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Amardeep Kaur; Theresa Swift

Structured Redesign of a Circuits Laboratory Amardeep Kaur and Theresa M. Swift Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MOIntroductionLaboratory (lab) experiments are an inherent part of the engineering curriculum. It is a well-established principle that students learn best by hands-on experiences. The lab experiments areused to provide students with practical skills but these courses also play an important role ofproviding necessary engineering skills like teamwork, formal report writing and trouble-shooting(Davies 2008, Al-Bahi 2007, Krivickas and Krivickas 2007, Feisel and Rosa 2013) in addition toproviding best safety practices and

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Meagan Olsen; Andrew Buck; W. Roy Penney; Edgar Clausen

Tank Depressurization Experiments for the Classroom or Laboratory Meagan Olsen, Andrew L. Buck, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasIntroductionAmerican Society for Engineering Education data show that engineering enrollment in U.S.universities has increased by more than 50% over the last ten years, while the number ofengineering faculty has increased by only 15% over the same time period (Yoder 2009, 2017).As a result, the average number of students in engineering classrooms has steadily increased, andthis increase has occurred at a time when our students enter the classroom with far lessexperience in the

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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

Research Safety and Professional Development-A Graduate Course Focused on the Role of Safety in Laboratory Management Tammy M. Lutz-Rechtin Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractA graduate student laboratory-safety course has been developed that encompassed the essentialsof safety combined with addressing safety management soft skills. The structure of the courseincorporated lectures, guest speakers, student presentations, site visits, in-class discussions andproblem-solving. The culmination of the course was a final project report that required theincorporation of topics and skills learned into a safety

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Nicolas Libre; Stuart Baur

math and science relate to the field of engineering. Byseeing first-hand what engineers actually do, campers can better decide on a career or disciplinethey want to pursue. Whether a student is interested in clean energy, cars and motorcycles,explosives, or building bridges or towers, the camp will educate them through hands-onactivities, computer laboratory visits and practical demonstrations. The civil and architecturalengineering program is no exception to this exercise. Both programs offers a tour through someof the various research/laboratory facilities and provide similar demonstrations in statics andmechanics of materials. What the students saw in the labs is further reinforced in the classroomby conducting a project base learning (PBL

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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

developing microprocessor based embedded systems students get hands-onexperience. Students form groups for team-projects; each group of students is encouraged to finda topic for their project. This approach is expected to motivate students to continue researchingin the related areas even after the semester ends. With the tests such as quiz, optional labs andevaluations (such as SPTE and ABET evaluations), students’ feedback are collected forassessment of the proposed approach. Based on the laboratory observations, the proposedapproach helps students involve more with the course materials and improve their academicperformance and helps in understanding the needs and standards of the industry. According tothe SPTE and ABET evaluation outcomes, the

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt; Joel Versypt; Heather Gappa-Fahlenkamp

toured ourengineering hands-on undergraduate teaching laboratory and has interacted with interdisciplinarysenior design teams and engineering and technology faculty. We are working with the programto partner with them on a senior design project to design, fabricate, commission, and testprototype kitchen cabinet systems to enable safer, more efficient access by individuals withmobility challenges that prevent them from effectively using standard systems.Another community center in one of the author’s hometowns has a weekly lunch for seniorcitizens. An outreach event was held during one of their lunches to demonstrate the sciencebehind a variety of kitchen chemistry applications. The rural community is not located near auniversity, and there are

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A. Kunza; K.A. Brauning; A.S.A. Shairi; R. Asmatulu

processes are thetwo refined categories for composite manufacturing. The common method is usually implement-ed in laboratory practice as manually hand-laid composites [12-17]. During the manufacturing and machining, such as curing, cutting, trimming, drilling,transportation, fastening, and assembling processes of composites, some surface damages andfree edges are formed around the composites, which may cause premature failures and lower theservice life [1]. This study addresses some of the surface damages and free-edges of fiber rein-forced carbon fiber composites using specific adhesives and fabrication techniques.2. Experiment In the present study, unidirectional pre-preg carbon fiber composites (CYCOM 5320),which are partially

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Alana Gorski; Hannah Gross; Masoud Mojtahed Mojtahed

, SAE faculty advisor, coordinator of Purdue University Technical Assistance Program atPNW, and a member of the university senate and university promotion committees. Dr. Mojtahedalso served as faculty visitor and consultant at Argonne National laboratory for five years, andNASA Summer faculty visitor. He is highly active in experimental and analytical research and hasover 60 publications in the areas of experimental and applied mechanics. Dr. Mojtahed is an activemember of ASME, SAE, ASEE, and served as the chairman of ASME Calumet section for over10 years.

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Md. Nizam Uddin; Yeshaswini Baddam; Polo Osornio-Cornejo; Eylem Asmatulu

Experimental2.1 Materials © American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 2 2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference (Wichita State University-Wichita, KS) EPS was collected from various sources including general shipment packaging, electronicspackaging, and laboratory chemicals packaging and then clean, rinsed, and chopped into smallerpieces. Dimethylformamide (DMF) (99.8%) and acetone were purchased from Fisher Scientific.TiO2 nanopowder with an average particle size of 40 nm (anatase, 99.5%) was purchased fromU.S. Research Nanomaterials Inc., Houston, TX, USA

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Sattar Ali; A. Bilal Ozturk; Amanuel Wondimu; Eylem Asmatulu

microfluidics technology was advanced rapidly in the last few years and gained greatattention from various universities, research centers and industrial laboratories working on theplant cells. Using microfluidics will open up new possibilities in the plants and agro-industry,including new microfluidic products and techniques, creating new generations of smart agricultureproducts, and so on. The main problems that engineers are facing include the primary gaps amongthe researchers, lab-scale experiments, and manufacturability. This new opportunity will advancethe technology in agriculture and other disciplines. Also, there are some needs to develop standardsand validation for the microfluidic systems, convincing evidence for manufacturing profitability

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Jonathan Kuchem; Nicolas Libre

Based Learning in the Mechanics of Materials Laboratory,” Eng. Educ.,[2] Nasr, K. J., & Ramadan, B. H., (2005). “Implementation of problem-based learning into engineering thermodynamics,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc.[3] Jonassen, D. H., and Khanna, S. K. , (2011). “Implementing Problem Based Learning in Ma- Terials Science,” Am. Soc. Eng. Educ.,[4] G. Mason, T. Shuman, yen han, and K. Cook, (2015). “Facilitating Problem-Based Learning with an Inverted Classroom,” p. 26.752.1-26.752.10[5] Perez-Mejia, A.A., (2019). Blending project-based learning and the flipped classroom model in a Civil Engineering course, ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc.,[6] Nasr, K. J., & Ramadan, B. H., (2008). Impact

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Brett Whorley; Camilo Giraldo; Arjun Kamath; Molly McVey; Meagan Patterson; Carl Luchies

both graduate-level and senior undergraduate students. Mostenrolled students are Mechanical Engineering undergraduates who take the course as anadvanced elective, with the remainder coming from Mechanical Engineering or Bioengineeringgraduate programs. The course, which has reached capacity enrollment (30+ students) formultiple years, is taught in a computer laboratory with one student per computer. The instructoris accompanied by one graduate teaching assistant (GTA) during active learning class sessions.The overall learning objective of the course is to teach students to use modern computersimulation software to solve engineering problems in a virtual space. Students programsimulated models to represent realistic dynamic behaviors of