Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College; Vincent DiStasi, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

softwareGrove City College has a 1:1 mobile computing program, now in its second decade, where eachstudent receives at the start of his or her freshman year a computer. For the past four years, thecomputer has been a Hewlett-Packard Tablet PC. Currently, there are about 2500 Tablet PCsused by students and about 120 used by faculty. Page 13.144.2Complementing the hardware program, the college provides software to support the entire CSand engineering curriculum from integrated development environments (IDEs) to applicationssuch as MatLab and Maya. Moreover, the Tablet PC has a variety of software applications thatare pen-aware, such as Microsoft® Word and

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Amy Craig, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1062: INTEGRATION OF COMPUTER BASED PROBLEM SOLVINGINTO ENGINEERING CURRICULADianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University Dianne Raubenheimer is Director of Assessment in the College of Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult and Higher Education in the College of Education at NCSU. She has worked with faculty and administrators in Engineering for two years, and previously in the Science and Education disciplines. She has a background in teacher education, curriculum development and evaluation and has worked as an education consultant for a number of organizations in the USA and South Africa conducting program evaluations. She received a Ph.D

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston

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Computers in Education

, and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Brigham Young University.Susan Miertschin, University of Houston Susan L. Miertschin is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems Technology program at University of Houston. She is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), active in the Engineering Technology Division, and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). She is also a past Editor of the Journal of Engineering Technology.Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston Luces M. Faulkenberry is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Electrical Power Technology program at University of Houston. He earned a B.S. degree in Physics from University

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

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Computers in Education

-Southwest Annual Conference, Houston, TX. 367-370.[11] Hsu, T. (1999). Development of an undergraduate curriculum in mechatronics systems engineering. Journal Page 13.1024.10 of Engineering Education, 173-179.[12] Miller, R. L., Olds, B. M. (1994). A model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design. Journal of Engineering Education, 1-6.[13] Porter, R. L., Fuller, H. (1998). A new “contact-based” first year engineering course. Journal of Engineering Education, 399-404.[14] Yokomoto, C. F., Rizkalla, M. E., O’Loughlin, C. L., El-Sharkawy, M. A., Lamm, N. P. (1999

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Reed, Louisiana Tech University; Taylor Creekbaum, Louisiana Tech University; Matthew Elliott, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Davis Harbour, Louisiana Tech University

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Computers in Education

the new project-centeredcurriculum.IntroductionIn 1998, the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University moved to anintegrated engineering curriculum based on the educational practices of the National ScienceFoundation Educational Coalitions. Our freshman integrated curriculum includes differentialcalculus, chemistry, physics and several non-technical courses. Students take these courses in“blocks” so that classes of 40 students share the same mathematics, chemistry and engineeringcourses. The topics presented in the mathematics and science courses are coordinated to somedegree with the topics presented in the engineering courses to motivate student learning and toprovide some content overlap. The engineering courses are

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Craig, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Tom Miller, North Carolina State University; Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer; George Rouskas, North Carolina State University; Larry Silverberg, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

faculty and administrators in Engineering for three years, and previously in the Science and Education disciplines. She has a background in teacher education, curriculum development and evaluation and has worked as an education consultant for a number of organizations in the USA and South Africa conducting program evaluations. She received a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development (Higher Education) from the University of Louisville and has M.Ed, M.Sc, B.Sc (Hons) degrees and a postgraduate Diploma in Adult Education from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.George Rouskas, North Carolina State University George N. Rouskas is a Professor of Computer Science at NC

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Holden, California Maritime Academy

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1513: THE UBIQUITOUS MICROCONTROLLER IN MECHANICALENGINEERING: MEASUREMENT SYSTEMSMichael Holden, California Maritime Academy Michael Holden teaches in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California State University Maritime Academy. Page 13.1275.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Ubiquitous Microcontroller in Mechanical Engineering: Measurement SystemsIntroductionThis paper will describe a project aimed at integrating microcontrollers in several classesthroughout the mechanical engineering curriculum at the California State University MaritimeAcademy (CMA). The goal is to give our

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

studentsaccessing these resources in an attempt to increase their understanding. Our goal is toinvestigate how these experts are using the HUB for their own continued learning andhow can nanoHUB be integrated into formal and informal learning environments.Our work will test the conjecture that the nanoHUB resource supports learners’ goals andexpectations for learning in a course because the nanoHUB provides an excellentplatform for meeting instructor’s goals of conceptual understanding and metacognitiveskills for exploring new concepts. We are conducting multiple studies of how theseresources can be used as a learning resource for students from undergraduate to graduatelevels and scientists interested in learning more about nanotechnology. Our initial

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Quweider, The University of Texas at Brownsville; Fitra Khan, U of Texas at Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, The University of Texas at Brownsville

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Computers in Education

primary goal of this infrastructure is toenhance the existing curriculum in the undergraduate level by providing a state-of-the-artenvironment, isolated from the university campus network, in which Computer and InformationSciences (CIS) students can get hands on experience in areas such as Networking, Ad HocComputing, Wireless and Mobile Networking, Operating Systems, Image and Video Processing,Computer Vision and Distributed Processing.The involved faculty, joined by top selected students, went through three distinct phases increating the networking and distributed processing lab (NDPL): design and setup, specificationand implementation, and integration into CIS curriculum. The design phase of the project relatesto setting up the physical and

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus

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Computers in Education

inhabited by humans.The contest has been successfully integrated into an undergraduate robotics course andinto an undergraduate research activity. Educational resources, such as a database ofcampus path pictures, are available to facilitate the computer vision algorithmdevelopment. An example of a successful robot platform and a software developmentenvironment (based on MATLAB) has been provided. This prototype can be used as aguide or as a benchmark for educators and students to assist in the development of a robotsolution. Additional resources can also be found on the website for the contest [3]. Page 13.1116.10Overall, the contest has been very well

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

and understands the coordination involved.Technology programs, in contrast with engineering programs, have less emphasis on design aspart of the curriculum. Technology students learn how to use various devices and how theywork rather than design systems with them. Furthermore, technology programs emphasize“hands-on” learning and contain many labs throughout the curriculum. This toolkit can beutilized in an automation or instrumentation course for several experiments involving the varioussensors and circuits on the robot. Content demonstrates the relationships between pulse-widthmodulation (PWM), the electrical drive signals, mechanical motion of the motor, and rotationalmeasurements provided by the optical encoder.The toolkit provides design

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1332: COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT: THENATURAL PARTNER FOR PROJECT-BASED LEARNINGRoger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne Roger Hadgraft is a civil engineer with more than 15 years involvement in engineering education research. He has published many papers on engineering education, with a particular focus on problem/project-based learning and the use of technology to support learning in this way. He was instrumental in introducing a project-based curriculum into civil engineering at Monash University, commencing in 1998. From 2002-6, his work at RMIT was in curriculum renewal to embed graduate capabilities, specifically through a stream of project-based courses/subjects, one

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford; Akram Abu-aisheh, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

provides the transmitter andreceiver electronics. The adapter board attaches to an off-the-shelf field programmable gatearray (FPGA) development board, which provides the digital aspect of the data link.The first audience we are addressing is undergraduate technology students. As such the designgoal of the toolkit is to provide a system that clearly demonstrates functionality, allowingstudents to investigate all aspects of the system. The choice of using an FPGA provides a levelof flexibility, allowing the toolkit to be used in other curriculum as well. Further, with a soft-core processor, the toolkit can be used to implement a modest microprocessor system. It is ourintent that the fiber optic toolkit will be useful in undergraduate classroom or

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mathieu Desnoyers, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Michel Dagenais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1339: TEACHING REAL OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH THE LTTNGKERNEL TRACERMathieu Desnoyers, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Mathieu Desnoyers is the maintainer of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) project since November 2005, taking over the development with the new LTTNG. He is the author of Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation (LTTNG) and the main developer of Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV) since the project started in 2003. He did an internship at the IBM Research T.J. Watson Research Center in 2006 where he applied tracing in commercial scale-out systems. In 2007, he did an internship at Google, where he integrated ideas from Google ktrace into LTTng to merge themin a single project. He

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felipe Arango, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gonca Altuger, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

. Most textbooks and classroom teaching are intuitive, verbal, deductive,reflective and sequential, and thus they do not meet the needs of the second-tier students who aresensing, visual, inductive, active and global learners. Most researchers agree that an importantrole in current learning structures is played by “collaborative learning”, which allows students toexchange information as well as to produce ideas, simplify problems, and resolve tasks.Therefore, engineering educators have been reshaping the undergraduate engineering curricula torespond and adapt to the ever changing nature of engineering practice that is becoming moreglobal, interdisciplinary and influenced by other disciplines such as computer science,information technology

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff Wiegley, California State University-Northridge

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Computers in Education

divisions that his-torically employed primarily electronic, computer or mechanical engineers can beexpected.The College of Engineering at CSU Northridge is organized as a set of autonomous Page 13.430.2departments, each of which maintains a highly specific curriculum focused on thedepth of its discipline. Students are isolated into knowledge silos. Obtaining a deepunderstanding of their chosen field comes at the expense of operating effectively ina team of diverse engineers.In response to these factors a course in embedded software design was established.The topics of the course are focused on instructing students in the specialized tech-niques used to program

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Chandler, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

in the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been actively involved in the development of this program, the first undergraduate software engineering program in the United States. This involvement included bringing active learning and problem-based learning into the curriculum, developing an inter-disciplinary course sequence in real-time and embedded systems, and guiding the program through its ABET accreditation. Prior to RIT, Dr. Vallino had seventeen years of software development experience in industry, followed by his PhD studies in Computer Science at the University of Rochester. His research interests include pedagogy for software engineering

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dewey Spangler, Virginia Western Community College; Kimberly Filer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Computers in Education

problem solving andhands-on experiences representing the essence of the engineering profession. New engineeringtools, a deeper understanding of the responsibilities of engineers to society and the environment,and an appreciation for the diverse and global nature of the workplace are continuallyincorporated into the engineering curriculum (Gilbert, 2003).For incoming freshman in 2006, a Tablet PC computing initiative mandated the purchase of aTablet rather than the previously required laptop. The initiative is supported by an alliancebetween Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corportation, andMicrosoft Corporation offering students higher levels of hardware and software purchasingpower and support. A current

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elliot Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monson Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

speech processing theory and analysis in the classification of human vocal patterns for determining speaker demographics (i.e., dialect, language, etc.), speaker characteristics (i.e., gender, dimensions, etc.), and speaker state (i.e., emotion, stress, etc.). Additionally, Dr. Moore’s interests in engineering education have involved improving the implementation of technology in distributed education for creating active learning environments. He has been awarded grants from HP and Microsoft to support his research efforts in this endeavor. In 2005, Dr. Moore received an NSF CAREER award for the development of new techniques for extracting and integrating features of the voice source into

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ricky Castles, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Aditya Johri, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dewey Spangler, Virginia Western Community College; David Kibler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Computers in Education

Engineering department is the largest engineering major in the COE. All MEsophomores (approximately 300 to 350) own Tablet PCs due to the Tablet initiative of fall 2006.A pilot study was conducted by the 3rd author to integrate Tablet PCs technology into twosections of ME 2024 – Engineering Design and Economics for enhancing students’ learningexperiences. ME 2024 is a required course for all ME students and provides an introduction toproduct development and design. The course emphasizes team collaboration and technicalwriting skills and includes topics like project management, mechanical dissections, engineeringeconomics, and ethics. Ten sections of ME2024 are offered each year with class sizes limited to30 to 36 students. It may be noted that all

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Garrett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas Walker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-318: STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF GRAPHICALPROGRAMMING LANGUAGESJeremy Garrett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Jeremy Garrett is currently working on his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with a specialization in Integrative S.T.E.M. Education, at Virginia Tech. His doctoral research, which he has recently begun, is on college freshmen-level engineering design curriculum. He has an M.S. in Applied and Industrial Physics from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. in Physics from Western (North) Carolina University. He has been teaching freshmen and sophomore general engineering courses for the last four years (some years as a lead teacher / instructor and some years as an

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi Thai, University of Georgia

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Computers in Education

student learning”, and applying this trend for face-to-face instruction results in a need toprovide students more opportunities to develop course materials in concert with the instructorduring class time, such as solving an optics problem or building a simulation model, and also toparticipate in other students work or just simply to take one’s own class notes. Thus as personal“hand-written notes” and “narrations” are the most natural tools to record, review, integrate anddevelop our own learning process, we are continuing the existing project to include the use ofTablet PCs (or Pen Tablets with Desktop PCs on Windows Vista) and multimedia technologiesat the student level with the goal of achieving more active and hopefully deeper learning

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart

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Computers in Education

browser of the learner. For that reason, the LMS provides information on theuser to the SCO, and the SCO returns information on the learning success back to the LMS.Most SCOs are not very spectacular: Text files, possibly some embedded images and simplemultiple-choice questionnaires make up most of the content seen by the authors. Trulyinteractive applets are rarely seen, and if so, the interactivity is often limited. If compared to lab-based interactive hands-on experiments as found in the curriculum of engineering or scientificstudies, this type of learning material has little to offer and goes only little beyond an interactivebook. By that, the LMS is degraded to a content management system for web-based data.Here we present the concept of