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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K. Joseph Hass, Bucknell University; Juliana Su, University of Virginia

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Page 25.947.3 used to develop applications on a wide variety of microcontrollers, so that student projects could scale upward into research or capstone requirements. • Similarly, the IDE should be portable from small projects to large projects. The tool set should be easily scalable to more ambitious projects than we would encounter in this course. • The IDE should be portable across host operating systems. Our campus laboratories use both Windows and Linux platforms, and student laptops often run Apple’s OS X. Tools that can be used on any of these platforms will be more accessible to students.Our final goal is to teach microcontroller system design using a modern microcontrollerarchitecture. While there is certainly a

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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; John Y. Hung, Auburn University

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Industrial Electronics (ISIE-2010). His teaching and research interests are in control systems applications. Page 25.1183.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Structuring a System Design Laboratory Course to Facilitate Outcomes Assessment ABSTRACTAssessment and evaluation of student learning are key components of a successful educationalprogram. An effective assessment process must produce useful data that are both summative andformative, the former to determine levels to which student outcomes are being

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Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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AC 2012-3429: TEACHING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH SIMULINKAND THE USRPDr. Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland Joseph P. Hoffbeck is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Portland in Portland, Ore. He has a Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indi. He previously worked with digital cell phone systems at Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Bell Labs) in Whippany, N.J. His technical interests include communication systems, digital signal processing, and remote sensing. Page 25.1243.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia

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AC 2012-4057: TEACHING CIRCUIT THEORY COURSES USING TEAM-BASED LEARNINGDr. Robert O’Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia Robert O’Connell received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College, N.Y., and a M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently professor and Associate Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship, which he used to study modern teaching and learning methods in higher education. He won the College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 and 2010. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Professional Member of

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Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chuan Yue, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Gregory Lynn Williams, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Edward Chow, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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in Bell Labs China at Lucent Technologies from July 1999 to Jan. 2003. She had been an Assistant Professor in Hampton University from Aug. 2006 to July 2011. She joined Metropolitan State College of Denver in Aug. 2011. Her career has been distinguished by a series of awards such as the in the Provost Teaching Innovation Award in April 2010, the First Place Graduate Research Award at Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Annual Research Expo in Norfolk, Va., in April 2006, the University Dissertation Fellowship in Academic Year 20052006, the ECE Ph.D. Research Assistant Award in 2004, the member of Bell Labs President’s Gold Winner Team Award in 2000, and the University Outstanding Thesis Award in 1999.Mr. Gregory

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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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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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AC 2012-3227: COMMON MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROTOTYPES OF RE-MOTE LABORATORIES IN THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA OF ELEC-TRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGMr. Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) Mohamed Tawfik received a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain, and a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Ain Shams Univer- sity, Cairo, Egypt, in 2011 and 2008, respectively. He is an IEEE member since 2009. He is a Research Associate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DIEEC) at UNED. He is author\co- author of more than 18 publications, including conference papers, book chapters, and journal articles on remote

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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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of instructors as possible. These experimental modulesshould be designed primarily for faculty who do not have resources for high-end experiments norwant to spend a lot of time developing, building or maintaining experiments. Furthermore, thehands-on demos and experiments must be easy for students to use without the need for a lengthylearning period.A cohesive program to develop distributed laboratories with the above features exists that wasfunded by an NSF CCLI Phase 2 Grant, which supported the development of the TESSALCenter3. TESSAL (Teaching Enhancement via Small-Scale Affordable Labs) includes labs forsignal processing4, digital logic5, power systems, electromagnetics, and control systems. Thecontrol systems modules are discussed in

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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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. Blaabjerg, J. Pedersen, “A New Approach in Teaching Power Electronics Control of Electrical Drives using Real-time Systems”, The 7th Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics, pp. 221-226, 2000[3] R. S. Balog, Z. Sorchini, J. W. Kimball, P. L. Chapman, P. T. Krein, “Modern laboratory-based education for power electronics and electric machines”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 538-547, May 2005[4] R. H. Chu, D. D. C. Lu, S. Sathiakumar, “Project-based lab teaching for power electronics and drives”, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 108-113, 2008[5] J. M. Williams, J. L. Cale, N. D. Benavides, J. D. Wooldridge, A. C. Koenig, J. L. Tichenor, S. D. Pekarek, “Versatile

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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David Henry Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler

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Altera represent the two companies that currently hold the greatest market shareamong FPGA implementations. Our laboratories are mostly equipped with FPGA developmentboards from Xilinx. The Basys 2 and Spartan-3E FPGA development boards are lower endboards that we primarily use for teaching purposes. Our labs are also equipped with severalhigher end (Virtex 5 and Virtex 6) boards that are used for research purposes. However, since allthe Xilinx boards utilize the same synthesis software package (ISE software donated by Xilinx touniversities) and the same high-level descriptor language (VHDL or Verilog) to specify designs,it is relatively easy for a student to migrate from the teaching to research oriented developmentboards.Table 1 summaries some

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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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AC 2012-5331: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FUNCTIONALITY ANDCOST EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRONIC LABORATORY VIRTUALINSTRUMENTATIONSDr. Lars K. Hansen, University of Texas, San AntonioMr. Keith Gerard Delahoussaye Jr., University of Texas, San Antonio Keith Delahoussaye is a student at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He is a member of the Multifunc- tional Electronic Materials Devices Research Lab of the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also a member of IEEE’s student chapter. Before graduation, he worked full-time for the U.S. Air Force as an Avionic Technician in the status of an Air Reserve Technician. He is hopeful to be an electronic/electrical engineering governmental employee. He is married and a proud

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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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AC 2012-3980: INCREASING HANDS-ON LABORATORY EQUIPMENTEXPERIENCE VIA ROTATION OF NOTEBOOK RECORDING DUTIESDr. Peter Mark Jansson P.E., Bucknell University Peter Mark Jansson is currently an Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Bucknell University. Prior to joining Bucknell, he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rowan University and spent nearly 20 years in professional engineering in large and small firms and as a consul- tant. He received his B.S. degree from MIT, an M.S.E. from Rowan University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has more than 33 years of professional and academic experience in renewable energy and power systems

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Technology (ABET) undergraduate programs offered nationwide thatrequire students to conduct laboratory sessions onsite. For some students this arrangement maybe inconvenient, or in some cases, impractical. Furthermore, there are many challengesassociated with teaching electrical engineering online courses because of the interposition ofheavy equation use and interactivity required.Over the past three years, we have been investigating the use of inexpensive, highly portableinstrumentation to facilitate our lab requirements. As a result of this enabling technology, anonline program targeted toward completing the second two years of an undergraduate electricalengineering degree is being piloted at our institution. Nearly 109 students have participated

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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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, or any of the other toolsprovided to them. In order to mitigate those concerns, a few basic tutorials regarding labequipment were provided in 2011 and more robust tutorials are planned for the 2012 course. Itshould be noted that for many students, it is their first time using this equipment. The typical oncampus course has many teaching assistants to assist students, but we frequently found thatstudents would not contact online teaching staff for assistance for the laboratory portion.A point of concern that some faculty may have is the use of a virtual oscilloscope and functiongenerator. It could be claimed that this equipment is not an accurate representation of their "realworld" counterparts. The user interfaces presented are far simpler

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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dilutes both these components. Moreover, as the professionalengineering topics are required for graduation, students cannot replace the capstone designcourse with other opportunities closer to their professional interests, for example, completing aproject in the Student Space Programs Laboratory. Page 25.403.2Following a critical review and discussion of the design component of our curriculum, theundergraduate committee identified three areas for improvement: (1) coupling the undergraduateand graduate programs by engaging undergraduates in faculty research projects, (2) diversifyingthe spectrum and depth of capstone design projects, and (3

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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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education research and engineering outreach camps. Yilmaz is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, as well as IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University, KingsvilleProf. Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Nuri Yilmazer received a B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey in 1996, and M.S. and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Uni- versity of Florida and Syracuse University in 2000 and 2006, respectively. He worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory at Syracuse University from 2006 to 2007. He is currently working as an Assistant

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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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Larry L Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Matthew Alden, University of Washington, Tacoma; Robert Gutmann, University of Washington, Tacoma; Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

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AC 2012-3601: GETTING ABET ACCREDITATION RIGHT THE FIRSTTIMEDr. Larry Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma As professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, Larry Wear teaches in such areas as software process improvement, software engineering, C/C++ programming, assembly language programming, logic and digital design, and introductory engineering courses. Many of these classes are laboratory intensive and some have been taught via distance learning. Wear received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, and both his M.S. in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Santa Clara

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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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AC 2012-4523: MOBILE STUDIO PEDAGOGY, PART 1: OVERCOMINGTHE BARRIERS THAT IMPEDE ADOPTIONProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, en- gineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas

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Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Adams, University of Kentucky; Jens Hannemann, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

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AC 2012-5528: CREATIVITY AND DESIGN: A GENERAL EDUCATIONCOURSE FOR ECE FRESHMANDr. Robert Adams, University of Kentucky Robert Adams is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Ken- tucky. He teaches several courses within the department and was the 2006 ECE Teacher of the Year. Most recently, he has redesigned the ECE 101 course: Creativity and Design in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Adams’ research interests and activities are in the areas of theoretical and applied electro- magnetics.Dr. Jens Hannemann, University of KentuckyMr. Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky Lawrence Holloway, professor and Chair. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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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

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AC 2012-4521: MOBILE STUDIO PEDAGOGY, PART 2: SELF-REGULATEDLEARNING AND BLENDED TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTIONProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the

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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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Electrical and Computer

suggest that studentsshould gain a solid hands-on experience on all measurement devices, hardware and softwarepresented in Table 2. Only Java received a low scoring compared to other topics. Therefore, it iscritical that the curriculum to be designed to add laboratory components to help students gainhands-on experience with the hardware and software listed in Table 2. As part of this proposalwe plan to develop a proper curriculum for these topics and cover them within at most a threecourse communication curriculum as detailed in Section 2.The results of Figures 1 and 2 confirm that the current practice of teaching Communicationcourses such as Wireless Communications, Communication Theory, and Digital Communicationsare not fully consistent with

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Steffen, Iowa State University; Phillip H. Jones III, Iowa State University; Joseph Zambreno, Iowa State University

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the samegroup of 3 to 4 students for all laboratories and had two weeks to complete each lab. During thetwo week time period, students have two 3-hour lab sections, four 2-hour teaching assistant hoursin the lab, four 2-hour instructor office hours and an on-line forum related to the course that wasmonitored frequently by the teaching assistant and instructor. Groups were formed on the first dayof class and allowed students to form their own groups with the exception that all students in agroup must be in the same lab. To aid in creating groups, students evaluated their experience inthree categories: software development, hardware design and computer graphics. Students wereadvised to form well-balanced groups, since all laboratory assignments

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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A Portable Finite State Machine Module Experiment for In-Class Use in Lecture-Based CourseAbstract:This paper presents an experimental module for teaching finite state machine concepts. Thismodule, designed for lecture-based courses, has been used in 11 classes, and assessment hasincluded 471 students. Students design the state machine circuitry as a pre-lab and then build thedesign on a protoboard in class. The experimental platforms are low weight and powered by 3-AA batteries for portability. The challenge of completing experiments during one 50 minuteclass session is discussed in this paper. Web support includes an instructional video, afundamental concepts tutorial, a virtual experiment, on-line quiz

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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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AC 2012-3215: TEAMS, DESIGN, MENTORING, AND MANAGING FORCOMPUTER SCIENCE UNDERCLASSMENDr. David Wilczynski, University of Southern California David Wilczynski has a long history at USC. He was the first Ph.D. graduate from USC Information Science Institute in 1975, where some of the initial work on Arpanet was done. His research specialty at the time was in Knowledge Representation. In 1984, he left USC for almost 20 years to be an entrepreneur. Most of his work was in manufacturing, both in Detroit and Japan. During that time, he worked on programming real-time systems using an Agent methodology, which he now teach in his CSCI 201 class. He returned to USC in 2002 to teach full time. Mostly, he worries about how to

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Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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technology students”, 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; 2010. 2. Barkana, Buket; “A graduate level course: Audio Processing Laboratory”, 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; 2010. 3. Adams, J.; Mossayebi, F.; “Hands on experiments to instill a desire to learn and appreciate digital signal processing”, 2004 Annual Conference and Exposition, 2004. 4. Ossman, Kathleen; “MATLAB/Simulink lab exercises designed for teaching digital signal processing applications”, 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; 2008. Page 25.566.14 5. Ossman, Kathleen; “MATLAB exercises to explain

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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are concerned, covering more than 20 years. Since the start of 2002, he has lectured in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland. The scholarship of teaching and learning provides his research interests, in particular: the conceptual understanding of students, the high-school to university interface, computer-assisted learning, and computer-based assessment.Dr. Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland Gerard Rowe completed the degrees of B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. (in electrical and electronic engineering) at the University of Auckland in 1978, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland in 1984, where

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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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AC 2012-3302: SMART CONTROL OF POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERT-ERS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMSMr. Ahmed Mohamed, Florida International University Ahmed Mohamed (El-Tallawy) was born in Minia, Egypt, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. degree from the faculty of engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt, in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Re- search/Teaching Assistant in the faculty of engineering, Minia University. He received a M.Sc. degree from the faculty of engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt in 2009. He is currently a Research As- sistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Fla., USA. His current research interests are

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcin Lukowiak, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrew Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher A. Wood, Rochester Institute of Technology

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favorite. His survey titled ”Small Ramsey Numbers,” which is a regularly updated living article at the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, became a standard reference in this area. He teaches mostly theory-oriented courses, including very popular courses on cryptography, both at undergraduate and graduate levels. His recent work on applied cryptography led to joint projects with the Computer Engineering Department.Dr. James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology Jim Vallino has academic and industrial experience across a broad range of engineering disciplines. His academic training includes a B.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. in electrical and computer engineer- ing, and after more than 16 years in industry

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Steffen, Iowa State University; Joseph Zambreno, Iowa State University

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understand. In addition, the outcome of asemester-long class does not always fulfill the students’ expectations of creating useful or funapplications.For use in an introduction to computer programming environment, we have created two separate Page 25.623.2scripting languages designed to teach students computational thinking and concurrentprogramming skills. The scripting language controls four concurrent players on a team in a video dĞĂŵ ϯ z y y

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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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AC 2012-3243: MATLAB DEMONSTRATION OF TRANSMISSION LINEPHENOMENA IN ELECTROMAGNETICSDr. Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University Stu Wentworth received his electrical engineering doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1990. Since then, he has been with Auburn University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in electromagnetics and microelectronics. He has authored a pair of undergraduate electro- magnetics texts and has won several awards related to teaching. He is the department’s undergraduate Program Director and Chair of its Curriculum and Assessment Committee. Page