Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Minh Cao, Wichita State University; John Watkins, Wichita State University; Richard O'Brien, U.S. Naval Academy

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., “A Novel Approach to Control Systems laboratory,” Proceeding of the 2003ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, DC, November, 2004.5. N. S. Nise, Control Systems Engineering, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000.6. K. Ogata, Modern Control Engineering, 4th Edition, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2002.7. R. C. Dorf and R. H. Bishop, Modern Control System, 9th Edition, Prentice-hall, New Jersey, 2001.8. R. C. Garcia and B. S. Heck, “An Interactive Tool for Classical Control Design Education,” Proceeding of theAmerican Control Conference, pp. 1460-1464, San Diego, CA, June 1999.9. R. T. O’Brien, Jr. and J. M. Watkins, “A Streamlined Approach for Teaching Root Locus Compensator Design

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abraham Howell, State University of NY-Binghamton; Richard Eckert, Suny - Binghamton; Roy McGrann, State University of New York-Binghamton

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AC 2008-140: RESULTS OF USING A LOW COST, FLEXIBLE ROBOT IN AMICROCONTROLLERS AND ROBOTICS COURSEAbraham Howell, State University of NY-BinghamtonRichard Eckert, Suny - BinghamtonRoy McGrann, State University of New York-Binghamton Page 13.1046.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Results of using a Low Cost, Flexible Robot in a Microcontrollers and Robotics CourseAbstractThis paper discusses the results of using a low cost, flexible robot in a computer sciencemicrocontrollers and robotics course. Such a course should introduce students to thefundamentals of microcontrollers and robotics. To achieve this goal, students must

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chi Thai, University of Georgia

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created. Classroom Acurrently has 35 workstations for students and a teacher station connected to an isolated 1.0 GbpsLAN, while Classroom B is similarly equipped but with only 12 student workstations. In bothclassrooms, the desktop PCs are equipped with specialized software to allow synchronouscollaborative interactions between teacher-students and student-student for in-class projects, aswell as for receiving classroom instructions from experts located outside the campus viavideoconferencing technologies. Starting in Fall 20052, we incorporated the use of a Tablet PCby the teacher in developing hand-written materials that are best created during class time, suchas deriving computer algorithms interactively with student inputs, going over

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Othoniel Rodriguez-Jimenez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Pacheco, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Nelson Reyes-Aviles, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Marisol Mercado, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Education), Reglamento para elOtorgamiento de Licencias a Instituciones de Educacion Superior en Puerto Rico Núm. 6543, del 31 de octubre de2002. Available Online: http://www.gobierno.pr/NR/rdonlyres/DAE616AC-C05C-4653-A0A3-DB61E4CCD2AC/0/Reglamento_OLA_Sept_2002.pdf[3] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, see Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs.http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2008-09%20EAC%20Criteria%2011-30-07.pdf Page 13.1316.9Appendix A: ABET-Format Syllabus Page 13.1316.10Appendix B: CHE/MSACS-Format Syllabus

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

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board with the Automation Direct programmablelogic controller in figure 1-B is a “brick” logic controller shown with input, output, and wiring.The gear factory has initiating device detectors for fire signatures that include smoke, high-heat,chemicals, and flames that use a UV detector. The factory has notification appliances thatinclude horns and sirens for local alarms, general alarms, and evacuation alarms. The logic isperformed by the controller program created by the students for inputs, logic, timing, outputs,and other functions. The program made by the students uses mnemonic statements.Fire Detection, Alarm and Evacuation System for Office Building ProjectA student group LabVIEW project is shown in figure 2-A. This project has been made

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Chad Hager, University of Wyoming; Mike Yurkoski, University of Wyoming; Robert Lewis, University of Wyoming; Matthew Jespersen, University of Wyoming; Zachary Ruble, University of Wyoming

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. These features have been incorporated intothe platform design. This allows the teaching platform to be used as a bench top aid aswell as an actual robot platform.RequirementsThe following requirements were established for the TRP design: 1) Full compatibility with the EE 4390 and EE 4590 labs. a. Will provide all students in the EE 4390, Microcontrollers course: SCI (serial communication interface) ports, SPI (serial peripheral interface) ports, A/D (analog to digital) converters, timer ports, general purpose ports, LCD (liquid crystal display), eight segment LED displays, keypad and all other instructor necessary systems. b. Will provide all students in the EE 4590 course

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Essam Zaneldin, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne; Suleiman Ashur, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne

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function in Cell I28: = vlookup (I27, I15:K25, 3, 0) Fig. 4. Optimum Markup Estimation Sheet Page 13.1356.6The third example illustrates the use of spreadsheets for teaching the concept of schedulingconstruction activities with uncertain durations, or what is known in the literature as schedulingusing the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). Using this technique, each activityhas three durations; the optimistic time (a), the pessimistic time (b), and the most likely time (m).PERT uses a weighted average of the three times to find the overall project duration

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

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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

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Marty Johnston, University of St. Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of St. Thomas; Mari Heltne, University of St. Thomas

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:“You were all creative when you were kids. Every time you sat down and were handed a crayon,you drew something interesting. It’s time to get that creativity back.”A third set of problems was designed to show tradeoffs in design solutions and that problems aresolved for a reason; they aren’t solved in a vacuum. For example, they were given thisassignment: a.) Why do public restrooms have hand drying devices? That is, what is the purpose of hand drying devices in a restroom? (It is not sufficient to answer “to dry hands”)? b.) Give an example of a purely (or mostly) electrical solution to the hand drying problem and an example of a purely (or mostly) mechanical solution. c.) For each solution, list the direct costs of that

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Quweider, The University of Texas at Brownsville; Fitra Khan, U of Texas at Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, The University of Texas at Brownsville

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through their offering cycle (two-yearcycle). The following sample testimonial from one of the classes is typical of the positiveresponse we have been getting from the students. We are currently compiling all suchevaluations to generate an annual improvement action plan.Students TestimonialsIn this section, we present a sample student testimonial that shows the type of hands-onknowledge that became available to the students through NDLP. Statistics for COSC-4313/5313, Computer Networking Course offered every fall semesterNo. Of Students 19Students overall A B C DGrade in the 8

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suleiman Ashur, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne; S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Essam Zaneldin, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

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, Technology, and Computer Science atIPFW adopts the Citrix server for at least one year and run the surveys again for betterevaluation. Page 13.694.14Bibliography1. B. L. Hawkins, J. A. Rudy, and J. W. Madsen. EDUCAUSE 2002 Core Data Service Monograph. EDUCAUSE, 2003.2. Industry Analysis and Technology Division Wireline Competition Bureau. High-speed services for internet access: Status as of December 31, 2003. Technical report, Federal Communications Commission, June 2004.3. Michael H. Goldwasser and David Lestscher. “Providing Students Universal Access to a Centralized, Graphical Computing Environment.” ITiCSE’05, June 27–29

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Reising, University of Evansville; Mark Randall, University of Evansville

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AC 2008-1015: A CORRELATION DETECTOR SIMULATIONJames Reising, University of Evansville JAMES A. REISING is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, where he has taught since 1980. Prior to that time he was employed by Eagle-Picher Industries at the Miami Research Laboratories and the Electro-Optic Materials Department. He is a senior member of IEEE.Mark Randall, University of Evansville Mark E. Randall is a Staff Engineer for the University of Evansville College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is presently working on a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Evansville. Mark has two

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Black, American University

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AC 2008-2818: A PROCESSOR DESIGN PROJECT FOR A FIRST COURSE INCOMPUTER ORGANIZATIONMichael Black, American University Page 13.86.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Processor Design Project for a First Course in Computer OrganizationAbstractAlthough many of today’s students are savvy computer users, paradoxically they often findcomputer design abstract and difficult to visualize. To make the material more tangible, we havedeveloped a novel three part term project that requires students to develop and simulate their ownprocessor. Students work in teams to devise and encode their own instruction set, design adatapath and

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felipe Arango, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gonca Altuger, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology

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AC 2008-1057: PILOTING A GAME-BASED VIRTUAL LEARNINGENVIRONMENTFelipe Arango, Stevens Institute of TechnologyGonca Altuger, Stevens Institute of TechnologyEl-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of TechnologyConstantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of TechnologySven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology Page 13.982.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Piloting a Game-based Virtual Learning EnvironmentAbstractIn a new technological era, where virtual environments and social networks are redefining howstudents interact with each other and exchange information, alternative and complementaryapproaches to traditional hands-on laboratories are emerging. Educational

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Plebani, Lehigh University

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AC 2008-2623: USING A SCRIPTING LANGUAGE FOR DYNAMICPROGRAMMINGLouis Plebani, Lehigh University Page 13.1325.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using a Scripting Language for Dynamic ProgrammingAbstractIn this paper we present a simple programming framework that can be used in teachingDynamic Programming at an introductory level. The target audience for the framework isthe student in an introduction to dynamic programming setting who possesses rudimentaryprogramming skills. The framework takes advantage of the late binding features of thePython scripting language to allow students to model their problem with

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bowman, Clemson University; Elizabeth Stephan, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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AC 2008-2112: GEO: A WEB-BASED EVENT REGISTRATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TOOLDavid Bowman, Clemson University David R. Bowman is a Lecturer in the General Engineering Program within the Department of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. He is also a Computer Science Ph.D student in the School of Computing at Clemson University. His educational background includes a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Clemson University.Elizabeth Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of the General Engineering Program within the Department of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She earned BS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Reed, Louisiana Tech University; Taylor Creekbaum, Louisiana Tech University; Matthew Elliott, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Davis Harbour, Louisiana Tech University

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AC 2008-2360: UTILIZING ROBOTICS TO FACILITATE PROJECT-BASEDLEARNING: A STUDENT PERSPECTIVEAnthony Reed, Louisiana Tech University Anthony Reed is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University majoring in biomedical engineering. He graduated from a residential high school in Louisiana and plans to pursue a career in medicine after graduating.Taylor Creekbaum, Louisiana Tech University Taylor Creekbaum is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University majoring in biomedical engineering. He graduated from the same residential high school as Anthony Reed, and he has a special interest in computer applications.Matthew Elliott, Louisiana Tech University Matthew Elliott is a freshman at Louisiana Tech

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brooks, Temple University; Asher Madjar, Temple University; William Miller; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli, Temple University

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AC 2008-2967: FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - A TOOL FOR LEARNINGHIGHWAY DESIGNRobert Brooks, Temple University Dr. Brooks is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University. He was voted the "Transportation engineer of the year" by the ASCE-Philadelphia Section. Dr.Brooks' expertise includes finite element methods, highway and runway design, innovative materials in transportation engineering. He won the Tempe University College of Engineering’s Teaching Award for the year 2008.Asher Madjar, Temple University Prof.Madjar is a research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus

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AC 2008-2588: SECOND LIFE 3D VIRTUAL WORLD IN A FRESHMANINFORMATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY COURSERobert Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus Page 13.1067.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008Second Life 3D Virtual World in a Freshman Information Sciences and Technology CourseAbstractSecond Life is an on-line, 3D, virtual community which provides an environment forstudents to interact, communicate, explore, design, build, and collaborate in a creativefashion. During the fall of 2007, an Information Sciences and Technology (IST) coursefor freshman undergraduates utilized Second Life to investigate the advantages of

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University

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AC 2008-2928: EVALUATING DEVELOPMENT BOARDS FOR LABORATORYBASED EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLER COURSES: A FORMALEVALUATION MATRIXJeffrey Richardson, Purdue University Jeffrey J. Richardson is an Assistant Professor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University where he teaches introductory and advanced embedded microcontroller courses as well as project development and management courses. At Purdue, he is active in the recruitment and retention of students, applied research and has written several conference papers related to teaching embedded microcontroller systems

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Chandler, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology

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AC 2008-543: CONTROL SYSTEM PLANT SIMULATOR: A FRAMEWORK FORHARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONDavid Chandler, Rochester Institute of Technology Dave Chandler was born in Camarillo, California, on October 27, 1981. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004 with highest honors and a bachelors of science in Computer Engineering. Upon graduation he began his career as a software engineer at Harris RFCD, working on software defined military radio systems. He completed a Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering from RIT in 2007. He currently lives with his wife Cheri in Rochester NY.James Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology James R. Vallino is an Associate Professor

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy; Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy

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AC 2008-755: THE INERTIAL NAVIGATION UNIT: TEACHING NAVIGATIONPRINCIPLES USING A CUSTOM DESIGNED SENSOR PACKAGEJoe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy Electronics Technician at the US Naval Academy for the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department for 7 years. Design special hardware and develop software for projects and labs.Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy Page 13.1241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Inertial Navigation Unit: Teaching Navigation Principles using a Custom Designed Sensor PackageAbstractThis paper describes the application

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria; A.Y. Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology; Danilo Garbi Zutin, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

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AC 2008-70: DESIGN OF APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITSFOR IMPLEMENTATION IN A NETWORK OF REMOTE LABSMichael Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria Michael E. Auer received his Ing. degree in 1971 and his Ph.D. degree in 1975 from the Dresden University of Technology. From 1974 to 19991, he was an assistant professor at the faculties Electrical Engineering and Informatics of this University. From 1991 to 1995, he was with F+O Electronic Systems GmbH, Heidelberg as Head of software department. In 1995, Michael Auer was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering of the School of Electronics at Carinthia Technical Institute, Villach, Austria and works as visiting

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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numbers from 0-255, indicating the intensity levelof the corresponding bands for an 8 bit image. Students investigated the images tounderstand the colors ‘pink’, ‘yellow’, and ‘green’ as observed in Figure 1(a), whichrepresented a range of values in the red, green, and blue bands. Thus, to count the pixelsof a certain color, a program had to be developed that will provide the ranges in eachband, and increase the count as the images are traversed pixel by pixel using a three-levelnested for loop so that every pixel value in the three corresponding layers is accountedfor. Figure 1(a) show the original image of a flower bed captured on a digital cameradisplayed in the Matlab environment. Figure 1(b) shows a similar image in which thenumbers of pink

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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in the NCN focus areas, b) they are flexible forrunning online from a web browser powered by a highly sophisticated architecture thatlets the user tap into national grid resources, and c) they provide a friendly andinteractive graphical user interface that allows the tools to be operated by non-experts(see Figure 1). Figure 1a: nano-Materials simulation toolkit Figure 1b: MOSFET Figure 1: Samples of interfaces of nanoHUB simulation toolsThe nanoHUB continues to grow in its volume of resources and learning materials. In Page 13.1005.3particular, recent years has seen an increase in investigators and graduate

Conference Session

Educational Software

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Michael Morrow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mark Allie, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Thad Welch, Boise State University

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@engr.wisc.eduThad Welch, Boise State University Thad B. Welch, Ph.D, P.E., is Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University, Boise, ID. His research interests include the implementation of communication systems using DSP techniques, DSP education, multicarrier communication systems analysis, and RF signal propagation. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. E-mail: t.b.welch@ieee.org Page 13.1352.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using Real-time DSP to Enhance Student Retention and Engineering Outreach Efforts

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Olowokere, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olutola Jonah; Temitope O. Ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; O.O. Akinwunmi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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the two terminals indicating that a connection has Page 13.1025.7been made. (a) (b) Figure 4: (a) Main interface and (b) signal plotting interface of the Flex OpLab RLIConnecting the nodes of the circuit allowed another advantage of Flash to emerge. Flash allowsthe seamless integration of different types of media from video to images and simple text. In thepresent instance, the use of a RLI implies that the students need to determine what physical pinson the LM324 correspond to what functionality. To achieve this, the students are

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Rossow, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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” ofinformation that working memory can contain is, as expressed in the title of a widelycited article, “The magical number seven plus or minus two” 13.3. Long-term memory, on the other hand, appears to be essentially unlimited. Learning“may be defined as the encoding (storage) of knowledge and/or skills into long termmemory in such a way that the knowledge and skills may be recalled and applied at alater time on demand”2.4. One key concept in CLT is “schema” acquisition. A schema is an element of long-term memory that a) although it may refer to multiple pieces of data, may be brought intoworking memory and treated as a single “chunk” of information, and b) containsinformation about how the data will be used. A chess master seeing a

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford; Akram Abu-aisheh, University of Hartford

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with again amplifier is problematic as such a small resistance has significant noise current whichdegrades the receiver. Johnson–Nyquist noise13, also known as thermal noise is the electronicnoise generated by thermal agitation of charge carriers inside a conductor. Thermal noise isapproximately white meaning that the power spectral density is equal throughout the frequencyspectrum. The RMS value of the noise current in (8) is I n where k B is Boltzmann’s constant inJoules per Kelvin, T is the resistor’s absolute temperature in Kelvins, ∆ f is the noise bandwidth,and R is the resistance. To achieve the 70MHz bandwidth described above calls for a resistanceof 568 Ohms. The resistor has a thermal noise current of approximately 45.2nA

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Jenelle Piepmeier, U.S. Naval Academy

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-elimination tournament was not required to write a lab report for the project, andreceived a grade based entirely on performance.The Walking RobotIn this multi-week exercise, students were tasked with designing a 4+ limbed walking robot withlocomotion and structure designed to optimize (or at least emphasize) one of the followingconcepts: a. Speed (over level ground) b. Power (load capacity) c. Agility (obstacle clearance, foot placement ability (workspace)) d. Novel locomotionLecture material presented comparative anatomies commenting on joint placement and limblengths and the resulting effects on the speed and agility of the various animals. A variety ofgaits were also reviewed and students were