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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Barendt, Case Western Reserve University; Nigamanth Sridhar, Cleveland State University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University

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University.Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University Kenneth A. Loparo is the Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Pro- fessor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shahnam Mirzaei, California State University, Northridge; Ana Cristina Cadavid, California State University Northridge; Vicki A Pedone, California State University Northridge; Werner Horn; Harvey Rich

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blind review policy) has had a strong commitment to sustainability issues on the institutional level andby individual faculty in their research. In 2009 the Institute for Sustainability wasestablished to foster research and curriculum on diverse impacts of economics, scienceand technology, and social equity on sustainability. Its mission is to “promote, facilitate,and develop educational, research, and university and community programs related tosustainability.” The Institute is committed to serving our campus community byincreasing interdisciplinary and cross-functional communication, and supporting andaiding in the development and application of sustainability practices within the universityand community. In past years the Institute has

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nader Rafla, Boise State University; H. Shelton Jacinto, Boise State University

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watching before the beginning of the second week of classes. This “startup” time was necessary to reduce the total time and overall difficulty involved with using the tool-set provided. The remaining videos of the semester were generally in the range of 10 minutes each and contained instructions and examples for designing, simulating, and synthesizing basic components common to many digital circuits; useful for in-class activities and projects by providing a solid foundation of conceptual ideologies. The videos additionally served to explain, in general, the best practices and techniques of hardware design, and educate the students on potential pitfalls one might encounter. 2. Read lecture notes – The

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vibhuti Dave, Colorado School of Mines; Tyrone L. Vincent, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines

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: Impact on students’ attitudes toward and approaches to engineering design. Teamworkwas a frequent theme in the student reflection logs, which was likely in part due to the fact thatapproximately half of the questions related to team performance and practices. Students oftenobserved that the drawbacks of working in a team (challenges in finding a time to meet,resolving conflict when there were different ideas about how to approach a problem) werebalanced by the benefits (multiple people to approach a problem, the ability to bounce ideas offeach other, diverse strengths and abilities). When asked for evidence about how well their teamwas performing, some students demonstrated a less refined view of the role of teamwork bydirectly linking the

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Kaye Jones, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Designing a curriculum that helps students create connected narratives in electrical engineeringIntroductionThis paper proposes a framework for helping students construct conceptual narrative arcsthroughout a traditional Electrical Engineering

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erica Messinger, Keysight Technologies; Kathleen L. Melde, University of Arizona; Jonathan Chisum, University of Notre Dame; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University; Jing Wang, University of South Florida; Stephen E. Ralph, Georgia Institute of Technology

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covers basic RF design to broadband device and system design. Boththeoretical concepts and practical laboratory experience span RF/microwave measurement theoryand techniques to 10’s of GHz. SystemVue is also used by multiple teams within the GeorgiaElectronic Design Center (GEDC) which is a cross-disciplinary electronics and photonicsresearch center with more than 15 active faculty and over 100 graduate and undergraduatestudents. SystemVue enables the researchers to explore architectures and algorithms for a widevariety of communications systems including wireless and optical links which include RF,Optical and DSP subsystems. Research efforts have application in both commercial and defensesystems.As the largest electrical engineering program in

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

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2018 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., Gullie Consultant Services; Robin L. Getz, Analog Devices, Inc.; Douglas A. Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.; John D. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University, Florida State University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Demetris Geddis, Hampton University; Shujun Yang, Alabama A&M University

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Geddis, Hampton University Demetris L. Geddis is an associate professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Hamp- ton University. He has extensive research experience in the areas of Integrated optoelectronics, Optics, Microelectronics, and Electromagnetics. He has worked as a Research and Design Engineer at Motorola and Bell laboratories. Also, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a NASA faculty fellow for the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch where he performed research in the area of optical fiber sensing for real time health monitoring of aerospace vehicles. Current research interests and publications are in the areas of Photonics, Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, Heterogeneous

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University; Andrew McKittrick, Kansas State University; Shangxian Wang, Kansas State University

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end-to-endproject where they start with simulation and work their way up to a populated hardware productthey can hold in their hand … especially one with surface mount parts. Local undergraduatestudents may be in this situation simply because of their choice of option area, and graduatestudents (particularly international) may have come from curricula that did not emphasis hands-on work, including practical issues associated with board layout, population, and testing. Thesehands-on opportunities are imperative for university educators that seek to graduate employablestudents.IV. ConclusionThis paper presented initial experiences and lessons learned with regard to the integration of awearable, wireless electrocardiograph design project into a

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Athina Petropolu, Rutgers University

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graduating in a major divided bythe number ever declaring that major [3, 4].At the professoriate level, the percentage of female faculty lags behind the percentages offemales obtaining PhD degrees in all engineering fields. ECE continues to have lowerpercentages of women than engineering overall. ECE ranks 17th out of 21 engineering disciplinesconsidered in the percentage of female faculty with 12% females compared to 16% forengineering overall [1]. The percentages of African American and Hispanic faculty are low butsimilar for ECE and Engineering as a whole at 3% and 4%, respectively. The percentage ofAsian American faculty is higher in ECE (31%) than Engineering (27%).Research has shown that the percentages of women undergraduate science and

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Neil E. Cotter, University of Utah; Angela Rasmussen, University of Utah

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Paper ID #21291Bottlenecks and Muddiest Points in a Freshman Circuits CourseDr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse (PhD ’94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse teaches / has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, circuits, and antenna design. She is a leader and early developer of the flipped classroom, and began flipping her classes in 2007. She is now regularly engaged helping other faculty flip their classes (see Teach

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikitha Sambamurthy, zyBooks; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, zyBooks

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, there seems to be a need for research on addressingmisconceptions, as in our literature search, we did not come across any such articles.Most misconception categories depend on the math and physics categories, as shown in thedependency graph (Figure 1). So, addressing misconceptions in math and physics will have thehighest-yield toward mitigating misconceptions in other categories. The physics misconceptioncategory contains the most misconceptions found by researchers, as well as, the most number ofarticles (tied with application of Ohm's Law) citing physics misconceptions. So, specificallyfocusing on physics misconceptions may yield the best results.Within physics, the term confusion misconception had the most number of instances, such

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech; Seungmo Kim, Georgia Southern University; Vuk Marojevic, Virginia Tech; Carl B. Dietrich, Virginia Tech

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mapping childhood stages of cognitive development to engineering knowledge and skills for K-12 curricula.Dr. Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is a former aircraft structural test engineer for the Navy, a Peace Corps Volunteer, and computer entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, and is currently an Associate Profes- sor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Richard has been teaching and engaging in research in multidisciplinary engineering design education for over twenty years. Dr. Goff is the re- cipient of several university teaching awards, outreach awards, and best paper awards. His passion is creating engaging learning environments by bringing useful research

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida; Edwin Nassiff, University of Central Florida; Salih Safa Bacanli, University of Central Florida; Neda Hajiakhoond Bidoki, University of Central Florida; Jun Xu, University of Central Florida

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computerscience disciplines, the activities of team design, group problem solving, and projectcollaboration have always been a prominent and defining attribute of STEM fields. Especially inthe last two decades and into the foreseeable future, team design skills are receiving increasingimportance as complexity of science and engineering marches ever forward [3]. The rising tide ofcomplexity necessitates future graduates at all levels within STEM fields to function effectivelyas disciplinary specialists who work together closely and frequently during most phases ofproduct development and research. While always an integral element of STEM curricula, theneed and benefit for learners to become immersed in collaborative learning activities havebecome

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh

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with these courses is highly theoretical and instructors areconfronted with many of the same educational hurdles as in a microelectronics course. Suchmath-intensive courses would benefit greatly by incorporating many of the widely availablemodel-based simulation tools (e.g., Matlab's Simulink) that can be used to simulate continuous-time and discrete-time systems. Therefore, the use of simulation tools for reflection is notlimited to the case study presented in this paper. Rather, this method can be used in other ECEcourses as well as in other engineering disciplines that rely on simulation.ReferencesAdams, R., Turns, J., & Atman, C. (2003). Educating effective engineering designers: The roleof reflective practice. Design Studies, 24(3

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohsen Sarraf, University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven; Ali Golbazi, University of New Haven; Arthur Lizotte, Keysight Technologies, Inc.

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. Art Lizotte is the Director of University Development in the Americas. Art began his career as an ap- plication engineer working with HP’s microprocessor development system. Originally from New Jersey, he worked with numerous companies to develop their embedded designs. In 1988 he started a consulting practice focused on developing embedded systems. Art rejoined HP in 1996 in the newly formed Tech- nical Contact Center in Englewood, Colorado. He became a manager in 1998, managing both digital and RF teams. For the last five years, Art was responsible for hiring college graduates and interns for our sales team. He is a member of four university industry advisory councils and in June of 2015, he became the Director

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Paul M. Schoch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Gullie Consultant Services; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Shayla Sawyer Armand, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jeffrey Braunstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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multiple courses provides many opportunities to study the impact of ECP on transfer oflearning from one course to another and several other research questions including whether ornot personal instrumentation makes it easier for students to learn the fundamentals ofmeasurement. Possibly the most powerful outcome of ECP is that learning experiences can besignificantly more authentic. In the intro Circuits course, for example, students are offered theoption of either doing traditional, step-by-step procedural labs or a new type of design-based lab,with both sequences addressing all course content. Finally, the general engineering electronicscourse provides a compressed version of the ECSE sequence which permits transfer to beaddressed quickly for

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; Tom Chen, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University; Ali Pezeshki, Colorado State University; Sourajeet Roy, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Laura B. Sample McMeeking, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University

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the Microelectronics Journal on Quality Electronic Design, 2005. His research interests include VLSI circuit and system design, CAD methodology for VLSI design, and bioelectronics.Prof. Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University Zinta S. Byrne is a tenured full professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, an R&D project manager and a program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and management consultant for Personnel Decisions International, before becoming a professor at CSU. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organizational Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Blain Christen; Trevor J. Thornton, Arizona State University; Karen S. Anderson, Arizona State University; Michael Goryll, Arizona State University; Hany M. Arafa, Arizona State University; Uday Shankar Shanthamallu, Arizona State University; Erica S. Forzani, Arizona State University; Heather M. Ross, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard; Sule Ozev

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for anomaly detection. I worked on integrating machine learning algorithms on an embedded sensor systems for Internet of Things applications, which can identify anomalies in real time. Before joining ASU, I worked as Systems engineer for 4 years at Hewlett Packard Research and Development, Bangalore, India.”Erica S Forzani Forzani, Arizona State University Dr. Erica Forzaniis Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Program as well as joint faculty in the MechanicalEngineering Graduate Program in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and En- ergy at Arizona State University (SEMTE). Dr.Forzani also has a joint appointment with ASU’s Center for Bioelectronics & Biosensors (CBB) at The

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Miley, Montana State University; Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Liz Kovalchuk, Montana State University

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in engineering, and applying their ownwriting and communication skills.Keywords—writing; writing studio; writing centerIntroductionThe call for engineering students to develop skills as writers and communicators has becomecommonplace. Engineering programs hear from their advisory boards and professionalorganizations of the importance of improving the written communication of their graduates[1], [2]. Educating students to become engineering writers, however, cannot happen in anyone course. Given the complexities of disciplinary writing and the number of audiences astudent will be communicating with once they enter the profession, a single course in writingis not adequate for students to develop as writers. Instead, research in writing studies

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah

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has an Ed.D. in Academic Leadership/Higher Education and an MS degree in Applied Technology/Instructional Design. She has over 10 years of experience teaching, designing instruction, and doing qualitative research both in and outside of a library context. Her research interests focus on library and technology-based instructional planning and course design, assessment and evaluation topics, as well as online teaching and learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Evidence-Based Practice: Student-Centered and Teacher-Friendly Formative Assessment in EngineeringAbstractStudent-centered teaching employs active