Conference Session

Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University; Jonathan G. Turner, Georgia Southern University

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AC 2012-5457: DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHATRONICS AND INTELLI-GENT SYSTEMS LABORATORY FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCHDr. Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University Biswanath Samanta is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Ga. His expertise and research interests include broad areas of system dynamics and control, robotics, mechatronics, intelligent systems, advanced signal processing, prognostics and health manage- ment, and applications of computational intelligence in engineering and biomedicine. Samanta has de- veloped and taught numerous courses in these areas and supervised students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has more than 100 refereed research

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert P. Brazile, University of North Texas; Kathleen Swigger, University of North Texas; Matt Ray Hoyt, University of North Texas; Brian Lee, University of North Texas; Brandon Nelson, University of North Texas

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AC 2012-5589: A SYSTEM TO SUPPORT TEACHING GLOBAL SOFT-WARE DEVELOPMENTRobert P. Brazile, University of North TexasKathleen Swigger, University of North TexasMr. Matt Ray Hoyt, University of North TexasMr. Brian Lee, University of North TexasBrandon Nelson, University of North Texas Page 25.113.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A System to Support Teaching Global Software DevelopmentAbstractTeaching students how to work in globally distributed groups is being done throughout theWorld. As such, a myriad of different tools have been created to help students work in teams andcollaborate. However, there is still

Conference Session

Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Marie Catchpole; Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Cameron H.G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming

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will read introductory information about the use of the LA. The students will then write a program to transmit several characters through the SCI and verify the output on the LA. Students are encouraged to write in C in this lab but it is not necessary and it up to the discretion of the teaching assistant and/or instructor. • Software on the LAs can be used to capture the data from the LA so that students can print the data and include it in their laboratory notebooks. 4. Keypad and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Laboratory – 2 weeks • Code will be provided to students that does not work. The code was written to be asserted “active low” while the hardware configuration

Conference Session

Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oluwapelumi Olufemi Aboluwarin, iLab Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Kayode Peter Ayodele; Lawrence O. Kehinde, Obafemi Awolowo University; Babatunde Isaac Ishola

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Kehinde, Oladipo O. Osasona, E.O.B. Ajayi, & O.O. Akinwunmi, "Advanced Digital Laboratory: An FPGA-Based Remote Laboratory for Teaching Digital Electronics," in Proc., ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, vol. Paper AC 2009-1206, Austin ,Tx, 2009.17. S.L. Smith and J.N. Mosier, "Guidelines For Designing User Interface Software", The MITRE Corporation Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, 1986.18. M. Collan and F. Tetard, "Lazy User Theory Of Solution Selection", in International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA), 200719. Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, USA.20. Jiwaji, A., Hardison, J., Ayodele, K.P

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Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik A. Mayer, Pittsburg State University

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AC 2012-4329: DEVELOPING UNDERGRADUATE FPGA CURRICULUMUSING ALTIUM SOFTWARE AND HARDWAREDr. Erik A. Mayer, Pittsburg State University Erik Mayer received his Ph.D. in engineering science at the University of Toledo. His areas of focus are power electronics and embedded systems. He was an instructor at Bowling Green State University, where he worked with the Electric Vehicle Institute and taught courses in digital circuit design, microcontrollers, and renewable energy. In addition, he has worked at Visteon, designing components for hybrid vehicles. He is currently a professor at Pittsburg State University where he teaches courses supporting the embedded systems emphasis in the Electronics Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Online Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Diana Vasilica Pop; Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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AC 2012-3676: OUTCOME OF AN ONLINE LABORATORY TO SUPPORTA MASTER PROGRAM IN REMOTE ENGINEERINGProf. Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Since 1995, Michael Auer has been professor of electrical engineering at the Systems Engineering De- partment of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria, and has also held teaching positions at the universities of Klagenfurt (Austria), Amman (Jordan), Brasov (Romania), and Patras (Greece). He was invited for guest lectures at MIT Boston, Columbia University, and the technical uni- versities of Moscow, Athens, and others. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of VDE, IGIP, etc., author or co-author of more than 180 publications, and a

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota, Duluth

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AC 2012-3729: TEACHING DIGITAL DESIGN IN A PROGRAMMABLELOGIC DEVICE ARENADr. Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota, Duluth Christopher R. Carroll received a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. After teaching at Duke University, he is now Associate Professor of electrical and computer en- gineering at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, with interests in special-purpose digital system design, VLSI, and microprocessor applications. Page 25.1249.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Teaching

Conference Session

Computers and Simulation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Blesson Isaac, Prairie View A&M University; Richard T. Wilkins, Prairie View A&M University

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nanotechnology has nowbrought urgent challenges to undergraduate engineering education: How to integrate theemerging nanotechnologies into classroom teaching? How to prepare our students fortomorrow’s highly competitive global job markets? And how to maintain the US’s leadershipand dominance in science and technology in an era of globalization?Funded by Department of Education, a project is carried out to integrate nanotechnology into theundergraduate science and engineering curricula through a sequential preparation approach fromintroductory freshman to the advanced senior level. The curricula are reinforced by innovativecomputer simulations and state-of-the-art nanomaterials laboratory experiments anddemonstrations. The work presented in this paper is

Conference Session

Topics in Computer Science and Programming

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

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AC 2012-3856: TEACHING NETWORK SECURITY THROUGH SIGNA-TURE ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER NETWORK ATTACKSDr. Te-Shun Chou, East Carolina University Te-Shun Chou received his bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Feng Chia University, Tai- wan, R.O.C. in 1989, and the master’s degree and doctoral degree both in electrical engineering from Florida International University, Miami, Fla., in 1992 and 2007, respectively. In 2008, he joined East Car- olina University, Greenville, N.C., where he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Technology Systems. His research interests include soft computing, wireless sensor network, and network security, especially intrusion detection and incident response

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, June 1997. Paper 1220-06. [3] J. H. McClellan, C. S. Burrus, A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks, R. W. Schafer, and S. W. Schuessler, Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using M ATLAB 5. M ATLAB Curriculum Series, Prentice Hall, 1998. [4] G. W. P. York, C. H. G. Wright, M. G. Morrow, and T. B. Welch, “Teaching real-time sonar with the C6711 DSK and MATLAB,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., pp. 79–87, July–September 2002. Page 25.1098.8 [5] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Experiences in offering a DSP-based communi- cation laboratory,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 3rd

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CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan M. Hill, University of Hartford; Ying Yu, University of Hartford

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Ying Yu received the B.Eng. degree from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 2000. She received the M.Eng. degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Brown University, RI., USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Since 2008, she has been teaching as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hartford. Her current research interests includes digital signal processing, speech processing, and teaching with new educational methods, which includes peer instruction, clickers, video games, and state-of-the-art CAD tools. Page 25.1281.1

Conference Session

Online Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Grant Huang, University of Texas, San Antonio; Andreas Gampe, University of Texas, San Antonio; Arsen Melkonyan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Murillo Pontual, University of Texas, San Antonio; David Akopian, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Antonio (UTSA). He joined UTSA in 2003 where he founded Software Communication and Navigation Systems Laboratory. He re- ceived the M.Sc. degree in radio-electronics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1987 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Fin- land, EU, in 1997. From 1999 to 2003, he was a Senior Engineer and Specialist with Nokia Corporation. Prior to joining Nokia in 1999, he was a member of teaching and research staff of TUT. His current re- search interests include digital signal processing algorithms for communication and navigation receivers, positioning methods and mobile applications, and remote labs

Conference Session

Online Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hatem M. Wasfy, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.; Tamer M. Wasfy, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jeanne Peters, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.; Hazim A. El-Mounayri, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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) machining, which aims at developing the Advanced Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory for Training, Education, and Research (AVML), an innovative e-learning tool for educating students and training the next generation workforce in sophisticated technology and its un- derlying theory. The core technology is being used to develop online courses that incorporate both lecture and lab components. El-Mounayri teaches capstone design and has mentored several projects for industry and other sponsors. He has been very active in undergraduate research. Among the multidisciplinary un- dergraduate research projects he mentored, two consisted of assessing the usability and pedagogical value of the AVML tool. His teaching and mentoring

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Old Dominion University and Quality Measures, LLC; Duc T. Nguyen, Old Dominion University; Melinda R. Hess; James A. Eison, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University; Glen H. Besterfield, University of South Florida; Corina M. Owens, Battelle Memorial Institute

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Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, 2011. 28. A. Kaw, A. Yalcin, B. DeMenezes, and E. Allard, "Introducing and Assessing Laboratory Experience in a Numerical Methods Course for Engineers," ASEE Computers in Education XVIIII (3), 57-65, 2009. 29. A. Kaw and M. Hess, "Comparing Effectiveness of Instructional Delivery Modalities in an Engineering Course," International Journal of Engineering Education, 23(3), 508-516, 2007. Page 25.58.17 30. A. Kaw, G.H. Besterfield, and J. Eison, “Effectiveness of a Holistic & Customized Approach to Teaching Numerical Methods,” International Journal of Engineering Education 21(4

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Jaime Israel Juarez, Prairie View A&M University; Yonggao Yang, Prairie View A&M University

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attractive while still retaining the underlying contents2. Improve the delivery of laboratories and lectures, make abstract and non-intuitive programming concepts “visible”, “touchable”, and thereby, easy to understand3. Increase students’ passing rate in programming courses4. Foster students’ interest and promote active learning inside and outside class meetings.To achieve the goal and objectives, we designed and developed a learning module managementsystem to manage the learning modules and schedule teaching and training activities. The projectconsists of state-of-the-art technologies that simplify the process of complicated conceptsdelivery and facilitate teaching innovation.Flash Animations and Learning ModulesWe adopted Adobe Flash

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Refika Koseler; Stuart Graham Bowden, Arizona State University

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. Topics in Cognitive Science 2009;1(1):73-105.23. Chickering AW, Gamson ZF. Applying the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. San Francisco, CA.: Jossey-Bass Inc.; 199124. Balamuralithara B, Woods PC. Virtual laboratories in engineering education: The simulation lab and remote lab. Computer Applications in Engineering Education 2009;17(1):108-18.25. Strategies to Incorporate Active Learning into Online Teaching. Available from: http://www.icte.org/T01_Library/T01_245.pdf.26. Winne PH. Experimenting to bootstrap self-regulated learning. Journal of Educational Psychology 1997;89(3):397-410.27. Butler DL, Winne PH. Feedback and self-regulated learning: A theoretical synthesis. Review of Educational

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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AC 2012-3017: DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN AND MANU-FACTURE IN THE CLOUD - MOTIVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, ANDEDUCATIONDr. Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology Dirk Schaefer is an Assistant Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Schaefer was a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University, UK. During his time at Durham, he earned a Postgraduate Certificate in ”Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.” He joined Durham from a Senior Research Associate position at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. in computer science. Over the past 10 years, Schaefer has been

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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xue zhang; Debbie Vogel, Sprint; Mahesh K. Banavar, Arizona State University; Shuang Hu; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Photini Spanias; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Arizona State University

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DSP, and An Interactive Approach. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and as General Co-chair of IEEE ICASSP-99. He also served as the IEEE Signal Processing Vice Presi- dent for Conferences. Spanias is co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Donald G. Fink paper prize award and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2003. He served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004.Dr. Photini Spanias Photini Spanias is Senior Lecturer at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Univer- sity. She is teaching math methods classes. Her research interests are in math methods and in teacher preparation. She is also interested in online education

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

availablecourse management software primarily to distribute course content (e.g., slides) to students. Inaddition, the software can be used to implement various instruction interventions including polls,electronic ink, and screen broadcast. Limited instructor training is available for the software.New instructors are encouraged to observe more experienced instructors classrooms for TPCincorporation strategies.The first-year engineering program consists of a two-semester course sequence. Each semester-long course is composed of one 50-minute large lecture (ranging from 75-300 students) and onetwo-hour, hands-on laboratory (approximately 30 students) each week. This research studyinvestigates a new instructor assigned to teach one of the large lectures (93

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University; Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University; Param C Adhikari, Youngstown State University; Sanket Aryal, Youngstown State University

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, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), microfluidics/lab on chip, and energy research.Dr. Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University Hyun W. Kim is a professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Indus- trial Engineering at Youngstown State University. He has been teaching and developing the Thermal Fluid Applications course and the companion laboratory course for the past few years. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio and is currently conducting applied research in hydraulics and micro gas turbines. He helps the local industry and engineers with his expertise in heat transfer and thermal sciences. Kim received a B.S.E. degree from Seoul National University, a M.S.E. from the University of

Conference Session

Online Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lance Kinney P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Min Liu, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell A. Thornton Ph.D., P.E., Southern Methodist University

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Program Coordinator and Graduate Advisor for the Learning Technologies Program. She develops and teaches graduate courses on new media design, production, and research. Her research interests center on educational uses of new media and other emerging technologies, particularly the impact of such technologies on teaching and learning, and the design of new media enriched interactive learning environments for learners at all age levels. She has published in leading educational technology research journals and presents regularly at national and international technology conferences. She also serves on a number of editorial boards for research journals in the field of technology.Mitchell A. Thornton Ph.D., P.E., Southern

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

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the ASCENT Security Teaching Lab,” Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, pp.124-132, Seattle, WA, June, 2009.2. W. Du, K. Jayaraman1, and N.B. Gaubatz, “Enhancing Security Education with Hands-On Laboratory Exercises,” 5th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ’10), pp.56-61, Albany, NY, June 2010.3. L. Tao, L.C. Chen, and C. Lin, “Virtual Open-Source Labs for Web Security Education,” Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2010), Vol. I, San Francisco, CA, October, 2010.4. R. M. Cassado, The Virtual Network System. Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, New York, 2005.5. VMware, “How Does Fencing Work, VMware

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Best of Computers in Education Division

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Adithya Raghavan; Ji Soo Yi, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

, so it is not possible to compare with other research tools. We dopartially address the evaluation issues, because in our study, we allow users to use the toolanywhere anytime and for their own research rather than limit the study in the laboratories. Inthis way, we gained valuable insight on how we can improve iKNEER in the future to addressresearchers’ real needs.2. 4 Web Information Seeking and ResearchersIn library and information science, lots of literature exists on how researchers use libraries andhow libraries influence their research21,22. There are also studies on how people seek informationon the web23,24. For example, studies have examined the gender differences and age differencesin information seeking on the web25–28; other

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Alicia L. Lyman-Holt, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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include a course management system (Moodle embedded in NEEShub), WebEx video conferencing, and a 3D virtual world called QuakeQuest. For the online interaction to be most effective, students 1) need to understand why they are using the tools, and 2) be coached in how to critique each other’s work and contribute to threaded discussions.IntroductionThe George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) networkconsists of 14 large-scale earthquake engineering laboratories, housed at universities across theUS. These laboratories provide research hubs for large-scale earthquake engineering research inthe areas of structures, soils, and tsunamis and are linked together with a sophisticatedcyberinfrastructure. Each site

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

separate, and even independent of each other” (p. 2). The student learningcontexts considered in this framework include social context, academic context, and institutionalcontext. Social context mainly refers to personal relationships, group memberships, and inter-group connections. The academic context primarily involves opportunities for reflectivejudgment and critical thinking, constructivist classroom teaching methods, interdisciplinarycourses, experiential learning, and integrative conversations with faculty in all domains. Theinstitutional context refers to rewards structure and campus culture. The framework suggests thatthese three contexts, students themselves, and learning outcomes are interconnected andintegrated.In this paper, we

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Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Kristen M. Bachman, Miami University

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AC 2012-5365: A CHARACTERIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS FOREFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN COMPUT-ING EDUCATIONDr. Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University Gerald C. Gannod is a professor of computer science and software engineering and Director of the Mobile Learning Center at Miami University. He received M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in computer science from Michigan State University. Gannod’s research interests include mobile computing, software engineering, enterprise systems, digital humanities, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Gannod received an NSF Career Award in 2002.Miss Kristen M. Bachman, Miami University Kristen M. Bachman is a Computer Science graduate student at Miami