Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom J. Zajdel, Carnegie Mellon University; Allison E. Connell Pensky, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #38654Board 88: Work in Progress: Impact of Electronics Design Experience onNon-majors’ Self-efficacy and IdentityTom J. Zajdel, Carnegie Mellon University Tom Zajdel is an Assistant Teaching Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Zajdel is interested in how students become motivated to study electronics and engineer- ing. He has taught circuits, amateur radio, introductory mechanics, technical writing, and engineering de- sign. Before joining CMU, Tom was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, where he worked on electrical sheep-herding of biological

Conference Session

Software & Web-based Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom J. Zajdel, University of California at Berkeley; Michel M. Maharbiz, University of California at Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #16155Introducing Electronics at Scale with a Massive Online Circuits LabMr. Tom J. Zajdel, University of California at Berkeley Tom J. Zajdel is a PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where he designs microsystems that interface with bacterial cells for rapid low-power biosensing. He completed his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2012. During graduate school, he co-developed ”EE40LX: Electronic Interfaces” with Professor Michel Mahar- biz, a massive open online course that teaches basic circuit principles, reaching over

Conference Session

Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, CarlottaBerry [17] reported their approach to allow students to borrow a myDAQ unit from thedepartment while purchasing other parts and a tutorial booklet for about $20. The authorsconducted an online course in summer twice and learned the lesson from their first trial toachieve better scores in the second trial. Yet “of the 20 students who took the course online overthe two summers 7 of them passed with a C or better, 6 earned lower grades, and 7 withdrew.”The test scores might have been skewed since the low-performing students withdrew, while theywere the group who needed more help. Tom J. Zajdel and Michel M. Maharbiz [13] had takenthe circuit course online at a massive scale at edX in 2015. There were over 80,000 studentsenrolled across one year