AC 2010-1470: INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING ENVIRONMENT WITHWEB-CAMERA FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATIONHassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State UniversityArsen Gasparyan, Bowling Green State University Page 15.790.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Interactive Virtual Training Environment with Web-Camera for Science and Engineering EducationAbstractWeb-based interactive environments exhibit impressive potentials for educational purposes.Web-based simulation (WBS) offers such a surrounding. Numerous courses in science andengineering can employ WBS techniques to explain and demonstrate complex concepts forstudents through a simple and
AC 2010-2251: PRISM: TEACHING DIGITAL PROFICIENCIES FOR 21STCENTURY ENGINEERING EDUCATIONPatricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson (PhD) is a professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Indiana). She is the author of over sixty referred publications and presentation. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Interactive Learning Environments and Journal of Universal Computer Science. Carlson has used her experience in implementing technology into the classroom on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation funded research projects. She is now the Director of the PRISM Project, a large-scale
, E. Fernandez-Macias, and M. Bisello, Teleworkability and the COVID-19 crisis: a new digital divide? European Commission, 2020.[8] O. B. Azubuike, O. Adegboye, and H. Quadri, "Who gets to learn in a pandemic? Exploring the digital divide in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria," International Journal of Educational Research Open, p. 100022, 2020.[9] G. Watts, "COVID-19 and the digital divide in the UK," The Lancet Digital Health, vol. 2, no. 8, pp. e395-e396, 2020.[10] T. Hussain, "Education and COVID-19 in Nigeria: Tackling the digital divide," SOAS Blog (retrieved from https://www. soas. ac. uk/blogs/study/covid-19-nigeria-digital- divide/), 2020.[11] J. Hall, C. Roman, C
AC 2009-747: FACING THE INFORMATION FLOOD WITH TABLET PCSSabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart After receiving her M.Sc. in Physics at the Berlin University of Technology in 1997, graduating with distinction, Sabina Jeschke worked as an assistant teacher at the department for mathematics and natural sciences and earned her doctorate in 2004. Holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, she spent several months of research at the NASA in Moffet Field, CA. In 2000 and 2001, S. Jeschke worked as an instructor at the GaTech (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta). Since 2005, Sabina Jeschke has been associate professor for "New Media in Mathematics and Natural
AC 2009-86: CONNECTING WITH ALUMNI: AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALNETWORKING USING FACEBOOK GROUPSJohn K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon
AC 2012-4852: MILLENNIALS PERCEPTION OF USING CLICKER TOSUPPORT AN ACTIVE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT: AN EARLY ADOP-TION PERSPECTIVEDr. John Patrick Hogan, Missouri University of Science & Technology John P. Hogan is an Associate Professor of geology in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engi- neering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in geology in 1990 and 1984 from Virginia Tech. He also holds a B.S. in geology from the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include igneous petrology, structural geology, and tectonics. He has active projects in Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri, Egypt, and southern Africa. He is also interested in enhancing
AC 2012-3083: MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO LEARN PROGRAMMINGUSING GAME ASSIGNMENTSDr. Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University Rajeev Agrawal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology at North Carolina A&T State University.Dr. Zachary Kurmas, Grand Valley State University Zachary Kurmas is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University. He teaches primarily CS 1, CS 2, and computer architecture.Dr. Venkat N. Gudivada, Marshall University Venkat N. Gudivada is a professor of computer science at Marshall University, Huntington, W.V. He re- ceived his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His current
-credit electric circuit analysis course, the topical content (coveringboth DC and AC circuits) remained the same. Previously, it was taught in a single section of fourlectures per week, with typical enrollments of 80-100 students per semester. In the blendedlearning implementation, there is a single section with two lectures per week (Monday and Page 24.574.2Wednesday), and two collaborative active learning sessions per week (Tuesday and Thursday).The reduction from four to two lectures per week necessitates streamlining of lecture content.Examples that were previously worked by the instructor during lecture (and easily forgotten by alarge
AC 2012-5536: CAN WE MAKE STUDENTS LIFELONG LEARNERS THROUGHSOCIAL NETWORKS?Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Gonca Altuger-Genc is a full-time faculty member in the Plastics Engineering Department at UMass, Lowell.Mr. Yegin Genc, Stevens Institute of Technology Yegin Genc is a Ph.D. candidate at Stevens Institute of Technology. Page 25.280.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 CAN WE MAKE STUDENTS LIFELONG LEARNERS THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS?AbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering Education and Technology (ABET) criteriarequire
AC 2011-905: EFFECT OF LAPTOPS IN LARGE LECTURE CLASSESON ATTENTIVENESS AND ENGAGEMENTPerry Samson, University of Michigan Perry J. Samson–is the Associate Chair and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Atmo- spheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan. Perry is the recipient of the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009 Teaching Innovation Award and the 2010 Distin- guished Professor of the Year in the State of Michigan. Professor Samson is also the co-founder of the Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com). Page 22.532.1
AC 2011-1342: A MATLAB TOOLBOX FOR THE USB INTELLITEK SCOR-BOTJoel Esposito, U.S. Naval AcademyCarl E. Wick, U.S. Naval AcademyKenneth A. Knowles, U.S. Naval Academy Professor Emeritus Weapons and Systems Engineering Page 22.61.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The MATLAB Toolbox for the Intelitek Scorbot (MTIS): an open source educational robotics development libraryAbstract - We present a MATLAB toolbox that interfaces directly with the Intelitek Scorbot –one of the most widely used educational articulated robots. The toolbox provides a user-friendly, open source method of accessing
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
AC 2011-2252: A PEN-BASED STATICS TUTORING SYSTEMChia-Keng Lee, University of California at Riverside Chia-Keng Lee received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He is currently a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Riverside.Thomas Stahovich, University of California, Riverside Dr. Stahovich received his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1988. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1990 and 1995 respectively. He conducted his doctoral research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. After serving as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA
interests include the utilization of lignin as an alternative renewable chemicals feedstock; lignin-based plastics; green chemistry and engineering for the development of next-generation lignocellulosic biorefineries; and bio-based polymers and composites. His work has been published in Green Chemistry; ChemSusChem; ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces; the Journal of Applied Polymer Science; and the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. He is currently collaborating with scientists at Drexel University, the University of Delaware, and the Army Research Labs. While at the University of Delaware, he completed the Higher Education Teaching Certification program, a program that is
of Central Florida Ramtin Zand received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 from Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran. He also received his M.Sc. degree in Digital Electronics at Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. His research interests are in Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computing Architectures with emphasis on Spintronic devices. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Digitizing and Remediating Engineering Assessments: An Immersive and Transportable
AC 2012-3521: MANAGING TIME IN ONLINE COURSES: STUDENT PER-CEPTIONSProf. Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT) Susan L. Miertschin is an Associate Professor teaching in the Computer Information Systems program at the University of Houston. Her teaching interests are in the development of information systems ap- plications and the complementary nature of back-end developer and front-end developer skill sets. Her research interests are program and student assessment, the impact of instructional technology on student learning, and the improvement of e-learning environments and experiences.Dr. Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston Carole Goodson is a professor of technology at the University of Houston. As
AC 2011-702: INTEGRATING GALLERY WALKS AND WIKIS IN A SYN-ERGIC INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OFSTUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONSJohn Patrick Hogan, Missouri S&T Dr. John P. Hogan is an associate professor of Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Geology in 1990 and 1984 from Virginia Tech. He also holds a BS in Geology from the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include igneous petrology, structural geology, and tectonics. He has active projects in Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri, Egypt and southern Africa. He is also interested in enhancing student learning through integration
AC 2012-3853: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HIGHPERFORMANCE COMPUTER (HPC) CLUSTER FOR ENGINEERINGEDUCATION SIMULATIONSDr. Kurt C. Gramoll, University of Oklahoma Kurt Gramoll is Hughes Professor of Engineering. Page 25.443.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development and Implementation of a High Performance Computer (HPC) Cluster for Engineering Education SimulationsAbstractWith the advancements in high performance computer (HPC) computing, it is only natural thatengineering education also utilizes the massive computational capabilities of large server
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
AC 2012-5424: WORK-IN-PROGRESS: GRADUATE STUDENT PERSPEC-TIVES ON USING TABLET PCS AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGIESMiss JUDITH VIRGINIA GUTIERREZProf. Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Aurelio Lopez-Malo is professor and Past Chair, Department of Chemical, Food, and Environmental En- gineering at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, in Mexico. He teaches food science and engineering related courses. His research interests include emerging technologies for food processing, natural antimi- crobials, and active learningDr. Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Enrique Palou is Director, Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology Education in the Department of Chemical, Food, and