Paper ID #20924First-year Redesign: LabVIEW, myRIO, EML, and MoreMr. John Edward Miller, Baylor University John Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Baylor Univer- sity. He teaches a wide range of courses, including the first-year program, mid-level laboratories, control systems, and capstone design. These courses lean heavily on hands-on experience and active learning. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Baylor University, and currently serves as the Assistant Chair for the department.Dr. Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University Carolyn Skurla is
worldengineering fundamentals in order to solve real-world actual EXPLORE a contrarian view of accepted solutionsproblems. Some instructors who teach the senior-level CONNECTIONSengineering courses such as senior capstone design course ENTREPRENEURIAL INTEGRATE information from manyand elective courses may adapt and/or use the project-based MINDSET sources to gain insightlearning (PTBL) and/or experiential learning (EL) for the
Paper ID #20954Improving the Student Experience in First Year Engineering Design CoursesJames R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology James R. McCusker is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Since joining Wentworth in 2010, he has been heavily involved with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Prof. Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology Professor Carpenter is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technol- ogy. In 2012, he completed his PhD
skills in their schooling and future positions. Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2016, pp. 757-760. [15] Zheng, G., Zhang, C., & Li, L. “Practicing and evaluating soft skills in IT capstone projects”, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education September, 2015, ACKNOWLEDGMENT ,pp. 109-113.The authors would like to acknowledge the students that [16] Fisher, D. R., & Bagiati, A
taking the course [3].Improving on our earlier work of designing a new digital AE/ME students could also use this knowledge in follow-oncircuit design laboratory sequence for first-year engineering or capstone design [4] courses.students and non-majors [1], we deployed three types of The students learned how to integrate sensors, motors,digital circuits laboratory sequences across four laboratory and encoders with state-of-the-art digital hardware. Usingsections at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University—a small, electronic design automation (EDA) tools lowered the levelteaching university in the Southwest, focused on the aero- of abstraction through the use of "virtual wiring" and intro-space and mechanical