Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University; Oren Masory, Florida Atlantic University; Zvi S Roth

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Electrical and Computer

Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 Zhuang@fau.eduAbstractWe report on a multi-year project to use engineering capstone designs to aid elderly and personswith disabilities; and to enhance undergraduate engineering education through multidisciplinarycollaboration and hands-on experience. In their capstone project, students utilize and adaptavailable technologies to create devices to assist persons with disabilities from the users’perspective. To this end, at the first course of the Engineering Design sequence, students are firstreferred to healthcare facilities and local schools that host students with learning disabilities inorder to gather information

Conference Session

Capstone Design in ECE

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Borowczak, Erebus Labs; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

work looks at the impact of authentic value- added capstone projects on student’s soft skills by comparing results of a multi-year collaboration survey given to multiple senior capstone teams. The observed trends suggest that projects with community impact (irrespective of size or geographic constraint) foster increased communication, participation, and ultimately collaboration.Introduction There is a worldwide push to engage and develop K-12 student interest in Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines1. Some STEM collegiate programs,such as civil and mechanical engineering, seem to have a plethora of incoming and returningstudents.Why?Buildingblocks

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Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1624: INCORPORATING SOFT-CORE AND HARD-CORE PROCESSORSIN CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSESWagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia Page 14.724.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Incorporating Soft Core and Hard Core Processors in Capstone Design Courses Wagdy H Mahmoud University of the District of Columbia wmahmoud@udc.eduAbstractThis paper provides details of our electrical engineering program efforts to introduce sot andhard core processors and the concept of SoC in senior-level and senior-design courses. The

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses - Session I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soheil Salehi, University of Central Florida; Ramtin Zand, University of Central Florida ; Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Prepare the Final Draft of the END: Capstone Report Document Design, and Submit on LMS Analysis, and Documentation Process Figure 3: Overview of the Design, Analysis, and Documentation Process.3. This part of the project included 30% of the entire project’s grade, while the other 70% belongs to

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara E. Marino, Loyola Marymount University

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Electrical and Computer

and electronic imaging. She is a member of ASEE, SWE, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Page 23.944.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 One Last Tool for Their Toolbox: Preparing Students for Capstone DesignIntroduction:In many electrical engineering programs, students are required to demonstrate the success oftheir capstone design project by building and testing a prototype. Depending on the nature andcomplexity of the design specifications, the final product may be a composite of analog anddigital, hardware and software, discrete

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Shey, United States Naval Academy; Ryan Rakvic, United States Naval Academy; Thomas Salem, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the United States NavalAcademy has introduced a novel project-based thematic learning approach by incorporating arobotics project into its curriculum. This project first and foremost captures the student interest,while being flexible enough to present ECE topics at all levels of the undergraduate ECEprogram of study. The robot project spans from Introductory Circuits and Digital Logic Coursesthrough to Capstone Design. In the introductory courses, the student receives a broad overviewof ECE with projects designed to capture the student’s interest while covering the many facets ofthe course. Additionally, students in the first year digital logic course are presented withinnovative projects that

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University; Greg A. Dunko

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

year program with emphasis on product development and corporate sponsorship and mentoring. He has also held leadership roles at HTC and Ericsson/Sony Ericsson. Greg is an established inventor and has filed over 80 patents. He also is co-author of the eBook ”A Reference Guide to the Internet of Things”. Greg holds an BS Electrical Engineering and MS Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. His graduate research focused on Biomedical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Industry-based Team Program Reviews for Capstone Design teamsIntroduction:Proper project management (PM) is a critical skill that will lead to success in senior designprojects

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-2290: INCORPORATING SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN TOOLS INTOUPPER-LEVEL DIGITAL DESIGN AND CAPSTONE COURSESWagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia IEEE Senior Member Page 12.875.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Incorporating System-Level Design Tools into upper-Level Digital Design and Capstone CoursesAbstractThis paper describes the efforts to incorporate system-level digital design tools and state-of-theFPGA boards in the capstone design course sequence. This paper provides the details of twocapstone projects in the areas of digital communications and image processing. This paper alsodetails the challenges

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; James Moscola, York College of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering Education, 2017 Design and Implementation of a Wireless GPS-Based Bicycle Tracking Device for Capstone DesignAbstractThe need to track the locations of bicycles in an Automatic Bicycle Rental System presentsseveral challenges for control, communication, power management, reliability, and security. Thispaper details an effective bicycle-tracking system designed as part of a capstone project thataddresses these challenges. Additionally, a number of student learning outcomes were assessed.1 IntroductionThe Automatic Bicycle Rental System (ABRS) is an engineering capstone design project at YorkCollege of Pennsyvania1. This project was a collaboration of mechanical, computer, andelectrical engineering

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Saffeer Muhammad Khan, Arkansas Tech University; Mohamed Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University; Syed Ali Haider, State University of New York at Fredonia

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Electrical and Computer

CS II, may alsoend up taking the same higher-level courses as students that have taken CS I and CS II.We study student performance in the two courses CS I and CS II to investigate the relationshipbetween grades in these two courses and advanced courses such as Object-oriented ProblemSolving, Data Structures, and Capstone Software Engineering course. The analysis of student datahelps us answer the research questions.Software Engineering is an advanced course that utilizes concepts learned in foundation coursesas well as 200- and 300-level courses. Students take up a term project and go through all phasesof software development i.e., Requirement gathering, Design, Development, Testing andDeployment. It is for this reason that we consider

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey S. Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania

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Electrical and Computer

this project for example, multi-disciplinary tasks involving avariety of skills such as component specification, selection and procurement; mechanicalfabrication; embedded software design, implementation and testing; documentation; and flightrequirements provided a rich arena from which to gain experience. Indirect benefits also exist.Current students in the ET programs, now aware of applied-research grant project opportunitieswithin their program area, are more motivated to stay in their ET program of choice because theysee real-world application of the program content. They are also encouraged to better prepare forand approach senior project or other capstone experience. Finally, the presence of such a projectin the department has also

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Shepherd, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 15.198.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Assessing Curriculum Improvement through Senior ProjectsAbstractSenior project and/or capstone design courses are intended to provide a culminating designexperience for students and to demonstrate their understanding of engineering knowledge andtheir ability to apply that knowledge to practical problems. It is expected that the quality andattributes of students’ senior design projects can be used as a good measure of determining howwell the curriculum prepares students to engage in engineering design as well as a measure offaculty teaching and student learning. This paper reports the results of a study designed to assesswhether the new computer engineering curriculum

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, The University of Texas at Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

in continuing this research and he was currentlyworking on using GPGPUs to accelerate an image processing algorithm as a part of his senior(capstone) design project, it seemed a natural fit to consider implementing the sFFT on a GPGPUas well. While understanding the mathematical proofs that underlie the theory for the sFFT issomewhat complex and would be beyond the scope of an undergraduate research project, amanageable project is to reverse engineer the existing C code and find a portion that is amenableto parallelization on GPGPUs. The C code for the sFFT was available from the researchers atMIT who were working on the sFFT.9 This code was used to validate their sFFT algorithm butthe focus was not on optimization to take advantage of a

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Nigel Yu, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

students who have very good GPA struggle during senior capstone design. This is duemainly to the lack of system-level integrating experience. When given a real-life project,students have challenges of linking it with what they have learned from different courses inprevious years. “It seems that all the course projects we completed previously in individualcourse have nothing to do with the senior design” said one student.One of the student outcomes evaluated by ABET for engineering programs accreditation is “anability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs…”1. Among the most-favored pedagogical models to help students attaining this ability are integrated curricula2,project-based learning (PBL), problem-based learning, and

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Fred Richard Beyette Jr., University of Cincinnati

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Electrical and Computer

and learn from fellow students’ cooperative education experiences. They also examine practices that were realized in various course projects and assignments, and analyze the differences and similarities between their experiences in industry and their learning experience from the course. After the session, the students combine their perspectives from both retrospection and examination to reflect on how they will perform differently in their next co-op rotation or work assignment. Session Theme (Classroom

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 23.469.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Electric Vehicle Circuit and Electrical System Senior Lab ProjectAbstractAs part of a multidisciplinary team, electrical engineering students worked with computer andmechanical engineering students to create a small-scale electric vehicle. The major tasks of theteam were design and performance prediction; fabrication of the vehicle, control circuits, andcomputer data acquisition board; system integration and testing; racing the vehicles against otherteams; and comparing performance data to predictions. This paper will discuss the electricalengineering students’ design efforts for the project. The

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Nicholas B. Conklin, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

events (green upward triangles)this project and their course work in the ECE department at the University, we have reviewedhow many credit hours of course work in the department would be directly related to thisproject. It should be first noted that students in the current ECE curriculum at the University arerequired to take a total of 131 credit hours (electrical engineering option, or EE) or 132 credithours (computer engineering option, or CE). This includes (1) 48 credit hours of the LiberalStudies Core composed of theology, philosophy, ethics/moral responsibility, history, writing,speech, fine arts, literature, social science, science, mathematics, first-year seminar, leadershipseminar, and senior capstone; (2) 20-23 additional credit hours

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Charles Duba, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Lukas P van Ginneken, Digipen Institute of Technology; Nicholas James Rivera; Brian Michael Tugade, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

industry.Most undergraduate computer engineering programs require a 1-year senior capstone designcourse. In this Program, team projects start in the first semester and are required in each of thefollowing semesters. As they develop through the Program, students have increasingly morecreative control over their projects and are responsible for component selection, design, testing,and implementation of their own hardware and/or software systems. Design constraints that areencountered in industry are followed, such as developing use models, cost, power, andportability. Examples include robotic toys, human interface devices, hand-held gaming consoles,and a stratospheric balloon data acquisition / telemetry system. These projects complementrigorous

Conference Session

Capstone Design in ECE

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahem E. Atawi, University of Tabuk; el-Hadi M. Aggoune, University of Tabuk; Fares S. Almehmadi, University of Tabuk

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Electrical and Computer

excellence in engineering education and positioning itself for ABET accreditation,the College of Engineering (CoEng) at the University of Tabuk (UT), Tabuk located in SaudiArabia has integrated a strong engineering practice component into its educational programcurricula. This component relies on a series of courses that foster a variety of soft skills wrappedaround four design project courses and two four-week practical training periods at a company orresearch facility. Furthermore, students at the senior level are strongly encouraged to undertakerealistic projects. In this paper, we describe our experience with three groups of students fromthe Electrical Engineering (EE) Department who undertook projects sponsored by the SensorNetworks and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Victor E. Lugo Vélez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Jose Fernando Vega-Riveros, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Carmen M. Bellido, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

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Electrical and Computer

and applying the latest educational research to improve the teaching – learning dynamics giving Dr. Bellido extensive experience using eval- uation to improve learning strategies from primary to graduate school. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Applying Complexity Theory and Project-Based Learning to Project Designs of Complex Computing SystemsIntroduction In capstone courses, students solve real world problems using teamwork, their engineeringskillset acquired through their curricular and co-curricular experiences, and management andplanning. Faculty try to predict the impact of student technical and non-technical

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

Competing at the IEEE Robotics Competitionsequence is composed of four one semester design courses. In addition, the design experienceculminates with a senior capstone design experience. Many of these projects are done with thesupport of local industry. Students prepare for outstanding professional leadership byparticipating in real-world projects undertaken by multidisciplinary teams using state-of-the-arttools and facilities. EE faculty are rewarded and required to engage students in activities tosupport the development of a clear understanding of engineering practice. 8 Figure 2: EE Design I Robot ProjectRole of Design CoursesAn important part of the EE Program’s project based curriculum is the design sequence

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Anthony Richardson, University of Evansville; David Mitchell, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

systems, and less often digital controls or networks.More elaborate projects are done as a capstone experience. This paper is limited to non-capstoneprojects that include both hardware and software and are most frequently done in the sophomoreand junior year of a computer engineering program.Since such projects involve multiple areas within different disciplines, instructor's expectations,and work done over more than one year, it becomes difficult to assess how much of each topic agiven student has covered. This paper suggests a way to classify such projects using the topicsoutlined in the Computer Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) document produced in 2004by a joint task force of IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. A sample project is given

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-515: CLASS PROJECTS WITH GRAPHIC USER INTERFACES INMATLABMin-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington UniversityEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington UniversityClaudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University Page 12.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Class Projects with GUIs in Matlab Min-Sung Koh, Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, and Claudio Talarico School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington 99004 USA Email: {mkoh

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

are given table thatlists various costs such labor rates, use of the lab space, and an overhead rate. Thecreation of the budget is a pre-lab task. A post-lab task that is included in the lab report acost report. The cost report details the actual cost of performing the experiment andcomparing the actual costs with the predicted costs.The lecture-based courses all have at least one design project. Modifications were madeto the current design project to include the components that would typically be found in abusiness setting (for example, cost proposals). Students are required to bid on theproject. Students must submit a final report which includes the cost report – including ananalysis of the bid cost versus the actual cost. The professor

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard James Choquette, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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Electrical and Computer

autonomous vehicle (ground or aerial) with the goal of being the fastest to travelaround their building 2. Each year new, solutions are found and platforms are pushed further insearch of winning the top prize. The DIYDrones project 3 was started on a similar note; to createan autonomous aerial vehicle capable of following a GPS course using low-cost hardware. Thefield of low-cost autonomous vehicles is rapidly expanding and the ideas of hobbyists arebecoming on par with commercial technology for a fraction of the price.As a senior capstone course, the senior design project is designed to allow students to prove theirability as an engineer. This is a project that demonstrates a student’s ability to engage in thepractice of engineering as a profession

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Anthony H. Hawes LCDR, USCG, United States Coast Guard Academy; Royce Warner James Ph.D.; Eric Jonathan Page, United States Coast Guard Academy; Ali M. Reza, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

. Coast Guard Academy Received Ph.D. from University of Wyoming in 1986 and started his academic carrier at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) right after graduation. He was with UWM until recently and since August 2011 is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Reza’s main research area is in signal and image processing. He has over ninety publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Page 23.1062.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Collaborative Advising of Capstone: a Project in the Development of

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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Electrical and Computer

Computer Engineering. It now includes students from mechanicalengineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemistry.Figure 1. MEMS and BioMEMS courses offered at the University of Cincinnati.Fifth-year undergraduate students (seniors) in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment take a sequence of 3 senior capstone courses for a total of 9 credit hours in theirsenior year.4 Typically, students self-organize into teams and select a project of interest. Theymay choose a variety of projects proposed by industry, community organizations, professors, co-op employers, or themselves. All teams meet with the course instructor and complete a series ofdeliverables to specify and document their projects. Each team has a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas E. Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

done biomedical research during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Project-based Learning for Electrical Engineering Lower Level CoursesAbstract:Project-based learning (PBL) is applied as an attempt to increase both understanding and senseof inspiration for a field. PBL works to integrate and apply 1

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

for the class, students areinformed at the start of class that they will be purchasing the custom PCBs and components fortheir project.While the tools and facilities necessary to support PCB assembly and testing are inexpensive,most serve a multipurpose role and support graduate research, capstone projects, and otherelectronics exercises as well. These include: • Professional ECAD Software: This course uses Altium Design Workbench as the PCB design software. This software was chosen because it is a powerful professional tool commonly used in local industry and, after 2018, Altium reestablished very reasonable rates for university licenses. • Assembly tools: Good stencil printers, either accepting standard framed

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicky Fang, Cedarville University; Clinton Kohl, Cedarville University

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Electrical and Computer

4) run the test program ontheir hardware. Cedarlogic is a unique real-time digital logic simulator designed by six of oursenior engineering and computer science students for their capstone project over two successiveyears. In Cedarlogic, a logic high signal is shown in red, a logic low signal is shown in black,while high impedance is shown in green. As a result, when a project is working correctlystudents can actually watch all the internal signals within the computer “dancing” with the clock.Students can watch how the address buses change, how the data is latched, and how the ALUcalculates... It is a real-time simulation, an experience which uncovers the mysterious veil of thecomputer. The students are excited to watch their computer