Frank Vahid Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521 Office: Winston Chung Hall 328, Lab: WCH 464, (951) 827-4710,

Recent activities

• Founded CollegeStudentAdvocates.org non-profit to protect college students' academic rights.
• Co-founded zybooks.com, currently Chief Learning Officer
  • Mission: Improve STEM college graduation rates. How: Interactive web-native textbook/homework replacements and more.
  • 2023: 1000 universities, closing to 1M students, 200+ employees, growing -- acquired by Wiley 2019 (article), still operating as unit.
  • Deep thanks to NSF SBIR program for >$2M early support.

Talk on CS/CE education research

I feel fortunate for the opportunities to give this talk on CS/CE education to 50+ universities in the past couple years, having great dialogues with caring/talented faculty at all kinds of schools who share a desire to help more of our wonderful students succeed.

• Teaching lower-division CS/CE: Our improvement experiences and research results, for physical and online courses

Teaching

• CURR: EE/CS120B Fall 2023 Syllabus


• PREV: CS10A Online Spring 2023 Syllabus
• PREV: EE/CS120B Spring 2023 Syllabus
• PREV: CS122A Spring 2023 Syllabus
• TEMP: ENGR 1 Fall 2018

Info

• CV   Short bio   Pubs+Talks
• zyBooks: Interactive online books on C++, C, Embedded Systems, Digital Design, Computer Systems and Assembly Programming, Computing Technology, Java, and more (2013 - present).
• Book: Digital Design + VHDL/Verilog books (Wiley 2006, 2011).
  • Latest version: zyBook on Digital Design (Interactive/Auto-grading)
• Book: Embedded Systems Design (Wiley 2001).
  • Latest version: zyBook on Programming Embedded Systems (Interactive/Built-in microcontroller/state-machine simulators).
• Creating practical models for embedded systems programming and circuit-design
  • ProgrammingEmbeddedSystems.com   RI tools   RIOS scheduler
• Some courses I teach: EE/CS 120B (Intro. Embedded Systems), CS 122A (Intermed. Emb. Sys.), CS 179J (Project in Emb. Sys.) CS 220 (Synthesis of Digital Systems), ENGR 1/101 (Professional Development/Mentoring), CS 10 Online (Intro to CS, using C++)
• Research: STEM education   Assistive monitoring   Digital mockups  

More

• Instructors: Simplify
• Advice to graduate students
• Baha'i Faith
• LearnSoccerLaws.com
• The letter that changed my family's life
• LinkedIn page
• CS 10 Online example (Spring 2022)

Education posts

• Animations: The Missing Link in Education