Simulink and dSPACE control platform. Two 200W DC machines rated at 40VDC and4000 rpm were used. The DC machines were controlled using a pulse width modulated (PWM)power converter. This project was part of an undergraduate research supported by NSF and theUniversity of Minnesota Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.I. IntroductionThe objective is to develop a system that emulates a wind turbine. Previous efforts in thisdirection have employed separately excited DC machines1,2 with power ratings in the multiplehorsepower range. The intended application of the system described in this paper is forundergraduate laboratory courses. Thus, a system that works at lower voltages is desired.Existing laboratory equipment such as DC
involved with numerous projects for the IAEA.Dr. Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus Sohail Anwar has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Technology. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Engineering Research and Innovation. He is serving as the Series Editor of the Nanotechnology and Energy Series, Taylor and Francis Group/CRC Press. Sohail edited Nanotechnology for Telecommunications and co-edited Advanced Nanoelectronics pub- lished by Taylor and Francis Group/CRC Press. He also edited Handbook of Research on Solar Energy Systems and Technologies published by IGI Global Press in August 2012. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Davis Millimeter- Wave Research Center (DMRC) at University of California, Davis from 2014 to 2016. Since July 2016, he has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of Teaching. His educational research interests include curriculum innovation for teaching circuits, electronics and control systems, project-based learning, and the use of technology in teaching and learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work in Progress: Experiential Modules using Texas
• Deployment of pre-lecture activities prior to each class meeting • Deployment of a pre-lecture quiz upon each student’s completion of a pre-lecture activity • Additional guided-inquiry tutorials on more topics • Utilization of a response system that permits untimed student response to gauge speed of completion • Integration of hands-on projects and/or demonstrations in accordance with the tutorial learning methodReferences [1] Andrawis, Madeleine. "Using Active Learning in Teaching Electromagnetics." In AmericanSociety for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2011.[2] Beichner, Robert. "The SCALE-UP Project: a student-centered active learning environmentfor undergraduate programs." An invited
problemsand solution algorithms. This project comes as a response to the urgent need for newer, moreefficient educational tools to reform the outlook of power engineering education. Thevisualization tool aids students in quickly obtaining a detailed understanding of the power systemanalysis problems when used as a supplement to traditional lecture approaches. Therefore itallows for introduction of other demanding topics within the limited time of an undergraduatecurriculum. In addition, the software visualization tool enables students to spend more time onpower system analysis topics outside the classroom, which have been shown to result in effectivelearning and development of reflective thinking skills.An earlier version of the visualization tool
electric circuits, is useful to thebasic measurements in experiments made by all majors.In order for all the students in ECE3183 to have hands-on experience, hardware homework willbe assigned. An Electronics Learning Lab box will be purchased for each group with three tofour students, which includes: all necessary parts and wires to build projects designed to employconcepts in ECE3183, manuals for project instruction, solderless breadbord for easy circuitconstruction, and build-in analog meters for quick result measurement. This will be a greatremedy of the loss of a traditional supporting lab.A majority of ME students will take ECE3183 and ME3701 in the same semester in their junioryear. As a part of coordination plan, the ME department will
that a large percentage of students in engineering programs switch theirmajors in the first two years. A study has reported that retention rates can be improved throughmultiple strategies that include making curriculum changes, moving practical engineeringlaboratories earlier in the curriculum, integrating projects into classes, and other classenhancements1. Another reason given by students who switch to other majors is that teachingapproaches are not suitable for current populations of students who learn and acquire newknowledge quite differently from those of earlier generations2, 3.Several new pedagogical approaches have been proposed to improve engineering education, suchas the use of hands-on tools to change the learning style in the
undergraduate engineering courses, such as a fluid mechanics course [2], a first-year introductory engineering course [3], a hybrid thermodynamics course [4], and project-baseddesign courses [5]. Best practices [1] have been established by educators from severaluniversities.Continuous-time signals and systems (CTSS) is a fundamental electrical and computerengineering course in which students are introduced to mathematical models for commonengineering signals and systems. The CTSS course is typically prerequisite to other ECEcourses, such as digital signal processing, control systems, and communication systems. Theconcepts found in a CTSS course are among the most conceptually difficult [7-8] in a typicalECE curriculum. To that end, many attempts have
one way tosatisfy the design requirements within the limited time. The key assignment for understanding the different types of real-time simulations with CDPro shown in Table II provides anopportunity to explore and understand the capability of different SIL/HIL simulations according to the characteristics of the targetCPSs. Another key assignment is to analyze and optimize an implementation experiment of the FPGA-based virtual prototypingintegrated with a real CPS. We eventually assessed the student outcome– “to master the skills, methods, and knowledge appropriateto the discipline.” A comprehensive final project is aimed to evaluate proficiency of hardware and software design and analysiswith contemporary tools integrated in the CDPro
learning in higher education can be integrated into theclassroom using one of two models: formal cooperative learning and informal cooperativelearning [2]. In formal cooperative learning, students work together to achieve a specific task forseveral weeks. In this form of cooperative learning, instructors plan the assigned tasks'objectives, the number of students in a team, the selection process of members in the team, andthe evaluation process for group members. Formal cooperative learning is widely implementedin Engineering education in lab sessions, senior design projects, and project assignments.In the informal cooperative learning approach, temporary groups are formed to work on aquestion or a problem posted in real-time by the instructor
the Females in Technology (FiT) summer boot camp grant project for academically gifted low income rising senior and junior high girls for recruitment into the technology degree areas. She is also the co-PI of the Aggie STEM Minority Male Maker grant project focused on early exposure to technology to stimulate interest in technology of middle school minority males. Evelyn is not only outstanding in teaching and research, but also in service. She recently received the 2013 Chair’s Award for Outstanding Service in the Depart- ment of Computer System Technology and is a member of Upsilon Phi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society, American Society of Engineering Education’s Electronic Technology and Women in
, only one lab session was allocated for eachexperiment, while the second lab session was utilized for the classwork. In this setup, thestudents had to prepare their lab reports at home. The two models consisted of the same numberof lab projects, homework, exams, and quizzes with the same level of expectation.Implementation and EvaluationThe proposed classwork model was implemented in a senior-level communication systemscourse. This is a 4-credit hour course with a lab component in which students are introduced tocommunication system principles such as analog modulation/demodulation and noise analysis.The course is by nature mathematically intensive and students usually struggle to understand theconcepts being taught which may get worse in an
provided the sixteen units required to support the demandsof the course as well as a unit used by the professor for demonstrations and three units reservedfor student based projects such as those associated with the capstone sequence.Lab SequenceThe original lab manual was limited to a procedural introduction to various functionalities ofPLCs and was constrained by having only eight available training units. Because the typicalclass had approximately 30 students, each group generally had three to four people. This limitedthe participation of all group members to very little actual hands-on time spent with the trainer. Page 26.526.5In redeveloping
Paper ID #17074Flipping the Microprocessors Classroom: A Comparative AssessmentDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged
Simulinksimulation in the digital communication course for two semesters. The inexpensive PlutoSDR, asan alternative to the USRP, has now also facilitated an open laboratory and the partial surveyresults, as shown in Table 1, confirm the utility of this approach. 10The suggested responses were numbered from 1 - Strongly Disagree, 2 - Disagree, 3 – Neutral, 4– Agree and 5 – Strongly Agree. I found that the use of the USRP and PlutoSDR for laboratory projects improved my understanding of digital communication 4.8 The USRP in the regular laboratory provided a better environment for projects in digital communications
: vector addition, dotproduct, cross product, projection of one vector onto another, and the right-hand rule. This isfollowed by differential vector operation examples explaining the concepts of gradient,divergence and curl of a vector field. Other visualizations are based on examples thatdemonstrate the underlying concept of Divergence and Stoke's Theorems. After these vectorcalculus topics, the module includes visualizations on a broad range of EM topics such as:transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave propagating across a coaxial cable, an animated particleaccelerator model, and plane waves that are incident on semi-infinite dielectric interfaces. Thetime-varying nature of the TEM wave inside the coaxial cable are generated using the Pythonscript
onboard PWMregisters that allow for 6 single-ended or 3 double-ended PWM signals generated in hardware.Other DSP-like hardware features include an onboard 32-bit barrel shifter and a MAC unit. Theprocessor has a 3-stage pipeline. Software for this machine was developed using the KeilCARM compiler and assembler.DSP requirementsTo determine DSP requirements the author surveyed the teaching materials and lab requirementsfor introductory courses in DSP which include a lab where a real-time DSP system is in use4.All courses considered were undergraduate courses taken as a first course in digital signalprocessing. Table 1 summarizes the results of this survey.While many of the experiments and projects were done at frequencies beyond the audio band
numerous research and teaching related papers and presentations. Dr. Aliyazicioglu is a member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.Shailesh Sujanani, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Shailesh Sujanani is a student from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona currently working on a B.S. in Computer Engineering. He currently works under Dr. Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu and Dr. Rajan Chandra on a project to improve student learning and retention of basic electronic circuits concepts using web-based tools.Mr. Jolly Kuo, Cal Poly Pomona Jolly Kuo is born in Mountain View California. Graduated from Los Altos High school California. Cur- rently a computer engineering student at Cal Poly Pomona
analysisof the circuits used in the experiments. The experiments are assigned as part of the homeworkproblems. The laboratory is in effect, integrated into the class and lectures. The lecture materialdid not change from the previous time the class was offered. Only a laboratory component wasadded to the class to reinforce the topics discussed in the lectures. This was used as a test to seeif the approach could be used in other senior level courses.In the Spring Semester of 2011 it will be tested in a junior-level electronics course and futureplans are to test it in a freshman -level course. The overall aim is to see if a curriculum-wideadoption of the board will be beneficial to the students.There is a project similar to the Digilent board known as
AC 2012-5411: COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY INTO FOUNDATION KNOWL-EDGE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING: A CASE STUDY IN HONG KONGDr. Yuen-Yan Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Yuen-Yan Chan is with the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She possesses a dual background in educational psychology and engineering. She is responsible for teaching a first-year refreshment course and is keen at implementing and evaluating novel pedagogies in her teaching. Chan is the principle investigator and key member of several inter-regional student learning projects. She founded the IEEE Education Society Hong Kong Chapter and is the current Chair. She is also the first NAE CASEE New Faculty
AC 2011-1483: STUDENT PERCEPTION OF LECTURE VIDEO USE ASA MEANS TO INCREASE TIME FOR IN CLASS PROBLEM SOLVINGAPPLICATIONSDale S.L. Dolan, California Polytechnic State University Dale S.L. Dolan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly with experience in renew- able energy projects, education, power electronics and advanced motor drives. He received his BSc in Zoology in 1995 and BEd in 1997 from the University of Western Ontario. He received the BASc in Elec- trical Engineering in 2003, MASc. in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2009 all from the University of Toronto. He is past chair of Windy Hills Caledon Renewable Energy, past chair of the OSEA (Ontario
professor and head of the ECE department. His interests include projects based education, curriculum development, international study abroad programs and mentoring, and computer/embedded systems engineering. Page 22.731.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Frontiers of Electrical and Computer Engineering: an Introductory First Year Course Worcester Polytechnic InstituteIntroductionSeveral motivations exist for exploration of new approaches to the introduction of first yearstudents to Electrical and Computer
, Mr.John Harris and Mr. Branden McKagen, for their assistance during this project. Financialsupport for this project was received from the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment at Virginia Tech and the National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase II Award # 0817102.Bibliography1. Hendricks, R.W., K-M. Lai, and J.B. Web (2005). “Lab-in-a-Box: Experiments in Electronic CircuitsThat Support Introductory Courses for Electrical and Computer Engineers.” Proc. ASEE AnnualMeeting, June 12–15, 2005, Portland OR. (available online at www.asee.org).2. Hendricks, R.W. and K. Meehan (2009). Lab-in-a-Box: Introductory Experiments in Electric Circuits(3/E), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
concerns or advice about teaching particular projects and lab procedures.The wiki has a page for each project, and each page has sections such as “Common Mistakes”and “Frequently Asked Questions” where TAs can post information about their teachingexperiences. Thus, the wiki accumulates advice for other TAs involved in teaching the courseduring the current and/or future semesters. As one TA noted, “While lab manuals provide a guideline for students to follow, they often fail to describe the minute yet sometimes crucial intricacies and idiosyncrasies of a given reaction. Unfortunately, in the real world such knowledge can only be acquired by trial and error. Ideally, there should be a mechanism available by which one generation of TAs
Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, Nanotechnology, Application of Telecommunications Technologies in Distance Education, and impact of Technology on Society. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Network Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Technology and Society, and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is the author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book, 2E” and co-author of “Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century,” “Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century,” and “Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century
Paper ID #21119Automated Formation of Peer-learning Cohorts Using Computer-based As-sessment Data: A Double-blind Study within a Software Engineering CourseDr. Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida Ronald F. DeMara is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida where he has been a faculty member since 1992. His educational research interests focus on classroom and laboratory instructional technology, and the digitization of STEM assessments. He has completed roughly 225 technical and educational publications, 43 funded projects as PI/Co-PI, and es- tablished two
AC 2012-3617: DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL GOALS WITHIN THEFIELD OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGDiana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston Diana de la Rosa-Pohl has been a lecturer in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Hous- ton since 2003. She has worked with the PROMES program to develop project-based learning courses for the first-year curriculum. Currently, she is developing and evaluating project-based multidisciplinary courses for the engineering honors program. Page 25.468.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL
challenges facing the students were: Attending Remote Classes: Students had to adapt to remote instruction and had to switch among different platforms for different courses. Asynchronous Mode: With asynchronous classes, students missed having the ability to ask questions and participate in class discussions in real time. Team-based Activities: Students collaborating on lab work and projects requiring teamwork had to adapt from in-person meetings to remote and sometimes asynchronous activities, and in many cases, across time zones. Technology: Some students lacked access to reliable computers or internet connectivity. Personal: Some students faced difficult family, health, financial, or living situations.Thrown into the
Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Departments at Michigan Tech, North Dakota State University, and at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Dr. Oliveira current research interests include optical fiber communication systems, Monte Carlo simulations, digital signal processing, wireless communications, and engineering education. She has authored or co-authored 13 archival journal publications and 27 conference contributions. From 2007-2011 Dr. Oliveira is serving as the Michigan Tech project director of the U.S.-Brazil Engineering Education Consortium on Renewable Energy that is funded by FIPSE from the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Oliveira is an ABET evaluator, and serve as panelist
) and adaptive learning system (AL) are centrallymanaged by the University. The integration of engineering content with the LMS/AL requiredfrequent coordination between the engineering faculty and the University’s project manager.Using PowerPoint and teleconferences provided project managers an explanation of how theengineering content should be taught and delivered. For example, Figure 1 provides one visualrepresentation on how to deliver and integrate the engineering content with the University’s ALsoftware. Figure 1 consists of PowerPoint slides to create the flowchart. The University’s ALplatform is a presentation and analytics tool to track student progress for the educator. The ALsoftware was successfully applied for trigonometry and pre