Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Neck, Babson College; John Bourne, Olin College; Stephen Schiffman, Olin College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation andis a leading source of technological progress. The collision of engineering and entrepreneurshipis a value enhancing process that stimulates venture formation, economic growth, and socialvalue. The NSF partnership between Babson College and Olin College of Engineering is logicaland both colleges have an institutional commitment to engineering entrepreneurship education.Such a commitment is marked by many shared activities and outreach development such asSyE3. Babson College, a business school founded in 1919 by entrepreneur and financier RogerBabson, is an AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditedinstitution and has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship for the past twelve years according to

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Powe, Mississippi State University; Jane Moorhead, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

writing intotheir classrooms. They rarely debate the need to improve engineering students’ written (andoral) communication skills, the benefits of which are well documented. Perhaps the mostimportant skill writing fosters in students is critical thinking. As Wheeler and McDonald state,“Writing, like teaching, forces one to think—hard!”1 However, new educators—both thosetaking over classes already firmly established by more senior faculty and those creating newclasses—struggle to incorporate writing into their classrooms and, even more challenging, tograde that writing effectively. Pappas and Hendricks state, “The problem is not that engineeringfaculty members fail to value good writing and speaking; the problem is that they are not trainedto

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Virginia Tech; Pavlos Vlachos, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

because the future engineer is expected toadapt to a varying and continuously evolving environment while simultaneously being able tooperate outside the narrow limits of one discipline, crossing over boundaries and interfacingbetween different fields. In recent years, the Boyer Commission,1 the National ScienceFoundation,2 the American Association for the Advancement of Science,3 and the NationalResearch Council4 have urged universities to “make research-based learning the standard” forundergraduate education. Participation in research deepens a student’s understanding andpromotes the communication and teamwork needed to solve complex problems. Enablingstudents to be part of the intellectual process instills in them a sense of fulfillment and

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Mary Graham, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

participation in the PIE program - through theircontact with the women engineering students, the breath of exposure to professional women ingeneral, and the experience of using math and science to solve a meaningful problem.IntroductionThe underrepresentation of women and minorities in engineering, science and technical (SET)fields is well documented.[1-5] Women and minorities (both sexes) comprise about two thirds ofthe entire U.S. workforce, but account for only 25 percent of the technical workforce,[2] whileminority and non-minority females represent a mere16 to 17 percent of the SET workforce.[6]Trends in the composition of the U.S. workforce show a steady decline of white malerepresentation and an increase in female and minorities, yet

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Wesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International

-learning technology and activelearning techniques to develop graduates who will be comfortable communicating acrosscultures using technology to manage projects, team relationships, and collaborative designprojects. The course was pilot-tested in the ‘04/’05 academic year, with results from theformative assessment incorporated as appropriate.BackgroundThe increasing migration of technical engineering functions from firms located in the continentalUnited States to overseas competitors has created an environment that calls into question howengineering undergraduates should be trained and educated. While some companies are batteredand turn to overseas labor for relief 1, engineering educators look to foster creativity andinnovation to enhance the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

elements were consistentin each of the reformed courses: (1) knowledge was organized around a relevantproblem, (2) students mastered relevant concepts both individually and in teams, and (3)student work was focused on realistic deliverables.To evaluate the effect of the trial curriculum reform, faculty were surveyed aboutperceived gains or losses in their students as well as the relative increase in workload.The six teaching faculty were also asked to compare the reformed courses to the lecturecourses on multiple outcomes organized around four major themes. A Likert scale wasused to quantify faculty responses (1 = great loss, 3 = neutral, 5 = great gain). Overall,faculty reported increases in all areas: student learning (mean = 3.5, σ = 0.5), the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Francis Praska, University of Northern Iowa; Ashraf Al-Qassab, University of Northern Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

-scale, axial flux wind turbine-generator. Anaxial wind turbine is easy to build, fun to learn and cost effective system designed using inalmost any windy location in the world. Two students at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI)enrolled in a Bachelors of Science in the Electrical and Information Engineering Technology(EIET) major, have spent many hours researching various wind turbines. The subject matterpresented in this paper are (1) design and build a cost effective 0.5 kW wind turbine capable ofproducing 12-48 V direct current (DC), (2) build two wind turbines with different configurations,(3) build a traveling display that can be taken to remote locations and educate anyone withquestions, and (4) experiment with variable loads and blade

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Sternhagen, University of Wisconsin Center-Fox Valley; Jeff Hoerning, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Cathy Bronold, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

ofnortheastern Wisconsin. It is one of thirteen two-year campuses throughout Wisconsin thatcomprise the University of Wisconsin Colleges. The UW Colleges belong to the University ofWisconsin System, which also oversees the thirteen four-year public universities throughout thestate. A map of the UW-System two-year and four-year institutions is shown in Figure 1. TheUW Colleges enrolls over 12,400 students per year.2 UW-Fox Valley is the second largest UWCollege with nearly 1700 students; approximately half of them are part-time. A panoramic viewof the campus is shown in Figure 2.Figure 1. The Four-Year and Two-Year Campuses in UW-System1Figure 2. The UW-Fox Valley Campus

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Mathews, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Abhinav Pamulaparthy, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

identify and strengthen program areas that need improvement or revision.MethodsDuring the spring and summer semesters of 2005, IPRO students, tenured faculty and IPROfaculty, worked together to develop an outline of the LO body of knowledge, LO studydocuments and references, and LO proficiency tests. See exhibit 2 for the Fall 2005 and Spring2006 test questions. From the body of knowledge a multiple choice 15 to 25 question test per LOwas developed and administered to a small sample [8] of IPRO students in Summer 2005. TheIPRO Program established a minimum competency goal, as measured by test results, as: 80%correct answers on each LO test by the end of the semester. The results of the Summer 2005 pilottest (see Table 1 in Results) was 42% correct

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Soda, U.S. Air Force Academy; Gregory Toussaint, U.S. Air Force Academy; Albert Batten, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, so the students were familiar with it and could easily apply it Page 11.210.7to this survey. Table1. Evaluation scale for numerical survey responses. Score Response 1 Very Poor or Strongly Disagree 2 Poor or Somewhat Disagree 3 Fair or Slightly Disagree 4 Good or Slightly Agree 5 Very Good or Somewhat Agree 6 Excellent or Strongly AgreeTables 2 and 3 summarize the numerical results from the

Conference Session

Professional Development/Scholarship & Service Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to implement this idea at the undergraduate level recognizing that thedecreased professional maturity of undergraduate students might make this approach morechallenging.Project Selection and DefinitionPrior to the beginning of the semester, the process of identifying candidate projects was initiated.Selection criteria included that the project 1) must provide service to the community, 2) mustoccur in a narrow window of time toward the end of the semester and be accomplishable in twoweekends, 3) must be large enough to require the efforts of all the class, 4)must be complexenough to require planning to be successful, 5) should not contain major technology uncertaintiesand finally 6) should only require skills that already exist in the class

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Diaz, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Pacheco, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Rosaly, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Michael Figueroa, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Eddalis Batista, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Othoniel Rodriguez-Jimenez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

concept space forwhat is being developed. This common ontology for the course concepts is mapped into learningexperiences through active and interactive learning objects.The learning objects created through the web-based tools being developed, meet interfacingstandards proposed by Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), InstructionalManagement Systems, IEEE-Learning Technologies Standards Committee, and World WideWeb Consortium-Scalable Vector Graphics, among others. These which we like to call “OpenLearning Objects” are considered “open” because they provide explicit XML metadata for thelearning objects internals. This metadata defines a five (5) layer model which captures differentaspects of the learning object, such as: 1) conceptual

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in the Laboratory

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; William Penney, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

correlations found in the literature.Free Convection Heat Transfer from an Upward Facing Horizontal PlateFree convection heat transfer is encountered in many practical applications, including heattransfer from pipes, transmission lines, baseboard heaters and steam radiators. Correlations areavailable for predicting free convection heat transfer coefficients for many different geometries.One of the important geometries is the upward facing horizontal heated surface or plate, thesubject of this investigation. The overall objectives of this experiment were to: 1. Determine the experimental free convection heat transfer coefficient for the top surface of

Conference Session

On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to address studentdevelopment. Bloom’s Taxonomy identifies levels of knowledge and helps faculty identifystudents who have mastered those levels. Multiple pedagogical techniques are used that addresslearning at different levels on Bloom’s taxonomy: 1) independent reading with formative Page 11.1308.2evaluation helps individual students master fundamentals (remember and understand), 2) follow-up active learning in class helps student teams apply knowledge to a design problem (apply andanalyze), and 3) design projects have students test how useful acquired knowledge is (evaluateand create). The following

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin Odom, University of Idaho; Russ Porter, University of Idaho; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Adrian Gomez, University of Idaho; Lloyd Gallup, University of Idaho

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

this combined enterprise.Roughly 1/3 of the design teams have both ME and EE members, 1/3 have only ME members,and 1/3 have only EE members. All teams are required to respond to the needs of an externalcustomer, maintain personal logbooks, prepare a problem statement with specifications, presenttheir solution in various design reviews, fabricate a working prototype, write a design report, anddocument their design process on a course web page (http://seniordesign.engr.uidaho.edu). Page 11.895.3Our capstone course design parallels many other capstone programs across the country6,7 andfollows the methodology advocated by standard design

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Dhaneshwar Lall, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

provide examples of data collected to date.BackgroundAs all engineering technology educators are now aware, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has changed its requirements for programaccreditation. Where they once focused on facilities and inputs, the criteria are nowlearner-centered and performance-based.1 Each engineering and engineering technologyprogram is required to develop learning outcomes and demonstrate student achievementthrough the assessment of student performance on these outcomes. The engineeringtechnology programs at the large land-grant university system that is the focus of thispaper are geographically dispersed throughout the state, making it difficult for facultyteaching the same courses to coordinate

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

undergraduate and graduate students. The researchpresented here uses an observation about the context of education to frame the research project;and locates the project within the realm of previous research on educational climate. This projecttests the null hypothesis that the context of education does not matter for women’s experience ofclimate. Figure 1 indicates the conceptual framework utilized by this research. The mainvariables of interest are in a bold font.Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of Research Classroom Experiences Laboratory Experiences Relationship with Faculty Climate Retention Professional Development Work/Family BalanceThe contexts in which students are educated are different at the undergraduate and

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Michigan; Yili Liu, University of Michigan; Virginia Soto, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Excellence in Engineering Education and Educational Technology: Views of Undergraduate Engineering StudentsAbstractDuring the 1990’s and continuing today there has been an increased attention to understand theissues that may affect the quality of engineering education. According to the National Academyof Engineering 1 and programs such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), many universities around the world have been making major efforts to recognize thechallenges faced by engineering educational programs and making changes to achieve“Excellence in Engineering Education”. The purpose of the study reported in this paper is tounderstand the views and

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosida Coowar, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Temitayo Akinrefon, University of Central Florida; Ala` Battikhi, University of Central Florida; Ana Ferreras, University of Central Florida; Kelvin Gibson, University of Central Florida; Ramamoorthy Lakkoju, University of Central Florida; Katherine Meza, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

variation, and eliminate waste. It hasbeen used successfully in the automotive, chemical, healthcare, high-tech, financial and retailindustries. The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University ofCentral Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculumwithin a Total Quality Improvement course. This course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge together with Lean Principles and provides hands-on Six Sigma project experience.This paper describes how a team of faculty and students used the Lean Six Sigma Technology todocument and improve the pre-application process used by the College of Engineering andComputer Science at the University of Central Florida.1. IntroductionIn the Fall

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kristen Wendell

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher’s guides.1. Introduction1.1 Background Information and Literature ReviewA new trend in K-12 education is to incorporate concepts and ways of thinking from theengineering disciplines into math and science courses. A growing number of educators, startingat the postsecondary level and now spreading to the high school and elementary level, arerecognizing that awareness of and knowledge about engineering are crucial to students’ ability tonavigate our technology-dependent society. This effort by educators and policymakers to includeengineering in K-12 classrooms is part of an initiative that is often referred to as the“technological literacy” movement.The modern technological literacy movement can be said to have begun in 1996, when

Conference Session

Web-based learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

some limitations) couldaccess the Courseinfo site using their e-mail user name and password and select any course inwhich they have enrolled. The Announcements page for Dynamics is shown in Fig. 1.Announcements were displayed automatically with the option of viewing all of them or thoseposted in the previous two weeks or four weeks. Links were provided on the left side of thispage to other sites such as Course Information, Staff Information, Course Documents,Assignments, Communication, External Links, and Student Tools. Instructors and students couldalso access Resources, Course Map, and My Blackboard sites. There was also a search optionprovided on this page. The Control Panel (Fig. 2) allowed the course instructor to post ormodify

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Michael Clare, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; John D. Graham, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

assistance.Approach to the ChallengeWCU engineering graduate and undergraduate students and professors, working over theChristmas holidays, solved the problem. The first task was the reverse engineering of theextremely flexible and thin packaging sample in order to define the required dimensions anddesign constraints for the mold. The preliminary requirements of the mold were then obtainedand a 3D solid model of the mold wascreated by utilizing the parametric designsoftware package Pro/Engineer shown inFigure 1. The concave depressionrequiring complex and multifacetedfeatures was a stimulating vehicle forexpanding the student’s knowledge inmodeling. This level of detail wascommon on external surfaces but rarelyseen and experienced on internaldepressions

Conference Session

Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; David M. Moss, University of Connecticut; David Giblin, University of Connecticut; Elias Faraclas, University of Connecticut; Cathi Koehler, University of Connecticut

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

atechnically literate society. Reform documents such as Science for All Americans: Project 2061[1] , Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy [2] and the National Science Education Standards [NSES][3] include sections titled, Science and Technology and The Nature of Technology, as a means tofoster technical literacy for students in grades K-12. In NSES, the goal of the Science andTechnology content standard is for all students to develop “abilities of technological design andunderstanding about science and technology.” These reform documents have been theframework to foster science, technical and engineering literacy for students in grades K-12across the United States as guided by their state science frameworks, however are statesachieving this goal

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

CHIH-WEI HUANG, Arizona State University; Ashwinn Natarajan, Arizona State University; Rony Ferzli, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

students to examine the properties of various signal processingalgorithms using real-life signals. A simple audio compression scheme that usesthe Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is described with details. The algorithm exposesthe students to the application of the FFT in a simplified MPEG-like audiocompression scheme. The hardware–software interaction of J-DSP with the TIDSK is also explained to students; an introduction to the architecture and itsperipherals is also part of the learning experience. Pre- and Post- assessmentinstruments have been developed and administered. 1. INTRODUCTIONAn effective course in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) must convey theoreticaland practical knowledge of concepts associated with the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Leduc, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

no practical reason why the broadeneddefinition cannot be applied to B4.1 as well, the B4.1 standard is intended for cylindrical partsonly.When utilizing the metric system it is important to provide students with an understanding of thepreferred numbering system. The preferred numbering system in the inch system is a bitconvoluted. The inch system actually has two preferred numbering systems: • Fractional based: We prefer whole numbers to fractions. We prefer 1/2’s to 1/4’s; 1/4’s to 1/8’s; 1/8’s to 1/16’s, etc. • Decimal based: We prefer whole numbers to decimal increments. We prefer .1’s to .01’s; .01’s to .001’s; .001’s to .0001’s, etc.Knut O. Kveneland is the chair of the ANSI B4.2 standard and the author of Metric

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

• bootstrapping the wider CSEd research community by establishing a critical mass of researchers with rigorous practices and standards for carrying out and evaluating CSEd research.We viewed the community of practice, the second of these three levels, as the most important, abridge from the individual to the emergent discipline as a whole. But how does one create acommunity of practice when none exists?In Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning & Identity, Wenger1 identifies “threedimensions of the relation by which practice is the source of coherence of a community” (p72/3).We used these as key design principles. These dimensions are: 1. mutual engagement: membership in communities of practice is enacted through the dynamic and

Conference Session

Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College; Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

Technology program could only earn their creditsby demonstrating their college-level knowledge and competencies in the academic fields throughthe submission of transcripts from regionally accredited colleges/universities or throughwritten/performance examinations.Anticipating the growing demand for online instruction in higher education and to provide thestudents with an additional avenue for degree completion, B&T launched the online courses inSeptember 2004 starting with the capstone course NUC 495.In Spring 06, a total of 4 upper divison online Nuclear Engineering Technology core coursesincluding the capstone course were launched; they are: 1. NUC 320 Materials ( 3 credit hours) 2. NUC 330 Reactor Core Fundamentals ( 3 credit hours

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

writing samples gathered inportfolios). It employs several assessment strategies (quantitative analyses of student writingsamples, quantitative analyses of written surveys, and qualitative analyses of interviewtranscripts).This paper is the second in a series of four planned EWI reports to ASEE. While last year’spaper articulated a baseline set of data with regard to student attitudes, practices and skills, thisyear’s report will include data demonstrating what students have learned in addition topreliminary considerations of how this study can begin to affect instructional practice in UT-Tyler Engineering courses.BackgroundWith some estimates suggesting that “as much as 80% of an engineer’s work time is spent oncommunicating,”1 significant

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anshuman Panda, Polytechnic University; Hong Wong, Polytechnic University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University; Sang-Hoon Lee, Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Page 11.1354.4serial communication functions provided by Matlab (supported by versions 6.1 and higher) tocommunicate data with the BS2 microcontroller. Furthermore, the BS2 data acquisition andcontrol toolbox utilizes the graphical user interface capabilities of Simulink to allow users toconstruct block diagrams interfacing with sensors and actuators.2.2. Simulink Block Diagram Design using BS2 Toolbox OverviewThe BS2 data acquisition and control toolbox allows users to implement control designs and todevelop data acquisition and control panels within Simulink block diagrams. This toolboxprovides a Simulink custom library, which contains blocks that interface with sensors andactuators connected to the BS2. See Figure 1 for a complete listing