2016 ASEE NCS Conference March 18-19, 2016 Final Program

Friday (March 18, 2016)

Time	Room: UC 303 - Lake Michigan	Room: UC 307 – Lake Huron	Room: UC 123 - Mackinaw
Workshop Session 1 2:00 – 3:20 pm	Process to Draft Program Educational Objectives for Undergraduate Engineering Degree Programs Ramakrishnan Sundaram	--	--
Workshops Session 2 3:30 – 4:50 pm	E = mC^2:Excite Interest in Electronics through Projects that Motivate the Learning of Concepts through Circuits Ramakrishnan Sundaram	Learning Modules Focused on Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Engineering Mansoor Nasir and Eric Meyer	Internet of Things Fundamentals Kumar Yelamarthi, Ahmed Abdelgawad
5:00 – 6:30 pm	Welcome Reception (Room: UC Rotunda)
6:30 – 8:00 pm	ASEE NCS Board Meeting (Room: UC 303 Lake Michigan)

Saturday (March 19, 2016)

Faculty Papers

Time	Room: UC 303 - Lake Michigan	Room: UC 307 – Lake Huron
7:30 – 8:30 am	Breakfast Room: UC Rotunda
Session 1 8:30 – 10:10 am	Session Chair: M.M. Aziz Rahman Creating AWESOME: Faculty vs. Student Views for an Organization Stephany Coffman-Wolph and Kimberlyn Gray Leveling the Playing Field Thorough Incorporating 3D Printing in Capstone Courses Gregory Hickman and Michael Latcha Using PLC Based HMI System to Teach Power System Analysis M.M. Aziz Rahman Engineering Departments Addressing the Issue of Communication Craig Gunn, Tianyi He and Sheryl Suet Ying Chau Methods to Improve Student Learning in Statics and Dynamics Courses Pattabhi Sitaram	Session Chair: Philip Appiah-Kubi Teaching Time Domain Reflectometry in EMC course Subramaniam Ganesan and Andrew Rusek Autonomous Robot Design and Build: Novel Hands-on Experience for Undergraduate Students Ryan Aldridge, Timothy Brandt and Chirag Parikh Enhancing Students Learning and Assessment through Positive Reinforcement Philip Appiah-Kubi A review of recent trends and challenges in 3D printing Annamalai Pandian and Cameron Belavek Engage and Educate: Engineering Laboratory Activities for First-Year Engineering Students Ramakrishnan Sundaram
10:10 – 10:25 am	Refreshments break
Session 2 10:25 am – 12:00 pm	Session Chair: Pattabhi Sitaram Electrical Safety and a Motors Course for Electrical Engineering Technologists William Evans and Simon Zhu Engineering Consulting and Development for Start-up and Small Firms in Capstone Courses Gregory Hickman and Michael Latcha Introducing Emerging Engineering Materials to Lower-Level Students Fredrick Nitterright and Robert Michael Creating Interest in Middle School Students toward STEM Careers – Mechanical and Civil Engineering Pattabhi Sitaram, Tom Spendlove, Ellis Love and Anca Sala	Session Chair: Nicholas Baine Teaching Real Time System Scheduling using low cost microprocessor board Subramaniam Ganesan and Andrew Rusek Simulation of Placement of Underwater Concrete - Partnership Between Ohio Dept of Transporation and University of Toledo James Kamm Incorporating Excel Data Solver in Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum David Che Teaching Communication Circuits Online Efficiently Jamal Bari University of Cincinnati UC Scholars Academy: Preparing students for STEM Undergraduate Careers Whitney Gaskins
12:00 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Room: UC Rotunda
1:30 – 2:15 pm	Poster Presentation & Judgement Room: UC Rotunda
Session 3 2:15 – 3:50 pm	Session Chair: Kathleen Ossman Implementation of an Entrepreneurial Minded Learning Module Based on “Quantified Self” to Motivate Engineering Design in an Introductory Biomedical Engineering Course Eric G. Meyer and Mansoor Nasir Students’ Attitudes towards Learning in an Academic Environment Roland Arter Managing Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Senior Capstone Projects Irvin Jones Expanding Flipped Classroom Options to Accommodate Different Learning Styles Kathleen Ossman and Gregory Bucks	Session Chair: Karinna Vernaza Teaching Urban Water Problems: Curriculum Design to Assessment Ramanitharan Kandiah and Krishnakumar Nedunuri Design, fabrication and commercialization of a powered ramp for power wheelchairs Nassif Rayess, Ray Okonski, Molly Laird, Evan Jeffries and Austin Ross Experimental study of energy efficiency of a hydraulic system Alamgir Choudhury A Simulated Approach to Designing a Filtered Hearing Aid for Autistic Children Jamal Bari
3:50 – 4:05 pm	Refreshments break
Session 4 4:05 – 5:40 pm	Session Chair: Bilquis Ferdousi Comparative Study of Students' Problem Based Learning Over Two Years through Semester Projects in Fluid Mechanics Yogendra Panta Designing a Filtered Hearing Aid for Autistic Children in a Senior Design Class Jamal Bari Taking experiential learning online in an acoustics elective course Daniel Ludwigsen Addressing Student Retention and Persistence Issue in Online Classes Bilquis Ferdousi	Session Chair: Pattabhi Sitaram Undergraduate Degree Programs in Data Science Debatosh Debnath Getting Middle-School Students Interested in STEM Careers – Optics and Computers Ellis Love, Anca Sala, Pattabhi Sitaram and Tom Spendlove Active Learning Demonstrations in Engineering Mechanics Mark Diller

Faculty One-Page Papers

Time	Room: UC 309 – Lake St Clair
Session 1 8:30 – 10:10 am	Session Chair: Ziad Youssfi Interleaved Practice for Engineering Concepts John Martin and Anna Martin Striking a balance between Low-Level Theory, High-Level System Design, and Typical Industrial Challenges Ziad Youssfi Professional Practice of Engineering: A Course that Addresses the Non-Technical Enablers of Successful Engineering Practice Nassif Rayess and Linda Slowik Development of Global Standard Agricultural and Food Engineering Curriculum Using ABET Criterion Quamrul Mazumder, Vasudha Kilaru and Mohammad Burhan Uddin
10:10 – 10:25 am	Refreshments break
Session 2 10:25 am – 12:00 pm	Session Chair: Craig Gunn I Ain’t No English Teacher! Craig Gunn and Tianyi He Student Projects for an NSF Grant “Enabling Technologies Laboratory Student Design Program” Wen Chen Learning Technical Writing: Creating an Opportunity for Engineering Undergraduates Debbie Morrow First Year Students’ Perceptions of Service Learning Community Based Project: Are We Achieving Our Goals? Karinna Vernaza
12:00 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Room: UC Rotunda
Session 3 2:15 – 3:50 pm	Session Chair: Jeff Kastner A Design Project Infusing Academic Service Learning Jamal Bari Modifications to a Freshman Engineering Foundations Course Jeff Kastner, Gregory Bucks, Whitney Gaskins, Nora Honken, Rodney Roseman and Joni Torsella Communication Systems Toolkit – Work in Progress Murat Tanyel Energy Conversion & Sustainability Education Insights Paul Weber, Joseph Moening, Zakaria Mahmud and Sanjiv Sinha Incorporating Educational and Research Components to Enhance Environmental Engineering Curriculum Ramanitharan Kandiah
3:50 – 4:05 pm	Refreshments break
Session 4 4:05 – 5:40 pm	Session Chair: Nicholas Baine Teaching Application of Power Electronics in Power System Analysis Course M.M. Aziz Rahman Laboratory Curriculum for Introducing ECE to Freshmen Girma Tewolde and Jaerock Kwon Challenges of Revamping the Freshman Experience Nicholas Baine An Introductory Engineering Course to Develop Competencies Among First Year Engineering and Technology Students Quamrul Mazumder, Raghava Mahankali and Kristen Rusinek

Student Papers

Time	Room: UC 123 - Mackinaw	Room: UC 125 - Lakeshore
Session 1 8:30 – 10:10 am	Session Chair: Ramanitharan Kandiah Design and Development of a Tugger Cart for Android Corporation Quamrul Mazumder, Dan Larson, Zachary Stevenson and Sandeep Solanki A CFD Study of Wind Tunnel Wall Interference Wael Mokhtar and Md Hasan NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF AN OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Farshid Zabihian, Robert Gresham, Levi Thornton and Brendon Rankou Green Engineering in Beam Production Using Honeycomb Structures Roumany Phan and Katherine Acton	Session Chair: Tolga Kaya A CFD Analysis of a Race Car Front Wing in Ground Effect Wael Mokhtar and Simon Durrer Design and Characterization of a Micro-scale Calorimetric Flow Rate Sensor for Sweat Hydration Detection Che Ting Ho, Ahmed Tashfin Iftekhar and Tolga Kaya Underwater Salvage Robot: An Undergraduate Research Experience Erin Fogle, Lucas Karr, William Huddleston, Kyle Zimmerman, Daniel Sowa and Corbin Kruczek Distributed Localization Landon Brown, Benjamin Kerber, Keith Paul and Forrest Reed
10:10 – 10:25 am	Refreshments break
Session 2 10:25 am – 12:00 pm	Session Chair: Mehmet Sozen Design and Development of a Transmission System Qumrul Mazumder, Yang Zhou, Liwei Zhaw and Kenneth O'Brien Hydrocyclone Separation for the Remediation of Contaminated Sediment Joshua Wilson and Thomas Mahank Exploring conflict-based collaborative learning in engineering courses Swaroop Joshi and Neelam Soundarajan Optimal Angle of Inclination for Fixed Solar Panels Kathryn Christopher and Mehmet Sozen	Session Chair: Ravi Bhatta Tidal Energy Potentials in the United States Farshid Zabihian, Aaron Paynter and John Hunter Experimental and Numerical Validation of DIN standard for polygonal shafts Ravi Bhatta and Wendy Reffeor Semi Autonomous Inspection Robot Erik Leaske, Josh Wakefield, Yufei Fan and Quamrul Mazumder Preliminary Feasibility Study of a Bubble Column CO2 Capture Unit Utilizing Microalgae Farshid Zabihian, Jon Ball, Joel Kouakou, Brendon Rankou and Jerod Taylor
12:00 – 1:30 pm	Lunch Room: UC Rotunda
Session 3 2:15 – 3:50 pm	Session Chair: Yogendra Panta PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF DESIGN OF A RIVER CURRENT ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM Farshid Zabihian, Robert Gresham and Levi Thornton Design and Development of a Gear Test Fixture for Nexteer Quamrul Mazumder, James Pung and Brendon Stokes INCREASING POWER OF HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE BY ADDITION OF A SHROUD AND DIFFUSER: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Farshid Zabihian, Tavon Johnson and Brett Floyd Design and Development of a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Quamrul Mazumder, Terence Staples, Aleah Pavlicek, Xingyu Chen and Brandon Walker	Session Chair: Dan Budny Low-Cost Ultrasonic Obstacle-Avoidance System using FPGA Mike Trent, Kevin Laubhan, Ahmed Abdelgawad and Kumar Yelamarthi Kicking, Snapping, and Throwing the Ball in Intercollegiate Robotic Football Robotic Football Jeremy Wilson, Addison Hocter, Brian Recker and Eric Linn Sumo Robot Competition Tyler Germann and Bryan Wilson Great Lakes Shoreline Algae Harvesting and Separation System Matthew Kline, Ryan Schulz and Thomas Mahank
3:50 – 4:05 pm	Refreshments break
Session 4 4:05 – 5:40 pm	Session Chair: Jeff Kastner Vertical Axis Wind Turbine at WVU Tech Farshid Zabihian, Tavon Johnson and Alex Perry Design and Development of a Portable Water Filtration System Quamrul Mazumder, Johnathon Gagnon and Nathan Calvert A Novel Design of a McCulloch-Pitts Neuron in CMOS VLSI Shane Oberloier and Rajani Muraleedharan ENHANCEMENT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES PERFORMANCE USING SOLAR HHO-SYSTEM: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Farshid Zabihian, Yazid Amrani, Matheus Montarroyos, Raul Martin Martin and Gaetan Gilbrice Tchewa	Session Chair: Tolga Kaya Experimental Analysis of a Wood Gasifier Based Engine Farshid Zabihian, Corey Hall and Brett Floyd Evaluation of Hydrophilic Properties of Polydimethylsiloxane for Possible Microfluidic Sweat Sensor Applications Thomas White and Tolga Kaya Aerodynamic Drag Reduction Study on Semi-Trucks Wael Mokhtar and Yash Potdar

Poster Presentations

Time: 1:30 – 2:15 pm (Saturday, March 19, 2016)

Room: UC Rotunda

Guidelines:

· Easel and foam core board will be provided

· Can setup anytime from 8:30 am

· Maximum Size allowed for poster – 4ft x 3 ft

Author	Poster Title
David Reeping	To Pass or Not to Pass: A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Project (V2V) to Inform Drivers of Safe Passing Maneuvers
David Che and Terry Pahls	The Development of a Truly Hands-on Strength of Materials Lab Using Torque Wrenches for Breaking Metal Fasteners
Quamrul Mazumder	A Study Abroad Course in Globalization of Technology
Collin Murphy, Mason Stevens and Ernur Karadogan	An Experimental Comparison of Object Tracking Data using Microsoft Kinect^TM and Pixy CMUCam5
Mohamed Essawy, Samer Yaldo and Nassif Rayess	Design of a Sellf-Contained Active Split Offset Castor Wheel Pod for Use in Omnidirectional Robotic Vehicles
Kevin Laubhan, Sarah Riehl, Khaled Talaat and Kumar Yelamarthi	Dynamic Multi-Sensor Fusion through a Low-Power IoT Transducer Network
Justin Wernette, Alex Myers, Nate Schrauben, Tiancheng Yang and Ahmed Abdelgawad	Structure Damage Localization by a Reliable Guided Waves Damage Detection Technique
Allison Lynch, Daniel Abruzzi, Sheng Cai, Michael Lake, Chase Zellner and Kumar Yelamarthi	Semi-Autonomous Mobile Informational Tour Robot
Zachary Martin, Keita Mimura, Jun Yamamoto and Alexandra Coman	Infinity – Procedural Content Generation for Computer Games: A Capstone Project
James Crawford, Dan Herting, Chris Hauenstein and Andy Woodruff	ONU HPVC Steering System
Che Ting Ho, Christopher Gargarello, Lucas Sepanak, John Abraham, Takahiro Turmo and Tolga Kaya	Sweat Analysis to Determine Dehydration
Kyle Eggenberger, Huntington Recker, Justin Turner, Fan Lu and Frank Cheng	Automated Sun Tracking Platform
Jeff Campbell, Max Razinger and Meghan Letizia	A Smart Shopping System
Nathan Butt, Eli Dean, Anne Dreher, Westley Gomez and Louis Diberardino	Low Cost Impact Testing Device
Andrea Henry, Pablo Parraga, Brian Demeere, Abdullah Alyousif, Nathaniel Everest, Jeremy Witgen and Darrell Bailey	12" by 27" Low Watt Hot Food Well Drop In
Danielle Nevorski, Thomas White, Tyler Demski, Kyle McDonnell, Zhaoxuan Wang, Yousef Fallatah and Jinxiang Xi	Olfactory Drug Delivery
Jessica Graves, James Springstead, Betsy Aller and Andrew Kline	Purification of PEIPC, an important oxidized phospholipid in the development of cardiovascular disease
David Huckins, Nathan Olin, Kenny Cordry, Brian Crombez, Claire Yarmak, Tianshu Wen and Pablo Parraga-Ramirez	Nexteer Automotive-Load Road Simulator
Katie Gaviglio, Shaun Shields, Andro Mondala and Andrew Kline	Extraction of mineral-bound phosphates from runoff sediments using fungal exudates for nutrient recycling
Jacob Gorton	Providing Developing Countries with Medical Sterilizer Boilers
Lucas Leffel, Brooks Hay, Damian Winner, Hamed Attariani and Rachmadian Wulandana	Computational Modeling for Fault Diagnosis of Centrifugal Pump Using Coupled Finite Element – System Identification
Benjamin Boyd, Shawn Beyke, Rachmadian Wulandana and Hamed Attariani	Design and Experimentation of 3D-printed Tesla Turbine
Andrew Holland and Anthony Morelli	Gesture Based Authentication
Ryan Reed, Thomas Brudny, Colin Thomson and Yawen Li	A Better Braided Suture
Jake Mckinnie	Computer interaction for people with motor impairments
Kyle Murray, James Springstead, Andrew Kline and Betsy Aller	Prevention of atherosclerosis by blocking lipid binding to cysteines in human aortic endothelial cells in vitro
Tyler Demski, Yousef Fallatah, Kyle Mcdonnell and Jinxiang Xi	Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery using Electric Guidance
Austin Kane, Nick Polega, Benjamin Strandskov and Kumar Yelamarthi	A Portable Interactive Embedded System to Determine Student Status at the University
Zhaoxuan Wang and Jinxiang Xi	Numerical Simulation of Snoring in a Human Upper Airway with Dynamic Glottis
Kyle D'Andrea, Ben Dudley, Fred Draska, Alyssa Soltis, Mohamed Talaat and Mike Trent	Senior Design Chippewa Racing Formula SAE
Taylor Ripke and Tony Morelli	Exergames: Developing Sensory Substitution Utilizing Enhanced Auditory and Vibrotactile Cues
Myriah Kahlmorgan, James Springstead, Andrew Kline and Betsy Aller	Oxidized Phospholipids Binding to Human Aortic Endothelial Cells
Kellen Reason	Software Controlled Lighting: Auditory-to-Visual Sensory Substitution
Daniel Meeks and Cody Meyer	Automated Vertical Bike Rack System
Jun Lu, Jinxiang Xi and Joseph Langenderfer	Uncertainty Analysis of Physical Properties of Pharmaceuticals on Pulmonary Drug Delivery
Gary Chouinard, Candace MacDonald, Andrew Jorde, Mike Brewer and Adam Mock	Electric Grid Cascading Outage Analysis
Yu Zhang and Jinxiang Xi	Numerical Simulation of the Effect of Dynamic Glottis on Particle Deposition in Human Upper Respiratory Airway
Khaled Talaat and Jinxiang Xi	Numerical Simulation of Particle Transport and Simulation in a Rhythmically Expanding Sac: Toward Deciphering the Inhaled Particle Journey in the Deep Lung
Sheng Cai	Controlled Delivery of Neurological Medicine to the Olfactory Region using Magnetophoretic Guidance in Intranasal Ferro-fluids
Danielle Nevorski, Shannon Peters, Andrea Henry and Jinxiang Xi	Experimental Study on Pulsating Aerosols for Drug Delivery to the Maxillary Sinus for the Treatment of Rhinosinusitis
Tiancheng Yang and Jinxiang Xi	Sensitivity Analysis of Geometric Factors in Human Airway on Particle Deposition: Developing a Generic Mouth-Throat Model for Drug Delivery Testing
Mohammad Shams Arman Rupok, Professor Subramaniam Ganesan and H. Patnaik	Real time tracking of tennis ball and analysis
Li Dang, Nishanth Sriramoju, Phanindra Amaradi, Girma Tewolde and Jaerock Kwon	Enhanced Lane and Obstacle Detection Technique for Intelligent Vehicles
Emad Tanbour, Khazam Alotaibi, Scott Shalffer, Ervin Hinkley and Aaron Kaczzorwski	Improving Thermal Performance of Thermoforming Machines
Emad Tanbour, Oumar Barry and Derek Donovan	Baja Capstone Project
Oumar Barry, Emad Tanbour and Alexander Calvi	SAE Formula 1 Capstone Project
Emad Tanbour and Nathan Piechorowski	Design of a Welding Jig for Robotic Welding
Emad Tanbour and Zachary Goodman	Parametric Design of a Triplex Plunger Pump
Emad Tanbour and Cameron Lacourt	Design of a Toggle Clamping System for Vacuum Forming
Anne Dreher, Nathan Butt, Eli Dean, Westley Gomez and Louis Diberardino	Low Cost Impact Testing Device - Extended Abstract
Yazid Amrani, Matheus Montarroyos and Gaetan Tchewa	Enhancement of Internal Combustion Engines Performance Using Solar HHO-System: Preliminary Conceptual Results