2014 ASEE NCS Conference Proceedings


Technical Session Title (Oral Presentation with no munuscript and Posters are in Italics) Author (s)
TS – 1A Friday 2:00 PM 200 DHE Design and Analysis of a Parabolic Dish Antenna (700 MHz-900 MHz) for Automotive Antenna Measurement Facilities Jeffrey Tlusty, Ashley Steffes, Daniel Aloi
TS – 1A Friday 2:00 PM 200 DHE Preparing a Fly Eye Sensor for Real-World Application Brian Dean and Ashish Burse
TS – 1A Friday 2:00 PM 200 DHE Protecting Vehicle Privacy using Dummy Events Nahed Alnahash, George Corser, Fu Huirong, Ye Zhu
TS – 1A Friday 2:00 PM 200 DHE Low Cost Bicycle Share Security Solution for Universities Samuel Graham, Brian Dean, Osamah Rawashdeh, Nicholas Dahl and Andrew Simenauer
TS – 1A Friday 2:00 PM 200 DHE Synchronize Confidential Authentication (SCA) Mazen Alobaidi,  Huirong Fu and Ye Zhu
TS – 1B Friday 2:00 PM 201 DHE Journal Keeping in Engineering J. David Schall
TS – 1B Friday 2:00 PM 201 DHE Melting-Pot Senior Design at OU: 10 Years of Lessons Learned Michael Latcha and Mohamed Zohdy
TS – 1B Friday 2:00 PM 201 DHE Assessing a Conceptual Approach to Undergraduate Dynamics Instruction Richard Hill and Kirstie Plantenberg
TS – 1B Friday 2:00 PM 201 DHE Embedded Systems course with Altera FPGA Nano boards Subramaniam Ganesan
TS – 1B Friday 2:00 AM 203 DHE Sustainable Global Engineering Education Program with the USA and China Lisa Anneberg and Suyun Luo  
TS – 1C Friday 2:00 PM 203 DHE A Comparative Study of Motivation and Learning Strategies between Public and Private University Students of Bangladesh Quamrul Mazumder and Kawshik Ahmed
TS – 1C Friday 2:00 PM 203 DHE A Survey on Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks Nancy Alrajei, Huirong Fu
TS – 1C Friday 2:00 PM 203 DHE Using NFPA-Funded Capstone Project to Teach Fluid Power and Mechanical Design James Mynderse, Liping Liu and Selin Arslan
TS – 1C Friday 2:00 PM 203 DHE Simulation Evaluation of Existing Trust Models in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Jared Oluoch, George Corser, Huirong Fu, Ye Zhu and Supeng Leng
TS – 1C Friday 2:00 PM 203 DHE BYOD: Security and Privacy Issues in 4 Smartphone Platforms Eralda Caushaj, Ivan Ivanov, Huirong Fu and Ishwar Sethi
TS – 1D Friday 2:00 PM 204 DHE Impact of Course Section Sizes on Grading of Assignments Alan S. Hoback
TS – 1D Friday 2:00 PM 204 DHE Early Introduction to Computer Simulation Enhances Student Learning in Engineering -student paper John Katona and Megan Conrad
TS – 1D Friday 2:00 PM 204 DHE Combining Research and Teaching in Order to Attract More Students to Your Lectures. Andrew Rusek, Michelle Merrifield and Subramaniam Ganesan
TS – 1D Friday 2:00 PM 204 DHE Development of Credible and Technical Design Projects Targeted to First Year Engineering Students Nassif Rayess, Kirstie Plantenberg and Trenton Wurm
TS – 1D Friday 2:00 PM 204 DHE The S.O.U.P. Spoon: An Entrepreneurship Experience of Two Engineering Students Wesley Steen and Patrick Pawlowski
TS – 1E Friday 2:00 PM 236 DHE Perfect Squat Project Samantha Arendell, David Schall
TS – 1E Friday 2:00 PM 236 DHE Developing an IT Infrastructure for Educational Institutions Teaching Product Lifecycle Management Atul Khiste, Patrick Hillberg and Robert Van Til
TS – 1E Friday 2:00 PM 236 DHE Information literacy skills as a critical thinking framework in the undergraduate engineering curriculum James Van Loon and Heather Lai
TS – 1E Friday 2:00 PM 236 DHE An Introductory Engineering Course for Freshman Students- From Programming to Implementation Utayba Mohammad
TS – 1E  Saturday 2:00 PM 236 DHE Analysis and design of structural members of a pipe winding machine using finite element analysis Raghu Echempati
TS – 2A Saturday 9:00 AM 200 DHE A Women’s Network for Mentoring Female Engineering Students: Opportunities and Challenges Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Jennifer Lentner and Cynthia Halderson  
TS – 2A Saturday 9:00 AM 200 DHE Global Education: Development of Dual Undergraduate Engineering Programs between U.S. and Chinese Universities Gary Barber, Laila Guessous, Lianxiang Yang, Louay Chamra, Yuan Sun, Li Sun, Lijing Sun and Huiqing Lan
TS – 2A Saturday 9:00 AM 200 DHE Thinking Outside the Box in a College of Engineering Craig Gunn
TS – 2A Saturday 9:00 AM 200 DHE Student Perceptions on the Cost-Benefit of Screencasts Paul J. Weber, Joseph P. Moening and Jaskirat Sodhi
TS – 2B Saturday 9:00 AM 202 DHE A Design of Interactive LED Cube with Music Synchronization Garrit Corlett, Steven Maag, Tyler Feitshans and Christian Raber
TS – 2B Saturday 9:00 AM 202 DHE Light Alternative Vehicle Frame Fatigue Failure Cameron Daugherty, Gretchen Follstaedt and Mark Archibald
TS – 2B Saturday 9:00 AM 202 DHE Generator End-Winding Vibration Analysis - A Capstone Experience M.M. A Rahman and Jesse Jackson
TS – 2B Saturday 9:00 AM 202 DHE A low-cost intelligent thermostat incorporating learning algorithm based scheduler and internet accessible control interface M.M. A Rahman, Daniel Huizenga and Emanuel Chiaburu
TS – 2B Saturday 9:00 AM 202 DHE Modular Housing Matthew Magni, Kimberly Connor, Peter Minidis and Thomas Gresavage
TS – 2C Saturday 9:00 AM 203 DHE Polar Launch Elizabeth Spingola, Caleb Williams, Jacob Patrick, Stephen Perkins, Michael Sunyak, Eric Baumgartner, Heath Leblanc and Bryan Boulanger
TS – 2C Saturday 9:0 AM 203 DHE A Course in the Materials for Battery Technology Lindsay Corneal
TS – 2C Saturday 9:00 AM 203 DHE The Benefits of Cycling: Adaptive Cycling and Dandy-Walker Syndrome Janele Baglia and Mark Archibald
TS – 2C Saturday 9:00 AM 203 DHE Design of Hydrion Ion Concentration Measurement System Gengchen Liu and Tolga Kaya
TS – 2C Saturday 9:00 AM 203 DHE Coordinated Efforts for Developing, Recruiting, and Retaining Women in Engineering Lindsay Corneal and Sara Maas  
TS – 2D Saturday 9:00 AM 204 DHE Optical Sensor Development Kyle Smith and Tolga Kaya  
TS – 2D Saturday 9:00 AM 204 DHE A Dynamically Adapting Indoor Navigation Algorithm for Mobile Robots Zihao Yuan, Kevin Laubhan and Kumar Yelamarthi  
TS – 2D Saturday 10:30 AM 204 DHE Tinkering vs. Engineering In K-12 Education Zachery Brewer
 TS – 2D Saturday 9:00 AM 204 DHE The Project Review Board as a Presentation Format for Senior Design David Sawyers and John-David Yoder  
TS – 3A Saturday 10:30 AM 200 DHE The Entrapment and Rotation of Cells using Dielectrophoresis Che Ting Ho, Ze Zhang and Tolga Kaya  
TS – 3A Saturday 10:30AM 200 DHE Self-Efficacy in First Year Design Courses Belonging, Satisfaction and Team Roles Elizabeth Spingola and Debbie Chachra  
TS – 3A Saturday 10:30 AM 200 DHE Assessing Changes in Mindset of Freshman Engineers Kenneth Reid and Daniel Ferguson  
TS – 3A Saturday 10:30 AM 200 DHE Adding a Career Conference to the Freshman Curriculum Dan Budny, Jim McCarthy, Beth Bateman Newborg and Trisha Hyatt  
TS – 3A Saturday 10:30 AM 200 DHE Student Perceptions of Engineering after a K-12 Outreach--a "STEM Academy" David Reeping and Kenneth Reid  
TS – 3B Saturday 10:30 AM 202 DHE Consumer Emergency Vehicle Alert System Robert Anderson, Austen Gray, Clayton Moore and Nicholas Saunders  
TS – 3B Saturday 10:30 AM 202 DHE Establishing “Connections” with students in just fifteen minutes Laila Guessous, Brian Dean and Megan Conrad  
 TS – 3B Saturday 10:30 AM 202 DHE Impact of Using One-Minute Paper in Civil Engineering Courses Ahmed Abdel-Mohti  
 TS – 3B Saturday 10:30 AM 202 DHE Using Challenge Based Learning to Teach the Fundamentals of Exponential Equations Jeff Kastner, Joni Torsella and Anant Kukreti
TS – 3B Saturday 10:30 AM 202 DHE Work in Progress: Retooling a Microprocessor Course for a Real-World Example Project Ziad Youssfi  
TS – 3C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE Ohio Northern Robotic Football Senior Design Project Michael Howell, Zachary Runzo, Matthew Zirkle, Robert Kaminski, Austin Nelson and Saad Almagahwi
TS – 3C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE Introducing Arduino Platform to Sophomore’s using an apt recipe Chirag Parikh  
TS – 3C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE An Experiment to Monitor and Control a Liquid Vortex James Kamm
TS – 3C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE Medical Assistance Device Morgan Sperry, Makenzie Louden and Brett Bomba
TS – 3C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE Cloud Computing- Google Docs Way - in and out of the class room Yogi Anand
TS – 3D Saturday 10:30 AM 204 DHE A Study of Chemotaxis: Evaluations of Established Methods, Microfludic Devices, and the Role of Dictyostelium Discoideum Thomas White, Cynthia Damer and Tolga Kaya  
TS – 3D Saturday 10:30 AM 204 DHE Electrical Safety and the Conflict with a Motors Course William Evans  
TS – 3D Saturday 10:30 AM 204 DHE Study of the super-elastic properties of Nitinol by Nano-Indentation Carlos Soto, Pnina Ari-Gur, Andrew Kline and Betsy Aller  
TS – 3D Saturday 10:30 AM 204 DHE A Sustainability Senior Project: Implementation of an Energy Management System Based off ISO50001 John Ihling, Raphael Brown, Devin Talcott and Betsy Aller  
 TS – 4A Saturday 1:15 PM 200 DHE Novel Writing in a College of Engineering Craig Gunn  
TS – 4A Saturday 1:15 PM 200 DHE A Student Led Debate about Pros and Cons of CDMA and OFDM Firas Hassan
TS – 4A Saturday 1:15 PM 200 DHE Multidisciplinary Industry Sponsored Capstone Engineering Projects- A Success Story Chris Pung and Wael Mokhtar
TS – 4B Saturday 1:15 PM 202 DHE Testing a capacitive humidity sensor Dongxue Cheng, Steven Shapardanis and Tolga Kaya  
TS – 4B Saturday 1:15 PM 202 DHE Pedestrian Powered Electric Generator Design Jared Jorgensen, Brianna Ohlert, Fei Pang, Steven Shapardanis and Tolga Kaya  
TS – 4B Saturday 1:15 PM 202 DHE Gyroscopic Effect Analysis of a Battle Bot – A Service-Learning Project David Smith, William Fiedler and David Che  
TS – 4B Saturday 1:15 PM 202 DHE Experimental Evaluation of Aftermarket Air Intake Andrew Starr and David Mikesell  
TS – 4C Saturday 1:15 PM 203 DHE Solar Photovoltaic Array Design: A Multidisciplinary Constructed Project for Haiti Bridget Davis, Stacy McClelland, Josh Bryan and John Beaschler  
TS – 4C Saturday 1:15 PM 203 DHE Surface- and Pressure-Dependent Characterization of SAE Baja Tire Rolling Resistance Cole Cochran and David Mikesell  
TS – 4C Saturday 1:15 PM 203 DHE Design to Reduce Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Bangladesh Shannon Gross  
TS – 4C Saturday 1:15 PM 203 DHE Development of a wrist manipulandum for assessment of motor control and biomechanics Kelcey Sherd, Matthew Duthie and Joseph Langenderfer  
TS – 4C Saturday 1:15 PM 203 DHE Home Pharm-Assist Tyler Bednarz, Keynan Jones, Ben Marks and Marc Le Roy
TS – 4D Saturday 1:15 PM 204 DHE UML Diagrams for Blind Programmers Sarah Coburn and Charles Owen  
TS – 4D Saturday 1:15 PM 204 DHE An Elective Course in Rocketry Paul F. Penko  
TS – 4D Saturday 1:15 PM 204 DHE Reconstructing and Classifying Damage in a 2D Steel Plate Using Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Methods Victor Karthik  
 TS – 4D Saturday 1:15 PM 204 DHE Developing a Customer Appropriate Value Proposition: A Student Project Delivering a Temperature Sensor to Meet Customer Specifications Heath Leblanc, Brian Recker, Keegan Ross, Adam Oberhaus, Aaron Schnipke, Landon Brown, Corbin Kruczek and Eli Dean  
TS – 5A Saturday 2:45 PM 200 DHE Providing a Relevant Engineering Experience in a First-Year Seminar with Large Liberal Core Requirements Karinna Vernaza  
TS – 5A Saturday 2:45 PM 200 DHE Applying Structured Scaffolding for Enhancing Problem Solving for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Disciplines Morris Girgis  
TS – 5A Saturday 2:45 PM 200 DHE An Effective Method of Teaching the Undergraduate Finite Element Analysis Course Pattabhi Sitaram and Sala Anca
TS – 5A Saturday 2:45 PM 200 DHE Race in Engineering Classrooms and Industry Settings Raphael Brown and Betsy Aller  
TS – 5B Saturday 2:45 PM 202 DHE Dual Purpose Desktop Machine - 3D Printer and CNC Austin Grieve, Miguel Acuna, Kenneth Klingler and Jorge Rodriguez  
TS – 5B Saturday 2:45 PM 202 DHE Physical Activity Monitoring using Accelerometers Jeffry Pulcifer - Stump, Tolga Kaya and Janet L. Koch  
TS – 5B Saturday 2:45 PM 202 DHE Boat Navigation and Collision Avoidance System Andrew Tople, Jordan Miller and Lauren Clause  
TS – 5B Saturday 2:45 PM 202 DHE Design of a Heating Chamber for Sensor Characterization Gengchen Liu, Xiaoju Guo and Tolga Kaya
TS – 5C Saturday 10:30 AM 203 DHE Development and Evaluation of a Concept Inventory for Assessing Student Learning of Material Balance Concepts in an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Classroom Indumathy Jayamani and Susan Masten  
TS – 5C Saturday 2:45 PM 203 DHE A Case Study for Teaching Safe Laboratory Practices in Undergraduate Education Utilizing Project Risk Management as a Framework Casey Kick, Andrew Kline and Betsy Aller  
TS – 5C Saturday 2:45 PM 203 DHE A Networking Lab Built On Open-source Software Tools Chengcheng Li  
TS – 5C Saturday 2:45 PM 203 DHE A Novel Approach for Introducing Digital Systems Labs Jeffrey Ward 
TS – 5C Saturday 2:45 PM 203 DHE Enhancing Student Learning in Undergraduate Mechanical Vibrations Curriculum via Animation, Interactive Simulation and Virtual Labs David Che
TS – 5D Saturday 2:45 PM 204 DHE The General Purpose Parameter Based Two Dimensional Mesh Generator Sivamayam Sivasuthan  
TS – 5D Saturday 2:45 PM 204 DHE Introducing Wind Energy to an Undergraduate CFD Course Wael Mokhtar  
TS – 5D Saturday 2:45 PM 204 DHE Educational System for Agent-based Distributed Task Processing Subhabrata Ghosal, Dusan Sormaz and Arkopaul Sarkar  
TS – 5D Saturday 2:45 PM 204 DHE Design on Energy-efficient Products Based on Experimental Analysis Alamgir Choudhury and Jorge Rodriguez