(NCEA) researching significantly funded industry projects examining the design and modelling of specialist conductivity instrumentation and modelling for foods in the dairy industry. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer in electronics and communications engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at USQ. He has published commercial research reports, trademarks, patent, and academic peer reviewed research papers both nationally and internationally including two recent publications directly relating to improving STEM engagement in schools using remote access laboratories and robotics. His research interest includes surrogate instrumentation systems, remote and non-contact measurement, remote laboratories, and
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 2012-4382: FACTORS THAT AFFECT STUDENT FRUSTRATION LEVELIN INTRODUCTORY LABORATORY EXPERIENCESDr. Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown CollegeDr. Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College Page 25.629.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Factors that affect student frustration level in introductory laboratory experiencesAbstractLaboratory-based courses have long been an integral part of undergraduate curricula in bothengineering and basic sciences, and much research has been devoted to gauging and improvingtheir effectiveness1,2. However, particularly in introductory courses with students
AC 2012-5155: DEVELOPING INQUIRY-BASED LABORATORY EXER-CISES FOR A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMProf. Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University Sriram Sundararajan is an Associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University. He is currently the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs and oversees curricular and program matters including assessment and continuous improvement efforts. His research areas encompass scanning probe microscopy, multiscale tribology (friction, lubrication and wear), and surface engineering. More recently, he has focused on atom scale mapping of thin film material systems using 3D-atom probe microscopy. He has authored over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and
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 2012-4629: 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
mobile robotics. He is currently a lec- turer in the School of Engineering, Deakin University, where he teaches various electronics and robotics units.Ms. Robynne Hall, Deakin University Robynne Hall spent 13 years in the photographic industry designing cutting edge commercial print labo- ratories throughout Australia, maintaining and teaching silver halide and digital printing machines. As a mature age student, she returned to study and in 2002 completed an advanced diploma in electronics. She has since spent 12 months at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong as a Laboratory Technician and tutor. During the past eight years, Hall has been at Deakin University as the Technical Officer for electronics
25.1075.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Professional Development-Styled Short Courses for a Highly Effective Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory ExperienceAbstractProfessional development-styled short courses often provide working engineers an intensivehands-on learning experience that is difficult to achieve within the confines of the dailyworkplace. Can this model be extended into engineering education and provide engineeringstudents hands-on laboratory experiences that are difficult to achieve within the confines ofcampus? This collaborative project between the Engineering Department at East CarolinaUniversity (ECU) and the BioNetwork Capstone Center, an industrial-scale
AC 2012-3742: FACILITATING GROUP WORK: TO ENHANCE LEARN-ING IN LABORATORY BASED COURSES OF ENGINEERING EDUCA-TION IN INDIADr. Sujatha J., Mission10X, Wipro Technologies Sujatha J. is academically qualified with a Ph.D. in signal processing, from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and has more than 24 years of academic and industry experience. Over the years, Sujatha has participated in not only academic teaching and research but also in academic counseling for students, professional development programs, curriculum development, industry-institution relationship activities, and prototype development and team building. Currently, Sujatha is a core member of Research Center, Mission10X, Wipro Technologies
AC 2012-4676: FOSTERING STUDENTS’ CAPABILITY OF DESIGNINGEXPERIMENTS THROUGH THEME-SPECIFIC LABORATORY DESIGNPROJECTSDr. Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University Hyun W. Kim is a professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Indus- trial Engineering at Youngstown State University. He has been teaching and developing the Thermal Fluid Applications course and the companion laboratory course for the past few years. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio and is currently conducting applied research in hydraulics and micro gas turbines. He helps the local industry and engineers with his expertise in heat transfer and thermal sciences. Kim received a B.S.E. degree from Seoul National
. Currently, he is working on the development of 3D virtual laboratory for solid mechanics lab. Page 25.724.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Implementation and Assessment of Virtual Reality Experiment in the Undergraduate Thermo-fluids laboratoryAbstractResults are presented from an NSF supported project that is geared towards advancing thedevelopment and use of virtual reality (VR) laboratories, designed to emulate the learningenvironment of physical laboratories. As part of this project, an experiment in the undergraduatethermo-fluids laboratory course
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 2012-3046: AN APPROACH TO USING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTTEAMS TO DEVELOP UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY EXPERIENCESLt. Col. Kevin A. Gibbons Ret., U.S. Air Force Academy, NexOne, Inc., and CAStLE Kevin Gibbons is a Senior Scientist for NexOne, Inc., in the Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) located at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. He taught in the AF Academy Department of Engineering Mechanics for four years, where he earned his Assistant Professorship and served as the Director of the Applied Mechanics Laboratory. He currently works as an advisor for a senior capstone research team and mentor to multiple mechanical instrumentation project teams. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering with
embedded system technology resulted in large volume commercial sensor production. At Ford, he also developed the first spectroscopies directed to microelectronics systems based on scanning tunneling microscopy. From 1986 through 1994, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he initiated the NASA Microin- strument program for distributed sensing. In 1994, Kaiser joined the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Along with Professor Pottie, he initiated the first wireless networked microsen- sor programs with a vision of linking the Internet to the physical world through distributed monitoring. This continued research includes the topics of low power embedded computing for wireless networked sensing, biomedical
presence of a prototype exemplar in an introductorydesign experience is described. The design experience occurred early in an Introduction toEngineering course following a single lecture on the engineering design process. The designactivity, necessarily simple at this stage, consisted of designing, building, and testing a dragracer, constructed from LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT parts and powered by a single rubberband. Students participating in the design experience were divided into two functional groups:laboratory sections where a prototype exemplar was present and laboratory sections were noexample was provided. Assessment of the prototype exemplar impact was accomplished througha two-pronged approach. First, photographs of each racer were taken at
AC 2012-5030: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN GROUND VEHICLE COAST-DOWN TESTINGMr. Zeit T. Cai, Princeton University Zeit T. Cai is a third-year mechanical and aerospace engineering student at Princeton University. Over the summer of 2011, he participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) hosted by Michigan Technological University. Under the tutelage of Jeremy Worm, he conducted research on coastdown testing and helped design a procedure to conduct coastdown testing in a classroom setting.Jeremy 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
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, Northridge, where he earned his bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering in 1981. Hovakemian has taken various manage- ment and business courses at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind.Mr. Douglass Sugg, Naval Surface Warfare CenterElizabeth Gentry, National Conference of Standards Laboratories International Elizabeth Gentry serves as the Metric Coordinator with the National Institute of Standards and Tech- nology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM), Laws and Metric program, where she provides information and assistance to federal, state and local government, business, industry, educational institu- tions, and the public concerning the International
the designof pressure sensors with different sets of diaphragm geometries. The design and analysisprocedures were documented and followed by students enrolled in the Nanosystems Engineeringcourse to design and analyze the sensor type of their choice.Keywords: MEMS laboratory, Nanotechnology education, Pressure Sensors2.0 Introduction The purpose of this study was to develop the procedure and streamline the steps for adesign project within an undergraduate course, focusing on an introduction to Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), combined with nanotechnology. The decisions concerning thecontent of this course faced numerous challenges characteristic of an introductory MEMScourse, as outlined by McAfee et al. [1]. These challenges
AC 2012-4917: DESIGN OF A CELL PHONE-CONTROLLED BIONICROBOTDr. Richard Y. Chiou, Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology pro- gram. Carr assists faculty members with the development and implementation of various engineering technology courses and enjoys finding innovative ways to use microcontrollers and other technologies to enhance Drexel’s engineering technology course offerings. Carr holds an M.S. in computer engineering from Drexel University and is an author of several recent technical papers in the field of engineering technology education
directs the Kansas Wind Applications Center and teaches wind and solar energy system design, as well as undergraduate classes in electronics, electromagnetics, and engineering ethics. Page 25.456.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 DEVELOPMENT OF A POWER ELECTRONICS LAB COURSE WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONSIntroductionIt is widely accepted, and much research has shown, that laboratory experience is an essentialpart of a good education in power electronics1-6. Engineering students at Kansas State Universityhave many opportunities for hands-on learning in lab classes
Electromechanical Devices course. Thus, the module on linear motors Page 25.64.2can be thought of as building on the scaffolding of the previous course. Scaffolding andexperimental approach to engineering education as best practices are already well established inengineering education theory and practice.Experimental Setup There are two laboratory setups used for this module. The first laboratory setup consistsof a simple linear stepper motor SL-015A-TJK from Shinko Inc. (Figure 1.) controlled by aCompumotor S6-series microstepping drive from Parker Hannifin Corporation, a parallel portinterface, and a shareware program, TurboCNC6. The complete
Department at the University of Arizona, where he established the Advanced Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory. Enikov’s group at the University of Arizona has an ongoing research program on tactile displays, electrostatic micro-grippers for assembly of MEMS, and nano-assembly of macro-molecules using electrostatic fields, as well as development of MEMS-compatible wireless sensing platforms with biomedical applications. Enikov is a member of the professional societies of ASME, IEEE, and ASEE.Mr. Giampiero Campa, MathWorks Giampiero Campa received both the laurea degree in electrical engineering (1996) and the Ph.D. degree in robotics and automation (2000), from the University of Pisa, Italy. He has also worked at the
independent study to streamline theprocess and improve its efficiency, with the ultimate goal of incorporating the process into anundergraduate senior engineering course. The study would result in the development of anoptimized and streamlined procedure for use by students in a laboratory based course focused onthe design and production of Micro and Nano devices, like solid state devices. Based on knownissues related to this process, three specific objectives were targeted: optimizing the thermalevaporation procedure that would result in a >4000Å aluminum thin film layer, exploring theeffects of the process parameters on deposition rate, and investigating ways to extend the usablelife of the metal source holders. Several process variations were
maintain a position perpendicular to the sun’srays; 3) the experimental apparatus must be mobile. A prototype of a solar water heating systemwas constructed and tested. The solar collector rotated as the sun position/angle was changing,indicating the functionality of the control system that was design to achieve this task.Experimental measurements indicate that the water in the tank was heated by the solar energybeing absorbed by the solar collector. Moreover, the water temperature measurements atdifferent heights in the storage tank show the thermosiphon effect has been attained. Solar waterheating utilizing thermosiphon is attractive because it eliminates the need for a circulating pump.Introduction Acquiring new instructional laboratory
2500 Hz. The second plot shows the unknown system output spectrum with the 1500 Hztone while the third plot displays the adaptive filter output spectrum with the 1500 Hz tone. It isapparent that the adaptive filter tracks the characteristics of the unknown system.B. Real-time Laboratory ContentEach adaptive filtering lab consists of two portions: MATLAB simulation and real-time DSPimplementation with a single DSP board. The MATLAB simulation must be completed prior tothe real-time implementation. We only describe real-time hands-on labs and projects. A singleDSP board setup and program segment for verifying input and output signals are shown inFigure 8a and Figure 8b, respectively, where the sampling rate is 8000 samples per second