using the C++programming language. This work describes our current effort, as a pilot project, which can beused in an evaluation process by those departments that would like to substitute Matlab for C++.Those who would like to continue the current practice, but are looking for more challengingproblems or projects involving Matlab can also use the project outcome. The main reasonbehind switching to Matlab from C++ is the fact that many engineering faculty at Penn State, invarious departments, have recognized that the current courses teaching programming skills usingC++ are not fully utilized in later required courses in the curriculum. Increasingly inundergraduate courses in various engineering disciplines, Matlab is being used for
communicationand networking, but few institutions can provide hands-on laboratories in theirnetworking courses due to expensive hardware equipment. Funded by a collaborativeNSF TUES type II project, a series of affordable and evolvable software defined radio(SDR) based laboratories was implemented and institutionalized at three institutions todemonstrate its capability and adaptability. As a participating institution, Central StateUniversity worked closely with Wright State University and Miami University andsuccessfully adapted the novel SDR based laboratories. We further initialized our ownlaboratory modules to improve undergraduate students' understanding and learning. Thelaboratory modules were integrated into two undergraduate level networking
assistant where she works with WV schools to inspire students to pursue a STEM career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 STEM Ambassadress Program (Research-to-Practice) Strand: OtherIntroductionIn this paper we describe our experience with our “STEM Ambassadress Program,” in whichfemale university students in STEM Background serve as the STEM Ambassadresses of femalehigh school students. The project is sponsored by American Association of University Women(AAUW) and NASA WV Consortium. The ambassadresses, who graduated from high schoolsrecently, will mentor high school girls in their high
. The LabVIEW software is used for both the design and simulation of fire alarmlogic systems. In addition, the students use Honeywell commercial fire alarm control processorsto perform practical system setup programming for vendor specific applications. The focus ofthis paper is on the programmable logic control teaching techniques that are used in the ENGR-1403 course and the respective student exercise and project workThe students in the ENGR-1403 course have various levels of experience and academicbackgrounds. Students in the course often have experience in the installation or maintenance offire alarm systems. Typically the preponderance of the class students does not have a significantamount of experience using programmable logic. While
AC 2012-5358: WORK-IN-PROGRESS: INTEGRATION OF HANDS-ONCOMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) IN UNDERGRADUATE CUR-RICULUMDr. Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University Yogen Panta is an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Youngstown State University, Ohio. He has been teaching and developing courses and research projects in the fluid thermal area. He is cur- rently conducting applied research in thermo-fluids and computational fluid dynamics with local indus- tries and federal agencies. Panta received a B.E. degree from Tribhuvan University, an M.S. degree from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Panta’s research interests are in fluid dynamics
AC 2010-1527: PERSONAL LAB HARDWARE: A SINE WAVE GENERATOR,LOGIC PULSE SIGNAL, AND PROGRAMMABLE SYNCHRONOUS SERIALINTERFACE FOR ENHANCING EDUCATIONJeffrey Richardson, Purdue UniversityJames Jacob, Purdue UniversityBrant Price, Purdue UniversityJeremiah Dole, Purdue University Page 15.951.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Personal Lab Hardware: A Sine Wave Generator, Logic Pulse Signal, and Programmable Synchronous Serial Interface for Enhancing EducationAbstract:This project developed a low cost solution to provide personally owned electronic test equipmentto students in an advanced analog electronics course to enhance their learning associated withelectronic
Paper ID #15677WORK IN PROGRESS: An Integrated DSP and Embedded MicrocontrollerLaboratory CurriculumProf. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for West- ern Washington University’s Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering Technology program for 27 years. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C pro- gramming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer
professional interests lie in signal processing algorithm development and its applications in numerous communications system and component development including wireless and optical communications systems. He is co-inventors of three US patents. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Research: Adaptation and Evaluation of Software Defined Radio Based Laboratories AbstractFunded by a collaborative NSF TUES type II project, a novel suite of affordable andevolvable Software Defined Radio (SDR) based laboratories was implemented andinstitutionalized at three institutions (Wright State University, Miami University andCentral
delivery of a new graduate biomedical engineering masters degree with a focus on the medical device development Page 22.261.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011A Preliminary Assessment of the CATME Peer Evaluation Tool EffectivenessAbstractIn project intensive courses student teams are used to enable completion of significant work and,hopefully, significant learning in one semester. Faculty desire to use peer evaluations and self-evaluations to assess how much each team member contributes to the overall effort and successof the project. Ideally, the evaluations and assessments will lead
outstanding buildings in the region where he provides support to students, faculty, and staff in implementing technology inside and outside the classroom, researching new engineering education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he
undergraduate students through research projects and honor thesis, the majority in the areas of mobile computing and mHealth. Her efforts over the last several years have led to several papers published in top ACM and IEEE conferences with undergraduate co-authors. Her field of interest encompasses Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing, CS education, and Mobile Healthcare Privacy. She has ben very active in broadening participation of women and underrepresented minority in computer science. She has also been working as an active member of various international conference technical program and journal review boards. She Additionally, she has served as Co Chair of IEEE
the testplan that validates and supports it. We realize that entire textbooks and courses havebeen devoted to this topic, but, often, an engineering program does not have room for astandalone course on this topic. In our institutions, we elected to emphasize and allowstudents to practice some of the basic tenets and proper procedures of testing anddocumentation in several senior and graduate level design, microcontroller and hardwaredescriptive language courses. In this paper we will briefly review the basic tenets oftesting and documentation and present some innovative methods of extracting test datafrom a hardware/software based project often found in a digital controller based system.We discuss how these tenets and techniques were adopted
Carolina State UniversityJeff Joines, North Carolina State UniversityCarolyn Miller, North Carolina State UniversityGeorge Rouskas, North Carolina State University Page 14.356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Computing Across Curricula: The View of Industry LeadersAbstractWith the aim of preparing students for pervasive, advanced computing in the workplace, aproject funded by the National Science Foundation CISE Pathways to RevitalizedUndergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) was initiated in 2007. Themultidisciplinary project has two overarching goals: (1) create a computational thinkingthread in the engineering
™ as The System. Results from the first year of the project, which includedexperiments and software coding, were very promising: 1. 85 out of the 98 students felt that they could perform the experiment by themselves, and 2. 57 of the 98 said they could successfully code without help from a partner.These first-year results were presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference [4] and laterpublished in expanded form in a journal [5].The goal of using The System was to allow the students to develop the skillset necessary to createa series of projects that utilize light emitting diodes (LEDs) and a moisture sensor. These projectsfit well within the existing 4th and 5th grade Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)Curriculum [6].For this second
” higher education grant initiative and community of over 200 campuses in 34 countries. He also writes a blog about best practices emerging from grant-supported projects around the world (www.hp.com/go/hied-blog). In his “spare” time, Jim teaches an online course for Montana State University on the Science of Sound (www.scienceteacher.org). Page 12.1503.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Transforming Teaching and Learning using Tablet PCs A Panel Discussion using Tablet PCsAbstractThis panel discussion will highlight emerging best practices in the use of Tablet PCs to
beplugged into, and draw power from a USB port for programming and simple testing. These boardscontained $20 worth of parts including the boards, however the students were charged $30 tocover assembly costs. Students were required to buy these boards. A second larger board (ownedby the department) was available for labs and projects. This board contained motor drivers, screwterminals, voltage regulators, and prototyping space. The two board arrangement allowed studentsto easily buy and carry the smaller board but take advantage of more mature features in the lab. Page 11.125.4The Design of the BoardsThe Atmel ATMega32 has 32K of flash memory, 2K of
this challenge.To partially address this challenge, in development are Virtual Research Experiences forUndergraduates in Nanotechnology (VREUN) modules to introduce undergraduate students(focusing on the freshmen year) to concepts of nanotechnology in the context of active research.These self-contained multimedia learning modules are based on video documentation ofresearchers contributing to the nanotechnology research currently underway in our labs. Eachmodule presents the research project being documented, the nanoscale phenomena beinginvestigated, key research questions raised and how they are being addressed in the lab, and howthis understanding is necessary for ultimate commercialization of the technology.Distinguishing characteristics of
number of professional associations, and is a Consultant for Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology.Miss Paula Sanjuan Espejo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach I am an UG Aerospace Engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. I am from Spain and I am currently working on the SLA-aBLE project, the Implementation and Evaluation of Second Language Acquisition applied to programming courses.Rachel Marie Cunningham, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel is a Graduate Research Assistant at ERAU in the Game-based Education & Advanced Simulations Lab. She has been historian for the ERAU Student Chapter of Human Factors & Ergonomics Society and a Psi
technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Prof. Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso Prof. Oscar Perez received his B.S. and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso with a
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
limited to immersive simulation-based learning (ISBL) andincorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into immersive virtual/simulated learning environmentsused in engineering education.IntroductionProblem-/project-based learning (PBL) is a form of student-centered active-learning approach inwhich students learn by solving complex problems that resemble those encountered in the realworld. After decades of evolution, PBL has grown into an extensive teaching and learningmethod in a wide range of disciplines, including engineering education. Current studies showthat students find PBL more engaging and effective, as they actively apply the informationlearned in the classroom to tackle real-life problems [1].Immersive technologies, including virtual
platformfor courses on computer science and engineering. Appropriate guidance from theplatform regarding the different objectives of five project stages enabled groupmembers to communicate, exchange, and interact, and the students graduallydeveloped their thinking from divergent to convergent. Through deep analysis of thestudents’ learning portfolios, the effects of cognitive concepts, personal motivations,and personal characteristics on creativity were investigated. Moreover, this studyfurther explored three issues regarding the differences between highly and lowlycreative students so that teachers could employ appropriate teaching resources orassistance. The findings of this study can help teachers provide timely guidance andresponses to students
program coordinator for the Make to Innovate program at Iowa State University. This program provides our students with an opportunity to do hands-on projects and includes everything from underwater to space projects. In addition to my duties at Iowa State University, I also serve as the president of the Stratospheric Ballooning Association. This organization aims to promote, educate, and encourage collaboration for high-altitude balloon projects.Dr. Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work-In-Progress: Developing engineering students’ professional development skills through augmented and virtual reality
AC 2009-1016: THE UBIQUITOUS MICROCONTROLLER IN MECHANICALENGINEERINGMichael Holden, California Maritime Academy Michael Holden is an assistant professor at the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus of the California State University. He teaches instrumentation and controls. Professor Holden also works as an engineer in the autonomous vehicle field. Page 14.1258.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Ubiquitous Microcontroller in Mechanical EngineeringIntroductionThis paper will describe a project aimed at integrating the teaching of microcontroller skills inseveral classes
systems and power generation industry prior to academic career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Computational Instruction through PLCs in a Multi-Disciplinary Introduction to Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the inclusion of hardware-based Programmable Logic Controllers(PLCs) in a first-year engineering introduction course, Engineering Methods, Tools, & PracticeII, at the University of Louisville’s JB Speed School of Engineering. Each academic year, morethan 500 first-year engineering students are exposed to this interactive course, which introducesstudents to fundamental engineering skills – including teamwork, design, project management
sessions, total time spent, how farahead of deadline students start, and time of day worked. We compare work patterns betweenstudents who completed the assignments on time, and those who did not. We also comparestatistics such as recent numbers of good and bad test runs and editing activity against reportedstudent frustration levels. Finally, we review a sample of student compile errors in two differentC language projects, one by beginning programmers, and the other by upperdivisionprogrammers, and report the types of errors made in each group.We find several interesting results from these comparisons: students often work in short stints,they work fewer late hours than might be expected, and early starts on a project, while useful, arenot as
Education, 2008 Integration of Computer-Based Problem Solving into Engineering CurriculaAbstractThe primary objectives of this engineering project are (1) to examine how to develop students’problem solving and computational skills early in their program of study and (2) to furtherenhance these skills by building upon critical computing concepts semester after semester. Theproject is a component of NC State University’s quality enhancement plan, which focuses on theuse of technology in enhancing student learning. The project stems from new introductorycomputer-based modeling courses that were created in two engineering departments, and hasexpanded to include other departments. We give an overview of the
Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses related to mechanisms and machine dynamics, integrated product development, solid mechanics and plasticity theory, structural design and analysis, engineering analysis and finite element methods and has interests in remote laboratories, project-based learning and student learning assessment. His research is in the areas of remote sensing and control with applications to remote experimentation as well as modeling of microstructure changes in metal forming processes. He publishes regularly in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals. At the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago
LITEE lab has been producing case studies for many years, such as Lorn Textiles, DellaSteam Plant, STS-51L and others (www.litee.org), but they have always focused on events thatoccurred in or involved companies in the United States. In 2007, LITEE was awarded an NSFgrant to send students from American Universities to India to live, work and finally produce acase study. Before the group of five students ventured to India, the project leaders of the LITEE lab were in communication with multiple private companies located in Indiaand IIT Madras asking them for projects that students may work on. This paper describes theexperiences of a graduate student who travelled to India to develop a case study with a largeconstruction company.1.1 Project
Paper ID #22004Conceptual Framework for Integrating a Wireless Sensor and Control Net-work into a Robotics Course for Senior Students of Mechanical EngineeringTechnologyDr. Zhou Zhang, New York City College of Technology Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, CUNY New York City College of Technology, 186 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Email: ZhZhang@citytech.cuny.eduDr. Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a mechatronics project in the New York City College of