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Pavel Navitski; Elena Gregg; Robert Leland; Viktar Taustyka; Andrzej Gawlik

class is taught in two sections, primarily to first year students, and teaches 3Ddesign using SolidWorks. The Double 3 robot enabled Dr. Leland to physically and remotelymove around the classroom, and give students personal help with their projects and exercises. Apicture of the Double 3 is shown in Figure 1. The Double 3 has excellent cameras, display andaudio, and it produces enough volume to easily address a class of 25-30 students. Fortunately, thecomputer lab is on the same floor as faculty's office, although the robot does not have arms, andcould not open and close office door.Physics Labs classesFor Laboratory classes transition to remote learning was much more difficult. In Spring 2020Semester after entering “lockdown” faculty performed

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Alexa G. Moreno; Thomas W. Smith; Edgar C. Clausen

with a range ofaudiences), 5 (an ability to function effectively on a team . . .) and 6 (an ability to develop andconduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgmentto draw conclusions) are most easily satisfied through laboratory and capstone design activities.In teaching undergraduate laboratory, the development of a “stable” of good quality labexperiments is essential. The experiments can be either virtual or physical (hands-on with theequipment), although there have been many discussions on the pros and cons of using each ofthese types of undergraduate labs. Korestky et al. [2] offered an opinion that virtual labs arebetter for experimental design, critical thinking and dealing with ambiguity

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Rohit Dua

the current instruction set. Work will also concentrate on developing more © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conferenceversions of the WIMP51 processor that include significant hardware additions, such as theperipherals found in the typical 8051 family of microcontrollers, via experiential learningprojects.References[1] D. Van den Bout. The practical Xilinx Designers Lab Book, Prentice Hall, 1999[2] D.G. Beetner, H.J. Pottinger, and K. Mitchel, “Laboratories Teaching Concepts in Microcontrollers and Hardware-Software Co-Design,” 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. S1C/1-5, 2000[3] P. J. Ashenden. Gumnut Processor: Digital

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Randy Kelley

ofunderstanding contact resistance for engineering students. It also incorporates an analyticalmethod for helping the understanding of this phenomenon. This experiment was intended forstudent learning and not for scientific rigor. There are just too many variables that are notcontrollable in a classroom setting. The lecture on heat transfer can explain the concept, but aphysical demonstration enhances learning objectives. Heat transfer lectures do not normallyhave associated laboratory classes. This experiment can easily be conducted in a class roomwithout extensive laboratory equipment. This type of teaching method promoted active learningas the primary learning objective.[3] Allowing students to actually see a problem and thenformulate a solution

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Thomas McKean; Jorge Almodovar; Aubrey Schultz; Natacha S. Melgar; S. Ranil Wickramasinghe

Arkansas (U of A). She received her Ph.D. in ChemicalEngineering and B.S. in Chemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. She hasover five years of experience teaching chemical engineering and chemistry courses. She also hasexperience designing and conducting STEM outreach activities to middle and high-school studentsas well as teacher training workshops. Her teaching interests include using active learningstrategies in the classroom and mentoring students in laboratory courses where they designexperiments instead of performing pre-defined laboratory experiments. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceDr. Ranil WickramasingheDr

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Stephen Pierson; Josh Goss; Han Hu

by completing a carefully planned sequence of laboratory exercises and hands-oninvolvement with manufacturing processes” [6]. The facilities the proposed lab course would betaught are recommended to include a manufacturing laboratory with student-use desktop CNCmachines and a computer lab with PCs installed with Autodesk Fusion 360. Fusion 360 is cloud-based, 5-axis capable CAM software that is common in the private sector and educationally free-to-use, which makes it a natural choice to teach a computer-aided manufacturing course. Based onFigure 1. Pocket NC V2 5-axis desktop CNC Mill (left) and simulated toolpaths for a part generated in Fusion 360(right).the current market, the Pocket NC V2 (Figure 1) stands out as a suitable CNC model

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Sara E. Wilson

taught in both the Fall and Springsemesters. The students each purchase the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit 4.1 (Sparkfun, Niwot, CO)which contains an Arduino Uno style development board as well as a breadboard and anassortment of sensors, motors, and other elements. Each weekly module starts with tutorialvideos. A one hour class on Mondays reviews this material in an active-learning style, wherestudents sit in their project groups to complete exercises. Each week has a 2 hour laboratory inwhich an individual programming assignment is competed followed by a homework assignmentdue the following week. The course has 3 individual exams, the first in week 4 on Arduino C++programming, the second in week 8 on Arduino C++ programming, and the third during

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Mirit Shamir; Stacy Hutchinson; Gaea Hock; Ryan Hansen; Jonathan Aguilar; Nathan Hendricks; Prathap Parameswaran; Matthew Sanderson; Rebecca Cors; Melanie M. Derby

’ academic backgrounds are notable challenges and we expect to encounter in futuresemesters. We also found that even though the NRT capstone offered sessions about teamcollaboration, students still faced challenges with team logistics. Therefore, to better support thenext cohort, in the spring 2023 NRT capstone course, the NRT faculty will offer more teambuilding activities at the beginning of the semester. In addition, we found that even though thescheduled team workdays were useful, successful teams needed to meet outside of course time.We also found that one semester might not be sufficient to develop and submit a final researchproduct for journal publication, especially if it includes laboratory experiments. Literature reviewpapers and

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Dominic Halsmer; Chris Jacob; Josiah Kessler; Jasmin Marko

accreditation requirements for both the College of Education and the School ofEngineering. Education students require additional exposure to engineering concepts that theycan subsequently take into the K-12 classroom [1]. Engineering students need practice indesigning experiments and communicating effectively with a range of audiences [2]. In addition,appropriate content and limits are suggested for teaching at three possible educational levels:elementary, middle school, and high school. This virtual thought experiment [3] is part of a largereffort to develop a new lab manual for earth science courses that will include a variety of moreholistic engineering-related lab experiments [4].A novel feature of this experiment is its holistic approach to

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Jackson Marsh; Christy Dunlap; Stephen Pierson; Han Hu

used to acquire real-time data to actuate a motor. Using a programalongside Arduino to save this acquired data and harnessing Arduino’s maneuverability andadaptability would allow students to create better systems. Most importantly, incorporating thiswithin a lab while also teaching data acquisition basics would help solidify all of the necessaryskills. Together all of this should allow for any data acquisition needs within research or acapstone project to be easier to obtain.AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the Arkansas EPSCoR Data Analytics that are Robust & Trusted(DART) through seed grant number 22-EPS4-0028, under NSF grant number OIA-1946391,Chancellor’s Funds for Commercialization, and Honors College Research Team Grant at

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Christy Dunlap; Jeff Pummill; Han Hu

introducing these topics, it will prepare students for an easier transition torunning simulations. For example, in the mechanical engineering fluid curriculum, it might begood to touch on common computation packages that are used for fluid simulations such asOpenFOAM or COMSOL.The other way these topics could be included in the curriculum is by creating a new elective thatwould allow students to use an available package to run a sample simulation or train a model andthen expand on this by teaching how to upscale their model. This might mean using more atomsor increasing the time in a simulation or using more data for training a supervised machinelearning mode. The course could include a scaling assignment to emphasize the speed up forincreasing CPU