Science.Dr. Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University Dr. Yujian Fu is a professor of computer science department at Alabama A&M University. Her research interests fall in formal verification of cyber-physical systems, behavioral analysis of mobile security, soft- ware architecture and design analysis of safety-critical and mission-critical systems. Her projects are supported by NSF, Air Force, and DoD. She has several publications regarding research and educational projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 2019 ASEE Conference Supporting Object-Oriented Design Learning Outcome Using Android Development
Virtual Laboratory on Fluid Mechanics’. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 126th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Tampa, Florida, USA, June 15 - 19, 2019 Zhang, Z., Zhang, A., Zhang, M., Esche, S. K. Project-based Robotics Courses for the Students of Mechanical Engineering Technology Zhou Zhang, Andy S. Zhang, Mingshao Zhang, Sven K. EscheAbstractRobotics program at many Colleges has continued to become more and more popular. However,the students of the robotics program of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) are facingthree difficulties: (1
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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Long-Term Study of Software Product and Process Metrics in an Embedded Systems Design CourseIn response to input from advisory employers, market demands, and academic studies [1], manycomputer engineering programs have increased focus on embedded computer systems.Embedded systems form a rich application through which computer engineering education canbe made relevant. Embedded computer systems are a timely subject that is immediately useful tostudents in their senior capstone design projects. Furthermore, a large number of our computerengineering graduates currently use or design embedded computer systems in their jobs.A team-based progressive embedded systems
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Paper ID #24599Creation of an Online Video Tutorial Library at a State UniversityDr. Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Paul Nissenson (Ph.D. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2009) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State Polytechnic Uni- versity, Pomona. He teaches courses in the thermal-fluid sciences, computer programming, and numerical methods. Paul’s current research interests involve studying the impact of technology in engineering edu- cation. He has served on the ASEE Pacific Southwest
president of the Southwest Educational Research Association. He is the author or c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25558co-author of three books, several book chapters and more than 100 articles on mathematics education,quantitative research methods, and teacher education published in such venues as Journal of MathematicsEducation, International Journal for Studies in Mathematics Education, Journal of STEM Education: In-novations and Research, International Journal of University Teaching and Faculty Development, LEARN-ing Landscapes, Special Issue: Mind, Brain and Education, Journal of Mathematical
Terrence Chambers currently serves as Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable En- ergy at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His research interests include alternative energy,virtual reality, engineering design and optimization, and artificial intelligence. He is an active member of ASEE and LES, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 PV-VR: A virtual reality training application using guided virtual tours of the Photovoltaic Applied Research and Testing (PART) Lab.AbstractLeaving the classroom and engaging in learning through first-hand experience has a longtradition in science and engineering
, and Alex Edgcomb. 2018. WeeklyPrograms in a CS1 Class: Experiences with Auto-graded Many-small Programs (MSP). InProceedings of 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. DOI: https://peer.asee.org/31231.[2] Joe Michael Allen, Frank Vahid, Alex Edgcomb, Kelly Downey, and Kris Miller. 2019. AnAnalysis of Using Many Small Programs in CS1. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM technicalsymposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 415-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287466.[3] Autolab. http://www.autolabproject.com/. Accessed: January, 2019.[4] Theresa Beaubouef and John Mason. 2005. Why the high attrition rate for computer sciencestudents: some thoughts and observations. SIGCSE Bull. 37, 2 (June 2005), 103
Paper ID #25438Board 24: The Effects of Mobile Circuits Tutor on Students’ Problem-solvingSelf-efficacy and AnxietyDr. Kenie R. Moses, Kenie serves as a Teaching Instructor in the Department of Educational Technology Research & Assess- ment at Northern Illinois University. He received his BSEE in 2008 from Southern University A&M and MSECE from Purdue University 2011. He will receive a PhD in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University in May 2019. His research interest includes mobile learning, constructivist learning environments and student-centered learning. c American
Paper ID #26430Work in Progress: Adding the Internet of Things to a Freshman-level Engi-neering CourseDr. W. Davis Harbour, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Davis Harbour is a Senior Lecturer and Program Chair for Electrical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He earned his BS and MS degrees at the University of Oklahoma and he earned his PhD degree at the University of Arkansas. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the freshman and sophomore engineering courses, and his interests include microcontrollers, data acquisition systems, control systems, and engineering education. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Dr
Paper ID #25436Board 23: The Effects of a Mobile Learning Environment on Stident Achieve-ment in a Circuits Analysis CourseDr. Kenie R. Moses, Educational Technology Research & Assessment Kenie serves as a Teaching Instructor in the Department of Educational Technology Research & Assess- ment at Northern Illinois University. He received his BSEE in 2008 from Southern University A&M and MSECE from Purdue University 2011. He will receive a PhD in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University in May 2019. His research interest includes mobile learning, constructivist learning environments and student
Paper ID #27384Using Microservices to Modularize Components and Teaching Assistant De-velopment Teams for a Robotics Design Project Computer SystemMr. Jared Dean Mitten, Ohio State University Jared D. Mitten is a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) major at The Ohio State University and is currently an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant with the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) program. He is a lead developer for several software systems used by the FEH program, including the robot course scoring system and the online robot part store. He will graduate in December 2019 with his B.S in CSE with a focus on
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Exploring the Impact of a MATLAB Programming Interactive e-Textbook in a First-Year Engineering CourseIntroductionThe use of electronic or e-textbooks continues to find greater acceptance and enjoy increasedprevalence as in 2019, most undergraduate students have functioned in a digital world for thegreater part of their lives. This has been occasioned in part, by improved technology as well asthe corresponding increase in availability or access. E-textbooks are being introduced acrossseveral disciplines including engineering and medicine. Öhrn et al [1] compared the use oftraditional textbooks vis-à-vis interactive computer learning for medical residents studying
investigates fundamental questions critical to improving undergraduate engineering degree pathways. . She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Literate Programming Approach for Hardware Description Language InstructionINTRODUCTIONDigital devices are ubiquitous in modern life. Over the last several decades, nearly all aspects ofsociety are dependent on digital devices from entertainment devices to convenience
Education, 2019 Paper ID #27365practical implementations. He is also involved in K-20 CS/cybersecurity education research and was the2019 RMS ASEE conference co-chair.Mike also has over a decade of industry and research experience – mostly revolving around the semicon-ductor and bioinformatics industries – with specific experience at Texas Instruments, Intel, and CincinnatiChildren’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to his industry experience, Mike spent two years, whilecompleting his Ph.D., as a National Science Foundation GK-12 fellow – teaching and bringing real-world STEM applications in two urban high schools. Since then, he has worked with
a PhD in Computer Science from SUNY, with particular emphasis on Data Mining and Big data analytics. He is an author or co-author of over 25 peer reviewed journal and conference publications and co-authored a textbook – ”Essential As- pects of Physical Design and Implementation of Relational Databases.” He has four patents in the area of Search Engine research. He is also a recipient of the Math Olympiad Award, and is currently serving as Chair Elect of the ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Mid-Atlantic Conference. He also serves as an NSF (National Science Foundation) panelist.Prof. Karen Goodlad, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Karen Goodlad is an Assistant Professor specializing in
developed the first algorithm that allowed rendering arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal shapes for haptic interfaces (force-feedback human-computer interfaces). He holds 6 patents. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Reducing difficulty variance in randomized assessmentsAbstractWhen exams are run asynchronously (i.e., students take it at different times), a student canpotentially gain an advantage by receiving information about the exam from someone who took itearlier. Generating random exams from pools of problems mitigates this potential advantage, buthas the potential to introduce unfairness if the problems in a given pool are of significantlydifferent difficulty. In this paper
previously taught at Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne, IN and at Morehead State University, KY. He is a member of IIE, SME, ASQ, ASEE, and Informs.Dr. Ali Bouabid, Khalifa University of Science and Technology Dr. Ali Bouabid is currently assistant professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Prior to that, he held a faculty position in the General Studies department at the Petroleum Institute, in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he taught and was coordinator of freshmen engineering courses (ENGR101 and ENGR110). He also taught Engineer- ing Design courses (STPS201 and STPS251) and Mechanical Engineering course (MEEGG201). Prior to these appointments in the
Paper ID #25441Board 22: The Effects of Mobile Circuits on Student Learning Outcomes:Evidence from Real-time Time-stamped Interaction DataDr. Kenie R. Moses, Kenie serves as a Teaching Instructor in the Department of Educational Technology Research & Assess- ment at Northern Illinois University. He received his BSEE in 2008 from Southern University A&M and MSECE from Purdue University 2011. He will receive a PhD in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University in May 2019. His research interest includes mobile learning, constructivist learning environments and student-centered learning
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Technology Officer, at UT Brownsville, he implemented state of the art networking using campus wide fiber ring with redundant links. He established diskless computer labs to provide uniform computing platform across campus, and modernized classrooms to make them congenial to online learning. He was the PI on NSF funded BCEIL (Beowulf-based Curriculum Enrichment Integrated Laboratory) and Co-PI on NSF funded MCALL (Multimedia based Computer Assisted Learning Lab).Dr. Hansheng Lei c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Distributed Education with Multi-Campus Course Delivery MethodsAbstractTo create an emerging teaching and
Human Simulations, Chapel Hill, NC: Health Sciences Consortium, 1987.[8] E. Tanner et al., “Mobile tracked displays as engaging and effective learning platforms”, in 2016 IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop on K-12 Embodied Learning through Virtual & Augmented Reality (KELVAR), Greenville, SC, USA, 2016, pp. 22-27.[9] S. Savadatti and K. Johnsen, “Exploring a Virtual Reality Simulation to Aid Inductive Learning of Fluid Pressure Characteristics”, in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, USA, June 24-28, 2017. Available: https://peer.asee.org/28325[10] Cogent Education. [Online]. Available: https://www.cogenteducation.com/. [Accessed: 22- Jan-2019]
highlighted by the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. In Fall of 2017, he was appointed as the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Endowed Professor in Engineering. To date he has taught 24 different courses in his discipline. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Educational Value of Modelling Complex Thermodynamic Systems with System Dynamics SoftwareAbstractThe solution of problems involving complex thermodynamic systems often occupies much of astudents' time and can be a distraction from them developing a clear understanding of systemcomponents, interaction of subsystems, modelling simplifications and assumptions, and designoptimization. Refocusing students
focused on digital learning innovations that can be developed and refined through rapid prototyping and then promoted throughout the university to maximize collective impact on student success at scale. With over twenty years of experience in both instructional design and teaching, her current research is focused on blended learning, collaborative online learning and internationalizing the curriculum through technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Adapting Mixed-Mode Instructional Delivery To Thrive Within STEM Curricula Ronald F. DeMara1, Tian Tian2, Shadi Sheikhfaal1 and Wendy Howard3 { Department of Electrical and
systems design, and engineering education. He is a co-founder of zyBooks.com.Dr. Alex Daniel Edgcomb, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Alex Edgcomb is Sr. Software Engineer at zyBooks, a startup spun-off from UC Riverside and acquired by Wiley. zyBooks develops interactive, web-native learning materials for STEM courses. Alex actively studies and publishes the efficacy of web-native learning materials on student outcomes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Manual Analysis of Homework Coding Errors for Improved Teaching and HelpAbstractPrevious research reports common student errors in introductory programming (CS1) classes.Knowing common errors
Master of Science from the University of Calgary, Canada. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, India. Dr. Chandramouli has published journal articles in prestigious international journals and has pre- sented papers in respected national and international conferences. He has received federal, regional, and international grants for his work in areas including virtual reality, STEM education, Human Computer Interaction, and Genetic Algorithms in Graphics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 (Work-in-Progress) Prototype Desktop and Augmented VR for Delivering Materials for Graphics Modeling and Animation
engineering degree pathways. . She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty.Christopher Archibald, Mississippi State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Initial Exploration of Machine Learning Techniques to Classify Source Code CommentsAbstractProviding real-time feedback to novice programmers is critical to their ability to learn toprogram. Higher enrollment in introductory computer science courses reduces the amount oftime for
Paper ID #26804Automated Grading of Microsoft Excel SpreadsheetsDr. Keith Hekman, California Baptist University Dr. Keith Hekman is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering. He has been at California Baptist University for eleven years. Prior to teaching at CBU, he has taught at Calvin College and the American University in Cairo. His Ph.D. is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Automated Grading of Microsoft Excel SpreadsheetsIntroductionMicrosoft Excel is a tool that all disciplines of engineers use for calculations and
. Gursimran Singh Walia, North Dakota State University Gursimran S. Walia is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Dakota State University. His main research interests include empirical software engineering, software engineering education, human factors in software engineering, and software quality. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Contact him at gursimran.walia@ndsu.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experiences Using a Cyber Learning Environment in CS1 ClassroomsAbstractThe Software Engineering and Programming Cyber Learning Environment (SEP-CyLE) is aweb-based platform to supplement standard course materials in CS1, CS2, software engineering,and