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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

Society of Engineering EducationROBERT N. RIGGINS is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Bluefield State College. Hehas been teaching in the electrical department for the past 6 years. In August of 1996, he retired with the rank ofLieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force after 20 years of service. His experience in the field of ElectricalEngineering spans the last 26 years, and includes a broad range of topics such as electronics, navigation, control, avionicsensors, robotics and sensors, computer programming, microcontrollers, and microprocessors.BRUCE V. MUTTER, the founding director of the Center for Applied Research & Technology, Inc. (CART), teachesproject management and engineering economics at

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

Get with the Program: Integrated Project Instead of a Comprehensive Final Exam in a First Programming Course Beverly K. Jaeger, Richard Whalen, Susan F. Freeman College of Engineering, Northeastern UniversityAbstractPart of our responsibilities as engineering educators is to continually revise and update ourcurriculum, including assessment methodologies and procedures. We need to ensure that ourselected evaluation methods are not only fair and challenging to the students, but also relevant tothe requirements of their future employers and to the demands of technological advances inengineering. In this paper, we describe the motivation and set out the strategies for changing

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

project management and team skills, this paper will describe how to structure aproject course to include techniques and exercises specifically designed to developteamwork and team management skills and the benefits they provide.Project Management Skills TaughtThe Project Management course is required for all Engineering Technology majors. Thecourse is normally taken in either the Sophomore or Junior year and students are expectedto use these Project Management skills to manage projects in subsequent courses.The skills taught in the project management course are described by the course outcomeswhich state that upon successful completion of the course students should know thespecific characteristics, techniques, and insights that are necessary to

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM). Secondly, we describe the participants, their leadership activities prior to attending theInstitute, their perceptions of the value of the Institute, and any changes in their leadershipactivities at the end of the academic year in which the Institute was attended.The goal of the Leadership Institute is to increase the representation of women in highereducation leadership positions (chair, dean, etc.), and support the NSF ADVANCE goal “tofacilitate women’s advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership.” The Institute islimited to women who have already received tenure and are in areas of study supported by NSF(biology/biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Goodmann

. Goodmann, “Lab Exercise 8: Convolution with DirectX”, http://www.ecet.ipfw.edu/~goodmanp/courses/ECET357/web_objects/documents/LabEx8.docPETER E. GOODMANN, P.E. is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology atIPFW. He earned his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his MSdegree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He has worked for 25 years in industry and education, andis a member of the IEEE and the ASEE. Page 10.1417.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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Warren Hill

Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. van der Vorm, Patricia T. (May/June 2001). The Well-Tempered Search, Bulletin of the AAUP, Volume 87, Issue 3 4. Goodale, J. G. (1982). The Fine Art of Interviewing, Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-HallDR. WARREN R. HILLDr. Warren R. Hill is currently professor of Electronics Engineering Technology and dean of the College of AppliedScience and Technology at Weber State University, a position he has held since July, 1990. Prior to that, he wasdepartment chair for Engineering Technology at the University of Southern Colorado for 3 ½ years, as well asteaching electronics engineering technology there for nine years

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xinyu Wang; Manohar Konchady; Joshua Mason; Jagannathan Sankar; Sergey Yarmolenko; Balasubramanian Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

courses. A registered Professional Engineer in NorthCarolina, he serves on the Mechanical PE Exam Committee of the National Council of Examiners forEngineers and Surveyors and is active in several divisions of ASEE and in ASME.BALA KAILASSHANKAR is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He receivedthe B. Tech. Degree in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology and the MS in MechanicalEngineering from NC A&T State University. He has over 22 years of research, development andmanufacturing experience in the tribology and coatings industry.MANOHAR KONCHADY is an MSME student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department ofMechanical Engineering. He received the B. E. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

Culture Shock: Acclimating as a New Faculty Member Adrienne R. Minerick1, Jason M. Keith2 1 Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39672 / 2 Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractNobody said that the first year of teaching engineering and mentoring graduate studentsat a college or university was going to be easy. With the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

conducted from 1991 to 1997. Constrained to preserve the anonymity of the schools included as well as the individualsinterviewed, I have tried to follow Becker's admonition to include only the descriptors that figurein my explanations of the patterns I found2. Multiversity is a large engineering school in a largesuburban public university; Tech is a large engineering school in an urban technological institute;Friendly is a small urban engineering school within a small church-affiliated college; and HighPower is a large engineering school in a middle sized private university in a college town.Traditionally Black is part of an urban university with a long history of training large numbers ofengineers. The institutions and their engineering

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

] IEEE Standard 1076-1987, IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual,1987, IEEE Press.[2] “Why ASICs fail in the system,” Ernest Meyer, ASIC Technology & News, Vol 2,No. 5, September 1990, Mountain View, CA.[2] “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” Caver Mead and Lynn Conway, 1980, AddisonWesley. Page 10.1209.10[3] IEEE Standard 1164-1993, IEEE Standard Multivalue Logic System for VHDLModel Interoperability (Std_logic_1164), 1993, IEEE Press. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education[4] IEEE Standard 754-1985

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roya Javadpour

Creative Approach to Teaching Project Management Service Learning Roya Javadpour California Polytechnic State UniversityIntroductionA project is a complex, non-routine, one-time effort limited by time, budget, resources,and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs[1]. Therefore, theyrequire a unique approach to management and administration. A creative approach istaken in designing and teaching the graduate level Technological Project Managementcourse offered as part of the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering department’sprogram at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The coursecovers the basic

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Smith; Ralph Volino

Page 10.1444.7 Time (s) “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 5. Results of the transient conduction lab for a 1” thick steak subject to a uniform heat flux on one side and convection on the other.ConvectionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology requires that engineering programsdemonstrate that their students have “an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret data” [4]. The heat transfer benches are an ideal platform through which toaccomplish this

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1475.10 R. M. Reis, Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering, IEEEPress, 1997.11 Lima, M., “Tips for beginning faculty in engineering“, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1475.Biographical InformationJUSTIN STANFORD DAVISJustin Davis received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology inAugust 2003, as well as his M.S. and B.E.E. degrees in 1999 and 1997. His research interests includedigital testing for high-speed systems, SoCs, and SoPs. He is currently an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

Theme-Based Redesign of the Duke University ECE Curriculum: The First Steps a) Leslie M. Collins, a)Lisa G. Huettel, a)April S. Brown, a)Gary A. Ybarra, b)Joseph S. Holmes, a)John A. Board, a)Steven A. Cummer, a) Michael R. Gustafson, a)Jungsang Kim, and a)Hisham Z. Massoud a) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708-0291/b)AcuityEdge, 437 Petty Road, Suite 201, Sanford, NC 27330Abstract. Historically, undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atDuke University have had ample exposure to theoretical foundations and

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Brophy

didn’t use the program, will participate in a similarprotocol. We anticipate that students using Cequel program will be better prepared toreason about “what if” situations.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363. Also, VanderbiltUniversity’s office of the Provost for Learning Technology provided funding for theclassroom technology.References1 CEQUEL - Chemical Equilibrium in Excel® - http://www.seainc.com/cequel.d.htmlBiographiesSEAN P. BROPHY –Brophy is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department ofBiomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt and co leader of the Learning Sciences thrust. Hiscurrent research interests relate to using

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Eric Davishahl; Denny Davis; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

and correlates these with perceived course emphasis on learningoutcomes for design skills, teamwork skills, and communication skills endorsed by theWashington Council for Engineering and Related Technology Education (WCERTE).Several versions of the Team Design Skills Growth Survey have been used over the last ten yearsin sections of an introductory engineering design course at Tacoma Community College. Resultsgenerated from the survey are consistent with pre- and post-testing, verbal protocol analysis,team interviews, and a variety of reflective writing assignments. Results include an analysis ofthe difference between the means for class-averaged growth and class-averaged emphasis in eachof the WCERTE outcome areas.For students, the greatest

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

Session 1347 An Educational and Entertaining Senior Capstone Design Ahmad M. Farhoud Engineering Technology Department University of ToledoAbstractThe renovation of Lucas County’s Winter Wonderland Christmas exhibit presented a uniqueopportunity for students to become involved and use their knowledge to design new displays.The project presented herein represents an ideal learning experience. It was an occasion forstudents to have fun, while demonstrating their technical knowledge. At the same time, studentsexperienced some of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lane; John Farris

to explore engineering challenges in the classroom.Much of teaching is focused on the knowledge and comprehension levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.When the focus changes from teaching to learning then the outcome expected is raised to theapplication, analysis, synthesis and evaluation levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. Reality learningenables and challenges students to work on higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. The goal ofreality learning is to engage students’ minds using tools and processes including generatinginformation that they may combine in new ways to produce new output.Blackboard software is used to free up class time. Much of the knowledge and comprehensionareas are done using technology. This frees class time for reality learning. Students

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ganapathy Narayanan

Session 1668 Inclusion of Hands-on Interactive Programs for Teaching Statics G.V. Narayanan University of Toledo nara@utoledo.eduThe Statics course is the first course in mechanics that is offered to the sophomore/juniormechanical engineering technology student. It is always a challenge to the student interms of good understanding of the subject. Of course, the instructor plays an importantpart for his better understanding of the subject, even if the textbook is very good. Theinstructor knows the consequences of giving too many homework problems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Perry Li; David Waletzko; William Durfee

Albertos (2005), Virtual and remote control laboratory development. IEEE Cont Sys Mag, 25(1):35-39.10. M Casini, D Prattichizzo, A Vicino (2005), A student control competition through a remote robotics lab. IEEE Cont Sys Mag, 25(1):56-59.Author BiographiesWILLIAM DURFEE is Professor and Director of Design Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineeringat the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN. He received his A.B. degree in Engineering and Applied Physicsfrom Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Page 10.237.9Institute of Technology. His interests are

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

: An Overview of Current Technologies,” PowerGEN 2003 (www.siemenswestinghouse.com/download/pool/GasTurb_Cortes.pdf).7. CyclePad download website: www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/NSF/Cyclepad/cyclepad.htm8. Control the Nuclear Power Plant website: www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html9. Stoecker, W.F., Design of Thermal Systems, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1989.10. Meier, R.D., “Active Learning in Large Lectures,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 1999.PATRICK A. TEBBEPatrick Tebbe is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Minnesota State University in Mankato. Dr.Tebbe received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering as well as the M.S. in

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

and business from Rice University, SaintLouis University and University of Missouri - Rolla.Her research in analysis, modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes and engineering design has beenfunded by NASA, the National Institute of Standards (NIST), Lockheed Martin, Adtranz (now BombardierTransportation), the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania and the National Science Foundation(NSF), from which she was awarded a CAREER grant in 1995 and an ADVANCE Leadership grant in 2001. Herindustrial partners on sponsored research projects have included DaimlerChrysler Electronics, Eljer Plumbingware,Extrude Hone, Ford Motor, PPG Industries and Crucible Compaction Metals. International research collaborationshave been

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

, American Society for Engineering Education”3. R. K. Brayton, R. Rudell, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and A. R. Wang, MIS: A Multiple-Level Interactive Logic Optimization System, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Pages 1062-1081, CAD-6, 6, November 1987.4. K. Keutzer, DAGON: Technology Binding and Local Optimization by DAG Matching, Proceedings of the 24th Design Automation Conference, 1987.5. E. J. McCluskey, Minimization of Boolean Functions, The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, pp. 1417-1444, November 1956.6. W. V. Quine, A Way to Simplify Truth Functions, The American Mathematical Monthly 62, pp. 627-631, November 1955.7. C. J. Tseng and D. P. Siewiorek

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

comprehensive discussion of the underrepresentation of womenin CS, see G¨urer and Camp. 13 ) At the undergraduate level in the U.S., CS is the only science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field whose gender gap has widened duringthe last two decades. 11 In the U.S., only 28% of Bachelor’s degrees in computer and informationsciences went to women in 2002, down from a high of nearly 40% in the mid 1980s (Figure 1).As in past years, research departments are faring worse; in U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.-grantingdepartments, 18% of Bachelor’s degrees in computer science and engineering went to women in2003. 25This paper reports early results of a survey- and interview-based study focusing on the beginningof the undergraduate pipeline in CS

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

Functional Representations in Conceptual Design: A First Study in Experimental Design and Evaluation Julie S. Linseya, Matthew G. Greena, Michael Van Wieb, Kristin L. Wooda, and Robert Stoneb a The University of Texas at Austin/ bUniversity of Missouri-RollaAbstractFunctional modeling is an abstraction technique intended to help engineering designers performconceptual design. Functions are constructs that describe a transformation between an input flowand an output flow. A primary characteristic of functions is their independence from thephysical aspects of a device or artifact. In this sense, functions are form independent

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harder

, 2003Biographical InformationROBERT F. HARDERRobert F. Harder is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Mathematics, ComputerScience and Engineering Department at George Fox University. He teaches in the area of thermalengineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion. Dr. Harder hasresearch interests in tribology, tribo-energetics (conjugate problems which involve heat transfer, wear andmaterial phase transformation), electronic cooling and novel combustion methods. He received his B.S.in 1982 and M.S. in 1986 both in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, andhis Ph.D. in 1995, in materials science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science andTechnology

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Crystal Hoyer; Crystal Eney

learned during our first threeofferings of the course, and how we plan to improve upon our experience in the future. We willshow how we developed creative solutions to support women in technology with minimaldepartment resources.IntroductionThe University of Washington is a large research institution with nearly 40,000 students, 28,000of whom are undergraduates. The university is just over 50% women but the Computer Scienceand Engineering (CSE) Department has held steady with roughly 17% women for the pastseveral years. High achieving women are going into fields such as bioengineering, chemistry,math, business, and biological science, but not computer science. Research by Jepson and Perlshow that the misperception of computer science and the lack

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

. BRAWNERCatherine E. Brawner is president of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She specializesin evaluation of distance education, educational innovation, and technology use in the classroom.She is currently the principal evaluator for LabWrite and has previously been the principalevaluator of and advisor to the SUCCEED Engineering Education CoalitionMICHAEL CARTER, Ph.D.Dr. Carter is a Professor of English at NC State University where he teaches writing in thesciences at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has published widely in rhetoric andwriting, including his recent book, Where Writing Begins. Page 10.1306.8 Proceedings of the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

Faculty Student Teamwork (2001), and Enhancing Productivity: Administrative,Instructional, and Technological Strategies (1998 and the author of The College Success Book: A Whole-StudentApproach to Academic Excellence (1992). Page 10.675.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Wick; Bradley Bishop

Analog Computation for Mobile Robotics Education Bradley E. Bishop, Carl E. Wick United States Naval Academy Systems Engineering 105 Maryland Ave (Stop 14a) Annapolis, MD 21401 bishop@usna.edu, wick@usna.eduAbstract: In this paper, we present a mobile robot design exercise that relies on simple analogcircuits to accomplish tasks that are typically carried out using microcontrollers. Students arechallenged to use simple analog sensors and IC’s to develop a mobile robot that is attracted to alight source