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Circuitry Components In Gaming Controllers: How Do Video Game Controllers Measure User Inputs?, David Engstrom Oct 2020

Circuitry Components In Gaming Controllers: How Do Video Game Controllers Measure User Inputs?, David Engstrom

Engineering Student Trade Journal Articles

[excerpt] Video games rely upon gaming controllers in order to function properly. For a user to interact with a game as intended, each input must be measured and transmitted to the gaming system accurately. There are three main types of gaming controller inputs: standard push buttons, pressure sensitive buttons, and analog sticks. Each type of input requires unique circuitry to be measured and transmitted accurately

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The Inner Workings Of The Electronencephalogram Brain Scan, And The Circuitry Components That Are Used, Daniel Flattum Oct 2020

The Inner Workings Of The Electronencephalogram Brain Scan, And The Circuitry Components That Are Used, Daniel Flattum

Engineering Student Trade Journal Articles

In the medical field, the past century has become a golden age for technology to be combined with medical instruments. The earliest Brain scan was the MRI created around1961, but the EEG, or the Electroencephalogram, brain scan has been around in 1924. The EEG technique has been improved drastically over the past 80 years, and now remains essential for solving medical cases such as epilepsy, brain tumors, and head injuries.

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The Frequency Of An Electric Guitar And How A Tuner Defines Its Note, Jacob Becker Oct 2020

The Frequency Of An Electric Guitar And How A Tuner Defines Its Note, Jacob Becker

Engineering Student Trade Journal Articles

How a guitar tuner measures the frequency of a guitar and the best way to develop this kind of tuner.

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Hdds And Ssds: Which Is Right For Your Needs?, Orion Heinosch Oct 2020

Hdds And Ssds: Which Is Right For Your Needs?, Orion Heinosch

Engineering Student Trade Journal Articles

[from Introduction] In the world of electronics, digital information is what drives the operation of devices we all use on a daily basis. This information must be retained so that these systems can execute their tasks in a desired way.

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Lemons To Lemonade: Refining An Active Learning Course For Delivery During A Pandemic, Jeremy Straub Oct 2020

Lemons To Lemonade: Refining An Active Learning Course For Delivery During A Pandemic, Jeremy Straub

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

The Spring semester of 2020 was a time of unanticipated and unprecedented rapid change for higher education in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States midway through the semester forcing colleges and universities to rapidly take courses online with minimal time to prepare. North Dakota was, comparatively, fortunate in that the transition occurred over spring break; however, initially the online period was only supposed to last for two weeks. This poster presents the process that was used to rapidly change an active learning course, which was designed for in person delivery, over to being held entirely online.

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A Triz-Based Tool For Remanufacturing Using Additive Manufacturing: Re-Am-Triz, Edward Rojas, Eric Exner, Kundan Paudyal, Omar Al-Araidah, Gul Okudan Kremer Oct 2020

A Triz-Based Tool For Remanufacturing Using Additive Manufacturing: Re-Am-Triz, Edward Rojas, Eric Exner, Kundan Paudyal, Omar Al-Araidah, Gul Okudan Kremer

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

Remanufacturing is a process of returning a used product to at least the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) performance specification from the customers’ perspective and giving the resultant product a warranty that is at least equal to that of a newly manufactured equivalent. Even though there are many benefits of remanufacturing, there are barriers when it comes to its implementation. There can arise contradictions when dealing with different products, or in different steps during the remanufacturing process. A method to solve contradictions like those is TRIZ, which is a problem-solving method that can resolve technical contradictions.

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Experiments On The Neurocognitionof Creativity, Rafal Jonczyk, Danielle Dickson, Gul E. Kremer, Zahed Siddique, Janet G. Van Hell Oct 2020

Experiments On The Neurocognitionof Creativity, Rafal Jonczyk, Danielle Dickson, Gul E. Kremer, Zahed Siddique, Janet G. Van Hell

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

Creative production is often correlated to divergent thinking to produce many different ideas; hence, for the engineering education domain, design learning presents opportunities to enhance divergent thinking.

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Engineering At San Jose State University, Fall 2020, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering Oct 2020

Engineering At San Jose State University, Fall 2020, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering

Engineering at San Jose State University

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Engineering News, Fall 2020, School Of Engineering Oct 2020

Engineering News, Fall 2020, School Of Engineering

Engineering News

No abstract provided.

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5g Vs 4g, What's The Difference?, Michael Fermanis Oct 2020

5g Vs 4g, What's The Difference?, Michael Fermanis

Engineering Student Trade Journal Articles

5G is rolling out in 2020. What is going to be different than 4G? Compared to the fourth generation, 5G will have lower latency, faster download speed, and will be able to connect the Internet of Things on a world scale. The possibilities that come with 5G will revolutionize how the world works.

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Development And Assessment Of Courses In Defensive Security And Ethical Hacking, Pann Ajjmaporn, Jeremy Straub Oct 2020

Development And Assessment Of Courses In Defensive Security And Ethical Hacking, Pann Ajjmaporn, Jeremy Straub

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

In order to combat malicious actors of the digital age, cybersecurity experts have quickly become essential in almost every company. New employees must be ready to 'hit the ground running' in this dynamic and frequently changing fields. To effectively prepare students for careers in cybersecurity , enhancements are needed to traditional class-based lecture techniques. This work presents and evaluates two different methodologies used in cybersecurity education: a gamification approach which used a capture the flag model and competition -based approach.

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A Hybrid Mechanics Of Materials Course Part 1: Evolution Of The Course To Improve Student Performance And Retention, Roy Y. Myose, Foo Ngai Kok, Elizabeth Rollins Oct 2020

A Hybrid Mechanics Of Materials Course Part 1: Evolution Of The Course To Improve Student Performance And Retention, Roy Y. Myose, Foo Ngai Kok, Elizabeth Rollins

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

A hybrid Mechanics of Materials course consisting of recorded lecture videos and face-to-face class meetings was developed. Initial offerings of the hybrid course resulted in a drop in average student performance by – 0.18 grade points as well as a reduction in the student pass rate of 3%. Over time, average student performance in the course improved; however, the student pass rate remained relatively constant. A number of ad hoc internal studies by the hybrid course instructors were conducted to attempt to determine the factors contributing to the reduction in the student pass rate. A test over prerequisite Statics and …

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Developing A Portable, Smartphone-Based Schlieren Imaging System, Grace Riermann, Keith R. Stein Oct 2020

Developing A Portable, Smartphone-Based Schlieren Imaging System, Grace Riermann, Keith R. Stein

Honors Student Works

Schlieren imaging is a technique for visualizing fluid flows that are characterized by spatial variations in density or refractive index. Because schlieren imaging is commonly performed with expensive equipment in a lab setting, we sought cost efficiency, accessibility, and ease of fabrication by designing a portable, smartphone-based system.

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Resilience Of School Systems Following Severe Earthquakes, Emad M. Hassan, Hussam N. Mahmoud, Bruce R. Ellingwood Oct 2020

Resilience Of School Systems Following Severe Earthquakes, Emad M. Hassan, Hussam N. Mahmoud, Bruce R. Ellingwood

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Natural disasters may have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts on communities' physical, economic, and social infrastructure. Slow recovery of educational services following such events is likely to cause traumatic stress in children, lead families to out-migrate, and affect the community's overall social stability. Methods for quantifying and assessing the restoration process of educational systems and their dependencies on other supporting infrastructure have not received adequate attention. This study introduces, for the first time, a new framework to evaluate the functionality, recovery, and resilience of a school system following severe earthquake events. The framework considers both the quantity and quality of education …

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Supply Chain Analysis To Determine E-Commerce Distribution Center Locations, Fatima Chebchoub Oct 2020

Supply Chain Analysis To Determine E-Commerce Distribution Center Locations, Fatima Chebchoub

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Supply chain management is the key success for each business. Having a robust supply chain will help the business to improve service, quality, reduce the costs, improve the speed, and be more flexible. Organizations need to look at data and deploy plans to move the product from operation to logistics to manage a global chain. In this paper we will use E-Comm shipment data to identify the best locations to build a new distribution center (DC).

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Impulse, Fall 2020, Matt Schmidt, Emily Weber, Kristi Schelhaas, Christie Delfanian, Dave Graves Oct 2020

Impulse, Fall 2020, Matt Schmidt, Emily Weber, Kristi Schelhaas, Christie Delfanian, Dave Graves

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
2 | Meet the New Associate Dean for Research
3 | Ge Given Grant To Upgrade Genomic Data Website
4 | Covid-19 Causes Adjustment To Student Life On Campus
6 | New Staff — Roberts, Dawkins, Meredith
8 | Retirees — Robert Schmidt, Leann Warner
10 | Faculty News
12 | Ph.D. In Mechanical Engineering Created
15 | College News
16 | SDSU, Capital Services Expand Fellowship Program
18 | Capital Fellowships Serve As Ladder To Career Success
20 | Imaging Engineers Testing Prototype Calibration Device
22 | Virtual Job Fair Gains Collective ‘Like’
23 | Knabach Award Goes …

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Integrating Hybrid-Flexible Course Delivery With General Education Computer Science Courses, Benjamin Bernard, Jeremy Straub Oct 2020

Integrating Hybrid-Flexible Course Delivery With General Education Computer Science Courses, Benjamin Bernard, Jeremy Straub

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

The Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) course delivery format was developed at San Francisco State University to make SDSU’s instructional technologies master’s degree program accessible to working adults. Under the HyFlex model, instructors build content for both a fully online course and for a traditional ‘face-to-face’ classroom environment. Both have the same learning outcomes for each week, so that students can move between online and in-person participation in the course seamlessly. This poster covers the adaptation of CSCI 159, Computer Science Problem Solving, to the HyFlex model. The implementation of this course differs from the model in that it was entirely online but …

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Developing A Substation Design Curriculum For Electronics Engineering Technology, Filipe Santos Araujo, Erik A. Mayer Oct 2020

Developing A Substation Design Curriculum For Electronics Engineering Technology, Filipe Santos Araujo, Erik A. Mayer

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: The latest technologies have created an increasing demand for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. Substations are a crucial segment of our power grid. Substations are used to step-up voltages for the long-distance transmission of energy and to stepdown voltages for industrial and residential use. The demand for substation design curriculum was discussed at a meeting of the Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC) for EET. Members of the IAC consisted of professionals from Black & Veatch and other companies that work with power systems such as substations and switchgear. The curriculum was developed in close cooperation with Black & …

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Summer Engagement In Cyber Undergraduate Research Experiences (Secure), Douglas W. Jacobson, Diane T. Rover, Joseph Zambreno, Allegra Frickel Oct 2020

Summer Engagement In Cyber Undergraduate Research Experiences (Secure), Douglas W. Jacobson, Diane T. Rover, Joseph Zambreno, Allegra Frickel

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: This virtual initiative, called Summer Engagement in Cyber Undergraduate Research Experiences (SECURE), was established as a response to support students who may have lost summer internships and/or have financial hardships due to COVID-19. Several students in the program were NSF S-STEM scholars, a mix of computer engineering, cyber security engineering, electrical engineering and software engineering students.
Purpose/Hypothesis: The main question addressed by this initiative was whether we could build a virtual undergraduate research experience that enabled students to apply their studies and knowledge similarly as they would in a traditional summer internship. Goals for the experience included providing small-group …

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Building Student Persistence With The Use Of Real-Time Feedback On Design Problems, John A. Mirth Oct 2020

Building Student Persistence With The Use Of Real-Time Feedback On Design Problems, John A. Mirth

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: This paper examines the use of a real-time feedback document to assist students in navigating design problems. The design problems are multi-step challenges that culminate in design specifications for a small system. Each problem can be solved using a predictable sequence of calculations. Students customize their specific problem by inserting their own performance parameters to develop a solution that is unique for each student.
Purpose: Two challenges associated with design problems are those of providing effective feedback to students and of grading final submissions that are unique to each student. The research described proposes the use of a structured …

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Industrial Experience And Disciplinary Knowledge Impact On Creative Outcomes In A Making Context: A Case Study Of Graduate Level Industrial Engineering Course, Wafa Batayneh, Richard T. Stone, Gul E. Okudan Kremer Oct 2020

Industrial Experience And Disciplinary Knowledge Impact On Creative Outcomes In A Making Context: A Case Study Of Graduate Level Industrial Engineering Course, Wafa Batayneh, Richard T. Stone, Gul E. Okudan Kremer

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: Design and creativity are essential elements of problem-solving.
Purpose: The purpose of the research presented herein is to identify the impacts of learning in different study programs on students’ abilities to generate and implement creative design solutions.
Design/Method: An experiment was designed and conducted within the context of a semester-long graduate engineering course titled “Human-Centered Design and Manufacturing” at a large American public university. The experiment featured classroom data collection from an experimental cohort at four different stages of an intervention using a questionnaire. Results were then compared to those of a control group’s.
Results: Preliminary results showed that …

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Method Of Joints: Theory And Practice Of Designing, Building, And Testing Trusses, Andrew J. Hughes, Chris Merrill Oct 2020

Method Of Joints: Theory And Practice Of Designing, Building, And Testing Trusses, Andrew J. Hughes, Chris Merrill

Educational Leadership & Technology Faculty Publications

The authors of this article, like many of us, are proponents of engineering education but are also proponents of shop skills, craftsmanship, technological literacy, and the tacit knowledge and skills developed through applying sound theories during practical hands-on learning. The authors believe that engineering is an important aspect of our discipline, but so are the application of thinking, tool skills, measurement, geometric construction, manufacturing, instrumentation, testing and analysis, mathematical and scientific theories, and many other hands-on, minds-on skillsets that all need to maintain association with our discipline. As the authors are proponents for engineering education that is done well, they …

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The Challenges Of Engineering Education, Engineering Practice, Code Of Ethics, And Social Justice, Rachel Shannon Oct 2020

The Challenges Of Engineering Education, Engineering Practice, Code Of Ethics, And Social Justice, Rachel Shannon

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

Engineering has always been human-centered through the technologies we provide to enrich and make our lives more convenient. The engineering code of ethics uphold that engineers should put “the safety, health, and welfare of the public” first. However, we argue that the code of ethics is not enough, and that we need to reinforce human-centered design in engineering education through designerly ways of thinking, reflective practices, and being more student-centered.

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Development Of Critical Consciousness Scale For Civil Engineering Students, Tonmoy Sarker, Dr. Cristinia Poleacovschi, Dr. Mollie Appelgate, Dr. Kate Swalwell, Dr. Christa Jackson, Dr. Kristen Cetin Oct 2020

Development Of Critical Consciousness Scale For Civil Engineering Students, Tonmoy Sarker, Dr. Cristinia Poleacovschi, Dr. Mollie Appelgate, Dr. Kate Swalwell, Dr. Christa Jackson, Dr. Kristen Cetin

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Poster Presentations

Recent research shows the engineers continue to think less critically at the end of their undergraduate engineering degrees and fail ro adhere to their professional responsibility. A key component to addressing these issues includes assessing engineers' critical consciousness (CC). The development of a Critical Consciousness Scale (CCS) is important for civil engineering education as it assists practitioners and educators with better means to assess whether ant interventions (e.g. ABET) and indeed efficacious.

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Work In Progress – Building Innovative Curricula For Electrical And Computer Engineering Programs At The University Of Mount Union, Okechukwu Ugweje, Chad S. Korach Oct 2020

Work In Progress – Building Innovative Curricula For Electrical And Computer Engineering Programs At The University Of Mount Union, Okechukwu Ugweje, Chad S. Korach

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: The University of Mount Union has introduced new programs in Electrical and Computer engineering. In a liberal arts college with unique curriculum requirements, it is challenging to develop a new program in electrical and computer engineering. With several university mandates such as only 4- and 2-credit hours courses only, and Integrative Core liberal arts requirements, designing the new programs in engineering has been challenging.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the ongoing effort to develop new Electrical and Computer engineering programs at the University of Mount Union. The program curricula are unique as there are no …

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Staying Connected – Interactive Student Learning During The Covid Transition To Remote Learning, Jeffrey A. Starke, Margaret L. Mcnamara, Richard J. Povinelli, Daniela Castillo-Perez, L. Noelle Brigham Oct 2020

Staying Connected – Interactive Student Learning During The Covid Transition To Remote Learning, Jeffrey A. Starke, Margaret L. Mcnamara, Richard J. Povinelli, Daniela Castillo-Perez, L. Noelle Brigham

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background. How can we transition courses in one week, while maintaining a similar experience for students? This was probably the initial response by faculty across universities as they transitioned to remote learning, mid-semester, in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our approach is supported by the ICAP framework which posits that “as activities move from passive to active to constructive to interactive, students undergo different knowledge-change processes and, as a result, learning will increase.” (Chi and Wylie, 2014)
Purpose/Hypothesis. How we could foster students’ interactions with course material, instructors, and their peers using collaborative technology and course activities? It was hypothesized …

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A New Method For Biomechanical Data Acquisition In Remote Laboratory Delivery During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ahmed M. Sayed Oct 2020

A New Method For Biomechanical Data Acquisition In Remote Laboratory Delivery During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ahmed M. Sayed

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: Delivery of a hands-on laboratory experience is a real challenge in the present pandemic environment. Many instructors tend to acquire and record experimental data, and then instruct their students to analyze such data to produce results and lab reports in an online course mode. Such a process considerably diminishes students’ motivation, engagement, and eagerness to explore further knowledge, as students appreciate more experimental data that they gather themselves. Such drawbacks are even more profound in a practical field such as biomechanics, where students need to feel the sense of kinematic and kinetic data of their own body motions and …

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A Comparison Of Platform Configurations For Robotics Development Within Ros2, Raspberry Pi, Andwebots, Katherine Gisi, Diane T. Rover, Phillip H. Jones Iii Oct 2020

A Comparison Of Platform Configurations For Robotics Development Within Ros2, Raspberry Pi, Andwebots, Katherine Gisi, Diane T. Rover, Phillip H. Jones Iii

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: The field of robotics continues to expand with new, progressive technologies. The vast ecosystem of robotics, with its countless routes, is initially challenging to navigate. It is even more so during a season of virtual instruction. Creating strategic entrance points for the incoming students merits consideration. Purpose: Our aim is to provide a way for students to explore three critical areas in robotics: the physical robot (hardware), the simulated robot (digital twin), and the operating system and code (controller).
Method: We explore options for integrating two advanced robot development frameworks (i.e. Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) and Webots) in …

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Critical And Liberative Theories: Applications In Engineering Education, Corin L. Bowen, Aaron W. Johnson Oct 2020

Critical And Liberative Theories: Applications In Engineering Education, Corin L. Bowen, Aaron W. Johnson

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background. Higher educational programs in engineering today are seeking to correct disproportionately low enrollment and success rates of minoritized students. However, most diversity-related programming fails to address systems of structural oppression that cause particular students to be underrepresented in higher education. In addition, typical engineering pedagogical methods fail to address the reality and impacts of structural oppression, as educators cannot overcome the effects of structurally oppressive systems through traditional methods of controlling classroom and curriculum.
Purpose. This paper explores the relationship between existing critical and liberative theories and engineering educational systems and re-frames the goals and problems of diversity and …

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An Augmented Reality Multimedia Learning Platform Assisting Online Lecture Delivery Of Engineering Classes: An Hvac Course, Huojan Yang, Jiaming Zhao, Tianyi Liang, Siqing Zheng, Nikolas R. Kukert, Jun Kong Oct 2020

An Augmented Reality Multimedia Learning Platform Assisting Online Lecture Delivery Of Engineering Classes: An Hvac Course, Huojan Yang, Jiaming Zhao, Tianyi Liang, Siqing Zheng, Nikolas R. Kukert, Jun Kong

ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications

Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has recently resulted in an emergent shift of traditional instruction to (presumably temporary) online delivery, and many students were not able to participate in practical activities (e.g., laboratory experiments) due to inaccessible or unavailable “brick and mortar” laboratories. Purpose: This works-in-progress paper developed a multimedia learning platform with virtual laboratory modules through an Augmented Reality (AR) environment, where virtual objects (augmented components) are superimposed onto a real learning setting during online lecture instruction. Specifically, to facilitate students’ gaining practical skills, a library of virtual objects were established for the main physical components or systems related …

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