In order to support and advance the significant revolution in many ECE curricula, the ECE laboratory role, purpose, and mission must undertake a similar evolution. New pedagogies, test and measurement platforms, and entrepreneurial mindsets are driving innovation within and outside of the classroom. The ECE laboratory is uniquely positioned to capitalize on these changes and foster undergraduate passion and creativity, but thought must be given as to how best to address this evolution while being constrained by shrinking budgets and external competition. This session aims to look at ways that traditional ECE labs can be re-imagined to become more flexible and adaptive in order to support varied laboratory styles, as well as broadening use for lectures, flipped classrooms, design studios, and makerspaces.
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Organizers:
Matt Lamparter
Lab Director
Bucknell University
Matt Lamparter is the Lab Director for the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Bucknell University. In addition to teaching students practical fabrication and design skills, and managing equipment, components, and laboratory spaces for the ECE department, Matt manages one of three makerspaces on Bucknell’s campus. He holds a BS EE from Bucknell and an MS EE from Columbia University.
Mark C. Johnson
Director of Instructional Laboratories
Purdue University
Dr. Mark C. Johnson is the Director of Instructional Laboratories for the School of ECE at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue in 1998 doing research that focused on low power VLSI design and leakage control. He previously taught at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and has served on the technical staff for Thomson Consumer Electronics and the Boeing Company. His current work focuses on laboratory curricula and on using long term projects to expose students to industry practice, especially in the area of System-on-Chip design.
Ramsin Khoshabeh
Director ECE Makerspace
University of California, San Diego
Ramsin Khoshabeh received his PhD from the ECE department at UC San Diego in 2012, specializing in computer vision and machine learning for medical applications. He currently serves as the Director of the ECE Makerspace at UC San Diego. In addition to overseeing the operations of the lab, Ramsin also teaches numerous experientially-focused courses covering topics such as basic electronics and prototyping, wearable sensors, Python programming, full-stack web development, real-time signal processing, machine learning and vision, human-centered product engineering, and even agile business planning. Prior to entering the workforce at UC San Diego, Ramsin was part of several tech/biotech startups and consulted with a number of local companies on computer vision and machine learning solutions.
Mark Liu
Assistant Director ECE Makerspace
University of California, San Diego
Mark Liu current manages UC San Diego’s ECE Makerspace, where students are taught how to use the latest in digital prototyping equipment in a large variety of hands on engineering classes. He comes from a background of working at hardware startups where he spent most of his time designing and building functional prototypes as fast as possible. Taking that experience, he now helps students do the same, as well as providing support to researchers and other projects on campus.
Truong Nguyen
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Truong Nguyen came to the Jacobs School in 2001. He manages the Video Processing Group, and teaches courses associated with the Signal Image Processing Program (SIP). He is a 1995 recipient of an NSF career award and is co-author of a popular book: Wavelets and Filter Banks, and author of several matlab-based toolboxes on image compression, electrocardiagram compression, and filter bank design. He also holds a patent on an efficient design method for wavelets and filter banks and several patents on wavelet applications including compression and signal analysis. He received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1989.