Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center)
Colloquium Series
Presents
Nuri Emanetoglu, University of Maine
Monday, February 1, 3-4 p.m. via Zoom
Abstract:
ECE 342 Electronics I is a required course for both electrical and computer engineering majors. The three primary semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs) and their applications are introduced in this course. Electronics is a difficult topic for students. Prof. MacKenzie Stetzer and his Ph.D. student Kevin Van De Bogart ran a comparative study of how students in Physics and ECE performed in electronics materials over a course of three years. Informed by their findings and several RiSE Center workshops, the course instructor Prof. Emanetoglu updated the course and made several changes to the delivery to improve student understanding and retention. The most drastic changes, converting the course to a flipped classroom model, were made in Fall 2020, in response to the COVID19 pandemic. The motivations, the changes and the results will be presented in this talk.
Bio:
Nuri Emanetoglu is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, NJ, in 1998 and 2003 respectively. He has been at UMaine in 2007. His primary research interests are semiconductor and piezoelectric devices, sensors and sensing systems, and RF electronics. He primarily teaches the Electronics I and II course sequence, the capstone sequence and Solar Cells and Their Applications. His interest in engineering education research stems from a need to increase his students’ success in learning and applying electronics knowledge.
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