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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Zorica Suvajdzin; Miroslav Hajdukovic

moment that is widelyspread and practically applied. We believe that there is practical needfor such systems and we have decided to try intuitive approach,attacking the problem pragmatically.Program Composing Assistant (PROCOMPASS) is an interactive editingsystem that tried to strike a balance between user and tool. It is aimedto apprehend the features from the traditional structure editing systemsthat are certainly of benefit to the programmer. PROCOMPASS editoroffers unified user interface aimed to support structured but stillflexible syntax-oriented editing of program text with the equaltreatment of all programming language elements (e.g. expressions andstatements). Main features of PROCOMPASS editor are: (1) guiding auser, so a user does not

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dietmar Wippig; Dernd Klauer; Oliver Seidel; Hans Christoph Zeidler

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

. Dan H. Pletta [1] defined morals asthe principles or the standards of right or wrong conduct involving voluntary action, and ethics asmore the study of human actions as being right or wrong.The focus of this paper will be on that aspect of acceptable human behavior known as ethics:precisely, the ethical behavior expected of engineers in the practice of their profession. At TheUniversity of the District of Columbia (UDC) in our senior course, which addresses this topic,we use two resources.The first one is a video dramatization on engineering ethics entitled “Gilbane Gold [2]”. This is acase study in ethics prepared by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Thesecond one is the annual Milton F. Lunch Ethics Contest of NSPE

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

Engineering programs require students to incorporate engineering standards in the culminating designexperience; recent changes continue this requirement [1]. The United States National Standards Strategy (NSS) called for increasedefforts to educate future leaders in engineering, business and public policy on the value and importance of standards[2]. The NSS wasdeveloped by a diverse group of government and private sector representatives from industry, government, trade and professionalsocieties, and consumer organizations. To support the NSS, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established aCommittee on Education (CoE) with one of its charges to support and assist engineering and technology programs in standardseducation. This effort

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harold R. Underwood

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ernest Y. Wong

designed to develop versatile, creative, and criticalthinkers who can adapt to professional and ethical challenges” [1]. The relatively standardizedcurriculum that the cadets receive through their core courses (see Figure 1) enables USMA todesign not only a comprehensive academic program, but one that is integrative anddevelopmental as well. Consequently, cadets who graduate from West Point leave with a set of common skillsand knowledge. One of the most important skills they learn is the ability to leverage aspreadsheet. The basic spreadsheet proficiency that cadets gain in their freshman and sophomoremathematics, chemistry, physics, and economics courses develop into more refined spreadsheetmodeling and analysis skills that they acquire in

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andy S.J. Zhang

engineering.IntroductionMachine design is a major course in the mechanical engineering department thatis designed to teach the students the basics of designing products that containmoving parts. Traditional approaches to teaching machine design used toemphasize the engineering analysis of individual parts, such as gears, shafts, andbearings.[1-2] The advancement in computer technology over the past twenty yearshas created a new way to design a machine or a product called concurrent designand engineering. This new approach to machine design requires that theengineering analysis tools such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) andComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) packages be tightly integrated with designtools such as the solid modeling and virtual animation packages. With

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott Shepard

unavailable to our ET undergraduate students. It is imperativetherefore that we develop the laboratory components of our new ET Photonicsprogram. This is particularly true because ET students learn best from a “handson” approach.II. Entangled Photons Applied to Quantum EncryptionThe fact that a Quantum Computer can (at least in principle) break the security ofany classical encryption code has spurred a tremendous interest in thedevelopment of Quantum Encryption (QE) – the only means of restoringcomputer data and telecommunication security. Once the realm of a select few ofquantum physicists, QE has now become a very important emerging technology.Our goals in this field are two-fold.Goal (1) is to help bring quantum encryption into actual/practical

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chong Shen; Zhongwei Zhang; David Lai

this paper is organizedinto 5 sections. In section 1, we look at some related works have been done in the similar areasfor computer network. In section 2 we introduce our approach on using Java language to buildthe simulation package. In section 3 on the Implementation, a developed AQM animation packagewill be presented which helps students to understand how AQM works is described. In section 4,some analysis result generated by our graphical simulator is given. The paper is concluded by asummary and future works in section 6.2 Related worksComputer networks are an innovative approach of communication and understanding the conceptsof computer networking is essential for computer science students. Traditionally, dissemination ofcomputer

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; JERRY-DARYL FLETCHER

this research, it was found that industry has neglected DR in their systemanalysis because of the increased time and effort required to capture and implement DR. Some ofthe benefits of DR are: 1) maintenance is more efficient and effective, 2) system scalability isincreased, and 3) training of users and developers is easier. This paper proposes a systematicapproach to the capture of argumentative DR and an integration of argumentative DR with theObject-Oriented system development lifecycle. Change is a constant in the implementation anduse of systems, hence, this paper also raises the issue of “how should argumentative DR bestored and integrated with the system to maximize its utility to the system.What is Rationale?Rationale is an explanation

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Shields

thirteen more in various stages ofdevelopment 1. Each unit takes place in a different country and features a science topic pairedwith an engineering field and a design challenge. A storybook introduces basic engineeringcontent and the related science topic and highlights the engineering activities that children willdo. Each story is narrated by or features a child as the main character who works with anengineer to solve the design challenge. The boy or girl uses the engineering design process tocreate his or her own solution to the challenge.All units begin with a preparatory lesson entitled “What are Engineering and Technology?”Before the students begin the design challenge, and the teacher introduces the five stepengineering design process: Ask

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James McDonald; Mary A. Burke

promotional activities inrecent years. They have also been widely publicized and some have even received grant fundingin recent years3,4. The number of states that have implemented statewide articulation agreementshas increased to 343, and we understand that the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education isconsidering changes that would make the practice more widespread within the state. An NSFfunded activity called the Advanced Technological Education program has as one of its specificobjectives the collaboration between 2-year colleges and universities in developing formalarticulation agreements for associate degree students in various areas of technology7. Table 1 – Monmouth University’s Software Engineering Program

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank Lanzer

Education” 2A. IntroductionAlthough the situation had been so for too many years, by 2002 the lack of girls intechnology and computer science was being noticed and investigated. The research ofMargolis and Fisher [1] was being widely read. Although the Carnegie Mellon Universitystudy centered on computer science, many of the premises and conclusions are just asapplicable to engineering and technology in general. Educators at both secondary and post-secondary institutions seeking methods to increase enrollment and retention of girls andwomen explored programs that directly affected their own students and those that soughtto influence much younger

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Edward W. Chandler; Robert A. Strangeway; Owe G. Petersen

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Liesl Hotaling; Susan Lowes

participating schools.Other partners, including the New Jersey Department of Education, are engaged in thisoutreach effort.“Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 2This paper will discuss the EOFNJ efforts in the middle-school grades, including the pilottesting of Society of Automotive Engineer’s A World in Motion curriculum. The elementaryschool-level EOFNJ efforts are detailed in a separate paper.2.0 Middle School EOFNJ Efforts – A World in MotionPhase 1, the first year of EOFNJ, the middle school efforts focused on piloting one of theSociety of Automotive Engineer’s

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank M. Clemente

clays range from 10-1 to 10- 9 cm/sec, anaccurate determination of realistic k values is important in the estimation of reasonable solutionsto problems involving flow nets and seepage analyses such as for dewatering of excavations,slope stability analyses of dams, etc..Other mainstays of soil mechanics are the Theory of Consolidation, Rankine’s Active andPassive State’s of Earth Pressures (subsequently extended by Coulomb) and Terzaghi’s BearingCapacity Equation (subsequently extended by Meyerhoff and others), presentations of whichmay be found in geotechnical engineering and foundation design textbooks4,5,6,7.Role of TechnologyThe word “geotechnology” may be used where technology is applied to support or advance thepurposes of geotechnical and

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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José L. Torres; Vijendra Agarwal

Institutionalization of Undergraduate Research: the CSI Experience Jose L. Torres1, Vijendra Agarwal2, 1 College of Staten Island, the City University of New York/ 2 University of Wisconsin-La CrosseAbstractThe benefits of an undergraduate research experience have long been recognized by AmericanUniversities. Undergraduate research programs allow students to explore their own long-termcareer goals in the context of an actual academic research environment. The College of StatenIsland has actively promoted undergraduate research, with the support of external

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Olusola Laniyi

HURRICANE KATRINA, THE EDUCATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS LeeRoy Bronner, Ph.D., P.E., Olusola Laniyi Morgan State UniversityBackgroundHurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in August 2005 with devastating effects along the coastlinesof Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The city of New Orleans was almost completelyflooded. Katrina is estimated to be responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 US dollars) in damagesmaking it the costliest hurricane in US history, and killed at least 1,836 people, also making it thedeadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane [1]. The people who remained leftbehind in New Orleans to suffer the brunt of the hurricane's consequences

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orlando J. Hernandez

Microcomputer Based Electronics: Using the C Stamp™ in Pre- Engineering, Technology, and Engineering Programs Orlando J. Hernandez The College of New JerseyIntroductionIn recent years, the issue of retention in Engineering Education programs has taken a forefrontposition relative to the issue of recruitment. Many efforts are under way to try to improveengineering education retention through programming as a form of collaborative learning [1].This paper describes the usage of a microcomputer platform that can serve both recruitment andretention purposes. This platform can be deployed in both secondary and higher education,including technology

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ricky Whittington; Guangming Chen

cost reduction is important because space budgets aredecreasing and cost-effective solutions are needed in space mission projects now more thanever.1 Organizations all over the world including federal governments, universities, and privatebusinesses are now showing an increased interest in small satellites. Particularly, NASA has aconsiderable interest in multiple production runs of tens to hundreds of micro-satellites (ST-5).Categorizing recurring and nonrecurring cost, creating a parametric cost model, andimplementing the concepts of the learning curve to predict the cost of future multiple spacecraftmanufacturing will consequently allow NASA administrators access to reliable expenditurefigures to compare the benefits and the expenses of the

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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E. N. Bart; J. Kisutcza

longer being taught (with good reason). It is often very difficult for beginningstudents to draw the necessary graphics with the necessary care and skill to obtain a reasonablyusable design. In recent years commercial computer software has become available and is widelyused in industry. However, the licensing of this software is quite expensive and in some cases theresults may be unsatisfactory. For some years now, the authors have been supplying computergenerated constant pressure phase diagrams (in color) for use in the Chemical Engineeringlaboratory. The system distilled is methanol and water at 1 atmosphere total pressure. Thestudents are supplied with an x-y diagram, a t-x-y diagram and a large format (11 x 14) enthalpy-concentration

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bert Davy; Indranil Goswami; Jiang Li; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Charles Oluokun; Arcadio Sincero

benchmark objectives. The 1 credit course, a with a total meeting timeof 30 hours over a 15-week semester, consisted of approximately 10-12 hours in class dedicatedto the design project, with an additional 4-6 hours in various forms of reporting. Teams wererequired to submit a written proposal and a final report, as well as make a formal teampresentation of their design.A very detailed course assessment tool was used to obtain student feedback at the conclusion ofthe exercise. This (assessment) included self and peer assessment by the students in reference tothe team design project. Students were also asked to provide detailed feedback about the qualityand relevance of lectures and the quality of instructions and specifications about the project.In

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Amen Ra Mashariki

this level. Once the PIM is modeled, then usingthe MDA compliant tools that assist in automation and generation of artifacts for thisstage the developers transform the PIM into a Platform Specific Model (PSM) as shownin figure 1. As its name suggests the PSM is produced by mapping the PIM to specificmiddleware implementation technologies. This stage is executed using MDA complianttools that can either be purchased from some middleware vendors or can be found on theinternet as open source projects. The separation of the business logic and the applicationimplementation technology is the basis for the MDA claims on applicationinteroperability, portability, documentation, and productivity.Figure 1. MDA Model Transformation ProcessMDA

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David Domermuth

pipe, off the shelf cavitatingventure, and commercial micro-hydro generator unit. The tower will pivot at the base, be helderect with guy wires, and cost no more the $10,000 for a ROI of 6.6 years. The system shouldlast for 20 and generate a profit, less maintenance, of $20,000.Research proposalThere are quite a few research challenges associated with this project. A step by step outlinefollows: 1) Select a small cavitating venture, pull a vacuum, and characterize the foam produced. “Proceedings for the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 3 2) Vary the height of the rise tube to

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Pathickal Poulose; Ahmet Zeytinci

Aptitudes)essential to laboratory experimentation.IntroductionWhat are the essential differences between the realms of Science, Engineering and Technology?There have been many different attempts at distinguishing among these “vineyards”. For thepurposes of this paper the following distinctions are used: 1. Science is the discovery of phenomena. 2. Engineering is the ingenuity of invention or creation of things useful for society. 3. Technology is the art and craftsmanship of bringing all of this to fruition. “Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 2Very little, if

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Swagata Pramanik; Akeila Richards

military has problems in sorting out all the data available oninsurgency for strategic purposes. To be effective in their strategic plans, themilitary needs a way to ask questions of insurgency information and receiveimmediate responses.The Engineering and Psychology departments at Morgan State University (MSU)in collaboration have developed an Insurgency Information Framework (IIF). AnIIF is a logical structure for organizing, classifying and presenting complexinsurgency information for military decision making. The IIF is developed byanalyzing and modeling the answers to questions such as: 1) How areinsurgencies planned for and what is the process? 2) Does insurgent behaviorprovide any insight into their future plans or actions (i.e., are

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

courseand the student’s enthusiasm is generally high.CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULINGResearch Paper Writing AssignmentThe main writing assignment is a ten to fifteen page Research Paper on a selected subject in thefield of Construction Management (CM) and CPM Scheduling. Topics are randomly assigned.Some examples of topics are as follows:1. Construction Contracts2. Construction Law3. Controls, Time & Money4. Total Safety Management; OSHA5. Bonding & the Surety Company6. Bid Strategy and Award7. CM in City Planning8. Labor Unions and Industrial Relations9. Improving Construction Productivity10. CM and the Environment (EPA)11. Claims; cost, arbitration & resolution12. International BuildingThe assignment is for a team of three to

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Avanzato

competitionsoffered at Penn State Abington during the 2004-2006 time period. Students were askedquestions concerning technical challenges, working in a team, time management, keylessons learned, and suggestions for improvements in the robot competition activity.Overall, the responses on the quality of the robot competition experience from thestudents' perspective were very good. One of the key results from the student surveywas the positive feedback concerning the value of working in a student team.1. IntroductionPenn State Abington campus (Abington, PA) hosts several mobile robot designcompetitions each academic year (since 1995) to support project-based design activitiesin freshman and sophomore level engineering courses, and also to provide outreach to K

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Peter Kazanzides; AmenRa Mashariki; Paul Domingo; Pauline Pelletier; Trevor Thomas

” 3Industrial Strength Software13: a sound robust piece of software that has been thoroughly testedin live user environments for extensive periods and has built-in safeguards against systemfailures.3. Brief Description of Figures • Figure 1: Information Design Pattern (IDP) Definition – gives a formal definition of the information design pattern structure. • Figure 2: Base Graphical Information Design Pattern Object Structure - shows an information design pattern with a breakout of its segments. • Figure 3: Information Design Pattern Building Block Objects – gives a list of the possible objects used for creating design patterns • Figure 4: Object-Oriented

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Malgorzata Ciszkowska; Robert Russo; Hong Li

monitoring require obtaining ablood sample by pricking a fingertip with a needle or lancet (referred to as a "stick"), allowing thepuncture to bleed until a testing strip is adequately covered with blood, and then placing thecoated strip into a glucose monitor for testing. This method strongly discourages patients’compliance and has the following serious drawbacks: 1) The procedure is invasive. For many people, the prospect of performing 5 or 6 "sticks" daily is intimidating and painful. In addition, it provides a significant risk for infections. 2) The procedure for testing is laborious and it requires thorough hygiene (washing the hands, cleaning the area that is to be "stuck", etc.). Many people have trouble learning how to test their