2011 IEEE International Conference on
Sunday, June 5
5:00pm-7:00pm: Registration and Welcome Reception
Monday, June 6
8:00-8:30am:
Registration
and Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45am: Introduction and Welcome
Alex K. Jones, University of Pittsburgh, General Chair
8:45-9:45am: Keynote Address
Jan Rabaey, University of California at Berkeley
9:45-10:00am: Break
10:00-11:00am: Session 1: Sensor Networks and Education
Session Chair: TBA
Teaching for Evolution towards Embedded Multi-sensor Interfaces
Zeljko Zilic and Boris Karajica
Bluetooth Wireless Handset for People with Severe Motor Disabilities: Capstone Design Project for Rehabilitation Technology
Younghyun Kim, Jooyeon Lee, Youngshin Koh and Naehyuck Chang
Industrial Inspired Just-in-Time (JIT) Teaching
Alex K. Jones and Steven Levitan
11:00-11:30am: Break
11:30am-12:30pm: Session 2: Innovative Design Projects
Session Chair: TBA
Teaching Graphics Processing and Architecture using a Hardware Prototyping Approach
Michael Steffen, Phillip Jones and Joseph Zambreno
Advanced Logic Design through Hands-On Digital Music Synthesis
Walter Condley, Andrew Hill and Matthew Guthaus
Puzzle Solver Accelerators Make Excellent Capstone Design Projects
Soheil Ghiasi, Matin Hashemi and Volodymyr Khibin
12:30-2:00pm: Lunch
2:00-2:45pm: Session 3A : Posters
Session Chair: Matt Guthaus, University of California at Santa Cruz
What to Read? With Whom to Work? Where to Publish? - Scientific Techniques for Organizing and Conducting Engineering Research
Jong Hoon Ahnn and Miodrag Potkonjak
Teaching low voltage electronics: the case of the rectifier circuit
Adilson Jair Cardoso, Carlos Galup-Montoro and Márcio Cherem Schneider
A Bottom-up Approach to Digital Design with FPGA
Giuliano Donzellini and Domenico Ponta
A Hole in One: A Project-Based Class on Mechatronics
Gabriel Elkaim
Introducing Hardware Emulation to the ECE Curriculum
Mark Faust
Versatile March Test Generator for Hands-on Memory Testing Laboratory
Jean-Marc Galliere and Luigi Dilillo
Puzzle Solver Accelerators Make Excellent Capstone Design Projects
Soheil Ghiasi, Matin Hashemi and Volodymyr Khibin
An Undergraduate Embedded Systems Project
John Greco and John Nestor
FPAA chips and tools as the center of an Design-Based Analog Systems Education
Paul Hasler, Craig Schlottmann and Scott Koziol
Teaching Three-Dimensional System-in-Package Design Automation in a Semester Course
Shih-Hsu Huang, Wen-Pin Tu, Hua-Hsin Yeh and Chun-Hua Cheng
Learning Nanotechnology Through Crossbar-Based Architecture and Carbon Nanotube (CNT) FETs
Inseok Jung, Elizabeth Kim and Minsu Choi
Novel knowledge module on fusion of logic and memory to undergraduate students
D. Karunaratne, S. Rajaram, K. Kusmierek, P. De and S. Bhanja
The effects of time-compressed speech with visual supporting materials and learner pace control on learning achievement
Eunok Kim and Janghyun
Park
HDL Coding Guidelines for Student Projects
John Nestor
2:45-3:30pm: Session 3B : Posters
Creating a Mixed-Signal Test and Product Engineering Course
Tina Hudson, Bryan Copeland and Deidrick Solomon
From RTL to GDSII: An ASIC Design Course Development using Synopsys University Program
Jianchao Lu and Baris Taskin
Music Synthesizer for Digital Logic Design Course
Julius Marpaung, Louis Johnson, Sohum Sohoni and Sunilkumar Lakkakula
Logic Design as an Entry Point for Non-engineers: Increasing Diversity in Microelectronics Education and Research
Ani Nahapetian
Instructional Design with Practical Problems Using Hardware-in-the-Loop
Prawat Nagvajara, Kevin Cunningham and Swetha George
Introducing MicroBlaze as an Infrastructure for Performance Modeling
Fadi Obeidat and Robert Klenke
VEasy: a Tool Suite for Teaching VLSI Functional Verification
Samuel Pagliarini and Fernanda Kastensmidt
Introducing an Industry
Oriented Graduate Course: Testing of Digital Systems
Experience in
increase of practical hours for HDL course
Uljana Reinsalu and Peeter Ellervee
An Ontology-Based Intelligent Learning Object for Teaching the Basics of Digital Logic
Tarmo Robal, Ahto Kalja and Taavi Kann
ZONA – An Adaptable NoC-based Multiprocessor Addressed to Education on System-on-Chip Design
Ivan Saraiva Silva, Silvio Fernandes and Leonardo Casillo
SystemVerilog Assertion for Microarchitecture Education considering Situated Nature of Learning: A Senior Project
Ryuichi Takahashi and Yoshiyasu Takefuji
Teaching Hardware/Software Co-design of FPGA-based Chip Multiprocessors Using Configurable Processors
Xiaofang Wang
Application-Oriented Teaching of Embedded Systems
Kai-Chao Yang, Yu-Tsang Chang, Chien-Ming Wu, Chun-Ming Huang and Hua-Hsin Luo
2:00-3:30pm: Session 3C: Demonstrations
2:00-2:20pm: Teaching Graphics
Processing and Architecture using a Hardware Prototyping Approach
2:20-2:40pm: Bluetooth Wireless Handset for People with Severe Motor Disabilities: Capstone Design Project for Rehabilitation Technology
2:40-3:00pm: Interactive Application for Learning RTL Code Structures
Mark Johnson
3:30-4:00pm:
Break
4:00-5:40pm: Session 4: Teaching Methods and Educational Research
Session Chair: TBA
Invited Talk: Vital Electronics
Ted
Kochanski,
University
of
New Hampshire
Interactive Application for Learning RTL Code Structures
Mark Johnson
Workshop: Conducting and Publishing Educational Research
Tina Hudson
Note: all sessions will be held in
Marriot Hall Salon 2
Keynote Speaker
The Swarm and
What it Means to Microsystems Education
Abstract:
Mobile devices such as laptops, netbooks, tablets, smart phones and game consoles have become our de facto interface to the vast amount of information delivery and processing capabilities of the cloud. The move to mobility has been enabled by the dual forces of ubiquitous wireless connectivity combined with the increasing energy efficiency offered by Moore's law.
Yet, a major component of the mobile remains largely untapped: the capability to interact with the world immediately around us. A third layer of information acquisition and processing devices - commonly called the sensory swarm - is emerging, enabled by even more pervasive wireless networking and the introduction of novel ultra-low power technologies. This gives rise to the true emergence of concepts such as cyber-physical and bio-cyber systems, immersive computing, and augmented reality.
The
functionality
of
the
swarm
arises from connections of devices, leading to a convergence
between
Moore’s and Metcalfe’s laws, in which scaling refers not any longer to
the
number of transistors per chip, but rather to the number of
interconnected
devices. Enabling this fascinating
paradigm – which represents true wireless ubiquity – still requires
major
breakthroughs on a number of fronts. Equally important is the question
of how
to educate and train students with the broad background necessary to
cope with
the complexity of these emerging systems. This presentation will
present some
of perspectives on how this may be accomplished.
Biography:
Jan Rabaey
received his Ph.D degree in applied sciences from the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. After being connected to UC Berkeley as a
Visiting Research Engineer, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium.
In 1987, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley,
where he now holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship.
From 1999 until 2002, he served as the Associate Chair of the EECS Dept
of UC Berkeley. He is currently the scientific co-director of the
Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of
the FCRP Multiscale Systems Research Center (MuSyC).
He is the recipient of a wide range
of awards, amongst which IEEE
Fellow, the 2008 IEEE CAS Society Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the 2009
European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement
award, and the 2010 SIA University Researcher Award.
His research interests include the
conception and implementation of
next-generation integrated wireless systems.
Prof. Rabaey serves on the technical
advisory board of a range of
companies and research institutes focused in the areas of design
automation, semiconductor intellectual property and wireless systems.
Turning Great
Ideas into Educational Research
Abstract:
Everyone attending this conference has some great ideas for improving student learning and/or student perception in the microelectronics area. However, not everyone knows how to turn these great ideas into publishable research. In my experience as an associate editor for Transactions on Education, I have found three common difficulties with which authors struggle in producing journal quality work: (i) tying good ideas to the existing literature, (ii) sufficiently describing how the good ideas are being used in the educational setting and (iii) assessing the degree to which good ideas improve student performance and/or perception. In this workshop, we will discuss these common difficulties and methods to address them. Small group discussions will allow attendees to apply these methods to their own work.
Biography:
Tina Hudson received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in integrated circuit design. Upon completion of her degree, she went to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where strong undergraduate teaching is expected and well rewarded. After attending the National Science Foundation “Engineering Scholars Workshop” in 2000, she became committed to applying educational research techniques to engineering education. Since then, she has consistently produced publishable work at the conference and journal level and given on-campus workshops for RHIT colleagues helping new-hires learn the ropes for educational research. By reviewing many articles for educational conferences and journals, including being the associate editor for two special issues of Transactions on Education, she has seen many of the common mistakes that prevent good ideas from being publishable work.