AC 2009-1088: A MATLAB GUIDE®-BASED GUI TOOL TO ENHANCETEACHING AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTOGRAM MATCHING IN DIGITALIMAGE PROCESSINGShanmugalingam Easwaran, Pacific Lutheran University Shanmugalingam Easwaran holds Ph.D., MS (Clemson University, SC), and BS (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) degrees in Electrical Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering department at Pacific Lutheran University (WA). Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana (LA). Before joining the academia, he was in the industrial sector working for companies such as NYNEX Science and Technology, Periphonics Corporation, and 3Com
Paper ID #26639Using Natural Language Processing Tools on Individual Stories from FirstYear Students to Summarize Emotions, Sentiments and Concerns of Transi-tion from High School to CollegeDr. Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology Dr. Ashwin Satyanarayana is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY). Prior to this, Dr. Satyanarayana was a Re- search Scientist at Microsoft in Seattle from 2006 to 2012, where he worked on several Big Data problems including Query Reformulation on Microsoft’s search engine Bing. He holds
Paper ID #19457Learner-centered Design of a Web-based Teaching Tool for Circuit Analysiswith Embedded Assessment FeaturesDr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and
programming assignments. Once westarted C programming to communicate with external world using different peripherals, we switched toa combination of tools including TI’s Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio™, TivaWare™, as well as TI’straining workshop material [17].Due to the amount of technical documents’ reading involved, we spent certain time in lectures teachingstudents how to quickly find the useful information from thousands of pages. We still required studentswrite to registers directly in their homework assignments, for example, one requires students to manageinterrupt configuration and develop interrupt service routine (ISR) on the TM4C1294 ConnectedLaunchPad; one requires to generate an 1-second interrupt to control the blinking of LED1 on
professional formation of engineers and diversity and inclusion in engineering, with specific interests in human-centered design, engineering ethics, leadership, service-learning, assistive-technology, and accessibility.Dr. Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Andrew O. Brightman is an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School of Biomed- ical Engineering at Purdue University where he serves as Assistant Head for Academic Affairs. His re- search background is in cellular biochemistry, tissue engineering, and engineering ethics. He and his multidisciplinary team are committed to developing effective pedagogy and tools for enhancing ethical reasoning skills for innovative engineering
what extent K-12 teachers can incorporate CSprinciples into curriculum after completing PDs. The proficiency of incorporation is evalu-ated based upon the analysis of three primary questions: to what extent did K-12 teachersintegrate computing topics into their lesson plans, how do the teacher perceptions from thetwo camps compare against each other, and how was the PD translated to classroom activity.While the goal of the PDs is to provide K-12 teachers the tools, resources, and scaffoldingneeded to incorporate various CS topics into existing lessons within their classroom, an eval-uation of what the K-12 teachers actually incorporate within their lessons will inform thePD developers/facilitators regarding their effectiveness in meeting their
undertaken at author’s institution to develop computersimulation tools that would facilitate process visualization, experimentation, exploration, designand optimization.The first system described in this paper is the visualization of metal ingot production schedule inan industrial setting that provides a basis for interactive decisions. A metal ingot casting issimulated by designing the abstract machine models to visualize capacity and loading of theproduction schedule. The graphical user interface is created to visualize the schedule accordingto the specific characteristics of the machines. The application of computer tools may also beextended to support other important functionalities such as tracking availability of raw materials,projection of
integrate the use of ICT in teaching various skills, they need to be developedin vast array of competence. It should be remembered that teachers need a system ofsupport at various level for integrating technology and overcoming their isolation asthey struggle with new and unfamiliar approaches to teaching and tools for learning.They also need technical support in resolving problems related to hardware, softwareand computer networks; problems that often interfere with or even derail the learningof both teachers and students. Therefore, a genuine and sophisticated integration isnecessary. Teacher training in this regard, thus, become crucial. Page 17.41.4
Calibrated Peer Review™?Full descriptions of CPR™ appear on the system’s website (http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/ ).Additionally, we have provided more detailed examination of CPR™ as a learning toolelsewhere [3 - 5]. Here we include only a composite of the system’s features and functions inorder to guide our discussion of CPR™ in relation to emerging understandings of computer-mediated peer review (CMPR).First introduced in 1999, CPR™ is a component of a large-scale, National Science Foundation-supported project led by a team of educators at UCLA to develop a completely digitized,network-delivered Molecular Science Curriculum. The fully integrated CPR™ contains anassignment authoring tool for custom crafting of writing tasks and a library of edited
AC 2010-2283: DEVELOPING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE FORCLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIESJoseph Tront, Virginia TechDavid Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic and State UniversityThomas Walker, Virginia TechSteven Lee, Virginia Tech Page 15.387.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 DEVELOPING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIESAbstractIn order for classroom technologies to be useful in engineering education, appropriateinfrastructures must be planned, implemented and tested so that they are sufficiently robust toserve the needs of the target usage. Usage will vary depending on size of the class, complexityof the teaching technology being used, and
AC 2007-2079: A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING COURSEDEVELOPED FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTERENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSXuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati Xuefu Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He also holds a M.S. degree (1995) in Mechatronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as an Engineer, Senior Engineer and Project Manager in the high-tech industry on the design, development of Distributed Control Systems (DCS
emerged is a series of tools to support collaboration among team members,enabling the facilitation, automation, and control of the entire development process. As a result, a Page 25.113.3number of tools have been developed to help teams, particular global software developmentteams, with one or more phases of the software development process. For example version-control systems let team members share software artifacts in a controlled manner. Subversion(SVN; subversion.tigris.org) is a popular open source version-control system that facilitatesdistributed file sharing. (A complete listing of software for distributed computing can be found in16
, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Eric Shaffer is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also serves as the Associate Director for Education at the Center for Immersive Computing at that same institution. He teaches a revolving set of courses including Game Development, Computer Graphics, and Scientific Visualization. His research interests include using visu- alization for education, data-centric scientific computing, and geometric modeling.Jessica Raley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jessica Raley is the outreach coordinator for the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe (ICASU) at the University of
engineer with over a decade of experience as an environmental engineer. She is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests include technology adoption, problem based and service learning, and sustainability. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-Progress: Identifying Software Engineering Practices and Tools Among Students and Practitioners in Non-Computing Engineering DisciplinesAbstractDespite the increasing importance of working with and developing software in numerousengineering fields, engineering education today largely focuses on programming, rather thansoftware engineering
more hands-one project implementations (though suchprojects at a simpler scale can even be implemented the freshman year). Even though there are anumber of online resources for learning about PCB design and selecting software, students mayfind themselves unable to decide on a good tool to use and end up producing boards that are lessefficient and do not fully meet design constraints. This causes them to spend more money andresources getting boards re-manufactured (if they are using a third party provider, for example)or having to re-manufacture the board again (if they are doing it in-house). In order to meet theneed of such students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at George MasonUniversity, we developed a course that
total group of 41 K-12 science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) in-service teacherschose to participate in a Math and Science Partnership grant for professional development (PD),named Launching Astronomy: Standards and STEM Integration or LASSI (resources found atUWpd.org/LASSI) for 25-days during the summer and academic year that involved astronomyand computer science (CS) opportunities (e.g. Arduinos) that they could recreate in theirclassrooms. Electrical/computer engineering, astronomy, and educational experts defined theactivities, which were intended to introduce CS concepts to teachers and thus K-12 students increative manners. The LASSI PD focused on astronomy – and used CS - as a vehicle toexplicitly model problem-based learning
integrate concepts frompreviously taken courses such as programming, control systems, microcontrollers, andelectronics. The laboratory component of the course is project oriented involving severallow-cost mechatronic testbeds. The students go through the design of an embeddedcomputer system using open-architecture mechatronic testbeds and integrateddevelopment environments. Furthermore, the students experience automatic C codegeneration techniques using high level code generation tools in the Matlab/Simulinkenvironment which is further discussed in this paper.1 IntroductionEmbedded computer applications have experienced a rapid growth in the past few years1,2 . Developing embedded computer applications requires multidisciplinary skills 3−6
of theAdvanced Programming Interface (API) available in the software tools used inEG&CAD, the student will be able to submit their computer work (such as parts,assemblies or engineering drawings) to a database for evaluation. In addition, if studentsare struggling with certain key concepts in the course, then the software can flag theirinstructor to provide intervention. Page 8.258.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Course Pedagogy and ImplementationEG&CAD is taught with a series of
. Page 26.1587.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Torsion Mobile App for Engineering Education Using a High Performance Computer (HPC) ClusterAbstractEngineering students are rapidly expecting learning tools to be delivered on their tablets andsmart phones, including simulation tools for basic courses such as solid mechanics. To addressthis issue, a basic torsional stress simulation tool for mobile devices was developed andimplemented into a traditional first year solid mechanics class (Mechanics of Materials). The app,Torsion HPC, allows students to determine shear stresses for a variety of common torsional barcross sections. The app was used in class for discussion
ran the game and tried to move the snake on thegame board. The purpose of this malicious layer in an otherwise normal game is to spur moreresearch on tools and techniques to mitigate the issue. The fork bomb can potentially crash a user’scomputer, so with this threat looming, students needed to discover virtual machine tools to run theexecutable.At this point in the determination of the challenge, it has been decided that the project is to be aSnake game written in C that is wrapped in a malicious computer-crashing fork bomb. Multiplelayers of complexity exist at this point to spur group research and collaboration, however with therapid iteration and development of modern reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra and IDA, it wasnecessary to
Endowed Professor in Engineering and the University Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Wood’s current research interests focus on innovative product design, development, and evolution. The current and near-future objective of this research is to develop design strategies, representations, and languages that will result in more comprehensive design tools, innovation processes, innovative manu- facturing techniques, and design teaching aids at the college, pre-college, and industrial levels. Contact: wood@mail.utexas.eduJoseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas Joseph J. Rencis is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas
Tool in Construction Management EducationAbstractMany academic programs utilize simulation applications to supplement highereducation, but there are only a few applications responding to the need in constructioncurricula, particularly with a focus on project management. Project management is aninterdisciplinary area of study, crosscutting multiple fields including the construction,information technology, and business sectors. This paper presents the design,development, and test of a research project entitled Project-oriented EducationalResearch Fostering Excellence in Cyber-infrastructure Teaching (PERFECT). Itinvestigates the effect of a construction project management simulation on constructionmanagement students
act as resources for the teachers and toobserve the student needs and to design the remainder of their senior robotics project-based onfeedback from the fall semester. Their results would be incorporated into possible teachingmaterials for students or teachers and for development of project-based learning tools in theECET program at Western.Competition ObservationsThere were several critical observations made by the educational staff at SCC and at WCU of theprocess, the failures, the needs, and desires of the target groups as a result of the competition.For middle school students: 1. At grades six-eight, students do not do well at analyzing a problem and breaking it into its component parts. The tendency is to try and solve the problem
Wisconsin in the US, Kyoto and Nagoya Universities in Japan, the Ioffe Institute in Russia and Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine. He was ECSE Department Head from 2001-2008 and served on the board of the ECE Depart- ment Heads Association from 2003-2008. He is presently the Director of Education for the SMART LIGHTING NSF ERC.Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University Craig Scott, Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Morgan State University, has extensive experience in the development of advanced engineering visualization tools and courseware. Additionally, he has been conducting empirical studies on effective learning technologies, as well as reme- dial math preparation
Paper ID #15607Development of a Circuits Class: Rethinking Traditional Teaching MethodsClaudio Talarico, Gonzaga University Claudio Talarico received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Genova, Italy and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Hawaii. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gonzaga University. Before joining Gonzaga University, he worked at Eastern Washington University, University of Arizona, and in industry, where he held both engineering and management positions at Siemens Semiconductors, IKOS Systems, and Marconi Com
students was specializing in computer science and engineering, and whenthe opportunity to work in a software development environment arose, he chose to work on thatproject.1.2 The ProblemThe Senior Manager-System, ECC Division (Engineering Construction & Contracts) at L&Tdescribed wanting to solve a problem related to establishing communication to remote worksitesspread throughout India and synchronize the databases on both ends. The student was given theoverview, a computer he can use and then told to work on the problem.Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is one of India's largest and most respected engineering andconstruction conglomerates seeking a strong customer-relationship approach and constant questfor top-class quality. With over 350
method of our platform, and a brief summary will be made.Framework ArchitectureIn this section, the proposed framework for the UAV cybersecurity laboratory platform will beintroduced, which includes the UAV simulator, the network simulator, and their integrationtowards the development of our laboratory platform and hands-on exercises.UAV Simulator with Pixhawk firmwareOne of the key components in our laboratory platform is the simulation of UAV behaviors.Recently, many UAV simulation tools, such as FlightGear, UE4Sim, JMavSim, Gazebo, andAir-Sim, have been developed to support the simulation of different UAV models with differentfunctionality and capacity of extension. We propose to use ROS based Gazebo as the basic UAVsimulator, where Gazebo
AC 2011-2352: DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-PLATFORM (PC,IPAD,MOBILE) EBOOK PLATFORMCarlos R Morales, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carlos R. Morales is an Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. Page 22.476.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of A Multi-Platform (PC,iPad, Mobile) eBook PlatformAbstractThis paper presents the development of an eBook publishing platform capable of delivering text,multimedia (video, 3D, audio), and assessments across a variety of platforms including PC, Mac,iPad, and Mobile
AC 2009-1806: COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTEELECTRONICS LABORATORIES: THE ELVIS ILABAdnaan Jiwaji, MIT Adnaan Jiwaji is a Masters of Engineering graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis was development of remote laboratories for Africa with iLabs. Currently he is a Software Engineer for the Clusters and Parallel Storage Technology group at Oracle.James Hardison, MIT James Hardison is a Research Engineer with the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Presently, he is involved with the management and development of online
scientific imaging). Dr. Colbry also conducts research in computational education and high performance computing. From 2009 until 2015, Dr. Colbry worked for the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (iCER) as a computational consultant and Director of the HPCC. Dr. Colbry collaborates with scientists from multiple disciplines including Engineering, Toxicology, Plant and Soil Sciences, Zoology, Mathematics, Statistics and Biology. Recent projects include research in Image Phenomics; developing a commercially-viable large scale, cloud based image pathology tool; and helping develop methods for measuring the Carbon stored inside of soil. Dr. Colbry has taught a range of courses, including; com- munication ”soft” skills