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IEEE Transactions on Education

August 2012 Volume 55, Number 3

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Number of articles: 14

  1. Facilitating Constructive Alignment in Power Systems Engineering Education Using Free and Open-Source Software

    L Vanfretti & F Milano

    This paper describes how the use of free and open-source software (FOSS) can facilitate the application of constructive alignment theory in power systems engineering education by enabling the deep ... More

    pp. 309-318

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  2. Improving Students with Rubric-Based Self-Assessment and Oral Feedback

    S Barney, M Khurum, K Petersen, M Unterkalmsteiner & R Jabangwe

    Rubrics and oral feedback are approaches to help students improve performance and meet learning outcomes. However, their effect on the actual improvement achieved is inconclusive. This paper... More

    pp. 319-325

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  3. Pipelined CPU Design with FPGA in Teaching Computer Architecture

    Jong Hyuk Lee, Seung Eun Lee, Heon Chang Yu & Taeweon Suh

    This paper presents a pipelined CPU design project with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) system in a computer architecture course. The class project is a five-stage pipelined 32-bit MIPS... More

    pp. 341-348

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  4. MATLAB-Based Program for Teaching Autocorrelation Function and Noise Concepts

    G Jovanovic Dolecek

    An attractive MATLAB-based tool for teaching the basics of autocorrelation function and noise concepts is presented in this paper. This tool enhances traditional in-classroom lecturing. The... More

    pp. 349-356

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  5. A Training Tool and Methodology to Allow Concurrent Multidisciplinary Experimental Projects in Engineering Education

    F J. Maseda, Martija & Martija

    This paper describes a novel Electrical Machine and Power Electronic Training Tool (EM&PE[subscript TT]), a methodology for using it, and associated experimental educational activities. The... More

    pp. 357-364

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  6. Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness of a Nationwide Innovative Education Program on Image Display Technology

    Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Tzy-Ling Chen, Li-An Chiu, San-Liang Lee & An-Bang Wang

    The study presented here explored a student evaluation of the teaching effectiveness of a nationwide innovative education program on image display technology in Taiwan. Using survey data collected ... More

    pp. 365-369

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  7. Performance Analysis of Saturated Induction Motors by Virtual Tests

    M Ojaghi, J Faiz, M Kazemi & M Rezaei

    Many undergraduate-level electrical machines textbooks give detailed treatments of the performance of induction motors. Students can deepen this understanding of motor performance by performing the... More

    pp. 370-377

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  8. A Project-Based Learning Approach to Programmable Logic Design and Computer Architecture

    C M. Kellett

    This paper describes a course in programmable logic design and computer architecture as it is taught at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The course is designed around a major design project ... More

    pp. 378-383

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  9. Factors that Influence Dissemination in Engineering Education

    B T. Hazen, Yun Wu & C S. Sankar

    Although the need for new educational materials and methods in engineering education is increasing, the process of disseminating (making target groups become aware of, accept, and use) these... More

    pp. 384-393

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  10. Supporting Undergraduate Computer Architecture Students Using a Visual MIPS64 CPU Simulator

    D Patti, A Spadaccini, M Palesi, F Fazzino & Catania

    The topics of computer architecture are always taught using an Assembly dialect as an example. The most commonly used textbooks in this field use the MIPS64 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to... More

    pp. 406-411

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  11. Lessons Learned in the Use of WIRIS Quizzes to Upgrade Moodle to Solve Electrical Circuits

    S Bogarra Rodriguez, M Corbalan Fuertes, A Font Piera, Plaza Garcia & F J. A. Solsona

    WIRIS quizzes are an online mathematics tool for educational purposes that upgrade Moodle quizzes and allow the development of personalized quizzes using random data and conditional instructions.... More

    pp. 412-417

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  12. An Innovative Method of Teaching Electronic System Design with PSoC

    Zhaohui Ye & Chengying Hua

    Programmable system-on-chip (PSoC), which provides a microprocessor and programmable analog and digital peripheral functions in a single chip, is very convenient for mixed-signal electronic system ... More

    pp. 418-424

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  13. A Middleware Platform for Providing Mobile and Embedded Computing Instruction to Software Engineering Students

    C A. Mattmann, N Medvidovic, S Malek, G Edwards & S Banerjee

    As embedded software systems have grown in number, complexity, and importance in the modern world, a corresponding need to teach computer science students how to effectively engineer such systems... More

    pp. 425-435

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  14. Improving a Computer Networks Course Using the Partov Simulation Engine

    B Momeni & M Kharrazi

    Computer networks courses are hard to teach as there are many details in the protocols and techniques involved that are difficult to grasp. Employing programming assignments as part of the course... More

    pp. 436-443

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