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Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

has over 30 years’ experience in engineering practice and education, including industrial experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority and the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Her research inter- ests include Engineering Ethics, Image and Data Fusion, Automatic Target Recognition, Bioinformatics and issues of under-representation in STEM fields. She is a former member of the ABET Engineering Ac- creditation Commission, and is on the board of the ASEE Ethics Division and the Women in Engineering Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Can ABET Assessment Really Be This Simple?AbstractWith the hard roll-out of ABET’s new outcomes 1-7 in the 2019

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Curricular Advancements in ECE

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Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

a hands-on demonstration ofthe problem and solution combination.Course #4 – Cpr E 234 Legal, Professional, and Ethical Issues in Cyber SystemsThis course is not a prerequisite or a co-requisite in the core three series of the cyber securityfoundational courses. It can be taken at any point in the degree program. However, we havefound students hungry to take cyber security courses early in their academic career and thatsecond and third year students are primarily found in the course. The course emphasizes legal,ethical, and professional issues in cyber systems that extend beyond the technical issues coveredin Cpr E 230, Cpr E 231, and Cpr E 331. It covers topics such as privacy, government regulation,and compliance as applied to professional

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Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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Ahmed Abul Hussain, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Nizar Tayem, Texas A&M University; Chedly B. Yahya, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Sadiq A. Alhuwaidi, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Jamal Nayfeh, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

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Electrical and Computer

-7] where engineering design process was followed for qualityassurance. The design process is introduced and is taught through its components. Students makeuse of the design process to define and solve real-world engineering problems. Skills developedand used in the class include describing the design process for both product and systemdevelopment, writing design specifications for problems, developing a project plan, applyingconcept generation, applying decision making tools, use of the Quality Function Deploymentprocess, recognizing and discussing ethical issues, and developing an understanding of the roleof professional codes and standards and their impact on product safety, quality, and reliability.The students are required to perform

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Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

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Garry Ingles; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

supervision, and more [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].While some of these touched on the student perspective, none are told from the narrativeviewpoint of a student. Much previous work focuses on undergraduate researchexperiences [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], but security, as a specialized topic within the field, hasparticular obstacles and opportunities, including ethics, legality, and sparsity of reliable andwidely-accepted platforms and design detail.As such, this work presents a case study of an undergraduate, extracurricular security-relatedproject. In the summer of 2019, the student asked to do research with the professor as an unpaidco-op. The decided upon research project is described more in Section 2. As a brief description,the student set out to research and

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Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Deng Cao, Central State University; Cadance Lowell, Central State University; Craig M. Schluttenhofer, Central State University; Augustus Morris, Central State University; Austin R. Erdman, Central State University; Torry Johnson; Jeffrey D. Taylor Jr., Central State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

, orother students with sufficient programming backgrounds. We have two objectives: the firstis to introduce deep learning to undergraduate students as a modern topic, and the secondis to assess the students’ performance and find suitable RA candidates for our researchteam.2. Course SetupCPS4420 Software Engineering is a major required course that offers in the fall semesterevery year. This course teaches students design and implementation issues for softwaresystems, including software life cycle, requirements definition and specification,prototyping, verification, validation, testing, fault-tolerance, social and ethical issues ofcommercial software, and software management. The prerequisites for this course includeCPS 1191 Computer Science I

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Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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Safeer M. Khan P.E., Arkansas Tech University; Mohamed Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University

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Electrical and Computer

modern engineering profession is built on constantly dealing with decisionmaking based on inadequate data from unreliable sources, ambiguity and continuous shifting ofthe project objectives, and challenging demands from all stake holders including governmentagencies, interest groups and general public. Many research studies have been based on datacollected from industries to determinethe hands-on technical and inter-personal skills required ofengineers(e.g. [1], [2]). Analysis of data has highlighted some key shortcomings of engineeringstudents with respect to requirements of professional careers. Areas for improvement includecommunication and teamwork skills, awareness of ethical, social, environmental and economicissues, and application of

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Improvements in ECE Circuit Analysis

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TomHenry J. Reagan, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Eric Lyne

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Electrical and Computer

- tained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Her current engineering edu- cation research interests include engineering students’ understanding of ethics and social responsibility, sociotechnical education, and assessment of engineering pedagogies.Mr. Eric Lyne American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Systematic Review of Rigorous Research in Teaching Introductory CircuitsAbstractSystematic review is a meta-analytical framework for quantitatively searching, sorting, andsynthesizing scholarly research on a particular topic

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Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

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Caroline Crockett, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia

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Electrical and Computer

current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia Harry Powell is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in1978 he was an active research and design

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New Developments in ECE

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Salman Mohagheghi, Colorado School of Mines

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Electrical and Computer

used to fill in the blanks, e.g. Jeff Hawkins’ wood block Palm Pilot o Minimum Viable Product: a working prototype with bare minimum features o Provincial: suited when major costs are associated with scaling, not functionality. Therefore, the scope can be limited to a small subset of the ultimate target market, e.g. testing a restaurant app in a city first before taking it national o Fake Door: As an example, in developing a web product, one can pretend a feature exists in order to see if anyone clicks on it, e.g. before writing a book, advertise it in forums with a link saying “for more information click here”An important ethical point was made to make sure the students are aware of the fine line betweenpretotyping and

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Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

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Bahar Memarian, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

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Electrical and Computer

education has been mainly focused onproblems that are open-ended in nature (e.g. design problems) or enabling skills more broadly(i.e. ethics, communication). For an open-ended problem, multiple viable and correct solutionsexist. Students’ writings, portfolios, or design-based projects, laboratories, or fourth-yearcapstone projects are areas in which outcomes-based research has been extensively investigated[9]–[12].Most of the work done on closed-ended problem solving is related to aiding students with self-regulation and building their problem-solving capability, rather than aiding the feedback process.Examples of the former include models of problem-solving in engineering and informationprocessing [13]–[17]. These models provide guiding

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New Developments in ECE

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Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

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Electrical and Computer

had hoped for, and studentresponse to the courses has been positive. To assess our goals more rigorously, we havedeveloped a set of rubrics which we have described in detail. Results of the initial assessment arepositive and have provided insights that we will use to improve the Cornerstone courses. Forexample, we will insist on more formal planning of testing, and better presentation of prototypetesting results. We will also emphasize the difference between debugging and testing, which areoften confused by students. In the future we also plan to expand our discussion of the designprocess and to introduce topics on ethics in engineering.The novelty of our approach is in: 1. Introducing a project-based design course sequence in the sophomore

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Curricular Advancements in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Paul Moses, University of Oklahoma

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Electrical and Computer

. Surprisingly, from past observations in ECE3873, the studentthat was getting carried by their partner usually did not want to be carried. Far too often theproblem was that their lab partner was not a team player and just wanted to do everythingthemselves because they thought they could do it faster. Being in a dysfunctional situationlike that for a whole semester is miserable for students. There are numerous other reasonswhy having to stick with one student for the whole semester is not an ideal scenario. Some ofthese are personality clashes, scheduling conflicts, different work ethics, and differences intolerance to procrastination. Another important reason that the group shuffling process was implemented forECE3873 was the problem with sections