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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Electrical Engineering and Circuits

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Fan, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Chung-Tse Michael Wu, Wayne State University; Jimmy Ching-ming Chen, Wayne State University

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, RF systems and metamaterials. He received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2006. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From September 2008 to June 2014, he worked as a graduate student researcher at the Microwave Electronics Laboratory in UCLA. In 2009, He was a summer intern in Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hills, NJ. In 2012, he was a special-joint researcher at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Kanagawa, Japan. In 2016, Dr. Wu received Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, as well as WSU College

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Bring Your Own Experiment

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl J. Spezia P.E., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Paper ID #20448BYOE: The Design and Operation of an Electric Motors SimulatorDr. Carl J. Spezia P.E., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Carl J. Spezia is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the Depart- ment of Technology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC). He joined the program in1998 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He worked as a power systems engineer for electric utilities for eight years prior to seeking a career in higher education. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois. His in- dustrial assignments included power system modeling, power

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tania Celli Machet, The University Of Sydney; David Lowe, The University of Sydney

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Engineering in the Fac- ulty of Engineering and Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. Before this he was a Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN) - a designated research strength at the University of Technology, Sydney focused on blending embedded systems and telecommunications in addressing real-world problems. He is also the CEO of the not-for-profit organisation The LabShare Institute, and past President of the Global Online Laboratory Consortium. Professor Lowe has published widely during his more than 20 year teaching career, including three textbooks. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Non-Expert Sensor Based Laboratory

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Electrical Engineering and Circuits

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati; Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati

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, and M. P. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 111(23):8410–8415, May 2014. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111.3. D. Derrick Rodriguez, J. Blacklock, and J. M. Bach, “Letting students learn through making mistakes: Teaching hardware and software early in an academic career,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, Seattle, WA (2015).4. S. W. McKnight, J. E. Pelletier, and P. G. Leventman, “Introduction to Engineering Course At a Community College Using Hands-On MATLAB Experiment Control,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, San Antonio, TX (2012).5. G. W. Recktenwald, “Six Year of Living with the Lab

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daisuke Aoyagi, California State University, Chico

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somewhat misaligned with the instructor’s thinking that, primarily, studentsshould learn how to learn to be able to use new tools, equipment, or whatever they may see intheir career. Similarly, the overall course was not intended to be a tool-specific skills workshop;the idea was to help students learn a basic form of experimental design process, so that they havea prototype or a template, so to speak, on which to continue building their expertise in whicheverfield they may be working in future. This message may not have reached some students.It appeared that some students could not or did not want to tolerate the ambiguity of the open-ended project set up as presented by the instructor. They seemed to think that, in a “good”classroom, the

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Hou, Old Dominion University; Feifei Zhong, Southwest Jiaotong University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University

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Figure 6. Maximal Stresses in the Plates Another assessment was collected from student responses to the first three questions inthe class self-reflection. Students were asked to rank their answers to these questions from 1 to 5,with 1 indicating that the student strongly disagrees with the statement and 5 indicating that he orshe strongly agrees with the statement. 1) Do you agree that what you have learned from MAE 441 is important to your professional career? 2) Do you agree that the class project enriches your learning experience about using NASTRAN/PATRAN for modeling and analysis? 3) Do you agree that the laboratory manual help you in this class?The mean score and associated standard deviation for each question

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Philip Varney, Georgia Institute of Technology; David MacNair, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology

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. Synthesizing these two points, it is evident that inquiry-basedlaboratories require experts to create, administer, and assess. Unfortunately, the requirement forexpertise is directly contradictory to the current atmosphere in science education at large researchuniversities. Luft et al. (2004) provide an excellent discussion of TA culture in the sciences, andsummarize the issue by stating: “Ultimately, graduate students may even be told by their advisors that research should be a focus, and that teaching assistantships should not be held for multiple years because this will jeopardize their careers...Unfortunately the culture in which GTAs exist places them in a situation that is wrought with tension and difficult to change.”In

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Bring Your Own Experiment

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel J. Monfredo, University of Rochester; David J. Schinsing; James Alkins, University of Rochester; Thor O. Olsen

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, supporting the learning. Educational psychologist 1991, 26 (3-4), 369-398.11. Ryan, R. M.; Deci, E. L., Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: Classic definitions and new directions.Contemporary educational psychology 2000, 25 (1), 54-67.12. Dunlap, R. A., Sustainable Energy. Cengage Learning: Canada, 2015.13. Landis, R. B., Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career. Discovery Press: Los Angeles, CA,2013.Appendix ABill of Materials for 1 Solar Panel Box 1Item Source Item # Unit PriceSparkfun RedBoard programmed with Arduino SparkFun.com DEV

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jackie Starks, Tennessee State University; Fletcher Ray Hendrickson, Tennessee State University ; Fatemeh Hadi, Tennessee State University ; Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc

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. Previously, Dr. Traum was an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), one of the top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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could continue to build upon these tools through our electronics careers. The challenges for me were interpreting the labs especially when a couple of them had unclear objectives of what we were meant to accomplish. There were also errors in the labs which suggest that they had not been tested. In our first lab the wires in the photos were in the incorrect positions of the board, yet if this lab had been constructed and tested… shouldn’t it have easily been identified that the wires were wrong before the photos were taken because the LEDs would have failed to light.”Table 6. Student feedback for 2016 Winter Quarterground (traditional face-to-face) class for