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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 13.1351.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using Real RF Signals Such as FM Radio to Teach Concepts in Communication SystemsAbstractThe theory of communication systems can be made more concrete and interesting by using real-world signals to illustrate the various theoretical concepts. The FM radio signal is, in manyways, an ideal signal to illustrate many of the concepts that are taught in communication systemcourses. This radio frequency (RF) signal is readily available in most populated areas, thestudents are familiar with the signal, and most FM stations broadcast both analog audio signalsand digital Radio Data System (RDS) signals which can be used to illustrate digital

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa Magleby, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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AC 2008-2528: LAB REPORT WRITING (AND TEACHING!) MADE EASYAlyssa Magleby, University of Utah Alyssa Magleby is a PhD Candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Utah. She completed her B.S. in electrical engineering at Utah State University in 2002. She received the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2002. She used her fellowship to continue on and received her M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 2004. After programming a modem for a military application in the Advanced Communications group at L-3 Communications Systems-West for a year and a half, she returned to the University of Utah to attain a PhD. She is presently researching

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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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processor. The goal of this course is to teach the basics of microprocessors andperipheral interfacing techniques. Along with replacing the traditional discrete microprocessorwith a soft-core processor, the course was modified with the addition of the C programminglanguage. The course used assembly language to teach the features and capabilities of the NiosII processor (instructions, registers and memory) and quickly migrate to the C programminglanguage using a task-oriented approach rather than an exhaustive coverage of the language.Both instructors and students gained valuable experience through this process.Course ObjectiveThe ECE 332/332L Microprocessors course at Boise State University covers microprocessorarchitecture, software development

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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ed Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sam Shearman, National Instruments; Erik Luther, National Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-1613: ENHANCING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING EDUCATIONWITH AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING AND MUSIC SYNTHESISEd Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Doering received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992, and has been a member the ECE faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 1994. He teaches courses in digital systems, circuits, image processing, and electronic music synthesis, and his research interests include technology-enabled education, image processing, and FPGA-based signal processing.Sam Shearman, National Instruments Sam Shearman is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments

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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Ulrich Schwabe, Rowan University; Andrew Hak, Rowan University

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at SunTechnics. Have they done this type of workbefore? Not yet, but that is why they are in college. The engineering clinic was based upon themedical model for training physicians by teaching them the basics of human anatomy,physiology etc. and then make sure that before they go out in the real world to practice alonethey gain clinic or residency experience where they can be supported by other physicians. Theengineering clinic is a key component of the Rowan University student educational experienceand spans all four of the students’ years in their undergraduate training. The details of the clinicare described elsewhere1,2,3 as are the many opportunities that students at this university have hadto apply the clinic to innovative renewable

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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AC 2008-2072: TEACHING AND USING GPS/GIS IN ELECTRICALENGINEERING PROJECTSSaeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Dr. Saeed Sean Monemi is a professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published many papers and currently conducting projects in the areas of embedded systems, software engineering, and operating systems.Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Dr. Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu is a professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published many papers and currently conducting projects in the area of signals and

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Embedded System Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

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Electrical and Computer

embedded systems. The teaching materialpresents the concepts by stressing: (i) embedded design based on high-level specifications(including for the analog and mixed-signal interfaces), (ii) system performance and costoptimization by employing design trade-off analysis, and (iii) implementing embedded systemson reconfigurable platforms by following a module-based design paradigm. The four creditcourse includes both lectures and laboratory activities.The presented high-level specifications express the abstract data flow in a system, includingsignal acquisition and conversion, control procedures, and actuation7. Examples use the Clanguage, but the concepts are also valid for other specification formalisms3. The materialprovides a comprehensive

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

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Electrical and Computer

communications,and senior capstone design project courses, teaching laboratories and projects helpedimprove student participation, got the students actively involved and excited about theprojects and the material being taught, motivated the students to better master coursecontent and taught the students to learn to think and reason more clearly, accurately,relevantly, logically, rationally, ethically and responsibly.This paper discusses how the judicious, sensible and affable use of the Socratic Methodin the aforementioned educational settings facilitated the development of students whoare learning to possess the basic skills of thought and reasoning such as the ability to:identify, formulate and clarify questions; gather relevant data; identify key

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College; Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Program from 1993-97, and starting in January 2008, he is serving as Director of the Computer Engineering Program. From 1990-92, he was a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. He worked for TRW in Redondo Beach, CA for 11 years, primarily on signal processing projects. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, ACM, AAAS, and SHOT.Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College Dominic J. Dal Bello received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College, a California community college in Santa Maria, where he teaches Statics

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Kragh; Jeffrey Reed; Carl Dietrich; Donna Miller

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Education in Software Defined Radio Design Engineering Abstract— Software Defined Radio (SDR), an interdisciplinary emerging technology,presents new challenges for communications engineers and engineering educators. In SDR,signal modulation and information coding are defined in the system's software, nothardware. The authors have incorporated SDR design into their respective curricula bothto support the growing demand for SDR engineering and to teach widely applicablesystems engineering concepts. SDR-oriented curricular changes include new courses,laboratories, and software design tools. Software radio design is taught as aninterdisciplinary systems engineering undertaking, emphasizing the importance of

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Meyer, Purdue University; Mark Johnson, Purdue University School of ECE; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University

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Laboratories with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University since July 1999. He received his PhD in 1998 from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He teaches Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, advises senior design project teams, supervises teaching assistants in several laboratories, develops computer engineering laboratory curricula, manages design automation software for instruction and research, and is chair of an ECE committee for instructional innovation. Dr. Johnson served as proceedings chair for Microelectronic Systems Education 2003, program chair for Microelectronic Systems

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor

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Electrical and Computer

hardware, software and courseware learning ecosystem that has beencreated to capture student attention and develop a broader skill set. Laboratory and in-classexercises use POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) – based laboratory modules toengage students in learning through exploration, critical thinking, and team and cooperativeparticipation exercises. Laboratory and in-class exercises are designed to teach the student howto explore a new technology to be able to learn more about it. In fact, learning how to learn is akey outcome. Laboratory hardware is designed to provide easy connection to real-world devicesand allow students to extend their explorations from classroom theory to the practical applicationof technology they are

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

Pedagogical and Andragogical Validity of Capstone Projects,” http://www.asee.org/acPapers/20476.pdf. 4. S. Brookfiel, “Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning,” San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass, 1986. 5. R. Zemke, “In Search of Self-Directed Learners” Training, May 1998. 6. J.E. Stice, “A First Step Toward Improved Teaching,” Engineering Education, 1976 7. W. Ibrahim, R. Morsi, “Online Engineering Education: A Comprehensive Review,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference 8. L.D. Feisel, A. J. Rosa, “The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, No. 1, January 2005. 9. N.Y. Bengiamin, A. Johnson, M. Zidon, D. Moen, D., and D.K. Ludlow, “The

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2006, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include microfluidics and MEMS devices for chemical and biological assays. He was the teaching assistant for the microfluidics laboratory course discussed in this paper.Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati Dr. Karen C. Davis is an Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. She has advised over 30 senior design students and more than 20 MS/PhD theses in the area of database systems. She has been the recipient of several departmental and college teaching awards, including

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Embedded System Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daren Wilcox, Southern Polytechnic State University; Steve Wilson, Southern Polytechnic State University; Gerd Wöstenkühler

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Electrical and Computer

sophomore level. The key to teaching design isto step the students through the design process in varying degrees. By having three projects in asemester of increasing complexity, the students are given plenty of chances to learn through mistakes.The students must learn project management skills, interfacing skills, documentation skills, and theactual lecture material of the textbook. By the third project, the students know what to expect and aremore independent when designing. The USB ToolStick Starter Kit from Silicon Laboratories offers anexcellent design platform to accomplish the embedded design. The kit is economical and very studentfriendly.6. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Dan Pratt of Lattice Semiconductors for generous

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Paulik, University of Detroit Mercy

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Electrical and Computer

studentswith the focused knowledge they need to master in a single course. Currently, there are notenough ECE faculty to teach the CS students separate from the EE students.)3.2.3 Advanced Electronic Systems Page 13.421.7The Advanced Electronics Systems lecture and laboratory courses that students take in the Fallterm of the junior year are additional courses constructed to fulfill the philosophy of the spiral Figure 3: Final Project System Block Diagramcurriculum. In earlier courses in the spiral containing electronic circuit topical content, a mixeddevice-system treatment was adopted. Here a transition is made to a

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Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University

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, partition the designinto subcomponents, design, build, test, and verify that the system requirements have been met.The authors have enhanced and implemented three courses to develop system engineeringknowledge and skills that better prepare students for their senior design experience. This papergives an overview and lists the learning outcomes for each of these courses and includes someexamples of laboratory projects that are used to meet these learning outcomes.IntroductionIn the current global environment it is imperative that engineering graduates are prepared to enterthe workforce with the skills necessary to make immediate contributions. Today, companiesoften outsource engineering tasks and projects that could otherwise be done by entry

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Innovations in ECE Education III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Yuan-Teng Cheng, Texas A&M University

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Electrical and Computer

laboratories (also known as e-Lab,Tele-Lab)3,4, virtual laboratories6,7,8,9, and hybrid laboratories4 have been developed to reduce labequipment setup costs and increase accessibility. Other developments include the use ofinteractive7, multimedia-enhanced10,11, and integrated12 approaches and the Design-Build-Testconcept13 to make learning more interactive and visual. However, there have been relatively fewattempts to use technology to teach PLC programming.One of the authors was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to develop anIntegrated Virtual Learning System (IVLS) for PLC education that incorporates intelligenttutoring systems, simulations, and animations. A prototype version of this system, known asVirtual PLC, can be found at

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Kim, Howard University; Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University; Veronica Thomas, Howard University

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Electrical and Computer

pedagogy. MobileStudio enables resource-limited institutions to establish mobile lab-classrooms in any space oncampus. Also, lab component teaching in online courses, which has been neglected due to theconstraints, can benefit from the mobile studio: remote students now can get the hands-onexperience of experimentation.From the early stage of the mobile laboratory concept, Howard University's Electrical and ComputerEngineering has partnered with Millard and, upon receipt of the necessary hardware and software,launched Mobile Studio in the core course teaching. The mobile studio enabled and encouraged"hands-on" exploration of engineering principles that has been restricted to specific laboratoryfacilities. The mobile studio we report in the paper

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sanjay Raman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Da Silva Luiz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Masoud Agah, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Allen MacKenzie, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christopher Maxey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amy Bell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, just-in-time teaching on a selection offundamental topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, includingprogramming and problem solving with Matlab, signal and image processing, basic circuitanalysis, and the basics of wireless communications systems. The intent is not to teach thismaterial at a detailed, first-principles depth, but rather to provide introductory-levelconceptual understanding of, and motivate and spark interest in, these topics in order toenhance student success in subsequent core courses.The new 1104 course is organized into a number of short (few-week) lecture/laboratorymodules delivered by faculty subject matter experts from the relevant field. Each moduleconsists of an introductory lecture

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Victor Rubanchik, Southern Federal University (Russia); Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Electrical and Computer

the teaching and learning process. The use of virtual systems enables distancelearning students to master practical skills at any time and any place.II. Interactive Online ResourcesTo address the pedagogical and laboratory needs of students, advanced simulation-based e- Page 13.1355.2learning software has been developed. The software uses real-life processes and objects relatedto fiber optics, photonics, and wireless and wired communications as the context for science andtechnology investigations. This enables students to learn the relationship between scientifictheory and its practical applications in technology, visualize the

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University; Mark C Johnson, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

deliver sufficient performance due to network delays.The study by our colleagues1 is closely related to the teaching style presented in thispaper. They offered two parallel sessions, one using traditional lectures and the otherusing streaming video and “direct problem solving” in laboratory. The comparison wasconducted on a sophomore-level course on digital systems and a junior-level course onmicrocontroller. They discovered no significant difference in students’ performance butstudents strongly preferred the new teaching style.Our work differs from previous studies in the following ways. First, all students are oncampus and this course is not distance learning2. In fact, students are encouraged to usecampus computers to watch the videos with a

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Northrup, Western New England College; John Burke, Western New England College

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering at Western New England College. Prior to joining WNEC, Dr. Burke was with EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (95 to 2000), he was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (92-95), with Compact Software (90-92), with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts (87-90), and with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation (84-86). He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1984 and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. Dr Burke’s primary teaching interests are Electromagnetics, High Frequency Circuit

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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-IP.Most of the fundamentals are on Digital Signal Processing but we focus on the applications tospeech and voice coding.In this paper, we first describe the DSP curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students.We describe our experiences and the challenges encountered in developing these courses. Wedetail some of the laboratory and teaching materials and the exercises developed, etc.We discuss as an example the internet low-bit rate speech coder (iLBC) which is used to codespeech under packet loss conditions that exists on the internet.Finally, we present possible future directions in the course development. Page 13.967.2IntroductionThe area

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Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

, IN, teaching in the areas of digital and fault tolerant systems. Her current research interests include fault tolerance and reliability of electronic systems, FPGA design, and new educational methods to teach digital systems design.Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman Clint Cole received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science (1987) and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (2000), both from Washington State University. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Cole was a Design and Research Engineer with Hewlett-Packard and Physio-Control, and in 1992 he co-founded Heartstream, a medical device company subsequently purchased by Philips Medical. Mr. Cole joined the WSU

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Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Uluagac; Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

Association for Signal Processing (Eusipco) 2006, Florence Italy, Sep. T 2006.12. Chiang, K.H; Evans, B.L.; Huang, W.T.; Kovac, F.; Lee, E.A.; Messerschmitt, D.G.; Reekie, H.J.; Sastry, S.S.; “Real-time DSP for sophomores”, ICASSP-96. Conference Proceedings., Volume 2, 7-10 May 1996 Page(s):1097 - 1100 vol. 213. Wright, C. H. and Welch, T. B., “Teaching DSP concepts using MATLAB and the TMS320C31 DSK,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 199914. Lisa G. Huettel, “A DSP Hardware-Based Laboratory for Signals and Systems,” 12th Signal Processing Education Workshop, 4th Volume, Issue, Sept. 2006 Page(s):456 - 45915. Lisa G

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Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Anderson, U.S. Naval Academy; Richard Buehrer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, in 1996, where he studied under the Bradley Fellowship. From 1996 to 2001, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and Whippany, NJ. While at Bell Laboratories his research focused on CDMA systems, intelligent antenna systems, and multiuser detection. He was named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000. In 2001, he joined Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor with the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, where he works

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-812: ON-LINE LEARNING TOOL FOR UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRICMACHINES AND POWER SYSTEMS COURSEKhalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University Page 13.943.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 ON-LINE LEARNING TOOL FOR UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRIC MACHINES AND POWER SYSTEMS COURSEAbstractThis paper explores both the modules of the developed Electric Machines and Power Systems(EMPS) software and the assessment results of an investigation of learners’ attitude toward thismedia based teaching tool. The investigation is based on a survey completed by fifteen studentsenrolled in Electric Machines and Power Systems course at Ohio Northern University. Thestudents are

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew O'Fallon, Washington State University; Jack R Hagemeister, Washington State University; Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman; Joseph Harris, Digilent Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

free developmenttools now allow each student to have access to state of the art development tools and hardware.Students must be provided access to these industry leading tools to be competent and competitivein the marketplace.A study to be conducted at Washington State University will measure changes in studentperformance and retention when first year engineering students have exposure and unlimitedaccess to state of the art development tools and hardware. Data will be collected from surveys,exams, project reports, laboratory assignments, and homework.Quantitative data will be analyzed by comparison to historical data gathered from studentgroups that did not have exposure to and unlimited access to development tools.Qualitative data will be