BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Phoenix BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19671029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261113T161647Z UID:9DD156DD-EB84-47A1-A3AE-4C4BCB500587 DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20261112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20261112T160000 DESCRIPTION:Linear circuit analysis is a central course not only for electr ical engineers but for many other engineering majors as well\, where it is frequently required for graduation. Promoting and supporting student succ ess is therefore crucial. Here\, we describe a national award-winning* sof tware project to develop\, disseminate\, and rigorously evaluate a freely available step-based tutoring system called Circuit Tutor for linear circu it analysis courses (www.circuittutor.com). To date\, the system has been used by over 14\,500 students at 18 different colleges & universities by 8 3 distinct instructors teaching 394 class sections and has shown learning gains up to 1.21σ in comparison to paper or commercial homework systems i n nine rigorous randomized\, controlled trials. It accepts and provides im mediate feedback on every major step of a student’s work\, such as re-dr awing & simplifying circuit diagrams on the screen\, sketching waveforms\, drawing plots of frequency response\, entering equations with a template- based interface\, etc.\, all with immediate feedback to minimize frustrati on. It randomly generates an unlimited supply of topologically unique prob lems and fully worked examples for every student and has been shown to str ongly promote academic integrity. A total of 30 different tutorial “game s” is included in the system covering all major topics in this area. It provides carefully graded levels of difficulty and is supported by interac tive\, multiple-choice introductory tutorials (equivalent to a free textbo ok) on every topic and over 100 YouTube videos illustrating the interfaces and how to solve all problem types. It creates PDF transcripts of student work for use in studying. The system has been used extensively at communi ty colleges and seven minority-serving institutions and for online educati on. It has undergone rigorous independent evaluation by the College Resear ch and Evaluation Services Team (CREST) at ASU\, showing very positive out comes. This work has also contributed numerous new advances in the foundat ions of circuit analysis\, such as a strongly improved definition of serie s connections of circuit elements\, extension of mesh analysis to nonplana r circuits and the use of a reference mesh to ensure its duality with noda l analysis\, and new methods of circuit simplification including concepts of hinged\, voltage- and current-splittable circuits\, which will be discu ssed. A live demonstration of the system will be provided.\n\nThis work wa s supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants No. 1044497\ , 1323773\, and 1821628.\n\nSpeaker(s): \, Brian\n\nRoom: 487\, Bldg: Gold water Center for Science and Engineering\, Goldwater Center for Science an d Engineering (GWC) 487\, 650 E Tyler Mall\, Tempe\, Arizona\, United Stat es\, 85281\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/591622 LOCATION:Room: 487\, Bldg: Goldwater Center for Science and Engineering\, G oldwater Center for Science and Engineering (GWC) 487\, 650 E Tyler Mall\, Tempe\, Arizona\, United States\, 85281\, Virtual: https://events.vtools. ieee.org/m/591622 ORGANIZER:chao.wang.6@asu.edu SEQUENCE:15 SUMMARY:Step-Based Tutoring Approach for a Key Foundational Course in Elect rical Engineering URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/591622 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-fo nt-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: 'Calibri'\,sans-serif\; mso-ascii-theme-fon t: minor-latin\; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin\;">Linear circuit analysis is a central course not only for el ectrical engineers but for many other engineering majors as well\, where i t is frequently required for graduation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;"> &nbsp\; </span>Promoting and supporting student success is therefore cruci al.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>Here\, we describe a n ational award-winning* software project to develop\, disseminate\, and rig orously evaluate a freely available step-based tutoring system called Circ uit Tutor for linear circuit analysis courses (</span><a href="http://www. circuittutor.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: ' Calibri'\,sans-serif\; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-hansi-theme -font: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin\;">www.circuittutor. com</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: 'Cali bri'\,sans-serif\; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-hansi-theme-fon t: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin\;">).<span style="mso-sp acerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>To date\, the system has been used by over 1 4\,500 students at 18 different colleges &amp\; universities by 83 distinc t instructors teaching 394 class sections and has shown learning gains up to 1.21&sigma\; in comparison to paper or commercial homework systems in n ine rigorous randomized\, controlled trials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes \;">&nbsp\; </span>It accepts and provides immediate feedback on every maj or step of a student&rsquo\;s work\, such as re-drawing &amp\; simplifying circuit diagrams on the screen\, sketching waveforms\, drawing plots of f requency response\, entering equations with a template-based interface\, e tc.\, all with immediate feedback to minimize frustration.<span style="mso -spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>It randomly generates an unlimited supply of topologically unique problems and fully worked examples for every stud ent and has been shown to strongly promote academic integrity.<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>A total of 30 different tutorial &ldq uo\;games&rdquo\; is included in the system covering all major topics in t his area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>It provides care fully graded levels of difficulty and is supported by interactive\, multip le-choice introductory tutorials (equivalent to a free textbook) on every topic and over 100 YouTube videos illustrating the interfaces and how to s olve all problem types.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>It creates PDF transcripts of student work for use in studying.<span style=" mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>The system has been used extensively a t community colleges and seven minority-serving institutions and for onlin e education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>It has underg one rigorous independent evaluation by the College Research and Evaluation Services Team (CREST) at ASU\, showing very positive outcomes.<span style ="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>This work has also contributed numer ous new advances in the foundations of circuit analysis\, such as a strong ly improved definition of series connections of circuit elements\, extensi on of mesh analysis to nonplanar circuits and the use of a reference mesh to ensure its duality with nodal analysis\, and new methods of circuit sim plification including concepts of hinged\, voltage- and current-splittable circuits\, which will be discussed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbs p\; </span>A live demonstration of the system will be provided.</span></p> \n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\; font-fami ly: 'Calibri'\,sans-serif\; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-hansi- theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin\;">&nbsp\;</spa n></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\; fon t-family: 'Calibri'\,sans-serif\; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso- hansi-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin\;">This w ork was supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants No. 10 44497\, 1323773\, and 1821628.</span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR