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Tyler Locke; Lucas Faria de Sa Tucker; Haridas Kumarakura; Don Heiman

A Simple Laboratory Experiment on Coupled Electrical Oscillators Tyler Locke1 , Lucas Faria de Sá Tucker1 , Haridas Kumarakuru1∗ and Don Heiman1∗ 1 Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 ∗ Corresponding authors: h.kumarakuru@northeastern.edu, d.heiman@northeastern.edu AbstractThe resonance properties of coupled LRC electrical oscillators was investigated and their joint behaviourcompared to that of a mechanical mass-spring system. The damped sinusoidal output of each uncoupledcircuit was recorded and curve fitting was performed to obtain values for the

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Charles White

Navigating the COVID landscape with a Mechanical Engineering Junior Laboratory Prof. Charles S. White Department of Mechanical Engineering, Norwich UniversityAbstractAt the author’s institution, all Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students are required totake a two semester laboratory course sequence covering topics in measurement andinstrumentation. As with most hands-on instruction, the restrictions imposed by the COVIDpandemic required significant adjustments to the course, especially the number of studentsthat were permitted in the laboratory space at any given time. In this paper a comparison ismade between the Fall semester course from before the pandemic (Fall 2019) and the samecourse

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Ryan C Cooper

Project-based engineering competition in upper-level engineering laboratory Ryan C. CooperAbstractIn this paper, I discuss novel features in an upper-level engineering course that have been used toenhance technical writing and problem-solving skills. I redesigned the course in Fall 2018 toprepare students to make engineering decisions and accomplish design goals. My short-termobjectives were to prepare the students to start their capstone projects senior year and improvetechnical writing. The laboratory course includes a number of novel features: specificationsgrading, interactive Jupyter lab handouts, and problem- and project-based learning.Problem-solving

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Nancy K. DeJarnette; Ruba S. Deeb; Jani M. Pallis

Impact of a STEM Mobile Laboratory Initiative on K-12 Students in High Needs Schools Nancy K. DeJarnette, Ruba S. Deeb, Jani M. Pallis University of BridgeportAbstract— It is well known that exposure of young students to authentic STEM experiences canlead to lifelong learning and exploration. One University and one Science Museum located inthe northeastern United States have collaborated to develop and implement a mobile STEMlaboratory on a 35-foot New Flyer Bus (Model D35LF) with a capacity for 23 individuals perlesson and named it STEM On Wheels. The goal of this project was to bring technical STEMlessons and hands-on experiences to urban high-needs K

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Jay A. Weitzen; Dohn Bowden

replacingIronically, when Covid hit and we had to go remote for 18 months,we were ready to transition to remote learning which greatly laboratory attendance. For the next 1.5 years until fall 2021, webenefitted the university and our students. In this paper we present operated in a remote lab format in which students purchased athe data that shows that learning outcomes using personal personal learning device, we shipped to them additional partslearning device-based labs are comparable to classic laboratory not already included in their box of components and theyformat. Programs that switched to simulation-based lab programs performed the laboratory exercises in a virtual lab setting usingput students at a disadvantage

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Basile Panoutsopoulos

On a Hybrid Delivery Approach to Science and Engineering Courses Basile Panoutsopoulos Community College of Rhode IslandAbstract:A new hybrid delivery approach to science and engineering courses is proposed. The lecture andrecitation parts of the courses are meeting half of the time remotely synchronous and half of thetime face-to-face. The laboratory will be face-to-face only.Introduction:New approaches on delivering courses were developed during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic [1]. A pandemic is an epidemic occurring on a scale that crosses internationalboundaries, affecting people on a worldwide scale. The delivery of lecture, recitation and

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Room IS 105Worcester Polytechnic InstituteTeaching laboratories is an essential component of chemical engineering education. They are designed to help students think criticallyabout chemical engineering principles and practices by planning and execution of experimental work followed by reflection, analysis, andinterpretation of data. However, operating teaching laboratories with social distancing measures poses significant logistical and safetychallenges, and alternative modes of delivery could be a realistic way forward in adapting engineering curricula to the post COVID-19world. This paper is aimed at identifying common approaches and strategies implemented in transforming hands-on labs into hybrid, virtualor remote operation to achieve

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Maqsood A. Mughal

many educators feel that the effectivenessof scenes/sources instructor can switch of remote learning is hampered because ofbetween seamlessly via custom transitions that. There are many barriers to studentallows for a learning experience like that of engagement including, but not limited to,a regular classroom experience. The scenes financial challenges [8], students dealingwere broadcasted via Zoom to teach ECE with stress and trauma [9], lack of support2010, a laboratory-based engineering and structure at both the technology andcourse, and summer pre-college programs course design level [10], and teachingat WPI, and the feedback from students was practices that simply don’t work

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Dirk R. Albrecht

Biomedical Instrumentation Lab Activities for Remote and Hybrid Delivery Dirk R. Albrecht, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MAAbstract— Biomedical instrumentation applies fundamental physics, electrical circuits, andengineering principles to the detection, recording and control of biological and biomedicalsignals, including clinical biosensors for patient monitoring and laboratory measurements.Typically, bioinstrumentation courses are taught using in-person laboratories with commercialequipment. Recent advances in inexpensive hardware and sensors have allowed transformationof these costly, seat-limited labs into flexible hands-on experiences, scalable to over 100concurrent

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Shinae Jang P.E.; Sarira Motaref P.E.; Manish Roy

. For courses with laboratory and/or discussion sections: were the laboratory/discussion sections helpful to your learning? 90 80 Student Response (%) 70 60 50 N/A 40 30 Yes 20 No 10

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Kathleen A. Lamkin-Kennard

background materialin both engineering and biomedical disciplines, as well as more domain specific knowledgerelated to the end application areas. To reinforce this multidisciplinary knowledge, a series ofteam-based challenge exercises were recently incorporated into a Biomechatronics course at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) using the low-cost Robotis Mini Humanoid robot and aproject-based learning approach. Students were required to complete task-based challengesusing both the Robotis virtual platform and the physical humanoid robots. The virtualenvironment allowed students to do the majority of programming outside of the laboratory,thereby minimizing the amount of time required with the actual robots. As part of the challengeexercises

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Sarah Dulac; Jacques Ross; Joseph Silveira; Chandler Jardin; Andrea Elloian; Kevin Raggiani; Dylan Souza; Tyler Viera; Alec Peinkofer; Darion Gregory; Konrad Jamro; Hamed Samandari; Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh

unprecedented.Approach & Methodologies The offshore platform must be robust and secure enough to withstand the various offshoreconditions while housing a VAWT and/or UCT. Our overall goal in this project was two-fold: (a)design a floating platform to house a VAWT and UCT, and (b) test the performance and stabilityof the floating structure under various wind and current conditions, experimentally. Experimentswere conducted at the Laboratory for Fluid Structure Interactions Studies (FSI Lab) at our homeinstitution, UMass Dartmouth, which was equipped with a recirculating water tunnel. In order tofully mimic concurrent wind and current simultaneously for our floating DTP, our team designedand made modifications to the water tunnel facility to house an

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William Cutler; John Donaghue; Haridas Kumarakura; Don Heiman

teaching assistants for the Advanced Physics [12] Z. Jones, J. Hinds, S. Woznichak, and A. Calamai. Re-Laboratory section for which this experiment was visiting the room-temperature metastable 2e lifetimeintroduced. We would also like to thank the in ruby for an upper division phosphorescence labora-Northeastern University Department of Physics for tory experiment. Journal of Undergraduate Reports infinancially supporting our experience at the ASEE- Physics, 30(1):100004, 2020.NE 2021 conference. [13] G. C. Brown. Fluorescence lifetimes of ruby. Journal

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Kriti Bhargava; Phillip G. Bradford; Nandor Verba

require specialized laboratories, setting up online IoT (and in general Computer Science) labs is relatively simple. They require minimal physical infrastructure and cost and can exploit existing cloud technologies. Therefore, designing KLAs for online IoT labs should be straightforward. 2. Online labs abstract away unnecessary details and ease troubleshooting - By providing access to VMs for IoT development, we can streamline the setting up phase and focus energy on the subject material that is relevant to the learning outcomes. This applies particularly to online workshops that are short-term. The uniformity of the development environment for all students makes it easier to