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Projects in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Nicholas B. Conklin, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6043High Altitude Radiation Detector (HARD): Integration of UndergraduateResearch into Senior Design and Lessons LearnedDr. Wookwon Lee, Gannon University Wookwon Lee, P.E. received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Inha University, Korea, in 1985, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Prior to joining Gannon, he had been involved in various research and development projects in

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Projects in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Nigel Yu, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6373centralized platform project for multiple ECE core coursesDr. lin zhao, Gannon University Lin Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada in 2006. Since 2007, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gannon University, Erie, PA, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include electrical machinery design and modeling, and control of electric drives.Mr. Nigel Yu, Gannon University Electrical and Computer Engineering student

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Projects in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Mark Jansson PE, Bucknell University; Daniel Schmalzel; Robert R. Krchnavek, Rowan University; John L. Schmalzel, Rowan University

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Electrical and Computer

for the State of New Jersey was completed at that time. Thefollowing two semesters (Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012) had smaller engineering clinic teamscontinuing to refine the document. It was completed and shared with the State over the summerof 2012 by summer students and their professors when the document went through its finalrevisions. This paper reports on general aspects of the EAP in order to provide the context and thenfocuses on the important relationship between project-based coursework and studentemployment opportunities. Some of the challenges in the academic environment include thesometimes competing goals of (1) providing relevant projects based upon real industry need, and(2) the accompanying expectations of professional

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Projects in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 23.469.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Electric Vehicle Circuit and Electrical System Senior Lab ProjectAbstractAs part of a multidisciplinary team, electrical engineering students worked with computer andmechanical engineering students to create a small-scale electric vehicle. The major tasks of theteam were design and performance prediction; fabrication of the vehicle, control circuits, andcomputer data acquisition board; system integration and testing; racing the vehicles against otherteams; and comparing performance data to predictions. This paper will discuss the electricalengineering students’ design efforts for the project. The

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Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Reg Recayi Pecen, North American College; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6316An Industry Related Project-Based Microcontroller CourseDr. Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State UniversityDr. Reg Recayi Pecen, North American College Dr. Recayi ”Reg” Pecen was formerly a professor and program chairs of Electrical Engineering Tech- nology and Graduate (MS and Doctoral) Programs in the Department of Technology at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Dr. Pecen is currently serving as President and Professor at North American College in Houston, TX. He is also serving as a Chair of Energy Conservation and Conversion Division at American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Pecen holds a

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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karl L Wang, Department of Engineering Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Clarement, CA 91711 909-607-9136 ; Clint S Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Tinghui Wang, Digilent Inc; Joe Harris, Digilent, Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6849An Effective Project-Based Embedded System Design Teaching MethodProf. Karl L Wang, Department of Engineering Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Clarement, CA91711 909-607-9136 Dr. Karl Wang is the Laspa Professor of Electrical Engineering Practice of in the Department of Engineer- ing at Harvey Mudd College. He is teaching Introduction to Engineering Systems, Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering, Microprocessor-based Systems: Design and Applications, and Embedded Sys- tem Designs, Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design, and Engineering Clinics. His previous experience include working in the

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Erlind George Royer, Academy Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USAF Academy, CO; Daniel Harold Harold; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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-University Unmanned Systems Capstone Design ProjectAbstractIn this paper we discuss the assessment methods for a senior capstone design project involvingteams from three geographically separated universities, as well as the challenges the studentsfaced and lessons learned. The project title was the Joint Cooperative Unmanned SystemsInitiative (JCUSI). Each team was tasked with developing an unmanned autonomous systemoperating in a different medium (air, water, and ground) to cooperatively work together tocomplete a mission of protecting a harbor. JCUSI is unique in that the customer funding theproject will most likely employ the students involved either as engineers implementing futureunmanned systems or as operators

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale N. Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phil J Sealy Jr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; John R Goomey, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

streaming-video (SV)technology to accommodate the schedules of working students completing the program on apart-time basis. Our faculty have been trained in distance education and have utilized web-conferencing software to create office hours for remote students which are essentially equivalentto those provided to local students. All course content is website based.One of the strengths of our electrical engineering program has been the integration of hands-onlab work into all but one of our courses. In addition, design projects are included in almost allour junior and senior EE coursework. Up until recently, all this distance lab work had beenfacilitated by laboratory managers who have enabled students to complete their lab work at theirnearest two

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Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Anthony H. Hawes LCDR, USCG, United States Coast Guard Academy; Royce Warner James Ph.D.; Eric Jonathan Page, United States Coast Guard Academy; Ali M. Reza, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6160Senior Project based Educational Collaboration between Physics and Electri-cal EngineeringProf. Richard W. Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy RICHARD W. FREEMAN has served as a lecturer in the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Electrical En- gineering Major since 2008. Prior to joining the faculty, he taught fulltime for eight years. He also worked in the Telecommunications Industry for eight years. He earned BS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and a MBA from Southern Methodist University. He holds a Professional Engineering License in the State of Connecticut.Anthony H. Hawes

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Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Mark Earl Randall, University of Evansville; Don Roberts, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6574Tracking High Altitude Balloons in an EE Projects ClassDr. Dick Blandford, University of Evansville Dick Blandford is the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of EvansvilleMr. Mark Earl Randall, University of EvansvilleDr. Don Roberts, University of Evansville Page 23.1257.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Tracking High Altitude Balloons in an EE Projects ClassAbstractEE 380 is a required junior level projects

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Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stanley W. Hsu, University of California, Davis; Rajeevan Amirtharajah, University of California, Davis; andre knoesen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U C Davis

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6114Lab and Team Project Development for Engineering Problem Solving usingMATLAB, with Emphasis on Solar Power and Engineering for SustainabilityMr. Stanley W. Hsu, University of California, Davis Stanley Hsu received a B.S. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 and an M.S. degree from University of California, Davis in 2011, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Davis. His research is in the area of low power mixed- signal integrated circuits for energy harvesting sensor applications. He is also interested in high-speed

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan, University of Michigan

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #7548New EE lab projects for non-EE majors: Fourier spectra of music and per-ception of the effects of student-built filtersDr. Alexander Ganago, University of MichiganMr. Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan, University of Michigan Page 23.926.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013   New lab projects for non-EE majors: Fourier spectra of music and perception of the effects of student-built filtersAbstractTwo laboratory projects for an introductory

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Albright P.E., University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

that finding such an appropriate balancebetween depth and breadth of education, especially one with complementary aspects, is anongoing challenge. The balance point is not stagnant, but varies from time-to-time and place-to-place depending on societal needs and technological developments.The focus of this paper is to summarize our curricular changes, with their rationale, beginningwith the ones that apply to all of our School's curricula. The major changes include reinstituting acommon first-year of study to aid students in selecting a major, enhancing the capstone designsequence to encourage and facilitate more multi-disciplinary projects, and designating ninesemester hours of existing credits as "professional electives" that can be, for

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University; Oren Masory, Florida Atlantic University; Zvi S Roth

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Electrical and Computer

Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 Zhuang@fau.eduAbstractWe report on a multi-year project to use engineering capstone designs to aid elderly and personswith disabilities; and to enhance undergraduate engineering education through multidisciplinarycollaboration and hands-on experience. In their capstone project, students utilize and adaptavailable technologies to create devices to assist persons with disabilities from the users’perspective. To this end, at the first course of the Engineering Design sequence, students are firstreferred to healthcare facilities and local schools that host students with learning disabilities inorder to gather information

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Gregory L. Heileman, University of New Mexico; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez, Northern New Mexico College; Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Timothy L Schroeder; José Marcio Luna, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering Courses among Institutions in New Mexico AbstractThis paper presents a two-year pilot project involving cross-institutional collaborations amongthe University of New Mexico (UNM), Northern New Mexico College (NNMC), and CentralNew Mexico Community College (CNM). The primary objective of this project is to leveragethe limited resources available in New Mexico (NM) to provide quality STEM undergraduateeducation to a large student population. The immediate goal is to develop a pedagogy that allowsfor demonstrable and repeatable success in this environment using a few targeted courses, withthe longer-term goal of expanding the results of this research across all higher

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

are given table thatlists various costs such labor rates, use of the lab space, and an overhead rate. Thecreation of the budget is a pre-lab task. A post-lab task that is included in the lab report acost report. The cost report details the actual cost of performing the experiment andcomparing the actual costs with the predicted costs.The lecture-based courses all have at least one design project. Modifications were madeto the current design project to include the components that would typically be found in abusiness setting (for example, cost proposals). Students are required to bid on theproject. Students must submit a final report which includes the cost report – including ananalysis of the bid cost versus the actual cost. The professor

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of thecourse is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. Byincorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstractcontrol theory and the real world applications.In the present paper we describe the educational experience gained by including team-based projects intothe control systems course. In these projects students design and implement different controllers forautonomous navigation in a mobile robot. In particular, the design and implementation of three maintypes of controllers are assigned to teams of students, namely: 1) a

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University

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Electrical and Computer

performance inan elective applied digital signal processing course. First, we overview course organization andlearning objectives. Next, we present data and analysis on student performance. We assessstudent preparedness over the period from 2002 to 2012 using, as a course pretest, the discrete-time signals and systems concept inventory (DT SSCI) developed by Wage and Buck. Pretestperformance establishes a baseline for various student performance data, including hardware-based project grades over the same eleven-year period. Final exam performance data ispresented from 2006, the year the course adopted a standardized final exam that is similar instructure to the DT SSCI but custom designed for this particular course. Particular attention ispaid to the

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Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hector A. Ochoa, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

then significant changes have been made to this course in order to make itmore enjoyable and effective in retaining students. Some of these changes include theestablishment of a departmental template used to prepare the materials that are distributed to thestudents, the inclusion of virtual instruments such as the NI myDAQ and Labview, and thereplacement of PSpice with NI Multisim and Ultiboard. The last two software utilities have madethe fabrication of PCBs easier for the students and faculty. Furthermore, the students are requiredto use the NI myDAQ in some of their laboratories and in the final project which some of themalso include the use of Labview. This paper will present the data collected as a part of the courseoffering over four

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Lee Heyman, United States Military Academy; Wenli Huang, U.S. Military Academy; Guangming Xie, Peking University; Pongpat Taephanitcharoen, United States Military Academy

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Electrical and Computer

purpose of theprogram is for our students to conduct collaborative engineering projects together with thestudents at Chinese universities. We hope, through living in China and interacting with Chinesestudents, our students will be immersed in Chinese culture; gain regional experiences, andperform in a multi-lingual environment. The students are chosen from majors in electricalengineering, computer science, or information technology and they have had at least one year ofChinese language instruction. The average cost for the trip is about $3500.00 per student for atwo week trip. This trip is longer than necessary for competing in the competition, but givesstudents more time to explore a foreign culture. Costs could be slightly reduced by

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6884Application of active learning in microwave circuit design coursesProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and B.S. degree from University of Zagreb. He is a Professor at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In his former role as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education he has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor

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Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Elio Sancristobal, uned; Sergio Martin, UNED - Spanish University for Distance Education; Rosario Gil, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Alberto Pesquera, UNED; SANTIAGO MONTESO FERNANDEZ, UNED; Félix García Loro, Predoctoral fellow; Maria José Albert Gomez, UNED; GABRIEL DIAZ ORUETA, UNED; Nevena Mileva, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"; Mihail Milev; juan peire; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Engineering Department (DIEEC) at UNED. He is author\co-author of more than 25 publications; including conference papers, book chapters, and journal articles on remote laboratories. He is collaborating in several researching projects among them NSF Catalyzing New International Collaborations proposal ”Building an Ecology of Online Laboratories”.Dr. Elio Sancristobal, unedDr. Sergio Martin, UNED - Spanish University for Distance Education Sergio Martin is PhD by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Industrial Engineer- ing School of UNED. He is Computer Engineer in Distributed Applications & Systems by the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), receiving Honor marks in his final project. Technical

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

silica single mode optical fiber to meet the requireddispersion properties using MATLAB for their mid-term project. For the final project, a long-haul optical transmission system was designed.Keywords: Fiber Optics, optical communication systems, hands-on, active learningIntroduction Internet applications move rapidly from transmitting photos and downloading songs todownloading and streaming high-definition videos and feature-length movies as well as high-capacity, high-performance computing. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, globalIP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years and will increase threefold over the next 5years. It would take over 6 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global

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Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; James J. Sluss Jr., University of Oklahoma

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Electrical and Computer

centralfocus of our outreach and recruiting activities is to create fun, exciting, and interestingdemonstrations and hands-on activities that are related to the specific items listed by the students Page 23.862.5in the surveys. Most of these are created by ECE students. In this way the students can see thetypes of things they will be capable of doing if they choose ECE as a major. Another surveyquestion asked the students to state “what impressed them about the experience” (if they wereexposed to our outreach or recruiting activities). The most popular response to this question wasrelated to seeing the student projects. Looking back at some of the

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

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Electrical and Computer

studentoutcomes. The College of Engineering at Temple University has four academic departments,including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a newly establishDepartment of Bioengineering (BE).The Director of the General Engineering degree program has the responsibility to insure allaspects of the Program including continuous improvement of the interdisciplinary curriculum.The Director is also the single interface between the Program and industry for co-operative workstudy assignments, internships, capstone design projects and professional employment. Providingan identified Director on point assures that the General Engineering degree maintains visibilityand creditability within the College.Faculty advisors from both ECE and ME

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ellingson, U. of St. Thomas, School of Engineering; Kundan Nepal, University of Saint Thomas; Megan Rose McGill, University of St. Thomas; Mitchell J Hoffmann, University of St. Thomas

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Electrical and Computer

disasterdetection[2,3]. In addition to performing difficult calculations with ease, robots are also capable ofperforming tasks that are either too intricate, such as small-scale surgeries[4], or too strenuous,such as automobile assembly[5], for humans to perform. For these reasons and countless others,the field of robotics and the wide variety of applications that it encompasses will continue togrow. It is beneficial, therefore, to educate and excite young minds about the wonderfulopportunities available in this field of study. In this paper, our undergraduate research teamhopes to outline the research we conducted over the course of a summer and to propose that ourproject could be expanded upon in further research projects or as part of an

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark William Redekopp, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

ImplementationFor our "flipped" approach, we chose a junior level undergraduate computer organization andarchitecture. This course included coverage of fundamental computer organization conceptsincluding assembly language programming and instruction set architecture, memory hierarchy Page 23.548.5concepts and policies, processor organization, and structures of discussion and practice withembedded systems programming. While conceptual understanding and mastery of these topicswas important, students in the traditional lecture-based approach often struggled when posedwith their application in specific hardware and software design projects. Students

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Akhilesh Tyagi, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

literacy and has given numerous talks on security. His current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environ- ments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 2012 for his work

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Hongwei Liao

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Electrical and Computer

learning EE; foster their understanding of the connectedness between EE and all fields of engineering, to help them achieve more in their major fields, and ii. Gradually evolve the course to make it more valuable for students, relevant to what they learn in their fields of major, to their future projects and work.During each semester, we design surveys and regularly offer them to the currentlyenrolled students; analyze the statistics of their answers and get deeper understandingfrom reading their open-ended responses; and immediately apply our findings toteaching.Here we report our work in Fall 2012, when the course structure was changed to enhancethe lab experience, and present the results that reveal: o The initial

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison, IL; Aminul Karim, DeVry University, Downers Grove, IL; Jennifer A McClain, IEEE

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Electrical and Computer

. His research interests are in the areas of Nanotechnology, Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, Application of Telecom- munications Technologies in Distance Education, and Social and Ethical Implications of Technology. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Network Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Science Technology and Society (STS), and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is the author of many educational papers and presentations. He has authored/coauthored the following books: • Nanotechnology: Ethical and Social Implications (2012) • Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century and Beyond 3E, (2008) • The Telecommunications Fact Book and