Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

acknowledge GCC’s Swezey research fund for providing equipment and studentresearch stipend support.References1. Blossom, E., Listening to FM radio in software, step by step. Linux Journal, September 2004, Vol. 125.2. FlexRadio Systems. [Online] http://www.flex-radio.com/.3. Birmingham, W. and L. Acker, Software-defined radio as an undergraduate project. Proceedings of ACMSIGCSE, Covington, KY, 2007.4. Silage, D., Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects. Proceedings of the 2004 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.5. Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium. [Online] http://www.drm.org/.6. Tayloe, R., US Patent #6,230,0007. Youngblood, G., A Software-Defined Radio for the Masses, Part 1. QEX. 2002

Conference Session

Robots in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Fernandez, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Richard Fischer, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Paul Drews, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University; Maegan Grady, Saint Mary's College, University of Notre Dame; Robert Rucker, Vanderbilt University; Jessica Tham, Louisiana Tech University; Thomas Bierbower, Randolph High School

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Computers in Education

directly aligned with the work done withing NASA;consequently, this had potential for recruiting new students to the engineering programs. More importantly, involvement of students with the real world engineering programs, helped in retention of students. Some of the students involved in this project participated in hands-on experience through their capstone design projects enabling them to apply their knowledge of engineering and mathematics. The vehicle was displayed at important university events such as Highschool Day and Engineering day and through this vehicle missions of NASA and AAMU were exposed to the potential engineering students.d. Familiarity with NASA goals and missions- the research project provided an avenue for

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Holden, California Maritime Academy

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Computers in Education

ready to apply to capstone design projects. The background knowledgeneeded to learn microcontrollers does not require typical engineering prerequisites such ascalculus or dynamics. Assuming that microcontroller programming (programming in C) will betaught as part of the microcontroller curriculum, only basic computer skills are needed from thestudents. Most incoming students have the knowledge to get started in microcontrollers.Another advantage is that the students will learn these skills without adding classes to the Page 14.1258.2curriculum. At the California Maritime Academy, as in most engineering programs, the studentcourse load is at a

Conference Session

Robots in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Paul Robinette, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-162: INTRODUCING ROBOTSRyan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology Ryan Meuth received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri –Rolla in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is currently a Computer Engineering PhD student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri – Rolla). He works as a research assistant in the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory, contributing to research projects on optimizing the behavior of robot swarms, large scale optimization problems such as computer Go, and high performance computing methods utilizing video game consoles and graphics processing units. His

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Cochrane, University of Canterbury

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Computers in Education

lectures would have been requiredfor students to present 8 minute oral presentations in groups of about 4. Unfortunately,allocating 4 lecture hours to oral presentations was unfeasible because if impacts on limitedlecture and lab time necessary for covering other critical technical material. Unless otheralternatives were sought to provide students with opportunities to practice oral presentations,engineering student oral communication skills would suffer.The lack of previous experience in giving oral presentations can readily be seen when final yearstudents are given an opportunity to present their capstone final year project, and do a poor job ofit. In other engineering disciplines, where final year projects are not a requirement, students cango

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

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Computers in Education

engineering course, including the capstone senior design course, other core courses, and technical electives. The differences in hours reported were statistically significant and dramatic. The average time invested in numerical methods was 35% higher than the next highest course. It was twice the average of all other courses. Details are published in Coller Page 14.844.5 & Scott3.• Finding #2: Students taking the game-based numerical methods cours appear to learn the material more deeply than students taking traditional textbook-based numerical methods courses. Using a concept mapping technique, we3 compared the