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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Zbigniew Czajkiewicz, Robert Morris University

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consulting experience includes work in England, Kazakhstan, Germany, USA and Poland. Page 13.942.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 On-line Games and Simulation Tools for Teaching Manufacturing Engineering LaboratoryOne of the main expectations of modern students is that their instructors employ contemporaryteaching tools that are user-friendly, fast, colorful, multitasking, efficient and interactive. Inresponse to these changing student needs, both the laboratory content and the delivery methodsare being modified over the past three years for almost all engineering courses at Robert

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Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia; Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia

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and Aerospace Technology at UDC. He is a Past President of DCSPE and is currently the Director of the Civil Engineering Program and the Chairman of the Professional Engineers in Higher Education (PEHE) of DCSPE. Over 30 years of teaching and engineering practice in Europe, Japan and the US. Page 13.1252.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 THE PEDAGOGY OF THE SURVEYING LABORATORY Abstract Surveying and surveying laboratory (field work) fifty years ago were standard fair for most engineering programs in all disciplines. Today, in the 21st Century, surveying is no longer an

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DELOS Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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AC 2008-1600: A WRITING-INTENSIVE FLUID MECHANICS LABORATORYPhilip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Page 13.134.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008A Writing-Intensive Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Philip J. Parker University of Wisconsin-Platteville Page 13.134.2BackgroundCE330, Fluid Mechanics, is required of all Civil and Environmental Engineering students at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville. This four credit class consists of three 1-hour lectures andone 2-hour laboratory each week. Approximately 40 students enroll in the course each semester.When I teach the course, my

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Metrology Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Georgia Harris, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Christopher Grachanen, Hewlett Packard Company

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is expected in an upcoming issue of theMetrologist. Metrology Ambassadors have identified resources that would be useful inclassrooms. At this time, they are sharing ideas and taking equipment that they each think willbe interesting to students. Experience in the United Kingdom has been successful. However,NCSLI has not had enough experience with providing resources to know what measuringstandards and instruments would be best to include in kits.Virtual Physical Laboratory. In the absence of a laboratory or hands-on kits and resources,teachers are at a disadvantage in teaching such subjects as physics, engineering, and othermeasurement-related disciplines. One of our colleagues in the United Kingdom spent timeteaching Physics in India and

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Metrology Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Lapinskes, Sypris Test & Measurement Inc

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Metrologists in industry has not declined over the years in sync with the availabilityof trained technicians. Contrarily, it has grown at an alarming rate, with needs for Metrologistsin calibration laboratories, pharmaceuticals, government labs, research and development,aerospace, state weights and measures, and a host of other positions. The gap between education/ training and demand has become a major focus throughout the metrology community. The shiftfrom military schooling to the private sector has been a rough road with few successes and manyfailures. The reasons vary but common ground seems to be shared between the expense of start-up and operating a metrology course and obtaining suitable attendance numbers.The general lack of knowing the term

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Metrology Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Sugg, Navy; John Fishell, STEP

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outreach activityto strengthen the metrology profession. The Navy Metrology Engineering Center andMeasurement Science and Technology Laboratory are located at the Naval Surface WarfareCenter, Corona, CA. Since narrowly surviving the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)round, the Center needed a long term strategic approach to providing a pipeline of engineers toreplace those lost during the BRAC process and a plan to replace the mass of baby boomersapproaching retirement in the next 15 to 20 years. The Center developed a proactive approach tomaintaining a pipeline of engineers that involved numerous outreach activities into the universityand college systems and into local high schools that helped solve more immediate needs.However, it became

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University; Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University

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-requisite of each other. Students must pass both courses to go to thenext level. In another word, laboratory skill enhancement is a crucial part in ET education. Butthe current existing problem we are facing is that for each lab course, there is a set aloneequipment. We don’t have a platform that can teach students different applications of theknowledge they obtained from different level of courses. This obstacle greatly hinders theprofessional development of technology students, because they need more hands-on experimentsthan traditional engineering students.In order to better fulfill its departmental primary purpose to prepare students for a successfulcareer in engineering technology and related fields, Engineering Technology Departmentproposed

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LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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AC 2008-2567: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY COURSE: ROBOTICDESIGN AND PROGRAMMING WITH MINDSTORMSNebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo Nebojsa I. Jaksic received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Belgrade University in 1984, the M.S. in electrical engineering, M.S. in industrial engineering, and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Ohio State University in 1988, 1992, and 2000, respectively. From 1992 to 2000 he was with DeVry University in Columbus, OH. In 2000, he joined Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the mechatronics program director. Dr. Jaksic's interests include mechatronics and nanotechnology

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Euan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology

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-edits the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. Dr Lindsay was the recipient of a 2007 Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching. In 2005 he was named as one of the 30 Most Inspirational Young Engineers in Australia. Page 13.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Milestone – Based Assessment: An Alternative Strategy for Assessing Laboratory Learning OutcomesAbstractEngineering programs often feature units that contain a semester-long laboratory project, inwhich students complete an extended piece of work throughout the full duration of thesemester. The

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Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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simplified somewhat from the initialimplementation. In some cases, fewer data points were recorded to determine a trend. In others,the scope of the experimental procedure was reduced. The laboratory measurements in our inquiry-based laboratory exercises are designed toexpose student misconceptions. The students are asked to make a prediction that exposes theirthinking. This is followed with a direct measurement that confirms a correct model or shows theerror of an incorrect model. Finally, our inquiry-based experiments are designed to teach students to apply qualitative aswell as quantitative reasoning. During the laboratory exercises, and on the pre and post-labquizzes, students are asked to predict trends in the measured data before that

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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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AC 2008-83: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORYCURRICULUM FOR EMERGING PRODUCT MANUFACTURINGFrank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology Frank Liou is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST). He currently serves as the Director of the Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Engineering Program at MST. His teaching and research interests include CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, and rapid manufacturing. He has published over 150 technical papers, and has research grants and contracts over $8M. Page 13.422.1© American

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Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Sharfstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Blanca Barquera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Michael Hanna, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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AC 2008-749: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESSING ANDMICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY COURSES: A MODEL FOR SHARED USE OFINSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORIES BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCESusan Sharfstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Susan Sharfstein is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests are in mammalian cell culture for bioprocessing. Her teaching interests are in biotechnology and biochemical engineering and in integrating engineering and life science education. Professor Sharfstein received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award whose

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Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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MURAT OKCAY; BILGEHAN UYGAR OZTEKIN

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From the Proceedings of the 2008 meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education Session 3426 Educational Particle Image Velocimetry Interactive Experiment Suites Murat Okçay PhD and Bilgehan Uygar Öztekin PhD Interactive Flow Studies Abstract: Laboratory experience is an essential component of teaching Fluid Mechanics. Hands-on teaching methods provide a lasting understanding of the fluid flow principles. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has become a very powerful technique for studying fluid mechanics. Unfortunately very high price

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

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course is ajunior/senior level course offered in the electrical engineering department. The objective of thecourse is to teach the students how to design microcontroller-based systems. The particularmicrocontroller used in this course at the present time is the Freescale MC9S12C32. Theintegrated development environment used is CodeWarrior Development Studio for HCS12. Itsupports assembly, C and C++ programming. The major course outcomes were: first, with theadaptation of the Freescale kit the design flow has become simpler and smoother than before.Elements of the design flow such as editing of programs, compiling, flashing, debugging and re-flashing of the microcontrollers are done in one development platform- CodeWarrior. Second,the form factor

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Naumov, Purdue University Calumet; William Obermeyer, Purdue University Calumet; Rahul Singhal, Purdue University Calumet; Eduardo Garcia, Purdue University Calumet; Nasser Houshangi, Purdue University Calumet

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ECE 371’s laboratory teaching philosophy, the ECE 464laboratory provides students the forum to assume a higher degree of design responsibility.Having acquired the necessary implementation skills, students are expected to traverse the entire Page 13.1315.9digital systems design flow in order to successfully complete each project. Using this design-directed teaching style, the newly defined academic goals for the ECE 464 laboratory section areshown below. • Apply behavioral and register-transfer level (RTL) digital system modeling in the context of larger, more complex digital systems found on modern microprocessors • Expose

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Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faramarz Mossayebi, Youngstown State University; Frank Li, Youngstown State University; Eric Lombardo, YSU; CHITRA RAJAGOPAL, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus

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presently employed by Mine Safety Appliances Company in Pittsburgh, PA.CHITRA RAJAGOPAL, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus Ms Chitra Rajagopal is Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at the Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus, where she teaches electrical and electronic engineering technology courses in in-person and on-line formats. She is currently researching on embedded system design, microcontrollers and control system. Page 13.390.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing an Advanced Digital Control Laboratory with a System-On-a

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Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Brian Anderson, Kansas State University; Mina Hosni, Kansas State University

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AC 2008-2117: A SIMPLE EDUCATIONAL WIND TUNNEL SETUP FORVISUALIZATION OF DUCT FLOW STREAMLINES AND NOZZLE/DIFFUSERBOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATIONB. Terry Beck, Kansas State University Terry Beck is a Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University (KSU) and teaches courses in the fluid and thermal sciences. He conducts research in the development and application of optical measurement techniques, including laser velocimetry and laser-based diagnostic testing for industrial applications. Dr. Beck received his B.S. (1971), M.S. (1974), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in mechanical engineering from Oakland University.Brian Anderson, Kansas State University Brian Anderson is a recent

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Innovations in Laboratory Studies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University

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AC 2008-636: DESIGNING UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING LABEXPERIENCE TO SATISFY ABET EC2000 REQUIREMENTSAli Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University Dr. Ali M. Al-Bahi is professor of aerodynamics and flight mechanics in the Aeronautical Engineering Department of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has a 20 years teaching experience in Aeronautical Engineering and was graduated from Cairo Univ., Egypt and ENSAE, France. Prior to joining the department he built a practical engineering experience by working for the aircraft industry in Egypt. He published numerous papers in CFD, applied aerodynamics, and flight mechanic. Since 2002 he became interested in assessment and

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Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

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few students thatwork in the electrical power sector of industry do have prior knowledge of electrical powerindustrial software.A virtual electrical power systems laboratory is used in the EET-3334 course in conjunction withthe theory and application of the lecture. This virtual electrical power systems laboratory allowsa variety of electrical power systems to be designed effectively with minimum cost. In addition,the lab use of industrial software allows the students to practice using a tool that typically isrequired later when they work in industry. The students in the virtual electrical power systemslab first learn basic theory power theory using the Electronics Workbench / Multisim software.The students then learn to program some small

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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Messiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University

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AC 2008-1960: HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH A TURBOJET ENGINE IN THETHERMAL SCIENCE LABORATORY COURSEMessiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University Messiha Saad is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He taught mechanical engineering core courses for more than twelve years; he also teaches internal combustion engines, design of thermal systems, and related courses in the thermal science areas. He received numerous teaching awards including: “The Most Helpful Teacher of the Year Award” in 2005, “Procter & Gamble Student Choice Award – Favorite Teacher” in 2004, and “Teacher

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LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Andrew Watchorn, National Instruments; John DeBusscher, University of Michigan

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educationalvalue, and the statistics is provided of student evaluation of the VIs as learning tools in the lab.1. IntroductionTo bring automatic, computer-controlled experiments into teaching laboratories, especially at theintroductory level, where they must be accessible to every student, might be a dream of many labinstructors. There are several challenges on the road to its fulfillment, both on the technical andpedagogical sides. The technical ones include: (a) availability of proper test and measurementinstruments along with computers, (b) successful choice of software, (c) its adaptation to theneeds of Instructional Laboratories, and – nearly inevitable – (d) debugging. The mainpedagogical challenge is to find the wise balance between traditional

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

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code, of good quality, without much formalinstruction in C programming per se. Similarly, students with little mechanical designexperience, or who had not previously played with LEGOs, could construct simple machines,design geartrains capable of trading speed for power, and build sturdy structures, simply byparticipating in the course and interacting with their groupmates.These observations suggested that the LEGO 375 curriculum and laboratory design could helpSTEM educators to teach computer or robotics laboratories at the secondary school level. In July Page 13.1283.61997, a group of high school science teachers and their

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

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AC 2008-843: A PROJECT-DRIVEN APPROACH TO TEACHING CONTROLS INA GENERAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMJason Yao, East Carolina University Dr. Jianchu (Jason) Yao joined the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. He received a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shaanxi university of Science and Technology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven

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LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Jose Salinas, United States Military Academy

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‘run’portion of the crawl, walk, run methodology.Following the success of the Football Lab, three additional laboratories were introducedfor EDP 3. The goal of this series of laboratories was once again to introduce thestudents slowly to the theory behind their design and then to progress towards morecomplex concepts. The first of these laboratories dealt with gear trains. This ‘Gear Lab’focused solely on teaching students gear train construction principles and techniques.The student design teams built and tested static gear trains to lift a set amount of weightwith a pulley. The students’ goal was to lift the weight a set distance as quickly aspossible, and teams that performed well were rewarded with bonus points. The simplegear trains built by the

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Schubert, University of San Diego; Frank Jacobitz, University of San Diego; Ernest Kim, University of San Diego

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Marine Corps Air Station after graduating with his B.S.E.E. Upon completing his M.S.E.E., he was an electrical engineer with the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado designing hardware for precision fiber optic measurements. He then entered the commercial sector as a staff engineer with Burroughs Corporation in San Diego, California developing fiber optic LAN systems. He left Burroughs for Tacan/IPITEK Corporation as Manager of Electro-Optic Systems developing fiber optic CATV hardware and systems. In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of San Diego. He remains an active consultant in radio frequency and analog circuit design, and teaches review coursed for the

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johnny Chang, National University; Ayman El Salim, National University; Ronald Uhlig, National University; Michelle Bright

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received a Master of Science in Wireless Communications from National University, San Diego in 2007. Since completing an engineering internship with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, he is working as a Software System Test Engineer with Sierra Wireless in San Diego, CA.Ronald Uhlig, National University Dr. Ronald P. Uhlig is Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Engineering and Technology, National University. He also serves as Lead Faculty for Wireless Communications for the Master of Science in Wireless Communications program. He teaches and carries out research in wireless systems, computer security, and applications of advanced technology in education. He