analog electronics. Bell and Horowitz [4] describetheir integration of projects into a non-major circuits course, dividing the laboratories into fourprojects. Indeed, Chen et al [5] reviewed 108 papers on implementing project-based learningacross engineering.The novelty in the proposed approach is the creation of as unified of a project as possible, in orderto show students that even in an introductory course, they could gain enough knowledge todevelop a very complex device using all aspects of electrical engineering. At the same time, thecourse does not compromise on the detail presented, making it a fully-fledged introduction tomost aspects of electrical engineering. In summary, there were two goals: • To empower students, as so many tasks
context of power systems curriculum development efforts to bridge the gapsof regional workforce needs 7. The paper primarily highlighted the effectiveness of studentoriented project based learning. Page 26.58.3Among the collaborative efforts, Mousavinezhad et al. described the work of the Electrical andComputer Engineering Department Heads Association with the support of the National ScienceFoundation in establishing a workshop series on the issues aimed at developing educational andresearch programs in this critical area of power and energy systems within Electrical andComputer Engineering 8.Another collaborative effort is the Consortium of
AC 2007-756: MOBIUS MICROSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY IN THECOMMERCIALIZATION OF GRADUATE RESEARCH IN ELECTRICALENGINEERINGMichael McCorquodale, Mobius Microsystems, Inc. Michael S. McCorquodale was born in Richardson, TX, on November 12, 1974. He received the B.S.E. degree with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. For the next year, he was with Hughes Space and Communications Co., El Segundo, CA, where he developed GHz InP and SiGe digital integrated circuits. In 1998, he began graduate work at the University of Michigan where he completed the M.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2000 and 2004, respectively, in the National
]. Y. Astatke, C. Scott, J. Ladeji-Osias, “Electric Circuits Online- Towards a completely Online Electrical Engineering Curriculum,” 2011 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, June 26-29, 2011.[11]. Y. Astatke, J. Ladeji-Osias, C. J. Scott, K. Abimbola, and K. Conner, “Developing and Teaching Sophomore Level Electrical Engineering Courses Completely Online”, Journal of Online Engineering Education, 2(2) 2011.[12]. The Mobile Studio Project: https://sites.google.com/a/mobilestudioproject.com/mobile- studio-project/[13]. National Instruments, myDAQTM: http://www.ni.com/mydaq/[14]. Digilent, Electronics ExplorerTM: http://www.digilentinc.com/eeboard/[15]. C. J. Bonk, The Perfect E
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Optimization, Design, and Engineering Education Lab) Group. His research group currently performs research in the areas of system design, manufacturing, and their respective education. His system design research focuses on developing computational representation and reasoning support for managing complex system design through the use of Model Based approaches. The goal of Dr. Morkos’ manufacturing research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of product and process representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions. On the engineering education front, Dr. Morkos’ research
. Page 25.198.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Applications of Modern Physics: a sophomore-level physics course and laboratory for electrical engineering studentsAbstractThe transition from lower-level to upper-level physics courses is difficult for many students asthe course material becomes more abstract, and the mathematics more sophisticated. In thispaper, we describe the development of a sophomore-level Applications of Modern Physicscourse that bridges the lower-level and upper-level curriculum for electrical engineering andphysics students. The course starts from the atom and quantum mechanics, building up to nano-scale systems, and finally solids and devices
monitoring personnel when prior establishedthresholds are exceeded. The IoT application platform that was used in this work is ThingWorxby PTC 10, and their academic program offers a host of IoT projects with varying difficulty levelsthat are designed to target students at different stages in their academic programs.Description of the ActivityAs part of our efforts to introduce pre-engineering freshman students to various disciplines inengineering, the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) at Seattle University offers an‘Introduction to Engineering’ course. Each engineering department hosts interactive sessionsthat include an overview of the discipline, curriculum, sub-disciplines and career pathways, and ahands-on activity session that
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why they learn math and how they apply the math skills to solve engineering-orientedproblems, it can increase their motivation and desire to study math while deepening theirmathematical comprehension. As part of a newly designed Engineering Technology Curriculum at the PennsylvaniaState University, a common freshman year has been designed between EET and MET students1.As part of this common year, two new courses were designed that give freshmen students a widebut limited depth to each of these respective disciplines and achieves all of the educationalobjectives mentioned above. These two new courses, Introduction to Electrical Engineering Technology andIntroduction to Mechanical Engineering Technology, are taken simultaneously
systems8.Many schools offer courses or programs in renewable energy. Hassan9 reported the formulationof a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering curriculum with a concentration on alternativeenergy. Somerton and Bernard10 discussed an alternative energy course at the Michigan StateUniversity which also introduced the related political, social, and economic issues. The courserequired students to complete a project on solar, wind, or fuel cell technology. Tamizhmani etal.11 at Arizona State University offered an introductory course in fuel cell technology whichincorporated a multi-disciplinary teaching approach. Shahidehpour and Li12 proposed setting upa world-class smart grid education and workforce training center at the Illinois Institute
University Dr. Sundaram is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Gannon Univer- sity. His areas of research include computational architectures for signal and image processing as well as novel methods to improve engineering education pedagogy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching of Design of Experiment to the First Year Electrical Engineering StudentsAbstract: In the traditional Electrical Engineering curriculum, courses are introduced and taughtprogressively from the most fundamental subjects, such as circuit theory, for example, to moreadvanced subjects such as power electronics and electric drives. To complement the teaching ofconcepts, laboratory
been createdas a learning tool (not a homework solver). It is intended to eventually provide a suite ofapplications that would aid Electrical and Computer Engineering students in the process of theireducation by providing them with tutorials and interactive applications where they can ‘practice’their new found knowledge.MotivationWithin the electrical and computer engineering curriculum, fundamental theories and conceptsare taught that provide tools to be used by students in their upcoming careers. These topics aretraditionally taught in a classroom by professors engaging in discussion with the student.However, a lack of resources exists outside of the classroom to aid the student in theunderstanding of these topics. Software packages like
consists of the coordinator andthe students during which the student would evaluate him or herself and together with the facultycoordinator would come up with plan of action to get more out of the learning communityexperience. During this meeting the faculty evaluator would evaluate students on their maturity,approach to learning, general attitude, and problem solving maturity. Finally the facultycoordinator would meet with the TAs and mentors and go over each student’s growth andachievements. The EELC assessment has been based on the evaluation outlined above, and useof authentic assessment of an Electrical Engineering project (typically building a Ring Launcher,AM Radio, or other project that requires students to grasp several EE concepts) but
majoring in Electrical Engineering. The teaching tool is designed to optimizestudents’ performance through an instant observation of and among the parameters oftransformers, dc machines, ac machines and transmission line models. The information and datacollected from survey and questionnaires were analyzed and used for the evaluation of attitudestoward the use of this media based teaching tool. Students have responded favorably to andexpressed their satisfaction with the developed software tool.IntroductionIn recent years and due to the evolving technology and its attendant introduction of new materialinto the curriculum, most colleges face a demand to optimize their curriculum and increase thecontent of courses. This challenges educators to
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methodsfor the production of carbon nanotubes were the subject of two active research projects at theuniversity15, 16. The nanotechnology experiment described in this work is based on the results andmethods from these projects.Carbon nanotubes are mostly produced by chemical vapor deposition17, laser ablation18, or arcdischarge. Using the arc-discharge, carbon nanotubes are synthesized by striking an electric arcbetween two graphite electrodes in an inert atmosphere. High temperatures developed betweenthe electrodes and high current densities allow formation of carbon nanotubes as deposits on thecathode as well as on the walls of a reaction chamber19. There are reported results on the arc-discharge method in various media like helium, argon, liquid
Paper ID #6190Using a Virtual Platform for Teaching Electrical Machines and Power Sys-tems CoursesDr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute – Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project
holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Hassan worked for five years at General Electric where he graduated from their Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP) and then worked as a gas turbine fleet management engineer. In addition to his technical role, Hassan supported the recruiting, interview, and selection process of the EEDP Program, where he mentored interns, co-ops and Edison associates from the Middle East and Africa regions by developing and teaching a technical training cur- riculum, providing guidance for graduate school applications, and providing
learning strategy, called PeerInstruction, in an undergraduate electric circuit analysis course offered at a large publicuniversity in Colombia. Peer Instruction is an instructional approach that fosters students’collaboration to increase conceptual understanding. Data was collected from three sectionsof the course mentioned above. In two sections, students attended a traditional class format(51 students) while another section (15 students) implemented the Peer Instructionmethodology. The research question driving this project was whether Peer Instructionwould produce significantly higher learning gains than the traditional blackboard and chalkapproach. A difference was determined using a quasi-experimental study comparing thelearning gains of the
, work reality, and projections? What aretheir expectations regarding physics teaching in their particular context? To what extentdoes the current format of physics courses meet these expectations? Therefore, this studyaims to analyze students' perceptions regarding developing a quarterly electricity andmagnetism course for an engineering program tailored to working students and deliveredonline.Previous studiesVergara & Zavala [7] studied the perception of a group of engineering students in an onlineevening modality for working students regarding flipped classroom materials provided forthem to prepare for synchronous sessions. Although these materials were generally well-received and evaluated positively, the students did not usually watch
the scholarship recipients have continued to progresssatisfactorily towards completion of their electrical engineering degrees. Page 15.460.2IntroductionOur engineering program at Seattle Pacific University aims to address the increasing technicalneeds of our country (Grose, 2006, NSB 2004), including the greater Seattle community, byspecifically increasing the number of community college transfer students in our engineeringprogram, a potentially untapped resource (Anderson-Rowland et al. 2004). The National ScienceFoundation has supported this effort through a grant in its S-STEM program. The goal of thegrant, Engaging the Community to Achieve
Designing Effective Electrical Engineering Laboratories Using Challenge- based instruction that Reflect Engineering Process Lason L. Watai, Arthur J. Brodersen, Sean P. Brophy Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TNI. IntroductionIn electrical engineering, physical lab courses should provide a multi-facet environment thatenables students to apply concepts and principles to design, synthesize and analyze electricalcircuits and systems, and gain practical “hands-on” experience, knowledge, and skills and givestudents “a feel” for problem solving. However, students are often ill prepared to perform thelabs and few resources are available for students to learn how to
[cited; Available from: http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/productoverview/N6.htm.33. Russell, M., A. Goldberg, and K. O'Connor, Computer-based testing and validity: a look back into the future. Assessment in Education, 2003. 10(3): p. 279-293.34. Kruhlak, R., et al. Online Practice and Assessment in First Year Physics. in Canadian Association of Physicists Congress. 2005. Vancouver, Canada.35. Gordijn, J. and W. Nijhof, Effects of complex feedback on computer-assisted modular instruction. Computers and Education, 2002. 39(2): p. 183-200.36. Chen, P.M., An automated feedback system for computer organization projects. IEEE Transactions on Education, 2004. 47(2): p. 232-240
curriculum with the goal ofprovide students with content that is up to date and relevant to their field of study. A combinationof lectures, laboratory experiments, and course management software is used.Discuss real-world applications that are straightforward extensions of fundamental ideas.Examples should establish a clear relationship between EET and non-EET disciplines, and bealigned with the focus of technology degrees, which is on hands-on oriented learning with littleemphasis in math analysis. Show students why electrical engineering is relevant to their careers,and involve them in lecture demonstrations. Emphasize “transferable skills” and their relevanceto future careers: robotics, information system management. The use of examples
Paper ID #25648Visualizing Power-Quality Phenomena in a Hands-On Electric Power Sys-tems LaboratoryMr. Thomas Vernon Cook, University of Pittsburgh I am a Electrical Engineering Masters student in the Electric Power program at the University of Pitts- burgh. I spent the last year helping to develop a hands on learning environment and curriculum for engineering students of all disciplines. My current research is in power electronic conversion for small spacecraft applications.Dr. Robert J. Kerestes, University of Pittsburgh Robert Kerestes, PhD, is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served
each year, soit is possible to start the unified sequence at the beginning or middle of the 2nd year, or at thebeginning of the 3rd year. It is considered essential that all Robotics Engineering majorscomplete all four core courses before beginning a Capstone Design project in their 4th year.While this may appear to lack flexibility, it is currently considered essential to the underlyingphilosophy of the Robotics Engineering program as each course builds directly on the precedingcourse – reinforcing and extending robotics concepts in the true sense of a spiral curriculum. Sofar, our experience has indicated that by tightly integrating the electrical, mechanical andcomputer concepts in each course in a way that shows students how each concept
that an electronicstechnician needs, or for that matter, first defining what an electronics technician does. Again, thisissue does not effect the two-year ABET programs as much since they are inclined to emphasizethe basics for two years and tend to defer the applications of the technology to the upper-levelfour-year programs. These curriculum issues will be addressed in more detail later in varioussections of this paper.How have ET faculty reacted to the problem of declining enrollment? During the last decade,across the nation, numerous legacy electronics technology programs at the two-year level haveopted to become Cisco and A+ based computer networking and repair programs by adding theseoptions to their degree offerings. Many faculty in ET