Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Song Xing, California State University, Los Angeles

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Computing & Information Technology

, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical & computer engineering from George Mason University, Virginia, in 2003. From 1985 to 1995, he was a Lecturer in the Radio Engineering Department at Southeast University, China. He was also a Researcher at the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China, from 1990 to 1995. He was a Visiting Researcher in the Electrical & Computer Engineering departments at the University of Michigan-Dearborn from February 1995 to April 1995 and at Boston University from May 1995 to August 1996, respectively. From August 1997 to May 2003, he was an Instructor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Teaching/Research assistants in Electrical &

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University

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Computing & Information Technology

scholar and researcher in teaching psychology and evaluation. Dr.Walberg has advised on questionnaire design, evaluation of the pedagogical effects of thesystem, data analysis, and interpretation.Students Learning OutcomesTo assess student learning, the class was divided into a control group and test group. Thecontrol group took the course using an existing traditional laboratory, while the test groupperformed the experiments developed through the remote laboratory facility. The test groupwas composed of male and female students with diverse ethnicity and mixed educationalabilities. Both the groups were tested with pre- and post-tests, and the results were comparedfor any difference. It was observed that there were statistically significant

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maurice F. Aburdene, Bucknell University; Kundan Nepal, Bucknell University

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Computing & Information Technology

AC 2011-657: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, DATA COMMUNICA-TIONS, AND SIMULATIONMaurice F. Aburdene, Bucknell University Maurice Felix Aburdene is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Bucknell University. His teaching and research interests include control systems, parallel algorithms, simulation of dynamic systems, distributed algorithms, computer communication networks, computer- assisted laboratories, and signal processing.Kundan Nepal, Bucknell University Kundan Nepal is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University. His research interests span the areas of reliable nanoscale digital VLSI systems, embedded computing using

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

clustersystems across a collection of virtual machines. This paper will explore the pedagogical andtechnological issues involved in the use of virtualization and cloud computing technologies forHPC education, focusing on: mixed use of physical and virtual computing environments; highperformance networking fabrics; pedagogical limitations of virtual and cloud computing; thedevelopment of an effective teaching laboratory for virtual clustering; and the performance andreliability constraints of a mixed virtual cluster environment. The paper will describe the use ofvirtualization software, specifically Xen, OpenVZ, and VMware, and an assessment of theviability of the Eucalyptus, NIMBUS, and OpenNebula cloud computing systems for use forvirtual clusters for

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

interfaces is an order of magnitude more thanthe simple architecture of parallel and serial ports. At the same time, the serial and parallel portscontinue to enjoy significant application in industrial control and embedded computer systems,in situations where low cost, low speed and single device communication is needed. Thissituation has given rise to the challenge that we not only need to continue teaching the paralleland serial port concepts, but also introduce the USB and Bluetooth interfacing andcommunication concepts in our courses.In this paper we present a survey of the teaching material (section 1), hardware considerations(section 2) and laboratory project demonstrations (section 3) that we have developed and used inour capstone course, to

Conference Session

Information Systems and Computing Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

Mobile GIS and GPS software. Additionally, thiscourse provides students with the opportunity to plan and implement field surveys in a teamenvironment, as well as perform laboratory-based geospatial data analysis on informationcollected in the field. The course emphasizes the integration of geospatial technologies for fieldsurveys. Topics include: • Principles of Global Positioning Systems (40%) • Data accuracy requirements (10%) • Mobile GIS software (10%) • Field mapping planning and implementation (20%) • Location-based services and asset tracking (20%)Educational and career outcomes • Students will be able to describe the principles of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) location measurement • Students will be

Conference Session

Information Systems and Computing Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing & Information Technology

the advance features of this language. Companies like Xilinx, Altera, and Cadence havedesigned proper hardware interface for the use of this language. Recently, most chipmanufacturers start on VHDL (or Verilog) before the company goes to actual production of adesign. There are two aspects to modeling hardware that any hardware description languagefacilitates: true abstract behavior and hardware structure. VHDL has three parts: Library, Entity,and Architecture.Despite reviewing many undergraduate digital books, there is no reference on how to teachdifferent processes and cycles in a computer architecture/organization course by VHDL. In thispaper, the author explains how VHDL could be used to teach different topics such as: fetchcycle, decode

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University; John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Kris Kareem Augustus, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

PC to teach computer networking and operating systems”, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Information Technology Curriculum, Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 2003.2. A. Gaspar, S. Langevin, W. Armitage, R. Sekar, and T. Daniels, “The role of virtualization in computing education”, Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Portland, Oregon, USA, 2008.3. J. Ekstrom, M. Bailey, “Teaching Web Deployment with OS-virtualization”, Proceedings of 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas, USA, 2009.4. P. Li, “Integrating Virtualization Technology into Remote Lab: A Three- Year Experience”, Proceedings of 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas, USA