Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

grouped into an instrumentation course and overall objective of this paper is todescribe the development of laboratory modules for measurement and control and implementation ofthe same through the course “Instrumentation in Biological Systems Engineering”. This is a core BSEcourse that all BSE students will take with an average the enrollment of 30 students. Currently MATLABis being taught at freshmen (Introduction to Engineering) and sophomore years (Numerical methodscourse). As MATLAB is being considered as one of the standard software tool in Engineering programs, itwould be logical to use the same for the instrumentation course as well, instead of learning newsoftware. MATLAB can be used to communicate with data acquisition and control to

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George E. Meyer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Kim Cluff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jeyamkondan Subbiah P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

predictive microbial growth/death mod- els for food safety risk assessment. Every fall, he teaches a large sophomore-level class on engineering properties of biological materials, which consists of both lectures and laboratory sessions with an enroll- ment of more than 70 students. Every spring, he teaches a junior-level course on principles of bioprocess engineering which has an enrollment of about 25 students. Page 25.511.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Electronic Student Homework Management Systems for Continuous Improvement and Program

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

of Fluid Mechanics was delivered in the traditional lecture format and thestudents seem to learn the necessary techniques in a routine manner. The third category, Reading mode of learning recorded a low score of 2. Thisindicates that the students need help from the instructor. A sold understanding ofBernoulli’s Equation and related mathematical techniques require quite a bit of effortfrom the students. Finally, a very good mode value of 4 was recorded for Kinesthetic style oflearning. Viscosity and related topics were handled like a laboratory, demonstration.The students learn better in a laboratory setting. This should be improved to documenta score of 5. The above analysis shows that lectures and labs are the preferred