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Conference Session
Multidisciplinary Design
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Dom Acciani, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Chenguang Diao, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Bernard Pietrucha, Rowan University; Paris von Lockette, Rowan University
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
communication, specifically,technical writing in the fall and public speaking in the spring. Each section has oneCommunications faculty member for the semester, and for these faculty, each section is viewedas a 3-hour course for workload purposes. In the laboratory portion of the course, three sectionsmeet simultaneously. Consequently, for the engineering faculty, there are two lab sessions eachweek, each consisting of 60-65 students, and five instructors. For workload purposes this is Page 11.359.2viewed as a 3-hour course for each member of the engineering faculty.In the laboratory component of the course, students work on open-ended design projects
Conference Session
Capstone Manufacturing and Design
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing
provided drawings and stock materials and workunder minimal supervision. The project is designed in such a way that the laboratory (shop)work follows closely the lecture classes. The lecture unit on casting is followed by thefabrication of the handle for the hacksaw which is formed out of cast aluminum. The unit onrolling and bending is followed by the bending of the steel bar to produce the frame of thehacksaw; the unit on sheet metal processing is followed by the part of the hacksaw (retainer) thatinvolves cutting and bending sheet metal; the general topic of machining is followed by theproduction of the tensioner which involves facing and turning on a lathe, and a finishingoperation by milling. There are also applications of joining processes
Conference Session
Multidisciplinary Design
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard
, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Product-Architecture Digital Media Laboratory supports the Masters program. Thelaboratory focuses on advanced digital design environments including geometricmodeling, interactivity, scripting languages and virtual reality. The laboratory is equipedwith a full Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) suite.Interactive Digital Media is explored using scripting capabilities in Maya, ActionScripting and Rhino and the laboratory includes a full set of ceiling mounted cameras,blob tracking devices and projection systems for full scale performative environmentstudies. Three dimensional scanning technologies are explored using a wide array ofdevices including a Cyrax - Lidar type
Conference Session
Computer ET Innovation
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Scott Schneider, University of Dayton
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
the shared database file and the localcopy of the database file using semaphores, mutexes, or critical sections. The Win32 APIfunctions used for this task are located in Table 4. Furthermore, the design must precludedeadlock or starvation from occurring. The students again need to analyze their applicationusing the system tools introduced during the first experiment. This exercise culminates the Page 13.1350.7Windows programming experience having stepped the students through the development of acomplicated software system. Win32 API function Description
Conference Session
Developing Better Engineering Managers - Curricular Ideas from Year 1 Through Graduate School
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joseph J. Suter, Johns Hopkins University; Stanislaw Tarchalski, Johns Hopkins University; Judith G Theodori, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineeering; James D Beaty, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Michael McLoughlin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Richard Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Management
, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Dr. James Beaty is the Advanced Health Technologies Program Manager for the Research & Exploratory Development Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He leads world- class teams of engineers and scientists to develop, integrate, and test leading edge health. James has 15 years of experience in image/signal processing research and development. James began his career at APL in 2005, where he has held progressively responsible line and technical management positions (Section Supervisor, Assistant Group Supervisor, Team Lead, Project Manager, and Program Manager). . James received an B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from
Conference Session
Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology
Collection
2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Muhammad Zafrul Hasan, Texas A&M University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
project is a major component of undergraduate engineering education. Itprovides an opportunity for the graduating students to combine several engineering principlesand practices into a functional prototype in order to meet some customer requirements or to solvea technical challenge. In order to enhance the capstone design experience of the students, it isnecessary to analyze the projects carried out over a sufficiently long time. Projects can beanalyzed based on several criteria. Examples could be its source of sponsorship, technologybeing used in the project, and its field of application. Also, such an analysis needs to look at thepreparatory ingredients of the curriculum in the lower level that led to the capstone designproject. A mini project
Conference Session
Emerging Issues in Materials Education
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Diane Folz, Virginia Tech; Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions
Materials
thesematerials incorporated “designed failures” which the teams were expected to evaluate. They alsowere to recommend solutions for the problems they encountered. Progress reports and the finalreport (a maximum of 20 pages plus appendices as needed) were prepared by each student. Aformat was provided by the instructor. In this laboratory, all of the individual laboratories were Page 14.1017.5laid out with specific tasks for the teams to follow.Revised CourseOne of the primary goals of this revised laboratory is to give students an intuitive understandingof designing experiments in pursuit of a research goal. In accomplishing this goal, it isanticipated
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head
MATLAB. Experiment 3, Mentor Graphics Design Laboratory: The students begin by learning thebasics of schematic layout and simulation with Mentor Graphics tools. Since our focus is Page 7.185.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”primarily on digital circuit design using CMOS technology, we begin with simple digital circuitscomposed of a few circuit components (including diodes and transistors). The circuit schematicsare built in Design Architect and simulated with
Collection
1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Tom Mase
help in getting the students working with solid modeling, finiteelements, and a design project. If enrollment numbers require, a lecture section of 32 to36 students can be accommodated by having two laboratory sections for the designsyllabus. Enrollments over 24 students make this course a substantial time sink for theprofessor if a teaching assistant is not available. Building a design experience intoAdvanced Mechanics of Materials is a time consuming but rewarding task.Course Goals To embark on this course, the instructor needs to provide the students with a clearstatement of objectives. The course objectives in Advanced Mechanics of Materials atGMI is as follows: x Complete mastery of elementary mechanics of materials x
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jiang Li; Matthew Lee
system can be adopted for both lab and field measurements. It is especially convenient for field projects since the DAQ system is portable and light. This system is designed for multiple purposes. For instance, the data acquisition can measure and record stress/force, strain/displacement, velocity/acceleration, temperatures, etc. that are related to projects in civil engineering such as pile driving, foundation loading/unloading and deformation of infrastructure (i.e., pavement, slope, retaining wall, bridges etc). This system can also serve as a virtual laboratory device for purposes of teaching and research in engineering mechanics (i.e., oscilloscopes, frequency response analyzers, signal generators, A/D or D/A data converters, etc.). In the
Conference Session
NSF Grantees' Poster Session
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; John P Henry, Sustainable Learning Systems; S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University; Talbot Bielefeldt, International Society for Technology in Education
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees Poster Session
experiences into the pre-engineering classrooms and to promotescience and engineering design. The design and implementation of the game are described indetail with the focus on the CI features, metacognitive strategies, context-oriented approaches aswell as their seamless integration into core game play.INTRODUCTIONK-12 education is facing the challenge of educating all children to meet higher standards in areasof science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). For instance, schooling remainshighly departmentalized, stratified and continues to teach subjects in isolation, with little or noattempts to draw connections among the STEM disciplines [1]. Schools have not kept pace withthe transformative technological revolution to bring much
Conference Session
Design Communications
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
., Schmalzel, J., Slater, C., Development of multifunctional laboratories in a new engineering school, in Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 1996.,9. Dorland, D., Mosto, P., The Engineering clinics at Rowan University: A unique experience, Proceedings of the 17th international Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2006) Prague, Czech Republic, August 27-31, 2006.10. Dahm, K.D., Riddell, W., Constans, E., Courtney, J., Harvey, R., von Lockette, P., “The converging- diverging approach to design in the Sophomore Engineering Clinic, Paper 2006-945 in Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June, 200711. Von Lockette, P., Acciania, D., Courtney, J., Diao, C., Riddell, W., Dahm, K
Conference Session
Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum II
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering
demonstrations, and open-ended laboratory experiences. Survey items were mapped to a 4-point Likert scale, with higher values corresponding to more positive outcomes. To assess theimpact of the Design Studio and associated curricular changes, the survey cohort was segmentedby graduation year into pre (<2012) and post (2012-2015) Design Studio creation. Pre versusPost Design Studio comparisons were made using one-way ANOVA (JMP Pro v12).4.1 Survey ResultsThe survey response rate was 6.6%, with respondents representing a wide range of graduationyears (2015-1945), with concentrations in 2010-2015, 1992-1995, and 1980-1982. Onlyundergraduate alumni who completed the survey were included for further data analysis(N=132).Figure 3: Results for entire survey
Conference Session
Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; George Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nikhil Sanghavi, Stevens Institute of Technology
2006-1006: ENGINEERING EXPERIENCES - REPLACING FRESHMANENGINEERING SEMINAR WITH A FLEXIBLE, STUDENT-DRIVEN APPROACHKeith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology KEITH SHEPPARD is a Professor of Materials Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned the B.Sc. from the University of Leeds, England and Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England, both in Metallurgy. As Associate Dean, Sheppard is primarily responsible for undergraduate programs. He is a member of the Executive Committee and past Chair of the ASEE Design in Engineering Education Division.George Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology GEORGE KORFIATIS is McLean Professor of
Conference Session
Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Carl O. Hilgarth
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
industrial management, financial management, computer technology, and environmental technology, as well as leading seminars in the university’s general education program. Prior to academia, Mr. Hilgarth was employed as as engineer in the aerospace industry in laboratory and flight test development, facilities management, and as a manager in quality assurance. He has contributed papers on management, ground-test laboratory and flight test facilities, and ethics to several technical and professional organizations. In education, he has served as a consultant and curriculum developer to the Ohio Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the Missouri
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session II
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees Poster Session
for the difficulty is the diverse and challenging set of threshold concepts thatthey must coherently synthesize and be able to apply in a diverse range of contexts. Based on ourexperience and from reports in the literature, we have identified a set of threshold concepts wepropose are critical for mastery of thermodynamics. The goal of this NSF TUES project is todevelop a corresponding set of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to help students identify andlearn these threshold concepts. The intent of this project is not to develop a comprehensive list ofall the threshold concepts needed to master thermodynamics. Rather we would like to examine asubset of threshold concepts and illustrate, first, that they can form a design basis fordevelopment
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees Poster Session
. Rather we would like to examine a subsetof threshold concepts and illustrate, first, that they can form a design basis for development ofInteractive Virtual Laboratories where students can actively experience multiple representations,and, second, that experience with these virtual laboratories helps students learn.The following specific project objectives have been constructed to achieve this goal: 1. Validate a set of at least six proposed threshold concepts in thermodynamics. 2. Develop Interactive Virtual Laboratories to provide students multiple representations and help them experientially explore these threshold concepts. Develop the virtual laboratories based on engineering education best practices and multimedia
Conference Session
Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nicolas N Brown, University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering; Joy Velarde, University of Utah; Debra J Mascaro, University of Utah
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two Year College Division
Paper ID #16848Using Peer Mentoring to Enhance Transfer Student Experience and IncreaseStudent Success in Mechanical EngineeringMr. Nicolas N Brown, University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering Nicolas is a senior in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Utah. He is the peer mentoring coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as an Undergraduate Re- search Assistant for the Ergonomics and Safety Lab. His current area of research involves designing and integrating control systems on recreational equipment for high-level spinal cord injury patients. Nicolas’ senior
Collection
2001 Annual Conference
Authors
D. Smith; James Squire
curriculum).” Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Washington, DC, 420, 1986.3. Jumper, E.J., “Recollections and observations on the value of laboratories in the undergraduate engineering curriculum,” Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Washington, DC, 423, 1986.4. Klein, R.E., “The bicycle project approach: A vehicle to relevancy and motivation,” Proceedings ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, New York, 47, 1991.5. Catalano, G.D., Wray, P., and Cornelio, S., “Compassion practicum: A capstone design experience at the United States Military Academy,” Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, Washington, DC, p. 471, v. 89, no. 4, Dec. 20006. Manning, F.S., Wilson, A.J., and Thompson, E.E., “The use of industrial
Conference Session
Crossing the Discipline Divide!
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Mike Dunlap; M.L. Meier
experiment from the financial and time viewpoints. These two course involved twovery different audiences (technical program students at a community college, engineeringstudents at a research university), but in both cases the student’s responses were similar. Theydid not realize how much of the total cost was personnel, they consistently underestimated howmuch time various procedures take. Also, when planning an experiment where the costperspective was considered, it helped them see the resource side of experimental work, not justthe academic side, and it helped them manage their time better. It also helped them understandhow one makes money in engineering.IntroductionLaboratory courses generally deal with laboratory procedures, data analysis and
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Sieworiek, University of Pittsburgh
AC 2010-1781: CCLI: MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIES: EXPERIMENTS ANDMIXED METHODS TO ASSESS STUDENT LEARNINGLarry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering educational experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former senior editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in the engineering education literature, and is co-author of
Conference Session
New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mani Mina, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
,  play,  fail,  redo,  and  have  fun  doing  it.    The  reflective  activities,  and  collaborative  exercises  that  are   based  on  emphasizing  the  main  concepts  would  to  other  classes   2. How  better  understanding  of  the  definitions  can  help  in  practical  experimental,  design,  and  critique   activities.   3. Identify  some  examples/possibilities  where  lack  of  deep  understanding  (of  the  definitions)  can  lead  to   major  design  flaws  and  failures   4. Others….  Each  faculty  and  student  groups  can  add  to  and  enrich  this  list  by  their  research,  experience,   and  projects.    These  activities  need  to  be
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Steven H Chin, Rowan University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
of the importance of vertical integration in that students realize that their experiences are part of a flow that contributes to a unified knowledge base.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF LABORATORY PROJECTThe objectives of this experiment are to • develop and implement an iris recognition system using a standard iris database and open-source tools • verify its performance with clean eye images Page 26.458.7 • verify its performance when the images are transmitted over a communication link • quantitatively evaluate the performanceLABORATORY PROTOCOLThe laboratory protocol includes both supplied MATLAB code and code that has
Conference Session
Potpourri Design
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Patrick Walter
design process at TCU isbased on these criteria. A 3-semester, team-oriented, industry-funded, electrical/mechanical,interdisciplinary design sequence, beginning in the second semester of the TCU studentengineer’s junior year, is described.introductionEarly in their engineering educational process, students are typically forced to select a specificdiscipline (mechanical, electrical, civil, etc.). They then dutifully follow a program of studiesthat embraces the requisite technical courses (thermodynamics, solid mechanics, circuits, etc.) tosupport this discipline. While laboratory courses may provide an opportunity to stimulate groupinteraction, success in the majority of their engineering courses is typically assessed based uponindividual
Conference Session
Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University; Ramanathan Arunachalam, Sultan Qaboos University; Sayyad Basim Qamar, Texas A&M University
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
Manager Design; Produc- tion Engineer; Quality Control Engineer). On top of his experience as a researcher/academician, he has been actively involved in research and accreditation work related to engineering education. His technical research areas are Applied materials and manufacturing; Applied mechanics and design; Reliability engi- neering; and Engineering education. As part of the Applied Mechanics and Advanced Materials Research group (AM2R) at SQU, he has been involved in different applied research funded projects in excess of 4 million dollars. He has over 200 research/technical publications to his credit (research monographs/books, edited book volumes, a 5-volume encyclopedia, book chapters, refereed journal
Conference Session
ECE Curriculum Innovations
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah; Stephanie Richardson, University of Utah; Rohit Verma, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bryan Stenquist, University of Utah
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
• Enhance the junior-level design experience with formal training in project management, entrepreneurialism, and system integration. (This is an interdisciplinary initiative between the Colleges of Business and Engineering.) • Utilizing an enhanced “Write/Speak to Learn” program to help the students better understand the systems they design.MethodsThe ECE curriculum is relatively traditional and is shown in Table 1. All of the required ECEcourses already include a laboratory component, and it is these laboratories that are beingadapted to include project-based system designs. Typically, the basic concepts being taught inthe labs remain very similar to what they were without the system level design, however thesebasic concepts
Conference Session
Biomedical Division Poster Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Julien Henri Arrizabalaga, University of Oklahoma; Matthias U. Nollert, University of Oklahoma; Rachel C. Childers, University of Oklahoma
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical Engineering
be obtained fromuniaxial tension tests, including: tensile strength, failure stress, regions of strain hardening, andregions of necking, 2) quantitatively assess the anisotropic properties of a material via uniaxialtensile testing, 3) experimentally demonstrate the time-dependent nature of a biomaterial’smechanical response, and 4) quantitatively assess the viscoelastic properties, such as creep andrelaxation, of a soft biomaterial via uniaxial tensile testing.In addition to the mechanical testing experiments for the laboratory course, we plan to let thestudents use these devices to complete projects and self-designed experiments related tobiomechanics at the end of the semester. We hope to explore the use of these devices to help inspirethe
Collection
2000 Annual Conference
Authors
Hakan Gurocak
technology, at WSU and other educational institutions1. The curriculum,however, includes courses with laboratory components.We offer one of the laboratory courses (ME 311 Manufacturing Processes) at three WSUcampuses. This course requires familiar machine tool equipment such as lathes, millingmachines, joining and material testing. The course is offered by only one instructor. Thelectures are delivered from one location using WHETS and the laboratories are approximatedusing the locally available equipment at each remote site. The laboratory experiments that wereoriginally designed for the facilities at WSU Pullman are approximated (adapted for locallyavailable equipment) at the other sites. For example, in Vancouver we use the AppliedTechnology
Conference Session
Technological Literacy
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill; Mani Mina, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
. Methods of assessment are needed that extend beyond questions that can beanswered by memorization but do not require extensive prerequisite mathematical knowledge.Communication or explanation of how technical systems work requires a method that canrepresent a diverse range of technological products but that non-engineers can learn to use in alimited amount of time. The technique of concept mapping has been adapted to this purpose.Concept mapping provides a visual method of demonstrating the relationships that exist betweenthe component parts of a larger body of information. Such a feature is well-suited for explainingtechnical systems. In one application concept mapping is combined with aspects of theengineering design technique of functional
Conference Session
Design in the ECE Curriculum
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
, educational programsmust nevertheless keep pace with technologies in common use in order to produce graduates whoare competitive in the marketplace.A study conducted at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology measures changes in studentperformance when all students have unlimited access to state of the art design tools and hardwaresystems. Data are collected from surveys, exams, and course assignments such as project and labreports. Quantitative data are analyzed by comparison to historical data gathered from studentgroups that did not have unlimited access to hardware systems, and qualitative data are used todetermine the subjective quality of each student’s experience. Specific outcomes include:assessing whether the overall learning process was