Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, campus climate, and electronic and online tools [7]. Student retentionand success are more probable if students are exposed to in-school social connections and groupactivities throughout their course of study. Such engagement helps to build relationships amongstudents and makes education an important part of their everyday lives.Hybrid courses offer some of the convenience of all-online courses without the complete loss offace-to-face contact [8]. Hybrid teaching style encompasses recording traditional lectures,providing complementary PowerPoint presentations and text materials, 24/7 online access tolectures, tailoring the teaching method to learning needs, higher level of class discussion,targeting needy areas and topics, maintaining

Conference Session

New ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Yuzhe Zhang, Gannon University; Jiawei Zhang, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

importance of power electronics technology in the processof power conditioning and controlling. The decentralized electric power system concept will beintroduced” quoted from the course syllabus. Topics related to doubly-fed-induction-generatorfor wind energy harvesting are also covered. The prerequisite of the course is circuit II and isoffered as a technical elective to undergraduate students. The knowledge linkage between the Page 24.427.2course and the rest of the ECE curriculum is shown in Figure 1. Besides circuits, senior electrical 1engineering

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Michael Majerich, Century for 21st Century Universities; Nathan VerDon Parrish, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

hands-on activities, and to enhance other forms of collaborative and active learning.Consistency in coverage had been a problem with this particular course, which is taught everyterm and has 8-9 sections of 45-50 students each. The instructors are senior PhD students, manyof whom are interested in academic careers. A survey of the instructors showed a largeinconsistency in coverage, upwards of 20% mismatch in topics between sections. High levels ofinconsistency across multiple sections of a course is not unusual even among experiencedinstructors when the syllabus is considered to be “packed with material.” Blending the coursewith all course lectures online and common homework and exams across all sections removesmost of the inconsistency across

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

San Jose State University Page 24.391.2 Developing and Implementing Effective Instructional Stratagems in STEMAbstractA student passage rate from 65% to above 90% requires student grade improvement of two-sigma. The different components of active learning techniques and the percentage of theiradditive standard deviations were considered over the past four semesters in an “Introduction toCircuit Analysis” course at San José State University (SJSU) to achieve such a result. A blendedmodel of learning by merging content from an online MOOC with in-class, team-basedinstruction as part of a required undergraduate circuit theory course