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Session 3232 Semester Long Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Micheal Parten Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University

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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University began stand- alone project laboratories in the early 1960s. The project lab structure has continued to evolve over the past 40 years. 1-9 Students take 5, 3-hour credit laboratories not directly associated with any lecture course. Although the laboratories have no directly associated lecture course, they do have pre and co-requisites. In addition, the first 3 labs have general areas of specialization. In the senior labs, a student may have only one project for 2 semesters. The objectives of the ECE laboratories include the ability to: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve practical electrical engineering problems. This includes the planning, specification, design, implementation, and operation of systems, components, and/or processes that meet performance, cost, time, safety, and quality requirements.

2. Communicate effectively through oral presentations and group discussions.

3. Communicate effectively through written reports and other documents.

4. Design and conduct scientific and engineering experiments, and to analyze and interpret the resulting data.

5. Function and communicate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

6. Interact with other students, faculty and practicing professionals on professional and ethical responsibility issues.

7. Recognize the need for, and ability to engage in, perpetual learning by working on projects, both individually and within multidisciplinary teams, for which they have no prior experience and developing ways to learn.

8. Use statistical techniques to represent, analyze and interpret data.

A recent, new development for the first 3 labs is to have only one, comprehensive project over the whole semester. How this is done to effectively cover the many different objectives of the laboratories is the topic of this paper. Some specific projects used in the labs will be presented

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Parten, M. (2002, June), Semester Long Projects In Electrical And Computer Engineering Laboratories Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10518