Conference Session

Programming Education 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

why engineering schools are workingon providing courses in which students must engage in solving open-ended problems to facilitatereaching these learning outcomes. However, most of those courses are typically at the end of thecareer path (Capstone design project) and maybe an introductory design course in their first year.In these courses, students must find a problem and work on defining a specific problem, whichgets them closer to what the outcome expects. On the other hand, most of the coursesengineering students take in their first year ask them to solve well-defined problems with a rightanswer (they might be able to take different paths to get to that answer, but there is still one rightanswer). Several engineering education thought

Conference Session

Cybersecurity Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud K Quweider, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang; Alexis Aaron De La Cruz

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

each lab o Design of lab by instructor/graduate students. ▪ Delivery of lab by graduate students. ▪ Feedback mechanism.• Mechanisms for enforcing cloud computing concepts and services: o Through projects and assignments. o Through targeted upper-level courses. o Through individualized capstone projects.• Resources made available to students: o Internal and external. o Free and for pay.• Cloud+ Certification: o Institutional resources. o Externally funded resources.By presenting our efforts, we hope that other institutions considering expanding their programsof study to include Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, and Cloud+ Certification can benefit fromour experience by

Conference Session

COED: Online and Remote Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Hicks, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Hemanth Kumar Reddy Bhimavarapu, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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University-Corpus Christiwere affected during the COVID-19 pandemic and were moved online. As a result. most labshad to be modified to allow students to take them remotely and even today many courses stillhave online sections at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. To support online or off-campuslearning, students would be able to check out an IoT kit. The IoT learning kits provide theopportunity for remotely learning students to engage with hands-on learning. Thus, students gaina better understanding of IoT concepts and technologies and how they might be integrated intotheir capstone projects. The assignments reported in the rest of this paper provide an opportunityfor students to learn how to incorporate IoT and are part of IoT related research

Conference Session

COED Programming Education 2: Instructional Approaches

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

-firstapproach, they thought a hybrid software-first approach provides greater learning. Most studentsexpressed little frustration in learning the material using either approach. Of those who did expressfrustration, most suggested that using the other approach would have led to increased frustrationin learning the material.KeywordsProgramming, First-year Engineering, Programable Microcontrollers, ArduinoIntroductionAt Northeastern University College of Engineering, all first-year students follow a commoncurriculum, as part of a “Cornerstone to Capstone” educational program adopted in 2014 [1]. Thefirst-year Cornerstone course uses projects to emphasize the ways in which engineering candevelop practical problem-solving applications. In Cornerstone, there

Conference Session

COED: AI and ML Topics

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhao Sun, Hampton University; Laura Camila Peralta; Myles Anthony Ragins; Niara Renee Chaney

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

university, where the students finish theimplementation of ML-based visual navigation applications with TurtleBots [8].To generalize, with the one semester course learning/training and the consecutive two weeks casestudy in the summer REU activities, the undergraduate students gain a much better understandingof the fundamental concepts and are well prepared to accomplish projects on data-drivingmodeling and learning based control for AUVs and UAVs for their senior capstone design.Feedback from the students together with the course survey shows that the students have increasedtheir programming skills through the learning process and so far, all the senior studentsparticipating in the program has been offered graduate school admission with full fund

Conference Session

Programming Education 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Chaitanya Borra, Western Carolina University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

learn Python as their introductory programming languageto move to MATLAB in courses that require it. Use of Python programming in higher-levelengineering classes and project-based courses such as the Senior Capstone class will also bemonitored. This work is intended to guide the faculty in ongoing efforts to raise the level ofdigital literacy of our graduates.References 1. Lahtinen, Essi, Kirsti Ala-Mutka, and Hannu-Matti Järvinen. "A study of the difficulties of novice programmers." Acm sigcse bulletin 37, no. 3 (2005): 14-18. 2. Piteira, Martinha, and Carlos Costa. "Learning computer programming: study of difficulties in learning programming." In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and

Conference Session

Teaching with ML and Generative AI

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby F Hodgkinson, University of Colorado Boulder; Nathan Eric Whittenburg, University of Colorado Boulder

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #42183WIP: AI-based Sentiment Analysis and Grader EnhancementsMr. Bobby F Hodgkinson, University of Colorado Boulder Bobby Hodgkinson is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department (AES) and co-manages the educational electronics and instrumentation shop. He assists students and researchers in the department for sensor and data acquisition needs as well as manages several lab courses and experiments. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for the senior capstone projects course. Prior to joining Smead Aerospace department in 2012, he was the lab manager at

Conference Session

COED: Cybersecurity Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fitratullah Khan, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Ala Qubbaj, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Laura Saenz; Liyu Zhang, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

to have all its undergraduate engineering, computer science, and cybersecurity degrees to be accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology). Pursuant to this goal, a capstone project course was added to the updatedcurriculum of the BSCS degree. Even though the six Educational Student Outcomes (ESOs)prescribed by ABET [6] are addressed by the core courses in the curriculum, adding a capstoneproject course to the core curriculum brings together all the six ESOs in one course in a polishedand refined manner for students to see the relationship among all six ESOs. The capstonespecifically focuses on ESO #3 (communication skills), ESO #4 (legal and ethical principles), andESO #5 (teamwork). The foundational block in the

Conference Session

COED: Cybersecurity Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud K. Quweider, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Hansheng Lei

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Corporate CS Math/Stat Capstone Project (Optional) Certifications Figure 1. Cyber Security Degree ArchitectureTo complement education with training, the degree also requires students to pass two industrycertifications before they graduate. The course number for each certification is CYBI-3101-xxwhere xx stands for the student’s choice of certification such as Net+, Linux+, Security+, etc. Apool of certifications was carefully studied and approved, and we are

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education Division (COED)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Lisa Graham Robeson, Ohio Northern University; Ye Hong, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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professions. Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including formative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rukangu, University of Georgia; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Kyle Johnsen, University of Georgia

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

projects can foster the inclusion of students with learning disabilities (Daniela and Lytras, 2019; Nanou and Karampatzakis, 2022). In the case of tertiary education, industrial-scale robots are used to prepare students for careers in industry by emphasizing aspects such as hardware, software, and human-machine interfaces (Nagai, 2001; Brell-Çokcan and Braumann, 2013). However, industrial-scale robots are expensive to purchase. In addition, there is usually some oversight over their usage due to time-sharing and to prevent damage, which prevents "free-play" by students. Some solutions to this include the use of miniature robots and the use of online labs (Mallik and Kapila, 2020; Stein and Lédeczi, 2021). Though these reduce the cost of the setups

Conference Session

COED: Grading Systems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liia Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

student’s final grade consists of in-class assignments that areworth 15%, quizzes that are worth 55% (11 quizzes, 5% per quiz), and the final exam, worth 10%.Lab assignments are intended to challenge students the most on content knowledge compared toother course components, but they are lower stakes as seen by the grade percentage. Studentswrite code in Verilog, MIPS assembly, and C. These labs are mini-capstone exercises, wherestudents complete a multi-component or multi-function coding task in stages. For most labs,students may work alone or in groups up to three students (three labs are to be completedindividually). The lab assignment is made available at the start of the week and is split into twoparts. Part one (usually one module or function

Conference Session

COED: Student Perspectives of Instructional and Advising Approaches

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahbub K. Ahmed, P.E., Southern Arkansas University; Kendra J. Ahmed, Southern Arkansas University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Program: Students’ PerspectivesAbstractEffective advising ensures students take the proper classes to stay on track for their graduation.For example, in an engineering curriculum, it is crucial that students maintain the propersequence of courses that results in the culmination of the program's required capstone designcourse(s). Any human error during the advising process can risk the disruption of the smoothprogression through the program for a student. Thus, a computerized web-based advising toolcan be highly useful to eliminate such human errors in identifying the most needed coursesduring an advising session. Currently, many advising tools are available through commercialbusinesses or developed by those working in the field of education. In