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Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria Lorelei Fernandez, Florida International University; Natalie Paul, Florida International University; Ismail Guvenc, Florida International University

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researchexperience can provide quick and valuable information for faculty mentors. Faculty mentors canuse this feedback to address with participants issues that may be influencing their learning ortheir thinking about future educational or career goals, and make adjustments to improve thelearning environment before the end of the experience.References 1. Willis, D. A., Krueger, P. S., and Kendrick, A.(2013). The influence of a research experiences for undergraduates program on student perceptions and desire to attend graduate school. Journal of STEM Education, 14(2), 21-28. 2. Zydney, A. L., Bennett, J. S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. W. (2002). Impact of undergraduate research in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 91

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Douglas Kearsley, Western Washington University; Andrew G. Klein, Western Washington University

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) and the graduate faculty of Computer Science. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked for awhile at several Silicon Valley startup companies before re- turning to Cornell to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2006. Prior to his arrival at WWU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sup´elec/LSS near Paris, France, and was an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Self-Corrected Homework for Incentivizing

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First-Year Issues in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Research Scientist/Engineer at NorthWest Research Associates. Jeremy believes that curricula should be student-centered and embedded within an engaged, collaborative community who un- derstand the broader, societal implications of their work. He aims to achieve this through the design of project-based and experiential curricula, including a recent redesign of the Computer Engineering pro- gram. He serves on several committees including the steering committee for the Faculty Senate. He also leads ABET accreditation and coordinates assessment for the Computer Engineering program. Jeremy’s research is in space physics and electrical engineering, including atmospheric electricity, radio wave propagation, and digital signal

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas E. Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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usuallyinvolves group work. Many of the engineering projects in the paper were group work. Engineersare now, more than ever, expected to collaborate and cooperate with their peers [17]. Futuredirections for integrating PBL in these courses include adding one more project that allowsstudents to design from scratch in Logic Circuits, and assessing whether the students who havebenefited from PBL will continue to be successful in their future courses.References:[1] Shekar, A. Project based Learning in Engineering Design Education: Sharing Best Practices, ASEE 120thAnnual Conference and Exposition, paper ID 10806, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[2] Pang, J. Active Learning in the Introduction to Digital Logic Design Laboratory Course. 2015 ASEE Zone IIIConference

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Electromagnetics & Power Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University

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Paper ID #15101A Survey of the State of the Power Engineering Profession in the PacificNorthwest and what Working Professionals are Defining as Priorities for Prepar-ing Students to Fill Present and Near-Future VacanciesProf. Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University Don has taught electrical engineering at Seattle Pacific University since 1987, specializing in analog and power electronics, Before that he worked as a design/evaluation/diagnostics engineer at Tektronx, Inc. for eleven years. He has been involved in various consulting projects, including two summers as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh

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courses, but important to the IoT, such asmicrocontroller interfaces, antenna design and RFID energy harvesting principles are introducedto the students.It has been recognized that the growing field of IoT will require an equally growing workforceconsisting of capable technicians and engineers with broad skillsets2. However, at presentsuitable IoT-centric curricula that addresses this need are not readily availble2 and to date veryfew IoT curricula have been proposed in the research literature. In some instances, it has beensuggested to introduce IoT as a graduate course that focuses predominately on networkingprinciples3. We desire to teach an IoT course that appeals to undergraduates, is comprehensiveand accentuates core electrical and computer

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Electromagnetics & Power Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nurhidajat Sisworahardjo, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Ahmed Eltom P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Edward H. McMahon P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee. He has nineteen years of industrial experience in industrial process and product development in the detergent, paper, and packaging industries. He teaches capstone design, value engineering and engineering economy at the undergraduate level, and technical innovation and advanced engineering economy in the graduate Engineering Management program. His research interests include product development, technical innovation, entrepreneurship, and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Comprehensive Approach to Power Sector Workforce DevelopmentAbstractThe University

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sven G. Bilén P.E., The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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Paper ID #16754Developments in the Teaching of Engineering Electromagnetics for Improve-ment in Student Interest and UnderstandingMs. Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University Lauren Donohoe received B.S. Degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014. She is currently a M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. During her graduate studies in electrical engineering, she researched and implemented teaching meth- ods to stimulate interest in students. She chose to perform education and

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Circuits & Systems Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason McGuire, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

was primarily based onquantitative questions with the last question asking for student comments and suggestions. Wenote that this is an ongoing project and in order to fully understand its learning impact more datais required. All of the students taking the capstone project attended the workshop. Almost all of thestudents felt IoT, LAMP, and Data Visualization were important concepts that they should befamiliar with before they graduate and seek employment. On average, participating studentsspent 12 hours working on the assigned exercises, as described in Section 3, outside of theworkshop. The majority (81 percent) of students expressed that the introduction to MySQL andPHP Section in the workshop should be expanded by a few more hours

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SDR & Programming in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, and Tampere University of Technology; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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. Recktenwald, Gerald W. and David E. Hall, “Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design and Measurement in a Freshman Engineering Course,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Vancouver, BC. June 26-29, 2011. American Society for Engineering Education.6. https://www.raspberrypi.org/7. http://www.cs.uml.edu/~fredm/papers/martin-chanler-blackfin-handy-board-2007.pdf8. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514036/beaglebone-black-a-makers-dream/9. Lawson, W., Bhattacharyya, S., Gupta, A., Elby, A., and S. Secules, “An application-driven introductory C programming language course for freshman using the Raspberry Pi - methods and results,” NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice

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First-Year Issues in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Backens, Christopher Newport University; Anton Riedl, Christopher Newport University; C. Gerousis, Christopher Newport University; Dali Wang, Christopher Newport University

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the overall number ofgraduates as shown in Figure 3, with the trend steadily increasing. The aberration in year 2015 iscaused by several students’ decision to stay a semester longer in order to complete a secondmajor. Thus the data from year 2015 should be looked together with the data from year 2016.The overall retention rate (from freshmen to senior) has thus risen to be on par with the nationalaverage for engineering majors.ConclusionsEarly results from retention data and graduation rates have shown that reorganizing first-yearengineering students’ experience and redesigning the first-year introduction to engineeringcourse have had a positive impact on our students’ attitude toward the engineering discipline.Students had more fun with the

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida; Navid Khoshavi, University of Central Florida; Steven D. Pyle, University of Central Florida; John Edison, University of Central Florida; Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida; Baiyun Chen, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida

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roles awayfrom low-value repetitive tasks towards those having more significant impacts on learningoutcomes. Focusing on the quality of education, skills, and employability of our graduates incomputing-related fields, this work proposes a cost-effective approach to integrate computer-based evaluation with a close-knit review and learning cycle based on directed and open tutoringto collectively form the EPC.3.1 Need for Online EvaluationThe EPC helps maintain and increase the learning quality for current and future CECSenrollments. For example, at the researchers’ institution, undergraduate CECS enrollment hasincreased by 37.4% from 5,375 in Fall 2010 to 7,383 in Fall 2014, with further similar increasesanticipated for the foreseeable future

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany - SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, Evaluation Consortium University at Albany - SUNY; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Lisa D. Hobson, Prairie View A&M University

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,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Evaluation Consortium University at Albany/SUNY; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University

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“significantly better learning outcomes than the traditionallecture/recitation approach”.In no field is the need for reform of educational practices more important than that of STEMcontent. Because of changes in K-12 education, STEM students are entering the collegeexperience with a background in hands-on constructivist learning; they are expecting and learnbest via hands-on technology supported, active learning. In addition, continued advances intechnology coupled with the needs surrounding a growing content base and real-world problemswithin STEM indicates that constructivist learning will best serve future professional demands.21st Century STEM graduates must be not only be well versed in today’s current content and © American

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Shiwen Mao, Auburn University

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, IEEE GLOBECOM, WCNC, ICCCN, et al. He received the 2015 IEEE ComSoc TC-CSR Distinguished Service Award, the 2013 IEEE Com- Soc MMTC Outstanding Leadership Award, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Best Paper Award, the IEEE WCNC 2015 Best Paper Award, the IEEE ICC 2013 Best Paper Award, and the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Wireless Communications with Beamforming and Software Defined Radio Techniques

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Circuits & Systems Education II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faisal Kaleem, Metropolitan State University; David W. Jacobson, Metropolitan State University ; Firasat Khan, Metropolitan State University

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Electrical and Computer

an experienced lifelong cybersecurity practitioner. His research interests include multiple aspects of cybersecurity including cyber security and forensic education, Computer and Network Security but more specifically in the area of mobile device security, mobile malware analysis and attribution, and mobile forensics. During his 15 years tenure at FIU, he has established a solid track record in teaching and has received numerous awards including the best professor and the best course awards (cybersecurity) from various graduating cohorts. In recognition to his teaching, he has also received a university wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. He continually appears on various local news channels discussing