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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

systemmaintain equilibrium by preventing the failure of overloaded elements. Management of such vastsystems is always a colossal challenge.Infrastructure challengesThe National Research Council3 issued a list of recommendations concerning the challenges ofmoving toward critical infrastructure systems that are physically, economically, socially, andenvironmentally sustainable. These are:Challenge 1. Ensure that critical infrastructure systems effectively support competitiveness in theglobal economy.Challenge 2. Develop the critical infrastructure systems that support responsible energyindependence.Challenge 3. Upgrade, renew, replace, and provide new infrastructure systems to meet currentand future requirements; improve reliability; improve performance

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

codified knowledge and complex technology grow and fade as two sides of one coin.Introduction The American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME) was an integral part of thedevelopment of the American iron and steel industry. Their main raison d’être was thedevelopment of written knowledge. They peer reviewed and formally published thousandsof papers on multiple disciplines about the multiple industrial processes. In the 1971 AIMECentennial Volume’s historical summary describes the publication of papers and books as“the very reason for being” [1]. The body of work that AIME has left behind runs intothousands of volumes and provides a history of technological and scientific ideas on manyaspects of the evolution of industry

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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M. Nazrul Islam; Brian Aufiero

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Peter Spellane; Mohammad Razani

. Theseinclude blindness, kidney disease, nervous system disease, limb amputations, stroke andcardiovascular disease (CVD). According to Data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet,an estimated 25.8 million children and adults in the United States—8.3 percent of thepopulation— have diabetes and the estimated cost of diabetes-related health care in the UnitedStates is approximately $174 billion annually, including $116 billion in direct medical costs [1, 2].It is a disproportionately expensive disease; in the United States in 2002, the individual cost ofhealth care was $13,243 for people with diabetes, while it was $2,560 for those without diabetes[3].The recent multi-center NIH studies have indicated that the health risks associated withdiabetes are

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Donald D. Joye

things to all people. Too much reliance on the computer gives a distorted picture of real engineering in somedisciplines.Hands-on experiences are very significant for student motivation and introduction to real-worldoperations, and are and should continue to be an integral part of any engineering program. 435References 1. Jordan Spencer, Perfected Experiments, 2008. 2. Armfield, Engineering Teaching and Research Equipment, 8 th ed 3. Hampden Engineering Corporation, Chemical Engineering Systems. 4. PIGNAT, Modular Kilolab Equipment. 5. U.S. Didactic, Educational Equipment and Training Systems. 6. Brockman, J.B., Introduction to Engineering: Modeling and Problem Solving, J

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Valerie Lundy-Wagner; IRAJ KALKHORAN; MELINDA PARHAM; Yona Jean-Pierre; HAANG FUNG; LINDSEY VANWAGENEN

applicant data points (including,but not limited to, standardized achievement scores, high school academic records, and essays) indetermining whether students should be admitted to NYU-Poly through the GS program.Students accepted into the 1-year GS program receive an array of services, beginning with amandatory non-credit summer program prior to the start of their freshman year at no cost to thestudent. The program continues throughout the academic year with mandatory weekly tutoringand advisement sessions. Upon successful completion of the 1-year GS program (i.e., at least a2.0 grade point average and a minimum of 24 earned credits), students are guaranteed fulladmittance into the University during their second year.The GS summer program was

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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DAVID B. SAINT JOHN; ERIC M. FURJANIC; Richard Doyle; Richard Devon

last30 years. The RepRap project was started by professor Adrian Bowyer in 2005, whose firstRepRap design, the “Darwin,” would be released to the open source community in 2007.His graduate student, Edward Sells, would later redesign the RepRap Darwin, producingwhat is now known as a “Mendel” design. 406 Fig. 1. A RepRap Mendel. These designs are not the terminus of the RepRap project, though they are likely theend of any ‘official’ variants as Professor Bowyer has expressed that the open sourcemovement itself will decide what future variants are worth development and production,without any authoritarian fiats from ‘above’. Many of the various RepRap

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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KENNETH WADE JACKSON

learning within the context of real world situations.Such innovation in engineering education while maintaining its traditional rigorpresents many challenges. These interrelated challenges include the following: (1)Critical STEM competencies and professional licensing capability must be impartedin a traditional four year program of study. (2) Lecture based courses are moreefficient. (3) Many faculty perceive the analytical, math-intensive courses inengineering science to have higher prestige. (4) Individual learning assessment inexperiential, project-based courses is less objective and the supporting assessmentpedagogies for engineers are not well developed. (5) Fewer faculty have experienceand training in teaching multidisciplinary design courses

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harvey Lyons

ofthe laboratory component in the Machine Design course. Here, the formative skills needed forthe Capstone Senior Design project are further improved. Open-ended design projects are createdto complement the specific mechanical element – or topic – being covered. The purposes of theseproblems are twofold: (1) to understand, use and become proficient in the ‘design process’; and(2) to explore, discover and learn a relatively basic yet significant facet of engineeringtechnology as it is practiced. A detailed design report is required and can include: title; table ofcontents; introduction; technical body with sketches, figures, tables, chronological development;results; conclusions/recommendations; appendix; and references. Preference may be given

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Barrie Jackson

women who wish to become professional engineers. On the basis of my professional experience and my years as an adjunct associateprofessor at Queen’s it is interesting to look at how engineering education has changed, and theimpact these changes have had on undergraduate education. The Engineering Literature over theyears that I have been involved has had many articles calling for change. I personally found thedefinition of required change by John Prados (1991-92) ABET (1) president most significant. A new engineering education paradigm is required built around active, project-basedlearning, horizontal and vertical integration of subject matter , the introduction of mathematicaland scientific concepts in the context of application

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

York - Farmingdale State CollegeAbstract:Oppenheimer said “The best way to learn is to teach."1 Mazur found that “Nothing clarifiesideas better than explaining them to others.”2 Using this philosophy, Jigsaw Learning,3 is a peer-to-peer teaching method developed by Elliot Aronson in which every student teaches somethingthat they have learned from one study group to another group of students. During class, thefaculty breaks a course topic into different assignments and the class into the same number ofstudy groups. The study groups each contain an equal number of students. Each group is givenan assignment to read, discuss and finally decide how they will serve as instructors on their topic.The faculty visits each group to discuss the topic and

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nikola Jovic; Abayomi Dairo; ASHENAFI TESFAYE; AIME VALERE; YANNICK ROLAND KAMDEM; Sasan Haghani; Paul Cotae

NetworksABSTRACTAccidental falls among the senior population are the leading cause for seniors’ admission tohospitals. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) can be used to efficiently detect falls of seniorpatients in nursing homes. While some fall detection methods focus on the acceleration of thepatient, others register acceleration and body position to detect falls. In this paper, we describe anovel alert system using WSN capable of detecting falls based on the body position and bedoccupancy. The system was created according to data collected in MoteView from seven testsubjects. Accordingly, it was designed to sense three possible conditions: (1) patient beingactive; (2) patient lying in bed; or (3) if the patient has fallen down. The experimental portion ofthis

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Edward M. Land; Michael Marcus; Aaron Abugaber; Rohit Dayal; Noah Greenbaum; Sally Hong; Jon Hunt; Joseph Saltzman

. The steps in the project development will bedescribed along with the contributions of various team members and how their work wasevaluated. The regulatory aspects of this project will be described along with how an on-goingsearch is made for competitive devices. Finally, the future direction for this project including:next generation developments, partnering with the Veterans Administration, other educationalinstitutions, selecting manufacturing facilities and setting up future supply chain distribution willbe presented.1. Introduction (By Michael Marcus)As an Associate Professor of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, York Campus, Ihave worked with students on design projects for various courses that I teach. In addition, I

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Beverly Karplus Hartline

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rasha Morsi; Terin Reed

presenting basic educational content, lack thecurriculum based content presented in a fun unique environment.Prongo1 (see Figure 1) contains many games, e-cards, jokes, and brain teasers that have aneducational focus. These games are designed for students between the ages of 3 and 12 andcover subject areas such as math and language. One of the more interesting games is WallyThe Stock Ticker1 which allows the student to choose a company and view that company’sstock symbol, current price, change of price from yesterday, date of last trade, etc. As thestudent views the information an explanation appears that describes what the student isviewing. This game serves more as an informational tool than a game but the information islaid out in such a way that

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Siripong Malasri

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Melissa P. Mackinnon; Kyle D. Gilroy; Aarthi Sundar; Robert Hughes; Svetlana Neretina

their melting point. This anneal resultedin nanoparticle adhesion strong enough to withstand aggressive sonication and swabbing. Thestrong adhesion is highly suggestive of the formation of a heteroepitaxial relationship capable ofcrystallographically aligning all nanoparticles in a single orientation. The nanoparticles alsoshow a size reduction of 1 nm after the anneal which we attribute to a nanoparticle shape change,the loss of gold along the substrate due to surface diffusion and the destruction of the cappinglayer. These substrate-based nanoparticles should prove quite effective as seed materials for thenucleation of larger nanostructures with a higher degree of complexity.1. Introduction and Motivation While the vast majority of

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wael Mokhtar

objective of this early introduction was to have ‘real life’ application forthe theoretical topics of the course. In the freshman year, Mokhtar 1 developed a design coursewhere a team of freshman students re-designed and built an off road vehicle for the SAEcompetition. The team worked for nearly two semesters where they spent the first semester indesign and the second semester was for building. The team was successful to complete thevehicle and compete in the SAE race. All the design was done on CAD which is the only designskill that students have at this level. The feedback from the students was positive. In asophomore Mechanics and Machine course, Chaphalkar et al.2 and Mokhtar3 introduced reverseengineering and open-ended design project to

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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F. Pinto; E. Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero

Antenna Beta cloth Rotating test fixture Square cut patch This table shows the return loss, gain, axial ratio, and half power beam width results from bothcircular and square cut patches that I measured in the chamber. Each test was run with either a circularpatch or a square patch that had different serials. The one that was the best was the circular patch #1because it met the requirements that were called for in this project. This graph shows the measured radiation pattern of circular patch #1. It

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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L. Ralph; Singli Garcia-Otero; E. Sheybani

is fixed and one is mobile. The two mirrors will reflect the beams of light back to the beamsplitterwhere they interfere and leave the FTS through the detector. Below are the results.The peak at the center is the ZPD position ("Zero Path Difference"). Here, all the light passes through theinterferometer because its two arms have equal length. As the two beams cancel each other out, the signalbecomes a straight line. 540Next, low pass, high pass, and band pass filters were studied and the frequency of each filter wasmeasured using the network analyzer. A low-pass filter is a filter that passes low frequency. Figure 1(a)below shows the results of a low pass filter. Most low pass filters have a

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tyler J. Perlenfein; Jason B. Baxter

. 520Introduction:The field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is growing very quickly in the scientific community. Betweenthe years of 2002 and 2010, there were 1032 papers published in scientific journals worldwideconcerning OPV cells with the P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction structure, with growing numbers fromyears to year.[1] This is mostly due to the high potential of these products for large-scale industrialapplications. Solution-based processing at low temperature is a key attribute of this field, making itcompatible with large-throughput, high yield processes. While OPVs currently show power conversionefficiencies in the 3-6% range, this field of photovoltaics is still young and there are many aspects ofOPVs that are not well understood or not fully

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Warren Rosen

-performance wired and wireless networks for industrialcontrol, communications, and computing. After completing the course students will be familiarwith topics such as the OSI and TCP/IP protocol stacks and common network protocols such asEthernet (IEEE 802.3),1 Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.112), Bluetooth,3 ZigBee,4 DPN3,5 and CAN.6 The goal is toenable students to make sensible decisions when selecting and implementing a network protocolfor a particular industrial application.Course ContentThe course syllabus is shown in Figure 2. The course begins with an introduction to what networkprotocols are using the example of collision detection in the context of ordinary conversation. Theuse of this technique in first generation Ethernet is then described. Next, the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hossein Rahemi; Shouling He

intensify their skills of critical thinkingand problem solving and they are organized to work on course projects in a team. Furthermore, with thehelp of faculty members, they develop their course projects or innovative ideas into conference papers ortutorial/postal topics and present them in educational and technical conferences. Their performancesworking in a team and dialogue with professionals in the field, will build up their confidence and skillsfor their future jobs in the area of mechatronic engineering.OVERVIEWTo enhance students’ communication capabilities through mechatronic engineering program, this paperwill specifically address the following topics 1. Implementing teamwork and classroom presentation in core computational project

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ravi Shankar; Don Ploger; Oren Masory; Francis X McAfee

these students sharing in the revenue (as pertheir institution’s intellectual property policy).Method:Figure 1 depicts mockup of a robotic chess game set up to communicate our vision (Please note: Thestudents shown are enrolled at our developmental research school and their parents have signed Photo /Video Release forms.), Imagine that the chess pieces are powered by autonomous robots (notice theopposite color coasters under the chess pieces). Further imagine that the two players play the chess game,not by directly manipulating the chess pieces, but by making the move on the virtual chess boardsdisplayed on the touch screen of their smart phones. The autonomous robot invoked to implement themove would negotiate its motion via occupied and

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Brian Linhares; Hossein Rahemi

closer with monitors displaying information, thus increasing the efficiency of the sensor greatly.Also with several ultrasonic sensors, the robot will be able to move through a crowd without injuring orcausing a disturbance.INTRODUCTIONBeneficial advancements have always had their military counterparts that can do harm to society. Thisconcept came together with equipment that is currently available, creating something new andinnovative. Security in airports and other forms of mass transportation is very important since those arelocations that are more frequently targeted. Terrorists and drug smugglers all have one thing in common,they leave behind a trace that can be tracked with the right personel and equipment [1]. It usually startswith home

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

particularly evident with high school educational models in which students aretaught digital tools, not computational thinking, concepts, or ways to design. Teaching thatfocuses on concepts rather than tools, while still acknowledging the roles tools play, addressesuniversal issues of creativity and continues to stay relevant for a longer time period.“Learning by doing” philosophyLearning by doing, often called experiential learning, is about acquiring skills and knowledgethrough activity, which is often contrasted with the traditional didactic and passive-style learningreferred by Paulo Freire as “banking education.”1 There is ample precedence and philosophical backing for the learning-by-doing approach.Some trace it as far as Confucius, with

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

system definedthreshold, the matching is considered successful, otherwise unsuccessful. The main objectives ofbiometric recognition are user convenience and better security. We believe that widerapplications of biometric technologies are inevitable and necessary. However, biometricapplications have raised a series of issues that prevent its wide acceptance. Among them thesecurity and privacy issues [1-6] of biometric information are regarded as more important thanother issues.In literature a few methods [7-9] has been proposed to address these issues by perturbing theoriginal minutiae of fingerprint templates. In this paper we propose an authentication system thatprotects the security and privacy of biometric information. Specifically, the

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Christopher J. Lowrance

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

steganography – Information Hiding.Biological AlphabetsHuman languages have redundancy. Shannon [1-2] estimated the entropy of written English to be0.6 to 1.3 bits per character (bpc), based on how well people can predict successive characters intext. Cover and King [3] concluded 1.25 bpc. The redundancy makes cipher using these languageseasier to attack.In biology the genetic information existing in DNA is a base 4 system. Lanctot et al. [4] reportedsome experimental results on the entropy of DNA. The first experiment was focused on thecoding and non-coding regions in E. coli to test the hypothesis that the non-coding regions havea role by showing that they may be more regular than coding regions, which would support theconjecture that non-coding

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Avanzato

interact with 3D designs, as well ascommunicate and share experiences. As a result of the internet-based, persistent andcollaborative nature, Second Life may offer advantages over traditional modeling tools.Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, have been demonstrated to be a useful educationaland research tool, and will play an important role in the future.1. IntroductionSecond Life® is an online, virtual world platform which was first released in 2003[1].Since that time, the number of universities, organizations, and corporations exploringSecond Life has steadily grown. Currently, there are many universities (estimated at over300) with a presence in Second Life. Typically, there are between 60,000 to 80,000people online at any given time in Second