Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Archibald, Brigham Young University; Doran Wilde, Brigham Young University

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Electrical and Computer

autonomous vehicles. Dr. Wilde is a senior member of the IEEE and is the father of seven children and eight grandchildren. Page 14.1247.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Robot Racer Capstone Project Doran Wilde, James Archibald Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThis article describes a senior design project based on small vision guided autonomousvehicles that satisfies the longtime ABET requirement of a culminating designexperience. The design and development of autonomous robots is well suited to capstonedesign projects because of the

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1624: INCORPORATING SOFT-CORE AND HARD-CORE PROCESSORSIN CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSESWagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia Page 14.724.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Incorporating Soft Core and Hard Core Processors in Capstone Design Courses Wagdy H Mahmoud University of the District of Columbia wmahmoud@udc.eduAbstractThis paper provides details of our electrical engineering program efforts to introduce sot andhard core processors and the concept of SoC in senior-level and senior-design courses. The

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mustafa Guvench, University of Southern Maine

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Electrical and Computer

be sent out to be fabricated. However, typical turn-around times do not allow the graduating class to have a chance to test and verify theirdesign, and get the satisfaction and the real world experience of testing. By using MOSISfabricated designs of previous generations, this missing link was completed.1. Introduction and BackgroundThe paper describes how MOSIS fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers are used as a realworld design experience in a senior level Analog Integrated Circuit Course in ElectricalEngineering at the University of Southern Maine.Design is an ABET requirement that every engineering student should experience beforegraduation. Although this experience can be left to the capstone project most engineeringprograms require

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

quarter.4. Conclusions and Future WorkStudents learn, verify, and reinforce lecture concepts by performing power converterexperiments in the laboratory sessions. In our approach we adopted the principles of theproblem-learning methodology. With this approach, students can develop confidence andthe abilities needed in project design, as well as in their senior capstone design courses.The design experience develops the students’ lifelong learning skills, self-evaluations,self-discovery, and peer instruction in the design’s creation, critique, and justification.Students learn to understand the manufacturer data sheets, application notes, andtechnical manuals. The experience, which would be difficult to complete individually,gives the students a

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

matt gallagher, Vermont Technical College; Andre St. Denis, Vermont Technical College; John Murphy, Vermont Technical College

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Electrical and Computer

peripherals and a complexprocessor appear to serve the immediate needs of the introductory microprocessor course.Students who chose to use a microcontroller in a future project were forced to design circuitboards requiring fabrication and assembly at outside vendors at considerable cost; this tended todiscourage their use in our capstone projects course. We discuss our current introductory coursethat uses a MC9S08QG8/4 microcontroller from Freescale. It comes in a sixteen pin DIPpackage, has an internal clock and can be programmed using the same Codewarrior softwareIDE Freescale uses for all of its microcontrollers and can be programmed through aUSBSPYDER08∀interface. We developed a set of four simple input/output boards so studentscan exercise

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Bucks, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

theprocesses that are used to integrate the teams, and provides specific examples of projects wherethese tools are utilized.IntroductionThe importance of significant design experiences to prepare undergraduate engineering studentsfor engineering careers has been well-documented1-4. These experiences typically emphasizethe application of technical skills as well as professional skills, such as communication in bothwritten and verbal form, working as a team, and customer interaction. The need for suchexperiences has spawned many innovative approaches to capstone senior design courses.However, capstone senior design courses do not include underclassmen. Earlier designexperiences have become more common and have shown to be valuable in motivating students

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero; Keith Williamson

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Electrical and Computer

lessons learned andinnovative approaches in the new ABET accreditation process at VSU∀in this first visit arepresented.Capstone Senior Design Course:Capstone senior design experience is both a graduation requirement for undergraduateengineering majors and for ABET accreditation of these programs. A senior design course istypically the last bridge for students between undergraduate education and the engineeringprofession in their respective disciplines. The course differs from other lecture and laboratorybased courses in the engineering curriculum in fundamental ways. Many capstone senior designcourses include lectures to develop students’ knowledge of the product development process,project management, professional engineering practice, and the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; Charles Snead, University of Alabama

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Electrical and Computer

joinedtogether to work on projects involving composite materials.19 In another institution, art studentshave been used in a Capstone Design course to enhance the creativity of the project20 whileengineering, art, and architecture students solved a community lighting problem as part of aservice learning project.21 A summer program where students and faculty work with teenagersfor creating a “magic show” based on scientific principles is an example of a creative way toinvolve youth.22 The creative design process is considered by some to integrate the engineeringdesign process and the creative process established from the field of cognitive psychology.23 Increativity workshops, through a mixture of experiential and cognitive techniques, the mean

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

complex) specifications and complete the project successfully. A collateralbenefit of the laboratory intensive curriculum is that recruiting students becomes a much easiertask, as typical engineering minded students enjoy the creative component in the classroom.The four-year program culminates in the Capstone Design Class, a major design experience thatmixes students of multidisciplinary backgrounds into large teams (7 – 12 students) models thecreation of new company. This class has a heavy technical component, but also addressesentrepreneurship, leadership, etc. The class is described in detail in Section IV.Finally, the input from the faculty was used to determine the concentrations, or areas ofspecialization, the program would offer. Taking

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachid Manseur, State University of New York, Oswego; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego

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Electrical and Computer

format ≠ Project-based. Projects will be offered as possible at the course, semester, or year level and in partnership with industry (capstone) ≠ Multidisciplinary courses. Many engineering courses will include math and physics material where needed. ≠ Streamlined math and sciences support courses. Where possible, the pre-requisite math and physics courses are revised to include material that directly and more effectively impacts engineering education.Faculty and StaffThe initial planning for the new ECE program calls for five tenure-track faculty membersincluding the chairperson, one secretary, and at least one technician. The faculty is able tosupport a curriculum that includes the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suryaprasad Jayadevappa, PES School of Engineering; Ravi Shankar, Florida Atlantic University

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Electrical and Computer

students with implementation capability. Courses can be offered from level L3 under the 4 different categories with an option to include courses left out from the previous level L2. Additionally, the first part of the capstone project can be started. We have considered a 2 year capstone project work. The objective of the courses at Level3 is to emphasize on “implementation” of various components in a computer system. Though computer languages will be necessary, we hope that in the near future there will necessary tools that will provide the code once the appropriate design is provided at high level. For example, in a course (L2 level) on OOAD, if we capture the design (functionality

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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Electrical and Computer

research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Program. He is an Associated Editor for student papers of the Journal of Technology Interface (http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/). He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983.Miguel Ramos

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Ressler, United States Military Academy; Michael Miller, United States Military Academy; Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy; Jean Blair, United States Military Academy

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Electrical and Computer

addition to engineering education, his research interests include simulation and software engineering.Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy Dr. Christa Chewar is an Army Major and an Assistant Professor in the computer science program of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy, currently serving as an engineer on a major software project in Virginia. Her research interests include human-computer interfaces in addition to engineering and computer science education.Jean Blair, United States Military Academy Dr. Jean Blair is a Professor of Computer Science and director of the computer science program of the Department

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. During the last 20 years, he has been working in the areas of hierarchical multiprocessors, hierarchical networks, performance analysis of computer systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, in-vehicle networking, performance analysis of networking protocols, secure wireless communications, and privacy protected vehicle-to-vehicle communications and simulation techniques. He has supervised a number of projects from Ford Motor Company and other local industries. He also served as a Co-PI on two NSF funded projects. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding papers. He