Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Kane, University of New Hampshire and Cypress Semiconductor; Thadeus Paul Kochanski, Vital Electronics Institute; Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire

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Electrical and Computer

theuniversity before returning to their remote home area.ECE994 multidisciplinary courseTaught in the evenings with the Far View distant learning option. Some of the course sessions weretaught with the instructor as far away as Poland and Singapore and with students on the US East andWest Coasts and as far away as Beijing China. ECE students focused on the development of a vitalelectronics design methodology (integrating sensing, processing, communicating and controlling)whereas non-ECE students concentrated on in situ hardware development of Cypress PSoC®-basedVital Embedded Computers (exploring innovation and entrepreneurship), and practical applications.There were four mandatory laboratories associated with the course. Two projects came out of

Conference Session

Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vuk Marojevic, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech; Taeyoung Yang, Virginia Tech; Christian W. Hearn, Weber State University; Nicholas F Polys, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Computing; R. Michael Buehrer, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, and several industrial sponsors. Dr. Buehrer has authored or co-authored over 50 journal and approximately 125 conference papers and holds 11 patents in the area of wireless communications. In 2010 he was co-recipient of the Fred W. Eller- sick MILCOM Award for the best paper in the unclassified technical program. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was formerly an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Tech- nologies, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Problem-based and Active Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiina M. Komulainen, Oslo and Akershus University College; Christine Lindstrøm, Oslo and Akershus University College; Tengel Sandtrø, Oslo and Akershus University College

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Electrical and Computer

Akershus University College. Dr Komulainen has research interests in engineering education research, process simulators and chemical process modeling.Dr. Christine Lindstrøm, Oslo and Akershus University College Christine Lindstrøm works as an Associate Professor of Science in the Faculty of Teacher Education at Oslo and Akershus University College in Oslo, Norway, where she teaches physics and science education to pre-service science teachers. She undertook her tertiary studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, from which she has a Bachelor of Science (Honours), Master of Education and PhD in Physics. Christine’s PhD project was in Physics Education Research, where she focused on improving the first year physics

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel Phillips, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric Peskin, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Electrical and Computer

also leading Project METEOR at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a sequence of multidisciplinary senior design projects.Daniel Phillips, Rochester Institute of Technology Daniel B. Phillips was born in 1956 in Rochester, N.Y. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1979 from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he continued graduate study in electrophysiology until 1981. He was employed in both the clinical and industrial sectors between 1982 and 1992 in the areas of automated test, embedded systems and biomedical data acquisition and control. After spending two years as a consultant to the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale University, he was

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University

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Electrical and Computer

experience culminates in a five-week Integrated Design Challenge(IDC). To successfully complete the IDC, students have to go beyond the knowledge developedin previous weekly laboratory activities, assimilating new knowledge and using new sensors orprocessing data in new ways. The IDC is structured to not only emphasize technicalaccomplishments, but also to promote the development of project management, teamorganization, and communication skills.This paper elaborates on the philosophy behind the design of the laboratory experience, describesspecific laboratory activities (including the IDC), and provides an assessment of the course basedon data from several semesters. These data indicate that the more integrative, design-oriented,sensor-based

Conference Session

Active & Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahnam Mirzaei, California State University, Northridge; Ana Cristina Cadavid; Vicki A. Pedone, California State University Northridge

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

photography and digital image processing.Figure4showssamplesofthephotostakenbystudentsduringthisshortcourse. Figure4.ExamplesofStudents’workduringthecourse:Left–Oncampusphototakenandprintedby pinholecameramadebystudents,Right–Anightphotoofthefreeway Project Description: The topics included in this project are digital imaging science, imagevisual perception, image enhancement, histogram processing, image filtering, imagerestoration,imagesegmentation

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

the software developmentenvironment or platform. Integrated development environments (IDE) have come a longway from their terminal-based assembler or compiler origin. The major compilerdevelopment houses have settled on a semi-standard layout and philosophy of their IDE's.Excellent examples are Visual C++ from Microsoft3 and the IAR compiler family4, verysimilar to the layout shown in Figure 1. These B A C Figure 1: Typical IDEThese IDE's are project-based, showing sources (region A in Figure 1), source filedependencies (region B), and status reports (region C) among other information in a mainwindow

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

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Electrical and Computer

, and recently Azemi and Pauley 8, present advantages ofintroducing computer programming to engineers through MATLAB, either alone or inconjunction with C or C++. Azemi and Pauley briefly mention the design of simple games, e.g.,tic-tac-toe, but focus on a robotics project and its challenges. That project required teaching ofboth MATLAB and C/C++ and the authors conclude by recommending against it.This work validates changes made, despite strong differences of opinion, in 1st year engineeringto go from procedural C++ with virtual robots (Karel) to MATLAB with game development Page 23.624.2(Gorillas). Moreover, the new course introduces

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale N. Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phil J. Sealy Jr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; John Goomey, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

review material, readingassignments, and lab equipment training. Another looks at the use of flipping the classroom tomake room for in-class problem solving. A third project uses pre-homework assignments andonline quizzing with incremental feedback to promote student self-directed learning and improvestudent confidence. Student survey data, relative student performance, and faculty workload willall be discussed.BackgroundIn the fall of 2008 the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville began a collaborative distance education program where place-bound students couldcomplete their entire four-year electrical engineering (EE) degree from any of the universitysystem’s two-year college sites located throughout

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Christopher I. Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory; Michael Doroski, U.S. Air Force; Curtis Medve, U.S. Air Force; Michael Seery, U.S. Air Force; P. Len Orlando III, Air Force Research Laboratory; Farid T. Khafizov, University of Texas, Dallas

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Electrical and Computer

nature of the VLSI course sequence to the U.S. Air Force. Adapted from [6].In response to the growing need for a secure on-shore high-performance supply chain, the AirForce Research Laboratory Mixed Signal Design Center sponsored AFIT to participate in the 4Trusted Access Program Office multi-project wafer silicon runs.54 The Trusted Access ProgramOffice provided a path for the Department of Defense to “have guaranteed trustedmicroelectronics technologies”55 through IBM facilities, including design, packaging,fabrication, and characterization.Course Structure and Teaching TechniquesThe students in the VLSI course sequence are enrolled in the MSEE

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh

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Electrical and Computer

assignments, quizzes, and project reports to evaluate thestudents' performance on flipped modules versus their performance on traditional lecturingmodules or against other students in a non-flipped offering of the same course.Video lectures were recorded via the Panopto desktop application and were uploaded to the coursewebsite at least five days before the scheduled class meeting. For both courses, the videos rangedbetween 7 to 20 minutes long. The students were required to watch 4 to 6 videos before each classmeeting. To make sure that students watch the videos on time, they were quizzed at the beginningof each class meeting on the materials that were presented in the videos for that class. Theseaccountability quizzes were mainly multiple-choice

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Ronald D. Williams P.E., University of Virginia; Todd DeLong, University of Virginia

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Electrical and Computer

development of "Introduction to Embedded Computing," which provided avaluable model for both pedagogical approaches as well as laboratory and instructor resourcesthat would be required.7 All of these courses are taught in a studio style in which the laboratoryand lecture material are combined into a single cohesive period and in the same physical space,as shown in Figure 1. Each class meeting typically consists of a short lecture in which conceptsthat are relevant to the experiment are introduced followed by the experimental section of themeeting; all classes have both experimental, and lecture components and each course in thesequence is taught each semester. Educational research has demonstrated the effectiveness of hands-on project-based learning

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jeremy Edmonds, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

course must cater to students from a wide range ofeducational backgrounds. To attend the summer program, students simply need to be fluent inspoken and written English, and enrolled in an undergraduate engineering program in their homecountry: there are no set requirements for academic level or achievement. Additionally, admittedstudents are eligible to take any set of short courses, regardless of their engineering specialty. Asa result, our robotics short course had to be accessible to students who had never worked withembedded systems before while at the same time it needed to engage and challenge thosestudents who already had robotics project experience.The second major challenge we faced is that all of the presented material had to be

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; K. Clay McKell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #19457Learner-centered Design of a Web-based Teaching Tool for Circuit Analysiswith Embedded Assessment FeaturesDr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Robbiano, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; Edwin K. P. Chong Ph.D., Colorado State University

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Electrical and Computer

Analysis of Correlations in Student Performance in Core Technical Courses at a Large Public Research Institution’s Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentIntroductionThe National Science Foundation is supporting our Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)department at Colorado State University (CSU) through their “Revolutionizing Engineering andComputer Science Department” (RED) program. As the focus of this project, we propose toremove the artificial barrier that a traditional course-based curriculum creates [1]. To aide indoing so, we seek to understand the relationships of student performance between technicalcourses within the ECE curriculum. In particular, we begin by studying the

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology; Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andy Deck, National Instruments; Michael Torba, National Instruments; Steven Trahan, National Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

design projects.2,5 In our background investigation weidentified 23 universities and colleges using LEGO robotics, from both the US and the rest of theworld, with 11 of them offering freshmen-level courses.Thus, in choosing to base our course on LEGO robotics, we had several examples from which todraw. However, at least two facets of our course are unique. First, we chose to use the newLEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system, the newest generation of LEGO robotics. Second, GeorgiaTech faculty members received significant help in developing this course from engineers whohelped to design the NXT kit and its LabVIEW-based graphical programming environment. Page

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

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Electrical and Computer

evaluated at the boundary on the side of subdomaintwo. Since dE/dx is proportional to the z component of H field, Hz, which is tangential to the TE mode: TM mode: β=13.370 um-1 β=13.315 um-1 Page 13.468.7 Figure 3: 1-D model of a multi-layer (5 different compositions, III-V semiconductors lattice matched to InP) planar waveguide model. Fundamental mode profiles and effective propagation constants for TE and TM modes respectively. (Student’s course project work)interface, the Neumann boundary condition Eq. (5b) correctly prescribes the physical boundarycondition requirement for the E field of TE modes

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei PAN, Idaho State University; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Kenyon Hart, Idaho State University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-959: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING: THEORY AND PRACTICE,HARDWARE AND SOFTWAREWei PAN, Idaho State University Wei Pan is Assistant Professor and Director of VLSI Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Idaho State University. She has several years of industrial experience including Siemens (project engineering/management.) Dr. Pan is an active member of ASEE and IEEE and serves on the membership committee of the IEEE Education Society.S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University S. Hossein Mousavinezhad is Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, Idaho State University. Dr. Mousavinezhad is active in ASEE and IEEE and is an ABET program evaluator. Hossein

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bowles, University of South Carolina; Caitlin Buchhaults, University of South Carolina; Donald Griffith, University of South Carolina

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering at the University of South Carolina. She was the lead programmer for her high school FIRST Robotics Competition team at Blythewood (SC) High School and is currently vice president of the GamecockFIRSTers, a student organization that mentors high school students on the USC FIRST Robotics incubator team (Number 2815). During Summer 2008 she worked on a Research Experiences for Undergraduates project to adapt Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio to the FIRST Robotics Competition.Donald Griffith, University of South Carolina Donn Griffith is the Outreach, Recruitment, Retention Director for the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina

Conference Session

Digital System Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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Electrical and Computer

. 3In our hardware/software codesign course, two teams were introduced to Altera Nios and XilinxMicroblaze, respectively. With this introduction, the students proposed projects using Nios andMicroblaze. Two projects were completed: 1) co-design of USB implementation using Nios, and 2) amusic player using Microblaze. Both projects were implemented with co-design and completed asproposed. Both projects utilized hardware written externally and interfaced to the processor successfully.Our small-scale usage of these tools provided us the confidence to offer a microprocessor course as aspecial topic in the very near future before incorporating it into our normal offering. During the sameprocess, we have discovered many pitfalls to this approach of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yufang Jin, University of Texas, San Antonio; Timothy Yuen, University of Texas, San Antonio; Stephanie Ann Garcia, University of Texas, San Antonio; Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas, San Antonio; Ruitao Jin, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Electrical and Computer

supporting engineering faculty in implementing culturally relevant pedagogy and other course transformation projects.Mrs. Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio Robin Nelson is a doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and is pursuing a cognate in Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include the development of TPACK in preservice teachers, evidence-based teaching strategies, and the use of gaming in education. She is a Graduate Research Assistant for the TRESTLE project at UTSA.Mr. Ruitao Jin, University of Texas, San Antonio Ruitao Jin is a current MS student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhanu Babaiahgari, University of Colorado, Denver; Zizhuo Chen, University of Colorado, Denver; Jae-do Park, University of Colorado, Denver

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Electrical and Computer

drive systems as a Research Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design and Implementation of Electric Drives Laboratory using Commercial Microcontroller Development KitsAbstractA design and implementation of instructional electric drives laboratory at University of ColoradoDenver using commercial off-the-shelf microcontroller kits and small motors is described in thispaper. The main objective of this project is to provide senior level students with hands-onexperience on electric machine drives and industrial microcontroller programming. Thislaboratory is associated with the electric drives lecture course to enhance their understanding ofthe theory taught in lectures

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiny Abraham, Tuskegee University; Naga Korivi, Tuskegee University

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Electrical and Computer

, stimulate their curiosity, and engage them in hands-on activities that are notlimited to the laboratory 1. This paper proposes the integration of an activity-based learning approach in the EEcurriculum with the use of Analog Discovery Boards (ADB) by Digilent Inc. This enhancementallows students to build, analyze and visualize circuits using the USB-powered AnalogDiscovery platform, a personal computer, and a basic analog parts kit. This opens the door for avariety of learning activities that include in-class experimentation, take-home exercises, groupactivity sessions, and design-and-learn projects among many others. Our work aims to create anenvironment for a student that is conducive to innovation and creative thinking; while providingan

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute; Wilbur Dale, Virginia Military Institute; Isaac Putnam, Virginia Military Institute

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-1139: ELECTRONS, HOLES, AND THE HALL EFFECTJ. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is a member of ASEE

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Hayne, The Citadel

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Electrical and Computer

difficult.Development OptionsA quick web survey of undergraduate digital systems design courses revealed two basic Page 13.251.2approaches, lecture and lab. Lecture courses taught hardware description languages and reliedheavily on logic simulation. They often risked becoming “programming” courses and strayingtoo far from the hardware they were trying to design. Lab courses also used hardwaredescription languages, but concentrated on implementation of multiple design projects. Thesecourses required extensive hardware support for testing of student designs. What was desiredwas a lecture course that also emphasized hardware, but without the time and expense of a

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University

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Electrical and Computer

TAMIU. In addition, Sof´ıa was a Research Assistant for the project ”Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was Project Manager of the Engineering Senior Project De- sign entitled ”New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.” She is presently a Special Program Aid at the Department of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics at TAMIU. Page 24.50.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Flipped Classroom Experience: Approach and Lessons LearnedAbstractWhile a number of issues affect student success, an area of great concern is student

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Signals and Systems

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Berenice Verdin, University of Texas at El Paso; Ricardo Von Borries, University of Texas, El Paso; Patricia A. Nava P.E., University of Texas, El Paso; Andrew C. Butler, Duke University

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Electrical and Computer

Science Board and the Director of the National Science Foundation. As a Ph.D student she worked on a project sponsored by Army Research Laboratories. In addition, she worked as a graduate intern for Locked Martin Corporations. She presented her research results on SPIE Symposium Photonics + Applications. She earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2009. After completing her Ph.D, Dr. Verdin taught several electrical engineering courses at the University of Texas at El Paso.Dr. Ricardo von Borries, University of Texas, El PasoDr. Patricia A. Nava P.E., University of Texas, El PasoDr. Andrew C Butler, Duke University

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat, Michigan Technological University; Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Saurav Pathak

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Electrical and Computer

). Page 25.451.3   The survey had six possible answers for each Table 1: Survey materials: Theoretical anditem in Table 1: (1) “not at all”, (2) “concept”, Scientific Skills.(3) “Theory”, (4) “Theory and Project”, (5) Theoretical/Scientific Skills“Theory and Problem Solving, and (6) “Theory, 1. Analog Modulation Techniques / Circuits / Performance Analysis;Problem Solving and Project”. Respondents 2. Random Process and Applications;could select “I don’t know” if they do not know 3. Sampling and Quantization Theory;the topic. “Concept

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

realistic and interesting projects, laboratoryexperiments, and demonstrations. To illustrate this capability, a Simulink model is presentedthat implements a real-time FM radio that demodulates and plays the audio signal, and it alsodecodes the digital Radio Data System (RDS) signal and prints out the RadioText messageswhich usually convey the name of the artist and song that is currently playing. The use of thisreceiver as a demonstration in an undergraduate communication systems course is discussed, andits effectiveness is assessed. The source files for this receiver are available for free from theauthor.BackgroundCommunication systems classes usually contain highly mathematical and theoretical materialwhich is sometimes difficult for students to

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

12-hour clock is a standard commercial product. It performs a useful function, yet it issimple enough that it can be used as either an example in lecture, or can be designed by thestudents as a series of homework problems or in project. In the author's course, part of the clockis presented as an example in lecture, and the students design the rest of the clock in a groupproject and homework problems.Digital clocks are usually set up to start at 12:00, and they count 12:01, 12:02, 12:03, 12:04,12:05, 12:06, 12:07, 12:08, 12:09, 12:10, and eventually the clock gets to 12:58, 12:59, 1:00, andso on. The one's place of the minutes (the right-most digit) counts 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, andthen repeats, and a circuit that counts in this way is