AC 2009-815: USE OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BUILDER (KSB)FORMAT IN A SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORYCharles Forsberg, Hofstra University Charles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he teaches courses in computer programming and the thermal/fluids area of mechanical engineering. He received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic Institute of NYU), and an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. Page
involve Cyber-tools and Cyber-environments for Engineering Education, and Semantic Grids. Page 14.443.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Developing a Research and Education Laboratory for High Performance Computing and CyberinfrastructureAbstractHigh performance computing (HPC) and computational science are critical drivers of economicand research competitiveness in global science and engineering. The growth of open sourcesoftware and the universal availability of low cost, high performance computer componentsmake it possible to build powerful and inexpensive high performance computing systems
AC 2009-98: A MANUFACTURING PROCESSES LABORATORY: WHATBOOK-MAKING AND SHEET-METALWORKING HAVE IN COMMONNebojsa 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 manufacturing processes
instructions that were assignment-specific. Therefore, I started to add handouts and lecture discussion points for each labexperiment, emphasizing key points needed for each assignment. Table 1 summarizes thetimeline of teaching of graphing skills to 122 students in twelve materials classes over ninesemesters. The following discussion explains these improvements in more detail.Semester Class size ImprovementS04 10 New laboratory manual and guide for creating graphs for lab reports.F04 –S05 9F05 11 Rockwell vs. Brinell diagram in lab manual.S06 8 Rubric for grading lab reports.F06 15 Handout explaining how to set up the spreadsheet for
AC 2009-854: TEACHING AN OPERATING SYSTEM COURSE TO CET/EETSTUDENTSXuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati Page 14.1124.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching an Operating System Course to CET/EET StudentsAbstractThis paper describes the motivation for teaching an operating system course to computerengineering technology (CET) and electrical engineering technology (EET) students. It presentscourse topics and teaching approach. The accompanying laboratory exercises are also brieflydescribed.1. IntroductionAn operating system (OS) provides a well-known, convenient, and efficient interface betweenuser programs and the bare computer hardware. As a service
control. Following this, the class completes the exercisewith the PID instruction in RSLogix500. Both methods will be compared in terms of speed,complexity, and accuracy.The laboratory assignments in controlling the oven heater temperature and dimming the lamp aregiven to the students so that they experience the effectiveness of the PID control. The studentswill practice the scaling of input and output variables and loop closure through this exercise.The closed-loop control concept is emphasized through these exercises. The closed-loopPMDCM control is the last assignment of the PID teaching components. The two PMDCMs areconnected back-to-back to form a motor-generator set. The PMDCM generator works as atachometer to close the velocity loop. The
AC 2009-217: A LABVIEW FPGA TOOLKIT TO TEACH DIGITAL LOGICDESIGNTroy Perales, Texas A&M University Troy Perales graduated from the Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) Program in 2007 and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is graduate assistant for teaching within the EET Program and is responsible for the development and delivery of laboratories associated with digital design and analog electronic devices.Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan has over 20 years of military and industry experience in electronics and telecommunications systems engineering. He joined the Engineering Technology and Industrial
AC 2009-2063: UTILIZING ROBOTICS IN TEACHING MICROCONTROLLERPROGRAMMING TO MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING STUDENTSArif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University ARIF SIRINTERLIKCI is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at Robert Morris University. He has been the Coordinator of the RMU Learning Factory and Director of Engineering Laboratories. He holds a B.S. and an M.S., both in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University. He has conducted research and taught in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing engineering, and industrial technology fields. He has been active in ASEE
AC 2009-2278: DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NETWORK SECURITYLABS WITH OPEN-SOURCE TOOLSArif Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology Arif Selcuk Uluagac is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA as a member of the Communications Systems Center Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Turkish Naval Academy and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in PA, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and ASEE. He is currently teaching the undergraduate level network security class as an adjunct instructor at Southern Polytechnic
Science CourseAbstractIn this work, we present a new teaching approach that we have implemented in our introductorycomputer science programming course. The methodology consists of team teaching, a hybriddelivery system, recorded lecture retrieval capability, readiness assessment activities, objectiveassessment of student progress, and cooperative learning through team work. The team teachingapproach consists of two faculty members being present and actively involved in lecture deliveryand classroom activities, which take place in a computer laboratory setting. The hybrid deliverysystem consists of using Centra, a real-time communication, collaboration and learning softwareenvironment, for lecture delivery, recording, and active student
at their conference. The MSC agreed to match the ASQ-MQD challenge. NCSLI has dedicated funds in the budget for this effort and is seeking additional grants to support the effort. Proposals will be reviewed in March 2009. • NCSLI continues to pursue financial support for another outreach tool that would be available to teachers and students. It is a “Virtual Physical Laboratory” and was developed by a scientist in the United Kingdom for use while teaching measurements in India where they had very few laboratories for hands-on experiments. The U.K. has distributed this product nation wide. It is an ideal resource for school districts where funding is inadequate to support laboratory experiments
AC 2009-1711: ARE SIMULATION TOOLS DEVELOPED AND USED BYEXPERTS APPROPRIATE EXPERIMENTATION TOOLS FOR EDUCATIONALCONTEXTS?Alejandra Magana , Purdue UniversitySean Brophy, Purdue UniversityGeorge Bodner, Purdue University Page 14.231.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Are Simulation Tools Developed and Used by Experts Appropriate Experimentation Tools for Educational Contexts?Abstract Simulations and visualizations can lead to significant improvements in students’conceptual understanding. This increased understanding may be due to the formation of expert-like dynamic mental models. Laboratory simulations have been used in
, Fermi National Accelerator Lab Jerzy Nogiec is the Software Development and Support Group Leader at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests, in addition to software engineering education, include distributed systems and data acquisition systems. Page 14.1152.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching Software Development for Modern Real-Time Data Acquisition and ControlAbstractModern data acquisition and control systems, in the most demanding
environment. Others simply left for jobs in industry. Each DoD activity had itsown BRAC experience.The Navy Metrology Engineering Center and Gage and Standards Laboratory (now consolidatedinto the Measurement Science and Technology Laboratory) are located at the Naval SurfaceWarfare Center, Corona, CA (NSWC Corona Division). This Metrology Engineering Center andassociated Laboratory provide for all of the Navy and Marine Corps Test and MeasurementSystems (TAMS) research, development and engineering support. The engineering capabilitiesrequired to be sustained in order to perform this important function span a multitude ofdisciplines from electronic/electrical (both high and low power), mechanical, microwave,chemical, pressure, temperature, and
AC 2009-1001: TEACHING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSES USINGDESIRE2LEARN (D2L)B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University B. S. SRIDHARA Dr. B. S. Sridhara is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. degrees from Bangalore University and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his M.S.M.E. and Ph. D. degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and Auburn University, Alabama. Dr. Sridhara has published several peer-reviewed articles in the areas of Acoustics, Vibration, finite element methods, and Engineering Education
acrossdisciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics and manufacturing engineering. A top-down approach is described in this paper for dealing with these many complexities in aneffective manner. The innovative ideas in this approach include the extensive use ofmaterials design challenges and research tasks conducted by the students oncontemporary materials research topics. Other successful teaching methods developedpreviously such as incorporating modern web-based, multi-media resources, materialsdatabases, model building, conference participation, and hands-on laboratory experienceshave been retained. Through the implementation of this top-down approach in the Fall‘08 term, it was found that the student performance in the course and ABET
technologyprogram for their future careers in modern manufacturing companies, a new curriculum inRobotics Application Engineering has been developed and applied in the semester of spring 2008.This paper describes the course and laboratory of Robotics Application Engineering for studentsof manufacturing technology program (ITMT) in the Department of Industrial and EngineeringTechnology (IET).There are four Robotics courses offered in the IET Department spanning from 100 level to 400level to teach concepts, operation, programming, maintenance, interfacing, and applicationdevelopments of industrial robots. Robotics Application Engineering is taught as a 400 levelcourse for senior undergraduate students in the ITMT program. This course teaches
AC 2009-2193: TEACHING SOCIAL COMPLEXITY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARYTEAM BUILDING: AN EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING APPROACHCraig Laramee, State University of New York, BinghamtonShelley Dionne, State University of New York, BinghamtonHiroki Sayama, State University of New York, BinghamtonDavid Wilson, State University of New York, Binghamton Page 14.1151.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching Social Complexity and Multidisciplinary Team Building: An Experimental Engineering ApproachAbstractNumerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET), and the National Academy of
introductory sociology course from a remote location. Teach. Soc., 2008. 36(4): p. 331-344.3. Howard-Quijano, K.J., Huang, Y. M.; Matevosian, R.; Kaplan, M. B.; Steadman, R. H., Video-assisted instruction improves the success rate for tracheal intubation by novices. Brit. J. Anaesthesia, 2008. 101(4): p. 568-572.4. Pryor, C.R., Bitter, G. G., Using mulimedia to teach inservice teachers: Impacts on learning, application, and retention. Comp. Hum. Behav., 2008. 24(6, Spec. Iss.): p. 2668-2681.5. Takeda, N., Takeuchi, I.; Haruna, M., Assessment of learning activities using streaming video for laboratory practice education: Aiming for development of e-learning system that promote self learning. J. Pharm
4 6 8 6 behavior.8. Program nodes to send and receive 3 7 8 6 messages.Assessment of Student LearningOur teaching materials on Embedded Systems Networking were introduced to the studentsduring the Fall-2008 semester in our senior design class. Altogether 10 hours of lecture (five 2-hrlectures) were presented to cover the materials related embedded systems networking. Thestudents were divided into groups of three. The students of each group worked together toachieve the goals of each laboratory assignment. The students were required to present a demo ofeach assignment. Different student of a group was required to take the lead in showing the demoof different
AC 2009-319: TEACHING FUTURE MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS LAWS,ACTS, STANDARDS, AND LIABILITIESArif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University ARIF SIRINTERLIKCI is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at Robert Morris University. He has been the Coordinator of the RMU Learning Factory and Director of Engineering Laboratories. He holds a B.S. and an M.S., both in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University. He has conducted research and taught in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing engineering, and industrial technology fields. He has been active in ASEE (American
communication and laboratory classes. Her research interests include methods of teaching engineering ethics, argumentation, and graduate-level writing.Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin Hillary Hart is Distinguished Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, where she created and directs the program in engineering communication. She has published one book (two editions) and over 20 technical articles on environmental and risk communication, engineering ethics, and technical communication. A Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, Hillary also works with companies, such as BP-Amoco, and public agencies to develop strategies for socially
to other platforms.ConclusionA combination of assembly and C language was used to teach the basics of microprocessorprogramming in the updated Microprocessors course at BSU, using a modern developmentenvironment (a soft processor instantiated on an FPGA with classic RISC architecture).Overlapping the teaching of both languages had a synergistic effect on educating the studentsabout microprocessors. In addition to learning how microprocessors work and control a broadrange of devices, the students learned problem-solving skills and practiced these skills withrealistic laboratory assignments and projects. Materials developed to teach the updatedMicroprocessors course are continuing to be expanded and refined.References[1] B.E. Dunne, A.J
AC 2009-378: VIRTUAL-REALITY TECHNOLOGY AND THE TEACHING OFARCHITECTURAL LIGHTINGMary Ann Frank, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisDavid Cowan, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisMichael Boyles, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisJeffrey Rogers, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisKeith Goreham, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisJatmika Suryabrata, Gadjah Mada University, IndonesiaYulyta Kodrat, Indonesian Institute of the Arts Page 14.1350.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Virtual Reality Technology and the Teaching of Architectural LightingAbstractThe study of lighting in
AC 2009-599: TEACHING FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ANALYTICAL REASONINGUSING INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMSGary Bailey, North Carolina A&T State UniversityCindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State UniversityGary Bailey, NCA&T State University Page 14.1137.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 TEACHING FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ANALYTICAL REASONING USING INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS.AbstractWe argue in this paper for the formative value of general education to and for major-specific education within the public, state supported Agricultural and TechnicalUniversity. In particular, we argue for the formative value of a first-year generaleducation foundation
, component-based software architectures, software and systems engineering process models, intelligent control, the semantic web, and real-time artificial intelligence. In 1999, Dr. Hawker joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor focusing on software engineering, and in 2004 he moved to the Software Engineering Department at RIT. Dr. Hawker is also co-director of the Laboratory for Environmental Computing and Decision Making, which focuses on modeling and understanding the impact of freight transportation and automotive industry activities and public policies. Dr. Hawker is a member of the ASEE, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the
Journal 50, 5, 1079-1106.21. Richards, B. 2000. Bugs as features: Teaching network protocols through debugging. In Proceedings of the 31st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Austin, TX, Mar 8-12 2000), 256- 259. ACM.22. Sebern, M. 2002. The software development laboratory: Incorporating industrial practice in an academic environment. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, 2002 (Covington, KY, Feb 25-27, 2002), 118-127.23. Seiter, L. 2009. Computer science and service learning: Empowering nonprofit organizations through open source content management systems. Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS
devices, sensors, and circuits with a real-world emphasis on projectmanagement and design. The course is structured to encourage students to learn how to learn thetheoretical underpinnings of electronics through the design of laboratory projects. As such, lesstime is spent initially in the classroom teaching the theory behind important elements ofelectronics. Instead, in the later phases of the electronic project, after students have already hadan opportunity to experience working devices and circuits in the laboratory, instructors are muchbetter able to introduce students in greater depth to fundamental electronic theory. Studentexperiences in the laboratory with microelectronic devices and circuits motivate a richer, moremeaningful discussion
semester the Lab Management team and faculty offer a two-daylaboratory assistant orientation workshop. Teaching techniques, Safety procedures, professionaletiquette, and organization of laboratories were covered during the workshops. The conceptmaps workshop was part of the general orientation program and included the basic training andconcept mapping learning techniques (see additional document No 2). The orientation sessionincluded sample concept mapping applications to various lower and upper division courses,software, and practical tips on concept maps. These samples were created in the junior class (seeadditional documents No 3, No 4).The attendees were the general group of Lab Assistant (LA), Student Assistants (SA) and Under
with two children.Paul Golter, Washington State University Paul B.Golter obtained an MS from Washington State University and is currently pursuing his PhD while working as the Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at WSU.He is married with two children.Gary Brown, Washington State University Gary R Brown obtained a PhD in Education from Washington State University in 1994 and is currently the Director Centre for Teaching Learning and Technology at Washington State University. He is happily married.David Thiessen, Washington State University David B.Thiessen received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado and has been at