Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Pramod P. Kaushik, Northern Illinois University

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #8992Developing Control Experiments as a part of a Remote Laboratory FacilityDr. Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University Abul K. M. Azad is a Professor with the Technology Department of Northern Illinois University. He has a Ph.D. in Control and Systems Engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. He has been in academics for 15+ years, and his research interests include remote laboratories, mechatronic systems, mobile robotics, and educational research. In these areas, Dr. Azad has over 100 refereed journal and conference papers, edited books, and book chapters. So far, he has attracted

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oluyemisi Oladayo Satope, iLabs OAU; Isaiah Oreoluwa Boboye, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olawale Babatunde Akinwale, Obafemi Awolowo University; Lawrence O. Kehinde, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olabode Idowu Asubiojo, Obafemi Awolowo University

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Paper ID #8876Development of a Suit of Virtual Experiments for Physics and Chemistry Un-dergraduate LaboratoriesMiss Oluyemisi Oladayo Satope, iLabs OAU Satope Oluyemisi is a developer at iLabs OAU and a final year student in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering OAU. She has worked with iLab in robotics education for high school stu- dents. Also, as the chairperson of Women in Engineering OAU Student Branch, she has been involved in several tech programmes for high school girls and students in general. Presently she is working on online education with online laboratories for physics and chemistry

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Shih Ek Chng, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computers in Education

. Page 24.434.2The instrumentation setup which can be used for most human physiology laboratory experimentis shown in figure 1 below. Figure 1 Biomedical Instrumentation SetupTypical experiments using this basic instrumentation setup includes Cardiovascular Physiologytest, Neurophysiology test, and Pulmonary Ventilation test. The following are a compilation ofexperiments for each category.A. Cardiovascular Physiology Experiments1. Electrocardiogram and Heart Sounds2. Electrocardiogram and Peripheral Circulation3. Exercise, the Electrocardiogram and Peripheral Circulation4. Blood Pressure, Peripheral Circulation and Body Position5. Blood Pressure, Peripheral Circulation and Imposed ConditionsB. Neuro Physiology

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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/runtime systems is reported. Then, this paper describes the softwareFreeRTOS and how we make use of FreeRTOS in lab assignments and course projects fromexercises preparation, software setup and implementation. Finally, the paper gives a conclusionand discusses the future work. Page 24.1307.32. Real-time embedded systems design course descriptionOur real-time embedded systems design course targets the learning of real-time systems designand applications from the practitioner’s point of view. It has been offered for two years. Thiscourse is organized as two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. It has threemain objectives. To

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark A. Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Alexander Michael Kibbe, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Education, 2014 Open-source hardware in controls education Abstract — In teaching undergraduate automatic controls, the laboratory experience is animportant and irreplaceable component. Historically, good platforms for a controls laboratoryhave been expensive, because the equipment has typically been very specialized for educationalpurposes. Moreover, the equipment often is not physically robust in the face of studentmanhandling, creating major difficulties and costs in maintaining such a lab. The advent ofinexpensive open-source controller hardware is revolutionizing this situation because it is nowpossible to have good controls-hardware capability at relatively low cost. The Arduino Mega2560, in particular, is supported by

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ying Yu, University of Hartford; Krista M Hill, University of Hartford

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students’ first semester of theirsophomore year. Although the majority of the students in this course comes from Electrical andComputer Engineering majors, there are frequently students from Computer Science, Math,Mechanical Engineering majors, etc. The courses that follow in the digital systems sequence arelisted below:  ECE 234 Digital design using CPLD*  ECE 332 Microprocessor Applications**  ECE 335 Computer Architecture *  ECE 336 Computer Systems Laboratory*  ECE 534 VHDL and Applications***  ECE 532 Embedded Microprocessor*** * required only by B.S.Comp.E, ** required by both B.S.Comp.E. and B.S.E.E *** electives for both B.S.Comp.E. and B.S.E.EOur research started in the Fall 2011 semester

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Tom G. Thomas, University of South Alabama; Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama

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composite materials. A companion thread for the program is LabVIEWprogramming, which is integrated into each topic. Robotics and the associated programming areintriguing topics for the students and provide immediate motivation for studying engineering.The students explore instrumentation, sensors, and control using Lego Robots. They useLabVIEW to investigate material properties and behavior for metals, polymers, and composites.The LabVIEW and MINDSTORM combination provides immediate, visual, verification ofproject solutions. Each topic is introduced by a series of short lectures followed by hands-oninteractive laboratory sessions. The students quickly gain skills and facility with both tools,using creative approaches to accomplish the various

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Peter Y Wu

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institutionalization of V&V bestpractices. Figure 1: Why Software Fails?This V&V research is student focused and will contribute to knowledge about STEM education.The work will transform the existing undergraduate V&V course at the Author’s institution(ENGR3400 – Software Verification and Validation). The proposed course enhancements andsubsequent content modularization will respond to the National Research Council’s (NRC)challenge “to deliver effective undergraduate education in STEM disciplines,” namely answeringthe challenge of providing engaging laboratory, classroom, and field experiences throughimproved communication skills, applied knowledge of methods and tools, and research exposurethat will improve the

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregorio E. Drayer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

Technology Scholarship awarded to a Venezuelan by the U.S. Department of State. His advisor is Dr. Ayanna M. Howard, director of the Human-Automation Systems Laboratory. Greg is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has served as referee for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the journal of the Faculty of Engineering at the Central University of Venezuela, and the International Conference on Environmental Systems.Dr. Ayanna M Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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Computers in Education

of visual cues (video, photograph, avatar), presence/absence of audio cues(voice), knowledge of conversational partner, and actual message content (what the speakerschoose to reveal, use of emoticons and other cues, etc.)Research on the effect of social presence on team member participation has shown mixed results.High social presence may decrease participation. For example, Yoo and Alavi19 found decreasedparticipation in a laboratory-based experiment when college-aged participants completed a taskusing both video and audio inputs (compared to audio alone). In a similar study, however,Dennis and Valacich3 found the opposite effect: Low social presence decreased participation byincreasing social loafing. It is important to note that, in the

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Anthony Vernier, Ohio State University; Patrick M. Wensing, The Ohio State University; Craig E. Morin, MindWare Technologies; Andrew H. Phillips, Ohio State University; Brian Rice, Ohio State University; Kevin Robert Wegman, Ohio State University; Chris Hartle, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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. Vernier was heavily involved in teaching and content development with the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) program.Mr. Patrick M. Wensing, The Ohio State University Patrick M. Wensing is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Graduate Teaching Assistant at The Ohio State University. Mr. Wensing received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio Sate University in 2009. Since 2009, he has been working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State. Mr. Wensing currently teaches and develops content for the laboratory portion of the Fundamentals for Engineering for Honors (FEH) program and is actively involved in humanoid locomotion research.Mr. Craig E Morin

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

. Glasgow, H. B., Burkholder, J. M., Reed, R. E., Lewitus, A. J., & Kleinman, J. E., 2004. Real-time remote monitoring of water quality: a review of current applications, and advancements in sensor, telemetry, and computing technologies. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, vol. 300, no. 1-2, pp. 409–448.38. Ma, J., & Nickerson, J. V., 2006. Hands-on, simulated, and remote laboratories: A Comparative Literature Review. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1–24.39. Balamuralithara, B., & Woods, P. C., 2009. Virtual laboratories in engineering education: The simulation lab and remote lab. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 108–118.40. Gomes, L., & García-zubía, J. (Eds

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Logan N. Collins; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; John D. Whitcomb, Texas A&M University; John Edward Angarita, Columbia University

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Computers in Education

fact, given the existence of many software packages for engineering analyses thathave migrated from desktops to mobile devices such as tablets and smart-phones, there may alsobe simulations that can be embedded within an eTextbook to enable the student to interact withplots, sketches, physically realistic situations, etc. Engineers already have a wealth of simulationtools at their disposal. The question then is can they be embedded in an eTextbook in a mannerthat enhances pedagogy?The key here is to embed the simulations in the eTextbooks as opposed to remote simulations over Page 24.602.3the internet or cloud 26,27 , virtual laboratories

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin James Gucwa, University of California, Davis; Harry H. Cheng, University of California, Davis

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Computers in Education

, University of California, Davis Harry H. Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Graduate Group in Computer Science, and Graduate Group in Education at the University of California, Davis, where he is also the Director of the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu) and Director of the Integration Engineering Laboratory. His current research includes developing computing and robotics technologies and integrate them into STEM education in both formal and informal settings for integrated learning. From 1989 to 1992, he was a Senior Engineer for robotic automation systems with the Research and Development Division, United Parcel Service

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kuosheng Ma, Southern Polytechnic State University ; Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Kai Qian, Southern Polytechnic State University; Dan Lo, Southern Polytechnic State University

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. Students need to attend thephysical laboratory section and to finish the specific project in the labs. They need to accomplishall pre-set lab activities in a limited time with many constrains and pressure. This instructionmodel jeopardizes students’ learning effectiveness by reducing students’ interests, blockadingcreative thinking, and hindering transformative innovations. Further, the training on theemerging mobile embedded systems education is even less and unavailable.II. Portable labware designIn response to these dilemmas, we are working on developing a labware to be implemented in Page 24.1397.2our embedded systems curriculum without further

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi Gu, Michigan Technological University; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Ching-Kuang Shene, Michigan Technological University; Chaoli Wang, Michigan Technological University

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State Univer- sity in 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Wang’s research interests include scientific visualization, large-scale data analysis and visualization, user interface and interaction, information visualization, and visualization in education. At Michigan Tech, he co-directs the Graphics and Visualization Laboratory and participates in research activities at the Immersive Visualization Studio. His research has been supported by Michigan Technological University, the National Science Foundation, and the Dave House Family Foundation

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise H. Bauer, University of Idaho, Moscow; Edwin M. Odom, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Experimental Design Course Projects Involving the Use of a SmartphoneIntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering senior laboratory course at the University of Idaho is a project-based course that focuses on experimental design and requires students to design, perform andanalyze their own statistically based experiments. A difficulty that arises each semester,especially in the Fall when there are 40 plus students, is finding enough appropriate experimentsthat can be designed, ran, and analyzed in the last two-thirds of the semester (the course is onesemester) with minimal funds. In the past, we used “canned” projects or Senior Capstoneprojects; however, the canned projects were not interesting to the students and it is becomingharder to develop

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel M. White, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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University. Debra has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial experience including a position in sensor development. Sensor development is also an area in which she holds a patent. She currently has research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories and the diffusion of educational interventions and practices.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in

Conference Session

General Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Michael Morse, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University; Venkatesh Uddameri; Elma Annette Hernandez, Texas Tech University; David L. Ernst, Texas Tech University - Construction Engineering

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Computers in Education

Engineering Education, 34(1), 26-39. 5. Stern, F., Xing, T., Muste, M., Yarbrough, D., Rothmayer, A., Rajagopalan, G., Caughey, D., Bhaskaran, R., Smith, S., and Hutchings, B. (2006). "Integration of simulation technology into undergraduate engineering courses and laboratories." International Journal of Learning Technology, 2(1), 28-48. 6. Busch-Vishniac, I., Kibler, T., Campbell, P. B., Patterson, E., Guillaume, D., Jarosz, J., Chassapis, C., Emery, A., Ellis, G., Whitworth, H., Metz, S., Brainard, S., and Ray, P. (2011). "Deconstructing Engineering Education Programmes: The DEEP Project to reform the mechanical engineering curriculum." European Journal of Engineering Education, 36(3), 269-283. 7. Cheah, C., Chen

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University; Joseph Francis Stanzione III, Rowan University; Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #8702Strategies for using on-line practice problemsDr. Jess W. Everett, Rowan University Jess W. Everett has worked in four distinct areas: waste management operations research, contaminated site assessment and remediation, education innovation, and sustainable engineering. He has employed a wide variety of techniques, including computer modeling, laboratory experiments, field testing, and surveys. His current research focuses on energy conservation, alternative energy generation, engineering learning communities, and hybrid courses (courses with classroom and on-line aspects).Ms. Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan Eleanor Ita, Ohio State University ; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Katlyn Elizabeth Ashley, Ohio State University; Brooke Morin, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

% of Grade Preparation Assignments 10% Application Assignments 20% Laboratory Assignments 21% Journals 3% Design Project 5% Extra Weekly Assignments 3% BONUS Quizzes 6% Midterm Exams 20% Final Exam 15%There were 13 total class sections of this course made up by 11 standard sections, 1 advancedprogramming section, and 1

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Petr Johanes, Stanford University; Larry Lagerstrom, Stanford University

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Computers in Education

and for onlineplatforms. A number of classrooms are available that are outfitted with full video capturecapabilities and staffed by student operators. A video studio with a green screen is alsoavailable for instructor use.The instructors were given great leeway in how they chose to structure and develop theonline versions of their courses, including traditional classroom teaching supplemented withonline material, flipped classrooms, tutored online education (of which more below), and aMOOC. In the latter case, the MOOC was to be offered in addition to the regular for-creditcourse. The University views its MOOCs both as a public service and as laboratories forexploring online teaching and learning—the School of Education at the University has