Zhan, W., & Goulart, A. E. P., & Morgan, J. A., & Porter, J. R. (2011, June), Integrated Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the Electronics Engineering Technology Program  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18202

\bibitem{asee_peer_18202}
  Zhan, W., \& Goulart, A. E. P., \& Morgan, J. A., \& Porter, J. R. (2011, June), \emph{Integrated Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the Electronics Engineering Technology Program}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18202

Wei Zhan, Ana Elisa P. Goulart, Joseph A. Morgan, and Jay R Porter.  "Integrated Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the Electronics Engineering Technology Program".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://strategy.asee.org/18202 Internet.  28 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_18202}
  Wei Zhan, Ana Elisa P. Goulart, Joseph A. Morgan, and Jay R Porter.
  "Integrated Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the Electronics Engineering Technology Program".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://strategy.asee.org/18202 Internet.  28 May, 2024

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AB  -                                                    Vertical Integration of Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the                 Electronic Engineering Technology ProgramAbstractOne of the emphases for undergraduate Engineering Technology education is hands-onexperience gained through laboratory classes and course projects. Almost every junior or seniorlevel course in ET programs at ______ University has a course project. The curricula are thuspacked with projects each demanding the students’ time. During past two years, many studentscomplained about the work load they were assigned to in different course projects. Somestudents even tried to come up with strategies such as forming the same team for several projectswith certain team members working on one project only. This can hurt the motivation forlearning for the students; have a negative impact on future students recruiting; and create manyother problems. On the other hand, reducing the contents of the course projects is not the bestsolution to this problem since most of the faculty members involved felt that they assigned thestudents what was necessary for the students to learn in their courses. To address this problem, acurricular development effort has been started by several faculty members within the ElectronicEngineering Technology (EET) program. This paper discusses the detail of the curriculardevelopment effort, which includes the vertical integration of software tools used throughout theEET program and a common platform for course projects. Multisim/Ultiboard and LabVIEW arefirst introduced and used in a sophomore course. These software tools are then used in severalother junior and senior level courses. Through early and repeated exposure to these tools,students can learn to use them more effectively in solving various engineering problems. A DCpermanent magnetic motor is identified as one of the common platforms for multiple courseprojects. By using a common platform for different course projects, the students can spend muchless time to prepare for the course projects. It also allows for seamless integration of differentcourse projects into a continuous effort to build a system with multiple functionalities. Thestudents will learn the principle of motor in a sophomore class. Using simulation and laboratorytesting, the motor will be fully characterized. In a junior level instrumentation course, thestudents will then build sensors to monitor variables such as the motor speed, current, andtemperature. Signal conditioning circuit will be built and the signal will be sent to amicroprocessor for further processing. The microprocessor then sends the signal to a centralcontroller via fieldbus communication protocol. A communication and a control course projectscan be based on this common platform.Initial result shows that the student work load is reduced without compromising their learning.As an effort to continually improve our education program, the effectiveness of the proposedvertical curriculum integration will be quantitatively and qualitatively monitored through studentand faculty surveys, feedback from former students, and results of examinations.
AU  - Wei Zhan
AU  - Ana Elisa P. Goulart
AU  - Joseph A. Morgan
AU  - Jay R Porter
CY  - Vancouver, BC
DA  - 2011/06/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Integrated Laboratory Curricula and Course Projects across the Electronics Engineering Technology Program
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/18202
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--18202
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