Teaching technology (resources for other NCSU instructors):

• How to use Moodle. This is a 20 minute video about how to use the NCSU Moodle Learning Management System and some recommended practices.
• How to do Peer Grading in Moodle.. You can set up peer grading using the "workshop" feature (video).
• How to use Camtasia. This is a short video about how to use Camtasia to record from powerpoint slides. In includes some recommended practices..

My teaching focuses on building microsystems and nanosystems. I specialize in the following areas:

• ECE 464/520 ASIC Design. ASIC and FPGA design and verification. Offered every year in Spring to both residential and Engineering Online students. Note, from 2014 this course will be hosted on the NCSU Moodle Server and not publicly avaialble.
• Digital ASIC Open Online Course. A version of ECE 520 occassionally offered as an open (i.e. free) online course in the emerging MOOC paradigm. I wrote a paper discussing my experience teaching an open online course:
• • Franzon, P.D., "MOOCs, OOCs, flips and hybrids: The new world of higher education," Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.13,13, 2-3 June 2013. The paper can be found here
• ECE 733 Digital Electronics. Design of high-speed CMOS digital circuits, including logic, memory and chip to chip transceivers. Offered every year in Spring.
• ECE 544 Design of Packaging and Interconnect. Design for signal and power integritry of electronic packaging and interconnect structures. Though I established the course, Dr. Bob Evans, an adjunct, currently teaches it in Spring each year.
• ECE 406 Complex Digital Design. Occassionly taught by me (this is a link to the 2011 course). Design of microprocesors using HDLs.
• ECE 745 ASIC Verification. This is currently taught by Dr. Meeta Yadav, an adjunct

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