This Innovative Practice Work in Progress Paper describes the development and assessment of a web-based simulation lab exercise introducing basic quantum computing concepts in a sophomore signals and systems course. Specifically, students make the connection between quantum computing and signals and systems theory through a comparative study of using Quantum Fourier Transforms and Fast Fourier Tra...Show More
This Research to Practice Full Paper presents the design and initial evaluation of engaging students in a random signal analysis course through a set of application-oriented mini-projects involving real-world examples. Many students struggle learning the concepts of probability and random processes due to its abstract nature. The goal of these mini-projects is to help students better understand ab...Show More
This Research to Practice Full Paper presents the experience and evaluation of teaching python to freshman engineering students in an Introduction to Engineering course. Most students enrolled in this course are first-semester aerospace, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering students, with one third (more than half in female students) have zero prior programming experience. A four-week m...Show More
This Innovative Practice Work in Progress Paper describes the experience and assessment of introducing machine learning concepts in a sophomore signals and systems course. Advanced machine learning concepts are typically covered in graduate level courses. However, as machine learning applications become more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is important to expose students to machine lear...Show More
This innovative practice paper describes the development of online undergraduate laboratories in electrical engineering as a work in progress. Our goal is to create electrical engineering labs for the online program that are equivalent to on-campus labs. Equivalence implies that labs support the same cognitive and affective learning outcomes for both on-campus and online students. We addressed thi...Show More
This research to practice full paper presents the experience and evaluation of engaging students in a theoretical online signals and systems course through a set of application-oriented MATLAB lab exercises. Learning signals and systems concepts often poses challenges to students due to the abstract nature of the concepts and students' lack of prior experience. Many interventions have been propose...Show More