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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

483 Computer Lab Provisioning: A Review of Current Educational Practices Baird W. Brueseke, Gordon W. Romney iNetwork, Inc. /National University, School of Engineering and Computing San Diego CAAbstractTraditionally, brick and mortar universities and junior colleges have delivered computerlaboratory exercises via dedicated equipment resources in the classroom. Current trends inhigher education have seen the classroom setting evolve into a distance learning environment.Students enrolled in distance learning

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Jing Pang

, undergraduate computer engineering students were dividedinto small groups of 3 to 4 students to participate in the technical paper reading, projectproposing, design discussion, and design presentation. Students used schematic based CAD toolsand also Verilog1 Hardware Language based design tools to get engaged in the process ofdesigning the computer hardware components such as the FIFO2, and also the Mic-13microprocessor. The organization of the design assignments applied in this course was toencourage students for hypothesis formulation, problem analysis, information synthesis, cleararticulation of design ideas and results, and also draw logical conclusions, which are core skillsfor critical thinking. Students learning outcomes were clearly specified

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be explained. It is importantto know that the geek is not trying to undermine others and prove them wrong – all he/she isdoing is trying to correct the inaccuracy in the released information. The reason of such behaviormost possibly lies in the professional background of computer scientists who learn early on intheir training that inaccurate data or information may lead to unforeseen consequences. Incomputer science there is an expression “garbage in, garbage out” which means that if you givewrong input data to the program, you should be ready for any problems, starting with wrongresults and ending with the crash of the program. Thus, correcting any type of inaccuracy comesas a second nature to a computer geek, and an error, even as harmless

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Ronald P. Uhlig

available to demonstrate achievement of Student Learning Outcomes. However, theuniversity has not had Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs) for its computer science andengineering programs in the past. In preparation for seeking ABET Accreditation; a set of threePEOs were first developed for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) program in2011. The PEOs were integrated into the university’s extensive assessment review cycle, andmapped upward to the mission of the university and downward to the Student Outcomes. Thethree 2001 PEOs were expanded to four PEOs during review in 2014 by the BSCS ExternalReview Board and the computer science faculty. Seven Institutional Learning Outcomes areintegral to the National University mission. In order

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Paul Nissenson

Quarter 2014: One section utilized a traditional lecture-only format andmet twice-a-week for 50 minutes, while the other section utilized a hybrid format with a flippedclassroom approach and met once-a-week for 75 minutes. In the hybrid section, prior to each classmeeting students were required to watch short video tutorials and complete pre-quizzes to preparefor the week’s in-class activities. At the start of class, students were given a short graded quizfollowed by a discussion of example problems. Most of the meeting time consisted of studentsparticipating in “Team Battles,” an active learning exercise where groups of students wouldcompete against each other to write computer programs as fast as possible. The hybrid section andthe lecture-only

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Bridget Benson; John Oliver

learning system is the concept that it doesn’t matter when a student achieves mastery ofthe material, only that the student eventually does. The concept is akin to the cliché ‘PracticeMakes Perfect’ in that students can keep studying/practicing the material until they master it.The authors of this paper implemented a Mastery learning scheme in their Embedded SystemsCourse – a course offered to Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering junior and senioruniversity students. The concept of mastery learning was well received by both faculty andstudents alike, however, its implementation was not. We found that many students tookadvantage of the system to engineer their educational experience in the class to do as little aspossible. This paper

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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

470 Distance Learning Requirements for Vetting Curricula Gordon W. Romney1, Baird W. Brueseke2 1School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, California,/ 2iNetwork Inc. San Diego, CaliforniaAbstractEducational objects (eObjects) such as YouTube laboratories and pod lectures deluge the internet.Additionally, MOOCs and distance learning introduce escalating challenges for higher educationand institutional educators, particularly, in the area of course content validation. How can theseeObjects be

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

218 Course Supplement Tools for Enhancing Students' Learning in ECE Freshmen Courses Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Rajan Chandra Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractAll freshmen students in our Electrical and Computer engineering take (1) Introductory CircuitAnalysis and (2) Introduction to C++ Programming for Engineers. These courses are the gatewaycourses to both Electrical and Computer Engineering programs. They not only provide theessential problem solving

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Lu Zhang; Mudasser F. Wyne; Alireza Farahani; Bhaskar Sinha; Mohammad Amin

405 Visual Learning Tool for Teaching Entity Relationship Mapping Rules Lu Zhang, Mudasser F. Wyne, Alireza Farahani, Bhaskar Sinha, Mohammad Amin School of Engineering and Computing, National University, San Diego, CAAbstractBased on the authors’ experience in teaching the subject of conceptual modeling, many studentsare unable to master the mapping process for converting an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)into its corresponding set of relations. This perhaps is surprising to many since the steps andmechanism for converting an ERD into relational tables are not overwhelmingly

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Baheej Nabeel James Saoud; Brian P. Self; Jim Widmann; Alexa Coburn; Jeffrey Phillip Georgette

460 Wrapping Your Thread Around the Proverbial Yo-Yo: The Spool Inquiry-Based Learning Activity Baheej Nabeel James Saoud, Brian P. Self, Jim Widmann, Alexa Coburn, Jeffrey Phillip Georgette California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CAAbstractRigid body kinetics, particularly of rolling objects, proves to be one of the most difficult topics fordynamics students to understand. There are complex relationships between moments, forces,linear acceleration, angular acceleration, and friction, with no simple “standard” rules to follow(e.g

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

569 Engaging Female and Underrepresented Community College Students through Humanitarian Engineering and Context Based Learning Pedagogies Rose-Margaret Itua1, 3, Sharnnia Artis 2,3 1Engineering Department, Ohlone College, Fremont California,/ 2 The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,California/ 3 Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, University of California, Berkeley, CaliforniaAbstractIt is a known fact that female and underrepresented ethnic

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students are instructed to usecodes they do not understand simply because the faculty member uses these codes in theirresearch. Ultimately, the student learning and motivation goes down. To attain the best solutionto a design or modification problem, all available verification methods must be employed.Therefore, a combined method of practically applied basic principles, theoretical predictions,experimental verification, and flight testing will result in the most effective solution.Another example of ignoring the basics for the theoretical is illustrated by the course curriculum.The computer explosion emphasized theoretical concepts and most curriculum developers addedthese techniques while maintaining the existing practical courses. When

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different countries.IntroductionThe evaluation of student learning is undeniably a very important aspect in the educationalprocess. Student assessment methods vary from subject to subject, school to school, country tocountry6. In this paper the focus of discussion is the assessment of student learning in the Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 274university-level introductory courses in Computer Science. In these courses, student learning istypically achieved through lectures, lab assignments, and

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Bari Ma Siddique

format, they must reflect on their course objectives and teaching styles. Many of the qualities that make a successful online facilitator are also tremendously effective in the traditional classroom.Cons of an Online Education: Technology issues – Before any online program can hope to succeed, it must have students who are able to access the online learning environment. Lack of access whether it be for economical or logistics reasons will exclude otherwise eligible students from the course. For some students, the cost and geographical location can be a deterrent to access online programs. Also, sometimes, students with computer or Internet problems will be unable to complete their assignments or exams on time. Security

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Pradip Peter Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Amir Rezaei; Amelito G. Enriquez; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Mohammad Amin

reform themselves. These realities call for systemicchanges in the approaches to education and a readiness to accept new paradigms to guideeducational policies and practice.” (page 28). Through the power of innovative engineeringtechnologies, age-old obstacles to human interaction and globalization, like geography, languageand limited information, are falling and a new wave of connectivity, communication, creativityand potential is rising18. There is an opportunity to develop the potential of the individuallearner, so that she can concentrate on her interest and develop it to the fullest extent. The use ofcomputers in engineering education introduced a highly self-directed form of learning inengineering. Computers can be used for simulation of

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

258 Using Security Onion for Hands-On Cybersecurity Labs Ronald Gonzales, Alan Watkins, Chris Simpson National University, San Diego, CAAbstractHands-on learning allows students to apply and better understand the concepts they learn duringlectures and in reading assignments. Developing hands-on cybersecurity labs is challengingbecause many of the tools are proprietary and expensive. The creation of labs that simulate a realenvironment requires significant resources and planning. The use of real malware and networktraffic provides a more realistic experience but can add

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Bhaskar R. Sinha; Pradip P. Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Mohammad N. Amin; Debra A. Bowen

78 Best Practices Guidelines for Successful Capstone Projects in Accelerated Technology Programs Bhaskar R. Sinha, Pradip P. Dey, Gordon W. Romney, Mohammad N. Amin, Debra A. Bowen School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA practicum or capstone project is an effective and useful end-of-program academic exercise thatreinforces the ability of students to implement knowledge and skills they have learned in theprogram. Every academic program structures its capstone

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Bryan J. Mealy

emphasizes the underlying RATMCU instruction formats by having students disassemble machine code. The next threeexperiments involve the design of the RAT MCU’s program counter, memories (register file andscratch RAM), and ALU. The following three experiments incrementally assemble the RATMCU into a working computer in three stages: 1) a working computer with five instructions, 2) aworking computer with no interrupt capability, and, 3) the completed RAT MCU. The final twoexperiments involve the use of interrupts and interfacing with an external timer module. Thefinal laboratory experience requires students to use their RAT MCUs to implement a project oftheir choosing in order to learn assembly language programming practices associated withrelatively

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Ranjan K Sen

long as one is allowed to increase the number of commodity machinesproportionately.The applications that were of interest were processing ever-increasing log files, mostly generatedby automated interactions of software systems such as search, web logs, web documents. Theseapplications proliferated into the area of data mining and machine learning for buildingintelligent alert, notification, and business intelligence and decision support systems. The latterapplication scenarios and use cases nurtured the Big Data ecosystem and cloud computing.Initiated by companies such as Amazon, eBay and others this just spread in multiple ways.In addition to cluster of computers and distributed parallel processing with a service orientedapproach data

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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

Anderson, R. B., & Romney, G. W. (2013, October). Comparison of two virtual education labs—closing the gap between online and brick-and-mortar schools. 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (IEEE ITHET) 2013 Conference, Antalya, Turkey. IEEE Xplore 10.1109/ITHET.2013.667103521 Anderson, R. B., & Romney, G. W. (2014, March). Student experiential learning of cyber security through virtualization. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching, 7(1), 72–84. Retrieved from http://www.jrit-nu.org/22 Romney, G. W., Amin, M. N., Dey, P. P. & Sinha, B. R. (2014, April). Agile development using cloud IaaS and PaaS in computer science curricula. Paper presented at ASEE/PSW-2014

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Thomas M. Korman

asubcontractor quotation quickly and accurately and the difficulties encountered when compilinga final bid price under the pressure of a time constraint. Learning objectives for mostconstruction estimating course include educating students on the common practices of quantitytake off and surveys, material costing, evaluation of specialty and subcontractor quotations,overhead pricing and the compilation of a final cost estimate. However, most students do notunderstand the difficulty that a construction engineers undertake assembling competitive bidproposals on bid day. This paper will present a class exercise that can be used to simulate thecompetitive bid day environment.IntroductionThe instructional objectives of the competitive bid exercise are for the

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departments at ABET creditedundergraduate universities. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab at the College ofEngineering and Applied Science in the University of Colorado at Boulder is probably a pioneerin formally practicing the method and publishing scientific educational reports on the results1-4.Other examples of the established programs over the past two decades are the InformationEngineering Technology (IET) program at the Northern New Mexico College, the University ofTexas at Austin Project Centered Education (PROCEED), and reflection-in-action softwareengineering courses at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology4. ThePROCEED program of UT Austin for instance was initially started in the department of Proceedings

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Martin Koch

. Something that couldstill give our students an understanding of how things are made but additionally give them toolsto make things; to “Learn by Doing”.In computer science you can easily “make things” by writing new code. In foundry it becameclear that there was something I call “The Tooling Bottleneck” that greatly hindered making newstuff. The Tooling Bottleneck can be explained as the situation where you basically have to makeyour production tooling in order to get a prototype casting. A functional prototype is one that ismade in the desired material via the desired process. A conceptual prototype made out of plasticjust doesn’t cut it. So, how do we transform the course?In the early 90’s CAD/CAM was not readily available, especially in the

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“Emerging Paradigms in Engineering Education” ASEE/PSW-2015 Conference Proceedings ASEE/PSW-2015 Conference April 10-11, 2015 Host School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, California http://www.nu.edu/ Edited by Mohammad Amin, Pradip Peter Dey, & Laith Al Any ForewordI want to congratulate all those who participated in the 2015 ASEE PSW conference held atNational University this past April. This year’s theme, “Emerging Paradigms in EngineeringEducation” appropriately described the changes that have occurred and must continue to occur

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need of the specific subject of study is clearlydefined (each piece of the puzzle), and then show why the puzzle piece or the course is neededfor a specific part of the curriculum (Sr., Jr, etc.)., and without this piece the engineeringeducation is incomplete.Furthermore, still keeping track of the concept of puzzles, engineering courses should bedeveloped so that students use their wisdom to mainly define puzzles, and less emphasis onsolving them (where they had already learned at previous stages). For real life industryproblems, professionals are always faced with puzzles and not homework problems. “How”should one solve the puzzle and “What” date to gather is more relevant than discussing solvingsituations that computer software can actually

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where Electrical and Computer Engineering projects arediscussed. The main objectives of Tobar et al.7 are to build up and reinforce skills fosteredduring a computer-engineering curriculum where the capstone project is the vehicle by whichthe student, the advisor and the client work together to realize a solution to a real-worldtechnical challenge. In the work of Mertz8 entrepreneurial soft skills are honed by the studentswho, while studying design alternatives, select a design responsive to a request for proposaland subsequently “sell” the design concept to a panel of independent evaluators with a writtenproposal and oral presentations. Capstone experiential learning activities such as that of Mertz8allow students to obtain experience in design

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Jean-Michel I. Maarek; Brittany P. Kay

for Technology in Education; 2012.5 Day JA, Foley JD. Evaluating a web lecture intervention in a human-computer interaction course. IEEE transactions on education. 2006;49(4):420-431.6 Strayer JF. The effects of the classroom flip on the learning environment: a comparison of learning activity in a traditional classroom and a flip classroom that used an intelligent tutoring system. PhD Dissertation. Columbus: Ohio State University; 2007. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

comprehensive university. In this project, the four student interns learned concepts of CPSand the corresponding emerging technologies in electrical and computer engineering. Supervisedby an engineering faculty advisor and a senior student mentor, the student interns gained hands-on research experience by developing a biomedical CPS for myoelectric-controlled robot car,which allows users to use arm gestures to control a robot car wirelessly. The student researcherslearned valuable engineering knowledge and skills in this multidisciplinary project includingacquisition and analysis of bioelectrical signals, programming on microcontrollers, embeddedsystem design, wireless communication, and various analog and digital interfaces. In addition, theproject

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for Applications. This allows a natural transition from the simpleprocedural logic of flowcharts to the more common object oriented languages used by universitiestoday.Beginning ProgrammersEven the most gifted computer programmer, at one point, was a beginner. And as beginners, theyhave to struggle with the inherit challenges of their first language. Whether the language wasBASIC, Pascal, C, Java, etc… they had to first handle the issue of syntax. Many languages havea syntax closely related to natural pseudocode while others can be either obtuse or symbolic.After basic syntax is understood, the programmer can then learn the semantics of the language.These can be implied by the syntax itself or can be, in many cases, unrelated. In

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Alireza Farahani; Lu Zhang

451 Utilizing Wolfram Alpha in Teaching Mathematics Alireza Farahani, Lu Zhang School of Engineering and Computing, National University, San Diego, CAAbstractComputer Algebra Systems such as Maple and Mathematica can greatly improve student’sunderstanding of traditionally complex topics in mathematics and engineering. Such systems canhandle complex computations and return results immediately providing students with instantfeedback. The systems can facilitate an interactive learning session in which students can rapidlyformulate solutions, test ideas and verify their