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Andrzej Zarzycki

First Year Experience for Digital-native Students Andrzej Zarzycki New Jersey Institute of Technology Session: First year experienceThis paper discusses undergraduate freshmen experience in the core studio design course in theprofessionally accredited architectural program. The studio curriculum focuses on teachingdigital and traditional tools in the design context while considering the level of knowledge andthe nature of a student body. Design studio curriculum introduces students to traditional modesof creativity such as sketching and physical models. This preliminary stage is paralleled by anintroduction of digital skills

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Harry Knickle

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Programs, Northeast LSAMP: Recruiting STEM Majors Harold N. Knickle, knickle@egr.uri.edu College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island New England Section of ASEE at Wentworth Institute, May 2010 Introduction The College of Engineering at URI joined with Northeastern University, WPI, UConn, and UMass-Amherst in a joint proposal to NSF to fund the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Programs. UMASS-Amherst is the lead institution. The proposal was funded for a five-year period beginning October 1, 2001 and then for a second five year period in 2006. The purpose of the project is to increase minority

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Charles Thomas; Loren Byrne; Jeremy Campbell

engineering educationAbstractThe general consensus among institutions of higher education is that for a course inSustainability Studies to be successful it must treat the subject in a transdisciplinary manner.The authors (an Engineer, Ecologist, and Anthropologist) have collaborated to create and delivera course titled “Introduction to Sustainability Studies.” It will become the introductory course inthe minor in sustainability studies at Roger Williams University. The students in the course werefrom many different majors (for example: Criminal Justice, Architecture, Biology, although noEngineering majors were enrolled), and ranged from freshman to seniors. The content of thepaper will describe the genesis of the course and the manner in which it was

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Junichi Kanai; Jeff P. Morris; Mark Anderson

, and information search, in their projects. Ourgoal was to introduce skills and the extended features of these tools in various courses to makestudents more productive. These skills were originally introduced in capstone design courses.Some skills are now introduced in a sophomore level engineering design course and a freshmancourse. This paper introduces the issues and our approaches.1. IntroductionThe current generation of college students, who were born in 1990’s, grew up with personalcomputers, the Internet, and other digital “gadgets”. They use text messages, IM (instantmessage), e-mail, and cell phones to communicate with their peers every day. They also sharetheir lives by posting messages and uploading digital photos to social

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Dan Brosnan; Dana Hawes; Max Nielsen; Salah Badjou

Electromechanical Designcourse at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Spring 2009 to create a system that willautonomously carry trash barrels to a residential curb on trash day. The system is comprised of amotorized cart and sensors which will allow it to navigate around obstacles and arrive at thespecified location. While the prototype does not yet fully meet all the objectives specified, it hasmost of the functional requirements and will successfully drive and avoid obstacles. Theprototype will be demonstrated.Introduction Current lifestyles have made certain home chores more of an inconvenience than theyneed to be. One such task is the taking of the garbage to the curb for pick up. The design is anautonomous vehicle which will automatically

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Suxia Cui; Younhui Wang; Felecia M Nave; Kendall T. Harris

Teach Computer Techniques through Multimedia Suxia Cui1, Younhui Wang2, Felecia M. Nave3, and Kendall T. Harris4 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 2 Engineering Technology Department 3 Chemical Engineering Department 4 Mechanical Engineering Department Prairie View A&M UniversitySession: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationAbstractPrairie View A&M University (PVAMU) College of

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Alva L. Couch

occurs in lab exercises or when doinghomework. Why should students come to class?We study a very simple way to improve the value proposition for attending class in an age ofubiquitous information availability on the internet. Rather than being a source of information, aclassroom is conceptualized instead as a social nexus in which valuable social interactions occurbetween professor and students, as well as student-to-student. We reinforce the social value ofthe classroom experience via small changes that are practical to implement in existing courses,improve social immediacy between instructor and students, reinforce course outcomes andobjectives, save instructor time, and generally improve the perceived value of attending class.The value of

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Chitra N. Javdekar

Designing Freshman Engineering Experiences Author name(s) and Affiliation(s): Chitra N. Javdekar, Ph.D., MassBay Community College, MA Session: First Year Experience AbstractFreshman engineering experiences are critical from the perspective of overall development of studentsand student retention. These experiences can be particularly challenging to design owing to thedifferences in student backgrounds, and in levels of prior knowledge/preparation in fundamentalscientific concepts. This paper presents an approach for redesigning a freshman engineering designcourse to introduce students to the fundamentals of the engineering design

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

Teaching Finite Element Analysis in Undergraduate Technology Curriculum Ali R. Moazed, Richard Roberts, Xiaobin Le, Anthony Duva Session: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationI. AbstractTypically, FEA courses are offered at a graduate level, covering the theoretical basis with littleor no effort to apply this technology to real problems. In some institutions, this course is offeredto seniors, but the content is also mostly theoretical. At Wentworth, we have designed an FEAcourse based on our industrial experience which could be labeled “Applied Finite ElementAnalysis”. This paper describes the methodology followed in the development of this course,along

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Marie Planchard

manufacturingprocess affect carbon footprint, energy consumption, air acidification, and water eutrophication.Learning to compare engineering parameters allows students to be environmentally conscienceabout their designs. Industry can play a vital role in teaching students to integrate LCA intoproduct design. Through different levels of collaboration and participation, three studentactivities are explored that incorporate sustainable engineering with industrial partnering. • Formula Hybrid Competition, Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth • Envisioning Sustainable Futures 2 Poster Competition, Worcester Polytechnic Institute • Vehicle Design Summit, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFormula HybridThe Formula Hybrid [1] competition, founded in

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Andrzej Zarzycki

BIM as Design Exploration Tool in Architecture Andrzej Zarzycki New Jersey Institute of TechnologySession 6 : Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design course.Recent developments in contemporary architecture have been significantly influenced by theemergence of digital technologies as a primary production tool allowing for new ways ofthinking. These new developments, combined with research into new materials and fabricationtechnologies, make possible to purse imaginative designs that were not possible in the past. While often criticized for its overemphasis on formal expressions and its pursuit of thespectacular

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Suxia Cui; John Fuller; Pamela Holland-Obiomon; Warsame H. Ali

Educate New Generation on Nuclear Technology through Collaborating Engineering Project Suxia Cui, John Fuller, Pamela Holland-Obiomon, and Warsame H. Ali Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractFor the past several decades, nuclear technology has remained as one of the top interested issuesdue to its application as a new energy resource as well as a threaten weapon of massivedestruction. In the United States, the National Nuclear Security Administration

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Amos Joseph St. Germain

of the INTERFACE Conference movement at Southern technical Institutein Georgia which was to last some twenty years. There is the Society for the Historyof Technology (SHOT), which publishes TECHNOLOGY and CULTURE and holds anannual conference. 1978 saw the birth of the still extant Humanities andTechnology Association. So thing are better, no? Well maybe not so much.Consider what Derek Bok past president of Harvard has recently said in hisjeremiad, OUR UNDERACHIEVING COLLEGES (2006.) Bok sadly notes that 60% ofstudent in American undergraduate education are majoring in “vocational” subjectsnot liberal arts and they see getting a job as the primary reason for going to college(260.) And if you really want to make sure that your young person is

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Robert Simoneau; Diane Dostie

The Virtual Ideation Platform 1 The Virtual Ideation Platform Robert Simoneau, Keene State CollegeDiane Dostie, Central Maine Community College The Virtual Ideation Platform 2Introduction The staff at Central Maine Community College, working with partners across New Englandand the United States, are developing a virtual ideation platform (VIP) which is being funded bythe National Science Foundation, DUE-ATE #0802414 award. The VIP is a consortium ofstakeholders from community colleges, universities and industry that include faculty members,administrators and industry personnel all committed to making the VIP a viable model. The VIP

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Janet Baldwin

Are Online Courses Appropriate for Engineering Classes? Janet Baldwin, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Engineering Roger Williams UniversityAbstractMany people in higher education are looking to online courses to ease a space and timecrunch. But what kind of courses can be adequately taught online? Can a quantitativeengineering course be taught successfully online and if so, what is the best format? Inorder to provide insight into these questions, I have developed and taught an onlineStatics course for engineering, construction management, and architecture majors. Afteroffering this course and a face-to-face version simultaneously, I have found that

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Ronald C. Lasky

Mathematics Learning Outcomes for Engineers in an Age of Excel®, MATLAB®, etc: Some Observations and Thoughts By Ronald C. Lasky, Ph.D., PE Instructional Professor, Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College Session: Tools, techniques and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationAbstractHaving spent a career in industry, about a decade ago, I looked forward to the prospect ofteaching courses on Design of Experiments, Statistical Process Control, and statistics. I was thenand still am impressed with the enthusiasm, aptitude and accomplishments of the students

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Paul C. King; Gerarda M. Shields

the needsof the millennial or digital generation by incorporating multimedia into our classrooms in a structured,meaningful way well before students enter the college learning environment. City Polytechnic HighSchool has embarked on this effort through their Integrated Projects course offerings.The City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CityPoly) welcomedits first cohort of freshman in fall 2009. As a five year secondary school, these students will not onlyreceive a high school diploma in three years but may also continue on to an associates degree in areassuch as architectural, civil engineering and construction management technology at New York CityCollege of Technology (CityTech), part of the City

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Alan Seelan; Jeongkyu Lee

database management tool for both database administrators(DBA) and developers. First, the integrated engine has various access functions to both DBA anddeveloper to manage user instances, administer privileges and monitor databases. Second, theefficient accessing of the result set is developed in the engine without granting or revokingtemporary privileges. Therefore, DBA does not have to provide the privileges to users who wantto access the result set, which makes the system more secured. Thirdly, an optimizedperformance meter is triggered as a combination of all the important factors that determine theperformance of the database, such as different hit ratios and CPU activity. Lastly, to providedevelopers a convenient tool for tuning SQL, we

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Peter Salvatore

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Compilation for Wentworth Institute of Technology’s President’s Climate CommitmentPeter Salvatore- Student, Wentworth Institute of TechnologySession 5: Interdisciplinary Programs, Sustainability and Alternative Energy as Related toEngineering EducationAbstractIn June 2007 the President of Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) signed the AmericanCollege and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). The support activities ofthe environmental club, now called the Green team, were the key factors in getting the Presidentto sign this commitment.The Green Team, first established 15 years ago, has been very involved on campus promotingand carrying out a wide variety of sustainability efforts

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Anne E. Mohan; Enrique Sola; James Patrick Abulencia

THE LINK BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL AND ACADEMIC ENGINEERING Anne E. Mohana, Enrique Solaa, and James Patrick Abulenciaa a Department of Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471 USA Session: Industrial Partnering for Preparing Engineers for the 21st Century Global Economy Abstract The transition from the academic to the industrial setting is often a trying one for mostengineering students. Many graduating seniors are unsure of which industry they would like towork in, how to balance 40 (and often 50) hour work weeks and a social life, or how to functionin an industrial culture that is oftentimes less well defined than an academic culture. Forundergraduate engineering majors, the senior design

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Chiara Silvestri; Suzanne LePage; Paul P. Mathisen

audio instructions.The tutorials helped the students gain experience and confidence in software use, with the goal ofincreasing the students’ interest, motivation and comprehension of course material.Introduction Incorporating software packages in the undergraduate curriculum represents a significantteaching challenge for educators. Proficiency in the use of specific software is often an importantqualification for students looking to join the work force in their area of interest. To effectivelymake use of these packages, however, time and often training is needed. Given the increasingbreadth of topics that must be covered in our undergraduate curriculum, it is becomingincreasingly difficult to allot the time needed to provide this background

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Gautham Das; Rishi Cariappa

protected species of plants to areaswhich were not to be disturbed. During the design period, students assisted in developingcomputer aided design (CAD) drawings and surveying out the limits of the freeway. Thecollaboration of engineers and students resulted in the completion of the outer ring road ahead ofschedule and leading to a 5000% increase in the property value of the area encompassed by thisroad. 1IntroductionIn recent years, Bangalore located in southern India has gained the title “Information Technologycapital of India” due to the vast number of multinational computer engineering firms in the city.Bangalore's economy is US $ 100 Billion, which

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

project/thesis research in MEMS. The MEMS curriculum attractedtremendous interest among students, and the students’ feedback on the course have beenexcellent. This is part of our efforts to prepare students for the future need of economyrevival.1. IntroductionMEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) refer to devices and systems in the size rangeof 1µm~1000μm, which combine both electrical and mechanical components, and arefabricated with semiconductor fabrication technology [1]-[4]. MEMS enable theintegration of multiple functions into a single chip, such as sensing, actuation,computation, control, communication, power, etc. Due to their extremely small size,MEMS have the advantages of low cost, low weight, low energy consumption, highresolution

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Ibrahim Alkore Alshalabi; Eman Abdelfattah

video.However, documents that include several forms of media at the same time might distract thestudent during the learning process. We believe that loading several forms of media in the same page but not in the same time canbe achieved by providing synchronization to these media through services that support all therequirements that media need. In this paper, we will discus and examine some of multimediaapplications that can provide support for E-learning system.1. INTRODUCTION The application of information and communications technology to education and training,both in the corporate and public sectors is now a big business on a global scale [1]. The WorldWide Web and web-software have created the possibility of delivering compelling electronic

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Peng Su; Zhengping Wu

. Under the condition of unknowingrouting policies of BGP neighbors and their uplink ASes, it is uneasy to understand to learn howto build a multi-homing environment and deal with congestion problems. Especially, somemistakenly announced prefixes on the Internet will continuously increase routing table andimpact police-based routing. Therefore, this paper tries to analyze the whole adjacencies ofautonomous systems running on the Internet, their relationships as well as the prefixesannounced from every AS, and store them into a database. As a result, the whole topologyamong ASes becomes clearer, and then it is more practical to learn the way of building newnetworks, refining them and making a trouble shooting. Keywords: BGP, autonomous systems

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John W Duggan P.E.; Henderson Pritchard

evaluate the impact of design alternatives to severalsustainability factors including energy efficiency, life cycle analysis, consumption of natural resources, and globalwarming. The design software effectively supplements the general and introductory concepts of sustainabilitytypically presented in texts on the subject. Consistent with the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT)experiential model of teaching, design software used in this manner provides an opportunity for students to grasp abetter understanding of the applications and limitations of sustainable design and construction means and methodsbeyond what can be offered in a text book. This paper describes the objectives and general design of the course,offers recommendations for on-line

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Wei PAN; Yingbin Shi; Jeremy Li

Computer Simulation and Analysis of High-precision Automated Assembly Line in Telecommunication Industry Wei Pan Yingbin Shi Advisor: Prof. Jeremy Li Session: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital ageAbstractIn this project, a mechanism for inserting assembly technology is described. The process isseparated into two portions: pick-up and assembly. In the pick-up portion, process planning forindustry assembly is a very complex task, which is mostly dependent upon the combination ofexperience along with up-to-date assembly technology. Attempts to simulate the automatedassembly process have been largely unsuccessful and it remains a difficult task