designer and is currently a PhD stu- dent at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences department where she is interested in design experiences for both adults and students as they relate to learning com- puter science and computational thinking. She regularly conducts teacher professional development for teachers new to computer science and has helped to develop online supports for their continued profes- sional growth.Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady Ph.D., University of New Mexico Tryphenia Peele-Eady is Associate Professor in Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico, where she specializes in African
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statistical signal processing for wireless sensor network applications and secure communications in wireless networks.Prof. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for Western Washington University’s Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) program for 25 years. He has been the EET program coordinator since 2005 and also served as department chair from 2008-2012. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C programming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer Faculty
. Figure 4. Image of the main circuit board of the Proteus robot controller. The front is pictured in (a) and the back pictured in (b).In order to have individual communication, the XBee receivers in each controller and the XBeetransmitters on each course section must be paired to the same channel. Since there are twocourses each with 4 course sections, there are 8 different static transmit addresses whichbroadcast robot positional data and course objective information. When a robot is ready to run ona course section, the user must input what course section the robot is running on (the sections arelettered A-H which represent the 8 course sections). The robot controller then configures theXBee accordingly to listen to the
Conga LineThe fourth lab was also based upon light sensing and required the students to implementBraitenberg vehicles. This was a demonstration of reactive control and creating photophobic andphotophilic animal-like behaviors based upon excitatory and inhibitory connections between thesensors and motors. Based upon the wiring connections, the robots would demonstrate love,aggression, fear, and explorer behaviors. The wiring and the lab demonstration images areshown in Figures 3 and 4. (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 3: Valentino Braitenberg Vehicles Figure 4: Braitenberg Vehicles LabIn the fifth lab, the students were required
/08923640701341679[12] J. Lee, “An exploratory study of effective online learning: Assessing satisfaction levels ofgraduate students of mathematics education associated with human and design factors of anonline course,” International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol. 15, no. 1,pp. 111–132, 2014, doi: 10.19173/irrodl.v15i1.1638[13] L. Chen and D. Ph, “A model for effective online instructional design,” LiteracyInformation and Computer Education Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1551–1554, 2015.[14] P. Ralston-Berg, J. Buckenmeyer, C. Barczyk, and E. Hixon, “Students’ perceptions ofonline course quality: How do they measure up to the research?” Internet Learning Journal, vol.4, no. 1, pp. 38–55, 2015.[15] B. Thornton, J. Demps, and A. Jadav
Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award (2012), the Tau Beta Pi WY-A Undergraduate Teaching Award (2011), the IEEE UW Student Branch’s Outstanding Professor of the Year (2005 and 2008), the UW Mortar Board ”Top Prof” award (2005, 2007, and 2015), the Outstanding Teaching Award from the ASEE Rocky Mountain Section (2007), the John A. Curtis Lecture Award from the Computers in Education Division of ASEE (1998, 2005, and 2010), and the Brigadier General Roland E. Thomas Award for outstanding contribution to cadet education (both 1992 and 1993) at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is an active ABET evaluator and an NCEES PE exam committee member.Dr. Thad B. Welch, Boise State University Thad B. Welch, Ph.D., P.E
, and ET Departments Category ECE CS ET Female 62 37 17 African American 211 101 48 Hispanic 15 9 4 Total 265 127 54Leveraging a NSF funded Major Research Instrumentation project, an IBM iDataPlex HPCcluster was purchased and resides on campus at the College of Engineering as shown in Figure 1(a). There are several ongoing projects related to embedded systems, most of them are roboticsrelated. Figure 1 (b) illustrates one embedded HPC platform. It is an unmanned
2016 2015 0.2 Normalized Frequency 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 0% 6% 11% 17% 22% 28% 33% 39% 44% 50% 56% 61% 67% 72% 78% 83% 89% 94% 100%Figure 4. Histogram of homework grades for two cohorts of students, normalized to sample size.Scores in the B and D range dropped, with a concomitant rise in A level work.Again, the data shown in Figure 5 are the individual scores on each examination for the entirecohort of students. 50 2015 2016 40 30 20 10 0 0% 10% 20% 30% 40
10 29 48 16 Other 1 6 10 59 Table 1. Results from question 1Question 2 was the following: “What type of advising would you prefer? a) I would like a manual system where I make an appointment and go to and advisor to get help with the pre-requisites and coorequisites of the classes that I plan to take. b) I would like an electronic system that is running 24/7 and helps me with the pre- requisites and coorequisites of the classes that I am planning to take as well as provides additional information such as success rates of the classes I plan to take to
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Paper ID #21923Coding the Coders: A Qualitative Investigation of Students’ CommentingPatternsDr. Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University Dr. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at Mississippi State University. Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh investigates the formation of engineers during their undergraduate degree program, and the use of computing to measure and support that forma- tion. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when
, and final exam. During the semester,there were 6 home assignments that totaled 30% of the course grade, two midtermexams, two quizzes which were mix of multiple choice, short answer, and essayquestions (30% weight for two midterms, and 20% for both quizzes), and the finalexam (20% of course grade), which was also a mixture of questions similar to themidterm exams.Research questions: A. Is there a correlation between the students’ demographics and their performance? B. How did the students perform in distance learning and F2F sections? Is there a significant difference in the outcome (course grade)?4. Analysis and ResultsA. Demographics correlation with course gradeThe data used to determine whether there is a correlation between
analysis directly to a topic relevant their electrical or computer engineering courses,and to introduce the student to computer aids for data analysis. With this sophomore-levelbackground, further integration may be facilitated through future curricula developments. Suchcurricula components address various ABET assessment outcomes, e.g. “a) an ability to applyknowledge of mathematic, science, and engineering; b) an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; and k) an ability to use the techniques,skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.” Also, the ABETprogram criteria for ECE explicitly note probability and statistics content1.The circuit analysis laboratory (Electrical
outcomes of testing such as feature not working, expectedBugs Revealed results not observed, missing or inaccessible features (optional field) Figure 1. Test case development template.The benefits of developing the template for a case study are twofold: (a) template provides astandardized way to document the background information, description and objectives of casestudies and (b) facilitates identification of any missing information or gaps of knowledge for the Page 26.332.6students as they attempt to solve the questions based on the case study. This allows improvingthe description contained in the case study
Figure 4(a),which was used to produce various parts and components using a MakerBot 3D printer. Ourlegged robot utilizes the Arduino board with an AtMega328 microcontroller. The Atmega328microcontroller allows the user to add multiple sensors and actuators to the robot. The robot alsohouses a Raspberry Pi, which acquires commands from the user via a network connection andsends serial commands to the on-board Arduino. See Figure 4(b) for the fully assembled leggedrobot. Once the server running on the Raspberry Pi receives the user’s C-code, it commands theArduino via UART serial communication protocol. Upon receiving serial messages relating tothe robot motion, the Arduino board executes the motion sequence to appropriately control theservo
enrollment and high repeatrates. Table 1 shows that among the 3337 students enrolled in ME 311 during Fall 2007 toSummer 2014, 34% received a D, F, or withdrew (W).Table 1: Grade distribution for ME 311 students from Fall 2007 to Summer 2014 Grade Number of students A 302 (9%) B 658 (20%) C 1233 (37%) D/F/W 1144 (34%)A possible contributing factor to the bottleneck is the pedagogical approach. Prior to theredesign, instructors used a traditional lecture format and class time was divided betweenderivations, conceptual explanations, example problems, and assessments. Anecdotally, studentsreport that example problems are the most interesting part of the course, with derivations beingthe
the realm of computer scienceeducation directed at women is logical. 13References:AAUW, T. S. (2000). Educating girls in the new computer age. American Association ofUniversity Women Educational Foundation, Washington, DC, USA.Ahuja, M. K., & Thatcher, J. B. (2005). Moving beyond intentions and toward the theory of trying:Effects of work environment and genderAshcraft, C., Eger, E., & Friend, M. (2012). Girls in iT: the facts. National Center for Women &IT. Boulder, CO.Azmi, S., Iahad, N. A., & Ahmad, N. (2015). Gamification in online collaborative learning forprogramming courses: A literature review. ARPN Journal of Engineering
attributes of a good competition 4: a) incorporates significant course material from more than one discipline; b) provides success commensurate with care in design; c) requires increasing factual and procedural knowledge; d) requires exercising engineering judgment; e) does not require significant infrastructure; f) offers a spectacle;Academia and industry join forces to organize various design contests, from the course level 4, tothe international levels, giving students opportunities to grow professionally and to connect withtheir peers and potential employers. In the area of electrical and computer engineering andrelated majors, very popular contests are the contests sponsored by IEEE10. IEEE offers a varietyof
patternrecognition are introduced in Pattern Recognition Module, as seen in Figure 2a. Abstraction is theprocess of filtering out, or ignoring, the characteristics of patterns that are not needed in order toconcentrate on those that are. Abstraction is also introduced as a module, as seen in Figure (a) Introduction page (b) Decomposition page Figure 12b. (a) Pattern Recognition page (b) Abstraction page Figure 2In CT, we refer to a step-by-step set of instructions as algorithms. An algorithm is a step-by-steplist of instructions that, if followed exactly, will solve the problem under
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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
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
model: (a) pre-lecture contentpresentation and practice problems, (b) active learning exercise during in-class lectures, (c)collaborative, context-rich problem solving lab sections, and (d) a programming assignment tocomplete on their own. These elements were initially developed in other courses redesigned byother members of the WIDER community, providing inspiration and guidance from within thecommunity of practice. To scale the course, the course makes use technological innovations that allow for high-quality, automated feedback on assignments. Along with the technology, the course is staffedwith a large group of former students who serve as undergraduate course assistance. Whileevery interaction is still lead by an instructor or
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will be available to present at the conference. Additionally, the principal of the high school that is involved with this program has agreedto provide SAT/ACT scores and future graduation data (e.g., college major) of the participants aswell as of non-participant classes. This information will be used to measure the effectiveness ofthe program as well as the improvement year-to-year and the improvement cohort-to-cohort.References1 H. E. Dudeney and M. H. Dudeney, Puzzles and curious problems. T. Nelson and sons, ltd., 1932.2 A. B. Adcock, E. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, M. P. O’Brien, Reidl, F. S. Villaamil, and B. D. Sullivan, “Zig-Zag Numberlink is NP-Complete,” Journal of Information Processing, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 239–245
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Paper ID #18159Work in Progress: Analyzing Educational Methodologies for Electronic Tech-nology StudentsDr. Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Evelyn R. Sowells is an assistant professor in the Computer Systems Technology department at North Carolina A&T State University’s School of Technology. Prior to joining the School of Technology fac- ulty, she held position at U.S. Department of Energy, N.C. A&T’s Division of Research and College of Engineering. Dr. Sowells earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State Uni- versity’s College of Engineering. She also