Parallel Sessions - Presentations
Parallel Sessions - Presentations
Session 1
Saturday, April 21, 2007: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1A Electrical & Computer Engineering
“SOFTWARE SYNTHESIS AND AUDIO ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY”
Professor Timothy Britt
College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture, University of Hartford
“AN EFFICIENT APPROACH TO REDUCE THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS THROUGH ACTIVE NODES OPTIMIZATION”
Khushboo Patel , Chaitali Patel, Syed S. Rizvi, K. M. Elleithy
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT 06605
{khushbop, chaitali, srizvi, elleithy}@bridgeport.edu
“REAL-TIME BINAURAL SOUND GENERATION USING TI C6713 DSK BOARD”
Navarun Gupta, Larry Hmurcik, Vaibhav Bhatnagar, *Armando Barreto
University of Bridgeport, *Florida International University
“WAVELETS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SIGNAL DENOISING AND COMPRESSION A STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HAAR AND DAUBECHIES4 WAVELETS USING WAVELET TOOLBOX OF MATLAB”
Aarthi Srinivasan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516
“THE STANDARD TEMPLATE LIBRARY: A GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL TOOL-MAKING”
David Pitts
Merrimack College
“A BROADBAND UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEM IMPLEMENTATION USING COHERENT OFDM”
N. Anicette, R. Anstett, S. Mason, S. Zhou
University of Connecticut Department of Electrical Engineering
1B Innovations in Engineering Education
“RHODE ISLAND K-12 GRADE SPAN EXPECTATIONS: ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY”
Peter McLaren and Linda Jzyk
Rhode Island Department of Education
“THE FUTURE CITY COMPETITION - A SUCCESSFUL STEM
EXPERIENCE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS”
Keith M. Gardiner
Lehigh University
“A VERTICALLY-ALIGNED CONTEXTUALIZED PRE-ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE FOR MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS”
Yiannis A. Levendis and Christos Zahopoulos, Cheryl Hall*, Jonathan McLaughlin٭,
College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02116
٭Boston Public Schools
“HOW DO MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS MAKE DESIGN DECISIONS WHEN ENGAGED IN INTEGRATED MATH AND ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGES?”
Dr. Barbara M. Brizuela
Wendy Huang, Museum of Science (Boston)
Dr. Cary I. Sneider, Museum of Science (Boston)
Dr. Peter Y. Wong, Tuft University
1C Mechanical Engineering
“TEACHING THE COURSE OF VIBRATIONS USING MATLAB SOFTWARE”
Shanzhong (Shawn) Duan
Donell Froehlich
South Dakota State University, College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brooking, SD 57007-0294
“RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF THE WPI COMPETENCY EXAM IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING”
Brian Savilonis
Department of Mechanical Engineering
WPI, Worcester MA
“A CLASSICAL MECHANICS COURSE IN AN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM: CHALLENGES AND REWARDS”.
Matthew R. Stein
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Rd
Bristol, Rhode Island
“CONTACT INSTABILITY IN BELT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM”
Rao Dukkipati
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA, Rdukkipati@Mail.fairfield.edu (Chair and ASME fellow)
Hanlu Chen*
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA, Hchen@oakland.edu (*interim student)
Guojun Qie
Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler Drive, Rochester, MI 48309, USA, gq3@ daimlerchrysler.com
1D Industrial & Automation Manufacturing
“SIMULATION, MODELLING, AND AUTOMATION”
Christian Craciun and Paul Botosani
Fairfield University
“SIMULATION, MODELLING, AND ROBOTICS”
Christian Cracium, Fairfield University
Chris Sobh, University of New Haven
“SYSTEM ENGINEERING:An Interdisciplinary Engineering Degree Program for the Global Economy”
Barry J. Farbrother, Ph.D. and M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D.
University of New Haven
”TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN MODERN PROCEDURES OF EMPLOYEE’S EDUCATION”
Saeid Moslehpour, PhD
Assistant Professor & IEEE Student Branch Counselor
University of Hartford
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
200 Bloomfield Avenue, UT 242 West Hartford, CT 06117
1E Civil & Environmental Engineering
“WATER QUALITY ENGINEERING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROGRAM”
Leon Thiem, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Harold Knickle,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
Contact Email knickle@egr.uri.edu
“DESIGN OF A CARBON NEUTRAL GREENHOUSE FOR GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE”
Larry Decker, Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology
William Hansen, Student, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Rob Dewar, Student, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Civil & Environmental Engineering
“DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING MATERIALS FOR A DISCOVERY-BASED STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTATION LABORATORY”
Mayrai Gindy, Ph.D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Rhode Island
1F Curriculum Integration
“CODIFYING GLOBAL ETHICS IN THE ENGINEERING CODE”
Ashraf M. Ghaly
Professor, Engineering Department
Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308
ghalya@union.edu
“ADAPTING THE INTERNET AS A PLATFORM FOR INTERACTIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN WITH WORLDWIDE ACCESSIBILITY”
Ashraf M. Ghaly
Professor, Engineering Department
Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308
ghalya@union.edu
“DEVELOPING THE INSTRUCTORS’ TEACHING TECHNIQUES: REQUIRED COURSES FOR PH.D. CANDIDATES”
Buket D. Barkana
School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604
Topic: “Innovations in Engineering Education”
“ENGINEERING DESIGNS AND APPLICATIONS INSPIRED BY NATURE:
NANOPHOTONICS AS A VEHICLE FOR STEM EDUCATION “
Gregory J. Sonek
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Merrimack College, 315 Turnpike St., North Andover, MA 01845
Tel: 978-837-5000 x 4388; Email: greg.sonek@merrimack.edu
“ENGINEERS TAKE ON WRITING: INTEGRATING TECHNICAL WRITING INSTRUCTION INTO A SENIOR CAPSTONE SEQUENCE”
Eric Beenfeldt, Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Scott D. Peterson, Lecturer, Department of English
University of Maine
“THE CRUCIBLE OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION:
COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENTS IN GAME DESIGN”
Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Computer Science, Cornell University, mohan@cs.cornell.edu
Jerry Gabriel, Engineering Communications, Cornell University, gg67@cornell.edu
Session 2
Saturday, April 21, 2007: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
2A Electrical & Computer Engineering
“SUPPORTING ADVANCED COURSE WORK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE”
David Pitts
Merrimack College
“A STUDY ON PULSED POWER SUPPLY BASED ON SEPARATE EXCITATION”
Yi Zheng*, Xiaoming Wang**, Xingguo Xiong*
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA
**Department of Electrical Engineering,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China
“WEB BASED DISTANCE LEARNING ON DEMAND APPLICATION BY IMPLEMENTATION JMF (JAVA MEDIA FRAMEWORK API)”
Saeid Moslehpour, PhD
Assistant Professor & IEEE Student Branch Counselor
University of Hartford
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
200 Bloomfield Avenue, UT 242
West Hartford, CT 06117
“ON THE USE OF A REAL-LIFE ACCIDENT CASE TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRICAL SAFETY IN THE ENGINEERING URRICULUM”
Navarun Gupta, Vaibhav Bhatnagar, Mark Mattie, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT 06604
“PEDAGOGICAL VIEWS OF A DISTANCE LEARNING SYSTEM (AN EXPERIENCE IN POWER AND WATER”
University of Technology)
Ramin Sadeghi
Power & Water University of Technology
Tim Britt PRESENTER
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Hartford
Saeid Moslehpour
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Hartford
“IMPARTING CONSUMMATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MICROELECTRONIS ENGINEERING AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSEETS, LOWELL”
Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E.
Professor/Founding Director, Microelectronics/VLSI Technology
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
2B Innovations: Dialog in Engineering Research
“RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION”
Merredith Portsmore
Tufts University
Center for Engineering Educational Outreach
“YEAR OF DIALOG: RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION”
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
Marie Dillon Dahleh
“INTEGRATING ACTIVE LEARNING INTO TEACHING THE COURSE OF VIBRATIONS”
Shanzhong (Shawn) Duan
Donell Froehlich
South Dakota State University
College of Engineering
Departments of Mechanical Engineering
Brooking, SD 57007-0294
“DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE TEACHING”
Andrew J Fish Jr., Ph.D., Professor of E&CE&CS Tagliatela College of Engineering
The University of New Haven, 300 Orange Ave, West Haven, CT 06516
afish@newhaven.edu, andy.fish@cox.net Tel: 203-932-7163
“INVOLVING FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN A PROFESSIONAL SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE”
Stephen S. Holt and Gill A. Pratt
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Needham, MA 02472
“PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: EFFECTS OF THEMATIC CONTENT, INTEGRATION, AND HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION”
Charleen D. Laughlin†, Maria Ong*, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker†
†Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
*TERC
2C Rapid Prototyping
“IMPLEMENTING RAPID PROTOTYPING IN ACADEMICS TO ENHANCE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND INDUSTRIAL OUTREACH”
William M. Leonard, David M. Street, and Jack L. Danziger
Rochester Institute of Technology, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
“MAKING A CASE FOR ENGINEERING USING 3D PRINTING”
Steven D. Lavoie
Assistant Professor, ASEE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor
New England Institute of Technology
Warwick, Rhode Island
“THE IMPACT OF RAPID PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS ON SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING”
David M. Street, Jack L. Danziger, and William M. Leonard
Rochester Institute of Technology, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
2D Chemical Engineering
“DEVELOPING AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR RECRUITING AND RETAINING UNDERREPRESENTED STEM STUDENTS”
Geoff Bothun, Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
“SYSTEMS MODEL OF LINEAR CHROMATOGRAPHY”
Salah Badjou, Ph.D.
Department of Electronics and Mechanical
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115
“A HOLISTIC METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MEASURE AND INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND WAVES ON PLANT CELLS AND MICROORGANISMS “
David Arruda
Salah Badjou, Ph.D.
Department of Electronics and Mechanical
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115
“THE NEW BIO TRACK IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AT URI”
Stan Barnett
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Rhode Island
Barnett@egr.uri.edu
2E K-12 Education
“SCORING PRE-ENGINEERING PROJECTS”
Francis Lenox, East Greenwich High School, RI
“TEACHING DRAFTING, DESIGN, & CADD WITH AN ENGINEERING APPROACH”
Jennifer Robinson
Winman Junior High School
Drafting, Design, & CADD
Graphic Communications
“PRE-ENGINEERING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL”
Jeff Macari
Smithfield High School
Smithfield, Rhode Island
2F Diversity in Engineering
“BRIDGE PROGRAMS TO RECRUIT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTO ENGINEERING”
Charles Watson, LSAMP Coordinator College of Engineering and
Harold Knickle Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
Contact Email knickle@egr.uri.edu
“A MODEL FOR HIRING AND RETAINING TOP FEMALE ENGINEERING FACULTY”
Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, Barb Silver, Lisa Harlow, Joan Peckham,
Mercedes Rivero-Hudec, Karen Wishner
University of Rhode Island
“A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF DIVERSITY IN THE SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING: PROGRESS OR PREDICAMENT”
Linda Ann Riley Ph.D.
Roger Williams University
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