Conference Session

Software & Web-based Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University; Michael Goryll, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

% Weekly Quizzes (7) 35% Quizzes (3) 15% Simulation Labs (5) 22% Simulation Labs (5) 15% Hardware Labs (5) 22% Hardware Labs (5) 20% Final Exam 20% Midterm Exam 20% Final Exam 20% Total 100% Total 100%In the online version, a syllabus quiz is used to make sure students understand the expectation ofthe class. Instead of giving homework assignments, the online course uses weekly quizzes tohold students accountable. All quizzes are multiple choice questions and are auto-graded. Thisensures prompt

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, campus climate, and electronic and online tools [7]. Student retentionand success are more probable if students are exposed to in-school social connections and groupactivities throughout their course of study. Such engagement helps to build relationships amongstudents and makes education an important part of their everyday lives.Hybrid courses offer some of the convenience of all-online courses without the complete loss offace-to-face contact [8]. Hybrid teaching style encompasses recording traditional lectures,providing complementary PowerPoint presentations and text materials, 24/7 online access tolectures, tailoring the teaching method to learning needs, higher level of class discussion,targeting needy areas and topics, maintaining

Conference Session

New ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Yuzhe Zhang, Gannon University; Jiawei Zhang, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

importance of power electronics technology in the processof power conditioning and controlling. The decentralized electric power system concept will beintroduced” quoted from the course syllabus. Topics related to doubly-fed-induction-generatorfor wind energy harvesting are also covered. The prerequisite of the course is circuit II and isoffered as a technical elective to undergraduate students. The knowledge linkage between the Page 24.427.2course and the rest of the ECE curriculum is shown in Figure 1. Besides circuits, senior electrical 1engineering

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

published online curriculum as well as catalog descriptions ofthe courses. Most of our analysis comes from that data. In several cases where the softwarecontent of a course was not clear from a catalog, we contacted the department chair by email orphone.We compared our results with the data from the version of the Curriculum Guidelines forUndergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering published by the Joint Task Group onComputer Engineering Curricula Version 2015 October 3.We provide a summary statement but we make no recommendations. We believe thisinformation will be useful to anyone developing a new computer engineering program or to thosewho are in the process of curricular revision.IntroductionThe ABET website currently lists 250

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

student artifacts used in the assessment, courseinformation such as syllabus and course grades, and the instructor’s assessment of thecompetencies being measured in that course, including a discussion of any in which targets arenot met. An example of the reports produced, which also include a file listing of relevant artifactsand course information, is given in the appendix. These files were stored on CDs, and wereevaluated by the computer engineering assessment committee at the beginning of the followingsemester. Any recommendations for improvement, either from the course instructor or from thecommittee, were documented in the meeting minutes, which were stored with the other ABETassessment files.This process was developed and some assessment

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Nigel Yu, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. The direct assessment results show consistent high quality student performance.The indirect assessment was done in the form of online course exit survey. Figure 12 shows thescreen shot of a small portion of the survey. The survey consists of 53 questions in sevencategories, including course outcomes, course items, course syllabus, course instruction, facultyitems, assessment techniques, overall evaluation, etc. The course exit survey was done for eachcourse for every semester. Figure 12 screen shot student course exit survey from EvalTools@Table 3 summarizes the average course exit survey score (in the scale of 5) for these threecourses from Fall 2010 to Fall 2012. It shows an overall evaluation of 905 and above. Whenanswering

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

topics. Supplying online resources minimizes the in-class time required, and peerreview reduces the instructor workload. While this work incorporates sustainability intointegrated circuit courses, it should generalize to other engineering courses, by asking students to Page 22.1404.2consider how their coursework relates to sustainability. The assessment data suggest studentsimprove their sustainability analysis skills.Sustainability Learning ObjectivesThe context for this work is the 3-unit lecture course, EE 306, titled Semiconductor DeviceElectronics and accompanied by a 1-unit laboratory course, EE 346, titled Semiconductor DeviceElectronics

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Vibhuti Dave, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and to gobeyond scores on an exam or homework assignment. Adams et al. utilized Schon’s reflectivepractitioner theory as a lens to understand and measure reflective practitioner behavior inengineering students engaged in design activities.1,16 Chen proposed using online tools such asWikis and Weblogs and a technique called Folio Thinking, to support reflective learning in anintroductory engineering design course.17 Folio Thinking is a pedagogical approach wherestudents create learning portfolios, with the end goal being to enhance students’ self-awarenessof their knowledge by making it explicit and visible for themselves as well as for others. Turns etal. specifically focus on reflection on experience as an intentional thinking process.1 They

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University; Nannette D'Imperio, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

employingstructures, and some exposure to dynamic arrays. The course grade is a weighted averagecalculated based on scores earned on weekly readiness assessments (15%), weekly homeworkassignments (20%), weekly quizzes (20%), and two exams (45%). The more challengingquizzes are allotted more time and administered as online timed take-home problems. The quizgrade is calculated after dropping the two lowest scores. Exams consist of two parts: (i) anobjective portion in the form of true-false and multiple choice questions, and (ii) a programmingportion. These parts are administered on different days. All programming submissions aregraded using a published “program check list,” which describes all required components andassociated point values to achieve an

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

as feedback. Lecture notes andreadings are posted in advance to allow efficient coverage of the theory and more time for in-class examples and assessment. In-class “board-work” using the document camera is scannedand placed on the class webpage. Electronic submission of homework and projects isencouraged, allowing students to make fewer trips to campus. Fourth, flexibility should beincorporated into the course syllabus. Most non-traditional students have outside commitmentssuch as work and family which require missing at least 1 class per semester. Allowing studentsto drop their worst exam, quiz, homework, etc., helps students overcome such absences. Finally,assessment needs to be an integral part of each course. Instructors need to

Conference Session

Curricular Advancements in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Paul Moses, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #31330Partner Selection and Group-Based Curriculum Design for EngineeringLaboratory CoursesDr. Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma Chad E. Davis received the BS degree in mechanical engineering, MS degree in electrical engineering, and PhD degree in engineering from the University of Oklahoma, in 1994, 2000, and 2007, respectively. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at OU and serves as one of the primary advisers for ECE students and serves on the ECE Undergraduate Studies Committee. He currently teaches technical courses in circuits, electromechanical

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

are graded based on the assignments, quizzes, presentations,poster and video/live demonstrations of their prototype. The complete syllabus for ECE220 L isin Appendix A.Through this methodology, students learn how to do research and implement their knowledgeinto a real design, they also develop and reinforce their management, documentation andpresentation skills through the hands-on work and assignments. They learn how to getknowledge, how to look for trustworthy information in books, datasheets, patents, and journals,as it will be required in industry and society. This is possible due to the role of faculty as anadvisor and evaluator instead of facilitator.Project description, outcomes and timelineIn the 2nd year project course, students are

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Phagan, ERAU; Thomas Yang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jianhua Liu, ERAU; Ilteris Demikiran, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, automated data collection and analysis, timely feedback, and easyupdate. The proposed assessment tool assists instructors to improve classroom instruction, andprovides students opportunities for self-evaluation and quality review of the course materials.The student performance in these online assessment assignments also provides valuable feedbackconcerning the quality, level of difficulty and appropriateness of assessment questions.Consequently, the assessment tool can be dynamically updated and improved during theimplementation phase. In our experiment, the questions designed for use in the web-basedassessment are targeted to specific learning objectives of the introductory circuit analysis course,as specified in the course syllabus. Therefore

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

concepts.This online assignments have video based coaching problems, tutorials with hints to guidestudents to learn the electrical circuit concepts and regular text book end of chapter homeworkproblems. As part of the course requirement, students are assigned to do the conceptual problemsto self-learn and to do more advanced problems to master the concepts. This mandatory requisitemakes them learn the chapter-materials in more in-depth. The aim of this study was to determinewhether this tool will indeed help students to learn the course materials to their own as well as totheir instructors’ satisfaction.This report will present information about the Mastering Engineering approach used in oursections and the weekly workload assigned to students. The

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Circuit Analysis

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eva Cosoroaba, University of Vermont

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

081 was that the instructor, who read and replied to the extra credit journal entries, addedtokens to the students stash (a column in the online grade center) whenever they earned a newtoken. The teaching assistant removed tokens whenever the students requested to use them, as wellas took care of all report grading. Without a trusted, well-organized and consistent teachingassistant who understands the educational value of this grading system with whom communicationis open and honest, this system will become difficult.IV. Implementation Changes in Future Course OfferingsEven though specs grading was positively received and succeeded in achieving the hoped outcome,some students (three) raised the issue of perceived performance pressure and

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Michael Majerich, Century for 21st Century Universities; Nathan VerDon Parrish, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

hands-on activities, and to enhance other forms of collaborative and active learning.Consistency in coverage had been a problem with this particular course, which is taught everyterm and has 8-9 sections of 45-50 students each. The instructors are senior PhD students, manyof whom are interested in academic careers. A survey of the instructors showed a largeinconsistency in coverage, upwards of 20% mismatch in topics between sections. High levels ofinconsistency across multiple sections of a course is not unusual even among experiencedinstructors when the syllabus is considered to be “packed with material.” Blending the coursewith all course lectures online and common homework and exams across all sections removesmost of the inconsistency across

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

in electronics has a one unit laboratory associated with it. This work results from effortsto enhance the lecture portion of the course. The most recent course syllabus details coursemechanics and how the course schedules reading, homework, quizzes, midterm exams, a finalexam, and the course project.4Project AssignmentsThe projects focus on digital electronics subsystems. Table 1 lists project problems assigned todate. Complete assignments and a subset of student work appear online.4 Not as significant as theVLSI projects students would complete in a senior level IC design course, the design projectspoint in the direction of VLSI design by requiring similar and simpler analysis and simulationsupport. The projects have wider scope than

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marc Lichtman, University of Maryland College Park; Travis Fredrick Collins, Analog Devices, Inc.; Robin Getz, Analog Devices, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

3.79 3.30 3.31 3.35 class. 5. Overall, this instructor was an 3.74 2.98 3.01 3.01 effective teacher. 6. The standards the instructor set for 0.95 1.15 1.17 1.16 students were... 7. Course guidelines were clearly 3.11 3.18 3.18 3.17 described in the syllabus. 8. The required texts (e.g., books, course packs, online resources) helped me 3.14 2.87 2.66 2.90 learn course material. 9

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; David Fritz, VA Tech

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

their tablet computers using commercial software packages. The electronics course,which already had a laboratory component, was also revised to incorporate more material ondigital electronics and microprocessors into the syllabus. Furthermore, the pedagogical approachto experimentation has been extended into the electronics laboratory portion of the course.A description of the circuits and electronics experiments that have been written to focus on theneeds and interests of the ME students will be provided. The authors will discuss theorganization of the laboratory portion of the course to manage the volume of students, totalingupwards of 600 students per semester, as the ME students join the ECE majors to obtainassistance as they debug their

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wong, Portland State University, ECE Department; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University, ECE Department; Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

course sequence thatwas introduced in the 2009-10 year.3. Course DevelopmentHistorically, the EAS 101 syllabus followed a traditional set of topics, such as problem solvingand data presentation. Rudimentary coverage of mechanical systems, electric circuits, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and statistics was provided. Other subjects included someprinciples of design, engineering economics, ethics, and a very short MATLAB tutorial. The CSprogramming course was devoted exclusively to teaching the fundamentals of computerprogramming, with UNIX serving as the development environment. These courses exhibited anumber of deficiencies for prospective ECE students: ● For those who were still undecided about engineering as a career path, the EAS and CS

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Zuofu Cheng

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Mukhopadhyay and D.N. Pinder, “Teaching engineering electromagnetics to information and communication engineering students at Massey university” [Online]. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228648052[3] ECE3025: Electromagnetics Course Syllabus in Georgia Tech. https://www.ece.gatech.edu/courses/course_outline/ECE3025[4] EECS 230: Electromagnetics I course in University of Michigan. https://ece.engin.umich.edu/academics/course-information/course-descriptions/eecs-230/[5] Electromagnetics and applications course in MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical- engineering-and-computer-science/6-013-electromagnetics-and-applications-spring- 2009/index.htm[6] M. Olszewska-Placha et al., "Open Access CAD, EM tools, and examples for

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

a new, creative approach to content coverage andorganization.4.1 Content CoverageGiven the goal of presenting ECE concepts in an integrated manner, it was clear that the newcourse could not be taught by sequentially introducing circuits and devices, followed by signalprocessing, electromagnetics, and digital logic, or any other similar area-by-area organization. Inother words, the syllabus could not be determined by simply lifting portions of the syllabi ofexisting core courses and appending them to each other. Rather, Fundamentals of ECEintroduces concepts in a very integrated manner, an approach reflected in the structure of the Page

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

courses.The feedback from the students and from the faculty using these modules has been so positivethat the state machine modules have now become mandatory for the course and have becomepart of the revised syllabus starting in Fall 2012. While protoboards themselves were only a toolto address the true topic of physical state machines, students did receive a valuable introductioninto physical systems. A modification that we have adopted in future offerings of the course has Page 25.89.12been to allow students to finish the lab in TA office hours if they did not finish the lab duringclass period. The fastest students start finishing the lab in about 25

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Barendt, Case Western Reserve University; Nigamanth Sridhar, Cleveland State University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

thebranch that contains the earliest instance of that file), but experience has shown that this structuregreatly facilitates the overall management of the course. Some simple automated scripts havebeen developed to help manage this structure and organization, keeping content synchronizedacross branches, as well as to perform some automated checks on the Courseware (e.g.,compliance to coding standards, integrity of internal cross-reference links, etc.).Courseware DeliveryEach week of the course addresses a new concept or technology with a lecture, including live-coding demonstrations, and accompanying Courseware including the assignment for the week(see Course Syllabus, below, for details). Courseware, including the solution for the previousweek and

Conference Session

Flipped Electrical and Computer Engineering Classrooms 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G Northrup, Western New England University; John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

was almost identical to one of the homework problems (numberschanged and sometimes slight changes in topology). The laboratory activities were unchangedand still included a mix of lab work and group problem solving. A midterm exam and a finalexam were given. Shown in Figure 1 is an excerpt from the course syllabus describing themethod of instruction. Method of Instruction: 1. Lecture classes will be a mixture of in class instruction and recorded lectures. Students will be responsible for checking the course management system classroom for recorded lectures that they must watch before attending class. Time will be allocated for in-class group problem solving

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

their sensor system, which is fabricated forthe students to populate. There are two main motivations for this. First, having their system on aPCB instead of a regular solderless breadboard helps to meet the weight requirements for theballoon launch. Second, providing students with early exposure to the PCB design process willimprove their efficiency in later projects by minimizing the time required to get a custom PCBup and running. Currently, a student’s first attempt at completing a PCB may come in their 3rd or4th year project when a more complex design is required. In such cases, their projectdevelopment time is greatly increased. The ECE 110 course was offered for the second time inthe Spring 2016 session. The syllabus for ECE 110 is in

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Hongwei Liao

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

’ answers are focused on timemanagement and other details of the course; we convey this advice to new students byattaching the wisest and wittiest statements to the syllabus. Of greater interest here is thestudent feedback that shows the wider perspective: “Take this course before solid mechanics, dynamics, and structures.” Page 23.1101.19 “Take this course before taking “Elements of Nuclear Engineering and   Radiological Sciences” and the math course in partial differential equations in Nuclear Engineering. The concepts learned in this course will help put you in the mindset of

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

San Jose State University Page 24.391.2 Developing and Implementing Effective Instructional Stratagems in STEMAbstractA student passage rate from 65% to above 90% requires student grade improvement of two-sigma. The different components of active learning techniques and the percentage of theiradditive standard deviations were considered over the past four semesters in an “Introduction toCircuit Analysis” course at San José State University (SJSU) to achieve such a result. A blendedmodel of learning by merging content from an online MOOC with in-class, team-basedinstruction as part of a required undergraduate circuit theory course

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

availability of the course instructor in helping the students withthe project is critical. The post-project test and informal interaction with the students at the endof the semester revealed that the project had played a vital role in integrating course concepts. Our overall conclusion is that with a carefully planned syllabus, course projects, and theavailability of student support resources, introducing reconfigurable computing to undergraduatecomputer engineering students can be a useful vehicle for teaching topics on parallel hardwareand parallel algorithms. We plan to make available online all the course materials developed forthe new course.Bibliography1. Douglass, S., “Introducing the Virtex-5 FPGA family”, Xcell Journal, pp. 8 -11

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

isreleased freely for educational purposes, such usage is permitted by copyright law.Fig. 4 shows screenshots from Version 6 of the game. As shown in Table 2, each version has atitle, and the last version is called Software Engineering. This is because it is taught, in the lastclass, after software engineering concepts are introduced in the last part of the course. Studentsrecognize that the waterfall model has not been used, which leads to a discussion of the IIDmodel. Other concepts, such as modularity and reusability, are exploited to introduce anothercomputer player, the final boss, to the game. As shown in Fig. 4, he is hard to beat. Fig. 4: Screenshots from Gorillas in MATLAB (Version 6), programmed by the author. 3.2. Syllabus