Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Seung H. Kim; James Scudder

education, but also intransforming traditional teaching mechanisms to computer-screen-based interactive structures.The goals in the development of the multimedia-based laboratory manual in the Manufacturingand Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) programs are to provide fundamentalinformation and to visualize laboratory practices in plastics testing for distance-learning students.This paper presents the development of a multimedia-based laboratory manual in plastics testingin the distance-learning program in the MMET Department at R.I.T. The paper also considerssome change needed to improve teaching quality by adapting asynchronous interactions

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nizar Al-Holou; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

entry, synthesis, and verification tools. This implementation willgive the WSU, UDM, and LTU students an edge in the job market. With the AlteraCorporations funding, these schools will also be able to implement the same type oflaboratory instruction in their own programs.The following describes the role of each partner university in the project forimplementing the project activities. WSU’s role in this project is to transfer to UDM andLTU the laboratory teaching experience and lab materials in the digital design area usingprogrammable logic devices. To implement this transfer, the WSU will:• Assist the partner universities in implementing the transfer to their institutions, and share the already developed laboratory materials with them

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cordelia Brown

teaching fellows (GTFs) with Nashvillemiddle school science teachers. This GK-12 Program is a partnership between threeeducational institutions of higher learning, all within a five-mile radius of each other inNashville, Tennessee.The 2004-2005 school year brought together 15 Metropolitan Nashville Public Schoolteachers and 11 graduate students in a collaborative effort to improve science instructionand provide opportunities for middle school students to work with scientists. In addition,one undergraduate student from Vanderbilt University assists teachers in two schools toincrease the frequency and quality of laboratory activities.GTFs focus on working with partner teachers to develop and implement hands-on,inquiry-based activities, providing

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

control (c) Mobile workstation for test and measurement Portable data acquisition equipment for signal display and analysis (d) Server Data logging and interface to the ECE laboratories (e) Laboratory equipment for workstations Equipment for integrated project development in each laboratoryIntegrated projects are developed for ECE laboratory-based courses across the curriculumThese integrated projects are team-based laboratory activities that establish the link between eachECE laboratory-based course and the centralized project platform. The content and flow of thetopics covered in the ECE laboratory-based courses will be revised. This includes the preparationof course content and teaching methodology for instruction in

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.

Page 9.65.4 Fig. 2. Photograph of assembled transceiver. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. The New RF Transceivers CourseThe original Caltech course consisted of two 10-week quarters. Each week there were 2.5 hoursof lecture and three hours of laboratory time allocated. The laboratory was operated as an openlab without scheduled lab times and was supported by teaching assistants. Students wereexpected to perform two laboratory problems each week. There were 40 laboratory problems inthe text, so students completed all of them in the 20 weeks comprising the two

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nicole Wagner, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

their learning experience in the laboratory. This indicates that while students mayhave the necessary information provided to them, such as in the form of a lab manual, they findthat additional interactions, through questions to the instructor, are beneficial in furthering theirlearning.When considering teaching a course in which laboratory equipment is involved, such as thatdiscussed in this study, it is concluded that written instructions alone are not sufficient inallowing students to complete a given project or task using that equipment. It was observed thatlearning is advanced more effectively when students have the opportunity to get answers to theirquestions throughout their operation or programming of the equipment. Therefore, it

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Electrical and Computer Engineering Labs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kip D. Coonley, Duke University; Justin Miles, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

-boardDSP capability which makes real-time signal processing—a vital part of the signals and systemslaboratory exercises—challenging. The Arduino lacks audio capability, processor speed, andsize for the necessary DSP computations. The Beagleboard-xM has the advantage of including Page 26.1635.3built-in audio jacks and a dedicated on-board signal processing integrated circuit block. It hasbeen used in comparable teaching laboratories.5 A comparison of hardware specificationsbetween the existing TMS320C6713 DSK development board and the Beagleboard-xM is shownin Table I. For compatibility with Code Composer software, the lab currently uses the WindowsXP

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Marv Abrams

Session 2526 Experimental Validation of Computer Simulations Increases the Synergy Between Simulation and Physical Reality R. Frank Smith and Marvin C. Abrams California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA AbstractThis paper discusses the development of course materials at California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona, CA. that will demonstrate a pedagogical approach that allows the synergismof computer simulations and laboratory experimentation. The model being developed willinclude shared resources with other schools through computer

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelin Kuhn

Proceedings II. Logistics As can well be imagined, allowing the students to self-select a design project within the broad area oflasers is a logistical nightmare. For the first few years, the last four weeks were hellish. However, as the classevolved, I began to develop better ways of managing the self-selected design projects. Some successful tricks include: 1. A dedicated room for the projects (the Photonics Teaching Laboratory)4 2. A well-established system for inventory management 3. Making past projects available as posters, Xerox copies, and (most recently) Web copies 1. The Photonics Teaching Laboratory The EE 488 class is managed as part of the Photonics Teaching Laboratory. The

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew A. Dettman

included utilizing this laboratory as an extension of WKU’s materials laboratory. SinceScottys office is close to campus and they have a fully equipped classroom within theirlaboratory for the training of their own personnel, it became an ideal place to teach constructionmaterials related courses utilizing their state-of-the-art equipment. This virtually doubledWKU’s laboratory space related to construction materials and allowed students and facultyaccess to more modern equipment than currently available in the existing laboratories withouthaving to purchase and maintain any new equipment.In addition to the laboratory and teaching space, the gift funded release time for the facultydirector of CETAC to actively engage in applied research

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

hours. Also, thenumber of actual hours spent in the lab at VMI varied from 25 to 42 hours with an average of36.4 hours during the period from 1936 to 2016 [2]. There has never been a period when labswere not viewed as essential to the VMI civil engineering program.Educational theory has supported the use of laboratories as effective teaching techniques [3].Laboratories promote active learning and reduce the probability that students will passivelyreceive knowledge. Images and activities are more easily remembered especially if they arevivid and appeal to the senses [4]. Most laboratories require interactions among students andprofessors and force them to actively work with the principles under investigation. Teachingassistants are also commonly

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

demonstration video for PEEK training in addition to the paper-based tutorial. Visual training should be more efficient than paper-based material for the purpose of equipment operations.2. Make a teaching assistant available at an easily accessible location a few hours per week after the laboratory/lecture meetings. Last time, the TA met and helped students more on campus during afterhours than they used online “office hours”.3. For students in the first electronics course, requiring only the use of portable virtual equipment (rather than using both the portable and bench-top versions) might be preferable in order to reduce confusion. Once students grasp a set of tools, it should

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

exposure toinstrumentation due to the need to share equipment, teaching assistants must be properly trainedto ensure effective instruction, and many universities simply cannot afford to maintain moderninstrumentation readily accessible to students.6 More readily utilized, economical laboratorysolutions that address the above issues are needed to improve conceptualization of thefundamentals of dynamic systems and their control. To address these issues, three inter-university laboratory formats utilizing virtual systemsand remotely-accessible experiments are being developed to complement the MechanicalEngineering curricula at UTPA and UTSA. The laboratory formats provide inexpensivealternatives that are more readily accessible and available

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

modules in science and engineering. This work ranges from basic courses suchas physics [18], statics [19, 20], dynamics [21], thermodynamics [22], strength of materials [23],and engineering economy [24], to advanced topics such as finite element analysis [25]. One areathat has received considerable attention is manufacturing with some work done on laboratoryapplications [26, 27] and other work on using multimedia simulations to teach design [28]. Somework has also been done in the area of environmental engineering [29 - 31].The topic of trying to supplement or replace basic engineering laboratories has also been studied.The concept of virtual engineering laboratories was introduced for electric circuits at Vanderbilt ina paper by Mosterman et al

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven W. Peretti; Richard M. Felder

, some preliminary theory, and minimal information about the types of behavior they are to observe and analyze. The groups are required to seek out relevant references, develop a rationale for their experimental design, and work out appropriate data analysis. The teaching assistants are instructed to be circumspect when faced with questioning regarding experimental design, but vigilant regarding potentially unsafe practices.2. Hands-on experimentation is augmented with process simulation. In some experiments computer simulations are used to model the experimental systems and then to explore “what-if” scenarios far more extensively than time would permit in a conventional laboratory.3. Structured cooperative

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (14), Natalie (14), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Leading an Effective Unit Operations Lab CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the logistics and unique learning opportunities present in supervising aUnit Operations laboratory course. Specifically, the paper outlines some best

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

resource allows instructors todistribute course information, lecture notes, handouts, papers, and laboratory data to students.Group pages are created to allow laboratory groups to communicate and transfer data to oneanother. The first author currently teaches a junior level civil engineering materials course at theUniversity of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. This course has been taught withand without Blackboard™ assistance. The course CE 3141, Materials Testing Lab, is taughtmore effectively as a result of distributing course materials and data online. Laboratory groupsprocess data and develop laboratory reports without meeting through online groupcommunication and file download capabilities. This mode of delivering materials to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

-designed laboratory experiment. Journal of College Science Teaching, 269-270.21. Krivickas, R. V., & Krivickas, J. (2007). Laboratory instruction in engineering education. Global J. Eng. Educ, 11(2), 191-196.22. Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2001). The miniature guide to critical thinking: Concepts & tools. Foundation Critical Thinking.23. Bean, J. C. (2011). Engaging ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom. John Wiley & Sons.24. ASEE Connections 2016. Female Enrollment by Discipline; Teaching Global Development, March 24, 2016. 14

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juliana Danesi Ruiz, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Phillip Deierling

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

the instructors. Thus, the hands-on laboratories provide an experience-based learning opportunity. In the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa, the robotics classesare designed to teach students the basics of robotics and robotic kinematics. Robotics is a verylarge interdisciplinary field with multiple job opportunities ranging from programming tomanufacturing [5]. Given the overwhelming breadth of potential material, the class of interest inthis study primarily focuses on teaching students the basics of robotics with respect to anindustrial setting. The topics covered include three-dimensional (often nonlinear) concepts likerotation matrices and forward kinematics. Since the class consists exclusively of

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Karen S. Hays

and habits of prudent behavior in the laboratory so thatsafety is a valued and inseparable part of all laboratory activity.1In 1997, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas began thedevelopment of laboratory safety training for all undergraduate students participating in theinstructional laboratories. Over the past eight years, this program has expanded. Initially, thetraining consisted of a simple one hour session for undergraduate students, focused primarily onHazard Communication and the departmental lab rules. Now, the laboratory safety programincludes safety seminars held monthly for all chemical engineering graduate students, trainingfor the instructional laboratory teaching assistants and periodic reviews

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU

educationresearch and contribute considerable knowledge in the area of using simulation technologyfor learning and teaching enhancement in engineering higher education.Methodology The current research effort has two complementary tracks. The first of these is aquantitative study to examine the differences between the two groups on their scores on post-test as well as follow-up measure. In addition, the quantitative section examines thedifference in terms of lab completion time. The physical lab group performedcommunication systems laboratory exercises using traditional hardware laboratory and thesimulation group used simulation software for performing similar laboratory exercises on thesubject of modulation and demodulation. The second track is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Ibrahim

lectures.Developing such laboratories can be expensive and time consuming; global cooperation throughthe Web can ease these difficulties. Currently, excellent virtual laboratories are available throughthe Web at no cost or obligations, but their educational potential is not fully used globallybecause the Web looks like a huge disorganized library; useful material is there but accessing itcan be frustrating and time consuming 11. The work presented here would make some of theexcellent and freely available Web virtual laboratories more accessible for teaching and learningElectronics. It is important, however, to keep in mind that virtual laboratories do not achieve allthe objectives of laboratory exercises mentioned earlier and have to be used wisely. It is

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., M. Zoghi

.— - . . Session 3215 . .. . . . USE OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO ENHANCE THE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION l M. Zoghi , Ph.D.Abstract The integration of personal computers in teaching the geotechnical engineering courses including thesoil mechanics and foundation design, as well as soil mechanics laboratory will be described herein. Inaddition, the potential use of microcomputers in undergraduate and graduate special projects as part ofindependent studies will be

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Walthea V. Yarbrough; Sarah J. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Hugh Fuller; Laura Bottomley; Mary Clare Robbins

inculcate engineering problem solving strategies whileallowing students to inductively discover the approach used by various engineering disciplines.The structure for E497F was based on the large lecture format used in E100 (six sections perweek; 175-190 students per section) with an added laboratory limited to 48 students. Thelaboratory alternated with the E115 computing class. In any given week, approximately onehalf of the students were in E115 and the other half in the laboratory. Each lecture section wasassigned one faculty member and the laboratories had two undergraduate teaching assistantseach (selection and responsibilities are described below). The course carried one credit hourand was letter graded. The lecture component (including

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Michael Rider; Juliet Hurtig

MechatronicsLaboratory, Journal of Engineering Education. 86(2):113-118.[9] Johnson, Stanley H. et al, 1995. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Controls Laboratory, Journal of EngineeringEducation. 84(2):133-136.[10] University of Texas, http://www.me.utexas.edu/student/courses/me244l.shtml[11] California Polytechnic State Institute, http://me.calpoly.edu/Labs/LabsMain.htm#Controls[12] University of Notre Dame, http://www.nd.edu/~msen/Teaching/IntSyst/Description.html[13] Jack, Hugh. Teaching Mechanical Students to Build and Analyze Motor Controllers. Session 2666,Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2003.BiographyDR. JOHN-DAVID YODER is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently holds the LeRoy H.Lytle Chair at

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 5: Strategies for Increasing Classroom Engagement

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tooran Emami, United States Coast Guard Academy

, "Teaching Sustainable Energy and Power Electronics to Engineering Students in a Laboratory Environment Using Industry- Standard Tools," IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 173-178, August 2015.

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Mallini

broad range of topics, includingelectrical energy, analog circuits, combinational logic, and digital circuits. Teaching a survey course in electricalengineering to a class with no prerequisite engineering knowledge except introductory calculus poses a considerablechallenge for the instructor. What is the objective of such a course? Where does one begin? How can the material becondensed into twenty-five 50-minute lectures? Why should a non-engineer want to acquire this knowledge? Becauseengineering is much more than book learning, theory is reinforced by laboratory exercises in circuits and digitalelectronics. Typically, the students have no prior hands-on laboratory experience. The laboratory component seeks tomeld the familiar (computer

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Dennis Coon, University of Wyoming; Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; John Pierre, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

semester of the Freshman year. While the course does not require a textbook, a number of textbooks, including [4] and [5], are available for such a course. Associated with [4] is a laboratory manual available on the internet describing a series of experiments.‚ Thinking and Doing Mathematics: Engaging today's youth in mathematics and science is the foundation for sparking their future interest in the fields of engineering and science. This is the motivation for "Thinking and Doing Mathematics," a program that helps teachers learn more hands-on approaches to teaching mathematics through engineering and science. Participating teachers attend a ten day workshop at the university. The university’s colleges of Engineering