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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Application of the Problem Based Learning Method in the Discipline ‘Statistics for Engineering’ Fernanda Gobbi de Boer (Author) Carla ten Caten (Co-author) M.Sc. Student of the Graduate Program in Industrial Vice Dean of the School of Engineering Engineering Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil Porto Alegre, Brazil

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Mohamed A. Ghalib; Yasser S. Abdalla; R. M. Mostafa

drive by using the system of PIC16f877A.generation. One of these sources is a renewable The microcontroller is more simple and flexibleenergy which possibly has no harm on the to change control algorithms in a real timeenvironment [1]. The need of the power rating without further changes in a hardware with it'sinverter is required to operate electrical and low cost and reduces the complexity of theelectronic appliances smoothly. Most of the control circuit for the signal phase inverteravailable commercially uninterruptible power bridge [10]. The application of this inverter is tosupplies (UPSs) are actually square wave

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ketul B Shah; Aritra Ghosh; Md Naim Hossain; Young Lee

other more than a set of interactive objects. In the real world, the practical lessons performed in a lab use to be like a game, insystems. This block also offers web server capabilities which a set of targets must be achieved in a very specificincluding a database, content repositories, and web services. order.Earlier web-servers used in other mobile applications are Accordingly, in our pedagogical approach, we aimstatic and can communicate with mobile application in pre- to support one or more students carrying out a practicaldefined manner and in pre-defined data types [4][9

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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M. Ali-ud-din Khan; Muhammad Fahim Uddin; Navarun Gupta

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Seven V’s of Big Data Understanding Big Data to extract Value M. Ali-ud-din Khan, Muhammad Fahim Uddin, Navarun Gupta Abstract—Big Data has shown lot of potential in real world However, Value is the most desirable output of Big Dataindustry and research community. We support the power and processing. Therefore, we must understand all 7 V’s of it andpotential of it in solving real world problems. However, it is we must then extract value from it

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Melody Baglione

real world application, it always helps. participating in this project. You understand why you’re learning the material, how Answer: The most important things I learned from this it could be used, and even numbers start making sense project are the practical applications of the classroom such as the capacity of a chiller for a building of this material. It was great that this relevant example of our size. When the labs were straightforward and clear, own academic building could be used in our learning. they were also very helpful. We could see the feedback control process in action, such as PID

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wafa Mohamed Elmannai; Khaled Elleithy

)energy consumption. Historically underwater monitoring and data collection I. INTRODUCTION were performed by recording devices that did not communicate in real time. They simply recorded data and Underwater sensor networks have a wide variety of were retrieved at a later point by physically collecting theapplications in real world. They can be used in Ocean devices. This would be akin to the use of computers before theSampling Networks, Pollution, chemical, biological

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Christian Bach

which may compensate Apple released their first operating system. It is based on the for small shortcomings in features and flexibility. As a Disk Operating System (DOS) system which is well known as consequence, the operating system is not secure the black screen and command line. Microsoft dominated the enough. In this case, a third party third party may market of operating system after they released Windows 95. provide a security application, such as Norton [12]. This new domination of the operating system world was held (and, many would argue, still is) for many reasons [21]. • FACTOR 4: Graphic User

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Suleman Belal Kazi; Sherjeel Sikander; Sadia Yousafzai; Suleman Mazhar

infive times more than due to other causes [4]. The number of real time.elderly people in the world is expected to reach 2 billion by Our algorithm uses the accelerometer present in2050 [5]. With the rising cost of healthcare it is not possible cellphones to monitor for falls, if a fall is detected theto have separate caregivers for each individual, so in many application automatically notifies predefined contacts (suchcases in which a person experiences a fall, immediate help as parents or emergency services) with the victim’s GPSmight not be available. coordinates shown on a map. There are different approaches to detecting: The use

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Christian Bach

after the hospital administration. Often times doctorsquickly and smoothly involves not only hardware and software and nurses are the benchmark of evaluation performance of theinstallation, but staff training, as well. As with any network hospital as a whole. In the patients’ views, the way that doctorssystem or Internet-based application, spectrums broaden, but and nurses interact with them is often times the one and onlysecurity risks do, as well. In an ideal world, Internet and network way that the hospital is evaluated through the patients’security would not be a barrier to hospital staff keeping patients’ perspective [3]. However

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Naseem Khan; Elif Kongar

satisfyof applications that could be used or develop to support their needs.terrorist intervention including recruitment of cooperatives ormembers which can be sent through Bluetooth request or other III. METHODOLOGY want us to ask ourselves every day, how are we using The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how innovation and technology to make real difference in people’s live” is a greatnew product development can also lead to some vulnerabilities statement acknowledging how human had been veryand features that both help provide satisfaction to customer as dependent of technology and in particular the smartphone ofwell as some anxiety and issues that lead to security

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madhav D. Patil; Tamer Abukhalil

project, robotsbees. Till date, most existing swarm robot systems have use different colored light emitting diodes (LED) andbeen designed and implemented with homogeneous omnidirectional camera for communicating with eachhardware. Only a few of them have heterogeneous robots, other. The camera is pointed at a half spherical mirror tobut those swarm system were limited physically and directly acquire images from its surroundings. Thebehaviorally. Due to the lack of methods and tools, swarm problem with swarm bot is that, the images that camerarobot designers cannot achieve the complexity required receives are further away than seen in mirror. Table Іfor the real world applications

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tiago Martins Ribeiro; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

step, an initial random population (food source positions) The efficiency of some applications for the diversity of distributed is generated. After booting, this population isinsects used in computer science for the improvement and subjected to repeated cycles of processes of job search, viewer,creation of algorithms, has been showing up more and more and scout bees, respectively.effective. One can thus see the similarity computing machineto the real world, through this study of the behavior of the real A bee employed make a change in the position of the locallife of insects and application in distributed systems. food in his memory and discovers a new food source position

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tamer Abukhalil; Madhav Patil

comprehensive investigation and evaluation of thefailing one. Modular robotic systems have shown to be robust present multi-robotic systems (MRS) has been thoroughlyand flexible in the tasks of localization, surveillance [3], and discussed in our previous work [5]. In that survey wereconnaissance [4]. Such properties are likely to become organized and classified ten swarm robotics systems and theirincreasingly important in real-world robotics applications. corresponding behavioral algorithms into a preliminarytaxonomy. We concluded that several algorithms have been multi-agent robots for the sake of educational purposes nameddeveloped to run on swarms of robots. These algorithms MAJIC. The system

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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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

advocates flexible“By 2020, America will once again have the highest scheduling and online learning to provide continuous, on-proportion of college graduates in the world.” – President demand learning opportunities. Ultimately, the report poses aBarack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009 grand challenge to the fifty states and federal government to The first National Education Technology Plan (NETP) – work together to build an “integrated end-to-end real-timeGetting America’s Students Ready for the 21st Century: system

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

, … how simple introductory to continue learning, which contracts... Despite everything I working as a team I can also say that I classes that we took in is why obtaining my MBA is still have to learn, staff were and learning to accept grew as a professional.” college could become very one of my most valuable always willing to take time to and adapt to the applicable to the real goals.” help me as well as explain new personalities of world.” topics” others.”4th year, “This experience gave me “This

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abrar Mohammed Alajlan

, Information, andSystems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE). CISSE is the firstEngineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference in the world tobe completely conducted online in real-time via the internet and wassuccessfully running for six years. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor of 12books published by Springer for advances on Innovations and AdvancedTechniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software.

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kishan Gutta; Madhav Patil

processing of the data and environments etc. Due the wireless sensorsshould not be viewed as simply a substitute for applications, operators can continuously monitor andtraditional tethered monitoring systems[2]. Wireless supervise the processes in hazardous environmentssensors are the standard measurement tools equipped from control room located at safe and distance awaywith transmitters to convert signals from process from factory floor. Integrating the wireless sensorscontrol instruments into a radio transmission. These with industrial processes and control systems haveradio signals are converted into specific, desired significant advantages and require guaranties for real

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Marwah Almasri; Khaled Elleithy

in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise.Dr. Elleithy is the co-chair of the International Joint Conferences onComputer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE).CISSE is the first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time viathe internet and was successfully running for six years. Dr. Elleithy is theeditor or co-editor of 12 books published by Springer for advances onInnovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences andSoftware..

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Thair Jamal Khdour; Shaima Salem

with the World Wide Web as a whole and changing to E-learning, a new term coined by Stephen Downes [Downes, 2005]. E-III. KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to In the last years Knowledge Management (KM) has caught learn. E-learning system applications and processes include the attention of both industrialists and researchers. Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual Knowledge is what is known, it is used to mean the classrooms and digital

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ali Radhi Al Essa; Christian Bach

] and real world observations offrom your bank when you do a sudden use of your credit card a case study [14] made by myself. The previous studies donein a different city. Actually these are examples of data mining on the data mining and data warehousing helped me to build awhich is the process of discovering useful patterns in a huge theoretical foundation of this topic. The academic literaturedata set. This huge data is created by integrating current and review, that I have done, improve my understanding of the datahistorical data from different sources and store them centrally warehousing and data mining and then help me to identify thein a special repository called Data Warehousing(DW) [1

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdul Razaque

proceedings of IEEE international conference on Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), Rydges Lakeland Resort, New Zealand, 18-20 February, 2014. [13] A. D. Taskok, “A derivation of Newton’s law of gravitation from electromagnetic forces”, Bulg. J. Phys. 30, pp. 7–20, 2003. [14] Wolfram math world from: /http://mathworld. wolfram.com

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Israel Aguilera Navarrete; Alejandro Lozano-Guzman; Edna Alcazar-Farias

policies related to monitoring processes which are self-defeating. OECDinnovation and competitiveness [1]. indicators may therefore not be the best way to reflect S&T In order to justify governmental investment in S&T, it is real conditions everywhere and under all conditions, evenespecially important for institutions spending public resources though they might be used and accepted all over the world for national and international S&T reporting. ΙΙΙ. CRITERIA AND CONSIDERATIONS Currently, there is threefold approximation of such a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David W. Kraft

find exponent in (9), e kt1 1.it interesting to speculate on the cause of this change inbehavior. Finally, it may be expected that students will At this point it is useful to introduce a real example.appreciate a population model containing a growth-limiting During much of the 20th century, the World-wide consumptionfeature. rate of oil increased at an average annual rate of 7%/yr, corresponding to a doubling time of 10 yrs [6]. Thus, for example, in the decade of the 40s, there was as much oil III

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kai Hu

analysis the aspects. At the same time, RFID technology has also beenpromise and pitfalls that brought by RFID. Under this model, applied to various fields, the application in supply chain isRFID technology combined supply, warehouse, manufacture, particularly concerned. Many companies are faced with aretailers and other departments’ information, then through data similar dilemma of consider the radio frequency identificationcenter sharing these real-time data. Based on the information istransparency and it was sharing between each other, we add a (RFID) technology as a new tool to improve the efficiency ofvirtual currency to replace the reality

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Jeng-Nan Juang; Ramachandran Radharamanan

providesefficient power because it is unavailable or too expensive. a green solution of non-polluting energy sources. Some basicAlso, with the rising cost of fossil fuel most people who live in market analysis was performed to ensure that the product isstandard-sized homes are interested in finding alternative relevant to real world needs. Observing the significant negative impact on the atmosphere caused by traditional

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Breno Fabricio Lira Melo Sousa; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

. The information became accessible to everyone, section four of this article threats to mobile devices.anytime, anywhere. Continuing, in section five, we discuss honeypots aimed at mobile devices. And finally, we have our conclusion and Over the years, computers increasingly, have been gaining references.improvements, the processing power and storage, and evensize. Reached a point of changing the way of life of the world II. HONEYPOTSpopulation, providing greater convenience and troubleshootingproblems that hitherto

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdalraouf Hassan; Christian Bach

standard will BS is capable of supporting access to the Internet; a relayprobably be subsumed by WiMAX; 2) OFDMA, with 2048 station (RS) is a special kind of SS which can forward trafficsub-carriers; and 3) a single carrier choice for vendors who flows to BSs or other RSs; and a mobile station (MS) is an SSbelieve they can solve multipath issues in this mode. which can go around the network. While mesh mode gained excessive interest from researchers, it failed to deploy in the It is nearly a certainty that OFDM is poised for real world as it supports only OFDM and does not work wellpreeminence in cellular and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

-onapplications, more efficient use of existing resources, and experience in creating SDN/NFV solutions, such as usinglower total operating cost. There is strong interest in applying virtual firewalls for network security instead of physicalthe already successful principles of server virtualization to the devices. Until recently, it was not cost effective to providenetwork, and employers are highly motivated to find recent students with access to real world examples of ITgraduates with appropriate SDN skills. infrastructure. New partnerships between industry and academia, as well as consortia between public and private By creating

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

general feeling expressed by the departments that responded to the survey was that more could be done to • More exposure, internships, real world projects integrate this topic into all levels of the civil engineering • More interaction with engineers in practice and curriculum. Many expressed that this topic should be spread coverage in more classes,throughout the undergraduate program. While not stated 3-D virtual model allows a student to see object from anyexplicitly, one gets the impression that some departments angle in real

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

unrealisticnew journey in their first time at a four year institution. Each expectations about careers and workplace requirementsmentor would be assigned to a group of mentees, who would and need the insight that a business person can provide.meet with them on a regular basis and provide them guidance Demonstrations and hands-on activities are always aon the courses to take, etc. real plus if applicable. Company video tapes are also 2. Providing tutors, who would help with the students with excellent tools to use for demoing the real world to thespecific courses. They would help the students on the students.technical aspects of the