Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamed Khaled Elshazly, University of Toronto; Hamid S. Timorabadi, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ameasurement module connected to 5 displays: apparent power (S), active power (P), reactivepower (Q), RMS voltage magnitude (|Vs|), and RMS current magnitude (|Is|). The sign of theactive power display indicates whether that power is flowing from the DC source to the AC grid(negative) or from the grid into the converter/DC source (positive). The polarity is a conventionthat is chosen to match that of the laboratory experiment. Students can also use the providedscope to visually inspect the influence of switching frequency and filter sizes on current ripple,as well as the influence of Vc and Gamma on the current waveform, as shown in Figure 5. 60

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rabih Younes, Duke University; Cecilé Sadler, Duke University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

with external components to implement and play a game on the processor.The course uses the Sakai learning management system [26]. Piazza [27] was used forannouncements and discussions (including Q&A). Grading written assignments is performedusing Gradescope [28]. Grading HDL assignments was performed manually using someautograding scripts in the Fall semester then using AG350 [29] linked to Github [30] in the Springsemester.3 Course RedesignA new instructor taught this course during Fall 2018 the same way it has been taught for years,collected student feedback, studied the data, and made a series of simple modifications to thecourse during Spring 2019. These updates were mainly aimed to reduce students’ stress andimprove their