students, and external expertscould provide material and context used to replace, supplement, or enhance traditional classroomand laboratory instruction. A key specification of the design and development of the videos wasthat they must be made available online, with plans for ubiquitous availability across classes,instructors, and sites. Each video lecture represented key components of content and contextknowledge. The videos were designed to meet the needs of students through multiple methods ofinstruction, including those with limited access, repeated access, sequenced access, and generalavailability. Initial evaluations of pilot use in the classroom, conducted in Fall 2010, Spring2011, and Fall 2011, provided formative feedback on students
“Waves in layered structures and superlattices”. Thecentral part of the proposed course (Parts II – IV) covers time-varying fields with emphasis onplane-wave propagation. We will consider interference and space and time coherence. Energy,momentum, and angular momentum associated with electromagnetic waves will be considered indetail. Using a unified description of electromagnetic waves we can discuss other topics such as:electromagnetic waves in optically active media, electromagnetic waves in guided and periodicstructures, non-linear optics, and fiber optics.Set of seven EFW experimentsThe teaching of EFW to undergraduate students is a very challenging task [7, 8] and a newapproach based on lab experiments is needed. The planned seven lab
planning committees’ member and reviewer and chairman of severalones. He was co-chair of the conference EDUCON 2010 (Engineering Education Conference), TAEE2010 (Tecnolog´ıas Aplicadas a la Ense˜nanza de la Electr´onica) and ICECE 2005 (International Confer-ence on Engineering and Computer Education). Is co-chair of the conference FIE 2014 (Frontiers inEducation Conference) to be organized in Madrid, Spain, by the IEEE and the ASEE. He is co-editorof IEEE-RITA (Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnolog´ıas del Aprendizaje) and of the Electronic Journalof Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. He is Fellow member of IEEE (for contributions todistance learning in electrical and computer engineering education) and member of the
see that some students are not very comfortable with preparinggood cheat sheets. Some may even do not appreciate how useful a cheat sheet is to answer testquestions better and faster, or they may not realize how cheat-sheet preparation by itself providesstudents with a deeper understanding of the concepts. A couple of students may occasionallyforget to prepare and bring one. Writing a good cheat sheet is a skill, and we plan on spendingsome time to help students improve this skill. We believe that cheat sheet preparation is thecounterpart of what we do in professional ASIC design: When we decide to develop a code, wedo not normally do it from scratch; we look at the codes that we have already designed andtested, and then choose the closest
. Part of the grade is assigned based on the relative performance of the team’s solution compared to the best team. Because performance is measured in several categories, the team that is best in one category may not be in another. The demonstration periods provide key points for groups to observe and reflect.Our interest in experimentation and prototyping has been motivated both by our anecdotalobservations of many senior design teams and advice from industrial contacts. In the seniordesign process, students often attempt to build a final product without adequately planning forsubsystem interactions, non-ideal component behavior, verification of engineering assumptions,and other aspects where prototyping and design iterations
schedulewas a guideline for content covered during each lecture day, thus the plan was more or lessadhered to, with minor adjustments along the way. Time was allocated for in-class practice andlecture material was presented during the class or in a video before the class and sometimes afterthe class. The reason that lecture material was, at times, presented after the class was thatmethods were used to make the lectures more interactive. A problem was put on thewhiteboard and the steps to solve it were not verbally described by the professor, instead theprofessor called on students to explain what should be done in each step to solve the problem.Typically, a row of students would be called upon per problem, but if it seemed that a studentwas not
resultsobtained from point of view of students, offer a positive view on the potential of this pilotscheme to support the autonomous learning and facilitating the understanding of the theoreticalconcepts, from of e-learning. Additional modules, experiments, simulations and significant Page 23.1305.15improvements in the user interfaces, front panels, simulation and lab manuals are planned in thenear future.References1. N.K. Swain, R. Korrapati, J.A. Anderson, J. A, Revitalizing Undergraduate Engineering, Technology,and Science Education through Virtual Instrumentation, NI Week Conference, Austin, TX, 1999.2. G.T. Heydt and V. Vittal, Feeding Our