Conference Session

Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, therefore, needs to includehands-on PBL activities for students that provide solid grounding in engineering fundamentals.Going through the curriculum, students also gain experience of working collaboratively as ateam to undertake and solve complex engineering problems.To measure the effectiveness of engineering modeling and design curriculum, it is important todetermine the self-efficacy of students. The aim is to enable students to go through hands-onPBL activities during the curriculum to develop self-belief and optimism in their competence toaccomplish tasks and produce expected results. In an earlier work on this subject, authors haveproposed an instrument to measure student's perception of self-efficacy in engineering modelingand design

Conference Session

Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ying Lin, Western Washington University; Steve Sandelin

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and fun circuits and providing a big picture view, andpromoting students’ motivation to continue pursuing the EE major. We have adopted this courseproject for two consecutive course offerings in fall 2018 and fall 2019, respectively. Studentfeedback in the form of survey questionnaires has confirmed that this pilot project has beensuccessful. Per the survey results, most students feel their abilities of developing design solutions,constructing prototypes, and communicating the design process have improved, which indicatesincreased students’ self-efficacy. Moreover, majority of students feel more motivated to continuewith the EE major of study.I IntroductionFor most Electrical Engineering (EE) and Engineering curricula, analog circuitry and

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

CS1 through CS2 to CS3.The survey data was analyzed using a mixed-effects linear model for repeated measures ofquestions on the student’s sense of community in their undergraduate studies up to the point ofwhen they took the survey.The data show that students in all groups report generally positive feelings for every surveyquestions, and that mean values are fairly consistent across groups. However, we did observeseveral statistically significant effects, indicating a change in sense of community andself-efficacy. Overall, students report a small but significant decrease over time in response toquestions related to self-efficacy as they progress through the program. Women in particular showa stronger negative effect compared to men. URM

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Circuit Analysis

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kun Yao, University of Georgia; Adel W. Al Weshah, University of Georgia; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

to understand how to promotemetacognitive thinking within engineering pedagogy. In future research effort, wewill also explore how to incorporate generative learning activities (e.g.self-explanation, mapping and peer teaching (Fiorella & Mayer, 2016) withinengineering to promote critical thinking and meta-cognitive thinking in engineeringstudent.Lastly, further research is needed to explore why students exude confidence inresponses that were not based on sound reasoning. It will be interesting to know howsuch self-confidence is associated with self-efficacy, ability to use constructivefeedback and to adopt strategic learning skills.ReferencesBormanaki, H.B., Y.J. Khoshhal, and Research. The role of equilibration in Piaget’s theory

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

available to our students. The non-competitive natureof the course has led to students regularly seeking and finding strong help from peers in additionto feedback in the large number of office hours available. Following each of the first two exams(first-chance on exam 1 and exam 2), an email is sent targeting those students with strongattendance and homework grades who performed below an 80% on the recent exam. The emailrecognizes that the student is working diligently, but likely not satisfied with the exam grade.The email goes on to invite the student to a study group with the instructor where students cangain corrective feedback and then participate in peer-led team learning activities [8] to enhancecomprehension and improve self-efficacy. After