Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

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demanded results that required usage of the information, then thestudent had to take control of their learning in order to perform the tasks that were required ofthem. Finally, it was recognized that urgency of real-world needs could be quickly addressedby proper assignment of homework, presentations, designs, and tests. The career world createsstructure to task performance through project schedules and contractual requirements andmilestones. The learning interventions within those task structures occur in a less structuredprocess. For our students, we were not willing to give up on some of our structure. Forexample, in our Electrical Systems course, Ohm’s Law must be understood prior to Kirchhoff’sLaws, then Thevenin and Norton equivalent

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnold Stanley Berger PhD, University of Washington, Bothell

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frequency spectrum of 120 Hz to 12 MHz  Four kilobyte data sample depthAt a list price of $295 each (quantity and educational discounts were available), this appeared to bean attractive solution. The PCSGU250 and a screen image are shown below in Figure 1.11 It has been pointed out that newer instruments provide similar or better features at a lower cost. The instruments wechose to use were based on what was available in 2009 and were available for use for this project after they were nolonger needed as equipment for our on-site undergraduate labs.Figure1. Velleman PCSGU250 dual-channel oscilloscope and function generator. The picture on the right is a screenshot of the user interface. Photos courtesy of Velleman, Inc©Next, we purchased a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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projects for researchers to explore with K-12 teachers and students.Third, there are extensive references to K-12 teachers encouraging use of CS in curriculum andinstruction (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013; Blikstein, 2013; Borgman,Abelson, Dirks, Johnson, Koedinger, Linn, … & Smith, 2008; Chiu & Wu, 2009; Clark, Nelson,Sengupta, & D’Angelo, 2009; Dalke, Cassidy, Grobstein, & Blank, 2007; Donnelly, Linn, &Ludvigsen, 2014; Grover & Pea, 2013; Hashem & Mioduser, 2011; Jacobson & Wilensky, 2006;Klašnja-Milićević, Vesin, Ivanovic, & Budimac, 2011; Levy & Wilensky, 2009; Maroulis,Guimera, Petry, Stringer, Gomez, Amaral, & Wilensky, 2010; Pea & Collins, 2008; Pathak, Kim,Jacobson

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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duein class the following week. Two midterm exams and one final exam were given, and studentscompleted two Matlab projects in groups of three.ParticipantsThe course was taught by the same instructor in both terms considered in this study. Theinstructor was a full-time faculty member at the university with over 10 years of teachingexperience. S/he had taught the DTSS course discussed here several times prior to the two termsin question. Student participants in the study were predominantly male, junior or senior students,majoring in electrical engineering. The majority of students were also domestic and in-state.However, they varied greatly in GPA. The students were also diverse in race/ethnicity with overhalf being either White or Asian. The

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Douglas Kearsley, Western Washington University; Andrew G. Klein, Western Washington University

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metacognition.MethodologySubjects and settingThe Department of Engineering and Design at Western Washington University (WWU),established in 2014 as part of a state-funded transition from Engineering Technology, hasapproximately 400 undergraduate students with about 100 students enrolled in the electricalengineering program. In the conception of the new engineering programs, project-based learningwas identified as a key component of the curriculum, and consequently the majority of courses inthe department have a weekly lab component. While the labs provide an opportunity for hands-onlearning, problem solving at all levels is primarily practiced through weekly homework problems,in introductory courses up through senior-level courses on more advanced topics.This case study

Conference Session

New ECE laboratories

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Ray Hite, West Virginia University; Louis J. Slimak, West Virginia University; Dimitris Korakakis, West Virginia University; Terence C. Ahern, West Virginia University

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assessment of student learning, academic policies, and strategic planning.Prof. Dimitris Korakakis, West Virginia University Dimitris Korakakis, Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering has been involved with Senior Capstone projects in the department for more than 10 years. He has been the lead faculty for the Lane Experience in Applied Design, the research track of the department’s capstone project and for the Nanosystems minor established in 2010 through an NSF funded NUE. He is also the PI for the Solar Decathlon awards, in 2013, 2015 and recently 2017, from the Department of Energy, advising students from a variety of disciplines across the university and many of these student

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Circuit Analysis

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rene Alexander Soto Perez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette, and Universidad EAFIT, Colombia; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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learning strategy, called PeerInstruction, in an undergraduate electric circuit analysis course offered at a large publicuniversity in Colombia. Peer Instruction is an instructional approach that fosters students’collaboration to increase conceptual understanding. Data was collected from three sectionsof the course mentioned above. In two sections, students attended a traditional class format(51 students) while another section (15 students) implemented the Peer Instructionmethodology. The research question driving this project was whether Peer Instructionwould produce significantly higher learning gains than the traditional blackboard and chalkapproach. A difference was determined using a quasi-experimental study comparing thelearning gains of the

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Joseph Callenes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amin Malek, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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. Table 1shows the specific computing contributors we selected each week along with their known under-represented identity, their years of life, one of their major contributions to computing, and theirrelevance to that week’s course work. As you can see, we generally followed a chronologicalorder (to also tie in the contributor’s work to the history of computing) and attempted torepresent contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds. Because the last two weeks of thecourse were devoted to final projects (with no lecture period), we did not present any computingcontributors during this time. Because of the limited number of contributors that we couldpresent in the given time frame (8), we chose not to highlight a contributor without a

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jae-do Park, University of Colorado, Denver

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Electrical and Computer

implementation of the instructional electric machine laboratory is describedin this paper. The objectives of this project are to upgrade 50-year old laboratory equipmentand to provide students with hands-on experience on up-to-date electric machines, drives andinstruments, as well as to improve their understanding of the theory learned from lectures.Instead of the systems especially designed for educational purpose, off-the-shelf industrialdevices have been selected for the experiments to make them more realistic and thus closer towork situations, as well as more cost effective. Experiments, hardware components,instruments and student feedback about the laboratory course offered are presented.1. IntroductionThe importance of power engineering education

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 25.89.2A primary goal of this research is to develop a model for widespread use of portable laboratoriesthroughout the curriculum as a way of enhancing lecture-based courses. This approach has thepotential to have extensive impact on student learning and mitigate the challenges and resistancefaced by other engineering education reforms. The limited development required forincorporating hands-on experimental platforms for engineering students to use in the classroomor to take home shows promise towards reaching a realistic modification of lecture-onlyengineering courses6-11. The Finite State Machine Module described in this paper is one of the modules developed aspart of a project funded by the NSF CCLI program to develop labs

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergey Makarov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Reinhold Ludwig, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Electrical and Computer

) laboratorysubproject.Fig. 3. Concept of the thermoelectric engine or an inverse Peltier device. Electric current due tothermal diffusion of opposite charge carriers forms a closed loop.The sketch of the corresponding laboratory project (solar cell + Peltier device) is given below:IntroductionPart I Equivalent circuit of the solar cell 1. A very primitive photovoltaic source (a LED) 2. Equivalent circuit of the solar cell (measure LEDs in series/parallel with the DMM)Part II Single solar cell versus solar panel 1. Measuring solar cell geometry parameters - a 1-3W c-Si solar panel (~$25 per bench) 2. Solar cell performance at the laboratory bench a. Preparation of solar panel contacts b. Measuring open

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanghun Choi, Purdue University; Maryam Saeedifard, Purdue University; Rohit Shenoy, MathWorks

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Electrical and Computer

library, the students cancommunicate with and control their designed and prototyped power electronic circuits inMATLAB/Simulink environment and without any involvement with code programming. In otherwords, the Simulink models are directly converted and rebuilt into C codes, compiled intoexecutable codes, and loaded into the target board, i.e., the TI C2000 micro-controller by linkingto Code Composer Studio (CCS) program. The CCS includes a suite of tools used to develop anddebug embedded applications. It includes compilers for each of the TI's device families, sourcecode editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators and many other features[16]. The CCS provides a single user interface taking the students through each step of

Conference Session

ECE Program Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Timothy Holman, Vanderbilt University; Brian David Sierawski, Vanderbilt University; Robert Reed, Vanderbilt University; Robert A. Weller, Vanderbilt University; Andrew L. Sternberg, Vanderbilt University; Rebekah Austin, Vanderbilt University; Daniel M. Fleetwood, Vanderbilt University

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variety of settings in spacecraft design and survivability and reliability. He has led programs in experi- mentation, modeling, and simulation of radiation effects in electronic systems. He has been involved with six separate space-based radiation effects experiments over the last 20 years: 1) RadFx-1,-2,-3: A series of CubeSat Based Radiation Effects Testbeds (PI), 2) Microelectronic and Photonics Test Bed (Instrument Card PI), and 3) Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (Investigator), 4) Living With a Star – Space Environment Testbed (mission definition and requirements). As a NASA civil servant, Robert was the lead radiation effects systems engineer for several NASA spaceflight projects, including the

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Pritchard, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USAI. Introduction Students and hobbyists today are met with a plethora of electronics projects that can be easilycompleted with the wide variety of online resources and extensive documentation. Many of theseprojects include the use of high level embedded systems that serve as a “black box” for electroniccontrol of sensors, actuators, motors, wireless communication, and other complex systems [1-6].Recently, a trend has emerged in which these development platforms have become smaller, easier to use,open source, and affordable. This trend has enabled interesting projects that aim to introduce newtechnologies, inspire technological direction, provide capabilities to the underprivileged, and also

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University

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instructional and student roles.Purpose of the Paper: The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary results of an investigation of therelationship of learning setting and instructional use of the Analog Discovery Board (ADB) onpotential student outcomes. Learning settings studied in this paper include: 1) traditionalclassrooms (e.g. instructor centered, emphasis on transmittal of theory with limited integration ofthe ADB and experimental centric learning introduced for students to practice new concepts); 2)lab settings (e.g., student- centered, emphasis placed on practicing and discovering conceptsintroduced via separate lecture based formats; lab instructors and lecture instructors were notalways the same); and 3) homework (e.g. project

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-2341: TRANSFORMING THE MICROPROCESSOR CLASS:EXPANDING LEARNING OBJECTIVES WITH SOFT CORE PROCESSORSLynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University Lynne Slivovsky received her B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1992, 1993, and 2001, respectively. She worked with the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program from 2001 to 2003. In Fall 2003, she started a tenure-track assistant professor position in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She received a Frontiers In Education New Faculty Fellow Award in 2003. In

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University

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Electrical and Computer

PowerPointpresentation includes explanations of the covered topics and only statements of the problems thatare going to be discussed during the lecture. When an example is reached, the Journal Viewer ofthe Tablet PC would be used to show step-by-step solution of the problem. The Journal Viewerfile will include the schematics of the example problem. Electronics Workbench is used forschematic drawings. A brief discussion of this approach and the advantages and disadvantagesof such a scheme will be presented.IntroductionElectronic projection usually in the form of PowerPoint slides that are shown to students whilethe instructor discusses the material on the slides is an increasingly common method forinstructors to present lecture material. However, this approach

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marc McComb, Microchip Technology, Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

of the main components that may be found on agiven Timer/Counter module produced by Microchip—such as the source clock,Prescaler, Postscaler and Timer value register—is discussed as to how it affectsthe operational characteristics of the peripheral as a whole.Each Timer0 configuration bit is described by location and its effect on theoverall operational characteristics of the peripheral. Diagrams similar to thosefound in the datasheet are used for cohesion, only they are discussed in greaterdetail.“Hands-On” LabTo reinforce the functional characteristics of the Timer0 peripheral, a hands-onlab is next, which is introduced using the MPLAB IDE/PICC-Lite compiler. Thestudent is directed to develop a new project file and generate a .c source

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Program. He is an Associated Editor for student papers of the Journal of Technology Interface (http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/). He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983.Miguel Ramos

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida; Soheil Salehi, University of Central Florida; Baiyun Chen, University of Central Florida; Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida

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Paper ID #18195GLASS: Group Learning At Significant Scale via WiFi-Enabled Learner De-sign Teams in an ECE Flipped ClassroomDr. Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida Ronald F. DeMara is a Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the Uni- versity of Central Florida with 24 years of experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering disciplines. His educational research interests focus on classroom and laboratory instructional technology, and the digitization of STEM assessments. He has completed over 200 technical and educational publications, 34 funded projects as PI/Co-I, and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh

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Electrical and Computer

present our University’s efforts to contribute to this need by way of a hands-onactivity designed for high school students. The workshop was devised to achieve three primarygoals: 1) Encourage consideration of a career in electrical and computer engineering 2) Buildexcitement about the Internet-of-Things and provide students with a future technical focus and 3)Introduce students to the fundamental building blocks that make up the Internet-of-Things. Duringthis activity, students complete a project in which they first construct a circuit to read data from atemperature sensor using a microcontroller platform. The students then write software to transmitthat data over a short-range wireless network and then eventually to an Internet-connected

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Paul M. Schoch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Gullie Consultant Services; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Shayla Sawyer Armand, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jeffrey Braunstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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educational grants including an NSF engineering grant supporting Histor- ically Black University and Colleges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives. She is currently the principle investigator on a number of grants including a 21st century grant and an NSF Transformong Undergraduate Education in STEM grant.Dr. Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY Dr. Dianna Newman is a research professor at

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Gullie Consultant Services; Robin L. Getz, Analog Devices, Inc.; Douglas A. Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.; John D. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University, Florida State University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Demetris Geddis, Hampton University; Shujun Yang, Alabama A&M University

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: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives. She is currently the principle investigator on a number of grants including a 21st century grant and an NSF Transformong Undergraduate Education in STEM grant.Robin L. Getz, Analog Devices, Inc. Robin is currently the Director of Systems Engineering at Analog Devices, and has over twenty years of diverse industry experience in engineering leadership, product marketing and sales with multi-national semiconductor

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Zoe Nemerever, University of California San Diego; Paul Andreas Hadjipieris, University of California, San Diego; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego

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mounting evidence in support for collaborativeapproaches like problem-based or project-based learning. In thinking about creating classroomenvironments that encourage collaboration and critical thinking, types of assessments should becarefully considered.Using Assessments to Promote LearningHow instructors measure student success influences course outcomes. Course assessments are akey tenant of course design and determine the metrics of measurement for student proficiency incourse learning outcomes (Wiggens & McTighe, 1995). Traditional assessments, like multiplechoice tests and problem-sets, are prevalent in engineering education (Claris & Riley, 2012;Nicol, 2007). While the literature includes some benefits of these types of assessments

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sven G. Bilén P.E., The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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learning, and problem solving experiences and can be enriched usinghands-on project-based learning.10 Even the best students often do just enough to pass an exam,after which they forget everything they learned. The material taught in a course quickly fadesunless the student has applied the knowledge in some way. There are two things that stay withstudents after a class ends: the interactive and stimulating hands-on experience they gainedpracticing the use of some instrument or software package, and any material that was ofparticular interest to them. This is why it is as important to spark interest, building motivation forstudents to learn the desired material, as well as to provide relevant hands-on activities. Excitement is contagious. One of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fong K. Mak, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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. Oscilloscope basics like vertical system controls, horizontal system controls,trigger controls, sin-wave measurement, amplitude measurement, and time measurement arecovered.Lab 9 and 10: PSpice Analysis of RLC circuitsThis two week laboratory session is a project which focuses on using the transient analysisfeature of PSpice on RLC circuits and comparing this with the results obtained by handcalculation in order to reinforce the concept covered in the Circuit I lecture class.In the first laboratory session, the format of the formal laboratory report was discussed. Studentsare made aware that the following are, in general, the contents required in the formal report: (1)title page, (2) abstract, (3) acknowledgments, (4) table of contents, (5) list of

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Reza Azarderakhsh, Rochester Institute of technology

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Electrical and Computer

its battery depletion in 6 months, the resulting (now secure)device would be unacceptable, life-threatening, and impractical to use. Page 26.989.2In this paper, we present integrating emerging cryptographic engineering (used for protecting theaforementioned deeply-embedded systems) research with security education. This project isaddressing the respective tradeoffs between the security levels (noting the larger attack surfacefor deeply-embedded systems) and affording the overheads applicably, which are the two mainfacets of the proposed integration. To meet this objective, we have used such methodology formore than a year in educating graduate

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. 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

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert John Bowman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas A Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.

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functionally replace the traditional fixed lab workstation and also establishentirely new modes of educational delivery10. Systematic evaluation of the impact on learningand the learner indicated that there were many opportunities to extend the student experience indesign/synthesis, experimental homework and curiosity-driven learning11. The availability of thenew Analog Discovery hardware is timely because it opens up opportunities for the wholeacademic community to build on the exploratory work described above.Over the last 20 years, all Engineering programs have steadily strengthened their project andcapstone courses to develop team-working and cross-disciplinary problem solving skills. Theoutcomes can be seen in many ASEE presentations and in the

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuejin Xu, Murray State University; Lili Dong, Cleveland State University; Theresa Nawalaniec, Cleveland State University

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Electrical and Computer

’ knowledge of information literacy and ethics was evaluated by the analysisof pretest and post test scores.Introduction Information literacy and ethics is a set of abilities requiring individuals to findinformation effectively, and use information ethically. The abilities to locate and use informationproperly are crucial for engineering students to complete their coursework, to perform their jobsin engineering, and to become successful lifelong learners. First of all, engineering students needthe information literacy skills to conduct literature review for course projects, senior designs, andtheses. Second, it is impossible for engineering students to get all solutions to engineeringproblems from their coursework. Instead, students must be