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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Session 2260 Computer Engineering Area of Specialization in Computer Science Department Afsaneh Minaie Reza Sanati-Mehrizy Assistant Professor Associate Professor minaieaf@uvsc.edu sanatire@uvsc.edu Computing and Networking Sciences Department Utah Valley State CollegeAbstractIn our computer science department at Utah Valley State College, there are four areas ofspecialization. These four areas of specialization

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

Session # 1331 A Model for Teaching Materials Evaluation: Development and Testing of Interactive Computer Simulations Modules for Undergraduate Education Anne E. Donnelly1, Emilia Hodge1, Melis Budak1, Heath Wintz2, Randy Switt2, Chang-Yu Wu2, Prakash Kumar3, Pratim Biswas3 Priscilla Chapman4, Anne L. Allen4 1 University of Florida, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science & Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611/2University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32611/3Washington University

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Nelson

) ===== ===== ===== ===== 1.5 year 1 year 1 year 0.5 year Figure 1. Organization of a computer engineering curriculum.Assessing the time required to cover a unit To give readers a sense of the time required to cover a particular unit, the CCCE Task Force,consistent with the Computer Science Report [5] and earlier curriculum reports [2], has chosen toexpress time in hours, corresponding to the in-class time required to present that material in atraditional lecture-oriented format. The time designated for each unit should be interpreted asthe minimum amount of time necessary to enable a student to achieve the learning objectives forthat unit. It is often appropriate to spend more time on a unit than the mandated

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Breznik

Session number :2004-1577 Hands-on learning system for Wireless laboratory courses Alfred Breznik, Carlo Manfredini Emona InstrumentsChallenge to be addressed:The challenge for the teaching of Telecommunications in the undergraduate laboratoryhas always been how to cover the ever expanding field of important new topics whilstmaintaining a solid grounding in the fundamentals, as well as how to do this without theneed for excessive and ever increasing laboratory equipment.Ideally the equipment needs to operate at a logical level which facilitates learning butwithout the need for lengthy setup time and without being too much of a ready

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

, students are introduced two languages: the protocol relatedto the graphic universal language of technical drawing and the computer commands of aCAD program.In most institutions, competency is gained by preparing several technical drawings, withlittle, or no regard to critical thinking skills. The development of easier to learn CADsoftware, and a classroom of students who have more “computer savvy”, provideinstructors the opportunity to give the students more rich design experiences [6]. Coupledwith the proliferation of online catalogs for machine components, the author proposesthat students can learn the software and graphic fundamentals while completing actualdetailed design exercises.Topics CoveredIntroductory courses in technical drawing and

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherif Yehia; James Nelson

Session 3515 Structural Analysis Courses: Computers or Fundamentals James K. Nelson, Jr., Ph.D., P.E. and Sherif Yehia, Ph.D., P.E. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MichiganIntroductionThe computer “revolution” that occurred toward the end of the 20th century probably changedforever the background of the student entering engineering programs and the manner in whichthat student is best suited to learn. Further, the technology revolution has changed the manner inwhich engineering design is conducted and the needed skills of engineering professionals. Thischange is being recognized by the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

program.Throughout the year faculty members from several engineering departments gather informationon suitable multidisciplinary senior design projects. Project customers range from Army researchprograms to inter-collegiate design competitions to local projects that benefit one or morecampus organizations.This paper outlines how computer science multidisciplinary senior design projects are organizedand conducted in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It discusses,in turn, the structure, course content, sample projects, objectives, process, assessment, successes,challenges, and lessons learned that are associated with these multidisciplinary student projects.StructureWith few exceptions, all computer science senior design projects

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vennes; Phillip Smith

thatit makes learning the software a rigorous task. Procedures involved in performing even simpledrawings require familiarity with as many as 10 different main menus, hundreds of menu itemsand several options within each function. Learning locations of menu items and their associatedchoices and options requires repeated daily exposure and usage of the software. Although today'sentering freshmen are fairly computer literate, their experience is diverse. We have found thatthey must be given instruction and practice in developing basic computer and file managementskills. These include understanding the file systems and directory structure organization, filetypes (ASCII, binary, etc.), file naming conventions (.doc, .txt, .pdf, .eps, etc.), editing

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

, studentsinvolved with design projects that incorporate embedded (digital) computers have theopportunity to learn how to extend knowledge and skills acquired in introductory courses whileparticipating on multidisciplinary teams to formulate realistic solutions to contemporaryengineering design problems.This paper is intended for both faculty and students actively involved in coursework associatedwith the major engineering design experience. It provides background information on embeddedsystems that builds upon topics typically covered in introductory electrical and computerengineering courses. It then identifies contemporary design methodologies and design constraintsfor components and systems that contain embedded computers to monitor and control

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

; computing zeros of functions; as well as,performing a series of other important computing tasks. Learning the programming principlesthrough using LabVIEW better prepares the students for understanding other more complicated text-based programming languages. The virtual instruments developed for several engineering problemsare included in this paper to illustrate the special features, capabilities, and utilities of this powerfuland interesting software tool.I. IntroductionIn the past several years, a great number of publications have explored various capabilities ofLabVIEW relative to laboratory experimentation and data acquisition. Several examples of thistype are included in bibliography1,2,3. The purpose of the submitted paper is to focus on

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gumaer

, students in upper divisionengineering technology classes all had laptop computers. The laptops in use were Intel Pentium-class machines running either Microsoft Windows Me or Microsoft Windows XP as theoperating system. All laptops had the Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0installed on them.One goal was to utilize these computers to improve the student learning experience in a data Page 9.1169.1acquisition course without significantly increasing the cost of course delivery. Another goal was Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

moststudents who complete the course are not be able to create a reasonably designed new object-orient application. The reason is that design is a constructive task which requires someexperience, whereas assignments in a first course are oriented to coding very specific assignedtasks. Of course, by necessity, the first step of learning focuses on programming rather than ondesign.Should engineering students be advised to take a second computing course? I recommend thisfor the following reason: There is a “language” (in part a visual notation) and methodology forspecifying the requirements and design of software systems. If engineers need to create theirown programs they should know how to program; but, if engineers ever need to interact withsoftware

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

. • Supports Collaboration. In addition to being extremely portable, if student collaborative teams are equipped with PDAs and share the same software and files, there is a reduced concern that overall progress will be impeded if a mishap occurs to an individual team member’s PDA or desktop computer. • Low-Cost. Handheld computers are much less expensive than portable or desktop computers. Some institutions may find it pays to purchase numerous handheld computing devices instead of one desktop computer in selected classrooms. • Ease of Use. Unlike desktop and portable computers which often have a steep learning curve associated with their use, students can be taught to use the basic functions

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Blackham; Charles Higby; Michael Bailey

University School of Technology’sIT department is the use of multiple computer configurations. The ability to specificallycustomize a computers configuration for individual courses not only increases the professors’teaching parameters but adds to the students’ learning capabilities. Images currently in useinclude single operating systems, multiple operating systems, and dual-boot operating systems.Single Operating systemsImages with single operating systems include Linux and Windows. These images are deployedto single or multiple machines (entire lab) using both Norton Ghost and Altiris. Norton Ghostre-images a single computer in 5 minutes and an entire lab in less than 35 minutes. Altiris re-images both single computer or entire lab in 10 to 15

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

, reasonably priced means for utilizing a Handy Board component-based approachfor the support lab for AI robotics. The incorporation of LEGO RCX elements into the kit alsopermits an instructor to draw on resources already developed for use with the LEGO Mindstormkit.Because of the motivation that the robots provide the students, we are able to teach computingtechniques far beyond that which would normally be covered by an engineering computing course.These include issues such as: multi-threading, structures, and semaphores. Topics that are moretypical of an intermediate computer science curriculum. Computer science students also getadvantages from robotics classes. They get to learn aspects of control, mechanics and electronicsnot addressed in the

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

Session # 2432 A Web-based Interactive e-learning Tool for use in Electrical and Computer Engineering Rasha Morsi Department of Engineering/Department of Technology Suite 220 RTC, Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA 23504 Phone: 757-823-9514; Fax: 757-823-8215 E-mail: rmorsi@nsu.eduAbstractThe implementation and dissemination of learning aids for education has been an ongoingresearch for the last few decades. The available computer

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

others e) Regroup the students so that new group has a representative from each of the previous groups. Students are required to teach each other in the newly formed groups, the topic their group studied. Outcomes: a) Each student is actively involved in the class b) Students acquire ownership of the learning c) A significant amount of information can be covered in a class d) Students are accountable to each other for covering the content.4. The StudyApproximately 60 third year and 20 fourth year Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Session 1793 Motivating Civil Engineering Students to Learn Computer Programming With a Structural Design Project James D. Bowen University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstract Like many other schools, at UNC Charlotte a student’s first Civil Engineering courseincludes instruction in a high-level computer programming language. For many years thelanguage taught was Fortran, but for the last few years students have learned programming aspart of instruction in the MATLAB modeling language. Inclusion of computer programmingearly in the curricula has

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

Session __1349_ The Effect of Programming Learning Center on Students in First Year Computer Programming Sequence Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering Technology students whether freshmen or otherwise tend to find their firstsequence of computer programming courses quite a challenge. To increase the successrate for these students, the author started a learning center for computer programmingcalled the Programming Learning Center (PLC). The PLC started its operation in the fallof 2001. The

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

been funding for more than a decade 7 Engineering Coalitions(Academy, ECSEL, Foundation, Gateway, Greenfield, SUCCEED, Synthesis) for researchingand disseminating better methodologies for engineering education(http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/foundationcoalition/engineering_coalitions.html).Recently, we also have Project Catalyst from Bucknell University to train engineering faculty forproblem-based learning (http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/projectcatalyst/). DiSessa5 andShneiderman6 described innovative computing concepts and technologies better suited for humanneeds, especially in science and engineering education. Interestingly, Shneiderman's activelearning approach goes beyond the academic realm to extend to the corporate

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

Self-Confidence • Exercise of Judgment and Discretion • Predominantly Intellectual Work • Regulated/License Usually required • Dedication beyond Pecuniary and Personal Considerations.ACM and IEEE Viewpoints on IT CertificationsAs an important organization, IEEE promotes concepts of certification to educationalinstitutions. IEEE categorizes occupational certification into three areas: • Certifications granted by organizations or professional associations, such as the IEEE Computer Society • Industry or product-related certifications, such as Novell Certified Engineer • Certifications granted by government agencies that train for specific jobs then validate that learning and ability to perform that job can be

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

computer networks • Students learn how to develop network applications using a programming language • Students understand general architecture of computer networks and how layered protocols of computer networks work • Students are able to identify and explain current topics in computer networks, such as security and quality of service, among others Page 9.206.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”While some course descriptions give more detailed goals or outcomes, most stated

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

literature. Thisapproach develops multiple, pairwise linkages among strategic classes in the engineeringcurricula to promote curricular integration and help students see connections between their first-year courses and subsequent courses.Vertically integrated problem-based learning scenarios that link across courses are crucial to thismodel. Our first vertical effort focuses on MatLab, to integrate learning of this engineering toolin an introductory computing course with the solution of statics problems in an introductorymechanical engineering course. Pre-reform data show that students taking the introductorycomputing course do not see the importance of learning MatLab, because they do not seeconnections to their future courses. This has negative

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

for a networks course following a laboratory based approach to Despite the difficulties of including security related support an active learning environment. The suggestedtopics at the undergraduate level, the recent trends suggest methodologies for delivering the course are engagedthat undergraduate programs in computing include learning, project-based learning, cooperative learning, andsecurity related topics. The CS volume of the Year 2001 problem-based learning. However, in this paper we onlyModel Curricula for Computing (CC-2001 [3]) contains emphasize on the developed labs. The specificseveral modules with area

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fernandez

community-based HCI education. The variousclient applications provide a plethora of learning scenarios that don’t fit into the softwareengineering paradigm. The process, experience, and results of HCI education that closes the gapare presented in this paper.IntroductionThere is growing interest in exploring the benefits of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) designin computer science education programs. The prominence of the Internet and associated Webapplications has propelled HCI issues to the forefront of the discussion on software development.Since software engineering is geared more towards the development of large-scale systems, thereis an education gap in many computer science programs that don’t include a design andimplementation course for

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Computers in Education, Session 1520 Lear ning the Methods of Engineer ing Analysis Using Case Studies, Excel and VBA - Cour se Design Michael A. Collur a, Bouzid Aliane, Samuel Daniels, J ean Nocito-Gobel School of Engineer ing & Applied Science, Univer sity of New HavenAbstr actMethods of Engineering Analysis, EAS 112, is a first year course in which engineering andapplied science students learn how to apply a variety of computer analysis methods. The courseuses a “problem-driven” approach in which case studies of typical engineering and scienceproblems become the arena in which these analytical methods must be applied. A

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

Session 1532 Application of a Learning Model in an Introduction to Digital Logic Course Cordelia M. Brown, Arthur J. Brodersen Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Nashville, Tennessee 37235AbstractDuring the 2003-2004 academic year, a general learning model is being employed at the Schoolof Engineering at Vanderbilt University (VUSE) in the “Introduction to Digital Logic” course.This course is accompanied by a laboratory component. There are

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

Session _3260__ Towards Using Problem-Based Learning in Teaching ComputerProgramming – Step 1: Developing Synchronized Multimedia Lectures Using Video and PowerPoint Hazem Said and Fazal khan Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionThis paper is motivated by the first author’s desire to implement Problem-based learningor Project-based learning (PBL) in his computer programming classes. PBL is a popularteaching pedagogy that emphasis student's understanding of the course contents. Theclassroom and instructor's role in PBL

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

Session 1349 Implementing a Software Engineering Technology Program within the Context of Experienced-Based Learning William Loendorf, Mick Brzoska, Min-Sung Koh, and Esteban Rodriguez-Marek1 Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia DesignAbstractThe Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia Design (ETMD) within the Schoolof Computing and Engineering Sciences at Eastern Washington University (EWU) hasimplemented a new program in the emerging