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Mohammad H. Hashem; Ahmed A. Al Khawaja; Saleh O. Edhah; Usman I. Hashmi; Al Hareth S. Al Akill

conflictspresented in this paper as well. The research question was with adapting to the new language which is Arabic. As [3]answered and academic issues turned to be having a negative demonstrates, “African students are more confident of theireffect on the students' academic performance. English skills than the Southeast Asian students because they studied in English in their home countries.” The lack I. INTRODUCTION of language skills can drastically affect the student’s Going from a familiar environment like high school to performance and work with other students in team-basedthe new

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper; Mike Kelley; Steve Beyerlein

issues raised in the scenario between what they scenario. Examples include, but are not limited include, but are not limited to: connecting and how those limitations affect their analysis. do and do not to: personal experiences or information read/heard Examples include, but are not limited to: Status know. recognizing information that is new to them, elsewhere, recognizing that personal checking assumptions related to personal beginning to ask questions, injecting their own experiences may or may not

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Improving Retention by Mentoring and Tutoring Freshmen Students Ashwin Satyanarayana, Hong Li, and Josephine Braneky {asatyanarayana, hli, jbraneky}@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Computer Systems Technology New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay St, N-914, Brooklyn, NY 11201. The issue is twofold: attracting students to

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Matthew Foley; Matthew Janiga; John Adams; Yan Zhang; Leffi Cewe-Malloy; Aaron Sakulich

B. WindowsA. Team demographics Before research was carried out, a blueprint for the The IQP is not a major-restricted project; team members building was developed (Fig. 2). No blueprint had previouslyand faculty advisors usually come from different disciplines. existed, and drawing this item up enabled the team to speakThis is usually encouraged, in order to encourage about the house in a standardized way (e.g. by giving eachinterdisciplinary thinking among the students, and more fully window a specific identifying number).investigate every aspect of the issue. In this case, after

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Tara Kulkarni

engineering courses. However, the process of developing small service based experiences within new or existing Manuscript received February 16, 2014. T. Kulkarni is with Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663 USA courses for newer engineering faculty, without much(corresponding author to provide phone: 902-485-2268; e-mail: tkulkarn@ background in the S-L pedagogy and limited communityNorwich.edu). contacts is still insufficiently described. The establishment of978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEthe Community Engagement division within

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

of the use of SMART New technologies have emerged in the market, allowingTable in the classroom have been covered. A few of the academic arena to integrate the newly developedthe notable benefits are ease of memorization ofcontent, doing homework and giving presentations. devices to facilitate the learning of the students [5]. TheThe cost of SMART Table is a key challenge that can manufacturing sector can integrate the technology in itslimit the integration of the device as a learning tool. production process, however, educational institutionsAnother issue that can create barrier in the adoption

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

large state university. Between 2009 and including academic support, special needs services, and2011 we conducted two surveys of over 500 students in multiple counseling. What makes advising challenging is the need tomajors and colleges. These surveys asked students detailed personalize advice for full-time and part-time students,questions about their preferences concerning course selection, transfer students, and students changing majors after satisfyingadvising, and career paths. We present data from this studywhich may be helpful for faculty and staff who advise some of their

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Christian Bach

staff members along the way. However, just Optimization of performance is the aim of this paper afterbecause someone is familiar with computers, does not mean analyzing the issues in hospitals. One of the issues wasthey will do well with a specific application, especially if the incomplete filing data, which is sometimes caused by anapplication contains many functions. Generally, the common occupied computer. This common problem is not solvedphrase of “Keep It Simple Stupid” is the best when first neither in centralization nor decentralization forms [29].implementing hardware and new applications. Simplicity ofuse helps to ensure that all staff members become masters of

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Christian Bach

II. RESEARCH METHODpeople’s motivation and company philosophy. Reading the result, Research papers are assessed based on the source ofwhich lead people’s choice of operating system, and suggest some information. University of Bridgeport provide its membersideas to help normal users to understand the point of view from whether, they are faculty members or students, access tothe designer’s perspective about the operating system. thousands of digital resources via digital library [5]. DigitalManufacturing policy and market influence contribute to libraries have permission to access a collection of articles,operating popularity and spread. The paper represents a general journals, and books which

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Keith M. Gardiner

the Center for Manufacturing SystemsEngineering and an associated cross-disciplinary MS in MSE Program, he is issues, and every major US industry had task forces studyingalso a Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, Japanese methods. Total Quality Management, and QualityCMSE, 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA (Phone: 610- Circles became a powerful mantra and various professional758-5070; e-mail: Keith.Gardiner@Lehigh.edu). groups, together with the National Science Foundation (NSF) He spent 21 years with IBM in semiconductor manufacturing and with theCorporate Manufacturing Technology Institute when the ideas developed in and the National

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Mohammed-Noor Naher Al-Maghrabi; Ahmed A. Abdou El-Abbasy

with dynamics and vibrations. of several buildings. They created one of the earliest multi-Dynamics and vibrations are yet extremely complex subjects and dimensional building models and studied its performance on ademand costly laboratory resources. Since the faculties ofengineering in these universities are new, there are no shaking table. During the 1940s an impact table for simulatinglaboratories for dynamics and vibrations yet. It was obvious that, earthquake ground motions was used to study the mechanicalwithout laboratory work, the students were not able to performance of large shear

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Andrew Grossfield

differentialx’ which is called the difference quotient can be observed in calculus.Equation 1. The following graph, Figure 2, illustrates this principle. A circle of radius 5 is drawn with a line, T, tangent to the circle at the point P(3,4). The equation of the tangent line, T, is Manuscript received February 7, 2014. Andrew Grossfield is a member of the faculty in the Basic ScienceDepartment of Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, Flushing,New York. NY

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Abrar Mohammed Alajlan

ElectricalEngineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, CT 06604, A. ScalabilityUSA (e-mail: elleithy@bridgeport.edu). Many sensor network applications deploy hundreds or even thousands of nodes collaborating to achieve desired978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEgoal(s); thus, scalability is one of the major designing Thus, the programming model for sensor networks shouldattributes in sensor networks applications [6]. A scalable deploy some applications that attain a proper level of energy-sensor network is representing the ability of the network to