Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University

orwith peers, as well as any type of advising done by faculty or alumni of the school. The term“Social” includes recreational activities as well as cohort-building and team-building activities.“Professional Skills” includes any interactions designed to build students’ knowledge of industryor their preparation for it, such as tours or resume-writing, and “College Knowledge”encompasses any non-class related activities designed to prepare students for success as collegestudents. Note that some activities, as described in papers, may be ambiguous, as there can beoverlap between Advising and College Knowledge, for example. It is also noted that programsmay include components that were not noted in the papers, as they were not a focus of

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucia Rut Capdevila, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

individually and then in groups Ask questions to peers and/or discuss in groups Study in groups Other (please specify)4) How did you prepare for AE 30 Exam 2? (Please select all that apply) Go over everything (pre-lecture activities, textbook, quizzes, notes, slides/lecture notes, and labs) Watch videos Review previous class material Made flash cards Review notes Re-write notes Review slides Read the textbook Study a few hours Rework examples and/or labs Problem solving in groups Study in groups Search for related videos on Youtube Review Solutions Other (please specify)5) Based on your AE 30 Exam 2 grade, did your preparation/study methods work? ◦ Yes ◦ NoThe following question, # 6

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

the free body diagrams of the separate elements of the system,writing the system of equations, and arriving at the correct answer. But something stillnagged me – why did the systems behave differently? After some thought anddiscussion, I either realized or it was suggested to me that since the scenario with the 50Nweight had more mass than the one with the 50N force, it should accelerate more slowly.This seemed satisfying, and it is this sense of deeper understanding that I challenge mystudents to attain.But even here there is a price. Many students, including myself, believe that appealing tothe deeper understanding is the expected approach and shun long-hand procedure as acrutch. Even during my graduate studies, I clung to a notion that I

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington; Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Mathematics Department was formed in 2002, and it is akey component of our active mathematics learning community. Currently it has 130 activestudent members, and that number is roughly half of the number of UTA mathematics majors.The average number of the SURGE scholars has been 20, which is about 7% of all UTAmathematics majors and about 15% of the MAA Chapter members. All of our SURGE scholarsare very active in the MAA Student Chapter, and they hold key leadership positions there.Over the last ten years, our MAA Chapter has become a great venue for mathematics majors tointeract with faculty, build a peer support network, develop study skills, enhance professionaldevelopment, perform community services, organize social activities, gain leadership

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin O'Connor, University of Rochester; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Derek Seward, University of Rochester; Lisa Perhamus, University of Rochester; Reed Stevens, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

UW.Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D. is a Consulting Associate Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, specializing in quantitative and qualitative research methods. His areas of intellectual interest include engineering education, community-based research, and education evaluation and policy. His extensive teaching experience includes courses on qualitative research methods (for graduate students), and on writing and critical thinking (for students ranging from high school to professionals). He lives in southeast Utah. He can be contacted at: garyL@stanfordalumni.org.Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines Heidi G. Loshbaugh is an Assistant Research

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

means; and (iii) are accessible and easy to upgrade. Emmett7presents a detailed literature review on the use of ePortfolios along with student experiences atthe Queensland University of Technology. While pointing to the need to remain competitive in aknowledge based society, he draws attention to the paradigm shift in education from the one ofteacher centered to that of learner centered. The American Association for Higher Education8has outlined the standards and specification for ePortfolios. Leifer, et al.9 at Stanford present atriple loop learning model within the framework of an ePortfolio for effective learning. Theouter first loop of learning involves peer to peer interaction; the second intermediate loop haspeer to coach interaction

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 22

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Fatemeh Khalkhal, San Francisco State University; Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

transcripts using a dual approach that incorporates bothChatGPT and traditional human analysis techniques.Data AnalysisThe research team created the ARM Development Guidelines to streamline the quick ARMmethod-based analysis as follows: Write a short (~1-2 pages) Analytic Research Memo (ARM) about any noteworthy codes that emerged from your coding. Potential things to keep in mind as you write your ARM include: • Who is this interviewee? How do they self-identify (both with regards to their engineering identities and their non-engineering identities)? • How do they explain or justify their identities? • How do they perceive engineering? Does this perception relate to how they see themselves as engineers (or not see themselves as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine; Athena Wong, University of California, Irvine; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Analia E. Rao, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

community colleges holds great potential in contributingto the desired diversification of the engineering workforce[1]. However, transfer studentscommonly experience a “transfer shock” when transitioning from community colleges to four-year bachelor-degree awarding institutions. They need to learn to navigate a new environment[2] and often struggle to gain access to departments, people and guidance to help them with thistransition [3,4]. Due to the fact that they are also joining already existing social networks, theyoften also experience a lack of personal relationships with faculty and a lack of social integrationinto their peer group [3,4]. All these extra challenges can affect their academic achievement,retention, and degree attainment

Conference Session

Unique Pedagogies for Mechanics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gargac, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

defined skill from 2021 (“Use vectors to evaluate the positions of links in amechanism.”) was split into multiple, specific skills for the 2022 course: • R3: Write vector loop equations for a mechanism of four or more links • R4: Calculate the position of points on a mechanism with four or more links • R5: Perform position analysis on a crank slider • R8-C: Perform analytical position analysis on a four-bar linkage using MATLABPractically, applying this best practice improved the consistency of test questions for the mastery-skills.As a result, students demonstrated higher pass rates for the mastery skills and reported higher levels ofcompetence on post course surveys (see Section 3).Best Practice 2: Lecture materials should

Conference Session

Robotics and Circuits

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Lara Wujciak, Tufts University; Briana M Bouchard, Tufts University; Chris Buergin Rogers, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

improving problem-solving skills, critical thinking, monitoring one’s own progress, or goal-setting [1], [3]. Forexample, an instructor might provide a worksheet where the student writes weekly goals to helpdevelop their goal-setting skills. The student may learn how to effectively set goals which couldhelp in many areas of learning. Domain-specific scaffolding is instructional guidance that isspecific to one domain [1], [3]. It aims to make understanding complex concepts in that domainmore attainable. For example, in a computer science environment, it could look like “fill-in-the-blank” code or black-boxing code. There are many techniques within scaffolding, and below wewill detail those relevant to our course.On an individual level, scaffolding

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Edwards; Hussein Vastani; Manuel Perez-Quinones

test data. Virginia Tech is actively exploring an alternativeapproach where students write their own test cases and are graded in part on the quality of theirown testing efforts. As a result, we have designed and implemented a general-purposeautomated grading tool and incorporated it into Web-CAT, the Web-based Center for AutomatedTesting5.Web-CAT is a web-based application implemented using Apple’s WebObjects framework21. Itis designed to be language independent, and is currently used for grading program submissionsin six languages, including Java and C++. For Java, it uses open-source tools such asCheckstyle2 and PMD14 to perform static analysis of coding and commenting style and to spotpotential coding issues, and uses the commercial tool

Conference Session

ECE-Student Learning and Academic Performance

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Mikhelson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

the camera module to outputimages in the proper format and configuring the WiFi module to accept images over SPI. Then,the WiFi module is instructed to connect to the internet, and the program waits until theconnection is complete. After a connection is made, the firmware waits until a user connects tothe webcam streaming website (i.e. a client opens a websocket connection to the server). Oncethat happens, the firmware grabs images from the camera module, writes them to the WiFimodule, and streams them to the website.While all of these operations are looping, there is an asynchronous button that allows the camerato be provisioned to a new WiFi network. The firmware must detect this press at any time and putthe WiFi module into provisioning

Conference Session

Intersections of Identity and Student Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session 10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaylla Cantilina, University of Michigan; Robert Loweth, University of Michigan

, we collected personal memory data, archival data,conversational data, and reflection data. We analyzed these data using intersectionality as ananalytic framework to identify specific ways that structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, andinterpersonal domains of power operated within the authors’ experiences and impacted theirpathways to graduate school. The two authors possessed similar and comparable engineeringexperiences in addition to extensive interests outside of engineering. However, while RL wasoften viewed as credible and competent as an engineer by peers and faculty, KC consistentlystruggled to receive similar recognition as an engineer. The authors' different experiences reflectintersectional inequities that impacted the authors

Conference Session

Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerard Dorvè-Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia; Maricela Bañuelos, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

, stereotype threat, and impostersyndrome [2], [3]. The systemic racism that BLI students experience manifests through STEMcurriculums that center the experiences of white1 people and exclude minoritized populations,BLI stereotypes that assume academic incompetence, persistent microaggressions, intersectionaloppression, exclusion and isolation, and lack of representation among faculty and peers of thesame race or ethnicity [4]–[7]. Systemic racism leads to heightened stereotype threat andimposter syndrome in BLI students, by increasing the pressure to prove one's academic ability,1 We deliberately chose to capitalize the terms Black, Latinx, and Indigenous while intentionally using lowercasewhen discussing whites and whiteness. In doing so, we resist

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Wawire, University of Houston; Jerrod Henderson, University of Houston; Brian McGowan, American University; Kristin Schaefer, University of Houston; Le Shorn Benjamin

identities are closely tied toengineering as a choice [3]. Performance/Competence is related to students’ self-efficacy beliefswhich have been shown to be important for identity development and engineering as a major ofchoice [24], [25]. Last, recognition refers to how others (e.g., parents, teachers, peers,instructors) view students and how this is important to engineering identity [3], [8], [26]. Theseconstructs lay the groundwork for how we position this work in progress.3. MethodologyWe approached this exploratory study from a constructivist epistemological perspective [27]using narrative inquiry [28]. Narrative inquiry is a research methodology to understand theindividual experiences of participants via conversations that are situated and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Wickenheiser, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

this, we examine methods for promoting an individual team member’s skilldevelopment, confidence, and goal attainment while contributing positively to their team’scohesion and product. We include three data sources: timely surveys of students’ goals, progresstowards those goals, and how they align with their perceived contributions to the team; teamchecklists and manufacturing plans updated in real time to include specific tasks, ownership,status, and any assistance required; and students’ reflective documentation of shared knowledge,skills, and mental models. These data are complemented by peer assessments occurring at majorproject milestones [11]. Combined, these instruments are used to track student and team growthin the context of team

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students have more time with the faculty member, more time to interact withand learn from their peers, and more time to ask questions and clarify concepts in class [17].Advantages for the faculty member are that they can witness in real-time where studentsstruggle, identify learning bottlenecks and address them with the class, and incorporate just-in-time teaching strategies [18]. There are also disadvantages documented in the literature. Facultylose some control over the presentation of content as they focus on student needs and just-in-timeinstruction where helping students learn may become more important than the content covered[19]. There are also disadvantages for students, because they must become more self-directedlearners and take more

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Management Department at Southern PolytechnicState University in Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Banik completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Construction Engineering fromIowa State University. He has eleven years working experience in both private and public sector as an engineerand/or construction manager. He is a registered professional engineer. Dr. Banik has twenty nine refereedpublications in the area of civil engineering and construction management. He presented some of his research inseveral well-known and peer reviewed conferences like ASEE, ASCE, ASC, WEFTEC and CIB, and publishedarticles in those conference proceedings. He presented his research all over the world including the United States,Canada, Greece, Italy, Brazil and the Philippines.APPENDIX

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina; Elena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2009-2124: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING WITH VIDEO PROJECTSBill Genereux, Kansas State University, SalinaElena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame Page 14.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Enhancing Student Learning with Video ProjectsAbstractThis paper will explore the use of digital video as a teaching tool in college courses. Two verydifferent courses of potential interest to engineering educators are cited as examples. The first isa foreign language course offered at the University of Notre Dame which uses video technologyto encourage students to write, produce, and star in original Spanish language "telenovelas" orday-time dramas

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and STEM education. She has published 20 peer-reviewed publications in these areas, and her research has been funded by the NSF, AFRL, and LA-BOR. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control, two premier conferences in the controls community. She is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, and ASEE.Prof. Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University Kirk St.Amant is a Professor and Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University (USA) where he is also a Research Faculty member with Tech’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS). He researches how cognition affects usability and the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University, Chico; Kevin Orner, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, include student peer review of writing, and emphasize technical writing skills.Instructor Insights and Future RecommendationsFuture studies are needed to understand the importance of culturally-relevant pedagogy for localand international experiences in environmental engineering education. This could be done byexploring differences in student performance between groups that conduct in-country visits andgroups that do not. Alternatively, comparisons could be made to assess student performancewhile addressing local versus international environmental issues to better understand theimportance of global engagement. Local issues could focus on environmental problemsimpacting marginalized communities (e.g., water contamination issues in rural

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

I2C question in TCES430 exam Fig. 2. A programming I2C question in exam checking Individual effortsOne feature of our teaching of µPs/µCs is that students are required to write to low level registers directlyinstead of calling existing library functions. Still using I2C lab as an example, students needed to generatethe right sequences of calling functions in transmitting/receiving data as shown below in Fig. 3, with allthe functions writing to low levels by referring to datasheets [12], as shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 3. Implementing I2C communication by calling functions in main() Fig. 4. Example code segments of developing I2C functions by writing to registers directlyWe note here that when the microcontroller

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vishal R Mehta, Ohio Northern University; David R Mikesell P.E., Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, environmental, and societal impact of manufacturing.For this activity, students formed themselves into teams of 2-3 students. Part of the lecture timewas devoted in the beginning to explain students about the module, rubrics, assessments anddeliverables. A feedback on student progress was given in week 3 during in class lecture time.Module activities were performed out of class majority of the time. The project stages were asfollows: (i) Week 1-2- Types of Souvenirs-Manufacturing process decided and e-mailed.(ii) Week 3-4- the economic and environmental, impact of manufacturing –paper submission.(iii) Week 5- Report and Presentation. Guidelines about how to write a bid were also given [9].These are given in Appendix 1.To jump start student discussion

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assessments that enhance

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

conference papers (both in your technical field andwithin ASEE). Expect mixed results. I personally have heard that they do not count, thatthey count for half a publication, and that they count as a full publication. Guessing thatthey do count for something, the author has tried to present a couple of technical andASEE conference papers per year. If anything, it gives you visibility among peers thatmay be called upon to write letters about your scholarly work.When you go up for your mid-term review, letters are usually written about you fromyour departmental tenure committee, department chair, college tenure committee, anddean. Find out how to get copies of those letters. They usually offer some advice that willhelp you revise your plan to get

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

developed with the assistance of industrialrepresentatives and faculty that are teaching and administrating the senior design courses.IntroductionDuring the late 1980s and early 1990s significant attention was being given to products producedand manufacturing processes used in the United States. Seminars, class sessions, andpresentations were being given on methods to improve US products and processes. Industry waslearning and adapting Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s1 statistical methods and principles. Notedspeakers such as Tom Peters were writing books and providing lectures on “In Search ofExcellence,” 2,3 “A Passion for Excellence,”3 and “A Passion for Customers.”3 Similarlyengineering educational institutions were working to improve their curriculum

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

trio of reading, writing, and arithmetic (or Italian high finance: how many silverpointpencils can you buy for 120 soldi? and why should you care!).I. IntroductionStarting with four seminal figures—Giorgio Vasari,1 Goethe, Freud, and Kenneth Clark 2—and afactual chronology of Leonardo’s life, the seminar examined LdV from five perspectives rangingfrom generally agreed-upon facts to a provocative “inside his head” approach. Subsequentcomparisons with passages in da Vinci’s Notebooks, the Florentine State Archives,contemporaneous letters, and eyewitness accounts helped shed light not only on the five slantsprovided above, but also on his creative process.A figure such as Leonardo can inspire students to view engineering as an expansive

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Yaeger; Rose M. Marra; Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

the learning process.1.2 Interactive, Student-Centered Learning “Student-centered instruction is a broad teaching approach that in- cludes substituting active learning for lectures, holding students re- Page 4.91.2 sponsible for their learning, and using self-paced and/or coopera- tive (team-based) learning” (Felder and Brent, p. 43). [12]Meyers and Jones [13] describe active learning as a way to provide “opportunities for students totalk and listen, read, write, and reflect as they approach course content—all of which requirestudents to apply what they are learning” (p. 1

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K Lape, Harvey Mudd College; David L Harris, Harvey Mudd College; Matthew Joseph Keeter, Harvey Mudd College; Madeleine S Ong, Harvey Mudd College; Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

to mechanical, chemical, electrical, andcomputer engineering, computer science, design, controls, and energy. Course goals includeexposing students to many facets of engineering and computer science to aid in major choice,developing practical technical skills relevant to subsequent projects, generating enthusiasm forfuture studies, and developing teamwork, design, presentation, and technical writing skills.Through a series of labs including drawing and 3D printing a robot chassis, soldering amicrocontroller circuit board, assembling a gear box, building sensor circuits, machining andcharacterizing hydrogen proton exchange membranes (PEM) fuel cells, C programming, andgenerating and detecting Gold codes, the students design, build, test, and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 16

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University; Reginald F. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Tonya L. Peeples, Pennsylvania State University; Cynthia Howard Reed, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

writing and communication; and methodological development.Dr. Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University JULIO V. URBINA, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Julio Urbina received his BSEE degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru, in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1996 and 2002, respectively. He has worked at Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Arecibo Observatory, and University of Arkansas. Dr. Urbina’s research has used radio and radar technologies to study the Earth’s middle and upper atmosphere. He conducts research in RF and