Download the 2013 ECEDHA Annual Conference Program Guide

2013 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo Orlando, Florida . March 22–26, 2013
2012 ECEDHA Awards Committee 2012 Innovative Program Award
T
he ECEDHA Awards Committee is responsible for administering
the Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award, the
Innovative Program Award, and the new Diversity Award. The committee’s
tasks include soliciting nominees, reviewing applications, and selecting award
winners.
We would like to thank the ECEDHA Awards Committee for their efforts in the 2012
ECEDHA Awards Program.
T
he Innovative Program Award is given to individual(s) or department(s)
that has (have) created, implemented, and sustained the implementation
of a successful innovative program and possibly assisted in the
implementation of that program at other institutions.
A successful program is one that has stood the test of time (i.e., formal integration
into a program of study) and has produced measurable improvements in the quality
of the electrical and computer education received by a significant number of
students at one or more institutions. Please join us in recognizing our 2012
Innovative Program Award recipient.
AWARDS COMMITTEE CHAIR:
Steve Goodnick
Agnieszka Miguel
Reinvigorating Electric Energy Education Nationwide
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb
Professor and Chair
Electrical Engineering Department
Northern Illinois University
Kwang Lee
Professor and Chair
School of Engineering and
Computer Science
Baylor University
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Seattle University
Manoj Sachdev
Professor and Department Chair
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
University of Waterloo
Mona Zaghloul
Department Chair and Professor
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
George Washington University
Ned Mohan
Professor
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
University of Minnesota
In 1990, Professor Mohan noticed that undergraduate
courses in EES had changed very little since the 1950’s.
His subsequent in-depth examination of how and what
should be taught in EES courses resulted in new lecture
materials, textbooks, laboratories, and pedagogical
strategies for three EES core courses – Power Electronics,
Power Systems, and Electric Machines and Drives.
He developed the course content so that the instructor
could use a flipped-classroom pedagogy, in which
students watch lectures and demonstrations in a video
clip prior to class, then are actively engaged with the
instructor and their peers in discussion and problemsolving
during class. In Professor Mohan’s experience –
and as research has confirmed – students’ learning and
retention of concepts is much greater in a flipped-
classroom approach in comparison to face-to-face and
purely online pedagogies.
Recognizing that new courses had to be accompanied by
rigorous faculty professional development, he developed
lists of Course Learning Objectives; video clips for each
lecture; concept quizzes that reinforced the fundamentals
in videos, in-class discussion problems and activities;
online homework problems; suggested laboratory
experiments; a forum for discussion between instructors;
and hardware- and software-based lab assignments.
He has also organized 20 NSF-sponsored EES faculty
workshops that have been attended by a large number of
instructors and researchers since 1991.
Professor Mohan’s efforts have had a nationwide impact.
His EES curriculum has revitalized the power program at
UMN – where student enrollments in these courses have
tripled over a decade – and significantly increased EES
offerings and enrollments in other universities that have
adopted it. He convinced 80 universities nationwide to
form a consortium to utilize state-of-the-art laboratories
in this curriculum. As a consequence of this program,
the state-of-the-art laboratory experiments that he
developed are being used in over 100 universities.
March 22–26, 2013
40
Orlando, Florida
2013 Annual Conference and ECExpo www.ecedha.org
41