Conference Session

ECCD International Outreach

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Philip W Swanson, University of Southern Maine; Kevin Michael Wacker, University of Southern Maine

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #13952Concentrated Solar, Dual Axis-Tracking, Multi-junction GaAs Cell Photo-voltaic System Design for Efficient Solar Energy ConversionDr. Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine Dr. Guvench received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and M.E.T.U., Ankara, Turkey. His research interests and publications span the field of microelectronics including I.C

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

Materials (ASTM) Standards3. Keyser, Carl A.; Materials Science in Engineering; Charles E. Merrill Pub Co; Columbus, Ohio; 1986.4. Horath, Larry; Fundamentals of Materials Science for Technologists; Prentice-Hall Publisher; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; 1995.5. QT4 Software, NUTECK INC., 30600 Telegraph Suite 2230, Birmingham, Michigan, 480256. Roy, Ranjit; A Primer on the Taguchi Method; Van Nostrand Reinhold; New York City, New York; 1990.AZMI B. AHMADAzmi B. Amad earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1985 from SUNY College at New Paltz, a aM.Sc. in Mathematics/Statistics in 1987 from West Virginia University, and has completed histhird year in the Production and Operation Management Ph.D. program at The University ofMemphis. He worked

Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 1: Pulled In or Pushed Out? Underrepresented Minority High School Students Describe Socio-environmental Factors Shaping STEM Persistence and Post-Secondary Plans

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Alexis Grace Daniels, Johns Hopkins University; Rachel E Durham; Michael L Falk, The Johns Hopkins University; Alisha Nicole Sparks, The Johns Hopkins University; Emily J Yanisko, American University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

. Michael L Falk, The Johns Hopkins University Michael Falk is Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering where he has served on the faculty since 2008 with secondary appointmeMs. Alisha Nicole Sparks, The Johns Hopkins University Alisha Sparks serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Educational Outreach within the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She works to ensure and further the excellence, quality, and impact of the Baltimore PK-12 STEM Educational Outreach programs. Alisha has a B.S. in Mathematics from Voorhees College and a M.A. in Instructional Systems

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Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Brad Rogers, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kiril D Hristovski, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nalini Chhetri, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University; Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University; Mark R Henderson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; John H Takamura Jr, Arizona State University

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Curriculum Development

world. While at ASU he has taught more than 40 different courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in engineering and in social entrepreneurship. He has also worked in industry in both conventional and alternative energy conversion systems. Since 2007 in his capacity within GlobalResolve he has initiated programs and managed in-country student teams from ASU and partner universities in the developing world that have worked on multiple projects. Examples include the design and construction of a microbial fuel cell composting latrine in West Africa, installation of a gelled ethanol plant that produces clean cooking fuel in a rural Ghanaian village, the development of highly ef- ficient gelfuel stoves, a

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Yu, University of Hartford; Krista M Hill, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

performing simulation.Unfortunately, this feature is absent in the ISE 10.1 64-bit version as well as the subsequentversions of Xilinx ISE, including 13.2. On the other hand, version 13.2 is much more stable incomparison to version 10.1. In adopting version 13.2, we had concerns regarding how studentswould generate the simulation test bench, which involves modifying VHDL codes, since studentsdo not learn to write hardware description language (HDL) in our introductory logic circuitscourse. Xilinx ISE provides an aid in generating a skeleton which our students are able to modifyfor their own use following the instructions in our revised tutorial.New lecture material was developed to help students understand these upgrades. Based onstudent feedback

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathemathetics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

students display a number of characteristics which differentiatethem from their predecessors. According to Richard Sweeney1, University Librarian at the NewJersey Institute of Technology, millennials want to personalize the products and services they areoffered. And they want those goods and services now - they are impatient. They like constantfeedback and they want that instantly, too. They learn best by doing (hands-on, active andcooperative, interactive learning) and largely find traditional lecture-style courses uninteresting.But they do want teachers who interact with them face-to-face. They just expect the digitalservices, too (with speed, convenience and flexibility) and will mix and merge the two to theirown satisfaction. While research

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

encountering less familiar and sometimes disconcerting new territory9.” One student mentioned in conversation that this course was their first encounter with problems requiring intermediate solution steps that build upon one another to a final solution.Implementation/Course OverviewAs mentioned earlier, the journey from novice to expert for solving complex engineeringproblems often begins during undergraduate study. Many programs will begin this journey withfirst year students in the form of a hands-on introductory engineering design project, while themore analytical aspects of complex problem solving are introduced in the second year. Thisoften occurs in Engineering Mechanics: Statics course, as is the case at Elon University

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2008 GSW

Authors

Richard Bannerot

nomeasurable differences in testing performances among the three classes, but a positivecorrelation was demonstrated between better homework or quiz grades and testing grades.Copies of example of quizzes and an example project are provided. The results from studentsurveys indicate fairly strong support for the quizzes over homework and the use of a websiteover a more tradition format for the course. However, almost 25% of the students prefer a moretradition course format of weekly homework and writing on the board. IntroductionThe ultimate skill to be learned in an undergraduate engineering curriculum is “problemsolving.” Since essentially all engineering (and science) classes are limited to a narrowdiscipline

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

capable of reading data in thecollege pre-engineering students some hands-on experience in FITS format. The free software ImageJ from NIH had beenresearch projects. The proposed algorithm would help to updated to read FITS files. Usually FITS file could be readestablish a publicly smartphone accessible, computing network and processed by FV-tool Visualizer available from NASAthat could assist in exploratory studies of FITS data in High Energy Astrophysics Division [1]Comparative analysescommunity college science and pre-engineering classes including of brightness statistics that describe the solar using algorithmsoutreach programs. included in mass

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas W. Graver; Leon F. McGinnis; David W. Rosen

facilities between disciplinesis difficult due to scheduling and funding processes. The traditional inability to leverageresources across disciplines often means that emerging technologies do not become part of theengineering curriculum until they are very mature.This problem becomes especially apparent in a multidisciplinary area like manufacturing.Georgia Tech does not have a "School of Manufacturing," so how do we handle the hundreds ofIndustrial, Electrical, Aerospace, Materials and Mechanical Engineering students who want tolearn about manufacturing? What about the Management, Computer Science and IndustrialDesign Students?Clearly, traditional interdisciplinary boundaries are one key hurdle to innovation inmanufacturing education. For most

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

. Page 7.6.7Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCommunication Systems Sequence and LaboratoryThe communication systems sequence at Iowa State University consists of two lecture classesand a hands-on laboratory. The sequence prepares undergraduate students to effectively work inthe communications industry. A student who finishes this sequence will have the mathematicalbackground and understanding to be able to analyze and design basic analog and digitalcommunication systems. Designing a communication system requires the student to: • Analyze Communication Channels • Evaluate and

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sherriff, University of Virginia; Mark Floryan, University of Virginia

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Computing & Information Technology

Floryan, University of Virginia c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Achievement Unlocked: Investigating Which Gamification Elements Motivate Students Mark Sherriff, Mark Floryan, and David Wert Department of Computer Science; University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VAAbstract: Gamification has been used in many different ways to motivate individuals to whollyparticipate in some activity. One such venue has been in the gamification of learning topromote student interest. In this paper, we describe our efforts to investigate which aspects ofgamification students find the most motivating. We present

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Caleb D Holloway, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Central Section Conference Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering Education 4Once we had spent several days approximating accumulation and areas, I presented the formaldefinition of the definite integral. The activities we had done mirrored those on the limit andderivative concepts, particularly (for our discussion) in the way they dealt with error bounds andimprovements on those bounds. This was by design, so that students would anticipate taking alimit of the sums they had constructed. Thus, it was no great leap to move from finite Riemannsums to the definite integral.DiscussionI designed class materials for all major topics (limit, derivative, definite integral) so that learningsubsequent topics

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Alexander James Diehl; Timothy Huff, Ohio Northern University; Tyler Justin Hammel

based on material cost and design timeinvestment to all for a modest profit margin.If we had to repeat this project and had to do something differently, we would have added moredetailed questions in the survey we sent to faculty members to better define the need for theproject. Additionally, we would perform more detailed research on competition, possibletechnology to leverage, and perform a broader search on components to source. We would alsohave designed a custom printed circuit board for our selected design. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference 8 Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. “ArduinoNano33IoT,”Arduino.[Online

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming; Marty Martinez

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Military and Veterans

Paper ID #17973Veteran’s Transition Course at the University of WyomingDr. Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming Dr. Steven F. Barrett, P.E., received the B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1979, the M.E.E.E. from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1986, and the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He was formally an active duty faculty member and professor at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado and is now professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate dean for Academic Programs, College of Engineering and Applied Science

Conference Session

Technical Session 4: Modulus Topics 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University Northwest; Emily Hixon, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Science from the University of Calgary, Canada. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, India. Dr. Chandramouli has published journal articles in prestigious international journals and has pre- sented papers in respected national and international conferences. He has received federal, regional, and international grants for his work in areas including virtual reality, STEM education, Human Computer Interaction, and Genetic Algorithms in Graphics.Emily Hixon, Purdue University Northwest c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Active/Collaborative Learning in Computer-Centered Course

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Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Kamali, Utah Valley University; Matthew Meyers, Utah Valley University; Nima Kamali-Sarvestani, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Creating a Virtual Reality Simulation of Plasma Etcher to Facilitate Teachingand Practice of Dry Etching in Nanotechnology EducationAbstractPlasma etching is the process by which material is removed from the surface of a sample, calledsubstrate, through the use of plasma or reactive gases. The process of plasma etching prohibitallyrelies on high-cost materials and machines. This cost is potentially expanded as studentsattempting to learn the process run the risk of damaging the substrates or the machines, and anymistakes they make could result in great time and monetary loss. One potential solution to thisconundrum is found in virtual reality (VR). VR allows schools to teach students in a

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

David I. Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS)

physics is introduced in Section 2.3, but how fake is fake? Imagine grading a homeworkassignment from an engineering class: a particular problem may have a solution, or if it’s adesign problem, a range of solutions. When it comes to computer graphics and especiallyentertainment, no one is really calculating something that needs an exact answer from theperspective of engineering design (e.g., maximum material strength to handle a load).For game physics, when creating an experience, designers and developers follow a kind of first-law/principle for entertainment computing: If it looks and/or feels right, it is right—regardless if it is theoretically right.That principle has some fascinating aesthetic, computational, and mathematical

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Bell, Stanford University; Mark Horowitz, Stanford University

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Electrical and Computer

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Rethinking non-major circuits pedagogy for improved motivation1 IntroductionIt is no secret that student motivation is critical to learning. Put succinctly, students will onlyapply effort to learn if they see value in learning the material or skill at hand. This value maycome from a combination of one or more sources, such as the pleasure of attaining mastery of askill, the enjoyment of the material itself, the potential for better job prospects, or simply the needto earn a particular grade to keep a scholarship [1]. Many of these value factors are influenced bythe structure of our courses and the way we teach, and electrical engineering is

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew G. Sutton; Ing-Chang Jong

Session 1368 A Truss Analyzer for Enriching the Learning Experience of Students Matthew G. Sutton, Ing-Chang Jong University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is written to contribute a software, named WinTruss, with illustration, for analyzingtrusses. The software is a resulting product of a design project by a senior student in a sequenceof two courses in Creative Project Design for mechanical engineering students at the Universityof Arkansas. WinTruss runs on PC Windows 95 and later. Being easy-to-use, intuitive, flexible,and powerful, this

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Scott Rowe, Western Carolina University; Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Scott’s research relates to accessible and inexpensive engineering equipment for laboratory education.Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina UniversityDr. Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU). In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Beyerlein; Dan Gerbus; Edwin Odom

monitor the performance capabilities of its graduates and pursue appropriateimprovement activities. This expectation places even higher expectations on engineeringcapstone courses. The assessment and project planning process described in this paper offers athoughtful response to these challenges. It has been implemented in our Mechanical Engineeringcapstone design course for the last five years. Our capstone design course is a two-semester sequence that begins with customerinterviews each September and results in a hardware prototype displayed at the Idaho DesignExposition each May. Undergraduate students are introduced to their graduate student mentorsfrom the Idaho Engineering Works2 in a shop familiarization project. This year they made

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Learning Tools (Virtual)

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Clara Novoa, Texas State University; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University; Leona Hazlewood, Texas State University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

success in their chosen majors. Thisdecision was also a result of the authors’ interest on SVS literature and the successful experienceof offering a pilot face-to-face (FTF) training on campus to improve SVS for 6 talented, low-income students in an NSF S-STEM scholarship program in Spring ’14. Previous studies in theSVS subject [1], [2], [3] report that well-developed SVS lead to students’ success in Engineeringand Technology, Computer Science, Chemistry, Computer Aided Design and Mathematics.Bairaktarova et al. [4] mention that aptitude in spatial skills is gradually becoming a standardassessment of an individual’s likelihood to succeed as an engineer.Support from industry provided the funds needed to acquire training materials created by Sorby

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

AC 2009-664: HOW SHOULD ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY BE TAUGHTTODAY? A FRESH LOOK AT THE TOP DOWN APPROACH FOR ASSOCIATEDEGREE PROGRAMSLouis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine Louis E. Frenzel Jr. Lou Frenzel is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine where he writes articles, columns, technology reports, and online material on the wireless, networking, and test/measurement sectors. He interviews executives and engineers, attends conferences, and researches those areas of electronics to determine the current state of the technology and reviews new products. Lou has been with the magazine for 7 years. Formerly he was professor and department head at Austin Community

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6: Monitoring, Evaluating and Research

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed K. Faris, University of Mosul / Iraq; Charles Pierce, University of South Carolina; Muwafaq Awad; Inthuorn Sasanakul

= neither agree or disagree; D = disagreeDeveloping course materials and teaching undergraduate students are the two items, highlightedin green in Table 4, that both strongly agreed to be well prepared for. This is an interestingfinding because of the disparities in their teaching experience. One had limited pre-doctoralteaching experience and none as a doctoral student. The other had considerably moreexperience. He taught geotechnical and computer labs as well as a few engineering drawingclasses at his home institution before coming to the U.S. As a doctoral student, he was theinstructor for a junior-level civil engineering materials course. It was a challenging situationbecause he replaced another instructor who was unable to continue teaching

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, OU Polytechnic Institute

authentic one to solve in the open-ended discussion at the end ofthe interview. Personally, I am torn on this subject as my belief is that students should be able totransfer math skills to solve engineering problems but I also recognize that in the “real world”they would not solve a problem like this by hand. Is it then an authentic problem or case toanalyze? The participant expressed the following thoughts:I'm not sure. I... My perspective is like if you can either write a code or like design a simpleexperiment, to like answer the question but I can I guess I'm torn because I think being able to,at least derive the equations or if you're presented with the equations, be able to describe whythe equation has that format. Maybe. Maybe that's what I

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Desrosiers; John Rivera; James Gregory; Don Baggert; Lloyd Heinze

quality. Certainly, the time needed with each student is high; Page 6.744.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”therefore, quality in advisement goes down and the stress for the advisor goes up as thestudent to advisor ratio goes up. On the other hand, poor and inefficient advisement canoccur with low student to advisor ratios when the advisors are new to the system and theadvisement is done in the absence of electronic, high-speed advising tools. With newtechnology, it is possible to provide better

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schmidt; Gregory Plett

laboratory and its use with an introductory feedback-control-systemscourse has been described by Plett and Schmidt.1 In this present paper, we build on the previouswork and outline how the lab is being used to augment digital control systems courses at thesenior undergraduate level and graduate levels. Experiments and advanced student researchprojects (illustrating effects particular to digital control systems) with a magnetic levitation deviceand a control moment gyroscope are described.We have found the labs to be very helpful in aiding student understanding of control-systemsconcepts. Student comments indicate that real learning has taken place by using a hands-on labexperience that would have been missed if a purely theoretical approach had been

Conference Session

Technical Session 13: Digital Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chirantan Mahipal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yuren Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Biswadeep Chatterjee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ; Hongyu Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Zhengru Qian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

document.ConclusionsWith minimal cost, technology exists today to provide lecture captions in both live lecture andrecorded forms. The prevalence of hearing impairments in the adult population suggests that inlarge engineering classes (N>100) there is likely to be at least one student who may choose notdisclose a hearing impairment. Captions and transcriptions for both live and recorded records canhelp students with non-disclosed hearing impairments which may arise from permanentdisabilities, temporary, and contextual causes. In our study, a significant fraction of a large classalso reported that both forms were useful to help learn technical material and advocated thatthese features should be available in all of their classes. This is consistent with

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; James Holekamp, Sam Houston State University; Reg Recayi Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Umit Karabiyik, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Jeremy Ryan England

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

coursesmainly. But the resources will be used in more course work needs for both engineering technologyand computer science departments. More students are being interested and want to work in theSCADA lab/center and proposing new research ideas. This year two of the students applied toEURECA’s FAST project to get summer funds in order to work in the center.References[1] Scheffer, E., Wibberley, D., and Beets, N. “What the future holds for SCADA systems and process automation”, Elektron, 19(7), July 2002, pp. 40-42. 2.[2] Velankar, A. and Mehta, A. “Latest trends in SCADA for process automation”, Proc. National Conference on Industrial Automation and Intelligent Systems 2002, Jan. 2002, pp. 9-11.[3] Control Engineering salary and career survey