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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Arthur Densmore, California State University, Long Beach; Hen-Geul Yeh, Cal State University, Long Beach

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Paper ID #35178Paper: Necessity Brings Out a Welcomed Laboratory ChangeDr. Arthur Densmore, California State University, Long Beach Arthur Densmore has been a lecturer at CSULB for six years teaching electronics seminar and laboratory courses and loves the subject. He entered the field of electronics first as a hobby as a child, won 1st place in the California VICA Industrial Electronics state-wide competition in high school and earned all of his degrees in electronics with honors: BSEE at Cal Poly Pomona, MSEE at Caltech, and PhD at UCLA. At the end of each semester he usually receives student reviews above the department

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Siddharth Vyas, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Paper ID #35224Studying the Experience of Electrical and Computer Engineering Studentsin a Face-to-Face Electronics Laboratory Course during COVID-19 PandemicDr. Siddharth Vyas, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Siddharth Vyas is a full-time lecturer of Electrical Engineering at the California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in circuits and electronics. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Instrumentation at the Medicaps Institute of Technology and Management, Indore, India, and an MS in Electrical Engineering

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Dennis Derickson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Xiomin Jin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Charles Clayton Bland, Electrical Engineering Department Cal Poly SLO,CA

Paper ID #35185The NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer: This New Open-Source ElectronicTest and Measurement Device Will Change Both Remote and In-PersonEducational Delivery of Circuits, Electronics, Radio Frequency andCommunication Laboratory Course DeliveryDr. Dennis Derickson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dennis Derickson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University. He received his Ph.D. , MS, and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin and South Dakota State University respectively. He got his start

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Farbod Khoshnoud, California State Polytechnic University; Clarice D. Aiello, University of California, Los Angeles; Bruno Marco Quadrelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego; Clarence W De Silva, The University of British Columbia; Farbod Khoshnoud; Behnam Bahr, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Lucas Lamata, Universidad de Sevilla

Cryptography; and theoretical Quantum Control techniques. He was a research affiliate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech in 2019; an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University; a visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of British Columbia (UBC); a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University London; a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire; a visiting scientist and postdoc- toral researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC; a visiting researcher at California Institute of Technology; a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC. He

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Matthew Robin Kohanfars, UC San Diego; Edward I Lan, University of San Diego California; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Tania Morimoto, University of California, San Diego

Paper ID #35227Redesign of a first year engineering design course lab activity forremote instructionMr. Matthew Robin Kohanfars, UC San Diego I am a mechanical engineering master’s student that is focused on encouraging students to seek engineer- ing careers by developing entertaining and thought-provoking curriculums for the engineering department at UC San Diego. My master’s degree background targets the field of medical technology, where I am able to work in a design laboratory that specializes in researching and developing medical devices. I plan to continue my education to obtain a Ph.D., directing my impact on

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Kevin R. Anderson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nolan Tsuchiya P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zechariah Alan Maynard, Cal Poly Pomona

Paper ID #35157Teaching PLCS and PID Tuning Virtually using DoMore SoftwareDr. Kevin R. Anderson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kevin R. Anderson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State Polytechnic Uni- versity, Pomona. Dr. Anderson obtained his Ph.D. and MSME degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder and his BSME at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dr. Anderson has over 100 technical publications. He was the previous director of the Control Systems Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department California State Polytechnic University, Pomona focusing on

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Shamim Mirza, California State University at Long Beach

students to get proper education. E-learning can be achieved in three modes: (1) virtual face-to-face, i.e., synchronous, (2) lecturesare recorded and uploaded for the students, i.e., asynchronous, and (3) hybrid which combinesboth face-to-face and synchronous/asynchronous learning. However, teaching an engineeringlaboratory class is not suitable in the first two modes as laboratory classes are designed to givehands-on experience to the students. Hybrid method which includes hands-on experimentalcomponent is more appropriate for the lab classes. However, due to the pandemic, only fewstudents could participate during the face-to-face session while others observed the experiment inthe virtual classroom. Therefore, this added difficulty for majority

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Menglai Yin, Cal Poly Pomona; Tim Lin

(Electrical Circuit Analysis I Laboratory) and ECE 2200 (Microelectronics Circuits).They learned the fundamental laws of electric circuits, applications to circuit analysis, matrixmethods; the behavior of semiconductor devices including diodes and MOSFETS, and theapplication of large signal models to single stage amplifiers to determine voltage transfer curves.This lab course was scheduled to meet once a week, on Thursdays from 4:00 PM to 6:50 PM inECE 9-431 operating systems laboratory. There were 13 experiments in the lab for the total of 13weeks related to design, construction and characterization of microelectronic diode and transistorcircuits with an emphasis on large signal performance. The most current course information waskept on Blackboard

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Duc Hoai Tran, CSULB; Hen-Geul Yeh

shaping a learning process together. In our class, students can either learnfrom us (through lectures) or from other students in class (through group labs/projects). We didalso learn from students sometime. For instance, in the laboratory section of the Probability andStatistics with Application to Computing class, after suggesting the correct theoretical result,some students could write a more efficient Python code in compare with our code to simulate theassigned question. Hence, it is a bidirectional connection between us and students, and betweenstudent to student, rather than a one directional dissemination of knowledge through us as theinstructors.The participation of us, as the instructors, and students in the learning process not only

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Steven Kent Dobbs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Joel Lee, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Justin Ilagan; Barys Khmel; Melody Loi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nicholas Papp; Eduardo Garcia Rogel; Connor McGarry; Chandler Duncan; Phillip Frem; Kevin Maldonado; Corey McGinnis; Hang Yong; Salma Bustos; Qiang Gong; Mumen Abbas; Sophoandara Ry; Kaiqi Luo; Peter Ayad; Martin O'Connell

virtual Zoom meetings give supplementalinstruction and lets the project manager coordinate and assign which students will participate inat home and limited on-campus laboratory activities. Campus-visit compliance training forCOVID-19 social distancing and hygiene requirements was defined and conducted before eachweek’s Lab sign-in used by the students. The courses proved to be exciting learning experiencesfor the college students. They applied critical thinking skills and creativeness in developing aquadcopter / airplane hybrid payload delivery/surveillance UAV, making presentations, andimplementation of the garage manufacturing. Overall, the experiences have motivated thestudents doing a great job to learn and approach engineering even with the

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Jelena Trajkovic, CSU Long Beach

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a survey of the use of the flipped class to prepare for teachingclinical skills laboratory. The main benefits reported were positive changes in student behavior,including preparation and better use of time during labs by both the students and instructors.Although they focus on a non-engineering discipline, the classes use a hands-on lab. As such, thestudies’ conclusions may be pertinent for engineering disciplines with similar lab requirements.Vielma et al.[7] performed a study of best practices during COVID-19 stay-at-home instructionsand found that students’ preference is towards a flipped classroom model. Based on the feedbackfrom the students taking lab classes, Lee et al.[8] propose several methods for conducting labs inFall 2020. One

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Megan N Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Maggie Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

State University since September 2019, where she works to assist student learning in undergraduate dynamics classes and participates in research to improve student understanding of complex dynamics concepts.Maggie Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO Mechanical Engineering student interested in engineering education and social justice.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Maggie Nevrly, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Megan Nicole Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

, Basic and Intermediate Dy- namics, Statics, Machine Design, and Thermal Measurements.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Ahmed Osman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eric Cuellar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Aimee Tai Chiem, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Christianna Bethel; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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toideate is particularly worthy of further investigation. Specifically, how engineering courses maylimit a student’s ability to ideate. This is supported by Lai et al.’s (2008) findings that suggest aninverse relationship between the number of years in engineering courses and one's ability to dodivergent thinking. Researchers may consider the role of design and creativity courses inengineering education, such as the Ideation Laboratory at MIT [27]. Further, researchers mightexplore the influence of innovation-oriented liberal arts or business classes (e.g., product design,entrepreneurship, etc.) on engineers’ ability to think creatively. Such experiences could exposestudents to different domains of ideation while providing an opportunity to

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Jenna Wong P.E., San Francisco State University

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levels of both structural response and secondary systems. After re- ceiving her PhD, Dr. Wong began a post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory developing a modern computational framework for the nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. This work seeks to expand the understanding of soil structure interaction for these structures and the means of modeling this behavior both theoretically and experimentally. In addition to her research experience, Dr. Wong also has worked for the public and private engineering sectors in the areas of water infrastructure, transportation, data systems, and project management. She joined San Fran- cisco State University in 2014 as

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Scott Matthew Boskovich, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Chris Burns, Boys Republic

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directors andbeneficiaries for funding the project and providing the opportunity for the Cal Poly Pomonaengineering students to participate is such a rewarding endeavor.References 1. S. Boskovich, C. Burns, “Project Ponderosa – Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training”, Proceedings in ASEE PSW Conference, April 2020. 2. Grau, A., Indri, M., LoBello, L., Sauter, T., “Industrial Robotics in Factory Automation: from the EarlyStage to the Internet of Things,” 43rd IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference IECON, Japan 2017. 3. Verner, I. and Gamer, S., “Reorganizing the Industrial Robotics Laboratory for Spatial Training of NoviceEngineering Students,” Proceedings International Conference