Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

courses.The feedback from the students and from the faculty using these modules has been so positivethat the state machine modules have now become mandatory for the course and have becomepart of the revised syllabus starting in Fall 2012. While protoboards themselves were only a toolto address the true topic of physical state machines, students did receive a valuable introductioninto physical systems. A modification that we have adopted in future offerings of the course has Page 25.89.12been to allow students to finish the lab in TA office hours if they did not finish the lab duringclass period. The fastest students start finishing the lab in about 25