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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Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University

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expected to have acurriculum culminating in a major design experience, commonly referred to as either a “seniordesign” or a “capstone” project, based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework. One challenge that programs face is providing appropriate technical and professionalfeedback to students on their capstone projects. For example, students may be working in anapplication domain in which the faculty member has limited knowledge, or may be using newertechnologies that the faculty member has not used before. To overcome these problems, it isoften advantageous for the team to partner with an industrial mentor. The industrial mentor canprovide technical assistance to the project as well as provide impartial and unbiased feedback

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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Astronautical Engineering (1991) all from The Ohio State University. Page 24.369.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Design of a Full-Featured Robot Controller for Use in a First- Year Robotics Design ProjectAbstractFor the past nineteen years, the first-year engineering honors program at The Ohio StateUniversity has included a robotics design project as the cornerstone of its yearlong curriculum.Over these years, the MIT Handy Board has served as the controller for the autonomous roboticvehicles built by students. This paper details the design of a new

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wayne W. Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Timothy G. Southerton, RIT Mechanical Engineering

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State. He has forty years experience teaching design related and solid mechanics courses, and has developed expertise in the areas of robotics systems, and micro-robotics. He is an ASEE and ASME member.Timothy G. Southerton, RIT Mechanical Engineering Tim Southerton is currently a fifth year mechanical engineering student at RIT in the BS/MEng Dual Degree program. As a student who enjoyed the Stamp-based Robotics class as an undergraduate, he was very interested in an opportunity to restructure the curriculum for Arduino compatibility. Once involved in the project, he decided to see it through as the teaching assistant for the lab portion of the revamped course, which proved to be an enriching experience. After

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shuju Wu, Central Connecticut State University; Shane Michael Carroll; Keith Boyd-Carter; James Krostoski

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with bus schedules, real-time bus location and delayinformation so they can plan trips accordingly, and to provide useful information to thetransportation center for management purpose. The developed system has been tested anddemonstrated successfully.IntroductionThe presented work is the outcome of an undergraduate capstone project. Students in theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) major at Central Connecticut State University arerequired to finish a capstone project in their senior year study. The capstone project isaccomplished by successful taking two consecutive courses, Capstone Project I and CapstoneProject II. The Capstone Project I course is 1-credit in which students research, propose andfinalize project ideas. The Capstone

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Oyemayowa Luqman Abioye, West Virginia University

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Computers in Education

inthe program. For students, mastering computer programming can be challenging, and thelearning experience can be even more difficult if done in an online environment.This paper introduces the audience to the format of an online computer programming coursedeveloped to teach first year engineering students how to solve engineering problems usingMatlab. The course involves the use of online videos, the implementation of group projects, andthe continuous assessment of learning through homework and reading comprehension activities.The course promoted student-instructor interactions through the implementation of a blog andthe participation of students in the online chat room.This paper discusses the format of the course, student participation

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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are to improve software education at the undergraduate level and enhance on-the-job professional training, thereby increasing the pool of professionals with V&V knowledgeand skills. The existing V&V course at Author’s institution is critically examined with a view toenhance and modularize selected topics, and improve delivery strategies by incorporatingacademic research findings and industry best practices. The cogent modules and strategies beingdeveloped in this work will be shared among project participants and disseminated to otherinstitutions through multiple channels. Students and practitioners will be equipped withfundamental theoretical knowledge and invaluable hands-on-experiences that will measurablyincrease their ability to

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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her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed pub- lications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John R. Baker, University of Kentucky

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Computers in Education

graduate student project that requires thestudents to produce a flexible FEA program to analyze beam vibration using the MATLAB userfunction capability. This work is intended to solidify for the students the basics of structuralvibration analysis, including calculation of natural frequencies and mode shapes, and also forcedharmonic response analysis. It also provides an introduction to some students on FEA. Thosewho already have FEA experience gain more insight into development of a structural model,including mass, stiffness, and damping matrices, than they may obtain from use of standard FEAsoftware, such as ANSYS®. Also, the students gain valuable programming experience, andbetter knowledge of the widely-used mathematical software tool

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Melanie M. Cooper, Michigan State University; Kevin C. Haudek, Michigan State University; Jennifer Julia Kaplan, University of Georgia, Department of Statistics; Jennifer K. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Paula P. Lemons, University of Georgia; Carl T. Lira, Michigan State University; John E. Merrill, Michigan State University, Biological Sciences Program; Ross Nehm, Stony Brook University; Luanna B. Prevost, University of South Florida; Michelle Kathleen Smith; Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University

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Paper ID #9856Expanding a National Network for Automated Analysis of Constructed Re-sponse Assessments to Reveal Student Thinking in STEMDr. Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Mark Urban-Lurain is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Engineering Edu- cation Research at Michigan State University. He is the lead PI and project director of the AACR project. Dr. Urban-Lurain is responsible for teaching, research and curriculum development, with emphasis on engineering education and, more broadly, STEM education. His research interests are in theories of cognition, how these theories

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Applications of Online Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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Computers in Education

education, and it isparticularly prevalent in the field of undergraduate engineering education. A strict definition ofcollaborative learning differentiates a collaborative project from one that merely requirescooperation. In collaborative learning, students work in groups to together develop a sharedunderstanding of and solution for an ill-structured problem14. Teachers are redefined as“coaches” helping students to work towards a set of possible open-ended solutions, and studentstake some ownership of their own learning through reflection. Typically, students learn aboutteam skills in addition to course content. Engestrom5 identified three stages that are characteristicof collaborative learning. In his view, for learning to be truly collaborative

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming; Thad B. Welch P.E., Boise State University; Michael G. Morrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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signal processing (DSP) have found that using hands-on ex- ercises for students can smooth the transition from theory to practical real-time DSP. However, before significant learning can begin using such exercises, students must build their confidence in the hardware and software platforms. When using audio signals, a “talk-through” project accomplishes this. For intro- ducing more complicated signals such as video, the authors propose the use of a “see-through” project. This paper provides a description of a see-through project on a high-performance real-time DSP plat- form, discusses how such a project can lead to better follow-on learning using more advanced projects, and provides some initial results of

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Jacqueline M Jackson, Jackson State University ; Cassandra L Hawkins Wilson, Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University

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Emergency Management Course to Promote Computational ThinkingABSTRACTAt Jackson State University (JSU), an innovative module has been developed and integrated intoan existing “Emergency Management Technology” course. This course module involved fourfaculty members. Faculty from several different departments (Computer Science, English, andTechnology) developed teaching materials for the module. Through this course, students haveopportunities to explore the exciting world of computer science from the perspective of mobilecomputing. This course module is part of a project, Computational Thinking as an Approach toRefining the Critical Thinking and Analytical Reasoning Skills of Undergraduates, sponsored bythe National

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

around $1.7M of research and development grants from various national and international funding agencies. He is a member of the editorial board for a number of professional journals as well as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Engineering. He is active with various professional organizations (IEEE, IET, ASEE, and ISA) as well as a member of board of Trustees of CLAWAR Association. He has served as Chair and Co-Chairs of numerous conferences and workshops, in addition to serving on the program committees of around 30 international conferences. Dr. Azad is a project proposal reviewer with various national and international funding agencies in US, Europe, and Australia.Pramod P Kaushik, Northern

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce W. Char, Drexel University (Computing); Thomas T. Hewett, Drexel University

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Human-Computer Interaction, and the Psychology of Interaction Design. In addition, he has taught one- day professional development courses at both national and international conferences, and has participated in post-academic training for software engineers. Tom has worked on the design and development of sev- eral software projects and several pieces of commercial courseware. Some research papers have focused on the evaluation of interactive computing systems and the impact of evaluation on design. Other research papers have explored some of the pedagogical and institutional implications of universal student access to personal computers. In addition, he has given invited plenary addresses at international conferences

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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deprived of the opportunity to take background courses such as 2D-signal processing,computer communications, radiography, and sensors and instrumentation. Compare to traditionalelectrical engineering students, the lack of hands-on lab experience becomes more apparentwhen students are working on capstone senior projects.One strategy we used to solve this issue was to include a mixed capstone project groupcomprising of computer, electronic, and biomedical engineering students. This strategy workedfor few groups but the success rate was less than thirty five percent due to the students’ lack ofpreparation and disadvantage of knowledge compared to traditional electrical engineeringstudents.To rectify this situation we proposed and developed this

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johné M. Parker, University of Kentucky; Stephen L. Canfield, Tennessee Technological University; Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor

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LEDsand a Piezo speaker. The high resolution A/D and multiple I/O devices make the Dragon Plus 12 Page 24.1332.5hardware flexible enough to handle higher-level courses (e.g., the senior-level Design ofFeedback Controls course) and more complex systems.    Figure 1. Dragon 12 Plus MCU board [30]Activity 2b Implemented as a Team Project Assignment in ME 3xx Fall 2013 The description of Activity 2b in this section is excerpted from the group project assignmentfrom Fall 2013 (and demonstrates the use of scaffolding to link to

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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existing free, open source Real-time Operating Systemcalled FreeRTOS as a case study of RTOS in both lectures and lab sessions.FreeRTOS is a real-time kernel/scheduler designed to be small enough to run on amicrocontroller. It provides the real time scheduling functionality, inter-task communication,timing analysis and synchronization primitives for teaching RTOS. It also offers the richexample projects as the bases for developing embedded real-time systems. Moreover, FreeRTOSsupports a large number of underlying microcontroller architectures including advanced ARMCortexTM-Mx series, and has become the standard RTOS for microcontrollers. To simplify thestructure of the application code, The FreeRTOS software provides time-related

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Steven Culver, Virginia Tech

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Systems 52 Materials 21 Mechanical 250 Mining 5 Ocean 181 Students could also answer “none of the above” or “prefer not to answer”Table 2. List of variables for this investigationWhat percent of time were the following instructional methods used in your high school classes?  Projects using technology1In what ways have you used an eBook (electronic book) prior to coming to INSTITUTION 2?  Schoolwork only (e.g., electronic textbook)  Personal

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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verification, and teaching with new educational methods, including peer instruction, personal response systems, video games, and state- of-the-art CAD tools.Dr. Krista M Hill, University of Hartford Dr. Krista M. Hill is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. PhD and MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Inst. in Worcester MA, and previ- ously a project engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. She instructs graduate and undergraduate computer engineering computer courses, directs graduate research, and performs research involving embedded mi- croprocessor based systems. Her current projects involve small system design, signal processing, and intelligent

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David B. Nelson, Purdue University; K. Andrew R. Richards, Purdue University; Charles A. Calahan

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Paper ID #10955Improving the Affective Element in Introductory Programming Courseworkfor the ”Non Programmer” StudentDr. David M Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Whittinghill is an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Computer and Information Technology. Dr. Whittinghill’ s research focuses on simulation, gaming and computer pro- gramming and how these technologies can more effectively address outstanding issues in health, educa- tion, and society in general. Dr. Whittinghill leads projects in pediatric physical therapy, sustainable energy simulation, phobia treat- ment

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gili Rusak, Siena College

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Computers in Education

, each of which focused on particular computational thinking concepts likeproblem solving and abstraction. They showed that their activities could successfully introduce theseconcepts to middle school females. Intricate projects constructed with such tools required weeks oflearning. Some projects took up to several months of work [7]. Yardi & Buckman [12] created anafterschool program for high school students to promote their computational thinking. Page 24.950.2We propose to teach even younger students, elementary school children, these computational thinkingconcepts.In this paper we first describe our motivation behind creating an

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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. Page 24.1058.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 RoboSim for Integrated Computing and STEM EducationAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation, and application of RoboSim, a robotvirtual environment, for integrated computing and STEM education in K-12 schools.Robots are being increasingly used in schools for hands-on project-based learning andmotivating students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM). However high costs and hardware issues are often prohibitive forusing robotics as often as desired in mathematics and science classroom teaching. Due tothe tight schedule for teaching math and science subjects, hardware mishap and failure,such as

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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have already been inefficiently implemented hence, aneed to go back and rework some of the implementation.Another major challenge is the support for multiple screen sizes. Although the HTML5-basedlaboratories can work on various devices another limitation is the multiple screen sizes. It is achallenge to design images that will likely fit into screens when different platforms are used.Future WorksThe work is an ongoing project thus the pH measurement and Ohms law lab are yet to bedeveloped. Also work is still being done to handle compatibility on various screen sizes.The authors focused on the development of laboratories for lower level Science andEngineering subjects as these are the subjects in which there are the largest number ofstudents

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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immediate, visual,verification of project solutions. The students quickly gain skills and facility with both tools,creatively addressing the various assigned tasks. The program has been highly successful incapturing the interest of the participants and has led to increased retention of these students inengineering.IntroductionRecruiting and retaining students in engineering programs is a national problem that has beenaddressed in many, varied ways.1 Many universities offer bridge programs for incomingfreshmen to increase their success in engineering programs.2,3 These programs are oftendesigned to improve skills in fundamental courses such as mathematics and English as well asacademic strategies. In contrast, the University of South Alabama offers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University; Swaroop Joshi, Ohio State University; Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

performance incourse exams. They report that student performance in the course projects in the FC version of thecourse was better than student performance in the traditional version by an average of 12 percent. Page 24.1395.3They also report that this improvement was not seen in one section of the FC version of the course;and they attribute this to the fact that the instructor in that section “neglected to utilize modelingand demonstration techniques . . . ”. This, of course, raises the question, which the authors do notconsider, of whether the performance of the students in the projects in the traditional version ofthe course would have matched

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petr Johanes, Stanford University; Larry Lagerstrom, Stanford University

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Computers in Education

development included four courses the first year, sixcourses the second year, and up to nine courses the third year (all of which already existed intraditional course formats). The initial four courses—applied quantum mechanics, digitalsignal processing, digital image processing, and convex optimization—were chosen basedprimarily on the interest and availability of the regular instructors to develop online coursematerials. All were graduate courses, though at the introductory level, and therefore open toadvanced undergraduates.Funding for the program came from the University’s recently created Office of the ViceProvost for Online Learning (VPOL), which had requested proposals from departments thatwent beyond single-course projects. Each of the four

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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together via an ePub editor 73 .Finally, there is the displaying of math in the chapter. This is obviously an important feature.Originally we attempted to use MathML (which ePub 3 is supposed to support), but had greatdifficulty getting this to work. Having used LATEX and MathJax in a similar project 72 , we tried itwith great results. We used the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 74 option in MathJax exclusivelywhich allowed us to trim MathJax down by deleting some unused resources that come bundledwith it.PerformanceThe primary concern in creating interactive eBooks for computationally intensive applications isobviously performance. A test case computed is that of an inviscid, uniform, incompressiblecross-flow over a circular cylinder with

Conference Session

Data Analytics in Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Computers in Education

 succeeding  in  a  continuous  working  world  that  doesn’t  assign  an  end-­‐of-­‐project  grade.    Teaching  students  how  to  perform  peer  review  and  how  to  utilize  constructive  criticism  for  improvement  is  essential  for  their  future.    Yet  despite  the  long-­‐term  benefits  recognized  by  academia,  students  are  largely  unfamiliar  with  peer  review.    Sitthiworachart  and  Joy9  reported  that  of  their  215  first-­‐year  students  taking  a  computer  programming  course,  89%  of  them  had  not  ever  experienced  peer  review  prior  to  the  start  of  the  course.    Guilford10  found  that  only  39%  of  undergraduate  engineering  students  understood  peer  review  as  it  related  to  scientific