1. NSF Funded Project
“Enhancing the Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum by Integrating Applications of Wireless Technology”
NSF TUES Type 1 Project, DUE
PI: Tao Zhang, SoECS
Co-PI: Michael Colef, SoECS
Co-Investigator: Wolfgang Gilliar, NYIT COM
External Evaluator: Sarah McPherson, SoED

2. Our Vision
Through the use of state -of -the -art technologies and real life healthcare related projects integrated throughout the curriculum, will heighten students’, especially female students’, interest in pursuing the ECE program and increase enrollment and retention in this major.
Aligns with NYIT’s threefold mission to (1) provide career-oriented professional education, (2) offer opportunity to all qualified students, and (3) support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world.

3. Objectives
Create a connected scope and sequence of learning outcomes to improve the ECE curriculum for all undergraduate students with additional foci on women’s roles in ECE.
This will be accomplished by integrating application-oriented wireless network projects related to healthcare applications into the curriculum in courses throughout the program.

4. Goals
Build application-oriented wireless networked systems curriculum that demonstrates applications of engineering in telemedicine.
Attract and motivate undergraduate engineering students, especially females, to pursue wireless communications and networking academic programs of study.
Incorporate faculty research into curriculum development and instruction.
Develop undergraduate research through authentic application-oriented projects for innovations in healthcare.

5. Curriculum Enhancements
CSCI 370
Intro. to Computer Networks
EENG 489
Design Project
EENG 497
Wireless Comm. & Network
EENG 491
Senior Design Project
EENG 370
Microprocessors
EENG 310
Electronic Circuit Applications
CSCI 120
Programming I
CSCI 180
Programming II
CSCI 260
Data Structures
CSCI 170
Computer Architecture
EENG 130
Intro. To Computer Hardware
EENG 401
Communication Theory
EENG 341
Signals and Systems
ETCS 105
Career Discovery

6. Example of Design Project
Cell
Phone
Bluetooth
Module
Micro-
controller
Analog
Circuit
Sensor

7. Courses Linked by the Design Project
Cell
Phone
Bluetooth
Module
Micro-
controller
Analog
Circuit
Sensor
System
J2ME
KCWireFree
KC21
MSP430F149
Amplifier
Electrodes
Components
Curricula and
Courses
EENG 370
Microprocessor
CSCI 170
Computer Architecture
CSCI 120
Programming I
CSCI 180
Programming II
CSCI 260
Data Structures
EENG 310
Electronic Circuit Applications
EENG 130
Intro. to Computer Hardware
EENG 401
Communication Theory
EENG 480
Comm. Network Design
EENG 497
Wireless Comm. & Network
EENG 341
Signals and Systems