Cambron, M. E. (2024, July), Expanding Laboratory Experiences in Circuits and Networks  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48588

\bibitem{asee_peer_48588}
  Cambron, M. E. (2024, July), \emph{Expanding Laboratory Experiences in Circuits and Networks}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48588

Mark E Cambron.  "Expanding Laboratory Experiences in Circuits and Networks".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48588 Internet.  20 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_48588}
  Mark E Cambron.
  "Expanding Laboratory Experiences in Circuits and Networks".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48588 Internet.  20 Dec, 2024

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AB  - This abstract is for a GIFTS paper.  The Electrical Engineering Program at Western Kentucky University has a commitment to project based learning.   A part of this commitment is to provide strong laboratory experiences throughout the entire curriculum.  Efforts must be continually made to widen our curriculum and labs to better prepare students for life-long learning.  Curriculum development requires the ability to balance the desire to increase learning with a limited number of credit hours.  Western faces an additional challenge of expanding a curriculum while the Kentucky’s Council for Postsecondary Education is pushing for a decrease in the number of credit hours required to earn a bachelor’s degree.      

In the past year we have begun to spread out laboratory experiences into more courses.    This paper will look at the first curricular change being implemented using this concept.  The change is to our foundational circuits sequence.  We offer a two course seven (7) hour sequence in circuits and networks.   Previously the two course circuit sequence consists of two three lecture with a 1 hour lab offered with the initial course.  It was determined through the assessment process that the students would benefit from having a lab experience with both circuit courses.  The faculty believed that a hands-on experience in the first course was valuable for students being introduced to circuits for the first time.    It would also be valuable to have hands experience involving the concepts presented in the second course.   A new circuits sequence was developed and is currently being  implemented which split the lab hour between the two courses thus making each course three lectures hours and a half hour lab experience.    We believe that the sequence strengthened the curriculum.    The faculty believe that the number of labs will increase and the students will benefit from exposure to more concepts.   


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