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Jason C. Ganley

for the laboratory by investigating all aspects of theexperiment: theory, system operations, personnel assignments, safety concerns, workingequations and correlations, data acquisition, handling of measurement uncertainty, data analysis,and evaluation of experimental objectives. While all group members participate to some degree,the supervisor primarily interacts with the designated team leader, and the prelab grade isassigned to that individual.2.2 Experience: Hands-on Operation (Application)Upon completion of the prelab report, the student team commences its laboratory work,operating without input from faculty or teaching assistants (potential safety issues excepted).Student teams, as directed by their team leader, are in complete control

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Jing Guo; Kathy Kasley; John M. Santiago

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference The Challenges of Teaching Engineering Labs Online Dr. Jing Guo, Dr. Kathy Kasley, and Dr. John Santiago College of Engineering, Colorado Technical UniversityAbstractThe paper presents the Engineering Department’s development and the pilot delivery of anonline laboratory experience to support the electrical and computer engineering online deliveryof a previously on campus course, “EE110: Introduction to Engineering”. The most significantchallenges in support of students in the construction, debug, and measurement of circuitparameters include the following: (1) replacing face-to-face interaction with both the

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Jeffrey S. Bates; Taylor D. Sparks

assigned to strongly agree. Therefore, results were collected and reportedbased on the numerical average.Student comments were collected from course evaluations as well from conversations that tookplace after the course was completed. Not all students provided comments related to the class.Teaching Methods and AssignmentsIn addition to teaching innovation in this course, we also explored alternative methods ofinstruction. We focused on increasing student engagement in the course. One way we did thatwas to introduce the students to a variety of experiential learning methods. For example, ourcourse was taught at the same time as the on-campus farmers market, allowing us to use it as anon-campus learning laboratory. Patrons and vendors were used in

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Dina Battaglia; Krishna Sampigethaya; Akhan Almagambetov; Mehran Andalibi; Tyrone Groh; Kaela Martin; Matt Pavlina; Sam Siewert; Anne Boettcher

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section ConferenceIntegrating Research into Undergraduate Courses: Experiences from a Multi- Disciplinary Faculty Learning Community Dina Battaglia, Krishna Sampigethaya, Akhan Almagambetov, Mehran Andalibi, Tyrone Groh, Kaela Martin, Matt Pavlina, Sam Siewert, and Anne Boettcher Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZAbstractA Faculty Learning Community (FLC) in any university provides an excellent way for faculty toboth innovate and improve teaching methods and styles. When our FLC, consisting of sevenfaculty members and two staff members, convened, it became apparent across academicdisciplines that undergraduate research

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John M. Santiago; Jing Guo

lab activities. This led to the idea for online chat sessions dedicated to addressing studentquestions based on viewing videos, reading text material, doing lab experiments, and solvinghomework problems. Moderating the online discussion boards will also supplement the chatsession approach to promote more student engagement. In terms of video content, it took onlyabout 8.5 hours of recorded video lectures for ‘Introduction to Engineering’ course havingnumerous engineering lab activities than circuit analysis. So about 46 minutes of video contentper week are needed for the ‘Introduction to Engineering’ course that is primarily laboratorybased. Based on the experience of Professor Guo to teaching the laboratory content, she believesthat more

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Hugh Smith

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Network Programming – Beyond Sockets Hugh Smith Cal Poly Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractIn this paper we present a methodology for teaching computer network programming. In typicalComputer Networking textbooks used in networking courses the only coverage of networkprogramming is a discussion of the sockets API. This approach seems logical since many timesthe students taking a Computer Networking course are upper division students who already knowhow to program. The problem with this approach is most students have not writtenasynchronous programs that need to work together to

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Jackson J. Graham; Randy C. Hurd; Tadd T. Truscott

scanning to engineering undergraduates. Heis currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringDepartment at Utah State University where he teaches the senior capstone design andengineering graphics courses. He also works to develop new laboratory experiments to reinforcefundamental mechanical engineering concepts and enhance user interactivity at USU.Randy C. HurdRandy Hurd received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in2015 and is currently pursuing a PhD in the same field at Utah State University. His researchfocuses on investigating the impact dynamics of highly deformable spheres with the water freesurface. With ideal impact parameters, highly deformable spheres are capable of

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Keith E. Holbert

(BS) degree isoffered by Stony Brook University.1,2 As part of the development of two courses for the ASUonline EE program, the recorded classes were initially deployed in half-semester long terms toboth the online students and the traditional on-campus students. While the online students wereaccustomed to such accelerated terms and the Internet delivery, the traditional face-to-facestudents were not. This paper will report on the results of an inadvertent experiment resultingfrom the offerings of these two senior-level engineering technical electives. The end-of-the-course teaching evaluations completed anonymously by students are used to compare studentperceptions about the course itself and the instructor.Literature ReviewThere have been