Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University; Jacob Schroeder, Clemson University; Hanjun Xian, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

focuses on a qualitative analysis of articles in the engineering educationliterature drawn from The Journal of Engineering Education spanning the past 10 years. Fourbroad criteria guided the selection and analyses of the articles: (1) Content: What major types of content for cyberlearning environments are being created focused particularly on engineering education? For example, the NSF identifies various categories of content for cyberlearning environments such as interactive online courses, intelligent tutors, virtual and remote laboratories, and serious games. (2) Pedagogy: How are these cyberlearning environments being incorporated in the classroom to promote learning? For example, several educators have reported

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jeffrey Anderson, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Robert Kubichek, University of Wyoming; Suresh Muknahallipatna, University of Wyoming; John Pierre, University of Wyoming; David Whitman, University of Wyoming; Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

microcontrol concepts and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Both microcontrollers and PLCsare used throughout industry to control machinery and processes.To develop a course syllabus, the course director investigated a number of textbooks on thesetwo topics and selected two of them: one based on the Atmel microcontroller and the other PLCs. Page 14.528.17≠ Fundamentals of Programmable Logic Controllers, Sensors, and Communications, J. Stenerson, 3rd edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.≠ Atmel AVR Primer: Programming and Interfacing, S.F. Barrett and D. J. Pack, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008.A course syllabus and outline was

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

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. Page 14.808.2Semester research projects culminated in updating WikiBooks pages to share the students' new-found knowledge in a particular robotics topic. Students were encouraged to apply their semesterpractical projects to various Missouri S&T robotics competition entries such as the IEEERobotics Competition and the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Continuing in this open-source philosophy, all course documents, including lecture slides, reading material, sourcereferences and robot kit hardware and software were posted online. This enables the educationaland hobby community to contribute and develop the course-ware beyond the duration of classsessions, creating a 'living course' that continues to evolve and improve, increasing its

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

period, and there are effectively 40 hours of lectures. About two-third of thetime is devoted to the recitations and the rest to applications and mini-projects. Students’prior knowledge of electromagnetics is limited to physics course, so our electromagneticsstarts from vector algebra and coordinate systems and encompasses the usual topics suchas electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation, transmissionlines, and radiating systems. The course syllabus is outlined in the paper’s appendix. Thefollowing means of teaching have been adopted: MS Office PowerPoint, FEMLABsoftware, MATLAB, Maple and MathCAD packages, computer-based projects,simulation and virtual experiments, and computer assisted course management.3. Methods