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2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Teaching an Undergraduate Electromagnetics and Antennas Course Using A Hand-Held RF Analyzer - Engaged Learning Paul B. Crilly Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 06320AbstractThis paper describes an experiential learning concept to teach undergraduate electromagneticsand antenna theory using a hand-held RF analyzer and other basic laboratory apparatus. Theanalyzer contains both an RF source and spectrum analyzer. The RF source serves to enableSWR measurement for stub matching, measuring cable losses, detecting cable faults, cablelengths, and such

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2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Ensuring Attainment of ABET Criteria 4 and Maintaining Continuity for Programs with Moderate Faculty Turnover Paul B. Crilly, and Richard J. Hartnett Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 06360AbstractAttaining ABET Criterion #4 – Continuous Improvement can be challenging for schools thatexperience moderate faculty turnover, and/or heavily rely on adjunct instructors. In this paper wepresent an End of Course Review (EOCR) process that serves as a means to achieve thisobjective. The EOCR process instills a culture of assessment in all our faculty, both junior

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Linfeng Zhang

Table 2 Temperature coefficient %/oC Voc -0.36 Isc 0.105 Vmpp -0.408 Impp -0.0281 The equation of the IV is: I I sc A(eBV 1) Where, A, B, and Isc vary with solar insolation or irradiance. Linear interpolation is usedto get the IV curve under irradiance. The temperature effect on the module is considered in the following equation, X ambient TSTC Tambient 1 X OC ,rated 3 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section

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John E. Patterson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference A Quantitative Forensic Investigation of Causal Factors which Impact Residential Structures during a Major Hurricane John E. Patterson, PhD Norwich UniversityAbstractThe forensic investigation of damaged residential structures following a hurricane allowsstudents to examine the forces of a hurricane on a residential structure. This researchinvestigates the actual damage. This is not a predictive model, but a statistical model thatexamines the causal factors of the damage. This provides the students with numerouspossibilities for interdisciplinary research in design, construction

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Designing a Scalable Mechanical Engineering Freshman Year Experience for Relevant and Engaging Hands-On Experiences David Willisa and Jeremy Vaillantb a. Assistant Professor, U. Massachusetts Lowell1 1/ b. Graduate Student, U. of Massachusetts LowellAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation and results of a new Mechanical EngineeringFreshman Year Experience course being offered at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thenew course integrates meaningful hands-on experiences using inexpensive desktop CNC ma-chines, core concepts laboratories, Matlab programming and communications. The two

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Tooran Emami Ph. D.

frommeasurement of either the frequency or step response data. This lab allows students to make theconnection between the concepts of first order modeling in the control system classroomlectures2 and ultimately, apply them in the laboratory to the real world systems.Students in this lab demonstrate achievement of numerous a-k ABET criteria. The followingABET outcomes can be assessed in this lab:a. “An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.”b. “An ability to design and conduct experiments as well as interpret data.”d. “An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.”e. “An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.”g. “An ability to communicate effectively,” by preparing a formal report.k. “ An ability

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Gazi Murat Duman; Elif Kongar

Section ConferenceSince DEA is a data dependent technique, the accuracy of the model results are highly correlatedwith the quality of the data inputted to the model. However, in many cases the input and outputdata could not always be measured and/or collected accurately due to increased variety of dataproviders and/or subjective nature of the data. In the future, we plan to apply the fuzzy set theoryinto the model to overcome this shortcoming.References1 Choi, K.W., Roh , Y.S., and Yoon, J.-H.: ‘ AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OFPRODUCTIVITY OF A CHAIN RESTAURANT USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA)’ ,International Journal of Quality and Productivity Management, 2007, 07, (01), pp. 47-672 Donthu, N., and Yoo, B.: ‘ Retail productivity

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in various engineering disciplines. Most of ourUniversity’ s students have reasons other than interest in vector mathematics for studying 3 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceengineering (Caserta, Lind and Chedid, Spring 2011). So the low performance of freshman onvector calculations is understandable.First year students’ performance on a second vector trigonometry problem was graded A,B,C,Dor F. A and B were correct, except B was the grade assigned for incorrect units. D answersshowed awareness of the concept of “ SOH CAH TOA.” A grade

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Benjamin D. McPheron

2015 ASEE Nor theast Section Confer ence Audio and Vision Pr oj ects Augmenting a Studio Style L ab Exper ience in a Signal Pr ocessing Cour se Benj amin D. M cPher on Roger Williams UniversityAbstr actEngineering students greatly benefit from laboratory education and team projects, as these typesof experiences prepare students for internships, research projects, and entry into the engineeringprofession. Unfortunately, laboratory classes can be difficult to fit into the course load of anengineering program at a liberal arts-focused university, where students are exposed tosignificant breadth, as well as

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Walter W. Buchanan; Ali Mehrabian; Alireza Rahrooh; M. Kudret Yurtseven

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Planning for a Health Care Technology Certificate Walter W. Buchanan Texas A&M University Ali Mehrabian, Alireza Rahrooh Daytona State College M. Kudret Yurtseven Izmir UniversityAbstractHerein will be described the planning to reactivate a Health Care Technology Certificate in theDepartment of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution in the College ofEngineering at Texas A&M University College Station. The

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John E. Patterson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Experimental Use of Recycled Materials to Construct a Solar Water Heater John E. Patterson, PhD Norwich UniversityAbstractWith increasing use of solar water heaters it is important that Construction EngineeringManagement students understand the basic operation of the system. Understanding the theoryprovided in a classroom and reinforcing these concepts in a lab demonstrates the function andefficiency of the systems. It is the purpose of this research for students to build and test varioussolar water heater alternatives using recyclable materials by

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Junling Hu; Ruoxu Jia; Xiao Huang; Xingguo Xiong; Kai-tak Wan

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of Water Droplet Impingement on a Wax Surface Junling Hu*1, Ruoxu Jia1, Xiao Huang2, Xingguo Xiong3, Kai-tak Wan2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA 2 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 USA 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604 USA *jjhu@bridgeport.eduAbstractThe impact of droplets on solid surfaces is important for a

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A. Adebayo; E. Ososanya; W. Mahmoud; L. Thompson; S. Haghani; D. Shetty; Naresh Poudel; Ebenezer Acheampong; Batireedui Janjin; Niraj Khanal; Bhuwan Thapa; Bishal Khanal

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Felipe Pait

, hierarchical classroom, typical ofEurope, especially the Septentrion,B at least until the 1960s; and to judge from the rumors ofthose that come back to the University of S Paulo after a junior year abroad, not there yetcompletely overcome. In the land of Carnival, the class where the instructor talks with the chalk,the chalk streaks the slate, the slate speaks to the student, and the students checks the cheat sheetin the cell phone, this class repeats the European tragedy — after the class is over, the distanceevaporates in the coffee shop where professors and students call each other by the first name, onlyto return as a tropical farce in the next class. Also a requirement is the professor’s voice — thusthe importance of authorship, of papers, books

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Mahbub K. Ahmed; Kendra J. Ahmed; Md. M. Rashid; Scott McKay

of students with technology besides desktop computers, PDA’ s and cell phones are now alsobeing used in many institutes. A study [4] showed that a PDA-based quiz is more efficient compared to a paper-and-pencil basedone in terms of the time it takes to finish the quiz.____________________1Assistant Professor, Engineering and Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 9343, Building/ Office: Science 107 B, Southern Arkansas University,Magnolia, Arkansas, 71754 (corresponding author), Email: mkahmed@saumag.edu, Phone: (870)-235-42942Adjunct, Mathematics and Computer Science, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, Email: kjahmed@saumag.edu3 Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, 110 Falmouth Hall, University of Massachusetts

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Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 9343,Building/Office: Science 107 B, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, Email:mkahmed@saumag.edu, Phone: (870)-235-4294 2In describing effectiveness of a syllabus, the current literature uses terms such as “ strongsyllabus” , “ well-designed syllabus” , “ well-constructed syllabus” , “ effective syllabus” or“ incomplete or poorly-designed syllabus” .This work reviews existing literature and summarizes the basic information that a traditionalsyllabus should contain. This work examines syllabus checklists and lists the most importantones. The main purpose of this work is to identify factors that make a

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that they used their academic training in a particular field in various “concentrations’ or applications in which a set of different fields came into play, also equipped them with the flexibility of mind to “embrace an inter-disciplinary/multi-disciplinary perspective.”References1 Downey, G. L., Lucena, J. C., Moskal, B. M., Parkhurst, R., Bigley, T., Hays, C., & Nichols-Belo, A. (2006). Theglobally competent engineer: Working effectively with people who define problems differently. Journal ofEngineering Education, 95(2), 107-122; Allert, Beate I., Atkinson, Dianne L., Groll, Eckhard A., Hirleman, E. Dan,„Making the Case for Global Engineering: Building Foreign Language Collaborations for Designing, Implementingand Assessing

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and see if it will increase the awareness of the brain. It will give us moreclues regarding brain functions. The result will lead to better control of productivity. These resultsare necessary to figuring out how to stimulate relaxation without external influences such as place,material, and moment. © American Society for Engineering Education 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceReferences1 S. Phongsuphap and Y. Pongsupap, “ Analysis of heart rate variability during meditation by a pattern recognition method,” Computing in Cardiology, vol. 38, pp. 197-200, 2011.2 M. A. Vazquez, J. Jin, J. Dauwels, and F. B. Vialatte, “ Automated detection of paroxysmal gamma waves

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Jeffrey R. Mountain

engineeringscience, and engineering knowledge based upon a strong foundation in advanced math, chemistry, physics, and the engineering sciences.(b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as 2. Design and conduct hands-on experiments, usewell as to analyze and interpret data mechanical/electrical hardware, and analyze and interpret data.(c) an ability to design a system, component, or 3. Design a component, system or process in theprocess to meet desired needs within realistic mechanical engineering

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Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

Transactions on, vol. 8, pp. 165-176, 2014.7 D. Wulsin, J. Blanco, R. Mani, and B. Litt, "Semi-supervised anomaly detection for EEG waveforms using deep belief nets," in Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2010 Ninth International Conference on, 2010, pp. 436-441.8 H. Xia, D. Ruan, and M. S. Cohen, "Coupled basis learning and regularized reconstruction for bcg artifact removal in simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies," in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on, 2013, pp. 986-989.9 F. Yan, P. A. Watters, and W. Wang, "Determining the influence of visual training on EEG activity patterns using association rule mining," in Complexity and Data Mining (IWCDM), 2011 First

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gears enmesh and planet gears revolve around the sungear. I expected that this would in itself be gratifying and educational for the students.Motion Studies Once the problem kinematics are established, students move to theMotion Study, a rich set of SolidWorks features allowing students togenerate motion and analyze the results. Figure 4 shows a studentsubmission of a motion study implementing a multiple pulley problemshown in Figure 3. The inset graphs on Figure 4 are the results of amotion study selected by the student to demonstrate agreement withtheoretical results produced by integrating angular acceleration twicewith respect to time. In this case, the student has selected two graphsto ascertain “ how far has wheel B spun when it stops

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Prerana Pal Karmokar; Shwetha Krishna Pondicherry; Elif Kongar

, Time/Cost Calculation, Full Critical Path Coverage,Resource management, Document Management, Multiple and concurrent User Accessibility,Invoicing/Procurement, Disaster Recovery/Backup are selected as the influential criteria (Table2). Once the evaluation criteria have been finalized, the criteria set is embedded into a preferencematrix. The AHP algorithm than performs a pair comparison where the strength/preference ofeach attribute would be compared against each criterion by assigning a preference/importancevalue according to the provided rating scale. Table 2: Preference codes for pair comparison Preference # Preference of A over B Definition 1 None

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datatransmission. In this section, we introduce our assumptions and detection approach. Sensornetworks are susceptible to several types of attacks.WSNs is composed of base station and sensor nodes. Sensor nodes are grouped into clusters.Each cluster has several nodes as shown in Figure 2. A packet is transferred via a source node tothe base station using a route. During the transmission any malicious node drop a packet, theneighbor nodes work as monitoring and detect the packet that drop by the adversary. In ourapproach, any node located in an intermediate is responsible to detect the malicious nodes.The selective forwarding attack in example of Figure 3 may happen between sensor nodes. Thus,node “ A” transfers the packets to node “ B” and then node “ B

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(18): p. 1698-1707.26. Rowe, A.K., et al., How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low- resource settings? The Lancet, 2005. 366(9490): p. 1026-1035.27. S, B., Can health equity become a reality? The Lancet, 2008. 372(9650): p. 8-14.28. Sofaer, S. and K. Firminger, Patient perceptions of the quality of health services. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 2005. 26: p. 513-559.29. Starfield, B., Global health, equity, and primary care. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2007. 20(6): p. 511-513.30. w Creswell, J., Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. 2009: SAGE Publications, Incorporated.Ashwag G. Battar j eeGraduate student

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Can Real-life Projects in Engineering Classes Result in Improved Interest and Performance in Clean Energy Careers? Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Diane Schilder, Christos Zahopoulos Northeastern University/Evaluation Analysis Solutions, Inc. / Northeastern UniversityAbstractWith funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Northeastern University has beenoffering the Early College Experience (ECE) program to Boston Public high school seniors withthe goal of increasing their interest in Clean Energy careers. The ECE program has provided highschool students the opportunity to take a college-level Engineering Design course that

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. and Steinberg, R.N. “Teaching physics: Figuring out what works,” Physics Today , 52, 24-30 (January 1999). 2. Redish, E. F. “ Building a science of teaching physics,” Am. J. Physics, Vol. 67, 562-573 (July, 1999). 3. Voltaire Mallari Mistades, How Do Education Students Learn Physics? US-China Education Review B 4, 457-466 (2011). 4. Elby, A. “Helping physics students learn how to learn. American Journal of Physics,” 69, 54-64 (2001). 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_education#Goals_of_physics_education_research_.28PER.29 (2014) 6. Perkins, K. K., Adams, W. K., Pollock, S. J., Finkelstein, N. D., and Wieman, C. E. “Correlating student beliefs with student learning using the Colorado

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assumptions made in the development of your cost estimate, including crew size & composition, project location, time factor, and mark-up rates. (4) Assume that the previously submitted construction project schedule will be followed. Indicate the start date for the applicable portion of the overall Project, and inflate your estimate by an appropriate inflation factor. (5) Adjust your cost estimate for a location factor assuming that the project will be constructed in the home town of one of your group members. (6) Use the following mark-up values for your cost estimate: a. Tax on Materials – use state sales tax rate for your selected location b

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convolutional embedding codes. in ITS Telecommunications (ITST), 2012 12th International Conference on. 2012.7. Mstafa, R.J. and K.M. Elleithy. A Novel Video Steganography Algorithm in the Wavelet Domain Based on the KLT Tracking Algorithm and BCH Codes. in Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2015 IEEE Long Island. 2015.8. Feng, P., et al. Video steganography using motion vector and linear block codes. in Software Engineering and Service Sciences (ICSESS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on. 2010.9. Hao, B., L.-Y. Zhao, and W.-D. Zhong. A novel steganography algorithm based on motion vector and matrix encoding. in Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 2011 IEEE 3rd International

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department of Chemical Engineering for the past 13years. The theme for the workshop is “ How to Engineer Engineering Education” and the targetgroup is engineering and science faculty, and graduate students. The workshop is designed to 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceenhance the teaching expertise of participants by receiving instructions on the followingactivities in an engaging and interactive group environment11. a. Writing clear instructional objectives at appropriate cognitive levels b. Using active, cooperative, & problem-based

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Redesigning the Student Learning Approach through Personality Types and Pedagogies in an Undergraduate Engineering Course Corinna Fleischmann, Elizabeth Nakagawa, Tyler Kelley United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTAbstractAs the National Science Foundation and engineers throughout the world seek to strengthen thefuture of the engineering profession, the Civil Engineering (CE) program at the United StatesCoast Guard Academy embodies this initiative with a student focused approach. One course inparticular, Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers (CE Materials), was restructuredfocusing on multiple