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application in order to enhance and promote experiential learning inundergraduate education for computer engineering students.System Architecture“Multipoint remote temperature monitoring and data acquisition system using RF technology” isa project taking advantage of wireless technology and mobility of embedded system. It aims tomonitor temperature at various zones and report back wirelessly the temperature of these zonesto a master node. It is possible for the master node to monitor the temperatures of different zonesfor controlling purpose. The system architecture overview is shown in figure 1. Temperature Sensor HCS12 HAC-UM 96

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Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

Cyber-Infrastructure Education Recruitment, Retention, Advancement), while STEMstands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. EOT is the roadmap forpreparing the next generation of engineers and future scientists in the global knowledgeeconomy. This paper highlights the E in STEM referencing a Team Science approach topreparing the next generation of engineers, technicians, researchers, and future scientists.CIBRED and CIERRA are used here as a way to show how this collaborative, project-centric bioinformatics initiative can contribute to the development of an educationalpipeline to prepare in/out-of-school youth with 21st century workforce skills and fosterinnovation and interdisciplinary practice. The product and the processes are

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Tariq Qayyum

@csupomona.eduProceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 81AbstractThis FPGA course is designed for junior level students who are pursuing a baccalaureate degreein electronics and computer engineering technology. Exercises were adapted for use of the AlteraDE-26 development board, which were donated by Altera cooperation. Software used wasQuartus II, which is freely available from Altera website. The board was found to be useful andstudent-friendly for majority of the laboratory exercises and for simple design projects.IntroductionUse of a hardware description language, such as VHDL or

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Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

Professor of Engineering Tim Simpson, University of Pennsylvania Professor of EngineeringAbstractAmericans need a better understanding of the wide variety of technology used everyday. Theneed for technological literacy is great for both individuals and the nation in general. Creating apopulation with a more empowered relationship with technology will require a significant andextensive initiative in undergraduate education. Curricula and course materials that are easilyadoptable in diverse and varied institutional environments are vital in this effort. The NationalAcademy of Engineering in two reports: Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need toKnow More about Technology (2002

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Gemunu Happawana; Amaranath Premasiri; Arye Rosen

previously there should be at least three different wavelengths to monitor the bloodchromophore level and the photosensitizing agents. Many number of light sources from eachwavelength, and many number of detectors can be used for this purpose. However increasing thenumber of devices complicates the probe geometry. The proposed detection system designconsists of three semiconductor lasers for the excitation of the chromospheres and a detector. In Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 93the device fabrication we include two light sources and a photodetector packaged

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demonstrations; these range from simple to complex,inexpensive and homemade devices to elaborate, expensive and commercially availableunits. Children’s toys and the so called “executive toys” or novelties have also beenemployed as demonstration tools7-10. Properly selected toys offer at least threeadvantages: (1) they are relatively inexpensive and readily available for immediate use;(2) there is a good chance that students are familiar with them from their ownexperiences; and (3) they exhibit a wide variety of scientific concepts. In addition to theirutility for classroom demonstrations, toys can be used for other educational purposessuch as informal science education and inspiring ideas for student projects.The literature on toys in education is

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Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 307(1) It should be a technology that fosters more collaboration with others versus one that removeshuman interaction and social development, unless human life is at stake.(2) Researchers must be careful to determine if efforts should be focused on leveragingtechnology to think for us, to interpret and understand for us, to instruct us, or to predict/forecastthe future for us. Some may deem that as creating a sort of god for mankind.(3) One must ensure that technology not prevent users from knowing and experiencingfundamental concepts and learning experiences.(4) The technology should

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

. CrastaINTRODUCTIONAdvances in various technologies in biology, medicine and computation have enabled researchersto generate more experimental data for understanding medical science at the molecular level. This Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 445trend is now common in most of the scientific fields that can be exploited for data utilization, dataanalysis and more useful data mining and visualization of data. Moreover, the advances incomputational technology are changing the way research is conducted in all aspects of science andhave led to the generation of seemingly

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

initiatives directed toward this newworkforce. CIBRED is one of the funded collaborative projects (awarded to O. Crasta of VBIwith A. Datta as a collaborator) of this OCI initiative. Courses are now being developed in acollaborative way using multidisciplinary approach integrating scientific and technologyinformation from a variety of disciplines The focus is to teach students from diverse disciplinesfor learning some essential concepts on computer technology in the context of application ofcyberinfrastructure. These courses developed for K13 & K14 levels will be offered in aninnovative classroom setting for hands-on experimental learning with a focus on solving a Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific

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is generally considered one of the most abstract andconceptually difficult areas in engineering education and the teaching of random variables is oneof the subjects that requires more time for its understanding2,3. The use of computers givesstudents the visual and intuitive representation of the random variables which had traditionallybeen stated in terms of abstract mathematical description. To this end we present a demoprogram to aid in, and improve of, understanding the different terms used to describe a randomvariable. The programs are written in MATLAB in form of m files. We choose MATLAB becauseMATLAB along with the accompanying toolboxes is the tool of choice for most educational andresearch purposes4-7. It provides powerful

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pre-knowledge of MRI technologies and then drew asecond one after exposure to the material. Students were evaluated on the structural changes inthe hierarchy of organizing concepts, their use of expert terms, and then through a blind-evaluation of the pre- and post-mapping exercises. Of the 78 concepts detailed by instructors, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 116only 28 showed up on any of the student maps, and at that, only half of the module sections wererepresented. It was noted that preknowledge of the material or prior experiences were a verystrong

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Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

information—in order to create useful toolsand technologies. Consequently, engineering education has the objective of not only presenting thescientific principles, i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these toreal problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that hands-on laboratories have been an integral part ofthe engineering curriculum since its inception [1]. Their importance has been recognized by theAccreditation Board of Engineering Education (ABET) and its predecessors by creation of criteriarequiring adequate laboratory practice for students [2-6]. Unfortunately, during the last severaldecades, engineering laboratories have become highly complex and expensive, with multiplesimulation tools and computer

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

functions(IBM, 2007).1.8 Security Students Architected a Two-factor Authentication SolutionITM students accepted the APDT problem to design and implement a useable two-factorauthentication process using the SOET WebPortal architecture shown in Figure 1.8.1. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 497 Figure 1.8.1. SOET WebPortalThe WebPortal environment was initially architected by the student co-author, Juneau, andimplemented by his team of students using Microsoft (MS) .NET technology with Windows2003 Server. Other preliminary

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Hassan Mohamed-Nour

109 A Conceptual Approach to Developing a Universal Remote Laboratory for Education and Research in Electrical Power Engineering Hassan Mohamed-Nour Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840, nour@csulb.eduAbstractOne crucial element of education in electrical power engineering is the laboratory component.The laboratory instruction may be delivered in physical laboratories using real equipment orthrough simulation software tools, and in many cases utilizing

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

sources wasfully functional. The old experiment 5 was replaced with a modern fiber optic link source andreceivers using SFP fiber optic transceivers. The new Lab 5 Optical Link Experiment showsstudents how to build a modern fiber optic digital link using standard optical transceivers. Thisexperiment also preserves the old experimental goal of estimating the bandwidth of a 1 kmmultimode fiber spool. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 53• Experiment 6: EDFA:(added in Fall 2007)Lab 6 EDFA was first designed and deployed in the EE443 lab in Fall of 2007. This lab

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Amelito G. Enriquez

mathematical formulas. Combined with wirelessnetworking technology, Tablet PCs have the potential to provide an ideal venue for applyingpreviously proven collaborative teaching and learning techniques commonly used in smallerengineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger, more traditional lecture setting. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 33Currently, the range of use of Tablet PCs in the classroom includes enhancing lecturepresentations8,9, digital ink and note taking10, E-Books (books in electronic format) that allowhyperlinks and annotations11

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Eniko T. Enikov; Malcolm T. Gibson

380 Expanding Engineering Education through Undergraduate Research Experience in Micro-Robotic Drug Delivery Eniko T. Enikov 1 , Malcolm T. Gibson 2 Advanced Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona. 1 Principal Investigator, 2 Undergraduate StudentAbstract This paper examines the use of MEMS research in bio-medical micro-robotic drugdelivery as an education vehicle for expanding the effectiveness of undergraduate engineeringeducation in order to meet advancing challenges of the future

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demo program evaluationissue.2. Description of the program The package was implemented in MATLAB. We choose MATLAB because MATLAB alongwith the accompanying toolboxes is the tool of choice for most educational and researchpurposes10. We used the MATLAB tool makeshow which allows the student to create her/his Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 371own interactive slideshows without building her/his own graphic interface. There are twowindows in each slide. We used the upper windows for specific explanations as in Slide 1, Fig.1,or for graphics, as in Slide 2

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Kate Disney; John Krupczak

become more widespread and essential in our society now than ever in the past,and yet most people have a poor understanding of the technology they interact with. Devices aresmaller and unserviceable, interfaces simplify and hide the technology so that users do not needto understand the technology in order to use it, and much of new technology today is happeningat the microscopic level. All of these facts add separation between the end-user and thetechnology. The result is that collectively citizens are becoming less aware of technology but atthe same time more dependent on it. This chasm between dependence and understanding needsto be addressed. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional

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that FE theory is very mathematics-intensive thereby making it more suitable for graduate students who have a more rigorous mathematical education. Nevertheless, there is clearly a need and curriculums should attempt to integrate this important component. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 293 This paper discusses a mechanism for delivering FE instruction through the use of heat transfer tutorials that can be easily integrated into a required mechanical engineering course. The need for integrating FE theory and application across the engineering

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Thomas J. Impelluso

developed and they weretied to each item in Table 2. Face-to-face lectures focused on the interplay of intrinsic andgermane learning loads. The extraneous learning load was obviated by use of on-line instructional technologies.However, this was not a passive use in which students simply observed lectures. Applicationsharing technology was used – the instructor took control of student laptops as if working withthe student, side by side, while also demonstrating the effort to the rest of the class. Theschematic for an on-line session is indicated Figure 1. Students were able to work on theirassignments from home (during or after class lab-time), regardless of their operating system, byfirst establishing a terminal SSH session to the server on

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Hassan Badkoobehi

more practical task, which is to ar-rive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. This may involve articulating the goodhabits that we should acquire, the duties that we should follow, or the consequences of our behaviour Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 232on others. Finally, applied ethics involves examining specific controversial issues, such as abortion,infanticide, animal rights, environmental concerns, homosexuality, capital punishment, or nuclearwar[1]. By using the conceptual tools of met ethics and normative ethics, discussions in

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Kurt Colvin

learning, and can be used to improve a variety of courses orsolve particular problems. Some universities have used the hybrid model to solve classroomspace shortages, to improve communication between students and instructors in large classes,and to address students' needs for computer and technology literacy (Lindsay, 2009).There is a wide range of interpretations of how to define blended learning (Boyle, 2005;Whitelock & Jelfs 2003; Driscoll 2002). These arise partially from the different motives thatunderpin the use of a blended learning approach. These vary from cost-saving considerations topedagogical considerations of producing more effective methods of learning. At the base ofthese descriptions is usually a mixture of asynchronous-based

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Gordon W. Romney

industry toward using Agile (“ease of movement”) techniques in programming andproject development has motivated the faculty at the National University (NU) School of Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 482Engineering and Technology (SOET) to introduce agility into pedagogy. Agile Problem DrivenTeaching (Dey et.al., 2009) as used in teaching IT is described in this paper.1.1 The IT Industry Evolution Toward AgilityIt has been fascinating to watch the evolution of IT project management (PM) from the rigidstructure of the 60’s through the early 90’s to the triple

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

global economy and how to internationalize ourcurricula. The workshop also aims to create a forum for discussion of Ambient Computingcurriculum. We invite presentations that address both cultural, curricular, logistics andtechnical issues around educating global engineering workforce in this era of change.An important goal of the project is to address the social aspects of learning andknowledge-building. Faculty, students and administrators in the partner institutions willaim at establishing an online knowledge-building community where a common goal willbe development of individual and collective understanding in CS. In this community,technology will be used for building the social context as well as for knowledge sharingand process support

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functions. This project also asks student to, usingcomputer aided manufacturing (CAM) technology, create an NC program, which is used to drivethe machine to move and act as desired. Using CAM to generate NC programming requiresstudents to determine a machining strategy, operation sequence and cutting tools. Students mustalso decide the cutting conditions such as cutting speed, depth of cut, feed rate, and otherparameters for each operation based on knowledge learned in classroom. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 424 Figure 2 NC

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convenient replacement in case of damage or reprogramming of firmware if needed(fig. 2). The microcontroller communicates with a PC through its serial port using RS-232protocol and a Maxim MAX232 driver/receiver. It sends to the PC the value of the potentiometervoltage, measured by the built-in Analog-to-Digital Convertor (ADC), and receives the Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 243computed control signal and converts it to the respective PWM output for the motor. The PWMoutput is passed to an H-bridge configuration of MOS transistors, which produces the

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Primitives http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228964.aspx 13) T. Leighton, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays:Trees:Hypercubes - Morgan Kaufmann, 1992. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 357 Appendix I: Microsoft Parallel Processing Technology Recent .NET Framework, 3.0 and later versions of .NET Frameworks support more than one high level parallel processing technologies (see figure). These provide the high level programming model missing in the legacy thread models

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Jesa H. Kreiner; Peter W. Othmer; Timothy W. Lancey

Engineering Education – Cluster E-1, Sydney, Australia, September 26-29, 2005. 10. Timothy Lancey and Kreiner, Jesa “Senior Design Projects for Medical Devices”, presented at the 2007 EPICS – NSF National Conference, organized by Purdue University, San Diego, California May 22-24, 2007. 11. Catalog of Case Studies Reports, ASEE Center for Case Studies in Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. 12. Johnston, Stephen, J. Paul Gostelow and W. Joseph King, “Engineering &Society”, Prentice Hall.BiographiesJESA KREINER, Ph.D., PE is a professor of mechanical engineering at California State University, Fullerton.His Ph.D. is from Oklahoma State University. He teaches courses in machine

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102 18. A Conceptual Approach to Developing a Universal Remote Laboratory for Education and Research in Electrical Power Engineering, Hassan Mohamed-Nour 109 19. Use of Concept Maps to Build Student Understanding and Connections Among Course Topics, Paul Blowers 114 20. A Framework for Developing Courses on Engineering and Technology for Non-Engineers, Vince Bertsch, John Krupczak, Kate Disney, Elsa Garmire, and Tim Simpson 136 21. Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Estelle M. Eke 150 22