Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa Gilmore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Herbert Detloff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln at Omaha

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

robotics platform while enrolled in an Introduction to Robotics course.The Introduction to Robotics course, a senior level elective, included 9 students, 7 of whom werealso enrolled in a preparation course for the Senior Capstone Design Project, entitled SeniorThesis Proposal. The Senior Thesis Proposal course guided students through the planning stagesof the capstone design project, including topic selection and project plan creation. Assessmenttools were designed to assess whether the project-based experiences with the mobile roboticsplatform positively impacted the senior students who were enrolled in Senior Thesis Proposaland Introduction to Robotics compared to the group of senior students enrolled only in SeniorThesis Proposal and not

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo

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Computers in Education

AssessmentThe CSET program utilizes an assessment process that relies on multiple measures andmultiple evaluators. Data used to demonstrate achievement include but are not limited to: • course grades (each term) • representative samples of student work (periodically) • co-op surveys of students and employers (each semester, an increasing number of students) • placement data (employment and graduate school) (annually) • class surveys (each semester) • senior capstone projects and reports • graduate exit survey (each semester) • feedback from alumni (annually)The assessment process follows the basic procedures as follows: • Course Assessment Data • Responsible Personnel: Program

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

LEGOS w/HandyBoard43University of West Curriculum integration LEGOS w/HandyBoard44 Page 15.877.3FloridaSwarthmore College Research project preparation, AAAI Khepera, ActivMedia Pioneers45Missouri University State of the art of robotics and Instructor-created kit usingof Science and architectures embedded C, Matlab imageTechnology processing46Carnegie Mellon Robots for study problem-based LEGOS with HandyBoard47-48University laboratory experimentsPontificia

Conference Session

Computer Gaming and Virtual Reality for Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

either costly or required special licensing. The Microsoft Zune, however, avoids thoseproblems. The Zune is relatively inexpensive and is supported by an excellent SDK and IDE, both ofwhich are free. In this paper, we describe our experience teaching mobile gaming with the Zune. Weexplain how the Zune platform is used, we outline the projects we use, the topics covered in lecture, andwe give examples of game developed by students. In addition, we provide student assessment of thecourse. We describe how the course supports our ABET course and program outcomes.1. IntroductionMobile gaming is one of the most important and growing segments of the computer games industry1. Itdrives hardware and software innovation in the smartphone market segment

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Hager, United States Air Force Academy; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

and provides performancesimilar to traditional small microcontrollers such as the Motorola/Freescale 68HC11 [16, 17].Smith at the University of St. Thomas has developed a spreadsheet CPU that simulates theoperation of a central processing unit for teaching purposes [18]. Most recently Hayne at theCitadel has developed VHDL homework exercises and a capstone design project to providehands-on application of computer architecture course concepts [19]. We hold this entire body of Page 15.639.5related efforts in the highest regard. However, we needed a Verilog HDL based architecture todirectly support the architecture described in Mano and Kime [2

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Donald Gaitros, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Senior Capstone projects available to all Computer Science majors.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of CSF 4302, all Fellows will present their thesis duringthe annual ECS Scholar’s Day, even if their work is not yet complete.The Fellow’s Research Advisor will direct the thesis. In addition, Fellows must invite a secondprofessor in that field as well as a third professor outside of that field to serve as readers. In thespring of the junior year, Scholars register for CSF 4v01 to be taken in the fall of the senior year.A detailed outline, the first chapter of the thesis, and a bibliography must be submitted to theresearch advisor and the CSF Director at the end of that semester. In the fall of the senior year,students register for CSF

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Baker, University of Kentucky; Vincent Capece, University of Kentucky; Keith Rouch, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

software. This effort was targeted atsupplementing material in a number of mechanical design courses. Pferdehirt, et al8, usedCamtasia in developing weekly 15-30 minute recordings provided on-line as part of the coursematerial for a graduate-level Project Management course in a Master of Engineering inProfessional Practice (MEPP) program. Pagliari, et al9, used Camtasia in an on-line TechnicalPresentations class. The authors state that lectures were created in Camtasia to teach students touse another software product, Microsoft Producer. The students then created their own trainingpresentations using Microsoft Producer. Shearman, et al10, describe a large set of modulesconsisting of screencast videos produced in Camtasia for a music synthesis and