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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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Oscar Ortiz, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University

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Page 13.843.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 LEARNING ANALOG ELECTRONICS THROUGH PROJECT- BASED INVESTIGATION OF FM COMMUNICATION CIRCUITSAbstractSince historically much of the early development of analog electronics took place in thecommunication field present, day students’ understanding of electronics can be enhanced byworking with FM communication circuits. Students majoring in the electrical and computerengineering concentrations at our university are required during their junior year to take a three-hour lecture course and a two-credit-hour lab course in analog electronics. By the end of thecourses, students learn the theory and application of such components as diodes, Zener diodes,NPN and PNP

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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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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINERY LABORATORY CURRICULUM FOR EMERGING PRODUCT MANUFACTURINGAbstractThis paper summarizes an effort to develop an interdisciplinary capstone design projectcourse and laboratory in manufacturing. As manufacturing laboratories are veryexpensive to develop, this program is designed based on distributed and integratedmanufacturing processes on campus. As students can gain access to various facilities,they will be able to make various products, including some emerging products, such asEDM machines, fuel cells, etc. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design, manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. Both

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

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also teaches global business. As Principal Investigator for a Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching – Higher Education – Grant received from HP, he is conducting research into the effectiveness of advanced technology in teaching complex information structures. He is a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell (www.projectinkwell.com). Prior to joining the National University faculty, he was President/CEO, SegWave, Inc., an educational technology systems company he founded in 2000. He was Vice President for Russia and Eastern Europe, Qualcomm Inc., 1995-99, with offices in San Diego and Moscow. He was with Northern Telecom, 1984-95 in multiple positions

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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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13.310.2Student group exercise and project examples are given that use the various logic control units.IntroductionWhile both educational and industrial software are used in various courses, the focus of thispaper is on a prime example, the EET-3334 Electrical Power Systems course.The goal of the EET-3334 Electrical Power Systems course is to impart knowledge of boththeory and application. After the basic electrical power systems circuit theory is completed, theapproach used is to impart knowledge of both electrical power system theory and applicationconcurrently. This is accomplished by having the students learn and use the educational softwareand industrial software together. While this may lead to a few students not learning the softwaregreatly in

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

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of the CSM12C32 module is small enough that our microcontroller projects havebecome truly embedded systems. Third, the skills and the tools covered in this microcontrollercourse are useful to the students that they prefer to use them in their capstone design projects.Fourth, the student evaluation results of this course taught by the author have been among thehighest in our department and the college. This microcontroller course with the Freescale studentlearning kits is a viable approach for equipping students with the skills and tools that they needfor prototyping embedded systems and for preparing them for their future design projects.I. INTRODUCTIONThe microcontroller course is one of the most demanding courses in our undergraduate

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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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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assignmentsand five design projects resulted from performing the integration. Horizontal integration wasachieved by providing a consistent presentation of concepts across two computer architecturelaboratory courses while simultaneously providing students the necessary skill-set for developinga successful career as a computer engineer. Vertical integration was achieved by interweavingcommon technical theories and skills to establish interdependence among all digital system andcomputer architecture laboratory coursework. The restructured laboratory sequence provides acohesive educational experience and significant exposure to concepts, design methodologies, andsoftware tools ubiquitous in the semiconductor and computer industry.1. IntroductionThree

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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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principles through active hypothesis testing and discovery.Engineering laboratory courses use active learning. Often, open-ended projects are used aspowerful pedagogical tools for discovery-based learning. To minimize the time to buildprototypes and to minimize the cost of such projects by using low-cost plastic parts andenforcing reusability of parts, many instructors adopted LEGO bricks and LEGO computerizedsystems as educational tools. A large body of engineering education research describes the use ofLEGO brick8. Most examples use LEGO Mindstorms RCX with the Robolab programmingenvironment (RIS 2.0) based on National Instruments LabVIEW software for various projectsand courses like robot competitions9, 10, programming11, 12, and project-based

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Innovations in Laboratory Studies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen McNally, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ComputerEngineering Technology. The lab consists of ten different exercises and culminates in a finalproject in which the students build and test a superheterodyne receiver. At this time, students areallowed to choose their partners, generally considered to be based on friendship and pastexperience. The goal of this project is to understand if the learning styles combination of labpartners can predict the success of the partnership. Each student was asked to complete theIndex of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire developed by Felder and Soloman1. The partnersILS reports were than paired and reviewed for commonalities and differences. The success ofthe lab partners were based on the overall lab scores and functionality of the receiver project.Factors such as

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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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research activities within School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. His responsibilities, among others, include: •Fostering technology transfer and research commercialization •Facilitating ongoing research, scholarship and creative activities as well as development of new proposals and opportunities •Coordinating development and design of new programs and new technology applications •Mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and assist faculty in developing their research programs. He has served as president of CIS consulting company 2000-2004, engaging in many international projects involving the implementation of automation and large-scale software systems. He previously

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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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engineering programs11. NationalInstruments (NI) is a leading company dedicated to engineering and science research andeducation. LabVIEW is a powerful industry-standard graphical development environmentdeveloped on a novel concept of virtual instrumentation, which utilizes computer technologies incombination with flexible software and modular hardware to create interactive computer-basedinstrumentation solutions. With tremendous customers including 24,000 companies and 5,000laboratories worldwide, LabVIEW has been proven to be useful in facilitating experimentallearning, and helping educators prepare further engineers and scientists by creating an effectiveand dynamic learning environment, from hands-on labs to student design projects.1. Graphical

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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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graduate and is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Kansas State University (KSU). He was team leader for the for the SAE Aero Design Competition in 2007 and has contributed significantly to previous wind tunnel lab development projects including the current smoke rake system.Mina Hosni, Kansas State University Mina Hosni is a freshman in the the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Kansas State University (KSU). She is working on the smoke rake flow visualization project in conjunction with the Campus Internship Program (CSI) at KSU

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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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science and other non-engineering degree programs. Theeffectiveness of the course at inspiring this somewhat reluctant student population to getexcited about applying engineering principles and problem-solving techniques isprimarily due to a syllabus that is structured around three engineering design projects, orEDPs. These projects, which become progressively more complex throughout thesemester, require students to take taught theory out of the classroom and apply it to thedesign of mechanical systems. Observations and data collected over the course of theprevious three years, to include direct student feedback and an analysis of embeddedlearning indicators, indicates that these design projects promote effective learning indirect proportion to

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Innovations in Laboratory Studies

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Ali Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University

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Introductory Physics CoursesThe experience of the “Scientific Abilities Project” developed by the Rutgers Physics andAstronomy Education Research Group2 is interesting. The project is sponsored by the National Page 13.380.3Science Foundation program “Assessing Student Achievement” (NSF-ASA). The goal of theproject is to help students develop some of the abilities used by scientists and engineers in theirwork. These abilities include: ‚ an ability to represent knowledge in multiple ways; ‚ an ability to design experiments to investigate new phenomena, test hypotheses and solve experimental problems; ‚ an ability to collect and analyze

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Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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PORTB and displays each bit and thecorresponding decimal value on the monitor screen. There are two programs for the digitaloutput operations. “send_bits.c” and “send_bytes.c”. The “send_bits.c” allows the user toset/reset any specific pin of the 8-bit PORTA. The “send_bytes.c” asks the user to enter a Page 13.1371.4decimal number from 0-255 and then sends the input decimal number to PORTA. Both programscan only receive input and output the signal once. After the signal is sent through the port, theprogram exits automatically. Figure 3: DIP switch circuitStudents follow detailed procedures to create a new project

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

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curricula online. Project and practica-based courses are integral parts of such curricula and are identified as such both by commonassessments of good practice and formal accreditation requirements. Synchronous, lecture-stylecourses can be translated into online environments with little difficulty. Translating practicacourses, in which instruction tends to be more individualized and rich in interpersonal contact,can be somewhat problematic. In this paper, we will report on some of the difficulties we haveencountered over several iterations of a WWW-based autonomous robotics laboratory course forengineering undergraduates, as well as during the gradual migration of a two-week summerrobotics practicum for secondary-school students and STEM educators

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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey; Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

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AC 2008-2556: A COMPREHENSIVE LABORATORY CURRICULUM IN SINGLEDEGREE OF FREEDOM (S-D-F) VIBRATIONS; PHASE I – WORKING MODELEXPERIMENTSAlexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey Alexander Colletti Alex Colletti is a senior mechanical engineering major at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has been involved in TCNJ’s Mini-Baja SAE project and Society of Automotive Engineers (where he was secretary). He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). After graduation Alex plans to go on to graduate school to obtain a PhD in the field of energy and heat transfer. He is working on the forced response system of the apparatus.Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey

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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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more effective and focused than in the past).The updated charters are all noted above, but the strategy for action has been to select each yeara small number of manageable projects from the Next Generation Outreach Outline to enablework to be focused, to achieve short-term successes, and to enable maximum impact andmomentum. Some longer-term projects have also been selected. The following section providesa list of projects that have been started and/or completed along with their current status.Outreach Progress and PlansMultimedia Outreach. One of the projects that the committee has been considering from thebeginning is a DVD or other multimedia tool that can be used to reach counselors, teachers,students, and the general population regarding

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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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in a Fluid Science Laboratory ClassAbstractTwo inquiry-based laboratory exercises are incorporated into a laboratory section of a fluidmechanics class for third year Civil Engineering and Mechanical engineering students. Thelaboratory section also involves four other conventional laboratory exercises. The inquiry-basedexercises are designed to confront student misconceptions and to develop the ability of studentsto use qualitative reasoning. Student learning gains and changes in attitude were assessed for 73of the 119 students in the class who volunteered to participate in the research project. The studygroup completed background surveys and surveys on attitudinal change during the academicterm in which the laboratory exercises were

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Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Fatou Mbengue, University of the District of Columbia; Bodjona Coboyo, University of the District of Columbia; Abdulaziz SIrag, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia

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should be highly encouraged at the earliestlevel in engineering curricula. Solar energy is a major source of alternative energy and ispoised to reach more than 160 GW in the US by 2025. The scarcity of courses dedicatedsolely to renewable energy and particularly to solar energy in most undergraduatecurricula will weigh negatively on the preparation of undergraduate engineering andscience students to tackle the expected renewable energy boom in the 21st century. Theundergraduate research project started in the department of electrical engineering at UDCis intended to fill this gap. A thorough understanding of the solar cell theory as well as agood understanding of the ongoing worldwide research on solar cells will lay a goodground for meaningful

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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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ScientificInvestigation.STEP 3 Conference (November 1 and 2, 2002):The conference was expanded to a two day format allowing for up to 4,000 3rd to 8th gradestudents and their teachers to attend. The science show and expo remained a staple. Costs andtransportation for students and teachers and their schools were, and continue to be, borne bySTEP. The luncheon remained focused on partnering and support efforts. The luncheon keynote(and 3rd STEP Awardee) was Arnold Schwarzenegger. STEP financial support and communityinterest and support expanded greatly. The first teacher education segment was provided on aSaturday morning to train teachers in science and math and to provide tools and projects forteachers to take back to their classrooms. Continuing education units were

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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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this topic in any other course,several laboratory sessions are used to provide them with necessary background informationabout the topic followed by hands on laboratory session in order for them to design a fuzzy logiccontroller for the plant described earlier. The students are also required to develop and present adesign project at the conclusion of the laboratory. The only constraints that is imposed uponthem is the use of the DE2 as the platform for controller design and the approval of the instructorfor their proposed projects to ascertain that their project is sufficiently complex and encompassesthe materials covered.References1. Liu Limin, "A Prototyping IP Hardware for SOPC with Single Instruction Driving," 2006 International

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LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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

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AC 2008-1591: A SET OF COMPUTER-CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS ININTRODUCTORY ELECTRIC CIRCUIT LABORATORIES FOR ELECTRICALENGINEERING (EE) AND NON-EE MAJORSAlexander Ganago, University of MichiganAndrew Watchorn, National InstrumentsJohn DeBusscher, University of Michigan Page 13.100.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Set of Computer-Controlled Experiments in Introductory Electric Circuits Laboratories for EE and non-EE MajorsAbstractThis report is focused on development and implementation of a set of Virtual Instruments (VIs)for all lab projects of introductory courses in electric circuits for EE and non-EE majors. Due tousing the Interchangeable Virtual

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Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Beardsley, Central Washington University

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ofthese materials may be affected by the biodiesel or the process chemicals. A materials lab projectcould investigate the effects of biodiesel and its process compounds on various plastics.7. Viscosity Measurements: Fluids labs with access to viscometers could test the viscosity of thereactants and reaction products as a lab exercise. The fluids involved include methanol, FAME,vegetable oil, and glycerin, giving a wide range of fluid viscosity to test with significanttemperature variation effects.8. Effect of Varying Viscosity on Process Equipment Design: The viscosity of the reactantschanges significantly during the initial phase of the reaction. A fluids lab project could calculatethe pipe size required for a consistent Reynolds number (pick a

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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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has worked on projects ranging from writing Interactive Training Programs to performing Quality Assurance Audits to setting up sections in the Primary Physical Dimensional Lab in Orlando FL. In early 2006 he also took on the role of Applications Engineer until mid 2007. He holds degrees both in Electronic Systems Technology and as an Instructor of Technology. Mark currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the NCSL International(an international Metrology organization)and chairs the Financial Resources Committee under the 160 Learning and Development Group. Page 13.1245.1© American Society

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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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methods. Changes and advancementsin instrumentation were a major factor in this evolution (see discussion of the measurement ofangles later).Traverse Adjustment3The traditional way of establishing horizontal control is to layout a closed traverse. A traverse isa plane polygon of three or more sides. Each side of the traverse is the hypotenuse of a righttriangle. When oriented in a north-south direction, the projection of the side in the east-westdirection is called the departure, and the projection in the north-south direction is called thelatitude. The angle that the side makes with a north-south reference line is called the bearing ofthe side. Because the sides and the angles are measured with varying degrees of precision, thesides of the

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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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of equipment purchased included a BioRadgel documentation system, a table-top refrigerated centrifuge, four New Brunswick ScientificBioFlow 110 fermentors, a refrigerator/freezer, two incubators, shaking heating blocks, verticaland horizontal gel electrophoresis equipment, and microcentrifuges. In addition, a number oflarge shakers were previously available in the laboratory, and these were placed into theenvironmental rooms, eliminating the need for shaking incubators.Equipment purchased by Chemical and Biological Engineering DepartmentDue to the large amount of equipment that was already available in the microbiology laboratoryand the microplate reader costing substantially less than was projected, we were able to purchasemajority of the

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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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Electronics and Electric Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.20, no.2, pp. 538-547, 2005.7. Erkan Mese, “Project-Oriented Adjustable Speed Motor Drive Course for Undergraduate Curricula,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.49, no.2, pp. 236-245, 2006.8. S. A. Shirsavar, Benjamin A. Potter, and Isabel M. L. Ridge, “Three-Phase Machines and Drives-Equipment for a Laboratory-Based Course,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.49, no.3, pp. 383-388, 2006.9. Giorgio Rizzoni, Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 5th ed., McGraw Hill, Boston, 2007.10. Robert D. Throne, “Frequency Domain System Identification of One, Two, and Three Degree of Freedom Systems in an Introductory Controls Class,” ASEE Annual

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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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the American Society of Engineering Educationhighly portable tool to high-schools for demonstrations, workshops and educational activities.The high-school students can be introduced to science through this visual tool at an early age.Postgraduate students teaching fluid mechanics classes at universities may have experience withPIV – and this is becoming more and more common. This tool will lead to exchange ofknowledge and experience with PIV and fluid mechanics between the students and theresearchers. Student projects using this tool can also lead to limited collaboration betweenstudents and researchers. Experiments performed by the students using FLOWEXTM can bedisseminated broadly through, presentations to other students in the same