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Managing Dual Careers

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Janet Callahan, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer, Faculty Development Division, Women in Engineering

the college’s dual career and relocation program. Dr. Sandekian earned degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder (B.S. 1992/M.S. 1994), a Specialist in Education (Ed.S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (2011) and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership (2017), both from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Founding Leader of the American Society of Engineering Education Virtual Community of Prac- tice for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Engineering and a facilitator of Safe Zone trainings.Prof. Jill K Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George

Conference Session

Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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Safeer M. Khan P.E., Arkansas Tech University; Mohamed Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University

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Electrical and Computer

education. We have collected data from undergraduate junior-standingengineering modeling and design students at our university through a longitudinal studyspanning the last three years. The statistical analysis has helped us identify important factors thatcan influence success of students in their future engineering careers. These include problemsolving, communication, and logical thinking skills, perception of self-efficacy to developstudents’ self-belief, and their course grades. The purpose of present work is to examine theeffect of PBL activities on engineering students’ grades and self-efficacy. Furthermore, weinvestigate whether there is a difference between students’ course grades based on their genderafter engaging in PBL activities

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Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

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Asmit De, Pennsylvania State University; Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan, Pennsylvania State University; Karthikeyan Nagarajan, Pennsylvania State University; Abdullah Ash Saki, Pennsylvania State University; Mahabubul Alam, Pennsylvania State University; Taylor Steven Wood, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Manoj Varma Saripalli, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University; Kathleen M. Hill, Pennsylvania State University; Annmarie Ward

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

classrooms throughout the Boise area and serving as a career mentor to high school students interested in pursuing engineering as a career. Taylor’s role at CSATS focused on interfacing with science and engineering research faculty to develop and implement K-12 teacher professional development. Currently, Taylor is pursuing a doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineering and Penn State University.Dr. Matthew Johnson, Matt is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Science and the Schools in the College of Education at Penn State University. His research interests focus on how teachers learn about epistemic practices of en- gineers through in-service teacher professional development programs and how they provide

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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Kent A. Crick, Iowa State University; Matthew T. Seipel, Iowa State University; Lisa M. Larson Ph.D., Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

) majors report notablelevels of gender bias and sexual harassment within the context of their work [6]. Among womenin STEM majors, experiences of STEM-related gender bias have been found to be relatednegatively to their career aspiration and motivation to pursue vocational opportunities in STEM[6]. In addition to messages of being unwelcome in the field, women in STEM fields have alsobeen shown to encounter benevolent sexism (e.g., protective paternalism or genderdifferentiation) from their male peers [7]. This form of sexism has been linked with lower gradepoint averages (GPAs) in STEM courses [7]. These findings highlight the impact the academicclimate can have on underrepresented students pursuing careers in STEM fields. Because GPArepresents

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

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Shaghayegh Abbasi, University of San Diego; Ernest M. Kim, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #30981Integration of C programming and IoT in a Raspberry Pi Controlled RobotCar in a Freshmen/Sophomore Engineering Core ClassDr. Shaghayegh Abbasi, University of San Diego Shaghayegh Abbasi received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 2011. In her thesis, titled ’Integrating top-down and bottom-up nanomanufacturing: Controlling the growth and composition of seeded nanostructures’, an innovative nanomanufacturing method is explored and optimized. Upon graduation, she started her career as Senior System Design Engineer at Lumedyne Technologies. She worked on design, simulation, and

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Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

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Garry Ingles; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

several course-related, co-op, and extracurricular projects withundergraduates, including security [2, 3] and digital/computer hardware projects. In each project,the pedagogical outcomes are similar: 1. The student should learn a new technical concept or skill outside of their typical courses. 2. The student should practice independent research techniques, including task management, reading/writing academic papers, and self-guiding exploratory tasks. 3. The student should gain insight into graduate-level research and/or industry laboratories. 4. The student should advance their own (self-defined) career and educational goals.The past experiences of undergraduate research gave the faculty member a default structure toguide the student

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Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Caroline Crockett, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia

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Electrical and Computer

[18]), whether stu-dents view the concepts as important [19], and the instruction style of SS [9]–[11].We can easily imagine many additional possible factors like student career goals, participation in extracurricular activ-ities, repeated exposure to topics over several semesters, and whether labs require critical thinking. The methodologysection discusses how we will use an exploratory qualitative approach to including additional potential factors.3 MethodologyFig. 1 overviews our mixed methods approach. First, we will use an exploratory qualitative approach (focus groups andinterviews) to supplement our literature review about what factors might influence conceptual understanding. Second,in the quantitative piece (SSCIs and surveys

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

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Akshay Sarin, University of Michigan; Sung Yul Chu, University of Michigan; Heath Hofmann, University of Michigan; Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, University of Michigan

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Electrical and Computer

and systems for sensing, electromagnetic systems, feedback and controls, renewable energy, automotive, biomedical, and consumer applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Charge Up! A Wireless Power Transfer Activity for High School Students Akshay Sarin† , Sung Yul Chu† , Heath Hofmann, Al-Thaddeus AvestruzAbstractCharge Up! is an engaging activity for inspiring young high school students to pursue careers inelectrical engineering. The activity is designed to teach fundamental principles of wireless powertransfer (WPT) to high school students. The students get exposed to the iterative engineeringdesign process by building an

Conference Session

New ECE Laboratories

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Mark William Thoren, Analog Devices Inc.; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

resistance, efficiency, inductor current waveforms, andoperation of boost and buck converters, early in a student’s academic career. Emphasis is placedon simplicity, low-cost, and exposing concepts, over electrical performance. An open-sourcemodel for distribution, review, and improvement is followed, and examples of improvementsmade as a result of student experience in the lab are given. Experience learned from conductingtwo workshops at Cal Poly State University helped us indicate areas of improvements. Results ofinitial assessments from the latest workshop demonstrate that the materials, organization, time-allotted, and pace of the workshop are at the appropriate level. The lab kits used in the workshopprovide the students with valuable hands-on

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Amir Kamil, University of Michigan; Andrew Deorio, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

6. I feel included in the groups that I want to belong to 7. I feel competent to achieve my goals 8. I get along with people I come into contact with 9. I feel my choices express who I really am 10. I feel I am doing what really interests me 11. People are generally pretty friendly towards me 12. I feel I can successfully complete difficult tasks 13. I feel optimistic about my career prospects after I complete my educationOur research question is: How do students’ sense of community change over time through anintroductory computer programming sequence? Hypothesis: Women and under-represented minority students feel less a part of the community, as compared to men, at the start

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Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

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James Peyton Jones, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

logic before introducingstudents to the ‘higher-level’ topics of microprocessors and the Internet Of Things (IOT). Analternative and potentially more motivating approach is to reverse this sequence. This paperdescribes the design of a new hardware kit and sequence of laboratory exercises which aim togive students hands-on experience with Embedded systems and IOT at an early stage in theiracademic careers. The kit is based on a low-cost, wireless-networked, 32-bit ARMmicrocontroller with integrated Cloud support. The sequence of lab exercises which buildincrementally on one another is described in detail, and the experience gained running them forthe first time is reported. Outcomes relate to the ability to extend knowledge from an

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brian E Faulkner, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

previous literature, favorable results follow the inclusionof authentic, disciplinarily realistic tasks. Nonmajor students are more motivated to engage withthe content when shown plenty of evidence that this seemingly unrelated course is relevant totheir disciplinary interests and career goals.In calculus-for-engineers, this approach involves presenting situations in engineering where themathematics being learned describes an engineering system, such as derivatives in the context ofprojectile motion, or integrals in the context of fluid pressure on dams 8,9 . One textbook 13 presentsintroductory precalculus and calculus entirely with engineering examples, every example problemand homework problem has genuine engineering context such as strain

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Course Transformation in ECE

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Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

Aerospace Engineering at Illinois since 2006, where he now serves as Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, where he leads a research group that works on a diverse set of projects (http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu/). Dr. Bretl received the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 2010. He has also received numerous awards for undergraduate teaching in the area of dynamics and control, including all three teaching awards given by the College of Engineering at Illinois (the Rose Award for Teaching Excellence, the Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Collins Award for Innovative Teaching

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Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Werner Creixell, Texas A&M University; Rachelle M. Pedersen, Texas A&M University; Susan Niki Ritchey, Texas A&M University

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Electrical and Computer

, 28(1):3–16, 2012.[11] T.C. Dennehy and N. Dasgupta. Female peer mentors early in college increase women’s positive academic experiences and retention in engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(23): 5964–5969, 2017.[12] Birch R. Savage, N. and E. Noussi. Motivation of engineering students in higher education. Engineering Education, 6(2):39–46, 2011.[13] & Capraro R. M. Craft, A. M. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics project-based learning: Merging rigor and relevance to increase student engagement. Electronic Journal of Education, 6(3), 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2018.[14] Rambo-Hernandez K.E. Atadero, R.A. and M.M. Balgopal. Using social cognitive career theory to assess

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Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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Rod Blaine Foist, California Baptist University; John Butler, California Baptist University; Gibson Fleming, California Baptist University

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Electrical and Computer

for their time as students in theengineering field. The primary textbook for this course is Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to aRewarding Career by Raymond Landis, Steffen Peuker, and Jennifer Mott. This book serves asan introduction to engineering and gives the students the necessary tools to be successful in theirtime as students.The second and third parts of the course are divided between two projects, simply named Project#1 and Project #2. Project #1 introduces students to working in groups and the differentengineering majors offered at our college; it will be discussed in detail below. For Project #2, thestudents are given a LEGO® Mindstorm kit and an Arduino (microcontroller) kit with sensors.They are then tasked with creating a novel

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

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Electrical and Computer

prepare students for their future career by teaching them state-of-the-art tools and techniques; (3) how we continuously improve our teaching methods by considering ABETassessment criteria, students’ course evaluation/feedback, and changes in the students group caused byprogram’s expansion. The effectiveness of our teaching is supported and verified by students’ evaluations.I. IntroductionMicroprocessors/Microcontrollers (µPs/ µCs) are the brain of modern embedded digital systems and havebeen listed as one of the cores of almost all college-level engineering program curriculums. Teaching µPs/µCs has been widely discussed in literatures; it can be done in various ways depending on the group ofstudents. Examples include using FPGA to deliver the

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Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joel C. Adams, Calvin University; Noah Pirrotta, Medallion Instrumentation Systems; Mark Michmerhuizen, Calvin University; Philip M. Holmes, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Peter Oostema, Carnegie Mellon University; Benjamin Kastner, Churchill Navigation

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

achieving all of the authors’ design goalslisted in Section 2.5 ConclusionsThis report has described Crayowulf, a multidisciplinary senior capstone project in which a 4-person team of computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering students builta unique Beowulf cluster. Full details of the project are available on its website [9].Completing the project forced each student to apply existing skills, learn new skills, and interactacross disciplinary lines. The students enjoyed the multidisciplinary teamwork and felt a deepsense of satisfaction at its success. The PDC knowledge, teamwork, and life-long learning skillsthe students acquired through this project will be useful throughout their careers; the authors wishthere was a way

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New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Pelin Kurtay, George Mason University

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Electrical and Computer

. López-Nozal, "Design of printed circuit boards inuniversity?," 2012 Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching (TAEE), Vigo, Spain, pp. 6-10,2012.[2] E. M. Kim and T. F. Schubert, “A low-cost design experience for junior-level electronicscircuits laboratories through emulation of industry-printed circuit board design practice,” TheInternational Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 54(3), 208–222, 2017.[3] Texas A&M University Popup Courses Sitehttps://fedc.engr.tamu.edu/pop-up-classes/ (accessed Apr. 29, 2020)[4] Hands-On PCB Engineering at University of California-Berkeley-IEEE student Branchhttps://ieee.berkeley.edu/blog/hope/ (accessed Apr. 29, 2020)[5] https://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/webinars/popupclasses.cfm[6

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Joseph Callenes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amin Malek, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

this activity. This person also identified as having a gender that is under-represented in the field of computing. Only one person wished to spend more time on thisactivity (question 6) and specifically stated:“I liked learning what people did with their careers because I have no clue what to do with mine.It gives me ideas! And hope!”Only two students specifically answered the open ended question each stating:“I thought the choice of contributors was good.” Assessing Weekly Computing Contributor Activity 5 4.4 Average Likert

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Curricular Advancements in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

a hands-on demonstration ofthe problem and solution combination.Course #4 – Cpr E 234 Legal, Professional, and Ethical Issues in Cyber SystemsThis course is not a prerequisite or a co-requisite in the core three series of the cyber securityfoundational courses. It can be taken at any point in the degree program. However, we havefound students hungry to take cyber security courses early in their academic career and thatsecond and third year students are primarily found in the course. The course emphasizes legal,ethical, and professional issues in cyber systems that extend beyond the technical issues coveredin Cpr E 230, Cpr E 231, and Cpr E 331. It covers topics such as privacy, government regulation,and compliance as applied to professional

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New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Liang Hong, Tennessee State University

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Electrical and Computer

and lab motivated me to consider communication 3.4/5 engineer as a choice of future career 10. There should be more labs and lectures related to contemporary 4.4/5 communication systemsConclusions and Future WorksThis paper presents our attempt to introduce two highly demanded emerging techniques, IoTtransceiver and SDR, to undergraduate electrical engineering students. A hands-on integratededucational module on these two topics was developed for Communication Systems course toenhance students’ experience. The lecture in the module introduces the theoretical

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Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ahmed Abul Hussain, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Nizar Tayem, Texas A&M University; Chedly B. Yahya, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Sadiq A. Alhuwaidi, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Jamal Nayfeh, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

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Electrical and Computer

process for product development to improve quality and better student preparationfor future careers [5-7]. Some studies focused on the importance of improving group selection,effective teamwork and motivation for overall project quality [8-11]. Another way to ensurequality projects is to establish partnerships with local industry to identify projects topics andcollaborate in monitoring and evaluation [12]. Aligning projects with community service andcauses such sustainability [13-18] proved to increase students’ motivation, creativity andimprove project success.In addition to adopting effective team selection, better management, motivation and partnershipsas discussed in above studies, the issue of bridging the gap between classroom