Students in our EECS 1011 "intro to programming class" will be working on growing plants throughout the semester as part of their minor project. Students will connect their Arduino-compatible Grove board to the plant to automate the watering process. Students may choose to grow something from seed or to continue to maintain an indoor potted […]
I have a paid subscription to The Noun Project because I like the deep and broad selection of black-and-white icons that can be used in all kinds of documents. The licence model is worry-free: I pay for a subscription and can use any icon I download wherever I want, without the need for attribution (even […]
H5P modules are fantastic ways to add interactive content to your Moodle (*ahem* I mean "eClass") page. The LTS folks at York have a page on H5P. Here's my take on it. To create H5P content on eClass is a little different than on the older version of Moodle. Here's how you do it. Start […]
I think that online is best done with the student (and prof) being able to track the progress of the student in the most straight-forward manner possible. After a few days between looking at the the course page, and having forgotten where the student left off, it should be really clear to the student where […]
These are copies of the lessons and labs that I developed for the LPC802 and LPC804 microcontrollers by NXP. These are the "student" versions and contain blanks in certain places on purpose. Course Outline (EECS 3215 Winter 2020) Introduction to the design of embedded systems using both hardware and software. Topics include microcontrollers; their architecture, […]
Virtual Programming Lab is a plugin for Moodle (eClass at YorkU) that permits interactive programming assignments to be made for students. There are some really good examples at Smith College on how to set it up with Python and a few with Java and C. I've posted, on YouTube, an example of how to […]
this is a work in progress... nothing is finalized and no decision made at this point. Just doing a market survey for now... many people need to be consulted and this will have to be a joint decision... We'll use an internal (to York) Teams page to flesh out the details. Key characteristics Price. (low […]
In the winter semester of 2019 I helped teach a mechatronics class for senior engineering students at INSA Strasbourg. Like many of the classes at INSA, the course focused on lab work. In this case, the students were working on moderately open-ended design work for mechatronics systems, combining earlier material that they had learned such […]
During my 2018-19 sabbatical year I worked with colleagues at engineering schools in Strasbourg, France and Karlsruhe, Germany. These schools have well-developed exchange programs and wished to establish an exchange program with York University. I had many productive and insightful conversations about ideas, challenges and opportunities for exchanges with Angelika Hammann and the staff in the […]
While I was on sabbatical from York University I had the opportunity to teach twice at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany (Hochschule Karlsruhe, a.k.a HsKa). I had been invited to do so by Professor Klemens Gintner, a colleague and friend who I had hosted during his sabbatical in Toronto in 2015. It […]