Built Environ- ment at Arizona State University (ASU). Kristen’s work focuses on integrating energy efficiency measures into building design, construction, and operations processes. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a
and apply it is groundedin understanding fundamental concepts.Only a few studies have focused on developing hydraulics labs6,7. At Washington StateUniversity, an open channel lab was developed to improve conceptual understanding ofhydraulic jumps and weirs6. Students are guided through the lab, then asked to design a weir toreduce the power of the vortex created by the hydraulic jump downstream of the weir. Studentswere enthusiastic about the lab, and it fostered further discussion. At University of Queensland,both laboratory and field studies were introduced to increase student interest7. Student feedbackindicated that lab and field studies helped them think more critically about hydraulics, which isreflected by the decrease in failure rates
2006-1080: DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR ABIOENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS COURSEAnn Saterbak, Rice University Ann Saterbak is Director of Laboratory Instruction and Lecturer in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University. She received her B.A. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from Rice University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1995. She conducted research and provided technical support within Shell Development Company from 1995 to 1999.Ka-yiu San, Rice University Dr. San is a professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at Rice University. Dr. San received his B.S
are provided bycourses that explore electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility and signal integrity.System-level issues are then discussed in courses in high-speed design and are extended viaapplications in wireless systems. Planned courses include a laboratory-based course in modelingand measurement and a course in RF integrated circuit design.In this paper we report on courses in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), signal integrity (SI),and high-speed design that will provide the foundations of the high-speed design program beingdeveloped . The needs of both disciplines, electrical engineering and computer engineering,must be kept in view. In the discussion below, therefore, keep in mind that, since electricalengineering and computer
Paper ID #19320Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-based CourseDr. Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Chris is an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. His interests include engineering education, embedded systems, and ubiquitous computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 WIP: Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-Based CourseAbstract: Laboratories and hands-on projects are an important part of courses in embeddedsystems and microcontrollers
and change over time. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 BYOE: A Low-cost Material Testing Machine to Increase Engagement in a Materials Science Lab CourseAbstractAs a field, engineering is a profession with rich and deep theoretical foundations in each of itsnumerous subject areas. Helping students understand these foundational theoretical conceptscan sometimes be difficult, and it is not uncommon for students to "get lost" in the details andfail to understand the main concepts. One way to help overcome this problem is to use labora-tory classes. Laboratory classes provide students with hands-on learning experiences that helpthem connect theory and practice. One way
described here forclarity. This four-semester hour course has students spend 165 minutes with engineering facultyin lab each week and 150 minutes over two lecture sessions with writing arts faculty. During thewriting arts time periods, students spend time learning about audience, rhetorical analysis,argumentation, and information literacy. In prior iterations of the course, some of the time withwriting arts faculty was spent discussing technical genres such as the traditional lab or designreports. However, this component was de-emphasized in the Fall 2015 offering, and that materialwas picked up by engineering faculty during the laboratory sessions. In the lab sessions, studentslearn about design through open-ended design projects. There is some
North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and PhD degree from Iowa State University in 1992. Steve can be reached at shsi- ung@odu.edu.Dr. John M Ritz, Old Dominion University Professor of STEM Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VADr. Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University Dr. Ece Yaprak is a Professor of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. Her areas of interest include computer networks and communications where she has pub- lished extensively. She has held engineering positions at General Electric and Ford Motor Company, and research fellowships at NASA (John Glenn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, and the Johnson Space Center) and
development of a novel first-year engineering mathcourse, EGR 101 Introductory Mathematics for Engineering Applications. Taught byengineering faculty, the course includes lecture, laboratory and recitation components. Using an Page 24.1258.2application-oriented, hands-on approach, the course addresses only the salient math topicsactually used in core engineering courses. These include the traditional physics, engineeringmechanics, electric circuits and computer programming sequences. The EGR 101 coursereplaces traditional math prerequisite requirements for the above core courses, so that studentscan advance in the curriculum without first completing
AC 2007-2695: MODELING COMPRESSIBLE AIR FLOW IN A CHARGING ORDISCHARGING VESSEL AND ASSESSMENT OF POLYTROPIC EXPONENTGlen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University Glen Thorncroft is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1997, with a research emphasis in Boiling Heat Transfer. His current activities focus on improvement of undergraduate laboratory education, including new experiments, instrumentation, and pedagogy in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, as well as introducing Uncertainty Analysis into the undergraduate curriculum.J. Scott Patton, California
. His recent projects concentrate on course building efforts with substantial pedagogical and technological innovations. Prior to this, Chad led a laptop-required program for pre-service teachers in the UT Austin College of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching Embedded Systems in a MOOC FormatAbstractWe have designed and implemented a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) with a substantiallab component within the edX platform. We deployed this MOOC three times with a totalenrollment of over 100,000 students. If MOOCs are truly going to transform engineeringeducation, then they must be able to deliver classes with laboratory components. Our offeringgoes a long
and supplies toperform a demonstration would be around $100. This would supply enough reactant chemicalsfor about 45 reactions. For a class sized laboratory activity with multiple lab groups, anadditional scale, two additional 100 ml graduated cylinders, two additional 600 ml beakers, andat least five 125 ml wide mouth catalyst bottles should be obtained. The total for this lab set upwould be around $150, with enough supplies for about 45 reactions. Of this total, $95 isnonrecurring equipment expense. The cost of consumable supplies is around $0.85 per reaction(based on January 2015 prices), assuming the oil supply is at no cost.Further ProcessingSecond Reaction: Typically the initial reaction does not reach the 99.7% completion rate implied
TechUniversity, we began our own engineering curriculum reform in 1995. Through the support ofthe College and the National Science Foundation we have implemented and revised multipleIntegrated Engineering Curricula.One obstacle to implementing an active-learning, laboratory experience at the freshman level isthe required infrastructure and setup time. These barriers can lead to either poorly implementedprojects with no connection to the curricula or to time-intensive preparations by the faculty andstaff. Through multiple iterations of our freshman curriculum, we have developed an active,hands-on lab-type experience at the freshman level that is both tightly integrated to the coursecontent and does not require extensive set up and tear down time by the
Domestic Undergraduate Engineering Students," in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011.[2] C. Ciocanel and M. Elahinia, "Teaching Engineering Laboratories Based On A Problem Solving Approach," in Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Pacific Southwest Annual Conference, 2008.
approach is that it lacks a certain “WOW” factor1 that sparks student interest andentices engagement and active learning. Accordingly, a significant body of literature related tohands-on, design-build-test (DBT) projects has grown to address the gaps in student engagementand between classroom theory and practical implementation.2-6 The relative merits and demeritsof DBT-type projects over pre-designed laboratory experiments are discussed elsewhere;2,3nevertheless, in parsing the design ambiguities associated with open-ended DBT projects,students certainly employ some non-technical competencies such as imagination andresourcefulness. These skills are desirable in engineering graduates, but are typically notexercised in pre-designed laboratory
power control or fan speed control is required. Students in an instrumentation or controlscourse could use the USB interface to the Arduino to collect data and/or reprogram the Arduino toperform feedback control.Six of the devices with varying sized heat sinks were used in a trial homework assignment in anundergraduate heat transfer course with 75 students in Spring 2015 and in another section of thesame course with 57 students in Winter 2016. At this point, we have no quantitative assessmentdata.OverviewThough laboratory exercises are a standard part of an engineering curriculum, there are a widevariety of ways that labs can be implemented. In recent years a number of simple experimentshave been developed that help to make laboratory
of Washington, D.C.,NIST scientists conductresearch in a wide variety of the physical and engineering sciences. NIST has laboratories inchemistry, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, building and fire research,manufacturing engineering, materials science and engineering, information technology, andneutron research. The work NIST does by providing measurement methods, tools, data, andtechnology underpins innovative technological advances throughout all scientific endeavors. Page 15.1247.3 2As a scientific research institution, NIST
Science Resources Center. (1997). Science for all children: A guide to improving elementary science education in your school district. Washington, DC: National Sciences Resource Center, Smithsonian Institution.NSTA, National Science Teachers Association. (2010). Exemplary Science for Resolving Societal Challenges. Retrieved from http://nsta.org/Weiman, C. (2011). Keynote address at the NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) meeting. Washington, DC. Page 24.242.5
Paper ID #10426Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic ChildrenDr. Steve Warren, Kansas State University Steve Warren received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Warren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. Prior to joining KSU in August 1999, Dr. Warren was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He
AC 2011-2457: AN INTERESTING APPLICATION OF OPTICAL MEA-SUREMENT TECHNIQUESBijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at TCNJ. He is currently serving as the chairman of the ME department. He is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Professor Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technol- ogy (NJIT). He has served as the Chair of ASEE Divisions of Experimentation and Laboratory
Paper ID #10224NSF-NUE: Using Nanotechnology to Engage Students from High School throughGraduate SchoolDr. Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Raquel Perez-Castillejos is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Insti- tute of Technology (NJIT). Her research (www.tissuemodels.net) focuses on the development of tools for cell and tissue biology using micro- and nanotechnologies. Raquel obtained her Ph.D. with the National Center of Microelectronics in Barcelona. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Miniaturized Systems (Univ. S˜ao Paulo, Brasil) and later
understand certain important concepts in the fluid and thermal sciences. Theinitial stage of this development consists of eight exercises that were identified by the authors asdifficult concepts for the mechanical engineering technology students at Penn State Erie - TheBehrend College in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid power. Some of these exerciseshave a basis in a previous project by Gerald Recktenwald and Robert Edwards (Engineering ofEveryday Things (EET))1 which had a focus on laboratory exercises. Since these are for use in aclassroom, the existing exercises needed to be scaled back in both size and duration. Others arenew to this project. The overall project is in the early stages. Some of the exercises are welldeveloped with only a
using SolidWorks, and ANSYS Fluent software was used by a third studentwho was not on the senior capstone team to simulate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.IntroductionThis project involved the design, building and testing of a Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilityapparatus by undergraduate engineering students. The laboratory will enable students toconduct visualizations of the waves that develop due to the instability.The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a classical problem originally studied by Helmholtz 1and Kelvin2. The mechanism causing the instability has been studied in detail by Lamb3,Bachelor4, Drazin and Reid5, Chandrasekahr6, Craik7, and many others. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can appear at the interface of two fluid layers flowing with
Microsoft Virtual Server. For example, VMware Workstation 5.5 (license required) supports DOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Netware and Solaris; whereas Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 only supports Windows and limited Linux distributions. It was important for us to be able to emulate an environment with diversified platforms.Xen was not considered because it did not support Windows XP as the host operating system.Xen could be only hosted under Linux or NetBSD with a customized kernel. The Mac-basedvirtual machine solution based on Parallels was not considered because the department policyrequires students to purchase PC based machines.2. Laboratory Setup2.1 Preparation of the Virtual Machine for Student UseVMware Workstation 5.5
students in any math subject. The firstsemester also includes ENGR 101 Success in Engineering Study, an engineering study skills andtime management course with engineering challenges. The course is based on Ray Landis’sStudying Engineering text9. The remainder of the first semester consists of a science course thatmeets general education requirements but does not require a math prerequisite, and generaleducation credits.The second semester includes ENGR 107 Introductory Mathematics for EngineeringApplications, a laboratory-based “engineering mathematics” course (developed with supportfrom an NSF Phase III CCLI grant) that teaches mathematics in the context of engineeringapplications and laboratory experiments. This course was originally developed
research as the catalyst for engagement, the TTE REU program hassupported 30 community college students from the California Community College System.During the nine-week summer program, each TTE participant is paired with two mentors, afaculty advisor and graduate student mentor, who oversee and guide the student in independentresearch activities, through regular research group meetings and one-on-one discussions. Outsideof their independent research projects, TTE participants are trained in research protocol,laboratory safety, and professional ethics; and participate in academic and professionaldevelopment activities to prepare for a baccalaureate degree and career in science andengineering. The TTE REU program also partners with the UC
current research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Page 26.1163.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Modeling and Control of a Tungsten-Bulb Heated Incubator: Teaching Controls Theory in a
product archaeology modules and teaching strategies. This sectionpresents a look at each of the courses and accompanying implementations. A table is providedfor each implementation presenting the necessary information for each course implementation.Tables 1-11 show how various universities implemented product archaeology across differentdisciplines, course sizes, course levels, locations of the implementations (in-class, outside class,laboratory setting), types of implementations (individual or group), and length of theimplementations (1 class/lab session, 1-2 weeks, 1 month, entire semester/quarter). The tablesalso illustrate the variety of assessment instruments (design scenarios, pretest/posttestcomparisons, student work, other) in the far
planned include the acquisition of direct blower power measurement. In addition,smoke visualization of the flow characteristics within the diffuser section would provide evenmore reinforcement of the mechanisms associated with the existence of significant losses in thissection, and how they are important to practical wind tunnel design.Bibliography1. B. T. Beck, “A Modular Wing-Tail Airplane Configuration for the Educational Wind Tunnel Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.2. B. T. Beck and Nelson Pratt, “A Simple Device for Wind Tunnel Performance Testing of Small Scale Powered Propellers,” presented at the 2005 ASME
, thetypes of multimedia content and overview of implementing the online flipped classroomapproach. In Figure 2, the block labeled ‘Requirements and Considerations’ highlights andsummarizes are discussed elsewhere6,12. The next two blocks of Figure 2, labeled as‘Multimedia and Interactive Content’ and ‘Implementation of Online Flipped Classroom’, arediscussed next.The online delivery will use a flipped classroom approach as defined by the following three mainconcepts as depicted in Figure 2.The first concept is to develop engaging and interactive multimedia content. The initial phaseconsists of developing videos, weekly assessment activities to support frequent testing, assignedreadings/homework and weekly laboratory experiments.To gain experience