fundamentals of Digital Logic Design as well asadvanced knowledge of systems and interface. Teaching a board's interface with severaldifferent peripherals is not an easy task. The matter gets worse with the increase of flexibility ofembedded chips. The more features added to the chip, the more difficult the teaching process.Perhaps, the most effective way to teach SoC is through laboratory and well guided tutorials7-12C. Design project and guided tutorialThis paper offers a tutorial design project which is geared towards junior and senior students.The project is implemented on Altera DE2 board13. The project is offered in three phases. Thesephases reflect three design steps of embedded systems: digital logic design and implementation
, students will become further challenged to calibrate their modelsand check the accuracy of the results. “Even though information technology is a powerfulreality, an indispensable, rapidly developing, empowering tool, computers do not contain theessence of teaching and learning, which are deeply human activities. So we have to keep ourmeans and ends straight” 4. With the inevitable increase in the use of computers in engineeringapplications, a solution to this problem of inaccurate modeling is quickly needed.A unique laboratory exercise was recently developed to address the problem of inaccuratemodeling. Senior undergraduate students in their terminal analysis course were challenged withthe task of predicting the natural periods of vibration of a
engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The
class, excused absences will not be counted. This class is structured as fourhours of lecture per week. Professor 2 teaches the same class with attendance is taken with adaily sign-in sheet. The attendance policy includes a penalty for missing class. The policy asstated in the course syllabus is: “Missing class will have a very negative impact on your finalgrade for the course. Three to five unexcused absences will reduce your course point total by10% and six or more unexcused absences will reduce your course point total by 25%.” From this,you will notice that a significant harmful outcome on the student’s final course grade resultsfrom repeatedly missing class.TECH 320 Non-Metallics, uses a lecture/laboratory mode of instruction. Professor 4
surveys of these incoming freshmen finds some startlingrevelations. Comments range from, “I will never have to write again,” to “I’m going to be anengineer and that means NO English!” We realize that with a little thought from thesestudents on the reality of life in the world of engineering will ultimately change thisperspective. But it is an incoming group that sees engineering in a different light from thefaculty and academic staff. It is important, therefore, to make every effort to juxtapositionthe teaching of the necessary technical material with those skills that will make an engineerboth suited for the real world technically and fully capable of communicating his or herengineering expertise to a waiting public.Obviously it is important to
AC 2009-1731: WATER/WASTEWATER TECHNICIAN TRAINING INSTITUTE:THE FIRST YEAR RETROSPECTIVEChristal Wade, Western Kentucky University Ms. Wade holds a Master of Science Degree in Biology from Western Kentucky University. She began working in the WATERS Laboratory as an undergraduate in 2004 and accepted full-time employment as a laboratory analyst upon graduation in 2006. Ms. Wade currently holds certification under the Kentucky Microbiological Laboratory Certification Program and is an EPA Approved Principal Cryptosporidium Analyst under the Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. She manages both the Microbiological and Cryptosporidium programs at the WATERS Lab. Ms. Wade
ofgrant post-award.2. Safety Demonstrations. In the seminar series, one topic commonly addressed in mostgraduate programs is the laboratory safety. Typically, the laboratory manager or instructorresponsible for undergraduate teaching laboratory performs the safety instructions. Graduatestudents are reminded about the importance of material safety data sheet, safe experimentalpractice and waste disposal constraints within the organization. However, addressing the samecomponents every semester may not be an effective methodology, particularly for residentgraduate students. Further, there are a number of safety issues one has to consider and oneseminar may not be sufficient to address all the components with ever changing global issues.For example
Engineering Teaching laboratory andespecially the TRIGA research reactor. The Institute will therefore serve its students intwo critical ways: it will expand their experiential knowledge base in ways not possible attheir home institutions, making them more attractive and accomplished candidates foremployment or graduate studies, and it will heighten student interest in, and awarenessof, careers within the nuclear industry where their talents are sorely needed.We view this aggressive program as the kick-off for a prestigious, recurring Institute thatwill serve a very large body of students who do not have access to facilities comparableto those of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. In particular, we are excited toreach out to institutions
the faculty members. SOTalso provided graduate teaching assistants at both locations to help the faculty members with theSDD pertaining to laboratory work and assignments. The teaching assistants helped with thecourse delivery in content area and related laboratories including the collection of hard copies ofthe assignments. The graduate assistants also helped with communication between the facultymembers and the students.To improve the quality of visual presentation at the remote locations, two Polycom cameras wereinstalled at the remote location (Figure 1b). The Document Camera and the Tablet PC were usedto show or demonstrate supplemental instructional and laboratory materials. One faculty memberextensively used the text book. The document
University, Glassboro, New Jersey. She completed her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa in 1991. Her research interests include materials reliability for VLSI interconnects, rapid wafer-level test design, test structure development and noise characterization of materials and devices for integrated circuitsRavi Ramachandran, Rowan University RAVI P. RAMACHANDRAN is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. His research interests include digital signal processing, speech processing and pattern recognition. He teaches systems and control, signal processing, speech processing, adaptive filters
the students was thelead systems engineer for the in-house satellite build project, called Texas2Step, sponsored bythe Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). An added bonus to the pilot class was theparticipation of the capstone design professor, as well as a graduate teaching assistant with aMaster’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech with an emphasis on SystemDesign and Optimization. The participation of all these many perspectives provided continuousimprovement on the course content and delivery. {Note that current offerings of the SE Courseare available to all students in the space track of the aerospace engineering degree program.}The SE Course content is based on numerous systems engineering handbooks and primers fromNASA1
expertise and experiences are in human factors engineering (modeling human behavior and performance), and in engineering education. His research in human factors has been funded by NIH (work on older Mexican American adults), and the US Army Research Laboratory (work on modeling concurrent mental and physical workload in soldiers). Dr. Pennathur has been writing about and teaching sociotechnical approaches to work design. Dr. Pennathur is currently co-PI with Everett on a Phase 2 NSF CCLI grant for cultivating authentic engineering discourse. His interest in the NSF project is how faculty members navigate the engineering instructional space. Dr. Pennathur has also created the virtual collaborative
Full Implementation for Over 400 First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractTwo years ago a robotics-centered sequence of three first-year engineering courses wasexpanded to include all beginning engineering students as part of an NSF CCLI grant. Theobjective of this course sequence is to immerse students in a skill-based, project-drivencurriculum that builds creativity and a can-do spirit. Students purchase a Parallax BASIC Stampcontroller, sensors, servos, and software to provide the basis for a mobile laboratory and designplatform; this mobile platform, which is owned and maintained by the students, provides amechanism for boosting experiential learning to a level that would be difficult to achieve usinguniversity
AC 2009-422: INTEGRATING REAL-WORLD MEDICAL-DEVICE PROJECTSINTO MANUFACTURING EDUCATIONSusana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida Susana K. Lai-Yuen is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering at the University of South Florida, USA. She received her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) degrees in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, USA. Her research interests include computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided molecular design (CAMD), human-computer haptic interfaces, computational geometry for design and manufacturing, and engineering education. She is the director of the Virtual Manufacturing and Design Laboratory for Medical
are introducedwithin the freshman engineering experience, cultivated during the sophomore and junioryears, and analyzed and applied through senior year and senior design. It is through thisintegration across the curriculum that students develop a fuller understanding of theseprofessional and design topics.IntroductionBased on experience teaching the senior design course and as an ABET programevaluator (PEV), students applying engineering constraints for the first time in thecurriculum during the senior design will not attain the level of performance andintegration desired in ABET Outcome 3.c – “ability to design a system, component orprocess to meet needs within realistic constraints such as…”. The same is true forprofessional topics such as
technologies and the current multimedia Internetapplications. It should also prepare the student for the emerging new technologies andapplications in the future.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The course development is presented in Section 2,including the course objectives, course contents and laboratory assignments. The studentfeedback and further improvement are discussed in Section 3. Section 4 concludes the paper.2. Course Development2.1 Course ObjectivesThis multimedia networking course is introduced at the graduate and senior undergraduate level,designed for the Master program in Engineering Technology.The main objectives of this new course are: ≠ Understand the underlying principles of providing QoS for multimedia networking
for The Journal of Technology Studies. Dr. Bannatyne is also very active in international work and has spoken extensively throughout the United States, Israel, and Russia on the subject of technology's impact in society, the historical aspects of social change due to technology, and computer education courses in the republics of the former Soviet Union.Dan Baldwin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Dan Baldwin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology at IUPUI. Before joining the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Dan worked as an award-winning freelance illustrator and designer. Dan currently teaches courses in illustration, graphic design, and
undergraduate teaching assistants. Finally, we would like tothank the reviewers for their helpful comments and Mary Lindblad for her editorial advice.1 Bjedov, G. and Anderson, P.K., Should Freshman Engineering Students Be Taught a Programming Language?,Proceedings of the 26th Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996, pp. 90-92.2 Azemi, A. and Pauley, L.L., Teaching the Introductory Computer Programming Course for Engineers UsingMatlab, Proceedings of the 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008, pp. T3B-18—21.3 Huettel, L.G. and Collins, L.M., A vertically-integrated application-driven signal processing laboratory, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (2005), pp. 15613 – 15623.4 Huettel, L.G., et al., Work in
. The travel arrangements for the DIT students were arranged by DIT. The PU students received $5,000 which covered their travel and some of their lodging. DIT students received £5,000 which covered their travel, lodging, and because of the current exchange rate, the Dublin students had some money for other exchange activities.Academic and Intellectual AchievementInterestingly, all four students felt that the level of courses was at a lower level than at their home institution, but that the appropriateness of content was about right. The only exception was the sophomore student from Purdue. The two DIT students felt that the effectiveness of teaching and laboratory experience was about right. They also were very impressed with the nature of the
similar work to the field of Engineering Page 14.672.2education.Our work brings together the disciplinary expertise of an Electrical Engineering faculty memberwith a Writing Center director’s experience in writing instruction and evaluation. Dr. Beams hashad over 16 years’ experience in industry and 12 years’ experience in academia, and he currentlyteaches (or has taught) Electronic Circuit Analysis I and II (including laboratories),Instrumentation Systems, Senior Design (a two-semester capstone design sequence), and ElectricCircuit Analysis I (with laboratory) and II. Dr. Niiler has taught writing at the university levelfor over 20 years, and
students’ understanding of platform commonality,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 120-130, 2007.15. S. Goel, D. Pon, “Innovative model for information assurance curriculum: a teaching hospital,” ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, Sept. 2006, Article 2.16. E. Granado, W. Colmenares, M. Strefezza, A. Alonso, “ A web-based virtual laboratory for teaching automatic control,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 192-197, 2007.17. T.W. Simpson, “Experiences with a hands-on activity to contrast craft production and mass production in the classroom,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 2003, pp. 297-304.18
research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Program. He is an Associated Editor for student papers of the Journal of Technology Interface (http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/). He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983.Miguel Ramos
other assessment aids. The student learning objectives of theaforementioned courses were refined and analyzed using Bloom’s Taxonomy for the cognitivedomain to create more meaningful outcomes. The newly developed course plans, exercises, quizzes, exams and laboratory manuals areexpected to be incorporated in each course module to match appropriate level of teaching. The3D simulators allow instructors to create various inspection and maintenance scenarios bymanipulating various parameters to mimic the mechanic in the aircraft maintenance hangarenvironment.2.1. Bloom’s Taxonomy for Mapping Cognitive BehaviorThe educational material development process was initiated with identification of coursemodules to be evaluated with the NDI simulators and
AC 2009-545: DESIGNING EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES FORGRANT PROPOSALSDonna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn is the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)at Georgia Tech. Donna received her B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College, her M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. After working as a faculty member in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, she changed career paths to lead CETL where she works with faculty, instructors, and graduate students to help them teach effectively so that our students can
byJenson and Raisor did investigate the effectiveness of a course teaching Pro/Engineer, a high-endconstraint and parametric-based 3D solid modeling package.6 The distance-based course wasderived from an existing face-to-face course that contained both theory and a hands-onlaboratory component; similar to the present study. Jenson and Raisor linked their classroom onthe main campus of the university to a classroom at a remote location. A 50 minute connectionwas made three times a week for 15 weeks, resulting in interactive web-based lectures for theremote location. Students from both locations were required to complete 19 laboratory exercisesusing Pro/Engineer, however, the software was only resident at the main campus. Students at theremote
author taught anew course in the area of Engineering Instrumentation during 2005 – 2006 andexperimented with some new ideas. He also successfully designed, developed andimplemented certain assignments and exercises to enhance student learning anddiscovery. In this course, the author attempted to move away from a teaching andlearning paradigm to a discovery paradigm. This is a junior/senior level course whichalso includes a set of creative laboratory experiments that aim at providing hands-onexperience to students. As a part of this course curriculum development, the authorimplemented certain assessment techniques. In this presentation the author describeshow he assessed the outcomes for selected topics in this specific course. He also
AC 2009-1941: USE OF A LOW-COST CAMERA-BASED POSITIONING SYSTEMIN A FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING CORNERSTONE DESIGN PROJECTMichael Vernier, Ohio State University Michael A. Vernier is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the OSU Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program where he teaches the laboratory portion of the three-quarter FEH engineering course sequence and develops course materials. Mr. Vernier earned his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007) from The Ohio State University and is currently a Master’s Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, researching control system design for autonomous vehicles.Craig Morin, Ohio State University
laboratory session of 2 or 3 hours’ duration can be Page 14.253.16 classified as Visual or Kinesthetic.References:1. Aiken, L. R. (2000). Psychological Testing and Assessment (10thEdition). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.2. Angelo, T.A. (Summer, 1991). "Ten Easy Pieces: Assessing Higher Learning in Four Dimensions." In T.A. Angelo (Ed.) Classroom Research: Early Lessons from Success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 46, 17-31.3. Armstrong, Thomas (1993). 7 Kinds of Smart. New York: Plume.4. Armstrong, Thomas. (1994). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria
AC 2009-2414: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PBL AND OTHERINDUCTIVE PEDAGOGIES IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE: WORK IN PROGRESSJosef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology The author has an academic background in chemical and materials engineering at bachelor and master level and a doctorate in engineering education.He teaches primarily in areas of materials, manufacturing and process technology and is an active member at University's centre for innovation and sustainability. Page 14.466.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Other
outstanding college chemistry teaching, and the UCLA Brian Copenhaver Award for Innovation for Teaching with Technology for the development and implementation of CPR.Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson has taught a variety of professional writing courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has held ten ASEE Summer Research Fellowships. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications for advanced educational technology and has served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Email: patricia.carlson@rose-hulman.eduWarren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Warren N