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An Innovative Approach for Teaching Some Concepts of Digital Design Laboratory Course in 2+2 Program Using a Portable Laboratory Instrumentation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) and Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

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Neda Bazyar Shourabi Pennsylvania State University, York

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Dr. Bazyar Shourabi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University/York Campus. Her current research is focusing on Smart cities and engineering education.

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Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E. Morgan State University

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Abstract

Experimental Centric based Instructional Pedagogy (ECP) with portable laboratory instrumentation provides a real hands-on experience to obtain a practical understanding of the concepts at an economic cost. This paper presents the adaptation of ECP to introduce commercial ADALM 1K Active Learning Module to the computer science students in a Digital Design Laboratory course in Fall 2023 for the first time in an Engineering department at a university teaching such concepts. The paper includes a new approach for implementation of a subtractor using Full adders and ADALM 1K Active Learning Module. Prior to working on this experiment, the students have become familiar with subtractor, half adder and full adder in Introduction Digital Systems course. These concepts come together and are solidified by the Implementation of a subtractor using full adder and ADALM 1K exercise. To conducive the project students majoring in Computer Science were worked with full adders IC, breadboards to connect circuits, and ADALM 1K Active Learning Module.

Keywords: Experiment-centered pedagogy, Digital Design Laboratory, Motivate and increase learning, engineering education.

Bazyar Shourabi, N., & Owolabi, O. A. (2024, June), An Innovative Approach for Teaching Some Concepts of Digital Design Laboratory Course in 2+2 Program Using a Portable Laboratory Instrumentation Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46562

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