verification tools: Thie role of education. In The Impact of the 4th IndustrialRevolution on Engineering Education: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference onInteractive Collaborative Learning (ICL2019)-Volume 2 22, pages 188-200. Springer, 2020.[5] Miroslav Velev. Integrating formal verification into an advanced computer architecture course.In 2003 Annual Conference, 2003.[6] Guido De Caso, Diego Garbervetsky and Daniel Gor. Integrated program verification tools ineducation. Software:Practice and Experience, 43(4):403-418, 2013.[7] Mehran Massoumi and Assim Sagahyroon. ASIC verification: Integrating formal verificationwith hdl-based courses. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 18(2):269-276, 2010.
require students to understand C (typically learned during junior year) or requirepart of the course to teach coding syntax. In order to introduce robotics and cyber-physicalsystems earlier in the curriculum, we have developed an interface to allow students to remotelycontrol a wireless microcontroller (e.g., Arduino MKR 1010) using MATLAB. This interfacecomprises two halves: 1) a MATLAB class that abstracts UDP commands transmitted over Wi-Fi, and 2) a custom C++ library for receiving, parsing, and responding to commands over UDP,as well as streaming data back to the client. The interface leverages students’ existing knowledgeof MATLAB and bypasses the need for C programming, allowing students to get early exposureto hardware-software
committees, contributing her insights and expertise to enhance educational processes. Furthermore, Muna seamlessly integrates her academic prowess with her industry and research experience. She has served as a dedicated researcher at institutions such as TAMUQ and UofT, further enriching her multifaceted background. She is a member of the IEEE. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An In-Depth Examination of Assessment Methods for Capstone Projects: Measuring SuccessAbstract:In academia, data collection plays a fundamental role. It serves multiple purposes, from assessingstudent learning outcomes to evaluating the effectiveness of instructional methods and
in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Seattle University. She earned her PhD degree from University of Denver specializing in renewable energy and smart grids. Her research focus is on renewable energy integration into smart grids, ensuring efficient energy management and grid stability, aiming for a sustainable impact. She is a member of IEEE, ASEE and SWE and has worked on several NSF and NREL funded projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching Digital Logic in the Quarter-Based EE CurriculumIntroductionCourses on digital logic are an essential part of all Electrical and Computer Engineeringcurricula. With the advent of FPGAs, the use of a
, “Adapting Scrum Project Management to ECE Courses,”presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida, Jun. 2019. Accessed: Oct.10, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/32395[6] R. B. Bass, B. Pejcinovic, and J. Grant, “Applying Scrum project management in ECE curriculum,” in2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Oct. 2016, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2016.7757568.[7] S. Reynolds, A. Caldwell, T. Procko, and O. Ochoa, “Scrum in the Classroom: An ImplementationGuide,” in 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Oct. 2023, pp. 01–08. doi:10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343213.[8] M. W. Ohland et al., “The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness: Developmentof a Behaviorally Anchored
Thermodynamics Solid State Physics Electronic Materials th 4 Year Integrated Circuity Technology Device and Circuity Characterization Laboratory Integrated Circuity Technology Table 3. Elective professional courses at Department of Microelectronics, NYCU5.2 Integrated Approach: VTIn contrast to the independent approach, an integrated approach involves incorporatingsemiconductor knowledge into the curriculum of the ECE/EE department. The Chips-ScaleIntegration major in Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at Virginia Tech is anexample of this approach. In this model, students need to choose this specific major, among the14 ECE
Paper ID #42999Board 93: Work in Progress: Developing an Engineering Asset-ManagementCourse at an Electrical Engineering ProgramDr. Selma Awadallah, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Selma Awadallah joined Texas A&M at Qatar on 1 Jan 2023 as an Assistant Professor. She received her BSc degree from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and her MSc and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Manchester. After her Ph.D., she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Dr. Awadallah joined Texas A&M at Qatar from Neom Energy and Water, where she led the power system study group and renewable integration
coursesoffered by engineering programs [10], ethics modules embedded in engineering technical courses[11], the infusion of ethics content throughout all technical courses, and various combinations ofthese strategies. Emphasizing ethics across the curriculum underscores the recognition thatethical and societal considerations are fundamental components of engineering education [6.8].Clancy et al reported that they integrated an ethics laboratory into a basic course in electroniccircuit [11].We have created and incorporated two ethics modules into our curriculum: one introductory andone advanced. The introductory module is tailored for freshmen, while the advanced module isgeared towards senior students. Below, we outline the objectives and contents of
troubleshooting of electric circuits,” en, Physical Review Physics Education Research, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 020 116, Sep. 2017, ISSN: 2469-9896. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.020116.[18] Analog discovery 2. [Online]. Available: https://digilent.com/shop/analog- discovery - 2 - 100ms - s - usb - oscilloscope - logic - analyzer - and - variable-power-supply/.[19] H. C. Powell, R. W. Williams, M. Brandt-Pearce, and R. Weikle, “Restructuring an electrical and computer engineering curriculum: A vertically integrated laboratory/lecture approach,” en, Gainesville, Florida: ASEE, Apr. 2015. [Online]. Available: http : / / se . asee . org/proceedings/ASEE2015/papers2015/53.pdf.[20] K. Anders Ericsson and Herbert A. Simon, Protocol
communicating ideas, designs, and progress updates both within andoutside their companies, often spending the majority of their time communicating in somemanner [2]. Good communication, as well as good teamwork, are considered professional skillsthat are highly important and sought after in engineers working in industry [3], [4], butintegrating these skills into engineering curriculum can be difficult if engineering courses focuson technical content and do not integrate these professional skills into their courses. To helpfuture engineers continue to develop their technical skills while also giving them opportunities topractice their professional skills, future engineering courses need to be designed thoughtfully tointegrate them in realistic settings
as an effective method for providing hands-on experiences and fosteringlearning in diverse engineering disciplines [1,2]. Additionally, the integration of physicalexperimentation with virtual simulations has the potential to improve students' educationaloutcomes [3]. Introducing simulation tools like LTSpice from Analog Devices or Multisim fromNational Instruments is almost standard practice in ECE programs. However, this introductionusually happens at the earliest on the Sophomore level during the fundamentals of circuitanalysis courses.Introducing such powerful but also complex tools at the freshman level, especially for the firstengineering course, is problematic. The complexity of the interface and conceptual difficulty ofinterpreting
course outcomes, and posted on the department’s front page onthe Web. This is a plan we see as our new departmental identity and one that will enable us toweather the demographic cliff and other big challenges facing academia in the United States.University-level RRC Curriculum PrioritiesSeattle University launched a multi-year effort to comprehensively reimagine and revisecurriculum with a call to integrate practices that would make the education we offer distinctlyunique and relevant to global challenges. Reimagine and Revise the Curriculum (RRC) wasenvisioned to be an initiative that is led by faculty within their own undergraduate and graduateprograms and departments, with programmatic support offered at the university level through1 from
Paper ID #41914Board 91: Work in Progress: An Interdisciplinary Subject on HardwareAccelerated ComputingDr. Glenn J Bradford, University of Melbourne Glenn J. Bradford is a wireless engineering professional with experience in industry and education. From 2020 to 2023 he was a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he worked to create innovative curriculum incorporating practical, hands-on experiences to better drive student learning. He worked previously as a wireless systems engineer at both Intel Corp. and Motorola Solutions, Inc. Glenn
Paper ID #43157Using Oral Assessments to Improve Student Learning GainsDr. Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego Saharnaz Baghdadchi is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego. She is interested in scholarly teaching and employs active learning techniques to empower students to attain an expert level of critical thinking. Her expertise facilitates students’ journey towards connecting facts with practical knowledge to tackle intricate engineering challenges. She excels in crafting innovative assessments and explores their impact on enhancing students’ learning outcomes and fostering an inclusive
example, rather thanhaving students design a lighting circuit for an automobile, have them design a lighting circuit foran off-grid school. This approach also allows non-technical constraints and considerations to beintroduced to students, as is done in [19]. Participants felt it important to emphasize the relevanceof EA concepts by mapping them to course learning objectives to combat the perception bystudents that it is extraneous or being taught to “check a box”.Electricity Access ProjectsHE education often couples classroom learning with project-based, experiential learning. Here,projects generally referred to as in-community experiences, either locally or abroad, for students.These may be offered within the curriculum or as an extra
proceedings, such as IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, etc. and presented his works in numerous conferences and workshops, such as ICPR, CBMS, CLEF, CIVR, HISB, SPIE, BIBE, IEEE FIE, etc. His current research is focusing on Crowdsourcing and Deep learning techniques and their application in medical fields, especially for retrieval and diagnostic purposes. Pursuing continuous financial support is an integral part of Dr. Rahman’s research agenda Over the years, Dr. Rahman ¬received (as both PI and Co-PI) several competitive grants for both Imaging Informatics and ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
exposition, 2023.[6] Purdy, A., Barrett, S., and Wright, C., “Hands on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Laboratory for anIndustrial Controls Course”, Computers in Education Journal, 2020/08.[7] Hsieh, S., and Pedersen, S., “Design and Evaluation of Modules to Teach PLC Interfacing Concepts”, Proceedingsof the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education conference and exposition, 2023.[8] He, S., Rahemi, H., and Mouaouya, K., “Teaching PLC Programming and Industrial Automation in MechatronicsEngineering”, Proceedings of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education conference and exposition, 2023.[9] Hsieh, S. and Hsieh, P.Y., “An Integrated Virtual Learning System for Programmable Logic Controller,” Journalof Engineering Education, 93(2
MethodsStudy Context and ParticipantsAs part of a project funded by the NSF's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE)program, our goal is to create a hands-on curriculum that fosters a stimulating and collaborativelearning environment to increase interest among young students in hardware-related topics. Inthis curriculum, we designed an 8-week module centered on AIoT. This module, expanded uponlater, specifically covers concepts related to data acquisition using sensors and microcontrollers,along with the implementation of machine learning models to address real-life scenarios. In Fall2023, we implemented this module as the latter part of an elective course offered by the ECEdepartment to first-year students enrolled in any engineering major at
mentoring, as its efficacy depends on multiple factors specificto a particular university, such as school size, proportion of students to mentors, etc.This work in progress aims to understand the needs and expectations of students who aresupported by a faculty mentoring process in an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)department in a large public university. The goal of the program is to offer additional andpersonalized support to students supplementing the departmental academic advising servicededicated to addressing curriculum-related questions. The topics covered during these sessionsare diverse, as mentioned earlier.In Fall 2023, the ECE department had 2,310 undergraduate students. Typically, each facultymember is randomly assigned around
Curriculum in STEM Education [6]conducts a multiple literature review to assess IoT curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment inSTEM education. It reviews 60 articles, focusing on effective educational practices forimplementing IoT curriculum but acknowledges limitations due to the evolving nature of IoTtechnologies. CPS/IoT Infusion in Undergraduate EE Education [7] discusses enhancingundergraduate programs by integrating CPS and IoT. It proposes vertically integrated learningmodules across four-year curriculum with an emphasis on project-based learning. Initially,positive feedback was received but this study has potential limitations including possible biasesin student feedback, and implementing comprehensive curriculum changes. The IoT in CSEducation
Director of the Academy Center for UAS Research.Dr. Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University Paul R. Leiffer, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University. He previously served as Chairman of the Engineering Department and was co-developer of LeTourneau’s program in Biomedical Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Enhanced Learning by Visualization applying Embedded Hands-On inElectromagnetics ClassIntroductionThis paper examines enhanced learning through visualization and hands-on experience in theElectromagnetics course in the ECE curriculum. Learners often encounter difficulties inconnecting one class to another
10 1.88 4 10 reliable than the breadboard. The custom PCBA better prepared me for real- 11 7.23 8 10 2.74 2 10 world applications than the breadboard. I would prefer to use the custom PCBA board 12 8 8 10 2.16 4 10 in future lab exercises over the breadboard.In conclusion, the survey data supports the hypothesis that the integration of custom PCBs intothe electrical engineering curriculum enhances the learning environment by streamlining thepractical application of theoretical concepts. The findings suggest that students benefit from theuse of
integrals, parametric equations and polar coordinates, andinfinite sequences and series. The author taught both linear systems courses in addition tofollow-on control courses before and after these pre-requisite changes were implemented andwas successful in transitioning learning achievement to the new pre-requisite scenario.Both courses are gateway, required courses for the BSEE, often are first courses in the major thatchallenge students theoretically, and either or both may become a barrier to success; as such,they have higher rates of students earning a D or an F or withdrawing from the class with a W(i.e., DFW rates). Many required courses and technical electives in the junior and senior yearsdictate proficiency in foundational linear systems
Paper ID #42621Enhancing Understanding and Retention in Undergraduate ECE Coursesthrough Concept MappingProf. Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Yang V. Shao is a teaching assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Prof. Shao has research interests in curriculum development, assessment, student retention, and student success in engineering, developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and research
methodologies, including inquiry-based learning [1–4], project-based learning [5–11],collaborative learning [12–15], and flipped learning [16–20]. Each method brings a uniquedimension to the educational experience, enriching the learning landscape for students.Inquiry learning emphasizes student curiosity and investigation, encouraging learners to activelyseek knowledge through questioning and exploration. In [1], Xenofontos et al. explored studentengagement with graphing tasks in a computer-supported environment, highlighting theimportance of retrospective action. However, its small sample size limits its generalizability.Notaroˇs et al. [3] integrated MATLAB-based instruction into an electromagnetic course. Theassessment was limited to qualitative
well as Digital Systems Design with FPGA using Verilog but it doesn’t imply any method oridea to use a FPGA to develop a μC or μP. The curriculum in many colleges probably teaches with thesame content and method but the result is not the purpose of this paper tries to present. On the otherhand, some improvement has been made to enhance the learning of μC or μP such as what the article[2] shows with an experiment platform, but it again doesn’t discuss any information to let studentsdesign their own processors or controllers. As described above, knowing how to design with acommercially available μC or μP opens a door to explore embedded system development whichredirects the focus of the development of a digital system into software and hardware
Pedagogy Approach to Learning in Engineering: An HBCU's Experience,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2016.[8] J. Attia, M. Tembely, L. Hobson, and P. Obiomon, “Hands-on Learning in Multiple Courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering,” in 2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference, Austin, TX, April 2018.[9] S.S. Holland, J.L. Bonniwell, J.D. Carl, B.E. Faulkner, R.W. Kelnhofer, C.J. Prust, and L.G. Weber, “It’s All About Engagement: Infusing the Mobile Studio Approach Throughout the Electrical Engineering Curriculum,” in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, Virtual Conference, July 2021.[10] S.S. Holland, C.J. Prust, R.W. Kelnhofer, and J. Wierer, “Effective
and evaluation problems. Ashighlighted by Bloom, the taxonomy aids teachers in defining and exchanging information abouteducational goals, facilitating curriculum development, and planning learning experiences andevaluation devices. It aligns with the historical context, originating from a 1948 meeting of collegeexaminers at the American Psychological Association Convention, emphasizing the need for atheoretical framework to enhance communication among examiners and stimulate research onexamining and education.Background on Constructivist Theory of LearningWhen receiving an education in engineering, students are not passive recipients of information butrather active participants in their own learning process. Constructivist Theory of
Paper ID #41231Board 96: Work in Progress: Incorporating Active Learning into a RandomSignal Analysis CourseDr. Chao Wang, Arizona State University Dr. Chao Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently an Associate Teaching Professor in the Ira. A Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Incorporating Active Learning into a Random Signal Analysis CourseAbstractThis Works-in-progress Paper presents the experience and evaluation of piloting interactive andactive problem
employing a comprehensive approach that integrates computational modeling, physiological recordings, and psychophysical studies. Dr. Zilany developed a computational model of the responses in the auditory nerve for testing our understanding of the underlying mechanical and physiological processes in the auditory periphery, which has been utilized extensively by the prominent auditory neuroscience labs in the field. Dr. Zilany is currently the chair of the ABET and Curriculum committee in the Electrical & Computer program. His commitment to nurturing the next generation of engineers and researchers underscores his role as a mentor and educator. Dr. Zilany is currently a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of