. The remainingitems make the package more complete. We used the HELP kits for the first time in 2008. Page 25.1386.4The final development in our HELP kits is the inclusion of a small robot platform. The robotswere used within in the experimental program in 2009 and 2010. This paper reports on the use ofand development of the HELP kit to facilitate off-campus practicals. We present our work for thethree years 2008-2010.The Lab CourseThe lab experiments ran in the context of a first-year electronics course. The pre-requisite wasintroductory physics (which covered the basics of DC electric circuits, but not AC circuits).Delivered July-October
AC 2012-4044: FACTORIAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR LABO-RATORIES INCORPORATING ENGINEERING MATERIALSDr. David R. Veazie, Southern Polytechnic State University David Veazie received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Southern University in 1986, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1987 and 1993, respectively. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey as a member of the technical staff and was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Langley Research Center. In 1994, he joined Clark Atlanta University’s Department of Engineering, and was the Director of the Mechanical Testing Labora- tories (MTL) and Associate Director of the NASA-funded High
AC 2012-3087: DEVELOPMENT OF A POWER ELECTRONICS LAB COURSEWITH RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONSMr. David S. Ochs, Kansas State University David S. Ochs received his bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2010. He is currently pursuing a master’s of science at Kansas State University. His research interests include power electronics and maximum power capture in wind energy systems.Dr. Ruth Douglas Miller, Kansas State University Ruth Douglas Miller earned a B.S.E.E. from Lafayette College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Rochester. She has taught at Kanssa State University for 21 years and is presently Associate Professor. She
AC 2012-3527: A LABORATORY-BASED, PROBLEM-SOLVING PEDA-GOGY PREPARES STUDENTS TO HIT THE JOB MARKET RUNNING!Dr. John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Departmental Internship Co- ordinator at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include power and energy processing, applied process control engineering, automation, fluid power, and facility planning.Mr. William Marshall, Alief Independent School District William Marshall is the Director of Instructional Technology and Career and Technical Education for the Alief Independent School District in Texas. He provides supervision of Program Managers in the areas of career
AC 2012-4486: A MOBILE LABORATORY AS A VENUE FOR EDUCA-TION AND OUTREACH EMPHASIZING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTA-TIONJeremy John Worm P.E., Michigan Technological University Jeremy John Worm is the Director of the Mobile Sustainable Transportation Laboratory at Michigan Tech and a Research Engineer in the Advanced Power Systems Research Center. Worm teaches several courses pertaining to hybrid vehicles, and IC engines. In addition to teaching, his research interests include internal combustion engines, alternative fuels, and vehicle hybridization. Prior to coming to Michigan Tech, Worm was a Lead Engine Development Engineer at General Motors, working on high efficiency engines in hybrid electric vehicle applications.Dr
AC 2012-3242: TEACHING ADAPTIVE FILTERS AND APPLICATIONSIN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PRO-GRAMProf. Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central Jean Jiang is currently with the College of Engineering and Technology at Purdue University, North Central, Westville, Ind. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1992. Her principal technical areas are in digital signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and control systems. She has published a number of papers in these areas. She has co-authored two textbooks: Fundamentals of Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Second Edition, AuthorHouse, 2008; and Analog Signal Processing and Filter Design
AC 2012-4629: NETWORK-BASED DATA COLLECTION FOR A PROJECT-BASED FRESHMAN CLASSDr. Samuel Bogan Daniels, University of New Haven Dr. Daniels is an associate professor of mechanical engineering with more than 20 years of experience teaching laboratory classes. He also teaches in the multidisciplinary engineering foundation spiral cur- riculum at the University of New Haven. Research interests are in engineering education and renewable energy systems.Dr. Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven Dr. Cheryl Qing Li joined University of New Haven in the fall of 2011, where she is a senior lecturer of the Industrial, System & Multidisciplinary Engineering Department. Dr. Li earned her first Ph.D. in Mechan- ical
AC 2012-3678: A GRID OF ONLINE LABORATORIES BASED ON THEILAB SHARED ARCHITECTUREProf. Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria Since 1995, Michael Auer is professor of electrical engineering at the Systems Engineering Department of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria and has also held teaching positions at the universities of Klagenfurt (Austria), Amman (Jordan), Brasov (Romania), and Patras (Greece). He was invited for guest lectures at MIT Boston and Columbia University and technical universities of Moscow, Athens, and others. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of VDE, IGIP, etc., author or co-author of more than 180 publications, and a leading member of numerous national
AC 2012-3183: USB-POWERED PORTABLE EXPERIMENT FOR CLAS-SICAL CONTROL WITH MATLAB REAL-TIME WINDOWS TARGETDr. Eniko T. Enikov, Universiy of Arizona Eniko T. Enikov received his M.S. degree from Technical University of Budapest in 1993 and Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. His research is focused on the design and fabrication of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) as well as developing theoretical models of multi-functional materials used in MEMS. As a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Minnesota, Enikov has worked on several projects in the area of micro-assembly, capacitive force sensing. Currently, Enikov is an Associate Professor at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
AC 2012-5244: EXPANDING THE CONCEPT OF REMOTE ACCESS LAB-ORATORIESDr. Alexander A. Kist, University of Southern Queensland Alexander A. Kist received the Ph.D. degree in communication and electronic engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2004. His research focused on performance modelling and evaluation of SIP Protocol based 3G Signalling IP networks and the development of methodologies to enable QoS Signalling in multi-service IP networks. He received his bachelor;s degree, Diplom-Ingenieur (FH), in telecommunications engineering from the University of Applied Science Offenburg, Germany, in 2000. The thesis on the problem of synthesising of partially link-disjoint paths in a network was
AC 2012-3864: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACTIVE LEARNING (SEAL)SYSTEM: A NOVEL APPROACH TO CONTROLS LABORATORIESDr. Per Henrik Borgstrom, University of California, Los Angeles Per Henrik Borgstrom received the B.S. (2005), M.S. (2007), and Ph.D. (2009) degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA, where he received the prestigious Regent’s Scholarship and Chancellor’s Prize. His research interests include robotics, controls, and educational methods.Prof. William J. Kaiser, University of California, Los Angeles William J. Kaiser received a Ph.D. in solid state physics from Wayne State University in 1984. From 1977 through 1986, as a member of Ford Motor Co. research staff, his development of automotive sensor and
AC 2012-3019: SOLAR WATER HEATING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTALAPPARATUSDr. Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh is professor of mechanical engineering currently on sabbatical leave at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly, University of Missouri, Rolla), Rolla, Mo. His areas of interest are heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. Page 25.1168.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
AC 2012-3412: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF A VIRTUALREALITY EXPERIMENT IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THEMO-FLUIDSLABORATORYDr. Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion UniversityDr. Jaewan Yoon, Old Dominion UniversityDr. Rick McKenzie, Old Dominion University Rick McKenzie is the Graduate Program Director in the new Modeling, Simulation and Visualization En- gineering (MSVE) Department and a joint faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Old Dominion University. Before coming to Old Dominion University, he spent six years in the simulation industry as a Senior Scientist. McKenzie’s research has been in medical modeling and simulation, human behavior representation, and simulation
AC 2012-4791: THE IMPACT OF A PROTOTYPE EXEMPLAR ON DE-SIGN CREATIVITY: A CASE STUDY IN NOVICE DESIGNERSDr. Thomas F. Schubert Jr. P.E., University of San Diego Thomas F. Schubert, Jr., received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego, San Diego, Calif., and came there as a founding member of the engineering faculty in 1987, where he served as Director of Engineering Programs, 1997-2003. He previously served on the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Portland, Portland, Ore., and Portland State University, Portland, Ore., and on the
AC 2012-3722: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT-STYLED SHORT COURSESFOR A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING LABORA-TORY EXPERIENCEDr. Rick Williams, East Carolina UniversityDr. Loren Limberis, East Carolina University Loren Limberis joined the engineering faculty at ECU in Aug. 2006. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. Limberis taught for several years as an Assistant Professor at the College of New Jersey and was a research analyst with Southwest Research Institute prior to his academic career. His research interests focus on designing techniques to utilize nature’s highly complex and sophisticated biological systems to develop biohybrid devices for use in