Paper ID #26769Using Paper-based, Near-immediate Feedback to Support Active Learning inan Introductory Programming CourseDr. Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University Stewart Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He received the B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engi- neering from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
Paper ID #26280Supporting Object-oriented Design Learning Outcome Using an Android De-velopment ProjectAsjia Marion-Bethany Gilder, Alabama A&M University Asjia Gilder, a native of Millbrook, AL received a B.A in Chemistry, with a minor in Computer Science from the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in May of 2018. Currently, she is a Graduate Student at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, and is continuing her studies to receive a M.S. in Computer Science.Mr. Wichien Choosilp, Wichien Choosilp is a graduate student of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at
(CHEER) published by Cam- bridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering.Dr. Aqdas Malik, George Mason University Aqdas Malik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology, George Mason University. His multidisciplinary academic and industry experience spans two key disciplines: Human-Computer Interaction and Social Media Communication and Analytics. He is currently engaged in a number of research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In some of his recent projects he has applied big data techniques
Engineering (EE) from the Virginia Military Institute, Master’s Degree in EE from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Computer Engineering. He is also a graduate of the Signal Officer Basic Course, Signal Captain’s Career Course, and the Army Command and General Staff College. At West Point, LTC Lowrance also serves as a senior researcher in the Robotics Research Center. He has led multiple research projects related to robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. His research has led to over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, several of which have won best paper awards.Major Eric M. Sturzinger, United States Military Academy MAJ Eric Sturzinger is a
chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the California State University, Chico in 2017. She is actively involved in the development of mobile hands-on pedagogy as well as research on other topics in STEM education, the synthesis and characterization of nanoscale materials, and fermentation processes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Enhancing Control Systems Design Course by Using Experiential Learning ModelIn this paper, authors present the outcomes of implementing an experiential learning model toexplore innovative teaching pedagogy in CSU Chico EECE 482 Control Systems Design course.To reach this goal, multiple projects and
Paper ID #27178An Interdisciplinary Team-based Research Initiative Through Active Learn-ing to Increase Undergraduate Students’ Motivation, Engagement, and Re-tentionProf. Shahnam Mirzaei, California State University, Northridge Dr. Shahnam Mirzaei is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the California State University, Northridge. He has received his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 2010, His M.Sc. from Cal- ifornia State University, Northridge, and his B.Sc. from University of Tehran. Dr. Mirzaei
department of computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His interests include (but are not limited to) joyful teaching, empirically-sound educational research, campus and online courses, computer science, engag- ing underrepresented students, improving accessibility and creating novel methods to create, adapt and enhance learning opportunities and learning communities.Mr. Yuren Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I am a senior Computer Science and Statistics and Mathematics student studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I really appreciate that I can live in a world where science and technology have been being used to make the world better, and it is my honor
Paper ID #8646A Unified Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes in Elec-trical Engineering ProgramsDr. Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University Dr. Youakim Kalaani graduated from Cleveland State University with MS and Doctoral degrees in Electri- cal Engineering with a concentration in power systems. He joined Georgia Southern University on August 2006 and is now an Associate Professor in the newly established Electrical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and Information Technology. Dr. Kalaani has served as the Interim EE Chair and taught engineering courses at the undergraduate and
as student development theory, restorative justice, and social justice. His research interests include moral development, moral reasoning, academic motivation, and teaching and learning practices in engineering fields. Page 24.430.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development of student motivation in a required Electrical Engineering (EE) course for non-EE majorsEvery instructor who has taught a required course outside the students’ field of major knows thatthe main challenge is to overcome
Paper ID #8645Google Forms: A Real-Time Formative Feedback Process for Adaptive Learn-ingDr. Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University Rami J. Haddad is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Southern University. He received the B.S. in Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering from the Applied Sciences University, Amman, Jordan, in 2004. He received his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, in 2006. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Akron, Akron, OH, in 2011. His research focuses on various
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Impact of Simulation-based and Hands-on Teaching Methodologies On Students’ Learning in an Engineering Technology Program AbstractThe use of Simulation-based labs has been gaining currency in the domains of engineering andtechnology programs. How effective is simulation-based teaching methodology in comparison totraditional hands-on activity based labs? To answer this question a study was conducted toexplore the impact of the use of computer simulation design methods on students ‘learning forcircuit construction in an undergraduate technical course.This paper presents the findings of the research study which tested the
the department.In the Fall Semester of 2010, a laboratory component was added to a senior-level course entitled“Applications of Linear IC’s”. This course is an analog electronics course that teachesoperational amplifiers, comparators, voltage regulators and references, and applications that usethese components. A laboratory dimension was added to the course using an “ElectronicsExplorer Board” manufactured by Digilent. Additional equipment included a very inexpensivedigital multimeter (DMM) that measured resistance, capacitance, and AC voltages. Along with apersonal computer, this provided students with their own “circuits and electronics” laboratory.The classroom lectures explain the concepts included in the experiments was well as an
, engineering,and mathematics (STEM).10,11 Hands-on experience greatly enhances the learning experience forvisual learners and, based on learning styles, is generally more important for women than formales. Nonetheless, it is clear that almost all people learn by doing.12,13 However, theopportunities for students to engage in experimental informal learning on topics in electrical andcomputer engineering are disappearing, despite the number of electronics devices that are useddaily. Thus, our students were entering our introductory circuits courses without an intuitiveunderstanding of the fundamental concepts that had been developed by students in years pastfrom „tinkering‟ with electronics kits, ham radio sets, and home-built computers. As the
, Digital Systems, Design of Fault Tolerant Systems and Testing of Digital Systems. Her current research interests include Fault Tolerance of Electronic Systems, Programmable Logic Devices and new educational methods to teach digital system design and analog electronics.Clint S Cole, Digilent, Inc. Clint graduated from Washington State University in 1987 with a BS degree in computer science, and worked for Hewlett-Packard and Physio-Control before co-founding Heartstream in 1991. Heartstream pioneered the design of ultra-portable, low-cost defibrillators that are now deployed in millions of settings around the world. After Hewlett-Packard purchased Heartstream in 1997, Clint returned to WSU to complete a MSEE
AC 2011-2476: THE VU-LEGO REAL TIME TARGET: TAKING STU-DENT DESIGNS TO IMPLEMENTATIONJames Peyton Jones, Villanova University James Peyton Jones is Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control and Professor of Electri- cal & Computer Engineering at Villanova UniversityConnor W McArthur, Villanova University Connor McArthur is an undergraduate at Villanova Unversity studying Computer Engineering and Com- puter Science.Tyler A Young, villanova University Tyler Young is a senior Computer Engineer and research assistant at Villanova University. Page 22.1516.1 c
AC 2010-618: HANDS-ON DISTANCE-LEARNING LABORATORY COURSEUSING INTERNET VIDEO TOOLSKathleen Meehan, Virginia TechJoshua Quesenberry, Virginia Tech Mr. Quesenberry graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in May 2009. He is currently working on his Masters degree in computer engineering at Virginia Tech.Justeen Olinger, Virginia Western Community College Ms. Olinger is a sophomore in the Associates of Science in Engineering degree program at Virginia Western Community College.Kevin Diomedi II, Virginia Western Community College Mr. Diomedi II is a sophomore in the Associates of Science in Engineering at Virginia Western Community College.Richard Clark
international service management certification, developed by EXIN7 and interesting for many different computing science jobs: “ITIL v3 Foundations”. ≠ “Computer Architecture Simulation course. Concepts and terminology”. The objective of this course is to serve as a tool for improving the capacities of students in laboratory practices time. In the course the students can learn and practice using microprocessors Page 15.892.7 simulators and extract the concepts related. They will compound the structure of a Generic Microprocessor (and practice with MC68000 concretely) understanding the principal issues
AC 2010-263: ENHANCING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OFINFORMATION LITERACY AND ETHICS THROUGH AN INTERACTIVEONLINE LEARNING MODULEYuejin Xu, Murray State University Yuejin Xu is an assistant professor of psychology, Murray State University, Murray, KY. His research interests include 1) Learning, teaching, and teacher education, 2) Motivation, critical thinking and decision making processes, and 3) Effect and implementation of technology in the classroom.Lili Dong, Cleveland State University Lili Dong received the M.S.E.E. from Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering
demands excessive instructorresources. Computer-based online assessment has great potential to provide viable solutions tomany of these problems. In this paper, we present our recently developed web-based tool usedfor summative assessment of an introductory Electrical Engineering course at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University (ERAU). Our major objective is to adopt web-based assessment to helpfaculty members manage workloads in spite of rising class sizes and ensure that student learningis objectively assessed in terms of targeted learning outcomes.The assessment initiative is supported through ERAU’s University Assessment Grant funded byOffice of the Provost. The initial experimentation was conducted in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009on the course EE
, control systems, etc. [1][2]. Computer simulations and animations that allow students tofeel the responses of systems make learning more engaging and fun, and also help studentsunderstand the course concepts better. Another approach is to offer a course on haptics. Theadvancement of haptics technology relies on the combined effort of electrical and computerengineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering, andpsychophysics. Therefore, haptics courses can be offered to students from different engineeringdisciplines. However, complete haptic courses are normally offered at the graduate level since itrequires undergraduate level courses such as control systems, robotics, C++ programming,computer graphics, etc. as
, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2005. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He is also with the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. His group studies nanoscale energy transport, power dissipation in integrated circuits, and novel nonvolatile memory. Prior to Illinois, he spent 16 months at Intel, working on phase-change memory, and completed a postdoc at Stanford, investigating thermal properties of carbon nanotubes. Dr. Pop is also a member of MRS
answered adequately without being able to share the same piece of paper.In our SV offerings, we have experimented with web conferencing software to obtain equivalentoffice hours for distance students and found that this was successful, provided that both theinstructor and the student had tablet PCs. Unfortunately the cost of tablet PCs provides a barrierto both students and to academic institutions. In response to this need, a Scholarship of Teachingand Learning Project (SoTL) was designed to investigate the use of a relatively inexpensivetechnology, pen tablets, to improve the access of place-bound students to assistance frominstructors and fellow students. Each participating student in the fall section of analog electronicswas provided with a
module. Dr Weitzen has published over 100 papers in the open literature and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.Mr. Alan Rux, University of Massachusetts, LowellMs. Erin Isabel Webster, University of Massachusetts Lowell I am a graduate student in Computer Engineering at UMass Lowell. I am a research student with Prof. Weitzen, and we are developing a hands-on ”Lab in a Box” Program for our first year Electrical and Computer Engineering students. The open ended labs are built around the Analog Discovery Kit, and focus on introducing our students to hardware, programming, and test equipment. Page 24.1284.1
systems design, and embedded vision. Page 24.1323.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Using Case Study Research as an Active Learning Tool for Demonstrating the Ability to Function on Multidisciplinary TeamsAbstractCase study projects can be used as an active learning tool for expanding students’ knowledgebeyond classroom discussion. A required course taken by EE (Electrical Engineering) and CS(Computer Science) students at the University of Portland provides an excellent environment forassessing students’ ability to function on
the lecture prior to or after the computer-based worksheets affects studentunderstanding. Exit interviews were also conducted at the conclusion of the course after the finalexam. Learning styles of the students were assessed using the Felder-Silverman Index ofLearning Styles20.Research ResultsA preliminary analysis has been performed on the data collected by the participant observers,during the mid-semester focus groups, and with grades on student assignments. The participantobservers’ field notes indicate that the students in Section 2, which performed the computer labworksheet before receiving instructions in lecture, were more likely to pay attention during thesubsequent lecture and asked better questions of the instructor. Students in
Paper ID #13795Assessing Studio-based Learning in a Material/Energy Balance ClassesDr. Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University Richard Zollars has been on the faculty at Washington State University for 36 years. He has had numer- ous educational grants, including two in support of an on-going investigation of the use of studio-based learning techniques in regular classroom settings.Dr. Christopher Hundhausen, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State Uni-versity Christopher Hundhausen is an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington
Paper ID #25324Using or Viewing a Demonstration of Inquiry-Based Computer Simulations:The Effectiveness of Both in Learning Difficult Concepts in Heat TransferDr. Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University Dr. Nottis is an Educational Psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Education at Bucknell University. Her research has focused on meaningful learning in science and engineering education, approached from the perspective of Human Constructivism. She has authored several publications and given numerous presentations on the generation of analogies, misconceptions, and facilitating learning in science and engineering
AC 2009-352: THREE PRACTICAL AND EFFECTIVE RF AND EMCEXPERIMENTS FOR A COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSE ONELECTROMAGNETICS AND EMCKeith Hoover, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Keith Hoover received his B.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1971 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois in 1972 and 1976, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. His teaching and research interests include electromagnetic compatibility, instrumentation, and embedded systems.JianJian Song, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Paper ID #25374The Impact of Course Transformation on Student Learning and Success inFundamental Electrical Engineering/Computer Science CoursesDr. David O. Johnson, University of Kansas David O. Johnson is a Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Uni- versity of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, USA. He received his BSEE and MSEE from Kansas State University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kansas. Prior to two post-doctoral research appointments at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and in the Applied Linguis- tics Speech Laboratory at Northern
Paper ID #27198Project-Based Active Learning Techniques Enhance Computer ProgrammingAcademic and Career Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineer-ing StudentsMr. S. Cyrus Rezvanifar, University of Akron S. Cyrus Rezvanifar is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at The University of Akron. He has also served as a research assistant in Cleveland Clinic Akron General since 2016, where he conducts research on biomechanics of human knee joint and patellar instability. In 2016, he received a doctoral teaching fellowship from the College of Engineering at The University of Akron. Through this teaching program, he