Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Frederick Kautz, University of Texas, El Paso; Bivas Das, University of Texas, El Paso; Luc Longpre, University of Texas, El Paso

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Electrical and Computer

theirwork.Traditional networking laboratoriesA good network teaching laboratory is essential to support student learning in a Networks course.A traditional networking lab, in addition to the computers, requires networking equipment such asrouters, switches and appropriate connections. The equipment needs to be updated regularly forthe students to be able to apply the skills they learn in the lab directly in the work force.Unfortunately, traditional networking labs are a fairly scarce resource. In addition to the cost ofequipment and updates, it is a challenge to design the lab to allow flexible configurations. Thesenetwork configurations are often not compatible with the campus network. Class assignmentsmay be restricted to those that can be performed using

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dietmar Moeller, University of Hamburg; Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-2462: VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING METHODOLOGY AS AREPLACEMENT FOR PHYSICAL DESIGN IN TEACHING EMBEDDEDSYSTEMSDietmar Moeller, University of Hamburg DIETMAR P. F. MÖLLER is a Full and Tenure Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is Director of the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences at UHH and Chair of Computer Engineering. His current research interests include computational modelling and simulation, e-Learning, transportation, air-transport systems, aero¬nautical engineering, robotics, and embedded systems.Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln HAMID VAKILZADIAN is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron St. Leger, United States Military Academy; Anthony Deese, Drexel University; Chikaodinaka Nwankpa, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1464: AN ANALOG POWER SYSTEM EMULATOR AS A LABORATORYTOOL FOR TEACHING ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMSAaron St. Leger, United States Military AcademyAnthony Deese, Drexel UniversityChikaodinaka Nwankpa, Drexel University Page 14.175.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Analog Power System Emulator as a Laboratory Tool for Teaching Electric Power SystemsAbstractMost power systems courses incorporate both software and hardware components intolaboratories. Each of these technologies has strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, a novelanalog power system emulator is presented as a unique laboratory tool for teaching powersystems

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler; Karthik Somaraju, University of Texas, Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

in ElectricalEngineering (BSEE) curriculum has a required course in microprocessors and the prerequisitesare courses in structured programming and digital systems. The laboratory procedures developedfor this course are aimed at meeting the learning objectives of this course including assemblylanguage programming, program debugging, serial communication, input/output devices,interrupts, interfacing, and direct memory access (DMA). The laboratory projects introducestudents to the host–target environment using an integrated development environment (IDE). Theplatform currently utilized is a Freescale Semiconductor 68HC11 board produced by AxiomManufacturing. The 68HC11 is a dated 8-bit architecture and has proved to be a robust platformto teach

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Machotka, University of South Australia; Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia

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Electrical and Computer

. Oneparticular criterion in our case has been for the remote laboratory to facilitate studentcollaboration. It is currently used by both domestic and transnational students, who collaborate inconducting joint experiments. Remote laboratories, which started their development about twodecades ago, are currently seen as the humble beginning of the future global systems. They canbe considered as a good structured and teaching environment for developing skills required forthe efficient collaboration and communication on the local and global scale. In 2007 there were Page 14.98.3about 120 RLs at universities around the globe4, yet only a few were

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia; Jan Machotka, University of South Australia

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Electrical and Computer

-on university by further advancing the practical Page 14.90.3component of student experience in all programs and courses. As a result, all courses have beenreviewed with an aim to expand and to improve quality of the practical component in courseswhere it has already existed and to introduce experiential learning in courses which did not haveit.As part of this process, the practical component of the first year course Introduction to ElectricalEngineering was reviewed and a Teaching and Learning Grants were obtained in 2005 and 2006to develop a project based laboratory that would replace the set of five independent laboratoryexperiments in the

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Ramesh Chawla, Howard University

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Electrical and Computer

laboratory, and computer-aided design for undergraduate engineering education.Ramesh Chawla, Howard University Dr. RAMESH C. CHAWLA is Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Howard University. He has over thirty years of experience in teaching, research and industrial consulting in the fields of chemical and environmental engineering. His research and teaching interests include reaction engineering, separation processes, environmental engineering, and physical, chemical and biological treatment of hazardous wastes. Page 14.830.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009LABORATORY

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-2163: SIMULATION-BASED VIRTUAL AND HYBRID LABORATORIESFOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adnaan Jiwaji, MIT; James Hardison, MIT; Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Sandy Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Makerere University; Alfred Mwambela, University of Dar-es-Salaam; V. Judson Harward, MIT; Jesús A. del Alamo, MIT; Bryant Harrison, MIT; Samuel Gikandi, MIT

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Electrical and Computer

sensor and© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 environment and has directed research projects focused on intelligent distributed sensor and decision support systems. He co-teaches one of the large undergraduate computing courses at MIT. His research interests include object-oriented application design and distributed multimedia.Jesús A. del Alamo, MIT Jesus A. del Alamo received a telecommunications engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain in 1980 and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 1983 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1988 he was with NTT LSI Laboratories in Atsugi (Japan

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ed Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sam Shearman, National Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1230: COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LABORATORY PROJECTSFEATURING INTERACTIVE SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATIONEd Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Doering received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992, and has been a member the ECE faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 1994. He teaches courses in digital systems, circuits, image processing, and electronic music synthesis, and his research interests include technology-enabled education, image processing, and FPGA-based signal processing.Sam Shearman, National Instruments Sam Shearman is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments

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Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

recently authored Fundamentals of Electromagnetics with Engineering Applications, by John Wiley & Sons, 2005, and Applied Electromagnetics: Early Transmission Line Approach, by John Wiley & Sons, 2007. and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications. He has won several teaching-related awards and is a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. Page 14.171.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 AM Radio Construction – A Junior

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer

enter engineering programs asfreshman do not earn an engineering degree.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the main challenges and to share teaching methodsthat the author has used to encourage active learning and engagement among non-EEmajor students. The author addresses the use of technology for teaching, the use oflecture time effectively, the importance of well designed laboratory experiments, and useof basic simulation tools. Assessments of an introductory electrical engineering coursetaught following the author’s guidelines were performed to evaluate the teachingeffectiveness, and they indicate that the teaching methods have been successful inmeeting their objectives

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Wierer, MSOE; Steven Reyer, MSOE

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Electrical and Computer

do an acceptable job in the analog course they wouldoften express displeasure regarding the level of rigor required by the course. It was suspectedthat the calculus content of this first course dealt a blow making the material somewhat abstract.Plus, the course had no laboratory, so the only exposure to signals problems was “on paper.”Four years ago the EE program was changed significantly1,2 to a model that includes teachingmaterial on an as-needed basis. For example, we teach the ideal op amp topic to freshmen,delaying the details of the internal workings to a later course. The freshmen could then see theutility of, and use in simple designs, a powerful circuit tool.Another change was to institute DSP as a required course, and to be taught

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prakash Ranganathan, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Electrical and Computer

richard.schultz@mail.und.eduAbstract - This paper focuses on a new approach to teach electrical engineeringprinciples and how to promote student learning through different innovative projects thatcan be developed with the use of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit powered by acustomized National Instruments LabView program. Even though, the use of LEGONXT brick has been in practice and prevails in today’s K-12 classrooms, this paper willprimarily focus on how the use of NXT can be expanded to students in colleges anduniversities at freshmen and Sophomore levels using simple DAQ board and prototypeinterface unit. Originally, NXT was intended for use by children at home or in theclassroom, but the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system has been acquired by tens ofthousands of

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University; Nannette D'Imperio, Pennsylvania State University

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Electrical and Computer

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

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

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

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

, June 16-19, 2002. 4. Dunne, Bruce, “Design of a Hardware Platform for Analog Communications Laboratory,” 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 22-25, 2008. 5. Kubichek, Robert; Welch, Thad; and Wright, Cameron, “A Comprehensive Suite of Tools for Teaching Communications Courses,” 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-21, 2006. 6. Hoffbeck, Joseph P., “RF Signal Database for a Communication Systems Course,” 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-21, 2006. 7. Welch, Thad B. and Kubichek, Robert F., “The Incredible Hulk and Other Techniques for Teaching Waveform Demodulation,” 2005 ASEE

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Electrical and Computer

, and develop asynchronously9.In engineering education, there are two major types of courses: theoretical and experimental.Theoretical courses are usually held in the classroom. All the students sit and listen to theinstructor. Experimental courses are usually held in the laboratory, and students can movearound freely. Theoretical courses are predominantly an auditory environment in which thecurriculum, textbooks, teaching methods, and the teachers themselves are sequential. The over-reliance on auditory-sequential methods in these courses works against the visual-spatiallearners. Laboratory courses are predominantly a kinesthetic environment. The students who arevisual-spatial learner face disadvantages in mastering material in the normal

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

responsible forthe analysis and design of control circuitry which permits nominal operation of genericpower converters. The laboratory experience will culminate in projects where studentsanalyze, design, simulate and demonstrate power electronics related topics. Each projectwill be carried out by a team of three or four students. The projects and part of thelaboratory experiments will be focused on power applications in the fast growingemerging fields of the renewable industry, such as wind and solar energy or fuel cells.We believe that this will be an efficient approach in teaching power electronics because itcan give the students some of the necessary skills the industry is asking for.1. IntroductionPower electronics is the enabling technology for

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Wei Hao, Northern Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

University before joining NKU. At NKU, he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the area of computer networks and network security. He has chosen academic career since he believes that by teaching he can contribute towards community development.Wei Hao, Northern Kentucky University Dr. Hao came to NKU in August 2008 from Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, where he worked as a software engineer. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007. He brings both academic and industrial expertise, having also worked for Motorola and Alcatel. His research interests include Web Technologies (such as web caching, web services, and web-based

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachid Manseur, State University of New York, Oswego; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego

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Electrical and Computer

designed to function as studios and are equipped withmodern lecture aids, including projector, projection screen, networked computers with aninstructor console, as well as lab stations arranged so that students can easily alternate betweenexperimenting on their benches and following lectures and instructor directions.The robotics laboratory combines practice and training support for robotics and embeddedsystems courses but also serves as a project construction room in those areas. This helps satisfyminimum usage requirements in effect in some higher education institutions and providesefficient use of the teaching space.The institution will need to provide these facilities and their corresponding equipment for theengineering program. It is a common

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; Charles Snead, University of Alabama

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Electrical and Computer

this laboratory.Project ImplementationA few years ago, ECE faculty at The University of Alabama decided to focus on teaching circuitanalysis in an introductory course (ECE 125) to better prepare students for subsequent Circuitsand Electronics courses, courses that rely on fundamental concepts and skills and are thecornerstone of the ECE curriculum. This course is the first required course in the ECEcurriculum and sets the stage for the remaining courses in the curriculum. The lecture portioncontains instruction on fundamental circuit analysis techniques as well as lectures on engineeringethics and the profession. The laboratory spans two hours and includes instruction in basiccircuits, breadboarding and solder skills, analyzing an automobile

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

employed in the teaching ofElectronics and Network Analysis. The analysis of this paper follows comparable studies onmedia-based instruction. Cohen et al1 who found that students learned additional informationfrom such instruction techniques in contrast to traditional modes of instruction. Moreover,Powell et al2 further explored this analysis and found that such instructional techniques werehelpful in raising the GPAs of the students.PSpice, an acronym for Personal Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is ageneral purpose analog circuit and digital logic simulation software used to check the reliabilityof circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. SPICE3 was originally developed at theElectronics Research Laboratory of the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Electrical and Computer

concepts introduced in the class and thefamiliarize students with simulation and synthesis tools. A short pre-laboratory assignment isgiven to ensure that the students are adequately prepared for the laboratory session. Theinstructors ensure their availability in the lab to answer questions that students have while doingtheir lab assignments. Additionally a graduate teaching assistant is available during the labsession as well as for a few hours outside class each week to answer student queries. Our labsessions are currently based on VHDL and the Xilinx ISE which includes the ModelSimsimulator and the Xilinx XST synthesizer. The hardware platform consists of the PCI-X basedNallatech FPGA boards equipped with Virtex-II 6000 FPGAs and 128 MB on

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark McDermott, University of Texas, Austin; Jacob Abraham, University of Texas, Austin; Mihir Ravel, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

to provide an“active learning” approach using a common set of platforms for both virtual and physical Page 14.270.2prototyping.Course Sequence OrganizationCourse 1 - Basic VLSI DesignThis course focuses on teaching the student the building blocks of VLSI systems. The studentsuse the Weste & Harris book “CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective” asreading material to support the lecture material. There are three laboratory assignments thatprovide the student with the necessary capabilities to design and layout CMOS integrated circuitsusing a virtual prototyping platform from Cadence Design Systems. There is a class projectwhich

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei PAN, Idaho State University; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Kenyon Hart, Idaho State University

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Electrical and Computer

discipline. One of the authors hasextensive industrial background and has used up-to-date tools in microelectronics andrelated application areas; another author has several years of experience teaching DSP atdifferent schools.IntroductionAt our school we have a one-semester lecture course for both seniors and first-yeargraduate students, and a laboratory section in digital signal processing. The Oppenheim-Schafer-Buck textbook1 for the graduate course is widely used in many schools. We usethe book by Proakis and Manolakis2 as a text. The book by McClellan-Schafer-Yoder3 isan interesting one for signal processing first approach used in some programs. The bookby Smith4 is also available online and students can download it for free.We will next present

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mouna Nakkar, University of Sharjah

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Electrical and Computer

fundamentals of Digital Logic Design as well asadvanced knowledge of systems and interface. Teaching a board's interface with severaldifferent peripherals is not an easy task. The matter gets worse with the increase of flexibility ofembedded chips. The more features added to the chip, the more difficult the teaching process.Perhaps, the most effective way to teach SoC is through laboratory and well guided tutorials7-12C. Design project and guided tutorialThis paper offers a tutorial design project which is geared towards junior and senior students.The project is implemented on Altera DE2 board13. The project is offered in three phases. Thesephases reflect three design steps of embedded systems: digital logic design and implementation

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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Electrical and Computer

research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Program. He is an Associated Editor for student papers of the Journal of Technology Interface (http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/). He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983.Miguel Ramos

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge

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Electrical and Computer

Retention in an ECET Program,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference.3. Kubichek, Robert, et al, “A Comprehensive Suite of Tools for Teaching Communications Courses,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference.4. Dunne, Bruce, and Cooke, Melvin, “Design of a Hardware Platform for Analog Communications Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference.5. Frolik, Jeff, “A Comprehensive, Laboratory-Enhanced Communications Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference.6. Gonzalez, Virgilio, and Mehdi, Shadaram, “Development of a Communications Course Integrating a Virtual Laboratory and Complex Simulations,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference.7. Frolik, Jeff

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiecai Luo, Southern University; Fred Lacy, Southern University; Pradeep Bhattacharya, Southern University & A&M College; Perry Daniels, Texas Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

considerations that will reduce the test portion manufacturingcost. This process is calling Design for Testability (DFT). The skills a test engineer should have include mastery of basic circuits includingthe ability to design and troubleshoot them using laboratory equipment as well asAutomatic Test Equipment (ATE). The test engineer should also be able to program(C++, MATLAB, and LabVIEW) and to effectively communicate technical issues to bothproduct marketers (possibly non-technical) as well as product designers (very technical). The high demand of the electronics industry is the main reason for establishingnew classes in universities. Practice based education is one of the many ways the “can dospirit” can be inspire in many students