Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Friauf, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Reyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

demonstrated both the shortcomings ofgraduates in their ability to write and the demands of the workplace for improved performance.2However, what has been stated with insufficient clarity is what is the specific purpose of writing,and, therefore, how can one more effectively address this issue in a curriculum?We, like other programs, have both lofty and practical intents with our writing requirements.They are to enlarge and enrich the mind, to capture nuances as well as grand and complexconcepts and to convincingly demonstrate achievements. The challenge becomes one of havingstudents see writing as an integral part of their work as engineers, or their engineering practice

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-1177: PUTTING THE ENGINE BACK IN THE ENGINEERFred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University Fredrick Cady is a Professor Emeritus in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University. He has been involved with ABET accreditation for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs at Montana State University for 20 years. He is interested in improving the quality of engineering education and has authored four microcomputer textbooks. He has a Ph. D. in electrical engineering from the University of Canterbury, NZ and is a senior member of IEEE.John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor John McLellan is a applications engineer for the University

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University; Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University; Tuviah Schlesinger, Carnegie Mellon University

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Electrical and Computer

solid foundation for the duration of astudent’s professional life, which will span several decades. With this in mind, there are severalreasons we believe that ECE should be defined and widely recognized as a unified undergraduatediscipline. Page 13.477.3Breadth of ECE TechnologiesIt would be difficult today to describe any of the most interesting or important problems,challenges, or technologies that practitioners of ECE address as falling cleanly into either EE orCE. We can see this in any of a large number of examples, some of which are shown in Figure2. For example, engineers involved in today’s energy systems must of course understand

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Paulik, University of Detroit Mercy

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-210: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED SPIRAL CURRICULUM INELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGSandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy Sandra A. Yost, P.E., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, where she teaches in the areas of control systems, digital and analog circuits and electronics, and design. She is currently serving as Vice Chair-Programs for the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division.Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy Mohan Krishnan, Ph.D., is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. His area of expertise is in applications of Digital Signal Processing, including

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Baker, Texas Tech University; Brian Nutter, Texas Tech University; Mohammed Saed, Texas Tech University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-1459: DEVELOPMENT OF A FRESHMAN AND PRE-FRESHMANRESEARCH AND DESIGN PROGRAM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGMary Baker, Texas Tech UniversityBrian Nutter, Texas Tech UniversityMohammed Saed, Texas Tech University Page 13.406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of a Freshman and Pre-Freshman Research and Design Program in Electrical EngineeringAbstractIt is well-known that involving students in activities and courses within their major earlyin their academic careers has a positive impact on student retention. We have developedseveral programs targeted at involving freshmen and pre-freshmen students in Electricaland Computer Engineering

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-544: EMPLOYING SOCRATIC PEDAGOGY TO IMPROVEENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CRITICAL REASONING SKILLS: TEACHING BYASKING INSTEAD OF BY TELLINGMichael Golanbari, University of the Pacific Michael Golanbari received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1999. From 2000 to 2003 he was a communications systems engineer on the technical staff of Alantro Communications Corporation and Texas Instruments (TI) Corporation, Santa Rosa, California. At Alantro and TI, he worked on wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver design and development (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, WiFi). Since 2003 he has been on the faculty of the Department of

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Meyer, Purdue University; Mark Johnson, Purdue University School of ECE; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

Laboratories with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University since July 1999. He received his PhD in 1998 from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He teaches Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, advises senior design project teams, supervises teaching assistants in several laboratories, develops computer engineering laboratory curricula, manages design automation software for instruction and research, and is chair of an ECE committee for instructional innovation. Dr. Johnson served as proceedings chair for Microelectronic Systems Education 2003, program chair for Microelectronic Systems

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Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Uluagac; Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-1017: BUILDING HARDWARE-BASED LOW-COST EXPERIMENTALDSP LEARNING MODULESA. Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology A. Selcuk Uluagac is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA as a member of the Communications Systems Center. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Turkish Naval Academy and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in PA,USA, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology Douglas B. Williams received the BSEE, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical and computer

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Dworzecki; Syed Masud Mahmud

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Electrical and Computer

A Software Package for Enhanced Student-Learning in Real- Time Embedded-Systems NetworkingAbstractToday, embedded systems networking is common in manufacturing, automobiles, medicalequipment, and home appliances, but few undergraduate engineering and technology curriculateach courses devoted to it. Not having appropriate educational experiences risks a decline in UStechnical expertise. Various companies have developed commercial software packages foranalysis, diagnosis and simulation of real-time embedded-systems networking protocols.However, these commercial software packages are very expensive and complex to be used forundergraduate courses. We have developed a user-friendly and easy-to-use software