integrated Korean Smart Grid System [11].The Energy System Research Laboratory at Florida International University is working onconstructing and implementing of a small-scale power system test-bed which has differentcapabilities for experimental research and educational purposes. This setup uses laboratory scaleof power system components in order to model the realistic behavior of a large power system. Byhaving this type of power system, engineers and researchers are capable to implement their ownidea about power system phenomenon in a practical way. It would be an excellent base not onlyfor innovative research ideas, but also for teaching power system engineering concepts tostudents who are interested to get an overall idea of power system
Paper ID #30554Development of a Printed Circuit Board Design Laboratory CourseDr. Pelin Kurtay, George Mason University Pelin Kurtay is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at George Mason University. She currently heads the ECE Department’s undergrad- uate curriculum development efforts and leads other departmental initiatives. She is the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of Distinction Award at George Mason University for exceptional teaching and commitment to teaching-related activities in electrical and computer engineering and Information technology. She is a
] Atti V. and Spanias A., "On-line Simulation Modules for Teaching Speech and Audio Compression," 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, T4E - 17-22 Vol.1 Boulder, Nov 2003.[9] V. Atti, A. Spanias, C. Panayiotou, Y. Song, Y. Ko, "On the use of J-DSP for on-line laboratories in linear systems courses," Invited Paper, Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol 2, pp. 1375-79, Nov. 9-12 2003[10] Ko, Y. Duman, T., Spanias A., "J-DSP for Communications," 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, T3E-13 - T3E-18 Vol.1 Boulder, Nov. 2003[11] A. Spanias, C. Panayiotou, T. Thrasyvoulou, and V. Atti, "Java-DSP Interface with MATLAB and its Use in Engineering Education," in Proc. of ASEE-2004 Conference, June
Paper ID #27275An Introductory Communication Systems Course with MATLAB/Simulink-Based Software-Defined Radio LaboratoryDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory J. Prust is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Depart- ment at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff mem- ber at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing, communication systems, and embedded systems areas. c
2006-1313: DSP ON GENERIC MACHINESDick Blandford, University of Evansville Dr. Dick K. Blandford is the Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Evansville. Page 11.499.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 DSP on Generic MachinesAbstractMany electrical engineering classes which introduce digital signal processing at theundergraduate level include a laboratory component in which students implement systems ondedicated DSP boards. Many such boards are programmed in an unfamiliar assembly languageor they require cumbersome I/O drivers
applications make it mandatory for electrical and computer engineeringstudents to gain basic concepts in the digital domain in addition to the analog domain. This studyaims at integrating MSO features into analog oscilloscopes to teach students both digital andanalogue systems and signal analysis. The proposal will show how the MSOs can be used in theelectrical and computer engineering curriculum through an “Introduction to Microcontrollers”laboratory course. Two labs are introduced to allow the students to analyze and study the digitaldomain of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) protocols.Finally, the labs will teach the student how to analyze machine code and map it into both assemblyinstructions and high
projects that have motivated students to advance in research andcontinue their education pursuing graduate studies. As a matter of fact students have alreadypresented results from their scholarly work11,12.Some of the research projects motivated by the laboratory include topics like hybrid Page 11.418.5software/hardware approaches for teaching digital logic, implementation of multithreaded webservers using Java, implementation of integrated monitoring systems, studying the effects ofcongestion control on multimedia applications, and software/hardware simulation of multi-functioned calculators, among others.Each of the laboratory modules and course
, Illinois where he is currently an Associate Professor. He teaches the undergraduate control theory courses, a graduate course in neural networks, and a senior design laboratory. Page 11.1432.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Virtual Control Workstation Design Using Simulink, SimMechanics, and the Virtual Reality ToolboxAbstract Control workstations are used in education to teach control theory principles as well asa test station for control algorithm development. Two workstations from Quanser Consulting arebeing used in our electrical and computer engineering program in student
Paper ID #25587A Speech Recognition Linear Systems LabDr. William Joseph Ebel Sr., Saint Louis University Dr. William J. Ebel received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 1991 in Electrical Engineering. He joined St. Louis University in the Fall of 2000 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and has served as the department Chairman for two different periods. He teaches in the areas of signal and image processing, communications, and robotics and he is actively involved in novel instructional methods. His research interests include image processing and robotics.Dr. Chris Carroll, Saint
with the real-world wireless signals over-the-air in real-time,but also improve their creative thinking ability, hands-on and programming skills, and capabilityto deal with many real-world issues and non-idealities. Assessments show that the learningoutcomes were met and the educational module and materials were successful in teaching theadvanced techniques with hands-on experience in IoT domain. Additional benefits includeincreased students’ interests in other communication systems and broadened minorityparticipation in the nation's technology workforce.Background and motivationInternet of Things (IoT), a network of uniquely identifiable physical objects or “things”embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity, allows
. “Analog-Circuit-Based Activities to Improve IntroductoryContinuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses”, Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for EngineeringEducation conference and exposition, 2013.[2] Rao, A., Fan, J., Brame, C., and Landman.B, “Improving Conceptual Understanding of Signals and Systems inUndergraduate Engineering Students Using Collaborative in Class Laboratory Exercises”, Proceedings of the 2014American Society for Engineering Education conference and exposition, 2014.[3] Verdin, B., Borries, R., Nava, P., and Butler, A., “An Experiment to enhance Signals and Systems learning byusing technology based teaching strategies”, Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Educationconference and exposition, 2014.[4
Paper ID #18647ECE Teaching and Learning: Challenges in Teaching Digital Signal Process-ingDr. S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University is the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation’s research grant, National Wireless Re- search Collaboration Symposium 2014; he has published a book (with Dr. Hu of University of North Dakota) on mobile computing in 2013. Professor Mousavinezhad is an active member of IEEE and ASEE having chaired sessions in national and regional conferences. He has been an ABET Program Evaluator for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering as well as Engineering Education
Paper ID #255433D Visualization-assisted Electromagnetic Theory TeachingMr. Enrique Jos´e Gonz´alez-Carvajal, University of South Florida Enrique Gonz´alez was born in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1987. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Carabobo, Naguanagua, VE, in 2012 and his M.Sc. in 2018 from the University of South Florida. He was an Instructor in the topics of Optical Communications and Guided Waves Systems Laboratory at his Alma Mater until the end of 2014, when he joined the University of South Florida. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree conducting research within the
AC 2011-1176: USING ACTIVE LEARNING IN TEACHING ELECTRO-MAGNETICSMadeleine Andrawis, South Dakota State University Dr. Madeleine Andrawis is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota State University (SDSU) since January 1992. She has also been the Coordinator of the Teaching Learning Center at SDSU from July 2002 till May 2010. Dr. Andrawis earned her Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in December 1991, and her M.S. from SDSU in 1983. Over the years, Dr. Andrawis has published and gave many presentations in the areas of electrical engineering, teaching effectiveness, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the use of instructional
-on university by further advancing the practical Page 14.90.3component of student experience in all programs and courses. As a result, all courses have beenreviewed with an aim to expand and to improve quality of the practical component in courseswhere it has already existed and to introduce experiential learning in courses which did not haveit.As part of this process, the practical component of the first year course Introduction to ElectricalEngineering was reviewed and a Teaching and Learning Grants were obtained in 2005 and 2006to develop a project based laboratory that would replace the set of five independent laboratoryexperiments in the
AC 2010-2327: WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL LABORATORIES FORELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual
laboratory, and computer-aided design for undergraduate engineering education.Ramesh Chawla, Howard University Dr. RAMESH C. CHAWLA is Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Howard University. He has over thirty years of experience in teaching, research and industrial consulting in the fields of chemical and environmental engineering. His research and teaching interests include reaction engineering, separation processes, environmental engineering, and physical, chemical and biological treatment of hazardous wastes. Page 14.830.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009LABORATORY
Page 25.947.3 used to develop applications on a wide variety of microcontrollers, so that student projects could scale upward into research or capstone requirements. • Similarly, the IDE should be portable from small projects to large projects. The tool set should be easily scalable to more ambitious projects than we would encounter in this course. • The IDE should be portable across host operating systems. Our campus laboratories use both Windows and Linux platforms, and student laptops often run Apple’s OS X. Tools that can be used on any of these platforms will be more accessible to students.Our final goal is to teach microcontroller system design using a modern microcontrollerarchitecture. While there is certainly a
AC 2009-2163: SIMULATION-BASED VIRTUAL AND HYBRID LABORATORIESFOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed
Industrial Electronics (ISIE-2010). His teaching and research interests are in control systems applications. Page 25.1183.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Structuring a System Design Laboratory Course to Facilitate Outcomes Assessment ABSTRACTAssessment and evaluation of student learning are key components of a successful educationalprogram. An effective assessment process must produce useful data that are both summative andformative, the former to determine levels to which student outcomes are being
group. This study details a group evaluation method that serves as an exceptionalmotivational tool for the students. Anonymous course evaluation data was used to showhow the students perceived the effectiveness of the group selection process and the groupevaluation tool.I. Background There are many different types of engineering laboratory courses. Historically, a labcourse involves students going to a defined space with fixed equipment that is used forhands-on experimentation. Allocating space for physical labs is usually a challenge, but itmight be even more difficult to purchase and maintain the equipment in physical labs andprovide adequate teaching support. In recent years, virtual labs have been used as acheaper alternative to
Paper ID #33345Remote Versus In-hand Hardware Laboratory in Digital Circuits CoursesDr. Rania Hussein, University of Washington Dr. Rania Hussein is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the department of electrical and computer en- gineering (ECE) at the University of Washington (UW). Throughout her career, she has developed and taught courses at all levels in electrical, computer engineering, and computer science at different insti- tutions. In response to the emergency transition to online teaching due to COVID-19, she founded the remote hardware lab at UW ECE to promote a cost-efficient and equitable access to hardware
interventions in school environments. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development, implementation, and evaluation of an asynchronous online electric circuits laboratoryAbstract – We detail the development, implementation, and evaluation of a completelyasynchronous online version of an electric circuits laboratory. We compare the attitudes of theonline students to the attitudes of those who took the lab in person (on-site) at the university.Online students were sent a kit that included a component box with the needed hardware andelectronic components. They also received a USB-based test and measurement (T&M) device(which integrates two
Paper ID #21580Incorporating PlutoSDR in the Communication Laboratory and Classroom:Potential or Pitfall?Dr. John ”Ed” E. Post P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University John. E. Post received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1981, the M.S. degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electri- cal engineering from Stanford University in 2005. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army in December, 1981 and served on active duty until his retirement as a lieutenant colonel in June, 2006. His military service
support the needs of theincoming transfer students and students engaged in co-op and internship programs,we decided to develop a distance learning hands-on laboratory course, anopportunity that is possible due to the flexible platform offered by LiaB. Lectures oneach experiment and other supplemental learning materials have been developed,used in the on-campus course during Spring 2010, and converted to Powerpointslides with embedded audio for use in the on-line course. A key component to theon-campus laboratory course is regular one-on-one interactions between eachstudent and the course instructor or graduate teaching assistant (GTA). Hence,‘face-to-face’ communication was immediately identified as a critical requirementfor the success of the on
sensor and© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 environment and has directed research projects focused on intelligent distributed sensor and decision support systems. He co-teaches one of the large undergraduate computing courses at MIT. His research interests include object-oriented application design and distributed multimedia.Jesús A. del Alamo, MIT Jesus A. del Alamo received a telecommunications engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain in 1980 and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 1983 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1988 he was with NTT LSI Laboratories in Atsugi (Japan
students working on operating systems. Thesecurity here is provided by isolating the fatal problems like system crashes and other faults intoa single virtual machine which allows students to work in secured and portable lab environment.This feature is of particular importance in a teaching laboratory environment.Past WorkThe IBM VM/370 was one of the first virtual machines developed in the 1960s. In the sameperiod many other companies adapted the virtualization technology and started developingvarious kinds of virtual machines. VMware was first developed with an intention to bring virtualmachine technology to industry-standard computers. The first Vmware product was Workstationreleased in 1999 and resulted from research on operating systems at
and GCS, UAV and other UAVs but also between UAVand satellite where the modeling of accurate satellite mobility and GPS is needed. To enable thesimulation of satellite-based communication, our platform adopts the OS3 module, which is alsobased on OMNet++[21]. OS3 is able to automatically import actual satellite tracks and weatherinformation to simulate complex scenarios at a certain point in time series. Moreover, it isextendable for more complicated and thorough analysis tasks and supports the calculation oftypical measures such as SNR, BER, and packet loss, which makes it possible for the researchersand teaching faculty to customize or further develop simulation modules related to dronenavigation systems.Towards the laboratory platform and
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