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S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Western Michigan University

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2006-1241: ELECTRIC & MAGNETIC FIELDS, TRANSMISSION LINES FIRST?S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Western Michigan University BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Dr. Mousavinezhad is an active member of ASEE and IEEE having chaired sessions in national and regional conferences. He is IEEE Region 4 Educational Activities Chair and member of the ASEE North Central Section Executive Board. He was the ECE Program Chair of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, June 16-19 and 2003 ASEE ECE Division Chair. Professor Mousavinezhad received ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received Zone II Outstanding Campus

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

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Gregory Plett, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Michael Ciletti, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; R. Dandapani, University of Colordo-Colorado Springs; T. S. Kalkur, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Mark Wickert, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

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-Colorado Springs Rodger E. Ziemer received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1965. After serving in the U. S. Air Force from 1965 – 1968, he joined the University of Missouri – Rolla until 1983, having been promoted through the ranks to Professor. He joined the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) in Jan. 1984 as Professor and Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In August 1998, he went on leave to the National Science Foundation where he was Program Director for Communications Research until August 2001; he then returned to being a full-time faculty member at UCCS. He has spent intermittent periods on leave or sabbatical to various

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Colin Campbell, TechnicalMastery.com Corp.; Faycal Saffih, UAE University; Khaled Nigim, University of Waterloo

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Waterloo, E&CE department. Page 11.730.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Improve Learning Efficiency with Integrated Math and Circuit Simulation Tools in Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses1. AbstractThis paper presents coupling the use of the TINA circuit simulation software with theMathcad mathematical software. This coupling permits students to simply (1) enter a circuit inTINA diagramatically, (2) export its symbolic solution y(t), or its transfer function, Y(s), to aMathcad file, and (3) plot these solutions for multiple values of a parameter (e.g. R) on a 2-Dor 3-D graph. The symbolic

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Digital Communications Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University; Matthew Sadiku, Prairie View A&M University; Alam Shumon, Prairie View A&M University; Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, Central Connecticut State University

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multilevel signaling (8-PAM) scheme in system reduces the channel symbol rate to one third of that of a conventional 2-PAM transceiver. iii) This symbol rate reduction lowers both the intersymbol interference (ISI) in the channel and the maximum required on-chip clock frequency. iv) In the Data Transceiver System, the receiver oversamples with three fully differential 3-bit ADCs. The dataflow will transmit up to 1.3 Gb/s. v) The transmission will be tested, measured and analyzed according to bit error rate of pattern bit sequence transmission, to evaluate the performance of the prototype5. System ArchitectureFigure 1 shows the block diagram of the transceiver operational chip-to-chip

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Kedmon Hungwe, Michigan Technological University; Seyed Zekavat, Michigan Technological University; Glen Archer, Michigan Technological University

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2 Male FemaleBasic digital systemsWomen with research experience background rated both Combinatorial Logic and SynchronousLogic marginally higher than those who did not except for women faculty who rated the topics lower. Page 11.664.9The results for males were the opposite, that is, research experience was associated with lower ratingsfor males (see Figure 5). F ig u re 5 : R e sp o n d e n ts w ith re se a rc h e x p e rie n c e : S y n ch ro n o u s L o g ic 2 .5

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Mehrdad Razavi, McFarland Clinic, University of Iowa; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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of what MD need to know, and gives them a realistic perspective of the issues, in casethey would like to pursue studies in medicine.For future research, the author propose that Engineering and Medical curricula officials actuallysit together and formalize common classes (pathways) in their programs, which could lead toenhance collaboration and ease transition of students (and faculty) across programs anddepartments.References1. “Current trend of American medical education-the place of alternative medicine,”Chakraborty, J.; Elkatib, M.; Purohit, A.; Kalla, S.; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995 and 14thConference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India. An International Meeting, Proceedings of the FirstRegional

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ECE Laboratory Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Ravi Chilumula, Arizona State University; CHIH-WEI HUANG, Arizona State University; Mike Stiber, University of Washington-Bothell; Philip Loizou, University of Texas-Dallas; Takis Kasparis, University of Central Florida

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Development Evaluation A http://jdsp.asu.edu Upgrades and T Software Development E for labs in: J-DSP Software Technology Enables: CRS 1: Multimedia A - students to run web simulations/visualization Computing, S CRS 2 : Networks, Local Lab S

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Digital System Design

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Ben Shaw, Youngstown State University; Faramarz Mossayebi, Youngstown State University

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Test Bed Figure 1: FlexARM1 Design Flow Different test vector sequences simulate certain CPU operations. For instance, the fileForward.hex runs a series of FlexARM1’s single clock cycle data-processing instructions to testthe forwarding of the 5-stage pipeline and verify there are no data hazards found in theinstruction stream. The software development also includes the writing of test (application)programs for the synthesizable FlexARM1 core. These application programs ensure overallfunctionality and provide a demonstration of the FlexARM1 operating in hardware. We arepresently developing several application programs (which we hope to finalize and demonstrate at

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Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Florida Tech; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ken Ports, Florida Tech; Richie Samuel, University of Central Florida; Melinda White, Seminole Community College; Veton Kepuska, Florida Tech; Philip Chan, Florida Tech; Annie Wu, University of Central Florida; Marcella Kysilka, University of Central Florida

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Learning (ML) is a discipline that started evolving as early as the 60’s in the form ofArtificial Intelligence and that nowadays has permeated several aspects of high-tech applicationsas well as everyday life. Its charter is to study, develop and build models able to perform“intelligent” tasks that may be second nature for humans, but are well beyond the capabilities oftraditional computing paradigms. ML applications such as vending machines that recognize validpaper bills, document processing software that corrects our grammar and syntax in real time,voice-driven over-the-phone account management of credit, smart photographic cameras thatautomatically adjust their exposure and speed settings depending on the scene environment, aswell as

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Digital Communications Systems

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David Border, Bowling Green State University

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68HC11 processors. TheMC9S12DT256 features the core cpu along with a variety of ancillary components on the chip,such as: ADC(s), asynchronous serial port(s) (SCI), Motorola sponsored synchronous serialperipheral interface(s) (SPI), Pulse Wide Modulation interface (PWM) plus others.One of the Bluetooth3 devices used to define the communications channel of the project was theConnectBlue OEMSPA 13i serial module. It is mounted on a development kit board that allowsfor convenient prototype wiring. The module supports RS232 signal interfacing (TxD, RxD,plus handshaking) and direct UART signal interfacing (TxD, RxD, plus handshaking). Themodule has 64KB of SRAM and 512KB of flash. Resident on the device is a Bluetoothembedded host stack. The other

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy

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EffortAbstractThis paper focuses on the development of a sustainable assessment plan for the ElectricalEngineering program at the University of Detroit Mercy. Other programs at theuniversity have adopted variations of this plan, which requires coordination amongdepartments. The paper will discuss the merits and shortcomings of this approach to thecontinuous assessment problem and explain why the adopted process was chosen.Background and Preparation for First EC2000 VisitIn the late 1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Commission published new criteria for the accreditation ofengineering programs, Engineering Criteria 2000.1 Criterion 3 calls for programs todefine program outcomes and to measure

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

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Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James West, Oklahoma State University

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," Bureau of Sociological Research, University ofColorado, Boulder, CO 1994.[3] P. A. Rosati, "The Learning Preferences of Engineering Students from Two Perspectives," presented at FIE '98 -Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings, Tempe, Arizona, 1998.[4] R. M. Felder, "Meet Your Students: 1. Stan and Nathan," Chem. Eng. Educ., vol. 23, pp. 68-69, 1989.[5] Committee for the Review to the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources,"SHAPING THE FUTURE New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering,and Technology," National Science Foundation, 1996.[6] P. T. Terenzini, A. F. Cabrera, C. L. Colbeck, J. M. Parente, and S. A. Bjorklund, "Collaborative learning vs.lecture/discussion

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Robert Throne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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constructed so that if theinput units are in cm, then the output units are in cm.This rectilinear one degree of freedom system can be modeled as shown below in Figure 3.Figure 3. Model of a one degree of freedom system. Only one cart is free to move, and there is atleast one spring attached.The transfer function for this model can easily be shown to be X 1 ( s) K ? F (s) 1 2 2| s - s -1 yn2 ynwhere K is the static gain, yn is the natural frequency, and | is the damping ratio. In the timedomain, both | and yn can be estimated

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Erik Peterson, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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, “Microfabrication in Biology and Medicine,” Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., vol. 1, 401–425, 1999.4. P. Melvas, E. Kalvesten and G. Stemme, “Media protected surface micromachined leverage beam pressure sensor,” J. Micromech. Microeng., vol. 11, 617–622, 2001.5. A. D. Stroock, S. K. W. Dertinger, A. Ajdari, I. Mezic, H. A. Stone, G. M. Whitesides, “Chaotic Mixer for Microchannels,” Science, vol. 295, 647-651, 2002.6. A. Olsson, P. Enoksson, G. Stemme, and E. Stemme, “Micromachined Flat-Walled Valveless Diffuser Pumps,” J. Microelectromech. Syst. vol. 6, 161-166, 1997.7. G.-B. Lee, S. Chen, G. Huang, W. Sung, Y. Lin, “Microfabricated plastic chips by hot embossing methods and their applications for DNA separations and detection,” Sensors

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ECE Laboratory Design

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Kain Osterholt, Belcan Corp.; Adam Vaccari, Caterpillar Incorporated; Joe Faivre, Caterpillar Incorporated; Gary Dempsey, Bradley University

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from 1993-2005 hasbeen maintained and will be useful in assessing future improvements due to the virtualworkstation.The issue of requiring the students to use the virtual workstation in our laboratory has beenaddressed. The SimMechanics model can be compiled into stand-alone code that can be used onany computer that has MATLAB and Simulink. For our system, the Real-Time Workshop wasused to convert the SimMechanics subsystem model into a S-Function block 18. The S-Functionis a computer language description of the subsystem (m-file, C-language, etc.) The S-Functionblock for the mechanical system can be used without the SimMechanics package. An additionalbenefit of the stand-alone code is a significantly decreased simulation time of the overall

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Mark Jansson; Ying Tang; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; John Schmalzel, Rowan University; Shreekanth Mandayam, Rowan University; Robert Krchnavek, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Raul Ordonez, University of Dayton

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Page 11.1329.6engaged in active learning exercises. The clinic experiences engage students early on inthe higher order and integrative thinking that we hope they have experienced in theirundergraduate education. Table 1 below highlights some of the key clinic and/or projectbased ECE/EE curricula described in the literature and on the college websites. Table 1 -Engineering Clinic or Project-Based Modules in EE/ECE CurriculaCollege/University[Ref] Number Credits Course Name / Year(s) OfferedDegree(s) granted – credits of Courses % of total for the Degree(s) RequirementsDrexel University [9,11] ~6 20 Engineering Design Lab [12 cr - Freshman]BSEE, BSCE – 181 Credits (11

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Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College; Ronald DeMara, University of Central Florida; Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida; Marcella Kysilka, University of Central Florida; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, University of Central Florida; Annie Wu, University of Central Florida; Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Florida Tech; Ingrid Russell; Jimmy Secretan, University of Central Florida

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, M. “Putting the utility of match-tracking in Fuzzy ARTMAP to thetest,” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information (KES),London, England, 20032. Anagnostopoulos, G. C., Georgiopoulos, M., Ports, K., Richie, S., Cardinale, N., White, M., Kepuska, V., Chan,P.K., Wu, A., Kysilka, M., “Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in MachineLearning for Undergraduate students,” Proceedings of the ASEE 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition, Session3232, Capstone & Educational Resource Developments, June 12-15, Portland, Oregon, 2005.3. Castro, J., Secretan, J.(*), Georgiopoulos, M., DeMara, R. F., Anagnostopoulos, G., and Gonzalez, A., “Pipeliningof Fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM

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Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Black, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bruce A. Black (S’63-M’65-SM’89) completed his B.S. at Columbia University, his S.M. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, all in electrical engineering. Since 1983 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he is also advisor to Tau Beta Pi and to the Amateur Radio club (W9NAA). His interests are in communications, wireless systems, and signal processing. He has developed a variety of courses and laboratories in the signal processing and communications areas, including a

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Qian Du, Mississippi State University; Judy Schneider, Mississippi State University

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Inductance and Mutual Inductance Ideal and Practical Transformer 6. Energy Conversion Principles of DC MachinesSimilar to the situation encountered at most other U. S. universities offering a similar course, thelecture did not provide clear interconnection between the course content and applications in Page 11.731.3different majors. The lack of connectivity is only worsened when there is no laboratorycomponent to provide the students with hands-on experience. 2III. Proposed Approach to the Coordination of ECE3183 and ME37013.1 ME3701 Experimental

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Coutermarsh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Don Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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digital pinscan be used for various output modulation schemes (e.g. Pulse-Width Modulation, PWM)and as a logic analyzer; in addition to simple control and monitoring applications.Analog InputAt the heart of the analog input system is a 1MS/s, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter. TheADC is multiplexed to 12 channels, seven of which are available to the user via a screwterminal mounted on the board. Channels 3 through 7 are able to read voltages between 0and positive 2.5V. Channels 1 and 2 are enhanced in order to more closely match acommercial oscilloscope’s input capabilities (though any analog channel can be used inoscilloscope mode). The input range is -10V to +10V on these two channels, which isachieved via a digitally-adjustable front end gain

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ECE Laboratory Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fitra Khan, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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placed on the far side of the simulated Public Switched Network (PSN).Among the many tasks, it is used to simulate congestion on the PSN by transferring largeamounts of data back and forth across the PSN.Figure 1 shows the general schematic of CNL. The laboratory houses the 24 computers thatconstitute the 24-node rack-mounted Beowulf as a central component of B-CEIL. Networkdevices are required to simulate a real-world PSN. This consists of a pair of T1-to-V.35 devicesto simulate a leased line8, a pair of DACs to aggregate or cross-connect different channels ofT1's, a pair of routers to provide WAN-to-LAN connectivity at each end of the leased line, andVoIP units on each end to simulate real-world voice grade channels. The Beowulf nodes andother

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Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Victor Rubanchik, Don State Technical University (DSTU), Rostov-on-Don, Russia

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corporate and military training, and academic education, his company developed a new ground-breaking e-learning solutions and relevant authoring tools. Yakov holds an M.S. in Experimental Physics, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science. He has published over 60 papers in national and international journals and made dozens presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Cherner was a Principal Investigator of several government funded educational projects.Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison Ahmed S. Khan, Ph.D. is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE

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Neetika Kohli, Purdue University; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University

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accessed January 18, 2006.6. Humanmetrics, “Jung – Myers-Briggs Topology Test”, http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp. Last accessed January 18, 2006.7. eInstruction™, “Classroom Performance System”, http://www.einstruction.com/. Last accessed January 18, 2006.8. Bloom, B. S. et al., (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals: Handbook 1: Cognitive Domain, David McKay Company, New York.9. Mazur, Eric, (1997) Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Page 11.785.510. Harris, A. H., A Manual for the VaNTH

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Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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throughShockley-Haynes experiment” which illustrates the concept of carrier action in semiconductors.A final project on solar cell application provides students with the real world design experience.In the future, the structure of the course will be modified continually to increase the effectivenessof students’ learning. More challenge-based learning techniques will be incorporated.AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Professors Harold Larson and Hugh Jack for the valuable discussions during thedevelopment of this course.Bibliography 1. Murarka, S. P. and Peckerar, M. C., “Electronic Materials, Science and Technology”. Academic Press, 1989. 2. Streetman, B. G. and Banerjee S. K., “Solid State Electronic Devices”, Prentice Hall

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Joni Spurlin, North Carolina State University; Hatice Ozturk, North Carolina State University

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of the UNESCO-ASPEN Workshop on Active Learning in Physics, Univ. of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, December 2002. 8. R.R. Hake, “Interactive engagement versus traditional methods: a six thousand student survey of mechanics test for introductory physics courses”, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 66, pp. 64-74, (1998) 9. Zeilik, M., C. Schau, N. Mattern. Conceptual astronomy. II. Replicating conceptual gains, probing attitude changes across three semesters. Am. J. Phys. 67(10): 923-927, 1999. 10. Zeilik, M. 2002 "Birth of the Astronomy Diagnostic Test: Prototest Evolution," Astronomy Education Review 1(2); online at . 11. Allgood, S. & W.B. Walstad. 1999. "The longitudinal effects of economic education on teachers

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Digital Communications Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland; Andrew Melton, University of Portland

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Spectrum Analyzer Antenna Figure 1: Experimental Setup for Most of the Database RecordingsThe Tektronix RSA3408A Real Time Spectrum Analyzer captures the inphase component x(n)and quadrature component y(n) of the complex envelope[4] of the signal as shown in Figure 2.The value of the center frequency ω c in Figure 2 is determined by the center frequency setting ofthe spectrum analyzer. The decimate operations reduce the amount of data required to representthe signal. LPF Decimate by X N x(n) ADC 2cos(ωcnT) s(t

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New trends in ECE education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qian Du, Mississippi State University

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applications. They alsomake the historically boring classes much more interesting. They may even inspire someinterested students get into these research areas. Up to now, the preliminary outcome includesvery positive feedback.The extension of this experience to an undergraduate-level course, MA4533/6533 Probabilityand Random Processes, is also discussed. Basically, a project in ECE8803 will be cut intoseveral small projects for MA4533/6533. Considering the background level of ourundergraduates, more explanation work needs to be done before project assignments. This alsorequires a smooth collaboration between faculty members in the ECE and MATH departments.References1. A. Papoulis and S. U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Gordon Brinton, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Harley Hartman, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Scott Neuhard, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Resmy Abraham, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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100 N VA 0 J N I W S Installed Gen. Capacity K E N Consumption

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Rocio Alba-Flores, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, University of Minnesota-Duluth

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object is from the center of the robot. It was determined thatthree sensors in the front and one in the rear of the vehicle will be sufficient to help in the controlof the navigation. The three sensors (SRF 04) [3] in the front are the main source for detectingthe location of close physical obstacles. In arranging the front sensors like this, the desire was togain information not only about how far away each obstacle is, but also an approximation on thelocation of each obstacle. The first way this is accomplished is if there is an object detected onone or two of the sensors and not on the other(s). For example, if an object is detected on the left and center sensors, but not on the right, then the object is located to the

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Huettel, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

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2006-1373: A NOVEL INTRODUCTORY COURSE FOR TEACHING THEFUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGLisa Huettel, Duke University LISA G. HUETTEL, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Laboratories in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She is interested in engineering education and the application of statistical signal processing to remote sensing. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.April Brown, Duke University APRIL S. BROWN, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research is focused