Implementation of a Project-Based Telecommunications Engineering Design Course

Aliakbarian, Hadi; Soh, Ping Jack; Farsi, Saeed; Xu, Hantao; Lil, Emmanuel H. E. M. J. Van; Nauwelaers, Bart; Vandenbosch, Guy A. E.; Schreurs, Dominique

doi:10.1109/te.2013.2262800

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“…There is extensive literature in different engineering disciplines illustrating the educational added value of design-oriented and project-based on students' gains and more specifically in the field of EE (Guzelgoz and Arslan 2009;Hosseinzadeh and Reza Hesamzadeh 2012;Aliakbarian et al 2014;Zhang, Thorp Hansen, and Andersen 2015). These practices highlight the application of PBL to courses including educational principles of starting with an ill-structured problem or assignment, in which students collaboratively work, for instance, on modelling power systems, implementing various power converter applications, or on how to tackle manpower requirements of a dynamic and ever-changing telecommunications and electromagnetics industry demands.…”

Section: Active Learning Approaches In Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring students’ engineering designs through open-ended assignments

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Jansen

2016

European Journal of Engineering Education

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This paper aims at presenting the experience of the Power Conversion project in teaching students to design a proof-of-principle contactless energy transfer system for the charging of electrical vehicles. The Power Conversion is a second-year electrical engineering (EE) project in which students are to gather and apply EE knowledge to design and test a system. This system is to work with power level and operates independent from an electricity grid. The instructional method used in this project is design-based learning (DBL). As an educational approach, DBL is to support students to gather and apply knowledge in openended assignments. The set-up of the project has gone through different modifications and iterations in three consecutive years regarding the organisation and supervision of the students. We have analysed the students' design products in the past three academic years in order to evaluate whether the project set-up and supervision have influenced students' designs. Results indicate that the open-ended character of the project has a positive influence on the designs especially regarding the criteria on efficiency, Maximum Power Point Tracking algorithm and power tracking. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Active Learning Approaches In Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring students’ engineering designs through open-ended assignments

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Jansen

2016

European Journal of Engineering Education

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“…The work described here examines practical work across four mandatory courses, unlike other studies applying active learning in the area of RF/electronics [11], [15]- [17], that just addressed one specific course. Obviously, this required detailed scheduling and coordination between the lecturers and planning of activities according to the course outcomes (defined in Section III as follows).…”

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“…This constitutes an active learning method [9]; the student must tackle the various pieces of the problem to find a solution, with the laboratory being a place for experimentation-not just a place in which to follow a set of predefined instructions [10]. While these statements served as the starting point for the work reported here, it is not a pure projectbased learning method such as that in [11]. The main goal of the Master's of Telecommunication Engineering program at the University of Deusto, Spain, is to train competent professionals to be able to design, develop and integrate telecommunications systems.…”

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Addressing Electronic Communications System Learning Through a Radar-Based Active Learning Project

2015

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In the Master's of Telecommunication Engineering program at the University of Deusto, Spain, courses in communication circuit design, electronic instrumentation, advanced systems for signal processing and radiocommunication systems allow students to acquire concepts crucial to the fields of electronics and communication. During the educational project presented in this paper, students build a continuous-wave frequency-modulation (CWFM) Doppler radar system from components as simple as ordinary cocoa cans and common electronics components placed on a breadboard without any soldering. One of the goals of the project is to stimulate students' interest in building an entire, completely functional communication system that integrates the knowledge acquired in the various courses and whose functioning they can check in real scenarios. This paper describes this learning project and the ways in which it helps students understand and connect all the concepts that underlie a fully operative communications system, thus meeting the competencies and learning outcomes of the courses involved in the project.

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“…For instance, color has been used to code components of circuit boards [30] and telecommunication systems [31]. Color has also been used to represent concept maps [32], singularities in robot movements [33], and terms in digital logic expressions on a K-map [34] as well as frames and phases in communications protocols [35], [36].…”

Section: Color Coding In Electrical Engineering Instructionmentioning

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Color Coding of Circuit Quantities in Introductory Circuit Analysis Instruction

2015

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Learning the analysis of electrical circuits represented by circuit diagrams is often challenging for novice students. An open research question in electrical circuit analysis instruction is whether color coding of the mathematical symbols (variables) that denote electrical quantities can improve circuit analysis learning. The present study compared two groups of high school students undergoing their first introductory learning of electrical circuit analysis. One group learned with circuit variables in black font. The other group learned with colored circuit variables, with blue font indicating variables related to voltage, red font indicating those related to current, and black font indicating those related to resistance. The color group achieved significantly higher post-test scores, gave higher ratings for liking the instruction and finding it helpful, and had lower ratings of cognitive load than the black-font group. These results indicate that color coding of the notations for quantities in electrical circuit diagrams aids the circuit analysis learning of novice students.Index Terms-Circuit diagram, electrical circuit analysis, font color, multiple representations, novice learners.

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Implementation of a Project-Based Telecommunications Engineering Design Course

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Exploring students’ engineering designs through open-ended assignments

Exploring students’ engineering designs through open-ended assignments

Addressing Electronic Communications System Learning Through a Radar-Based Active Learning Project

Color Coding of Circuit Quantities in Introductory Circuit Analysis Instruction

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