Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

disciplines. An investigation ofeducational web sites of 126 educational institutions that offer an Electrical and ComputerEngineering degree is used to provide information on whether or not this fast growth in onlineeducation is a representative of growth of online engineering disciplines. A comparison ofdifferent delivery methods for the online environment is presented as well as a review ofdifferent systems for offering electrical, electronics, and digital laboratories via distance learningis presented.IntroductionDistance learning or distance education is a term used extensively by colleges and universities todescribe remote delivery of course contents. It usually refers to off-campus sites, web-facilitatedcourses, and web-based (online) courses

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

CommunicationsDepartment faculty to better prepare the engineering graduate for effective technicalcommunication. This collaboration began in the spring of 2003 with the laboratory for theMaterials Science course and now exists in the senior capstone design courses.For the Materials Science with Laboratory course, a supplemental COM course was offered inparallel to the lab in order to help students write and edit their lab reports. This served as aneffective means to help the students turn in better reports and also helped the faculty learn how tocollaborate between departments. An Engineering Style Manual was one of the early products ofcollaboration between the Aerospace Engineering and Humanities and Communicationsdepartments.Due to the writing and

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

Technology, through its Center for EducationIntegrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC), has provided summer researchexperiences for over 900 teachers in both university and industrial settings, with more than 200teachers working in university laboratories at Georgia Tech and Emory University in the last fiveyears alone. By offering business, industry, public science institute and academic researchfellowships to teachers, GIFT allows educators to observe first-hand the skills and knowledgenecessary for the preparation of our future workforce: the students currently in Georgia’sclassrooms.By participating in GIFT, an average of 75 teachers per summer have had the opportunity toexperience the applications of science, mathematics, and

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

use of detection, signalingand suppression systems. The course laboratory has both software and hardware. LabVIEWcomputer software is being used to develop new standalone software projects, and newproject designs that interact with hardware.Many of the fire alarm system class students are often fire and safety personnel that work invarious related professions. Additionally, the class students have varied technical experiencelevel and background in academics. The LabVIEW software is being used to develop alaboratory that is suitable for a class with students that have different backgrounds.Newly developed laboratory exercises are used to acquaint the safety and fire students withLabVIEW and fire alarm systems.Original LabVIEW exercises have

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

Cross-College Collaboration to Enhance Spanish Instruction and Learning Ana Kennedy, Foreign Languages and Literatures, NCSU, Raleigh, NC David Ollis, Chemical Engineering, NCSU, Raleigh, NC Rebecca Brent, Education Design, Inc, Cary, NC. We report our pilot collaborative results for enhancing foreign languageinstruction and student learning by incorporation of an engineering laboratory componentinvolving use, dissection, and discussion, in Spanish, of four modern consumer devices:compact disc player/burner, electric and acoustic guitar, internal combustion engine, andbicycle. Our original lecture course, “Spanish: Language, Culture

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

How can user-centered design help us think about the challenges of engineering education? Jennifer Turns, Matt Eliot, Steve Lappenbusch, Roxane Neal, Karina Allen, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Beza Getahun, Zhiwei Guan, Yi-min Huang-Cotrille Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE) University of WashingtonAbstractBecause engineering education is a complex endeavor, tools that help educators understandengineering education can be valuable. User-centered design is a conceptual tool that educatorscan use to understand current projects and imagine new opportunities. This paper focuses on theconcept of user-centered design and its application

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

)microcontrollers.To meet the demands of this new trend we have decided to teach the Microchip 8-bit PICmicrocontrollers. However, before making this transition several factors such astextbook, hardware and software tools must be specified to implement the course in a realworking environment.In an effort to teach students the PIC microcontroller, the Electronics EngineeringTechnology Department has developed a course in which emphasis is directed towardsthe PIC microcontroller in addition to the traditional concepts of the MC68HC11. Thispaper will discuss the course outline, laboratory equipment, and embedded designexample with the PIC18F452 microcontroller.IntroductionElectronics Engineering Technology and Computer Science Technology curricula eachrequires

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

sand casting, and test the part incompetition with other students.Equipment and Materials 1. Solid modeling software (Solid Works® is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 2. Rapid Prototyping Facility (A Z-Corporation unit is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 3. Casting Facility (We have a green sand casting laboratory.) 4. Milling Machine available to prepare part for mechanical testing. 5. Mechanical testing machine.Introduction With the impetus from ABET, the faculty, and former students to include more designwithin the curriculum, the Materials Division within Mechanical Engineering was looking forways to do this in a creative manner. Students many times see activities within separate classesas disconnected from other

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

environments • Utilizing emerging technologies such as muscle wires, air muscles, micro- and nano- controllersInitially ONU technology and engineering student body was chosen as the main target audiencesince the focus areas were mechatronics and robotics. However, art majors and minors did showstrong interest during promotional activities. They were subsequently recruited. Students who arenot in the honors program were also allowed to register depending on the number of availableseats within fifteen seat capacity limit of the Honors Program.This paper elaborates on the HONR 218 – Animatronics course through its description,objectives, curriculum, and delivery structure including laboratory assignments. Examples ofstudent work are also

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathy Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session [2]. The student will demonstrate competencies in experimental testing, error analysis, laboratory safety, data acquisition, instrumentation and laboratory report writing. [3]. The student will demonstrate computer competency and an intelligent use of computers as a tool for developing solutions to engineering problems.The objective of each course has to be designed to meet the overall program objective and bemeasurable by criteria (a-s

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

alsogives the student a head start for success in courses that come later in the curriculum with the expectationthat early exposure to various topics in engineering will lead to improved student success and retention.The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focus on ‘just-in-time’theory. The learning platform of the course is a magnetic ball levitator, and the course prepares thestudents to be able to design and construct the levitator system by the end of the semester. Theengineering topics have been selected in a way that they are central to accomplishing the project goal, andthe laboratory exercises provide them with the hands-on experience necessary to complete the project.The course has been offered six

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

programoutcome on mathematical modeling. These outcomes were developed concurrently with thecourse, and were used to guide the selection of content. The outcomes of the instrumentationcourse in the junior year and the senior capstone laboratory course were also considered.The first five weeks of the course are focused on vibrations. Topics range for single degree-of-freedom (DOF) to multiple DOF systems. Some coverage of continuous systems is given, butonly to a limited degree. Various traditional forced problems are reviewed, includingtransmission and isolation. Students work a range of problems, beginning with assignmentsfrom their sophomore dynamics text and moving into instructor provided sets.The primary focus of this section is the creation of

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

more1-13. The ECU online MSIT program will be discussed in the next section, followedby issues and experiences in implementing this lab-based graduate program.The ECU graduate online programThe graduate MSIT degree and certificate programs at ECU have evolved over a nine-yearperiod, and have been designed to meet the demands of working professionals. Students canchoose from a variety of IT emphasis areas including Computer Networking Management,Digital Communications, and Information Security. The bulk of the technical courses havesignificant hands-on components that utilize real equipment to provide laboratory environmentsthat are fully accessible over the Internet. Most of the students in the program are professionalsholding full-time jobs at

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

laboratories. The final review is attendedby senior spacecraft designers from industry, Aerospace Corporation and government. The NavalPostgraduate School has a Spacecraft Design Center, which is dedicated to these courses. Thepaper will also present results of a spacecraft design project, Space Based Radar, recentlyundertaken under this program.I. INTRODUCTION Space systems are playing an increasingly critical role in war fighting efforts of the USDepartment of Defense (DoD). It is critical that military officers are knowledgeable in spacesystems to perform their tasks properly in requirements, science and technology/research anddevelopment, acquisition, and operation. There is currently great emphasis in DoD to educateSpace Cadre to perform

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

2005semester.BackgroundLast year at this meeting the authors presented a paper describing the University of Texas atTyler Electrical Engineering Laboratory Style Guide and assessing its impact on the writing of Page 10.1009.1upper-division EE students (http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2004-457_Final.pdf). The StyleGuide is a document drafted to help junior and senior-level electrical engineering students write Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstronger, more coherent laboratory reports. The authors’ research

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

outcomes or intended learning objectives. The second is the set oftopics included in each area. The third is the laboratory exercises included (if any) in each course.Part of the exercise of preparation for ABET is to be as specific as possible, without listing items that cannot or willnot be measured. While some of the items are certainly included in a course, they are not stated because they are notgoing to be measured in the particular course at the particular institution. Where “Not stated” is used, the materialmay well be covered, but not measured for ABET purposes.Electric MachinesElectric Machines Course Outcomes BSC RIT UPJIdentify types, characteristics and components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nuno Delfino; Calvin Cutshaw; Brian McGee; R. Mark Nelms

on feedback from students interviewing for jobs, a PLC-basedcourse with laboratory was developed to provide students with basic PLC skills. The laboratory was constructed around the Allen-Bradley SLC 5/03 processor andRSLogix500 software. Six identical lab stations contain an a SLC 5/03 processor, an 8-bitdiscrete input module (Allen-Bradley 1746-IB8), an 8-bit discrete output module (Allen-Bradley1746-OB8), and an analog combination module with 2 A/D channels and 2 D/A channels (Allen-Bradley 1746-NIO4V). The processor, modules, and power supply are housed in a seven-slotrack, which allows room to add other modules in the future. The RSLogix500 software isinstalled on a generic PC, which is connected to the PLC via a serial connection

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

instructor to establish a healthyand balanced base of theory and practice.Previously the department owned out-dated electronics workstations (experimenters) and asimulation package that was not current and suitable for integration with hardware. Sincepractice is an important part of the program just like any other technology program,laboratory activities took a good portion of the two courses mentioned above. There waslimited time available for simulation, hence the students lacked computerized design andanalysis skills. This paper elaborates on the efforts of improving the quality of electricity andelectronics education with the help of simulation and virtual instrumentation tools.The author obtained 9 NI (National Instruments) ELVIS (Educational

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

andmathematical concepts of modeling physical systems, it is much more difficult to give students anunderstanding of the artful aspects of the modeling process outlined above. In this paper wedescribe a series of laboratory and homework exercises designed to help students hone these skills,discuss how to assess their performance on the exercises and share the results of student opinionsurveys.1 IntroductionIn the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy all students arerequired to take a junior level course on mathematical modeling. During their senior year allstudents in the department form teams of two or three to design and build a device. Many of theseprojects contain some type of basic automatic control system. Most

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Adrienne Minerick

discussed for both experiments andavailable for instructor use.Keywords: Freshman course, Electrophoresis, Bioreactor, Experiment, Inexpensive equipmentIntroductionAt Mississippi State University, our 1-credit hour freshman seminar course has been designed tointroduce students to the Chemical Engineering field. The class meets once a week for 50minutes with about 15 contact sessions in the fall semester. The objectives of the course aremultifaceted and include having the students • Gain an appreciation and knowledge of chemical engineering as a career, • Perform laboratory activities that illustrate key chemical engineering concepts, • Gain experience in oral and written communication skills, • Gain an appreciation for chemical

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

Paper # 854Introducing Biomedical Engineering Using Creatinine Based Time-in-Dialysis Experiment Daniel Cutbirth, Brett Hughes and Sundararajan V. Madihally School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State UniversityAuthor for correspondence – Sundar Madihally email address: sundar.madihally@okstate.eduIn the emerging field of biomedical engineering, there is a need for experiments which canillustrate the importance of engineering concepts in medicine. One of the laboratory exerciseused in demonstrating the fundamental concepts is hemodialysis device. Typically it is usedunder simulated conditions via salt solutions

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Lauffer; Frank Duda; Peter Idowu

percentages of male and femalestudents closer (47% female and 53% male)4. The representation of female learners in post-elementary science courses is however still very poor. Female students in advanced sciencesare estimated at 18%. The striking imbalance has motivated several constituents towardsfinding remedies for improving enrollment of female students as well as addressing the largerproblems of the entire Ugandan education system. The Association of Women Engineers,Technicians and Scientists in Uganda (WETSU) has proposed and initiated a number ofstrategies with varying degrees of success. Some of the ideas that have been tested are:shared laboratory facilities funded through community and government collaboration; careerguidance and counseling

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

intervention is proposed. One proposedsolution to increase the viability of manufacturing related technology programs is to service alarger geographical area through the use of distance education. While pure distance educationaddresses the accessibility issue, it has inherent problems of higher attrition for lower divisionundergraduates, greater difficulties in applying teamwork skills, and lack of student access toequipment for appropriate laboratory experiences. While computer simulations can providerealistic instruction for many laboratory experiences, many of the current solutions require eithermoving the laboratories to the students or moving the students for extended time to thelaboratories. These choices are costly logistic nightmares or

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

, where a watershed is located, how beams and columns areconnected in a building frame, what work will need to be done to excavate a foundation,or how to lay out a roadway. With the advent of new computer technologies, it ispossible to take numerical 3-D data and render virtual computer models that arepresented in 3-D, enhancing the learning experience in relation to both analysis anddesign in the civil engineering curriculum [1]. To this end, the College of Engineering at Valparaiso University has establishedthe Scientific Visualization Laboratory to improve the learning experience for studentsfor 3-D concepts that are hard to represent in conventional 2-D space [2-4]. Examplesinclude electromagnetic fields, complex organic molecules

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rogers; John Anderson; Corey Jones

energyengineers. The photovoltaic industry has been growing at a rate of 30% annually.1 Inaddition, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Center forPhotovoltaics predicts that within 20 years, the photovoltaic industry will employ more than150,000 Americans in the domestic, high-tech photovoltaic industry.2 Many technology-based schools often overlook educational programs in renewable energy engineering. Thiscan lead to a shortage of appropriately trained engineers in such fields. Implementing arenewable energy-engineering program will give the student a solid foundation infundamental physics and design-installation techniques required to work with renewabletechnologies. The field of study will be considered in many categories

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

the theory, and with experimental results from other researchers. Knowledge of modernconcrete technologies permits significant economies, better quality of the structure, and meetingtight schedules required in the current workplace.Teaching Basic Concepts of Mix DesignInitial classes of the course are designed to prepare the students with the basics of concrete mixdesign, principally to understand the properties of concrete constituents. Students learn standardmethods for finding material properties. Laboratory work complements the theory and studentsdetermine material properties using available equipment. In this stage of the course, theprofessor defines the specific research for the semester which may vary according to newerfindings of the

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

even growth into a greater geographical area.Institutions seeking higher student enrollments in technical degree paths may wish toconsider replicating this simple and exciting programmable logic controller module. Thisstrong recruiting tool has provided us a pipeline of talented new students into theuniversity program.The ProgramThe University’s relationship with a local high school began with a simple invitation totheir technology education teacher. When asked if he would be interested in bringing aclass to tour our Industrial Power Transmission and Control laboratory, our phone callwas answered with a slightly skeptical – perhaps. The teacher wanted to visit us first anddetermine the usefulness of bringing a class to campus.His skepticism

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Bruce Muller

Teaching PLCs with the IEC 61131 Standard Languages James Rehg, Bruce Muller Penn State AltoonaAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers are the de facto standard for sequential control of discreteautomation systems and are fast becoming the system of choice for control of analog processsystems. The new languages introduced in the IEC 61131 PLC standard will increase the numberof applications suitable for PLC control. This paper provides a description of the new standardand describes a laboratory at Penn State Altoona that supports a two course sequence for PLC.The laboratory has 16 student stations and 4 automated assembly systems linked by an

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kemi Ladeji-Osias

Planning and Teaching an Undergraduate Course Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Morgan State University Baltimore, MD 21251AbstractPlanning a course involves many issues including choosing the objectives, scope and content,preparing a syllabus, developing lectures, laboratories, projects and assignments, and evaluationof students. Teaching the course is the implementation of the plan while developing a rapportwith the students and monitoring classroom dynamics. Teaching requires adapting your plan toyour current group of students and to the changing educational

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

Experience course (EE/ME 001) is offered during theSpring semester as a follow-on to ENGR 2: Graphical Communication (CAD). EE/ME 001consists of a 1-hour weekly lecture and a 2.75-hour laboratory session. There is a single lecturesection for all students and several labs sections (capped at 20 students each). Both ECE and MEfaculty and staff are closely involved with this course ensuring a balanced, interdisciplinaryflavor. Teaching assistants from both departments mentor students during the laboratory portionof the course.Lecture Component The once a week, one hour lecture component focuses on topics related to theengineering profession, engineering design, electrical-mechanical systems, and wireless sensorsnetworks (Table 1