Paper ID #25371Facilitating Collaborative Engineering Analysis Problem Solving in Immer-sive Virtual RealityAlexander James Tuttle, University of Georgia Alexander Tuttle is an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia majoring in Computer Systems Engineering. He works in Dr. Kyle Johnsen’s Virtual Experiences Laboratory where he develops and researches various Virtual Reality applications.Dr. Siddharth Savadatti, University of Georgia Dr. Siddharth Savadatti received his PhD in Computational Mechanics from North Carolina State Univer- sity in 2011 and has since been on the faculty of the College of Engineering at
ComputerScience Education, 2004.[17] McKinney, D. and L.F. Denton. Affective Assessment of Team Skills in Agile CS1 Labs:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium onComputer Science Education, 2005.[18] McKinney, D. Where do I belong: A team-based, inquiry-based, and service-learningapproach to an introductory course in computer science. Sixth Annual South AlabamaConference on Teaching and Learning. Mobile, AL, 2016.[19] McKinney, D. and L.F. Denton. Developing Collaborative Skills Early in the CSCurriculum in a Laboratory Environment, Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE TechnicalSymposium on Computer Science Education, 2006.[20] Michaelsen, L. K., A.B. Knight, and L.D. Fink. Team-based learning: A transformative
implement computer design in hardware 1.However, this project is unique for several reasons. First, students are given creativity to designtheir own instruction sets rather than use a preexisting one. Second, unlike similar projects atother universities, the project requires no specialized hardware or software. Third, the projectdoes not require students to know any particular background knowledge before the course apartfrom basic programming, a typical prerequisite for computer organization courses. Fourth, byrequiring students to simulate and evaluate their processors, the project teaches how realprocessor research and evaluation are performed.In Section 2 of this paper, we describe the student populations for which this project was
Wikipedia for text search. He has also just published the textbook "The Practice of Computing using Python", a CS1 text using Python as the main language.Richard Enbody, Michigan State University Richard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He joined the faculty in 1987 after earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Richard received his B.A. in Mathematics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1976, and spent six years teaching high school mathematics in Vermont and New Hampshire. Richard's research interests are in computer security, computer architecture, web-based distance education and parallel
2006-1522: TWO-TANK LIQUID LEVEL CONTROL USING A BASIC STAMPMICROCONTROLLER AND A MATLAB-BASED DATA ACQUISITION ANDCONTROL TOOLBOXAnshuman Panda, Polytechnic University ANSHUMAN PANDA was born in New Delhi, India. He is currently pursuing a dual B.S/M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and expects to graduate in December 2006. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi. He has worked as a teaching and research assistant with responsibilities in the area of mechatronics.Hong Wong, Polytechnic University HONG WONG was born in Hong Kong, China. In June of 2000 and 2002, he received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi
pleasant setting. Virtual laboratories can be built with simulationtechniques to guide our students learning complex subjects. A major difficulty, however,concerns whether the simplicity may come at the expense of effectiveness of the learningsurroundings. One remedy to this problem suggests use of special equipments often used for e.g.pilot training. Another example includes use of digital gloves and head-mounted devices invirtual reality applications. Nevertheless, these equipments are expensive and often not availableto most students. In contrast, our solution suggests use of inexpensive tools like web-cameras asan interface to interact with the simulated objects in cyberspace, and WBS as a core buildingblock of the virtual laboratories.In this
Paper ID #13859Connecting Theory and Software: Experience with an Undergraduate FiniteElement CourseDr. Natasha Smith P.E., University of Southern Indiana Dr. Smith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana.Dr. Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana Julian received is PhD from Virginia Tech in Engineering Mechanics in 2007. He spent a semester teach- ing at community college in the area and then spent two years at University of Massachusetts continuing his research in finite element modeling and biomechanics and continuing to teach. In 2010, he began his current tenure track position at the
. His team deployed a bomb finding robot named the LynchBot to Iraq late in 2004 and then again in 2006 deployed about a dozen more improved LynchBots to Iraq. His team also assisted in the deployment of 84 TACMAV systems in 2005. Around that time he volunteered as a science advisor and worked at the Rapid Equipping Force during the summer of 2005 where he was exposed to a number of unmanned systems technologies. His initial group composed of about 6 S&T grew to nearly 30 between 2003 and 2010 as he transitioned from a Branch head to an acting Division Chief. In 2010-2012 he again was selected to teach Mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. Upon returning to ARL’s Vehicle Technology
Paper ID #28310Measuring Students’ Engagement in Learning Volumes of Revolution whenUsing Advanced Visualization Media in an Active Learning EnvironmentDr. Fadi Castronovo, California State University, East Bay Hi! My name is Fadi Castronovo, I am an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Cal State East Bay. I received my doctorate in Architectural Engineering at Penn State with a minor in Educational Psychology. I am strongly focused on my teaching and research. In my teaching, I strive to provide an engaging and active learning experience to my students, by applying innovative technology and researched pedagogi- cal
. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. (1977) from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Page 15.442.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Effective Use of Screencasting Software in Engineering CoursesAbstractThis paper overviews several situations in which screencasts were developed using screencapturing software to enhance the learning experience in engineering courses. This softwareallows an engineering instructor with no background in producing training videos to easilyproduce computer-based videos customized for teaching specific topics. It can be
, 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
University of Arkansas. He has a strong industrial background in software, sensing and control applications for offshore oil technology. His interests include undergraduate teaching and curriculum development. Page 13.1375.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Utilizing Robotics to Facilitate Project-Based Learning: A Student PerspectiveAbstractThis paper describes a freshman engineering curriculum that utilizes a robotics kit to facilitatehands-on learning. Student participants are required to purchase the robotics kit in lieu oftextbooks. In the first of three
floodplain management, and sustainable land devel- opment. Dr. Dymond has had previous grants working with the Montgomery County Public Schools and with the Town of Blacksburg on stormwater research and public education. He teaches classes in GIS, land development, and water resources and has won numerous teaching awards, at the Departmental, College, and National levels. Page 24.1398.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work-in-Progress: The Platform-Independent Remote Monitoring System (PIRMS) for Situating Users
paper8.4.0 Tablet Application in a CEE junior level courseIn order to expose other faculty members to the potential of Tablet based teaching, the leadauthor got in touch with his colleague in the CEE department (i.e., 4th author) and decided to dotwo special Tablet based sessions in a junior level CEE course, “Water Resources EngineeringCEE3314” in fall 2007. The class included ~50 students. The key topics covered in CEE3314include: Open channel flow; hydrology; hydraulic modeling; hydraulic machinery and structuresand lecture content are supported by laboratory experiments and demonstrations. Two specialproblems involving design of trapezoidal channels with flexible lining and grass lining weredesigned for the proposed Tablet sessions. It may be
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
™platform to achieve a meaningful and valuable laboratory experience that also complemented andenhanced lecture topics. Freshman year, students soldered together their CEENBoTs whilebeing introduced to basic electric circuit principles, then they learned to program the CEENBoTwith microprocessor programming in assembly and an introduction to the C language. In ajunior level course, they fitted the robots to play a game of laser tag. Beyond this, students didnot do much more with adding sensors or intelligence to their robots. This new course wouldprovide the advanced experiences with the CEENBoT, by adding an extensive sensor suite,applying a robotics intelligence methodology, and teaching a robust programming structure thatwould equip robots with
Course for Engineering StudentsAbstractFor Spring 2011, a senior-level robotics course (first taught in Spring 2010) had been revisedaccording to principles for “Smart Teaching” described in the book “How Learning Works”.Homework, laboratory sessions and anchor projects had been redesigned to provide betterscaffolding for students with 2 different but complementary engineering backgrounds, and alsofor a better flow towards the theme of humanoid robotics. The e-portfolio tool EMMA wasintegrated into this course as a collaboration and feedback tool between instructor and students tohelp improve student algorithm development work, but EMMA was not found to be responsiveenough nor useful for this kind of use.IntroductionIn the Summer 2010, the
, but largely uninteresting today. This perception may stem from thetraditional use of ray tracing as an offline or batch technique: until recently, generating a singleimage required either several minutes of computation on desktop systems or extremelyexpensive, highly parallel systems found only in large research laboratories. Others believe thatthe physical and mathematical underpinnings put the algorithm beyond the reach ofundergraduate students, relegating the study of the algorithm to graduate-level courses.However, we believe that ray tracing is an ideal vehicle through which to reinforce and applyfundamental concepts in computer science. To develop an understanding of the algorithm,students must integrate and extend knowledge in computer
such as originalbook references or hand-written listings. Figure 1. Learning Metadata: characteristics of a resourceDescriptions can become very large if a certain range of attributes is not selected. For thispurpose, LOM contains nine main categories. We will give more importance to its educationalfeatures, but remaining aspects must be fulfilled too. DIEEC (Electrical, Electronic and ControlEngineering Department) has compiled a large number of exercises from various subjects:analog systems, circuit theory, etc. They are a really helpful complement to laboratory sessions,as students can understand physical models of components without any risk. These digitalmaterials were disseminated through text books or instructional CD
either be executed by users on the server-side or remote-side. This choicecan be altered with ease at any time. The development of two sample VIs created as webdocuments, for an undergraduate and a graduate engineering mechanics course are included anddiscussed in the paper to clearly illustrate the power and utility of this type of Virtual Instruments.LabVIEW Virtual Instruments published as HTML files also seem to have a great potentialapplication in the area of experimental research. Using these files, the investigators have theopportunity to remotely monitor the health of structural members in the field or laboratory withoutactually needing to be present at the experimental site for the entire duration of the experiment. Thiscapability of
2006-1745: DESIGNING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COURSE FORELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSMichael Filsinger, University of Cincinnati MICHAEL D. FILSINGER is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BA in Mathematics and MS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively. In addition to teaching, he has served as a computer system administrator. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Page 11.417.1
, controller design and its implementation isillustrated using a physical system in the laboratory setting. The students’ survey response on theintroduction of FPGA based controller implementation in the course is mostly positive.I. IntroductionThere is a wide-spread interest in field programmable gate array (FPGA) based implementationof controllers in industrial applications1-5. FPGAs consist of reprogrammable gate array logiccircuits and offer flexibility, reliability, and high-speed parallel execution1,2,6,7. TraditionallyFPGA courses are offered in programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)8-10. Tobetter prepare the engineering students in FPGA technology, especially those in control systemsarea, there is a need to introduce FPGA
Paper ID #8479Talking Teams: Increased Equity in Participation in Online Compared toFace-to-Face Team DiscussionsMs. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Ms. Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She is also working on a PhD in Educational Psychology / Educational Technology, studying the teaching, learning, and assessing of the ABET ”professional skills.” Page 24.1154.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
Notebooks.Moreover, the author is aware of several students who have continued to use Notebooks tocomplete other coursework, e.g., data analysis for their laboratory courses.Lessons LearnedThe author has gradually incorporated more of the elements of the approach described above overthe last several semesters. The following discussion is an account of some of the “lessons-learned”from the approach described in the previous section and future directions to be explored.Lesson 1: Students Are Worried About ProgrammingIn the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Connecticut, students take a general“Introduction to Programming” course in their first year, so they have some experience with Pythonprior to taking Thermodynamic Principles. Nonetheless
project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms.Ms. Audra Lynn Hilterbran, Ohio University Audra Hilterbran is an instructional technologist in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University, Athens
break(e.g., Thanksgiving break) during the project term (from Oct. 22 to Nov. 28), most students wereshort of time to finish the project on time. Therefore, it would be better to start the project oneweek earlier than Oct. 22 for every fall semester (from the students’ comments).4. Conclusions There have been so many software tools developed to teach computer architecture classes.Traditionally, those tools have many options to select for any proper operations or consist oflengthy lines of code to figure out. Therefore, students are required to figure out the options firstand then learn the proper operations. In addition, since the tools used to have limited functions tooperate, it is difficult to design a new function logic with the tools
sustainability are enforced but nottrusted. The problem seems to resonate on the motives not the practice, hence, it is veryimportant to quantify sustainability and show measurable merits that encourage professionals toadhere to sustainability. Textbook pedagogy succeeds in explaining the procedure but failed toprovoke the student’s interest, therefore, a new methodology is needed to teach sustainability tofreshmen engineering students by means of interactive and collaborative approaches. The coregoal of this work is to engage the students’ skills and enhance their social, environmental andeconomic confidence to generate solutions that are both sustainable and humane. One of theobjectives is to expose the students to engineering tools such as CAD
for the railroad industry under the mentorship of the faculty involved in the Railroad Research Team. She worked as a full-time Research Assistant at what is now known as the Railway Safety Center continuing her work on sensor technology for Amsted Rail and their subsidiaries. After her work with the Railroad Research Team, she worked in Texas State Technical College as Depart- ment Chair of the Associate of Science in Engineering Program. She currently works in The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and teaches introduction to engineering materials and engineering materials laboratory, engineering graphics, dynamics, numerical methods, and engineering vibrations. c American Society for
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
degrees and aretaking part in a seminar named ‘New tools in teaching and learning of Graphic EngineeringI’. Following figures shows snapshots from users undertaking tests (Figure 9). The gameworks on iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Figure 9. Users testing iCube applicationMethodologyThe study was conducted in a lab setting and began with an introduction to the objectives ofiCube and the study itself. Participants were then given a demonstration of the device in Page 22.425.6which they were shown how to use a iPod Touch for given a set of tasks (e.g. internetnavigation, wireless internet access, etc.).Study with users in this