for both civilian and military applications with a special emphasis on techniques focused on indoor, underground or otherwise GPS-deprived situations. Most recently, Dr. Michalson has been involved with the development and refinement of the Robotics Engineering curriculum at WPI.Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteRobert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Robert Labonté received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1954 and 1959 respectively. From 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the technical staff of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory Division. In 1959, he joined MITRE Corporation when it was formed from
industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985.Delmer Nicholson, University of Cincinnati Delmer W. Nicholson Jr is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BSES and MSCS from The University of Cincinnati in 1982 and 2009, respectively. He has held several research and development positions in industry working for such companies as Cincinnati Milacron, Delco Electronics and Nicholson Computer Consulting. He has taught as an adjunct instructor in the Mathematics and also the Engineering
simulations as a teaching aid is very useful, perhaps even more so in a distancelearning environment. Southern Polytechnic State University’s (SPSU) Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology (ECET) program is engaged in converting its curriculum to a distanceor hybrid distance format. Since all but two of the ECET courses have a laboratory component,this creates a significant challenge in providing a similar laboratory experience for the off-campus students. An obvious choice is to require distance students to visit the campusperiodically to perform hands-on lab exercises. This can be difficult for some students to do andwill limit enrollment to students who can.The laboratory for the department’s Telecommunications Engineering Technology (TCET
‘integrative laboratory experiences that promote inquiry,relevance, and hands-on experience.’ They suggested that lecture be replaced by more interactivelearning experiences, to increase the ability of students to participate in laboratories, internships,and research opportunities. The same Advisory Committee noted that a high percentage ofundergraduates are not prepared for the workforce due to lack of skills and motivation tocontinue learning8. To overcome this, programs such as the Creative Inquiry program atClemson University have the ability to give students the tools and the freedom to pursuequestions in their area of interest: in this case orthopaedics and biomaterials. This interactivelearning experience is highly valued by students supporting
. Experimentation in the modules allow for students to explore topics such asaerodynamics, mechanics of materials, dynamics and transport at an introductory level. At theuniversity, all of these topics are covered in a freshman introduction to engineering course. Thestudents conduct four module experiments; then after this guided instruction, the freshmen workin small teams to develop experiments. In some cases the student chosen experiments may beextensions of those they have completed or changed to incorporate these principles in othersports related testing. These team projects are a major component and design part of the course,after which the students submit a final laboratory report and present their finding in an oralpresentation. Additionally
ratio in the loosest state (emax) of 0.811 and a void ratio of the soil in thedensest state (emin) of 0.492. Poorly graded sand is more susceptible to liquefaction, since thesand grains pack more loosely than well-graded sand. The gradation curve shown in Figure 2was determined through sieve analysis. The specific gravity was determined using the procedurein the laboratory manual5. The maximum void ratio was determined in accordance with ASTMTest Designation D-4253 (2004). Sand was poured loosely into a mold with a volume of 2830cm3 from a funnel with a 12.7 mm diameter spout. The average height of the sand fall into themold was maintained at approximately 25.4 mm. The minimum void ratio was determined byplacing oven-dried sand into the same
IEEE Education Society. Dr. Pan is director of the ON-VLSI Page 15.509.1 Laboratory, Idaho State University.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Enhancing Electromagnetics Instruction Using MATLAB and MATHCADAbstractMATLAB and MATHCAD can be very useful tools for use in electromagnetics courses. Theycan be used as demonstration tools to clarify important concepts, or for numerical analysis ofproblems that are difficult or impossible to solve analytically. MATLAB can serve as thestudents’ home laboratory, helping to develop their practical understanding of
techniques of engineering economicsin a small number of classes or laboratory sessions, with possibly some material in therequired senior-level design course. This approach meets the accreditation requirement;however, it does little to adequately prepare graduates to be economically-minded as theyenter the engineering workforce.The purpose of the panel discussion is to develop innovative, plausible approaches toincluding the most important concepts and topics of engineering economics in allengineering curricula in such a fashion that faculty might accept them as a primaryknowledge base, even in the face of these external pressures.Following a brief stage-setting introduction and potential discussion questions/topics bythe moderator, the session will
AC 2010-1936: ON-LINE SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT USINGLABVIEW AND VISION METHOD FOR E-QUALITY CONTROLRichard Chiou, Drexel UniversityMichael Mauk, Drexel UniversityYueh-Ting Yang , Drexel UniversityRobin Kizirian , Drexel UniversityYongjin Kwon, Ajou University Page 15.920.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 On-line Surface Roughness Measurement using LabVIEW and Vision Method for E-Quality ControlAbstractThe annual results of laboratory development under an NSF, CCLI sponsored project,“CCLI Phase II: E-Quality for Manufacturing (EQM) Integrated with Web-enabledProduction Systems for Engineering Technology Education” (NSF Award # 0618665
MATH 155 recitations and engineering laboratories. Thefollowing sections discuss specific implementation in each course.During the Fall 2009 semester, all students were concurrently enrolled in both MATH 155 andENGR 101 project courses. These students were all first time, full time freshman engineeringmajors. All students were able to complete all parts of the projects.Currently, during the Spring 2010 semester, the composition of the groups is quite different. Allstudents are not required to be concurrently enrolled in both MATH 155 and ENGR 101. Sincethe project worksheets are divided by course, those students in MATH 155 are required tocomplete only the math worksheets and those in ENGR 101 are required to complete only theengineering
this paper, the application of rapid prototyping in fabricating awalking robotic system and mechanism is presented. Using a Dimension uPrint Personal3D Printer, prototypes of a robot body and legs are fabricated. These components are thenused to fabricate the articulated structure of an experimental prototype for a quadrupedrobot. The necessary information about methods of control, power, sensors, batteries,electronics, and more is presented. Materials, methods, and tools are outlined, includingthe use of servomotors and microcontroller-based control systems. Students in theApplied Engineering Technology program are required to work with this robotic projectas part of a laboratory experiment in the “MET 205 Robotics and Mechatronics
. Page 15.373.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Design of Musical Instruments as a Context for Math, Physics and Technical Writing in a Freshman Learning Community CourseAbstractIn order to enhance technological literacy and to integrate math, science, and technical writinginto a contemporary context, a new math-science block course, Frets, Flutes, and Physics, forfreshman at Arizona State University has been developed. The inquiry-based course is in anAcademic Success Cluster and consists of an 11-credit hour course to satisfy basic math,laboratory science and English requirements. The course has been developed and has been taughtby an interdisciplinary team consisting
all of these experiences because that opened me up to look outside of the laboratory and outside of the engineering department because there [were] no blacks in the engineering departments besides me at that time. And so I went to other Page 15.1252.11 departments in pre-med and so forth and [graduate school] has a really great program for black grad students, a union where they meet once a month over dinner. So, I really got involved in that and that really was motivation. So, you got the chance to speak and support each other….It really made the world of difference and just to see them and to share
projects, graduate research, three master’s theses and invaluablecommunity exposure for STEM education. In addition to research opportunities, the work withJagBot resulted in the development of a 400-level senior elective engineering class in LabViewand provided justification for University funding of a laboratory based on National Instrumentsdata acquisition systems. This paper describes the design process and the contribution of thestudents to the final JagBot design.2. IntroductionRobots, as much as any other advance in science, epitomize progress. Robots have starred inmotion pictures, are routinely used in industry, and, although they have not become integratedinto society as fast as imagined by science fiction writers, they have been
are necessary to keep the U.S. competitive [10].The panel concluded “the curriculum should integrate all organizing principlesand basic supportive sciences throughout the educational sequence”, that “allorganizing principles should be operative in the curriculum throughout thesequence”, and that “the curriculum should be consistently infused with relevantand demonstrative laboratory experiences.” There is a critical need for chemicalengineers to be conversant in synthesizing and optimizing unit operations. Thenew process intensification examples require the integration of concepts acrossfour core courses, reinforce these concepts throughout the curriculum, andprovide examples of how the combination of basic principles from different
in the state of Arkansas.Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas CHRISTA N. HESTEKIN Dr. Hestekin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the separation of biomolecules, specifically DNA, using microchannel electrophoresis for applications in medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, and biosecurity.Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University BRADLEY M. DEARING Mr. Dearing is a faculty associate at Illinois State University and teaches Engineering and Technology at the University’s laboratory high school. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Illinois State. He has served as President
students adopted the most conventional approach, placing commercially available solarpanels in a larger array configuration at the site. Within their budget of $17,000, they specified apair of nine-panel arrays of 235-Watt modules produces 4.23 kilowatts at rated operatingconditions in summer and about one kilowatt in winter. Three such panels are shown in Figure6, ready for testing in a main campus laboratory. The cells have a higher than typical efficiencyof 19.7% and provide about 200 Watts per cell. They withstand 2.5cm diameter hail and80km/hour winds, somewhat worse than any conditions ever recorded since on-site monitoringbegan in 1864. Custom mounting hardware is part of the price. Warranty for the solar collectionsystem is 20 years at
, thechallenges continue in determining the number of units the course will require, and finding acommon location and time. Architecture has a culture of five unit studio laboratories, whileARCE and CM have more traditional combinations of three unit lecture courses, lecture courseswith activities, and three unit laboratories. The new course whatever its size needs to fit into theexisting curriculum schedule of all three departments.Another question considered was whether to develop a new course from scratch or scale asmaller existing interdisciplinary experience into a larger effort. The three department headsheld several meetings with those faculty members who had executed previous interdisciplinaryefforts to brainstorm and discuss ideas. Those
-level, algebra-based course within the Natural Sciencesportion of the General Education core. The development of higher-order critical thinking skillsis a key objective of the course. The course also includes a laboratory component. Studentscomplete 12 laboratory experiments over the course of one semester. Course topics typicallyinclude kinematics, Newton’s Laws, conservation of momentum and energy, rotational motion,and fluid mechanics. As such, numerous strategies, including the writing strategies to bedescribed, have been developed that center around the accommodation of students’ diverselearning styles [20 – 26]. Students that enroll in PMW most often do so to satisfy the university’s sciencerequirement for graduation. The students
student as part of degreerequirements for a master of science degree in electrical engineering. We have partnered withstudents on a number of related education projects over the past decade. We have dubbed thistype of development project as “For Students By Students (FSBS).” In the FSBS model, studentsdevelop educational tools for use in the classroom and laboratory for use by fellow students. Thisapproach has allowed us to custom design educational tools while providing studentsopportunities for hands-on development work. Additional information on this approach andrelated projects are provided in the literature [3-9].In the next section we present background information for the reader to put into context theconcepts related to the paper
feedbacks. For the project technicalaspect, the instructor provides assistance as students need.7. ImplementationThe Digital Logic course combines lecture and laboratory projects. In the classroom, instructorensures that students acquire both the subject and SRL strategy knowledge. To help studentsbecome self-regulated learners, instructor has adopted systematic instructional approaches basedon the SRL Model (presented in the above section), which are exemplified in following: • Guide students’ self-beliefs, goal setting, and expectations. • Help students focus on behavior. • Provide timely corrective feedbacks that are positive about the learning task and use of strategy.For the laboratory component, the projects are developed
AC 2010-581: INTEGRATING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH INTO K-12CLASSROOMS: A GK-12 FELLOWS PROJECTVikram Kapila, Polytechnic University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control; distributed spacecraft formation control; linear/nonlinear control with applications to robust control
Biomaterial Considerations Visit Materials Characterization lab to see Sterilization SEM, AFM, and mechanical testing devices8 Transient Systems- Organ Systems Work on MathCAD – learn how to use a basic solve block9 Regulatory/Ethical Issues with Begin project design Biomedical Device Design10 Newer Artificial Kidney Designs Project design time ProfessionalismTable 1. Overview of the topics covered in the Artificial Kidney Project. Each topic was dividedinto a lecture style instruction and a hands-on laboratory
classrooms and textbooks. As such, they also rarely have theopportunity to learn how experimental design and theoretical modeling work together tounderstand practical systems. To address these shortcomings, a low-cost solar water heaterdesign project was developed and integrated concurrently between a mechanical engineeringheat transfer course and a thermal systems laboratory course. The low-cost constraint reinforcedphysical understanding of heat transfer concepts and ensured messy, non-ideal designs to whichtheoretical modeling could not be neatly applied. A heat transfer concept inventory to assessstudent learning showed minimal gains in student understanding while a self-report attitudesurvey administered to the students demonstrated that they
AC 2010-1022: FACULTY'S USE OF TABLET-PC TO ENHANCE LEARNING FORTECHNOLOGY STUDENTSRungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an assistant professor in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks from the fall of 2007. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as scientific assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science. He has also worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles
Engineers hostsCareer Day for Girls, a one-day event for girls in grades 7-12 to get girls excited about science,engineering, and technology. Through laboratory demonstrations, interactive multimedialectures, and hands-on activities, girls meet positive role models (both female and male) and getto think about the possibilities they have for careers in the technical fields.Many Career Day participants and their parents expressed a need for a multiple-day programheld over the summer--a kind of engineering day camp for girls to get more information andexperience with engineering, and to form relationships with female engineer role models.Undergraduate members of the Society of Women Engineers at Northwestern Universitytherefore went about designing
Page 15.796.4German as their primary language with English as a secondary language. Figure 3 - Team Performance Curve (image from: Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers [5])Once the team members had an opportunity to get to know each other, the real team work began.The team held a formal meeting in one of the Purdue University Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology laboratories that was equipped with a chalk board, multiple computersand an overhead computer projector. This environment allowed the students all the resourcesthat they needed to exchange ideas, create diagrams, and perform research. The faculty coachesof the team outlined the Darwin21 challenge and rules, and
scholars made the Dean’s list for at least one quarter during AY 2008-9. None were placedon probation or suspended. After summer, one student decided to accept a permanent job offerfrom his coop employer, and not pursue degree completion at this time.CETEMS ET2 scholars completed 11 quarters of required cooperative education during the2008/9 academic year. Employers included Jeffords Steel, Atlantic Testing Laboratories, MagdeLand Surveying, City of Rochester Water and Lighting, Bernier Car and Associates, PikeCompany and Bernier Carr & Associates PC. Job titles included Water Engineering Intern,Structural Detailer, Field Surveyor, Lab/Field Construction Technician, Civil Engineering Intern,Construction Project Management Assistant
for a Fiber Optics Laboratory. Heserved as faculty advisor to the IEEE and faculty advisor to Tau Alpha Pi National HonorSociety. Bert was instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE.In addition, Dr. Pariser Co-Founded 5 venture companies, and as a management consultantsuccessfully catalyzed over $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. Bert ledcross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growthopportunities. Bert received a PhD, MS from Columbia University and a BS from MIT inElectrical Engineering. bert.pariser@tcicollege.eduCyrus Meherji is a faculty member in the Electronic Engineering Technology and the ComputerSoftware Technology Departments at
Process Development BEC 485 cGMP Downstream OperationsElective Courses (4 GN 311 - Principles of Genetics, 4 credits; BAE(BBS) 425 - Industrialcredits required) Microbiology and Bioprocessing, 3 credits; BBS 426 - Industrial Microbiology & Biomanufacturing Laboratory, 2 credits; BCH 451 - Principles of Biochemistry, 4 credits; BEC 436 - Introduction to Downstream Process Development, 2 credits; BEC 442 - Insect Cell Protein Expression, 2 credits; BEC 462 - Bionanotechnology Laboratory, 2 credits; BEC(CHE) 463 - Fermentation of Recombinant Microorganisms, 2 credits; BEC 475 - Global