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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Dicosat-Research Satellite for a 5th Grader Varun Pande Jayanta Paul Manuel Curillo Dr.Jani Macari Pallis Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering University Of Bridgeport University Of Bridgeport University Of BridgeportUniversity Of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT, USA Bridgeport, CT, USA Bridgeport, CT, USA Bridgeport, CT, USA jpaul@bridgeport.edu mcurillo

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Joseph Betthauser; Daniel Benavides; Jeff Schornick; Neal O'Hara; Jimit Patel; Jeremy Cole; Edgar Lobaton

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) WolfBot: A Distributed Mobile Sensing Platform for Research and Education Joseph Betthauser, Daniel Benavides, Jeff Schornick, Neal O’Hara, Jimit Patel, Jeremy Cole, Edgar LobatonAbstract— Mobile sensor networks are often composed of agentswith weak processing capabilities and some means of mobility.However, recent developments in embedded systems haveenabled more powerful and portable processing units capable ofanalyzing complex data streams in real time. Systems with suchcapabilities are able to perform tasks such as 3D

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Remah Alshinina; Christian Bach

inclusive within the design. In early methods, researchers usedto not consider other important facts that are unknown like waterfall approach in which they defined and validated themental level factor, environment factors, parenting and so on. requirements ahead of time before initiating the design andThese factors could have revealed in-depth conclusions about hence the implementation (14). Later, researchers used thethe study (13). In this study, going through the variety of prototype approach where they proposed certain tool basedguidelines mentioned in the following sections of the paper, methods for application development and programming. In themake sense to understand the relationship between behavior

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

gascm2 test cell at 50°C and compared to Protoon’s baseline data diffusion layers (GDLs) to make gas diffusion electrodes(Fig. 3). The results indicate that the perrformance is not (GDEs). These GDE samples weree built in a 5 cm2 test cellaffected by the acid treatment of the catalyst. with a standard noble metal electrolysis cathode. Testing was The impact of the research includes an inexpensive conducted at 50°C in an anode feeed configuration. The non-screening technique which prevents cattalyst lots with noble metal electrode showed simiilar initial performance tosuboptimal surface charge from entering the

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Thomas Goddard; Konstantin Litovskiy; Nathan Nichols-Roy; Matthew Reed; Igor Shvartser; Nicholas Smith; David Zeppa; Linda Werner; Julia E. Rice; Hans W. Horn; Amanda C. Engler

published research.chemistry. We discuss our initial experiences to build a The purpose of this paper is to describe our initial experiencescross-disciplinary project team whose goal is to contribute building a cross-disciplinary project team1 to address theto an open source software tool used by scientists for project goal: identifying polymers in published research. Thispolymer discovery. work is part of a two-quarter long software engineering project; the student team consists of computer science, math, I. INTRODUCTION and chemistry majors at the University of

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

engineering was established within aSaud University with industry. The first aspect is providing collaborative project between the government of the Kingdomconsultations by college faculty to industry companies. Thesecond aspect is supporting scientific research through the of Saudi Arabia represented by the Ministry of Education andfinance provided by industry to establish research chairs in the the UNESCO Commission of the Organization of the Unitedcollege. The third aspect is providing scholarships to the Nations. The college was under the auspices of UNESCO untiloutstanding students and awards to the outstanding graduation 1969 when it became a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sukainah Al Hajji; Christian Bach

Health, the Orchard Foundation, the Harold and Ronnamultipotent renotective stem cells can be designed to treat Cooper family, the Consolidated Anti-Aging Foundation, theseverely damaged kidney [29, 31-34]. Poul Hansen family, the National Center for Research Resources, and the Office of Research Infrastructure Stem cells therapy helps the body to heal itself. The Programs. This indicate to how important this technique tonatural properties of stem cells make them a perfect choice for help Parkinson patients.treating damaged organs. Initial studies used the patient’s own In the Scripps Research Institute in

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David Cain; Brian Layng; Kyle McNulty; Ryan O'Connor; Tomas Estrada

initial design idea of the projectwas to manufacture a small car that will follow a line at highspeeds. It was to be comprised of basic analog components.Simply said, this car would take analog input from infraredsensors, compare these values in a micro controller, send theresults to a motor driver, and the motor driver will determinethe direction that the axel will turn. We used a low cost remotecontrol car as a platform for our research. Some options for the line sensors were to create our ownusing photo resistor cells or to use a premade infrared Fig. 1. Current aesthetics of the Pace Car projectreflective sensor. We ran tests with the photo resistors anddecided that they would work, for this portion we decided to

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Areej Alshehri; Christian Bach

aalshehr@bridgeport.edu cbach@my.bridgeport.edu Abstract—The purpose of this study is to discuss the can be accredited to subdural damage [8]. When a patientchallenges of cerebral palsy (CP) management. The paper will receives extensive care from specialists at a tender age, theydiscuss CP treatment, patient care & support, clinical processes may improve. Similarly, once muscles and bones becomeand patient quality of life as the major challenges of CP more established, it is more difficult to reduce the symptomsmanagement. The paper looks at existing research with the aim of the disorder; orthopedic surgery may be required [9].of advancing current

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Hui Zhang; Joseph Chen; Kai Zhang

sectors, in hospitals, and known. When the reader detected the RFID tag, the robot’sother areas. However, research on reliable and efficient location on the pre-stored map would be recognized by thelocalization is still a major issue. navigation planning module, and the next step’s directionMobile robots were located with the help of Dead-reckoning would be decided. However, there was no accurateby measuring the displacement with respect to the initial localization, as the RFID tags could be detected at a distancecoordinates and initial orientation [1]. This method is limited, of even 1m from the reader. The difference of RFID signalas

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

continue through their first year instudies often focus on identifying the effects of additional school.financial aid on students’ persistence and graduation [7][9].Although this approach seems to work initially, it is not very Also, students must select a major upon enrollment andcost-effective. many students are not cognizant of the differences between Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Computer There are other lines of research which focus on college Engineering Technology (CET). In addition, City Tech offersmentorship as a means to increase retention. College various associate

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

a technological by technological advancements is the educational sector.tool carrying various benefits for enhancing the On one hand, researchers have questioned the potentialstudents and teachers classroom experience. The of technology to enhance the effectiveness of the processstudy has focused on the key features of the SMART of education [1]. On the other hand, scholars haveTable designed by the researcher. The components of suggested that technology compliments education,the supply chain process in the development and making instructions easier to understand for students [2-delivery of the device have been explained. Moreover, 4].the benefits and limitations

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Amer H. Daggag

of individuals in the ICT products production.V. A., & Pittayachawan S. (2009)) [16]. The implementation of the green ICT has led to the reduction2.1. Why is it important? of the regulatory and governmental pressure and voluntary initiatives. Many institutions have started to research on theThe reason why green computing is vital is due to the benefit different ways that they could use in order to go green [3]. Thethat it provides to the environment and the general society. By looming penalties from different institutions have required thereferring to Murugesan & Laplante (2011), they mentioned

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tara Kulkarni

PROJECT ASSIGNMENTS BY THE WEEKappropriate vegetation for a potential rooftop garden. However, ensuring that the classroom content is robust Week Taskenough to support the theoretical and mathematical basis for 1 Initial meeting + negotiate project scopeany design projects that the students would be involved in isjust as important. In engineering programs, additional 2 Background research, data collection, protocols/proceduresconsiderations provided by the Accreditation Board for for initial design ideas.Engineering Technology (ABET) also influence syllabi and 3

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wei Lu

In this research, by collaborating with our colleagues inScience and Biology. the filed of Biology we address this issue and build a lightweight Ubuntu Linux-based cluster which will be used Keywords - linux, phylogenetics, phyloinformatics, operating for phylogenetic and phyloinformatic research, and thensystem conduct an experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of the cluster by analyzing a set of molecular data using the I. INTRODUCTION

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

. INTRODUCTION II. BACKROUND RESEARCH Energy for Education is an initiative set forth by the studentrun non-profit organization World Energy Project. The goal is Prior to developing any lesson plan, research wasto educate grade school students on energy issues -- globally conducted on topics, including: Energy in Springfield,and within their own communities – and on sustainable Currirculum Implementation, Mentoring Students of Color,practices used to resolve them. In order to achieve this, we and STEM Education.have developed a curriculum composed of a series of lessonplans in the classroom. This curriculum was developed in the A. Energy in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nicholas Misiunas; Charles Thompson; Kavitha Chandra

of the algorithm theare initialized with random positions of array elements such fitness of each firefly is calculated and each firefly movesthat the inter-element distances are uniformly distributed in both randomly, with a distance decreasing with each iterationthe range (xmin = 0.35λ, xmax = 0.9λ). We consider the and towards other fireflies, taking larger steps towards thoseparameters used in the work by [6], specifically the choice fireflies that are closer.of initial distribution range and bandwidth requirement. Here III. F IREFLY A LGORITHM R ESULTSthe positions are non

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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May Alzawawi

) defines supply chain management assurvey was conducted. According to the research supported by the the active chain that seeks to maximize customer satisfaction and tosurvey responses, there are four major drivers that mainly contribute create a maintainable competitive advantage [1]. Its main goal is toto the successful adoption of sustainability into existing supply increase effectiveness and efficiency of the whole organization.chains. The results highlight the major drivers and barriers that Supply chain activities cover the whole process from the productmedium sized businesses might face when making sustainable and maturity phase, sourcing, logistics and the flow of information. It

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Shamshad Rahman Lubna

the riskCHD is significantly lower in premenopausal women, factors or discoveries established regarding CHD over thesuggesting the idea of the effects of endogenous estrogen in years have been through extensive cardiovascular researchpreventing atherosclerosis [52, 53, 54]. Estrogens have shown to conducted on male patients [8]. Extensive research on womenhave an acute vasodilatory effect on the vessel wall and inhibit initiated during the 1990s, all of which later confirmed theof smooth-muscle cell proliferation [55]. Studies have indicated greater female susceptibility to CHD [8, 28, 43].that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has beneficial ii. Female: Risk factors like low high-density

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sultan Alghamdi; Christian Bach

II. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Theoretical modeling begins with a need to understand a I. INTRODUCTION marketing phenomenon, for example, to try and understand The efficient and successful business is operating in an why stores have sales. The researcher then constructs anenvironment characterized by information, dynamism, and environment, which is the model on which actions are to beglobalization, driving it to be flexible and react quickly to explained or take place. A model is a series of assumptions,changes in the market. Business’s reaction is the result of which may be purely

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nan Feng

consumers canimpact the process that building a strong brand. The factors keep that in mind. A producer has four support choices.include brand positioning, the brand name selection, brand Building on theory of social cognition and category, thissponsorship, and brand development. Also we will analysis research proposes two size of fit: support group relatednesshow can the company and manufacturer do better though these and occasion character fit. For the research people know thatfour processes. Moreover, this article gives people a model “line extensions, brand extensions, multi-brands, or new brandthat can show the four factors in the process of building a “are these four choices for the company to

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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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Carli D. Flynn; Cliff I. Davidson; Sharon Dotger

— This paper reports preliminary evidence that II. EXPLORATORY WORKmany engineering students possess robust misconceptions aboutrates of change in processes. Exploratory testing on this issue led A. Objectivesto the development of the Rate and Accumulation ConceptInventory (RACI), which is intended to assess the extent and The primary objective of the exploratory study was totypes of misconceptions about rate processes. Initial results of determine whether there are robust student misconceptionsthis instrument indicate the presence of multiple levels of that may impede student learning of applied engineeringmisconceptions

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Damien Laird; Jack Price; Ioannis A. Raptis

. The position and orientation of the Spider- minimal difficulty, given a realistic goal radius roughly theBot, for different initial conditions, are illustrated in Figure size of the object which in this case was 23 pixels.6. As can be seen from the Figure, the Spider-Bot excelled atsimultaneous movement and rotation; a function of its walking VI. C ONCLUSIONmechanism that allowed it to follow very efficient paths to the Through this research and experimentation an affordabletarget. robotics platform has been developed. It is inexpensive in The object manipulation algorithm generates a sequence of terms of all

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

Petroleum Institute (PI) students regarding learning in higher education and learning in their disciplineacademic issues and how they affect students' performance. as part of their lifelong learning [2].The research was conducted at the PI and was conducted byusing survey. A literature review was first initiated and the Most students who attend college overseas confront diverseresearch question along with the purpose and scope are cultural and language differences. For example, foreignpresented in this paper. The findings of the research weresignificant. Furthermore, a discussion of these results is students attending The Petroleum Institute face

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sudhanshu Sinha; Manohar Mareboyana

to speed up the has been used for video segmentation in [3, 24, 26, 27]. D.MOG model by using “additive increase/decrease” to adjust Freedman and Kisilev [23] have used fast Mean shift bythe weights of the matched distributions and the unmatched compacting the density representation. Sinha anddistributions respectively. Most of these require expensive Mareboyana in press [39] have used Mean shift andcomputation. It is hard to figure out the initial value for a Histogram clustering for video segmentation.Gaussian. Also, each time the input value has to be put ineach Gaussian for computation before a decision is made II. METHODSand after decision the weights are adjusted. The

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wafa Mohamed Elmannai; Khaled Elleithy

whole lot of research and of data including temperature, current, biological (ecosystemdevelopment conducted on it yet because there are several productivity), chemical (nutrient fertilization), etc., ischallenges. collected, processed and finally transmitted by underwater sensors to shore data-collection stations all in real-time [7].Manuscript received January 21, 2014. W. Elmannai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science The figure demonstrates the typical deployment of UWSNs.and Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan

groups.This shows that by attempting to solve problems via means- Textbook problem: A student stands at the edge of the cliffends analysis the goal-specific groups suffered from cognitive and throws a stone horizontally over the edge with a speedoverload that manifested itself by the increase of mathematical 16.0 m/s. The cliff is 54.0 m above a flat, horizontal beach. (a)errors made. What are the components of the initial velocity? (b) How long It has to be noted that research on more complex problems after being released does the stone strike the beach below thesuch as created by Electric Field Hockey software provided cliff? (c) With what speed and angle of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

problem in its societal roughly 15 hours per week for each student, over the course ofcontext and developing appropriate solutions, students deliver seven weeks per term). During the first term, students developtheir findings through a final report and presentation, enabling a research proposal to be carried out during the second andWPI students to apply the scientific knowledge, skills, and third terms. Based on an initial walkthrough of the house, atechnology that they learn in class to real-world problems [3]. literature review, and conversations with home energy A team of four students was assembled, and carried out

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Arar Alkhader; Junling Hu; Akinwumi Akinkunmi; Prabir Patra; Xingguo Xiong

these depth of burns reflects the degree; it depends on thedesigns are introduced as a protection means to cover and temperature and contact duration with the burning substance.protect the burned tissue from the bacterial infection not as a There are four major degrees of burns, first, second, third, andtreatment means. In this paper a new model for a burns fourth degree burns. Greater degree means greater damagedbiobandage is introduced not only as a protective means but also tissue, and more complicated situation and treatmentas a treatment technique by helping the tissue to rebuild itself as procedure.fast as possible. The main objective of this research is to developa simple