discuss possible future directions of theresearch.II. Rationale and Model Descriptions Why even investigate a potential link between intellectual development and learningstyles? A common goal of engineering educators is to demonstrate that graduates have theability to solve current engineering issues, which include ill-defined problems[2]. In order toacquire this ability, most students must undergo some form of intellectual development duringtheir college career. There are multiple perspectives on how intellectual development, defined inthis paper as the progression of one’s views of knowledge [10], [11], can be evaluated in theoverall learning process[12]. While most courses tend to focus on teaching technical knowledge,some
Information Technology Conference, June 7-9 hosted by University of Windsor and 2002/2003 ASEE ECE Division Chair. He is IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. He was the ECE Program Chair of the 2002 ASEE Annual Confer- ence, Montreal, Quebec, June 16-19. Professor Mousavinezhad received Michigan State University ECE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009, ASEE ECE Division’s 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Mem- ber of IEEE, has been a reviewer for IEEE
government to effect change in education and foster economic development.Luis F. Font, Ana G. Mendez University System Luis F. Font has a B.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Puerto Rico; and a M.B.A. in Marketing from Universidad Metropolitana of Puerto Rico. Luis has been working with students for his entire pro- fessional career. In 2005 he started as an Auxiliary Librarian helping and orientating students with their academic work. Later, he became AHORA Program Coordinator at Metropolitan University where he administrated the entire academic organization and execution programs in education, business and com- puter sciences. Luis has worked as Business Administration Professor where he teaches Marketing and
, teaching activities, and related pursuits include advanced electric power and energy generation, transmis- sion, and distribution system technologies; power electronics and control technologies (FACTS, HVDC, and MVDC systems); renewable energy systems and integration; smart grid technologies and applica- tions; and energy storage. Dr. Reed has over 27 years of combined industry and academic experience in the electric power and energy sector, including engineering, research & development, and executive man- agement positions throughout his career with the Consolidated Edison of New York, ABB Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., and DNV-KEMA. He is an active member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and the American
in Bell Labs China at Lucent Technologies from July 1999 to Jan. 2003. She had been an Assistant Professor in Hampton University from Aug. 2006 to July 2011. She joined Metropolitan State College of Denver in Aug. 2011. Her career has been distinguished by a series of awards such as the in the Provost Teaching Innovation Award in April 2010, the First Place Graduate Research Award at Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Annual Research Expo in Norfolk, Va., in April 2006, the University Dissertation Fellowship in Academic Year 20052006, the ECE Ph.D. Research Assistant Award in 2004, the member of Bell Labs President’s Gold Winner Team Award in 2000, and the University Outstanding Thesis Award in 1999.Mr. Gregory
and 5 give an overview on the similar questions that were asked weekly as thequiz was completed. Both answers are satisfactory, but in general the articles received scoringjust above average. The answers to the questions 7 and 8 give a clear message that some of thepapers were more approachable for the students, and they were clearly helpful for learning. Thequestions 4 and 6 regarding the relevance of topics to the future career of students received theTable 1. First part of the mandatory questionnaire completed at the end of the course. The meanvalues and the standard deviation (std) for the questions are presented with n = 41. Before the course, I was already familiar with the IEEE Yes 23 1. Xplore database
is focuses on engineering pathways, career and technical education, digital thread, cyber physical systems, mechatronics, digital manufacturing, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by U.S. Department of Education, focusing on com- puter science and cybersecurity pathways, and
several course-related, co-op, and extracurricular projects withundergraduates, including security [2, 3] and digital/computer hardware projects. In each project,the pedagogical outcomes are similar: 1. The student should learn a new technical concept or skill outside of their typical courses. 2. The student should practice independent research techniques, including task management, reading/writing academic papers, and self-guiding exploratory tasks. 3. The student should gain insight into graduate-level research and/or industry laboratories. 4. The student should advance their own (self-defined) career and educational goals.The past experiences of undergraduate research gave the faculty member a default structure toguide the student
[18]), whether stu-dents view the concepts as important [19], and the instruction style of SS [9]–[11].We can easily imagine many additional possible factors like student career goals, participation in extracurricular activ-ities, repeated exposure to topics over several semesters, and whether labs require critical thinking. The methodologysection discusses how we will use an exploratory qualitative approach to including additional potential factors.3 MethodologyFig. 1 overviews our mixed methods approach. First, we will use an exploratory qualitative approach (focus groups andinterviews) to supplement our literature review about what factors might influence conceptual understanding. Second,in the quantitative piece (SSCIs and surveys
digital pulse-width modulation signals sent to the robot and calculate the responsetime of the motors. Evaluation measures include a pre/post survey that measure student excitement in thecourse, intent to major in electrical and computer engineering, and understanding of the field.Additionally, an exit survey upon graduation evaluates student intent to pursue a career inrobotics. Lastly, registration data observes pre/post number of students in the major. Resultsshow significant increases in interest in the field of electrical and computer engineering, numberof majors, and student learning.Introduction Over the past ten years there has been a steady negative trend in the number of electricaland computer engineering (ECE) majors
joined the faculty of the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley in 2008, where he is now an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is the co-founder of Tweedle Technologies and Cortera Neurotech. Michel is a Bakar Fellow, was awarded a 2009 NSF Career Award and received popular recognition for this work in building interfaces to living organisms (MIT TR10, Time Magazine’s Top 50 Inventions of 2009). His current research inter- ests include building micro/nano interfaces to cells and organisms and exploring bio-derived fabrication methods. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Introducing Electronics at Scale with a
averagestarting salaries earned by university BS graduates. During the period of decline, CIT placementdipped to 83%; however, over the past two years, the program has returned to over 90%placement with impressive average starting salaries ($54,998 for 2005-06).Purdue has several computer-related departments and degrees. For example, the CIT departmentto some extent competes with Purdue’s Computer Science (CS) and Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) departments for students who are interested in a career as a softwaredeveloper. However, the teaching emphasis of these departments is quite different. For example,CS offers traditional programming courses in data structures, compiler theory, and operatingsystems. ECE offers courses in C language
thereare numerous other writing tasks as well, all intended to parallel business and industryrequirements. They focus on providing evidence of individual contributions and range fromengineering notebook entries to bi-weekly “elevator” style reports – very short succinct reportsthat demonstrate the progress made in the latest time interval. Finally, in conjunction with our“trade-show”-style Senior Design Show in May of each year, each team must create a posterwith a primary pictorial emphasis to highlight their design. This is part of a poster competitionthat takes place the same day.BackgroundMuch has been written about the essentials of writing requirements in various curricula settingsand career preparations.1-3 Surveys repeatedly have
AC 2009-1171: A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR COLLABORATIVEEXPERIMENTSJan Machotka, University of South Australia Jan Machotka is an electrical engineering graduate of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He spent more than 10 years working as a professional consultant in industry in Czechoslovakia and abroad. He started his academic career 20 years ago at the South Australian Institute of Technology. He is currently a Programme Director for undergraduate, postgraduate and transnational students at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He is also responsible for final year students’ projects for four engineering streams in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Nafalski, University of South Australia Andrew Nafalski's career spans several decades in academic and research institutions in Poland, Austria, the UK, Germany, France, Japan and Australia. He holds BEng(Hons), GradDipEd, MEng, PhD and DSc degrees. He is Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA) and Honorary Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Australia in Adelaide and Professor of Information Technology and
important in today’s competitive environment.The goal of the laboratory was to exercise and enhance the creative process in lower level ECEstudents. This trait, creativity, is considered to impact globalization1 yet most engineeringprograms do not emphasize this skill. Globalization is stressed as a critical issue for the successof future STEM professionals in The Engineer of 20202 and Educating the Engineer of 2020.3 Adisadvantage in de-emphasizing creativity is that functionality may dominate the design processwith little regard to visual considerations.1 Project objectives include: 1) Making ECE more appealing to students early in their academic career
between Academia and IndustryAbstractCurrently the electric power industry is facing a looming shortage of qualified and well-educatedcandidates to fill a large number of positions within the electric energy sector. The job ofpreparing electrical engineering students for careers in the broad interrelated areas of electricalpower systems, machines and energy is a formidable challenge. This task is further complicatedbecause it must be accomplished using very limited financial resources within the short timeframe available in a typical undergraduate engineering curriculum. This situation providedColorado School of Mines (CSM) with a unique opportunity to design a very effectiveundergraduate power engineering curriculum
Paper ID #22332A Pilot Program in Internet-of-things with University and Industry Collabo-ration: Introduction and Lessons LearnedDr. Mohsen Sarraf, University of New Haven Mohsen received his BS, MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from USC in 1980, 1981 and 1986 respectively. He joined Bell Labs where he worked on advanced communication and signal processing projects. He worked at other high caliber labs and start-up companies as well until 2015 when he joined the University of New Haven as a full time faculty member. He enjoys teaching a lot and as such through his industrial career he was involved with teaching as
students to explore and learn on their own under theguidance of the instructor.2. Course DesignFor both courses, in addition to covering technical content, we arranged at least one guestspeaker session in each course. The speakers were invited from the industry who are seasonedsoftware developers for the respective technologies. For the Kinect application developmentcourse, we invited an additional guest speaker to talk about career development andentrepreneurship. Our intention was to inspire our students to not only be a life-long learner, butalso become an entrepreneur to create something useful for the humanity using their technicalknowledge and skills.We first created the iOS application development course in fall 2010, soon after
, blended approach that is followed makes the atmosphere much more positive withthe majority of the student leaving the course convinced of the value of electronics and theirability to use what they have learned in their careers. Nearly all prefer the time they get to spenddoing hands-on activities rather than listening to lectures on topics they previously did not careabout. Student response varies but probably the most eloquent description of the advantage ofblended learning with lectures, homework, etc. flipped from what they usually experience camefrom a student in Fall 2014. “…EI was perhaps the most well-put-together engineering class I'veever taken at RPI. It's the first time I felt like my learning style was catered to (especially theonline
, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and cyber-security and wireless communication for smart grid. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016. His research is supported by US National Science Foundation, University Sponsored Program and Center for Sustainability grants. Dr. Rawat has published over 120 scientific/technical articles, 7 books and over 15 peer-reviewed book chapters. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 10 international journals. He serves as webmaster for IEEE INFOCOM 2016, Student Travel Grant Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2015, track chair for wireless net- working and mobility of IEEE CCNC 2016, Track Chair for Communications
%) 22 (58%) PostPedagogical contribution of LiaB. Students view the LiaB courses as a significant contributor totheir personal understanding of circuit design. Of the ECE 2074 students, 73% (pre-coursesurvey) and 81% (post-course survey) indicated that the hands-on portion of the class includingthe ANDY board, multimeter, and oscilloscope, contributed more than average or a majorportion of their knowledge. Among the ECE 3074 students, we see a shift where pre-course only51% thought LiaB experiments would be an above-average or major contributor, and post-course,84% responded in that manner. Through their use of the LiaB kit, more students found value inthe hands-on experience.Impact on career preparation. The majority of students in both
ABET Engineering Criteria. There are threecomponents of the Engineering Criteria that carry a great deal of common sense for all programs: 1. A program should have educational objectives. They define the purpose of the program, what career paths the graduates ought to successfully be able to navigate, and suggest the kind of preparation that is required for those career path, i.e., they provide a deliberateness to the educational effort of the program. 2. A program should have program outcomes in the form of a knowledge base and defined capabilities of its students at the time of graduation. These are the characteristics and skills that propel graduates forward upon commencing their careers. They
toolsthey need to continue learning throughout their professional careers. Therefore, learning thebasics of electrical engineering and medicine will provide them with the tools they need to besuccessful innovators in biomedical engineering as well as allow them to collaborate withmedical professionals in the future. We hope that other electrical engineering programs will beable to implement a similar focus area in biomedical engineering broadening the trainingavailable at their institution. Page 12.476.5
AC 2008-2183: ONLINE, INTRODUCTORY MICROCONTROLLER LABS ANDEXERCISES FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTSMarc McComb, Microchip Technology, Inc. As Technical Training Engineer with Microchip’s Security, Microcontroller & Technology Development Division, Marc McComb develops educational materials for customers on Microchip’s 8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers (MCUs). These materials take the form of Regional Training Center (RTC) classes, Web seminars and lab exercises for the Company’s Academic Program. Prior to this position, Marc worked for 13 years as a paramedic in Ontario, Canada until a back injury forced a career change. He returned to school and graduated from St. Lawrence College’s Electronics
, and levels of teaching. Nowadays, electrical engineering (EE) classesare part of the core curriculum of several other majors such as: mechanical engineering,mechanical engineering technology, computer network and system administration,surveying engineering, among others. Modern technologies are interdisciplinary andoften require knowledge of several engineering fields. Students graduating from thesemajors must have at least a basic understanding of electrical engineering principles, sincethey will be working with electronic systems and devices in their careers. The studentscan be motivated by seeing how the EE principles apply to specific and relevant problemsin their own field.Most of us face the challenge of teaching both non-majors and
is to eventually join along my family and become a professor after a long career in industry.Miss Courtney Smith, Western Kentucky University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Simulated Electrical Schematic of PLC Ahmed Alothman, Majed Alyami, Timothy Goodwin, and Courtney Smith Faculty Advisor, Dr. Greg Arbuckle School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-3576 Abstract - PLCs control
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
students. During this important point in astudents’ academic career, it is critical that the students’ initial exposure to engineering is learnercentered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered1. Wirelessresponse units can serve as the catalyst to stimulate these interactions.The Introduction to Digital System Design course2 is offered by the School of Electrical andComputer Engineering. Students majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineeringare required to take the course. A number of Computer Science students take the course as wellto fulfill degree requirements. This four credit hour course has a weekly three hour lab that istightly integrated with the course material covered during the three hour a week
design and test of mobile robotics applications.Bibliography1. See the description of the Electrical Engineering discipline at the IEEE USA web-site at: http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/yourcareer.html2. See the MSOE web-site for course description at of all courses mentioned in this paper at: http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/cese/courses/curriculum.php?progcode=EE15.1&abet=03. See Microsoft's web-site at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/4. See the web-site of IAR, one of the industry's leader in IDE's for embedded systems at: http://www.iar.com/5. See the ISO/IEC9899 standard, available on-line at: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/6. See the web-site of Atmel Corp. at: http://www.atmel.com/dyn