Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Yong Pei, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

undergraduate course, wireless communication.This work will benefit a diverse population of students by motivating, engaging, enhancing theirlearning and skills as prescribed by the ABET. Therefore, the laboratory development is directly Page 15.1072.12aligned with the departmental and institutional priority of development, and has had animmediate local impact. The technology on which the lab development is based is cutting edge,demonstrating a viable example of adopting new technology and research to enhanceundergraduate STEM education. The platform employed for development, USRP boards, is lowcost; and the software used, GNU software radio, is free

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

acquire “practical”, hands-on research experience, for example, withexperiment design, data reduction, and instrumentation, and a variety of skills ranging from themundane, for example, machining of parts and soldering, to advanced, for example, computerdata reduction and simulation. These also can lead to a better appreciation, passion, andambition for the engineering/scientific profession and associated graduate education and/or career.The students tend to acquire a better understanding of how technology fits into and sometimesconflicts with the societal infrastructure, for example, with environmental, health/safety, andeconomic issues.Students also acquire skills in problem solving. The research is truly “original”, and frequentlypresents new

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University; Okhtay Azarmanesh, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

implementing algorithms that show their results on real signals in real life situations right away. Despite this being on a smaller scale most of the time, the impact on students having hand-on experience with such a project is significant. 2. Students who take the undergraduate SDR course have the opportunity to put that knowledge into practice immediately. • For graduate students: 1. Most of the graduate students will have two different career paths in their future: they will either follow an academic career supervising and advising future graduate students, or will find a career in a company or government lab, involved in

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randal Abler, Georgia Tech; James Krogmeier, Purdue University; Aaron Ault, Purdue University; Julia Melkers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamara Clegg, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

duration of their graduate career. The continuity,technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams are intended to:• Provide the time and context necessary for students to learn and practice many different professional skills, make substantial technical contributions to the project, and experience many different roles on a large design team.• Support long-term interaction between the graduate and undergraduate students on the team. The graduate students mentor the undergraduates as they work on the design projects embedded in the graduate students’ research• Enable the completion of large-scale design projects that are of significant benefit to faculty members’ research programs

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Gary Perks, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Shepherd, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, ASIC development, system electronics and architecture, program management, and senior hardware development manager. Currently, Dr. Liddicoat is the Assistant Vice President for Academic Personnel and the Forbes Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. He teaches digital design and embedded systems courses. His research interests include computer architecture, computer arithmetic, networks, re-configurable computing and engineering education. Dr. Liddicoat received the Professional Achievement Award from the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in 2003, and he is a Senior Member of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the time ofthe impact. The PIC sends this information to the memory card. A software package developedto work with this device enables the end user to view a map indicating where each impactoccurred. The impact data is retrieved by inserting the memory card into a PC or PDA.Information about the strength and time of each impact is displayed on a map.The design project has won first place as the best design project at Ohio Northern University(ONU) and second place in the IEEE-Student Activities Conference 2009. The paper presentsthe technical content of the design, the assessment of the design with respect to ABET criteriona-k, and the advantages of and recommendations for industry-sponsored projects.IntroductionThe senior design course -also

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University; Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer of Wayne State University. His research interests lie in distributed and parallel systems, particularly in resource management for high performance cluster and grid computing and scalable and secure Internet services. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He is the author of the book Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture (CRC Press, 2005) and a coauthor of the book Load Balancing in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice (Kluwer Academic, 1997). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, the Journal of Parallel