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2010 ERC

Authors

Sohi Rastegar

  J. Regalbuto*, CBET  D. Niebur*, ECCS  D. Niebur*, ECCS  Building  Sustainability  * Former PD/IPA  On Nature  http://nsf.gov/staff/staff_list.jsp?org=EFRI&from_org=EFRI EFRI BUDGET AND AWARDS • FY 2010 Budget: $29M • FY 2011 Budget Request: $31M • EFRI Awards: $0.5M/year for 4 years • Steady State:  ~ 10 Active Topics and ~ 60 Active Projects AUTONOMOUSLY RECONFIGURABLE  ENGINEERED SYSTEMS (ARES) Key Idea: Autonomously Reconfigurable engineered systems robust to unexpected/unplanned events

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Computers in Education

processing. In 1998 he founded Rydal Research and Development, Inc. for the purpose of carrying out research and development of advanced networking and signal-processing technologies.Eric Carr, Drexel University After completing his BSEET (specializing in Computer Engineering Technology) at Old Dominion University, Eric followed his wife to the Philadelphia area. He is the Laboratory Technician (and unofficial 'PIC Microcontroller Evangelist') for the Goodwin College Applied Engineering Technology program, where he enjoys putting his knowledge of microcontrollers and other technology to use. Some of Eric's other microcontroller-based projects include an accelerometer-based maze/balance

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 15.547.2determine the level of interest for an ExCEEd II workshop. Motivated by the overall positiveresults, the CFD began its planning of ExCEEd II in the fall of 2008 for a pilot delivery in thesummer of 2009 at Northern Arizona University. Never before has a second, more advancedworkshop in teaching and learning been offered that is built upon the principles and skillsdeveloped in the earlier workshop. This paper describes this novel project - the day and a halfExCEEd II workshop - and gives insights into the interests and reasons that would motivatefaculty to attend additional training on teaching and learning. This paper also includes a briefdescription of the originating ETW, relates results from the longitudinal survey of

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathematics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Alvaro Islas, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Patricia Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida

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Mathematics

AC 2010-171: EXCEL IN MATHEMATICS: APPLICATIONS OF CALCULUSCynthia Young, University of Central Florida Cynthia Young is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Young's research interests are in the mathematical modeling of atmospheric effects on laser beams. She currently has projects with the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory investigating atmospheric propagation in the marine

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; James Mihelcic, University of South Florida

forincorporating sustainability into engineering education is the lack of effective learning materials.The work presented here is based on a project funded by the National Science Foundation thatfocuses on addressing those challenges by creating effective learning materials anddemonstrating successful new teaching strategies. The paper begins with a brief overview of theentire project and then focuses on the development of learning suites and dissemination of suchsuites through a workshop. The learning suites have been designed according to the Fink’staxonomy of significant learning and research from the learning sciences. The paper introducesthe learning suites and discusses how to use the Fink’s taxonomy and other research to guide thedevelopment of

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

break the case for sustainability), the ‘business case for sustainability’ was emphasized as not only to making projects feasible but serving as an avenue for future Page 15.525.3 employment as well.Page 15.525.4Page 15.525.5this survey have not been received yet. The authors believe that the results will most likely bereceived the next couple of months and hope to present them at the conferenceConclusionA new course pertaining to global sustainability and innovation was recently developed at auniversity in the southeast United States. This paper presented the findings after the coursewas developed and offered to students as part of

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Silverstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

in engineering and science through research, policy and program development. She is currently the principal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.engageengineering.org) a five year project funded by the National Science Foundation to work with 30 engineering schools to integrate research based strategies that increase retention. Susan’s work at Stevens has been recognized by the White House as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). She was honored by the Maria Mitchell Association with the Women in Science Award in 2002 and was named an AWIS Fellow in 2007.David Silverstein, Stevens Institute

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

workshop wasidentified as the beginning of a long term effort to introduce ethics across the curriculum with thehope of shifting the academic culture of this professional school so that ethics and professionalresponsibility take a more central role in the education of future engineers. The authors hopethat the narrative of this project, as well as the details of the workshop, will provide inspirationand insight for other engineering programs with a desire to pursue similar goals.IntroductionThis paper will examine a faculty workshop offered in the College of Engineering at VillanovaUniversity. The workshop represents a first step in the creation of a robust ethics across thecurriculum approach to prepare undergraduate engineers for their

Conference Session

New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS

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Engineering Libraries

orderto ‘communicate effectively’ (ABET Criterion 3.g)3, ECET students must be able to select ‘acommunication medium and format that best supports the purposes of the product orperformance and the intended audience (ACRL 4.6.a). 7The non-ECET core courses subcommittee members were particularly intrigued by comparingthe ALA/ACRL/STS standards with the skill sets that they felt their students currently possessedand those that the students should obtain by the time they graduate. As the curriculum in effect atthat time stood, instructors prior to the senior year rarely required external literature reviews.Students did not receive practice in gathering and synthesizing information from articles in aconsistent way until their senior design project. As

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

plans? How do project-based learning and faculty interaction affect career goals and student confidence? What affects student confidence in math skills? confidence in open-ended problem solving? confidence in professional skills? How does the major declaration process affect students' experiences in engineering? How is it related to persistence in college and to post-graduate goals? How does college selectivity affect students' experiences in engineering? How is selectivity related to persistence in college and to post-graduate goals? And how is selectivity related to SES? How are men's and women's educational experiences different? Page

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

: Study Individual Our Stolen DW Time Future book Evaluation: Biofuel LCA management review Group Ethics Case Ethics: case studies, moral exemplar, student honor code vs. Ethics Study NSPE Code of Ethics Course plan to GraduationDrinking watertreatment plant Team Project: Solid Waste – LandGEM – Waste-to-Energy tour write-upGuest Speaker Guest

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Priscilla Hill, Mississippi State University; Carlen Hennington, Mississippi State University

instructionalmodules for use in existing courses.Four core chemical engineering courses are targeted: fluid flow operations, heattransfer operations, mass transfer operations, and chemical reactor design. Overthe three-year CCLI project, activities/modules will be developed andincorporated into each of these courses, with each activity/module focusing on aparticular element from the process intensification spectrum and designed to alsoenhance vertical concept integration. This poster presentation will focus on theactivities and modules developed in Year 1.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe chemical industry faces numerous challenges in the coming years due todecreasing availability of raw material and energy resources. Thus, existingprocesses must operate in an

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Patterson, San Diego State University; Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University; Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

]. Page 15.348.2One approach to improve on these shortcomings was to embed a separate program into thebrowser interface to enhance the capabilities of the browser. These programs are now commonlyreferred to as plug-ins. The Java Runtime Environment which allows users to run Java appletsand the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view Adobe Acrobat files are examples of other widely usedbrowser plug-ins. Starting with Adobe Flash CS3, the introduction of ActionScript 3 meant thatFlash now offered a fully developed object-oriented programming language. Flash was chosen asthe primary development tool for this project since Flash offers a wide range of features toduplicate desktop functions, provides rich multimedia and visual tools, provides a robustprogramming

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He leads a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum approach is adopted to reformulate engineering curriculum in bioprocess engineering in this project. He co-authored an award winning paper with his PhD student at the 2007 annual conference of ASEE. He received the College of Engineering Faculty Fellow award in 2008.Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech Chelsea Green is a graduate student in the Department of Civil and

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael Detamore; Paul Willhite

interpretation by theindividual programs. Here, we will propose definitions of each as a starting point for discussion,and provide examples of how each were addressed.Definition of CriteriaIn terms of life-long learning, we would suggest definitions to include the ability to use externalresources, such as professional literature, government reports, media archives, library resources,data compilations and internet based resources to gather necessary data and information asrequired to complete projects, and the ability to master new software programs to assist incompleting projects.For the contemporary issues criterion, it is difficult to reach a consensus on whethercontemporary issues should focus on contemporary issues in the profession or

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Marie Planchard

Sustainability MethodologyWPI Sustainability Poster CompetitionAs part of WPI's 2010 Earth Day Celebration, the WPI Task Force on Sustainability[3] and theEnvironmental Studies Program will be sponsoring a sustainability-themed poster contest. Byproviding judges and SolidWorks Sustainability applications, DS SolidWorks Corp. will alsoparticipate in the competition that will take place on April 21, 2010. The competition is dividedinto two categories: (1) Technological responses to a problem associated with greening orsustainability and (2) Interdisciplinary projects that focus on socio-technical dimensions of socialor environmental sustainability. According to US News and World Report[4] , sustainability isintroduced to WPI freshman in friendly dorm

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

similarinventions appear in different parts of the world almost simultaneously? How did informationand technology spread from one place to another and why did they fade away in one place onlyto resurface later in a different place? How and why were inventions or innovations diffused orborrowed from one culture adapted to suit the needs of another?Teaching methods include lectures, discussions, videos, and written essay projects. The lecturesand discussions are designed and intended to be very interactive and engaging for the students.The selected videos show how past technologies were developed and used. The essays requirestudents to identify and apply the knowledge obtained from the course to both historical andtoday’s technologies. The students are

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine; Tom McGlew, MATEC

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Two Year College Division

ACC. He is the author of 19 books on computer and electronic subjects and is a contractor with MATEC to deliver the ESYST program.Tom McGlew, MATEC Tom McGlew has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing and employee development. He is currently the project manager for the NSF-supported ESYST program at MATEC within the Maricopa Community College District, AZ. He has extensive experience in the electronics industry with interests in systems implementation and troubleshooting. Page 15.103.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Systems

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah McAvoy, Ohio University

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Civil Engineering

students that enrolled in both requiredcourses and 12 students that enrolled in the elective construction management course and therequired engineering economics course. The required construction management course examinedstudent performance in engineering economics through a quiz, an assignment and midtermexamination. The quiz covered cash flow diagrams, determination of present worth, andassessing the feasibility of two projects using net present values and benefit-cost ratios. Theassignment covered the comparison of two projects using net present values and benefit-costratios as well as the determination of present, future and annual worth. The engineeringeconomics portion of the midterm exam covered the topics of the time value of money

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, East Carolina University; Eddy Rojas, University of Washington

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Construction

addition, many conventional curriculumsfor CEM education rely on traditional teaching methods such as lecturing,seminars, and group project work. In this informational learning, it is asignificant challenge for educators to get students engaged in learning.Innovative and Transformative LearningConstruction can be defined as a highly complex system which has a widespectrum of interrelated elements with multiple feedback loops and non-linearrelationships. In addition, construction is a difficult environment to summarizedue to differences of scale, nature, environment, society, etc. For these reasons, ithas been a challenge for construction educators to provide learning environmentsin which students can experience such complexity in the classroom. By

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Augusto Macalalag, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Karen Guo, Teachers College/Columbia University; Devayani Tirthali, Teachers College/Columbia University; Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,programs that provide many opportunities for active learning and reflection on practice top thelist. Finally, when looking at impact on knowledge and practice together, the significance of aprofessional community became apparent.Fishman, Marx, Best, and Tal17 presented an analytic framework in their study linking PD tostudent and teacher learning. The participants included 40 teachers teaching sixth, seventh, andeighth grade students in 14 urban schools in Detroit, Michigan. Teachers learned project-basedscience through inquiry pedagogy, which is in line with the constructivist notion of learning.Analysis of pre- and post- assessment, surveys, focus-group discussions, and classroomobservations showed positive impact on teachers’ knowledge, beliefs

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamila Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Edwards, Westlake High School; Margaret Tarver, Tri-Cities High School; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

for a Brighter Economic Future.1 As noted by theCommission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering andTechnology Development, investing in a diverse scientific workforce will lead to innovation andcreativity that will sharpen the competitive edge of the United States. 2 The projected USpopulation trends illustrate an increase in minority population from 30.6% in 2000 to 46.3% in2040.3 In the state of Georgia, minorities already make up 54% of the total K-12 studentenrollment.4 Therefore, in order for the United States in general, and Georgia specifically, toremain competitive and to utilize all of its intellectual capital, we will need to cultivate theuntapped STEM talents of underrepresented minorities. Introducing

Conference Session

Computer Gaming and Virtual Reality for Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

either costly or required special licensing. The Microsoft Zune, however, avoids thoseproblems. The Zune is relatively inexpensive and is supported by an excellent SDK and IDE, both ofwhich are free. In this paper, we describe our experience teaching mobile gaming with the Zune. Weexplain how the Zune platform is used, we outline the projects we use, the topics covered in lecture, andwe give examples of game developed by students. In addition, we provide student assessment of thecourse. We describe how the course supports our ABET course and program outcomes.1. IntroductionMobile gaming is one of the most important and growing segments of the computer games industry1. Itdrives hardware and software innovation in the smartphone market segment

Conference Session

New Instrumentation Ideas

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hergert, Miami University

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Instrumentation

video or video streaming and are connected to an http stack. The equipment typically includes HVAC trainers, conveyors, wind tunnels, and fluid trainers. F. Laboratories in Vans Driven to Distance Sites. This equipment is driven to the distance sites. Some community colleges use vans to teach labs at distance sites. The problem with this method is that it allows access to equipment for a limited time, making it difficult to accomplish more than competency based tasks. The California Distance Learning Project states that these types of mobile labs are becoming less popular as distributed learning increases. 3 G. Smaller Portable

Conference Session

Industry based new Innovative and Nontraditional Curriculum in Industrial Technology and Industrial Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Little-Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Erich Bauer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

learningmanagement system such as communication, information, assessment and interaction tools.Communication tools such as email, messaging and blogging can provide students with a meansto not only communicate with their instructor, but also with each other which can help fosterbetter collaboration in projects or assignments. Information tools consist of places where thesyllabus is posted and where supplemental administrative and course materials may be loaded.Online quizzes, tests, and surveys are examples of assessment tools which an instructor or anadministrator can use to determine the amount and quality of student learning. Finally, chat anddiscussion forums as well as file sharing provide opportunities for collaboration and areinteractive type

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Information Systems

, the students are aided in efforts to integrate new knowledge with existing knowledgeand experience. They are expected to build on prior knowledge to solve a sequential series ofproblems involved in designing, building, and operating a commodity-component-based high-performance computing cluster utilizing resources in the lab that mirror the types of resourcesavailable to them in the real world. The courses involve at least one project in which studentsare presented with a problem within the context of a competition to achieve the best possibleperformance. This approach includes components of Problem Based Learning (PBL), whichchallenge students to apply their knowledge and skills as individuals and as a community tosolve a difficult

Conference Session

Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Jing Chen, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

. Another prevalent project that explicitly focus onengineering decision-making was developed by the Missouri recovery program17. Thisproject included a workshop that utilized Structured Decision Making (SDM). The SDMapproach focused on complex decisions and the importance of uncertainties.There are, however, few researchers who examined students’ use of data or decisionsupport structures to make design decisions14 and 19. Studies with first-year engineeringstudents show they rarely use structured decision-making tools and tend to overlookcritical information during the decision-making process9. Novice engineering studentsmake decisions based on limited data and evidence. In addition, when novice designersuse a decision support tool such as QFD

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

educational exploitation has increased significantly 1, 3.Robotics in education is seen as an interdisciplinary, project-based learning activity drawnmostly on math, science, and technology and offering major new benefits in education at alllevels 2. Robotics implements 21st century technologies and can foster problem solving skills,communication skills, teamwork skills, independence, imagination, and creativity 4. Taking intoconsideration that students have a better understanding when they express themselves throughinvention and creation 5, robotics activities are considered to be a valuable learning tool that cancontribute to the enhancement of learning and to the development of students’ thinking 2.Some specialized robotics jobs require new skills

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

HsinPiao Hsu, Kainan University; Hui-Ying Wu, Ching Yun University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

ACA global scoredatabase, this study selected international ACA as a global standard tool toevaluate Northern Taiwanese university students’ web communicationcompetency in the domains of web design and multimedia applications, andfurthermore to identify the influential factors of web communication competency.The results of this study will be used as references for industrial companies inplanning and developing human resources and also for educational academies incultivating university students’ web communication competency. Two hundredand fifty-two sample participants from different departments of Kainan Universityin Northern Taiwan were tested by web communication domain which includes sixauthorized competency indicators: (a) setting project

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

toillustrate the concepts of programming techniques. This intervention is based on the hypothesisthat students will more quickly learn the fundamentals of programming using CCS0’spedagogical model and programming environment than with a conventional course in C, and thatthey will effectively transfer these understandings to the study of C during the second half of thesame course. Furthermore, SDIm’s inclusion of projects that examine the dynamic behavior ofsimple RLC circuits will reinforce key concepts taught in foundational ECE courses.Introduction and motivationThe University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) offers bachelor programs in several engineeringdisciplines and in Computer Science. One problem reported by many faculty members is thelimited