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Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey S. Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania

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AC 2012-4168: NASA ADCAR PROJECT IMPACTS ENGINEERING TECH-NOLOGY PROGRAMS AT CALUProf. Jeffrey S. Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania Jeff Sumey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology at Cali- fornia University of Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching and developing curricula in CalU’s CET, EET, RET, and CS programs, he has been active in recent years with grant projects sponsored by ONR and NASA involving data gathering technologies. Page 25.966.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 NASA ADCAR Project Impacts

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University

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AC 2012-4115: PRACTICING NEEDS-BASED, HUMAN-CENTERED DE-SIGN FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROJECT COURSE INNOVA-TIONDr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University Shawn Jordan is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where he teaches junior- and senior-level project-based electrical engineering courses.Mr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where he teaches undergraduate, human-centered design-focused, project-based engineering courses

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Ellingson, University of Saint Thomas; Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas; Scott Edward Morgan; Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior

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. Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas Christopher Greene got his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then did his master’s and Ph.D. at MIT, where he studied control theory. Following a 23-year career at Honeywell and another industrial company, he joined the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Electrical Engineering program at St. Thomas and does research on the applications of control theory.Mr. Scott Edward MorganDr. Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre is an Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior (UBI) in Portugal and an Integrated Researcher

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca; Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Joe Harris, Digilent, Inc.; Alex DUPE Wong; Monica Bot

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Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA.Mr. Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyMr. Joe Harris, Digilent, Inc.Mr. Alex WongMrs. Monica Bot Page 25.671.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Global Design Competition: Enabling Creative and Innovative Digital DesignAbstractCollege graduates should be prepared to work in culturally diverse workplaces, work acrossnational borders and understand global challenges. Engineering students seem to have feweropportunities during their studies, than those in

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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engineering students is difficult; most consider privacyissues enough to squash this idea. The alumni themselves are hard to find. ABET seems to sense the difficulty and our evaluators weresatisfied with our limited survey results.Criterion 3’s program outcomes are a different matter. These are the abilities that students are supposed to have on graduation fromyour program. For example, the a-k outcomes that ABET suggests for a computer science program are: Page 25.90.2a) An ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics appropriate to the discipline;b) An ability to analyze a problem, and identify and define

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat, Michigan Technological University; Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Saurav Pathak

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Systems and 33. Antenna Design for Mobile Devices;Microwave Devices. However, the purpose of 34. Antenna Testing (e.g., in Anechoic Chamber); 35. Mutual Coupling in Antenna Design;our research is to create a concentration for 36. Impedance Matching;undergrad students that would include only three 37. S-Parameters and VSWR; 38. Microwave Measurement Devices;courses. 39. Microwave devices in 60GHz, and Terahertz; 40. Waveguide principles and design; Thus, it is critical that

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Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Anthony Carnegie, Victoria University, Wellington; Craig A. Watterson, Victoria University, Wellington

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, New Zealand. Itfaces challenges in attracting engineering students given the specialized nature of itsengineering offering (and poor student understanding of these specializations) and extremelystrong competition from New Zealand‟s two most established engineering universities, TheUniversity of Auckland and Canterbury University. Indeed, local secondary schoolengineering students have many decades of tradition of leaving the city, primarily forCanterbury in order to pursue their studies. This tradition is firmly in the mindset of parents,secondary school teachers and careers advisors.To help retain engineering students in the Wellington region, a partnership has been formedbetween VUW and the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), the

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lars K. Hansen, University of Texas, San Antonio; Keith Gerard Delahoussaye Jr., University of Texas, San Antonio ; Ruyan Guo, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Protoboard Type Specification Type Specification Value ELVIS II Board Channels 2 EE Board 4 ELVIS II Board Resolution 16 bit DAC EE Board 14 bit DAC 1 channel: 2.8 MS/s ELVIS II Board Sample rate both channels: 2.0 MS/s EE Board 40 MS/s ELVIS II Board Overdrive protection

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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) ( (b)Figure 3.. The Robotiics-I course student s interrests in a) Roobotics, and b) A career in Roboticsbefore annd after this classThe studeents also rateed the Robotics-I activitties that increeased their robotics r undeerstanding and ainterests,, engineering g interests ass well as theiir improved skills, as shoown in Fig. 4-a-b, whereeteamworkk and engineeering designn skills, andd BEST robotics competiition along with w middle-highschool mentoring m greeatly benefittted the

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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jae-do Park, University of Colorado, Denver

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I like the following session(s). 17 25 21 25 29 20 20 I think the following session(s) needs 2 1 6 3 5 8 7 9 improvement. I was able to understand the theory in 3 N/A 22 25 17 20 15 14 lectures better by doing the experiments. Especially the following experiment(s) 4 N/A 17 20 21 18 14 13 was helpful to understand the theory. Especially the

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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Sergio Martin, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Rosario Gil, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Alberto Pesquera Martín, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Tovar Edmundo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Martin Llamas-Nistal, University of Vigo; Gabriel Diaz Orueta, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Juan Peire; Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

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working for the Innovation and Techno- logical Development Centre of UNED (CiNDETEC). He is an expert in learning management systems (LMS) and web development applications. Currently, he is collaborating in a research project of open services integration for distributed, reusable, and secure remote and virtual laboratories (s-Labs). Page 25.326.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Dr. Tovar Edmundo, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid Edmundo Tovar, computer engineering educator, has a Ph.D. (1994) and a bachelor’s degree (1986) in computer engineering from the Universidad

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Integration of Research and Education in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aharon Gero, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Wishah Zoabi, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Nissim Sabag, Ort Braude College of Engineering

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only difference between the two groups will be around the method ofinstruction (i.e. animation or, alternatively, static diagrams).We recommend that our colleagues include animations, developed with an eye toward thestudents' background, when teaching the operation principles of electronic devices such as theBJT.Bibliography1. Karmalkar, S. (1999). Simple unified elucidations of some semiconductor device phenomena. IEEE Transactions on Education, 42, 323 – 327.2. Benesen, L. & Robinson, B. (1983). A study of the mathematics requirements for Israeli technicians and Page 25.700.7 practical engineers. International

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Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University

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launched. That is, after a certain amount oftime, the input wave is turned off. This is an extremely useful case to examine as it isfundamental to radar systems. We would expect reflections to occur at both the leading and thetrailing edges of the pulse. A much more significant programming challenge would be to allowthe load impedance to be complex. While it is easy to handle complex loads in a steady statetime-harmonic situation, it is much more difficult to handle them for non-steady state conditions.Code described in this paper and other examples presented at the conference will be madeavailable on the author’s website: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/wentwsm/References:1. MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.2. S. Wentworth

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Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Mohamed, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

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Defuzzification Crisp Input 2 Rule BaseFig. 10. A block diagram of the fuzzy controller utilized in this paper. S SB M MB B BB VS S SM SB B VB 1 1 0.8 0.8 Membership Membership 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4

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Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Crowley, University of Southern California

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together to do the design and implementationplanning. The integration of C3’s user-interface work with C4’s back-end code is the primarychallenge. And, of course, since the C4 students have already taken C3, there will be naturalmentoring about user-interface and animation issues.The projects have evolved, but are now based on work that Wilczynski did during hisentrepreneurial career when his company built manufacturing applications in an area called cellcontrol7. In the fall we do an assembly cell. In spring we do a glass-processing line. Schematicsof the cells, which the students will build and animate, are shown in figures 1 and 2 in theappendix. Here are links to the specifications the students start from:http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201

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Integration of Research and Education in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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joshua fabian, Villanova University; Tyler A. Young, Villanova University; James Peyton Jones, Villanova University; Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University

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forward would depend on the specificapplication being developed. For the purpose of this example, it is sufficient to demonstrate thedifferences between the two images. Page 25.906.8 Figure 7. RGB Image Edge Detection Figure 8. Depth Image Edge DetectionThe intention of the model and examples discussed above is to demonstrate the value ofintegrating the KinectTM sensor into the MATLAB® and Simulink® software environment. TheVU-Kinect S-Function and Simulink® block allow the KinectTM sensor data, RGB and depth, tobe manipulated and processed by the various tools available in the Simulink

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg N Droge, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Page 25.876.930 rad/sec, so the combined open-loop transfer function has the form: V(s) 30A = U(s) (s + b)(s + 30) Figure 12: Open-loop Bode plot of the LEGO NXT motorThe take-home section of the experiment allows students to see the behavior of the PI and PIDcontrols that they created in the previous part of the experiment. They are able to apply conceptslearned in class to see the frequency response of different systems and use the frequencyresponse to create a Bode plot from which they are able to derive a transfer function for thesystem. The main difficulty for the students in this section is

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Mark Jansson P.E., Bucknell University; David Kelley, Bucknell University

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, “Coordinating Laboratory Courses Across Engineering and Science Curricula,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.4. W. G. Konold, B. Tittel, D. F. Frei, and D. S. Stallard, What Every Engineer Should Know About Patents, 2nd ed., Marcel Decker, New York, 1989.5. R. Gharabagi, “Coverage of Legal and Ethical Aspects in Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.6. R. V. Hughson, “The right way to keep laboratory notebooks,” IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm., vol. PC-22, no. 2, pp. 83-85, June 1979.7. C. Erdmann, “Using Patents to Identify Emerging Fields in Biomedical Engineering

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Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin P. Pintong, Binghamton University; Douglas H. Summerville, Binghamton University; Kyle Temkin, BInghamton University

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expected tocomplete two to three modules per week, allowing for flexibility to accommodate differences intheir schedule. The timing of this course could be described as a mix between a traditionalcourse, where there are hard due dates, and a correspondence course where most of the work isusually due at the end of the course.A large reason for the modularization of material and reduction in actual lecture and laboratorytime stems from various research. In the 1980's, Johnstone and Percival indicated that theaverage attention span was approximately 10-20 minutes.5 In addition, during an average 45-90minute lecture, each required refocus further decreases the attention span. It is believed byresearchers such as Dr. Carr that attention span has

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Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; David F. Vreeland, University of Oklahoma; Christopher Robert Griffin, University of Oklahoma; Mark B. Yeary P.E., University of Oklahoma

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techniques. The primary focus of his studies at OU has been in power systems, and he will be joining the ExxonMobil Corporation in Baton Rouge, La., upon graduation.Dr. Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma Mark B. Yeary received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively. Following his graduation in 1999, he was a member of the DSP group and a lecturer with the Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, TAMU, where he continued to lead a variety of industrially sponsored projects. Since Fall 2002, he has been with the University of Oklahoma (OU)’s School of Electrical and Computer

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David H. Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler

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-suite/5. B. Othman, S. Salem, and B. Saoud, “MPSoC design of RT control applications based on FPGA SoftCore processors,” in 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 404-409, 2008.6. M. Hubner, K. Paulsson, and J. Becker, “Parallel and Flexible Multiprocessor System-On-Chip for Adaptive Automotive Applications based on Xilinx MicroBlaze Soft-Cores,” in 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, p. 149, 2005.7. D. H. K. Hoe, C. Martinez, and J. Vundavalli, “Design and Characterization of Parallel Prefix Adders using FPGAs,” IEEE 43rd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pp. 170-174, March 2011.8. F. E. Sandnes, H.-L. Jian, Y.-P. Huang

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Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Constance D. Hendrix, U.S. Air Force Academy; Marcus L. Roberts, U.S. Air Force Academy; William J. Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Butler, U.S. Air Force Academy; Randall Deppensmith, U.S. Air Force Academy

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the U. S. Air Force Academy must take several core engineering courses tograduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. The Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering offers one of these courses, The Principles of Air Force Electronic Systems.Overall, many students see value in the course, but either dislike learning about technology or Page 25.1478.2become discouraged due to subpar analytical abilities. We strive to instill and hone traditionalengineering skills such as problem solving, detailed technical work, and critical thinking. Yet,beyond classroom technical performance, a recurring crack exists in the execution of this course.Like

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Integration of Research and Education in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuen-Yan Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Wai Yin Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Press, Washington, DC. (2004)3. Welch, W. W., Klopfer, L. E., Aikenhead, G. S., & Robinson, J. T.: The role of inquiry in science education: Analysis and recommendations. Science Education 65, 33—50 (1981)4. Bloom, L. Z. & White, E. M.: Inquiry: a cross-curricular reader. Englewood Cliffs (ed), Prentice-Hall, Inc. NJ. (1993).5. Tsankova, J. and Dobrynina G.: Developing curious students. Integrating Inquiry across the Curriculum, 85—109, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA. (2005)6. LaPlaca, M. C., Newstetter, W. C., Yognathan, A. P.: Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering curricula, In Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference 2, F3E-16-21. (2001)7. Froyd, J. E. Ohland, M. W

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston

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Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna L. Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, University at Albany/SUNY; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University

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price of a textbook, is available at any timeand any place; students and instructors have a portable lab at their fingertips through which“constructionist learning” is again possible. With a good start provided by interested anddedicated teachers, student accomplishments are limited only by their imagination. Since theMobile Studio provides a portable lab facility, students can apply the tools they use in theclassroom in their personal projects. The most obvious examples involve tinkering with cars(e.g., finding security system workarounds for someone building a car from an early 90’s GMdrivetrain) and robotics (e.g., adding a real electrical engineering component to a project for arobotics competition). Less obvious are the kinds of student

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip A. Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Niranjan Venkatraman, Northern Arizona University; Sheryl L. Howard, Northern Arizona University

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assessment, to evaluate their corresponding Global Learning outcome, the appropriateECE program outcome and ABET objective(s). 1. Global Engagement (a) Contemporary issues and the impact of electrical engineering on global society: En- gineering Design (required course). Students present a slideshow as a group on team- Page 25.486.4 selected contemporary ethical topics in electrical engineering. Current assessment ef- forts in this course evaluate regional ethical concerns, with no mention on global ethics. (b) Historical perspective and biographical information on inventors and scientists: pre

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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the current industry features provide. If the FPGA-based developmentboards currently used for the course were to become obsolete, there are currently at least fourother off-the-shelf boards that could be used as is or readily adapted to continue using the same Page 25.866.7processors. Even though the original reason for and usage of the soft core processor in themicroprocessors course at Boise State University have evolved, the soft core processor continuesto provide a viable and relatively stable platform for teaching the basics of microprocessors.Bibliography1. A. Planting and S. Ming Loo, “On the Use of a Soft-Core Processor in Junior

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Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anahita Zarei, University of the Pacific; Jinzhu Gao, University of the Pacific; Jason Roy Ortiz; Alan Joe

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validuniversity ID numbers. We are planning to make this resource available to the public uponadministrative approval.Bibliography[1] W. Swart and Bengu, “A computer-aided, total quality approach to manufacturing education inengineering,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 415–422.[2] “nsf08204.pdf.” [Online]. Available: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/nsf08204.pdf[3] C. A. Canesin, F. A. S. Goncalves, and L. P. Sampaio, “Simulation tools for power electronics coursesbased on java technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 580–586, Nov. 2010.[4] Fraser, D.M., R. Pillay, R.L. Tjatindi, and J.M. Case. “Enhancing the learning of fluid mechanicsusing computer simulations”. Journal of Engineering Education 96 (4

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Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheila Patricia Werth, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kaung Myat Win, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sergey N. Makarov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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(and perhaps more expensive) radio laboratories are available – see [3]-[7].Bibliography1. S. Makarov, R. Ludwig, and S. Bitar, Electric Circuits and Circuit Components, Wiley Custom, Hoboken, NJ, 2011, ISBN 978-1-118-23356-8.2. Laboratory #6, ECE2010-Intro to ECE, ECE Dept., WPI 2011-2012.3. Online: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/ee476/FinalProjects/s2010/pel29_slp56/pel29_slp56/index.html4. Online: www.engr.uconn.edu/ece/.../projects/ecesd21/final-report-291.pdf5. Online: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~snaciri/courses/ece342/project2/Project%20%232%20Report%20ECE%20342.pdf6. Online: http://www.ece.vt.edu/ugrad/viewcourse.php?number=4676-1497. Online: http://www.ik4hdq.net/doc/testi/HRL.pdf

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Devore, Kansas State University; David L. Soldan, Kansas State University

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very easy todetermine which product terms are true, and for those that are false to determine exactly whythey are false (i.e. which literal(s) is(are) false). Performing this inspection for all combinationsof inputs for simple sets of equations, or an interesting subset of those combinations for complexsets, can lead to an in-depth understanding of any specific design and of HDL described designsin general. As stated earlier, both combinational and sequential logic are supported inVisiBoole. Combinational assignment equations have only a variable name to the left of anequal sign. Sequential logic assignments use a variable name with a “.d” sufix. When formattedfor the display, the variable name and the “.d” are separated by a space. The