Requirements for the Effective Application of Personal Instrumentation in ECE Undergraduate Courses

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is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem solving from his father (who ran a gray iron foundry), his mother (a nurse) and grandparents (dairy farmers). He has had the great good fortune to always work with amazing people, most recently professors teaching circuits and electronics from 13 HBCU ECE programs and the faculty, staff and students of the Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) ERC, where he is Education Director. He was RPI ECSE Department

BYOE: Individual Lab Kit Options for Analog and Digital Circuits Suitable for In-class or At-home Experiments

“…The individual lab or project kits also allow interdisciplinary collaborations [5] [7]. Despite the pioneering exploration of using individual lab kits in undergraduate engineering curriculum [9], [12], [16]- [20], their usage had been sporadic before the pandemic, except perhaps in the mechatronics programs. However, the lab kits used in the mechatronics programs tend to be modulized and specific for a particular course [15], rather than being fundamental but versatile and expandable for the students to use in multiple courses throughout their undergraduate study.…”