. Designing such questions, as noted earlier, can be quite challenging. But it is precisely thesort of challenge that faculty engaged with the course are glad to take on. This is not the sortof mind-numbing assessment activity performed simply for the sake of meeting EC requirementsthat faculty rightfully resent. This challenge requires faculty to think deeply about what the centralconcept in question is, what are the additional concepts and ideas that might be related to it, perhapsperipherally, which might confuse students, how best to capture these potential confusions in a fewcarefully worded distractors, etc. As noted earlier, the fact that student performance in the POCATdoes not affect their academic record means that the test helps us assess
at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). He graduated from USCGA with his BSEE in 1992 and earned his MSIT from Naval Post Graduate School in 1996. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard. Address: U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Department of Engineering, 27 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320-8101; telephone: 860-444-8541; fax: 860-444-8546; e-mail: jstaier@exmail.uscga.edu. Page 11.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
relates to a low uptake of tertiary engineering study by students andhigh attrition rates in tertiary engineering study, a phenomenon occurring worldwide3,4.The lack of supply has important consequences for the future development of New Zealand‟sindustry and economy, and was the motivation for establishing a new engineering programmeat VUW in 2007. Page 25.745.3Recent New Zealand research by the IPENZ identified a number of issues that contribute tostudent recruitment in tertiary engineering. They determined that the three main factors thatcontribute to a student‟s decision of secondary school subject choice are their interest in thesubject, their
, Page 25.486.5 and probably all science, students. (b) A 4-year ECE program that allows study abroad without delaying graduation: a 6- or 8-week summer semester abroad for engineering students between freshman and sophomore year is being trialed next summer. Two courses required for most engineer- ing disciplines are offered in this summer study abroad engineering program. The ECE program encourages student participation in this study abroad program. (c) Assessment of historical perspective presented in selected courses. (d) Assessment of impact of ECE on global society in Engineering Design. 2. Environmental Sustainability (a) Develop clearly-targeted
of ASEE, IEEE, and ACM, and a member of several honor societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Golden Key. Rabih has a passion for both teaching and research; he has been teaching since he was a teenager, and his research interests include wearable computing, activity recognition, and engineering education. For more information, refer to his website: www.rabihyounes.com.Cecil´e Sadler, Duke University Cecil´e Sadler is a first-year graduate student in Computer Engineering at Duke University and 2019 GEM Fellow. She is from Charlotte, NC and received a B.S. in computer engineering from North Carolina State University. In addition to her master’s coursework, Cecil´e assists her faculty
,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high
: creating general freshman courses to give early hands-on experience to the students,utilizing student feedback to design courses, and moving the ownership and maintenance oflaboratory equipment from the university to the students. In the fall semester of 2009, theElectrical Engineering program at The University of Texas at Tyler took the initiative of creatingand offering a first semester freshman experience course aimed at improving freshman retention.The rationale for creating this course was based on student and faculty feedback, and commentsprovided by graduating seniors during their senior exit interview. A number of students alsoexpressed their concern about how late the electrical engineering laboratory experience is in thecurriculum. Since
Paper ID #7948The State of the Use of Standards in Engineering and Technology EducationDr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison, IL Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design, development, evaluation, implementation and program accreditation, management and supervision. Dr. Khan received an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University
“significantly better learning outcomes than the traditionallecture/recitation approach”.In no field is the need for reform of educational practices more important than that of STEMcontent. Because of changes in K-12 education, STEM students are entering the collegeexperience with a background in hands-on constructivist learning; they are expecting and learnbest via hands-on technology supported, active learning. In addition, continued advances intechnology coupled with the needs surrounding a growing content base and real-world problemswithin STEM indicates that constructivist learning will best serve future professional demands.21st Century STEM graduates must be not only be well versed in today’s current content and © American
Paper ID #10796An Experiment to enhance Signals and Systems learning by using technologybased teaching strategiesDr. Berenice Verdin, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Berenice Verdin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Teaching Exellence and Innovation at the University of Texas at El Paso. She graduated with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2005. She presented her research results at the UTEP Student Research Expo, the UMET Undergraduate Research Symposium, and the SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security. She also presented her research work to the National
Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC). Prior to joining ISU he was at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he graduated with his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002, and his B.S. degree summa cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2001. While at Northwestern University, Dr. Zambreno was a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a Northwestern University Graduate School Fellowship, a Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, and the EECS department Best Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. dissertation titled ”Compiler and Architectural Approaches to Software Protection and
flipped classroom pedagogy and hands-on experimental practice promotes thehierarchy of student learning in groups. The paper concludes with a discussion of need forfurther research on faculty developmental patterns, how they are impacted by varied supports,and the need for more research on the role of student grouping and related outcomes.IntroductionInstructional processes and supporting curriculum in higher education STEM settings areundergoing rapid reform; institutions are now striving to match the needs of incoming students,the expectations of business and industry, and the requirements of technological advances. Newor refined pedagogy is now being implemented that reflects real-world problem solving; theemphasis in today’s STEM classroom is
multiple courses provides many opportunities to study the impact of ECP on transfer oflearning from one course to another and several other research questions including whether ornot personal instrumentation makes it easier for students to learn the fundamentals ofmeasurement. Possibly the most powerful outcome of ECP is that learning experiences can besignificantly more authentic. In the intro Circuits course, for example, students are offered theoption of either doing traditional, step-by-step procedural labs or a new type of design-based lab,with both sequences addressing all course content. Finally, the general engineering electronicscourse provides a compressed version of the ECSE sequence which permits transfer to beaddressed quickly for
AC 2009-1806: COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTEELECTRONICS LABORATORIES: THE ELVIS ILABAdnaan Jiwaji, MIT Adnaan Jiwaji is a Masters of Engineering graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis was development of remote laboratories for Africa with iLabs. Currently he is a Software Engineer for the Clusters and Parallel Storage Technology group at Oracle.James Hardison, MIT James Hardison is a Research Engineer with the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Presently, he is involved with the management and development of online
the Microelectronics Journal on Quality Electronic Design, 2005. His research interests include VLSI circuit and system design, CAD methodology for VLSI design, and bioelectronics.Prof. Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University Zinta S. Byrne is a tenured full professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, an R&D project manager and a program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and management consultant for Personnel Decisions International, before becoming a professor at CSU. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organizational Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to
Postdoctoral Fellow working at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. While in the UK, he investigated the system level feasibility of photonic devices based on piezoelectric multiple quantum well structures which exhibit blue shifting absorption character- istics. In 1996, Dr. Beyette joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati where he served as a faculty member and graduate program di- rector. In 2017, Dr. Beyette joined the faculty of the University of Georgia where he currently serves as the founding chair for the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is currently performing research and teaching in areas related to design
that have been attempted over the past two decades at asummer science camp for high school students. The most successful designs are showcasedalong with the teaching methodology that produced them. The project was designed to teachstudents about engineering research, teamwork, and electrical engineering principles. To assessthe outcomes, the journal papers written by the teams of high school students and feedback fromformer students who are now engineers were analyzed. The student’s papers show that everyyear the project resulted in a circuit that could at least produce sound. The students surveyedoverwhelmingly considered the project an influentially positive experience. Former studentsconsistently reported that the greatest impact was not
research. Thus, even if a student doesn’t select a project based onpersonal research interests, they are still very likely to end up participating in a research-based project. This active involvement serves to demystify the research and developmententerprise; students learn first-hand that they can conduct research. Also, for their part,faculty get a chance to develop and inspire students to participate in their research. Asstudents near graduation, there is a very active recruitment of the most capable students.After seeing the exodus of our brightest students to the best graduate schools in thecountry, there was an abrupt about-face and we now recruit our students just asstrenuously as our competition. In any case, we want to achieve a balance
currentoccupation. A survey of science and engineering graduates found that only about 40 percent ofbachelor's degree holders felt that their job required skills that were "closely related" to their Page 25.468.2college major [6]. Many feel that the skills that they have learned in their technical programs arenot being utilized on the job [7]. Traits that are in demand in industry (such as the non-technicalskills, or ―soft skills‖) often come into conflict with the actual training that engineers acquireduring their degree programs, while the math and design skills that are emphasized in schoolremain underutilized. However, when practicing engineers
instruction in these areas.All results are reported for the Fall semester of 2007. At the beginning of the semester, 79% ofthe students were “somewhat” or “very” confident in their ability to design and implementprojects to satisfy design performance; 79% believed they could complete projects on time; 86%were confident in their ability to make professional presentations; and 86% indicated that theirlast team experience was a positive one. These findings suggested that students had sufficientopportunities to practice the soft skills prior to ECGR 4146. Consequently, the topics wereaddressed as needed during lecture and labs and in consultation with students via email,telephone, and office hours. Data for the technical test questions were screened
theexchange of ideas and best practices; and improve communication with engineeringprofessionals, industry, government, and others. With a strong need by the industry for the nextgeneration of power engineering professionals, ECEDHA provides the necessary link to theleaders formulating the university curricula and working to achieve support to further research inthis area.Attendees at the workshop were a combination of individuals from industry and governmentinvited by the workshop organizers, as well as delegates nominated by ECEDHA member Page 22.546.6institutions. Workshop attendees were invited based on their qualifications to contribute to
experience of all three learning modalities: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Designing suchhands-on sessions for students, ties theory and practice, and enables them to acquire technicalskills that are crucial and necessary in the engineering workforce. The authors believe thatexperiments based on ADB type learning kits provide students useful hands-on experience inbuilding and troubleshooting circuits with physical components, which is not possible bycomputer-based simulation activities. These ADB exercises are intended to help students carrythis hands-on experience from the laboratory to a workstation at their homes or in lecture classes.Hence, the authors believe that ADB based experiments are more beneficial to students thancorresponding
statics, we documented how his capstone project involved learning and applying probability theory to a design problem. Be sure your student advising records document any discrepancies between what students have done and what they were suppose to do. Program Objectives Assessing how well your graduates have achieved your program objectives is usually difficult for programs that have only produced one or two graduating classes. In our case, we had one group of graduates who had one year’s experience. With so little experience it was not surprising that only a few of the graduates had achieved some of the program objectives. However, we were
important logistics for operating a mobile studiobased curriculum; Section V presents lessons learned through the planning process; the paperconcludes in Section VI.II Literature ReviewOur literature review focuses on strategies and best practices for implementing the use of portableinstrumentation (“Mobile Studio”) in an electrical engineering curriculum, and metrics formeasuring the impact of implementing that concept on student learning. In the category ofstrategies, we found that Mobile Studio has the potential to include diverse groups intoengineering programs. In [2], the implementation of Mobile Studio concepts were intended toempower female students. In [3], the focus is on African-American students. The authors in [4]examine the impact of
to practice themath of digital signal processing.3. Assessment MethodsVarious forms of assessment were conducted to determine the impact of partial flipping, including directand indirect assessment of student performance and affective assessment that involved studentperspectives on flipping and active learning.3.1. Methods: Direct Assessment of Student PerformanceSince a portion of the material in each course was flipped, it was possible to compare student performancewith the flipped versus non-flipped material within each course. Various assignments were assessed ineach course for this comparison. For ECE-1212 (Electronic Circuit Design Lab), quizzes, pre-lab exercises,and lab reports were evaluated. This evaluation was done during two
specific comments on issues that survey respondents and others provide, outside the structure of the alumni/industry surveys. This includes perceived shortcomings in the program from their perspective.” • “The faculty listens carefully to the employers of their graduates. Alumni who are employers as well have a very significant impact.” • “Many employers are pleased with the process we go through in program improvement. They often wish that students were more familiar with the ABET program assessment process since is it so similar to many industrial QC/QM processes.” • “Deficiencies in student learning.” • “Engaged faculty provides the best feedback for continuous improvement. Cluster or
for anomaly detection. I worked on integrating machine learning algorithms on an embedded sensor systems for Internet of Things applications, which can identify anomalies in real time. Before joining ASU, I worked as Systems engineer for 4 years at Hewlett Packard Research and Development, Bangalore, India.”Erica S Forzani Forzani, Arizona State University Dr. Erica Forzaniis Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Program as well as joint faculty in the MechanicalEngineering Graduate Program in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and En- ergy at Arizona State University (SEMTE). Dr.Forzani also has a joint appointment with ASU’s Center for Bioelectronics & Biosensors (CBB) at The
, IEEE GLOBECOM, WCNC, ICCCN, et al. He received the 2015 IEEE ComSoc TC-CSR Distinguished Service Award, the 2013 IEEE Com- Soc MMTC Outstanding Leadership Award, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Best Paper Award, the IEEE WCNC 2015 Best Paper Award, the IEEE ICC 2013 Best Paper Award, and the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Wireless Communications with Beamforming and Software Defined Radio Techniques
employed by practicing engineers. Faculty help students create a method of solution and evaluate their understanding.The developmental model implemented in ES21C is a model designed to exercise deeper levelsof thinking, specifically the: apply and analyze levels of Blooms Taxonomy2. Real worldapplication of class concepts are exposed through class projects connected with case studies.Professional engineers work on teams to complete a task; therefore students in ENSC 2613 wereassigned teams to complete the assigned case study and project.Due to the significant challenges associated with modifying a class this large with students ofvarious disciplines and learning styles as well as to better evaluate the impact of these newtechniques
International Conference on Automation and Logistics. He was a Chair of IEEE SEM - Computational Intelligence Chapter; a Vice Chair of IEEE SEM- Robotics and Automa- tion and Chair of Education Committee of IEEE SEM. He has extensively published in reputed journal and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on SMC, IEEE-ICRA, and IEEE-IROS, etc. His research interests include engineering education, computational intelligence, intelligent systems and control, robotics and autonomous systems, and applied artificial in- telligence and machine learning for autonomous systems. He received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (IEEE