Conference Session

EET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Sanders, Troy University; Govind Menon, Troy University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and development, an area inwhich engineering expertise will be needed to develop distribution systems related to newtechnologies. These engineers will play key roles in new developments having to do with solararrays, semiconductors, and communications technologies.”The job information for Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technicians with Associate’sdegrees is listed here for reference:  The median pay for Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technicians is $61,130.  Number of jobs available is 139,400.  From 2014 to 2024, the job opportunities are projected to decrease by a small amount of 2,800.In very rare cases, ET graduates with a four-year BS degree would find jobs with a title oftechnician

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

common weakness for Electrical Engineering(EE) programs9-12. In general, a fine line of balance has to be maintained between theory andpractice in all engineering programs and the issue of the application of appropriate engineeringsoftware is only a part of the bigger picture of the well-rounded engineering education11,13,14.Institutionally, our engineering programs, including Engineering Technology (ET), Electricaland Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and EE, are implementing a cross-program andinter-disciplinary approach based on the concept of project-based learning (PBL) to enhance thestudent outcomes. The central idea of PBL enhanced curricula is to use hands-on problems todrive students to internalize the principles of what they have

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ropp; Steven Hietpas

Session 1526 Incorporating Electric Drives into the Electrical Machines Course: A Systems Level Approach Steven M. Hietpas and Michael E. Ropp Department of Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University, SD 57007AbstractOver the last 35 years, the advent of power electronics has extensively impacted almost everyaspect of Electromechanical Energy Conversion (EMEC). The effective integration of powerelectronics, electric drives, and system issues into the EMEC curriculum demands a significantredesign of both the course and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

oral and written skills was among the 10 most critical discrepancies.3To address these deficiencies, Georgia Tech is conducting a pilot study that integrates workplacecommunication tools into two Technical Communication Practices courses. The skillsemphasized are making workplace presentations and producing workplace documents. Thecourses are restricted to specific majors: one course is populated by 20 Industrial SystemsEngineering (ISyE) students and one course is populated by 20 Electrical and ComputingEngineering (ECE) students. The goal is to develop a curriculum that can be specific toindividual disciplines. This is being accomplished by employing actual documents collectedfrom the workplace as communication models and adapting skills

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

learn best by practicing the Six Sigmamethodology over the course of a technical project. They do not need to be experts in SixSigma or a particular tool; they just need to be exposed to the basic concepts. A programfocusing on early exposure of any methodology and repetition in a few courses works thebest as discussed by Zhan et al4. Based on these considerations, the ElectronicsEngineering Technology Program at Texas A&M University chose to teach Six Sigmaprocesses in a junior-level instrumentation course by applying the Six Sigmamethodology to the course project. The students were given a product designed bystudents in the previous semester. They were asked to follow the Six Sigma DMAICprocess to improve the quality of the product.2.1

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Paper ID #11063Forming A Leadership Bridge Between High School And College: The En-ergy and STEM Leadership ProgramProf. Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale Marjaneh Issapour is the Program Director of Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center (RESC) at Farmingdale State College (FSC) a Campus of State University of New York . She is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at FSC. She has been employed by AT& T Information Systems, Siemens Data Switching and NEC, prior to her employment at the College. She has earned a BS in electrical engineering from Stony Brook

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 1 - Energy & Electrical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

current conduction which is dependent on switching states. Restructuring andreshaping of the electric power systems, in the context of smart grid paradigm and the rapid drivetowards the integration of distributed generation and renewable energy systems have highlightedalso the needs for power system education for non-engineers. During the 2017-2018 academicyear, we proposed, the department and the college curriculum committees approved to establisha minor in power and energy engineering. This initiative was strongly supported by the industrialadvisory board and by our major industry sponsors, e.g. Entergy. Major challenges faced withthis project are the lack of adequate laboratory facilities, software licenses, properly trainedteaching assistants

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bob Fourney; Jason Sternhagen; George Hamer; Cory Mettler

326the electrical engineering program, motivate the students by giving future lab exercises a senseof purpose, more closely tie the various EE undergraduate classes to each other, and more closelytie the senior design experience to the rest of the undergraduate curriculum. This course has nowbeen offered twice, in the spring of 2012 and 2013.The third stage of the FOCUSED concept includes modifying a minimum of one lab orsignificant assignment in at least one of the required courses each semester of the sophomoreand junior years. The selected assignment will be modified so as to provide a direct tie-in to anongoing senior design project. The students who were exposed to these senior design projects asfreshmen will be aware of the relevance of

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET, Inc.; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

the last ten years he has coordinated an inter-disciplinary capstone design program that involves faculty and graduate student mentors from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, biological & agricultural engineering, and computer science. This two semester design experience with external clients from across the region is the locus of numerous professional skill assessments that have Page 21.2.1 been part of larger national research efforts, such as the one described in this paper. Dr. Beyerlein also plays an active role in a variety of vehicle design and engine testing projects within the

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

and satellite communicationservices, few Engineering Technology (ET) programs incorporate these teachings in theircurricula. This is a concerning issue as we need to produce professionals from our ET schoolswho will be able to work with the current and future technologies with minimal additionaltraining. We can think of several reasons to explain the absence of these subjects in ourclassrooms. First, because these are relatively new services and technologies not all programdirectors or instructors may be familiar with them, especially given the complexity of systemsoperating at microwave frequencies. In second place, it may not be very clear in which ETprograms these topics should be taught. Most of the current Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Cliff Grigg; Zachariah Chambers; Richard Layton

thatdoes not meet the discipline-specific needs of the students, and a learning environment lackingtools that encourage students to come to class prepared and that permit them to study effectivelyoutside of class. We focus on the role that the course plays in the ME curriculum and thebenefits it offers in the ME students' education.Motivating students and engaging their interest is vital to the success of any course. 3 Thesecourses, however, often fail to interest or motivate students and many times do not meet theirprimary objective of enabling students to use the principles of electrical systems in their chosendiscipline. This is partly because material is offered to the mechanical engineering student fromthe perspective of an electrical

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Graham, University of Louisville; Karla Conn Welch, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Shamus McNamara, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

graphical representation of thecurrent plan is shown in figure 1. At points in the curriculum, critical thinking is explicitlyincorporated into specific courses through instruction, activities and assignments. Moreadvanced and discipline specific critical thinking is characteristic of the upper level courses andcapstone projects. General critical thinking, focused on ensuring students are able to clearlydefine critical thinking, recognize critical thinking, and applying critical thinking to simpler andwell defined problems is the focus in lower level courses. While there are specific coursestargeted for critical thinking instruction and assessment, it is the intention that most coursesbecome more intentional in their treatment of critical thinking

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Klein, University of Idaho; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho; Brian Johnson, University of Idaho

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

rewarded accordingly. For example, theundergraduate student gains not only technical information from the graduate student, but alsothe opportunity to learn from a fellow engineering student who has previously completed similarsenior design curriculum. The graduate student gains the ability to accomplish a greater amountof research in a shorter amount of time by paralleling project tasks through the efforts of theundergraduate students. The university benefits by providing the project sponsor with a finalproduct that far exceeds their expectations. Along with the benefits, this paper also presentsspecific problems that may arise due to combining undergraduate and graduate students into asingle, cohesive research team. These problems include the

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

involving Macomb CommunityCollege and the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University. The projectincludes developing a hybrid electric vehicle curriculum and integrating it with the existingApplied Science program in Automotive Technology23, 24 Page 15.476.5Three course experiences on instrumentation, electric vehicles and project activities werereported by Rizkalla25, 26, 27 Laio28 reported on the development of a Virtual Hybrid ElectricVehicle Simulator using LabVIEW that enhanced Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) training andeducation. Winstead29 presented outcomes of a project conducted to convert a stock ToyotaPrius to a plug-in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. Dr. Yao joined East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Page

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sang Eun Woo, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

.35Yet to what extent are facets of cross-cultural technical coordination reflected in the lists ofattributes reviewed above? While not explicitly described, professional capabilities in relatedareas such as communication, leadership, teamwork, and project management are sometimesmentioned.20 Other writers are more explicit about the cross-cultural dimensions of suchattributes, as reflected in Mohtar and Dare’s assertion that global engineers be able to “adapt tocultural norms in the professional arena and act appropriately,” “communicate professionally in aculturally-appropriate manner,” and “contribute to a culturally-diverse team.”22 Ball et al.mention a number of similar attributes, with particular emphasis on multicultural teamwork.21Allan

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance C. Perez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Presentacion Rivera-Reyes is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He formerly held a position of teaching assistant in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. He also held a position as Professor of Telecommunication Engineering at Technological University of Honduras teaching courses of Transmission System to senior students. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Na- tional Autonomous University of Honduras. He has experience in the telecommunication industry where he worked as a Project Manager developing solutions of high-speed transmission

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Hector Ochoa; Chandra Pappu, Union College

Paper ID #36943Adapting Chaos Theory for Undergraduate ElectricalEngineersBenjamin C. Flores (Professor)Hector A. Ochoa (Assistant Professor) Dr. Hector Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he develops curriculum and laboratories in engineering physics. Dr. Ochoa graduated with his doctorate and M.S. from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Bachelor’s degree from The University of Guadalajara, Mexico. His current research interests include Radar Image Processing, Compressive Radar, and Engineering Education.Chandra S. Pappu (Assistant Professor

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Andras Gordon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Richard J Schuhmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Richard F. Devon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University; Ahmad Atieh, Taibah Univeristy; Peter Dietrich, Corvinus University Budapest

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

, 32006). He is very familiar with Hofstede, et al. But he does not study virtual teams and he spends a lotof time on expatriates, which is not relevant to us.As Lewis observes, you have to treat all people personally as individuals and relying on stereotypes maybe devastating in a relationship or team. However, there are stereotypical business cultures that operatein various countries to varying extents.The CourseA course with real world project assignments was developed at the Pennsylvania State University, inwhich US undergraduate engineering students currently work together with undergraduate businessstudents at Corvinus University, Hungary and undergraduate engineering students at Taibah University,Saudi Arabia. Bilateral and trilateral

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Achille Messac, Mississippi State University; James N Warnock, Mississippi State University; Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

BS – Civil Engineering EngineeringEngineering MS – Civil Engineering (ASCE) BS – Computer Science BS – Software Engineering MS – Computer Science Association for ComputationalComputer Science & MS – Computational Engineering MachineryEngineering PhD – Computer Science (ACM) PhD – Computational Engineering BS – Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-3711: TEACHING NON-MAJOR STUDENTS ELECTRICAL SCI-ENCE AND TECHNOLOGYDr. Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College Harold Underwood received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at UIUC in 1989 and has been a faculty member of the Engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching circuit analysis and electromagnetics, he supervises the Communications Group of the Messiah College Collaboratory, including a project involving flight tracking and messaging for small planes in remote locations, and an assistive communication technology involving wireless enabled remote co-presence for cognitively and behaviorally challenged individuals. He has been teaching Exploring Electrical Technology as a

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

IOBoardTM technology. Various paperson the use of the Mobile Studio IOBoardTM technology and pedagogy have been published bythe other members of the Mobile Studio project at several conferences [JOEE paper #5].Phase I- Pedagogy and Implementation of Online Courses The circuits laboratory (known as “Introduction to Electrical Lab”) course is a one creditcourse that meets once a week for three hours. The circuits and circuits laboratory courses areprerequisites for the digital logic course. The digital logic course is a three-credit course thatmeets for three fifty-minute periods each week. Both courses enroll about 70 students during theacademic year. Most of the class time in both lecture courses is spent lecturing the students. Thecircuits

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

for NSF projects. Dr. Oliveira has also been contributing to several STEM K-12 outreach initiatives, and to the NSF-ADVANCE initiative at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Oliveira is a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), the IEEE Women in Engineering Society, and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Page 14.313.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 CHALLENGES OF TEACHING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CLASSES TO NON-MAJORSAbstractThe core curriculum for college degrees comprises a wide range of institutions, differentareas of expertise

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

programs.Students may graduate with a strong grasp of the technical knowledge necessary to pursue acareer in engineering, but little awareness of how engineering projects impact the social fabric ofthe community in which they are erected. Many students, too, enter engineering, technology,and construction programs with little knowledge of the global applications their degrees canoffer. The Global Solutions curriculum at Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis(IUPUI) is designed to expand student outlooks by bringing together students of variousacademic and cultural backgrounds in a multidisciplinary program that explores not only thetechnical solutions to global development issues, but the social and cultural context in whichsuch solutions must

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Miquela Trujillo, University of New Mexico; Peter V. Vorobieff; Francisco Martin Vigil, University of New Mexico; Tennille Charisse Bernard, The University of New Mexico; Clinton Lee Corbin, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

shooting and critical thinking skills that arebeneficial to engineers in the workforce and research environments.Course Techniques and ImprovementsThe new lab curriculum focuses on electrical, mechanical, hydrodynamic, and hydrostaticmeasurements. The lab experiments incorporate diagnostic methods to obtain voltage outputs,stress/strain, and pressure measurements. To address the issues that arose from the increase ofenrollment and shortage of lab equipment, several improvements have been implemented to theSpring 2014 lab course. These improvements include variations in the structure of the course.The first implementation is to create the small group atmosphere. The lab sections were thenseparated into two smaller sections (approximately 12

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael B. Cutlip, University of Connecticut; Mordechai Shacham, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Michael Elly, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Asymco, whocovers the mobile industry has made somepredictions(4) regarding the future ofsmartphones. A particularly interestinggraphic is reproduced as Figure 1. Note thatthe smartphone numbers seem to beapproaching the world’s population in thenext 10 years. This is a challenge toconsider, but it does indicate thatsmartphones will probably be available as apossible educational tool with increasingpopularity with younger persons aseducators look toward the future. Figure 1 – Projection of Smartphone Users for 10 Years by World Region from H. Dediu (4)Special Considerations for AfricaMatthew Labrooy, who works with eLearning Africa(5), has written about Africa’s

Conference Session

Student Division Technical 3: Mixed - Research, Engineering Design, Design Thinking, and Curriculum Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gracie Judge, University of Michigan; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan

also prepare students for engineering projects that transcend limitedcourse scopes. For example, electric circuits courses provide underlying conceptual andmathematical principles to model electronics. However, in practice, electrical projects can beinterdisciplinary and go beyond the basic models introduced in class. Additionally, it is difficultto combine multifaceted sociotechnical concepts into entry level circuits classes. One method fordeveloping course modules for electric circuits that explore technical content with a societalcontext is described by Lord, Przestrzelski and Reddy [1]. We offer a solution to better integrate the technical circuit concepts and societalprinciples in an undergraduate circuits course. Specifically, we

Conference Session

Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Lorena Villarreal, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christian Hassard, Digipen Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

curriculum at DigiPenThe Computer Engineering degree consists of 146 credits over eight semesters with 17-20 creditsper semester. Eight of these courses are project courses where they must design a solution andapply integrated knowledge and skills acquired through all their curricula. These are designed tosupport student outcomes recommended by ABET. Fundamental courses of CE curriculuminclude mathematics, physics, computer programming, electronics, composition andcommunication. All the project courses at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department include a significant design component which is restricted by the typical constraintsthat could be encountered in industry such as use model, cost, power and portability. Throughthese project

Conference Session

Capstone, Undergraduate Research, and Projects in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ahmed Abul Hussain, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Nizar Tayem, Texas A&M University; Chedly B. Yahya, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Sadiq A. Alhuwaidi, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University; Jamal Nayfeh, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #30556Quality Assurance of Capstone Senior Design Projects: A Case StudyMr. AHMED ABUL HUSSAIN, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University AHMED A. HUSSAIN is a Lecturer in the department of Electrical Engineering at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. He earned his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in the year 1998. Mr. Ahmed has more than 19 years of university teaching expe- rience in Electrical Engineering. He has also worked for Motorola as an Embedded Software Engineer. His research interests include Wireless Communications, Array Signal Processing, Digital and

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

base for improving the quality, methodology, and reach of K-12 engineering education (1).One program that seems related to nearly all of the aforementioned recommendations isProject Lead the Way (PLTW). PLTW is a high school curriculum in which students areintroduced to engineering and engineering technology through a series of rigorousacademic courses. Curriculum, textbooks, software and labs are standardized throughoutthe experience regardless of geographic location, and all PLTW teachers undergoextensive training in curriculum, pedagogy and delivery of the program. Project Lead theWay is a hands-on, contextual curriculum that uses an interdisciplinary approach and isbased on national, state and local Science, Technology, Engineering and