. Students who can afford test-prep services may have a significant advantage over those who cannot [10] (we return to thisissue in Section 2.1). Some, such as the National Education Association, believe that the welldocumented and persistent tendency [11] of minority students to perform more poorly on thesetests is evidence of racism [12]. They note that standardized testing rose to prominence in theeugenics era, when it was common to believe that intelligence was heavily influenced by race.The argument is not that these tests are designed to be biased, but just that the developers lackthe cultural competence to understand different groups’ knowledge base, and thus that the testsinadvertently exhibit bias against members of those groups.Language is
AC 2008-257: A DUAL-MODE/DUAL-WORKSPACE CLASSROOMENVIRONMENTChi Thai, University of Georgia Associate Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Georgia. Research interests are in the development of optical sensing systems for stress and disease detection in peanut and cotton plants and for evaluation of quality of agricultural products using standard UV-VIS-NIR Spectroscopy and Multi-spectral Imaging, and in the development of distance learning technologies and methodologies. Page 13.35.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008A Dual-Mode/Dual
Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of Engineer- ing Technology. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development. Dr. Eydgahi has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Tau Alpha Pi, as a member of Advi- sory and Editorial boards for many International Journals in Engineering and Technology, as a member of review panel for NASA and Department of Education, as a
example, students are typically taught about the history oftheir discipline. Engineers, however, are usually woefullyuneducated about the history of their discipline. History, Ancienthowever, can be used to help students put faces to the namesthey hear when they study dynamics and can be useful in Aristotleengaging their interest and enlivening the subject. This is true ofengineering design as well as engineering science. In this paper,a brief history of dynamics from Newton to Hamilton will be Galileo Galileipresented. This material can be used at the beginning of a lectureor sprinkled throughout to add some color to
Factors Program. Her research focus includes self-efficacy, mental toughness, and microaggressions. Darnishia is also the Pavlis Educator and Manager of Global Engagement Programs in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Tech. She’s a foodie who enjoys spending time with friends and family as well as impromptu road trips! © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Reflecting on Culture in an Immersion Experience: How to Prepare Students for the UnexpectedAbstract:Experiential learning is increasingly recognized as a high-impact educational practice, andreflection is an essential piece of
and inclusion in STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Motivating Learners: Improving Student Outcomes in Math through Online Faculty Professional Development Chris S. Hulleman University of Virginia Dustin B. Thoman San Diego State University Zach Himmelberger Motivate Lab Teresa K. Hulleman Motivate Lab Paul Beardlsey Cal Poly Pomona
projects for engineering and technology students. Thehypothesis of integrating teaching topics to enhance undergraduate research experience inSynchrotron based X-ray absorption EXAFS for corrosion study and ElectroencephalographyEEG application project has been studied. Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUII. Electrostatics analogy of EXAFS Local Energy EnvironmentGiven a sample, the EXAFS technique can be used to study the local environment of an elementinside the sample. For example, the oxidation state of Fe, important for corrosion studies 2, 3,can be deduced from EXAFS data. The electron energy levels of an atom are affected by thelocal electric potential energy with contributions from the nearby
ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. A Study on the Performance of IEEE 802.16-2004 Includes STBC Hussain A. Alhassan Dr. Eman Abdel Fattah Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT, USA Bridgeport, CT, USA halhassa@my.bridgeport.edu eman@bridgeport.edu Abstract— The era of entirely
authors, the combination of theaforementioned tools has not been tried as a single methodology. The use of objectiveassessment, which is mainly a program assessment tool, has not been employed in the evaluationof student progress. To the best of our knowledge, the utilization of readiness assessments, tohelp students gain a better understanding of the topics that will be covered in class, has not beenimplemented in the delivery of introductory programming courses.Course StructureThe course material resembles a typical introductory C++ programming course for ComputerScience, Computer Engineering and Information Science and Technology students, includingadditional topics in structures, such as arrays of structures, working with external files
Paper ID #21776The Impact of Free Lunch on Attendance at Voluntary Teacher TrainingDr. Todd Easton, Kansas State University Todd Easton received a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics from Brigham Young University (1993), an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University (1994) and a Ph.D. in Industrial En- gineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1999). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology until 2001, when he joined the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineer- ing department at Kansas State University. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and an
departments, one findsstatistics courses for those majoring in engineering, education, psychology, business, health sciences,and agriculture, to name a few, not to mention those courses which have a major statistics component.Regardless of the level of and department in which the statistics course is offered, faculty may want toconsider introducing data collection and analysis components to lecture-only courses and thereby helpbridge the gap between in-class theory and real-world issues. As a result, students who complete thecourse will have a greater appreciation of the power and applications of statistics.The mathematics department at Louisiana State University (LSUS) offers several statistics courses,two of which are offered every term. Early in
engagement. She frequently consults on statistical design and analysis of scientific research projects, and she has been involved in the formative and summative eval- uation of federally-funded STEM education grants since 2002. A particular focus of this work has been computational science, a discipline arising from the intersection of science, mathematics, and computer science, as well as the diffusion and adoption of STEM education innovations. Additional scholarly inter- ests include the history of statistics and representations of mathematics and statistics in popular culture, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
Paper ID #37849The Teaching Portfolio and Peer Review of TeachingDr. W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University W. Vincent Wilding is a professor of chemical engineering and associate dean at Brigham Young Univer- sity. He worked for Wiltec Research Company, Inc., 1985-1994. He has a Ph.D., chemical engineering, from Rice University, 1985; and B.S., chemical engineering, Brigham Young University, 1981. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.Jennifer Ramsey, Brigham Young UniversityRichard Swan, Brigham Young UniversityTina M. Taylor ©American Society for Engineering Education
,students were aware of the inevitable decline of fossil fuel sources, and were thus more sensitiveto the importance of pursuing alternate forms of energy and designing systems to be as energy-efficient as possible.One limitation of the assignment was that students simply utilized data sets that I provided tothem. The assignment would have been more meaningful if students had been required to findthe data for dQ and Q¢ themselves. This is not always an easy process – the data for Q¢ dtmust sometimes be generated by adding yearly production figures and recoverable resourceestimates – but would give students an even deeper understanding of energy resource modeling.Bibliography
AC 2009-1440: APPLICATION OF MULTIMODAL SOFTWARE TOOLS TOTEACH PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLSPaul Blowers, University of Arizona Paul Blowers is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and received his PhD from UIUC in 1999. He has been selected as one of the top two teachers in his home department every year for the last nine years, was selected as the best faculty advisor from the University of Arizona in 2008, and also received one of seven national faculty advisor awards from the National Acadademic Advisors Association in 2008. Page 14.222.1© American
Paper ID #34137Web-based Cryptomining DetectionDr. Vijay Anand, University of Missouri, St. LouisMr. Dmytro Kudriashov, EPAM Systems Dmytro Kudriashov is a Software Engineer at EPAM Systems in Seattle, WA. He received his BS (2004) ans MS (2006) in Banking and Financial Support Services from the Kyiv National Economics University, and his MS (2019) in Applied Computer Science from the Southeast Missouri State University. Since 2018 his research efforts have focused on the interconnection areas of cybersecurity and digital financial instruments. American c
Paper ID #34924It’s About Time: An Analysis of Student Activities Under Remote LearningBradley J. Sottile, Pennsylvania State University Brad Sottile is Lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering in The Penn- sylvania State University’s College of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- ence.Laura E. Cruz, Pennsylvania State University Laura Cruz (Ph.D, UC Berkeley 2001) is an Associate Research Professor for Teaching & Learning Schol- arship with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State. She previously served as the director of two Centers
Professor of Information Systems in the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Dr. Lutters serves as one of the inaugural STRIDE fellows in addition to a role on the ADVANCE Executive committee and advisory boards for the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) and the Honors College. Dr. Lutters’ research interests are at the nexus of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and social informatics. He specializes in field studies of IT-mediated work, from a socio-technical perspective, to better inform the design and evaluation of collaborative systems. Recent projects have included cyberinfrastructure for e-Science
start-ups to one another, particularly when clustered by industry. 3. Tenant services: Sound coaching, subsidized services to tenants, and allowing enough time to select the best tenants, as opposed to being rushed to fill incubator space and collect rents, are all vital to start-up success. 4. Clarity of objectives: The objectives of the UBI are important to understand. Commercialization of professors’ innovations is a very different objective than incubating start-ups that are deemed promising regardless of their non-university origin. 5. UBI relationship to university: The organizational design, in terms of the UBI’s relationship with
environmentmakes it easier for instructors with minimal programming skills to understand and modify thecode. Instructors with more substantial programming skills might find the environmentcumbersome, but can still work within it or are free to port the system approach and logic toother environments.ImplementationThe system is designed to run under Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). It has beentested under IIS on Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP. When running IISbe sure that your system is up to date on patches and protected by a firewall. Ideally the systemshould be implemented using HTTPS rather than HTTP to protect student data while intransmission.To implement the system an IIS site is created that points to the directory
Paper ID #12821Automated and scalable assessment: present and futureDr. Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University Dr. Gehringer is an associate professor in the Departments of Computer Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. His research interests include computerized assessment systems, and the use of natural-language processing to improve the quality of reviewing. He teaches courses in the area of programming, computer architecture, object-oriented design, and ethics in computing. He is the lead PI on a multi-institution NSF IUSE grant to construct web services for online peer-review systems
2006-1547: IMPLEMENTING SENSOR NETWORKS USING SENSOR MOTESAND J-DSPVISAR BERISHA, Arizona State University VISAR Ho-Min Doctoral student under an NSF Fellowship working in speech processing and in real-time sensor fusion.HO-MIN KWON, Arizona State University Ho-Min is a Doctoral student working on beamforming and on real-time sensor networks.Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University Dr. Andreas Spanias is professor working in the area of signal processing in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Page 11.728.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Interfacing Java DSP with
the challenge of creating and administering internetworks. The most known example ofinternetworking is the Internet, which is is a network composed of individual networks alsoknown as autonomous systems (AS). Each AS is own and administrated by private entities orenterprises. The Internet consists of every AS or enterprise network around the world andbillions of end user devices connected using Internet service providers (ISPs) [1].Implementing a functional internetwork involves many challenges in the areas of connectivity,reliability, network management, and flexibility. Engineers, network administrators, andtechnicians that understand the technologies, standards, and equipment to keep enterprisenetwork operations running are in high demand
to their studies. Withthis, students enter the workforce with far more realistic understanding of why decisions that areoptimal from a purely engineering perspective may not, in fact, be the right decisions for theelectricity control area in which they are working.The Oregon Institute of Technology was the first university in the US to offer an ABET-accreditedBachelor of Science degree in Renewable Energy Engineering. Students in this program may takean elective course (typically taken in their junior or senior year) that covers the regulatoryframework of electricity markets in the United States, including the restructured regulation thatallows many areas to function as competitive markets in the purchase and sale of electricity.In this
Paper ID #11234The New Professional Working Adult Learner – The Next Generational Co-hortDr. Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Springer currently serves as the Executive Director for Purdue University’s College of Technology located in West Lafayette, Indiana. He possesses over 35 years of theoretical and industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program Management and Human Resources. Dr. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing and improving organizational systems. He is internationally
University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 HPC as a Service in EducationAbstractAdvances in Cloud Computing have opened many chapters in Information Technology.Numerous service platforms offer clients of the cloud ease of use and flexibility of using theprovided services. Education with billions of potential users worldwide is a major target. Anemerging service called HPC-as-a-Service (HPCaaS) targets Science, Technology, Engineering,and Math (STEM) users. In this paper we discuss the use of HPCaaS platform in STEMeducation. We argue that such a service can significantly alleviate a major obstacle in teachingparallel programming for the STEM students.Cloud computing
, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing Educational Pathways for Manufacturing in Rural Communities: An Investigation of New and Existing Programs in Northwest FloridaAbstractA subset of manufacturing, the AM sector is defined using two criteria: high levels of spendingfor research and development (R&D) and a high share of STEM jobs within companies. In NWFlorida, AM employment is concentrated in two sub-sectors
the robot’s functionality from within MATLAB’spowerful integrated development environment, which already includes numerical solvers, imageprocessing routines, neural network libraries, and control system design tools. We describe thedevelopment process and the toolbox’s features; and illustrate its capabilities with some projectsfrom our own Introductory Robotics class where it was beta tested. A student opinion surveyindicated that the toolbox was well received, but suggests its stability could be improved.1. IntroductionIt has been widely noted that engineering students benefit from a variety of teaching approaches,in particular visual and experiential learners prefer hands on laboratory experiences [1].Teaching robotics is no exception [2
AC 2009-929: AN EXPERIENCE ON LEARNING OBJECTS REUTILIZATIONBASED ON EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES DEVELOPEDMiguel Latorre, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaManuel Blazquez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaElio Sancristobal, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaSergio Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaFrancisco Garcia-Sevilla, Castilla-La Mancha UniversityCatalina Martinez-Mediano, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaGabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaManuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Page 14.191.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An
of Engineering at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He teaches one of UIUC’s largest courses, Introduction to Computer Science, known as CS 105. His research aims to improve learning by using technologies that students already bring to the classroom. Page 26.1296.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Quantitative Correlation between Student Use of Office Hours and Course Performance0. Abstract: University courses with a significant computing component typically provide support forstudent learning in the form of open