Science CourseAbstractIn this work, we present a new teaching approach that we have implemented in our introductorycomputer science programming course. The methodology consists of team teaching, a hybriddelivery system, recorded lecture retrieval capability, readiness assessment activities, objectiveassessment of student progress, and cooperative learning through team work. The team teachingapproach consists of two faculty members being present and actively involved in lecture deliveryand classroom activities, which take place in a computer laboratory setting. The hybrid deliverysystem consists of using Centra, a real-time communication, collaboration and learning softwareenvironment, for lecture delivery, recording, and active student
junior-level laboratory in communication systems and a senior elective in wireless systems. In 2004 he was named Wireless Educator of the Year by the Global Wireless Education Consortium. Page 11.128.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Study of Graphical vs. Textual Programming for Teaching DSPAbstractThe proponents of graphical programming (that is using graphics to program a computer, notprogramming a computer to do graphics) claim graphical programming is better than text-basedprogramming; however text-based programmers far out number graphics-based programmers.This paper describes the preliminary
University San Luis Obipso. Her research interests span engineering education, internationalization and embedded systems.Dr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and completed it in May 1996. Fred joined the faculty at CalPoly in September of 1996. He is presently serving
lecture sections allowed information to be rapidly delivered to the REU students allat the same time rather than have each mentor teach each pair of students in parallel. This, inturn, freed up time for the mentors to prepare the laboratory sections of the program. There wasa response from a student that had previously taken an introductory power electronics courseprior to the REU program and they stated that the lectures help clarify the lessons learned in theirprevious power electronics course.In the survey there were also several questions that pertained to the mentoring portion of theREU program. In summary, the students expressed the notion that the hands on laboratoryexperience of the REU program far exceeded any other traditional
use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) providedby manufacturers and the second approach is to teach the course with the systems approachwithout focusing on hardware, instruction set, and assembly language. Along the same lines, anexample of introducing IoT technology in an embedded networking course, specifically using theTexas Instruments (TI) ARM-based Connected Launchpad is documented in [6]. The design ofan Embedded Systems Laboratory to support rapid prototyping of robotics and IoT isdocumented in [7]. An interesting and creative approach was used to disseminate the informationneeded for both traditional laboratory experiments and student design projects; an extensive Wikisite called the “mbed cookbook Wiki” was used to provide
. IntroductionTwo digital design courses are offered at Bucknell University: one is entitled “DigitalSystem Design” and the other is called “Advanced Digital Design.” Both courses consistof three hours of lectures and laboratories weekly. Digital System Design, offered to thejunior class, focuses on logic synthesis; schematic capture is used for design entry.“Advanced Digital Design,” offered to senior and graduate students, addresses system-level design methodologies; the detailed breakdown consists of VHDL, register-transfer-level design methodologies, advanced topics in logic synthesis, and technology mapping.This paper addresses the pedagogic considerations of teaching “Advanced DigitalDesign” using VHDL.The design description of a digital system may
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. He has done and published research in the areas of additive manufacturing (3D printing) for electronics and the design of smart electronic systems. His current research interests include the design of technology- mediated learning environments in teaching electrical and electronics engineering concepts, and curricular innovations for additive and advanced manufacturing programs.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT, Dr. Pitterson was a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and other
thesedevices. Finally, the paper is ended with conclusions and future work.2. Course descriptionThe overall goal of this new teaching practice is to equip students with the knowledge ofadvanced touch sensing technologies and developing microcontroller-based applicationsinvolving various touch sensing devices to solve engineering problems in practice. We taught theadded course materials in 5 weeks, two hours of lecture time and three hours of laboratory perweek. It has three major objectives. To improve students’ awareness of common and different features among major touch sensing technologies. Page 26.1463.3 To introduce students
4 6 8 6 behavior.8. Program nodes to send and receive 3 7 8 6 messages.Assessment of Student LearningOur teaching materials on Embedded Systems Networking were introduced to the studentsduring the Fall-2008 semester in our senior design class. Altogether 10 hours of lecture (five 2-hrlectures) were presented to cover the materials related embedded systems networking. Thestudents were divided into groups of three. The students of each group worked together toachieve the goals of each laboratory assignment. The students were required to present a demo ofeach assignment. Different student of a group was required to take the lead in showing the demoof different
AC 2008-2072: TEACHING AND USING GPS/GIS IN ELECTRICALENGINEERING PROJECTSSaeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Dr. Saeed Sean Monemi is a professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published many papers and currently conducting projects in the areas of embedded systems, software engineering, and operating systems.Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Dr. Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu is a professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published many papers and currently conducting projects in the area of signals and
Paper ID #32409Resilient Course Design for Teaching a Project-based Engineering CourseOnlineDr. Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Dr. Xiaorong Zhang is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She is the Director of the Intelligent Computing and Embedded Systems Laboratory (ICE Lab) at SFSU. She has broad research experience in human-machine interfaces, neural-controlled artificial limbs, embedded systems, and intelligent computing technologies. She is a re- cipient of the NSF CAREER Award to develop the next-generation neural
Paper ID #22440Throwing Away the Course-centric Teaching Model to Enable ChangeDr. Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University Anthony A. Maciejewski received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 2001, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. He is currently a professor and head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. He is a fellow of IEEE. A complete vita is available at: http://www.engr.colostate.edu
-accreditation: 6. Begins with developing elements of the prototype curriculum using off-the-shelf tutorials, laboratory exercise, development tools and hardware where-ever possible 7. Testing these at the “alpha-state” by experienced educators and where -ever possible with experienced students 8. Begin to globally disseminate the curriculum via staged, hierarchical – IIDEA-style capacity building “Teaching the Teachers of the Teachers” seminars and workshops for faculty 9. Offer IEEE completion certificates to the faculty participants 10. Offer IEEE completion certificates to the graduates of formal university courses taught by “Certified Faculty” and also to students in continuing education courses for practicing
circuits class at our university, which is taken by majors in Page 22.744.2electrical, mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering. This introductory course coversbasic topics in linear circuits such as Ohm’s Law, nodal analysis, Kirchhoff’s Laws, op amps, acanalysis, 3-phase power, and transformers. A laboratory component is also required for electricaland mechanical engineering majors. Students typically have a mix of interest in the coursematerial, making this a difficult course to effectively teach all students.This class has a historically high number of grades of D, F, or W (withdrawal). As a result, wehave tried numerous methods to
AC 2011-1846: A PROJECT-BASED INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRON-ICSJames W Bales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. James W. Bales is the Assistant Director of the MIT Edgerton Center, a center dedicated to hands- on, project-based learning. Before joining the Edgerton Center in 1998, he spent seven years designing, building, and testing small robot submarines to explore the deep ocean as part of the MIT Sea Grant AUV Lab. Page 22.90.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Project-Based Introduction to ElectronicsAbstractWe have created a laboratory
2006-1373: A NOVEL INTRODUCTORY COURSE FOR TEACHING THEFUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGLisa Huettel, Duke University LISA G. HUETTEL, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Laboratories in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She is interested in engineering education and the application of statistical signal processing to remote sensing. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.April Brown, Duke University APRIL S. BROWN, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research is focused
] Gassert, John D., et al. "Cross-Disciplinary Biomedical Engineering Laboratories and Assessment of their Impact on Student Learning." American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2011.[4] Sturm, Bob L., and Jerry D. Gibson. "Signals and Systems using MATLAB: an integrated suite of applications for exploring and teaching media signal processing." Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE'05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference. IEEE, 2005.[5] Thiagarajan, Jayaraman, J, et al. “On the use of LabVIEW in signals and systems”, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2009.[6] Simoni, Mario, M. Aburdene, and F. Fayyaz. "Analog-Circuit-Based Activities to Improve Introductory
was a squadron commander for the 746th Test Squadron at Holloway Air Force Base where he directed developmental test activities for GPS and Inertial Navigation Systems. Col Neff is a 2007 graduation of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School and continues to be adjunct faculty there, teaching Fundamentals of Electronic Warfare and Electro-Optics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 µSAFABOT: A Robotics Learning Platform for a Hands-On Laboratory Based Approach in an Introductory ECE CourseAbstract This paper focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of an introductoryelectrical and computer engineering course
that can be integratedinto a traditional lower-division electric circuit laboratory course for both EE and non-EEstudents. The paper includes the implementation of this module into a sophomore level circuitdesign course for electrical and computer engineering majors, EE 242, and in a junior levelelectronics laboratory course for non-EE majors, EE 361. The feedback and assessment data ofthe PCB module are presented in this paper.Development of the PCB ModuleThe PCB module includes a tutorial and two separate PCB projects. The first project is gearedtowards teaching the students how to use the PCB Design tool called DipTrace and how toassemble a printed circuit board using soldering stations in the lab. The second project allowsthe students to
asPALASM or ABEL to significantly more complex modern HDLs such as Verilog or VHDL, whichprofessional design engineers spend years to master. Second, the wide availability of high gatecount FPGAs, which enables students to create amazingly complex designs involving datapathcomponents such as adders and counters, requires the teaching of many more complex componentsin a one semester course. This two-fold increase in complexity requires a redesign of the traditionalintroductory digital design laboratory to enable students to create complex designs using a rela-tively simple design methodology.Therefore, this paper proposes the use of a minimal subset of an HDL (Verilog, in this case) com-plemented by judicious use of schematic capture and its
AC 2011-376: WIRELESS-INTEGRATED EMBEDDED REAL-TIME CON-TROL: A CASE STUDY IN ADOPTING RESOURCES FOR DEVELOP-MENT OF A LOW-COST INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROJECTPaul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University Paul G. Flikkema received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. From 1993-1998 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, and joined Northern Arizona University as an Associate Professor in January 1999, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has been a JSPS Visiting Researcher at Yokohama National University, a Visiting Research Scientist at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, and a Nokia Fellow at Helsinki
Paper ID #27080Board 55: Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of an AdvancedElectric Drive Laboratory using a Commercial Microcontroller and a MAT-LAB Embedded CoderMr. Bhanu Babaiahgari, University of Colorado, Denver Mr. Bhanu Babaiahgari finished his master’s program in 2015, at the University of Colorado Denver. He started his PhD at University of Colorado Denver supervised by Dr. Jae-Do Park in 2016. Since then he has been teaching Electric drives and Energy conversion laboratory as part-time grad instructor. He is an active researcher at Dr. Park’s Energy and Power lab under Energy Conversion Research Force (ECRF
University Dr. Sundaram is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Gannon Univer- sity. His areas of research include computational architectures for signal and image processing as well as novel methods to improve engineering education pedagogy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching of Design of Experiment to the First Year Electrical Engineering StudentsAbstract: In the traditional Electrical Engineering curriculum, courses are introduced and taughtprogressively from the most fundamental subjects, such as circuit theory, for example, to moreadvanced subjects such as power electronics and electric drives. To complement the teaching ofconcepts, laboratory
for solar energy applications and optoelectronic device development for non-destructive testing and evaluation. Page 26.68.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A mixed instructional methods approach to teaching a Circuits and Instrumentation courseAbstractThe circuits and instrumentation course at James Madison University provides students withfoundational knowledge in DC, transient, and AC circuit design and analysis. The 4-credit courseis comprised of three weekly lectures and one weekly laboratory session. Given the breadth ofcontent and
, such as cost, space, limited equipment access, equipmentsize and similarities with real equipment, safety, students’ supervision, etc. Virtual laboratoriescan become important components of the teaching process, because using them some of theabove challenges can be avoided, while several experiment-oriented problems can be solvedeasily and also from the distance. Software based laboratory experiments have become currentday need due to its impacts on flexible learning of students and understanding abilities. Also, thestudents’ lack of solid comprehension of mathematical and/or physics concepts results in wastedtime during laboratory experiments, misinterpretations of experiment results and data, etc. Thismotivation deals with simulation of
learning research in the STEM academic discipline of engineering education, specifically targeting the development of better teaching methods for engaging students in the applications of electromagnetic theory. This research has been culminated in the development of a laboratory component for the undergraduate engineering electromag- netics course at Penn State. The laboratory activities were designed to give students as many chances as possible to gain hands-on experience with real-life tools, measurement devices and analysis techniques.Dr. Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park JULIO V. URBINA, Ph.D is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Com- puter Science at
Paper ID #10633Ultra Low-Cost Software-Defined Radio: A Mobile Studio for Teaching Dig-ital Signal ProcessingDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory Prust is Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing and embedded systems areas.Dr. Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering Steven S. Holland (M ’13
Paper ID #12960Microcontrollers for Non-Electrical Engineering Students - Do We Need toTeach Assembly Language?Dr. Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology Dr. Shouling He is an associate professor of Engineering and Technology at Vaughn College of Aero- nautics and Technology, where she is teaching the courses in Mechatronics Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology. Her research interests include modeling and simulation, microprocessors and PLCs, control system designs and Robotics. She has published more than 45 journal and conference papers in these research areas.Dr. Yuhong Zhang, Texas
Instrumentation and Control Laboratory Coordinator since 1992, as Academic Senator (1995-2001), Faculty Represen- tative at the Administrative Board of the UPRM (2000-2001), Controls Area Committee Coordinator, Departmental Personnel Committee (1996-1997), and Liaison Officer for the Puerto Rico Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (PRLS-AMP) Project (August 1995 – December 1999).Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Page 26.66.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Methodology To Teach Students To Implement Digital
engineer and project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Teaching Finite State Machines (FSMs) as Part of a Programmable Logic Control (PLC