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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

into the workforce are prepared to meet thenecessarily equate to a high overall level of technology demands of the job market. Workforce readiness hasproficiency – such as that needed to write software code, or to many dimensions and may be defined in many ways.configure and troubleshoot networked computer Some definitions focus on specific skills needed forenvironments. However, basic computer skills are a specific jobs, while others emphasize broader skill sets,fundamental requirement for workforce readiness in a knowledge, and behaviors. Models of workforce readinesstechnological society. differ in emphasis and details, but they

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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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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Daniel Katz

and sentially, this is a question of what would happen if space- the bending of light around massive objects, are also pre- time geometry were subject to quantum fuzziness. We dicted to within the limit of experimental accuracy by need to be able to write out Eqn. 4 explicitly for the YMG [5, 7, 8]. “quantum metric tensor” in order for it to help us de- termine the field operators’ algebra. The problem is that, in order to write it out explicitly we need to know the distance between the two fields. To know the distance, we need to know the quantum metric. But we were trying to

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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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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

. A. Catalyst Fundamentals J. N. Renner is with Proton OnSite, 10 Technology Drive, Wallingford, CT06492 USA. E-mail: JRenner@ProtonOnSite.com. The fellow worked with the production team to audit the catalyst processing techniques at Proton OnSite and identify978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEimportant parameters. It was hypothesized thaat catalyst surfacecharge had a significant impact on the charracteristics of theresulting material. A simple and inexpensivee titration methodwas employed to screen surface charge.6 Expploring effects ofthe extreme cases, it was found that catalystts which caused alarge basic shift in pH also

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

practices Often, engineering equipments are costly, and adding morehave been shown to improve student participation. There is credits and hours to an already packed curriculum isbroad recognition that meaningful learning in engineering impractical and too costly to students. In that regard, somerequires that students master fundamental concepts, rather institutions have embraced the use of virtual testing/simulationthan the memorization of facts and formulas [1

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

didn’t want or need to learn programming, (SUNY), and Marist College (home of the New York Statewhich was more appropriate for traditional computer science Center for Cloud Computing and Analytics), in addition to andegree programs. With the introduction of SDN/NFV, this ecosystem of active corporate sponsors and research affiliates.approach to network administration education needs tochange. For example, to provide high availability the network II. SDN CONCEPTS AND SKILLSadministrator no longer needs to manually provision two ormore redundant physical switches. Instead, using APIs in an A. Educational GoalsSDN network, it is possible to write a script instructing the New York

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Gloria Ma

sciencestudents. To improve the performance of students in classes such as statics, control theory, andcomputer graphics it is necessary to improve their performance on computing components ofvectors. We wrote a computer graphics, animated application in MATLAB to provide studentswith a method to improve their performance on computing vector trigonometric components.MATLAB is a good choice for doing numerical computations and graphical interface writing;however, the object-oriented animated graphics were difficult to program. We assessed onegroup of first-year engineering students on vector trigonometric computations who had access tothe MATLAB application before the test. We assessed another group of first-year engineeringstudents without access to the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Melody Baglione

techniques: a writing assignment gradedon student learning and engagement. using a cognitive skills rubric and pre- and post- concept inventories whereby the instructor is able to III. ASSESSMENT PLAN assess and quantify student understanding as it relates to the project at hand, andA. Nature and Purpose of the Assessment Plan ii. qualitative techniques: the use of semi-structured The

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David W. Kraft

2n ρ0 = ρn (3)the effects and consequences of such growth. In particular weexamine applications to population growth and to growth in in which ρ0 is the current density and ρn is that after nthe consumption rate of nonrenewable natural resources. doublings. Solving (3) for n yieldsThese examples were inspired by lectures and writings of thelate Albert A. Bartlett [2], ρn n = Log 2 . (4

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madhav D. Patil; Tamer Abukhalil

software as well as for the fundamental element of the information gathering quest. In middleware. swarm robotics, obstacle detection and collision avoidance in real time while the robots are in motion is major • They should provide low cost wireless constrain and difficult task. Proximity sensors sense the communication for indoor as well as outdoor object or surrounding material or other moving swarm applications robots without any physical contact, and calculate or give • They should have enough future expansion

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

. learning strategies: summary of the main concepts in the form Addressing issues of professional development in of theoretical material, providing reading materials to increaseuniversity is taken into account employers’ requirements. knowledge, a deeper study of the topic (tutorials); providingUniversity established communication link with employers via links to textbooks, which represent fundamental concepts;the Employers' Council and the Career Sector which takes providing references to the scientific publications reflectingactive part in assistance of employment of graduates and current researches and developments in this area.expansion on practice base

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan

-working manner, by writing the general equations andproblem solver starts at the end (from the goal) and tries to then solving for the appropriate unknowns until the goalwork backward from there. In particular, in a working- variable is calculated. The results have been corroborated bybackward method the problem solver analyzes the problem by the famous Chi study [21], where both experts and novicesthe viewing the end (the goal being sought) and then tries to were asked to categorize mechanics problems based upondecrease the distance between the current position in the similarity of solutions. As opposed to experts, novicesproblem space and the end goal (or goal position) in that categorized

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kai Hu

. Generally, Reader willtransceiver. Peslak (2005) explored the ethical of privacy on connect to the computer and transmit the tag information toRFID. He has attempted to study the fundamental issue of the computer for further processing. Electronic Product Codeprivacy the privacy implications of frequency identification (EPC) is more specific terms for the company's plan to moretags. He reviewed the privacy rights, talked the position of effectively track and manage the assets of the entire system.enterprises, discussed RFID privacy issues and proposed This new identification system is characterized by the EPCRFID privacy category framework. Global, a partner of the Uniform Code