interdisciplinary curriculum, learning is less fragmented, and therefore students are provided with a more unified sense of process and content. The interdisciplinary curriculum provides real-world applications, hence heightening the opportunity for transfer of learning. Improved mastery of content results from interdisciplinary learning. Interdisciplinary learning experiences positively shape learners' overall approach to knowledge through a heightened sense of initiative and autonomy and improves their perspective by teaching them to adopt multiple points of view on issues. Motivation to learn is improved in interdisciplinary settings.” “Arguably all student work, interdisciplinary or otherwise, is (or
meet these standards. However, the development of suchcurricula can prove challenging to educators without experience in scientific research andengineering design. To address this gap in knowledge and facilitate the adoption of NGSS inChicago Public High Schools (CPS), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Colleges ofEngineering and Education developed the innovative Bioengineering Experience for ScienceTeachers (BEST) program. This program pairs selected BEST applicants (Fellows) with severalUIC Bioengineering faculty members and their laboratories. Here, Fellows spend six summerweeks immersed in the laboratory environment, participating in individualized research projectsunder UIC Bioengineering faculty mentorship. During these six
writing include project reports, lab reports, essays, and researchpapers.ImplementationTo highlight real-world applications of course content, I elected to add a new assignment andshort presentation to the course. The learning objective for the assignment is for each student toinvestigate and explain one real-world application of a concept in the course. To demonstrate thatthey have achieved this objective, each student writes a one-page, double-spaced, summarydescribing how their real-world application applies to a course topic. Then, to leverage the diverseexperiences of students in the course, each student is asked to share their application witheveryone in a short TED-style talk on the last day of class. Since the last day of class is usually
for solving many problems inphysics and engineering, examples will be provided in this course.”The use of real examples, data, and physical objects, helps the instructor to provide an informedanswer to students’ questions about applications of the theory and decrease the gap between thetheory and practical applications. We have used real world problems to motivate students, to spark their curiosity, and show the course relevance in real life situations. We have used examples from science, engineering, economics, and finance to demonstrate the relationship of integral calculus to various broad areas of interest to students. We have used examples from future courses, especially in the area of engineering, to
weekly expert panel in a senior level human factors andergonomics class to engage students in the class. They indicated that large sizes classesmade the engaging opportunities difficult, which deprives students from connecting to thereal world applications of human factors and ergonomics. In the weekly expert panelsessions, the students read week’s story on the real world’s accidents and incidents, cometo the class preparing for discussion and participate in the panel as either panelist oraudience member. They found the expert panel exercising promising and indicated thatthis type of exercises could promote a deeper understanding of the applications of HF&Eknowledge.Moroney and Cameron [10] introduced simulations in the HF&E class to
provides students with an opportunity to carry outexperiments virtually and achieve instant results. In this study, a practical laboratory experience isprovided through the use of a virtual reality simulation that is based on a real laboratory. Studentsare familiarized with the equipment through the provision of the real-world electronic benchequipment and simple electronic components resembling the real laboratory environment. Theeffectiveness of the virtual reality laboratory is studied using three sets of engineering students.The sets of students include those who have engaged in an actual laboratory experience, thosewho have experienced only the virtual reality-based laboratory environment, and a third groupwho has experienced both the real
”. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Pilleve, a venture that develops smart pill bottles that monitor and screen for signs of opioid abuse. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Enhancing a Real-Time Audio Laboratory using the MATLAB Audio System ToolboxTM RAbstractAudio output as part of laboratory experiments provides students with tangible motivation and away in which to experience the impacts of signal processing first-hand. This paper presents anupgrade in a sophomore-level signal processing laboratory course by implementing TheMathworks, R Inc. MATLAB R Audio System ToolboxTM for real-time audio applications. Thecourse in
skills after trauma.They saw evidence that “incorporating the cognitive and perceptual functions of motorperformance with the performance of the actual motor skill will enhance motor learning and tasktransfer.” [8]. These results are promising for the photolithography simulation as a training tool;users of the simulation can practice their motor skills in virtual spaces just like they would beable to in the physical world. The motor skills they gain can then be used in real-worldexperiments.In addition to its uses in entertainment, training, and rehabilitation, VR simulations are beingused as educational tools. A 3D laboratory developed in 2015 with the goal of enticing highschool students into STEM careers saw success in increasing interest and
experience and involving transactions between thelearner and the environment. Kolb’s experiential learning model is based on such transactions,where knowledge is created through the transformation of external, real-world experiences. Oneform of incorporating real-world experiences involves service learning, where students areactively involved with community-based experiences meeting one or more societal needs. It wasposited that repurposing the software application project to incorporate service learning conceptscould better serve the students involved. Therefore, in 2014 the project was revised in the spiritof experiential learning to meet the needs of clients from the field of education. The project hassince expanded to redirect the narrative
without the that data are gathered, and how they are interpreted [9].structured support of the PINC program. Here we present Therefore, the fact that only 2% of Yahoo employees arethe data collected during this two year period as well as African American and 4% are Hispanic—numbers typicaldetails about the Computing Application minor and of the tech world—is a problem that affects not onlyprogrammatic components that are having a positive underrepresented (UR) groups, but society as a whole [10].impact on student outcomes. The PINC program (Promoting INclusivity in Keywords— Computing
- critical networks, vehicular networks, virtualized wireless networks, green communications, the Internet of Things, and unmanned aircraft systems. Dr. Marojevic has been instructor of undergraduate and graduate level classes at the Barcelona Tech and Virginia Tech. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and ASEE.Dr. Antoni Gelonch-Bosch, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya Antoni Gelonch-Bosch is associate professor at Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications at Barcelona- Tech University from 1997. His research interest has moved along years from the development of suit- able hardware platforms for implementing wireless systems, attending real-time processing constraints, to application of Software Radio concept and
Paper ID #21251Teaching Directory Services: Topics, Challenges, and ExperiencesDr. Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University Dr. Yu Cai is an associate professor and program chair in the Computer Network and System Adminis- tration (CNSA) program at the School of Technology, Michigan Technological University. His current research interests include cyber security and medical informatics. He is particularly interested in applying his research and techniques to real-life applications. He has been a consultant to many companies includ- ing IBM and Ford. Dr. Cai serves in editorial boards of several international journals. He
as being less daunting. Faculty also directly encouragedstudents taking the non-major course to consider pursuing CS. Five departments marketed oroffered a CS minor to student in other majors, and three departments created dual majors oronline post-baccalaureate programs for students majoring in other fields that have highconcentrations of women (i.e., biology and psychology). Explicitly drawing attention to the waysin which computing and other fields intersect enables students to understand the relevance ofcomputing to real-world, socially relevant applications, which also influence their commitmentto the major once enrolled [5].Finally, institutions made other systemic changes that likely contributed to attracting morewomen. Four schools
evaluation of a Real-Time Text Display with Speaker-Identification, whichdisplays the location of a speaker in a group (RTTD-ID). RTTD-ID aims to reduce frustration inidentifying and following an active speaker when there are multiple speakers, e.g., in a lab. It hasthree different display schemes to identify the location of the active speaker, which helps deafstudents in viewing both the speaker’s words and the speaker’s expression and actions.We evaluated three RTTD speaker identification methods: 1) traditional: captions stay in oneplace and viewers search for the speaker, 2) pointer: captions stay in one place, and a pointer tothe speaker is displayed, and 3) pop-up: captions “pop-up” next to the speaker. We gathered bothquantitative and
,as well as at comparable institutions in Canada (specifically, British Columbia). While the academic and professionalbackgrounds of the two authors of this paper are considerably different, we also share quite a bit in common: inparticular, both of us have spent several years in high-tech industry prior to returning to the academic world asComputer Science faculty. In particular, when teaching various CS courses, we try to relate concepts and techniquescovered to the "real-world" applications, and in particular the recent and current technology challenges and R&D donein industry. We have applied this general philosophy to virtually all courses we have taught, including the verytheoretical ones -- such as those on Automata and Formal
, most do not gain admission until their junior year. This policy impacts retention as astudent is at high risk to leave until admitted. The Computing Accreditation Commission ofABET2 accredits the CS BS program.2.2 Intro CSIntro CS at MSU is a 15-week, 4-credit course introducing students to solving problems throughprogramming.3 In this course, students design, implement, and test programing solutions toproblems in engineering, mathematics and science. Weekly projects emphasize datamanipulation using real-world examples,4 which have broad appeal in showing how computingconnects to students’ lives and interests [8], [10]. A typical CS major takes Intro CS in hersecond or third semester on campus. However, a student who is not ready for
buildings and bridges. Such learning deficiencies can be largely attributed to theineffectiveness of the traditional lecture-mode of teaching during which much effort is spent onthe analysis of discrete members, while less emphasis is devoted to understanding the behaviorof the entire structure in a three-dimensional (3D) structural context.In this study, we explore the potential of augmented reality (AR) to facilitate the teaching ofstructural analysis concepts. AR combines the real world with the virtual content so that itconserves users’ awareness of the real world environment in a 3D space [3]. It enables users tovisualize virtual objects and to interact with both real and virtual objects in the same context [4]thus extending their perception
Australasian Association for Engineering Education 2012, The. Engineers Australia, 2012.8. Long, John M., J. R. Florance, and Matthew Joordens. "The use of home experimentation kits for distance students in first-year undergraduate electronics." Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.9. Buechler, Dale, et al. “Real-Time Interactive Troubleshooting and Assessment of Distance Lab Projects.” ." Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference. 2013.10. Ndlovu, N., and A. Smith. "The Internet-of-things in remote-controlled laboratories." Proceeding of the13th annual conference on World Wide Web Applications
metal concentrations in water supplies in developing nations. In addition toconnecting students to a relevant real-world problem, this project connected the students tojunior ECE students designing key circuits and subsystems and to researchers in the Chemistrydepartment studying detection methods and other aspects of this global problem [9]-[10].Starting from the system design of Figure 2 and customer requirements related to measuringsample contamination, the first-year students were tasked with developing the user interface andrelated control signals to operate the spectrophotometer with an Arduino Uno and LCD shield.Figure 2: Spectrophotometer circuit designed and constructed at Norwich. Keysubsystems/functions of the circuit (right) are
system design course starting in 2015,including software and hardware upgrades that improved our hands-on laboratory exercises.Because Xilinx ISE 14.7 version no longer supported newer FPGAs devices, we adopted theXilinx Artix-7 FPGAs on the Basys-3 educational board and the Xilinx Vivado design suite.We also provide some historical context regarding to the evolution of the laboratory exercisesused for this course. Two new lab exercises were developed to address student concerns from thestudent survey in 2015, including introducing the hierarchical design flow for FPGAs earlier inthe course, as well as lack of real-world examples in the lab exercises. In this paper, we describetwo new computer gaming labs added in 2016 along with evaluation data
Paper ID #21217On Potential Applications of Cooperative Engagement Methods in The ArabGulf Region: Drawbacks, Challenges, and ExpectationsDr. Waddah Akili, Iowa State University Waddah Akili has been in the academic arena for over 37 years. He has held academic positions at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Penna (66-69), at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (69-87), and at the University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar (87-00). Professor Akili’s major field is geotechnical engineering and materials. His research work & experience include: characterization of arid and semi arid soils, piled
Paper ID #21623Single-board Computer Used for Network Streaming Audio Player TFT Touchscreen-based ApplicationDr. David Border, Bowling Green State University David A. Border, Ph.D., holds a principle research interest in electronic information systems. This field includes digital communication and networking and intelligent networked devices. His work includes wireless sensor networks. Prior research included work on signal bandwidth compression and signal specific data encoding techniques. His technology application interest includes networked systems. Typ- ical teaching duties include junior- and senior-level courses in
instruments and then loan them to their students. However, limited resources make itdifficult or impossible to provide the full access needed to realize the real potential of the ECPenabled by these excellent modules. Even at institutions where students can easily afford theirown devices and parts kits, students outside of ECE often do not use them in more than one classand, thus, tend to sell them to classmates. This defeats the purpose of empowering students tolearn and apply electronics in new ways throughout their studies and careers.Using a device whose price is under $50 makes most of the application problems go away, if thedevice can be shown to work. Thus, in this paper, we address the general question of whatperformance criteria must be met
toimplement the filters on a powerful single-board microcontroller and process ECG signals inreal-time. They then analyze the results of their filter implementations using a real-time ECGsimulator as well as their own live ECG signals as inputs.IntroductionIn a typical biomedical engineering digital signal processing course, students have limited real-world design opportunity. Typically, they implement algorithms and analyze signals withpowerful software like MATLAB, but have limited chance to design and run signal processingalgorithms in real time on a microprocessor. This approach limits student understanding ofconstraints in designing and implementing digital filters and evaluating their actual performancecharacteristics.For a number of years, we
that end, it is likely that the Systems Engineering area would be tailored to highlightcrucial skills for certain types of systems, operational contexts, etc.Critical Findings from Open Source LiteratureThe open source literature search identified three topics that are critical to achieving the desiredcapabilities in the context of real-world operations: 1. Non-determinism of real-world phenomena – the techniques and tools to perform mission analysis and engineering appear to be deterministic in nature [3] [5]; the real world is quite the opposite [6] [7]. 2. Explicitly accounting for systems operational availability Ao < 1 – systems Ao in real world scenarios is rarely “1” A relevant example is the operational
identify the user’s intended movement, and make decisions to control externaldevices and applications. EMG-based gesture recognition has great potential to allow intuitiveand natural control of many applications such as prostheses, assistive robots, and virtual inputdevices. However, to apply EMG-controlled systems in practice, some challenges still remain.The system needs to be low-cost, portable, real-time, and robust. Moreover, a large amount ofdata needs to be obtained, stored, and processed in order to provide accurate and reliable gesturerecognition. The goal of our research was to develop an Android mobile application for EMG-based hand gesture recognition that meets these requirements. Additionally, a cloud computingframework, using Amazon
by thefollowing enduring outcomes: (1) understanding engineering as an approach to solving real-world problems; (2) learning professional skills and applying these skills to local developmentchallenges; (3) empowering learners to become agents of change within their community; and(4) facilitating access to higher education experiences for refugee learners.Recruitment The course took place in a shared space where other events and classes occurred at differenttimes. We planned the course to be three months long, by having two sessions per week each onelasting 2 hours. Originally, the course was created to support 15 tertiary students aged from 18years old and up. Given the massive interest in taking this course, we increased the number
safetyTable 2: TUEE Skills Number Skill KSA 1 Good communication skills KSA 3 Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems KSA 10 Critical thinking KSA 12 Ability to prioritize efficiently KSA 13 Project management: supervising, planning, scheduling, budgeting, etc. KSA 16 Ability to use new technology and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice Number Skill KSA 19 Applied knowledge of engineering core sciences and implementation skills to apply them in the real world KSA 20 Data interpretation and visualization KSA 22 Leadership KSA 24 Systems thinking KSA 26 Application-based research and evaluation skills KSA 27 Ability to create a vision
] L. Ljung, "Perspectives on system identification," IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 7172–7184, 2008.[15] G. Solomon, "Project-based learning: A Primer: When students are challenged to get to work solving real-life problems, the whole world becomes a classroom. Here we offer a guide for getting started. (cover story)," Technology & Learning, vol. 23, no. 6, Jan. 2003.[16] Y.-L. Huang, C.-Y. Cheng, and S. S. -J. Lin, "CIM: Capability-innovation- motive teaching model for system engineering education – ‘embedded operating systems’ as an example," International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 151–161, Sep. 2015.[17] J. C. Dunlap, "Problem-based learning and self
learned in class. Physical testing allowed a more in depth understanding of material properties and how they are affected. Interaction with professor is the best part I have ever experienced. 6 The best is that we got to learn a new program. The goals were very well defined. Real life experiments and dealing with data was the best part. Professor was helpful. Seeing how the math actually relates to a real world application instead of just conceptually. The best part was the informality as it is a very difficult subject. The best part was using equipment we’ve never used before and learning more about an everyday