Conference Session

Digital System Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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Electrical and Computer

2006-275: ON THE USE OF A SOFT PROCESSOR CORE IN COMPUTERENGINEERING EDUCATIONSin Ming Loo, Boise State University Page 11.972.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 On the Use of a Soft Processor Core in Computer Engineering Education AbstractThe microprocessor course at most universities has traditionally been taught using a discretemicroprocessor such as the Motorola 6800 series, Intel x86 series, or IBM PowerPC series. With thecontinued increase of usable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) gates and improvement of off-the-shelf soft processor core computer-aided design (CAD) tools, this practice is beginning to

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu-Wei Huang, National Changhua University of Education; Jieh-Shian Young, National Changhua University of Education; Chih-Hung Wu, Chienkuo Technology University; Hsing-Jung Li, National Chung Cheng University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2010-1333: A PRACTICE LEARNING OF ON-BOARD DIAGNOSIS (OBD)IMPLEMENTATIONS WITH EMBEDDED SYSTEMSYu-Wei Huang, National Changhua University of EducationJieh-Shian Young, National Changhua University of EducationChih-Hung Wu, Chienkuo Technology UniversityHsing-Jung Li, National Chung Cheng University Page 15.75.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Practice Learning of On-Board Diagnosis (OBD) Implementations with Embedded SystemsABSTRACTThis study presents the impact of embedded system on the development of on-boarddiagnostics (OBD) implemented by engineering students. The engineering students needprofessional skills in

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas J. Cooper

challenges of the TMprofessional world. For process dynamics and control, Picles , the Process Identification and ControlLoop Explorer System, is a cost effective way to provide this practice. Picles is PC/DOS compatible software now being used in process dynamics and control coursesaround the world for the education of students and training of practitioners. Picles is easy-to-use, visuallyappealing and provides the capability to explore a wide range of process dynamics and control concepts.Thus, students can quickly and inexpensively gain experience which benefits their education. Picles contains a series of case studies, animated in color-graphic display, for self-paced

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session / Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education / International Division Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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International

seven models for teaching embedded topics in universities and collegesworldwide: 1. Offering courses mostly on software (Real-Time Systems) in CS and SE undergraduate programs. 2. Offering courses in CE and EE undergraduate programs which emphasizes the hardware aspects of embedded systems. 3. Graduate programs in Embedded Systems Design 4. Designing an Embedded Systems Engineering track in computer science department 5. Continuing education and training programs for the industry engineers 6. Offering an undergraduate degree in Embedded Software Engineering 7. Offering an undergraduate degree in Embedded Systems EngineeringEmbedded Systems Education in the United StatesIt is predicted that most of the future computing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas at El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Zhonghua Hu, University of Texas at El Paso

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Development of 3D-Virtual Facility Tutorial Implemented in Mobile Environment to Enhance Additive Manufacturing EducationAbstractTo date, improving the manufacturing engineering education has become a major mission foruniversities, particularly when manufacturing industry is currently recovering in the US. There isa need to develop tutorial software implemented in mobile device to allow students to get accessof instructional material in 24/7 and enhance student learning in manufacturing engineeringcourses that will give future workforce engineers the skills that manufacturing companies aresearching for. This paper discusses software preparation and development to

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

University Florida previously. His research interests include Mixed-signal/RF circuit design and testing, measurement automation, environmental & biomedical data measurement, and educational robotics development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition ARM Cortex M4F based microcontroller based and laboratory oriented course development in higher educationAbstractARM (Advanced RISC Machines) processors are frequently found in modern consumerelectronics products such as smartphones and tablets. The author has been teaching two courseson embedded system software and microcontroller architecture for each

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University

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Mechanical Engineering

practicing engineers, to applyindustrial-strength simulation software to obtain useful and reliable solutions to practicalengineering problems, an important skill for the modern engineering workforce. At the sametime, simulation offers the opportunity to enhance learning through an interactive, visual mediumand build excitement among students about engineering.2. Pedagogical ApproachA university-industry workshop, ISTEC 2008, on the Integration of Simulation Technology intothe Engineering Curriculum was organized in July 2008. The purpose of the workshop was tobuild a community of educators and practitioners collaborating on the deployment of simulation

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manaz Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Chandan Dasgupta, Purdue University; John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia MSSEC, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

understanding the development of the ability to deal with problems in Engineering complex socio-technical systems via variation theory. Other interests are curriculum devel- opment for mathematical thinking, design thinking, and human-centered design. He is currently on a leave of absence from the department of systems engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. He worked as a software engineer in different companies for seven years before transitioning to academia.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and an affiliated faculty at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She

Conference Session

Capstone Projects and Experiential Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

breakdown of the workshop into three modules allows participants to pick and choosecomponents to match his/or her learning needs. All of the laboratory exercises are conductedusing The Altera® Development and Education (DE2) board which provides an ideal vehicle forlearning about digital logic, computer organization, and FPGAs. Featuring an Altera Cyclone® IIFPGA, the DE2 board offers state-of-the-art technology suitable for our laboratory use [2].Altera also provides the Quartus® II development software free to universities. Both DE2 FPGAevaluation boards and Quartus Development software have been received as a donation fromAltera Corporation.The Quartus II Software Design Series: This module of the workshop provides extensivetraining on how to

Conference Session

Research & Evaluation on K-12 Teachers and Teaching.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Marie Coppola, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Leonardo Andres Madariaga, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach / Federico Santa Maria Technical University; Marya H. Schnedeker, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

seven years of experience in teaching engineering undergraduates design methods and guiding them in project based courses at UTFSM in Chile, where he also worked as a product innovation consultant for several small companies.Marya H Schnedeker, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University Marya Schnedeker is a M.S. student at Tufts University in the Human Factors Engineering program. Her research focus is instructional design. She is currently researching methods of training novice users on CAD software and 3D printers. Page 26.244.1 c American Society for

Conference Session

Computers in Education 10 - Technology 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeffrey Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama; Dawn McKinney, University of South Alabama; Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama

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Computers in Education

Discrete Math. Instructors and studentsalike would benefit from a single tool that would provide a wide variety of functionality andsupport for visualization to reinforce concepts presented in such courses. In this research, wepresent the Program Encryption Toolkit (PET) and its associated graphical user interface(PETGUI) as a freely available resource for both educators and students who are learning earlyconcepts related to digital logic. PET itself encompasses Java software contributed byundergraduate, master’s and PhD researchers over a 15-year period and is used primarily tofurther research in circuit-based protection against malicious reverse engineering and subversion[1-11]. The code base has provided a means to also introduce software

Conference Session

Innovative Use of Technology in K-12 Outreach

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #17010A New Robotics Educational System for Teaching Advanced EngineeringConcepts to K-12 studentsDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

of the part prevent manufacture. e. AM-DFAM: Design for additive manufacturing software services. tutor and example database. f. AM-Teacher: Learning content, tutorials, service ‘wizards’, videos, and other educational content.2.1.2 Basic overview of the CBDM workflow.A few basic details of our CBDM architecture are illustrated in Figure 5. As shown in Figure 5,the CBDM system consists of a centralized interfacing server (CIS). The current version ourCBDM uses a CIS platform that is based on the Sakai learning management system [23]. FromFigure 5, several geographically dispersed users (i.e., students) who are collaborating on a designproject and are utilizing services of the

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

simulation to chemical engineering problems” Page 9.99.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education Louisiana ChE 2160 (FALL SOPH) X State N/A University “Introduction to operating systems, programming techniques, and software packages used in

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Welch; K.R. Goheen

1 ---- Session#: 3525 Pedagogical and Cost Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Learning in Control Systems Education R. Welch, K.R. Goheen Ingenia Communications Corporation/Ryerson Polytechnic UniversityAbstract This study examines the use of courseware to teach feedback control systems material to undergraduatemechanical and aerospace engineering students. Courseware for teaching the frequency

Conference Session

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; SEOK HEON YUN, GyeongSang National University

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Construction

offered by the CEM programs. Also, we see that many BIMcourses in CEM curricula mainly focus on using BIM software for drafting and modeling. Inthis next section of the paper, we present findings from a survey of industry BIM professionals tounderstand the industry perspective about priorities for BIM education in higher education. Page 26.56.3Table 1: BIM related courses offered in the United States Course Name/Institution Purpose of Course Building Focuses on building information management concepts and solutions; information modeling and current BIM technologies; coordination of design and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suryaprasad Jayadevappa, PES School of Engineering; Ravi Shankar, Florida Atlantic University

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Electrical and Computer

Participation in ABET Accreditation”, ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference, Marietta, GA, April 5-7, 2009 11. ACM 2008 curriculum draft report http://www.acm.org/education/curricula/ComputerScienceCurriculumUpdate2008.pdf 12. Albert Shanker on Education citations http://www.shankerinstitute.org/education.html 13. Jim Waldo “On System Design”, Sun Microsystems Inc 14. D L Andrews , Mitchel Thorton “Integration of CAD Tools and Structured Design Principles in an Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum”, University of Arkansas 15. Wing, Jeannette M. “Computational Thinking”, Communications of the ACM, 49, 3, 2006, pp 33-35. 16. Rich Le Blanc, and Ann Sobel (chairs) et al., Software Engineering 2004

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University

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Manufacturing

AC 2009-284: A PROJECT-BASED ACTIVE AND COOPERATIVE LEARNINGAPPROACH TO IMPROVING MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING EDUCATIONNing Fang, Utah State University Ning Fang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education in the College of Engineering at Utah State University. His areas of interest include computer-assisted instructional technology, curricular reform in engineering education, the modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes, and lean product design. He earned his PhD, MS, and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and is the author of more than 60 technical papers published in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is a Senior

Collection

2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev; Nasser Alaraje; Scott Kuhl; Michael Meyer; Mark Kinney; Mark Highum

not be feasible. The FANUC Robotics CertifiedEducation Robot Training (CERT) Program promotes understanding of FANUC Robotics’automation solutions through the development and implementation of integrated classroominstruction and student projects. The CERT program is a new certification available to qualifieduniversities. The EET department at Michigan Tech is a Certified Training and Education Sitefor FANUC Robotics Material Handling Program Software and iR-Vision 2D and thecollaboration between Michigan Tech and FANUC continues to bloom. In 2013, Michigan Techbecame a FANUC Authorized Certified Training Facility. Under this agreement, Michigan Techis a regional training center specializing in industrial automation, eligible to train and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gregory Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Engineering Education, 2009 Balancing Breadth and Depth in Engineering Education: Unified Robotics III and IVAbstractThe Robotics Engineering program at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute integrates electricalengineering, mechanical engineering and computer science concepts into a series of unifiedcourses in robotics at the undergraduate level. A need to pack a large amount of technically andphilosophically diverse multi-disciplinary material has created a number of challenges.Traditional engineering courses tend to cover a large amount of foundation material along withnumerous examples of how this foundation applies to relatively ideal problems. Unfortunately,there simply is not enough time to build

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Edward Williams III, Western Kentucky University; Fatemeh Orooji, Western Kentucky University; Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University

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Diversity

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Architectural Engineering

Paper ID #27354Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Ex-ploring Student ExperienceMr. Joseph Edward Williams III, Western Kentucky University I am an undergraduate student at Western Kentucky University (WKU) majoring in Architectural Sci- ences. I will be graduating in May of 2019. My interest in design and technology in architecture moti- vated me to research how Virtual Reality (VR) could be used to improve the design process of architecture students in academia.Dr. Fatemeh Orooji, Western Kentucky University Fatemeh (Mahtab) Orooji is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

product development into a mechatronics capstone course. This paperdescribes the method used, Scrum, and the context of the studied mechatronics capstonecourse. Mechatronics is here defined as “synergistic integration” of electronics, mechanicalengineering, control and software engineering. Mechatronics product development, in thiscontext, therefore deals with the development of complex and intelligent products, whichimplies multi-disciplinary work and the use of models etc. from several domains and areas.With the integration of Scrum into the mechatronics capstone course, an educational favorablealternative is identified, to previously used design methodologies such as more traditionalstage-gate methods as the Waterfall or method or the V-model

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Georgia Institute as Technology; Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

interactive and web-based software AGORA-net: Participate - Deliberate! AGORA-net is on online world in which everyone can construct arguments or participate in debates. Its development is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Most recently he works on collaborative and problem-based learning environments for ethics and for science education in which AGORA-net is used as a tool to focus and guide autonomous collaboration among small groups of students.Dr. Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology Jason Borenstein, Ph.D., is the Director of Graduate Research Ethics programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an Assistant Editor of Science and Engineering Ethics and Co-editor of the Stanford

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-473: AN ASSESSMENT AND DATA COLLECTION PROCESS FOREVALUATING STUDENT PROGRESS ON "A-K" ABET EDUCATIONALOUTCOMESKathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati Dr. Kathleen Ossman is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at the University of Cincinnati. She earned a BSEE and MSEE from Georgia Tech in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1986. Her interests include digital signal processing and feedback control. Page 15.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Assessment and Data Collection Process for Evaluating

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashish Kharel, The University of Toledo; Ahmad Y Javaid, The University of Toledo; Quamar Niyaz, Purdue University Northwest; Sidike Paheding, Fairfield University; Devinder Kaur, The University of Toledo

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Paper ID #48393Introducing an Interactive Hands-On Educational Module for an EmbeddedSystems Course focused on embedded securityDr. Ashish Kharel, The University of Toledo Ashish Kharel received a Ph.D. in Engineering, with concentration in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, OH, USA. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo. His research interests include machine learning and optimization of deep networks. Most of his published papers implement very deep neural networks to help solve problems involving cellular biology.Dr. Ahmad Y Javaid, The University of ToledoQuamar Niyaz

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Alexander Toth, Purdue University Northwest; John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Chenn Q. Zhou, Purdue University Northwest; Anusree Balachandran, Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, Purdue University; Fangzhou Zhang, Purdue University Northwest; John Claude Roudebush, Ivy Tech Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

as the effectiveness of active and interactive learning methodsversus passive methods. It is expected that more interactive training methods, while they havestarted to wear out novelty in the gaming space, still have plenty of potential to grow in bothcorporate and education sectors for training purposes.InnovationThere are two avenues of innovation this project explores. The first is making a web-basedinteractive 3D simulator, which integrates real-world scenarios and education modules. Whilethis on its own may not be a novel idea, the subject matter of wind energy and the potentialoutput platforms lend to make this project relatively new in its field. The second is the creationof virtual troubleshooting in the software using tools like

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

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Electrical and Computer

Sensor Technology”, J. Wiley, 1992.3. F. Vahid, T. Givargis, “Embedded System Design. A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction”, John Wiley,2002.4. “Accreditation Policy and procedure Manual”, http://www.abet.org.5. “IEEE CS/ACM Computing Curricula & Computer Engineering”,http://www.eng.auburn.edu/ece/CCCE/WoodenManReport.pdf, 2003.6. H. De Man, “System-on-chip Design: Impact on Education and Research”, IEEE Design & Test of Computers,July-September 1999.7. A. Doboli, R. Vemuri, “Behavioral Modeling for High-Level Synthesis of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systemsfrom VHDL-AMS”, IEEE Transactions on CADICS, Vol. 22, No. 11, November 2003.8. D. Estrin, D. Culler, K. Pister, G. Sukhatme, “Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia E. Vergara, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Cindee Dresen, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Tammy Coxen, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Taryn MacFarlane, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Kysha Frazier, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Jeannine LaPrad, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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Computers in Education

tools.Comparing the survey responses to the employer interview data we see that engineers andengineering technicians consider tools such as Excel, CAD programs, process simulationpackages, project lifecycle management software, real time data analysis software, statisticalanalysis software either very important or important. Symbolic mathematical software, real timedata collection, data analysis and PLM software are less important.External EvaluationBy documenting, evaluating and making this process explicit, the CPACE model should beextensible to other computing education reform efforts. To that end, the external evaluator hasbeen collecting data on the project activity and conducted a focus group with key projectstakeholders.One of the major strengths

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Mark Highum, Bay de Noc Community College; Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; James Walker, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

of Business from Baker College. Currently, Mark is completing his disser- tation in fulfillment of the requirements of a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Central Michigan University.Mr. James Walker, Michigan Technological University James Walker holds an M.S. in computer science from Michigan Technological University, where he currently performs virtual reality research in pursuit of his Ph.D. He was the lead software developer for the robotics simulator described in this paper. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Revamping Robotics Education via University, Community College and Industry Partnership - Year 1 Project ProgressAbstractRecently, educators

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Computing & Information Technology

placed onlinelaboratories as part of a much larger picture with the potential to deliver education at any timeand place, not only to students who could not not come to the campus, but also as a tool thatcould potentially enhance laboratory experience of on-campus students as well2. Additionally,the effects of the use of online laboratories and their influence on the learning outcomes havebeen studied by several authors3.However, developing an online laboratory from scratch can still be a complex task, especiallyif the developer is a specialist in the laboratory domain and not a software engineer. Bringinga piece of equipment online requires high technical, and administrative efforts to ensure asecure setup and continuous maintenance of the