{"title":"Phylogenetic analysis using Bayesian model","authors":"W. Lu, Michael S. Hanrahan","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820677","url":null,"abstract":"Bayesian inference has been widely applied for phylogenetic and phyloinformatic analysis in recent years. In this paper we build up a high performance computing platform using OpenMPI with free-cost open source Ubuntu Linux operating systems, and then apply the Bayesian inference model to construct a phylogenetic tree of various biological species based on similarities and differences in their physical and genetic characteristics. A case study is also conducted and the experimental evaluation results to show that our cluster platform has achieved a good performance in the terms of time complexity when analyzing the molecular data using Bayesian model, leading a pilot inter-disciplinary Bioinformatics education program in between Computer Science and Biology.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125971941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspects of collaborations between college of engineering at King Saud University and industry","authors":"A. I. Al-Mhaidib","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820626","url":null,"abstract":"The mission of most colleges of engineering in many universities is to strengthen the partnership and cooperation with the different institutions of the society. This paper presents the various aspects of collaborations of college of engineering at King Saud University with industry. The first aspect is providing consultations by college faculty to industry companies. The second aspect is supporting scientific research through the finance provided by industry to establish research chairs in the college. The third aspect is providing scholarships to the outstanding students and awards to the outstanding graduation projects in all departments of the college. The fourth aspect involves the practical training of college's students in different industrial companies. The last aspect focuses on providing specialized engineering training courses in different fields to the engineers in industry.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130018438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using the EPSA rubric to evaluate student work on ethics case studies in a Professional Issues course","authors":"E. Schmeckpeper, Michael B. Kelley, S. Beyerlein","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820686","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering programs commonly utilize ethics case studies as the basis for student discussions. Measuring the student learning resulting from the case study process is often very subjective and difficult to quantify. The Engineering Professional Skill Assessment (EPSA) was created as a direct method for eliciting and measuring ABET professional skills such as ethics. EPSA is a performance assessment consisting of: 1) a 1-2 page scenario about a contemporary, interdisciplinary engineering problem 2) a discussion period where a small group of students are asked to address a series of leading questions about the scenario; and 3) an analytical rubric which is used to evaluate the students' discussion. The EPSA project is currently in the third year of a four year National Science Foundation sponsored validity study. As part of this study the team of researchers has applied EPSA to test groups of students at Washington State University, the University of Idaho, and Norwich University. As a result of the work done on the validity study, faculty members from Norwich University who were not part of the project team were introduced to the EPSA method. These faculty members have independently started to utilize aspects of the EPSA method in their courses. This paper describes how the EPSA scenarios and EPSA rubric are being used in the “Ethics” section of a senior level “Professional Issues” course for engineering students. The EPSA Rubric provides a standardized means to evaluate the quality of student discussions and to help make the evaluation of students' work more consistent between the multiple sections of the course.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126051352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Sustainability into Control Systems: Preliminary assessment of a new facilities-based and hands-on teaching approach","authors":"Melody Baglione, G. del Cerro","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820667","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview and preliminary assessment of an NSF TUES funded project, “Building Sustainability into Control Systems Courses.” The new inductive teaching strategy utilizes an energy efficient academic building to provide students with direct, practical exposure to modern heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and building automation systems. Students are taken on tours of the building's HVAC mechanical rooms and partake in process control laboratory experiments. New curriculum materials introduce basic operational principles of central HVAC systems and provide an overview of the control systems theory involved. A value-added, mixed-method assessment strategy uses both qualitative and quantitative techniques to closely track student performance and outcomes. Preliminary direct and indirect assessment results reveal this new facilities-based and hands-on teaching approach helps students appreciate the real-world applicability of control systems theory.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126613228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robots and Smartphones for attracting students to engineering education","authors":"G. Tewolde, Jaerock Kwon","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820652","url":null,"abstract":"The field of Robotics has been around for over half a century. Historically robots have been mostly used for industrial manufacturing applications, although emerging areas in medical, space, security, military, entertainment, and service applications are gaining momentum in the recent years. In the academic community also there have been growing efforts at many K-12 schools to motivate students in STEM education through participation in robotics competitions. A well-known example in this regard is the FIRST, which organizes a number of regional and national robotic competitions. This paper presents a pre-college summer program in robotics and Smartphone programming that is developed for high school students with the goal of attracting them to the field of engineering. The program offers great opportunities for the participants to appreciate the practical value of their academic curriculum and at the same time develop their creativity, problem solving, communication, and team skills.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128721983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An innovative approach to teaching an undergraduate electromagnetics, antennas and propagation course","authors":"P. Crilly","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820628","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an innovative approach is taken to teach electromagnetics (EM), antenna theory and signal propagation to undergraduate students. The method relies on hardware design and implementation projects that reinforce the underlying theory, enable the student to gain practical insight into the various EM topics, and ultimately provide the student with a working knowledge to analyze, problem solve and engineer EM systems. Topics include the basic EM theory, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and interference (EMI), transmission lines, antennas, phased arrays, and wireless propagation. Projects range the prosaic EM experiments to more open ended design with multiple possible solutions.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115790936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Ashry, A. Elrashidi, A. Mahros, M. Alhaddad, K. Elleithy
{"title":"Investigating the performance of apodized Fiber Bragg gratings for sensing applications","authors":"I. Ashry, A. Elrashidi, A. Mahros, M. Alhaddad, K. Elleithy","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820640","url":null,"abstract":"Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) technology has demonstrated its suitability for many applications in recent fiber technologies. Sensing application is one of the main applications of FBGs. In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation for using apodized FBGs in sensing applications. Different evaluation parameters such as, reflectivity, sidelobes, and full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) are tested in order to determine the most proper apodization profile for sensors. According to our study, the Blackman apodization gives the best profile that can be used in sensing applications. The reflectivity of Blackman apodization is nearly unity with minimum sidelobes level, -60.3 dB, and narrow FWHM. The length of Blackman apodized FBG is 0.33 cm and Δn = 14.4 × 10□4 and maximum reflectivity is 99.44%.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115804218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An opportunistic frequency channels selection scheme for interference minimization","authors":"S. Rizvi, K. Elleithy, Mustafa A. Khan","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820680","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a solution to resolve the interference problems between the Wi-Fi™ and Bluetooth™ wireless technologies. A new channel selecting approach is being used to select the frequency channel. The signal strength in a channel is assessed, and that value is used to select the channels to send data without interference. Thus we are trying to establish true \"Coexistence without Compromise\" between Bluetooth™ and Wi-Fi™.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124498061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pheromone termite (PT) model to provide robust routing over Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"A. Razaque, K. Elleithy","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820662","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a scalable mobility-aware pheromone termite (PT) analytical model is proposed to provide robust and faster routing for improved throughput and minimum latency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). PT also provides support for the network scalability and mobility of the nodes. The monitoring process of PT analytical model is based on two different parameters: packet generation rate and pheromone sensitivity for single and multiple links. The PT routing model is integrated with Boarder node medium access control (BN-MAC) protocol. Furthermore, we deploy two other known routing protocols with BN-MAC; Sensor Protocols for Information via Negotiation (SPIN) and Energy Aware routing Protocol (EAP). To demonstrate the strength of the PT model, we have used ns-2.35-RC7 to compare its Quality of Service (QoS) features with competing routing protocols. The simulation results demonstrate that the PT model is scalable and mobility-aware protocol that saves energy resources and achieves high throughput.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114936530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph L. Betthauser, Daniel Benavides, Jeff Schornick, Neal O'Hara, Jimit S. Patel, Jeremy Cole, E. Lobaton
{"title":"WolfBot: A distributed mobile sensing platform for research and education","authors":"Joseph L. Betthauser, Daniel Benavides, Jeff Schornick, Neal O'Hara, Jimit S. Patel, Jeremy Cole, E. Lobaton","doi":"10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEEZONE1.2014.6820632","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile sensor networks are often composed of agents with weak processing capabilities and some means of mobility. However, recent developments in embedded systems have enabled more powerful and portable processing units capable of analyzing complex data streams in real time. Systems with such capabilities are able to perform tasks such as 3D visual localization and tracking of targets. They are also well-suited for environmental monitoring using a combination of cameras, microphones, and sensors for temperature, air-quality, and pressure. Still there are few compact platforms that combine state of the art hardware with accessible software, an open source design, and an affordable price. In this paper, we present an in-depth comparison of several mobile distributed sensor network platforms, and we introduce the WolfBot platform which offers a balance between capabilities, accessibility, cost and an open-design. Experiments analyzing its computer-vision capabilities, power consumption, and system integration are provided.","PeriodicalId":353468,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123562003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}