Paper ID #12018A Blocks-based Visual Environment to Teach Robot-Programming to K-12StudentsMr. Raghavender Goud yadagiri, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Raghavender Goud Yadagiri received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad, India, in 2011. After obtaining his B.Tech he worked as an Embedded As- sociate at Thinklabs Technosolutions Pvt. Ltd for two years. He is currently pursuing a M.S degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialization in Computer Engineering. Raghavender con- ducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory at NYU Polytechnic
engineer and 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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Using the Internet of Things (IoT) to Motivate Engineering Technology and
machines. Students would complete their network security labs utilizingthis equipment either on-site or remotely. However, many students expressed frustration to thisroutine, part of the reason being lag in system performance. In response, we considered a no-costprogram through Amazon called Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate. This program allowsvirtual classrooms to be created. For this course, these classrooms were a gateway that studentsutilized to create and work with various Operating System Instances. This case study examinesan online laboratory environment used in a fundamentals of network security course that coversthe competencies of the CompTIA Security+ certification. The main objectives were to explorethe feasibility of utilizing the no
2006-1905: TEACHING ROBOT DESIGN: STUDENT-DRIVEN, OPEN-ENDEDDESIGN PROJECTSBradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy BRADLEY E. BISHOP is an Associate Professor in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He is the founder of the Mobile Robotics Laboratory at USNA. His research interests include robot swarm control, autonomous surface vessels, and nonlinear control.Carl Wick, U.S. Naval Academy CARL E. WICK is a Professor and
Paper ID #5810Experiments for a Freshman Engineering Computing CourseDr. Charles H. Forsberg, Hofstra University Dr. Forsberg is a professor emeritus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY where he taught lecture and laboratory courses primarily in the thermal/fluids area of mechanical engineering. He is currently active in the Energy Engineering area. Page 23.575.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experiments for a Freshman Engineering Computing
composite materials. A companion thread for the program is LabVIEWprogramming, which is integrated into each topic. Robotics and the associated programming areintriguing topics for the students and provide immediate motivation for studying engineering.The students explore instrumentation, sensors, and control using Lego Robots. They useLabVIEW to investigate material properties and behavior for metals, polymers, and composites.The LabVIEW and MINDSTORM combination provides immediate, visual, verification ofproject solutions. Each topic is introduced by a series of short lectures followed by hands-oninteractive laboratory sessions. The students quickly gain skills and facility with both tools,using creative approaches to accomplish the various
12 and 20 students per semester. The numbers are limited by the number ofworkstations and mobile devices in our mobile computing laboratory. Page 22.1305.2This first offering of CIT 355 had students programming applications for the Microsoft PocketPC PDA platform as this platform was the clear market leader in the handheld device space atthe time. Students used the C# programming language, the Visual Studio IDE, and the .NETCompact Framework class libraries when developing applications. In addition to being a popularplatform, this environment proved useful for pedagogical reasons as our students had used VisualStudio IDE and C# in prerequisite
is currently pursuing a dual B.S/M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and expects to graduate in June 2007. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi. He has worked as a teaching and research assistant with responsibilities in the area of mechatronics.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1 News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research
not workwith the current version of the software). Also, the book was discontinued and was prohibitivelyexpensive. Finally, the author attended a 10-day training session offered remotely by EON Realitystaff to develop expertise and learn advanced features of EON Professional. The above facts andactivities greatly influenced VR labs development for the VR course.This paper mainly describes students’ experiences with a novel required first-year graduate levelcourse on virtual reality (VR) taught at our Master of Science in Engineering with MechatronicsEmphasis (MS-Mechatronics) program. This three credit-hour semester-long course consists oflectures, laboratory examples, exercises, and projects. Since this work deals with human subjects,all
contain hands-on laboratory activities to emphasizecourse concepts4, it became apparently that this course should contain similar learningcomponents for teaching professional skills, mainly using simulations. This was supported by theadaptive nature of this course, which is continually redesigned to maintain its relevance in thearea of technology. Thus, new technology components are implemented every two years, whilemaintaining the historical elements of industry practices that do not waiver, such as the history ofthe Internet and Circuitry.The course under examination not only contains a lecture component, but a hands-on computerlab component, which include the simulations. The hands-on lab component allows students theopportunity to actively
student as part of degreerequirements for a master of science degree in electrical engineering. We have partnered withstudents on a number of related education projects over the past decade. We have dubbed thistype of development project as “For Students By Students (FSBS).” In the FSBS model, studentsdevelop educational tools for use in the classroom and laboratory for use by fellow students. Thisapproach has allowed us to custom design educational tools while providing studentsopportunities for hands-on development work. Additional information on this approach andrelated projects are provided in the literature [3-9].In the next section we present background information for the reader to put into context theconcepts related to the paper
demonstration that the derivative operatoris more than a symbolic mathematical operator and much more than just anotheracademic exercise.We have successfully used winDSK, winDSK6, and the latest version, winDSK8, toprovide demonstrations of any number of concepts during outreach (K-12 events), atfreshman motivational events, and in junior, senior, and even graduate ECE courses.IntroductionFor years, students have struggled with learning the significance of the impulse response.This is especially true given that there is no piece of test and measurement equipment(T&ME) in our teaching laboratories that is capable of producing a true impulse. Manyeducators have written about the benefits of demonstrations to aid student learning,especially for some
thatwork in the electrical power sector of industry do have prior knowledge of electrical powerindustrial software.A virtual electrical power systems laboratory is used in the EET-3334 course in conjunction withthe theory and application of the lecture. This virtual electrical power systems laboratory allowsa variety of electrical power systems to be designed effectively with minimum cost. In addition,the lab use of industrial software allows the students to practice using a tool that typically isrequired later when they work in industry. The students in the virtual electrical power systemslab first learn basic theory power theory using the Electronics Workbench / Multisim software.The students then learn to program some small projects by using
the pedagogicalpuzzle. This feedback is used to refine and optimize the course for the student to get the mostfrom the experience. This optimization is heavily based upon the premise that students haveresponded to the best of their ability using their own work.When this premise is found to fail, a common response by the instructor is to reduce the courseweight of the component(s) where academic integrity may be questioned (e.g. computerprogramming laboratories). While this appears to limit the gains of the dishonest student, it willalso demotivate the honest students by: 1) Placing less emphasis on core aspects of the course building blocks, and 2) Continuing to reward questionable methods with high marks.In the effort to limit the
Paper ID #15269WORK IN PROGRESS: Teaching Broadly-Applicable STEM Skills to HighSchool Sophomores Using Linux and SmartphonesProf. Daniel Brian Limbrick, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Daniel Limbrick is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). As director of the Automated Design for Emerging Process Technologies (ADEPT) laboratory at NC A&T, he researches ways to make computers more reliable (i.e., radiation hardening) and scalable (e.g., three-dimensional integra- tion) through novel approaches
. The makerspace has an individualclassroom, as well as a workstation area used as a laboratory workspace. This course allows forthe Cornerstone project to be a long term project spanning multiple lab sessions, which isadvantageous because it simulates how engineering functions in industry [1]. This involveshands-on learning and utilizes an instructor being present to assist the students [2] [3].The current Cornerstone project involves the construction, and design of a windmill system. Thissystem requires the integration of a windmill, student-built AC motors, DC motors, circuitry,data acquisition, manipulation of the acquired data, and the display of the data results.The scaffolded lesson plans related to programming in ENGR 111 have been
institutionalization of V&V bestpractices. Figure 1: Why Software Fails?This V&V research is student focused and will contribute to knowledge about STEM education.The work will transform the existing undergraduate V&V course at the Author’s institution(ENGR3400 – Software Verification and Validation). The proposed course enhancements andsubsequent content modularization will respond to the National Research Council’s (NRC)challenge “to deliver effective undergraduate education in STEM disciplines,” namely answeringthe challenge of providing engaging laboratory, classroom, and field experiences throughimproved communication skills, applied knowledge of methods and tools, and research exposurethat will improve the
Learn. Available online at: http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx5. Sprint ID, Available online at: http://ria.sprint.com/ria/pages/index.jsp?ms=SprintID&id16=Sprint%20ID#/learn6. A. Spanias and V. Atti, “An introduction to Java DSP (J-DSP),” Tech. Report, School of ECEE, Arizona StateUniversity. Available online at: http://jdsp.engineering.asu.edu/MANUAL/m1_generalinfo.pdf7. S. Ranganath, J. J. Thiagarajan, K. N. Ramamurthy, S. Hu, M. Banavar and A. Spanias “Undergraduate SignalProcessing Laboratories for the Android Operating System,” ASEE2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas,June 10-13, 2012 (Accepted).8. J. Liu, S. Hu, J. J. Thiagarajan, X. Zhang, S. Ranganath , M. K. Banavar and A. Spanias
from Cairo Univ. M.S. in Bioengineering from the Ohio State and the Univ. of Michigan, and PhD in EE from Purdue. He is a Prof. of ECE at the Univ. of Louisville, and director of the Computer Vision & Image Processing Laboratory, focusing on research and teaching in computer vision, biometrics and biomedical imaging. He introduced over 13 new courses into the ECE curriculum, authored over 400 papers, edited two volumes on deformable models and a textbook on Biomedical Image Analysis (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014). He graduated over 70 MS and PhD students, and mentored over 20 postdoctoral researchers. He holds seven US patents on object modeling, computer-aided diagnosis, and visualization. He was lead editor of
project proposals and the projects that they produce?Literature ReviewAs far back as 1998 researchers such as Edelson were conceptualizing authentic science practices2. Roughlyten years later, the researchers contend, “that laboratory-based school science teaching needs to becomplemented by … learning that draws on the actual world3.” This is authentic science practice3.Recently, researchers are showing that authentic STEM experiences4 include creating questions,investigating – which includes failure - and disseminating results to the community5. The majority of thetime at the university level, undergraduate research experiences are considered authentic scienceexperiences6. There is a large body of research on undergraduate research experiences7
instructionalsoftware emphasized lower-level cognitive processes,9 but a larger number report learning gainswhen implementing technology in the classroom through virtual experiments or onlineinstruction.10-13 Additionally, incorporating simulations into the classroom can increasevisualization and problem-solving processes,14,15 as well as show positive gains in student self-efficacy with respect to engineering skills.16Virtual experiments offer an opportunity to provide students with valuable experience at a lowcost (no laboratory space or consumables, only computer facilities, required), high flexibility(can be performed outside of class, does not require direct supervision, safety is not a directconcern), and great breadth (some disciplines may have
, atmospheric physics, applied computer science, sensor engineering, instrumentation, and environmental engineering. He has been associated with, among other institutions: the Southern Connecticut State and Columbia universities; Bates, Bowdoin, and The Evergreen State colleges; the Rome Air Development Center of the U.S. Air Force; and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In addition to the ASEE, he is a currently a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society, the IEEE-Computer Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1967
being reviewed in addition to a numeric score. This approach can beuseful in helping the students justify their scores. It is the author’s opinion that comments shouldbe required for any students that is given either bonus points or less than fifty percent of theavailable points. In this manner students learn to document exceptional and poor performanceand it provides better evidence of over and underperforming student’s work that may be useful ina grade appeal situation.The author normally uses peer evaluation in the laboratory section of upper divisionundergraduate courses. Teams of two to four students work to complete each project and itsdocumentation. In this environment the peer evaluation base is 20 points with up to 150% of thebase
-HulmanInstitute of Technology. A two week “PLC” experience was implemented based on theuse of Allen-Bradley Pico PLCs and the Picosoft application software. Additionally twodifferent laboratory demonstration stations were built in-house to provide a “hands-on”control experience for students. This paper talks about how the “PLC” experience hasbeen implemented and how well it has been received as part of the mechatronics course.Introduction:Mechatronics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has historically been a classfocused on the use of microcontroller devices and the language skills needed to programthem. In this course, students learn to program a Handy Board microcontroller and use itto monitor a variety of different sensors and control a number of
the students on the aeronautics track. In thechemical engineering course, homework is 10% of final grade and a series of 5 exams make up65% of the grade. The rest of student grade consists of laboratory assignments (5%), classengagement (5%), and a final project (15%). The chemical engineering course is a core courserequired for all students in the chemical engineering program, and taken strictly in the fall of thethird year as a co-requisite to physical chemistry and a pre-requisite to unit operations.In both courses, gaining proficiency with specific applications of the software used (GMAT forthe aerospace engineering course, and HYSYS for the chemical engineering course) are historiclearning objectives. As previously mentioned, these
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non-commercial e-Learning systems3, 4, 5 that have been developed at various academic institutions.Web based interactive laboratory experiments have also been developed for electrical circuits5,6,electronics7,8, fluid mechanics, and control systems courses9, 10, 11, 12, and various other courses.Some of these systems also allow certain level of interactivity through the use of whiteboard,chat, email, and other interfaces, however, lack an interactive environment for monitoredproblem solving, and feedback. On the other hand, an e-tutoring system is ideally an electroniccounterpart of a human tutor. The e-tutoring system must be capable of guiding the studentwhen he or she stumbles on a problem, suggest background or prerequisite material
experience,2) curricula and contents, and 3) labs and platforms. For example, the importance of enhancingthe laboratory environment for improving embedded systems education process is shown in [12].This work points to the significant role of using current available technologies and tools such ashard/soft-core processors, IP (Intellectual Property) cores, and the EDK (embedded developmentkit) tool in embedded systems labs. It also shows the importance of transition from using TTL Page 15.1268.2ICs (transistor–transistor-logic integrated circuits) to reconfigurable devices such as FPGA. In[13] a set of experiments are proposed to enable students to
panels, and tires. She has also worked on numerous projects to create advanced engineering design and learning environments, which include mul- timodal user interfaces for space systems. As Vice President of Information Technology, Peters directs the development of advanced virtual reality applications, including scientific visualization applications and web-based multimedia education/training applications.Dr. Hazim A. El-Mounayri, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Hazim El-Mounayri is an Associate Professor of M.E. and the Co-director of the Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Laboratory (AEML) at IUPUI. The AEML is currently conducting research in virtual manufacturing and intelligent (multiscale
AC 2011-1464: PUTTING BELLS & WHISTLES ON DSP TOOLKIT OFLABVIEWMurat Tanyel, Geneva College Murat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Geneva College. He teaches upper level electrical engineer- ing courses. Prior to teaching at Geneva College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Dordt College in Sioux Center, IA. He started his career at Drexel University where he worked for the Enhanced Educational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-on computer exper- iments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovative introductory