Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University; Nannette D'Imperio, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

employingstructures, and some exposure to dynamic arrays. The course grade is a weighted averagecalculated based on scores earned on weekly readiness assessments (15%), weekly homeworkassignments (20%), weekly quizzes (20%), and two exams (45%). The more challengingquizzes are allotted more time and administered as online timed take-home problems. The quizgrade is calculated after dropping the two lowest scores. Exams consist of two parts: (i) anobjective portion in the form of true-false and multiple choice questions, and (ii) a programmingportion. These parts are administered on different days. All programming submissions aregraded using a published “program check list,” which describes all required components andassociated point values to achieve an

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

availability of the course instructor in helping the students withthe project is critical. The post-project test and informal interaction with the students at the endof the semester revealed that the project had played a vital role in integrating course concepts. Our overall conclusion is that with a carefully planned syllabus, course projects, and theavailability of student support resources, introducing reconfigurable computing to undergraduatecomputer engineering students can be a useful vehicle for teaching topics on parallel hardwareand parallel algorithms. We plan to make available online all the course materials developed forthe new course.Bibliography1. Douglass, S., “Introducing the Virtex-5 FPGA family”, Xcell Journal, pp. 8 -11

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

“elementary scientific mathematics” sothat they can focus on learning electronics, not math. This is particularly important ifthere is a large number of freshman and sophomore in the class.3.3) Email listThe author creates an e-mail address list for each course, as a way to directly informstudents of any announcements and reminders. The author also encourages students tosend questions through email, and then sends the answers to selected questions placed bythe students to the list.3.4) Course websiteIn addition to these software tools, the author also creates a web page for each class,which is frequently updated. The class web site contains syllabus, class schedule, usefulInternet links, book info, and any other useful information relative to the