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Elif Kongar; Kurt A. Rosentrater

Greening the Engineering and Technology Curriculum via Real Life Hands- on Projects Elif Kongar 1 and Kurt A. Rosentrater 2 AbstractThis paper aims at demonstrating how greening efforts can be embedded into science andengineering courses without major curricular changes. In this regard, examples of final projectsassigned in a statistical quality control, a 500-level, graduate engineering course, focusing oncampus sustainability are provided. After completing ten weeks in the classroom, the studentswere asked to apply their engineering knowledge and learning of continuous processimprovement techniques to a given problem

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B. Samanta

applications rangingfrom biology to robotics.III. Hybridization of CIAn important area of active research in CI is the hybridization of these techniques. This is oftenused to solve complex real-world problems where one technique is typically used to fix theweaknesses of the other. In adaptive neuro-fuzzy systems (ANFIS), the advantages of FL andANNs are combined for adjusting the MFs, the rule base and related parameters to fit the trainingdata set. The author has presented a large number of articles in the hybridization of CI techniqueswhere the hybridization leads to much more effective algorithms. The author has combinedANNs (MLP, RBF, PNN), support vector machines (SVM), proximal SVM (PSVM), ANFISwith GA, GP, both binary and real-valued PSO. The

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Gloria A. Monaghan

, and, it is a model in which all the STEM elementsmust also be deeply, humanistically reevaluated in light of the Information Age andthe humanist assumptions (not all of them positive in theory or application, by anymeans) that power the World Wide Web. (Davidson)Data CollectionThis study is qualitative, and it focuses on student response and their creativeprocess. To my surprise the students who signed up for the course were not designmajors, but construction management, mechanical and engineering students whowish to explore their creative side. These students came into the class havingalready written some poetry and became completely engaged in the process ofreviewing each other’s work and examining their own. We went into the city toview

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kevin John McDonnell; Anne Joan Caraccio; Nithin Susan Abraham; Nicholas Alexander Ruffini; Susan Gallardo; James Patrick Abulencia

“hands-on” approach. By taking part in this project, it givesyoung engineers the chance to use what they have learned in the classroom by applying it to ahands-on, real world situation. Another goal is to help the participating students with the opportunity to broaden theirproblem solving skills. As engineers, most employers will rely on and expect such. Theopportunities afforded by this project allow students to broaden their problem solving skillsthrough the real world application of the principles and techniques of Engineering. Issues aresure to arise throughout the design of the filters, giving the students the ability to work throughproblems and reach their end goals. A third goal of the project deals the establishment of a

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John Adams

to utilize the 8051 in a real world applicationincluding monitoring, timing, and signal generating applications. Students propose atopic, which they then design, write and debug the assembly code, interface, andtroubleshoot. After taking this course, students are well prepared to go on in their juniorand senior years with embedded controller based projects involving measurement andcontrol. The figure below provides a flow chart of the pertinent coursework. Figure 1: Coursework for EE majors pertinent to renewable energy. 2 ASEE-NE 2010 Conference - WITAdams: Renewable Energy Education …The special topics course

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Hudson V. Jackson P.E.; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E.; Nathan Rumsey; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E.

AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requirements. The structure of these courseshave evolved to incorporate changes in technology, needs of industry and changes in ABETrequirements. For example, Yost and Lane [1] reported the evolution of civil engineering designcapstone experience at a research university, discussed measures to assess communicationcompetence, and reported lessons learned while working with industry partners. They developeda capstone course designed to provide a unified effort in developing: teamwork skills,multidisciplinary interaction, communication skills, fundamentals of engineering designprocesses, and application of engineering design principles to a real engineering project. Thecourse provided greater breadth in

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Anne E. Mohan; Enrique Sola; James Patrick Abulencia

interactions. Partnerships between industry and college also help foster students’ technical knowledgeof practical engineering applications. Students are given the opportunity, through an industrialpartnership, to gain industrial experience before leaving college. This type of technicalexperience is invaluable to employers. Educators play an important role in the success of industrial partnerships, and mustremain active in order for the projects to be successful. Students are motivated by a project’srelevance when attempting to solve a real-world problem, and are therefore more apt to performbetter during the course of the partnership than they would in a typical classroom setting. Aneducator’s level of enthusiasm and participation in an

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Anne Y. Boisvert; Bahaa E. Saleh; S. Hamid Nawab

to select courses to take for which they already have the prerequisites and that interest them (typically by way of what the ultimate application is).  Personal research by a student to find the “relevance” of a course to practical real-world applications.  A Senior Design Project which encourages students to discover how the confluence of knowledge from different courses can be used to create/invent various types of products and/or applications.Clearly, in the traditional paradigm for acquiring interconnection knowledge there is a greatdegree of dependence on the initiative taken by individual faculty and students. It would beadvantageous if students could be provided additional material on

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Navarun Gupta; Sarosh H Patel; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

all the cases discussed the results werevery accurate as seen by the comparison between the expected and the obtained results and thesteady state errors in all the cases was less than 0.15%.References:[1] "How does a Speedometer work", Test & Measurement World, February 15, 2000.[2] "Modern Control Systems", Richard C. Dorf, Robert H. Bishop, Prentice Hall, 2008.BiographyNavarun Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a Ph.D. from FloridaInternational University in 2003. His interests include the application of digital signal processingto acoustics and biosignals.Sarosh Patel received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics

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Steve Zilora

Preparing High School Students for College with Informatics Stephen J. Zilora Information Sciences and Technologies Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 Session: All other topics relevant to engineering educationABSTRACTAs we begin the 21st century, a concern among many educators is whether we are providing ourstudents with the skills they will need in this brave new world. Discussion often centers on theissues of globalization and the demands it brings for cultural awareness and appreciation. Whilethese factors do distinguish the 21st century, another equally

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

compute awindowed moving average. In simulation they just cared about the final results for each series of16 samples, but when they went through the lab, they discovered that the original signal was anoisy sine wave and what they have just coded was a very simple low pass filter. In general mostof the students liked the example and related the operations performed with a real application. 4 During the laboratory exercise they were also given a Matlab m code program that generatedadditional values and by doing a copy & paste from the Matlab output directly to their look uptable, they were able to explore different frequencies and noise

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John W Duggan P.E.; Henderson Pritchard

brick and mortarprojects be green.Wentworth’s Experiential Model.Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) is an undergraduate college located in Boston, specializing inmanagement, design and technology degree programs for the built environment. WIT’s experiential teaching modelis nationally recognized for its emphasis of hands-on, real-world problem solving which is offered to studentsthrough both classroom instruction and cooperative work experience. For the instruction of sustainable design,application of WIT’s experiential model includes an introduction to the theory and application of sustainable designconcepts in real-world settings.Course OverviewThe course was developed to provide students interested in the built environment with an

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Ismail I. Orabi

grade B A A (result of the above, but in the letter form: A, B, C, D, or F with +/-) Recommended/Not Yes Yes Yes to stay on the team (n/a for this year, but please fill-in)Student experience and findingsStudents experience in the senior design industry-sponsored projects has been very positive.Students enjoyed the experience of working on a "real-world" problem, mentoring and feedbackfrom professional engineers and access to company resources where appropriate. Theexperience has enabled students to be a part of the intellectual process of real-world applications,instill a sense of fulfillment

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

Teaching MEMS Curriculum in Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Xingguo Xiong, Linfeng Zhang, Lawrence Hmurcik Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604Abstract: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) refer to devices and systems in the sizerange of 1 micron (1 micron=10-6m) to 1000 microns. Due to their small size, MEMStechnology has the advantages of low weight, low cost, low power consumption and highresolution. MEMS have found broad applications in automobile, inertial navigation, lightdisplay, optical and RF communications, biomedicine, etc. World’s MEMS market isgrowing

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Chiara Silvestri; Adriana Hera; Malcolm H. Ray; Siamak Najafi

incorporating softwareinto civil engineering courses: Introducing the students to numerical computing programs and finite element (FE) software, which are nowadays widely used for solving real-world problems in various areas of engineering field; Developing tutorials at different levels on FE and pre-processors/post-processors software to be electronically uploaded on the information portal available for members of the WPI community; Using software for faster learning of concepts that are generally too abstract and tedious to visualize, enhancing the curiosity of the students to the subject considered and motivating them for self-directed learning, creativity, and empowerment.The methodology used to accomplish these objectives is next

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ali Moazed; Richard L Roberts; Xiaobin Le P.E.; Anthony William Duva P.E.

includes hand calculationsto verify the FEA solution. This also helps students debug their solution in case of a mismatchbetween the two solutions.III. Course SpecificationsBefore designing the course, the following specifications were laid out:• The main goal is to familiarize students with the concepts involved in solving real world problems, and not to teach the theory of FEA.• The software package used in the course is only a tool to help convey the information. Hence the course should be independent of the software package.• Home work problems should include hand calculations for ball park verification. There are two reasons for this requirement: o Students have completed their major technical

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David H. Plantz; William M Simpson Jr. P.E.

doneextensive work on using case studies in engineering courses. He discusses the benefits of usingcase studies in introductory engineering mechanics courses as a way of showing students thepractical application of material that can seem far removed from the real world as usuallypresented in fundamental courses. In particular, he notes the advantages of raising issues integral 1to engineering practice such as decision-making, professional responsibility, and ethicalconsiderations before students enter their upper division courses as a way of making thefundamental subjects more interesting and relevant to students. Delatte also provides helpfulsuggestions for

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ming Xia; Xingguo Xiong

the trace acetone concentration in humanbreath, which leads to a quick, convenient, accurate and painless breath diagnosis of diabetics. Such breath diagnosis can greatly reduce the riskof blood-transmitted diseases in the traditional blood testing of diabetic’s diagnosis.I. IntroductionSince their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been recognized as one of the most promising nanomaterials and attractedtremendous interest among researchers around the world. Carbon nanotubes have many unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and chemicalproperties [1]-[2]. For example, as allotropes of carbon, CNTs have high aspect ratio, large surface-to-volume ration and high elastic module.CNTs are the strongest and stiffest material on the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

significant architecturalprecedence (construction knowledge building) and for speculative explorations of possibledesign propositions—allows for greater integration between building science courses and thedesign studio. This is particularly applicable in the upper-level comprehensive studios wheregenerative and implementive aspects of design need to be reconciled. In parametrically definedBIM environments, students can explore designs that are native to the world of construction—that do not have to be translated or reinvented as a result of the progression from a conceptualidea to a real product [figs 6, 7,8].However, to be effective, this method has to approach design from a perspective characterized by inductive thinking, from particular to global

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Paul C. King; Gerarda M. Shields

methods of analysis and critical thinkingcommon to these professions while working to solve real world problems instead of memorizingsolutions. Over the course of multiple trimesters, students will be introduced to, repeat, and finallymaster concepts and skills. In addition, the multidisciplinary learning environment provided by the IPcourses exposes students to various fields of study in the architecture and civil engineering disciplinesearly on in their educational experience while encouraging collaborative and team building exercises. In the first year, students engage in a series of daily analytical exercises with emphasis placed on thedevelopment of the individual. This course was offered to the first cohort of freshman in fall 2009

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Tom Goulding

thetransforming educational experience when Socratic instructor.and online principles are implemented prudently.We discuss why prestigious internships can be Figure 1won, by historically weak students, as a result of Multi-Game System with Account Managementparticipating in an educational method that values and Controlindependent study, team work, rapid assimilation ofknowledge and the immediate application ofknowledge in creating “real world” complexsystems.1.0 INTRODUCTIONSmall teams of freshman novice

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ross McCurdy

Protium band led to thedevelopment of a Fuel Cell Systems pilot course that is now in its seventh year. The coursecovers fuel cell and other renewable energy technologies and strives to demonstrate the viabilityof these technologies through real-world projects. The alternative fuel vehicle projects beganwith a two person fuel cell-powered Quadracycle and have developed into more ambitiousendeavors. The Fuel Cell Model T project began with the conversion of a 350 cubic inch V8gasoline fueled hot rod to run on battery electric power and in September 2009 the Fuel CellModel T successfully ran its first road tests using a Hydrogenics HyPM 12 kW fuel cell. Todemonstrate biodiesel the Coast to Coast Biodiesel Pickup Project was initiated. Three

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

tools. Specifically, tools that employrigid/soft body dynamics such as cloth simulations, forward and inverse kinematics (FK/IK) aswell as particle interactions. This approach was used in a classroom setting as an alternative, orperhaps a complement, to other methodologies such as Genetic Algorithm (GA). My interest inthis approach was dictated not only by relatively unexplored possibilities associated with thistoolset, but also by its applicability as a teaching tool in an academic context.Dynamics-based DesignsThe gap between generative design tools, which are often used to pursue exclusively formalgestures, and building modeling tools (BIM) is narrowing. Generative tools start consideringform’s performance as well as material behaviors

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Robert Schudy

this as traditional faceto face teaching and is also called synchronous model of teaching. The impact of online teaching ontraditional teaching is immense. Learning management systems and some successful communication andcollaboration tools have been integrated into the world of face to face teaching. Most schools today usetools like Blackboard, Vista or Noodle to hold classroom content including media files for students. Suchtools have helped instructors teach their regular courses effectively.Pure Online This is the “Any Place Any Time” model for education. Our research paper discusses thismode of delivery for the Case Study pertaining to Web Language courses or Database Courses. Thismethod involves students across the USA and even

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

digital. (images: Leland Greenfield)This approach allows for pattern breaking and helps to turns off the “autopilot” approach toproblem solving. It promotes creativity and often results in qualitatively new solutions. However,this is not only about outcome, but also about teaching students the methodology for futureproblems. This methodology is applicable to both traditional and digital tools with portability tomany creative disciplines. It is particularly effective in disciplines where one would useunexpected combinations of elements or ideas to energize creative thinking. Through a reactionto these often unexpected circumstances, new ideas and solutions emerge. Digital toolseffectively facilitate shifts in one’s thinking and new perspectives on

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Alan Seelan; Jeongkyu Lee

needs of Developers and DBA’s are highlyintegrated with the concept of providing one possible solution but they are accessible in differentvariations. Though there are a lot of functions that are included in much software not everythingis being used in the real world so this project includes functions that are primarily used by theusers. So the major goal or objective of this project is to implement software that isstandardized with the functionalities of both the developer and also the DBA’s with therestriction of certain instances on the developers and also provides GUI for easy access offunctionalities with also the inclusion of editor to hard code your own query and subprograms. An Illustration of the individual user are

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Alva L. Couch

Re-engineering the value proposition for class attendance in the digital age Alva L. Couch Tufts UniversitySession: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationIntroductionClass attendance is down. When asked why they do not attend class, students point out that thetextbook has all that is needed, and the web is full of helpful material, including the courselecture notes, materials for similar courses, and even video lectures recorded by other instructors!The traditional class lecture format repeats what is accessible by many other means, and studentsoften report on course evaluations that their real learning

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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GLENN E. VALLEE; RICHARD P. BENIOT

be beneficial to determine the mechanisms behind such failureswhich are dynamic in nature, as most result when the tooth is subjected to impact loads duringbiting onto hard substances such as popcorn seeds, hard candies and even eating utensils. Anunderstanding of the underlying causes of failure is critical in determining modifications to thecrown design and installation which can reduce the occurrence of failures. 1The senior capstone design course at Western New England College was uses as the vehicle toaddress the problem of crown failures. This 3 credit course requires that the student work tosolve a real world problem through analysis, design