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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

Session 2273 BME GOES TO THE MOVIES: DEVELOPING ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE IN BIOENGINEERS S. Brophy, K. Bliley, A. Gray, C. Mathieson, E. Mowry, J. CollinsDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Abstract As bioengineering students enter their new profession they must become sensitiveto the ethical ramifications of their work. Bioengineering educational programs seekopportunities to engage students in the exploration of ethical dilemmas in bioengineering.Our involvement with the VaNTH ERC and the learning sciences’ principles that guidetheir design of instruction has provided us with

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

theirunderstanding of design itself: To focus the design process on the needs of the user and customer rather than on the capabilities of technology requires a change in mindset, one often resisted by engineers. We were surprised to find that the journals helped to change their minds. Journals actually gave the students a place to think through their objections to the principles of user-centered design, allowing them to convince themselves of the value of these principles. 8These practical studies of the ways in which students benefit from writing that takes placeduring the “thinking” phases of projects give credence to the concept of invention, whichhas been dismissed by some as a romanticized mystification. Even though it is not yetfully

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Steif

feedback 4. Moreover, it can be argued thatstudents benefit from the experience of expertise in a few areas, even if at the expense of somebreadth of exposure. Moreover, the experience of fluency and expertise in one area showsstudents they are capable of a high level of expertise, for which they can strive in future.With this philosophy in mind, we have focused on six essential topics in the mechanics ofmaterials. Within each of these topics, we have identified a limited class of problems, which arebuilding blocks for solving many problems in mechanics generally, and for which we seek todevelop in students a significant level of expertise.The topics and the associated problem types are: · Axial loading: A single rod of multiple cross

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

real difference. · The Unlike zone: Which represents high level aspirations very difficult to achieve.Unfortunately, it is important to keep in mind that trying to measure performance of education isnot always easy , while some factors can be easily quantified, some others elements or outcomesmay take years to measured. Page 7.209.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe indicators selected for the system are shown in Figure 6. The indicators are groupedaccording with the stakeholders. As

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

SECTION 2002-318 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON STUDENT PREPARATION IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES Mr. Ferdinand Walbaum, Dr. Hugh K. Rogers Human Resources Professional Education College of Engineering and Computer Siemens Power Generation, Science, University of Central Florida Muelheim, Germany Orlando, FloridaABSTRACTA Student Exchange Program began with four students from Germany visiting Siemens-Westinghouse and the University of Central Florida in Summer, 1999, as an initiative fromSiemens training officials in Muelheim, Germany. In Summer 2000, a program with four

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mayer

resource assessment,technological recovery and utilization. This year, a major assignment will be to assess the(offshore) wind resource at Diego Garcia and to size a wind farm to meet a percentage of theNSF’s energy consumption.Our curriculum in ocean-environmental engineering is ably supplemented by elective courseopportunities in other disciplines including environmental economics, environmentaloceanography, environmental security, and marine environmental engineering. But, surely, themost significant learning experience comes from capstone design where students are not onlychallenged but also eager to approach problems that extend their minds to new horizons (andeven greater depths.) Ocean resource implementation on Diego Garcia was one such

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shawn Gross; David Dinehart

. Given a resource of twelve full-time faculty, it is challenging to incorporateother civil engineering specialties such as materials or construction, especially in a manner thatdemonstrates practical application of the subjects.The objective of any engineering capstone design course should be to mesh the technicalknowledge of the discipline with an encompassing engineering problem that incorporates “realworld” issues and challenges. The primary role of a civil engineer is to serve the community; thus,it is essential that students understand the impact of engineering projects on, and the context ofengineering projects within, society. With all of the aforementioned criteria in mind, the objectiveof the structural capstone course described herein

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses share a theme, the curriculum of each course is separate; occasional assignmentsin each course relate to the curriculum of the other course. When Ward College of Technology was invited to participate in the FIPSE grant,the original plan was to have a traditional FIG with a writing course and a content coursein which the writing course assignments would relate to one of the technology courses.However, in the course of developing the FIG, the writing instructor and one of themathematics instructors at Ward College (the authors of this paper) began to talk aboutthe problems they

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

own world views which have been developed and formed over their lifetimes [2]. Students'world views often differ greatly from that of scientists and engineers. Often, due in large part tothese differences, students emerge from our classes with serious misconceptions [3] -[ 7]. In recent years, a number of writing techniques have evolved that make use of variouswriting-to-learn strategies within the domains of engineering, mathematics, and the sciences [8] -[15]. The use of writing in introductory physics classes for non-majors may help students developtheir critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In addition, writing can help them identify andconfront their misconceptions about a specific topic in physics. Science classes in

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Dempster; Chee Lee

Minds OnPhysics, Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company, 1999Mazur E. Peer Instruction, A Users Manual, Prentice Hall, 1997W.M DEMPSTERDr Bill Dempster is a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University, UK. He received hisundergraduate degree from Glasgow University (1981) and Masters (1983) and PhD (1995) from StrathclydeUniversity. His main research interests are in the field of industrial Fluid Mechanics and in particular two -phasefluid mechanics. His teac hing interests involve curriculum development and the application of activeengagement techniques to large class environments .C.K.LEEDr C. K. Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University. He received hisundergraduate degree (1963) and Ph.D (1966

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

). Recent evidence shows that the gender gapin earnings is increasing after a period of decline (13). This gap is partly due to workers in female-dominated occupations being paid lower average wages than workers in male-dominated occupations. Themost common explanation for occupational sex segregation is that women choose different occupationsbecause they are socialized to prefer different types of work from men (10). Girls who are encouraged toplay with baby dolls and learn to take care of others may become elementary school teachers and nurseswhile boys who play with building blocks may become engineers (10). Author, J.A. Jacobs reported thatoccupational aspirations of young men and women are roughly as segregated as the occupational

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mara Wasburn

colleagues said she had taken the semester off. One semesterstretched into two and then three. She did not return. Neither did the male colleague who hadhelped me with my dissertation data. Someone thought he had transferred, or perhaps not. Hecould not be certain. That colleague never returned either.Since the 1960s, the attrition rate of doctoral students has consistently been estimated at 50%nationwide 1, 2, 3. The attrition rate for women students, especially those in engineering, science,and technology whose problems are exacerbated by their minority status, is estimated to be muchhigher, as they experience what is termed a “leaky pipeline” at every phase of their education 1, 4,5, 6 . The costs are measured not only in terms of the toll

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Beverly J. Davis

to take care of others may become elementary schoolteachers and nurses while boys who play with building blocks may become engineers.”Over time, most computer camps have been designed with boys in mind and most boysare encouraged to tinker with computers. In fact, in 1994, over 75% of the degreesawarded in library science, home economics, health sciences, public affairs, andeducation were awarded to women while over 70% of degrees earned in engineering,military technologies and computer and information sciences were awarded to men (11).K-12 programs designed to interest girls in technology programs should be aware of thesubtleties girls face in the classroom and at home; girls aren’t necessarily discouragedfrom pursuing science and

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Philip J. Parker; Christina Curras; Michael R. Penn

Enhancing Teaching (and Learning?) with On-Line Courseware Philip J. Parker, Christina Curras, and Michael R. Penn Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Wisconsin-Platteville1 IntroductionIn this paper, we discuss our use of “Blackboard,” an on-line courseware that we haveimplemented in several of our courses. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader withideas for implementation. We specifically address how the various tools in Blackboard impactteaching and learning, and note the time commitments involved.2 BackgroundThe University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) has one of the largest undergraduate

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tim Diemer; Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

Session 2420 There Is No Substitute For Face-to-Face Learning: Or Is There? Tim Diemer, Robert Wolter, Cliff Goodwin Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology/IUPUI In spring of 2000, the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision (PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)offered students the option to take a sophomore level survey course fully online. The course,titled "Human Behavior in Organizations," was also offered in traditional, classroom-basedsections. The challenge the authors faced as instructors went beyond the usual

Conference Session

Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger

equilibrium devices, we don’t want to acquire and save values while the sensor is changing its mind. If data is taken too fast or slow the result is waste. Device Construction—Materials processes or unit processes. How do the bulk structure, the thin films present, chemistry, and physics of the systems employed interact with or impact the structural design? Page 7.1086.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Process flows and Wafer level Process sequence

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

Session 2793 Agent-Based Real-Time Pedagogy for Proof Construction Paul Bello and Selmer Bringsjord The Minds and Machines Laboratory Department of Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY, USA 12180 bellop@cs.rpi.edu, selmer@rpi.eduThere is a disturbing paradox at the heart of contemporary American education: As thiseducation turns more and more “electronic,” we are

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Franzone

Document 2002-31 MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 6.0 IDE TUTORIAL Creating Win32 Console-Mode Applications Jeffrey S. Franzone, Assistant Professor Engineering Technology Department University of MemphisAbstractMicrosoft Visual C++ is a commonly used programming language and application environmentin many computer science and computer engineering technology programs. Visual C++ can beused to teach both C and C++ and it boasts a highly powerful, but easy to use, developmentenvironment. One of the strengths of the Visual C++ product is

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip McCreanor

Session 2159 Design and Construction of In-situ Moisture Sensors For a Solid Waste Landfill Philip T. McCreanor and Debra R. Reinhart Mercer University / University of Central FloridaAbstractUndergraduate students at the Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE) were employedto work on a cooperative project with graduate students at the University of Central Florida(UCF) to design a moisture sensor which could survive in the landfill environment and producereliable data. Students from the mechanical, industrial, biomedical, and environmentalengineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jason Sole; Carlos Morales

]. Page 7.1213.1This would eliminate the down-time often associated with training. Second, there would “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1520a smaller chance for the learners to forget the knowledge required to performed their task.Finally, the use of strong visuals such as pictures, diagrams and movies would minimizemistakes resulting from misidentification of tools or parts. This was the argumentpresented by Morales at an Information Systems Division session during the 2001 ASEENational Meeting [2].In this

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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Craig Quadrato

front of experiencedinstructors who provided me with valuable feedback. Page 7.1005.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002 American Society for Engineering Education During ISW, I was exposed to a vast curriculum of teaching principles including Felder’slearning styles, Bloom’s Taxonomy, classroom assessment techniques, effective questioning, andactive learning. As a new instructor, I was not expected to master all the valuable informationthat went racing past me. But this formal training left me with a binder of

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kirankumar Gundrai

1845 EXPLOITATION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR ELECTRICAL UTILITY Kiran Kumar Goud Gundrai, B.Tech Bapatla Engineering College, Nagarjuna University,AP, India.The harnessing of the atom changed the nature of war forever and astounded the Worldwith its awesome power. Nuclear technologies also gave us a new source of Electricpower and new capabilities in medical research and imaging. Though controversial, theengineering achievement related to nuclear technologies remain the most important of the20th century. The paper discusses the perspective

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

review their success inattaining these targets. The systems in the manual would be designed to help the programme Page 7.67.7 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrigt © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"Team to deliver this. Programme Teams should bear in mind the following stages in assuringquality:(1) Decide what needs to be done and when(2) Do it according to the time set(3) Review and record what has been done and check timing6.1 Quality Assurance Manual element 5 HeadingsThe Quality Assurance Manual Element 5 will have a number of

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Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alain Desrochers

Session 1338 An algorithm based approach for the apprenticeship of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software Professor Alain Desrochers Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada E-mail : alain.desrochers@gme.usherb.caIntroductionContemporary CAD systems are increasingly becoming easier to learn, simpler to use and moreproductive. Several reasons can be accounted for this. Among those are the development

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

Session 1560 Paper Planes: Developing Teamwork Awareness with a Manufacturing Simulation J.P. O'Connell, M.A. Shields, M.M. Mehalik, R. Jacques* University of VirginiaAbstractWe find that many students who enter UVa have not been involved in activities which requirelarger teams to function, to adjust their structure for improved efficiency and success, and toassess individual roles in the context of goal-oriented teamwork. This may be common in otheruniversities as well. Yet, this experience is most important for engineering graduates to haveworked and achieved in for

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Henning

. Bydiscussing HEV-problems, all students have real-world examples in mind to which they canrelate very easily. Probably they can even go home and discuss certain things with their parents(fuel economy, emission). I had a case, in which a student asked me a question from his parentsabout car efficiencies (Is it really true that conventional vehicles have a overall efficiency of only17%, whereas HEV-cars have efficiencies of 30%?).Also, we all enjoyed giving the students some insight into the d ifference between science and Page 7.296.3engineering. The inherent difference is that engineers are producing and applying science “Proceedings of the 2002

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this paper, we present our project by placing it in the broader context of web use to support aninteractive and authentic learning experience. In this report, “project site” refers to the web siteassociated with this experiment, while "base sites” is reserved for the general sites introducedearlier (and outlined in Figure 1).2. Learning to program in the context of an industrial simulationThe course in this project is an advanced programming course in C++ covering the key conceptsof the object-oriented paradigm. We designed this project with two main goals in mind (withsimilar ideas see 4,5). First, to be authentic, it had to focus on problems that not only justify butalso

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New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Session 2137 Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology By Joel Weinstein, Andrew Gilchrist IV, Kyle Hebsch, Jefferey Stevens Northeastern UniversityAbstractOne of the greatest challenges facing engineering technology educators is preparation forwhat graduates will face in the real world. Unlike the classroom, problems are notpredefined, solutions do not come from answer books and personnel are not nearly asexpert as the instructors that have prepared the students. This paper describes a courseand its methodology that helps to better prepare students for

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sastry Vedula

drives, VAR andharmonic compensation and energy efficient optimization strategies. Such developments in real-time are seen under topics such as rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. In thispaper, the application of DSP based real-time control technique towards design and developmentof power electronic equipment is explained through the use of the TI TMS320F240/243 digitalsignal processor keeping the above ideas in mind. Power electronic building blocks that composeof both hardware and software have been developed and used for rapid prototyping of existingpower electronic converters. A modular approach has been followed while building thesesystems. This modularity has given rise to flexibility in choosing and experimenting with

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

1048 MagicBlocks: A Game Kit for Exploring Digital Logic Nawwaf Kharma, Leon Caro, and Vivek Venkatesh* Electrical and Computer Engineering and *Education Departments, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - H3G 1M8 kharma@ece.concordia.caAbstract: The paper introduces MagicBlocks, a LEGO™-like game that allows learners tobuild increasingly more elaborate functioning digital logic circuits