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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles Baukal; Floyd Ausburn; Lynna Ausburn

Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and is currently adjunct faculty in Occupational Educationat Oklahoma State University. Dr. Ausburn is a specialist in virtual reality applications for instruction. Hisachievements include major educational development projects in 19 different countries, 2 monographs on usingeducational technology effectively, and numerous national and international presentations and publications.LYNNA AUSBURN holds a Ph.D. in Educational Media and Technology from the University of Oklahoma. She iscurrently professor and program coordinator in Occupational Education at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Ausburnhas worked extensively internationally. She has numerous national and international publications and presentations

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Benjamin Cooper; Steve E. Watkins

related content into project coursework and can aid in programminginstruction for younger students. Also, open-source versions of object-oriented languages such asSqueak Smalltalk are available.Existing research and curricula efforts with object-oriented programming are important resourcesfor other educators. For instance, Dr. Gene A. Tagliarini, Computer Science at the University ofNorth Carolina Wilmington, uses the Squeak Etoys language to teach an Introduction toComputer Programming (CSC 112) course for non-computer-science majors [11]. Researchwork by the Computer Science Department at Duke University is based on the Open Cobaltlanguage which is based upon Squeak [12]. Dr. Mark Guzdial, College of Computing at GeorgiaInstitute of Technology

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

M. Ryan Bales; Steve E. Watkins

figures such as object-strip color22, purely kinematic principles23, or spectraldistribution24. These approaches are attractive because their features are efficient to compute, andthey have inherently manageable search spaces.C. Suggested Course ExercisesThe intents of these exercises are to reinforce specific material in the host course and to provideguided procedures for other aspects. (More comprehensive experience could be assigned forcourse projects, honors research, capstone design work, etc.) Consider exercises for the threesuggested topics, i.e. image processing, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence, as shownin Table 1. A basic processing pipeline is assumed here that uses background subtraction to findobject blobs and that