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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 2: Teaching and Learning

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Eddie Davis, SUNY Farmingdale

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Environments on Learning Performance.” Systems Research andBehavioral Science, vol. 31, no. 3, Wiley Periodicals Inc., May 2014, pp. 471–82[8] Alquraan, Mahmoud. “Methods of Assessing Students’ Learning in Higher Education.”Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues, vol. 5, no. 2,Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Apr. 2012, pp. 124–33[9] Petto, Andrew J. “Technology Meets Pedagogy: Comparing Classroom ResponseSystems.(RESEARCH AND TEACHING).” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 48,no. 4, National Science Teachers Association, Mar. 2019, pp. 55–63[10] Muñoz, Marco A., and Dena H. Dossett. “Multiple Measures of TeachingEffectiveness: Classroom Observations and Student Surveys as Predictors of StudentLearning.” Planning

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Nick Lux, Montana State University ; Barrett Frank, Montana State University; Shannon D. Willoughby, Montana State University; Brock J. LaMeres P.E., Montana State University - Bozeman; Rachelle Codie Weyerbacher, Montana State University

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build what that object would look like rotated similarly to the firstpair of objects. Completion of this room would warp them into the next room to continue theactivity. See Figure 3 for an overview of a rotation puzzle room.Figure 3. Overview of rotation puzzle room In order to train students in two dimensional to three-dimensional spatial reasoning, weset up “rooms” where students saw a 2d representation of an object on the “wall”. The “map,” soto speak, showed them where to place blocks, how many to stack on each space, and which sidesof the object were up, down, left, and right. Students obtained blocks and created the object in 3dspace following the plan they observed on the wall, although in harder challenges they wererequired to

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina

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% 20% 1%bizarre.32. Trust in software processes is 2% 84% 14% 0%derived from earned trust in thesoftware programmer.33. A computer is used more for fun 3% 38% 59% 0%than for work.34. Artificial intelligence has the 6% 41% 46% 7%potential to endow computer systemswith human-like capabilities, such asjudgment, planning, and problem-solving.35. Computers are complex. 30% 52% 16% 2%Generally, students surveyed have particular assumptions about the kinds of problems computerscan solve and tasks to which computers ought to be applied. While there is a general split

Conference Session

Educational Software

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

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Computers in Education

make significant modifications to the CPU because there was too strong of an interdependence between the arrangement of cycles and the implementation of the Visual Basic macros that drove the simulation. The implementation was modified to eliminate that interdependence. Work continues on the Spreadsheet CPU as described in the next section.Status and Future Plans To provide a good basis in introductory computer organization and instruction set design, aCPU simulator should provide a minimum of the following: ç An instruction set sophisticated enough to support realistic machine language programming exercises. This was a fundamental shortcoming of the literacy version. While the current instruction set

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bell, University of Illinois-Chicago

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Computers in Education

International CommunityThe original VRiChEL products ( currently maintained by the VRUPL lab ) have beendownloaded over 1300 times, to recipients in over 50 different countries around the globe. Thevirtual lab accidents have now been produced for all eight accident scenarios, on two to fiveplatforms each, for a total of 25 different accident simulations freely available to theinternational community. The virtual campus products may not be as universally valuable, butthey can be quite useful to students planning to attend this school from far-away lands. ( A largefraction of the student body comes from either India, China, or some other foreign country. )In addition to the values of participation and experience, VR based educational software is

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Anderson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

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Computers in Education

discuss the architecture of the Xen Worldsprototype and the assignments that were given to the students using this prototype. It will alsopresent the new architecture and interface that has been adopted, and the motivations behindthese changes. Once the architecture has been presented, we will examine how Xen Worldsaddresses the requirements and phases of the assignment life-cycle and analyze the performanceof the system. This paper will close with a discussion of the future development plans for theXen Worlds project.Xen Prototype: Architecture and AssignmentsThe potential of the Xen Worlds project was demonstrated with the implementation of aprototype server that hosted VMs for 30 students for an entire semester. The hardwarerequirement for

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin Griffith, University of Wyoming; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Daniel Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Computers in Education

this idea to teach advanced Verilog HDL techniques, real time embedded systemconcepts, and the comparison of the two approaches. In the following sections we provide background information on the project includinginformation on Verilog HDL, our advanced Verilog HDL course, and observed difficultiesstudents demonstrate in learning Verilog HDL design techniques. We then discuss methodsemployed for the project including the hardware and software developed and the laboratoryexercises to guide the students in project development. We then provide results and a discussionof the results in placing the robots in the classroom. We conclude with future plans for thisproject. Background

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Tablets, Mobile and Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Oliver Cristy, Virginia Tech; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

likeexperience with the benefits of a computer. The hardware also allowed for Bluetooth devicessuch as a keyboard to connect to the system. The software for textbooks included many featuressuch as note-taking, highlighting, and search that would have made the Kno fit many of therequirements of a fully featured device. There was even a planned SDK for developers to extendthe system including Google Documents, now Drive, and Microsoft Office Live support.Unfortunately, the project was cancelled in April 2011 in favor of a software only approach. Thecurrent Kno software is web-based and includes annotations and highlighting, however, no pensupport. There is also no easy, built-in way to view two pages at one time as the two screenedtablet would have

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Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles H. Forsberg, Hofstra University

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incorporated in the course. It isnoted that 4 of the 64 students gave a "poor" rating to the use of experiments in the course. Thereason for this low rating is unknown, but, in any case, only a very small minority of the studentsfelt this way.Planned Future WorkThree of the four described experiments (i. e., the electric circuit, the cooling of a cylinder, andthe cantilever beam experiments) are portable and can be moved via carts into the computer lab.Plans are to make a small-scale, portable version of the orifice flow meter experiment that canalso be transported into the computer lab. It is also planned to modify the experiments so thatexperimental results can be projected in real-time on the computer lab screen.ConclusionsThis paper discusses

Conference Session

Computers and Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

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Computers in Education

internet. Nowadays, computer applicationsare not limited to proprietary software because a range of free, open source applications areavailable online that students can download and learn to use on their own. This type of learningempowers students with specific skills that cannot be acquired through formal academiclearning. Students become more self-directed in their learning when they take the primaryinitiative for planning, carrying out, and evaluating their own learning experiences 9. Theyassume ownership for their own thoughts and actions leading to the notion of “personalresponsibility in learning” 24. Recently, governments have started to recognize the profoundimportance of informal learning in people’s lives because it can help people gain

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Best of Computer in Education Division

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University

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Computers in Education

reliability and validity scores. Studentimprovements in writing increase with more practice and opportunities to write, accompanied byspecific, constructive feedback from faculty with opportunities for revisions. However, withclass sizes increasing, how can engineering professors give suitable writing feedback tostudents?Criterion operates on a web-based platform, is instructor driven, and can be used a tool forstudents to plan, write and revise their essays. By providing quick, diagnostic feedback and aholistic score students are able to review, revise and resubmit essays. This method has beenproven to encourage students to write more extensively, be more critical of their work in therevision process, and increase time spent on writing. Also, by

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas at El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas at El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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usage of new technology and notparticipant observation.Future work planned for this ongoing research should expand to the following areas: 1)development of an iBook for the iPad on the more complex engineering topics to increaseclassroom performance as shown from the Exam II results, 2) the digitalization of the coursetextbook and implementation on the iPad platform which could greatly impact the study habits ofthe students, and 3) the implementation of the iPad in higher-level engineering classes.1 Jacobsen, D. M., "Adoption patterns of faculty who integrate computer technology for teaching and learning in2higher Gibbons, education," M. T., “The 1998Year World

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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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homeuniversities.Last but not least, the use of online experiments in online engineering learning environmentsenhances learning activities. In engineering education, the experimental part (and not onlysimulations) of courses should be increased. What students need is a plan for testing theexperiment under various conditions. Because of the need to repeat experiments, laboratorytime in traditional labs is often quite limited. However, students can work in remote labs 24hours a day and seven days a week, so the opportunity to gain access is greater than intraditional hands-on labs.Bibliography 1. M.E. Auer, I.Grout, K. Henke, R.Sfaric and D. Ursutiu, “A Joint Master Program in Remote Engineering” International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), Vol

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Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Obeidat, Virginia Commonwealth University; Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jerry Tucker, Virginia Commonwealth University; Robert Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University

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peripherals, adopting IP cores, and handling interfacing andsynchronization issues.Planned future work includes integrating more components in this infrastructure such as sensors,actuators and digital/analog convertors to allow students to practice other skills in the field ofembedded systems. We plan also to exploit this infrastructure to introduce hardware designconcepts in other computer engineering courses such as digital logic design and computerarchitecture where the students will be able to implement these concepts directly on the hardwareand visualize the results via the monitor. Page 15.1268.9References1. Z. K. Baker and V. K. Prasanna

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Computational Tools and Simulation II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Garcia, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

-- the content of thelesson, b) determining the acceptable evidence of learning also called the assessment method,and c) planning the experiences and instructional approach or pedagogy. Usability aspects werealso analyzed. We decided to use this backward design as a framework because it encompassesall elements that should be involved in any instructional intervention.Students reported that they used OOF to generate plots and read values (47%), to generate data(41%), and to implement models provided by the instructor (41%).Learning Outcomes (content) - This section focuses on the general experience students had,relevance of the content to whether students thought the simulation tools were relevant to theirareas of interest as well as their level

Conference Session

Computer Gaming and Virtual Reality for Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

novel and sophisticated games, exploiting the capabilities of the device. ≠ The second time we used the Zunes, the students were mixed in their impressions. Some students like the Zune, while others were not happy with it. Those who did not like it complained of small screen size and some problems in getting the networking to work reliability.Next semester, fall 2010, we plan to transition to the Zune HD. That device has a larger screen, 3Dgraphics, accelerometers and multitouch capabilities. We expect that the students’ criticisms of thecurrent Zune will be ameliorated with the new hardware.We offer two additional anecdotal observations about the Zune: ≠ In both class offerings, a number of students bought own Zunes for

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Punch, Michigan State University; Richard Enbody, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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significance make itdifficult to provide reasons for the results (or lack thereof). However, we can speculate. 1. The students who attended more often were in worse straits than those who did not. The “did not attend” students had more confidence in being able to dig themselves out of their hole. We could confirm this with access to more data (GPA, ACT results). We plan on doing this in the near future. 2. The “direness” of the email and the offer of help was not enough to encourage students to come for more help. It is a tricky thing to motivate dedicating even more time to a course that has such high workload. 3. The kind of help provided, going over existing class material, was not seen as valuable. In

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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the group members found the exercise to be an interestingchallenge. These groups contained two pairs of twins, which were separated into differentgroups.Group strategies for meeting design specifications have been strikingly different. Some groupsprefer to just start putting parts together and writing code, refining as they go, and other groupsdo significant planning before beginning to build any hardware. The interesting thing is thatboth approaches are generally successful.After the first day, it is difficult to get the students to leave at the end of the day. It is obviousthat they find working with the Mindstorms to be interesting and challenging. It is surprisinghow quickly all the students learn LabVIEW and how quickly they learn to

Conference Session

Tablets, Mobile and Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wanda Eugene, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Shaundra Bryant Daily, Clemson University; Tiffany Barnes, NC State University; Richard Burns, West Chester University

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similar to the classroomapplication of the scientific method—posing a problem, doing research, planning, developing aprototype, testing, redesigning, and sharing solutions. In this process the learner is equipped withtools for systematically addressing a problem, such that it becomes transparent to their ownthinking and learning trajectories.10   Page 23.261.2    Many today recognize that technological fluency and access to new technology allow individualsto better position themselves in life.9 As a result, such people strive to become

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Computers in Education General Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Anne Macdonald, University of Technology, Sydney; Julie E. Mills, University of South Australia

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learning multi-disciplinarydesign. The authors therefore plan to introduce the concepts of BIM and associated softwaretools at earlier stages of the curriculum.Another hurdle to be overcome, in terms of introducing any new technology at University level,is that faculty members do not always remain up-to-date with technical software applicationsused in industry. This may be alleviated with closer integration between industry and academia.Many of the institutions surveyed by the authors are keen to develop strong industry links andalready have visiting tutors and lecturers from industry, and this could extend to the teaching ofBIM processes and technologies.The authors aim to determine the most effective curriculum strategies that should be adopted

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Computing

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tumkor Serdar, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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AC 2011-2478: EDUCATIONAL USE OF VIRTUAL WORLDS FOR ENGI-NEERING STUDENTSTumkor Serdar, Stevens Institute of Technology Serdar Tmkor is affiliated as a research scientist and adj. professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He had been a full-time faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University since 1996. Dr. Tmkor received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1994. His teaching interests are Machine Design, En- gineering Design, and Engineering Graphics. His current research interests include Design of MEMS devices with polymeric nano-composites, computer integrated design, process planning and manufactur

Conference Session

Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Guarino, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Charles Adams, Boise State University; Rey DeLeon, Boise State University, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Department; Marion Scheepers, Boise State University, Department of Mathematics; Francisco Castellon, Boise State University; Michael G. Wiedenfeld, Kuna High School; Paul Williams, Boise State University

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hosts 4. Share and Disconnect the cloud hostIt’s also very important to establish protocol for use of the cloud resource, and also to providedetailed instructions for accessing and using the cloud resource. Finally, we implemented aformative survey plan to assess our effectiveness in delivering the cloud resource. MethodsThe methods used to implement each requirement are detailed below.Installation of facilitating softwareFront-end processing and small commitment for client resources are technical hallmarks for aneffective cloud resource. Remote Graphics Software (RGS), which can be purchased fromHewlett-Packard, was used to create our cloud resource. At the time of this article, RGS

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo

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Page 15.760.10 Figure 3. Assessment Matrix5. Conclusion.Benefitting from the new curriculum change, students are able to achieve more than engineeringtechnology can offer alone. Although it takes more effort for the students to master boththeoretical and practical contents, the feedbacks are positive toward the change.In the spring of 2007, Exit interviews with students in the senior capstone course who planned tograduate from the CSET program in the spring or summer of 2007 showed that many of ourgraduates are working in computer science field and some applied and admitted to computerscience graduate school. Over the recent years, enrollment and student quality are increasing

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Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Rodhouse, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Cooper, Savant LLC; Steve Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

as they “play.” The older students tended to follow the instructions more closely andhad less difficulty using the tutorials. The results of the assessments indicate a need for morecolor and perhaps graphical aids and have identified some points of confusion. The resultsindicate that the level of the tutorials is good for high school students, but that more adjustmentwould benefit the young students. In particular, the younger students seem to need more aidssuch as graphics showing example screen shots and programming optional paths. Sidebars onapplications and careers may be beneficial as well. The next version of the tutorials willincorporate related changes. Also, additional tutorials are planned to address more advancedconcepts and to

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Wright; Thad Welch; Michael Morrow

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Computers in Education

time (in ms)Figure 7: Time domain display of FM IF signal modulated with 4 kHz test tone (top) and recovered testtone (bottom).We plan to expand this to capturing commercial FM signals over the air, tapping the IF signal, and usingsimilar techniques to extract RBDS information from the FM broadcast.12 Most commercial FM radiostations in the United States transmit a radio broadcast data system (RBDS) signal. Extracting the RBDS(sometimes called RDS) signal is a significant next step in software defined radio sophistication in that thissignal has a 57 kHz carrier (3 times the 19 kHz pilot as shown in Figure 8). The RBDS signal uses biphase 0

Conference Session

Tablet PC use in Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Glenda R. Scales, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

technology.This prevents them from getting introduced to complicated features and/or software if they arenot yet ready.The IT team plans to use identify interested users by targeting specific users from those who‟veattended any of the Tablet track offered by the FDI. Once they are identified, the IT team plansto offer additional training to the faculty members. The IT team also wants to extend the use oftablet PCs to graduate courses. If faculty members are interested, the entire class could be loanedtablet PCs too. Finally, there is a four-year longitudinal study on currently on faculty membersand their instructional strategies. The results of that study will be analyzed and used to guidefurther actions by the IT team.References 1. Garland, K. P

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Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

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innovate practice-orientedengineering education. For engineering students needing hands-on experience in sensor hardwareand data acquisition, they have an opportunity to handle practical problems of higher complexityand are more aware of the social context where the sensors are situated. For example, studentscan compare their sensor deployment plan with the sensor network in industry to gain more real-world experience. For engineering students who develop applications concerning sensor data,they can focus more on their specialized projects rather than being distracted by fundamentalproblems of data acquisition. For example, students in environmental engineering can study theenvironmental impact of the forest fire in Los Angeles, without having to

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Lesko, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University

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Computers in Education

been the mainstay forthe past two decades. With the maturation of virtual world (3-D Web) and semantic webtechnologies, the web-based content available in the classroom increases exponentially and takeson a new look. Following a brief overview of these two technologies and their overall impact inthe classroom, this article presents several practical approaches for presenting course content in3-D Web environments based on recent implementation efforts. In-World lectures and labassignments, project team briefing sessions, student mentoring activities, and open conferenceforums are just a few of the areas discussed. Further discussions also focus on setup and futureevaluation studies planned in the near-term to further evaluate course content

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Computer Programming and Simulation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gili Rusak, Siena College

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Computers in Education

like those run by the CSC, they willdevelop and acquire knowledge for more complicated problems connected to computer science ingeneral. We plan on running additional outreach programs under the CSC in more schools and youthorganizations in the near future. Page 24.950.117. REFERENCES[1] Brennan, K., & Resnick, M. (2012). New Frameworks for Studying and Assessing the Development of ComputationalThinking. Proceedings of the 2012 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.[2] Cuny, J., Snyder, L., & Wing, J.M. Demystifying computational thinking for non-computer scientists

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Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven F Barrett, University of Wyoming; Ivo Wambeke

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Computers in Education

the alumnus request a team was formed to make the course, laboratoryexercises and the physical laboratory a reality. The team consisted of the faculty membercurrently teaching the industrial controls course, a graduate student who would be developing thelaboratory exercises for his graduate project, the alumnus, the department staff engineer and thedepartment senior technician who would plan and supervise the laboratory renovation andlaboratory equipment purchase [9].”In the next section we detail the methods used by students in developing their service learningproject: a Concrete Curing Box (CCB) for use in a high school STEM recruiting and enrichmentprogram.MethodsIn this section we discuss the methods used by the student team to develop