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Aaron Scher, Oregon Institute of Technology; Eve Klopf, Oregon Institute of Technology

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2019 ASEE PNW Section Conference

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Kevin P Pintong, Oregon Institute of Technology; Philip W Howard PhD, Oregon Institute of Technology; Troy Thomas Scevers, Oregon Tech; Allan Douglas, Oregon Institute of Technology

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2019 ASEE PNW Section Conference

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Eve Klopf, Oregon Institute of Technology; Aaron Scher, Oregon Institute of Technology

Implementation of a Lab Section for Electricity and Magnetism with Transmission LinesEve Klopf and Aaron ScherDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Oregon Institute of TechnologyAbstract:This paper focuses on the implementation of a laboratory section for an undergraduate coursein engineering electromagnetics. In Fall 2018, both Klamath Falls and Portland-Metro campusesof the Oregon Institute of Technology adopted a laboratory section for EE 341: Electricity &Magnetism with Transmission lines, which is a required class for all electrical engineeringstudents. This paper will discuss the laboratory activities, outline the challenges we faced whenaltering a well-established class to include a laboratory section, and

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Cara J Poor P.E., University of Portland; Abigail Chase, Stantec; Mehmet Inan, University of Portland

Flow Design Laboratory Figure 1. Progression of ethics instruction in UP Civil Engineering Program. White boxes indicate courses where ethics is already covered, and gray boxes indicate courses that were selected for adding ethics. As part of the core curriculum requirements at University of Portland, all students are required to take an ethics course in the Philosophy department (PHL 220). In this course, students receive an introduction to the major theories in classical and/or contemporary moral philosophy. Emphasis is placed on understanding and applying the theories of moral obligation including utilitarianism, deontology, social contract theory, ethics of care, natural law, and virtue

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Xichen Jiang, Western Washington University; Patrick William Shive, Western Washington University

the project costs. The point wherethe marginal benefits of increasing reliability equals the associated marginal costs of addingmore firm capacity determines the optimal EUE level. Table 2 shows the VOLL for an averagePSE customer for a one-hour duration [3].The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Interruption Cost Estimator (ICE), which is described indepth by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory study titled “Updated Value of Service Reliabilityfor Electric Utility Customers in the United States”, models interruption costs per customer perevent based on the length of outage duration and customer class (e.g., residential, smallcommercial and industrial, medium and large commercial and industrial) for each U.S. State. Aper-customer peak load

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Jen Symons, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. Her teaching focuses on thermodynamics, heat transfer, renewable energy, and optimization of energy systems. She currently leads a research team working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fundamental heat transfer. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland Joseph P. Hoffbeck is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. He has a Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He previously worked with digital cell phone systems at Lucent Technologies

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Xichen Jiang, Western Washington University; Austin Bolstad

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) in which utilities, such as theSnohomish PUD and Puget Sound Energy, were tasked to increase distribution efficiencythrough implementation of CVR. Research suggested that CVR provided energy savings and areduction in peak demand but development came to a halt due to lack of funding [3].A report about the effects of CVR on a national level was published by the Pacific NorthwestNational Laboratory (PNNL) in 2010. The study found that implementing CVR on everydistribution feeder in the United States will provide a 3.04% reduction in annual energyconsumption. In 2017, the total electricity demand of the United States was 4.01 trillion kWh;therefore, a savings of 3.04% would reduce electricity consumption by

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bryan james mealy, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

% 37.5% 45.0% Table 1: Weightings for three example quiz selections.A significant aspect of the course were 15 laboratory experiments, where students learned tomodel circuits using an HDL and implement them on an FPGA-based development board. Weplaced heavy emphasis on the experiments and subsequent lab reports because they were themain active learning component of the course. All courseware was available to students at nocost, including the development environment supporting the HDL, which allowed students tocomplete the experiments outside of the lab. Students used VHDL during the spring quarter andVerilog during the fall quarter.Each of the ten quizzes was two pages in length; the first page was a design problem