Peer Instruction: A Study of Four Computer Science Courses. Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education. ACM, 2013.[17] OpenDSA: Open Source Interactive Data Structures and Algorithms. http://algoviz.org/OpenDSA/. February 2015.[18] Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. http://oli.cmu.edu/. February 2015.[19] Senack, E. Fixing the Broken Textbook Market. U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Student PIRG, January 2014.[20] Simon, B., S. Esper, L. Porter, and Q. Cutts. Student Experience in a Student- Centered Peer Instruction Classroom. Proceedings of the ninth annual international
shifts in undergraduate studentprofiles with regards to previous CS familiarity, experiences, expectations, career interests, attitudes, andbeliefs. While adhering to the ACM Computing Curricula ‘78 (Austing, et al., 1979) guidelines for CS1 andCS2 courses for CS majors, the need for a third, primer survey course has emerged (Bailey & Forbes, 2004;Brady, et al., 2004). Common objectives of a survey course are to (a) introduce the core concepts to studentswho are interested, but do not have any prior skills on that field, (b) support student success while adapting tocollege life, and (c) improve recruitment and retention using the ‘Common First Year’ theme of many STEMprograms.In addition, the proliferation of technology in academia and
car hasactivated sensor C or sensor A. To complete level 4, students must also use sensors B and D todetect when a car has run a red light (light X) on the north south side street. If this happens,camera U (for sensor D) or camera V (for sensor B) should be activated in order to take a pictureof the licence plate of the offender. The crosswalk timers are displayed on seven-segment displayswhereas all of the rest of the output signals are displayed using the ten-segment bar graph.The actual pre-lab exercises are left to the students for this lab. ASM or ASMD charts, statetransition tables, next-state equations, and Boolean expressions for combinational logic are allsuggested as possible design tools. Students are also encouraged to use these
Example a) User Setting Problem Parameters b) Solution ResultsThe key programming detail with the client program is its communication with the server cluster.Flex can make simple HTTP function calls to the website to run server scripts (PHP, Perl,ASP.NET, etc.), but this has two major limitations; text is transmitted as strings and it issynchronous. A better option is to use a media server on the cluster such as Red5, WebOrb,LiveCycle, Wowza, etc. These tools allow Flex to communicate with the server throughdedicated channels using sockets. This means communications are asynchronous (and in binary)which allows the server to communicate with the client at any time, and the client can makemultiple function calls. This project uses WebOrb [6] since
the third is the camera view. The temperature status is shownin Fahrenheit. The appliances are a lamp, the door, a fan, and a heater. The appliances will becontrolled automatically based on the sensor information. At the same time a client can trigger anappliance ‘on’ or ‘off’ by clicking on the button under each item. Figure 11: Image of the developed GUI. (a) Default status. (b) Light has been turned on. Figure 12: Details of lamp control.A case study is provided to demonstrate the process of communication between the Arduino andthe web. This is implemented by using an example for lamp control. An image of the GUI partfor lamp control is shown
AC 2007-1786: FROM 2D TO CONSOLES: A THREE-SEMESTER COMPUTERGAME DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUMWilliam Birmingham, Grove City College Dr. Birmingham is the chair of the Computer Science Department at Grove City College. Before coming to Grove City College, he was a tenured associate professor in the EECS Department at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Birmingham's research interests are in AI, computer gaming, mobile computing and communications, and computer-science pedagogy. He received is Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. all from Carnegie Mellon University.David Adams, Grove City College David B. Adams received a BS in Computer Information Systems and a BS in mathematics at The University of
diameter can be relatively small compared to the current apparatus.III. ASTM Standards: American Standard Test Method (ASTM) guidelines provided the baseline requirement to ensure the newly designed apparatus meets industry standards. These standards ensure the accuracy and the validity of the design. Engineer requirements for the sensor, electronics and material were based on ASTM standardsDesign GenerationA major part of the design generation was sensor selection. It was narrowed down to two sensortypes: (a) Hall Effect and (b) Infrared. The Hall Effect sensor involved a magnetic sphere as thedetector. An experimental test proved the design to be problematic. The magnetic field orientationof the north and south poles (of the
) (b) (c) (d)Figure 1: Example student quarter-long projects. (a) Laser-tag playing robots; (b) auto-mated fish tank monitor; (c) web-enabled thermostat; and (c) music-playing cloak.continuing in their program for as long as they have. As this course was junior-level, thestudents had more than the requisite circuits experience to build their devices.Many unique and interesting projects were developed and few of the most outstanding werethe following. See Figure 1 for images. • One group of two students built a pair of wheeled robots that played laser tag with each other. The robots were controlled by television remote controls, and played a sad song when a hit was
• Significant Figures • Accuracy of solution • General guidelines for reporting resultsA final change to the course is the addition of a final project, an open ended FEA modelingassignment. Students select an object and/or application of their choosing, then build themodels, run appropriate analyses, and document the results. Key competencies expected fromthe projects include simplifying models for analysis, applying realistic loads and boundaryconditions, choosing relevant results in post processing, and reporting appropriate conclusionsfrom the analysis. The specific rubric used to grade the final reports is included in Appendix A.Specific details of topics covered throughout the course are presented in Appendix B
. 29, pp. 935–946, 2010.[9] B. N. Geisinger and D. R. Raman, “Why They Leave: Understanding Student Attrition from Engineering Majors,” This Artic. is from Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1–12, 2013.[10] C. Lopez, O. Ashour, and C. Tucker, “An introduction to CLICK: Leveraging Virtual Reality to Integrate the Industrial Engineering Curriculum,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo., no. June, pp. 1–12, 2019.[11] Z. Merchant, E. T. Goetz, L. Cifuentes, W. Keeney-Kennicutt, and T. J. Davis, “Effectiveness of virtual reality-based instruction on students’ learning outcomes in K-12 and higher education: A meta-analysis,” Comput. Educ., vol. 70, pp. 29–40, 2014.[12] A. Brown and T. Green, “Virtual Reality: Low-Cost Tools
investigate and experiment with improvements tothe course.References[1] A. McAuley, B Stewart, G. Siemens and D. Cormier, "The MOOC model for digital practice," University of Prince Edward Island. http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/MOOC_Final.pdf, 2010.[2] C. Geno, "Colleges with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)," Accessed on: Jan. 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.campusexplorer.com/college-advice-tips/FDF6E63F/Colleges-with-Massive- Open-Online-Courses-MOOCs/[3] K. K. Rose, "Student Perceptions of the Use of Instructor-Made Videos in Online and Face-to-Face Classes," MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2009[4] B. Mansour and D. M. Mupinga, "Students
, we also provided some historical context with regard to the current state of theart in logic circuits. New lab content was developed to address some concerns from our previousexperience, which include: a) start-up activities to help students master the CAD software betterand earlier in the course; b) incorporating the use of hierarchical design earlier and in moreexperiments. The students’ experience and feedback, as well as the instructors’ observations arepresented concerning both the hardware and software upgrades along with other changes made. Page 24.1303.2In closing, we present our future plans.Introduction and Literature ReviewThis
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Researchand Economy.References1. Kreiter, C.; Garbi Zutin, D.; Auer, M.E., "An HTML client for the Blackbody Radiation Lab," in RemoteEngineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2015 12th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.230-234,25-27 Feb. 20152. Mujkanovic, A.; Garbi Zutin, D.; Schellander, M.; Oberlercher, G.; Vormaier, M., "Impact of students'preferences on the design of online laboratories," in Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON),2015 IEEE , vol., no., pp.823-826, 18-20 March 20153. V. J. Harward, J. A. Del Alamo, S. R. Lerman, P. H. Bailey, J. Carpenter, K. DeLong, C. Felknor, J. Hardison,B. Harrison, I. Jabbour, P. D. Long, T. Mao, L. Naamani, J. Northridge, M. Schulz, D
AC 2012-4339: WORK-IN-PROGRESS: USING ROLE-PLAYING AS A TRAIN-ING TECHNIQUE FOR FACULTYShreya Kothaneth, Virginia Tech Shreya Kothaneth is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She also serves as the Instructional Technology Team Lead with the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include acceptance of technology, cultural ergonomics, usability, and accessibility.Ashley Robinson, Virginia Tech Ashley Robinson is a computer science doctoral student at Virginia Tech. She has been working with the Instructional Technology team at Virginia Tech since 2010, where she provides faculty and student assistance on tablet PC integration in the higher education
Paper ID #7820Work-in-progress: A novel approach to collaborative learning in engineeringprogramsDr. Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University Dr. Soundarajan is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Ohio State. His interests include software engineering and engineering education. Page 23.1391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Work-in-Progress: A Novel Approach to Collaborative Learning in Engineering
is 15 cm, V1 velocity is 5m/s and V2 velocity is 2m/s. b) What is the D2 diameter, if the D1 diameter is 10 cm, V1 velocity is 5m/s, and V2 velocity is 2m/s. Figure 4. Module 2 – The Continuity Principle and the Module 2 assignmentModule 3 – Fluid Pressure Measurement & ManometersModule 3 reviews the concept of fluid pressure calculation in systems with manometers. For thesimulation setup, a well type manometer is used. The simulation is set-up in a way so that it isinteractive and students can select a
Paper ID #22084Enabling Advanced Topics in Computing and Engineering Through Authen-tic Inquiry: A Cybersecurity Case StudyDr. Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming Dr. Mike Borowczak is the Director of the Cybersecurity Education and Research center (CEDAR) and a faculty member of the Computer Science department at the University of Wyoming. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (2013) as well as his BS in Computer Engineering (2007) from the University of Cincinnati. His research focused on detection and prevention of information leakage from hardware side channels. Mike’s current research interests
, 2016 Zhang, Z., Zhang, M., Chang, Y., Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C.[29] Proctor, R. W., Lien, M. C., Salvendy, G. & Schultz, E. E., 2000, “A task analysis of usability in third-party authentication”, Information Security Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 49-56.[30] https://facedetection.com/, accessed in January, 2016.[31] Panigrahy, M. P. & Kumar, N., 2012, “Face recognition using genetic algorithm and neural networks”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 8-12.[32] Hjelmås, E. & Low, B. K., 2001, “Face detection: A survey”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 83, No. 3, pp. 236-274.[33] Menezes, P., Barreto, J. C. & Dias, J
system for small space experiments, Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 20(2), 6 pp. Downloaded 3-23-06 from http://techdigest.jhuapl.edu/td2002/dumont.pdf.[4] Menon, C.J. (2005). Medical device network standards. Medical Electronics Manufacturing. Downloaded 3- 23-06 from http://www.devicelink.com/mem/archive/05/10/004.html.[5] Rover, D.T., Cheng, B., Wey, C.-L., & Mutka, M.W. (2000). Incorporating large-scale projects into a multidisciplinary approach to embedded systems. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 2000), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 105-108. Downloaded 3-26-06 from http://www.ineer.org/Events/ICEE2000/Proceedings/papers/WC1-3.pdf.[6] Spradley, J.P. (1979
Page 15.217.3its home position to a scale-model refrigerator, pick up a plate of food from a shelf, navigate tothe table where a person with mobility impairment is sitting, places the plate on it, and return tothe home position. Robots must avoid collisions with obstacles—a sink, a chair, and a second,elderly person—whose positions are not precisely known (Figures 1, A and B). A beacon,consisting of three bright red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on edge of the shelf,indicates the location of the plate. The plate is a plastic pet food can top filled with Cheerios.The scoring formula weighs reliability first (the top group consists of robots that succeed on allthree runs) and uses time as a differentiator within each reliability group.Ten
compatible – we need to expand this app on other mobile platforms (iOS, WindowsMobile) to cater iPhone and Windows phone users , (ii) conducting a survey to evaluate theusability of this mobile app (planned for Spring 2018), and lastly (iii) comparing the study resultsfrom mobile app with the results from other VR platforms that we have studied such as theCAVE and the 3D TV.8 References[1] T. Abdel-Salam, P. J. Kauffman, and G. Crossman, "Does the lack of hands-on experience in a remotely delivered laboratory course affect student learning?," European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 747-756, 2006/12/01 2006.[2] B. Jackson. (2015). What is Virtual Reality? Definition and Examples. Available: http
-value = 0.02) reported having taken a priorprogramming course. On a scale of 0 (no experience) to 5 (a lot of experience), Fall 2017students reported 1.3 vs Fall 2018 at 0.9 (p-value = 0.23). 50% of Fall 2017 students reportedtaking a concurrent programming course vs 49% of Fall 2018 students (p-value = 0.91). Theofferings seem to have similar levels of prepared students.6. Design and methodsThe two course offerings were compared via student outcomes and perspectives. Including: ● Pass rate: The number of students who received a course grade of A, B, or C divided by the number of students that were enrolled. ● Course grades: Overall course grade and each grade category: Homework, attendance, quizzes, midterm exam, and final exam. Students
common suggestions targeted Wikis as follows: a)more time to work on Wikis; b) more assignments on Wikis’ topics to make better use of thesematerials, and c) creating an overview of each Wikis’ conclusions for easier understanding.Conclusions and Further ActionsA plethora of strategies exists to create opportunities for active learning in higher educationclassrooms – however the effectiveness of such transient learning environments in transferringtheir benefits outside the classroom remains nebulous. We present exploratory results of studentperceptions of a synergic integration of Gallery Walks (an active learning strategy) with a courseWiki (a collaborative authoring Web tool). This integration was designed to extend the benefitsof active
AC 2012-5365: A CHARACTERIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS FOREFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN COMPUT-ING EDUCATIONDr. Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University Gerald C. Gannod is a professor of computer science and software engineering and Director of the Mobile Learning Center at Miami University. He received M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in computer science from Michigan State University. Gannod’s research interests include mobile computing, software engineering, enterprise systems, digital humanities, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Gannod received an NSF Career Award in 2002.Miss Kristen M. Bachman, Miami University Kristen M. Bachman is a Computer Science graduate student at Miami
kiosks where they can browsearchives of research posters from past years, or draft posters their peers have developed.Students can select the posters and put them into their virtual briefcase. They can then walkaround the world and meet students in private conversation areas. Any avatars that are located inthat space can talk with each other. When in a conversation area, students can remove a posterfrom their briefcases and set them up for public viewing. This is one of the primary methods wehave developed for facilitating discussions between peers.a. Kiosks for browsing poster archives – students b. Private conversation area to set up poster c. VoIP control window select and put in briefcase and discuss with
themselves towardstudent success.Table 2 summarizes the overall click statistics for two of the engineering courses in the firstsemester of adoption. In all courses, ―A‖ students clicked checkboxes in GEARSETapproximately once per week and students who ended the semester with an F clicked checkboxes Page 22.1620.6in GEARSET approximately every two weeks. In both courses, ―B‖ and ―C‖ students generateda large number of consecutive clicks, or ―click bursts,‖ revealing that these students were notpaying as close attention to GEARSET as the ―A‖ students. The ―click burst‖ phenomena alsooccurred with a few failing students in ENGR 141, but was less common
autograding of programming assignments,” in Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE, pp. 278-283, Feb 21 2018.[4] H. Keuning, J. Jeuring, and B. Heeren. “Towards a Systematic Review of Automated Feedback Generation for Programming Exercises,” in Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE '16, pp. 41-46, Jul 2016.[5] J. Moghadam, R.R. Choudhury, H. Yin, and A. Fox, “AutoStyle: Toward Coding Style Feedback at Scale,” in Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, pp. 261-266, Mar 14, 2015.[6] T. Daradoumis, J.M. Puig, M. Arguedas, and L.C. Liñan, “Analyzing students' perceptions to improve the
Paper ID #33670Coding is the New Coal: A History of Integrating Computer Science AcrossWyoming’s K-12 CurriculumProf. Astrid K. Northrup P.E., Northwest College Astrid Northrup earned her B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology (Montana Tech) in 1984 and her M.S degree in petroleum engineering from Mon- tana Tech in 1986. She also earned a Certificate in Land Surveying from the University of Wyoming in 2005. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Wyoming. She worked in the petroleum industry as a reservoir engineer and as a private consultant
Paper ID #12801Work-in-Progress: Student Dashboard for a Multi-agent Approach for Aca-demic AdvisingDr. Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso VIRGILIO GONZALEZ, Associate Chair and Clinical Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, started his first appointment at UTEP in 2001. He received the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Technology Planning manager for AT&T-Alestra in Mexico; and before he was the Telecom- munications Director for ITESM in Mexico. His research areas are in
Paper ID #27278Computational Instruction through PLCs in a Multi-Disciplinary Introduc-tion to Engineering CourseMr. Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville Nicholas Hawkins is a Graduate Teaching Assistance in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at the University of Louisville. A PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he received both his B.S. and M. Eng. from the University of Louisville in the same field. His research interests include power electronics and controls, as well as engineering education for first-year students.Dr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an