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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Arthur Rozario; Zhenkang Yang; Abe Yang; San Peng; Qing Guan; Ying Dong; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

as a client, has beenfound to useful. There is ample evidence from the consumer market where EEG equipment isavailable for rental usage for those wanting to conduct neuro- feedback practice at home. Theclient (acted out by a professor) confidence criterion would be fulfilled by the various EEG dataanalysis learning activities such as N2 and P3 signal extraction when a company (acted out by astudent) can complete the noise-filter computation. The client confidence would increase withFFT outputs in various frequency bands beyond simple signal extraction. The company productoverview/summary is simply the student project report. The rich variety of EEG consumertechnology, including brain computer interface application, is a solid platform to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

choose,as they will be taking on a large percentage of the costs and debt. In 2011 Massachusetts parentsonly averaged ~25% of college cost leaving the student with nearly 75% of the cost.16 This canbe coupled with the documented decrease in parent’s willingness to take on college costs, down4% from last year in a Discover Student loan survey.17 With the expected increase in educationalcosts, overall cost of higher education is projected to conservably hit between $165,000 and$513,000. These costs are based on projections of state universities and private universities overthe next 18 years.18In regard to educational environment, the nature of a purely online education may not simply beforeign to many students; it may be much more challenging

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

, maximum of 5] forconstruction management graduates are4: 1) Knowledge of health and safety regulations (4.84) 2) Interpreting contract documents (4.73) 3) Listening ability/ Giving attention to details (4.65) 4) Knowledge of building codes and regulations (4.62) 5) Time Management (4.58) 6) Planning and goal setting (4.54) 7) Plans interpretation/ Blueprint reading/ Understanding construction and shop drawings (4.54) 8) Knowledge of construction law and legal environment (4.52) 9) Hands-on project experience prior to graduation/ Internship (4.48) 10) Marketing with clients/ Developing client relations (4.48) 11) Knowledge of construction operations (4.48) 12) Communication

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

same time durations. The results of this studywill provide faculty with an understanding of the relative benefit of providing guided notes or askeleton outline to their students. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityIntroductionStudents succeed in learning when they are engaged and interested in a course, they have writtentheir own notes, and they have applied what they have recorded in an active manner.1 Activelearning has been proven to be a superior method of learning material instead of sitting still whilelistening to an instructor explain new information on a consistent basis. In order to applyconcepts to a project, problem or case study, students must first understand the basics of

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Hergert

he presses a button on the screen. The applet will then process the barcode according to the six machine vision principles defined by Fu, Gonzalez, and Lee. [2]Code 39 Bar CodesThe code 39 bar codes used in this project are often found in manufacturing and processindustries. Groover [3] provides a description of the associated letters, numbers, and symbols forstandard code 39. Some of the basic rules for code 39 barcodes are: • All code 39 barcodes start and end with a * character. • All code 39 barcodes start and end with a black line. • Black and white lines alternate. A wide line (white or black) represents a 1. A thin line represents a 0. • A collection of 9 binary numbers form a character. • There

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Daryl Gruar

mechanicalstay rod. The door is closed by the removal of the safety rod and pulling the cargo door down and into the aircraftfuselage, against the resistance of the two gas struts.The operation of this large and heavy door can place the operator in is an unsafe positions and requires a level ofphysical fitness and effort to, especially close the door. For this reason the operation of the door is generallyavoided by operators unless absolutely needed and it has also created a number of workplace injuries such as strains,falls and slips. The operation of the air-stair door within the cargo door is also mechanical, but due to the air-stairdoor size and weight - its operation does not pose the same safety hazards.The engineering degree project developed an

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Chien-tsung Lu; Mark Sherman

bill HR 3371 Airline Safety andPilot Training Improvement Act 2009 on July 29, 2009. In other words, this project willbenefit the airports willing to incorporate SMS to their safety operation. We hope toreduce both risk probability and severity associated within their daily operation.Ultimately, a positive safety culture can be formed to eliminate or reduce unwantedevents, unforeseen accidents, and un-needed financial waste.A Computerized SMS ModelAs showed in Figure 1, the research team had proposed a SMS model in 2007, which is acomprehensive management mechanism. However, the model is still manual in nature.The SMS software or an online management system will play a significant role for SMSusers to receive needed assistance in the following

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

summarizessome of the surveyed computing topics. Table 1: Summary of 2002 computing survey questions after Abudayyeh et al.1 Computer application Computer-related skill Project management Use of spreadsheets Simulation Use of equation solvers CAD/GIS Programming in Fortran, C++, Java Optimization Use of electronic communication Collaboration Environments Use of database management systemsTable 1 is especially useful because it explicitly defines what the computing skills of value are(or were) at the time. Comparisons with the older surveys are somewhat limited due to

Conference Session

Programming Education 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi Yan Daniel Leung, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Joe Mazzone, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Efthymia Kazakou, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Chelsea Gordon, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Yamuna Rajasekhar, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

landscape of‬P‭education, summative assessments, often called labs, are assigned on a weekly basis to students. The‬ ‭goals of these assessments are often to reinforce and to evaluate mastery of the concepts taught in the‬ ‭course. Upon graduation, students are tasked with programming complex projects. A key aspect of a CS‬ ‭student's success in the real world is their ability to develop complex software in professional IDEs‬ ‭(integrated development environments). In this paper we describe a new and powerful labs environment‬ ‭that enables students to master their skills in software development through a cloud-based IDE with‬ ‭support for over 50 programming languages. This labs environment supports an auto-grader and‬

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Debra Larson

paperpresents a review of the two versions of the BOK, BOK1 and BOK2, and a comparison of theseversions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum at Northern Arizona University(NAU), which is benchmarked to the 2007-2008 ABET Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms2.BOK1In January of 2004, the ASCE published the BOK3 (known as the BOK1) that identified fifteenlearning outcomes, of which the first eleven came directly from Criterion 3 of the ABET Criteriafor Accrediting Engineering Programs, herein referred to simply as the ABET Criteria. Theadditional four outcomes addressed technical specialization, project management, construction,asset management, business and public policy and administration, and leadership and itsattending

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Casey

summarizessome of the surveyed computing topics. Table 1: Summary of 2002 computing survey questions after Abudayyeh et al.1 Computer application Computer-related skill Project management Use of spreadsheets Simulation Use of equation solvers CAD/GIS Programming in Fortran, C++, Java Optimization Use of electronic communication Collaboration Environments Use of database management systemsTable 1 is especially useful because it explicitly defines what the computing skills of value are(or were) at the time. Comparisons with the older surveys are somewhat limited due to

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Stephanie Parker; J. Kemi Ladeji-Osias

Implementing a Histogram Equalization Algorithm in Reconfigurable Hardware Stephanie Parker, Undergraduate Student, Stephanie_parker1987@yahoo.com J. Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Associate Professor, Jumoke.Ladeji-Osias@morgan.edu Morgan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 5200 Perring Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21251AbstractDedicated hardware can be used when images and video are acquired and processed. In this paper, ahistogram equalization algorithm is written in a Hardware Description Language for future implementationin reconfigurable hardware. The goal of this project is to implement a

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jeanine Lee Skorinko; Jennifer Lay; Grant McDonald; Brad Miller; Colleen Shaver; Cindy Randall; James Kevin Doyle; Michael A. Gennert; Gretar Tryggvason; James Van de Ven

positive and advanceddevelopmental outcomes (3, 4, 5, 6). And, self-esteem may be influenced by peers andactivities (7).Current Research Thus, the specific goals of the current project are to (1) investigate socialnetworking in FIRST, (2) investigate the social benefits of participating in FIRST (e.g.,increased self-esteem, social awareness, social networking, social skills, etc.), (3)evaluate the usability and effectiveness of different networking and informationrepository websites that can by used by FIRST participants to better understand whatresources FIRST participants are using and why. MethodParticipants There were a total of 417 participants (255 male; 141 female; 21 Not specified

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Charles Thomas; Loren Byrne; Jeremy Campbell

the United States (i.e., unlimitedeconomic growth reflected by an ever-increasing GDP). We also explored the sometimes subtledifference between “belief” and “knowledge.” In support of this lesson, the major courseworkcomponent was for the students to pick a sustainability-related belief that they held and write a“This I Believe” essay, modeled after the long-lived project started by Edward R. Murrow in the1950’s and continued today by National Public Radio[3]. This introductory section also includedlectures whose purpose was to present a common definition of sustainability which was referredto throughout the remainder of the semester.The Science of SustainabilityAfter defining sustainability, we examined it through the eyes of the natural

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Daniel Ruscansky; David Vecchione; Ryan Foley; Shankar Krishnan; Mansour Zenouzi

incubators extremely important devices in neonatal care athospitals. Modern incubators are very expensive making it difficult for hospitals, especiallysmall ones, to procure them especially with economic crunch and resource constraints for capitalequipment. The paper provides the details of a students’ project to design and build an efficientand cost-effective incubator to meet the clinical needs at low budget hospitals. The designinvolves controlling the temperature precisely within a small physiological range, whileconcurrently maintaining the desired humidity. The incubator is also designed to trigger alarmsin the event of failures of electromechanical nature. It is noted that the project is carried out as apart of the requirements for the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

David H. Plantz; William M Simpson Jr. P.E.

integrating failure cases into courses. He suggests that the cases be clearly tiedinto course content, that the case history and causes of failure be described, that the problem besimplified if needed to allow students to perform calculations, and that ethical issues arising fromthe case be addressed. Delatte further suggests that teachers bring practicing engineers into theclassroom to discuss their experiences with projects and engineering failures [3]. As educatorshave developed innovative methods for incorporating case studies, they also have been workingon assessing the educational benefits of this teaching method. For example, researchers havediscussed various methods that can be used to assess changes in cognitive learning to help gaugethe

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard Millham

tutorials in mathematics, English, and physics of English, physics, and mathematics. By selectingfor secondary school students are another option three students from each school, it was felt thatwhich was embraced by a professional body. This they would be able to provide a fair representationbody funded these tutorials for six hours every of each school within the network while not over-Saturday during term times at a university of burdening the resources of the program.technology. This group consisted of Grade 11students from schools in disadvantaged areas; A pilot project for this program began withteachers at each of the schools in these area, in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Wendy Otoupal-Hylton; Pete Hylton

students’ interest in STEM careers and anincreased self-confidence in their ability to succeed in such careers. This paper will present bothquantitative and qualitative results documenting the improvement in both skills and attitudes.Additionally there will be an explanation of one of the more unique and interesting modules created,which involved a very unique engineering-type design project derived from motorsports engineering.Few career paths are as dynamic, exciting and engaging to STEM students as those in motorsports.Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which offers the first Bachelor’s Degree inMotorsports engineering in the United States, has found motorsports to be an excellent mechanism forattracting STEM students

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

John Finnie

. DiscussionAssignments on the history of technology have been used by the author in both senior civil engineering and firstyear general engineering courses. In a senior seminar course, individual students were assigned to write a paper andmake an oral presentation on a topic about the history of technology. Students were given a list of possible topics,or could nominate topics for the instructor’s approval. The topics were usually of local or regional interest,including: notable structural failures, safety related tragedies, earth structures left by native populations,controversial projects such as power plants, development of highway corridors, and development of naturalresources.In a first year general engineering course, student groups were assigned to

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Gaetan Garcia; Matthew R. Stein

exercise remotely. The paper concludes with an analysisof the project and a discussion of future plans.IntroductionAlthough the concept of distance education is by no means new, the offering of laboratory courses hastrailed the offering of regular didactic courses due to the presence of significant technical obstacles. Asthe network infrastructure became faster and more ubiquitous, many researchers [1][2][3][4] beganimplementing remote laboratories in some form. Among the first to be developed were systemproviding remote access to laboratory equipment controlling fixed experimental apparatus. As systemsdeveloped, laboratories began to include moving apparatus with mechanical uncertainties [5][6][7][8][9] requiring video feedback. Remote laboratory

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Rei Marzoughi

inquiry and uses the City of Hamilton as a case study to allowthe exploration of civic and public issues through an inquiry project. Additionally, students workon different assignments that teach them to use community and university resources in research.E&S 2Y03 – Case Studies in the History of Technology – Year 2This course brings in guest lecturers each week for the purpose of exploring different topics inthe history and philosophy of technology. Students are exposed to a number of different readingsthat emphasize the impact of technology on culture. At the end of the term, each studentconducts a paper and presentation that focuses on a topic in the history of technology.E&S 3Y03 – The Culture of Technology – Year 3This course explores

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael J. Davidson

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Integration of Software in Structural Engineering Education Michael J. Davidson1, P.E Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the work place today, software is typically used by the structural engineer to analyze anddesign most elements of a structure. There is a wide variety of software available to thestructural engineer, allowing the engineer to analyze and design micro, macro and even allelements of a structure. In fact, it is common today for consulting firms and contractors to usemulti-discipline software that inputs the project, including

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

John E. Patterson

examining various designs of solarwater heaters for both cost effectiveness and functionality. Experimenting with variousrecyclable and inexpensive materials maintains a low cost and demonstrates to students thatalternative systems are achievable at low cost. Recyclable materials such as aluminum cans asthe absorber plate and PET bottles functioning as glazing reduce the cost and reuse disposableitems. Two variations of test collectors were constructed to determine if the variations ofefficiency, compared to the original design.Keywords: Solar Water Heater; Recycled Material; Student Project; Cost EffectiveIntroductionThe installation of residential solar water heaters is on the increase. In 2010 there were 35,464solar water heating systems were in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

M. Ali-ud-din Khan; Muhammad Fahim Uddin; Navarun Gupta

appear in J. MIS, Loyola Univ. Maryland, 2013 M. Ali-ud-din khan is a recent graduate from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He has over 15 years of experience in Pharmaceutical companies holding various technical and managerial positions. He also holds MBA degree. XI. CONCLUSION He is currently pursuing a project HRP-ADH (Health Recovery Program-Big data has raw ingredients for tomorrow invincible

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gad J. Selig

planning) and that the business will be an instant success. Long range financial projections are at best works of Some definitions are appropriate. An entrepreneur is using the WAG concept (wild ass guess) and thus, are heavilya person who perceives an opportunity and creates an discounted by investors. It is not an efficient use of time andorganization to pursue that opportunity. A business incubator energy to prepare elaborate pro-formas on untested concepts.is a facility that assists new ventures in growing a business. A new business concept is at best a set of unprovenThere are many types of incubators (e.g. general purpose [any

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Lionel Hewavitharana, Southern Arkansas University; Mahbub K Ahmed P.E., Southern Arkansas University

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Professional Papers

particular model, and it is the responsibility of engineeringprograms to use models that are effective in addressing ABET concerns related to engineeringdesign.Since the revision of the 11 “a-k” outcomes into the currently used seven outcomes, AlexSczatmary [2] argues that a change is required to assessment tools as well. The assessment toolsare mainly evaluation rubrics, and he discusses them in detail for each outcome.In order to provide industry level design experience through capstone design, most engineeringprograms seek design projects from the industry. Susannah Howe of Smith college [3] noticedthat there was a decided shift towards external project sourcing from engineering programs.In an interesting research study conducted by Mary Perrati

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel

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Professional Papers

by thesame instructor. During these courses, two grading methods (self-grading and instructor grading)and two equation sheet preparation methods (student-prepared and instructor-provided) wereimplemented. The survey also asked students to indicate their preferred homework length andfrequency. Results indicated that most students favored shorter assignments with opportunitiesfor self-grading and correction. Additionally, the vast majority of students expressed a preferencefor instructor-provided equation sheets for exams.KeywordsCheat sheet; Self-grading; Exam preparationPurpose of the StudyIn any course, students’ learning combines homework, in-class activities, projects, andexaminations. For homework and projects, students can use their

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

-experimental evolution report on suggested that the laboratory investigation of the thermo-elongation factor EF-Tu structural stability results using the stability of elongation factor EF-Tu protein by circularancestral protein sequence reconstruction modeling has been dichroism data would provide an opportunity to rewind theused in teaching community college pre-engineering students to tape of life using ancestral protein reconstruction modelingdo research. A project analyzing free energy and Shannon approach [1]. Furthermore they reported that the insertion ofentropy of the engineered DNA sequences would benefit students an ancient version of EF-Tu in Escherichia coli (E. coli

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Xi Kang; Chengxin Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque

frequency drops sharply as the length of the beam is increased. In this project, we set the length of the cantilever beam as 250µm.The integral in equation (4) can be solved for the voltage[10] Based on above analysis, a set of optimized design parametersto obtain: of the proposed electrostatic mixer are obtained, as show in Table 1. Design parameters valuesTherefore, the driving voltage for any tip displacement can be