Paper ID #25090Utilizing an Individually Built Mobile Robot in the Laboratory of an Ad-vanced Digital Logic Design Course in Conjunction with a Final Class Com-petitionDr. Clint Kohl, Cedarville University Dr. Kohl joined the faculty of Cedarville University in the fall of 1994. His graduate research involved the development of a new magneto-resistive non-volatile memory technology. His areas of interest include digital electronics, microcontrollers, programmable logic devices, and embedded systems. He has enjoyed advising numerous autonomous robotic competition teams. Dr. Kohl is a member of the Institute of Electrical
solution for “instant” TA. This could range from the utilization of a Frequently Asked Questions section or a dedicated time period in which the TA is available online via Blackboard Collaborate. 4. Encourage students to better utilize the University’s online learning management system. 5. Consider new assessment methods for laboratory learning outcomes to better gauge the success of future implementation.AcknowledgmentThe Analog Discovery Boards and additional supplies were supported by a grant from the WestVirginia University’s Teaching and Learning Commons along with the West Virginia UniversityLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.We are also immensely grateful to Ms. Jessica Liu and Ms. Amy
Paper ID #27275An Introductory Communication Systems Course with MATLAB/Simulink-Based Software-Defined Radio LaboratoryDr. 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. c
applications make it mandatory for electrical and computer engineeringstudents to gain basic concepts in the digital domain in addition to the analog domain. This studyaims at integrating MSO features into analog oscilloscopes to teach students both digital andanalogue systems and signal analysis. The proposal will show how the MSOs can be used in theelectrical and computer engineering curriculum through an “Introduction to Microcontrollers”laboratory course. Two labs are introduced to allow the students to analyze and study the digitaldomain of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) protocols.Finally, the labs will teach the student how to analyze machine code and map it into both assemblyinstructions and high
Paper ID #25587A Speech Recognition Linear Systems LabDr. William Joseph Ebel Sr., Saint Louis University Dr. William J. Ebel received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 1991 in Electrical Engineering. He joined St. Louis University in the Fall of 2000 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and has served as the department Chairman for two different periods. He teaches in the areas of signal and image processing, communications, and robotics and he is actively involved in novel instructional methods. His research interests include image processing and robotics.Dr. Chris Carroll, Saint
. “Analog-Circuit-Based Activities to Improve IntroductoryContinuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses”, Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for EngineeringEducation conference and exposition, 2013.[2] Rao, A., Fan, J., Brame, C., and Landman.B, “Improving Conceptual Understanding of Signals and Systems inUndergraduate Engineering Students Using Collaborative in Class Laboratory Exercises”, Proceedings of the 2014American Society for Engineering Education conference and exposition, 2014.[3] Verdin, B., Borries, R., Nava, P., and Butler, A., “An Experiment to enhance Signals and Systems learning byusing technology based teaching strategies”, Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Educationconference and exposition, 2014.[4
Paper ID #255433D Visualization-assisted Electromagnetic Theory TeachingMr. Enrique Jos´e Gonz´alez-Carvajal, University of South Florida Enrique Gonz´alez was born in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1987. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Carabobo, Naguanagua, VE, in 2012 and his M.Sc. in 2018 from the University of South Florida. He was an Instructor in the topics of Optical Communications and Guided Waves Systems Laboratory at his Alma Mater until the end of 2014, when he joined the University of South Florida. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree conducting research within the
Paper ID #25855Simulation Software for Online Teaching of ECE CoursesDr. Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona Dr. Alireza Kavianpour received his PH.D. Degree from University of Southern California (USC). He is currently Senior Professor at DeVry University, Pomona, CA. Dr. Kavianpour is the author and co-author of over forty technical papers all published in IEEE Journals or referred conferences. Before joining DeVry University he was a researcher at the University of California, Irvine and consultant at Qualcom Inc. His main interests are in the areas of embedded systems and computer architecture
Paper ID #25716Teaching Social Responsibility in a Circuits CourseDr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford Univer- sity. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials sci- ence, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr
use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) providedby manufacturers and the second approach is to teach the course with the systems approachwithout focusing on hardware, instruction set, and assembly language. Along the same lines, anexample of introducing IoT technology in an embedded networking course, specifically using theTexas Instruments (TI) ARM-based Connected Launchpad is documented in [6]. The design ofan Embedded Systems Laboratory to support rapid prototyping of robotics and IoT isdocumented in [7]. An interesting and creative approach was used to disseminate the informationneeded for both traditional laboratory experiments and student design projects; an extensive Wikisite called the “mbed cookbook Wiki” was used to provide
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. He has done and published research in the areas of additive manufacturing (3D printing) for electronics and the design of smart electronic systems. His current research interests include the design of technology- mediated learning environments in teaching electrical and electronics engineering concepts, and curricular innovations for additive and advanced manufacturing programs.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT, Dr. Pitterson was a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and other
Paper ID #27080Board 55: Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of an AdvancedElectric Drive Laboratory using a Commercial Microcontroller and a MAT-LAB Embedded CoderMr. Bhanu Babaiahgari, University of Colorado, Denver Mr. Bhanu Babaiahgari finished his master’s program in 2015, at the University of Colorado Denver. He started his PhD at University of Colorado Denver supervised by Dr. Jae-Do Park in 2016. Since then he has been teaching Electric drives and Energy conversion laboratory as part-time grad instructor. He is an active researcher at Dr. Park’s Energy and Power lab under Energy Conversion Research Force (ECRF
is reached.The second shortcoming is that labs are limited to three-hour-long experiments conducted in astrictly controlled environment due to safety concerns, leaving little room for exploration andindependent trial-and-error.One attractive complement to the lecture/lab approach is simulations. Simulation software allowsstudents to operate realistic power electronics circuits on their own time, and hence gain a morethorough understanding of the concepts they are exposed to in lectures at their own pace.There have been multiple reports of simulations being successfully used to augment teaching inengineering courses. Butterfield and coworkers developed browser-based simulations for a first-year-level chemical engineering laboratory course
Engineering and Computer Engineering. He is Founding General Chair of the IEEE International Electro Information Technology Conferences. Hossein served as 2002/2003 ASEE ECE Division Chair. He was IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and now serves as MGA Vice President (2013/2014) and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. Dr. Mousavinezhad received Michigan State University ECE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009. He is recipient of ASEE ECE Division’s 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Member of
coursesincluded in the cyberphysical-systems certificate is a digital hardware design course. The focus ofthe digital hardware design course is to teach the usage and implementation of digital systems andalgorithms onto field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); semiconductor devices containing amatrix of reconfigurable logic blocks connected together that can be reprogrammed to any desiredfunction post-manufacturing. This course has been taught, until recently, in a traditionallecture-based manner with periodic hands-on projects and laboratory exercises. The course wasrecently flipped [1], featuring many new active-learning techniques and overhauled laboratoryexercises. To satisfy the new cyberphysical systems security certificate requirements
editorial board member for the Journal of Advanced Academics and Gifted Child Quarterly. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Work in Progress: Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Project-BasedLearning to Teach Embedded SystemsAbstractEmbedded systems, smart electronics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are topics that arerapidly evolving, not just in research and development laboratories, but in the real worldof industrial and consumer products. Because of the fast pace of technological progress,the evolution of standards, and the non-stop growth in the application space, it isimpossible to teach our students everything that they need to master. How then, can webest prepare students with a
working on the homework exercises. Promote lifelong learning – One part of the first Basic PLC laboratory exercise – construct the logic to make two lamps to alternately flash at a given period – requires the student groups to think. No solution is given to them and it is not covered in the prior course lectures, though the lab teaching assistant will help them to figure out the solution. In addition, at the end of each laboratory exercise, the students ask a series of reflection questions to help them evaluate their performance and what they could do better.All of these courses were initiated in response to industry demand. In the 1980’s, AT&Tsponsored a project to develop manufacturing-related courses
Benson, Andrew Danowitz, Paul Hummel, and Joseph Callenes-Sloan Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis ObispoAbstractMany undergraduate engineering courses include laboratory work where students are asked towork in pairs or groups to complete assignments. Group work can offer many benefits includingimproved communication and team work skills, appreciation and respect for others, and evenincreased individual performance. However, group work may also present drawbacks includingostracism, unequal work distribution (some group members not ‘pulling their own weight’) anddecreased individual performance. When creating groups, instructors are faced with decidingwhether to allow students to form their own groups or to
Architectures, and Low Power and Reliability-Aware VLSI circuits. He has also been a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of UCF from 2014 to 2018. His educational interests are innovations and laboratory-based instructions, technology-enabled learning, and feedback driven grading approaches. He is the recipient of the Award of Excellence by a GTA for the academic year of 2015-2016 at UCF.Dr. Ramtin Zand, University of Central Florida Ramtin Zand received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 from IKIU, Iran. He received his M.Sc. degree in Digital Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in
Proceedings, Austin, TX, 2009.[13] L. Head, “Signals, Systems, and Music: General Education for an IntegratedCurriculum,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Vancouver, BC, 2011.[14] A. Sathyanarayanan Rao, J. Fan, C. Brame, B. Landman, “Improving ConceptualUnderstanding of Signals and Systems in Undergraduate Engineering Students UsingCollaborative In-Class Laboratory Exercises,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings,Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[15] B. Verdin, R. Von Borries, P. Nava, A. Butler, “An Experiment to Enhance Signalsand Systems Learning by Using Technology Based Teaching Strategies,” ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[16] B. Ferri, A. Ferri, K. Connor, “BYOE: Mobile Experiment for Signals and Systems– Analysis of a Guitar
Paper ID #25928A New Curriculum to Teach System-Level Understanding to Sophomore Elec-trical Engineering Students using a Music-Following RobotMr. Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis Son Nguyen received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2012, and his M.S. degree in micro and nano systems technology from University of South-Eastern Norway, in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Micropower Circuits and Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California
teaching awards, and since 2016 he has been appointed to the Postgraduate Research Program at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) administered through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).Mr. Spencer Mark SullivanProf. Kevin Chen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Project-Based Learning of Optics and Photonics: How to Teach a Stand- Alone Technical Elective “Niche” Course?AbstractAt the typical engineering school, lasers and optics is an elective “niche” area, often with astandalone senior course offering. This course is generally taken by students in their final yearswhen they are ready to graduate and start their careers or graduate school. For
requirements of the project.The student will be required to assemble their system and take measurements toprove their system works. Finally, the student will be required to analyze andinterpret the results from the experiment.IV. Future WorkTo further improve the overall success of the process, several topics will beaddressed in future work. This includes an integration with other courses, thedevelopment of low-cost solutions for the students to work on, and development ofnew material each year.The laboratory experiment has components that can be applied to various othercourses within the electrical engineering curriculum. Circuit design teaches thefundamentals of waveform design, filtering, and ADC design which can be used asportions of the radar
competition in the project design process. The constituents identified as educators are engaged in structured project activities using theworkshop setting. The project activities range from simple resistive circuit configurations toadvanced transistor and RF circuits. Through participation in the workshop, the educators canidentify opportunities to revise or incorporate new laboratory activities within their curriculum.Through these activities, educators can introduce and teach students the ability to use engineeringtechnology to solve engineering problems. The workshop provides (a) an overview of thenecessary and sufficient detail of concepts that would apply to the chosen project activities (b)application of these concepts through project-based
the Science and Engineering Research Council at the University of Liverpool, UK. Dr. Albin conducted research on Si and GaAs electronic devices and semiconductor lasers at the research laboratories of GEC and ITT and published numerous articles in this field. He was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dominion University. He has advised 14 PhD and 19 MS students. He received numerous awards: Doctoral Mentor Award 2010; Excellence in Teaching Award 2009; Most Inspiring Faculty Award 2008; Excellence in Research Award 2004; and Certificate of Recognition for Research - NASA, 1994. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the Electrochemical Society.Prof. Petru Andrei, Florida A&M
minimum, core essentials in order to allow time for depth of exploration and engagement in labs and projects. As a result of trying to cover too many topics, in- class demonstrations and labs were only offered periodically due to time constraints, even though they were found to be extremely worthwhile. ● There is disparity among personnel regarding preparedness to teach an integrated lab course as well as the depth of content required. Faculty buy-in of laboratory-style teaching is a must. The recommendations for future iterations of this and subsequent courses in this series involve setting the stage for a laboratory-style course both through the design of
contributing members of the cybersecurity workforce and community.Wentworth Institute of Technology is a STEM-focused, undergraduate-centric university inBoston, Massachusetts. The student body primarily studies engineering, applied sciences, andarchitecture and construction fields. Class sizes are typically small, averaging around 20-25students per class, with no teaching assistants.The rest of this paper is as follows: Section 2 describes related work in the field of cybersecurityand security education. Section 3 describes the efforts to provide security projects through avariety of courses and extracurricular projects, including successes, failures, andrecommendations for the future. Section 4 aggregates the lessons learned and recommendationsfor
analog communications (AM, FM) and digital communications (4-FSK, 4-PSK) werepresented, along with explanations that should significantly help the motivated educator getstarted.While this paper gives a good start, there is plenty of opportunity to expand on the materialsgiven. The actual crafting of laboratories for students (what they should develop, what theyshould measure) need to be developed as appropriate for the instructor teaching the course.Unfortunately, in both the analog and digital communication cases, over-the-air performance wasfound to be less than perfect. This was especially true for the digital modulation experiments.The exact remedy for this substandard performance remains an active area of investigation forthe authors
materials. She is currently the PI of an NSF S-STEM. Dr. Vernaza is the chair of the ASEE North Central Section (2017-19). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: A Comprehensive Design & Prototyping Platform for Rapid HW/SW Development ClassesAbstract-Robotics, autonomous transportation, and other computerized physical systems become widely accessible subjects foreven a semester-long lecture and laboratory class. Sometimes, the physical systems are often transformed to cyber-physicalsystems (CPSs) by interfacing modules in physical systems to cyber system. It is often challenging for undergraduate students toimplement a CPS comprising of analog and digital hardware and software within
US Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engi- neer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE.Dr. Shashi S. Marikunte, Penn State Harrisburg Shashi S. Marikunte is an Associate Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, Pennsylvania. He serves as the ABET Coordinator for Civil Engineering (CE) as well as Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology (SDCET) programs. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University. His research interests include high- performance cement composites, recycled materials in concrete, durability of concrete, non