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This article proposes a new conceptual framework that describes the complex interactions between learners' environment and the conscious information processing required to enable them to learn more effectively. The framework takes into account recent developments from neuroscience, which suggest that to improve their comprehension, learners may have to preprocess incoming information into a format...
Early analysis does not support a link between students' motivation levels and their survey participation rates, suggesting that repeated sampling throughout a semester may be more capable of documenting a representative cross-section of student experiences than we originally expected.
The Community of Inquiry (COI) framework focused on the roles of course design and facilitation (Teaching Presence), students' sense of community and belonging (Social Presence), and cognitive engagement with the course content (Cognitive Presence) in developing valuable learning experiences in primarily text-based learning environments. The role of students' self-regulatory processes (Learning Presence)...
Significant efforts have been made to increase the number and diversity of students in pathways to engineering careers. This paper describes an effort to address these goals by adapting EPICS, a nationally recognized project-based, service-learning university program, to the high school and middle school environments. Preliminary data from 60 high schools in 11 states with over 2,200 students indicate...
In engineering ethics, the traditional approach views engineers as individual moral agents who are capable of making autonomous decisions. However, the broader context in which engineers work and make their ethical decisions is often overlooked. In teaching engineering students, institutional climates help define how educational programs, curricula, and pedagogical modules are designed with some values...
In 2012, the authors developed a competition called "Design Wars," an all-day team design competition modeled on reality television competitions such as Project Runway or Junkyard Wars. The purpose of the competition was to test the student teams' abilities to develop creative solutions to an open ended problem given limited time and unconventional resources. One question that arose while...
The purpose of this study is to develop a device that combines exercise and entertainment. Therefore, we developed an application and the driving device to visualize the energy consumption during exercise. The first experiment utilizes the smart phone; the second experiment utilizes the action of jumping rope, handgrip, or playing a Kendama. The result of the test is that the driving devices responded...
Over the past decade, underrepresentation of minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the undergraduate and graduate level have been reported. However, little is known about the internal and external factors/experiences causing students to decide to drop-out. This study considers the gateway experiences (B.S. to M.S.) that led six STEM college students to continue...
Engineering is becoming an increasingly global profession, requiring interaction with diverse sets of people from different countries, cultures, and traditions. This diversity introduces more social and ethical complexity to the profession and highlights the importance of enabling engineers to work collaboratively and develop strong ethical decision-making skills. This study examines the relationship...
A fully instrumented surface vessel involving underactuated structure was designed. The problem of straight line course tracking of the underactuated surface vessel at a constant forward speed is addressed. The Serret-Frenet frame is used to define the tracking error, therefore the position tracking errors could be stabilized by stabilizing the single distance error. Least Squares Support Vector Machines...
Creative thinking is one of the professional skills desired in engineering students. Empirical evidence suggests that active learning strategies can have a positive impact in the development of professional skills required in the engineering field. Team-based learning (TBL) is a type of active learning that may be able to promote creative thinking in undergraduate engineering students. The purpose...
Particle analysis technology can be used in extracting the defective regions of the bottle mouth, and calculate their areas based on LabVIEW. Also, pattern recognition can be used to check the bottle. The system can achieve online continuous detection using DLL library to extract the bottle mouth. As well as, it can check the bottle by a preset threshold. The results show this system has high precision...
Student resistance is often cited as a major barrier to faculty's use of active learning, but there are few research-based strategies for reducing this barrier. To address the need for such strategies, we have initiated a project to identify specific, research-based strategies to significantly reduce student resistance to faculty's use of active learning practices. In this work-in-progress paper,...
Hofstede's theory of national cultures has been widely used to analyze cultural differences. In this pilot study we describe our experiences applying an instrument based on Hofstede's work to determine whether his dimensions of national cultures can be mapped to academic disciplines. In this paper, we present information about Hofstede's model as well as critiques of both the model and the instrument...
Many engineering programs are implementing hands-on engineering experiences early in the curriculum, typically in the form of a project-based course in which students design and build a prototype as a team. However, research on these courses suggests that task orientation is correlated with gender, as are the increases in self-efficacy observed. As engineering self-efficacy is a critical determinant...
In printing, textile, paint, ink, and some other industries, it is often needed to determine the color change of the dye. Detecting these subtle changes has been the industry's difficulties. This paper presents a multi-color space feature fusion method in tiny color difference processing. This approach uses different color of weighted, evaluating to the feature performance of similar color in different...
We report our recent work to improve a number of performance attributes of “KIDcam,” a passive THz imaging camera based on frequency multiplexed Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs.) The array operates at 250mK but the entire instrument is liquid cryogen-free and can be operated remotely and automatically. It offers high sensitivity throughout the THz region with video rate frame capture...
This paper describes the implementation of physical models of music instruments. Two models were implemented; guitar and clarinet. The models were implemented on a MIDI synthesizer system. This system consists of a MIDI controller, an OMAP L138 eXperimenters kit and an audio amplifier and loudspeaker. The MIDI keyboard controls the system, activating the synthesizer that runs on the DSP. The DSP synthesizes...
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