Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Paul J. Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Burton Dicht, IEEE; Douglas Gorham, IEEE; Chris Macnab, University of Calgary; Sadiq Mitchell, IEEE; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Loren Wyard-Scott, University of Alberta

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Electrical and Computer

in the context of a real-world, contemporary application? Are these connections made explicit in the proposed project?  Quality: Is the proposed project described in a straightforward, organized, and complete manner? Are the proposed project description and methods accurate, clear, and concise? Is the project appropriate for an international audience, and can it be easily replicated at other institutions?  Achievability: Is the proposed project tractable for first-year EE, CE, CS, EET and BE students? Is the project of an appropriate scope to be done within two weeks of instruction?  Discovery: Does the proposed project result in student discovery of an underlying principle or concept

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alejandro H. Espera Jr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer

limitedability to verbalize their knowledge. Researchers argue that proper engineering “intellectualbehavior” must be developed to the point where students become competent problem solvers withan ability to use learned skills in analogous contexts, that is, in this case, from learning electriccircuit concepts to their application in real-world situations. The purpose of this study is to explorestudents’ ability to justify real-world electrical scenarios and determine ill-conceived circuitconcepts associated with them by answering the following questions: How do students articulatetheir learned concepts in electric circuits? How do students use their learning of electric circuitsin explaining real-world electrical phenomena? This study used a qualitative

Conference Session

Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Deng Cao, Central State University; Cadance Lowell, Central State University; Craig M. Schluttenhofer, Central State University; Augustus Morris, Central State University; Austin R. Erdman, Central State University; Torry Johnson; Jeffrey D. Taylor Jr., Central State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

: Deep Learning Based Plant Classifiers and Their Real- Life Research Applications AbstractDeep learning structures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have beenintroduced to the undergraduate students in Central State University for the past three years.Funded by an 1890 Land Grant Evans-Allen research program and a USDA CapacityBuilding Grant, a number of students with minimum deep learning background weretrained to develop customized CNNs. After training, the students were able to solve givenplant classification problems and develop plant classification apps to showcase theperformance of the customized CNNs. In particular, two students’ research projects werediscussed in

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Christopher I. Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory; Michael Doroski, U.S. Air Force; Curtis Medve, U.S. Air Force; Michael Seery, U.S. Air Force; P. Len Orlando III, Air Force Research Laboratory; Farid T. Khafizov, University of Texas, Dallas

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #17791An Electrical Engineering Graduate Course Sequence in Integrated CircuitsTargeted to Real-World Problems in Industry, Defense, and SecurityDr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology Dr. Lanzerotti is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augsburg College (Minneapolis, MN), an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and an Affiliate Re- searcher at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN). She received her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

TMS320C5515 eZdsp USB Stick, a powered microphone, an audiosource such as an MP3 player or cellphone, and speakers. Undergraduate electrical engineeringstudents were shown the demonstration and were surveyed to determine which algorithms theyfound most interesting. The C language source code for the software is available from the authorfor free, so this program can be modified by instructors who wish to make their owndemonstrations or used as a convenient starting point for student projects.IntroductionThe material in a DSP course is often highly theoretical and mathematical, and so it is useful toconnect the theory to real-world applications with laboratory experiments, simulations, ordemonstrations. Fortunately, there are many interesting

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachariah E. Fuchs, University of Cincinnati

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Electrical and Computer

order to create an immersive world under glass.These topics include power management, microcontroller and real-time programming, digitallogic, reactive state machines, sensors, and actuator control. The broad range of topics andinteresting application make pinball an ideal teaching vehicle for engineering education, and wehave recently created a new pinball themed Introduction to Mechatronics course with a heavyemphasis on labs, projects, and experiential learning. This course is a dual-listed, upper-levelundergraduate/graduate electrical engineering course that focuses on the integration ofmicrocontrollers, actuators, sensors, and supporting electronics to create a complete rudimentarypinball machine. Each lesson and corresponding lab

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Panchul, UTSA; David Akopian, UTSA

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Electrical and Computer

) Symbian OS v7.0s native APIsBluetooth API (JSR 82) OMA Client ProvisioningSeries 60™ platform has a large number of resources for application developers including SDKs,white papers and discussion groups. The SDKs have all the tools required to develop real-worldapplications including an emulator, target compiler, example applications, and extensivedocumentation. The following are specific minimum requirements for a device being targeted fora port of the Series 60 Platform:Display 176 x 208 pixel, 256 color display.Input Two soft-keys, five-way navigation, an application launching and swapping key, as well as Send and End keys. To improve and facilitate text input, it

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-113: INTRODUCING THE SMALL WORLD: DEVELOPING THEMEMS/NANOTECHNOLOGY CURRICULUMXingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport Xingguo Xiong is an assistant professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Bridgeport, CT. He teaches courses in the fields of MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems), Nanotechnology, VLSI design and testing, microelectronic fabrication, etc. His research fields include MEMS and nanotechnology, CMOS VLSI design and testing.Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport Linfeng Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He teaches in the areas of biosensors, controls, signal

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas-Tyler; Nikhil Satyala, University of Texas-Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

virtual machine in the hosted architecture. A driver called theVMDriver is loaded at startup into the host operating system by the application portion of theVM. Then the virtual machine monitor component is established which runs directly on thehardware. After that the real physical processor starts executing the VMM. The VMDrivercontrols the transfer from the virtual machine to the host machine and vice versa. TheWorkstation establishes a switch called world switch between the VMM and the host world. Thisswitch saves all the user and system process states of the CPU. All the regular operationsperformed by the guest operating system run just like normal applications on the host system.The I/O operations performed by the guest operating system are

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Ramesh Chawla, Howard University

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Electrical and Computer

concepts 8-12 . Regardless of the particular software being used or the specific type of controller being built,it is obvious that educational bodies worldwide have adjusted their structure to facilitate a greaterexposure to the application of the abstract theory behind control systems to real-world, real-time Page 14.830.3processes. With the technology available to various laboratories and schools continuously 2evolving, the students will soon be able to have all the required exposure and ability required toenter the work field with more than just a mere exposure to real-world applications of

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Peyton Jones, Villanova University; Connor W. McArthur, Villanova University; Tyler A. Young, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

have the potential to transform the use of robotics or otherembedded applications in education, enabling students to undertake more complex andchallenging problems while focusing on the high-level pedagogical goals rather than low levelissues.In this paper, a new rapid prototyping toolbox, the Villanova University LEGO Real Time target(VU-LRT) is presented. The toolbox enables high-level designs coded in the Matlab/Simulinkenvironment to be automatically cross-compiled for execution on the low-cost but remarkablycapable LEGO MindStorms NXT brick. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discussestarget hardware selection, as well as software alternatives, rapid prototyping tools and the choiceof the Simulink design environment for this

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

seniordesign course so that the students can gain hands-on experience of real-world systems. As aresult, the students can be well prepared before they enter the workforce. In this paper, wepresent an instructional material for CANoe software. The instructional material covers the maincomponents that are needed to build CANoe application in five labs. These labs represent themajor phases in the CANoe application development cycle. Students, after learning this material,can move forward to develop more sophisticated applications on their own. Page 14.1148.3 Figure 1: Simplified control network for average automobile without CAN.Figure 2: Simplified

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

! EmergencyDiscussionThe FM radio signal can be used to demonstrate many of the concepts taught in communicationsystem courses. The various parts of the signal (L+R, L-R, and RDS) are separated by frequencydivision multiplexing, and so separating the signals can be used to demonstrate filters and DSB-SC demodulation. The de-emphasis filter can be used to demonstrate a real-world application of Page 13.1351.10filter design. The RDS signal can be used to demonstrate the Costas loop, matched filter, timingrecovery, slicer, word synchronization, and error control coding.Listening to the resulting audio signal gives the students immediate feedback on the quality oftheir

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas Moon, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana; Minh N. Do, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana

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Electrical and Computer

real-time DSPlaboratory course that aims to give students hands-on experience with real-time embeddedsystems using Android tablets at an early stage of their careers. The students broaden and deepentheir understanding of basic DSP theory and techniques and learn to relate this understanding toreal-world observations and applications. The students learn industrially relevant skills such asrapid design prototyping in Python and Android development of DSP applications in C++/Javafor computationally constrained mobile devices. The course advances in two phases: structuredlabs and team projects. In the first half of the course, a series of structured labs are provided toimplement and analyze real-time DSP systems that utilize fundamental DSP

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Dworzecki; Syed Masud Mahmud

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Electrical and Computer

package forthe PIC microcontroller to study the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol and its use forvarious real-time applications. The software can be used in an undergraduate Electrical andComputer Engineering design class. The use of the software allows the students to understandthe CAN protocol. The students can also modify different modules of the software based on thehardware setup of their real-time systems, and then do various types of experiments with theirhardware setup. The use of our software enhances student-learning of embedded-systemsnetworking. The paper presents a detailed description of our software architecture and its use forvarious real-time applications.IntroductionWe are living in a world today in which rapid

Conference Session

Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Kelly Charles Seals P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Oriented” Undergraduate EE Course Elective: Electronic Navigation SystemsAbstractIn typical undergraduate Electrical Engineering programs, students take courses in circuitanalysis, electronics, programming, signals and systems, digital design, physics, calculus,differential equations, plus some advanced courses such as linear algebra, discretemathematics, communications systems, digital signal processing, antennas, and controlsystems. These courses are important, however students sometimes find themselveswondering about specific “real-world” applications for all the theory and informationlearned in these courses. Certainly as faculty members we make every attempt to discussapplications in class, but the unsettling fact is that some

Conference Session

SDR & Programming in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, and Tampere University of Technology; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Electrical and Computer

self-efficacy.Perhaps the most telling gains here are for students’ assessment that many aspects of thealternative course are holistically more like “real world engineering.” Even in spite of workwhich is difficult and taxing, a student who desires to be an engineering major must find somelevel of comfort in believing their effort is put towards an authentic engineering challenge, asopposed to arbitrary and difficult tasks disconnected from their intended professional practice.Course Summary and Future WorkOur application-based introductory C course has had a total of about sixty students over threesemesters, limited by NSF funding. Our retention rate has been about 95%, with one studentfailing, one student leaving because he decided his

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

system for autonomous navigation. Implementing three different mobile robotcontrollers, namely, PID, FL, and ANN, in the same platform provided students with a more clearunderstanding on how a control system operates on a particular plant. Also, by implementing differenttypes of controllers they learned to evaluate the performance of each controller, and obtained a bettersense of the characteristic of the different controllers. Overall, qualitative comments of students indicatethat the addition of the team based-project have been a positive addition to the control systems course,that have allowed them to have a better understanding of what a control system is, and how it can beapplied to the real world applications. Also the students found an

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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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

instruments and then loan them to their students. However, limited resources make itdifficult or impossible to provide the full access needed to realize the real potential of the ECPenabled by these excellent modules. Even at institutions where students can easily afford theirown devices and parts kits, students outside of ECE often do not use them in more than one classand, thus, tend to sell them to classmates. This defeats the purpose of empowering students tolearn and apply electronics in new ways throughout their studies and careers.Using a device whose price is under $50 makes most of the application problems go away, if thedevice can be shown to work. Thus, in this paper, we address the general question of whatperformance criteria must be met

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Kenji Ryan Yamamoto, Northern Arizona University; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Tom Weller, University of South Florida

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Electrical and Computer

is a real-world problem. We’ll see something similar to this control systemafter graduation. The thought process learned from this project will apply.” Another stated,“This is a fairly realistic controls problem with the same types of issues hitting on interactions.There are multiple noise sources and we have to consider everything and then decide what wecan deal with and what we can’t.” Related to this, students appreciated having a “physicalsystem” to work with instead of “only numbers or data on a screen” and the opportunity to applywhat they had learned from other PWM systems.Additionally, they felt that the approach of building and testing parts of a system first beforebringing them together in the final project was applicable to how

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Alonso, Jr., Miami Dade College; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder; Heather Thiry, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Electrical and Computer

Graphics programming, Java programming and OpenGL. Atthe end of the weeklong session, students initiated the development of a Sudoku application for theAndroid System. Students involved in the weeklong course took a survey based on social cognitive careertheory (SCCT), which posits that individuals base career decisions on their confidence, interest, andperceived sense of mastery in a field (Lent, et al 2005). Following the course, students reported increasedinterest in computing careers and in the computing major, increased confidence that they could succeed inthe major, and perceived academic support in their department. Students commented that the structure ofthe course and real-world problem solving associated with developing apps contributed

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nesreen Alsbou, Ohio Northern University; Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University; Vladimir A Labay, Gonzaga University; Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

simple circuitsbased on given specifications. The lab component of the course emphasizes competence in thesimulation of circuits with PSPICE, safely constructing electric circuits, and obtainingexperimental data through bench measurements using oscilloscopes and digital multi-meters.The course is required for students majoring in Electrical, Computer, and MechanicalEngineering, Engineering Education, and is an elective course for Civil Engineering students.Depending on their major, students are introduced to the subject of electronics in a separatecourse (if at all). This leaves the students with the question of “How does the theory and analysismethods learned in electric circuits class relate to real-world applications?”The authors believe a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis; Jun Ouyang, University of California, Davis

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #19642A New Application-Oriented Electronic Circuits Course for non-ElectricalEngineering Students Using Arduino and NI VirtualBenchDr. Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis Hooman Rashtian received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada in 2013 and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical En- gineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2008, and 2006, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Davis MM-Wave Research Center (DMRC) at University of California, Davis from 2014 to 2016. Since July

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Lee Keel, Tennessee State University; Charles David McCurry, Tennessee State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

using knowledge they learned not only motivates the studentsfor deep learning and improves their higher-order thinking skills, but also fosters growth inteamwork and collaborative problem-solving skills 23.The course materials are developed with a general module style format that has clearly statedobjectives, theories, hands-on experiences, and assessment. It is an integrated package includinglecture notes for theoretical background, review questions and quizzes, assignments, and hands-on exercises with real world applications in the laboratory session. The hands-on experience inlab exercises and projects are organized at two difficulty levels: basic and advanced. The basiclevel hands-on lab depends on the knowledge learned in the lecture and

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fitra Khan, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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Electrical and Computer

in which they were utilized toenhance understanding of essential concepts.The first level of student laboratory projects was related directly to the Beowulf cluster itself, Page 11.418.4specifically, its hardware architecture, connectivity, and existence as a logical cluster. Thisentails the development of laboratory projects on topics such as computer interfacing, Local AreaNetworking (LAN), clustering, task scheduling and optimization, and benchmarking.The second level of student laboratory projects were focused on setting up a PSN and associateddata/voice channels to model the real-world connectivity, and building applications for Beowulfin

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

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Electrical and Computer

/information, and 3) how to extract/analyze/interpret information. Other goals include illustrating how various areas of ECE contribute to thedesign and functioning of an entire system, emphasizing the relevance of course material to real-world applications, and capturing the students’ imagination and creativity. To achieve thesegoals, the course adopts a unifying theme, tightly couples lecture and laboratory exercises, andincludes a laboratory experience that emphasizes design, integration, and real applications. Thecourse content and laboratory exercises were developed iteratively such that each componentsupported the other, rather than one being dominant and driving the other. A robotic platformwas selected as the foundation of the laboratory

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

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Electrical and Computer

, and process real-world signalsprovides numerous benefits in classroom and laboratory settings. Furthermore, exposure to SDRis increasingly important for students wishing to pursue careers in the telecommunication,networking, and radar fields. An undergraduate laboratory can be outfitted with relatively high-performance SDRs at a reasonable cost.It was recently discovered that USB digital television tuners can be used as SDR receivers.Since this discovery, the tuners have been successfully used in a wide variety of applications. Ata cost less than $20 (USD), these so-called “RTL-SDR” devices set a new price point for SDRtechnology that is particularly attractive within an educational context.This paper presents the use of these low-cost SDRs

Conference Session

New ECE Laboratories

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University

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Electrical and Computer

digital passbandmodulation techniques such as phase shift keying and frequency division multiplexing. Throughthis module, the students will have a holistic understanding of the IoT transceiver. Meanwhile,they will be exposed to many real-world issues and non-idealities at various stages of the system.These realities are usually not covered in the conventional theory or simulation-basedcommunication systems course.The course materials are developed with a general module style that has clearly stated objectives,theories, hands-on experiences, and assessment. It is an integrated package including lecturenotes for theoretical background, review questions and quizzes, assignments, and hands-onexercises with real world applications in the laboratory

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

vahid salehi pour mehr, Florida International University; Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Juan Francisco Fernandez, Florida International University; Javier Parra

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Electrical and Computer

in the real world. Educational applicationof this laboratory-based smart grid and its real-time operation analysis capability provide aplatform for investigation of the most challenging aspects of actual real world power system andits operation in real time.Introduction:Power System planners need to operate the power system under increasingly complexconditions. The utilization of renewable generation, energy storage systems, and plug in hybridelectric vehicles will introduce new complexities to system operation. With these challengingconditions being introduced into the current system operation, the overall scheme requires newand innovative operation methodologies in a distributed manner [1].Modern power network incorporates communications

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Girma Tewolde, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

the students’ attention and to inspire them to tackle even harder challenges.The curriculum also aims to instill the Entrepreneurial mindset10. The big picture of the mainconcepts covered in each topic is explored further by looking at related real-world applicationsand current technological innovations, through class discussions and research homeworkassignments. This helps raise the curiosity level of the students. They are asked to makeconnections between the different topics and relevant real-world applications, and presentpotential opportunities with customer value creation in mind.The students spend five weeks of a semester to work on the ECE topics. Each class meeting istwo hours long per week. The students are placed in teams of a