Journal ArticleAdvances in Engineering Education · October 1, 2021
This paper reports on a two-year project to form teaching development groups in engineering departments. The goal of each group was to discuss and implement interactive teaching strategies (e.g., in-class problem solving). The research design used meetings ...
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Journal ArticleLearning and Individual Differences · May 1, 2016
The current study empirically tested Greene, Azevedo, and Turney-Purta's (2008) combined theory of personal epistemology development among a sample of college engineering students (N = 917). Participants were invited to complete surveys assessing personal ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2015
Exposure to meaningful, societally relevant applications can increase student motivation and improve learning outcomes. Here, we describe assessment results that evaluate a pedagogical framework based on the NAE Grand Challenges, in which specific engineer ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2014
Student motivation - and associated educational outcomes - can be influenced by the degree to which course material connects to recognizable societal problems. The National Academy for Engineering has established the "Engineering Grand Challenges", a set o ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2014
Disseminating effective practices for engineering education requires developing pedagogical communities that bring together faculty from many institutions. Through an NSF-funded ASEE effort aimed at facilitating faculty development in research-based instru ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · September 24, 2013
A key finding within the current engineering education literature is that exposure to real-world applications - especially when presented in an active, experiential learning environment - increases both student interest and pedagogical effectiveness. This ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · August 25, 2011
This paper describes a pilot project, conducted during the Fall 2010 semester, that incorporated laboratory exercises inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges into an introductory digital signal processing course. The Challeng ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2011
This paper describes a pilot project, conducted during the Fall 2010 semester, that incorporated laboratory exercises inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges into an introductory digital signal processing course. The Challeng ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · August 30, 2010
In 2006, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University rolled out extensive revisions to the undergraduate curriculum. One of the overarching goals of the curriculum reform was to provide students with practical experiences solvi ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2010
In 2006, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University rolled out extensive revisions to the undergraduate curriculum. One of the overarching goals of the curriculum reform was to provide students with practical experiences solvi ...
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Journal ArticleAdvances in Engineering Education · 2010
The field of electrical and computer engineering has evolved significantly in the past two decades. This evolution has broadened the field of ECE, and subfields have seen deep penetration into very specialized areas. Remarkable devices and systems arising ...
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ConferenceProceedings Frontiers in Education Conference Fie · December 1, 2009
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University has completed a full-scale redesign of its undergraduate program based on the theme of Integrated Sensing and Information Processing. This theme provides a coherent, overarching framewor ...
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ConferenceProceedings Frontiers in Education Conference Fie · December 1, 2007
Traditional instructional methods present many obstacles to effective teaching and learning in engineering and computer science courses. These include a reliance on text-based or static mediums to convey equation- and graphics-heavy concepts, a disconnect ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2007
A new introductory course, Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been designed to provide a rigorous, integrated introduction to the ECE field. The course laboratory, described in this paper, both promotes concept integration and p ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Education · 2007
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Duke University, Durham, NC, is undergoing extensive curriculum revisions that incorporate novel content, organization, and teaching methods. The cornerstone of the new curriculum is a theme-based ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · 2007
A new introductory course, Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been designed to provide a rigorous, integrated introduction to the ECE field. The course laboratory, described in this paper, both promotes concept integration and p ...
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Conference2007 37TH ANNUAL FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, GLOBAL ENGINEERING : KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT BORDERS - OPPORTUNITIES WITHOUT PASSPORTS, VOLS 1- 4 · January 1, 2007Link to itemCite
ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · December 1, 2006
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Duke University is undergoing extensive curriculum revisions incorporating both new content and organization and innovative teaching methods. The cornerstone of the new curriculum is a theme-based ...
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Journal ArticleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · December 1, 2006
Signal processing concepts are often presented in a very mathematical and abstract format. This can discourage students from further exploration because of the apparent irrelevance to real-world problems. A common solution is to provide a hands-on laborato ...
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Journal Article2006 IEEE 12th Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 4th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop · December 1, 2006
Hardware-based laboratories have been successfully integrated into individual Digital Signal Processing (DSP) courses at many universities. Typically, most hardware-based DSP laboratory experiences are offered to upper-level students and focus on programmi ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2006
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Duke University is undergoing extensive curriculum revisions incorporating both new content and organization and innovative teaching methods. The cornerstone of the new curriculum is a theme-based ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2006
Signal processing concepts are often presented in a very mathematical and abstract format. This can discourage students from further exploration because of the apparent irrelevance to real-world problems. A common solution is to provide a hands-on laborato ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings Frontiers in Education Conference Fie · January 1, 2006
In the Spring of 2006, Tablet PCs were used in a new introductory course in Electrical and Computer Engineering to bridge the gap between lecture and laboratory activities. Additionally, the Tablet PCs facilitated active learning in the classroom, such as ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · 2005
Undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke University have benefited from the combination of curricular flexibility and rigorous coursework. The current curriculum is further limited in that the core courses do not offer a vertical ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2005
Hardware-based laboratories have been successfully integrated into individual Digital Signal Processing (DSP) courses at many universities. Typically, most hardware-based DSP laboratory experiences are offered to upper-level students and focus on programmi ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 20, 2004
The handheld F3 metal detector, developed by the MineLab Corporation, measures the responses of buried objects to electromagnetic pulses. These responses can be processed to determine whether a landmine is present. The simplest processor calculates the tot ...
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ConferenceProceedings Frontiers in Education Conference Fie · December 1, 2004
The goal of this work-in-progress is to develop an innovative ECE curriculum that focuses on ECE fundamentals within the construct of real-world integrated system design, analysis, and problem solving. The curriculum will be formulated around the theme of ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing · May 1, 2004
Interpretation of psychophysical data from impaired-hearing individuals on intensity discrimination tasks has been confounded by the fact that some impaired individuals' performance is near-normal in quiet, whereas for others, the difference limen is eleva ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · February 2004
Collecting and analyzing psychophysical data is a fundamental mechanism for the study of auditory processing. However, because this approach relies on human listening experiments, it can be costly in terms of time and money spent gathering the data. The de ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · January 1, 2004
Signal processing algorithms for hand-held mine detection sensors are described. The goals of the algorithms are to provide alarms to a human operator indicating the likelihood of the presence of a buried mine. Two modes of operations are considered: searc ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · November 26, 2003
A hand-held mine detector has two modes of operation: search and localization. In search mode, the goal is to identify areas where a buried mine might be located. Since minimizing the number of misses is a top priority, many regions identified in this mode ...
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Journal ArticleSpeech Communication · January 1, 2003
A theoretical analysis of auditory signal processing and the distortions introduced by various types of hearing impairments can aid in the design and development of digital hearing aids. In this paper, we investigate the differences between normal and impa ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2002
It is widely accepted that single sensors cannot simultaneously achieve both high detection rates and low false alarm rates for the landmine detection problem. Thus, in this paper we consider the fusion of two types of sensors, electromagnetic induction (E ...
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ConferenceICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings · January 1, 2002
The effect of cochlear hearing loss on intensity discrimination has been experimentally investigated and reported in the literature. It has been observed that the impairment configuration has a significant effect on a subject's discrimination abilities. In ...
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Conference7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2002 · January 1, 2002
Interpretation of psychophysical data from impaired-hearing individuals on intensity discrimination tasks has been confounded by the fact that some impaired individuals' performance is nearnormal in quiet, whereas for others, the difference limen is elevat ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 2001
As in many areas, performance of landmine detection algorithms is judged in terms of detection and false alarm rates. For the landmine detection problem, it is often the case that detectors satisfy one requirement at the cost of poor performance with regar ...
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ConferenceICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings · January 1, 2001
In this paper, we have investigated the differences between normal and impaired auditory processing for a frequency discrimination task by analyzing the responses of a computational auditory model using signal detection theory. Two detectors, one using all ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · 2000
In this study, an attempt is made to optimize the presentation of information to the operator and to predict improved performance prior to extensive experimental testing. It is shown that by supplying the sensor response more appropriately to the listener, ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · 2000
In this study, an attempt is made to optimize the presentation of information to the operator and to predict improved performance prior to extensive experimental testing. It is shown that by supplying the sensor response more appropriately to the listener, ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · December 1999
In order to develop improved remediation techniques for hearing impairment, auditory researchers must gain a greater understanding of the relation between the psychophysics of hearing and the underlying physiology. One approach to studying the auditory sys ...
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