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Cynthia Fry; Zachary Steudel

1 Code Hardening: Development of a Reverse Software Engineering Project Cynthia C. Fry, Zachary Steudel Department of Computer Science Baylor University AbstractIn CSI 2334, “Introduction to Computer Systems,” we introduce a group project to the studentswhose purpose is to simulate a team project on the job. Group projects are used very frequently toprovide a similar learning environment which capitalizes on the benefits of peer-to-peer instruction,or cooperative learning. In this group project, students

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Cynthia Fry; Gennie Mansi; Kevin Kulda

1A Sophomore-Level Reverse Software Engineering Project in Computer Systems Cynthia C. Fry Department of Computer Science Baylor University Gennie Mansi Senior, Statistics, Honors Program Baylor University Kevin Kulda Senior, Baylor Business Fellow, Management Information Systems Baylor University Abstract On your first day on the job with a new company, you are

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Arthur Pachachura; Vedansh Patel

Engaging Students through Community Projects: Impact of Student-led Software Teams on Nonprofit Organizations Arthur Pachachura, Vedansh Patel Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) The Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science The University of Texas at DallasThe University of Texas at Dallas’ Engineering Projects in Community Service (UTD EPICS) is a class whereundergraduate students work in multidisciplinary teams that design technical solutions to problems faced bynonprofit organizations in the community. One such project, Trusted Inventory, allowed a growing

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Robert Carrillo; Ricky Perez; Alex Sanchez; Ray Long; Okan Caglayan

Project Volta: Senior Capstone Design of a Remote Management System for Lithium Polymer (LiPo) Battery Storage Robert Carrillo, Ricky Perez, Alex Sanchez, Ray Long, and Okan Caglayan, Ph.D. University of the Incarnate Word Department of Engineering San Antonio, TX, USA Extended AbstractThis paper presents a senior capstone research experience in developing a remote Lithium Polymer(LiPo) battery management system for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). LiPo batteries arerechargeable batteries of lithium-ion technology using a polymer electrolyte instead of a liquidelectrolyte

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Ryan Campbell; Danny Reible; Roman Taraban; Jeong-Hee Kim

1 More than a Dream: The Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods (DREAM) Project Ryan C. Campbell, Danny Reible, Roman Taraban* & Jeong-Hee Kim† Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering † *Dept. of Psychological Sciences College of Education Texas Tech University Extended AbstractThe Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods (DREAM) project seeks to helpengineers better appreciate uncertainty and to address complex, poorly

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Roy Issa; Reinhard Puffing; Emad Manla

1 Design of a Hexacopter for Agricultural Spraying - A Collaboration Project between West Texas A&M University and FH JOANNEUM Roy J. Issa Mechanical Engineering Division West Texas A&M University Reinhard Puffing Aviation Institute FH JOANNEUM/University of Applied Sciences Graz, Austria Emad Manla Electrical Engineering Division

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Andrea Turcatti; Terrell Bennett

1 The Effectiveness of Service-Learning Based Projects in Improving the Understanding of the Design Process and the Self-Efficacy of Students in Engineering Terrell R. Bennett, PhD and Andrea Turcatti The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science The University of Texas at DallasAbstractEngineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) is an innovative service-learning programthat blends community service, undergraduate education, and engineering design by pairing teamsof undergraduate students with non-profit organizations to collaboratively address human,community

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Jiyah Starks; Yuxin Jiao; Danyal Syed; Reginald McKenzie II

of their organization offers classes to teach art to their students. Because of the range in disabilities of their students, traditional easels did not satisfy their needs. Thus, in the Fall of 2016, the My Possibilities Art Table project began. The objective of this project is to develop a motorized easel (i.e. art table) that will allow My Possibilities’ students to self-sufficiently operate the table. The team solved this problem by developing an art table that would be wheelchair accessible, contain simple controls, and include vertical and rotational motion. In order to deliver the finalized product, the team segmented the system into subsystems to improve the design process. These systems included a

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Iftekhar Basith; Jeremy England; Lance Sebesta

Digital Gates and A Full Adder Using Analog Components Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Lance Sebesta Engineering Technology Sam Houston State University Jeremy England Weatherford International AbstractThis poster demonstrates the process of building different logic gates and a full adder out of analogcomponents. There are several ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) available that performsthese logics; however, a group of students came up with these wonderful implementation as part ofcourse project

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Abhaya Datye; Marina Miletic; Jamie Gomez; Eva Chi; Sang M. Han; Catherine Hubka; Yan Chen; Vanessa Svihla; Sung Kang; Heather Canavan

has threaded design challenges throughout the chemical engineering core curriculum to relate real-world Community-, Industry-, Research-, and Entrepreneurship-based projects to fundamental course work. Faculty, graduate students, and dozens of chemical engineering students have developed, implemented, and refined these design challenges which stretch through the core curriculum from the first year to some graduate-level electives courses. Our goal with implementing these varied design challenges is to allow a diverse set of students the opportunity to see the numerous applications of chemical engineering to local and globally-relevant problems [1], and to help them develop the engineering skills and confidence which will

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Alex Nunez-Thompson; Matthew Wettergreen

1 Session XXXX Implementing Authentic, University-Level Engineering Design Coursework in Pre-College Programs for Low-Income Students Alex Nunez-Thompson Yes Prep Brays Oaks Matthew Wettergreen Rice University AbstractEffective engineering curricula are sparse at the secondary level, and often revolve around projects-for-a-grade instead of implementing solutions to real-world challenges

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Michael Brown; Christopher Medlow; Shuza Binzaid; Penrose Cofie; Warsame Ali; John Attia

1 Session 2020 Vertical Column Wind Speed Measurement at PVAMU Michael Brown, *Christopher Medlow, Penrose Cofie, John Attia, Warsame Ali, Shuza Binzaid, Electrical Engineering and *Mechanical Engineering Prairie View A&M University AbstractThis project was designed to report wind data such as speed, frequency, direction, and temperaturefor future plans to install a multitude of wind turbines at Prairie View A&M University

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Gokul Venugopal; Moges Mequanint; Gabriella Rodriguez; Jenniffer Rodriguez; Valerie Cua; Maria Gloria Obono

and compared to identify if it is a fake or not. Through this project, wehope to improve the chances of fighting Deepfake and reducing the adverse effects that could havecaused by Deepfake videos and images. IntroductionA Deepfake is the product of a deep learning algorithm, known as GAN, trained to recognizepatterns in actual audio and/or visual recordings of a person and manipulating it to generate fakeaudio/visual recording. As stated in the Bloomberg article1, it is very easy now to make a deep fakeand they are acting as one of the biggest security threats. The impact of the deep fake can be huge,and it can affect financially as well as in terms of reputation as mentioned in the Harvard

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AHMED HUSSAIN; Nizar Tayem; Jamal Nayfeh; Samir El-Nakla

ABEToutcomes and their KPIs along with the mapping of old to new outcomes is shown in Appendix A. Assessment of Learning OutcomesABET SOs (a) through (k) are assessed mainly through direct assessment methods such asassignments, exams, design projects, laboratory work, etc. A record of the assessment methods andstudent work samples for each course taught in a semester are maintained through course portfolios.The course portfolios also include a course assessment report (CAR) completed by courseinstructors who are required to self-evaluate the delivery of their courses and identify areas forimprovement with an action plan. Each course has a set of course learning outcomes (CLOs) definedin the course specifications document

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Zachary Brounstein; Elizabeth Armistead; Murali Duggina; Pallavi Sharma; Nathan Jackson

: mechanics, material science, chemistry, physics, and electronics etc.….Agraduate course at the University of New Mexico focuses on learning theory of microfabrication andapplying this knowledge through a hands-on problem-based learning project. The problem-basedlearning project focused on developing a MEMS electro-thermal actuator and the challengesassociated with microfabrication. The hands-on experience was performed during the lab section ofthe course in a cleanroom environment. The course was designed to give students theoreticalknowledge while giving them hands-on experience as a MEMS process engineer thus giving themexperience in MEMS microfabrication.The present work focused on fabricating an aluminum electro-thermal MEMS actuator on a

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Yusuf Isa-Yusuf; Shuza Binzaid; John Attia

. Our design will be a self-sustained power system and also environmentallysafe. IntroductionThe research project will employ black body effect on the surface of a vaporizer allowing an idealizedphysical surface to absorb all incident electromagnetic radiation (light) incident on it regardless offrequency or angle of radiation to gasify a methane or ethane-based hydrocarbon with boiling point andspecific heat greater than that of water to produce between 125 – 250 psi of continuous gas pressure todrive the turbine bladesand consequently the generator. Project DescriptionA power system was designed modularly as shown in Figure 1 to include a black body vaporizer

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Zakreya Mahamud; Kamaluddin Hussein; Ali Warsame; John Attia; Ali Husainat; Shuza Binzaid

. The following research report focused on the solar cellaspect of renewable energy. Experiments were performed and data collected in order to determinewhich variables affect the output power; whether it be the azimuth of the sun or position of the solarpanel. Three different sources (Halogen bulb, Solar radiation, and a power supply) were used togenerate DC in order to conduct the experiments as shown in this paper. IntroductionThis project introduces the concept of converting sunlight to electricity using photovoltaic cells.During the research, we will familiarize ourselves with these concepts through the literature,assessment questions, and by conducting a lab experiment to determine the effect of

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Marina Miletic; Vanessa Svihla; Eva Chi; Jamie Gomez; Abhaya Datye; Pil Kang; Yan Chen; Sang Han

Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 2Outstanding Team Member, Outstanding Oral Presentation, and Outstanding Writing badges areearned by faculty review and evaluation of student work (including current and prior CATME peerevaluation). A panel of three faculty evaluate the Teamwork, Oral Presentation, and Writingperformance of current seniors across the previous three years of their academic career. Badges areawarded based on outstanding performance according to course and project rubrics which identifyexceptional skills in

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Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow; Dayra Fallad-Mendoza; Benjamin Fetrow; Christopher Fetrow; Vanessa Svihla

research projects and experiences​1​. Despite the relatively uncontested importance ofundergraduate research experience on engineering student success, little discussion has focused onhow to integrate students into unfamiliar research settings. To shed light on effective mentorshippractices, we report cases based on the experiences of the first three authors, who participated inundergraduate research and share insights from the fourth author, who directs an undergraduateresearch program. We share characteristics of mentorship that maximize student success. Results and DiscussionCase 1. MWF worked in a laboratory that focused on nanoparticle synthesis for medicalapplications. She learned basic laboratory skills

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Gokul Venugopal; Mequanint A. Moges; Brian La; Jeremy Fitzpatrick; Maryam Karage; Taylor Gehring

the last several years. Seguranca is a smart, wearable devicedesigned to set the minds of parents and guardians at ease. The goal is to reduce uncertainty andincrease the overall wellbeing of users who use this device. This project takes advantage of thecapabilities that the Internet of Things (IoT) offers to collect data about location and pulse(heartbeat) while allowing communication between the user and the parent or guardian. IntroductionDuring the research period of project development, we were looking at social issues concerningsafety for which there were few (or no) technological solutions available on the market. We foundthat the number of missing persons had been gradually increasing over

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Gokul Venugopal; Moges Mequanint; Michael Anjorin; Andy Appau; Nawal Elsadig; Andres Escobar; Hao Zhang

Center School of Public Health, found that call centeremployees with sit-stand desks were almost 50% more productive than their colleagues who sat inthe office. This correlates with our project due to our innovation of creating a smart desk withfunctionalities that were obtained from a survey our group conducted prior to developing the desk.Through this project, we are improving the workspace by creating an augmented desk along withmany other features. We believe that with this product we can provide relief, comfort, and simplicityback to the common desk-user. IntroductionThe Vault - Smart Desk was conceptualized by one of our team members who saw the need for cost-efficient and more technical smart

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Roli Varma

United States, womenmake approximately 24% of computing workforce. This is when demand for people withcomputing skills has been increasing. For instance, employment of computing relatedoccupations in the U.S. is projected to grow 13% from 2016 to 2026, which is faster than theaverage for all occupations. These occupations are projected to add about 557,100 new jobs2. Itis, therefore, no surprise that a number of governmental, corporate and non-profit groupinitiatives exist in the United States to increase representation of women in computing3.Women’s underrepresentation in computing in the United States has been scrutinized from manyangles in the last two decades4,5,6,7. Scholars have identified a range of factors namely, genderedsocialization

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Erika Louviere; Gholam Massiha

AbstractThe purpose of this project was to invent a tool to be mounted to the crawfish boat that will raisethe trap out of the water for the farmers eliminating strain on the farmers’ bodies. In turn, loweringtheir musculoskeletal symptoms will also lower risks of injuries while harvesting crawfish foryoung and older farmers. Also, by minimizing musculoskeletal symptoms with the use of thismechanism the impact on the farmers’ psychological health will be reduced. The social andeconomic health of the farmers will benefit as well. IntroductionMany residents in Louisiana choose the occupation of farming crawfish. The harvesting process isstrenuous. The repetitive motions of leaning over to grab the trap

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Angela Attia; Sierra Johnson; Shuza Binzaid; John Attia; Yusuf Isa-Yusuf; Warsame Ali

that the status on the load and source may be optimally bebalanced. Wireless networks is essential for the smart grid so that information can be transmittedwithout human to human or human to computer interaction. The objectives of this research projectare to: (i) design an Wi-Fi microcontroller application for microgrid system, (ii) establish peer-to-peer connection between the workstation and access point , and (iii) to send a Wi-Fi signal overextended distances Project DescriptionWe designed a circuit to collect data shown in Figure 1. The Arduino program written to collect datacollection program is shown in Figure 2. Solar PV and battery smart controller, shown in Figure 3,was built using Arduino to

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Julie Ford; Robinson Ford; Dominic Gallegos; Casper Huang

, test, and refine gravity-powered cars. With a budget of $500 per team (thanks tofundraising efforts initiated by the 6th grader), each of the four teams had freedom to design andbuild a unique car. The program successfully culminated in a race on the New Mexico Tech campusgolf course in April. Building on last year’s success, this year’s program has extended to include 15middle school students, representing three area schools. The goals for the Soapbox Derby Programare to teach middle school students the engineering design process through a hands-on project. Theprogram provides the college student coaches with the opportunity to serve as mentors for the nextgeneration of engineers. IntroductionAs

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Krista Nicklaus; Daniel Puperi; Patricia Clayton

teaching. The reflection journals allow student-teachersopportunities to practice the valuable skill of self-assessment. Practicing the art of self-assessmentas a graduate student will better prepare students as they become faculty members, to regularlyreflect on their own strengths and areas for improvement as a means of becoming a better teacher.Teaching Practicum in BME 214LBME 214L, Computational Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering Design, is hands-on, project-centered course that is second in a series of 4 “design” courses that all UT Austin BMEundergraduates are required to take during their freshmen through junior year. It consists of two 50-minute lectures per week and one 3-hour lab section per week. Typical fall semester enrollment

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Ulan Dakeev; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Yildiz; Ali Aljaroudi PhD

applications andidentifies their potential within existing emergency response technologies.This MRRT project includes design, implementation, operation and testing of a 5.5 kW mobilerenewable energy system that is installed in a 20X9 feet trailer for disaster relief efforts in Texas.The MRRT contains a PV array with a rated installed power capacity of 4.4 kW, 0.3 kW windturbine, 8x100 Ah deep-cycle battery capacity, a 2 kW additional emergency gas-generator, andan additional 3x1500 VA Back-UPS Pro Unit Uninterruptable Power System that will provideapproximately a continuous peak power of 5 kW for 90 hours without any charging. The fundingfor project was provided by a local energy company to promote Environmental initiativesfor cleaner energy efforts

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Aleksandr Sergeyev; Spencer Thompson; Larry Stambeck; Andy Posa; Paniz Hazaveh

isimportant or convenient, implementing 1756 DHRIO and the CAT #756-EN2T will be veryimportant to allow.3. Hardware DocumentationHardware Documentation is the most crucial part of migration procedure. The first step indocumentation is setting up diagrams of the current control system, confirming every singleconnection. This is the base for the project and if it is incorrect, the rest of the project will beincorrect; any CAD software will suffice. The CAD drawings should have multiple different parts:I/O connections, high-level topology, and communication connections. After the current systemdrawings are configured correctly, the user can begin planning for the updated hardware. High-level topology is the first part that will be updated. It is

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Matthew Wettergreen

the project goals and are produced in materials that are appropriate for useby the client or user. The solution at this state may be aesthetically appealing or wrapped in apackage that hides the function. Over time, prototypes evolve from low- to medium- to high-fidelity, increasing functionality,cost, and physical resemblance to the final intended solution. This evolution requires the prototypingmaterials to shift from low cost materials like foam, cardboard, etc. to materials that hold their shapemore rigidly, which are often harder to work with. This adds time and a burden of machine/toolknowledge that can slow down the iteration and production of prototypes. This transition from lowto medium prototypes is one of the more dramatic

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Amir Karimi; Randall Manteufel

sub- headings in their project reports for the elements that must be considered in the design project.  “SO3 requires that students have the ability to communicate with a range of audiences. It is the program's responsibility to determine the range of audiences. For example, if a Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright  2020, American Society for Engineering Education program stresses preparing students for graduate school, it might have students prepare a journal paper. There are many other possible audiences: faculty, students, non-technical, the public sector, etc