engineering process similar to the productdevelopment process in use in the Air Force and industry. In the first semester, the cadets focuson requirements definition, project planning, and design execution of the engineering project.Students receive instruction on project management tools and methods, analysis of requirements,software and hardware design specifications, quality assurance, and testing.1 During the springsemester, emphasis is placed on development of hardware and software, testing and evaluation,quality assurance, and documentation2.31 Aug 2005 System Requirements Review23 Sep 2005 Initial Design Review26 Oct 2005 Preliminary (High Level) Design Review17 Nov 2005 First Draft of Test Plan due28 Nov
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
= '0' THEN C <= Cint; ELSE C <= HighZ; END IF; END PROCESS drive_out; END behavioral; Figure 2 (continued). Floating Point Adder Behavioral Code The students start this project by writing a test plan which outlines the tests to beapplied, the expected result of the test, and outlines the methodology of how the tests areto be applied and checked. Students then must write the testbench which both applies the Page 11.1425.6tests and checks the results. They must also generate the tests to be applied. They areprovided with the tests
recognition, image processing, smart antennas and data-mining. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks since 2001.Ken Ports, Florida Tech KEN PORTS is a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Tech. He is also the Engineering Director of Florida TechStart, the university business accelerator. His interests include microelectronics, nanoelectronics and radiation effects, entrepreneurial behavior and culture, and business processes such as product to market, strategic planning and execution, and project management. Dr. Ports has 48 publications and 11 patents.Richie Samuel, University of Central Florida SAMUEL RICHIE is an
breech while ensuring necessary operationalservices are maintained. The competition is open to all students to promote a multidisciplinaryapproach since the information infrastructure is a multidisciplinary space. Teams participating inthe exercise develop and implement security plans that safeguard their users and secure theirnetworks. The students have several weeks to design and implement their defenses based on ascenario. The student teams (blue team) must then defend their network for 18 hours against ateam of security professionals (red team). The students maintain a usable network and provideservices to a group of users (green team). The green team provides a way to get others involvedin the competition even if they are not computer
in both the course objectives and course outline that are providedbelow.[11] [12]Course Objectives • Students will be able to describe the power flow problem formulated as a set of nonlinear algebraic equations which are most suitable for a computer solution, and will be able to explain and perform the Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson methods of analysis. • Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of PowerWorld Simulator software, create power system models and apply the models to analyze power system operations. • Students will be able to evaluate an existing power system and perform a contingency analysis to understand the vulnerability of the network. System planning is an important aspect of power
System) 4.0Senior Fall SpringSenior Thesis I 2.0 Senior Thesis II 3.0Elective: Microwave Eng I Elective: Numerical Methods(FSK WLAN) 3.0 (Microstrip Modeling) 3.0Elective: Antennas Elective: Control Systems(Triband Antenna Design) 3.0 (Magnetic Levitation Control System) 3.0Elective: Business/Eng Elective: Business/Eng(Business Plan) 1.0 (Business Plan) 1.0Fine Art Gen Ed
studentsfrom different disciplines or with different expertise, the authors made their best effort to assignstudents to one of their top three projects.Students were given only a brief description because part of their assignment was to develop aStatement of Work. This assignment was seen as an invaluable part of the program as itprovided the students with experience in synthesizing the problem statement, identifying theapproach, and planning and scheduling the tasks. The projects identified under this programwere such that they could be completed over an eight-week period or those that could becompleted over two summers by two different teams. It was strongly felt that the studentsshould be able to have a working prototype by the end of the summer
University of Colorado atColorado Springs (UCCS) we have successfully implemented key features of the Kolb/4MATlearning paradigm in a freshman-level course Introduction to Robotics1 and have recently propa-gated these features to a new sophomore-level course Introduction to Signals and Systems, taughtfor the first time in the fall of 2005, and the sophomore-level Circuits and Systems I, taught forthe first time in the spring of 2006. We are planning to implement features of this learning para-digm into one additional newly designed course: junior-level Circuits and Systems II, to betaught for the first time in the fall of 2006. We expect to completely redesign the systems coreclasses within the next several years.Our goals for this updated
overhaul.During the summer of 2004, the authors rewrote the course, creating a new course that focuseson technology’s impact on society. By removing circuits and machines, the course now covers abroader range of electrical engineering fields such as image and signal processing, datacompression, electronic navigation, communications, and computer networks and security. Thecourse examines current trends; with a focus on how the Coast Guard and Homeland Securityuse technology and discusses the ethical issues that arise with the potential misuse of technology.The authors developed several innovative lesson plans, laboratories and even a series of debatesto improve the students’ understanding of technological trade-offs, while developing their
focus in the first year of the curriculum reform has been on restructuring andredefining the core curriculum, responding to assessment results, implementing several newassessment tools, and planning and executing two pedagogical workshops. In this paper, wedescribe the process by which we have modified the core curriculum and the results of theredesign. [This work was supported by NSF grant EEC- 0431812].Initial assessment activities associated with our legacy curriculum indicated several areas thatneeded to be strengthened. First, students rarely felt they understood the coherent, overarchingframework that integrates basic principles. Second, there was an unbalanced coverage offundamental areas of ECE. Finally, the laboratory and design
educational technology innovations that enable Java-DSP (J-DSP) [1] to beused in 4 courses at 5 different universities. The project tasks consist of the following:a) educational innovation that upgrades the J-DSP GUI,b) a software development task to extend the mathematical and signal processing functionality of J-DSP,c) a comprehensive on-line laboratory exercise development task engaging all the Co-PIs at the different universities,d) a dissemination and assessment plan that involves five universities which committed to testing and providing feedback on the new J-DSP GUI and all exercises and content,e) a comprehensive pilot test of a new multi-site laboratory concept that allows students in the five universities to run real time
consists of the coordinator andthe students during which the student would evaluate him or herself and together with the facultycoordinator would come up with plan of action to get more out of the learning communityexperience. During this meeting the faculty evaluator would evaluate students on their maturity,approach to learning, general attitude, and problem solving maturity. Finally the facultycoordinator would meet with the TAs and mentors and go over each student’s growth andachievements. The EELC assessment has been based on the evaluation outlined above, and useof authentic assessment of an Electrical Engineering project (typically building a Ring Launcher,AM Radio, or other project that requires students to grasp several EE concepts) but
, calendar mapping and itsimpact on travelling students, identification of undergraduate projects, short visit structures,comparison of terminology, and a glossary.Outline of Issues for CollaborationThis section proposes an outline plan or roadmap which will help to establish a structure withinwhich the development of the collaboration can be managed (see Figure 1). Here we can listproblems and challenges we experience (for each of the following points) when pursuingcollaboration and expand upon the main areas for collaboration, i.e. ‚ Faculty exchange ‚ Undergraduate exchange ‚ Postgraduate exchange ‚ Industrial internships ‚ Research and development projects ‚ Scholarly work ‚ Professional society work, e.g., SEFI, ASEE, etc
basic measurements, the acquisition and processing of the measurementprocess. The second course in the sequence, ME4721 (ET1), concentrates on identification ofthe key parameters needed to guide the design of experiments using uncertainty analysis. Theseconcepts are merged into ME4731 (ET2), which provides the opportunity for students tocombine the knowledge gained in both EO and ET1 to plan an experiment which compares theirtheoretical predictions with the measured outcome.4All these three laboratories, taken in sequence, are one credit each without an accompanyinglecture. The first course, ME3701 focuses on measuring techniques and data acquisition. Therecommended sequencing for ME3701 is the second semester of the junior year, which
research articles provided a new prospective on and more in-depth understanding of fabrication methods • The course was organized well and easy to follow • Very interesting material; I took the course to see if it was something I would like to pursue; I enjoyed the topics covered and plan on taking more • I gained an understating of the developing technology; good exposure to new technologies in MEMS To the question, “What would you suggest improving?” students responded: • Too much time was spent discussing the basics of engineering mechanics before learning about their applications • More details in biological area • Reading more articles appropriate to the
component reviewing different ECE specializations while providing key fundamentalconcepts. It was decided to devote approximately one third of the course to introductory materialfollowed by eight weeks on different specialization areas. According to the initial plan, two 75minute lectures per week would be used to cover the theoretical material necessary to performthe experiments in laboratory, which would meet almost every week for three hours. Thespecializations to be included in the course were decided on based on the strengths of ourdepartment. The list included circuits, electric power, communication, digital signal processing,solid state electronics, logic design, computer architecture and computer networking..One of the great challenges of
Styles Questionnaireinstrument is because it has been proven valid and reliable when used in engineering courses.Because previous studies involving this course have used this instrument to collect data, a futurestudy has been planned to compare the instrument results of the previous studies with this studyto see if there is a correlation between instrument results and course performance. Students alsocomplete surveys about their learning experiences with an emphasis on the learning environment(e. g. learned centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered1).Students in the treatment section are distributed School of Electrical and Computer Engineeringowned wireless response units. Since wireless response unit activities
core doesn’t mean that it will work in the next release. This has been aproblem for several years, and the situation will not get better in coming years. If you plan to use thesetools for microprocessor instruction, consider yourself warned! Be very careful. One thing that you can dois develop the material and use it for at least one year before updating the tools to the latest version.Usually, vendors have major tool updates every twelve months or so with minor patches in the middle. Page 11.972.5Thus, you can stay with the stable version for a while. 4The documentation always seems
electrical concepts) ofNY State’s standard 4th grade exams. Page 11.1062.10One Year AgoEven with the more engaging studio environments, student learning is still impeded byspace constraints, insufficient time for laboratory activities (particularly to do the in-depth probing that leads to an intuitive feel for system design), and poorly designedequipment that takes up a great deal of space – and can’t be brought home for individualstudy. Lab-equipped classrooms are both in high demand and in extremely short supply.TodayConfiguring a studio facility typically requires a large equipment allocation/expense anda specific space utilization plan. Renovation of
Internet will provide the medium necessary to pushinformation visualization into the mainstream for use in the business plans of manycorporations. The electric power systems field has intensely focused on visual representationof information in a variety of domains as a means capturing the essence of typically largedata sets. The value in power engineering education is also well recognized 6-11 as a way ofteaching difficult non-intuitive concepts. The students read and evaluated a number of published articles relating to variousaspects of visualization. This served as a basis for the development of the individual studentprojects. The publications approached the use of visualization from many different aspects.The students gained insight and
examiningentrepreneurism is to bring in outside speakers who address important elements such asdeveloping a business plan, the role of other professionals in a business, etc. The Clinicsprovide the key vehicle for achieving multidisciplinarity [43]. We seek to broadenparticipation in Clinic projects to include as many other disciplines as possible. ECEstudents are actively managed during their junior and senior years to ensure that they signup for at least one Clinic project sponsored by a different discipline. Future plans call forexpansion to include students from disciplines outside engineering such as ComputerScience, Biochemistry, and Business, to name a few.Another of the unique features of this program is “Engineering Clinic Consultant”. Theseone-credit
images. Note that in the future our department is planning tooffer an introductory freshman level MATLAB course which should eliminate the needto spend time at the beginning of each course to teach MATLAB.The lecture material, hands-on examples, and in-class computer exercises were blendedtogether to form a unique interactive learning experience. All lectures (delivered viaPowerPoint) contained numerous MATLAB-based examples and students were requiredto experiment with short programs during the presentation. Each class period included alonger computer exercise designed to give the students opportunity to practice thematerial they just learned.The author experimented with two methods of incorporating interactive exercises into theclass. In the
programs for this testbed is currently under development. This versatile hardware/software platform can be used toenable students to learn how to “quickly” implement processors in hardware and interface themto various I/O, memory, and communication protocols, as we plan to do so for the spring of 2007offering of the computer architecture course at our institution.References1. M. Thompson, “FPGAs Accelerate Time to Market for Industrial Designs”, EE Times Online News, July 2, 20042. System Level Solutions, Inc., 14100 Murphy Ave., San Martin, CA 95046, www.slscorp.com3. Altera Corporation, 101 Innovation Drive, San Jose, CA 95134, www.altera.com4. Cyclone Device Handbook, Volume 1, www.altera.com/literature/lit-cyc.jsp5. J. Kriegbaum
participation and contributions towards themission of this project, students receive degree credit. Juniors are awarded "Upper DivisionElective Credit" and seniors fulfill their degree capstone requirement, "Team Senior Project".Each year more than 70 students and 14 faculties have participated in this effort. The students aresub-divided into team specializing in stereovision, object recognition, hardware, mapping andpath-planning software, camera on a chip design, and GIS. Each sub-team has one or morefaculty advisors to supervise the team’s activities.Students enrolled in the project agree to commit a minimum of six hours per week to theproject. Sub-team meetings are held each week of the quarter. All teams meet together threetimes each quarter to
MATLAB, Simulink, SimMechanics, and theVirtual Reality Toolbox software packages 5. Simulink provides a graphical user interface fornonlinear model development and simulation 6. In 2002, the software package SimMechanicswas added as an enhancement to the Simulink environment for modeling mechanical systems. Inconjunction with the Virtual Reality Toolbox, the Simulink platform can be used to design a Page 11.1432.2virtual control workstation. Initial planning of the workstation design was started in Spring 2004and was motivated by an externally-funded research project which used the new SimMechanicspackage for the design of a software testbed for
experience. This platform enables theexploration of a broad range of ECE concepts, both independently and integrated into an entiresystem, is flexible, to encourage creative solutions, is capable of being applied to real-worldchallenges, and is easily connected to the curricular theme. This paper describes the curricularobjectives and key course elements which guided the development of this course, the process bywhich the course was created, and the resulting content and structure.1. Introduction1.1 ECE Curriculum RedesignThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University is undergoing acomprehensive curriculum redesign. Large-scale planning and development for the newcurriculum has been conducted in earnest since early 2003
phase of the Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2006, American Society for Engineering Education work and to start the process to layout a plan for the full development phase of the system design.This project is a direct result of multiple-years of research experience on mixed signal systemsand broadband (high-speed) communication systems. The preliminary implementation of theseresearch experiences in several courses is our key objective in improving student learning.3. Motivationi) To introduce emerging technology into undergraduate teaching.Some of the authors have taught communication systems lab and are very familiar with
thedesign process. The importance of planning, task sequencing, resource gathering, and resultsoriented efforts were also stated.One student summarized this finding well, “The project approach has allowed me to channel myefforts into some producible output and I have been able to learn more by “doing” than I wouldjust sitting in a classroom and completing homework.” A fellow participant expanded on therelevance this instructional approach had on understanding the design process, “The project-focused approach has helped me to learn various stages of the design process and what it takes tomove forward in each stage.”This recognition and the tangible outcomes that resulted support an authentic problem-focusedlearning environment.Question 3: Part a
reason that we chose in this project to parallelize no-match tracking FAMis because the parallelization of FAM is a much more complex process.6. The Panel Discussion: CRCD Board and CRCD StudentsAs the CRCD agenda indicates (see Appendix A) we had planned an interaction between theCRCD students and the CRCD Advisory Board members immediately after the completion ofthe CRCD oral presentations. We provided the CRCD Advisory Board members with a list ofquestions that we wanted them to ask the CRCD students (see below).Questions for the CRCD Board Panelists to Ask the CRCD Students1. How do you think the projects helped you to understand the concepts you were expected to know?2. What advice would you give your professors to improve the projects?3