ConstructedResponse) project at Michigan State [6], the data are then utilized to develop rubrics forhuman scoring. These rubrics are used in formative assessment. Microsoft’sPowergrading approach [7, 8] is similar. A similarity metric is used to group studentresponses into clusters. An instructor can grade a representative item from each cluster,and assign a score to each cluster. Each cluster is also given customized formativefeedback.The clustering approach has proven useful in other domains as well. A recent paper onmathematical language processing uses cluster-based analysis to assign partial credit tomathematical derivations [9]. This is probably more challenging than doing the samewith prose answers, because it must be able to recognize different ways
inmultiple languages and codes that information employs (textual, iconic, hypertextual,audiovisual, multimedia, etc.), should be a recurring, continuing goal throughout theeducation system as a whole, from primary education to higher education2.In addition, international organizations have focused their attention both on thedevelopment of advanced curricula and instruction in general. This has been reflected inseveral projects supported by UNESCO and OECD. One such project, called “DeSeCo”(Determination and Selection of Competencies), had published a number of researchpapers in the 2000s which lay a theoretical foundation for the new understanding of theconcept of competencies in education and in the IT industry5,12,13.In the 1960s, when modern
Performance Evaluation.Table 1 is a survey of high performance computing courses offered in the US only. As shown inthe table, most HPC courses utilize high performance computing infrastructure such assupercomputer or cluster systems. For example, the Berkeley Network of Workstations (NOW)project builds a distributed supercomputer using a network of workstations, which is mainlysponsored by NSF10. Currently, NOW includes 100 SUN UltraSPARCs and 40 SUN SPARCsrunning on Solaris, 35 Intel PC's running on Windows NT or on PC UNIX variant. All areconnected by a Myrinet switched network. The NOW project stimulated many HPC relatedcourses, such as CS 258 Parallel Processors. However, since the universities listed in Table 1 are
Undergraduate Research (NCUR) has been an annual conference since 1987.NCUR’s primary goal is to promote undergraduate research in all fields of study.National Science Foundation (NSF) funds undergraduate research through Research Experiencesfor Undergraduates (REU) program. Providing research experiences for undergraduate studentsand increasing the number of students interested in graduate programs are the goals of the REUprogram. Students work on REU projects during summer months for 8 to 10 weeks. REUprograms entail several benefits to students including increased awareness of their discipline andtechnical expertise, better career opportunities, gains in confidence levels, and elevated likelihoodof pursuing graduate degrees and research careers.6
coursework. Students fail in programming classes at rates starting at 20%[3], [4] up to 50% [5]. Pair Programming suggests grouping a student with a peer, employing the“two heads are better than one” philosophy shown to improve the output of projects [6] andperhaps learning outcomes [2]. Students placed in teams may also gain the benefits of peerprogramming, while also providing more authentic industry working conditions and supportingABET student outcome (d), working in multidisciplinary teams [7]. This paper looks at howusing teams in the Bauhaus studio model impacts student outcomes within a programming-centric Honor First Year Engineering (HFYE) course at a large Midwestern research University.We will start by looking at how teams are formulated
and the necessity of scaffolding forsupporting collaborative learning. Page 26.901.2 In STEM field, Soundarajan proposed the Peer Instruction for online collaborativelearning, in which students were assigned different roles in different tasks7. Bohorquez andToft-Nielsen integrated collaborative learning in specific course instruction and revealed theeffectiveness of problem-oriented method and collaborative learning in biomedical engineeringeducation8. Dong and Guo developed and adopted the Collaborative Project-based LearningModel to promote students’ collaborative learning in computer-networking curriculum, andclaimed the improvement in
profession, yet it israrely included in sophomore and junior level courses. Reflecting on our own prior efforts todevelop writing assignments for such courses, we became curious about the extent to which themost popular engineering textbooks include writing prompts and related writing activities. Thisquestion seemed particularly important given that textbooks often play critical roles inengineering curricula and courses. Textbooks often influence how courses are structured, andreading assignments and homework problems are frequently assigned directly from textbooks.In this project, we systematically searched for and analyzed writing-based problems in sixpopular fluid mechanics textbooks, with a focus on chapters with similar technical content
and Savarese, Daniel and Dorband, John E and Ranawak, Udaya A and Packer, Charles V, "BEOWULF: A parallel workstation for scientific computation", in Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing vol. 95, (1995).[12] Wikibooks. Building a Beowulf Cluster — Wikibooks, The Free Textbook Project. [online], 2011. http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Building_a_Beowulf_Cluster&oldid=2210594, last viewed December 2014.[13] Frinkle, Karl, and Mike Morris. "Developing a Hands-On Course Around Building and Testing High Performance Computing Clusters." Procedia Computer Science 51 (2015): 1907-1916.[14] Ngxande, Mkhuseli, and Nyalleng Moorosi. "Development of Beowulf Cluster to Perform Large
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Mohd Abdelgadir Khairi, Najran University I, Mohamed Khairi, my bachelor degree in computer science. I did my Masters in system science from University of Ottawa, Canada. My PH.D was in ”Master Data Management” from University of Phoenix. I have over 20 years of experience in IT industry - ten of them with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Currently I’m assistant professor at University of Najran. In addition of teaching and Research I’m coordinator of graduation projects and field training for computer and information system college.Jinan Ziade ABD, University of Phoenix My name is Jinan Ziade. Currently a Doctoral student, ABD, at University of Phoenix working on my
promising from the literatureavailable that discussed it. TermWatch is an academic project that claimed to handle multiword phrases [34]. Contact was made with one of the two primary academics associated withthe project. This academic suggested that the tool may well serve the stated need but it wouldbe necessary to contact the second academic who managed the codebase. Despite severalrequests, the Term Watch software was never made available for use.Computational grouping of the gathered remote laboratory characteristics sounded like agood idea but in practice was infeasible. The next section talks about how the characteristicswere grouped in practice.4.2 Procedure for Grouping Remote Laboratory CharacteristicsThe arrived solution for
servers. See figure 1 for an overview. Page 23.420.2 Figure 1. System overviewOn the production end of the pipeline, the team used a Blackmagic ATEM/2 switcher connectedto a document camera and a Panasonic AG-AF100 via HD-SDI at 1080p. This set up made atremendous impact on both the visual quality of the videos and increased the efficiency duringthe encoding and streaming phase of the project. The resolution of the videos (1920 x 1080)provided ample resolution for showing details.To maximize the quality of the encoding, the team insured the video produced at this stagewould be uncompressed and sampled at 4:2:2. This
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, State University of New York at Oswego. Ieta is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario.Dr. Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego
inheritance. Of course,networking abilities and stability also play an important role, but object orientation enablescompletely new ways for code reusability and increases the efficiency of applicationdevelopments in control programming. As it is not efficient to implement the whole applicationfrom scratch for every new project, it is important to encapsulate functionalities in classes forreasons of reuse. Depending on the concrete device, by means of these classes (or interfaces),generic functions such as specific communication protocols or easy access to specific devicescan be realized. These existing classes can (if necessary) be modified or extended and then beintegrated into the application.Hence, notable potentials result for industrial
a client request. Figure 9: Hardware connection diagram for the remote programming system.The main idea of this project was to design an embedded processor system that could beprogrammable from remote locations. An Arduino Mega-2560 microcontroller board was usedas the embedded processor.10 All of the output devices were connected via the Arduino board.ASEE Annual Conference 2016 New Orleans, USFigure 9 shows a schematic diagram of the hardware system, while Figure 10 shows images ofthe completed system.Serial communication was established between the server and experiment set-up to achieveremote programming. When a user uploads a program to the server, it handles the incoming
- scatterplot, histogram, control chart, sparklines, etc. o What should be on each of the axes o Font size and style o Coloring scheme – how colors can be used to illustrate a point or focus the reader’s attention 2. Sequence the infographics into a coherent story – similar to the approach proposed by Lankow et al [2]. 3. Add text to o Explain how the infographic represents the data, or o Describe insights or conclusions that can inferred from infographic, or o Link the infographics together 4. Write the conclusion following standard best practicesThe process came together in the final assignment for the course where the students had tocomplete a comprehensive engineering project
paper thereby serves as an innovative way to expose technology students to this difficult topic and gives them a fresh taste of Python programming while having fun learning the Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms. 1. Background Engineering departments are often confronted with the necessity to update laboratory exercises and equipment with the latest emerging technological trends within tight budget constraints. Another challenge faced by departments pertains to satisfying the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) criteria for capstone senior project experience within the curriculum. In this paper we will explain how we attempted to solve these challenges by exposing students to new emerging
programming environmentsand some of its functionalities shall be centralized and provided as a service. This newparadigm is introduced in the OnlineLabs4All project (www.onlinelabs4all.org), a researchproject that is being carried out under the Sparkling Science Program, funded by the AustrianFederal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. In this new approach, queuing, lab datastorage and deployment will be offered as a service for lab owners, allowing the lab specificpart to be loosely coupled with the RLMS and lab server. This is depicted in Fig. 05. Page 26.126.7 Fig. 05 – Lab server functionalities provided as a serviceIn this
. Nikolaidis, Purdue University Natasha Nikolaidis holds a bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a master’s from Portland State University. She is currently an operations manager for the Office of the Vice President for Research at Purdue University. She is responsible for project management on large faculty research portfolios in a variety of disciplines, including biology, nanotechnology, engineering, information technology, and education.Robert M Trinkle, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robert Trinkle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer & Information Technology from Purdue University, West Lafayette in May 2009. In December 2009, he accepted a position as Network Engi- neer in the department of
simulationsWe used the Wolfram Mathematica software to create the interactive educationalsimulations to help students understand some difficult scientific concepts and phenomenaat a micro level. Some of our simulations were adapted from the publicly availablesimulations at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project website1. The simulations we createdadopt major simplifications to the underlying theory of each concept to enableinteractivity while emphasizing the fundamental operations of the emergent process in avisually realistic fashion. For the purpose of our project, pairs of simulations were madeto depict a process at the molecular level and to show the same process operating at thecontinuum level.TemperatureIn the engineering textbooks which we reviewed
styles of learning while attempting to keep students engaged, there stands a promisingoutlook for positive change in the retention of information. By fostering a non-intimidating atmosphereand conveying information in a way that requires little to no pre-requisite, there is a possibility not onlyfor aiding existing students in computer engineering but also for the encouragement for a generalaudience to be introduced to concepts that otherwise seemed exclusive. The work is in the preliminary stages and there is much analysis to be conducted as well asfurther development of the methods employed. However, the feedback so far is positive. The project ispart of a larger scope at ____ University to teach other key concepts in the same vein
interned with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, then spent the first several years of his career with IBM Microelectronics in Essex Junction, VT, where he worked in semiconductor R&D on five generations of IBM’s memory chip technologies. In 1989, he was awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship and began full-time study at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. He fabricated and studied nano-scale silicon-on-insulator transistors, and received the PhD degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He transferred to the IBM Semiconductor R&D Center in Fishkill, NY where he became a team leader in the IBM/Toshiba/Siemens TRIAD multi- cultural technology development project. In 1996, he left IBM for an entrepreneurial academic start
its applications is vital to the curriculum of electrical and computerengineering. Within the related courses, we have provided students with softwarepackages for DSP demonstration and simulations, and with hardware/software platformsfor DSP implementation on small projects and in the laboratory. These tools have provedto be interesting and useful for the students to grasp fundamental knowledge in DSP. Wehave shown some actual classroom examples and homework assignments in both theoryand practice. A laboratory component in digital signal processing is highlyrecommended for senior and first-year graduate classes. We recommend offering classesin DSP at both undergraduate and graduate level with emphasis on class projects andlaboratory hands-on
Cultures had video lectures and readings for each week witha project to turn in at the end of the course. Along with creating a digital artifact for the project,students were asked to evaluate three other students taking the course as part of their final grade.This class was tended to be more of a liberal education course teaching students about how thedigital world affects various ways of life as opposed to the social science research methodsformat of the other two classes. After completing the course, the student did not feel like thisthird MOOC matched the level of rigor of the prior two.Across all three courses, the student recognized valuable knowledge gains through engaging inthe MOOC educational format. By using an independent study model
pilot activity for integrating Blackboard Mobile Learn (BML) into an introductory level FluidMechanics course in the Fall semester of 2010 was undertaken. The BML can be used to provideclassroom announcements, group discussions, exam solution keys, grades, blogs, class roster,journals, media, and tasks. The BML was used in the classroom when the instructor interactedwith the students during the lecture time such as review of homework and exams and use ofimages and video clips to enhance students’ understanding of course concepts. Outside theregular class time, students can use the BML as their portable 24/7 classroom with on-timeaccess to course materials and tools.Development and implementationThis study is supported by a project that started
Advanced Encryption Standard method isused for both transmitted and received transmissions. However, the data must be checked tomake sure it was sent or received properly. In order to check for errors in the protocols beginsent, a cyclic redundancy checker is used.Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) A cyclic redundancy checker (CRC) is an error detecting hash function code that issometimes referred to as polynomial code. The CRC is generally 16 to 32 bits long and is used tocheck data for any error before and after transmission. CRC’s are most commonly used to checkdata that is being sent over a network. For the solar tracker protocol used in this project, a 32 bitCRC is used to check the data packet being sent over the master/slave network for
classroom [6].Course Details and Student DemographicsThe systems analysis and design course is a core requirement of students studying computertechnology and focuses primarily on the makeup of software systems. The subject matter buildson the concepts of logic, decomposition, and problem solving introduced in the first year. Thecourse was held during a typical 16-week semester and met on Monday and Wednesdaymornings for 75 minutes at a time.The course itself is made up of a number of learning modules, most of which are scheduled for asingle calendar week although there are a few longer topics. 10 distinct learning modules werescheduled over the first 12 weeks of the course. Students are engaged in two larger, multi-deliverable final projects during
Systems Engineer for the NASA Engineering & Safety Centers (NESC) Systems Engineering Office (SEO). Mr. Beil was the requirements manager and systems engineer for the developmental, full scale Max Launch Abort System project. He leads an NASA, agency level data mining and trending working group. He worked for many years as the Orbiter Main Propulsion System (MPS) lead engineer at Kennedy Space Center. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida.KUTALMIS AKPINAR, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida Kutalmis Akpinar is a Ph.D
Delivery Network or CDN. These offers areaccessible via the public Internet to developers, self-regulating software vendors (ISVs),and server message blocks (SMBs), and enterprises of all sizes including public sectors16(HP Cloud Service, 2012) HP built its cloud infrastructure using an outside open sourcecloud infrastructure project. The cloud service strategy is to deliver end-to-end, unitedcloud capabilities that let users manage their cloud deployments across private, public,and hybrid cloud delivery models with HPCS proposing an open, interoperable,insightful, and reliable public cloud option. The HP Cloud Services frees the user toinnovate and focus on business, while HP handles all the storage and compute needs.HP’s goal is to deliver
capabilities. These types of eBooks tend to contain embedded audio, video,simulations, and text into a centralized platform. In a nutshell, these are books with embeddedmultimedia capabilities.Our ApproachBased on a the idea that we could create a process for delivering a better book, we decided towork with eAcademicBooks to develop a multi-platform eBook capable of delivering text,multimedia (video, 3D, audio), and assessments across a variety of platforms including PC, Mac,iPad, and Mobile phones (iPhone, Android, Symbian, Win Mobile 7, Java ME).While the goal of the project was clearly grounded in the creation of the technology to create theeBooks platform, we decided early on that we needed to create a technological publishingplatform that managed
Paper ID #18916Online Programming System for Code Analysis and Activity TrackingTian Qiu, Purdue University Tian Qiu is a senior undergraduate in Computer Engineering and Mathematics-Computer Science.Mr. Mengshi Feng, Purdue University Mengshi Feng is a senior student at Purdue University. He is one of the team member in ACCESS project supervised by Yung-Hsiang Lu.Mr. Sitian Lu, Purdue University Sitian Lu is a junior studying Computer Engineering in Purdue University. He has been working on the online programming system (ACCESS) since later 2015. Sitian Lu has been studying in Purdue University for 3 years. He is also