2008 Northeast Section Proceedings Archive (PDFs)

• A Ball-on-Beam System with an Embedded Controller
  David Evanko, Arend Dorsett, Chiu Choi, Ph.D., P.E.
  University of North Florida
  
• A Model for a Bi-lingual Curriculum
  Abdelrahman M Rabie and Rahman Haleem
  James Madison University and Zayed University, Dubai
  
• A NEW MECHANISM TO SOLVE IEEE 802.16 AUTHENTICATION VULNERABILITIE
  Abdelrahman Elleithy, Alaa Abuzaghleh, Abdelshakour Abuzneid
  University of Bridgeport
  
• A Preemptive Goal Programming Model for the Sustainability of Growth in Engineering Colleges
  Elif Kongar and Tarek Sobh
  University of Bridgeport
  
• Accelerating Engagement of First-Year Students in Academics: Use of Ideas from Quality Literature
  David A Gray
  Messiah College
  
• Adding Automatic Control to the Senior Laboratory Experience
  Harry Knickle and Don Gray
  University of Rhode Island
  
• Assessing the Effectiveness of a Mechanical Engineering Computer-Aided Design Course
  Roy T.R. McGrann
  Binghamton University
  
• Assessing the Impact of New Teaching Methods by Predicting Student Performance
  
• Beyond Their Technical Capabilities: Providing Student Exposure to Professional, Communication, and Leadership Skills
  Christopher W. Swan and Julia Carroll
  Tufts University
  
• CAD/CAM and Robotics Applications in Laboratory-Learning Environment
  R. Radharamanan and Ha Van Vo
  Mercer University
  
• Cognitive Learning in Introductory College Science Education
  Eileen M. Kowalski and Joe D. Manous, Jr.
  United States Military Academy
  
• Comparison of Shear Stress Acting in the Sockets of Typical Mobile and Immobile Ankle Prostheses Using Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  Ha Van Vo, Stephanie Rossman, Zsaquez Flucker and R. Radharamanan
  Mercer University
  
• Comparison of Student Performance in an Online with traditional Based Entry Level Engineering Course
  Ismail I. Orabi, Ph.D.
  University of New Haven
  
• Computer Based Testing to Enhance Effective Teaching of International M.S. Students in Teaching-oriented Schools
  Saikat Ray
  University of Bridgeport
  
• Design, Simulation and Testing of MOSIS Fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers for Class Projects in an Analog I.C. Design Course
  M.G. Guvench
  University of Southern Maine
  
• Development of a Civil Engineering Design Course Based On Reflective Action
  Aaron S. Bradshaw, Gary N. McCloskey, Franklin Miguel
  Merrimack College
  
• Development of a Programmable Logic Controller Experiential Learning Platform
  Richard B. Mindek, Jr.
  Western New England College
  
• Discovery-Based Learning Engineering Classroom
  Bahram Nassersharif, Ph.D.
  University of Rhode Island
  
• DISCUSSION ON HIGH VOLTAGES AND THEIR SUCCESSFUL INTRODUCTION IN TO THE ENGINEERING CLASS ROOM USING REAL LIFE ACCIDENT CASES
  Navarun Gupta, Buket Barkana, Sarosh Patel, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik
  University of Bridgeport
  
• Distance Education: Remote Labs Environment
  Bassem Alhalabi, M. K. Hamza, and Ali Abu-El Humos
  Florida Atlantic University, Lamar University, and Jackson State University
  
• Early and Continuous Exposure to Engineering as a Profession: Career Imprinting in Grades PK-12
  Hudson V. Jackson, PhD, P.E and Evelyn A. Ellis, Ed.D
  United States Coast Guard Academy
  
• Effect of Defects on Mechanical Properties of Composites: Undergraduate Research on Materials
  Mir M. Atiqullah
  Southern Polytechnic State University
  
• ENGINEERING FACULTY INVOLVEMENT IN K-12 EDUCATION AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  Philip L. Brach, PhD, PE, FNSPE, and Ahmet Zeytinci, PhD, PE
  University of the District of Columbia
  
• Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment Process
  
• Finite Element Method - A Tool for Learning Runway Design
  
• Formation and Cooperation for SWARMed Intelligent Robots
  Wei Cao, Yanqing Gao, Jason Robert Mace
  West Virginia University, University of Arizona, Energy Corp. of America
  
• Free Body Diagrams of Gear Trains
  Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang
  North Carolina A&T State University
  
• Getting Students to Think Green: Incorporating Green Building Rating Systems into Undergraduate Reinforced Concrete Education
  Major Richard J.H. Gash and Major David Fedroff
  United States Military Academy
  
• Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI
  Arthur Heinricher, Brian Savilonis, David Spanagel, Robert Traver, Kristin Wobbe
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  
• Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean
  M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D.
  University of New Haven
  
• How to Improve Student’s Retention Rate in Science and Technology
  Dr. Ali Setoodehnia, Dr. Kamal Shahrabi, and Anthony Manno
  ITT-TECH, Farmingdale State College, and Kean University
  
• Inclusion of RFID in a BSEE Curriculum
  John Adams and Charles Kochakian
  Merrimack College
  
• Increasing the Participation of Women in the Engineering and Technical Services Industries
  Elif Kongar, Paul Kontogiorgis, Nancy L. Russo, and Tarek Sobh
  University of Bridgeport, IBM Almaden Research Center, and Northern Illinois University
  
• Innovative Engineering Education Using Programmable Lego Robotic VD Graaf Generators
  Dean M. Aslam, Zongliang Cao, Cyrous Rostamzadeh, and Robert Bosch LLC
  Michigan State University and EMC Department
  
• Interactive Web Based Animation Software: An Efficient Way to Increase the Engineering Student’s Fundamental Understanding of Particle Kinematics and Kinetics
  
• Interdisciplinary Learning for Chemical Engineering Students from Organic Chemistry Synthesis Lab to Reactor Design to Separation
  Matt Armstrong, Richard L. Comitz, Andrew Biaglow, Russ Lachance, Joseph Sloop
  
• Keeping the STEM Student Pipeline Flowing: An Innovative Partnership Between a K-12 School System and an Institution of Higher Learning
  Linda Ann Riley, Charles Thomas
  Roger Williams University
  
• Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics
  David I. Schwartz
  Rochester Institute of Technology
  

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