-IP.Most of the fundamentals are on Digital Signal Processing but we focus on the applications tospeech and voice coding.In this paper, we first describe the DSP curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students.We describe our experiences and the challenges encountered in developing these courses. Wedetail some of the laboratory and teaching materials and the exercises developed, etc.We discuss as an example the internet low-bit rate speech coder (iLBC) which is used to codespeech under packet loss conditions that exists on the internet.Finally, we present possible future directions in the course development. Page 13.967.2IntroductionThe area
Science CourseAbstractIn this work, we present a new teaching approach that we have implemented in our introductorycomputer science programming course. The methodology consists of team teaching, a hybriddelivery system, recorded lecture retrieval capability, readiness assessment activities, objectiveassessment of student progress, and cooperative learning through team work. The team teachingapproach consists of two faculty members being present and actively involved in lecture deliveryand classroom activities, which take place in a computer laboratory setting. The hybrid deliverysystem consists of using Centra, a real-time communication, collaboration and learning softwareenvironment, for lecture delivery, recording, and active student
achieved by the students taking the course. Thesimple rubric is as follows: 1 = competency increased somewhat 2 = competency increased significantly 3 = complete Outcome statement is fulfilledFor example, consider the Program Outcome related to the ability to communicateeffectively. Because the capstone design experience in the final year requires formal oralpresentations and an extensive written report, the design course sequence is assigned atarget of “3”. A laboratory course that has a focus on written reports might be assigned atarget of “2” or “3”, depending on the emphasis placed on writing or presentations. Atheory course with perhaps one project report or an otherwise reduced
student understanding and learning once some theoreticalbackground is presented in the class. Most available textbooks choose to use Matlab, but Mathcad can also veryuseful because of its natural and symbolic way of representing signals. WFilter ([3]) is another software tool foranalysis/design of analog as well as digital filters. Another factor to consider is the cost of licensing andmaintenance of these software packages. In our schools most of the tools are available in computer laboratories forstudent use. For some tools (e.g., Matlab) the student version is also available. Furthermore the tools can be optionalespecially for lecture courses where the emphasis might be on understanding and learning of basic concepts first.For details of these
Paper ID #16239Attached Learning Model for First Digital System Design Course in ECE Pro-gramSeemein Shayesteh P.E., Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis Lecturer in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue School of Engineering at IndianapolisDr. Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis Dr. Maher E. Rizkalla: received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in January 1985 in electrical engineering. From January 1985 until August 1986 was a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL while he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at
students to the different areas of engineering, including Mechanical,Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical and Computer Engineering. The course is co-taught bymultiple instructors, from all the different disciplines. It is made up of short lecture sections andlonger laboratory activities. The main goal is to introduce the students to the basic principles,applications, and practical tools commonly used in the different fields. This paper presents aninnovative course development for the ECE component of this inter-disciplinary course. Thecourse offers effective, hands-on and practical activities to enhance the students’ learningexperiences. Another important feature of this course is that the students are presented withchallenges to exercise their
areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education.Ivan Howitt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Ivan Howitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests are wireless networks, adhoc networks, and wireless technology applied to industrial environments Page 15.452.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Embedded Wireless Networks Laboratory InstructionAbstractWireless sensor networks are now considered commonplace in the
antennas for wildlife tracking. She has over 100 publications and 5 U.S. patents.Dr. Melde is an IEEE Fellow and was University of Arizona College of Engineering TeachingFellow in 2012. She is currently the director of Graduate Studies in ECE at the University ofArizona. Her teaching interests are in Antenna engineering, Microwave Engineering, andElectrical Packaging.Dr. Jonathan Chisum, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universityof Notre DameJonathan Chisum is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of NotreDame. Prior to this he was a Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where hisresearch focused on millimeter-wave circuits, antennas, and phased arrays for wirelesscommunications
Instrumentation and Control Laboratory Coordinator since 1992, as Academic Senator (1995-2001), Faculty Represen- tative at the Administrative Board of the UPRM (2000-2001), Controls Area Committee Coordinator, Departmental Personnel Committee (1996-1997), and Liaison Officer for the Puerto Rico Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (PRLS-AMP) Project (August 1995 – December 1999).Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Page 26.66.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Methodology To Teach Students To Implement Digital
, and modeling of motor performance and con- trol in Parkinson’s disease. She previously held a faculty position at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and postdoctoral positions at Sandia National Laboratories and at the National Ecological Observatory Network. She is the recipient of the UNM Regents’ Lectureship, the NSF CAREER Award, the UNM Teaching Fellowship, the Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar Award, the Truman Post- doctoral Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering, and the George Bienkowski Memorial Prize, Princeton University. She was a Summer Faculty Fellow at AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, and a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at The National Academies.Dr
State University (Blacksburg, VA). Dr. Gaeddert holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department and has a research focus on digital communications systems design, software-defined radio technologies, real- time embedded processing, and digital signal processing algorithms. Prior to VT Joseph spent 5 years as technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Satcom and Operations Group as the lead developer on several test and evaluation programs. He has written and published numerous papers on wireless communications topics including ultra wide-band communications measurements and theory, fading channel estimation techniques, multi-rate synchronization, filter design
Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment
developed increased theirunderstanding and motivation. Cost was minimal and could be nearly zero with available freesoftware and downloadable signals.I. IntroductionThis paper presents a set of classroom demonstrations developed for use in the senior levelanalog communications course that is common to most electrical engineering programs. Thedemonstrations are intended to provide motivation to students with little or no practicalexperience with communications systems. By using software defined radio (SDR),communication systems are demonstrated with signals that are familiar to students. Thedemonstrations can be used in any classroom or laboratory with minimal cost.Section II of this paper provides background on some of the issues that faculty
Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). He has over 29 years experience as a safety professional, the past 12 years as the Senior Industrial Safety Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Page 11.1301.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Importance of Electrical Safety Training in Undergraduate Power Engineering EducationAbstractAt Colorado School of Mines (CSM) there is a unique opportunity to educate the future electricalengineers about the vital topic of electrical
department’s undergraduate Program Director and Chair of its Curriculum and Assessment Committee. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Enhanced Radio Lab Experience Using ePortfoliosAbstractHistorically, the technical writing portion of our electrical engineering program’s required corecourse RF Systems Laboratory has been fulfilled using bi-weekly memos. Now, however, the labutilizes eportfolios to fulfill the technical writing requirement. The primary goal of the decisionto switch from memos to eportfolios was to improve the learning outcomes of the students byencouraging them to use reflective writing to reinforce what they learned in the lab. Additionally,the eportfolio format allows
engineering for sensing applications.Dr. Pamela Obiomon, Prairie View A&M University Pamela Obiomon received a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington TX, in 1991, a MS in engineering degree from Prairie View A&M University in 1993, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2003. From 1998 to 1999, Dr. Obiomon served as an adjunct faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in the Department of Micro-electronics in Rochester, New York. From 2000-2002, she was the lead data processing system hardware engineer in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. In 2003, she joined the Department of
through grad school generallyrequires expensive, complex equipment and thus is typically built around elaborate facilities withwell-trained staff support. Mobile Studio Pedagogy (using the Mobile Studio Desktop softwareand the I/O board) makes it possible for instructors and students to participate in hands-onlearning to any place they have a computer. Mobile Studio gives them access, at any time andany place, to a full electronics laboratory for the price of a textbook; students have a portablelab in which tinkering is again possible; requiring only a spark of interest - not a big budget.With a good start provided by interested and dedicated teachers, student accomplishments areonly limited by their imagination. Since the Mobile Studio provides
4 different courses and alaboratory, on top of a heavy advising, service, and new course and laboratory development role.Thus, the overall workload was significant.In spite of being at an institution where research expectations were secondary to teaching, theauthor not only recognized the importance of establishing a research program relative topromotion, tenure, merit pay, and professional creditability and mobility, but also sincerely desiredto remain involved in research, as a follow-up to his graduate school research experience. Thelack of engineering graduate students, as well as a minimal research infrastructure, made thischallenging, so the author sought ways to creatively leverage the resources and time that wereavailable. He was/is
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Multiple-Access Message-Exchange Course Project for a Networking Course in a BS Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractSince the 2009-10 academic year, the seniors in the computer engineering program at MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering (MSOE) have been required to complete two networking courses,Networking I and Networking II. Each carries three credits on the quarter system and eachincludes a project-based laboratory. The first of these two courses concentrates on the physicaland data link layers of communication networks, and the second concentrates more on higherlayer protocols, with emphasis on those used in Internet applications. The first course includesa course
involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas and Wisconsin in the U.S., Kyoto and Nagoya Universities in Japan, the Ioffe Institute in Russia, and Kharkov Institute of Physics and Tech- nology in Ukraine. He was ECSE Department Head from 2001-2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association from 2003-2008. He is presently the Education Director for the SMART LIGHTING NSF ERC.Dr. Dianna L Newman, University at Albany/SUNY Dr. Newman is Professor in the Dept. of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Director of the Evaluation Consortium. She has serve as Principal Evaluator for numerous national and international projects related to
member of the IEEE since 2007. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2009. Page 23.1349.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Utilization of MATLAB Simulink Exercises for an Undergraduate Communications CourseAbstractA set of six MATLAB Simulink laboratory exercises was previously designed in 2011 for anundergraduate analog/digital communication course. This paper presents our experience of apilot test on these exercises, followed by their modification and enhancement, and concludingwith an application of the modified exercises in the
successful as a learningactivity among middle and high school students [6]. The focus was to provide service-learningopportunities for undergraduate engineering students using a hardware in the laboratory,utilizing open source platform and support STEM activities among school children in thecommunity. A service-learning course titled Robots at the Fairfield University’s School ofEngineering was offered in 2017-2018 with an objective of providing mentoring opportunityfor enrolled students in preparing high school students for First Robotics competition [7]. Acourse with this title was offered in spring 2020 to provide community engaged mentoringopportunities for enrolled students at the after-school program of the local community center.This
," "Electronics," and "Signals and Systems" have evolved into asequence of three "Fundamentals" courses in which material from each of the three priorsegments is taught each semester at increasing levels of depth. "Embedded Computing" is also ina studio format and is taught from the perspective of how it is a component of an overall system."E&M Fields" is in a studio format and is largely based on experimental techniques learned in"Fundamentals" and "Embedded Computing." Traditional lecture and laboratory courses are stilltaught in upper-level elective courses, i.e. "Communications" and "Linear Controls."Such sweeping changes also necessitate a reevaluation of how we assess student learning andconcept retention. There are well-known concept inventory
displayed in Figure 6. This is a real-timeinterface with a single panel comprising (a) controls for motor input variables such as thereference speed and direction of the motor, (b) numerical and graphical indicators todisplay the speed, position, and frequency of the DC motor, and (c) graphs for the currentwaveform. Clearly, the advantages of the LabVIEW-based HMI are as follows: (a) organized record of control inputs, (b) systematic tracking of motor responses, (c) clear presentation of the evidence of the experiment, and (d) offers tools for advanced measurement analysis (e.g. Fourier spectra, THD) Figure 6: LabVIEW-based RT interfaceTypical LabVIEW experiment setup:The laboratory experiment titled
paperprovides details of laboratory exercises and a senior project that is implemented using both softcore and hard core processors on three different FPGA boards. Advantages and disadvantages ofeach of these implementations will also be presented. The paper will also detail the challengesinvolved in using continually-evolving embedded processing tools and the efforts made to reducetheir learning times.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires providing studentswith a significant hands-on design experience. Graduating electrical engineering students shouldhave the ability to design, test, and verify the correctness of operation of systems, subsystems,and components for real-time application.The aggressive
engineer and project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Teaching Finite State Machines (FSMs) as Part of a Programmable Logic Control (PLC
students this opportunity, especially if done in an in-class orlaboratory setting. Laboratory courses give students a more hands-on approach to the conceptsand skills they are learning, making it a great time for individual and group reflection. However,if reflection is to be implemented within the laboratory setting, it is critical that the workload ofthe laboratory is not significantly increased. Adding a reflective portion to laboratory exerciseswithout revising the other activities will most likely contribute to students becoming overworked,which is detrimental to the very thing trying to be accomplished. This is discussed more later.Overall, this evolution towards making connections and reflective learning necessitates a shift inthe mindset
periods were changed to include hands-on activities such ascompleting worksheets to assess lecture content knowledge, practice writing subroutines thatcould be used as part of the weekly lab assignment, or building circuits to interface externaldevices with a microcontroller. Each of the in-class activities was designed to measure studentunderstanding of course topics and to offload some of the laboratory work done during previoussemesters to the lecture period.This paper assesses the differences in student outcomes between the traditional and flippedformat of the course. Common final exam question responses from the traditional and flippedoffering are compared to showcase the differences in student comprehension of course topics.Student survey
Paper ID #8725A Flipped Classroom Experience: Approach and Lessons LearnedDr. Rafic Bachnak, Penn State Harrisburg Rafic A. Bachnak is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Science, Engi- neering, and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. Previously, Dr. Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. Dr. Bachnak received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the US Navy Laboratories and
Page 22.928.2The performance of the nano scale device simulation is carried out using the websitewww.nanoHUB.org. Each student has created an account to carry out the simulation. Thespecific simulation tools are then launched. The simulation tools allow users to enter theirown data and parameters to perform a specific task. Users can access these tools and performsimulations remotely through the website. This web based simulation makes it possible toprovide a simulation based laboratory experience to many off-site users. The followingsimulation tools are used to promote nanotechnology education through simulation-basedlearning. MOSfet & nanoFET: 2D simulator for thin body MOSFETs, with transport models. FETToy: Simulates I-V