Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rob Reed, Hewlett-Packard Corporation; Jim Vanides, Hewlett-Packard

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-1122: TRANSFORMING TEACHING AND LEARNING USING TABLETPCS ? A PANEL DISCUSSION USING TABLET PCSFrank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Frank Kowalski is Professor of Physics at Colorado School of Mines. Interested in improving classroom communication, he spearheaded efforts to introduce the use of clickers in CSM's introductory level physics classes. He currently uses InkSurvey to enhance his teaching of a junior/senior level electricity and magnetism course.Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia Williams is executive director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment and a professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She has

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor M Verner, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

, enhancing overall team performance.The students were told at the outset that those who succeeded in the evaluation would becomearea masters who would be called upon by RST design groups for advice and assistance, and thatarea masters would train other students in mastery areas in succeeding semesters. Studentprojects were graded on the basis of oral seminar reports, a written mid-term report, and a writtenfinal report. Evaluation of the EDE itself was carried out by a post-semester survey.Pre-semester SurveyThis questionnaire asked RST students to reflect on their backgrounds, interests, and confidencelevels in robotics and to identify directions for further work. In this way the survey tried to helpstudents to clarify their plans for future

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Computers in Education

emissions policies that these students may see in the future. Based onthe comments from the students, this opportunity was appreciated and at least four studentsengaged further learning in this topic by writing an optional extra-credit paper on a related topic. Page 12.1479.9The guest expert offered guidance to these students. Although no systematic evaluation of thesecomponents was conducted in this study, we will pursue it in the future since we plan to continuethese initiatives. As a preliminary indication that these efforts worked, we looked at the topicsselected by students who chose to write an extra-credit paper. Sixty eight percent of all

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Africa Lopez-Rey, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; juan peire, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Julio Freijeiro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Computers in Education

Science and Education Ministry and theSpanish National Plan I+D+I 2004-2007 the support for this paper as the project TSI2005-08225-C07-03 "mosaicLearning: Aprendizaje electrónico móvil, de código abierto, basado enestándares, seguro, contextual, personalizado y colaborativo".Bibliography 1. Program JKarnaugh V 4.2. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://meteo.ieec.uned.es/www_Usumeteo1/ 2. Programa KV- Diagram-Applet. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://tams-www.informatik.uni- hamburg.de/applets/kvd/kvd.html 3. Programa Karnaugh Minimizer Pro. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://karnaugh.shuriksoft.com/ 4. Programa Karnaugh Map 1.2. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://www.puz.com/sw/karnaugh/kmap12.exe

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tarek El Doker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Justin Gigliotti, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Computers in Education

realtime. Several students were interested in extending the exercises to problems in which they hadparticular difficulties understanding the relationship between loads and supports, such assolutions to indeterminate structures and the application of superposition for complex loadings.The feedback was informal and qualitative, but critical to developing a plan for the subsequentsemester (spring of 2007), in which additional features would be incorporated into the classroomtool. The instructor believed that students quickly developed an appreciation of concepts thatwere discussed minimally during lecture (unsymmetric bending) and an improved understandingof overall patterns of stress distributions. Students generally found that utilizing

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Rynne, University of Limerick; William Gaughran, University of Limerick

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Computers in Education

CAD models can thereby be created using parametric or constraint basedmodelling systems. Just as cognitive scientists have developed a grammar of vision, a set ofrules that direct our perception of line, colour, form, depth, and motion so too there is a needto develop a coherent grammar of design intent for parametric modelling. The sense of visionhas fantastic ability to actively construct every aspect of our visual experience. Vision is notsimply a matter of passive perception; it is an intelligent process of active construction.Similarly creating intelligent parametric models requires thought and careful planning andinvolves a well-developed 3D mindset to actively and intelligently deconstruct andreconstruct part and assembly models.Best

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; David Adams, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

elements that are unique to their design or clever combinations of multiple game design techniques?These criteria are then weighted heavily toward game play and completeness, while thecreativity and exploratory design aspects differentiate the impressive games from the averageand good games. While this may seem vague (e.g., average versus good), it is very apparent toboth the students and faculty how the games should be categorized.3.2.Comp 446In Comp 446, the students will apply their game development knowledge to creating 3D games,using another LaMothe book7. The course plan is to create a specification at the start of the classdescribing a simple 3D-shooter type game that will be built from the ground up. The 3D-shootergame is a perfect

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Encarnacao, University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Espinosa, University of California, Los Angeles; Lawrence Au, University of California, Los Angeles; Lianna Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles; Gregory Chung, University of California-Los Angeles; William Kaiser, University of California-Los Angeles

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-1524: INDIVIDUALIZED, INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTION (3I): ANONLINE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLAndre Encarnacao, University of California, Los Angeles Andre Encarnacao is currently working towards a B.S. degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andre plans to graduate in March 2007 and continue his computer science education at Stanford University. His research interests are in networking, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. In addition to working on the 3i system, Andre has previous research experience with the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), and the Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Lab, both at UCLA.Paul

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments

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Computers in Education

engineers.However, here is a case where high-school students and teachers and freshmen engineeringstudents get their applications running on the DSP board within one lab period. This is possiblebecause the program uses the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment, an industry-standard, which has been customized to suit the needs of the Infinity Project. The NI LabVIEWfor the Infinity Project software is shown in figure 4. Figure 4. The NI LabVIEW for the Infinity Project Software Launch Screen Page 12.1376.5The launch screen shown in figure 4 has a lot of innovative features that enable teachingconcepts. First, it has a lesson plan organizer that

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Carver, USMA

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Computers in Education

received some publicity in the popular pressand a similar exercise was run by the State of New York in 2005 after they became aware ofCarronade3. The Department of Veterans Affairs is likewise planning a similar exercise for20074. We are exploring expanding Carronade to other delivery means such as instant messengerand community of practice discussion boards. Due to requests, we are also considering a publiclyreleasable version of Carronade that can be installed at other institutions. Our experiences withCarronade suggest additional experimentation is warranted to explore its effect on organizationalculture. Coupled together, SISOs and the Carronade exercise can significant improve studentlearning of modern information assurance

Conference Session

Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

suggest that thesample size is too small to be useful.Future WorkA number of efforts are underway to enhance the effectiveness of the ECE497 course. Atextbook is under development which will support the theoretical core of the fixed point materialas well as incorporating a set of homework problems and example labs. The planned text outlinewill include material emphasizing both processor and FPGA implementation. The intent of thetext is to allow faculty with minimal expertise in fixed point to offer this material in an electivecourse. Schools interested in using a draft of the text will be considered as “beta testers.” Asnoted in the list of advance topics above, great potential exists to expand the planned textbook toinclude material on many

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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Computers in Education

account numbers. Methods plan – creating Create a Objects books and BookInventory customers of class and/or their choice AccountInventory class.Credit Card Create a class to represent Classes Each student Add error-** a credit card for a credit Instance produces a detection to credit card company Variables different test card numbers

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina

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Computers in Education

% 20% 1%bizarre.32. Trust in software processes is 2% 84% 14% 0%derived from earned trust in thesoftware programmer.33. A computer is used more for fun 3% 38% 59% 0%than for work.34. Artificial intelligence has the 6% 41% 46% 7%potential to endow computer systemswith human-like capabilities, such asjudgment, planning, and problem-solving.35. Computers are complex. 30% 52% 16% 2%Generally, students surveyed have particular assumptions about the kinds of problems computerscan solve and tasks to which computers ought to be applied. While there is a general split

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

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Computers in Education

make significant modifications to the CPU because there was too strong of an interdependence between the arrangement of cycles and the implementation of the Visual Basic macros that drove the simulation. The implementation was modified to eliminate that interdependence. Work continues on the Spreadsheet CPU as described in the next section.Status and Future Plans To provide a good basis in introductory computer organization and instruction set design, aCPU simulator should provide a minimum of the following: ç An instruction set sophisticated enough to support realistic machine language programming exercises. This was a fundamental shortcoming of the literacy version. While the current instruction set

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bell, University of Illinois-Chicago

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Computers in Education

International CommunityThe original VRiChEL products ( currently maintained by the VRUPL lab ) have beendownloaded over 1300 times, to recipients in over 50 different countries around the globe. Thevirtual lab accidents have now been produced for all eight accident scenarios, on two to fiveplatforms each, for a total of 25 different accident simulations freely available to theinternational community. The virtual campus products may not be as universally valuable, butthey can be quite useful to students planning to attend this school from far-away lands. ( A largefraction of the student body comes from either India, China, or some other foreign country. )In addition to the values of participation and experience, VR based educational software is

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Griffith, University of Wyoming; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Daniel Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Computers in Education

this idea to teach advanced Verilog HDL techniques, real time embedded systemconcepts, and the comparison of the two approaches. In the following sections we provide background information on the project includinginformation on Verilog HDL, our advanced Verilog HDL course, and observed difficultiesstudents demonstrate in learning Verilog HDL design techniques. We then discuss methodsemployed for the project including the hardware and software developed and the laboratoryexercises to guide the students in project development. We then provide results and a discussionof the results in placing the robots in the classroom. We conclude with future plans for thisproject. Background

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Stephen Roberts, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education-HDL

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Gribschaw, D/EECS, USMA; Paul Patterson, D/EECS, USMA; Bryan Goda, USMA

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Computers in Education

class time in whichthe instructor has set aside time and planned the lesson to provide instruction specifically on theCAD/E tool. We refer to informal instruction as those occasions at the start, middle or end ofclass where an instructor spends a couple of minutes providing simple direction or guidance toassist students in learning or using the CAD/E tool. This may occur as a result of a surveyresponse, in response to a question a student had during additional instruction/office hours, or asa result of a question before or during class. An example of informal instruction that could resultfrom the survey would be to show the Active-HDL help index at the beginning of the next classperiod. We learned in our Master Teacher Program that addressing

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Vonda Walsh, Virginia Military Institute; H. Francis Bush, Virginia Military Institute; Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Anthony English, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Computers in Education

that our learning is maximally effective for cause-and-effect relationships when delay is minimized, but that our psychological tolerance for delay ismuch higher. This conflict between competence perception and objective reality impactsuniversity information technology infrastructure and pedagogical software design. This isespecially the case for the emerging field of long-distance web education. These studies exposeflaws in perception-based assessment of these areas. Continued studies are planned to assesscategory-specific differences such as age, gender, and major.IntroductionThe use of web-based learning tools is continuing to increase today as well as the promotion oflong-distance learning and assessment1. Many standardized tests, such as

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

Institute of Technology, currently serves as Technical Communication Course Coordinator. She teaches writing, public speaking, and humanities elective courses to engineering and science students. Her graduate work in rhetoric and literature was completed at Penn State, and her recent research often focuses on engineering and workplace communication.Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is the Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, and ABET have appeared in the IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University

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Computers in Education

spite of effective projects funded byNSF, its partner agencies, industry and postsecondary institutions, challenges remain in creatingand institutionalizing reform initiatives to enhance learning outcomes in science, technology, Page 12.1587.6engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.There are several reasons for this apparent lack of adaptation. An experience to attempt change atMIT is instructive. The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics incorporated activelearning strategies and assessment tools into their Unified Engineering course after a two-yearstrategic planning process that involved all faculty in the department.7 As they

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

paper describes integration of Tablet PCs into a required first semester freshman yearengineering course called EngE 1024, "Engineering Exploration." Assessment results from in-class clicker-based responses and online course exit surveys are presented to assess theeffectiveness of Tablet PC-based instruction. Problems encountered and plans for futureenhancements are also briefly discussed. A summary table showing Tablet PC related instructionactivities in various other academic programs is also presented.2. EngE 1024, Engineering Exploration – BackgroundEngineering freshmen at COE are required to pass two freshman engineering courses duringtheir 1-year long freshman engineering (also called General Engineering (GE)) program. Thefirst course is