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Work-in-Progress: Authentic Data in the Science Classroom Using Google Maps (Grades 9-16) - A Model and Evaluation

Abstract Work in Progress: Authentic Data in the Science Classroom Using Google Maps (grades 9-16) - A Model and EvaluationThe Google Maps JavaScript Application Programmer Interface (API) provides a simple andeffective resource for creating custom Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Systems built inthis way alleviate many of the barriers to entry of GIS systems for use in education, such as highcost, complex software installation, and challenging hardware requirements by providing asystem that is free of cost and requires nothing more than Internet access and a web browser touse. This stud focuses on the creation of such a system for the study of eutrophication (nutrient-enrichment) in The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and a vital resourceproviding food, jobs, habitat, recreation, and other benefits to the millions of people who live andwork in its watershed. The bay is a fragile resource made especially vulnerable to eutrophicationdue to its long dendritic shoreline and the many human activities that are prevalent, includinghigh concentrations of agricultural activities as well as several major population centers.Protection of this resource through promoting environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) canbe an important part of environmental science curricula throughout the state and beyond. Whilelarge amounts of environmental monitoring data are readily available to the general public, thereremain large obstacles to the use of these data in secondary (grades 9-12) through undergraduatescience classrooms. This project discusses the integration of community data and computermodels into a web-based teaching tool. This tool allows students to access authentic waterquality, bay health, and land use data from a variety of sources including the Chesapeake BayProgram’s Phase 5 Watershed Model. Such an innovative approach through engaged learningincorporating authentic data has profoundly impacted the processing skills of students. Unitplans for secondary and undergraduate classrooms based on this tool and designed to incorporateNational Science Education Standards related to inquiry and systems, personal, and socialperspectives are evaluated using pre- and post-tests of ERB indicators for students. Initial resultsindicate improvement in students ERB while several areas of potential improvement of theproject are indicated.
Utilizing Applications Programming Interfaces to Provide Product Lifecycle Management and Enhance Manufacturing Education

In the past 30 years, software development companies have made great strides in the areas of project planning, business management, material handling, engineering and manufacturing, in hopes that someday an all-in-one software package would be made available.Companies like PTC, Dassault Systèmes, AutoDesk and Siemens NX, are making this dream a reality.Just because one very expensive piece of software can handle most aspects of engineering development that does not mean that it is flexible.Nor can it be adapted to individual companies and their standard practices.This gives companies the false hope of true integration, where the same information has to be entered multiple times, and no time is saved when working between modules.True integration occurs at the point where both customization and artificial intelligence meet, to produce an outcome that saves both time and money.Through the use of API's (Application Programming Interface) and custom software, true integration is closer to becoming a reality.The focus of this project is to develop a customized software program geared toward small to midsized job-shop companies that cannot afford all-inone software packages.Software like SolidWorks, FeatureCAM, and Microsoft Office, are commonly used by such companies and with the aid of API's, a software will have the ability to communicate directly to objects inside each program.In particular, this software will focus on the transition between design, engineering, and manufacturing and the information that is passed between each stage of development.The results of this project demonstrate that the potential exists to enhance and simplify the product development process, but many questions remain unanswered and future technologies may help to unlock the key to full integration.For most mechanical engineering students, computer programming can be a challenging class.Due to the limited number of classes that engineers are required to take on the subject, programming is notoriously presented in a dry and non enthusiastic way.However, through the use of API's, students can connect more easily with programming concepts because it would involve an additional subject that they are more familiar with like parametric modeling and CNC programming.The following article discuses a student project in which the student learned to use API's and was able to develop software to manage data for a small to midsize job-shop environment, namely the shop at Oregon Tech.
Design as a Method of Instruction in China

The Chinese are contemplating alternate methods for teaching technological and engineering literacy in their public schools.
Do Basic Mathematical Skills Improve Spatial Visualization Abilities

Spatial visualization skills are important in engineering graphics and computer-aided design courses, especially in solid modeling, which has gained popularity in recent years.Are basic mathematical skills a factor in improving spatial visualization abilities?Based on the need to develop these abilities, what mathematical courses should be set as prerequisites for engineering graphics courses?This paper presents a study of the relationship between basic mathematical skills and spatial visualization abilities.The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test -Rotation was given to students taking engineering graphics courses.The results were compared with scores on a basic mathematical skills test, a placement test that all new students took when they applied to the college where this research was undertaken.Statistical analysis of the data revealed the effects of basic mathematical skills on spatial visualization abilities.
Using Citation Analysis to Explore the Information Needs of Graduate Students Affiliated with a Fuel Cell Research Center

Abstract Using Citation Analysis to Explore the Interdisciplinary Information Needs of Graduate Students Affiliated with a Fuel Cell Research CenterLibrarians frequently conduct citation analysis of faculty and graduate studentpublications in order to inform decisions about which materials, primarily journals,should be acquired, retained, moved into storage and discarded. In addition to being auseful tool for collection development purposes, citation analysis can also provideinsights into the developing core literature of emerging and interdisciplinary fields.Interdisciplinarity is frequently cited as a way to break down silos between disciplinesand facilitate solutions to real-world problems. In this study, citation analysis will beperformed on references from twenty-five theses and dissertations published by studentsaffiliated with an interdisciplinary fuel cell research center. Faculty and graduatedstudents affiliated with the center are from five engineering departments. The author isespecially interested in determining the degree to which interdisciplinarity is reflected in thematerials cited by graduate students. The author will also discuss how citation analysis ofgraduate theses can be used to identify opportunities for targeted promotion of library resourcesand deepen connections to researchers in interdisciplinary fields.
Marketing The Engineering Library

Marketing is a tool of librarianship that is infrequently taught to library professionals, yet plays an important role in outreach to students, faculty, and staff.This paper shows the process that Purdue University's Engineering Library faculty utilized to develop and implement a marketing plan.As the process evolved, an inventory of current programs, an analysis of current patrons and current marketing methods, an assessment of available marketing venues, a map of marketing venues for target patron groups and a plan to supervise marketing projects were designed.Future plans include evaluating specific marketing venues for their effectiveness in reaching specific target markets.
Implementing A Progressive Approach To Tangible Aircraft Design

Implementation of an undergraduate aircraft design curriculum in a short aeronautical engineering course sequence can be challenging.Ideally, students need to be taught fundamental aircraft design material in a way that can easily be transitioned to a hands-on design project.The project should be both interesting and fun but also try to cover the entire design process from a conceptual standpoint to the preliminary design phase and finally expose them to the detailed manufacturing of a prototype for testing.As is often the case, time and resources are limited and much of the hands-on engineering education experience so valuable to a student is hard to achieve.While many students can and do receive this type of educational experience through a competitive capstone design project, it is arguably better that this is not the first time they are exposed to integrating and applying the material covered in an aeronautical engineering course sequence.This paper details how to make use of an inexpensive hands-on glider design project that can be integrated across a short undergraduate aeronautical engineering course sequence effectively educating students on the practical application of aircraft design.Through the individual design and construction of multiple balsa wood gliders over a two course sequence, each student can apply and correlate the various aspects of aircraft design with tangible, measureable results better preparing them to work as a team in support of a capstone project.While the use of balsa wood gliders in aerospace engineering is relatively common, this paper details how to apply a more robust design methodology that enhances a student's aircraft design education.The goal of the paper is to provide engineering educators with the documentation, analytical tools, and examples necessary to establish a glider design project within their own existing engineering courses.Some aircraft design aspects addressed are aircraft sizing, stability, configuration and layout, as well as performance parameters such as lift-to-drag ratio, wing loading, and range.Direct feedback on successful or unsuccessful design aspects are realized through class competitions using the individually constructed gliders and results are formalized in a report.The impact of the project on student capstone performance and its contribution to aircraft design education is assessed through student surveys and degree of capstone progress.
Ethics in Engineering Education Using Virtual Worlds

She teaches courses in design engineering, engineering management, electric circuits, and other applied engineering courses
Restructuring Of Ce4506 (Environmental Policy And Pollution Prevention Design) And Student Response Survey

Prior to her current studies, she worked for two years as a consulting engineer on the city of Detroit's water
Evaluation of the VTEXT Electronic Textbook Framework

Electronic textbooks improve upon e-books in that they provide the user with the ability to go beyond just reading material on a computer screen.E-textbooks provide students with all of the abilities provided by a hardcopy text, but also add many functions only possible with computers and Internet communication.Ideal e-textbooks allow users to annotate in the text with e-ink, mark important sections, search over the e-ink and the text, look up items in online dictionaries or encyclopedias, perform interactive reinforcement drills, execute simulations, collaborate with fellow students and instructors, and many other operations afforded by the power of the underlying computer and the reach of the Internet connection.The VText framework is designed to provide many of the desired features of an e-textbook in such a way that it provides pedagogical value rather than just convenience for students.Many so-called e-textbook solutions available today provide few features beyond those possible with hardcopy textbooks.The VText framework is built as an add-in to Microsoft's note-taking program, OneNote.OneNote provides many features which translate well from notebook to etextbook such as inking and organization of content into pages, sections, and chapters.The addin, once loaded into OneNote, provides features which facilitate the use of OneNote as a reader and as an educational tool while leaving in place OneNote's strengths in note-taking, collaboration and search.This paper discusses the user experience, describes the evaluation of the VText framework, and discusses results and feedback from user testing.The evaluation will consider factors such as usability, student learning performance, and satisfaction.The main areas of interest for the evaluation include effective note-taking in the e-text, rehearsal skills, facilitation of collaboration, ease of use for the student, improvements in integrating lectures and individual study, and the general utility of tools included in the plug-in such as the Bluetooth Scanner which allows pictures to be integrated into the e-textbook from an Android device.These results will be used to generate suggestions for further improved work in this area.
Teaching Software Security: A Multi-disciplinary Approach

In addition to information security, he enjoys teaching many subjects, including digital logic and digital signal processing.He is active in hearing aid algorithm research, where he holds one U.S. patent and has three pending.
Software Design Of A Digital Filter Using Evolutionary Methods

oduction Evolutionary computation was conceived and articulated in the 1960's as a method of solving otherwise intractable problems.Computer programs based on evolutionary techniques typically consume lots of computer resources and until the 1990's the technique was implemented only by the few who had access to those resources.Over the last ten years, computers have become fast enough and enough memory has become cheaply available that evolutionary computation is now a workable technique for a typical desktop computer running a program for several hours or over a weekend.Evolutionary computation is a powerful technique and has been applied to a variety of problems including electric circuit design, time-optimal control circuits, quantum computer algorithms, robotics and many others 1 .The algorithms used to implement evolutionary computation are not complex and are accessible to the typical undergraduate engineering major.
Edge Detectors in Engineering and Medical Applications

Image edge detection is an integral component of image processing to enhance the clarity of edges and the type of edges.The current paper compares two methods for finding the edges of an image.One method developed by the author is to define special matrices and applying them to the image using approximations for gradients and convolutions.This method then "pulls out" the edges.The second method is using the software, Image Processing Toolbox 6.4.Appendix A compares the relative effectiveness of the two methods.The user's application will show the variance of the two methods and determine which would work best for the user's needs.Issues regarding edge techniques were introduced in my 2008 paper on Transforms, Filters and Edge Detectors. 17showing three dimensional alphabets implementing the author's matrix results.This paper extends edge detection that can be applied in areas of research, such as engineering and medical applications. 6,18An engineering application could be to select an image of an I-beam out of the range of normal eyesight.Then an edge detection technique could be applied to the image to clearly locate any cracking, breaking or delamination found internally or externally to the inspected structure. 9,11An I-beam is illustrated in Figure 1a, and the edge technique will be applied to it in Section V to investigate a model of a crack within it.In the field of medicine, a patient can be diagnosed with an aneurysm by studying the shape of the edges in the angiogram.An angiogram is the visual view of the blood vessels (see Figure 1b).The previous paper 15 studied selected letters using vertical, horizontal, and Sobel transforms.This paper will study images to include the letter O and two images,Cameraman and Rice,that are included in the Image Processing Toolbox6.4.We compare the techniques implemented by the author using the defined matrix technique on these images, using vertical, horizontal,Sobel, and Canny transforms and compare it to the technique in the Image Processing Toolbox 6.4.We then conclude the paper with a model of the I-beam illustrated in Figure 1a, apply the Sobel transform to it using the MATLAB Image processing Toolbox 6.4, and compare it to the MATLAB 7.9.0 script file developed by the author..
Framework For Dynamic Programming

Dynamic programming (DP) is a versatile technique for modeling and solving sequential optimization problems.While the approach is well known to the Operations Research community, its impact has been limited when compared to other mathematical programming techniques such as linear programming.Ironically, in part, this has been due to its flexibility.Because DP can be adapted to a myriad of problems and those models can be implemented in a variety of ways, many modelers, particulary inexperienced ones, are overwhelmed by the large number of choices.This is often referred to as the "art" of dynamic programming.Our goal was to provide a framework and base computer code for students to achieve an ease of modeling and solution for dynamic programming similar to what has been achieved for linear programming.In so far as the teaching dynamic programming, this will allow educators in operations research to focus their teaching on issues relevant to dynamic programming as opposed to computer programming issues; and allow students in operations research to focus their learning on the power of dynamic programming, as opposed to the nuances of computer implementations.
Measuring the Jitter of Clock Signal

Abstract Measuring the Jitter of Clock SignalIn the digital transmission system, jitter is a very important and less well known phenomenon.With the clock frequency in digital system becomes higher and higher, jitter is having moreeffect on the digital transmission system. Thus it is very important to find a way to measure jitter.This paper introduces the concept of jitter and the effect it has on the digital system. It comparesthe analog and digital methods to measure jitter. The corresponding international standard (ITU)on jitter is also introduced. It then proposed a scheme to measure the jitter of a fixed frequency(2.048MHz) PLL clock signal. This scheme uses digital method with DSP as the core. It alsoemploys CPLD in its implementation. This method has the advantage of being simple but at thesame time easy to implement.
Global E Business Education In Industrial Engineering

The educational system is currently facing new challenges because of the dynamically expanding e-business deployment.This is especially vital for industrial engineering as an applied interdisciplinary discipline.To cope with these challenges, several European research initiatives are trying to update the content of curricula responding to industrial needs.This paper first presents the findings of the EU-IST research project BRIDGES by discussing and comparing e--business trends and challenges in the EU and the USA.Then, challenges for education in E-Business are elaborated.Those challenges are picked up by the EU-IST/ IMS project GEM in order to create a new curriculum for a master degree in Manufacturing Strategy.It will cover technology and business topics and especially consider digital business.Finally, an initial concept of a short course covering essential aspects of production based on digital business is discussed.
Computer Based Assessment Model For Computer Information Technology Degrees

This paper describes a project to demonstrate methods to accelerate the preparation of computing professionals for upward mobility in the fields of computer and information technology through vendor certifications and college degree completion.The methodology also has the potential to level the playing field for access to technology education and associated employment opportunities by making delivery of affordable technical education neutral to the diversity of the client base.The project focuses on demonstrating that access to and proficiency in post-secondary computer and information technology education can be enhanced significantly through distance education via computer, specifically the World Wide Web, and outcomes-based assessment via computer-based testing.The primary strategy is to use the Regents College model of the virtual university that stresses assessment versus instructional approaches for degree programs at the associate and baccalaureate levels in computer and information technology.Project activities culminate with the award the Regents College Associate in Science or Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems degree programs.Project participants will earn general education credits through examinations offered by Regents College and technical credits by examinations such as those offered by the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP).Students also are able to apply credits earned by examinations for various IT vendor certifications, e.g., Microsoft, CompTIA, Novell.All examinations are administered through a national network of examination delivery centers.Examination preparation is available on-line through specially developed guided learning modules in self-paced and facilitated modes.As computer platforms and the Internet's World Wide Web become more prevalent as vehicles for educational delivery and assessment, these innovative programs of educational delivery at virtual universities will offer solutions to the looming crisis in engineering and technology employment.This project relies on access to personal computers and the Internet.With that, the proposed approach offers opportunities are particularly vital to displaced workers and those historically underserved and underrepresented in technical higher education.The project seeks to create a replicable model of use to other distance learning based programs and institutions.