Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Firdous Saleheen; Salvatore Giorgi; Zachary Smith; Joseph Picone; Chang-Hee Won

associated with all the electrical engineeringundergraduate laboratories”5. The popularity of the open laboratory lies in its ability to maximizeresource utilization. Lab scheduling becomes more flexible, teaming is enhanced, and equipmentis more effectively utilized in an open laboratory6. However, this requires self-paced labs thatcan be completed without direct supervision. Our goal in this work is to transform traditionallaboratories to open laboratories for basic electrical engineering courses such as AC/DC circuitanalysis.In a traditional laboratory approach, teaching assistants help the students with assembly anddebugging. Students can also receive individual instruction from graduate student teachingassistants (TAs) during office hours. It