wereintroduced in the first week of class and three reading assignments (PowerPoint slides) werecreated for exposure to the workstation. The Blackboard course management system is used todistribute course reading assignments 16. The second reading assignment used animation resultsfrom the virtual workstation to illustrate initial condition responses and how they were affectedwith and without dynamic braking. The third reading assignment discussed the modeling of themechanical subsystems using SimMechanics and the Virtual Reality Toolbox.The goals of the revised curriculum:• Incorporate a laboratory feel into the control theory courses to enhance learning• Reduce the learning curve of using Simulink in senior capstone project designs• Reduce the learning
cost of all components in our system, whichincludes the base unit and four experimental daughter boards, is under $1000 in single unitquantities.11The Remote EE Lab has been a very successful source of capstone projects for our senior students. Itworks as it was intended to work, and we expect to deploy a number of the stations in our EE lab sostudents can work on their EE lab experiments when it is convenient for them. At some point, itwould be quite beneficial to us if Intronix, the manufacturer of the LogicPort logic analyzer, wouldprovide or license a public API so that applications could be better integrated with their excellentlogic analyzer.11 This cost can be reduced even further by using off-shore PCB fabricators and adopting a lower
topics?If this capstone sequence is truly as effective as we believe in preparing engineers for their futureemployment, we should be able to see a discernible difference. While we did not set out to createthis capstone as a pedagogical research project, we are discovering daily that the teachingplatform is one that deserves to be studied to fully appreciate and understand the effectiveness ofthe material on student success. References1. J. Dunlosky, K. A. Rawson, E. J. Marsh, M. J. Nathan, and D. T. Willingham, “Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology,” Psychol Sci Public Interest, 2013, Jan, 14(1):4-58, doi: 10.1177
provide feedback in class 63% 39% 19% Textbook problems as homework 67% 35% 9% Assign team exercises in class and provide feedback in class 47% 35% 16% Problem/project-based learning in courses prior to capstone projects 42% 44% 12% Entire course devoted to this subject 36% 30% 12% Capstone design projects 21% 40% 10% I did not teach this 2% 6% 36% Invalid responses 28
theprocesses that are used to integrate the teams, and provides specific examples of projects wherethese tools are utilized.IntroductionThe importance of significant design experiences to prepare undergraduate engineering studentsfor engineering careers has been well-documented1-4. These experiences typically emphasizethe application of technical skills as well as professional skills, such as communication in bothwritten and verbal form, working as a team, and customer interaction. The need for suchexperiences has spawned many innovative approaches to capstone senior design courses.However, capstone senior design courses do not include underclassmen. Earlier designexperiences have become more common and have shown to be valuable in motivating students
lessons learned andinnovative approaches in the new ABET accreditation process at VSU∀in this first visit arepresented.Capstone Senior Design Course:Capstone senior design experience is both a graduation requirement for undergraduateengineering majors and for ABET accreditation of these programs. A senior design course istypically the last bridge for students between undergraduate education and the engineeringprofession in their respective disciplines. The course differs from other lecture and laboratorybased courses in the engineering curriculum in fundamental ways. Many capstone senior designcourses include lectures to develop students’ knowledge of the product development process,project management, professional engineering practice, and the
%) Senior Design [8 cr - Sr]Harvey Mudd College [13,19] 4 12 Frosh Project [3 cr - Freshman]BSE – 128 Credits (9%) Clinic [3 cr /Jr, 6 cr /Sr]Olin College [12,20] >7 27 Engineering Design Nature [~3 cr - Freshman]BSECE – 128 Credits (21%) Eng. Des. / Collab. Des. [4 cr each - Soph] Capstone Design Projects [16 cr Senior] Plus: Unifying Projects for Each Two SubjectsRose-Hulman Inst Tech [4,21] 5 20 Analysis & Design of Eng. Sys. [4 cr. - Soph]BSEE, BSCE – 194 credits (10
approach involves providing students only a set of specifications that their design mustmeet. This method requires students to create their own lab instruction, work independently, anddraw their own conclusions. Through this method students are presented with challenges and areforced to use ingenuity and creativity to arrive at a solution - often leading to a better self-directed learning experience. Due to the difficulty and time required by design-based projects,the number of projects that can be completed in a fifteen-week semester is limited. An even more involved option, often used by instructors for capstone design projects [7],is the proposal-based method. This method allows students to define a project or problem thatinterests them
studentoutcomes. The College of Engineering at Temple University has four academic departments,including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a newly establishDepartment of Bioengineering (BE).The Director of the General Engineering degree program has the responsibility to insure allaspects of the Program including continuous improvement of the interdisciplinary curriculum.The Director is also the single interface between the Program and industry for co-operative workstudy assignments, internships, capstone design projects and professional employment. Providingan identified Director on point assures that the General Engineering degree maintains visibilityand creditability within the College.Faculty advisors from both ECE and ME
relationship of these components. Oncethe students understand the fundamental knowledge of signal and systems and digital and analogcircuits in sophomore and junior years, they learn how to effectively “divide” complex problems,refine the decomposition, and integrate the pieces. Finally, the students compile, synthesize, andapply the various techniques that they have learned in previous courses into actual solutions toreal-world problems through capstone projects.Curriculum integration is a methodology widely used by educators to implement the “divide andconquer” strategy and improve students’ education experience 17, 18. In this project, verticalintegration 19 is employed. The importance and curricular need for vertical integration was firstexpressed
joinedtogether to work on projects involving composite materials.19 In another institution, art studentshave been used in a Capstone Design course to enhance the creativity of the project20 whileengineering, art, and architecture students solved a community lighting problem as part of aservice learning project.21 A summer program where students and faculty work with teenagersfor creating a “magic show” based on scientific principles is an example of a creative way toinvolve youth.22 The creative design process is considered by some to integrate the engineeringdesign process and the creative process established from the field of cognitive psychology.23 Increativity workshops, through a mixture of experiential and cognitive techniques, the mean
effective teams,4,5 intra-team communication,6 team skills,7,8,9 implementing design projects,10 assessing learning level,11and improving students’ ability to function in teams.12 To make sure students can satisfy thisrequirement, engineering programs try to provide team-oriented design projects through astudent’s college education starting from freshman year and culminating with a capstone designproject in the senior year.It is a challenging task to assess and demonstrate an intangible student outcome such as theability to function on multidisciplinary teams. Teamwork in a design oriented project can beassessed by a team’s tangible finished product and the team members’ self-reportingsurveys.9,13,14,15 However, there is little discussion on how to
Paper ID #25101Active Learning in Electrical Engineering: Measuring the DifferenceDr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator and a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His research is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electromagnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley a Founding Research Fellow with LBJ Institute for STEM Education & Research and Senior Lecturer in the Ingram
Innovative Curriculum for Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Page 13.421.11Engineering Students.”References [1] M. Paulik and M. Krishnan, “A competition-motivated capstone design course: The result of a fifteen-year evolution,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 67–75, February 2001. [2] F. C. Berry, P. S. DiPiazza, and S. L. Sauer, “The future of electrical and computer engineering education,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 467–476, Nov 2003. [3] J. S. Bruner, The process of education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. [4] W. M. Clark, D. DiBiasio, and A. G. Dixon, “Project-based
engineering degree programs, includes combined with an embedded computer on mobileproviding a two-semester capstone project designexperience. In a few cases, undergraduate electrical 1platforms to demonstrate automatic following Details of these technologies were received asscenarios in indoor environments.Figure 1.0 Illustration of stop-and-go and adaptive cruisecontrol (ACC) technologies. Figure 2.0 Raspberry Pi 2B Single Board Computer intriguing by
AC 2007-1733: LEARNING ABSTRACT INFORMATION THEORY ON VISUALDATA: AN INTEGRATED COURSE ON WAVELET-BASED IMAGECOMPRESSIONThomas Richter, Technische Universitat BerlinSven Grottke, Technische Universitat Berlin Page 12.1007.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Learning Abstract Information Theory on Visual Data: An Integrated Course on Wavelet-Based Image CompressionAbstractWe describe the implementation of and our experiences with a capstone course on wavelet basedimage compression held at the University of Technology Berlin in the years 2002 to 2006. Thiscourse has been designed as an “integrated project”, which means that it combines
circuit analysis arecovered along with instrumentation topics. The laboratory portion of the course reinforces the conceptslearned in lecture and assignments while building skills in circuit prototyping and measurement. Labexercises have traditionally been a time when students follow a given procedure, collect data, andinterpret the data. The highly structured experience often leads to students focusing on the procedureand not fully thinking through the concepts being covered. To encourage a deeper understanding ofcourse concepts and how they translate to physical systems, two open-ended design projects wereoffered in place of structured labs in the most recent offering the circuits and instrumentation course.The design projects are undirected
purposes3. Engineering students undergo a rigorous curriculum that develops thebasic theory of sensor and instrumentation technology, but are less exposed to theimplementation and application aspect. More recently, incorporating hands-on techniques intolecture classes has gained broad acceptance as a means to enhance retention of key concepts4,5.Although senior capstone classes for a given engineering discipline are geared towarddeveloping a student’s ability to synthesize theory into an engineering design, the methods ofinstrumentation and data acquisition often make project implementation less than satisfactory.Electrical Engineering programs generally require a course in Signals and Systems that coversthe theory of mathematically solving the
curricular innovation to produce ECE graduates that can work in anenvironment that may rely on outsourcing a portion of its operations, and also make theknowledge base of these graduates stronger in areas that are not likely to be outsourced,or perhaps should not be outsourced for security reasons or for physical and logisticalconstraints. IntroductionThis paper focuses on changing the electrical and computer engineering (ECE)curriculum in response to outsourcing. The assumption is that outsourcing of certain ECEfunctions will continue in the short term and may perhaps strengthen to include moredesign related ECE projects [10]. Outsourcing of several technical responsibilities to theFar East is not only an
and patterns of expression, we find the gaps and lack of force that thinking alone oftenfails to identify. Writing has tremendous potential variety, each format serving specificpurposes. Yet the ultimate intent is to convey a message, ranging from precise clarity tointentional ambiguity.A central intent of the MSOE Electrical Engineering program and curriculum is to instill theimportance of professional skills, in addition to the normally expected technical skills.Communication, with an emphasis on writing, culminates in the capstone senior designexperience. While the nominal purpose of the three quarter course sequence is to teach theprocess of design, the project itself is the vehicle used to bring “to life” the design process and todevelop
concludes with some lessons learned through the Senior Design Capstone experiencefrom which this multi-threaded software was designed, written, debugged, revised and releasedfor experimentation in DLD. CedarLogic's 10,000+ lines of code is written in C++ and utilizesthe wxWidgets GUI library and OpenGL to render the graphics. CedarLogic can be freelydownloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic .Background and NeedDigital Logic Design is a foundational course for many engineering and computer sciencestudents. The first author has been teaching a freshman level Digital Logic Design course forover twelve years. The course includes laboratory projects in which students physically wire upTTL gates on a breadboard, use the CedarLogic software
S2: 4-Bit Full Adder, Multiplexer and Decoder Logic: Multiplexers, Decoders, H2: TTL Characteristics, Three-state Buffers, Programmable Logic Open-collector Buffers 5 Sequential Logic: Latches, Flip S3: Arithmetic and Logic Unit Flops, Registers, Counters H3: Latches, Flip-flops, Registers and Counters 6 Synchronous Finite State H4: Capstone Design Project Machine (FSM) Design 7 Microprocessor Design S4: The Microprocessor 7.5 Review and Final ExamLecture MaterialsInstead of using the “lecture-capture” approach, lecture videos were recorded from scratch tointroduce course concepts and demonstrate how to apply concepts to solve problems. Thenumber of videos, the total and
within each metric. For the performance-based grading system used in SEED,students are provided with criteria and targets ahead of time. Teams receive a grade based onhow closely their system performance matches the best performing team in each specific designcriteria.Study MethodsTo assess the impact of SEED Lab on students’ skills relevant to engineering practice, a casestudy activity was developed as an open-ended prompt to elicit students’ concepts of the designand development process. The case study activity presents a hypothetical capstone design projectand asks students to describe their general approach to completing the project, rather than for aspecific solution. The case study activity was chosen as a way to elicit students
not certainlybe pedestrian in nature.ME for EEs: Mechanical SystemsSuch an ME for EEs course (ENGR3334 Mechanical Systems) has been developed, presented,and assessed by direct and indirect methods for three semesters and contributes to the continuousimprovement of the EE program. The ME for EEs course replaced a requisite three semester hourcourse in statics without a laboratory in the Electrical concentration in our EE program. Thecourse topics and projects in MATLAB, Simulink and SimMechanics provide a reasonable hands-on experience that is directly extended in the course on digital control and the capstone seniordesign project.The ME for EEs course topics and the direct Engineering applications certainly counter the ironicsentiment that
curriculum.Each student’s curriculum begins with the same foundational EE coursework, but theexperiential learning activity and subsequent course elections vary according to their interests.Student 1 researches neural biosensors, then she enrolls in the sensors and microsystemstechnical track; Student 2 co-ops at Intel, assisting in the development of a specializedmicroprocessor, then he enrolls in courses in the computing and embedded systems technicaltrack; and Student 3 collects data from local schools to improve education in Ghana whilestudying abroad there, then he elects to take courses in data analytics. The three collaborate on asenior capstone project that requires their collective expertise to develop a wearablephysiological monitor for
. Each senior design team is advised by an assigned faculty member who mayalso be the client. The cyber security engineering students are placed on projects that require theanalysis, design, and evaluation of cyber security systems, including system integration andimplementation.The senior (capstone) design experience occurs during the student’s last year in the program viathe two-semester sequence of courses EE/Cpr E/SE 491: Senior Design Project I andProfessionalism and EE/Cpr E/SE 492: Senior Design Project II. The two senior design coursesheavily emphasize design under constraints, problem solving, technical writing, oralpresentations, project planning, economic analysis, professional issues, and contemporary issues.Typical capstone projects
design laboratory courses [4] in the electrical engineering(EE) and computer engineering (CPE) programs have been structured to provide a significantsystem design experience, while providing opportunities for students to demonstrate, and forfaculty to assess, achievement of six of the eleven student outcomes defined for their respectiveprograms, including both technical and professional skills. These courses serve as prerequisitesfor the senior-level capstone design course. The EE course is ELEC 3040, “Electrical SystemDesign Lab”, and the CPE course is ELEC 3050, “Embedded System Design Lab”. The systemdesign projects in these courses require students to apply knowledge gained across the breadth ofearlier courses, including the ability to
participation and contributions towards themission of this project, students receive degree credit. Juniors are awarded "Upper DivisionElective Credit" and seniors fulfill their degree capstone requirement, "Team Senior Project".Each year more than 70 students and 14 faculties have participated in this effort. The students aresub-divided into team specializing in stereovision, object recognition, hardware, mapping andpath-planning software, camera on a chip design, and GIS. Each sub-team has one or morefaculty advisors to supervise the team’s activities.Students enrolled in the project agree to commit a minimum of six hours per week to theproject. Sub-team meetings are held each week of the quarter. All teams meet together threetimes each quarter to
creative freedom. One student provided the analogy that it was likeclimbing to the top of the diving board and we are ready to dive but there was no time to goforward. Another student remarked that the code should be a platform or example that gets yougoing but you should have the time to build on it. The students recognized that there was a lot ofcontent in both courses and that the department would need to decide if it were possible to let goof some of the older content to make room for IoT. 3. Do you anticipate using what you’ve learned in your future career?One student was already using it in their senior design (Capstone) project and could seeapplications for their future career. Another student remarked that while the code was given
attention from the machine learning, and computational intelligence researchcommunity. Due to their recent empirical successes, particularly, neural networks are used to buildsophisticated systems in a variety of applications such as speech recognition, image recognition, androbot navigation and others. This will benefit for undergraduate seniors of their capstone project,such as, design and simulation of engineering systems modeled with computational intelligencetechniques like neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and swarm intelligence techniques.Once graduate students have completed this course, it will benefit for them to have broader views. Itwill help graduate students to be ready to take graduate courses positively such as