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Student Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Catherine Hendricks Belk, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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Student

]. Mental rotation is an important case ofspatial visualization requiring a cognitive process to transform or rotate two- or three-dimensional (3-D) objects [17]. Spatial visualization tasks require multi-step manipulation and apossibility of more than one strategy to reach the problem's solution [22].In contrast, mental rotation is a single step and a primary strategy to get to a solution. Spatialvisualization includes the capacity to plan for the necessary steps beforehand and monitor one'sthought process during problem-solving. This ability to monitor one's problem-solving processincreases spatial visualization's link to executive control.Anxiety & Spatial ContentAnxiety disrupts working memory, though it is unknown how this disruption

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Declan Thomas Mahaffey-Dowd, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Negar Beheshti Pour, University of California, Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

online collaborative tools,including the Google file-sharing suite. These tools are used for all members to contribute ideas: “When we research improvements to the battery, or want to tune a certain variable, every person has to write something down in the Google doc…” “...we can have everything in one place like and it’s all shared with us.”The use of these sharted tools for developing and annotating presentations, and making plans,were implemented before the onset of the pandemic, and have continued as important tools tosupport collaborative work remotely.Limitations A limitation the researchers observed in conducting the virtual interviews was thatparticipants typically discussed their experience

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The 'Strengths' of Mechanics

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford

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Mechanics

themes, and assessment of the effectiveness of the themed feedbacks. For the purpose ofassessment, the plan is to look into students’ revisions based upon the themed feedbacks, andcompare them with the revisions based on the traditional and unsorted feedbacks. It will then beexamined whether an improvement is observed concerning how well the instructor’s commentsare addressed.Work in this study to date has explored lab reports completed by students as a group. It would bevaluable to also consider students’ individual writing performance. One current idea is to requirestudents to write individual reports for the first and last lab, so that their individual performancecan be assessed at the beginning and end of the semester.ConclusionThis work

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Maggie Nevrly, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Megan Nicole Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

given answers. This would provide a bigger picture as to how the CMR is received froma student perspective.AcknowledgmentsThe work was funded in part by a grant from the California Governor’s Office of Planning andResearch Learning Lab (https://calearninglab.org/)References[1] Newcomer, J.L. and Steif, P.S., “Student Thinking about Static Equilibrium: Insights from Written Explanations to a Concept Question,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 97, no. 1, 2013. [Online]. Available: Wiley Online Library, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00994.x. [Accessed March 29, 2021].[2] Koretsky, M.D., J.L. Falconer, B.J. Brooks, D.M. Gilbuena, D.L. Silverstein, C. Smith, and M. Miletic, “The AIChE

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Matthew Robin Kohanfars, UC San Diego; Edward I Lan, University of San Diego California; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Tania Morimoto, University of California, San Diego

Paper ID #35227Redesign of a first year engineering design course lab activity forremote instructionMr. Matthew Robin Kohanfars, UC San Diego I am a mechanical engineering master’s student that is focused on encouraging students to seek engineer- ing careers by developing entertaining and thought-provoking curriculums for the engineering department at UC San Diego. My master’s degree background targets the field of medical technology, where I am able to work in a design laboratory that specializes in researching and developing medical devices. I plan to continue my education to obtain a Ph.D., directing my impact on

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Shamim Mirza, California State University at Long Beach

engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Course objective of MAE 374 and Student OutcomeObjective of this course to understand the mechanical and physical properties of engineeringmaterials and their relationship to structural elements; accuracy of

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Kevin R. Anderson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nolan Tsuchiya P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zechariah Alan Maynard, Cal Poly Pomona

Emulator20. Figure 7 – Results for Open Loop, Auto, and Manual Tuning Using Do-more PLC EmulatorPlanned Implementation of the Do-more PLC Emulator Software within the MechanicalEngineering Controls CurriculumThis section of the paper details how this software will be embedded into the course structureand how the software will be used in online classes. The paper presented herein is the outline ofthe framework for use of the Do-more PLC as was the subject of a senior project and a casestudy for how to realize on-line teaching resources for teaching Industrial Controls. The Do-morePLC PID tuning on-line base experiential learning presented herein is planned to be incorporatedinto a semester based technical elective ME 4990/L “Industrial Controls

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Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Colin P. Lualdi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mona Jawad; Timur Javid

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

captioning infrastructure, e.g.,Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). The Azure transcription service alsosupports trained audio models and domain words which improve accuracy. We plan to exploreand evaluate these features in the future.Criteria 4. Able to adapt the caption presentation to different visual contexts.The development team designed four features to allow the ScribeAR platform to be adaptable toa wide array of visual contexts. These are discussed below.Firstly, the ability to switch the theme from dark (Figure 2a) to light (Figure 5). Different themeswere better suited to different live scenarios. For instance, when the dark theme was paired withan AR display, all black-colored areas became transparent as the Epson AR glasses

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Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

first of three summer REU experiences. We plan tomodify and improve our program each year based on what we learn from the participants andfaculty mentors. We will continue to monitor the impact the program has on the diversity of ourand other engineering graduate programs.This research is supported by the National Science Foundation grant number 1852298. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35165References[1] National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, “Women, Minorities, andPersons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering”, Special Report NSF 17-310. Arlington, VA. Available atwww.nsf.gov

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Classroom Methodologies

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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John H. Mott, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Classroom methodologies

at this university, there are two required courses for all MS students, and thenthe remaining eight courses are selected by the student’s graduate committee chair along with thestudent. This structure allows for highly customizable plans of study for students, and allows themto develop discipline specific knowledge that support their future career goals. The difficulty isthat the levels of proficiency that may be determined through course-level data is ratherproblematic to assess. For instance, a course may consist of 20 students, each of whom is in his orher first semester, second, third or final semester. While it is possible to track individual studentsseparately, that approach may require some effort on the part of faculty and may

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Joshua Mitchener; Imam Al Razi; Yarui Peng

restarting the GUI. The interface is alsointended to be both simple and functional, only showing what is absolutely necessary to the userto run PowerSynth. Currently, the PowerSynth GUI is able to edit and track three of the fiverequired files, with two of the files being automatically generated for the user. Future versions ofthe PowerSynth GUI are planned to include more advanced features and implementations. Fig. 5 Main window of the MDKEditor © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference B. Data InputThe opening window of the user interface provides two main flows: to create a project from anexisting layout or to run a

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Mahmood Jebur; S. Ranil Wickramansinghe

at U of A to make sure the integratedEC-MF process worked properly with no leaks. Then, the whole process was moved to NWACCto be established and tested by the RET participants. Most of the results presented here wasobtained at U of A during the training and testing period. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, wecould not do more experiments at NWACC. The future plan is to conduct more experimentsusing synthesis textile wastewater at NWACC to demonstrate the removal of dyes in class.Experimental Work Figure 1 shows the experimental set up used in this work. A custom-built polycarbonatebatch EC reactor having dimensions of 7 cm x 11 cm x 14 cm with a total volume of 1078 cm3was used to conduct all the EC experiments. Five aluminum electrodes

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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Diversity

arrive on campus for the 5-day program, they committime in their individualized ALEKS plan to improve on concepts they may have forgotten and/orpractice new concepts. Upon completing their initial ALEKS math assessment, ECI students areprovided specialized goals/milestones to achieve over the summer. When they arrive on campus,the students participate in intensive math preparatory sessions led by upper-class students.Additionally, interwoven between the math preparatory sessions are team building and studyskill components. At the end of the program, students retake the proctored ALEKS assessment.Math Preparatory SessionsThere are four math preparatory courses provided during the program: College Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, and Calculus

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Steven C Brandon, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University

● Maintenance ● Unsure ● Planning and TestingExample Category - Problem SolvingWhen asked what engineers do for a living, the most common idea among the survey responsesof the sample of first-year engineering students both before and after completing a majorexploration course was that engineers solve problems. Additionally, many students indicatedwhat types of problems engineers solve. Some students also mentioned that engineers buildsolutions to solve problems. These additional details in student responses were used to developseven subcategories for the main Problem Solving category. The frequency and definition foreach Problem Solving subcategory is provided in Table 2.Table 2 – Definitions of the Problem

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Frederick Alexander Farah, UMD Keystone Program; W. Ethan Eagle, University of Maryland

fromour pilot semester, which are, admittedly, quite sparse - but suggest rich individual experiencesfrom students and the opportunity for relatively easily executed investment in informalengagements with students in the digital space by teaching assistants and faculty to buildcommunity.Why discord? Considerations, Implementation Plans and Impacts UMD’s Introduction to Engineering Design course is group-oriented and required for allengineering students. The fall’s online variant covering about 480 eligible students, featuredsynchronous lecture 3hrs and 40 per week and an asynchronous environment for teams to work.The learning management system at UMD is Canvas, which in past implementations for studentengagement was limited to email

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute

workflow for EG109? (Note taking, homework, reading, etc.) • “Absolutely, the Goodnote software is extremely useful in all my classes especially in engineering. Having to draw structures and plans has never been simpler on the ipad. I keep all my notes in Goodnote and barely use paper anymore and it makes college like 100x easier and more portable.” • “Yes, I primarily use it as a replacement for paper saving me time and increasing my organization for homework and note-taking.”A summary of survey results from four semesters is shown in Table 1. This data represents boththe pilot evaluation as well as the full-scale implementation. Since data was collected from thespring 2019 through spring 2021

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

semester movingto the online education format the students were able to finish the project and submit their finalposters. The goals and objectives of this course are: 1. To develop a basic understanding of the various steps in the design process typically encountered in the field of engineering. 2. To become familiar with several computer-related skills necessary to function as a practical engineer. 3. To develop an understanding of how to attack and solve a poorly defined problem - from the basic literature search, through planning, and to a finished and tested prototype. 4. To develop an awareness of (a) analytical thinking, (b) decision-making skills, (c) communication skills, and (d) the

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Roger J Marino P.E., Drexel University; Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Johanna P Casale, Drexel University

“Awareness of the Multidisciplinary Nature of Engineering”; 2. Attendance atthe common lecture is a requirement of the course; 3. The common lecture includes a Case Studyfor relevancy and currency; 4. The Case Study illuminates the subjects of human-centered designand empathy as critical components of the engineering profession; 5. The Case Study emphasizesthat interaction between engineering disciplines is commonplace on engineering projects; 6. TheCase Study emphasizes that interaction between technical and non-technical parties iscommonplace on engineering projects.Future work/work-in-progressThe plan for the future is to explore the self-reported student “increase in understanding”responses to the survey and evaluate them through a qualitative

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel

resources of campus but also improve the mathematical readiness ofunder-prepared students is advantageous to this student population.The eight semester degree plans for all engineering and computer science majors at theUniversity of Arkansas assume students will begin their math study in calculus I. However, only70% of our first-year engineering students qualify to enroll in a math course of calculus orhigher, while 20% qualify for precalculus (one math class behind) and 10% for college algebra(two math classes behind). Students’ math placements are determined based on their ACT orSAT math scores, through AP or college credit for a prerequisite course, or through a placementexam offered through the University.In order to improve the math-readiness

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Valerie J. Fuchs; James R. Mihelcic

Credits PCMI No certificate No certificate 6/130* 3-International Experience (2 weeks) 11/30 2-Field Engineering in Dev'g World 3-Capstone Design 2-Community Planning & Analysis 7-International Training & Experience (27 months) With With certificate + + certificate 25/130* 1

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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William S. Helton; Michele H. Miller; Robert Pastel

, thermal stress, and lighting, affect humanperformance and on macro-ergonomics (building design and urban planning).HF courses in mechanical engineering have a strong connection to product design.Michigan Tech offers a technical elective MEEM 4990/5990 Human Factors inEngineering that is open to seniors and graduate students. The course presents thephysical and psychological capabilities and limitations of humans. We look at badproduct and system designs. We explore the reasons a product may be difficult to use orthe causes behind a system safety failure. The course presents tools and techniques forimproving the usability of products and systems. Often mechanical engineers will attempt Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE North Midwest

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Kurtis G. Paterson

nature of thepodcast episodes. The more-balanced learning environment also was well received. Ingeneral these course modifications made a traditionally loathed class enjoyable andmemorable for the students.A preliminary attempt to assess impacts on learning for subjects with and withoutpodcasts revealed no learning benefit from the podcasts. The students do appreciated thefocused content, liberation of the class from lecture, and portability of the materialsthough. Ideally, two sections with large enrollments would create a better assessmentsetting for retention objectives. A plan for this study is underway for Fall 2007.As podcasting is new to education, the first assessment focused on application of suchtechnology within university courses

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Paul J. Weber

; Summers, D. (2002). Future directions for mechanical,manufacturing, and industrial engineering technology programs. Journal of EngineeringTechnology, 91 (2), 8 – 15.Richardson, J., Irwin T., & Sherwin, C. (2005). Design and sustainability. A scooping report forthe sustainable design forum.Tonn, B.E. (2004). Integrated 1000-year planning. Futures, 36 (1), 91 – 108.Wang, L., & Lin, L. (2004). Making sustainability accountable: a valuation model for corporateperformance. IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 7 – 12.World commission on environment and development (1987). Our Common Future. Oxford,U.K.: Oxford Univ. Press.Yang, Q.Z., & Song, B. (2006). Eco-design for product lifecycle sustainability

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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J. E. Johnson; L. Stradins; S Springer; R. Asthana

properly nurtured, could lead to reallearning and innovation. The Holtby funds were intended to be used to provide the students suchan opportunity for exploration and growth. The funds were envisioned to provide the timeneeded by the participating faculty to develop project ideas and research plans for undergraduateand graduate students to engage in research and exploration on special topics not normallycovered in the current program courses. The intent was to inspire the students’ creativity andimagination to conduct additional research on special topics with faculty mentors, disseminatetheir findings to the broader public, and earn college credit for their efforts. It is envisioned thatresearch exposure through the Holtby funds shall also

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Roger Green

interpersonal influence over decree,putting the needs of others first, and developing commitment, motivation and a teamwork spirit.A servant-based leader works to align a group toward a common purpose and nurtures everyoneto perform as highly as possible. Servant leaders tend to be empathetic, caring, and goodlisteners. In servant leadership, the focus is less on the leader and more on the team being led.Of course, many professors also employ elements of servant leadership in their classrooms,although perhaps not always by purposeful and planned action.Servant leadership depends on developing a climate of trust and mutual respect. Without trust,achieving cooperation rather than compliance can be difficult, especially in educational settings.This

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Han-Way Huang; Nannan He

. Textbooks are also available for using the Nios IIprocessor [7, 8].We spent about four weeks on teaching Verilog programming and get students to work out a fewdesign projects using the DE1 kits. After that we taught students to start from a very simple NiosII microcontroller configuration and write assembly and C programs to control its operation. Welet students to work out a subset of the labs provided by Altera. Most students did not havedifficulty to get those lab assignments to work. Because of the need to teach Verilog, we didn’thave time to teach students to design their own peripheral functions and integrate with the Niosprocessor. We plan to find some way to achieve this in the future.ConclusionEmbedded system design using the FPGA is more

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Naima Kaabouch; Deborah L. Worley; Jeremiah Neubert; Mohammad Khavanin

of the project, goals and objectives, andassessment plan of the project. The second part focused on preparing students to be mentors.They participated in an exercise where they thought about their first years of college andexplored their own strategies for learning, including how they best retain information as well aswhat they found frustrating about studying calculus.They then reviewed characteristics that they felt were important to bring to the mentor-led studysessions: sincerity, respect, and active listening skills. We also emphasized the importance ofconfidentiality during this portion of the training. The third part of the training focused on how toactively facilitate mentor sessions. The mentors then participated in an informal role

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Nannan He; Han-Way Huang

programming language, was solely chosen for coding. In many cases, afterinitiating the course project, students quickly move to the implementation stage after a briefdesign phase, and start the C programming and debugging iterations using an IDE. Although thisapproach works for the small-scale course project, students have reported that it is very timeconsuming and inefficient. And the behavior of the created system often deviates from theoriginal design plan. Educators have recognized the need to introduce some efficient and cost-effective programming tools to students 7. The goal is to equip students with the knowledge fordeveloping complex engineering systems with a large number of constraints.Experts in the software engineering and computer

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Tina Smilkstein, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

available/unavailable to students. The campus is talking aboutincreasing the number of new students and the students were quite upset. They were upsetbecause the resources at present weren’t enough and the messaging had told them that withouttaking care of the students that are here, they plan on bringing in more students. They took this asa disrespect for the students that were here and that the school should be committed to giving anystudent that comes to Cal Poly all the support they need to succeed. The students felt that mentalhealth services was a key component to taking care of students. For the students, this, again,translated to the school not supporting a minority group of students, specifically, those that needhelp with mental health

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California

by asking students questions to answer through the experiments, requiring them toplan experiments to obtain the data necessary to answer their questions, perform the experiments theyhad planned and explain their results in relation to theoretical considerations and measurement errors[4]. Surveyed students found that the inquiry-based laboratory experiments provided a sufficientlychallenging learning experience which they preferred to the traditional “cook-book” laboratories. In thiscontext, we describe the implementation of design-focused laboratories in a medical electronics courseand the students feedback gathered at the completion of the course.Methods:Design-focused laboratories were implemented in the “Medical Electronics” course