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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Enhancing Engineering Curricula Through Laboratory-based Learning: Pedagogical Approaches, Challenges, and Innovations Marvin Gayle, Danny Mangra Queensborough Community College The City University of New York [CUNY] Queens New York, USA Abstract—Laboratory-based instruction is a critical underscore ways to evaluate the effect of laboratory education oncomponent of engineering education. It

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Uma Balaji

and explanation of mathematical derivations and conceptualhands-on experience. Through this approach, students gain a frameworks. Additionally, MATLAB simulations anddeeper understanding of key concepts such as modulation, laboratory exercises are integrated to reinforce theoreticalbandwidth, demodulation, and noise while also exploring concepts through hands-on learning experiences. Usingcommunication system design. This paper outlines the use of MATLAB and Simulink, students engage in interactivelaboratory demonstrations, hands-on activities, MATLAB exercises that provide a visual understanding of key topics.simulations, and projects to create an immersive learning These

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Steven Bercik; Mehmet Furkan Baylan; Ansa Brew-Smith; Don Heiman; Bala Maheswaran; Haridas Kumarakuru

. Circuit Implementation each pushbutton, before being grounded, to eliminate any residual floating voltage once the button was lifted. With the theoretical foundation, coupled with access to auniversity electronics laboratory, everything was in place to Fig. 2. Circuit schematic of the digital guessing game. The setter’s and guesser’s consoles (orange and gray) relay signals to the XOR chip (purple) and the main computing unit (peach). The LED output appears at the bottom right (blue). TABLE I. TRUTH TABLE FOR XOR GATE A B X (output

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Bala Maheswaran; Meghna Sridhar; Yiannis Levendis; Hameed Metghalchi

members of the National Renewable EnergyLaboratory (NREL) for their encouragement. This work issupported by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) under grant SUB-2024-10424.References[1]. Mackenzie Dennis, An Overview of Heliostats and Concentrating Solar Power Tower Plants, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, March 2022[2]. Joshua Weissert, Yu Zhou, Dongchuan You, and Hameed Metghalchi, Current Advancement of Heliostats, Journal of Energy technology, Vol. 144 / 120801 -7, 2022[3]. Zhang, Y., & Wei, M., "Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology and its potential in China: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 113, pp.109-124, 2019.[4]. Yogesh, K., & Bhushan, P., "A comprehensive

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Samuel Servati; PS. Dhanasekaran

thatengineering education while ensuring its effectiveness combining structured rubrics with qualitative feedbackand sustainability [4] . One of the primary obstacles in provides the most effective assessment model [4].implementing PBL is the high demand for resources, Another significant challenge of implementing PBL isespecially in institutions with limited budgets. Many faculty adaptation. Many educators are accustomed tohands-on projects require specialized equipment, raw traditional lecture-based instruction and may lack thematerials, and laboratory spaces, which may not hands-on experience required for guiding studentsalways be readily available [7]. CNC-based projects, through PBL projects [8]. A professor

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Marlon Jost; Umme Hani Bootwala; Don Heiman; Haridas Kumuraku

Electronics course, we decided to design this MTS 102 3-position toggle switches 8puzzle box. Such a project not only demonstratedNortheastern’s emphasis on experiential learning by having us TTL Logic chips 4invent, design, refine, and physically implement our ideas, but Arduino (Uno R3) 1also allowed us to create a product that can benefit the next Variable DC Power Supply 1generation of students. (GW INSTEK GPS-3030DD DC Our design extensively utilizes transistor-transistor logic Laboratory Power Supply)(TTL) chips

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Christopher Brown; Sumith Yesudasan

. https://necsi.edu/powerlaw#:~:text=A%20power%20law%2Stress was primarily localized at the wing-shell connectors, 0is%20a,the%20length%20of%20its%20side. (accessed Mar. 3, 2025).[9] Overview and results from the Mars 2020 PerseveranceRover’s first science campaign on the Jezero Crater Floor -sun - 2023 - journal of geophysical research: Planets - wileyonline library,https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JE007613.[10] U.S. Department of Defense, MIL-STD-810G: TestMethod Standard for Environmental EngineeringConsiderations and Laboratory Tests, Oct. 2008.[11] C. Haodong, Y. Li, H. Zhang, and W. Sun, “Modelingand thermal analysis of Step 2 GPHS for a larger safeoperating temperature range,” Thermal Science andEngineering

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Saddam Alkhamaiesh; Peter Cavanugh

, Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo, 2nd Technicians: A Workforce Development Metric,” Modern Economy, ed. London, UK: Sage, 2013. vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1–15, 2023. [32] J. Saldaña, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, 3rd ed.[7] U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), “EV Workforce London, UK: Sage, 2016. Development Initiatives.” Available: [33] D. L. Morgan, "Focus groups as qualitative research," Qual. Res. https://www.transportation.gov/ev-workforce Meth. Series, vol. 16, 1997.[8] National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), “EV Infrastructure [34] M

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Boluwatife E. Faremi; Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas; Amir Mohammad Karimi Forood; Josef Kundrat; Hugo F. Posada-Quintero; Ann Marie Hoyt-Brennan; Wendy A. Henderson

platform's efficacy. Additionally, the artificialindicating increased cognitive effort due to the AIHT’s reduced laboratory setting may not fully capture the complexity of real-reliability. Simultaneously, performance accuracy of the world clinical decision-making environments that traineeparticipant dropped by 50%, suggesting that diminished AI nurses will encounter [1], [7]. Despite these limitations, thisaccuracy weakened trainee nurses’ trust, negatively affecting study represents an important step toward developing objectivetheir performance (Fig. 3b). measures of trust in healthcare AI. The AIHT platform's

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B. Kris Jaeger-Helton

-MACHINE SYSTEMS COURSE AND ROLE OF AI Along with the assignment write-up, students were asked tooutline the advantages and drawbacks of using AI for such A. HMS Course Profileacademic work. Of the 56 respondents, there were 115 open-ended responses indicating the merits of using Gen AI for this Human-Machine Systems (HMS) is a 5-credit senior-leveltype of project and 121 responses outlining the less effective and engineering course at Northeastern University, with multipleconcerning aspects of its use. The primary categories of positive assignments and laboratory sessions over a 15-week semester.responses reflected how students felt AI benefited them in This course focuses on the science behind safe

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Priscilla C. Fonseca; Riley Popp

relatively accessible because of its availability and relatively to entry and difficulty in incorporating the associated topics low cost. The image of a specimen obtained using a flatbed in the classroom and educational laboratory. To overcome this scanner can then be used to perform a digital image analysis, barrier, an algorithm and user-friendly Matlab application was developed to examine and quantify the constituent phases in which is then used to examine the properties and health of a samples of concrete. This tool performs color-based segmentation specimen. of the phases of concrete, including the computation of the Digital image analysis of concrete has been performed a area fraction of each

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Joseph P. Duszak; John F. Drazan; Cynthia A. Bautista

burnout. Additionally, undergraduate nurses in training partaking in clinical rotations may observe practicing nurses using A common method to prepare future nurses for the rigors of strategies outside or against their academic training in high-the clinic is to provide real-life simulation laboratory (Sim- pressure situations, further widening the gap [5]. Sim-LabsLab) experiences where training institutions create simulated, have the potential to address the theory-practice gap byreal-world, healthcare spaces with accurate equipment, allowing nurses to apply their formal education to the clinicalsimulated patients, and

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Navarun Gupta; Deana DiLuggo; Junling Hu; Abhilasha Tiberwal; Ahmed Elsayed; Theresa Bruckerhoff

identify real-world problems and survey their broader impacts. The data collected from document reviews, observations, 2. To brainstorm possible solutions to real-world meeting discussions, interviews, and surveys were triangulated research problems. to determine the degree to which the program has met its 3. To apply the scientific method while solving a real- overall goal and objectives. Data analysis is based on the world research problem. appropriate assumptions for analyzing the type of data 4. To develop basic laboratory skills and safety collected, the

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Nadia Albishi; Peter Cavanaugh