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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Kaye Jones, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Designing a curriculum that helps students create connected narratives in electrical engineeringIntroductionThis paper proposes a framework for helping students construct conceptual narrative arcsthroughout a traditional Electrical Engineering

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew A. Watkins, Lafayette College

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SystemVerilog of their implementation; and abrief reflection on the difficulties experienced during the lab and how they would approach the labdifferently if they were to repeat the design and implementation.Implementation DetailsWe use a Digilent Nexys4 development board as the target platform and SystemVerilog and XilinxVivado to implement the design and configure the board. Students are introduced to the designtools and the development platform through the first lab (see Table 2) and utilize them in all of theother labs. In general, any HDL and target platform should work. The only elements needed, asidefrom the pulse sensor, are four 7-segment displays, two buttons, and a slide switch, which areavailable on almost any contemporary development board

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Miley, Montana State University; Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Liz Kovalchuk, Montana State University

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awareness of their own identities as writers and asengineers through their work facilitating, suggesting that the writing studio model providesan opportunity for writing center tutors to engage in metacognitive thinking about their owndevelopment as a disciplinary writer.The facilitators did note the difficulty in keeping their roles as engineering student separatefrom facilitator, and noted that they had to negotiate when to bring in their engineeringknowledge and when to act as an outside audience. One facilitator noted in her session notes,“An interesting reflection for me during this studio was that my first tendency when workingwith engineering students (especially those that I know in some context) is that I transitioninto being a team member

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Neil E. Cotter, University of Utah; Angela Rasmussen, University of Utah

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, source transformations, voltage and current dividers.  Unit 2: Node-voltage, superposition, Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits.  Unit 3: Op amp circuits, systems, digital logic.  Unit 4: RL, RC, RLC circuits.B. AssessmentBoth formative and summative assessments were used throughout the course to better understandthe student experience and the most challenging concepts. Assessments included weeklymuddiest point reflections and/or quizzes and self-assessments (depending on the professor), fourexams, and online feedback (every 3 weeks). 1. Muddiest Points (weekly)In weekly written Muddiest Point assessments, students related the concepts they found mostconfusing that week, and tried to explain them. A small amount of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Santiago Jr., Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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accountability, each student is thenasked to formulate a discussion question and be prepared to lead a 10-15 minute in-class groupdiscussion. This approach was successfully used in a senior-level course on digitalcommunications [11]. The accountability requires student reflection to provide a productivelearning experience when the students meet in a group setting. The professor can then randomlyselect or solicit a student volunteer to lead the discussion.The F2F learning is a more expensive mode of communication when compared to onlinecommunication. F2F learning requires both instructor and students to be physically together. Ina F2F environment, learners must work together at the same time and place, to reach a commonunderstanding of what is to be

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Ou, California State University, Northridge

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Course WorkStatistics on students’ overall perception of course work are presented in Table 5. 73.7% ofstudents reported that the submitted work for the course (including the examination) reflected alot or a great deal of their understanding of the course content. 77.5% of students reported thatthe course work and course activities benefited their learning a lot or a great deal. Table 5. Perception of course work The scale is defined as follows: 1=Not at all, 2=A little, 3=A moderate amount, 4=A lot, 5=A great deal. The final column represents the sum of A lot and A great deal.B. Direct AssessmentStudents generally struggled with end-of-semester topics such as frequency response, Bode plot,and filter

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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profiles developed. In contrast to the study described in [6], wedifferentiated between two dimensions of engagement – behavioral and emotional – andseparately explored the levels of engagement in each dimension. We also used a differenttimeframe; rather than considering a single class period, we asked students to reflect on theirengagement across the entire semester. These differences allowed us to develop a comprehensivepicture of student engagement profiles, which we hope will be useful for electrical engineeringinstructors. Specifically, knowledge of students’ engagement profiles may help instructors tounderstand the various ways students engage in a course. This knowledge may also help informinstruction and course management

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel E. Friedensen, Iowa State University; Erin E. Doran, Iowa State University; Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University

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five years, ensuring that weare using the documents that are actively shaping and reflecting the current departmental life. Wechose to analyze public and internal documents in conjunction with each other because theyallow us to see the stories that the department tells the public and itself about itself throughofficial documentary artifacts. In this way, we are able to explore the messages within thesestories about engineering identity for undergraduate engineering students in electrical andcomputer engineering. TABLE I DOCUMENT TYPES Document Type Document Sub-Type # of Documents Analyzed Public-Facing

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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fundamentals to future technologies 2) Ability to solve open-ended problems with great complexity 3) Ability to work with a team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.The current curriculum is recognized as successful in training students in the fundamentals ofEE, and has traditionally been the major emphasis of curricular discussions among faculty.Outcomes 2) and 3) are aligned with the identified shortcomings in training students withsufficient team skills, societal relevance, and cross-disciplinary content to prepare students fortoday’s workforce, and in directly promoting diversity. To achieve these student outcomes, thefollowing have been identified as goals for curriculum change: 1) Teach fundamentals that reflect current and future

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahnam Mirzaei, California State University, Northridge; Ana Cristina Cadavid, California State University Northridge; Vicki A Pedone, California State University Northridge; Werner Horn; Harvey Rich

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GPA. In the follow-up interviews, the students consistently praised SITE for:  Working in teams  Working with students of different backgrounds  Exposure to other fields  Meeting faculty on a close basis  Working on projects with real applications  Integrating material learned in courses to solving complex problems  Opportunity to think about careers in industry  Good for the resume At this early stage in their educational careers, SITE represented one of the first times that many of these students were able to engage in and reflect upon these important aspects of STEM training. The following highlights some markers of positive impact on students:  22% of students

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University; Andrew McKittrick, Kansas State University; Shangxian Wang, Kansas State University

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offering.AcknowledgementsThis material is based in part upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE)Program under grants CBET–1067740 and UNS–1512564. Opinions, findings,conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The authors  acknowledge the students that participated in this effort and their work in termsof example images and data that they provided for this paper. This material was included withthe written permission of the students. References[1] "iHealth Feel Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor," iHealth Labs Inc., 2017, https://ihealthlabs.com/blood-pressure-monitors/wireless

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Gullie Consultant Services; Robin L. Getz, Analog Devices, Inc.; Douglas A. Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.; John D. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University, Florida State University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Demetris Geddis, Hampton University; Shujun Yang, Alabama A&M University

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