Paper ID #15101A Survey of the State of the Power Engineering Profession in the PacificNorthwest and what Working Professionals are Defining as Priorities for Prepar-ing Students to Fill Present and Near-Future VacanciesProf. Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University Don has taught electrical engineering at Seattle Pacific University since 1987, specializing in analog and power electronics, Before that he worked as a design/evaluation/diagnostics engineer at Tektronx, Inc. for eleven years. He has been involved in various consulting projects, including two summers as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion
Paper ID #28612Managing Dual Academic CareersDr. Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Yuting W. Chen received the B.S. degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electrical Engi- neering. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining ECE Illinois, she worked at IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY in z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests
approach to inquiry.Five (5) male junior and senior electrical engineering students who had taken at least two electriccircuit courses participated in this study. The participants were asked open-ended questions viathink-aloud protocol to explain real-world electrical incidents. They were expected to verbalizetheir thought process and learning of circuit concepts. The analysis was guided by the skills aspectof the engineering habits of mind framework, where students use mental models and toolsnecessary to make educated choices and use approaches to thinking when solving problems insimilar or new contexts. All participants generally used mental tools associated with electric circuittheory, which indicated that students use mathematical models and
focuses on the soft skills ofthe graduating engineer, and one that strengthens technical ECE skills that are not easilyoutsourced and are in fact hard to find. The proposed changes are based on numerousreports and studies that have examined the issue of outsourcing. These proposed changesare already taking place at many US institutions. While it is not expected that the numberof ECE professional would go back to the peak levels of 1987, it is crucial that ECEcurricula respond to outsourcing by graduating creative engineers that aremultidisciplinary team leaders, knowledge generators, system level designers, and thatare globally aware, business minded, and strong in the fundamentals.References[1] http://www.itpaa.org/modules.php?name=News&file
priority on the facilities and tools available to students and listed it isone of the main reasons he chose to come to OU and major in electrical engineering. He closedhis response with the following statements: “I believe that the combination of exceptional toolsand passionate minds creates the ideal learning environment. The university gave us the tools;it's our job to bring the minds. That's why I recruit: to bring the brightest minds to the mostvaluable facilities, advancing the frontier of learning for all.”There are many other OU-ECE students that have a similar mindset. The other student co-authorof this paper will be highlighted in later sections, but his testimonial offers some insight into thistopic. This student is the current president
Paper ID #14518Annual Documentation of Assessment and Evaluation of Student OutcomesSimplifies Self-Study PreparationDr. Zia A. Yamayee, University of Portland Dr. Yamayee’s current professional interests include outcomes assessment in engineering education; de- sign in engineering education; engineering design methodologies; and application of design methods to electric power distribution, transmission, and generation. Dr. Yamayee’s work to date has included projects in power system planning, maintenance scheduling, hydrothermal simulations, unit commitment, operational and financial impacts of integrating new technologies
Paper ID #26861Board 65: Work in Progress: Growing and Sustaining a Successful Collabo-ration of Programs Developing and Implementing Experimental Centric Ped-agogyDr. Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University Dr. Craig Scott received his Ph.D. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. His educational scholarly endeavors include conduct- ing pedagogical studies on learning technologies and remedial math preparation for engineering students. He instructs courses in computer vision, computer graphics, computational electrical engineering, elec
Paper ID #21519How Free Choice Affects Student Interest in a Junior-level Embedded Sys-tems Lab CourseMr. Michael Trent Bolt, Auburn University Michael Bolt is a graduate student at Auburn University pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working as a research assistant to Dr. Mark L. Adams in the STORM Lab. His current projects include embedded system programming for environmental sensing projects, X-band RF design work, and the reorganization of lab course content to increase student interest in subject material.Mr. Andrew Cookston, Auburn University Andrew Cookston is a graduate student in the
Paper ID #19273Embedding YouTube Videos and Interactions in PowerPoint Using Office Mixfor Adaptive Learning in Support of a Flipped Classroom InstructionProf. John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with more than 26 years of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineer
Paper ID #25716Teaching Social Responsibility in a Circuits CourseDr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford Univer- sity. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials sci- ence, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr
detailed design phase. ThisJIT technique worked very well as the immediacy of the need for the knowledge providedadditional motivation for the students and retention was much better as evidenced by theimproved designs and system engineering products produced by the students.To ensure the students learn the importance of identifying and clarifying system requirements,we intentionally introduced ambiguity to initiate discussion and clarification among the studentteam members and faculty. In this project and several others listed in Table 1, we found thatthese discussions served not only to clarify the engineering problem in the students’ minds; but
AC 2009-1695: CLOSING THE LOOP ON ASSESSMENTDale Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Associate Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Collaborative Electrical Engineering Program at Rock County, Electrical Engineering Assessment Chair 2008 - Present, Wisconsin Teaching Fellow 2009 - 2010, ASEE Mathematics Division Chair 2006-2007, ASEE Mathematics Division Program Chair 2005-2006Phillip Sealy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Associate Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Chair Department of Electrical Engineering, Previous Electrical Engineering Assessment ChairDavid Drury, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Professor
] E. Seymour and N. M. Hewitt, Talking about leaving: Why undergraduates leave thesciences. Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press, 2000.[4] C. Drew. “Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard).” The NewYork Times, November 4, 2011. Accessed: Mar 1, 2021. [Online]. Available:https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html.[5] Lape, Nancy K., et al. "Integrating Theory and Hands-On Practice using UnderwaterRobotics in a Multidisciplinary Introductory Engineering Course." 2017 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition. ASEE Conferences, Columbus, Ohio. https://peer.asee.org/28561.2017.[6] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Occupational Outlook Handbook: Mechanical
programming. This will be something to keep in mind for future iterations of thisresearch.In addition, the student comments need to be viewed and judged also in the context of the entireRED program. This group of students had increased workload through the individual core junior-level electrical engineering courses and their LSMs, the associated knowledge integrationmodules between the courses, foundations and professionalism sessions, and team activities.Many students found the “extra” MATLAB assignments overwhelming and overly time-demanding in the context of all the other newly established and required course and programcomponents. “I never had a chance to really try all the problems with multiple other timeconstraints.” “I feel this assignment
Paper ID #26080Board 59: Work in Progress: Industry-based Team Program Reviews forCapstone Design teamsDr. Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University Dr. Rachana A Gupta is currently a Teaching Associate professor and Associate Director of ECE Se- nior Design Program. She teaches and mentors several senior design students on industry-sponsored projects (On average 12 / semester) to successful completion of an end product. These projects include all aspects of System Engineering: concept design, product design and design trade-offs, prototyping and testing (circuit design, PCB, mechanical fabrication, algorithm
Paper ID #19678Creation of an Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Innovation LabDr. Shiny Abraham, Seattle University Shiny Abraham is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. She received the B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological Uni- versity (VTU), India in 2007 and Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA in 2012. Her research interests span the areas of Wireless Communication, Internet of Things (IoT), Optimization using Game Theory, and Engineering Education Research. She is a member of the IEEE and ASEE, a technical pro- gram
AC 2011-2406: ACCELERATED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPE-RIENCE IN COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATIONSRatchaneekorn Thamvichai, Saint Cloud State University RatchaneekornThamvichai received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Col- orado, Boulder. Currently, she is Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering depart- ment at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. She was a Visiting Research Associate Professor in the Wireless@VT group in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2009 and 2010. Her research interests include signal classification and signal processing for cognitive radios and one-dimensional and two-dimensional
activities. Some students were more interested in technical activities while otherstudents were more interested in professional activities. All students accepted that both areaswere important. The majority of students were intending to major in Electrical Engineering andComputer Engineering, yet the program was inclusive and involved students intending to majorin Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Kinesiology, and others.Although possibly looking at different career fields with their majors in mind, these studentshave strong desires to better prepare themselves for applying, interviewing, and experiencing aninternship. Many students had not had an internship before and many have not even had theconfidence to apply.The
Paper ID #17045Experimental Centric Pedagogy in Circuits and Electronics Courses at 13UniversitiesProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photon- ics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem solving from his father (ran a
Paper ID #8725A Flipped Classroom Experience: Approach and Lessons LearnedDr. Rafic Bachnak, Penn State Harrisburg Rafic A. Bachnak is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Science, Engi- neering, and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. Previously, Dr. Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. Dr. Bachnak received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the US Navy Laboratories and
Paper ID #7881Lessons Learned from an ECE Recruiting and Retention Program that In-creased Undergraduate Enrollment Over 60% in Four YearsDr. Chad Eric Davis, University of Oklahoma Chad Davis received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1994), the M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2000), and the Ph.D. in Engineering (2007) from the University of Oklahoma. Since 2008, he has been a member of the ECE faculty at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining the OU-ECE faculty he worked in industry at Uponor, McElroy Manufacturing, Lucent, Celestica, and Boeing. His work expe- rience ranges from electromechanical system design
AC 2011-1539: BEST PRACTICES OF A TWO YEAR STUDY ON A RE-CRUITING PROGRAM TO BOOST ECE UNDERGRADUATE ENROLL-MENTJames J. Sluss, Jr., University of Oklahoma James J. Sluss, Jr., is the Morris R. Pitman Professor and Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He received the B.S. in Physics in 1984 from Marshall Uni- versity, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the Univer- sity of Virginia. His current research interests are in the areas of three-dimensional displays, optical com- munications, photonics, and intelligent transportation systems. He has been awarded 11 U.S. patents, has authored/co-authored over 100
/download. [Accessed: December 31, 2014].11. B. M. Olds, M. A. Dyrud, et al., “Writing in Engineering and Technology Courses.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. 618-622, 1993.12. E. Wheeler & R. L. McDonald, “Writing in engineering courses.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89 (4), pp. 481-486, 2000.13. R. Light, Making the most of college: Students speak their minds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.14. M. Milke, C. Upton, et al., “Improving the writing of engineering students through portfolios,” Proceedings of the 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, 2013, Paper ASEE13-8074, Available: http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/1/papers/1129/download
Paper ID #15829Improving Learning of Digital Systems Concepts Using a Video GameDr. Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University Karen Butler-Purry is the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Professional Studies as well as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Her research interests include computer and intelligent systems applications to power distribution systems and engineering education. She can be reached by e-mail at klbutler@tamu.edu.Mehmet Oren, Texas A&M University Mehmet Oren is a PhD student at the Department of
Paper ID #21363A Hardware Security Curriculum and its Use for Evaluation of Student Un-derstanding of ECE ConceptsProf. Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology Professor Carpenter is an Assistant Professor at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. In 2012, he completed his PhD at the University of Rochester, and now focuses his efforts to further the areas of computer architecture, digital systems, cybersecurity, and computer engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Hardware Security Curriculum and its Use for Evaluation of Student Understanding of
, Introductionto Project Development, with two additional goals in mind: 1. Teach students design and project development well before they encounter them in their Capstone projects. 2. Provide an environment for experiential learning where integration of various strands of electrical and computer engineering disciplines can happen.Similarly to the first goal, some programs offer so-called “cornerstone” courses [3], but themajority of these seem to be freshman courses aiming to provide motivation for potentialengineering students while providing somewhat authentic experiences. These freshman students,however, will typically not have enough technical background to accomplish the second goal. Inour curriculum, students enrolled in ECE 211/212
AC 2011-47: USING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO FOR MULTIDISCI-PLINARY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSJames Flynn, California State University, Northridge James Flynn is a part time faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). He holds a B.S. (1977) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (1981) degree from Northwestern Uni- versity. He is a partner in a consulting firm specializing in electronics for television and film production. Currently he is developing education tools involving software defined radio (SDR).Sharlene Katz, California State University, Northridge Sharlene Katz is a Professor
Paper ID #10843Methods and Approaches for Developing the Future Leaders of the ElectricPower and Energy IndustriesMr. Brandon M. Grainger, University of Pittsburgh Brandon M. Grainger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. concen- trating in power electronics, microgrids, and medium voltage DC systems at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Grainger has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh with a concentration in electric power engineering and in 2007 graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Pitt. From August
PerspectiveThe faculty member had straight-forward goals, centered around the student learning skills andconcepts, both soft and technical, that are seldom fully developed in a typical engineering course.The overall goal, in the mind of the faculty member, was not to entirely recreate an existingsecurity design but rather to give foundational understanding to the student and allow the studentto grow as an engineer. The student grew in their understanding of cybersecurity, digital hardwareengineering, research methods, and more. As such, the project was a success. As with manyprojects, time and resources were limited, but despite that, the results, from the supervisor’s view,were positive.5 Recommendations from the Student5.1 Recommendations for
AC 2007-1495: EFFECTS OF THE TEAM-BASED APPROACH ON INDIVIDUALLEARNINGJason Pitts, Oklahoma State UniversityPatrick Teague, Oklahoma State UniversityAlan Cheville, Oklahoma State UniversityCharles Bunting, Oklahoma State UniversitySohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University Page 12.588.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Effects of the Team-Based Approach on Individual Learning1.IntroductionThis study is a part of the ES21C project at Oklahoma State University. The goal of ES21C is toprepare OSU electrical engineering students to meet the challenges of engineering in the 21stcentury. The proposal for the ES21C project gives the following summary