Omer Farook is a member of the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, Nothwest. Farook received the diploma of licentiate in mechanical engineering and B.S. M.E. in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He further received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. in 1978 and 1983, respectively, from Illinois Institute of Technology. Farook's current interests are in the areas of embedded system design, hardware-software interfacing, digital communication, networking, image processing, and biometrics, C++, Python, PHP and Java languages. He has a keen interest in pedagogy and instruction delivery methods related to distance learning. He has a deep commitment to social justice and in achieving economic and educational equity.Dr. Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest Jai P. Agrawal is a professor in electrical and computer engineering technology at Purdue University Northwest. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1991, dissertation in power electronics. He also received M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1970 and 1968, respectively The pedagogy of the course delivery is based on "Interactive Learning Model", utilizing the methodology of Outcome Based Education. Outcome Based Education's end result is the students' design projects performed at the end of the course. The course is conducted in a lab or studio like settings, that integrates both lecture and laboratory work in the same settings. The paper elaborates the benefits derived through the pedagogical approaches of keeping the learner actively engaged in all aspects of discovery and design. The course interactively involves the learner in directing and defining the material under discourse.Paper provides a road map and serves as pointer to host of design tools that are available that can be incorporated in a similar freshman course offering for Engineering Technology and Engineering programs. Paper provides the content details in terms of topics covered as well as all the labs performed during the course. The paper presents the details of pedagogical approach that was implemented in successful implementation of this course.

Omer Farook is a member of the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, Calumet. Farook received the diploma of licentiate in mechanical engineering and B.S. M.E. in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He further received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. in 1978 and 1983, respectively, from Illinois Institute of Technology. Farook's current interests are in the areas of embedded system design, hardware-software interfacing, digital communication, networking, image processing, and biometrics, C++, Python, PHP and Java languages. He has a keen interest in pedagogy and instruction delivery methods related to distance learning.Dr. Jai P Agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology) Jai P. Agrawal is a professor in electrical and computer engineering technology at Purdue University, Calumet. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1991, dissertation in power electronics. He also received M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1970 and 1968, respectively. His expertise includes analog and digital electronics design, power electronics, nanophotonics, and optical/wireless networking systems. He has designed several models of high frequency oscilloscopes and other electronic test and measuring instruments as an entrepreneur. He has delivered invited short courses in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore. He is also the author of a textbook in power electronics, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers in IEEE journals and conferences. His current research is focused on renewable energy technology, smart energy grid. He had done projects on Data Encryption using Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) using Matlab simulation software. Being a co-author of this paper, he had familiarity with Cadence SPB 16.6 CIS software which is extremely useful in designing Schematics which are shown in this paper.He had familiarity with Homer Software, R-Programing etc,,. That is something outstanding about Naveen Kumar. Koyi, a co-author of this publication. Prof EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN BASED ON BEAGLEBONE BLACK WITH EMBEDDED LINUX AbstractThe paper expounds the content of the course and further explores the context with which the course is delivered that finally turns over the ownership of the subject material to the learner in the form of final projects. This is a 400-level course that has retained its technological currency by climbing the evolutionary ladder of myriad of technological advances in hardware, software and OSs. In its current form the course has been totally redesigned based on BeagleBone Black. The BeagleBone Black is a compact, affordable, open-source Linux computing platform ideal for class room learning and designing. The operating system for the board is Linux and course is delivered with C ++ and Python.The paper elaborates the architecture of the board, its multiple processors and acc...

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Energy audits can be used to provide hands-on activities related to an energy management course. After learning the necessary background concepts, students need to be aware of what measurements must be taken to evaluate an existing energy system.In industry and universities, one may find apprentices and students from different educational backgrounds, such as electricians with no exposure to newer measuring instruments and students with no ability to take electrical and/or mechanical measurements. By studying the capabilities and limitations of measuring instruments, newcomers to energy auditing may collect reliable data.This article introduces several hands-on activities that could be replicated to teach students how to take accurate measurements of electrical, light, and heat flow parameters, ultrasonic leak detection, electronic combustion analysis, and simple data acquisition before conducting energy audits. A sample laboratory activity includes a description of the measuring instrument, factors that contribute to inaccurate readings, safety concerns, and several practice measurements useful to energy audits.

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