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Allen S. Guinoo; Joshua A. Stewart; Lin Lin

, depending on the voltage differences, to a reed relay (W107DIP-5, Mangecraft, IL) to operate the exhaust fan. The exhaust fan operates at a rated voltage and current that is beyond the output capabilities of the microprocessor, the relay allowed the voltage produced from the photovoltaic cell to go directly through the fan. A full diagram of this circuit is shown

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Daniel Katz

) and it leads to both the existence of the electromagnetic field and to conservation of electric charge. In the 19500 s C.N. Yang and R. Mills came up with a general procedure The equations relating the components of YMG’s effec- for working out the field and its interactions associated tive metric are very complicated and non-linear so a nice with a given symmetry [6]. The details of this method are closed form like the Schwarzchild metric cannot be writ- beyond the scope of this paper but the interested reader is ten down. However, we can use successive approximations referred to [1] for a reasonable introduction. In YMG we to solve

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Shamshad Rahman Lubna

coronary heart disease (CHD) in identified and corrected [9]. Cardiovascular epidemiologyundiagnosed individuals is possible through risk factor commenced in the 1930s in the Unites States due toevaluation, mainly through 4 governing factors; behavior, observable changes in mortality [10].condition, age and gender. The secondary objective was toimprove currently used coronary prediction algorithms orprograms by including new factors discussed here. To evaluate RESEARCH METHODthe impact of risk factors in predicting CHD, a meta-analysis wasperformed by reviewing published data from various In the research presented here in order to properly evaluate therandomized trials and studies

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

, integrative learning is defined as anand critical thinking skills are vital to the success of an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across theengineer. The goal of the engineering educator is to help curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas andstudents strengthen these abilities and guide them through the experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new,continuous processes of inquiry. Inquiry-Based Learning complex situations within and beyond the campus.[9] Ainvolves questioning, investigating (analyzing data), creating model for assessment of integrative learning, the Integrative(synthesizing data into information), communicating

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Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project

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Jeng-Nan Juang; Ramachandran Radharamanan

● Can handle voltages well beyond the 14V that was 18” to allow the solar panel to rotate 45 degrees north to supplied. This is done because if even for an instant the south. battery supplies a voltage more than the controller can ● Have a built in potentiometer for position feedback to handle it will do harm to the circuits. know the current extended length so that the actuators are ● Can handle current well over the maximum current not commanded to extend or compress beyond their limits. motors is intended to experience. For the preferred design, ● Low Cost

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A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

-avoidance derby” withsmall autonomous cars, from scratch, enhancing their their smart cars. A youtube video of this event can be seen atmotivation while reinforcing their learning of electrical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJwOuOdzlQ.engineering fundamentals. After completing a pilot semester, it is evident that theSummary elements of the new hands-on component of hands-on component is adding value to the student experienceECE361: of this Fundamentals of EE course. In order to move beyond the pilot, or trial version, a group

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Teresa Piliouras; Pui Lam Yu; Kristin Villanueva; Holly Robillard; Yingxin Chen; Michael Berson; Jeanne R. Lauer; Garret Sampel; Daniel Lapinski; Maigh Attre

– personal responsibility, self-esteem,college preparatory, magnet high school that offers its students atechnology-rich learning environment. Its culture and climate sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty;fosters innovation that goes beyond the classroom. For example, • Thinking skills – creativity, decision-making, problem-a collaborative effort with AITE led to the creation of an online solving, learning ability, visualization skills, andlearning program – Best We Can Be – that engenders learning by reasoning ability;facilitating supportive interpersonal networks between students

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Melody Baglione

component [7]. In eight new laboratorysessions, students are exposed to practical applications ofprocess control using two experimental rigs from Feedback,Inc. The first rig allows students to control the level and flowof water through a circuit and tank, while the second rig is athermal system, as shown in Fig. 2, in which temperature isregulated by controlling the primary and secondary flow ratesthrough a heat exchanger. Using both these rigs, small studentgroups identify process variables in the physical systems andutilize industrial control equipment to implement the tuningmethods learned in class. Fig. 3. Centrifugal Chiller. Students visit the chiller mechanical room

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Ruzanna Davtyan

,“incorporates the most recent research in cognitive science Cooperation, and Transfer (REACT).(Thomas, 2000) p.213.” It is also a response to the “behavioristtheories” that have controlled American education for longtime. The contextual approach distinguishes that “learning is acomplex and multifaceted process that goes far beyond drill-oriented, stimulus-and-response methodologies (Byars-Winston & Fouad, 2008) p.28.” II. CONTEXTUAL LEARNING Contextual Learning (CL) is a learning system that tiesbrain actions to crating patters that have meaning. CI does it byconnecting academic content to the context of real life. This isvery important because it helps to store not only short-termmemory, which students usually easily

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Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque; H. M. Imran Hassan; S. M. Abul Hossain

. include capabilities beyond typical relay control. Sophisticated motion control, process control, distributive control systems, I. INTRODUCTION and complex networking have now been added to the PLC’s A feedback control system often uses a function of a functions [6]. Therefore, PLCs provide many advantages overprescribed relationship between the output and reference input conventional relay type of control, including increasedto control the process. Often the difference between the output reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, communicationof the process under

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Richard Steven Colon; Prabir Patra; Khaled Elleithy

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Random Word Retrieval for Automatic Story Generation Richard S. Colon, Sr., Prabir K. Patra, and Khaled M. Elleithy If we consider the activity of creating literature, can a Abstract— Over the past forty years, significant research has computational system write a story such that a reader wouldbeen done on story/narrative generation in which the computer is not know the story was computer generated? Can the storiesthe author. Many existing systems generate stories

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Isaac George Macwan; Zihe Zhao Omar Sobh; Prabir Patra

investigating thedue to the current flowing through the solenoid can be metabolic type, where 10ml of semi-solid medium is injectedbounded at the upper limit in a relatively short time frame. It is into the screw cap test tube and autoclaved at 121 C for 15already known that the cultivation of such bacteria requires a minutes after which it is left for cooling at room temperature.temperature up to 30 C. Thus, based on this information AMB-1 cells can be inoculated when the medium cools downalone, the ability of the bacteria to survive beyond this to the room temperature through a clean transfer loop, wheretemperature limit can be gauged. However, there is a the medium is gently

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James Accuosti

technology in K-12," Journal of Research on Technology in Education, vol. 36, pp. 15+, Fall 2003.[36] W. C. Hope, "Teachers, Computer Technology, and the Change Process," The Clearing House, vol. 70, pp. 191-193, 1997.[37] W. R. Penuel, B. J. Fishman, R. Yamaguchi and L. P. Gallagher, "What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation," American Educational Research Journal, vol. 44, pp. 921-958, 2007.[38] J. Margerum-Leys and R. W. Marx, "The nature and sharing of teacher knowledge of technology in a student teacher/mentor teacher pair," Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 55, pp. 421+, 2004 November- December 2004.[39] R. Royer, "Supporting Technology Integration through

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Matthew Foley; Matthew Janiga; John Adams; Yan Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

. [7] Condon, G. L. and Pearson, D. J., “The Role of Humans s,” Advances in the Astronautical Sciences: Astrodynamics 2001, Vol. 109, pp. 95-110. Figure 8 Container State Diagram [8] Space debris: a status report submitted by the Committee on Space Research (A/AC.105/ 403, 6 January Aksnes, K., Short-Period and Long-Period Perturbations of a Spherical Satellite Due to Direct Solar Radiation Pressure, Celestial Mechanics

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

(CCLI) and REU #1324166. Any opinions, findings, experiments in a senior-level chemical engineering course [6].conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. They found that the computer-simulated experiments led to Enid K. Sichel is a consulting physicist. (e-mail: better learning for some students, while others got more out ofEnid_Sichel@verizon.net) a traditional lab experiment. The authors caution against using Beverly Park Woolf is a Research Professor in the School of ComputerScience, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Keith M. Gardiner

] Gardiner, K. M., “Education for Future Manufacturing,” Proceedingsfashion by competing departments and colleges [22]. International Manufacturing Education Conference, CIMEC-2002, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, April 3-5, 2002, ISBN 90-365- 17346, pp. 359-366.A key notion must be that every commercial, industrial or [8] Gardiner, K. M., and Korin, S. B., “Furthering the Integration ofmanufacturing system extends for many layers beyond actual

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William Alpert; Alexander Vaninsky

spent on college by efficiency score for itself through a manipulation of the weightcomputing the efficiency of college education in dynamics. coefficients. If this was the case, an object that performsWhile the positive impact of better education and training in excetionally well would have received an efficiency scoregeneral is beyond doubt for the vast majority of students and greater than 1.demonstrated by numerous studies in the literature, our goal is Publication Charnes et al. [6] showed that maximization ofto find a quantitative measure of their effects. To achieve this the efficiency ratio (2) is equivalent to solving a series ofgoal, we compare the employed

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Ali M. Elrashidi

, and Beyond with Digital Coherent Signal Processing,”IEEE Commun. electronics II, and antenna systems courses. Mag., vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 62-69, Jul. 2010.[6] Q. Guo, and A. Tran, “Demonstration of 40 Gb/s Wavelength Reused WDM-PON Using Coding and Equalization,” J. Opt. Commun. Netw., vol. 5, no. 10, Oct. 2013. Khaled M. Elleithy received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and[7] K. Iwatsuki, “Application and Technical Issues of WDM-PON,” Proc. automatic control from Alexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in SPIE 7620, Broadband Access Commun. Techno. IV, 76200C, computer networks from the same university in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D

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Fernanda Gobbi de Boer; Carla ten Caten; Istefani Carisio de Paula

ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2011.professional engineer’s everyday activities. The solution [6] G. B. RANDOLPH, Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: Writingdeveloped by the students was built through peer interaction Across the Curriculum Approach. Journal of Engineering Education,for the exchange of knowledge and experience, with the vol.89, n.2, 2000, p.119-122. [7] K. A. SMITH, S. D. SHEPPARD, D. W. JOHNSON, and R. T.guidance and supervision of the professor in charge of the JOHNSON

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Areej Alshehri; Christian Bach

quality of life “The provision of future topics of study in CP management. Further, the public care & support to can gain from this research since it adds on to the available established The Patient Challenges of Patient patients has a pool of information on CP management. Parents, clinic through medical Quality of CP

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

the pedagogical characteristics to understand the equipment operationalaspect of teaching in response to changes in the power industry. capabilities and limitations. Students use simulation packages to validate the experimental results while at the same time Index Terms—discrete Fourier transform, harmonics, least learn through hands-on experiments how varioussquare error, optimization equipment/sensors can be used in the design of power system for steady state, dynamic, and transient conditions as well as