Electrical Engineering Graduates Research Articles

AI-Enhanced Personalized Learning Practices in Higher Engineering Institutes

The main task of engaging the students with an interesting classroom environment is challenging in nature. The better way of teaching the students with effective learning pedagogy seems to be more effective. In this technological era, every student requires some technological involvement in their day-to-day process. So, with a broadcasted mindset, an active learning pedagogy has been initialized in this manuscript which gives more and more active methods of learning especially for engineering students. This research mainly focuses on a widely available learning process that is more effective in context with an easy understanding of the concepts. The AI – Enhanced Personalized learning methodology has been utilized in this manuscript. A deep understanding of the concept lies in the visual representation of the concept. In context to this, the simulation-based active learning pedagogy has been implemented for the Electrical Engineering graduates of the third year. The pedagogy related cource outcome (CO) has been framed. The effectiveness of the implemented method has been evaluated with various feedback responses and their scores in the end-semester with and without AI methodology help to view the performance metrics of the implemented AI – based learning learning pedagogy. Surely, this method yields good results in the performance of every student. Keywords – Active learning methodology, Teaching pedagogy, AI-based learning methodology, Program Outcome, Renewable energy sources.

Prototipe Papan Trainer PLC Sederhana Berbasis Arduino Uno Dengan Menggunakan Software Outsel Studio

PLC practicum is needed to support electrical engineering graduate students as a provision of experience operating PLC. To support the needs of PLC trainers in the electrical engineering laboratory at Universitas Islam Lamongan (Unisla), it is necessary to conduct a study that exploit the Arduino Uno as a control controller by making a prototype of a simple PLC trainer board based on the Arduino Uno using out seal Studio software. On the testing tool, the author uses an example of a logic gate ladder which then the ladder diagram will be created in the studio out seal software then will be uploaded to the Arduino Uno PLC and will be run on the trainer. In the mechanism, this tool uses an Arduino Uno microcontroller as a control center, an opt coupler circuit as a voltage separator between the input voltage and voltage on the Arduino, a relay opt coupler circuit as a voltage separator and an Arduino output voltage amplifier which is then flowed to the load. Switches, push buttons, and infrared sensors are used as examples of PLC input sensors. Red, yellow, green lights and 220v buzzers are used as output indicators as well as load examples. Conclusion on the experiment Arduino Uno PLC logic gate can work normally when operated

A Global Program-Educational-Objectives Comparative Study for Malaysian Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduates

Outstanding academic achievement in the field of higher education is a source of pride for the university. The success of the university is measured not only by academic performance but also by the quality of graduates produced. In Malaysia, three major categories in higher learning are identified: public, private, and foreign-branch universities. All engineering programs follow the requirements set by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) on behalf of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). The programme educational objectives (PEOs) make up one of the elements that needs assessment for ensuring its continuity in line with the university’s mission and vision. A PEO comparative study on selected reputable electrical and electronic (EE)-engineering department universities was carried out based on the mapping of PEO attribute keywords. These attributes were then classified into either cluster, sharing, or uniqueness groups. The study compared the relevancy of each PEO statement suggested by stakeholders and other interested parties. The results from the PEO comparative study suggested that attributes on competency, ethics, professionalism, and leadership are given high priorities. However, the increase in demand for entrepreneurship-, multidisciplinary-, and soft skills should also be considered when reviewing the institution’s engineering curriculum. The uniqueness of such attributes will distinguish the EE-engineering graduates’ profession, marketability, and employability. PEO statements reflect the credibility and sustainability of a well-balanced graduate equipped with the right knowledge, skills, and values.

The Inequality of Labor Graduates of Electromedical Engineer Women in Medical Device, Hospital and Health Equipment Facilities

In medical device companies, hospitals and healthcare facilities, graduates of Electromedical engineering occupy positions as medical equipment technicians, medical device installations, and calibration (large equipment installations). The main problem of this research is the female Electromedical engineering graduate who works in the Electromedical equipment company almost all the time works only revolve around the administration, which in no way touches the repair and maintenance of health equipment that should be their competence.The purpose of this research is for the public to be fair and not to be subordinated to women. Women acquire gender equality including in the field of employment in accordance with their competence. The method used is qualitative research with a perspective Phenomenology approach and gender that analyses to twelve the subjective experience of research informers while working in three places, namely in electromedical equipment companies, in hospitals, and in health facilities services in Indonesia. Variables used are the competence of electrical engineering graduates and the type of work of female electromedical engineering graduates worked. The contribution of this research is to give input to the stakeholders to give the same opportunity to all the electromedical graduates both male and female. Emphasis on education institutions to review the education curriculum based on gender. The results of this research are There were 2 informants who work in hospitals and medical devices companies who still carry out Electromedical Engineering competencies with varying degrees, ranging from still doing maintenance, minimal calibration, but are mostly tasked with administrative and management assignments. There are 10 informants who work in medical devices and hospitals that hardly carry out maintenance, calibration and installation of medical devices. In other words, they are by purely serving as administrators of medical equipment companies. The Conclusions of this study are Female graduates of electromedical engineering programs felt that they had not yet achieved their expectations in accordance with with their competencies as electromedical technicians. Keywords : Competencies, Electromedical Engineering, gender, and phenomenology perspective DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-20-06 Publication date: October 31 st 2021

Understanding Power Quality using IoT-based Smart Analyzers and Advanced Software Tools

Power Quality is an important topic for undergraduate electrical engineering students around the world. In addition to the theoretical contents prepared and explained by the lecturer to their students, this matter has an important practical focus. In this paper, a framework for teaching power quality in laboratories using IoT-based smart analyzers and advanced software tools is developed to provide the students the opportunity of studying real data with a high level of detail. In particular, practical lessons have been designed in such a way that the students are trained in the use of well-known commercial smart meters (like the Circutor MYeBOX 1500) or opensource systems (like the openZmeter) to acquire energy and power quality data from real world measurements and to analyze the data collected using advanced software tools (like PowerVision). The results obtained from several courses of electrical and electronic engineering show that the students acquire practical skills that allow them to reinforce their knowledge regarding power quality concepts, including harmonics, and power quality events such as voltage sag/swell, flicker, or waveform distortions. Therefore, this methodology can be applied for teaching power quality in undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering courses.

Performance Analysis of Three Phase Induction Motor based on ATV12HU15M2 Inverter for Control System Practicum Module

<p class="Abstract">Understanding that electrical engineering graduates who have experience and are able to know the electric power system in the industry are the main thoughts of the writer to conduct research. Through the manufacture of a three-phase ac motor control practicum module, which is the type of motor most often used in industrial activities, is expected to provide more knowledge to prospective graduates of electrical engineering engineers. The author determines the two previous research categories chosen as references, namely the training of electric motor modules and the final project of electrical engineering students. In this study the ATV12HU15M2 inverter is used to control changing the frequency value as an input variable to determine its effect on output variables such as voltage, current, power, rpm, and THD. Equipped with SoMove software that is connected to the laptop to be able to change the value of input variables such as motor power, number of poles, and power factors to match the specifications of the electric motor used, the software can also monitor if an error occurs in the system. At the measurement stage, the measuring instrument used is a Power Analyzer to measure the input power of a single-phase system at the source grid PLN, the output power of a three-phase electric motor system, and experimental measurements of motors coupled with a dc generator. For the purposes of data processing, DataView software is used to display the measurement results into a laptop, the resulting display can be in the form of a waveform graph, a graph of THD occurrence, and power information for which the displayed data can be stored. The THD result most optimal at 50Hz frequency with THDv value 18.69% and THDi value 9.04%.</p><p class="Keywords"> </p>

The influence of IEC 61850 standard: implementation and development of a functional substation automation simulator

ABSTRACTThe IEC 61850 standard ‘Communication Networks and Systems for Power Utility Automation’ has resulted the integration and inter-operability of digital protective relays in a Substation Automation Systems (SAS). Under digital protective relays, Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) are microprocessor-based devices used to perform numerous functions including protection, control and similar functions in a substation environment. The communication protocol that IEC 61850 can offer through IEDs is the Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) protocol, which makes the peer to peer communication of different IEDs readily accessible. The development of portable simulators based on IEC 61850 is a benchmark for electrical engineering graduates, power engineers and protection engineers to be acquainted with a substation automation environment. This prompted Victoria University to build and develop portable IEC 61850 simulators which gained distinction among electrical utilities and developed into a real-world electrical substation called the Victoria University Zone Substation (VUZS) Simulator. This paper provides an overview of the growth and improvement of the different portable simulators that were initiated to satisfy IEC 61850 in the VUZS Simulator.

Regional, institutional, and departmental factors associated with gender diversity among BS-level chemical and electrical engineering graduates.

Engineering remains the least gender diverse of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Chemical engineering (ChE) and electrical engineering (EE) are exemplars of relatively high and low gender diversity, respectively. Here, we investigate departmental, institutional, and regional factors associated with gender diversity among BS graduates within the US, 2010-2016. For both fields, gender diversity was significantly higher at private institutions (p < 1x10-6) and at historically black institutions (p < 1x10-5). No significant association was observed with gender diversity among tenure-track faculty, PhD-granting status, and variations in departmental name beyond the standard "chemical engineering" or "electrical engineering". Gender diversity among EE graduates was significantly decreased (p = 8x10-5) when a distinct degree in computer engineering was available; no such association was observed between ChE gender diversity and the presence of biology-associated degrees. States with a highly gender diverse ChE workforce had a significantly higher degree of gender diversity among BS graduates (p = 3x10-5), but a significant association was not observed for EE. State variation in funding of support services for K-12 pupils significantly impacted gender diversity of graduates in both fields (p < 1x10-3), particularly in regards to instructional staff support (p < 5x10-4). Nationwide, gender diversity could not be concluded to be either significantly increasing or significantly decreasing for either field.

Integrating multiple state‐of‐the‐art computer‐aided design tools in microelectronics circuit design classes

AbstractDemand for microelectronics products has seen a recent explosion due to their increased adaption in high‐performance data storage, networking, and Internet of Things applications. Not only such products need to provide high performance, they are often integrated in mixed signal environments that include both analog and digital circuits. This has posed a challenge to faculty who teach microelectronics design in senior undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering courses. It is becoming increasingly difficult to upgrade microelectronics curricula, so students are enabled with the proper skills to utilize design tools presently common in the industry. This study provides a mechanism to integrate five state of the art design tools in one single design project. The tools are Custom Compiler, Hewlett Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit, verilog compiler simulator, IC Validator, and Design Complier. Students, through a design project, conduct the design, layout, and simulations of an static random‐access memory array. The project utilizes both the full‐custom and the semi‐custom flows. One full design is created and integrated where students do the design and layout of transistors in specific circuits and generate synthesized circuits automatically from a high‐level description language. This study can serve as a resource for senior undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and practicing engineers. Finally, it can help electrical engineering programs meet Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology students’ outcome (k) which is an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

Power Engineering Education: A Description of Current Academic Developments in India

India has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing economies, and the Indian industrial sector competes globally by manufacturing engineering equipment, automobiles, chemicals, and software. Technical education, in general, and electrical engineering education, in particular, hold prime significance in this context. Electrical power engineering is a subject of choice for many aspirants in India who seek admission to a bachelor's or graduate degree in top-tier engineering schools. Electrical engineering graduates are much sought after for their superior analytical skills; they are employed across a variety of sectors in India and abroad. This article describes the growth of engineering education in India and changes in the programs and courses offered and also provides suggestions for improvement.

Innovation Leashed: How a MOOC-Based Master’s Degree Brings Invention Home to the Institution

This paper tells the story of the first MOOC-based Electrical Engineering graduate degree in the world. In so doing, it provides an object lesson about the narrative of disruption that has grown up around MOOC providers and the speed at which self-limiting systems emerge in even the newest ventures. This in turn reveals a paradox brewing at the heart of the MOOC enterprise: it is the supposedly staid institution of the university—whose entrenched systems tend to recoil from innovation back to the status quo—that actually wields the critical mass to effect change. This observation recalls us to a fundamental truth: while universities are conservators of academic tradition and systemic efficiency, they are also, most essentially, extraordinary engines of creation and innovative will. It is by tapping into that truth that we harness the potential for transformation. Ultimately, this paper offers a message of hope and a pathway to change at a moment when the institution of higher education is under threat. The experience of the MOOC Electrical Engineering degree suggests three primary lessons about our ability to answer that challenge: First, if we mean to achieve broad change, we must commit to the hard work of creating that change from within. Second, a bottom-up effort led by a small team with top-down support generates momentum to overcome entrenched systems that inherently resist difference. Third, and most importantly, the impetus for innovation has always resided with the university. In recognizing the systems that work to collapse innovation into convention, this paper acknowledges the difficulties that beset any groundbreaking venture; it also argues for universities’ pride of place as engines of transformation that can lead the way to the future.

Políticas públicas de pós-graduação no estado de São Paulo: uma análise dos cursos de Engenharia Elétrica reconhecidos pela Capes

Este artigo analisa os cursos de pós-graduação stricto sensu na área de Engenharia Elétrica no estado de São Paulo entre 2002 e 2014. A pesquisa descritiva e exploratória utiliza a base de dados da Capes – GeoCapes – para construir conhecimentos sobre a quantidade de alunos titulados nas universidades paulistas, verificar a participação de cada uma destas na formação de profissionais e analisar comparativamente os resultados, considerando a distribuição geográfica das instituições. Assim, identifica-se o cenário de atuação da política pública educacional de formação na pós-graduação, além de fazer uma breve contextualização das dificuldades de capacitação no segmento. Conclui-se que o número de programas aumentou no período, com preponderância das três universidades estaduais na formação de estudantes de mestrado e doutorado na área, porém com uma distribuição concentrada em poucas cidades e regiões administrativas.

Where the jobs are: 2017 [Resources_Careers

The key word used in describing electrical engineering job trends this year is high, according to Angela Keller, vice president of recruiting at the U.S. recruiting firm Randstad Engineering: High growth, high salaries, high demand, high competition among hiring companies. That competition is benefiting EEs, giving them both a plethora of choices and better entry-level paychecks. By the end of last year, fresh electrical engineering graduates in the United States earned salaries that averaged US $73,078-nearly $5,500 more than the prior year, making electrical engineering the top-earning engineering major as tracked by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

From A-mode to virtual beam: 50 years of diagnostic ultrasound

In the 50 years from 1967 (the year that, as a student, I met Edwin Carstensen) to 2017, diagnostic ultrasound has progressed from A mode to M mode to B&W static 2D to gray-scale static 2D to real-time 2D to static 3D to real-time 3D (“4D”). Along the way, other modes and features appeared including analog-to-digital, color-, power- and spectral-Doppler, coded excitation, harmonic imaging, panoramic imaging, spatial compounding, contrast agents, elastography and virtual beam forming. Contrast agents have been in wide use globally for years, although limited in the U.S. by the FDA to cardiac application until recently. Contrast agents operate on the ability of gas bubbles to strongly reflect ultrasound. In a 1968 study conducted by Professors Carstensen and Gramiak and me, it was shown that the contrast effect was due to bubbles in the radiologic contrast agent. As an electrical engineering graduate student at the time, I could not know that this was the launching of a 50-year medical academic career in so...

IEEE and HKN-Perfect Together: A closer look at the Honor Society of IEEE [WIE from Around the World

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) is the honor society of IEEE. Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was founded in 1904 on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The vision of the founders was to create an organization to both recognize the scholastic success of students and to help electrical engineering graduates find employment and support in their careers. The guiding principles remain the same-the invitation to join HKN is an early recognition of success based on the scholarship, attitude, and character of its members.

IEEE and HKN - Perfect together

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) is the Honor Society of IEEE. Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was founded in 1904 on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The vision of the founders was to create an organization to both recognize the scholastic success of students, and to help electrical engineering graduates find employment and support in their careers. The guiding principles remain the same — invitation to join Eta Kappa Nu is an early recognition of success, based on the Scholarship, Attitude, and Character of its members.

Connecting CALL Theory and Practice in Preservice Teacher Education and Beyond

This paper integrates the theory and practice of computer pedagogies in a variety of language courses, all stemming from participation in a graduate level course on computers in language teaching. First, the graduate level preservice CALL course is described, focusing on how connections between theory and practice were developed. Descriptions of how four participants from the course continued to apply theory in their practice of computer integration in four language courses follows. Each of these four courses demonstrates how computers can be integrated into language teaching to meet course and program goals. Drawing on task and computer pedagogy theories, the first two projects make use of the Internet to provide adult foreign language learners with authentic language input and interaction opportunities, one in a distance learning course in Finland and the other in a French as a foreign language course in the US. The final two projects ground practice on theories of English for specific purposes and computer pedagogies in adult courses in the US, the first a business English course integrating a computer simulation and the second a graduate electrical engineering writing course with materials developed using concordancing software and a specifically designed corpus of engineering texts.

Building a Low-Cost Digital Garden as a Telecom Lab Exercise

In an interdisciplinary, semester-long class, undergraduate students learn how to build a low-cost, multihop wireless sensor network from first principles for a digital garden. This type of course better prepares electrical engineering graduates for the sensor-rich, pervasive computing era.

Software for the Support of Learning and Teaching in Electromagnetics

The study of Electromagnetics is required in most electrical engineering graduate and undergraduate curricula. Traditional methods for teaching Electromagnetics are abstract, theoretical and filled with large number of mathematical equations. Thus, they are not anymore appropriate. The solution is to provide to both professors and students an interactive software with a simplified graphical interface to best teach and learn fundamentals of Electromagnetism. Interactive resources have demonstrated that they were attractive and encouraged the students to be active and autonomous. The aim of this work is to present such interactive software. This software introduces the students to fundamentals of Electromagnetics and provides them with better ways to understand complicated concepts. It uses the calculation functions of Matlab, combined with the powerful graphical user interfaces of Java.

Attracting Graduates to Power Engineering in the U.K.: Successful University and Industry Collaboration

The power industry in many parts of the industrialized world faces major challenges over the next two decades to renew ageing networks, accommodate new generation, especially renewables, and make grid operation “smarter”. This requires increasing numbers of professionals, but in many places, the industry faces great losses in personnel and experience as senior engineers retire. As a consequence, the industry needs to recruit a new generation of well-qualified electrical engineering graduates. This paper describes one particular initiative to attract school leavers into engineering and electric power engineering in particular: the U.K.'s “Power Academy”. The main features of the scheme and its success to date are described along with the new challenges and various issues that remain to be addressed. These include the need for “engineering leadership” and career progression for technical specialists. It is argued that companies' continued investment in schemes like the Power Academy is essential to meet the challenges faced by the power industry and to ensure a healthy future supply of professional engineers.