Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

communications and other professional skills with advanced, small-group laboratory research. This paper describes the coupling of an undergraduate Experimental Projects Labwith a Communications Practicum. The two subjects are taught jointly by faculty members from the MITAeronautics and Astronautics Department and the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. The pairingof the experimental projects course and the practicum provides an environment for teaching communicationsskills in which the students are interested in the subject matter and motivated to learn. In addition, a variety ofmodern information technologies are applied to augment the effectiveness of the practicum. Several pedagogi-cal themes are interwoven into the two courses including

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Kenneth Leitch, Valparaiso University; Barbara Engerer, Valparaiso University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2008-1431: A MODULAR APPROACH TO A FIRST-SEMESTERENGINEERING COURSE: TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUIDMECHANICSEric Johnson, Valparaiso UniversityDoug Tougaw, Valparaiso UniversityKenneth Leitch, Valparaiso UniversityBarbara Engerer, Valparaiso University Page 13.63.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Modular Approach to a First-Semester Engineering Course: Teaching the Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics1. IntroductionOne of the most important responsibilities of a university faculty is to design the curriculum thattheir students will experience. The design of a first-semester engineering course is an especiallyimportant and challenging

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

2007Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 2maintain educational relevancy, such experiments and equipment must be reviewed and updatedon a continuing basis. In the ME design laboratory, design and analysis software must befrequently updated to maintain relevancy for teaching engineering analysis skills. Computersmust be updated every several years to keep up with more memory and computationally-intensive design and analysis software tools. For engineering technology students, thecurriculum must include acquisition and maintenance of state-of-the-art manufacturing systemssuch as inspection and computer

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-2145: INTEGRATING THE TEACHING OF COMPUTER SKILLS WITHAN INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSETimothy Hinds, Michigan State University TIMOTHY J. HINDS is an Academic Specialist in the Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches undergraduate courses in machine design, manufacturing processes, mechanics and computational tools. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international design project course and has taught graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Craig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON is an

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

thinking byhaving small group discussions and frequent quizzes on laboratory exercises. The direct benefitsof experimental exercises to materials science/mechanical engineering education have beendiscussed. Detailed course assessment for evaluating students’ performance as well as fordetermining the effectiveness of the course is also discussed. These assessments help in regularlymonitoring the course and then modify/improve the course as and when required.Keywords: Teaching tools; Smart material; Laboratory experimental methods; Mechanicaltesting and microstructure; Engineering education; Methods of course assessment.1. IntroductionThe typical undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum has a basic course in materialsscience that deals with

Conference Session

Mechatronics in the Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bingen Yang, University of Southern California; Cheng-Yuan Jerry Chen, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes”.Cheng-Yuan Jerry Chen, USC Dr. ChengYuan Jerry Chen is fulltime Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, who has in- volved with AME laboratory teaching for more than 8 years in AME341, 441, and 443 classes. His expertise is not only in analytical and computational of dynamic and control systems, but also in exper- imental and laboratory hardware implementations. He has more than 20 years of advanced machining experience and has accomplished enormous projects in mechanical and electrical designs. He is currently the head leader of the instructional laboratory in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David E. Clough

1313 Bringing Active Learning into the Traditional Classroom: Teaching Process Control The Right Way David E. Clough University of ColoradoAbstractSince joining the faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado in 1975, I havetaught the undergraduate course in process control 20 times. The course has always had alaboratory component, and, since 1994, this has been a full-featured 15-session laboratory. Theclassroom portion of the course was taught in a traditional lecture format until the Spring 1996semester. In the

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aparna Sukhavasi, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Richard Hall, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Ronaldo Luna, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

systemin lab with a teaching assistant were compared with those who did the lab as a homeworkassignment. Across all experiments, compared to groups who used the learning system, thestudents in the 2004 control group rated their perceived learning, motivation, and real worldlearning significantly higher, but scored significantly lower on an objective quiz over thematerials covered in the lab. In the 2009 study, students who used the system on their ownscored significantly higher on the objective quiz than those who used the system in class.Further, students in all experimental groups rated their knowledge, following the uses of thesystem, higher than their perceived knowledge before using the system, where they wereonly exposed to textbook and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melody Baglione, Cooper Union

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Facilities-Based and Hands-On Teaching ApproachAbstractThis paper presents an overview of and the latest outcomes from an NSF TransformingUndergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) funded project, “Building Sustainability into ControlSystems Courses.” The new teaching strategy leverages an energy efficient academic building toexpose students to modern heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and sustainablebuilding concepts. Students perform new process control laboratory experiments, are taken ontours of the building’s HVAC mechanical rooms, and are shown the Building ManagementSystem. A formative assessment plan is guiding the development of new curriculum materialsand assignments. Direct and indirect assessment results

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

standard text. However, in this approach to teaching digitalcommunication systems the μ-law companding PCM system is also simulated and the speechprocessing is audible.An analysis of BER in pulse code modulation (PCM) with AWGN and a speech signal can alsobe presented with the audible performance as a tangible reminder of the effect. These audio .wavfiles as input have been shown to entice the undergraduate student and provide a memorableexperience. They now have the opportunity to go beyond the lecture course or even the digitalcommunication hardware laboratory with its traditional experiments 1.MATLAB/Simulink by The Mathworks (www.mathworks.com) provides the comprehensivedigital communication system simulation environment and a recent text 2

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose M. Garcia, Purdue University; Rick Homkes, Purdue University; Mark T. Carnes, Purdue University; Kevin D. Taylor, Purdue University

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Systems Engineering

the fall of 2014. This class was co-taught by professors from the MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET), Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and the Computerand Information Technology (CIT) programs at Purdue University.The goal of this paper is to document the activities carried out during the semester the coursewas taught and present the lessons learned from teaching multidisciplinary students with thebackgrounds in MET, EET and CIT.The objective of the course was to provide a Project Based Learning (PBL) experience for thestudents. Students were tasked to specify, design, and develop prototype sub-systems for existingrobots. During the semester, the students attended lectures and participated in laboratories thatwere heavily focused

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, farahmandfar@ccsu.edu

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Engineering Technology

FARID FARAHMAND is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Connecticut State University where he teaches Advanced Networking and Digital Systems. Farid’s research interests are optical networks and optical burst switching, including their architecture and performance. He is also the director of Advanced Internet Technology in the Interests of Society Laboratory. Page 12.91.10

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., Robert D. Borchelt

Session 2642 Manufacturing Systems Integration: What is it and how do we teach it? Robert D. Borchelt, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeIntroduction In today’s increasingly fast-paced manufacturing environment, engineers are called upon to design anddevelop manufacturing systems that can respond quickly and efficiently to constantly changing demands. Theincreased use of automation and continuing trend toward shorter life cycles and more customized productscreates a heavy demand for sophisticated skills in information technologies

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Li; Jiang Li

the reach of laboratory facilities, addconvenience, and integrate with the wired network. In the present paper, the design of thewireless networking system is discussed from two perspectives: 1) the hardware necessary inwireless networking, 2) the software necessary in wireless networking. An effort is made in thispaper to illustrate the utility of a wireless network in teaching engineering. It is clear that thisconvenient and powerful implement will aid teaching, research, as well as learning Geomechanicsor Engineering Mechanics by removing previously restrictive boundaries of physically linkednetworks.I. IntroductionWith the advancement of computer technologies, the personal computer has become integratedinto nearly ever aspect of our lives

Conference Session

Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikunja Swain, South Carolina State University

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Engineering Technology

, 4. This problem can be effectivelyaddressed by improving the student’s conceptual understanding and comprehension of the topics coveredin introductory science and technology courses. One way to achieve this is through interactive learningand teaching and upgrading the existing laboratories with modern equipment. This will require increasedfunding and resources. But in recent years there is a decrease in resource allocation making itincreasingly difficult to modernize the laboratories to provide adequate levels of laboratory and coursework and universities are under pressure to look for alternative cost effective methods. One way toachieve this is through interactive learning and teaching through the use of software packages likeLabVIEW

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Paul B. Crilly

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Teaching an Undergraduate Electromagnetics and Antennas Course Using A Hand-Held RF Analyzer - Engaged Learning Paul B. Crilly Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 06320AbstractThis paper describes an experiential learning concept to teach undergraduate electromagneticsand antenna theory using a hand-held RF analyzer and other basic laboratory apparatus. Theanalyzer contains both an RF source and spectrum analyzer. The RF source serves to enableSWR measurement for stub matching, measuring cable losses, detecting cable faults, cablelengths, and such

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Illig, Clarkson University; John Hrynuk, Clarkson University; Matthew Pennington, Clarkson University; John P. Dempsey, Clarkson University

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First-Year Programs

departments. In August 2006, Professor John Dempsey invited agroup of sophomore engineering students who had just taken the class to attend a workshop onthe course to share their experiences. This workshop resulted in the introduction ofundergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs) in each ES100 classroom.These UTAs provided, and continue to provide, input on revisions for many aspects of ES100,including course format, topics covered, and laboratory experiments. In particular, the UTAswere able to use their experiences in ES100 to assist in the redesign of course materials to bemore consistent, uniform, and mainstream, assisting in Professor Dempsey’s goal of making allengineering freshmen at Clarkson feel comfortable using MATLAB and LabVIEW. In

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 3: Education Track

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, provided as an alumni gift, make for an experiencethat student find to provide them an advantage in their first round of job interviews and on theirfirst career positions.References[1] Herbert L. Hess, Joseph D. Law, and Brian K. Johnson, “New three-Level UndergraduateCurriculum for Teaching Electrical Energy Subjects,” Annual Conference of the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, June 2004, pp. 9.945.1-9.945-8.[2] Herbert L. Hess, “The Minty Boost® as an Exciting Laboratory Experience in LearningPower Electronics and Instrumentation,” Annual Conference of the American Society forEngineering Education, Seattle, June 2015, pp. 26.1581.1-26.1581.10.[3] Daniel W. Hart, Power Electronics, First Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill

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POTPOURRI

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

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Computing & Information Technology

production. For example, the features of the tree such ascanopy volume could be used to control the amount of water applied to a particular tree based onits size. This is one type of applications of Precision Agriculture, where the crops are managedbased on the crops’ specific information. (a) Raw Image (b) Color Filter 1 (c) Color Filter 2 (d) Erosion and Dilation (e) Masking (f) Feature Extraction Figure 6. Image processing for tree recognition4. ConclusionOne of the concepts taught in the Control Systems course in the engineering program ofNorthwest Nazarene University is MVS. In teaching MVS, two laboratory experiments areconducted to learn the

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cinnamon Carlarne, University of Cincinnati; Eric Maurer, University of Cincinnati; Regina Lamendella, University of Cincinnati; Sarah Pumphrey, University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

2006-92: USING PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY FROM WASTEWATER AS ACONTEXT FOR TEACHING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITH USEPA P3SUPPORTDaniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Oerther teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in biology and molecular biology as applied to natural and engineered environments. His research focuses upon microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants, drinking water treatment plants, bioremediation field sites, and natural surface watershed.Cinnamon Carlarne, University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Carlarne teaches graduate and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

missing out parts of recitations and lectures. We encouragethem to start working on their assignments as soon as possible and ask for faculty help prior to thedue date. Off-hours access to the computer laboratories is also available to avoid last momentscrambling. In the case of laboratory projects, the students need to show the progress of theirwork to the Teaching Assistant during the assigned hours leading to a disciplined approach tocompletion.REFERENCES[1] J. Michael Adams, “The Global Promise of Online Learning”, Keynote Speech, Third InternationalInternet Education Conference, Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 11-13, 2004.[2] EENG6633 Course Description, Fairleigh Dickinson University Graduate Studies Bulleting, p. 125,2005-07. (Also on the web at http

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Shwehdi; Chris Jacobsen; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University

AC 1996-405: A Senior Design Project of a FI Meter Device to Assess TeachingElectronic ConceptAkram Al-Rawi, McKendree UniversityChris Jacobsen,Mohamed Shwehdi, Page 1.36.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 1996 Session 1532 A Senior Design Project of a fi Meter Device to Assess Teaching Electronic Concept Mohamed Shwehdi, Akram Al-Rawi, Chris Jacobsen KFUPM/Columbia College/Hewlett- PackardABSTRACT A novel microprocessor-based large signal forward current ratio Beta (13) meter

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2013 GSW

Authors

Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

, one Teacher modifiedher teaching approach for the AP Physics class as follows. Students were asked to researchand report on recent failures in engineering infrastructure and how ethics may have played arole. The AP students also complete the roof truss exercise, similar to the pre-AP Physicsstudents, extending the application into the building walls. Students are given a constructionbudget, simulating real life projects. In the first two years of the RET project, students wereable to take various field trips to UT Arlington. Students took the first trip to understand howvarious materials are tested in the laboratory. During the second visit, students were able toexplore the same areas plus the manufacturing and robotics laboratory, 3D

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Victor S. Frost

not keep track of any student responses; the interactive questions are included to provide rapid feedback regarding their understanding of the material. Broadly, the questions are either True/False or require a numerical solution. The True/False questions often address system performance trends and trade-offs. Figure 9 contains several examples of in-line questions. Remote Learning This ebook supported the remote teaching of the fundamental concepts of communication systems in the spring of 2021. The EECS 562 Introduction to Communication Systems course at the University of Kansas is a four-hour class including a laboratory. For many years the existing laboratory used the TIMS (Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System) system from

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Vasco D. Polyzoev; Eniko T. Enikov

242 Teaching Classical Control to Mechanical Engineers via Take-Home Experimental Setup Based on Microcontrollers Vasco D. Polyzoev, Eniko T. Enikov Advanced Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of ArizonaI. IntroductionSupplementing a control systems class with a hands-on experience for students by working on areal dynamical system helps in better understanding the classical control theory and emphasizesthe importance of its applications. For a small size class this could be

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, The Ohio State University at Marion

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

instructionhas been proven to be effective for teaching theoretical knowledge [8], teaching laboratory coursesrequire hands-on learning which were difficult to execute in a remote setting. In addition, project-based learning also suffered since students could not meet to brainstorm ideas and test theirconcepts and prototypes. Several research studies have been conducted in the past three years aboutthe impact of the pandemic on teaching and learning [9-10]. Studies showed that first-year studentsreported lower connections with their instructors. And female students reported statistically highereffects of online learning on their sense of belonging in engineering compared to male students[11]. Studies from the pandemic have also provided some guidance as

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sven G. Bilén P.E., The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

learning research in the STEM academic discipline of engineering education, specifically targeting the development of better teaching methods for engaging students in the applications of electromagnetic theory. This research has been culminated in the development of a laboratory component for the undergraduate engineering electromag- netics course at Penn State. The laboratory activities were designed to give students as many chances as possible to gain hands-on experience with real-life tools, measurement devices and analysis techniques.Dr. Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park JULIO V. URBINA, Ph.D is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Com- puter Science at

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Aurenice M. Oliveira

to the industry with the latest technologies in their fields.Most of the instructors, however, face the challenge of teaching both non-majors and majors,sometimes even in the same classroom. The aim of this article is to discuss the main challengesand to share teaching methods that the author has used to encourage active learning andengagement among major and non-major students in an Electrical Engineering Technologyprogram. The author addresses the use of technology for teaching, the use of lecture timeeffectively, the importance of well-designed laboratory experiments, and use of simulation tools.Assessment tools have indicated that the teaching methods used have been successful in meetingthe teaching goals.Keywords: engineering education

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

: A Multidisciplinary Course in Mechanical Engineering Electrical EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents pedagogy and experiences in teaching system modeling and analysis as wellas feedback control systems in the engineering curriculum. The course is a requiredmultidisciplinary course to be offered at the junior level for both electrical and mechanicalengineering students. In addition, electrical engineering (EE) students and mechanicalengineering (ME) students who pursue an electrical engineering (EE) minor are required toconcurrently complete a laboratory course. But regular ME students who do not pursue an EEminor are not required to take the laboratory course. The motivation for offering thismultidisciplinary

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Signals and Systems

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #10633Ultra Low-Cost Software-Defined Radio: A Mobile Studio for Teaching Dig-ital Signal ProcessingDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory Prust is Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing and embedded systems areas.Dr. Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering Steven S. Holland (M ’13