in Bell Labs China at Lucent Technologies from July 1999 to Jan. 2003. She had been an Assistant Professor in Hampton University from Aug. 2006 to July 2011. She joined Metropolitan State College of Denver in Aug. 2011. Her career has been distinguished by a series of awards such as the in the Provost Teaching Innovation Award in April 2010, the First Place Graduate Research Award at Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Annual Research Expo in Norfolk, Va., in April 2006, the University Dissertation Fellowship in Academic Year 20052006, the ECE Ph.D. Research Assistant Award in 2004, the member of Bell Labs President’s Gold Winner Team Award in 2000, and the University Outstanding Thesis Award in 1999.Mr. Gregory
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 2012-4115: PRACTICING NEEDS-BASED, HUMAN-CENTERED DE-SIGN FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROJECT COURSE INNOVA-TIONDr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University Shawn Jordan is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where he teaches junior- and senior-level project-based electrical engineering courses.Mr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where he teaches undergraduate, human-centered design-focused, project-based engineering courses
role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), 121-130.Felder, R.,M. and Brent, R. (2003). “Designing and teaching courses to satisfy the ABET engineering criteria”. Journal of Engineering Education, 92 (1), 7-25.Kitts, C. and Quinn, N. (2004). An interdisciplinary field robotics program for undergraduate computer science and engineering education. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 4(2), 1-22.Kolodner, J. L., Camp, P.J., Crismond, D., Fasse, B. B., Gray, J.T., Holbrook, J., Ryan, M., Puntambekar, S. (2003). Problem-Based Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle-School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design into Practice
(CISR) microscope facility, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), University of Toronto. She is also the Academic Advisor to the IBBME Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. Page 25.440.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development and Assessment of a Textbook for Tissue Engineering Lab InstructionAbstract Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of biomedicalengineering/bioengineering (BME/BE) programs offering lecture courses in
AC 2012-3227: COMMON MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROTOTYPES OF RE-MOTE LABORATORIES IN THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA OF ELEC-TRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGMr. Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) Mohamed Tawfik received a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain, and a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Ain Shams Univer- sity, Cairo, Egypt, in 2011 and 2008, respectively. He is an IEEE member since 2009. He is a Research Associate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DIEEC) at UNED. He is author\co- author of more than 18 publications, including conference papers, book chapters, and journal articles on remote
of instructors as possible. These experimental modulesshould be designed primarily for faculty who do not have resources for high-end experiments norwant to spend a lot of time developing, building or maintaining experiments. Furthermore, thehands-on demos and experiments must be easy for students to use without the need for a lengthylearning period.A cohesive program to develop distributed laboratories with the above features exists that wasfunded by an NSF CCLI Phase 2 Grant, which supported the development of the TESSALCenter3. TESSAL (Teaching Enhancement via Small-Scale Affordable Labs) includes labs forsignal processing4, digital logic5, power systems, electromagnetics, and control systems. Thecontrol systems modules are discussed in
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AC 2012-4329: DEVELOPING UNDERGRADUATE FPGA CURRICULUMUSING ALTIUM SOFTWARE AND HARDWAREDr. Erik A. Mayer, Pittsburg State University Erik Mayer received his Ph.D. in engineering science at the University of Toledo. His areas of focus are power electronics and embedded systems. He was an instructor at Bowling Green State University, where he worked with the Electric Vehicle Institute and taught courses in digital circuit design, microcontrollers, and renewable energy. In addition, he has worked at Visteon, designing components for hybrid vehicles. He is currently a professor at Pittsburg State University where he teaches courses supporting the embedded systems emphasis in the Electronics Engineering Technology
based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.Within the biomedical engineering curriculum at Bucknell University, a senior-level fabricationand experimental design course is integrated into a four course design sequence where twocourses comprise the senior capstone experience and two courses teach supplementary material.The intent of the sequence is to provide experience with a variety of skills that are valuable forboth senior design projects and in BME careers after graduation. As designed, the Fabricationand Experimental Design course is not a full-credit course, meeting only two days a week forone-hour sessions, with several lab sessions
Education: A Multiple Case Study*,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 88, 1999, pp. 429-434.5. Kelly, C., Grummer, E., Harding, P., and Koretsky, M., “Teaching Experimental Design using Virtual Laboratories: Development, Implementation and Assessment of the Virtual Bioreactor Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburg, PA, 2008.6. Guimarães, E., Maffeis, A., Pereira, J., Russo, B., Cardozo, E., Bergerman, M., and Magalhães, M., “REAL: A Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Robot Experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2003, pp. 37-42.7. Window on the Workplace 2003, A Training Needs Assessment of the Biomanufacturing Workforce, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
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
learning.Specific Pedagogical InnovationsSpecific pedagogical innovations that are utilized in this laboratory based, problemsolving learning environment included the following models. Proactively use a variety of active teaching and learning techniques. More qualitative than quantitative. Merely assigning more or less work based on a learner’s ability is typically ineffective. Rooted in assessment. Evaluation is no longer predominately something that happens at the end of a chapter to determine “who got it”. Assessment routinely takes place to determine the particular needs of individuals. A teaching style that provides multiple approaches to content, process, and product. Content is the input, what students
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
tower,is now an integral piece of laboratory equipment to be used in future courses. Students weretherefore exposed to systems engineering concepts and the program acquired a low-cost piece oflaboratory equipment: a positive outcome for students, teaching faculty and the program.IntroductionThe University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) and Colorado Mesa University (CMU),formerly Mesa State College, entered into a partnership in February 2008 to deliver a mechanicalengineering (ME) program in its entirety in Grand Junction, Colorado, the home of CMU. Thefirst cohort of students will graduate in the spring of 2012.The CU-Boulder/CMU ME Partnership Program enables students to earn a Bachelor of Sciencein Mechanical Engineering (BSME) degree
maintain such systems canbecome exceedingly expensive. Once the SEAL kits are in the hands of students, they pose littlemore of a burden to a course administrator than a textbook. Assignments are completed at home,and, as is the case for traditional coursework, the instructor and teaching assistants may berequired to answer questions via an online forum or office hours. As is typically the case fortraditional coursework, verification of assignment completion can be performed by teachingassistants or graders.The objective of providing low-cost, take-home educational devices is certainly not limited tocontrols laboratories. In fact, designing a sufficiently inexpensive and user-friendly invertedpendulum platform that can fit into a container smaller
instrumentation per activity station combined with the increased studentenr2ollment on one side, and the budget limitations for the laboratory technicians and equipment,on the other side. The development of computing and information technologies has opened newpossibilities in realization of experimental teaching in the field of measurements5-7. Low price ofmicroprocessor’s components and systems, made possible the realization of remotely accessiblelaboratories, which can be used for education. Those laboratories provide students to accessmeasuring system via Internet and directly carry out real experiments without their physicalpresence. Interactive experiments are fundamentally different from their batched counterparts.Primarily, interactive experiments
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 2012-3442: LAB-IN-A-BOX: TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIESTO MANAGE LARGE AND NOT SO LARGE LABORATORY COURSESMs. Justeen OlingerMichael HuttonMr. Christopher Gretsch CovingtonDr. Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech Kathleen Meehan is an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Virginia Tech. She joined Virginia Tech in 2002 after having taught at the University of Denver (1997-1999) and West Virginia University (1999-2002). Her areas of research include optoelectronic materials and devices, optical spectroscopy, packaging for power electronic applications, and electrical engineering pedagogy.Dr. Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community CollegeMr. Branden McKagen
“experimental” group. Student surveys showed generally positive disposition of students towardsthe newly introduced VR experiment. Page 25.724.2IntroductionComputer-based immersive visualization in recent years has become an important catalyst in thedevelopment of virtual reality (VR) laboratories that hold considerable promise for becoming apowerful teaching and learning tool in engineering education. The fiscal realities of the shrinkingresources coupled with escalating cost of modernizing engineering laboratories have promptededucators to investigate innovative ways in which VR labs can be used for laboratory instruction.Maturation of digital
Altera represent the two companies that currently hold the greatest market shareamong FPGA implementations. Our laboratories are mostly equipped with FPGA developmentboards from Xilinx. The Basys 2 and Spartan-3E FPGA development boards are lower endboards that we primarily use for teaching purposes. Our labs are also equipped with severalhigher end (Virtex 5 and Virtex 6) boards that are used for research purposes. However, since allthe Xilinx boards utilize the same synthesis software package (ISE software donated by Xilinx touniversities) and the same high-level descriptor language (VHDL or Verilog) to specify designs,it is relatively easy for a student to migrate from the teaching to research oriented developmentboards.Table 1 summaries some
AC 2012-5331: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FUNCTIONALITY ANDCOST EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRONIC LABORATORY VIRTUALINSTRUMENTATIONSDr. Lars K. Hansen, University of Texas, San AntonioMr. Keith Gerard Delahoussaye Jr., University of Texas, San Antonio Keith Delahoussaye is a student at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He is a member of the Multifunc- tional Electronic Materials Devices Research Lab of the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also a member of IEEE’s student chapter. Before graduation, he worked full-time for the U.S. Air Force as an Avionic Technician in the status of an Air Reserve Technician. He is hopeful to be an electronic/electrical engineering governmental employee. He is married and a proud
AC 2012-3980: INCREASING HANDS-ON LABORATORY EQUIPMENTEXPERIENCE VIA ROTATION OF NOTEBOOK RECORDING DUTIESDr. Peter Mark Jansson P.E., Bucknell University Peter Mark Jansson is currently an Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Bucknell University. Prior to joining Bucknell, he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rowan University and spent nearly 20 years in professional engineering in large and small firms and as a consul- tant. He received his B.S. degree from MIT, an M.S.E. from Rowan University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has more than 33 years of professional and academic experience in renewable energy and power systems
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
) program, a hands-on undergraduate program that engages multidisciplinary teams of students in projects based on real-world topics, features a number of projects each semester in areas related to energy and sustainability, and a range of activities that utilize IIT campus as a living laboratory. IPRO Teamwork, innovation, and complex problem-solving skills make successful professionals—and reflect the overall performance of their organizations. Since 1995, the IPRO Page 25.714.3 team project courses at IIT have been teaching students how to excel in the workplace by
AC 2012-3676: OUTCOME OF AN ONLINE LABORATORY TO SUPPORTA MASTER PROGRAM IN REMOTE ENGINEERINGProf. Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Since 1995, Michael Auer has been professor of electrical engineering at the Systems Engineering De- partment 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, Columbia University, and the technical uni- versities of Moscow, Athens, and others. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of VDE, IGIP, etc., author or co-author of more than 180 publications, and a
testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing fa- cility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past seven years, she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in thermal-fluid and energy conversion ar- eas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development.Dr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel UniversityPatrick lee Kirby, Drexel UniversityMiss Bailu Xu Page 25.843.1
AC 2012-3811: TEACHING CONTROL CHARTS FOR ATTRIBUTES US-ING THE MOUSE FACTORYDr. Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American Douglas Timmer is a professor in manufacturing engineering and the Interim Associate Dean of the Col- lege of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Pan American.Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American Miguel A. Gonzalez serves as the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Projects at the Uni- versity of Texas, Pan American. He has a significant amount of executive industry experience where he held managerial and executive positions including President and CEO of a large citrus processor, and throughout his experience, Gonzalez
AC 2012-3022: TEACHING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PRO-CESS AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO MANUFACTURING STUDENTSDr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is a professor of engineering at Robert Morris University School of Engineering, Math- ematics, and Science. He also serves as a Director of Engineering Laboratories as well as Co-head of the Research and Outreach Center. He has been an active member of ASEE and SME, serving as an officer of both societies and engaged in engineering education and K-12 outreach. Page 25.1239.1 c American Society for Engineering