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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

Engineering Education, January 1997, pp. 17-25.2. James L. Brickell, David B. Porter, Michael R. Reynolds and Richard D. Cosgrove, “Assigning Students to Groups for Engineering Design Projects: A Comparison of Five Methods,” Journal of Engineering Education, July, 1994, pp. 259-262.3. David Hunkeler and Julie E. Sharp, Assigning Functional Groups: The Influence of Group Size, Academic Record, Practical Experience, and Learning Style, Journal of Engineering Education, October, 1997, pp. 321-332.4. Mary McCaulley, “The MBTI and Individual Pathways in Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, July/August, 1990, pp. 537-542.5. R. M. Felder, G. N. Felder, and E. J. Dietz, “The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

Technology Council, EnsuringA Strong U.S. Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Workforce in the 21st Century. April, 2000. p. 3. 12. Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering andTechnology Development, Land of Plenty: Diversity as America’s Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering andTechnology, 2000. 13. National Science Foundation, Grant Proposal Guide. 14. Goodman Research Group, Final Report of the Women’s Experiences in College Engineering (WECE)Project, Cambridge, MA, April 2002. 15. Campbell, Patricia B., E. Jolly, L. Hoey, and L.K. Perlman, Upping the Numbers: Using Research-BasedDecision Making to Increase Diversity in the Quantitative Disciplines, A Report Commissioned by

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

University, 1990.8. G. Zhang, T. Anderson, M. Ohland, R. Carter and B. Thorndyke, “Identifying Factors Influencing Engineering Student Graduation and Retention: A Longitudinal and Cross-institutional Study,” Proceedings of 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2793, June 16-19, 2002, Montreal, Canada Page 9.1294.7“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering”CHIH-PING YEHDr. Yeh received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Taiwan, M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineeringfrom Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, M.S

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TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Shull; John Wise

of Instruction, 3rd Edition, 1990, Harpers Collins:NY.6. Rossett, Allison, Training Needs Assessment, 1987, Educational Technology Publications: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.7. Rogers, Everett M., Diffusion of Innovations, 4th Edition, 1995, The Free Press: NY. Page 9.573.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationJOHN C. WISEJohn Wise is the Director of Engineering Instructional Services at Penn State's College of Engineering. He earnedhis B. A. in Liberal Arts from

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vladimir Briller; John Carpinelli

the student; the instructor’s name; and the time when the course was taken. Page 9.1046.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering4. Limitations and Delimitations of the StudyThe primary limitation of this study is its quasi-experimental design, because students could notbe randomly assigned to DL and FTF courses.There are three major delimitations of the study: (a) Records prior to 1995F were not included. (b) Undergraduate records of graduate students (and vice-versa) were not

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Kozak

Segregation of Occupations. Handbook of Gender & Work. (Ed: G. N. Powell). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. 125-1417 American Association of University Women. (1992). How Schools Shortchange Girls, Executive Summary. 8 Phillips, J. A. & Wilson, N. (2000). Role Models in Engineering and Technology. Conference Proceedings. Washington DC: American Society for Engineering Education.9 Davis, B. (2002). A Shortage of Technology Job Candidates and an Abundance of Women in the Workplace: Why the Dilemma? Conference Proceedings. Washington DC: American Society for Engineering Education.10 Hanna, E. (2000). The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology (TARGET). Conference Proceedings

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

; Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1. Data for the effectiveness and attitude Group A (10 Students) – Control Group Satisfaction Effectiveness Efficiency Value AttitudeSatisfaction 0.656Effectiveness 0.316 0.746Efficiency 0.318 0.408 0.689Value 0.264 0.254 0.257 0.703Attitude 0.360 0.107 0.241 0.490 0.789 Group B (10 Students) – Study GroupSatisfaction 0.645Effectiveness 0.331

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Education (http://qemnetwork.qem.org/SPmonograph.html) 10. Ransdell, Lynda B, (2001) “Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED model to increase the Productivity in Health Education Faculty”, International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 4:276-282, http://www.iejhe.org 11. http://.wsu.edu/~aaa/scholarlydefinitions.htm 12. Middaugh, Michael F, (2001) “Understanding Faculty Productivity – Standards and Benchmarks for Colleges and Universities,” Jossey-Bass Publications, San FranciscoABI AGHAYEREAbi Aghayere is associate professor of civil engineering technology at Rochester Institute of Technology and theFaculty Associate for Scholarship in CAST. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Lagos,a S.M. in

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

Session 1392 Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE): Assessment Results on Women Engineering Students Beliefs Rose M. Marra, Cherith Moore,; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue University of Missouri – Columbia / The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionWomen in Engineering (WIE) programs around the United States are a crucial part of ourcountry's response to the need for more women in engineering professions1. For Women inEngineering (WIE) programs to be maximally effective, they must have access to validatedassessment instruments for measuring the effectiveness of their recruitment and retentionactivities for women in

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

in most of the developed countries [5, 6, 7]. There are several reasons to that:engineering profession is still an attractive one in terms of social status; engineers are employedin a large spectrum and not only in their own field; top management positions are generallyoccupied by engineers. This is why boys as well as girls continue to prefer engineeringdepartments to other fields of study. This explains why the enrolment rate in engineering inTurkey is not decreasing, as it is the case in most of the developed western countries. Yet theenrolment of women in engineering education is almost half of the overall women enrolment inhigher education in Turkey which is 42.6%.Kennedy and Parks [8] stated that the reasons of low female participation

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Marjorie Donovan; Oliver Hensley; James Otter

FirstAnnual Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives (ISETA)Proceedings, October 18-20, 2001, Indianapolis, IN.6. Ergish, G. A., “ Developing a Protocol for Evaluating the Efficacy of the Airforce’s FlyingCurriculum”, Epistecybernetics: A New Approach to Knowledge Stewardship. Lubbock, TX:Edited by Hensley D. O., Feder, C. B., and Bagert D. J. , 1997, 12 : 271 – 287.7. Ibeh, C. C., A. Komarek, J. Uhlrich, and P. Sherlock. 2001. Biodegradable Plastic Materials inBlends for Cost-Effective Low-Temperature Applications. JAMP 5,1, 35-40.8. http://www.surveymonkey.com,9. http://www.walkerinfo.com, “Measuring Relationships that Matter.”10. http://www.nbrii.com, “Customer Surveys.”CHRISTOPHER C. IBEHDr. Christopher Ibeh

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Session 2155 Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Engineering Education: Differentiating Characteristics Between Scientific Research and Engineering D. A. Keating,1 T. G. Stanford,1 J. M. Snellenberger,2 D. H. Quick,2 I. T. Davis,3 J. P. Tidwell,4 D. R. Depew,5 G. R. Bertoline,5 M. J. Dyrenfurth5 A. L. McHenry,6 D. D. Dunlap,7 S. J. Tricamo8 University of South Carolina 1/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 / Raytheon Missile Systems 3 The Boeing Company 4/ Purdue University 5 / Arizona State University East 6

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

1526 Development of Hands-On CFD Educational Inter face for Under gr aduate Engineer ing Cour ses and Labor ator ies Fr ed Ster n, Tao Xing, Don Yar br ough, Alr ic Rothmayer , Ganesh Rajagopalan, Shour ya Pr akash Otta, David Caughey, Rajesh Bhaskar an, Sonya Smith, Bar bar a Hutchings, Shane Moeykens Iowa/Iowa State/Cor nell/Howar d/FluentAbstr actDevelopment described of an educational interface for hands-on student experience withcomputational fluid dynamics (CFD) for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

Session 1725 TEACHING AND LEARNING ASPECTS FOR AN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSE ON DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY P. B. Ravikumar Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WIABSTRACTAn online Master of Engineering program is offered at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.The curriculum consists of core courses, technical emphasis courses, and elective courses.Curriculum improvements are made through revisions to existing courses and the introduction ofnew

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1660Table 1: Summary of Maximum Loads applied to Bridges Average Strength (*) Maximum Strength (**) Designed by Individuals (B) 88 160 Designed by Teams (A) 154 200 A/B 1.75 1.25 * Average Strength is the average of the ratio of maximum loads applied on bridges to weight of bridges

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

Session Number 2253 First-Year Students Who Leave Engineering: Learning Styles and Self-Reported Perceptions Kay C Dee, Glen A. Livesay Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118Abstract Many engineering programs/schools would like to reduce student attrition. Implementingsuccessful special courses or activities to retain students depends on identifying major reasonsfor student attrition. This study therefore sought to identify reasons cited by students for leavingthe School of Engineering at Tulane University, and explored whether retention of

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Secin Guncavdi

Developing Student Interest By Demonstration and Active ParticipationAbstract: It is very well known that developing and maintaining student interestis a challenging task for many engineering classes, especially for mandatoryclasses which are outside the students’ major. In this talk, a four-stage strategywill be presented. These stages include the concept based learning, multimediademonstration, experimental demonstration and active experiment participation.With the help of this planned approach, a better and more interesting atmospherefor learning can be created.Secin Guncavdi, Ph.D.Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin, Madisonsguncav@engr.wisc.edu

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

focus on the syntax for describinglogic blocks such as combinational circuits, flip-flops, and simple finite state machines as well ashow a synthesizer may infer logic from a VHDL description. Most students, even after theyhave learned the language features, still encounter tremendous difficulty when they begin to usethe VHDL to describe a digital system for synthesis. In this paper, we describe the essence ofmodeling digital functions and present a powerful concept, called clocking schedule, for writinga VHDL program for RTL and logic synthesis. This technique facilitates seamless integration ofall the modules in a digital design. A motion-guide project is used to demonstrate theapplications and effectiveness of the technique to RTL and logic

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Adeeb Rahman; Chris Papadopoulos; Faris Malhas

Teaching Mechanics Courses: Small Class Size vs. Large Lecture-Hall Format Adeeb Rahman, Chris Papadopoulos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI And Faris Malhas University of North Florida Jacksonville, FLIn an era of budget down-sizing at most state-run universities, enrollmentfluctuation in an unstable business climate, varying engineering studentpopulation size, or as a matter of engineering education philosophy, a naggingquestion presents itself time and time again; what is the proper class

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

Session 3155 Bringing Practitioners (and Practice) into the Curriculum Walter W. Massie, MSc, P.E. Offshore Engineering Curriculum Leader Delft University of Technology Delft, The NetherlandsAbstractMany of the Delft University of Technology curricula have a rich history of bringing practice intothe classroom. The most common and most obvious way that this is done in Delft is to seekcandidates for full professorships almost universally from industry as opposed to having themprogress ‘up through the ranks’ as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Session 1793 Innovative Strategies for Teaching Graphics Communications – Designing Residential and Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2003,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design processwith their

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Session Number 2408 The Switching Circuits of Biology Kathleen M. Kaplan, D.Sc., Lt Col John J. Kaplan (Ph.D., J.D.) USAF Howard University/USAFAbstractTeaching biology to undergraduate engineering students can be a daunting task. There are arange of concepts to learn that do not seem to have any relationship to engineering. But there is amapping between engineering and biology that is applicable for engineering students to study.By using biological data in switching circuits, engineering students can relate biology to familiarconcepts.Specifically within switching circuit concepts, engineering students seem to enjoy

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

introduces the graphical user interface (GUI) and the related concept of eventhandling. After two courses with a text-based focus, the introduction of visual components inthe third course provides an opportunity to excite students about programming. However, inorder to reach today’s students, one must understand that their perception of computers isdifferent than that once held by today’s faculty when they were entering the profession. Many ofour students have their conceptual images of computers formed primarily through theirinteractions with video games and GUI-based applications. Given this context, the use of gamesis an effective motivational tool as students now have the opportunity to study that which theyeasily relate to. Most games are both

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

developed the Ekranoplanvehicle project during a Technology Education course. An Ekranoplan or Wing-In-GroundEffect vehicle flies very close to a water surface. The vehicle uses design elements of bothairplanes and marine craft. Ground-effect flight enables a vehicle to carry either a larger payloador operate with greater fuel efficiency than a conventional airplane. The candidates testedseveral vehicle configurations, power sources and construction techniques. Vehicle constructionguidelines and curriculum outlines were developed to disseminate to other technology educators.The project has been used to teach the engineering design process to freshman students inWestern Washington University’s Engineering Technology Design Graphics

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

Session 2420 A Student-Designed Interactive Simulator for the Study of Queuing Theory and Other Applicationsi Jamielynn Savino, William Stefanko, Gordon Silverman Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, New York, 10471AbstractQueuing theory relates to the study of process congestion. Where engineering programs do nothave provision for a focused study of such problems, an interactive simulator can convey thebasic concepts without extraordinary or extended explanations

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

Document: 2004-2305 Software Engineering Emphasis for Engineering Computing Courses: An Open Letter to Engineering Educators William Hankley Department of Computing & Information Sciences Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 hankley@cis.ksu.eduAbstractSoftware is an important component for engineering development for all engineering fields, notjust for computing sciences. This paper addresses what might be included in a service course forengineering majors on the topic of software development

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

Session Number: 3659 Solar Simulator and I-V Measurement System For Large Area Solar Cell Testing M.G. Guvench, C. Gurcan*, K. Durgin and D. MacDonald* University of Southern Maine and *National Semiconductor, S.Portland AbstractThis paper describes the design, operation and use of a PC controlled test setup designed specifically tomeasure the I-V characteristics of large area solar cells operated under simulated solar irradiation for thepurpose of testing their quality and determining their optimal operational points for maximum

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Lim; James Kokernak; Dean Lewis; Abhijeet Golwelkar; Paul Schoch

Labor ator y Intr oduction to Embedded Contr ol Paul M. Schoch, Abhijeet Golwelkar , Linda Lim, Dean Lewis, J ames Koker nak* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/ * Advanced Ener gy Conver sionIntr oduction:LITEC, Laboratory Introduction to Embedded Control, is an introductory laboratory coursetaken by more than 500 engineering students per year, from all disciplines, at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. The course goals are: 1) engage the students, 2) provide a modernlaboratory experience, 3) reinforce engineering and science topics, and 4) introducemicrocontrollers. The fourth goal is based on the fact that embedded control is generic to allengineering

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Easton; John Stratton

Session No. 1648 Distance Learning: Facts, Failures, Foibles, and the Future Robert Easton and John Stratton College of Applied Science and Technology Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Within the last decade there has been a strong push for colleges and universities to providedistance-learning opportunities. While “correspondence” schools have been in existence formany years, the “brick and mortar” schools have traditionally felt the classroom setting was thepreferred and appropriate venue for higher-level education. The rapid growth of access to theInternet

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

Session 1532 Projects with Applications to Wireless Communications - An Innovative Approach to the Digital Design Course Kathleen A. Kramer and Derek R. Maxwell University of San DiegoAbstractAdvances in wireless and broadband communications have been fueled by the advances indigital design, with more and more aspects of modern communications systems relying upondigital techniques. Digital design work by electrical and computer engineers is thus oftenapplied to wireless and other communications systems. Efforts to make a junior-levelundergraduate course in digital