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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

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Lisa Greenwood; Mark Indelicato; Miguel Bazdresch; Mike Eastman

Courses 8the effort. In the following paragraphs we describe our current approach and our ongoingefforts to improve the efficacy of the proposed activities using research-based PBL techniques.The learning outcomes for this graduate course are described as: 1. Model and predict the capacity of the Rayleigh fading channel. 2. Model, simulate, implement and evaluate the performance of a digital communications system over the wireless channel. 3. Design, simulate and evaluate communications systems that use coding, spatial diversity, and transmit diversity. 4. Design, simulate and evaluate systems that use space-time coding.This research project is focused on a PBL approach to

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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Brandiff R Caron

research and design phases of their projects.Following the literature on social construction of technology (in particular Guston and Sarewitz, 2002), we callthis pedagogical approach “Real-Time Technology Assessment.” The aim of this approach is to provide anexplicit mechanism for observing, critiquing, and influencing social values as they become embedded ininnovations. This approach to technology assessment differs from traditional models that typically focus on“impact assessments” of what the effects of a new technology are on society after the technology has beenintroduced. Real-time technology assessment attempts to incorporate potential societal implications into theactual “real-time” design processes that go into the construction of a new