Penn State Behrend
School of Engineering
5101 Jordan Road
Erie, PA  16563-1701

Office: REDC 242C
Phone: (814) 898-6153
Fax: (814) 898-6125
Email: ralph.ford@psu.edu

Ralph M. Ford
Teaching Scholarship

Courses taught

EDSGN 100S/BDENG/ED & G 100S - Introduction to Engineering Design & Graphics
EE 210 - Circuits & devices laboratory
EE BD 317 - Solid State Electronics
EE BD 324 - Microelectronics I & Laboratory
EE BD 425W - Microelectronics II & Laboratory
EE BD 473 - Digital Signal Processing
CENBD/EE BD 480 - Computer and Electrical Engineering Design Concepts
CENBD 481/EE BD 481/CENBD 483 - Sr. Design Projects
CENBD 482 - Software Engineering Seminar
CENBD/EE BD 395-495 -Internship & Co-ops
CMPEN/SWENG 480 - Computer/Software Engineering Design
E E 400 - Engineering Design Concepts
EE BD 497 - Software Engineering Principles
EE BD 425W - Microelectronics II

Current & past projects

Toward a Business and Engineering Learning Environment.

Design for Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Researching ECE design methods and putting into practice in teaching. I have written Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers, by Ralph Ford and Chris Coulston.

The Technology Toolbox: Getting Students Involved in the Delivery of Education and Meeting Assessment Outcomes. Online version of FIE paper, Conference presentation

Java Applets for Microelectronics. IEEE Transactions on Education Paper abstract

Integration of Digital Signal Processing in the Curriculum. A NSF sponsored project to integrate Digital Signal Processing concepts though various courses in the undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum.