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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Tinh Dinh, University of the District of Columbia; Abiyu Negede, University of the DIstrict of Columbia

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AC 2007-2485: PRACTICAL DESIGN PROJECTS UTILIZING COMPLEXPROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES (CPLD)Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia Samuel Lakeou received a BSEE (1974) and a MSEE (1976) from the University of Grenoble (Universite Joseph Fourier), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale d’Electronique et de Radioelectricite de Grenoble of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1978. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the department of electrical engineering at UDC. He was formerly staff member at the New Products Laboratory of RCA’s Consumer Electronics Division in Indianapolis, IN (1984-86).Tinh Dinh, University of the District of Columbia

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Design of Lab Experiments I

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Andre Marshall, University of Maryland; James Quintiere, University of Maryland

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AC 2007-2770: A COLLECTIVE UNDERGRADUATE CLASS PROJECTRECONSTRUCTING THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WORLD TRADE CENTER FIREAndre Marshall, University of MarylandJames Quintiere, University of Maryland Page 12.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Collective Undergraduate Class Project Reconstructing the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Fire AbstractFire Protection Engineering undergraduate students enrolled in a fire assessment laboratorycourse conducted their own investigation of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disasterby simulating the fire that followed the aircraft impact. The

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Design of Lab Experiments I

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Oscar Ortiz, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University

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AC 2007-833: MOTIVATING STUDENT EFFORT IN ELECTRONICS BYWORKING WITH PROJECTS OF PERSONAL INTERESTOscar Ortiz, LeTourneau UniversityPaul Leiffer, LeTourneau University Page 12.1081.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Motivating Student Effort in Electronics by Working with Projects of Personal InterestAbstractStudents majoring in electrical and computer engineering are required during their Junior year totake a three-hour lecture course and a two-credit-hour lab course in analog electronics. By theend of the course, students learn the theory and application of such components as diodes, Zenerdiodes, NPN and PNP transistors

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Page 12.229.2and all produce similar results, an organized project type where the instructions are not preciseand allow for some creativity, an open-ended project type where the course instructor has areasonable knowledge of the final outcome, or research where neither the students nor theinstructor know the final outcome of the experiments. Often, open-ended projects are used aspowerful pedagogical tools for discovery-based learning. To minimize the time to buildprototypes and to minimize the cost of such projects by using low-cost plastic parts andenforcing reusability of parts, many instructors adopted LEGO bricks and LEGO computerizedsystems as educational tools. There are hundreds of papers describing the use of LEGO bricks inengineering

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Design of Lab Experiments I

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Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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a series of hands-on projects in a multidisciplinary laboratorysetup established from a grant from the Department of Education. The LEGO Mindstorm robots,FLOTEK 1440 wind tunnel, PC TURN 55 CNC machine, SolidWorks 3D software withDimension 3D Printer rapid prototyping machine are primarily used in the laboratory componentof the “Principles of Engineering Analysis and Design” course taught at the sophomore levelwhich carried 30% of the final course grade. The laboratory class introduced in 2001 has become astrong motivational tool for our engineering students inspiring them to continue with the upperlevel courses. Apart from exposure to multiple equipment and software, students gain an insightinto how a task can be accomplished by first

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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Julio Garcia, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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evidence suggests that ethnic minorities and womenwork best when the material is organized so that students work in teams and have a high levelof hands-on experimentation and problem-solving. We developed our materials to maximizethese aspects since in our institution the “minority” constitutes the majority of our student body.This project created online lecture and laboratory materials for Tech 167—Control Systems, anupper division electronics course using Multisim and LabVIEW.The laboratory content of the course Tech 167 “Control Systems” has been revised. As a result,ten lab experiments were completed and pilot tested using Multisim, a computer simulationprogram. If the observations of the students who have tested these lab experiments in fall

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Michael Parten, Texas Tech University; Timothy Maxwell, Texas Tech University

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interfaced to the overall system control.System interfacing through a controller area network (CAN) bus is standard inautomotive systems. The increasing complexity of sub systems is requiring validationtesting before inclusion into the system. This leads to test procedure concepts such ashardware in the loop and software in the loop.The development of the vehicle is a complex, large team, multidisciplinary project withstudents primarily from mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering.The majority of the team members are enrolled in a two-semester senior design sequencein either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. Some graduate students and volunteersalso participated in the program. The project last longer than the courses. In

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmad Pourmovahed, Kettering University

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energy systems. A design project isincorporated into this laboratory course. Currently, experiments performed in this laboratoryinclude a Jet Engine, Road Load Simulation, PEM Fuel Cell Performance, Centrifugal Pump,Fan Laws, Compressible Flow, Pipe Flow and Flow Meters, Lift and Drag, Heat Exchanger,and Cylinder Convection. Among other things, the students learn how jet engines work; howaircraft wings produce lift; how a fuel cell works; how supersonic velocities are produced; howto use a dynamometer to predict the gas mileage of a car; how to match pumps and fans to pipingsystems and ducts and how to cool hot objects effectively. They also learn to apply thefundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer in an

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Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John White, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Leo Bobek, University of Massachusetts- Lowell

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illustration, two specific cases are then highlighted: an introductory energy balancelaboratory that has been conducted for several groups of freshman Chemical Engineeringstudents, and a pool heat-up experiment that was used as the basis for a project in an EngineeringDifferential Equations course. Both these examples focus on the energy transfer and transportmechanisms that are an integral part of the reactor facility. The readily available data allow oneto illustrate a number of fundamental concepts of interest to each course using real informationfrom an operating facility -- and the real-world nature of these applications seems to really Page

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Design of Lab Experiments I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gukan Rajaram, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University

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experimental design. Achievementof student proficiency in designing experiments and statistically analyzing the data is theprincipal objective of this senior mechanical engineering laboratory course. During the initialfew classes, the students perform simple experiments to understand the concepts of randomvariables and their distribution. They correlate the results to designing experiments and theirquality. Later, they perform experiments using a factorial design of experiments chart. Then, theoutput data from the experiments are analyzed. Based on the experiments, a term project isassigned that will allow the students to develop an experimental design chart by identifying theindependent and dependent variables, collecting data by performing

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nasser Houshangi, Purdue University Calumet

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, interdisciplinary experiments.Due to the evolutionary advances in computers, sensors, and actuators, the need exists to teachall engineers to use electronics, to program computers for real-time control, to design controlsystems, and then to integrate all into the design process. In countries like Japan and Koreadegrees are offered in mechatronics. Although this is not the intent at the moment, we should atleast introduce our students to the reality of the workplace. Even if mechanical engineersworking on a team project do not design the electrical components, they will at least be able tocommunicate with the electrical engineers effectively, and the electrical engineers will havesome knowledge of mechanical systems.Control systems are inherently multi

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Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manar Shami, University of the Pacific; Ed Pejack, University of the Pacific; Ravinder Jain, University of the Pacific

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AC 2007-2315: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL TESTINGLABORATORY TO ENHANCE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGManar Shami, University of the Pacific Manar Shami, Ph.D., PMP., is a Faculty at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Professor Shami received M.Sc., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He did extensive research and consulting in project management in the U.S. and internationally. He was a Faculty at the University of Cincinnati. He was also a senior aviation engineer with ATAC Corporation in Sunnyvale, California working on NASA and DOD projects. He provided executive project

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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Lee Toderick, East Carolina University; Jingyuan Deng, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University

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enables students to perform experiments 24/7from any location thus maximizing the utilization of the equipment and providing schedulingflexibility to the students. Student laboratories for wireless devices can be problematic ininstitutions that offer wireless network access. This production wireless environment can bedisrupted or even disabled if a student misconfigures the laboratory equipment.This paper describes our success with the adoption of an isolated, remotely-accessible faradaycage that houses wireless equipment, permitting even the most invasive wireless projects to beperformed in an area that offers production wireless network access. Our lab isolation isoptimized for the ISM 2400-2483 MHz frequency band thus providing isolation for

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute; Peter Rodgers, The Petroleum Institute; Christian Mandel, The Petroleum Institute

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through a one semesterdedicated course entitled Core Measurements. As part of this course, two innovativehands-on experiments related to experimental fluid dynamics are given, with theobjective of familiarizing the students, through simple projects, on how to characterizefundamental fluid flow phenomena. A hands-on project consists of design, fabrication,data acquisition and validation of a simple experiment. In this paper an overview of two hands-on fluid mechanics based experiments arepresented, with the specific educational objectives sought given. The first experimentinvestigates the dynamics of a jet flow inside a cylindrical enclosure, with the secondexperiment characterizing a single phase flow over a backward facing step. State of

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Petru-Aurelian Simionescu, University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily, University of Tulsa; John R. Shadley, University of Tulsa

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Computer Aided Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Vehicle Dynamics and Traffic Crash Reconstruction.John R. Shadley, University of Tulsa John R. Shadley is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Tulsa. He taught solid mechanics courses and laboratory classes at the University of Tulsa, and was engaged in research projects involving solid mechanics and materials. Page 12.439.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Data Acquisition and Computer Simulation Integrated Experiment for an Undergraduate Machine Dynamics

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey; Shou Rei Chang, The College of New Jersey

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state ofstress for comparison purposes. Obtaining meaningful strain levels, and at the same timeavoiding damage due to permanent set of the precious gauged specimens is always a challenge.To control this catch 22 situation, a backward analysis has been conducted to prescribe theallowable range of loads. The students must develop the mathematical model for predicting thelevels of strain and stress in the two beams and manually calculate the expected levels of strainand stress. Modeling of the two different beams in ANSYS and comparison of the behavior of thebeams may be added as an optional integral part of the project. This experiment vividlyillustrates the advantages of the tapered beams over the prismatic ones. Students however, mustcomment

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Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Henry, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Charles Knight, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall2000/McAtee/ accessed 17 January 2007. 2. “The Trojan Room Coffee Pot,“ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html accessed 17 January 2007 3. "Enhancing Classroom Demonstrations and Home Assignments with Remote Experiments ", Page 12.1444.4 Henry, Long and Gadzke, AIChE Meeting, 2004 4. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, first ed., 2005, page 168.5. http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/flatworld.html accessed 17 January 2007. Page 12.1444.5

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Paul Villeneuve, University of Maine

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accept the tuningconstants. Today’s single loop controllers have many features and proper configurationis time consuming for the students and doesn’t enhance student learning. Since there aremany different models of controllers and various other types of systems, it wasdetermined that it would be more efficient to have the instructor set the tuning parametersfor the students. The students are required to determine the appropriate tuning constantsand provide them to the instructor.Future ModificationsThe use of readily available equipment permits further expansion of the project. Severalmagnetic flow meters have been procured which can be used to perform predictivetuning. Further, the water in the vessel can also be controlled for temperature

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Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

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Internet. Students from Arizona State Universitysuccessfully implemented Internet applications to remotely operate the robot in the formof information interface as shown in Figure 9. The last two weeks were allocated to thespecifically designed online robotic experiments for both schools. Such onlinelaboratories enable multiple institutions to share expensive laboratory resources, henceproviding engineering and engineering technology students access to more sophisticatedconcepts and laboratory experiences as shown in Figure 10.Figure 10. Students worked on the laboratory projects in the MET 205 Robotics andMechatronics offered at Drexel University.3. Evaluations The Internet-based laboratory course is a new concept, and evaluation of

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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students follow in the capstone senior design project is the one outlinedby Bejan et al. [6] and Jaluria [7]. The first essential and basic feature of this process is theformulation of the problem statement. The formulation of the design problem statement involvesdetermining the requirements of the system, the given parameters, the design variables, anylimitations or constraints, and any additional considerations arising from safety, financial,environmental, or other concerns.In order for this experimental apparatus to function as a useful piece of lab equipment, thefollowing requirements and specifications need to be met. These include requirements that willmake the apparatus useful for demonstrating air conditioning processes as well as ensure

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Jessica Niemi, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Meagan Vaughan, LeTourneau University

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years the author has introduced basic circuit conceptsusing a fluid analogy and has seen similar explanations in various textbooks. This year a true“wet lab” has been implemented to illustrate the concepts of voltage and current as well asKirchhoff’s current law and the transient behavior of RC circuits. The hydraulic lab takes placeas a portion of a supplementary lab for Circuits I which includes hands-on experiments withcircuit components, timers, LED’s, and op amps. Student response to the hydraulic circuit labwill be discussed. This project was supported in part by a grant from the Keck Foundation with apurpose of updating laboratories and developing interdisciplinary laboratory experiments.IntroductionThe circuit concepts of voltage and

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University; J. Scott Patton, California Polytechnic State University; Raymond Gordon, California Polytechnic State University

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Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Victor Yu, United States Military Academy

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several projects from the Army, DOD, and NIH.Victor Yu, United States Military Academy Victor Yu received his MS in mechancal engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has been faculty at West Point for 3 years and is currently a medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Page 12.589.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 ELASTIC MODULUS OF BONE USING ULTRASONIC TESTINGI. Background In 2003, a slow loop assessment of the mechanical engineering curriculum at the UnitedStates Military Academy at West Point was conducted to determine whether the

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Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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information technology field. John has held various positions and has experience involving management, designing, testing and teaching of data networks, enterprise networking systems, digital switching systems and transmission systems. Currently, John is a faculty member at East Carolina University and holds an instructor position in the Department of Technology Systems. John is also a senior trainer at Network Training and Consulting and teaches courses in networking, project management, and Cisco systems networking solutions. He holds a MBA from Wayland Baptist University. He also holds various industry certifications to include; A+, Network+, MCSE, MOUS, and CCNP.Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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. Page 12.1562.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Simple Experiments to Teach Core Concepts in the Thermal and Fluid SciencesIntroductionThis paper documents the start of a research project involving laboratory exercises for coreundergraduate classes in the thermal and fluid sciences. Students perform experiments oneveryday technology such as a hair dryer, a bicycle pump, a blender, a computer power supply,and a toaster, or very simple hardware such as a tank of water with a hole in it, or a pipe sectionwith a change of area. The equipment is chosen because it is familiar to students, or at least thatthe physical principles of operation are easy to understand. The laboratory

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramesh Prasad, University of New Brunswick-St. John; Ryan Munro, University of New Brunswick-St. John

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implementedfor the use with the oxygen bomb calorimeter experiment for sophomore Engineering studentsin Thermodynamics course. The use of these two software programs (data acquisition and dataanalysis programs) allow the fast and accurate analysis of the heat of combustion of a given fuelsample, allowing the student to have a greater insight into this process. The application of thedata acquisition and analysis programs of this project is applicable to almost any experimentwhere several different temperatures are required to be recorded and analyzed in the educationof undergraduate students in an introductory thermodynamics course.Examination of the temperature ~ time plot (Figure 4) shows temperature fluctuations of about± 0.1 deg C in temperature data

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Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Frank Shih, Seattle University; Jeff Dragovich, Seattle University

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AC 2007-1240: REAL-TIME ACCESS TO EXPERIMENTAL DATA USINGTABLET PC’SGregory Mason, Seattle University Dr. Mason received a BSME from Gonzaga University, an MS in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington-Seattle. He developed a robotics laboratory for the Department of Defense in Keyport, WA and was involved in numerous automation projects, including a robotic container welding system and a robotic torpedo fueling system. While at the University of Washington Dr. Mason did post-doctoral research for NASA, designing a multirate flutter suppression system for a commercial jet. His current

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Design of Lab Experiments I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sri Kolla, Bowling Green State University

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. Luntz, E. Almeiada, D. Tilbury, J. Moyne and K. Hargrove, “The distributed reconfigurable factory testbed(DRFT): A collaborative cross-university manufacturing system testbed,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference,2006.[10] R, Bartz, S. Engell, C. Schmid, H. Roth, N. Becker and H. M. Schaedel, “Project-oriented internet-basedlearning in the field of control engineering,” Proceedings of ASEE/SEFI/TUB Annual Colloquium, 2002.[11] J. Rehg and B. Muller, “Teaching PLCs with the IEC 61131 standard languages,” Proceedings of ASEE AnnualConference, 2005.[12] D. Wang, and H. Peddle, “System approach for design and construction of PLC training laboratory,”Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.[13] K. H. Johansson, et al. (2005). “Vehicle

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Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peng Li, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University; Tijjani Mohammed, East Carolina University; Lee Toderick, East Carolina University; Chengcheng Li, East Carolina University

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/Comparison_of_virtual_machines5. Jeremy Sugerman, Ganesh Venkitachalam and Beng-Hong Lim, “Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMwareWorkstation’s Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor”, Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference,2001.6. 7-Zip. http://www.7-zip.org7. Gary D. Steffen, “Teaching Local Area Networking in a Secure Virtual Environment”, Proceedings of the 2004ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2004.8. Richard Bejtlich, “The Tao of Network Security Monitoring”, Addison-Wesley, 20059. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum Page 12.1575.10