Paper ID #10612A Bus Tracking and Planning System for CTfastrakDr. Shuju Wu, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Shuju Wu is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technol- ogy Department at Central Connecticut State University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wu’s teaching and research interests include computer communica- tions and networks, multimedia systems, performance modeling and evaluation, and network applications. She is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Mr. Shane Michael CarrollKeith Boyd-CarterJames Krostoski
AC 2009-1241: DISASTER PLANNING FOR A LARGE METROPOLITAN CITYUSING TRANSIMS SOFTWARELok PASUPULETI, Northern Illinois UniversityOmar Ghrayeb, Northern Illinois UniversityClifford Mirman, Northern Illinois UniversityHubert Ley, Argonne National LaboratoryYoung Park, Argonne National Laboratory Page 14.494.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009Disaster Planning for a Large Metropolitan City Using TRANSIMS SoftwareAbstractOver the past decade the United States has endured many disasters, both man made and due tothe forces of nature. In each case, leadership in the public and private sectors learn that moreneeds to be done to ensure continuity of life and economy
AC 2009-1083: A MODEL FOR THE PLANNING, MARKETING, ANDIMPLEMENTATION OF A DEPARTMENTAL LAPTOP INITIATIVEMark Bannatyne, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Bannatyne is a Professor of Computer Graphics Technology at the Purdue School of Engineering at IUPUI, and acting Department head for the Department of Design and Communication Technology. Dr. Bannatyne is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology where he studied Machine Tool Technology, Utah State University (BSc., 1988, MSc. 1992), and Purdue University (Ph.D., 1994). Dr. Bannatyne is an active member of AVA, ITEA, ASEE, Phi Kappa Phi, and Epsilon Pi Tau where he is a member of The Board of Editors
, Guindy, India.Dr. Tsu-Chiang Lei P.E., Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Information, Feng Chia University Tsu-Chiang Lei received the B.A. degrees from the department of Hydrology Engineering Department at Feng Chia University and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Bioenvironmental System Engineering (Before name: Agricultural Engineering), National Taiwan University. Respectively, major- ing subsets in regionalization variable theory (Kriging) for environmental and remote sensing technique for land use change detection problem. He served first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a Research Assistant Professor in GIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, in 2001 to 2003. After that, he has
by both the student andthe College of Engineering for assessment purposes. The e-portfolio can also serve as a tool tomake communication between students and advisers more efficient, and to help studentsformulate short- and long-term plans for their own career development. By prompting students toidentify and elaborate on such plans, students can more explicitly determine the resources,experiences, and attitudes necessary to be successful. As a portion of the academic advisingexperience, NDeP includes a set of surveys designed to help students consider their academiccoursework, in which we also have students assess their own progress in the program. Thesurveys address the ABET accreditation criteria as well as students’ individual goal
technologies into theirpedagogical toolsets. Within undergraduate engineering, learning technologies have beenidentified as a means to help faculty members move away from the traditional “stand anddeliver” teaching method that research has shown to dominate the hard disciplines relative to thesoft disciplines.e.g., 1,2,3 Though the opportunity to enhance education via technology ispromising, understanding the pedagogies that undergraduates encountered in high school beforearriving to college is important. Such understanding can assist in planning the pedagogies thatstudents will encounter during their first year of postsecondary education.This paper investigates the familiarity of new college students with technology in theclassroom—we present
disciplines. They seek a rigorousprogram in Computer Science that also allows them the flexibility to study across disciplineswhile still being prepared for either graduate school or successful careers.Program OrganizationThe Computer Science Fellows (CSF) Program is a degree plan within the Department ofComputer Science. Its organization is comprised of the Director, the Fellows ReviewCommittee, and an Honors College Advocate. In addition, as each Fellow develops their juniorreading list, they will request a Computer Science faculty member to serve as their FellowsResearch Advisor.The Director of the Computer Science Fellows program is appointed by the Chair of ComputerScience and approved by the Dean of the School of Engineering & Computer
in several senior level coursesand the overall results.OverviewIn the classic movie “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, the CowardlyLion, and the Scarecrow are making their way through a dark, dangerous forest. Aroundevery turn they are worried about what they might encounter. There could be “Lions andTigers and Bears…oh my!” The proper testing and documentation of a digital basedsystem is also fraught with a variety of “dangers.” Frequently the subject of projecttesting, test plans, and documentation is often treated as a dry and boring task inacademia. A tedious and monotonous task of extracting system data from a complexdigital design such as an embedded controller has contributed to this view. However, weall know that it is one
innovation, creativity, design, and entrepreneurship.The UW Libraries have graciously provided 2500 square feet of space to develop a prototypeLibrary Innovation Center (LIC) during the Fall 2016 semester. Lessons learned and equipmentpurchased will form the basis of the Student Innovation Center (SIC) planned for the EERB.Groundbreaking for the EERB was October 7, 2016 with a scheduled completion of Spring 2019.The purpose of the LIC/SIC is to provide experiential learning space for STEAM (science,technology, engineering, arts, and math) students. The LIC/SIC provides a location for studentsto explore ideas, complete class projects, or pursue an entrepreneurial innovation. Also, thespace is available to conduct classes and workshops. The space is
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
teamwork, believes in education as a process for achieving life-long learning rather than as a purely aca- demic pursuit. He currently works on maintaining, upgrading and designing the classroom of the future. Mr. Perez is inspired because he enjoys working with people and technology in the same environment.Dr. Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas - El Paso Virgilio Gonzalez, Associate Chair and Clinical Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering 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
projects give little consideration to the cognitive and behavioralprocesses such as team building, clarifying goals and expectations, planning, communication,consensus building and conflict resolution; which hold the key to successful collaboration.5,6 Arecent review of research on engineering student teams suggests that our understanding of howbest to cultivate collaboration amongst remote teams of students is largely underdeveloped7.Others have noted an opportunity to capitalize on much of the life-long learning that can occurthrough team dynamics and interaction.6Web-based scaffolds that include technologies and team activities help enhance virtual teamcollaboration by providing support for online collaboration. A team scaffold is a stable
engagement.We ground our work theoretically using the Academic Plan Model to understand how freshmanengineering students’ use of LMS tools relate to their performance in the class. The AcademicPlan Model details potential influences on curriculum design at the course, program, andinstitutional levels. As the Model suggests, faculty members may (or should) consider learners,instructional resources, and instructional processes when developing their curricular plans. Priorresearch within and outside engineering, however, has shown that faculty tend not to draw onavailable data when considering these components, if they even consider them at all. Our studypresents an idea for bringing data into those considerations by focusing on the course-levelactivities
requirements, (b) planningsite design and page layout, (c) understanding Adobe Dreamweaver interface, (d)adding content, (e) organizing content, and (f) evaluating and maintaining a site.The results indicated that there were significant differences between students ofthe Information Communications Department and those of other departments inthe domain of web communication. Four competency indicators of planning sitedesign and page layout, understanding Adobe Dreamweaver interface, addingcontent, and organizing content were detected, and the findings were that the ICDepartment students outperformed the others. The students’ background variableson the influence of web communication competency were analyzed and resultsindicated that background variables
bring CT into classrooms. This study sought to identify CT awareness in different educational roles to suggest a plan to promote CT in Kuwait education institutes. The promoted plan employs the CT Systemic Change Model, developed by ISTE. We utilize the model with the outcome of our CT awareness surveys to recommend a plan that fits the regulations and roles in Kuwait education. The survey derived from the technological pedagogical content knowledge framework; It investigated CT awareness of content knowledge (knowledge of CT concepts), pedagogical knowledge (knowledge of CT purposes, values, and aims), and technological knowledge (knowledge of the technologies and resources that support CT
integral part of the ongoing activities. One research and assessment method beingemployed is the Delphi method. This formal communication process will be used to gatherconsensus among faculty, industry leaders and students in an effort to identify sets ofcomputational skills vital for engineering professionals. Descriptions and reflections of the firstyear of project activities will be presented as well as plans for future activities. Preliminaryassessment data will also be available.1. IntroductionTwo decades ago to say that an engineering graduate was highly competent in computing meantthat he or she had mastered the FORTRAN programming language. A decade later it meant, inaddition, mastering basic skills in a few key discipline-specific
classroom, we are using a“teach the teacher” model. We provide a two-week summer professional development for middleschool teachers in the state. During the program, the teachers are taught introductory weather science,the IDV visualization software basics, and how to obtain free weather data from the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Restrictions due to the COVID19 pandemic requiredmodifications to our planned initial year activities, but we were able to pilot and obtain feedback toimprove the program. Our plans for the 2021-2022 school year include offering our full summerprofessional development workshop, observing teachers in their classrooms while they implementmeteorology lessons with computational thinking, and
Team Charter (artifact) TRANSITION PROCESSES Interpretation and evaluation of the team's analysis, Project plan (artifact) mission, including identification of its Shared mental model and team identity formulation and main tasks, the operative environmental conditions and resources available building (cognitive task) planning
byindividual instructors, they are limited in how much they can provide. There are, after all,multiple demands on an instructors’ time. The instructor must serve as subject matter expert,course manager, course developer, technology help desk for the course, etc.4. A system of onlinetutoring to support a variety of courses and instructors has advantages related to economies ofscale and utilization. However, this system requires planning and thoughtful execution.In the College of Technology at University of Houston, the availability of an InstructionalSupport Services (ISS) Lab, including trained tutors, provides a stronger basis for offering abroad online tutoring program than the tutoring program that is offered by an individualinstructor. The ISS Lab
Engineering Education, 2021 Lemons into Lemonade!AbstractThis paper discusses a trial of offering two senior/first-year graduate classes in a 7-week format,one following the other. Thus, a student could complete two courses (6-credits), dealing with twoclosely related topics, in one semester. In this case, the courses were Digital CommunicationSystems and Wireless Communications.During the first week of the first 7-week course, all of the in-class demonstrations and hands-onexperiences needed to be shifted to online/remote delivery. This was primarily accomplishedusing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AppStream, cloud computing system.The planned real-world signal capture and analysis project changed to an optional
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 that was the Telecommunica- tions Director for ITESM in Mexico. His research areas are in Communications Networks, Fiber Optics, Wireless Sensors, Process Automation, and Engineering Education.Mr. Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his current position consulting with faculty about the
Three: Complete the Software demodulation for multiple channels and implement phase diversityProject OrganizationAt LeTourneau University, all engineering students participate in a two-semester design projectat the senior level. Design projects are team-oriented and require students to design, implement,and verify their solution to an engineering problem: this process draws upon both the students’cumulative knowledge of their engineering field and techniques that require independentlearning. Teams are evaluated based on the thoroughness of their planning and design processand their success in achieving project goals.Senior Design student teams are assembled at the start of the fall semester from students from allconcentrations
teaching strategies of engineering project course. Students participated inlearning activities following the instructor's planning and guidance and their learningbehaviors to use a learning system were recorded in the database. Those attributes, such asfrequency, sequence, and association of learning behavior were identified through astructured arrangement and statistical analysis. In addition, those key learning activities thatinspire the students' creativity along with the creativity assessment results were discovered.According to our findings, high creativity students proceeded with active exploration duringlearning more frequently compared to low creativity students. The data analysis also showedmore instances of independent thinking created
student chapters ofprofessional societies. The paper will discuss features and statistics, and draw initial conclusionson the effectiveness of the above media in growing our engineering community. Future plans andrecommendations will also be outlined.IntroductionA majority of college students today belong to what is called the “millennial generation”,meaning those born during 1981 - 2000. Several books1 have described key characteristics of thisgeneration, such as being very much at ease with using computers and mobile devices, andstaying connected to each other in the virtual world almost 24/7. Taking these into account, it isnatural that colleges and universities have intensified their efforts to better reach their current andfuture students as
behaviors on a mobile robot, • describing the difference between artificial intelligence and engineering approaches to robotics, • functioning on a multidisciplinary team to complete mobile robotics projects on a hardware platform, • comparing and contrasting the various robot paradigms including hierarchical, reactive, deliberative, hybrid, and behavior-based, • analyzing and implementing metric and topological path planning on a mobile robot, • analyzing and implementing subsumption architecture and potential field summation to implement obstacle avoidance on a mobile robot, • describing the methods for localization and implementing the Kalman filter algorithm on a mobile robot, and
for incorporatingcomputers into classroom activities is time10,11: time to learn the technology and time to modifylectures10. One suggested solution towards reducing the time requirement for incorporatingcomputers is to create and distribute lesson plans involving structured computer use12, whichprovide roadmaps for future faculty adopting technology. Similarly, reporting the experiences ofindividual instructors incorporating technology into their classrooms (e.g., 13,14) can result in a setof “best practices” that can be used by future instructors.In this paper, we take the latter approach and report on the experience of an instructor newlyassigned to teach in a computer-infused classroom (referred to as “new instructor” in this paper
country-wide XO deployment in Paraguay and thesmall, experimental deployment in Wisconsin with the required technical support. The jointproject strives to utilize the skills and resources found on university campuses in the US tobenefit disadvantaged students both within the US and abroad, while providing qualityeducational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate learning and research. The researchconducted to-date that seeks to estimate the Total Cost of Ownership in computer deploymentsconsiders but does not include the voluntary contributions made by students. This paper strivesto exhibit and examine the value of student contributions from the academic perspective. Furtherresearch is planned to formally evaluate the value of the student
classroom as a blendedlearning model; where videos are viewed outside of scheduled class time and face-to-facemeetings are used for alternative strategies (e.g., instructor guided active learning, cooperativelearning, peer led team learning, etc.) to promote deeper learning. A 2015 survey of highereducation faculty indicates that 69.5% of respondents have flipped an activity, class, period, orcourse, and plan to implement the model again (Magna 2015).Video Creation by InstructorsFor instructor survey Q1, making of a video to support a course taught by the instructor, 43responses were received. Of the 43, 18 (42%) instructors indicated “yes” to having created avideo, while 25 (58%) indicated “no”.Use of Online Engineering Education VideosQ2 on the
the understanding of personal characteristics and group dynamics on team performance and provides methods to resolve conflicts that might arise in team settings. 5. Cost of Production and Market Conditions – Covers how to determine the cost of production. Introduces various market structures, and their impact on the cost of products. 6. Defining and Protecting Intellectual Property – Provides a basic working knowledge of intellectual property concepts and law that are essential for engineers and scientists seeking a career in the business world. 7. Developing a Business Plan That Addresses Stakeholder Interest, Market Potential and Economics – Informs how to develop a standardized approach for
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