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Eld 2018 Lightening Talk_ New Partnerships.Pptx, Patricia Watkins May 2018

Eld 2018 Lightening Talk_ New Partnerships.Pptx, Patricia Watkins

Patricia Watkins

Presentation about ERAU-Prescott Hazy Librarians fresh outreach and engagement with faculty in support of student learning and faculty research.

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Ctle - Meteorological Sensors Incorporated Into A Uas For Pedagogical Purposes, David Ehrensperger, James Curtis, Dorothea Ivanova, Mark Sinclair, Jacqueline R. Luedtke, Tim Holt, Jennah Perry, Johnny L. Young, Nicholas E. Harris Apr 2018

Ctle - Meteorological Sensors Incorporated Into A Uas For Pedagogical Purposes, David Ehrensperger, James Curtis, Dorothea Ivanova, Mark Sinclair, Jacqueline R. Luedtke, Tim Holt, Jennah Perry, Johnny L. Young, Nicholas E. Harris

David Ehrensperger

This presentation was part of my unpublished research experience in a CTLE Faculty Learning Community (FLC) during the 2017-2018 academic year. It involved incorporating meteorological sensors in Unmanned Aerial Systems (or UAS) in the pedagogical context of meteorology courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, AZ. The FLC planned the incorporation of UAS sensors and working with the subsequent recorded data into courses during the Fall 2017 semester, implemented the planning during the Spring 2018 semester, and concretely planned to continue similar data gathering activities in future iterations of the courses.

As with all FLCs at ERAU, the commitment …

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The Effect Of A Computing-Focused Linked-Courses Learning Community On Minority And Female Students, Amber Settle, James Doyle, Theresa Steinbach Sep 2017

The Effect Of A Computing-Focused Linked-Courses Learning Community On Minority And Female Students, Amber Settle, James Doyle, Theresa Steinbach

Amber Settle

While enrollments in computing degrees and courses have grown rapidly in the past decade, both female and minority male students remain underrepresented in computing programs. This makes recruitment and retention of these populations a continuing concern. Affinity for a major is connected to student retention, and learning communities have proven effective for this purpose. We present an evaluation of a three-year linked-courses learning community in which we measure pre- to post-quarter changes in student attitudes and resource utilization. We find that participants in the learning community are significantly more likely to report being a part of a group of programmers …

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Icmat 2017_Mv_Ecu-Final.Pptx, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Victor Rosenberg Jun 2017

Icmat 2017_Mv_Ecu-Final.Pptx, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Victor Rosenberg

Mikhail Vasiliev

No abstract provided.

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Next Generation Wireless Communications: Cognitive Radio, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch Mar 2017

Next Generation Wireless Communications: Cognitive Radio, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch

ADNAN QUADRI

Wireless networks and information traffic have grown exponentially over the last decade. Consequently, an increase in demand of radio frequency bandwidth has resulted. Recent studies have shown that with the current fixed spectrum allocation, there are spectrum holes that are not utilized all the time by the licensed users while other frequency channels, such as Wi-Fi, are heavily used. To efficiently utilize the radio spectrum, cognitive radio stands to be a promising solution as it will be reconfigurable, self-aware and efficient. This research aims to develop techniques that will allow a cognitive radio system to enhance the radio’s decision-making capabilities …

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Validation Of Orion Cockpit Displays Using Eggplant Functional And Python Programming, M. A. Rafe Biswas Oct 2016

Validation Of Orion Cockpit Displays Using Eggplant Functional And Python Programming, M. A. Rafe Biswas

M. A. Rafe Biswas

No abstract provided.

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Improving Retention And Reducing Isolation Via A Linked-Courses Learning Community, Amber Settle, Theresa Steinbach Sep 2016

Improving Retention And Reducing Isolation Via A Linked-Courses Learning Community, Amber Settle, Theresa Steinbach

Amber Settle

Despite a rebound in enrollments, men of color and women remain underrepresented in computing. The literature indicates that student-student interaction, affinity for the computing major, and reduced feelings of isolation are important for retention of underrepresented groups in computing. Learning communities connect students with each other and faculty to improve collaboration, interaction, and enthusiasm. In an effort to improve retention of female and minority students at our institution, we have created two cohorts of a linked-courses learning community for development majors. Here we report on the academic performance and retention for the first cohort and on the impact of the …

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Aggregate Interference Power Modeling For Cognitive Radio Networks Using Bayesian Model, Mohsen Riahi Manesh, Naima Kaabouch Mar 2016

Aggregate Interference Power Modeling For Cognitive Radio Networks Using Bayesian Model, Mohsen Riahi Manesh, Naima Kaabouch

Mohsen Riahi Manesh

No abstract provided.

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Evolutionary Algorithms Based Filters For Denoising Signals In Cognitive Radio Systems, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch Mar 2016

Evolutionary Algorithms Based Filters For Denoising Signals In Cognitive Radio Systems, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch

ADNAN QUADRI

In wireless communications, transmitted signals are distorted by noise, interference, path loss, and fading. Traditional communication systems include hardware based filters that are bulky, costly, and can filter only specific frequencies. Next generation communication systems, such as Cognitive Radios, will be reconfigurable and can dynamically adjust their parameters to filter any signal of any frequency. Therefore, this project aims to develop efficient reconfigurable algorithms for filters that meet the requirements of next generation communication systems.  

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Development Of Compressive Sensing Techniques For Wideband Spectrum Scanning In Cognitive Radio Networks, Fatima Salahdine, Naima Kaabouch Mar 2016

Development Of Compressive Sensing Techniques For Wideband Spectrum Scanning In Cognitive Radio Networks, Fatima Salahdine, Naima Kaabouch

fatima salahdine

No abstract provided.

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Soft Switching, Mojtaba Mehrdad Nasehi Phd Electronics, Computer Networks Feb 2016

Soft Switching, Mojtaba Mehrdad Nasehi Phd Electronics, Computer Networks

mojtaba nasehi

Bridgeless AC-LED  Driver for lighting Applications

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Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz Oct 2015

Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

The 2015 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium was the inaugural launch of this now widely-attended un-conference series. Attendees were encouraged to submit lightning presentations on local developments in the area of data management support from within their Libraries. This brief presentation highlighted early work undertaken to develop a checklist that my role as Metadata & Digital Curation could make use of to navigate faculty researcher questions that arise when considering where to store and maintain research data during active stages of any given sponsored research project.

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Evaluating A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Development Majors, Amber Settle, John Lalor, Theresa Steinbach Sep 2015

Evaluating A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Development Majors, Amber Settle, John Lalor, Theresa Steinbach

Amber Settle

Despite a rebound in enrollments, men of color and women remain underrepresented in computing. The literature indicates that student-student interaction and affinity for the computing major are important factors for retention of underrepresented groups in computing, and learning communities connect students with each other and faculty to improve collaboration, interaction, enthusiasm. Despite their long history and promise for addressing retention, computing-focused learning communities remain rare. Here we present an evaluation of a linked-courses learning community for men of color and women majoring in a development-focused area of computing. We measure student attitudes and affinity for their major via a survey …

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Learning To Learn: Embedding Peer Support As A Core Learning Skill At Third Level, Philip Russell Jun 2015

Learning To Learn: Embedding Peer Support As A Core Learning Skill At Third Level, Philip Russell

Philip Russell

This paper presents an overview of the Peer Learning Support Programme which has been developed by Mechanical Engineering staff and librarians at the Institute of Technology Tallaght in support of the Institute's Learning to Learn at Third Level module.

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Human Performance Engineering Approach, Dotan I. Shvorin Apr 2015

Human Performance Engineering Approach, Dotan I. Shvorin

Dr. Dotan Shvorin

Ph.D. students are challenged to discover new ideas, invent new products or break through barriers on existing problems. As a Ph.D. student I am leading a new area of research in the STEM discipline. As an industrial engineer, I am attempting to extend the reach of engineering methods and tools traditionally applied in manufacturing and service-related settings to the area of human performance. Human Performance Engineering, IE 402 008, is a new creative inquiry class that Dr. Kevin Taaffe and I have created. The research includes many focus areas such as quality, decision making, perception, game theory, biology, simulation, and …

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Asee-Eld Blitz Engineers Week 2015.Pptx, Patricia Watkins Feb 2015

Asee-Eld Blitz Engineers Week 2015.Pptx, Patricia Watkins

Patricia Watkins

Presentation to ELD (Engineering Librarians' Division of ASEE) about special event held during Engineers Week.

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Asee-Eld Blitz Engineers Week 2015.Pptx, Patricia Watkins Jan 2015

Asee-Eld Blitz Engineers Week 2015.Pptx, Patricia Watkins

Patricia Watkins

Presentation to ELD (Engineering Librarians Division) at the ASEE conference, topic related to special event in library during Engineers Week 2015.

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Sound And The Moving Image:Critical Characteristics For Spectator Response, Kara Rader, Rafeeq I. Roberts, Matt Egizii, Jeffery Allen Sep 2014

Sound And The Moving Image:Critical Characteristics For Spectator Response, Kara Rader, Rafeeq I. Roberts, Matt Egizii, Jeffery Allen

Rafeeq I Roberts

The prevailing wisdom in the film and video production industries is that audio information outweighs visual information when it comes to spectator responses, but there are few empirical studies to support this claim. In previous research, four critical characteristics of sound have been identified: (1) Music, (2) visual/sound contradictions (defined as sound that is inconsistent with audience expectations based on visual information), (3) multi-channel sound, and (4) sound quality. Building on our previous research into music and film, we have found that many researchers have looked into the question of how music affects emotions (Eschrich et al., 2008; Have, 2008; …

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Building A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Introductory Development Majors, Amber Settle Jun 2014

Building A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Introductory Development Majors, Amber Settle

Amber Settle

No abstract provided.

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Research Directions For Teaching Programming Online, Amber Settle, Arto Vihavainen, Craig Miller Jun 2014

Research Directions For Teaching Programming Online, Amber Settle, Arto Vihavainen, Craig Miller

Amber Settle

No abstract provided.

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Demographics Of Undergraduate Students In Game Degree Programs In The Us And Uk, Monica M. Mcgill, Amber Settle, Adrienne Decker Oct 2013

Demographics Of Undergraduate Students In Game Degree Programs In The Us And Uk, Monica M. Mcgill, Amber Settle, Adrienne Decker

Amber Settle

Over the last decade, there has been a growth in the video game industry and, at the same time, game degree programs at postsecondary institutions worldwide have grown in quantity and quality. Representation of gender and race in games and in the game industry workforce is an important issue. We explore this topic in our research, providing an overview of the demographics of undergraduate students in game degree programs in the United States and the United Kingdom. We include race, gender, ethnicity, political preferences, sexual orientation and more. Gender results indicate that males make up the significant majority in undergraduate …

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Diversity In The Game Industry: Is Outreach The Solution?, Amber Settle, Monica M. Mcgill, Adrienne Decker Oct 2013

Diversity In The Game Industry: Is Outreach The Solution?, Amber Settle, Monica M. Mcgill, Adrienne Decker

Amber Settle

Over the last decade, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has considered the lack of diversity in the game industry workforce a quality of life issue. Using the results of our recent study on demographics of undergraduate students in game degree programs, we compare our data against data reported in the 2005 IGDA Quality of Life survey. The most significant result of this study is that gender diversity in the current group of undergraduate students studying games is statistically the same as that reported within the industry seven years ago, with an approximate 8 to 1 ratio of males to …

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Evaluating A Prospective Student Mentoring Program, Amber Settle Jun 2013

Evaluating A Prospective Student Mentoring Program, Amber Settle

Amber Settle

No abstract provided.

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Magnetron Sputtering Of Ni-Ti Thin Film Simulation By Using Embedded Atom Model, Ajit Behera May 2013

Magnetron Sputtering Of Ni-Ti Thin Film Simulation By Using Embedded Atom Model, Ajit Behera

Ajit Behera

Nickel-Titanium Thinfilm shape memory alloys formed by sputtering have been promising candidates for the realization of powerful actuators in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as micro valves, micro fluid pumps and micromanipulators. In order to increase the actuation response of the microactuator utilizing SMA thin films, it is necessary to study the sputtering process parameter. The present work simulates the movement of Ni and Ti atoms on NiTi film During impingement, revealed re-sputtering, which is manipulated by Classical molecular dynamics simulation.

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Merrill-Cazier Library Gas Exhibition, Betty Rozum, Andrew Wesolek, Pamela N. Martin Dec 2012

Merrill-Cazier Library Gas Exhibition, Betty Rozum, Andrew Wesolek, Pamela N. Martin

Andrew Wesolek

This exhibition, presented in the Merrill-Cazier Library, captured the history and accomplishments of the GAS program. Click the download button to see a PowerPoint presentation featuring images and text from the exhibition.

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Asee_Eld2012inforlit Faculty Collaboration.Pptx, Patricia Watkins May 2012

Asee_Eld2012inforlit Faculty Collaboration.Pptx, Patricia Watkins

Patricia Watkins

Information Literacy and Faculty Collaboration - presentation of librarian efforts to imbed information literacy into the curriculum.

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Institutional Support For Computing Faculty Research Productivity: Does Gender Matter?, Monica M. Mcgill, Amber Settle Mar 2012

Institutional Support For Computing Faculty Research Productivity: Does Gender Matter?, Monica M. Mcgill, Amber Settle

Amber Settle

We address the question of how male and female computing faculty in the U.S. and Canada perceive research requirements and institutional support for promotion and tenure. Via a survey sent to approximately 7500 computing faculty at the 256 institutions that participate in the annual Taulbee Survey, our results identify differences in reported tenure and promotion requirements, including the number of publications required during the probationary period, the importance of the scope of publication venues, the importance of publishing in non-refereed journals, and the importance of collaborative presentations. Differences were also discovered in institutional support and the satisfaction levels with that …

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Social Networks And Web2.0 Among Youth: Lessons For Pacific Island Nations, Deogratias Harorimana Sr Feb 2012

Social Networks And Web2.0 Among Youth: Lessons For Pacific Island Nations, Deogratias Harorimana Sr

Dr Deogratias Harorimana

This study is on social networks and web2 among youths and the lessons for Pacific Island nation. This study defines commonly used social networking sites used by the Pacific youths, average time spent, reasons behind the use of social networking sites and how social networking sites can be used as a development tool for Pacific Island nation. It was found that the popularity of social networking amongst youths in Pacific Island Countries is fast growing, increasing more than three folds year on year in the last 3years. Social Networks are a vital part of life for PIC youths, where, now …

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Central Philippines Earthquake, February 06, 2012, Md. Nurul Alam Feb 2012

Central Philippines Earthquake, February 06, 2012, Md. Nurul Alam

Md. Nurul Alam

No abstract provided.

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Rethinking Advising: Developing A Proactive Culture To Improve Retention, Amber Settle, John Glatz Oct 2011

Rethinking Advising: Developing A Proactive Culture To Improve Retention, Amber Settle, John Glatz

Amber Settle

In 2009 DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media (DePaul CDM) discovered a significant lag in undergraduate retention rates as well as four, five and six-year graduation rates as compared to other major colleges at the university. DePaul CDM’s investment in online student service resources had over time caused the unintentional reinvention of the college advising office into one that supported a very limited number of students, focusing primarily on students either in academic distress or students nearing graduation. 
In an effort to modify the advising culture at DePaul CDM into a more proactive one, a strategic student service …

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