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Development of EDGD Website Automated Learning and Assessment Resources

Abstract Development of EDGD Website Automated Learning and Assessment ResourcesAt the 2009 ASEE Summer Conference a paper was presented that described thedevelopment and use of an online working drawing review and assessment tool. This toolwas created to address a problem that was consistently occurring in the freshmen designcourses. The problem was that, although student teams often did a good job with theanalysis and fabrication of their project physical prototype, their final project reportswere usually of much poorer quality. This was especially true with regard to workingdrawings. In order to address this problem all members of freshmen design teams arenow required to watch a review module and pass an online assessment before turning intheir final design project reports.Project reports from both before and after the review module implementation wereevaluated using a working drawing assessment rubric which indicated that a significantimprovement in most of the areas considered had occurred.The members of the team who worked on this project have a long-term goal ofcollaborating with additional faculty members and utilizing the graphics and visualizationexpertise in EDGD to provide quality review modules on the EDGD Website that couldpotentially be used as additional prerequisites and/or learning resources for manycommon engineering courses such as statics, dynamics, strength of materials, and fluidmechanics, as well as for engineering design graphics courses. The existing onlineworking drawing module will be used as a pilot module.The next phase of the project was to put the module on an online platform such that itcould be easily used by faculty at other institutions. Faculty members can request access,and once their faculty status is verified, receive a link that allows their students to theaccess the module. The platform provides the faculty member with a history of studentactivity and grades.The Moodle platform is now functioning. At the Houghton EDGD midyear meeting theproof of concept was demonstrated during the Media Showcase Session. Volunteersposed as faculty members and their students. The course was requested and created and avolunteer student was enrolled and completed an assessment which could then bereviewed by the faculty member.In order to further determine the feasibility of this project, several faculty members atvarious universities in the United States as well as a European partner have agreed to trythe module with some student volunteers. A survey instrument will be developed todetermine the ease-of-use and usefulness, both from instructor and student points of view.Suggestions for improvements will also be requested and analyzed. Results will bepresented at the Summer Conference in Vancouver.
The Development Of A Forensics Tool For Windows Mobile Devices

information systems, web application development, object-oriented programming (OOP), programming languages, software engineering, user interface design, and rapid application development (RAD).Kyle has been writing software professionally since 1982.
Helping Engineering Students Write Effective Email

With the widespread availability of text messaging, instant messaging, and email, people are communicating with more frequency, speed, and ease than ever before.However, some of the same characteristics that make electronic communication so appealing to so many young people may be leading to some nonstandard writing in educational and professional contexts.Interestingly enough, a review of the literature reveals few educational efforts to systematically teach the correct use of electronic communication.Thus, this paper discusses ways to teach engineering students how to communicate effectively and politely in their email interaction with professors, potential employers, peers, and others.An interactive class session has been developed for the discussion and practice of some of the conventions of email writing.Audience awareness on the part of the email writer is stressed as crucial to the accurate receipt of the writer's message; therefore, students learn the effect of tone and linguistic choices on different audiences.The use of culturally appropriate salutations and closings also is emphasized.
Cultivating Innovative Talents of Mineral Processing Engineering Based on the Advantage of National Key Discipline

ABSTRCT:The importance of innovative talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering is discussed.From the new training program of mineral processing specialty formulating and implementing, the thought of innovation talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering was discussed.It is suggested to construct the research subject curriculum system, play the role of teaching masters in education, respect students' personalized development, transform scientific research achievements into
PENINGKATAN PENYELARASAN AGILITY PERANCANGAN KEGIATAN AKADEMIK TERHADAP IMPLEMENTASI KALENDER AKADEMIK ONLINE YANG SESUAI STANDART KUALITAS BERDASARKAN DOMAIN COBIT YANG TERKAIT

Determination of the academic calendar is a very important process in an educational institution. Because with the academic calendar and schedule of activities will be organized and on time and on target. Academic calendar can also be used as a plan for future educational activities. On  the  Tools  COBIT  4.1  or  Control  objectives  for  Information  and  related Technology there are several domains related to support the creation of Business Goal (BG) improving the efficiency of the academic activities of the students are PO8 and PO10. In this study conducted a measurement or measure the maturity of a prose IT support business processes for alignment between BG Process Efficiency and IT Activity Goal Submission of draft and Quality Standards and expense budget. After the measurement of maturity (Maturity) before and after the SPO added IT to support business processes and are also into the two domains COBIT as guidelines. The results of the comparison measure for domain PO8 maturity and PO10 significant increase of maturity is up 1 level so that the use of IT to support SOP Business Process indeed very important role.
Integrating Teaching And Technology Using Coelive

Profound advances in communication networks and computer technology have redefined the concept of distance learning and its delivery methods.Even though the trend of integrating teaching with various innovative instructional technologies is here, completely online engineering or engineering technology education is not yet widespread throughout engineering colleges and universities.This is partly due to the quality issues in voice/video in online courses, insufficient support for university faculty to offer such courses, and challenges faced in offering laboratory classes."___________University (___)" has various initiatives for innovative instructional technology, whether for a completely on-line or for part of a traditional classroom education.The Division of Engineering Technology (DET) faculty at the College of Engineering (CoE) at (___) has been a part of these initiatives.The CoE at (___) has a real-time, instructor-led suite of online tools to help design, create, and broadcast synchronous and asynchronous online courses.This College of Engineering Live (CoELive) consists of the CoELive virtual campus and the ERMS (Educational Resource Management System).CoELive is a collection of high-end servers connected to very large fiber network running sophisticated online courseware development and distribution software.At the heart of the CoELive system is the Web-4-M engine offered by JDH Technologies.Web 4-M's comprehensive learning environment mimics the classroom setting by integrating both synchronous and asynchronous online tools to maximize learning.This paper is largely confined to tackling the three challenges mentioned above via the implementation of CoELive tools.The laboratory-based Advanced Digital Design course is the first to implement the use of the CoELive tools in the Division of Engineering Technology at (___).This paper presents the implementation of this tool.The challenges of implementing an on-line laboratory using the tool will also be presented.
Preparing The Information Technology Professionals Of Tomorrow: What Information Technology Programs Can Do To Ensure Their Graduates Are Employable

It is well understood that technical graduates need more than technical skills to be professionally employed; they also need the so-called "soft skills" to be effective.Rapid change in Information Systems (IS) and Information Technologies (IT) has placed enormous demands on the IS/IT professional.These demands create skill gaps which must be addressed by working professionals and by new graduates entering the work world.This paper will examine the present understanding (based on a literature review) of the skills required for a successful IT/IS professional, including the various definitions of IS/IT skills, along with those soft skills required for the IS/IT professional to be effective.Finally, the authors will identify the various methods used by organizations and the IT professional to enhance these skills both formally and informally, and make some recommendations for how IS/IT programs can incorporate these training methods to help make their graduates more successful in the workplace.
Pedagogy Of A Course In Speech Coding And Voice Over Ip

The area of Speech Coding and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (Voice-over-IP) has become an important application area of Digital Signal Processing in the Electrical Engineering curriculum.This is due in part to the ubiquity of wireless and wire-line communication devices and appliances that utilize speech coding and voice-over-internet protocol (IP) methods.We have recently developed a three-course sequence on Speech Coding and Voice-over-IP taken by Senior-level undergraduate and graduate students at Santa Clara University.The first two courses teach Speech Coding while the third course deals with Voice-over-IP.Most of the fundamentals are on Digital Signal Processing but we focus on the applications to speech and voice coding.In this paper, we first describe the DSP curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students.We describe our experiences and the challenges encountered in developing these courses.We detail some of the laboratory and teaching materials and the exercises developed, etc.We discuss as an example the internet low-bit rate speech coder (iLBC) which is used to code speech under packet loss conditions that exists on the internet.Finally, we present possible future directions in the course development.
Effects Of Supplemental Learning Opportunities Designed To Engage Different Learning Styles

We provided a series of one-hour supplemental learning opportunities (SLOs) outside of, but coordinated with, a sophomore-level engineering problem-solving course.The SLOs were designed to engage different aspects of active/real-world learning style preferences by adopting one of two approaches: 1) a structured and engaging classroom lecture environment with onpaper, problem-solving exercises, or 2) a hands-on, kinesthetically-active laboratory environment with integrated on-paper, problem-solving exercises.Pre-and post-SLO assessments revealed that students learned from both types of SLOs.Analysis of course exam grades revealed that students who attended one type of SLO did not consistently outperform students who attended the other type of SLO.Students whose preferences for sensory learning (as indicated by their scores on the Index of Learning Styles) were most strongly matched by the style of their SLO group (i.e., strongest sensory preferences attending kinesthetically active SLOs, and least sensory preferences attending classroom active SLOs) performed better on course exams than students with moderate sensory learning preferences attending either SLO group, and better than students whose preferences for sensory learning were least matched by the style of their SLO group.In some cases, the observed performance differences were statistically significant, although the mean grade point averages of students in the strongest, moderate, and least-matched groups were not statistically significant.Further analysis should help reveal to what degree student performance was related to learning style and SLO style match as opposed to other factors.
Land Grant Research University Partnerships With Hbcus For Enhanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Main Menu Session 1470 Land Grant Research University Partnerships with HBCUs for Enhanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Ken Vickers, Willyerd Collier, Benita Douglas Wolff, Greg Salamo University of Arkansas Background The University of Arkansas (UA) is a Land Grant University with the stated mission of being “a nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world”. Because of this mission, it is imperative that the University provides a nurturing environment for students from all portions of our society. Only then will we gain the benefit from the talents that exist throughout our population, including talents hidden in population segments that have not traditionally enrolled at this University (or sometimes in any post-secondary institution). In the United States there is a tradition of strong Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that provide both a nurturing culture and strong academic preparation to students of color in our society. But many of these institutions do not support a graduate research program, instead developing relationships with graduate research institutions for post-graduate opportunities for their students. As a research institution, the University of Arkansas has the need for strong graduate students to support its research initiatives. However, most graduate programs have not devoted the same level of attention, energy, time or resources to the recruitment of graduate students that athletic programs or enrollment services have devoted to the recruitment of undergraduate students. The result is that the student side of the search for graduate program/student matches has driven the graduate “recruitment” system. Potential graduate students today have an advantage in finding good graduate matches because of the extensive search capability and knowledge contained in the World Wide Web. At the same time, these undergraduates also seek guidance from individuals in their home institutions concerning the general reputation of a university, college or department. Without recruitment efforts by graduate programs, undergraduate faculty lack knowledge of graduate programs at other institutions, which can limit prospective students’ confidence in accepting academic opportunities that would well support their academic and career goals. Even with the difficulties involved, HBCU students have found and enrolled in UA graduate programs. Upon arrival on campus, they found that there existed a lower level of interaction between research faculty and students at the UA as compared to the students’ undergraduate HBCU. This change of academic operational culture, coupled with the change in workload at the graduate versus undergraduate level and the change in social factors from a black majority Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Main Menu
Undergraduate Research: Novel Integration Of Pdas, Gps And Bar Code Scanner Via An Embedded Visual Basic Program For A Utility Asset Management System

Undergraduates in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Rowan University have undertaken innovative software research and system integration for the electric utility clients of its Engineering Clinic Program.In this innovative classroom / laboratory course, the problem students set out to solve was the development of an integrated software / hardware system to enable the cost-effective asset management of utility equipment in the field (poles, streetlights, switchgear, etc.).The choice of technology included a handheld PDA, a Bluetooth-based global positioning system (GPS) receiver and a generic barcode scanner.The challenge was to develop customizable Embedded Visual Basic (eVB) code that would enable any utility personnel to establish equipment location in the field or be directed to any piece of equipment that had been previously located by employing the device in their utility vehicle.Portability, low-cost and customizable graphical user interfaces were criteria for adoption by the companies and the project has resulted in a very affordable smart PDA, that can simultaneously scan a barcode, establish the GPS coordinates in a database and record other important utility information.The device has the capability to also serve as a locator system to lead any utility personnel unfamiliar with parts of the service area to any specific piece of field equipment that has been placed into the system database.This becomes more important to the maintenance of operational efficiency and rapid service restoration as utilities merge and take-over previously unfamiliar regions of service.The integration of the three devices via a single eVB program is an innovation that significantly reduces the cost, complexity and affordability of performing asset management for remote and dispersed equipment.It is also a curricular innovation to provide students with such a cutting edge research opportunity that has immediate commercial application for its clients.The undergraduate students work with their professor to provide the deliverable to the clients in this course and regularly provide status reports and demonstrations of progress to the client to assure that the work will meet specification when completed.
Wavelet Transforms On The Letter N

This paper studies the two-dimensional wavelet transform applied to two-dimensional images.The classical technique oftentimes implements the Fourier transform.This paper offers a brief discussion regarding the comparison of the two transforms on a single alphabet, N. It provides a comparison of the global properties present in the Fourier transform technique verses a more localized analysis when the wavelet transform is applied to the same image.The wavelet selected in this study is the derivative of the Gaussian since in some sense offers a nice comparison to the Fourier method.
Extreme Experience Interviews For Innovative Designs: Classroom Assessment Of A New Needs Gathering Method

A recently published "Extreme Experience Design 1 " method places interviewees in simulations that parallel physical disabilities (such as wearing dark glasses to simulate low vision) in order to elicit normally-hidden product needs.This new needs-gathering technique equips students with awareness and skills to design for persons with disabilities, as well as an interview method leading to breakthrough design innovations through uncovering latent (hidden) needs.Traditionally-taught needs gathering interviews typically lead to parametric needs and thus incremental design changes; however, the latent needs uncovered with extreme experience interviews are often non-parametric and offer greater potential for breakthrough innovations.We implemented the new extreme experience interview technique in 1 st year Cornerstones Design and 3 rd year Design Methods courses through a slide-based lecture and a live demonstration of the interview method.We then surveyed ~100 students from both classes across two semesters in order to assess student learning and the effectiveness of the interview method for uncovering user needs.We also analyzed a subset of 26 design team interview transcripts for new information elicited by extreme experience interviews following a "benchmark" articulated use interview.Building upon previously reported work 2 , results include a summary of student surveys, analysis of customer needs before and after extreme experience interviews, and a qualitative review of redesign ideas generated.The surveys show students understand and like both the "normal" benchmark articulated-use interviews and the extreme experience interview technique and would like to re-use them on future projects.Surveys also indicate strong agreement that extreme experience interviews "inspired ideas that are better for average users as well."An examination of interview transcripts shows the extreme experience interviews are valuable not only for uncovering a much more comprehensive set of customer needs, especially with respect to product-user interactions, but also for obtaining innovative redesign suggestions from customers themselves.The results collectively show extreme experience interviews are an effective and valuable addition to the design process in these courses, with additional room for improvement in teaching technique.
EET Project Session in a Project Lead the Way Conference for Local High School Students

October 1 st , 2010 was the date of Purdue-South Bend's 2 nd annual Project Lead the Way Conference for 101 local high school students, giving them some hands-on experience with projects in EET, MET, and IT.There was also a careers session and a campus tour.This paper provides some general background about the conference and its participants, then describes the EET session in detail, including the student-created project that was its centerpiece.The project, which was created by a sophomore EET student, compares the relative efficiency of two different forms of motor control: resistive and pulse-width-modulated.This project was implemented using Multisim version 11, and the data collection and plotting was performed with MS Excel 2007.In addition to the project, feedback from the teachers who brought their students to this year's conference is presented, as well as how the EET session format was modified to accommodate feedback from the previous year. Conference backgroundProject Lead the Way (PLTW) is an organization that partners with middle schools and high schools across the nation to prepare students for post-secondary education and subsequent careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). 1 The Purdue University-South Bend annual PLTW Conference is an outreach program targeting these students from local high schools.The specific goals of the conference are to:1. Engage them in some fun and interesting activities to spur their interest in technology; 2. Inform them of our degree options available locally, and about related careers; 3. Introduce them to campus; and 4. Motivate better high school study by linking the technical activities to math and science.The conference is also a nice recruiting tool for this campus.The high school students and teachers enjoy the day and take that excitement back to their respective schools.Moreover, the 2010 conference received news coverage by three local TV stations and the city newspaper.These are big benefits.Although Purdue University is very well-known, people normally associate it with the main campus.Since Purdue-South Bend is integrated into the Indiana University-South Bend campus, many locals are not even aware of our presence in the area.The advertisement serves a dual purpose of raising awareness and informing the local populace of the interesting/exciting activities happening on our campus.The first PLTW Conference was in the fall of 2009.Twenty students were invited from each of four local high schools.Since two of the schools did not fill all of their slots, there was a total of about 70 participants.In the second go-round in the fall of 2010 the conference was expanded to Page 22.530.2