sabbatical leave at Magnum Technologies (now Maverick Technologies) working on various PLC projects. He is the author of two texts: Programmable Logic Controllers: An Emphasis on Design and Application, 2nd Ed. (Dogwood Valley Press, 2011) and Allen-Bradley PLCs: An Emphasis on Design and Application (Dogwood Valley Press, 2013). Dr. Erickson co-authored Plantwide Process Control (Wiley, 1999). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Programmable Logic Controllers: What Every Controls Curriculum Needs to Cover Kelvin T. Erickson Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractThe field of automatic
teachers who then“train the trainer” during a summer workshop at UTC that is mandatory for teachersimplementing the course. Hands-on projects include winding of a small generator, creation ofmodel power plants, and the construction of a toy-sized electric car.The energy systems course is currently being rolled out to select high schools in the county withthe intention of expanding the number of schools to eventually include high schools across thestate. This course is entirely optional for high schools to implement and requires the principal’sapproval. The program has grown to new schools each year in response to the positive feedbackand word-of-mouth from students, teachers, and principals. In contract to the flexibility in thehigh school
instrumentation and control, renewable energy applications of control systems, and innovative teaching strategies and methods. Dr. Beauchamp has worked on a Solar-Assisted Air Conditioning project and is the co-author of two US Patents for this project. He was the coordinator of the Electrical Engineering Team that represented the University of Puerto Rico in the 2002 Solar Decathlon competition. He also was the general coordinator of the UPR Team for the 2005 competition. During the six years period from 1992 to 1998, Dr. Beauchamp was the Coordinator of the Pre-College Engineering Program, a Summer Internship for High School raising se- niors, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He has also served as the Process
education settings in K-12 schools, but have not received significant attention inuniversity settings to measure student learning and education program performance particularlyin engineering professional schools.The ERC faculty researchers are applying widely researched educational psychology andcognitive science principles and practices to the engineering curriculum that connects the ERCtest bed lab work to powerful coursework. These practices include: (1) inductive, situated,student- centered instruction, (2) embedded signature assignments/assessments (includingconcept inventories and maps, rubric judged lab experiences, and course projects), and (3) valuejudged internship experiences in both our engineering courses.Research Design and
AC 2009-1763: TECHNICIAN FIRST: TEACHING HIGH FREQUENCY DESIGNAS A TECHNOLOGICAL ENABLERAlan Cheville, Oklahoma State UniversityCharles Bunting, Oklahoma State University Page 14.1166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Technician First: Teaching High Frequency Design as a Technological EnablerAbstractThis paper reports results of changes in student learning in a course in high frequency design.The course was revised from a traditional lecture/homework/summative examination formatfocusing on microwave theory to a project-based course using high frequency design techniquesin the context of a realistic system design
Wright-Patterson Air Force in applied image processing. In January 1997, he joined the newly developed electrical and com- puter engineering program at Boise State University where he is currently is the chair and an Associate professor. He led the development and starting of the BS and MS programs. He taught several courses and supervised numerous M.S. thesis and Senior Design Project. He contributed to the start of the PhD program and is currently advising three Ph.D. students and two MS students. He also has been conducting research and consultation in R&D for Micron Technology, Hewlett Packard and others. Dr. Rafla’s areas of expertise are: security of systems on programmable chips and embedded systems
modelling of electrochemical energy storage devices.Dr. Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the application of digital signal processing in power systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: LabSim: An Ancillary Simulation Environment for Teaching Power Electronics FundamentalsAbstractSwitch-mode power conversion is one of the most crucial topics in a modern undergraduateelectrical energy systems
engineering program toan online equivalent is conducting courses requiring lab components. Many solutions have beenimplemented to address this difficulty including remote access to on-campus lab equipment7-8and portable lab kits9-10. Other challenges include engaging students in team projects and studentauthentication11.Design and ImplementationThe Digital Design Fundamentals course is a 3-credit 15-week lecture and lab course required ofall electrical engineering students. Students typically take this course during their secondsemester in the degree program. As the first course in electrical engineering, the courseintroduces students to number systems, conversion methods, binary and complement arithmetic,Boolean algebra, circuit minimization, ROMs
Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor-in- Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Education, a
Engineering Education, 2012 Mobile Studio Pedagogy Part 1: Overcoming the Barriers that Impede AdoptionAbstract: The Mobile Studio I/O Board is a small, inexpensive hardware platform for use in ahome, classroom or remote environment. When coupled with the Mobile Studio Desktopsoftware, the system duplicates a large amount of the hardware often used to teach ElectricalEngineering, Computer Engineering, Control Systems, Physics courses and K-12 technology-oriented courses. The Mobile Studio Project is now being utilized to enhance STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education around the world. The project's goal is toenable hands-on exploration of STEM education principles, devices, and systems
characteristics, even withoutan expensive spectrum analyzer. A successfully executed lab allows students to do real-time textmessaging between standalone laptops (i.e., with no network access), or transmit digital filesfrom one standalone laptop to another via the USRP software radio enabled wireless link. Antenna Antenna Figure 3. Wireless communication laboratory: wireless text radio. Page 15.1072.6Figure 4. GUI of wireless text radio lab project. Figure 5. Software spectrum analyzer atUSRP receiver.Development of Evolvable SDR based Wireless
papers on technology-supported teaching and learning as well as systems- change stages pertaining to technology adoption.Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, Evaluation Consortium University at Albany - SUNY Dr. Kathy Gullie has extensive experience as a Senior Evaluator and Research Associate through the Eval- uation Consortium at the University at Albany/SUNY. She is currently the principal investigator in several educational grants including an NSF engineering grant supporting Historically Black University and Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program
overall communication costs. 2Students are introduced, through a series of laboratory projects, to the development tools anddesign paradigms required to build, deploy, and manage embedded Linux-based IoT Edge Deviceproducts. Students create their own custom Linux image for the laboratory development system,learn how-to configure system services, and build device drivers to interface with sensorhardware. Once students have a functioning system, they learn about common IoT networkprotocols, such as MQTT, WebSockets, and HTTP, looking at both the on-the-wire packet formatsand how to build applications using these protocols. By the end of the course, they will have builta working IoT Edge Device from end-to-end.Laboratory StationsThe laboratory was
Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science.Three-hundred and fifty to four hundred (350-400) students typically enroll in this course onan annual basis.The innovative aspect of the new version of this course is its focus on real-world problemsthat benefit society; a major objective of this course revision is to increase student motivation,satisfaction, and retention in the electrical/electronics and computer related majors, includinga significant impact on the underrepresentation of women and minorities in these majors atVirginia Tech. The importance of hands-on, team-based projects and societal impact has beenwell documented through service-learning-based programs at Colorado and Purdue [1][2].An additional goal is to provide integrated
verification projects. This paper discusses the course and the fourprojects.I. Overview The design of modern digital integrated circuits has changed dramatically in thelast 15 years. Technology has advanced to the point to where we are able to reliablyproduce chips with millions of logic gates on a single integrated circuit die. Thistranslates into very significant logic function for a single chip. The only way that designof chips capable of effectively using this much functionality is possible is with advancedtools and design methodology. Part of the methodology is a rigorous partitioning andstructuring of the design. One has only to look at a photomicrograph (photo of thecircuitry on an IC) of a chip from the early or mid 1970s to the
uncertainty in problem solving. The habits of mind framework used to guidethis study was first published in the Project 2061 initiative led by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science (AAAS) and further developed by the National Academy ofEngineering (NAE). This exploratory work was guided by the following question: What habits ofmind do undergraduate electrical engineering students use when answering conceptualquestions about electric current? The data for this study were student interviews conductedusing a think aloud protocol. The questions on the protocol were aimed at uncovering students’conceptual knowledge and possible misconceptions about basic circuit concepts. The findingsfrom this work can potentially address key questions
an R&D engineer for Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs, CO where he designed electronic test equipment.Dr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the recently retired Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years, and she continues to work on externally funded projects relating to engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Design & Evaluation of a Multi-Purpose Course Structure for Teaching Digital LogicAbstractThis paper presents the
level courses with HDL components: Senior level "Advanced Digital System Design," , Graduate level "Advanced Systems on a Chip (SoC) Designs” and “MOS VLSI Design” courses; 4) Enabling electrical and computer engineering students to engage in senior design projects involving HDL and FPGA’s; 5) Preparing graduate as well as undergraduate ECE students for research opportunities in the area; and 6) Providing hardware design tools for computer science major students who choose to take the course as one of their elective courses.This paper addresses the revised course structure and its impact on students’ learning.II. Revised Course StructureAs mentioned, this Sophomore-level 4 credit-hour course, "Introduction to
Engineering experienced an enrollment growth of more than fifty percent, an increase of research expenditures from under $10M per year to more than $40M per year, and a growth of the faculty of about sixty percent. Over the same period, capital projects totaling more than $180M were started and completed. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The BitBoard© – Bridging the Gap from Gates to Gate ArraysAbstractThe BitBoard© is a low-cost device that can be used with the Altera DE11 Development andEducation Board to support gate-level and field programmable gate array (FPGA) laboratoryexercises in introductory digital logic courses. Details of the device and experiences using it in
ComputerArchitecture course will be described. Assessment in the form of project results, surveys, andinstructor observation will be given.IntroductionContinued advances in semiconductor technology over the past several decades have resulted inan exponential growth in the number transistors that can be fabricated on a single integratedcircuit (IC). As a direct result of this, state-of-the-art Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)can implement complex digital designs consisting of millions of logic gates at a speedcomparable to custom integrated circuit designs but at a fraction of the development cost.Microprocessor implementations, known as soft processor cores because they are completelyspecified by a high level descriptor language, are now routinely
Outstanding Teaching Award, and also serves on the ASEE Projects Board.Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, University of Detroit Mercy Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She also serves as Director for Assessment for the University and is a member of the University Assess- ment Team and the Faculty Development Team. She has been an involved in revision of biochemistry curricula including the implementation of project-based laboratories.Pamela Zarkowski, JD, MPH, University of Detroit Mercy Pamela Zarkowski is currently Professor and Academic Vice President at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). She is former Executive Associate Dean of the University of Detroit
answered adequately without being able to share the same piece of paper.In our SV offerings, we have experimented with web conferencing software to obtain equivalentoffice hours for distance students and found that this was successful, provided that both theinstructor and the student had tablet PCs. Unfortunately the cost of tablet PCs provides a barrierto both students and to academic institutions. In response to this need, a Scholarship of Teachingand Learning Project (SoTL) was designed to investigate the use of a relatively inexpensivetechnology, pen tablets, to improve the access of place-bound students to assistance frominstructors and fellow students. Each participating student in the fall section of analog electronicswas provided with a
disasterdetection[2,3]. In addition to performing difficult calculations with ease, robots are also capable ofperforming tasks that are either too intricate, such as small-scale surgeries[4], or too strenuous,such as automobile assembly[5], for humans to perform. For these reasons and countless others,the field of robotics and the wide variety of applications that it encompasses will continue togrow. It is beneficial, therefore, to educate and excite young minds about the wonderfulopportunities available in this field of study. In this paper, our undergraduate research teamhopes to outline the research we conducted over the course of a summer and to propose that ourproject could be expanded upon in further research projects or as part of an
reviewed publications in these fields.Mr. Lawrence David Landis, Intel Programmable Solutions Group Senior Manager University Academic Outreach, Intel Programmable Solutions Group Lawrence has 35 years’ experience in a wide variety of functions in the electronics industry including marketing, sales and project management for numerous ASIC and FPGA products. Larry teaches part time digital electronics and ASIC design at Santa Clara University and UC Berkeley.Prof. Perry L. Heedley, California State University, Sacramento PERRY L. HEEDLEY earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Auburn University and his B.E.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years of industrial experience designing analog and mixed
ImplementationFor our "flipped" approach, we chose a junior level undergraduate computer organization andarchitecture. This course included coverage of fundamental computer organization conceptsincluding assembly language programming and instruction set architecture, memory hierarchy Page 23.548.5concepts and policies, processor organization, and structures of discussion and practice withembedded systems programming. While conceptual understanding and mastery of these topicswas important, students in the traditional lecture-based approach often struggled when posedwith their application in specific hardware and software design projects. Students
participatinginstitutions (including a Historically Black College), the developed SDR based signal detectionand RF parameter estimation platform will be integrated in undergraduate curricula of all threeinstitutions. 1. IntroductionWe are living in a world of wireless communication and networking. More than 90% of the USpopulation use wireless services such as cell phones and WiFi every day [1][2]. Consequently,communication and networking has increasingly become an important part of modern electricalengineering and computer science/engineering curricula [3]. In our previous National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funded Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) project“Evolvable wireless laboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate
four core courses. In order to achieveour goals, and to carefully ensure consideration of tradeoffs associated with the redesign, wedeveloped a series of roles to effect the organization necessary for the reform process. The keyroles that have been developed and assigned are (1) course leader, (2) theme team, (3) approvalteam, (4) advisory team, and (5) project manager. In the paper, the roles and responsibilities ofeach of these groups in the process is also described.To proceed with the redesign of the core, the course leaders were responsible for developing thecourse content, syllabus, homeworks, tests, and lab manuals in concert with their course team.Course leaders met separately with their course teams, and then periodically the course
literacy and has given numerous talks on security. His current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environ- ments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 2012 for his work
AC 2007-1484: MEASURING STUDENT LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT IN ANINTRODUCTORY ELECTRICAL SCIENCE COURSEHaley Haywood, Oklahoma State UniversityForrest Austin, Oklahoma State UniversitySeth Williams, Oklahoma State UniversityCameron Musgrove, Oklahoma State UniversityCharles Bunting, Oklahoma State University Page 12.1043.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Measuring Student Learning and Engagement in an Introductory Electrical Science CourseAbstractDoes encouraging student development through projects increase engagement in a course? Canwe use student performance on case studies to measure learning? These questions arose indiscussions
Paper ID #22332A Pilot Program in Internet-of-things with University and Industry Collabo-ration: Introduction and Lessons LearnedDr. Mohsen Sarraf, University of New Haven Mohsen received his BS, MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from USC in 1980, 1981 and 1986 respectively. He joined Bell Labs where he worked on advanced communication and signal processing projects. He worked at other high caliber labs and start-up companies as well until 2015 when he joined the University of New Haven as a full time faculty member. He enjoys teaching a lot and as such through his industrial career he was involved with teaching as