Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

-inventor on 3 US patents related to control systems. Dr. McLauchlan is a member of ASEE and was previously the Chair of the Ocean and Marine Engineering Division and is now the Past Chair. He is also a member of IEEE (senior member), SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, ACES and Tau Beta Pi, and has served on the IEEE Corpus Christi Section Board from 2004-2010 as Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Director. Dr. McLauchlan has received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award twice and the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award once for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.Dr. Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Dr. Mehrubeoglu received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Clippinger P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Ronald Adrezin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Mary Shalane Regan, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

offerings of the course, possibly due tothe use of student-owned equipment. There was only one known case of equipment damageduring the semester, and it was for reasons unrelated to the course. In that case the studentpromptly purchased a replacement part and continued with the course in an otherwiseuninterrupted manner.For institutions wishing to adopt such a component to their programs, it is recommended that theinstitution ensure that the course be taught in a classroom with AC power receptacles at eachstudent desk. Such an approach was used by the authors to guard against the uncertainties oflaptop battery life. An alternative approach is to ensure that the course if offered in aninstructional space with sufficient numbers of desktop computers