Paper ID #41152Interactions with Undergraduate Academic and Career Advisors in a Signalsand Systems Base CourseDr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Lanzerotti is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously she worked at the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY).Dr. Scott Dunning P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Scott Dunning is Associate Department Head and Chief of Staff for the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to
Paper ID #43613Exploring Outcome Expectations in Artificial Intelligence and Internet ofThings in First-Year Engineering Students (Work in Progress)Ing. Andrea Ramirez-Salgado, University of Florida Andrea is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Florida, specializing in Educational Technology. Her work centers on understanding the dynamics of teaching and learning approaches that shape the identity of computer engineers to support computer engineering career choices, particularly in women first-year engineering students. She is committed to designing inclusive curricula that cater to the
multidisciplinary introduction to electricalengineering course. Through quantitative analysis and the administration of an existing validatedsurvey instrument, we aim to explore students' exposure to semiconductors-related topics andpotential correlations between exposure, motivation, and demographic variables, includinggender, class standing, and majors.The instrument was administered to a cohort of 255 students enrolled in “Elements of ElectricalEngineering,” a multidisciplinary course covering the fundamentals of electrical engineering.Preliminary data indicates that only 9% of the students in this cohort have taken a class aboutsemiconductors and only 3% have some interest in pursuing a career in the semiconductors field.The results of this analysis
software skills. This work has potential challengessuch as dependence on specific resources like a greenhouse and student engagement level ofprojects will be varied. IoT Hands-on Activities in Secondary Education [10] assesses the impactof IoT-based activities on STEM learning and career orientation among secondary schoolstudents. They involved students participating in a summer school, engaging in hands-on IoTactivities. Results showed positive responses and increased interest in STEM fields and careers.Limitations of this study include a small sample size, short duration, and potential bias inself-reported data.Overall, these initiatives aim to bridge the gap between traditional EE education and the rapidlyevolving world of CPS and IoT
Program underthe umbrella of the Iowa Cyber Hub [3] to foster a network of informed and resilient digitalcitizens. Created in 2017, the Iowa Cyber Hub is an initiative developed by educators andindustry professionals in Iowa. It serves various constituents, including students, employees,managers, educators, and others, by providing cybersecurity resources and guidance. The hubaims to enhance knowledge and career development in cybersecurity within the state and offers avariety of resources and opportunities. The Iowa Cyber Hub is dedicated to securing the state andexpanding the cybersecurity workforce.Launched in October of 2023, the Cybersecurity Ambassador Program [4] empowers students topromote basic cybersecurity concepts and practices within
career she received several best paper and presentation awards; authored approximately 100 publications; and delivered more than 100 invited presentations and keynote addresses. Her grant and contract funding exceeds $11 million. A Fellow of both the ASEE and IEEE, Professor Schrader has served ASEE in myriad technical, regional and institute-level leadership positions and committees and has been recognized for her many contributions. She was most honored to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House, enhancing participation of individuals who might not otherwise have considered or had access to opportunities in STEM
semiconductor knowledge, feedbacknoted that the questions lean toward manufacturing aspects. It was suggested to focus onexploring the bottlenecks faced in reducing channel length and how challenges were addressed inadvanced nodes, such as the introduction of SOI FET, FinFET, and the latest GAAFET in 3nmand below.Finally, when asked about the proposed interpretation and use, a recommendation was made toprovide RET participants with a guide on how to direct high school students if they are interestedin pursuing a career in semiconductor engineering. This validation is based on AERA standard[12].Participants and Data CollectionParticipants include 10 high school, middle school, and community college STEM teachers whoparticipated in a RET program. Data
How supportive has your faculty mentor been about your academic goals? Level of support Q6 How supportive has your faculty mentor been about your life goals? Q7 How easy has it been to discuss ideas about elective options with your faculty mentor? Q8 How easy has it been to discuss ideas about career options with your faculty mentor? Comfort level in Q9 How easy has it been to discuss ideas about internship options with your faculty mentor? academic topics discussion Q10 How easy has it been to discuss ideas about research options with your faculty mentor? Q11 How helpful has your faculty mentor been in balancing your class
/hybrid delivery to increase student learning intoday’s enhanced learning environment. Virginia Tech is designated by the National ScienceFoundation as a minority serving institution.Starting in Fall 2023, 13 activities were introduced to improve the Signals and Systems course inthe Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The 13 initiatives introducedare: (1) Tracking attendance for assigned points starting on the first day of class; (2) mapping eachexam problem and each quiz question to the corresponding course Learning Objective(s) [3]; (3)introducing a series of mini-Guest Speakers to talk with the students about how they use theconcepts of signals and systems in their careers and jobs; (4) introducing Prize Day with a
, sophomore) and require the students to learn the basics ofprogramming and Arduino syntax, while occurring early enough in the student’s career that theyare introduced to these exciting topics while still discovering their interests [3].In contrast, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students typically learn C/C++ from theComputer Science department before later learning how to use with a focus on low-levelprogramming of embedded systems [4]. Many ECE departments lack a course with a low barrierto entry that introduces the exciting topics covered in Mechanical Engineering’s mechatronicscourse. Although there has been debate in the academic community about the effectiveness ofusing Arduinos to teach embedded programming, many universities have
Paper ID #44090Board 85: Work in Progress: Asset-Driven Equitable Partnerships (ADEP inPractice)Dr. Kenneth A Connor, Inclusive Engineering Consortium & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is Program Officer at the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), whose mission is to enable MSI ECE programs to produce more and better prepared graduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented in ECE careers. He is also an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he taught courses on electromagnetics
, after which theauxiliary material gets elbowed out to address new technical developments, external pressures,and so forth. We are, however, conscientious about both the reason to spread this work out andthe how to sustain it.For the former, as faculty who advise all the students in our programs—with each of whom wemeet no less than three times each year (no less than once per quarter, typically two or threetimes) just for advising—we are familiar with many students’ tendency to identify what theyconsider throw-away courses. These are required courses that many students do not perceive asessential to their career. And because we cannot teach our major courses more than once peryear, it is sometimes justifiable for a student to leave these
Instruction in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She received her PhD in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are computer animation, undergraduate computer science and engineering education, and broadening participation in computing. Throughout her career, Dr. Wang has been actively involved in the important mission of recruiting and mentoring women in computer science and engineering. She serves as the faculty advisor of Women in Computer Science and Engineering student organization since 2013. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Peer-led Learning for a Hardware
students understandthe topic and how these courses influenced them to taking another course in the same field orto conduct research in this field. Notably, it has shown that junior project course sparksenthusiasm regarding this field in most students for them to voluntarily advance to conductadvanced research in following semesters or plan their career path in this field. This verifiesthe importance of and the effectiveness of hands-on experiments for nurturing potentialworkforce for VLSI fields. The recent development of technology shows enlarged scale ofcircuits and systems. In turn, both industry and academia are relying on design tools for designand for predicting behaviors of the systems. Whether for academia or industry, however, hands-on
criteria adopted to assess the attainment of ABET StudentOutcome (SO) #5. Additionally, assessment results, discussions on student survey questions, andsurvey responses from recent course offerings are included in this paper as well.I IntroductionThe Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET requires engineering programs such asElectrical and Computer engineering programs to demonstrate the attainment of required studentoutcomes that prepare students for their professional careers after graduation. Among these,teamwork, as an important element, is highlighted in SO #5 as “an ability to function effectivelyon a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet
EA education presently offered is inadequate, with most participants indicating thatU.S. universities are not adequately preparing electrical engineering students for careers in GlobalEngineering (used in the workshop as a synonym for Humanitarian Engineering) or for graduatestudies in Global Engineering (Table 4 and Table 5). Although it is perhaps not surprising that agroup of EA educators and stakeholders would see a need to expand EA education, it is moresurprising that they also felt that the quality of EA education is low. The opinions about thequantity and quality of EA are largely unchanged from the previous year’s workshop [16].Table 3: Responses to the prompt “What is your opinion of the quantity (number of universities)offering
holds the position of Lecturer at Lusail University, Qatar. Prior to this, she served as a part-time Professor at Conestoga College, Canada, and as a Solution Engineer at CONSULTEK Corporation, Canada. Muna was also a Program Coordinator and a Research Associate at Texas A&M University, Qatar, for more than five years. Throughout her extensive career, Muna has garnered substantial expertise in instructing a wide array of courses, spanning both theoretical and practical subjects. Her teaching portfolio includes Digital Design, Big Data and Data Analysis, Mathematics, Electrical Circuits Theory, Electronics, and Control Theory. Muna’s commitment to academia extends beyond the classroom. She actively engages in various
Paper ID #43708Board 87: Work in Progress: The 2TO4 Project - Facilitated Transition from2-Year to 4-Year Electrical and Computer Engineering StudiesDr. Kenneth A Connor, Inclusive Engineering Consortium & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is Program Officer at the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), whose mission is to enable MSI ECE programs to produce more and better prepared graduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented in ECE careers. He is also an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI
project, ADALM1000 was introduced to the students so that they could utilize theother features of this device in their career paths or in other future research projects. Subsequently,another research project was conducted in this course using the M1K to test the functionality of a4x1 multiplexer, and the students also utilized other features of the M1K. Figure 4. ADALM1000MethodologyThe goal of this hands-on laboratory experiment is to introduce students to the concepts ofsubtractors and full adders and to familiarize them with their functions. The experimental logicpedagogy was implemented in person as part of an undergraduate 2+2-degree program course,CMPEN 275: Digital Design Laboratory, during the Fall 2023
communication for the PLC using serial protocols usedin industrial applications, and also communicate over ethernet to internet web services. These labswould help expose and develop relevant skills even more.Such efforts such as described for this course contribute to the efforts of many engineeringprograms to expand ways to expose and develop relevant skills in students to prepare them forindustrial and commercial careers and applications.References:[1] Raviv, D., Reyes, P., Baker, J., “A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Approach for Introducing Design of ControlSystem”, Proceedings of the 2017 American Society for Engineering Education conference and exposition, 2017.[2] Habibi, C., and Fieschko, D. “PLC Training in First Year Electrical Engineering
with real-world problems.Project-based learning focuses on creating projects that allow students to practice their technicaland professional skills on problems that embody those that they will work on and solve aftercompleting their degrees [5]. These types of experiences have been shown to help students byimproving their learning of the technical content, giving them freedom to explore their owndesigns and solutions while remaining relevant to their future career [6]. Many project-basedlearning experiences exist either in Capstone courses for students during their finalundergraduate year, or occasionally in Cornerstone courses, sometimes seen in first-yearengineering courses [7]. The ‘middle years’ of engineering programs often focus on
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. By analyzingqualitative data from weekly blog post reflections and student interviews, this work aims to unpackthe complex ways global competencies are cultivated among undergraduate and graduateengineering students with varying degrees of prior research experience. The findings of thisresearch are expected to inform future engineering education practices, providing valuable insightsfor educators, policymakers, and institutions aiming to enhance the global competencies of theirstudents through international research collaborations.IntroductionGlobal competence has increasingly become a key differentiator in engineering, significantlyinfluencing an engineer’s employability and career progression [1], [2], [3], [4]. However, workingwith
courses in thedepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With a multidisciplinary teaching goal, thisproject covers mechanical, electrical, and computer science and engineering in the integrativearea of mechatronics [1] [3]. Considering the simplicity of its design, it can be introduced to anearly academic career course project [2] [4], such as "ENGR 110 Engineering Methods, Tools,and Practice I", which is a first-year introductory course for engineering students. This courseintroduces essential engineering tools and skills for success in engineering, for example,computer-aided design (CAD) , 3D printpracticing, and basic programming. All the designcomponents including the CAD model and the firmware can be given to the student to
) the level of their knowledgein engineering asset management, and 66.7 % stated that they have no experience in the area. Theresponses to the two survey questions are given in Figure 2 and Figure 3. Figure 2: Engineers’ response to the pre-course questions about their graduation year. Figure 3: Engineers’ response to the pre-course question about the knowledge in engineering asset managementFor the post-course survey, the engineers were asked about the course material and its relevanceto the industry. The majority agreed on the significance of the course in relation to the power sector(see Figure 3) and its effectiveness in preparing students for future careers in the area (see Figure4).The interaction between the engineers and
forVLSI design and distance learning [6]. Similarly, the Taiwan Semiconductor ManufacturingCompany (TSMC), a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan, has started off the TSMCSemiconductor Programs at local research universities in Taiwan, offering various tracks such asDevice/Integration, Process/Module, and Equipment Engineering [7].Noting the key role for industry involvement, our focus shifts to research-intensive universities,to focus on their roles in preparing students for exploring career paths in the semiconductorindustry? What expertise and knowledge do students need to acquire to become semiconductorengineers? How can we best ready our students for a smooth transition into the chips industry
addvisualization and active for enhancing students’ learning experiences. As a recommendation toother instructors, the authors could see the differences between universities since the class setupand students are different in context. However, considering the outcomes of the target course,and approach to include theory, simulation, measurement would be critical for students’ in-classlearning and future careers reflecting industry’s demand. Each instructor may generate their ownmodularized course design charts and consider visualization tools to combine those.AcknowledgementThis research and collaboration is supported by U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer FacultyFellowship Program named as USAFA: Pedagogy Research for Education in Electrical andComputer
students were certainly involved in the world of research, as described in moredetail below. The series has been successful in other ways too, such as producing publication-quality results and has initiated successful engineering careers for many of the students.In all, two research papers have resulted from these capstone projects which, in turn, includelinks to data repositories to enable others to build wireless sensor nodes from these projects’source code and hardware designs. Student teams showed clear improvement, year on year: afterYear 1, the fundamental components were present, but a cohesive demonstration was challengingand no paper could be written about the results. In Year 2, the project functioned but needed asummer student to fix
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Sandoval, Phuong TruongAbstract: Learning can be a daunting and challenging process, particularly in engineering. Whilecognitive models for learning such as Bloom's taxonomy have been developed since the 1950s andevidenced to be useful in designing engineering courses, these models are not commonly explicitlytaught in classrooms to help students manage and regulate their own learning. In highly demandingcurriculum such as engineering, ineffective strategies can lead to poor academic performance thatcascades throughout a student’s academic career. Feedback from traditional examinations often donot provide personalized and actionable changes to study habits (i.e., with suboptimal scores,students may know they need to study more, but whether “more