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Yanwu Ding

Integrating Matlab into Graduate Courses in Digital Signal Processing Yanwu DingAbstractDigital signal processing has been widely used in various disciplines of engineering. Students areexpected to be competent, not only in fundamental digital signal processing concepts andtheories but also in practical signal processing techniques for achieving broader applications. Inthe graduate curriculum of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science(EECS) at Wichita State University (WSU), a graduate course, EE782 Discrete Time SignalProcessing, is offered. This course focuses on fundamental concepts and techniques of digitalsignal processing in

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

in the department of computer science and mathematics at theUniversity of San Francisco for the first time in 2004. One of the major goals of the course wasto provide the students with hands-on experience and encourage them to start to think in parallel.His conclusions, after offering the course five times, were consistent with the observations thatstudents find the concepts of synchronization, race conditions, and parallelism challenging. Hisfinal recommendation was “don’t expect them to discover how to write parallel programs: givethem a lot of guidance.” Given that the goal of the course is to help students to “think inparallel”, we should provide the environment within which students solve problems withparallelism as default. Given such

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John L. Krohn

Education 3briefings in order to increase their participation level. This previous methodology was refinedand expanded into that used during this past spring semester. The methodology can best bedescribed by the following process: 1. The students in the class (normally 10 to 12 per section) are divided into three (3) teams which remain together throughout the semester 2. The first two weeks of the semester are devoted to discussions of report writing, data reduction and analysis, and uncertainty calculations. 3. The initial lab is “instructor presented” in the traditional manner and students are

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Michael C. Reynolds

sophomore level classes. Specifically, basic vector math was taught in this course so thatstudents would have improved outcomes in their Statics and Physics courses. ComputerProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationprogramming was taught in Engineering Analysis to help students in a variety of courses thatrequire them to write programs. Solving systems of linear equations is common in fundamentalengineering courses and this was also covered. Results show that students who took EngineeringAnalysis had an observable improvement in Physics I, with a 32 percent increase in coursegrade-point average. But students who took Engineering Analysis did no better in Statics thanstudent who did not take

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Richard Zajac

naturally andarbitrarily be better tuned to one student’s design than to another. The luck-of-the-draw successor failure of one team’s robot versus another leads to underserved blame and unearned merit,with accompanying emotional issues. Such random success or failure undermines the largerlessons of student competitions, namely that persistence and fine-tuning improve performance,and that conceptual understanding is a fundamental problem-solving tool.PID ControllerIn industrial control systems, problems such as the present line follower challenge wouldcommonly be solved with the use of a Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller.4 Along withthe proportionality strategy described above, this algorithm includes two more components: (1) At every

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Garth V. Crosby

parts if broken or lost 8 . • The major requirements for home lab kits are that they are able to demonstrate fundamental engineering principles, portable, relatively compact (small), user friendly, inexpensive and easily assembled 9,10. Proposed Lab Kit Guided by the documented recommendations in the literature a portable, collaborative, electronics lab kit suitable for electrical circuits and electronics courses in electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology is proposed. The proposed lab kit has the following features/characteristics. • Inexpensive • Easy to assemble Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Nur Ergul; Ramazan Asmatulu

teaching laboratory at WSU. We assume that this willProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationconsiderably improve the enrollment rate in the engineering college. The specific objectives ofthis study were as follows: i) to educate high school students based on hands-on experience indifferent nanotechnology subjects, ii) to promote interest in this emerging technology, iii) tocreate an awareness of nanomaterials fabrication and characterization techniques, and iv) toprovide the students with a fundamental knowledge and understanding of nanoscience,nanotechnology, and associated technologies.1.2 Nanotechnology and EducationGenerally, nanotechnology is the development of materials, components

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

nanomaterialsfabrication and characterization, and the fundamental reasons behind these experiments/materials/property improvements. We adamantly believe that there is much need for and a strongcorrelation between improvement in the quality of academic success and the rate of freshmenstudent retention using high-tech research and teaching opportunities for WSU students.During the past two semesters, we trained 62 freshmen students, mainly from the CoE andFairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), at WSU. These students were selected ona first-come first-served basis after an announcement was made on the WSU webpage. Figure 1shows a photograph of some of the freshmen students with the GTA in the Nanolab prior to thenano experiment. These developments

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Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

-After our presentation: -22 of 41 students showed interest in a job using HPC to solve problems brief (40 minute) presentation and hands on -27 of 37 students felt they can learn how to write