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Joseph Cecere

ETD 445 Integrating Personal & Occupational Safety in an Engineering Curriculum Joseph J. Cecere Penn State HarrisburgAbstractAn objective of an educational program is to keep a program current and support it in achievingtheir goals. However, this may prove difficult if the program does not keep abreast of the rapidchanges, advancements or does not integrate material that is critical to the success of theprogram, its students, and the profession.This paper examines PSH’s Structural Design, Construction, and Engineering Technology(SDCET program), and incorporating a

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Sabah Abro

, provide differentlevel of quality awareness and methodologies used in engineering. Basically, the programs sharethe offering and introduce simple concepts of quality through courses like Probability andStatistics, and Manufacturing Processes. Some of the programs go further and include SPC andsimilar introductory topics.As a faculty member in an Engineering Technology Department, a Six Sigma certified at theMaster Black Belt level, and with years of experience training industrial professionals in SixSigma, I studied the curriculum and analyzed quality components of existing programs. Thisanalysis concluded that the abstract approach that most of the graduates have been throughduring their college education did not help to establish a link to the

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Biswajit Ray

Experiences with Integrating Project-Based Learning into an Instrumentation Course for EET Students Biswajit Ray Bloomsburg University of PennsylvaniaAbstractThis paper presents experiences with and advantages to integrating project-based learning into aninstrumentation course for electronics engineering technology students. In support of project-based learning, the final three weeks of a 14-week semester are dedicated to student-initiatedprojects. These projects focus on integration of hardware and software, sensor and actuatorselection, continuous process improvement via test and measurement, project management,teamwork, and oral and written

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Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev; Nathir Rawashdeh

revolution, a.k.a. Industry 4.0, composing anappropriate Mechatronics curriculum becomes a challenge and an opportunity. This paper studieshow Mechatronics education can address the future needs of industry, while building on aspecific university’s strengths and industry links. We have also analyzed the new undergraduateMechatronics program at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and compared its contentto other US and German universities.IntroductionWe live in an exciting time where digital technology and the impact of computers andtechnology in human life has been surprising. Computers are listening, talking and evenvacuuming for us. Computers are changing the way we live and work. Every company in theUnited states and across the globe is

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Abhishek Patil; Jungyun Bae

ETD 325 Teaching Autonomous Navigation Using an Open-Source Middleware in a Hybrid Format Abhishek Patil and Jungyun Bae Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractAlong with other topics in mechatronics, autonomous navigation has been advancedamazingly in recent decades and is now playing a pivotal role in many industrialautomation applications. This paper discusses the new strategies designed to teachautonomous navigation of mobile robots using robot operating system (ROS), the mostpopular open-source robotics middleware. At Michigan Tech, the authors

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Marilyn Dyrud

similar notionsdifferently [3]. For example, a businessperson’s notion of risk, driven by the bottom line, differsgreatly from an engineer’s, for whom safety is paramount [4]. Engineering thinking, stressingproblem solving, is more akin to the strategies of ethics. Indeed, as ethicist Michael Davis hasnoted, ethical thinking is integral to engineering: “Knowing engineering ethics is as much a partof knowing how to engineer as knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit . . . insofar asengineering is a profession, knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit is in part knowingwhat the profession allows, forbids, or requires” [5]. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration

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Aleksandr Sergeyev; Paniz Hazaveh; Nathir Rawashdeh; John Irwin

learned.IntroductionModern industrial processes are not just mechanical or electrical. Instead, any equipment used inindustry nowadays is an electromechanical device with advanced controls. Mechatronics is anvital basis for the anticipated evolution in automation and manufacturing. There is a substantialneed for undergraduate and graduate education in Mechatronics as the approach of engineeringprograms has altered providing stronger connection of the curriculum with skills needed inindustry. Mechatronics degrees are very common in Japan and Europe but just started gainingmomentum in the United States. In 2019, Department of Applied Computing (AC) in the Collegeof Computing at Michigan Tech pioneered Master of Science (MS) degree in mechatronics thatallows pathways

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Grant Richards; Nicole Otte

activities in undergraduate and graduate courses.Summary and ImpactThere are no existing systems that meet the requirements of delivering an engaging learningexperience with Industry 4.0 technologies in the process industry at a scope to match PurdueUniversity’s new Smart Manufacturing curriculum. It is not practical for the industry to developan educational system, nor feasible for faculty to create a genuinely representative industrialsolution. Resource and knowledge requirements are too large. A collaborative effort betweenindustry and academia provides the best opportunity to meet the challenges of producing alearning environment capable of supporting the development of a technically skilled workforcecapable of efficiently implementing the

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Chandramouli Chandramouli; Shoji Nakayama; Mohammad Zahraee; Niaz Latif

degree isunique in nature and CSOL faculty created mapping for each one of them separately. Initialproposals were discussed in a joint meeting with ITCC officials, CAF, and PNW faculty. Afterthis preliminary effort, the suggestions from different participants were carefully considered andrevisions were made. After few rounds of discussions, the course transfer credits and pathwayplans were finalized. An example curriculum for the pathway program is presented in Fig. 1.Revised curriculum for the OLS pathway program was also approved by the PNW FacultySenate during April 2020.In the pathway program, OLS program was revised to accommodate construction coursesproposed by CAF (Fig. 1). One important reason for expedition of this proposal was that

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Brad Dahm; Emma Davidson; Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev

inlab 329, the upgraded robotic platform presents much more flexibility in the movement patterns,programming options, and available functions. This, along with an advanced welding controlunit from Lincoln Welding has made it possible to manufacture 3-D welded parts that are thenable to be machined down to the exact specifications. The advanced controls on the welding unithelp to create parts that are solid and durable, without defects in the overall integrity of thestructure. This is what allows for the machining process to occur to bring the parts to withinspecification. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education

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Mohsen Azizi; Venancio Fuentes

requirements established bythe North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners. These new courses are beingoffered to the engineering technology students at both institutions. This NSF-funded projectsignificantly contributes to the renewable energy workforce training by providing functionalknowledge and understanding of solar PV systems integration, installation, startup,commissioning, protection, and troubleshooting. The new courses and laboratories target realindustrial demands in this field, and hence were designed and developed, and are beingcontinuously improved and enhanced in close collaboration with industrial partners.IntroductionRenewable energy systems (RESs) are the new power generation technologies that are widelyused as

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

experimentation, to decide what components to use and purchase, and how to integrate and develop software required. They may use examples that other have uploaded to websites, vendor tutorials, data sheets, etc. Faculty aid is mostly limited to providing high-level guidance or help in specific topics such as Wi-Fi protocols, wireless signal modulation schemes, etc.(B)- Program Specific: An ability to apply project management techniques in appropriateengineering projects: • (Assessment i) This assessment tracks the progress of project tasks scheduled using a Gantt chart, which each group presents to faculty advisor in the weekly memos. The memo is graded using a rubric, and the Gantt chart is one rubric item

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Gary Mullett

teach any of the basics about it. One may have noticed that twopossible courses listed in the certificate curriculum include a course on Programmable LogicControllers (PLCs) and its associated lab and a course on Biomedical Wireless Networks and itsassociated lab. These courses give IoT certificate students the ability to pick up some basic skillsabout these topic areas without taking the entire two-year programs that those courses areassociated with. This is an exciting and rapidly growing area with the additional promise of built-in machine learning (ML) driving the artificial intelligence (AI) aspects of these IoT enabledcontrol systems. The inter-disciplinary nature of the IoT area will most likely drive othersolutions to provide the skill

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Joseph Untener; Philip Appiah-Kubi

higher education, The one-semester capstone class provides engineering technologystudents with industry-sponsored projects that allow students to apply engineering principleslearned through four years of coursework. Each semester, diverse teams of three to five studentswith complementary skills in the areas of computer, electronic, industrial, and mechanicalengineering technology apply the product realization process to research, brainstorm, design,build, test and validate project deliverables. The authors of this paper have both taught thiscapstone design project and provide an analysis of the characteristics of this model and itsoutcomes,A particular opportunity arose when the authors co-taught the course in spring 2020 and thismodel was