technologiesdeveloped in 20th century. During the last decade, the VLSI industry has made continuousefforts to keep shrinking the size of the transistors, so that more and more transistors can bebuilt into a single VLSI chip to make it more and more powerful [1]. Moore's law hasgoverned the trends in VLSI industry for the past decades [2]. The transistor size has beenshrunk into deep submicron or even nanometer domain, so that more and more transistors canbe integrated into the same chip area. Nowadays a state-of-the-art Intel Xeon MicroprocessorMP X7460 based on 45nm technology

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sequential circuit analysis and synthesis, medium-scaleintegrated circuits, state machine tables and charts, hazards. “DC and AC ElectricalFundamentals” has a student body that is generally composed of freshman students fromElectrical Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology and AudioEngineering Technology. Its topics include DC circuits, phasors, sinusoids applied to R,L, C series and parallel circuits, DC and AC source conversions and circuit theorems,mesh and nodal analysis, transformers.Examples and Practical Implementation Techniques: Figure 1 (below) is a sample slide from the course “Digital System Logic”. Itincludes the question on the top and three choices below. There is also the bar indicatingthe number of students

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Pushpa Kantharaju; Praveen Prasanth

pkanthar@bridgeport.edu pmanaval@bridgeport.eduAbstractIn order to evaluate the value and usefulness of information systems that guide IS managementactions and IS investments, DeLone and McLean established a universal definition of IS successthat includes different perspectives of how information systems might be evaluated. The ISsuccess taxonomy consists of six success categories (1) systems quality, (2) information quality,(3) service quality, (4) use, (5) user satisfaction, and (6) net benefit from which they created amultidimensional and interdependent measuring model that exemplifies the interdependenciesbetween the different success categories to capture the complex nature of IS success. While thecharacteristics of information

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Hassan Bajwa; Mohammad Seddik

of reaching out to students from various backgrounds and capturingtheir imagination requires a fundamental and systematic approach [1]. In this paper wepresent hands-on experimental-based pedagogical efforts to encourage critical andcreative thinking by allowing students to create relationships between mathematics andengineering.Generally, engineering students are required to declare their major within the first year ofcollege. Most engineering students come with certain interests and expectations about aparticular professional career. Pedagogical methods that work with students from non-engineering disciplines vary for students within engineering fields. Narrative materialwithout guided learning or overuse of learning aids effects students

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William L. Cleghorn; Hapreet Dhariwal

combination of delivering notes in real-time, demonstrationing mechanical models,showing computer animations and playing of video clips.The authors developed the Mutimedia Enhanced Electronic Teaching System (MEETS) toeffectively provide presentations in the lectures of MIE301, even when the class size is verylarge [1]. The signals which are seen and heard during the live lectures may be recorded.Lecture capture refers to any means by which live lectures are recorded so they may be availableat a later time. It can involve the recording of audio and/or video signals of the instructor, andmay abe extended to the capture of demonstrations of physical systems, video clips and computeranimations. The MEETS is ideally suited to be used for lecture capture

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Steve Klosterman; Simon Pitts; Steven McGonagle; Carey Rappaport

, through these interactions, grow and learntogether as a unit. GEL StructureThe structure of the program (Figure 1) is built upon Northeastern’s philosophy of, and over 100years of practice in, experiential learning. Pillars represent five key elements, coordinated andintegrated to enhance the delivery, practice and mastery of the concepts, methods, tools andbehavior essential to lead in an engineering context. Market, Customer, and Stakeholder Focus Leadershi Leadershi Product Scientific Challeng p p Labs Develop Foundati e Project Capabiliti

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Sahas Sakhare

costs, repeatability, value of outcomeand immediate action with organizational impact and which generates value to both users andorganization. The study concludes with issues to which management need to direct particular attention.IntroductionIn 1992 DeLone and McLean conducted a comprehensive literature review based on which theyformulated a simple model that has set the stage and established the framework for the researchcommunity to measure information systems success and effectiveness as crucial indicators forunderstanding the value and efficacy of IS management actions and IS investments [1, 2]. The researchareas as they have proposed should crystalize around the six constructs: (1) Information Quality, (2)System Quality, (3) User

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Abdul Razaque; Khaled Elliethy; Fadel Hussen; Omer Etaech; Wafa Elmannai

NOVEL PROACTIVE PATCH PEER PROTOCOL TO SUPPORT FASTER DELIVERY OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND 1 2 3 4 5 Abdul Razaque Khaled Elliethy Fadel Hussen Omer Etaech Wafa Elmannai 1 2 3 4 arazaque@bridgeport.edu elleithy@bridgeport.edu fhussen@bridgeport.edu Oetaech@bridgeport.edu welmann@bridgeport.edu Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of

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Matthew R. Stein

; these assembliesare immediately useful forvisualization. Simply by dragging themouse, the student witnesses themotions, as gears spin, links move,bodies come into contact and range ofmotion limits are reached. This isparticularly useful in complexkinematic problems as shown in Figure1. Students traditionally struggle withvisualizing the motion of the planetarygear system, and often incorrectlyapply the relations for gears rotatingabout fixed axes to this problem (alsoshown in Figure 1). The reader maynote that despite the relatively highquality graphics of the textbookimage[12], the motion is still difficultto envision.Figure 2 shows the same problemconstructed by a different student inSolidWorks. Gears are easily createdin SolidWorks using a

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Ladimer S. Nagurney

read them on e-Readers. In arecent informal survey of University of Hartford Engineering and Engineering Technologystudents, about 20% of the students surveyed currently use e-Books. While most of thesestudents read their e-Books on their computers, about 1/3 of the students currently using e-Booksand read them on various e-Readers including Kindle, Nook, Sony, etc. When asked if the books,handout, and supplementary materials were available in a format that could be read on an e-Reader, roughly 2/3 of the students surveyed said that they would purchase an e-Reader.Therefore, it appears that, in the not to distant future, as publishers issue more and more of ourtexts in an e-Reader format, students will purchase e-Readers and it will be

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Kenneth Edward Dudeck; Wieslaw Grebski

engineering technology programs in the country. TheUniversity offers five baccalaureate degrees and nine associate degrees at twelve locations inPennsylvania. Engineering technology students complete their associate degree at one of the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education campuses and then enter the work force, or continue on for an additional two years to earn abaccalaureate degree in engineering technology.For well over the past decade, engineering technology enrollments program have continued to beon the decline at major universities across the country [1]. This has

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Louis Manzione; Akram Abu-aisheh

technicalevaluations on the multitude of solutions available to them, assessing capabilities ofsuppliers and partners, developing testing plans, and operating in different nations andwith different cultures. This paper presents a strategic plan for preparing engineeringstudents for the new global sourcing environmentA variety of work has been published on the need for globalization and its impact on themanufacturing section of the economy from different aspects. From the technical pointof view, facility location and capacity planning within a single company’s multi-periodglobal supply chain model incorporating global bills of materials, duties, and localcontent requirements was developed [1].Engineering education today is undergoing unprecedented array of

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Craig Stringer

traditional age and adult students approached and executed thetoy analysis project.IntroductionOver the past decade, engineering colleges and the National Science Foundation have placedgreater emphasis on integrating engineering design into the curriculum, emphasizing hands-onprojects, teamwork and greater student to student collaborations. The introduction toengineering course taught at The Pennsylvania State University for first year level engineeringstudents focuses on these areas of emphasis along with the goals of student recruitment,retention, and engineering development throughout the four-year curriculum [1]. Through thiscourse, students are exposed to a lecture/laboratory setting in which many of the lecture topicsare used as tools to solve

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Sigrid Berka

findingthe best logistics solution for transportation of goods from Germany to Italy via rail, truck, orship.The German Study Tour is an effective and attractive tool for retaining students in the IEP,reaching out to our industrial partners, and recruiting freshmen into the program. This innovativestudy module also closely ties in with the regular curricular offerings in the German departmentand with URI’s strong focus on globalizing the curriculum, e.g. the Academic Plan’s focus areaon “Global Citizenry” [1]. The Study Tour is usually organized by the director of the IEP whocan take advantage of the program’s extensive company network for scheduling corporate visitsand tours. Outside funding comes from the German Academic Exchange Service where

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Saeid Moslehpour; Hesham Elsaghir

code is the key to effectivelydebugging application code. Not only does the object-only (binary) solution preventsource-level debugging, but also it inhibits the required understanding of the systems'limitations and behavior under certain conditions.Implementation of TCP/IP stack architecture:A significant component in the design of an embedded Internet device is the TCP/IPstack firmware. An embedded Ethernet device can only support the processing ofEthernet packets. However, higher-layer protocols must be supported in firmware.Figure 1 shows a simplified block diagram of a TCP/IP stack. The stack consists ofmultiple layers, and each layer contains multiple modules. Each layer is responsible forproviding a specific networking function. The