Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah; Stephanie Richardson, University of Utah; Rohit Verma, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bryan Stenquist, University of Utah

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Electrical and Computer

System) 4.0Senior Fall SpringSenior Thesis I 2.0 Senior Thesis II 3.0Elective: Microwave Eng I Elective: Numerical Methods(FSK WLAN) 3.0 (Microstrip Modeling) 3.0Elective: Antennas Elective: Control Systems(Triband Antenna Design) 3.0 (Magnetic Levitation Control System) 3.0Elective: Business/Eng Elective: Business/Eng(Business Plan) 1.0 (Business Plan) 1.0Fine Art Gen Ed

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

for data collection, system monitoring, and remote control. Thesystem is required to simultaneously record data from 30 to 40 sensors with samplingfrequencies between kilo to mega samples/s depending on the diagnostic input level and speed.During the preliminary planning of the project, students were responsible for developing theDAQ system from the probe (sensor) amplifier box to the GUI interface. A flow diagram wascreated with a “systems engineering” approach to constructing a timeline and procedure fordevelopment of the system. Project management eventualy became the most prominent hurddle for the collaboration.There were many competing demands on multiple key contributors to the collaboration and timeon task was imperative for

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

collaboration. Dr. Khan is the Chair of ASEE Midwest Section.Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University Mohamed Ibrahim, PhD Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education Arkansas Tech University (479) 964-0583 ext. 2452Dr. Syed Ali Haider, State University of New York at Fredonia American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Performance Prediction of Computer Science Students in Capstone Software Engineering Course through Educational Data MiningAbstractEducational data mining has been extensively used to predict students’ performance in universitycourses to plan improvements in teaching and learning processes, achieve academic

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nesreen Alsbou, Ohio Northern University; Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University; Vladimir A Labay, Gonzaga University; Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

circuit and describe the overall functionality of theselected circuit.For the second deliverable, the teams provide an alternative design solution along with anexplanation comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the original design to their alternatesolution. Obviously, the alternative design must meet the customer’s needs. The company thencompiles a product proposal, which includes a bill of materials, cost analysis (including labor ina break-even analysis based on monthly production), circuit design and simulation, testing plan,layout of PCB and packaging schematic, and delivery time. Additionally, a prototype of thedesign must be built and tested according to the test plan. The students are asked to build theircircuit using a breadboard

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Lance Pirtle, University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Jessica E Ruyle, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

importance for individual college departments who need to maintain asufficient level of students. Between the years of 2004 and 2008, the number of undergraduatestudents enrolled in the University of Oklahoma’s School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering (OU-ECE) dropped from 387 to 246. This alarming trend led to the creation of acorrective action plan to increase OU-ECE undergraduate enrollment numbers. In 2013, OU-ECE undergraduate enrollment numbers rose to 428, as shown in Figure 1. This 74% increase ina five year period was achieved due to several factors that were planned, which are described inprevious work.4, 5, 6 Outreach to students in grades 6 to 11 was an emphasized effort. Eventhough enrollment increases would not be seen quickly with

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahita Zarei, University of the Pacific; Jinzhu Gao, University of the Pacific; Jason Roy Ortiz; Alan Joe

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

developed that would compare the user's answer with the solution andaccept it as a correct answer if the difference is within a small error margin due to rounding. Inorder for students to save their progress while working through the problems, a MySQL databasewas employed to house the information.EvaluationIn the preparation of our evaluation plan, we considered the guidelines of several programdirectors in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education described in [12]. The goal ofevaluation plan was to measure the changes in cognitive and affective behavior. Measuring thechanges in cognitive behavior is in accordance with the project’s first objective of increasingstudents' understanding of concept of random variables. Evaluating the changes in

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

revolutionwill occur around a knowledge-based economy, whose intellectual capital will be the measure of itsability to compete in the global marketplace. Given the above issues, the curriculum in general and theengineering curriculum in particular must be examined from a new and dynamic perspective1. To meetincreasing demands for engineering professionals, several higher education institutions that traditionallyoffered degree programs in the liberal arts have started or are planning to offer engineering degreeprograms2.The university enrolls about 8200 students in over 100 programs of study in the Arts, humanities,sciences, and business. A Software Engineering degree has recently received state approval and aprogram in Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Remzi Seker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Electrical and Computer

activities were supported by the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) grant,provided by TAMUK, to improve student success and learning through civic, professional, orresearch engagement at the course level. The questions for the course survey in Table I wereprepared by the QEP planning committee and the office of institutional planning and assessmentat TAMUK.Table I. The Final Course Survey Part ICompared to other courses you have taken or are currently taking, indicate how this course hasaffected you with regard to the following attributes Question Questions Level No. Q1 Mastery of the general education curriculum 1 2 3 4 5 Q2 Mastery of

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

full-time salariedpositions with families. This caused some of the students to reevaluate their plan. As a resultseveral of the students are planning to take 1 class each semester plus one in the summer insteadof the planned two classes per semester in the fall and spring. This has also impacted ourschedule of projected course offerings.On the positive side, the mathematics issues which we thought might be a major stumbling blockfor those students who either took the prerequisite course long ago and forgotten it or for thosewho never really learned it in the first-place has not been as bad as we had envisioned. Throughin-class reviews and review material/links on the webpage we have been able to help studentsmeet most of the mathematical

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Mechtel, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy

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Electrical and Computer

are presented optical exercises on topics such a polarization states areplanned. The course topics include antenna theory, an application of electrodynamicseasily supported by SONNET ™ software that allows students to create patch antennas.The first part of this paper is an overview of the initial course offering with samplelaboratory exercises. The second part of the paper describes the expanded laboratoryexercises planned for future course offerings. The discussion and conclusion presentstudent and instructor assessment of the efficacy of the laboratory exercises and theadded laboratory’s influence on formal course evaluations and exam results.Course OverviewThe electrodynamics course is a junior level second semester course. The

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew McConnell, Case Western Reserve University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University; Nicholas A. Barendt, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

less important than the students experiencelearning how to use the presented technologies to implement their design. Working through arealistic design process prepares students for future professional work on the next generation ofIoT products, one of our desired goals.We encountered many external challenges throughout the development of this course, including apandemic, that drastically changed many of our original plans. This paper documents ourexperiences, shares the positive results we achieved and outlines future plans for courseimprovements.Motivations for the CourseThe conceptual framework for the course originated through conversations with industry partnerswho were concerned with the technical know-how of recent college graduates

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carl B. Dietrich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicholas F. Polys, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Don-Roberts Emenonye, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Xavier Gomez; Joseph Tolley; Cameron Makin; Joseph Gaeddert, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer

spectrum concepts to undergraduate engineeringstudents in courses such as those mentioned above who are unable to, or had not planned to takea full course in RF / microwave engineering or wireless systems and networks.Over a decade ago Katz and Flynn developed and used tutorials [2] based on the GNU Radioopen-source software-defined radio (SDR) toolkit [3] and GNU Radio Companion (GRC) [4] toteach and reinforce introductory material on communication systems including analogmodulation and demodulation. More recently, many SDR-based labs have been developed andmade available by the GNU Radio community [5] and by others, e.g. [6]. These include tutorialsfocused on use of specific software or hardware as well as some more general tutorials.Reference

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Yong Pei, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

defined radio offers one solution. With careful planning and design, devices are taughtusing software to figure out which frequency bands are quiet, negotiate with other devices intheir vicinity, and pick one or more bands over which to transmit and receive data. Cross-layernetworking design offers another solution, which integrates the lower layer knowledge of thewireless medium with higher protocol layers, to devise efficient methods of network resourcesharing and to make applications adaptive to radio channel and network conditions. Thesepotentials make cross-layer design an increasingly important area for future network engineers tograsp. Therefore, future engineers will need to be trained with fundamental principles as well asemerging

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Crowley, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

, more than 90% ofthe students enjoyed it. We have also heard from our industrial review board and companyrecruiters that this plan is to their liking. Students from this program are receiving top internshipsand find themselves leading their internship teams. We also get letters from former studentsabout how far ahead of their peers they are in their first jobs.introductionOur Computer Science Industry Advisory Board regularly reminded us at our bi-annual meetingsthat university B.S. graduates are not prepared for the real world; they don't know how to workon teams, they don't know what it means to work on large systems, and they don't know how towrite professional code. They said it takes the companies one year to adequately train a new hirefor

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

of early fostering of communication and collaboration skills that are seen by industry as paramount and essential for team based software development [27]. With PBL, students will work as a team, which mirrors the professional behavior of software developers. As a result, students’ teamwork and leadership skills will be developed or improved. 4. Life-long learning is a necessity for software developers due to the rapidly and continually changing nature of the IT industry. PBL can develop students’ self- learning capability, which can help them keep abreast of multicore computing and other new technology.4. Apply PBL to the Multicore Programming Course I plan to apply the guided problem-based

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer

sections. This issue was previously discussed in section 3.1b of this paper. Summary of Student Achievement of Course Objectives and Quality of Instruction Course Objective Relates to Program Assessment Standard Results Accept- Continuous Improvement Outcome(s) a Instrument for (assuming able? Actions Planned (See syllabus for the This final complete statements.) Objective Exam only and Y/N average

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Electrical and Computer

that “…the cure is to train morepeople…[where] the need is especially acute in engineering, computer science, informationalsystems and related technology fields.” Further, the AeA task force advised that “state collegesand universities must increase capacity and improve access for would-be students” and that“Governor Locke and the legislature should focus on funding new capacity in higher education.”The Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, in its Master Plan 2000, acted onthis advice and stated its number one investment strategy to be “adding capacity in instruction,instructional support, and research space needed to implement the master plan initiatives forenrollment growth in high-demand fields.”EWU saw itself in the unique

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afroditi Vennie Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth University; Umit Ozgur, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

attitude rather than project milestones. 5. Provide students with literature addressing team dynamics, project planning, etc. Students are very good at focusing on the task at hand and performing research on their topic of interest, but many have not yet recognized the necessity of addressing these other issues, or even realized that there is a methodical approach to working on a team with diverse personalities, work habits and skill sets.Project planning:Students need to engage immediately with mapping out their project and projecting it out tocompletion. Again, it is important for advisors to acknowledge immediately the factors thattraditionally trip up teams: 1. Not enough research and brainstorming in the beginning

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Sluss Jr., University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis, University of Oklahoma; Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma

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Electrical and Computer

, autonomous robots that require less mentor support than the FRC robots. At thetime of the latest published Botball statistics in 2008, “approximately 93,653 individualsincluding 40,280 students have been impacted by the Botball Program.” 7 The success ofBotball and FIRST is strong evidence that today’s students are interested in advancedengineering technologies, innovative demonstrations, and hands-on activities.Researching the source of motivation for students to choose engineering was anotherfactor contributing to the corrective action plan. The Center for the Advancement ofEngineering Education (CAEE) has published a wealth of information on this subject. Amotivator referred to as “intrinsic behavioral” was the largest contributor in the

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MaryPat Beaufait; Duyun Chen, University of Pennsylvania; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Virginia Tech; Cecile Dietrich; Garrett Michael Vanhoy, University of Arizona

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Electrical and Computer

in aninternational technical conference and the introduction to professional networking in thetechnical specialty that this experience provided. Other collaborative efforts with Carl andgraduate researchers that are expected to lead additional conference papers and possiblepublications, and impact of the experience on the undergraduate students‘ current education andcareer plans are also described.Background information on Cognitive Radio, undergraduate research programs, and theparticular program of interest are provided in the next section. Section 3 describes themethodology used in this paper. Section 4 includes observations and descriptions of the studentparticipants‘ experiences before, during, and since completion of the program, and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ramsin Khoshabeh, University of California, San Diego; Vikash Gilja

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Electrical and Computer

, real-time signal processing, machine learning and vision, human-centered product engineering, and even agile business planning. Prior to entering the workforce at UC San Diego, Ramsin is part of several startups and consults with a number of local companies on computer vision, machine learning, and blockchain technologies.Vikash Gilja American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Teaching System Design in Experiential Learning: Building a Fitness Wearable at HomeAbstractAt our university, the ECE department has striven over the last few years to provideundergraduate students with an educational experience that far exceeds the expectations of hiringmanagers

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ramsin Khoshabeh, University of California, San Diego; Rick Gessner, University of California, San Diego

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Electrical and Computer

programming, full-stack web development, real-time signal processing, machine learning and vision, human-centered product engineering, and even agile business planning. Prior to entering the workforce at UC San Diego, Ramsin is part of several startups and consults with a number of local companies on computer vision, machine learning, and blockchain technologies.Mr. Rick Gessner, University of California, San Diego Rick is a serial entrepreneur (Pages, Firefox,...). Presently he is a lecturer and program coordinator at UCSD, where he teaches advanced software and the ECE capstone course called ”The Art of Product Engineering”. Rick is also involved in the development of the new Convergent Systems Engineering program at

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Electrical and Computer

studentunderstanding of digital logic design, exploitation of data parallelism in computationallyintensive algorithms, and hardware-software integration issues. Our overall conclusion is thatwith a carefully planned syllabus, course projects, and the availability of student supportresources, introducing reconfigurable computing to undergraduate computer engineeringstudents can be a useful vehicle for teaching topics on parallel hardware and parallel algorithms.IntroductionThe availability of high speed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) with more than a billiontransistors has provided hardware designers with a platform for implementing complex highperformance designs such that the programmability of general purpose processors and theperformance of custom

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Carroll, University of Texas, Arlington

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Electrical and Computer

asophomore-level course are given in the paper. Plans to use the device for homework and in-class active learning exercises are also explored. A take-home laboratory kit called The BitBox©which incorporates The BitBoard and a DE1 is also described. The paper discusses the results ofa student survey on the usefulness and reliability of the device and the kit. Observations andresults of the survey suggest that The BitBoard and The BitBox are effective educational toolsfor teaching digital logic fundamentals and have a range of application well beyond the localenvironment. The BitBoard and provides a seamless way to bridge the gap from basic gate-levelexperiments to advanced FPGA projects using an integrated take home laboratory kit.IntroductionThis

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Abdelnasser A Eldek, Jackson State University; Hamid R. Majlesein, Southern University and A&M College; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University & Florida State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, University at Albany/SUNY; Corey A Graves, North Carolina A&T State University; Ali Reza Osareh, NC A&T State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

develop our plan for spreading the use of our educational ideas (in our case Mobile Hands-OnLearning). Included in the process is a requirement to test out our hypotheses (e.g. our valueproposition, possible income streams …) through a minimum of 100 customer interviews. Theprocess ran throughout January and February and was nearly a full-time effort. After February,we have continued to work on the plan we developed (to create a new division at ASEE to bringsome structure and support to MOHS pedagogy). There was also a one day workshop at ASEE inwhich the 9 pilot groups presented to help educate and recruit the next cohorts. Based on thesuccess of the pilot, the decision was made to expand I-Corps to include learning. In addition tohelping us

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Whipple, Bishop Fox; Keith B Smith, Brigham Young University; Dale C Rowe, Brigham Young University; Samuel Moses, Brigham Young University

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Electrical and Computer

Moses, Brigham Young University Samuel Moses is a research assistant and lab manager at Brigham Young University in the Cyber Security Research Lab. He is graduating with a Bachelors in Information Technology this year, emphasizing in the fields of System Administration and Cyber Security. After graduation, Samuel Moses is planning on continuing his education at Brigham Young University studying for a Masters in Technology emphasis in Cyber Security. Page 26.301.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building a Vulnerability Testing Lab in an

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosemarie Guzman, University of the Pacific; Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific

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Electrical and Computer

design project course, and plans tocontinue to suggest the project to students in future offerings of the course. Page 13.548.2IntroductionThe purpose of the project is to design an annunciator system for one of the units of the HarveyO. Banks Pumping Plant, a facility of the Department of Water Resources (a State of Californiaagency). The requirements call for the annunciator system to be installed in Unit 3 of the plant.There are eleven units total. Unit 3 is one of the older existing and fully functional units in thepumping plant, and a less modern annunciator system is already installed and fully functional.Therefore, the design needs to

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K Krishnamurthy, University of Missouri-Rolla (ENG); Keith Stanek, University of Missouri-Rolla; Vittal Rao, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Electrical and Computer

studentsfrom different disciplines or with different expertise, the authors made their best effort to assignstudents to one of their top three projects.Students were given only a brief description because part of their assignment was to develop aStatement of Work. This assignment was seen as an invaluable part of the program as itprovided the students with experience in synthesizing the problem statement, identifying theapproach, and planning and scheduling the tasks. The projects identified under this programwere such that they could be completed over an eight-week period or those that could becompleted over two summers by two different teams. It was strongly felt that the studentsshould be able to have a working prototype by the end of the summer

Conference Session

Distance and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

still left with the biggest challenge of them all: Successful class delivery. Issues such ashow to best present the material to the student, how are laboratories going to be done, grading,faculty availability, etc. still remain to be addressed. This paper documents the various lessonslearned through the first year of the collaboration between Eastern Washington University (EWU)and North Seattle Community College (NSCC) to offer electrical engineering (EE) at the NSCCcampus. Section II describes the extensive planning process carried by the two institutions, aswell as the curriculum tailored for the non-traditional students expected to account for themajority of the student population. Administrative issues are addressed in section III

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caroline Crockett, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

conceptual under-standing of signals and systems. We briefly discuss conceptual understanding, one way to measure it, and previousresults in engineering-related disciplines. We then describe the Model of Educational Productivity as a frameworkfor studying student, instructional, and environmental factors that may influence conceptual understanding and dis-cuss results from previous studies that suggest additional influencing factors. Finally, we present our planned mixedmethods approach, consisting of an exploratory qualitative stage to identify possible factors that influence conceptualunderstanding, a quantitative analysis to measure understanding and these factors, and an explanatory qualitative phaseto add depth to our quantitative results. The