Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Frederick Kautz, University of Texas, El Paso; Bivas Das, University of Texas, El Paso; Luc Longpre, University of Texas, El Paso

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Electrical and Computer

as building blocks.Portable USB storage devices are becoming faster and holding larger quantities of data (for ourprototype, we used an eight gigabyte Corsair Flash Voyager GT). Copy-on-write (COW) imagesprovide a mechanism for efficiently storing file systems that are very similar (see Figure 2.) Weinstantiate multiple virtual machines using the same base image, with any changes to each virtualmachine’s file system being stored to a separate file. Copy-on-write semantics can beimplemented either within the virtualization system or within the host operating system’sfilesystem. Our implementation utilizes virtual disk-image COW facilities provided by VMWare.With this, students are free to perform experiments using most computers that support

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kuang Xu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1897: PROMOTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ECE (PURE):CONNECTING UNDERGRADUATES WITH GRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORSKuang Xu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kuang Xu is a senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He conducted research on PAPR reduction for beamforming OFDM networks under Dr. Douglas L. Jones during his Junior year. He is currently working on peer-to-peer live streaming under Dr. Bruce Hajek. He is Director of the Promoting Undergraduate Research in ECE (PURE) program.Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek is an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate student

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Machotka, University of South Australia; Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

reports ≠ Assessment ≠ Evaluation and reflectionCollaboration among students can be encouraged during preparation, conduct and analysis ofexperiments, where students are asked to work in teams. This can be implemented for peer assessment, Page 14.98.4evaluation and reflection as well. Findings from our survey provide some information about studentcollaboration before, during and after the practical experiment.Remote laboratoryA remote laboratory (RL) allows a real physical system set in a laboratory to be remotely controlled from acomputer via the Internet using virtual instruments. The system also enables experimental data to becollected and

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

of the trials underway as of this writing), has the highest recurringoverhead of all (“tweaking” each homework assignment, as well as grading and returning it).Does all this “extra work” manifest itself in better student performance and/or students liking thecourse/material better? If it can be demonstrated that such effort does not (or only does somarginally), would faculty and students alike be better served through widespread adoption ofhybrid course formats?Another open question concerns the type of “alternate-style” learners we are attempting to targetin this study. As currently implemented, the “lecture” in both formats (traditional and “virtual”)is targeted for auditory-sequential learners (the same Lecture Workbook format is utilized

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

learning. There were also some secondaryobjectives of this effort: 1) Updating equipment and experiments, 2) Providing enoughequipment for six laboratory groups to simultaneously conduct the same laboratory, and3) Improving technical report writing skills as well the students’ presentation skills.These experiments and projects, as detailed in the next section support the followingspecific goals of our approach in teaching undergraduate power electronics course:1. To provide the students with an opportunity to gain design experience through thecompletion of the project. The project has five components to it: an analytic design, acomputer simulation of circuit operation using LabVIEW package, experimentalimplementation of the circuit, a written

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Florida Institute of Technology; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Veton Kepuska, Florida Institute of Technology; Kenneth Stanley, University of Central Florida; Alison Morrison-Shetlar, University of Central Florida; Pat Lancey, University of Central Florida; Paula Krist, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida

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Electrical and Computer

the program'scumulative evaluation. To this end, they assess the technical quality of the research outcomesand the quality of the program as a whole by interviewing participants and gauging various otheraspects of the experience.The rest of the paper describes the various components and outcomes of our Program over theyears 2007 and 2008. In particular, since REU sites that are being run collaboratively among 2 ormore host universities are a rare phenomenon (at the time of writing the authors are aware of twomore collaborative REU Sites funded by NSF’s Directorate for Computer and InformationScience and Engineering) we hope that by sharing our experiences and promising strategies todate, we will encourage and aid prospective REU Site