Paper ID #27623ABET Accreditation: Best Practices for A Systematic Coordinated Multi-Program ApproachDr. Petronella A. James-Okeke, Morgan State University Dr. Petronella James-Okeke serves as the Accreditation Coordinator for the School of Engineering, at Morgan State University (MSU), where she leads the 2019 multi-program accreditation process. Dr. James-Okeke previously served as the Assessments and Online Program, Faculty coordinator for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level, using both face-to-face and blended online learning instruction. She is an
processes. Dr. Davis is a licensed private pilot and performs research primarily in areas related to aviation. His current research at OU involves the design and development of a new GPS Ground Based Augmentation System utilizing feedback control and the design of instrumentation and data acquisition for navigational systems. Additionally, he serves as the ECE recruiting coordinator and one of the primary academic advisers for ECE students.Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma Mark B. Yeary (S’95M’00SM’03) received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively. Following his graduation
mathematicsteachers from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with workshops, teaching/learningstrategies and research experiences; improve student support research infrastructure, providestrong student support to increase retention and graduation; successfully transfer 40% of BSgraduates into graduate school; provide pre-college research activities for 1,008 students; impact1,200 economically-disadvantaged community members with careers in computing-related areas;and disseminate the Alliance’s model and best practices to other institutions in the Caribbean andnationwide.This paper will present the outcomes of the grant after one year of implementation in the areas ofpre-college research, Saturday research academy, and summer research program
semester. The course requires students to work in small design teams oftwo to solve a significant engineering problem at the undergraduate level. The group size is kept smallto make each student effectively contribute to the project and gain experience in different aspects ofengineering projects. A typical group initially proposes two to three projects by describing the initialthinking in one or two paragraphs along with drawing sketches and their sources cited. Students arefree to select project partners among the project's class. Groups also have the freedom to proposeprojects as long as they are related to their learned knowledge from the curriculum. However, theyneed to be appropriately challenging for the senior level graduating class. Their
-on class activities during the course. This methodology helps us assess the impact on theirperception regarding their abilities in the engineering design process. Finally, this study alsoexamines whether students’ course grades differed based on their preferred learning styles. Weaddress the following specific research questions:(1) Do project-based learning activities affect self-efficacy and confidence of students?(2) Do the course scores of students differ based on their preferred learning style?(3) Do students’ self-efficacy levels differ based on their preferred learning style?MeasuresThe instrumentations used for this study consisted of the following items: A demographic surveyand a self-efficacy assessment survey. The self-efficacy
University.Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University Kenneth A. Loparo is the Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Pro- fessor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial
AC 2008-1459: DEVELOPMENT OF A FRESHMAN AND PRE-FRESHMANRESEARCH AND DESIGN PROGRAM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGMary Baker, Texas Tech UniversityBrian Nutter, Texas Tech UniversityMohammed Saed, Texas Tech University Page 13.406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of a Freshman and Pre-Freshman Research and Design Program in Electrical EngineeringAbstractIt is well-known that involving students in activities and courses within their major earlyin their academic careers has a positive impact on student retention. We have developedseveral programs targeted at involving freshmen and pre-freshmen students in Electricaland Computer Engineering
Naval Surface Warfare Center. He is a licensed mechanical engineer in the state of Virginia.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the Uni- versity of Indianapolis and an affiliate Associate Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is active in engineering within K-12, serving on the TSA Board of Directors. He and his coauthors were awarded the William Elgin Wickenden award for 2014, recognizing the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education. He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award in 2013 for designing the nation’s first BS degree in Engineering Education. He was named NETI
was a Chief Engineer and Head of System Design and Optimization. Currently Dr. Khafizov is a Sr. Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include system de- sign, resource management algorithms, self-organizing systems, statistical learning, predictive modeling, and massive data analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 1 An Electrical Engineering Graduate Course Sequence in Integrated Circuits Targeted to Real-World Problems in Industry, Defense, and SecurityAbstractThis
was finding a motivated student able to get up tospeed quickly on FPGA design and assigning a project within an existing framework created bythe graduate student. The availability of the graduate student during the first six weeks of the Page 25.1389.3summer to assist the undergraduate student was also helpful.In the Fall 2010, another undergraduate student (MC) expressed interest in FPGAs throughlearning about CM’s work. An independent study for the Fall 2010 semester was set up for MCto learn how to design with FPGAs and an appropriate research project was assigned to him. Thecriteria for an appropriate project for an undergraduate is one
callfrom various technical reports on engineering education demands that U.S. higher education institutions produce this kind ofengineers. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for reforming and enhancing engineering education to address these needs. Thisreform effort is best served through a merging of engineering education with best practices in educational psychology. TheAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) is on board and fully supportive of the reform needs in engineering andcomputer science education. Accordingly, ABET now requires documentation of objectives and outcomes and associated directassessment of student learning in undergraduate programs. As such, we have designed a research-based system to meet
blind review policy) has had a strong commitment to sustainability issues on the institutional level andby individual faculty in their research. In 2009 the Institute for Sustainability wasestablished to foster research and curriculum on diverse impacts of economics, scienceand technology, and social equity on sustainability. Its mission is to “promote, facilitate,and develop educational, research, and university and community programs related tosustainability.” The Institute is committed to serving our campus community byincreasing interdisciplinary and cross-functional communication, and supporting andaiding in the development and application of sustainability practices within the universityand community. In past years the Institute has
Architecture and VLSI Design. His research interests include the areas of reconfigurable computing, mixed-signal and analog circuit design, and engineering education. Page 24.1023.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting Undergraduate Research in the Electrical Engineering CurriculumAbstractEngaging undergraduate students in meaningful research experiences is considered a high impacteducational practice. Benefits for the students include development of critical thinking skills,career preparation, improved retention within STEM
AC 2007-814: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PROGRAM OUTCOMEASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR AN ABET-ACCREDITED COMPUTERENGINEERING PROGRAMFadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine Fadi Kurdahi has been a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine since 1987. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Southern California in Computer Engineering. From 2004 till 2006 he was the ABET lead person for the Computer Engineering degree program in the EECS Department.Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine JUDY SHOEMAKER is Director of Research and Evaluation for the Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Irvine. Dr. Shoemaker
year program with emphasis on product development and corporate sponsorship and mentoring. He has also held leadership roles at HTC and Ericsson/Sony Ericsson. Greg is an established inventor and has filed over 80 patents. He also is co-author of the eBook ”A Reference Guide to the Internet of Things”. Greg holds an BS Electrical Engineering and MS Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. His graduate research focused on Biomedical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Industry-based Team Program Reviews for Capstone Design teamsIntroduction:Proper project management (PM) is a critical skill that will lead to success in senior designprojects
equipmentfailures.Although it is too early to assess the impact of the research experience on these students’ careers,the experience appears to have been a success. All four students reported a greater depth ofunderstanding of the concepts taught in electromagnetics and communications courses.Additionally, students gained valuable experience in developing and carrying out fieldexperiments—sometimes in less than ideal conditions—and as a result of this experience, somestudents expressed a desire to pursue a graduate degree. Designing this research project alsoprovided several valuable lessons to the instructors which will aid in the further development ofhands-on learning activities for electromagnetics and communications courses. Page
undergraduate course, wireless communication.This work will benefit a diverse population of students by motivating, engaging, enhancing theirlearning and skills as prescribed by the ABET. Therefore, the laboratory development is directly Page 15.1072.12aligned with the departmental and institutional priority of development, and has had animmediate local impact. The technology on which the lab development is based is cutting edge,demonstrating a viable example of adopting new technology and research to enhanceundergraduate STEM education. The platform employed for development, USRP boards, is lowcost; and the software used, GNU software radio, is free
projects that have motivated students to advance in research andcontinue their education pursuing graduate studies. As a matter of fact students have alreadypresented results from their scholarly work11,12.Some of the research projects motivated by the laboratory include topics like hybrid Page 11.418.5software/hardware approaches for teaching digital logic, implementation of multithreaded webservers using Java, implementation of integrated monitoring systems, studying the effects ofcongestion control on multimedia applications, and software/hardware simulation of multi-functioned calculators, among others.Each of the laboratory modules and course
recently developed and implemented in the3rd semester of the computer engineering program at DigiPen Institute of Technology forembedded systems design. The main objectives of the course are for students to identifyauthentic engineering problems, select one and characterize it to propose a solution through thedesign, implementation and testing of an embedded system of their own. They are expected toapply knowledge from prerequisite and concurrent courses, learn how to do research anddocument all their work via written technical reports. Furthermore, they acquire practice andtheoretical understanding through design and implementation.In this course students are required for the first time to complete a full design for a project oftheir own instead
. IntroductionTwo digital design courses are offered at Bucknell University: one is entitled “DigitalSystem Design” and the other is called “Advanced Digital Design.” Both courses consistof three hours of lectures and laboratories weekly. Digital System Design, offered to thejunior class, focuses on logic synthesis; schematic capture is used for design entry.“Advanced Digital Design,” offered to senior and graduate students, addresses system-level design methodologies; the detailed breakdown consists of VHDL, register-transfer-level design methodologies, advanced topics in logic synthesis, and technology mapping.This paper addresses the pedagogic considerations of teaching “Advanced DigitalDesign” using VHDL.The design description of a digital system may
. Systematic review techniques have recentlygained traction in the field of engineering education. A systematic review performed over aspecific area of practice can consolidate results from many studies into a synthesis of bestpractices.This paper presents the best practices for teaching introductory circuits which were identifiedthrough a systematic review of prior research. Relevant publications were identified andappraised with a set of coding criteria generated by the researchers. The coding results wereexamined and used to write a mixed-methods synthesis of consensus, disagreement, quality, andlimitations amongst studies identified by the systematic literature review. The results of thereview may inform educational techniques employed in post
Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Parallel Simulation of Many-core Processors: Integration of Research and EducationAbstractProviding undergraduate students with an opportunity to experience meaningful academicresearch has a potential impact on their future career choice. Our approach combines twoseemingly contradicting attributes: (i) to make it exciting, the effort targets a grand researchobjective; and (ii) to make the experience self-assuring and overall positive, the concrete taskhanded to a student is feasible, given their background and time constraints, while stillcontributing towards the grand objective. We believe that this can motivate a wider range ofundergraduate students, including
AC 2011-187: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT:AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (UAS) FOR VEHICLE TRACK-INGGeorge York, U.S. Air Force Academy George York, PhD, PE, became an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy, CO, in 2005. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1999. His research interests include the cooperative control of intelligent systems, digital signal processing, and embedded computer systems. He is a Senior Member IEEE.Daniel J. Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy Director of Academy Cetner for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Professor of Electrical and Computer En- gineering
or through the NSF grant. The relationships that are establishedbetween the mentors and the undergraduate students are crucial in motivating the students to dotheir best work and to increasing their interest level in the pursuit of careers in research. Thefaculty mentors are expected to foster this relationship to a point where the mentor becomes apotential reference for the students and/or their advisors in graduate school.Appropriate Projects: The intellectual focus area of the REU site must match the targetapplicant pool. In the case of the IREECE program, the projects were selected to appeal to youngstudents. The projects were selected to cover a broad spectrum of areas, such that participantswere likely to find at least one area of
support network that motivates them to succeed.Regardless of engineering discipline, students should graduate with engineering practice experience, theability to problem solve, and the ability to design. These three core competencies are also engineeringeducational objectives as dictated by ABET criteria21. Increasing the design component in theundergraduate curriculum better prepares graduates for engineering practice, the end result being a well-rounded engineer. Traditional engineering courses provided graduates with little, if any, experience inengineering application. Electrical and computer engineering courses and labs that have moved towardsan active learning approach through design and open-ended projects or labs offer the greatest
Carpenter and Raymond Hansen* {carpentera1, hansenr2}@wit.edu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering *Dept. of Computer Science and Networking Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAs cybersecurity grows as a specialty within electrical and computer engineering and computerscience, students increasingly choose to pursue projects in the area. These projects come in theform of class projects, senior design/capstone projects, and extracurricular research of varyingdegrees of difficulty and sub-genres of cybersecurity. However, it is easy for these cybersecurityprojects to put students in danger of violating laws or compromising equipment; thus, it is
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas. His current research interests include adaptive array processing, signal processing, and smart antennas.Prof. Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Reza Nekovei is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Texas A&M Univer- sity, Kingsville. He has many years of experience in developing graduate and undergraduate programs. Nekovei is currently co-PI for two NSF projects related to teaching by design research and development, one in nanotechnology (NSF-NUE), and another in robotics (NSF-CCLI). He was a senior Fulbright grantee at Bucharest Polytechnic University
description languages and microcontrollers. Formerly Mr. Van Ginneken was Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Magma Design Automation Inc. Before joining Magma, he was at Synopsys, where he worked in the Design Compiler group and the Advanced Technology Group. From 1989 to 1995 he was at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on logic synthesis. Mr. van Ginneken holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University.Nicholas James RiveraMr. Brian Michael Tugade, DigiPen Institute of Technology Page 26.90.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
short video. This generated far better results with students putting morethought into both the demonstrations and the descriptions of their work. Minimal guidance wasgiven in this first trial and, based on these first results, we compiled a best practices guide to set aminimum standard for future classes.Some key best practices we found were: • Keep reports concise and on topic to minimize the video length. • Videos should be no more than 5-8 minutes (for these projects anything longer was repetitive and unnecessarily impacted grading times). • When possible, use a screen recording app rather than an iPhone to take video of terminal operations so text can clearly be read. • Group presentations are possible using a Zoom
the project, surveytakers replied that their involvement would be counted as evidence of undergraduate researchexperience that will help them later for applying to graduate schools. However, the mostdominant responses were about the strong recruitment by the project staff and the strong appealof ML and its applications as a research area. When asked how many hours they had to spend per Page 11.544.10week while working on their research topics, answers ranged from 3 hours to 10 hours a week.Moreover, when asked about the best aspects of their participation, most students quoted thehands-on experience they gained in software