78.69 7.80 3 12 81.25 14.44 8 70.25 17.87 7 82.43 12.71 10 80.50 11.36 16 79.13 14.96 4 13 85.54 3.93 10 75.80 12.02 9 78.00 15.12 11 79.36 6.69 16 82.94 7.39 5 13 77.00 10.72 10 71.70 13.03 8 78.88 10.30 10 79.70 9.07 16 78.94 8.31 6 13 78.00 12.39 9 75.11 6.97 8 71.13 18.05 8 73.75 12.45 13 77.92 12.72 Avg 80.53 10.77 74.48 11.38 77.44 12.87 76.93 10.55 78.75 10.50Notice in the following figure the scores for the lab reports were clustered in the band from 60 tothe upper 90’s
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engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1995. His research publications in computational and applied electromagnetics include more than 150 journal and conference papers. He is the author of textbooks Electromagnetics (2010) and MATLAB-Based Electromagnetics (2013), both with Pearson Prentice Hall. Prof. Notaros served as General Chair of FEM2012, Colorado, USA, and as Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, in Electromagnetics, 2014. He was the recipient of the 1999 Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Marconi Premium, 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MTT-S Microwave Prize, 2005 UMass Dartmouth Scholar of the Year Award, 2012
Boardclassroom (exhibited in the top panes of (100KS/s version) and Hardware/Software Environmentfigure 1). This Mobile StudioInstrumentation Board (I/O Board) technology replicates the functionality of an oscilloscope,function generator, multimeter, power supplies and additionally allows users to control externaldevices with 16 reconfigurable digital I/O ports. With the advent of a Mobile Studio lab, manyinstrumentation-based course offerings could be held in normal classrooms rather than in speciallyoutfitted studio facilities. In addition, students will be able to perform hands-on experimentsoutside of the classroom anywhere/anytime, thus facilitating new opportunities for them toexplore/tinker and gain insight through practical experience
AC 2008-3: INTEGRATION OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERPROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE INTO CONTROL SYSTEMS COURSESThomas Cavicchi, Grove City College Thomas J. Cavicchi received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1982, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Grove City College, Grove City, PA, where he teaches year-long courses on digital communication systems, digital and analog control systems, and the senior labs (including co-teaching the senior capstone design projects). He also has recently taught
curricula.AcknowledgementsThe authors extend their gratitude to Erik Luther, Academic Resources Engineer at NationalInstruments Inc., for providing access to the hardware and software that were essential indemonstrating the RASCL concept. Additional thanks goes to Matt Spexarth (former NationalInstruments campus representative for KSU, 2006 KSU graduate, and current NationalInstruments employee) for providing the StudentScope VI utilized with the RASCL prototype.Finally, the authors acknowledge the KSU Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering forsupplying (1) funds to purchase RASCL equipment and materials and (2) faculty feedbackregarding the requirements list for this learning tool.References[1] D. W. Knight, J. F. Sullivan, S. J. Poole, and L. E
techniques. The primary focus of his studies at OU has been in power systems, and he will be joining the ExxonMobil Corporation in Baton Rouge, La., upon graduation.Dr. Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma Mark B. Yeary received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively. Following his graduation in 1999, he was a member of the DSP group and a lecturer with the Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, TAMU, where he continued to lead a variety of industrially sponsored projects. Since Fall 2002, he has been with the University of Oklahoma (OU)’s School of Electrical and Computer
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the U. S. Air Force Academy must take several core engineering courses tograduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. The Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering offers one of these courses, The Principles of Air Force Electronic Systems.Overall, many students see value in the course, but either dislike learning about technology or Page 25.1478.2become discouraged due to subpar analytical abilities. We strive to instill and hone traditionalengineering skills such as problem solving, detailed technical work, and critical thinking. Yet,beyond classroom technical performance, a recurring crack exists in the execution of this course.Like
. However, this colleague made at leastone critical mistake, and misspelled some MATLAB command(s):clear all;close all;%--------------------------------------------------------% Array of available area widths (a 1D array of numbers)Wmiles = [1:1:150]; % width of the square area in miles (vector)Wmeters = Wmiles*1609; % width of the square area in meters (vector)A = Wmeters.*Wmeters; % area in m^2 (vector); note element-by-element % vector multiplication!%--------------------------------------------------------% Array of available array efficiencies (a 1D array of numbers)E = [1:1:25; % efficiency percentage (vector
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asked if the students would recommend the course to their friends (not shownin the figure), 100% said yes (with response choices of yes or no). Figure 6. Average Responses to Survey Monkey survey questions.In the open-ended questions of the survey, students reported their top three reasons for taking thecourse were: 1. To experience the American (and other) culture(s) and a different education method 2. To improve their practical / hands on skills 3. To learn more about robotics specifically.To that effect, they also reported the top three ways to improve the class would be to: 1. Have students from multiple different countries in the class 2. Either slow down significantly or spend less time on the tougher
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assistant professor in civil engineering at Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Kennesaw State University. Her research interests include increasing the participation of minorities, women and other underrepresented groups in engineering. Dr. Worthy focuses much of her research efforts in the area of community engagement and STEM pipeline development. She works to connect P-12 educators and students with STEM professors, students and departments at KSU.Prof. Donna Colebeck, Kennesaw State University Donna Colebeck is a Senior Lecturer of Foundation Studies and Studio Art in the School of Art and Design, College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University. She has s Master of Fine Arts