asPALASM or ABEL to significantly more complex modern HDLs such as Verilog or VHDL, whichprofessional design engineers spend years to master. Second, the wide availability of high gatecount FPGAs, which enables students to create amazingly complex designs involving datapathcomponents such as adders and counters, requires the teaching of many more complex componentsin a one semester course. This two-fold increase in complexity requires a redesign of the traditionalintroductory digital design laboratory to enable students to create complex designs using a rela-tively simple design methodology.Therefore, this paper proposes the use of a minimal subset of an HDL (Verilog, in this case) com-plemented by judicious use of schematic capture and its
for solar energy applications and optoelectronic device development for non-destructive testing and evaluation. Page 26.68.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A mixed instructional methods approach to teaching a Circuits and Instrumentation courseAbstractThe circuits and instrumentation course at James Madison University provides students withfoundational knowledge in DC, transient, and AC circuit design and analysis. The 4-credit courseis comprised of three weekly lectures and one weekly laboratory session. Given the breadth ofcontent and
, controls, renewable energy, and engineering study abroad courses. His current research interest include material development for solar energy applications and optoelectronic device development for non-destructive testing and evaluation.Brian Groener , James Madison University Page 26.594.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Embedding Engineering Design in a Circuits and Instrumentation CourseAbstractThe junior level circuits and instrumentation course at James Madison University is a 4-credit coursewith three lectures and one laboratory each week. Fundamentals of DC and AC
excellentopportunity to effectively train students on state-of-the-art applications, a broad spectrum ofengineering and science fundamentals, and the interrelationships between multiple engineeringdisciplines. We describe our experience and lessons-learned in teaching an advancedundergraduate-level GNSS capstone design course in the department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Virginia Tech over the past 15 years. We report on the objectives of the course,the topic selection, the capabilities of laboratory hardware, approaches to GNSS data extractionand analysis, and the importance of the accompanying teaching laboratory. Student perceptionsof specific measurable learning objectives are provided which underscore the importance of ahands-on laboratory
. Page 26.430.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Curricular Enhancement to Support Activity-Based Learning in Introductory Circuit Analysis CoursesAbstractTraditional Circuit Analysis courses introduce undergraduate Electrical Engineering students tofundamental concepts of electric circuits and networks, while providing them hands-onexperience in accompanying laboratory sessions. A drawback of this conventional approach isthat it restricts student creativity and circuit-building and troubleshooting skills to the confines ofa laboratory. This paper proposes the use of Analog Discovery Boards (ADB) in conjunctionwith regular classroom learning sessions and collaborative group sessions in
TMS320C5515 eZdsp USB Stick, a powered microphone, an audiosource such as an MP3 player or cellphone, and speakers. Undergraduate electrical engineeringstudents were shown the demonstration and were surveyed to determine which algorithms theyfound most interesting. The C language source code for the software is available from the authorfor free, so this program can be modified by instructors who wish to make their owndemonstrations or used as a convenient starting point for student projects.IntroductionThe material in a DSP course is often highly theoretical and mathematical, and so it is useful toconnect the theory to real-world applications with laboratory experiments, simulations, ordemonstrations. Fortunately, there are many interesting
2 Function calls and arrays in embedded C with interfacing a liquid crystal display (LCD) module 8 2 PIC18 features and analog-to-digital (A/D) conversions 9 Course Review - Midterm Exam 10-12 6 Timer programming and interrupt programming 13-14 4 Capture-compare-PWM programming 15 Course Review - Final ExamTable 3 shows the laboratory projects in the laboratory exercise sections, where the content oflaboratory project #3 is included in Appendix A. For the laboratory exercises, MPLAB Integrat-ed Development Environment (IDE)8 as shown in Figure 1 is used to program the source code in
introductory-level laboratoryexperiment focused on the analysis of switching-mode DC-DC converters. This experimentwould take place in an analog electronics course as a laboratory component for juniorundergraduate electrical and computer engineering students.Switching mode power supplies have been used in industries and consumer electronics for manydecades. Recently, they have become pervasive in our daily life as many smartphones, portablecomputing devices, and renewable energy systems are using switching mode power converters.Due to the wide acceptance of this technology, a lab component has been added in an analogelectronics course to introduce switching-mode DC-DC conversion.The approach taken is to integrate students’ knowledge and experiences
Instrumentation and Control Laboratory Coordinator since 1992, as Academic Senator (1995-2001), Faculty Represen- tative at the Administrative Board of the UPRM (2000-2001), Controls Area Committee Coordinator, Departmental Personnel Committee (1996-1997), and Liaison Officer for the Puerto Rico Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (PRLS-AMP) Project (August 1995 – December 1999).Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Page 26.66.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Methodology To Teach Students To Implement Digital
asineffective in helping students develop critical thinking skills necessary to take up their roles asengineers in more professional settings [6]–[8]. In most cases the lecture classes are followed by a laboratory component. For thelaboratory sessions students are given a booklet consisting of specific circuit exercises related tothe lecture of each given week to be completed prior to the class. During the lab, they arerequired to construct the given circuit, measure required values and discuss the comparisonbetween calculated and measured values. Consequently, laboratory classes have been describedas the point at which theoretical learning about concepts meets practical application.Laboratories have also been classified as “superior to
Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of STEM Education.Prof. Euan Lindsay, Charles Sturt University Professor Euan Lindsay is a Mechatronic engineer, a discipline that integrates computers, electronics and physical hardware. Prof Lindsay’s PhD investigated whether remote and simulated access alternatives to Page 26.198.1 the traditional in-person laboratory experience could provide the same learning outcomes for students. Prof Lindsay’s work in Remote and Virtual laboratory classes has shown that there are significant differ
were based on student surveys (mid-termreflections, course evaluations) and student work products (assigned homework, quizzes, exams).Initial ImplementationThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida offers twoseparate circuits courses: EEL3111C - Circuits I and EEL3003- Elements of ElectricalEngineering. EEL3003 uses the textbook “Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis” by Irwin andNelms [15] and does not have a laboratory component. All electrical and computer engineering(ECE) and biomedical engineering (BME) students are required to take EEL3111C. All otherengineering majors are required to take EEL3003. The course used in this study is Circuits I.Circuits I is typically taken at the same time as
fourcredit hour semester course that consists of three 50-minute lectures and a 2-hour associatedlaboratory each week, and is considered one of the core courses in the Electrical Engineeringcurriculum. The course covers electric circuit analysis techniques in addition to certain aspects ofcircuit design. The objectives of the course include circuit analysis, design, simulation, and datagathering and analysis in the laboratory. The circuit analysis portion emphasizes proficiency inthe analysis of DC and AC circuits, which include circuits theorems and analysis techniques,operational amplifiers, first-order transient analysis, ideal transformers, and balanced three-phasecircuits. The design objectives in the course include design and construction of
engineering grant supporting Historically Black University and Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives.Dr. Corey A Graves, North Carolina A&T State University Corey A. Graves is an associate professor and the director of the Auto Mobile Pervasive and Embedded Design 9AMPED) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina A&T State University
American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Teaching Digital Designs by Building Small Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Using an FPGA PlatformThis article discusses the experiences of implementing a new model in teaching and learningdigital designs using Verilog in an embedded systems design course. This paper discusses thecourse structure, laboratory exercises, student projects and project evaluation process, and finallythe student evaluation outcomes. Students’ course assessment and student learning outcomeswere very positive. In many existing digital designs curriculum, students learn how to createstructural and behavioral models in Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) to designsimple combinational and
Electromagnetics, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, High Frequency Circuit Design, Antenna Design and Analog Electronics. Prior to joining WNE, Dr. Burke was with the EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (MRC) from 1995 to 2000. From 1992 to 1995, Dr. Burke was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) Corporation. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Burke was with Compact Software as a senior research engineer. From 1987 to 1990, Dr. Burke was with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. From 1984 to 1986, Dr. Burke was with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Page 26.57.1
students who completed the course in their second year) and one laboratoryengineer. The expected course commitment from students is 13 hours per week: pre-classpreparation including reading, numerical tasks and online quizzes (2-3 hours/week), classeswith active learning methods (245min on Mondays and 445min on Tuesdays, a total of 6teaching hours in ProLab per week), laboratory sessions (3-4 hours fortnightly), andcompulsory assignments (3-4 hours fortnightly). All assignments must be satisfactorilycompleted for students to be allowed to sit the final examination, which counts for 100% of thecourse grade.Students who fail the end-of-semester final examination are entitled to take a resit-examinationthree months later. If they pass the resit
Paper ID #13086A Concise Antennas Course based on a Single Semester of ElectromagneticsPreparationDr. Steven S. Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering Steven S. Holland (M ’13) was born in Chicago, IL, in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), Milwaukee, WI, in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From 2006 to 2011, he was a Research Assistant working in the Antennas and Propagation Laboratory (APLab), Department of Electrical and Computer
. Page 26.831.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Hands-On Active Learning via Development of FPGA-based Intelligent Microwave Oven Controller Page 26.831.2 Hands-On Active Learning via Development of FPGA-based Intelligent Microwave Oven Controller1. IntroductionDesign project in laboratory development course plays an important role in electricalengineering education to connect theory and hands-on skills for student learning. In thispaper, a team-based design project with regard to FPGA-based intelligent microwave ovencontroller is presented for its development of learning modules and its pedagogy. The
University Charles Pringle is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Central Washington University. Charles teaches upper division courses including the senior capstone course.Prof. Lad Holden, Central Washington UniversityDr. Michael L. Whelan, Department of Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction, Central Washing-ton University Received B.S.C.E. (1970) and M.S. (1971) degrees from the University of New Mexico followed by a Ph.D. (1981) from Iowa State University. Has held faculty and administrative positions in several universities, a visiting researcher position in a governmental laboratory, and a variety of engineering positions in industry during the period 1971 to the present
education has been discussed8); (c) Developing a respective multi-disciplinary laboratory for both research and teaching of hardware/software security; and (d) Advancing education through inter- and intra-university research collaborations (it is noted that the authors of this work are from different and diverse backgrounds).We note that a cryptographic system was chosen for deeply-embedded security integration ofresearch and teaching for a number of reasons: (a) efficient and practical use of cryptographywill be one of the major schemes in providing security in future deeply-embedded systems and(b) the cryptographic architectures are modular thus dividing the tasks in performing research orinstructing in multiple independent
the circuit with PSpice.4. Using the oscilloscope and the trigger single function measure and record the transient phenomenon of voltage build-up across the capacitor. Be sure to include a printout of the data captured from the scope in your laboratory notebook. Use cursors and scope measurements and displays to experimentally extract all relevant parameters.5. Compare your experimental results with your calculations and discuss errors or discrepancies.Most students performing these tasks for the prelab come with an analytic solution that matches Page 26.136.2their PSpice simulation; both indicate that the system response is heavily
: Page 26.84.10 Figure 7. CS MOSFET Amplifier – Multisim SimulationAvsim = -Vo / Vi = -3.54Vp / 49mVp = -72A good bit higher than our design goal of -50! Page 26.84.11Design VerificationWhen the circuit was prototyped in the laboratory it resulted in an actual output seen in Figure 8below. Figure 8. CS MOSFET Amplifier – Actual OutputNow the actual gain may be calculated:Avact = -Vo / Vi = -3.98Vp-p / 103mVp-p = -39A bit lower than -50. Page 26.84.12AnalysisIt is apparent that the Multisim simulation and the actual prototype demonstrate
programming, weexcluded them from the analysis. This resulted in a total of 29 freshmen in the control group and22 students in the test group. Table 2. Summary of schedules Week Control group (C only) Treatment group (CFL + C) 1 Intro to Computers, Prep for laboratory Intro to Computers, CFL basics, (incl. Linux and vim) operations, I/O 2 Beginning C programming CFL conditional, for loop 3 Integers and I/O CFL arrays, functions and recursion 4 conditionals CFL graphics and game project 5 while/for loops Linux and vim, Integers
laboratory development, antennas, wireless communica- tions, signal processing, and instrumentation.Dr. Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Richard J. Hartnett is a professor of electrical engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, his M.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Rhode Island. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut, and his research interests include efficient digital fil- tering methods, improved receiver signal processing techniques for electronic navigation systems, and autonomous vehicle design
thesedevices. Finally, the paper is ended with conclusions and future work.2. Course descriptionThe overall goal of this new teaching practice is to equip students with the knowledge ofadvanced touch sensing technologies and developing microcontroller-based applicationsinvolving various touch sensing devices to solve engineering problems in practice. We taught theadded course materials in 5 weeks, two hours of lecture time and three hours of laboratory perweek. It has three major objectives. To improve students’ awareness of common and different features among major touch sensing technologies. Page 26.1463.3 To introduce students
wireless communications. During 2009 Dr. Buehrer was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences (LTS) a federal research lab which focuses on telecommunication challenges for national defense. While at LTS, his research focus was in the area of cognitive radio with a particular emphasis on statistical learning techniques. His current research interests include geolocation, position location networks, iterative receiver design, dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio, communication theory, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications, intelligent antenna techniques, Ultra Wideband, spread spectrum, interference avoid- ance, and propagation modeling. His work has been funded by the
Paper ID #13128An Educational Tool to Support Introductory Robotics CoursesDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Master’s degree in
coursecurriculum, including the lecture topics each week and the hands-on activities worked on in thelaboratory. In order to give others a blueprint to replicate this course at their universities thelectures and activities for each week listed in this table will be summarized. Page 26.1093.4TABLE I – ENGR 1411 SCHEDULE Week Topic Laboratory Work Course Introduction, 1 Introduction to Electrical and Familiarization with Lab Instruments Computer Engineering Presentation Ohm's Law, Circuit construction on a breadboard, Resistors
Paper ID #14202The Flipped Classroom: It’s (Still) All About EngagementDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory J. Prust is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Depart- ment at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff mem- ber at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing, communication systems, and embedded systems areas.Dr. Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Kelnhofer is the