A New Electrical Engineering Laboratory Facility Combines Traditional Laboratory Experiments, Computer Based Lab Exercises, And Labs Taught Via Distance
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Austin, Texas
- Publication Date
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June 14, 2009
- Start Date
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June 14, 2009
- End Date
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June 17, 2009
- ISSN
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2153-5965
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
- Page Count
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9
- Page Numbers
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14.73.1 - 14.73.9
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--5295
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/5295
- Download Count
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472
Paper Authors
Robert Egbert Missouri State University
Dr. Robert Egbert is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri State University (MSU) in Springfield, MO. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri - Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology - Missouri S&T). He has industrial experience with Black & Veatch Consulting Engineers in Kansas City and MKEC Engineering Consultants in Wichita, KS. He was a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wichita State University for over 20 years. In July 2008, he joined the faculty of Missouri State University (MSU) in Springfield, MO as the first MSU faculty member in the new (Missouri S&T/MSU) collaborative engineering program.
Abstract
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New Electrical Engineering Laboratory Facility Combines Traditional Laboratory Experiments, Computer-Based Lab Exercises, and Labs Taught via Distance Introduction
On August 21, 2006 Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, along with the Curators of the University of Missouri, the Chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), and the President of Missouri State University (MSU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allowed Missouri S&T to offer bachelor’s degrees in Civil and Electrical Engineering on the MSU campus. The primary motive behind the signing of this agreement was an increased demand for Civil and Electrical Engineering graduates in southwest Missouri. A more detailed description of the conditions leading to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding and specific details of the agreement are presented elsewhere1. This focus of this paper is on the development and implementation of an appropriate Electrical Engineering laboratory facility on the MSU campus so that Electrical Engineering Laboratory courses in the Missouri S&T Electrical Engineering program can be offered on the MSU campus in Springfield.
Initial Implementation Steps
Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, the Missouri legislature provided a set of both one-time and ongoing funds for the development and ongoing support of the collaborative program. Faculty and administrators from both institutions started to meet regularly to map out the details of how the Memorandum of Understanding would be implemented. The goal at MSU was to offer all of the courses in the Missouri S&T Electrical Engineering curriculum on the MSU campus, including laboratory classes. The Electrical Engineering program at Missouri S&T has a total of 17 required or elective laboratory courses that cover the major areas of electrical engineering including circuits, electronics, digital systems, linear systems, communications, signal processing, transmission lines and electromagnetics, energy conversion, and power systems.
MSU thus began to develop an Electrical Engineering laboratory facility on the MSU campus to allow all the required Missouri S&T Electrical Engineering laboratory courses and most, if not all, of the Missouri S&T elective Electrical Engineering laboratory courses to be taught directly on the MSU campus.
Most laboratory courses in the Missouri S&T Electrical Engineering program involve traditional laboratory experiment type activities, such as wiring circuits or devices and making measurements with electronic test equipment. Some other labs in the program were actually done using simulation software on a computer. In addition, the lab for the Missouri S&T Electrical Engineering course, El Eng 235, “Controllers for Factory Automation” involved the control of a simulated factory process from a remote location. Since the students enrolled in this
Egbert, R. (2009, June), A New Electrical Engineering Laboratory Facility Combines Traditional Laboratory Experiments, Computer Based Lab Exercises, And Labs Taught Via Distance Paper presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--5295
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