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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Sithisone Kalaya; Hussain A. Alhazmi

, we would like to develop our mobile robot to have the capabilities to localize itself in an unknown environment as well as the ability to create the local map from data collected during the exploration. Communication link between the robots and a host computer is essentials in this experiment because the mobile robots continuously streaming data to the Fig. 1 the mobile robots used in the experiment host computer. The tasks such as data storages, retrieval, computations, and mapping are to be executed in the host PTZ camera, and Sick laser in [1, 2]. We felt the previous computer. Earlier researches in robot exploration and method

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Askhan Vakil; Hassan Bajwa

harvesting applications [1- heaters, antennas are emerging as a promising technology3] and integration of antennas into solar cells to design for light energy harvesting [6] tools.low-cost light weights systems [2, 4]. Similarly, Solar plants use different ways to harvest energy fromGrapheme has emerges as a promising candidate for next the Sun. Some panels use the heat (infrared photons) andgeneration and post silicon electronics. Graphene based concentrate it on a specific point (boiler) to heat water forantennas

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Rahmi Allamadani; Feng Chen

application the goal will to propel a large mass switches are used in the circuit for safety including a chargingsuch as the aircraft in a linear motion to a high enough speed switch and firing switch. The control system for this projectwhere it can be launched from a short runway. will all be done through LabView which will apply the 1.7V to gate of the SCR to trigger the device. In addition to triggering I. INTRODUCTION (Heading 1) the SCR, LabView will also be responsible for determining The current system in place right now by the US Navy uses how much charge the capacitors will hold depending

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Jenny Au; Ololade O. Mudasiru; Kavitha Chandra

length 2D, comprised of 2Ncontinuum limit by matching the response of the array to an elements positioned at locations x[n], n = −N,−(N − 1), ....., 1,objective beam function. An analysis of the expected value andvariance of the beam is presented as a function of the angular 2, .. N is depicted in Fig. 1. The positions are normalized withdirection. Comparison of these metrics to those generated from respect to the half-length of the array yielding a normalizeduniformly distributed array positions is conducted. The number range of positions from −1 to 1.of elements and random ensembles required to meet a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nicholas Misiunas; Charles Thompson; Kavitha Chandra

-element distance distribution nonuniformly spaced arrays.that ensures the array produces a specified beamform. The performance of the firefly algorithm is examined in Applications of this are arrays consisting of wireless nodes this work with respect to the probabilistic metrics of thewhere a nonuniform spacing offers robust performance [1] beam pattern. The characterization of the inter-element spacingand low power wireless sensor networks [2]. The analysis of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Abdulla Fawzi Almomani; Faisal Miqdadi; Mustafa Hassanin; Mustafa Samy; Mohammed Awadallah

1 The 1st Pneumatic Fluidic muscles based Exoskeleton Suit in the U.A.E Abdulla Almomani, Faisal Miqdadi, Mustafa Hassanin, Mustafa Samy, and Mohammed Awadallah, IEEE durability. They are commonly designed for military use, to Abstract— Team Excelsoir’s Prototype is a fully functional help soldiers carry heavy loads both in and out of combat. Inwearable exoskeleton arm that moves in sync with the operator’s civilian areas, similar

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nan Feng

for between-respondent comparisons (Sujan & Bettman, 1989) p.7”.FIGURE 1: MODEL ON BUSINESS SUCCESS AND CRITICAL SUCCESSFACTORS (CSF) This factor is effective to build a strong brand because product brand development refers to the process of growing theFactor 1: “This assumption asserts that customers determine brand. Brand development strategy is based on internal andthe highest-quality product within their reservation price and external business environment, in order to establish thispurchase it, provided its quality does

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Naseem Khan; Elif Kongar

concerns today and how it can be used to help others or make change inand some discomfort. This paper will also try to illustrate society. According to a report by the Digital Governmentsome of the most anticipated and expected specifications that Strategy of the United States (US Office of the President) it ismodern smartphones are coming and future innovations that expected by the year 2016 there will over 5 billion mobileembed security features to keep mobile users confident about broadband subscribers in the world up from 1 billion in 2011their gadgets. Internet research focusing on studies and and that the Americans will access the internet more on theircommon guidelines from industry experts consumed

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Samuel Erskine; Hassan Bajwa

they would also not transport control protocol or internet application, such as TCPrequire infrastructure support extension, even when it is or UDP for WSNs [1]. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) wasdeployed. Given the promise that the above considerations required to possess reliability which would be needed forwould not be available, sensor nodes would be required to sensor application. However, UDP does not have any flowoperate by itself alone, when

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Salamahn Mill; Dafe Ukaivbe; Weiwei Zhu

tsunami; thedistort the real signal received by satellite sensor. Hence high-maintained system does not work properly all the time,removing clouds and cloud shadows from these infrared satellite and tsunami waves sometimes sneak past the recorders, etc.images has become critical. Using the technique proposed byMeng et al.[1], this paper designs an algorithm to remove clouds Consequently, its false warning rate is up about to 75% byand cloud shadows from satellite images for our remote sensing [14] and others. In addition, the whole system is verytsunami detection system. Future work is discussed. expensive as well as its frequent

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Carol Stokes-Cawley; Katie Cadwell

addition, Halpern et al found inorder to cultivate girls’ interest in STEM they should be exposed to women in STEM rolemodels and come to understand and appreciate their achievements in math, science andengineering8. 1 Proceedings of 2015 St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering Education Making Engineering Attractive to Middle School Girls through Project ENGAGEProject ENGAGE aims to foster girls' understanding of engineering as an avenue through whichthey can contribute to societal change and have a positive impact on people and the environment.By introducing engineering to girls at the middle school level, a pivotal time when so many girlslose interest in STEM9, and

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Arnav Kavadia; Sanjna Pawar; Tomislav Bujanovic

•  Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Figure 1: The Smart Grid Puzzle Figure 3: Solar Power in Ladakh Figure 4: PV panel characteristics Figure 6 & 7: Smart Meters and their Opposition Utilities, Peter Fox‐Penner, Island Press, 2010.

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Anthony DePina; Kevin Burnett; Molly Mariea; Michael Bush; Christina Amendola; William Nowak; Jason Kolodziej

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design: VIA Dynamic Load Simulation On A Journal Bearing Test Rig In 2010, Dresser-Rand, a global supplier of rotating equipment, donated ESH-1 reciprocating compressor to the Rochester Institute of Technologyand has continually sponsored multidisciplinary senior design (MSD) projects. Dr. Jason Kolodziej, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineeringat Rochester Institute of Technology, commissioned the construction of a dynamic journal bearing similarity test rig. The objective of this rig is toreduce the time required to perform seed of fault research of journal bearings. The project was split into a two phase build utilizing twoconsecutive multidisciplinary senior design teams. While the

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Xingwu Wang; Bruce B. Rosenthal; Casey J. Busch; Jeff Porter; John L. Cusack

renewable energy engineering is fully functional, and anadditional masters’ program with emphasis on sustainability is being considered.Accompanying the new initiatives, the investigators conducted surveys to assist planningin course alignments and research projects. This article summarizes the lessons learnedand offers suggestions for future activities. I. IntroductionSustainability on a university campus typically involves curriculum, research, andoperations.1-2 Before introducing sustainability into curricula, a survey was conducted togauge the faculty’s willingness.3 Faculty development was considered a key componentduring curriculum revisions.4 Integrated curriculum models were proposed and tested.5Additionally, it is important to strengthen

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Asif Rahman; Gokul Gopakumar

Hourly Energy Prices Residential Load Type Flexibility (m) (hr) 500 30 Fig. 1 Coffee Maker 1

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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David Evanko; Arend Dorsett; Chiu Choi

applications of feedback control techniques.1. IntroductionThe ball-on-beam balance system is a classic example of feedback control systems. The problem is tomaintain the position of a ball at the center of a beam on which the ball rolls along freely. The ball willreturn to the center position after it has been displaced from this location. This system is an effectiveeducational tool for teaching feedback control principles. Some of these systems are commerciallyavailable[1,2,3].The set-up of our ball-on-beam system is shown in Fig. 1. The beam is a 55” long, grooved aluminumbeam that a regular rubber ball can roll along freely. The beam is mounted at the center to a servo motor,which can tilt the beam in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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David A. Gray

Accelerating Engagement of First-Year Students in Academics: Use of Ideas from Quality Literature David A Gray Messiah College Grantham, Pennsylvania Abstract: This paper discusses three ideas that stem from concepts in the literature of Quality that combine to promote a more rapid transition of first year engineering students from the high school environment to the academic environment of college. These three ideas are: 1) The student is the primary employee in the academic process, 2) Grade distribution interpreted in the

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Harry Knickle; Don Gray

analogsignal. Digital control is the simpler of the two control methods since only an on/offsignal need to be received by the device. For a solenoid valve a 5 volt signal might turnthe valve on while a zero volt signal would turn the valve off. An electrical heater isanother example of a device that can work with either digital or analog control. Theheater can either be on or off, digital control, or we can vary the current to the heater,proportional control. To send these signal we simply need an electrical switch. A simpleelectrical switch available commercially is called solid state relays. Other electricalswitches are available.The students also master the following skill list:1. CONNECT A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO A MICROCOMPUTER2. CONNECT THE

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Abdelrahman M. Rabie; Rahman Haleem

1 A Model for a Bi-lingual Curriculum Abdelrahman M Rabie, Associate Professor, ISAT Department, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA Rahman Haleem Assistant Professor and Director, Institute for Technological Innovations (ITI), Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAbstractThere has been an increasing demand for multilingual professionals, in various fields includingengineering, which in turn which in turn lead to the increased demand and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Abdelrahman Elleithy; Alaa Abuzaghleh; Abdelshakour Abuzneid

researchchallenge that has been approached in recent publications. In this paper we are discussing securitychanges of Wi-Max and suggesting a new authentication protocol.1. IntroductionThe next generation of the IEEE802.16/WiMAX will be the most important component of the wirelesssystem. The standard version of IEEE 802.16/WiMAX employed advanced radio transmission technologyfor example OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), adaptive modulation and coding, andEFC (adaptive forward error correction). The main purpose of using IEEE802.16/WiMAX is to providewell defined quality-of-service broadband wireless capabilities.IEEE 802.16/WiMAX technology needs a high rate transmission (about tens of Mbps), and strict quality-of-service for both indoor

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

globalization and sustainable design anddevelopment. The course format consisted of three, 50-minute class meetings per week for the13-week semester (39 total class meetings). Class meeting times were used for lectures,workshops, and term project presentations. The first offering of the course was to a class of 16engineering seniors. COURSE TOPICS Course topics and the number of lectures, assignments, workshops, and in-class exercisesdedicated to them are presented in Table 1. Most topics involved traditional, stand-uppresentations. Often these presentations included in-class exercises that forced students toconsider and respond to the subject matter instantaneously. At other times, take-home mini-assignments were used to reinforce lecture

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

with a constant body load of 1,000 lbs acting in the sockets. Aluminum is selected for the materialproperty of the pylon and the socket. Results showed that the Von Mises stress to anterior aspect of theimmobile ankle prosthesis was 1,567 psi compared to 131 psi for the mobile ankle prosthesis; themaximum shear stress acting on the immobile ankle prosthesis anteriorly was 905 psi verses 52 psi inmobile ankle prosthesis. The results also showed large amounts of reduction in stresses in lateral, medial,and posterior aspect of the mobile ankle prosthesis.1. IntroductionWith advancement in gait analysis equipment, students at Mercer University School of Engineering(MUSE) have been using biomechanics lab to learn and conduct research studies

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

computerizedtomography (CT) to generate 3D modeling and simulation of the ankle complex using finite elementmodeling (ANSYS 8.1) for determining the optimal meniscus thickness. Typical lab modules developedand taught in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Programs include: 1. The CAD/CAM module:involves designing a spline with 6, 8, or 12 grooves using AutoCAD or Pro-Engineer, making the splineon a CNC machining center using the rotary axis (XZ-plane), measuring certain dimensions of the partmade, and making an error analysis; 2. The robot module: involves the use of a programmable five-axisrobot (CRS A255) for a Kool-Aid mixing application consisting of designing and building a fixture tohold a cup for Kool-Aid mix, cup for sugar, bottle of water, a

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

technique that has the ability tohandle conflicting objectives in both preemptive and weighted manners. In this paper, we present apreemptive goal programming model for the School of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. Dataand case studies are provided along with a list of objectives for the Engineering School.Keywords: School of Engineering, Enrollment, Sustainability, Quality of Education, Preemptive GoalProgramming, Multiple Criteria Optimization.1. IntroductionToday, ever-decreasing budgets and dynamic variations in the number of both faculty and student bodiesare two major challenges that most U.S. universities deal with. In addition to the effort to solve theseproblems, every higher education institution also concentrates on ensuring

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

processes whose form and function achieve clients’ objectivesor users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.” 1 Computer-aided engineering (CAE)software packages such as Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) 2 are among the modern engineering tools available toassist engineers to generate and evaluate their designs.In this paper, we begin in the Introduction with a description of the mechanical engineering curriculumat Binghamton University. The process that we have developed in the department for continuousimprovement (Departmental Course Review Process and ABET Accreditation) will be presented next.Following this will be a description of the CAE course and how it fits into the overall departmentalreview process.In the second section, the

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

wealthier citizens reside adjacent to others living in extreme poverty. Many of thepoor neighborhoods originated from the occupation of land without permission (i.e. squatters). Theseland invaders or “Invasores” as they are called in the local community staked their claims by buildingsmall shacks on parcels of land. These dilapidated houses were built quite literally using any materialsthat the people could get their hands on. Over time these communities grew as the walls of one housebecame the walls of the next. One of these neighborhoods, called Luz Consuelo, is shown in the satellitephotograph in Figure 1. Notable is the poor condition of the houses as compared to the wealthiersurrounding neighborhoods. Figure 2 shows some of the materials that

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M.G. Guvench

minimum specifications and are required to apply thelearning they had into the design of a NMOS-input Operational Amplifier that can be implemented in an N-well CMOS process. The specifications include open loop gain, gain-bandwidth product, phase margin,common-mode rejection range, slew rate and output swing on a specified load including capacitive loading.The requirements are (1) to create a Mathematica file of their design calculations, (2) verify the design withappropriate SPICE simulations, (3) create a layout design that passes all design rules, and (4) write a reportand do a Powerpoint presentation to the class at the end. Projects that pass the design specifications andlayout rules can be sent out to be fabricated. However, typical turn

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Saikat Ray

Russian students possess great background inmathematics whereas students from Latin America are very good with traditional electrical engineeringtopics such as power engineering. Many of them, e.g., the students from different Indian Institute ofTechnologies (IITs) or Tsinghua University, come with outstanding undergraduate training. However, theM.S. student population in teaching oriented schools seems to show some common characteristics. Wedescribe below these observations and anecdotal reasons that perhaps explain the observations. Note that,these observations should not be construed as negative comments in any way, but merely as whatthe author has experienced. 1. Motivation: Most students join M.S. program in order to get a job in the

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

,timing and process and machine control and coordination. Groover [1] defines a PLC as: “Amicrocomputer-based controller that uses stored instructions in programmable memory to implementlogic, sequencing, timing, counting, and arithmetic functions, using digital and analog input/output (I/O)modules, for controlling machines and processes.” Although PLC’s are used in the process industries(e.g., processing mined materials and oil refineries), they are more commonly found in discretemanufacturing industries, such as in machine control, transfer lines, and material handling equipment.First conceived in 1968 by Richard Morley, the PLC was originally developed as a device to overcomethe inflexibility and high cost of hard-wired controllers made of