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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Hall

Creating Professional Laboratories versus Academic Laboratories for Construction Materials Courses Kevin D. Hall, Ph.D., P.E. University of Arkansas ABSTRACTMost Civil Engineering programs contain courses related to construction materials –Portland cement concrete (PCC), aggregates, soils, and hot-mix asphalt (HMA).Traditionally, laboratory sessions associated with these courses have been taught using an‘academic’ approach, which differs in many respects from method used in professionalmaterials laboratories. Examples of differences include the use of an instructor-developed or third-party ‘laboratory manual

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Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

mechanics, dynamics of machinery andautomatic controls offered in the junior year. The co-author, Dr. Kumpaty coordinated thecourse offering and charted out laboratory demonstrations at crucial stages of the coursematerial. The student learning has been tremendously increased as experiments are performed,data is gathered, experimental results are compared to the theory and reports are prepared. Thesimilarity of systems and the characteristics of first-order and second-order systems are fullyemphasized and clearly grasped. The overall experience with this integrated teaching has beenvery rewarding to both faculty and students. The details of the experience, the laboratorydemonstrations developed covering mechanical, electrical and thermal systems

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

. Schmaltz, K. “Design Of Experiments Plan With A Capstone Experimentation Course,” Proc. of 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA5. Layton, R., Mesh, A., Mayhew, J. “Ideas Into Action: Using Learning Objectives To Revitalize A Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Sequence,” Proc. of 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA6. McIntyre, C., Mehta, S. and Sellnow, T., “A Program For Faculty Peer Review of Teaching at North Dakota State University,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN. Page 10.1105.107. Yuem D, K.P and Masi, B

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming Sheu; Michael Ohadi; Arman Molki

various courses taught, offers a sequence that accommodatesparallel offering of the laboratories with corresponding courses. We believe this helps eliminatethe uncertainty associated with various professors teaching the courses involved and the degreethey may consider the lab integration in their courses important, hence helping the student betterlearn the subject mater. This paper discusses the details of each lab, the experiments involved in each lab, and theoutcomes and educational objective sought for each lab.Descriptions of the Laboratories Figure 1 depicts the overall curriculum of our mechanical engineering program at thePetroleum Institute. As seen there, the four-year curriculum includes a set of four labs, with thefirst one

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

Session 2166 Integrated Materials Science Lab Experiences in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Chris Byrne Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KentuckyAbstract This paper describes the ongoing efforts to teach materials science in two differentcourses within a mechanical engineering program at Western Kentucky University. The WKUmechanical engineering curriculum has several components that are integrated experiences overmultiple semesters. The objectives for integration of experiences is to provide an alternative tothe model where courses

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre' Butler; William Moses

racecar-based laboratory course", Journal of Engineering Education, January 2001, 109-112.2. Dutson, A.J., Todd, R.H., Magleby, S.P., and Sorensen, C.D., "A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstone courses", Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, 17-28.3. Metz, P. O., "MAE 402L, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II, " Mercer University, School of Engineering, 1999. Page 10.827.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education4. Van Duzer

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

serves as team leader for this large team, teaching them by engaging Page 10.1122.5them in assigning individual and sub-team responsibilities, guiding them as they work outinterpersonal and team disagreements in ways that bring out the best contributions from eachProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005 American Society for Engineering Educationindividual, and aiding them as they schedule milestones and delivery of the product. Anexample of what is needed in this aspect of the teamwork laboratory can be found in a scenariothat is

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

working on labclasses as a result. One graduating senior has decided to pursue graduate school work and hasrequested assignment as a teaching assistant with the class as a result of his assistance with ourproject modifications.Individual laboratory experiences have become an important part of three introductory coursestaught in the freshman and sophomore years, with experiments ranging from simple exercises tocomplex analytical and experimental correlations. During the past year, teaching assistants forthose courses have also been trained in the fundamentals of using WebCT. Increasingly,assignments can be made, collected, graded and returned to individuals or subgroups within aclass in short order using tools made commonly available to the WebCT

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Moslehpour

Session 2548 Distance Computer Architecture Laboratory Saeid Moslehpour, Patrick Keene, Thomas Eppes and Peter Schuyler University of HartfordAbstractWorking in a laboratory environment is vital for students to master the technological concepts inscience and engineering. Besides re-enforcing what is covered in lecture, lab time allowsstudents to engage in experience-based learning. The educational community largely uses onsiteexperimentation for electronics/computer engineering laboratory experiments. How can we offerdistance laboratory activities in computer engineering technology? The objective

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

forsome undergraduate students who can be classified as sensing, or visual learners. Moderncomputation tools equipped with simulation and visual capability can ease explanation of topicsin vibration and control theories in the classroom and laboratory. Through the use of thesemodern visualization and simulation tools, it is possible to teach “mathematically advancedconcepts in vibration and control courses in engineering” more efficiently and make it moreinteresting for them to understand.This paper describes teaching vibration and automatic control courses in the Mechanical andElectrical Engineering departments at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology.Experiments are designed to give student thorough understanding of basic

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rajab Challoo; Shuhui Li

Application of Information Technology Tools in Teaching the Course and Laboratory of Power Electronics Shuhui Li and Rajab Challoo Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Texas A&M University – Kingsville Kingsville, TX 78363ABSTRACT This paper presents the application of information technology (IT) tools in teaching thecourse of Power Electronics at Texas A&M University – Kingsville (TAMUK). It illustrates theusage of the power-pole and average models in the teaching so as to be able to introduce broadpower electronic converter topologies. It shows the development of

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach; Heather Cooper; Bill Hutzel

emphasis for sustainable design. Theenergy for heating and cooling commercial buildings accounts for at least 40% of the annualU.S. energy consumption. Despite some improvements over the past 30 years, many commercialbuildings continue to waste energy. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that U.S.businesses forego at least 20 billion dollars in operating costs each year due to inefficiencies in Page 10.591.1their buildings.2 Engineering technology programs are ideally suited to teach sustainable design as itapplies to commercial buildings. The laboratory-based coursework makes students familiar withthe size, sophistication, and

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Scoles; Harriet Millan

integrating writing with engineering content is the added time professorsmust allow for students to present drafts. We argue that this time is well spent and that itconstitutes the difference in helping students to become comfortable with the material. A modelof the writing intensive version ECE Laboratory will support our premise that the developmentaleffects of teaching writing facilitate learning.ECEL 301 ECE Laboratory IThe ECEL 301 course is the first in a series of four labs required of all EE and CE students. It is Page 10.277.2a third-year course in the typical 5-year curriculum with co-op. ECEL 301 is the sixth lab-related Proceedings

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Perry Li; David Waletzko; William Durfee

Session 1526 At-Home System and Controls Laboratories William Durfee, Perry Li, David Waletzko Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of MinnesotaAbstractWe are piloting the concept of distributed laboratories in the form of kits that students take homeand work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller andcommunicate to the student’s home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the neededcomputational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting.The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two kits have been developed

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2247 SIMULINK Laboratory Exercises In Communication Technology Jai P. Agrawal, Omer Farook and C.R. Sekhar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstract In this paper, we present simulation exercises with emphasis on learning to build blocksand subsystems and integrating them into a communication system. Through these exercises, thestudents learn to build communication subsystems from the basic building blocks that areavailable in the SIMULINK library. The subsystems are built as close approximation

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

textbooks),demonstrations of effective teaching, laboratory exercises requiring the participants to teachlessons followed by group assessment, and discussions on how to apply the presented techniques COURSE SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Admin & Gift Admin & Gift Admin & Gift Admin & Gift Admin & Gift 8:00 Demo Interpersonal Class I Lab III Rapport Principles of

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

Session 1315 Teaching Mechanics 101 Ronald Welch, Allen Estes United States Military AcademyAbstractA typical class might start with a video and/or hands-on demonstration, lead to an exampleproblem with theory provided just in time to allow solving of the problem at hand, and end withgroup work on another in-class example problem. Carefully worded questions draw the studentinto the learning and allow the student to draw upon previous knowledge to provide the buildingblocks for construction of new knowledge. Repetition and manipulation of new concepts

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

A Case-Study of Assessment in Materials Laboratory Claudia Milz, Rufus L. Carter University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 / Marymount University, Arlington, VA 2220 Materials engineering students are often ill prepared to enter the workforce upongraduation. While students master the content knowledge they often lack critical skills forsuccess. Our industry feedback of internship students indicates weakness in the areas of:technical writing, critical thinking, professional attitude & teamwork, analysis, reasoning anddecision making. We have examined the effectiveness of new teaching and assessment methods in theMaterials

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Coleman; Hisham Alnajjar; Hesham Elsaghir; Alan Hadad; Donald Leone

Teaching Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Including Laboratory Sessions, using a Combination of Distance Learning and Distance Teaching Techniques. Donald Leone, Alan Hadad, Susan Coleman Hisham Alnajjar, Hesham Elsaghir University of HartfordAbstract The primary objective of this project was to teach sophomore engineering students thefundamental concepts of geographic information systems (GIS), but with the teacher andstudents in different locations. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems is a 2 credit half semester course with 6contact hours including 3 hours of laboratory work

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

data from the Internet, while also complementingexisting laboratory set-ups. Even though free networking software is readily available, itis not typically incorporated into undergraduate computer engineering/technology orcomputer science teaching curricula as comprehensively as one would like [1-4].Networking courses typically focus on theory, simulation and hardware applications, orsome combinations of these to impart knowledge. However, Internet-available freeware,typically used by networking professionals, can be used as a valuable resource tosupplant the use of theory, simulation and/or hardware applications in developing, andteaching through, an integrated networking curricula. The purpose in this approach is todo just that; that is, to

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

available through a standard webinterface, WebCT. The university has invested considerable effort in developing standard portalsthrough which access to classes on-line may be offered, and it is intended that the maximumbenefit of this effort be pursued.Surveying the ExperiencesA survey of activities typically accomplished in the introductory aerospace engineeringlaboratory class at MSU reveals that many of the experiments could be accomplished in virtualfashion, or accomplished remotely through a web interface. Hannigan previously describedthese common laboratory experiments6 accomplished by all MSU aerospace engineering studentsduring their first laboratory course. A three-hour lecture, three-hour laboratory course isintended to teach fundamental

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

Student Funded Laboratory Exercises at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Jeffrey Connor1, Margaret Joyce2, Lynn Nystrom3, Steven York1, Michael Gregg1, Richard Goff1 1 Department of Engineering Education 2 Student Engineers’ Council 3 Office of the College of Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTraditionally the methods of engineering education have been an outgrowth of the fact thatengineers solve practical

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erwin D'Souza; Mehmet Ozturk

suitable for sophomore and junior level ECE classes. The software was designedwith the primary objective of creating a tool to enhance the delivery of fundamental concepts in anew sophomore level course and its hardware laboratory at North Carolina State University(NCSU). A detailed description of the course and the laboratory can be found in a previouspaper presented at this conference5. The new course sharply differs from traditional sophomorelevel ECE courses on electrical circuits. Its philosophy can be summarized as follows: introducedifferent ECE specializations and use this medium to teach fundamental concepts withmotivating examples. The course assumes no prior background in electrical and computerengineering concepts, but it requires

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary McDonald; Charles Knight

renovating theolder systems [5].The faculty members who were responsible for developing the new laboratory attended afive-day workshop taught by National Instruments. Three days were used in teachingbasic LabVIEW programming [6], and two days were used for teaching data acquisitionfundamentals [7]. Attending the LabVIEW workshop was most helpful as it provided ajump-start that could not have been obtained readily through use of National Instruments'publications. University faculty developmental grants were used to support travel andworkshop expenses.Faculty members involved in the ME laboratory have developed new skills that makethem more productive in support of research, public service, and consulting roles.(8) Supports Accreditation NeedsThe ME

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill; Willie Ofosu

functionality of the professional version, but for institutions with a licenseagreement, enrolled students can be provided with a temporary license to upgrade the evaluationversion into a fully functional professional version.This software product is another valuable teaching aid in the laboratory. It offers a powerfuldesign and analysis tool for RF and telecommunications systems. Among the features of thisproduct are the following4: • Full complement of logic functions, switches, and non-linear devices • Complete libraries of sources, sinks, functions, operators, and MetaSystems Page 10.439.3 • External and internal

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

, fight it, orembrace it. Ignoring the problem will only degrade the integrity of the class. Fighting ithas proven extremely difficult as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have found. The best option is toembrace it and change the way classrooms operate while at the same time teaching betterengineering ethics for the Internet age. This paper focuses on the changes made toembrace these trends in a computer engineering laboratory at Mississippi StateUniversity.2. Background At Mississippi State University, the computer engineering curriculum consists ofa sequence of five classes: Digital Devices, Microprocessors, Digital Systems Design,Computer Architecture, and Embedded

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

Session 1526 Laboratory Enhancement of Digital and Wireless Communications Courses Jeff Frolik University of VermontIntroduction Over the past decade, the field of wireless communications has come into its own and isposed to become a ubiquitous technology with the recent arrival of 3G cellular, wireless localarea networks and wireless sensor networks. As such, today’s graduating electrical engineersneed marketable skills which are typically not developed in undergraduate curricula. This paperdescribes an ongoing program at the University of Vermont (UVM

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Goodmann

Using Microsoft DirectX In a DSP Laboratory Peter E. Goodmann, P.E. Indiana University – Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThis paper reports on the use of Microsoft DirectX as a laboratory teaching tool in a junior-leveldigital signal processing (DSP) course for technology students. The DirectX SoftwareDevelopment Kit (available as a no-cost download from Microsoft), along with Microsoft VisualC++ or Visual Studio, can turn any soundcard-equipped desktop or laptop PC into a self-contained DSP laboratory for software development, experimentation, and teaching.Teaching DSP to ECET students represents a unique challenge, due to the hands-on emphasiscompared with the

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Pierre; Frank Tuffner; Robert Kubichek

Innovative Communications Experiments Using an Integrated Design Laboratory Frank K. Tuffner, John W. Pierre, Robert F. Kubichek University of WyomingAbstractIn traditional undergraduate teaching laboratory environments, many communication topics aredifficult to convey because of their complexity in implementation. This paper describeslaboratory experiments that explore challenging communication topics using the University ofWyoming’s new integrated design undergraduate teaching laboratory. Each lab stationcomprises a PC using LabVIEW and GPIB to control oscilloscopes, arbitrary functiongenerators, power supplies and a data acquisition card. In

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Refai; James Sluss

Session # 3432 A Laboratory Course for Telecommunications Systems Engineering Hazem H. Refai and James J. Sluss, Jr. School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Telecommunications Systems Program University of Oklahoma – Tulsa Abstract An integral part of the curriculum in the recently developed Master of Science in Telecommunications Systems program at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is a laboratory course. The course is designed to enhance student understanding of fundamental computer networking