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Open source microcontroller (MCU) boards have made significant inroads towards classroom teaching over the last decade. Many programs have already switched from the traditional educational boards to, for example Arduino products, due to their low costs, easy to use, flexibility, and wide adoption in both consumer and industrial applications. However, comparing with their commercial counterparts, open...
Student-centered learning environments, including flipped classrooms, are becoming increasingly common in engineering education. Numerous advantages have been ascribed to these approaches, including that they increase student engagement and achievement. Unfortunately, not all students respond favorably to student-centered courses. To understand why, we are studying how students perceive their experiences...
The Raspberry Pi is a small computer useful for teaching students basic computer knowledge. This paper discusses the integration of the Raspberry Pi in an introductory information systems course. Previously, the initial course in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences was a general applications course not focused on computer science or engineering. A new course was developed integrating...
Careers in the U.S. that require STEM knowledge have grown rapidly, reinforcing the need to develop a future workforce that is prepared to meet growing business needs and solve global challenges. Considering that there is a low number of students pursuing STEM degrees and the low percentages of minority students in the STEM pipeline, STEM education has been a focus of local and national education...
This Work-in-Progress paper presents a framework for students' holistic learning, growth, and development recently created at and for Northeastern University. The Student Assessed Integrated Learning (SAIL) initiative was introduced for the first time to 179 first-year students who had not designated their major prior to entering the University. Our preliminary data indicate that most students felt...
The traditional form-factor and delivery method for homework has become less effective as student attitudes towards homework have changed to reflect access to digital modalities. These elements have created an evolving landscape with respect to role of homework. In a sense, our approach to homework has been influenced by the established culture whereby “it has always been done this way.” This work...
Local area network (LAN) access is the top vector for insider threats and misuses according to the Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is often exploited by the attackers who have gained access to the LAN. It is critical for students to learn how attacks on ARP work and know the countermeasures. In an earlier work, authors developed a hands-on lab to help...
The advent of the internet of things and industry 4.0 bring new paradigms that tend to affect the way of organizing several human activities, among them the production processes that are ruled by production and human work on a large scale in the production lines. Therefore, it is inevitable to think of how to prepare students for this new, oncoming reality, since these students will have to deal with...
We present work-in-progress reflecting on the initial year of a distinctive summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Our REU model combines fundamental research in computational sensing with a scholarly context that connects computer science with computational liberal arts. Students are intellectually stimulated to make sense of people's behaviors and cognitive processes with...
This work-in-progress research paper describes the initial findings of research on students' attitudes about diversity in first-year engineering teams. We used quantitative pre- and post-survey data and qualitative interviews with student teams to understand students' initial attitudes about diversity and teaming and how those were affected by engineering teaming experiences over a semester. The qualitative...
There has been a growing attention to engineering graduates' generic skills competency. Generic skills attainment is included as essential graduate attributes by accreditation bodies such as Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Generic skills competency is often assessed at program level using indirect measures such as graduate surveys and student interviews. In this work-in-progress,...
The study aims to explore the relationship between time management in courses with online interactive textbooks and students' performance. The study was done in two computer science courses — a second-year course on discrete mathematics for computer science and a first-year programming course. Each course used a required online interactive textbook on the course topic. Students had reading assignments...
This Work-In-Progress paper details the process and lessons learned when converting a hands-on engineering mini-course to a scalable, self-paced Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Online courseware has been part of academic and industry training and learning for decades. Learning activities in online courses strive to mimic in-person delivery by including lectures, homework assignments, software...
The revolution caused by the advancement of technology, globalization and internet-enabled manufacturing is rapidly changing the manufacturing industry and requires engineers with different and more diverse knowledge than provided by traditionally-based curricula. In order to fill the emerging gap in engineering education we, educators, have to start thinking about preparing students for the future...
The Professional of today needs to acquire a dynamic ability to absorb information, adjust to organizational goals, and navigate in a complex work environment. For this reason, a classic approach seems to be more useful for the demands of today's job market. It is at least interesting to notice, that the classic approach is being neglected, at a time when its product might be more interesting than...
In this work-in-progress paper, we synthesize research from psychology, sociology, and engineering education, in order to consider the presence of masculine social norms in engineering. According to prior work, social norms represent collective expectations that are socially constructed by majority social groups about the proper role and conduct of different groups in society. Social norms related...
State of the art technologies in micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) devices have been proposed to address important issues in renewable energies, health sciences, consumer electronics, and information technology. Incorporation of MEMS / NEMS interfaces when creating a system on chip (SOC) utilizes knowledge of nanotechnology materials and devices, which is delivered as part...
What gap exists between the kind of engineer an engineering program seeks to educate and the ways in which engineering students want their engineering education to engage them? This paper explores such a gap at Colorado School of Mines. Analysis of campus values and student passions through two surveys given in spring 2016 reveal incongruence in campus culture. The students and faculty currently value...
This paper compares three methods for examining the relationship of multiple factors related pertaining to student motivation on the degree outcome (persistence in an engineering major). A study was conducted in which all first year engineering students at one institution were invited to complete a survey designed to measure students' motivations and attitudes towards engineering. The survey was based...
The report, Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering (CE2016), developed by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society, was released in December of 2016. This is one volume of a series of reports covering curricula for a variety of computing fields; it is a significant update of the previous version, CE2004. This paper discusses significant...
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