Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

technology program graduates. This paper studies industry need for graduate knowledge and skill in fluid mechanics area and presents an ongoing curriculum reform process to transform an existing fluid mechanics course to a fluid power course. A multi-mode student learning process is developed and course is reformed to support an interactive pedagogical methodology. Beyond current teaching methods, tools are developed to foster a flexible inductive learning through hands-on applications. A multipurpose laboratory equipped with fluid power process, sensors, data acquisition system, and application programs is being developed. A series of laboratory practices based on use of fluid mechanics principles in industrial applications would

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Paulo Alexandre Martin, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Nair Stem, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Keiti Pereira Vidal Souza, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

actions (student activities to improve learning without any evaluation grades,namely, 1.Student support; 2.Technical Staff; 3.Video classes, and 4. Teaching service) anddirect learning actions (student activities to improve learning with evaluation grade, namely, 5.Online exercises; 6. Pre-Exam; 7. Laboratory reports; 8. Active Learning Projects; 9. LaboratorySeminars, and 10. Preparatory Discussion Laboratory Questions).Keywords: Physics, Engineering Education, Active LearningIntroductionLearning is a process. The assessment of learning is a powerful diagnosis that allows teachers toredirect their efforts towards assisting the weaknesses of the learning process as presented bystudents. This paper discusses 10 ways to improve learning Physics as

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Abner Peralta; Natacha Souto-Melgar

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference An undergraduate experience for studying the diffusion of a solute in an aqueous solution Abner Peralta and Natacha Souto-Melgar University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Chemical Engineering DepartmentKeywordsStudent extended abstract, laboratory, chemical engineering, diffusion, Fick’s law.Molecular diffusion driven by concentration gradients is the most common type of diffusion inchemical separation processes, such as liquid-liquid extraction, stripping, and adsorption. Tobetter understand molecular diffusion, a fundamental knowledge of Fick’s law of diffusion iscrucial. In the Spring 2021

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 7: Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Melanie Bastiaan, Kettering University; Kristy Brinker Brouwer, Kettering University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

associated controls teaching platform. That platform includesa suite of proprietary hardware, and it works in concert with LabVIEW™ software from NationalInstruments. By 2018, several of the QUBEs had ceased to function, out of an original set of tenunits. That year, internal ME department research was conducted to investigate the cost of QUBEreplacements. At that time the version of the QUBE owned by KU had been discontinued.According to Quanser, there were two QUBEs left (in their possession) from that outdatedhardware generation. The ME department did not purchase those units, which ended the use ofthe QUBEs in MECH-431, as there would have been too many students in each laboratory groupassigned to each remaining (functioning) QUBE.Regarding the

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Ronald E. Nelson

Student Participation in EE Lab Teams as a Predictor of Acquired Skills and Knowledge E. Carl Greco, Jim D. Reasoner, Ronald E. Nelson Electrical Engineering Department – Arkansas Tech UniversityAbstractIn a fundamental electrical engineering laboratory course, the current model utilizing laboratory groupsof two or more students to perform assignments reduced the student's ability to learn rudimentarylaboratory skills and knowledge and the ability to apply them to a basic circuits analysis application. Thestudents' performance on the laboratory final exam provided an indicator of their individually acquiredknowledge and skills. Several factors were investigated as

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn S. Hobson

responsibilities engineers have to the larger community.There have been several examples of successful programs where service-learning has beenincorporated into science, mathematics, and engineering curricula. Examples of these programsinclude Duke University where students work in a rehabilitation hospital for chronically illchildren; Copper Union University where engineers teach laboratories and tutor in a highschool outreach program and visit elementary schools where they demonstrate technicalprojects for children; Purdue University where they have a center for Engineering Projects inCommunity Service (EPICS); WPI where sophomores and seniors work on project that thestudents select that benefit a community partner; University of South Alabama where

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bowen, Rice University; Marcia O'Malley, William Marsh Rice University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paddle laboratory series1,developed at Stanford and currently implemented at Johns Hopkins University, is adapted to fitRice’s curriculum. This series of five laboratory exercises was developed for use in anundergraduate course on dynamics and controls, and is fully explained in the literature and onseveral websites1,6,7. A low-cost, single-axis force-reflecting joystick was used to teach studentsabout electromechanical systems, dynamics, and controls. Figure 2 clearly illustrates the topicsfrom the lecture portion of the Hopkins course and the related topics in the Haptic Paddle Labs.It should be noted that other researchers have adopted haptic devices to undergraduate courseswith much success8.While most of these labs fit right in to the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

trainerswork well in linear electronics laboratories to teach the use of operational amplifiers ininstrumentation systems. The systems have been tested at several colleges and universities withexcellent results. This paper describes the system design, construction requirements, examplelaboratory exercises, and test results. A web site that includes a complete set of drawings for thetrainer and other supporting information is available. Send e-mail to James Rehg jar14@psu.edufor the URL.IntroductionThe cost of process control has dropped as a result of the drop in solid state control devices.Manufacturers interested in improved quality have increased the number of closed loop controlsin a broad product area using continuous, repetitive, and line type

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Shawn N Gieser, University Of Texas At Arlington; David Levine, University of Texas, Arlington

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Electrical and Computer

Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a licensed professional engineer in Texas and Alabama.Shawn N Gieser, University Of Texas At Arlington Shawn N. Gieser PhD Student in Computer Science and part of the Heracleia Human-Centered Comput- ing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Also, Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor for Digital Logic.Prof. David Levine, University of Texas, Arlington David Levine teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches computer architecture, computer organization, cloud computing and operating

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhaohong Wang, California State University, Chico; Jing Guo, California State University, Chico

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Computing and Information Technology

toexplore the combination of Wireshark and Mininet in the online teaching mode for anintroductory computer network course. Moreover, we studied the effect of students’ priorperception of the online learning model on students’ perception of whether the combination of thetwo helped students overcome the online learning challenges.This paper describes our practical way of teaching the computer networking course usinghands-on activities with Wireshark and Mininet. Inspired by existing work in Wireshark andMininet in their use, we designed our novel combination of the two in 12 laboratories. Studentswould first observe specific protocols by packet capture in Wireshark and then emulatenetworking scenarios in Mininet for the same protocols. As such

Conference Session

Cool Ideas

Collection

2016 EDI

Authors

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, UC Davis

. Kinetics – Chemical reactions New Course to Teach Engineering Design at the Freshmen Level Open to All Majors ECM 1 - The Design of Coffee3 units: Lecture – 1 hour; Laboratory – 2 hours;Project – 1 hourNon-mathematical introduction to how engineers think, aselucidated by the process of roasting and brewing coffee.Qualitative overview of the basic principles of engineeringanalysis and design. Corresponding laboratory experiments testingthe effect of design choices on the sensory qualities of coffee.Lab 1 – Reverse Engineer a Mr. Coffee Example key questions • What makes the water move up? • What is the complete process flow diagram? Lab

Conference Session

On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology; Malcolm Good, University of Melbourne

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

is that moving to remote and virtual access to laboratoryhardware leads to significant changes in the learning outcomes of the students whoexperience this laboratory. In the face of such changes, these alternative access modes mustbe considered pedagogical alternatives, rather than simply logistical conveniences.IntroductionLaboratory classes are a key element in undergraduate engineering teaching. They serve anumber of valuable roles, such as validating analytical concepts, and providing exposure toprofessional practice 1. One of the drawbacks of laboratory classes is that they are expensive,in terms of both time and money. Another drawback is the significant logistical challenge ofscheduling access to hardware for potentially large groups

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

uncertainty, and the willingness to make decisions when data is incomplete arekey features in the make-up of successful engineers. Thus, teaching laboratories should hold thesame enchantment and exhilaration for our students as research and applications laboratorieshold for our graduates. Applied researchers go to the laboratory to coax truth from aninexpressive natural world, their aim is to sense, to evaluate, and, eventually, to progress. Wemust send our students to the instructional laboratory to accomplish these same goals.Furthermore, instructional laboratories that stress the learning involved in doing enable faculty topander to many different learning styles. They are customizable vectors to student perception.They provide real connections

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University

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Computing & Information Technology

scholar and researcher in teaching psychology and evaluation. Dr.Walberg has advised on questionnaire design, evaluation of the pedagogical effects of thesystem, data analysis, and interpretation.Students Learning OutcomesTo assess student learning, the class was divided into a control group and test group. Thecontrol group took the course using an existing traditional laboratory, while the test groupperformed the experiments developed through the remote laboratory facility. The test groupwas composed of male and female students with diverse ethnicity and mixed educationalabilities. Both the groups were tested with pre- and post-tests, and the results were comparedfor any difference. It was observed that there were statistically significant

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College; Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering Program from 1993-97, and starting in January 2008, he is serving as Director of the Computer Engineering Program. From 1990-92, he was a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. He worked for TRW in Redondo Beach, CA for 11 years, primarily on signal processing projects. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, ACM, AAAS, and SHOT.Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College Dominic J. Dal Bello received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College, a California community college in Santa Maria, where he teaches Statics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In par- ticular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy of engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For the technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP, nanocomposites, etc.) for automotive, marine, and aerospace applications. His recent research efforts have also included the fatigue behavior of manufactured products, with the focus of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

emphasis on the introduction of experimentaltechniques, data analysis methods and enhancement of oral and written communication skills, thenew laboratory course will be taught at the same time with the thermal fluids course thusproviding the “just-in-time” hands-on experience for students. In summary, our endeavorexperience with this wholesale curriculum renovation, including difficulties encountered andsuggestions for future improvements, will be discussed in detail.1. IntroductionAs we are entering the 21st century, the traditional methodology for teaching engineering is beingscrutinized as to whether it can effectively produce competent engineers who can handle themany challenges brought upon by the multiplying, interrelated-technologies and

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliott Vega, University of Washington, Bothell; John William Bridge P.E., University of Washington, Bothell

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Mechanical Engineering

plans on pursuing a career in the automotive industry or manufacturing industry.Dr. John William Bridge, University of Washington, Bothell Dr. John Bridge, P.E. Dr. Bridge is a former Lt. Colonel and mechanical engineer in the U.S. Air Force with over twenty years of R&D experience with numerous aerospace vehicles to include aircraft and rocket systems. In addition, he has performed advanced materials characterization while in the mil- itary and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has previous teaching experience at several institutions to include Bowdoin College, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Bridge is currently working with composite materials used in

Conference Session

Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

2015 ASEE National Conference Project Based Learning of Environmental Engineering PrinciplesAbstractIn this paper, the importance of project based learning to teach environmental engineeringconcepts and train emerging civil and environmental engineers is presented. One of the projectbased learning exercises was the water treatment laboratory experiment. Coagulation,flocculation, sedimentation and filtration concepts and design principles were taught throughpractical demonstrations for junior and senior civil engineering students in the environmentalengineering laboratory. The source water was collected from the algae contaminated ponds onthe campus. The student learning was greatly enhanced by the practical and hands-on, projectbased

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

in the lectures or in the laboratory practices orboth. Due to recent technological advances in computer technology and software, it is nowfeasible to implement more advanced, more efficient, highly interactive and very user -friendlysystems without using expensive custom-written software and tools. In the laboratoryapplications, from the technical point of view, all the engineering problems deal with somephysical quantities such as temperature, speed, position, current, voltage, pressure, force, torque,etc. A computer equipped with the suitable interface circuits, data acquisition systems andsoftware, can give a visual look to these quantities, and can process the acquired data. [2]In this paper, a model of teaching and learning experiences

Conference Session

Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mohan Khedkar, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (M.S.)

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ASEE International Forum

quality knowledge and skills to the students, thereby lowering their overall development and employability. At times, the faculty also lack in communication and pedagogical skills and industry academia collaboration is also at nascent stage. Faculty development basically means: Improved teaching and learning necessary for deep understanding of technical information and skills Implementation of latest teaching strategies Creating practical learning environment provided by laboratories and workshops Effective assessment methods to determine quality and improve the learning process Understanding properly the changing role of teacher in various areas including research ‘Train the Trainer’ model has to be

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dana Medlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Deborah Mitchell, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Materials

metallurgicalengineering curriculum as a kinesthetic teaching tool will be implemented in several levelsstarting at the sophomore level. The first metallurgical/materials engineering courses availablefor SDSM&T undergraduates are sophomore level courses and they include two concurrentcourses: a 3 credit hour lecture “Properties of Materials” (MET-232) and a 1 credit hourlaboratory “Structure and Properties of Materials Laboratory” (MET-231). The next set ofcourses in the undergraduate curriculum sequence are “Physics of Metals” (MET-330) and the“Physics of Metals Laboratory” (MET-330L), and finally “Mechanical Metallurgy” (MET-440)and the “Mechanical Metallurgy Laboratory” (MET-440L). The curriculum modifications tothese lectures and laboratories are

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”provided little room or time for student input. The laboratories always worked, because thefaculty had orchestrated the activities to be useful for demonstrating principles. After many yearsof teaching a materials laboratory, we believe that this method may not be in the student’s bestinterest. By the junior year, students must begin to gain the independence and judgement theyneed to make decisions in the workplace. To build this independence and judgement, studentsmust make choices. They need the skills required to search resources and assemble data. Forexample, previously the laboratory

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Donald P. French, Oklahoma State University; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods

. His research focus is on biology education including the use of inquiry and tech- nology in the teaching introductory biology lecture and laboratories. He has published articles on the impact of teaching in reformed courses on graduate students.YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University Assistant professor in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State Uni- versity. Her research is focused on students’ achievement motivation and self-regulated learning process as well as teachers’ motivation and its impact on instructional practices, both in traditional classroom setting and online instruction. She published articles on graduate teaching assistants’ professional devel- opment as well as

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Mechtel, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy

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Electrical and Computer

an integral part of almost every course offered. Most courses include aweekly three hour lecture and a two hour laboratory. Recently a laboratory componentwas successfully added to the department’s introductory electrodynamics course. Thepurpose of this paper is to illustrate how students used the design of microwavemicrostrip circuits to improve their grasp of theoretical electrodynamics concepts. Inaddition, students were exposed to the practical aspect of design including limitationsinherent in the simulation, design, fabrication and testing of high frequency circuits.This paper will explain the details of laboratory exercises developed for the course andthe supporting software, fabrication facility and test equipment. Additional

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

development of facilities inlimited square footage for a combination of physical laboratories, teaching and computingspaces, in varying areas ranging from 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing to EngineeringMechanics. Additional laboratory design activities have also been carried out for creative andinnovative design spaces including some for integrated capstone and cross-disciplinary projects,along with off-campus development. This paper will summarize educational learning andresearch facility development trends in academia including selection of educational equipment,digital tools, flexible furniture, and utilization of white board paint or magnetic boards. Safetyand environmental issues are covered. The trends in K-12 education and their

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Design in Engineering Education

developments in inexpensivecomputing power and internet communication, with the increasing number of online academicprograms, have prompted the need of laboratory teaching.1Laboratory teaching is the primary method of developing skills and competencies forengineering and/or engineering technology students, ensuring a close fit for the industryrequirements. The set of skills and knowledge acquired by an engineering graduate has to meetthe industry requirements of a global economy. Thus, the laboratory has become an essentialcomponent in all engineering programs.2To determine if the set of skills and competencies required by the industry are properlyaddressed, an assessment plan is generally adopted by engineering/engineering technologydepartments

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

to an existingEngineering Materials Science with Laboratory course. Second, an HU/COM faculty memberwas invited to team teach one of the senior design courses, Aircraft Detail Design, and to thusprovide both written and oral communication instruction on a supplementary basis. Third, asimilar team-taught course was developed for the spacecraft track as an HU/COM facultymember joined the Spacecraft Preliminary Design faculty. The development of each of thesethree courses will be described in further detail in the following sections.Historical ProcessEngineering Materials LaboratoryEngineering Materials Science with Laboratory was the first course chosen for introducingcollaborative teaching practices as ERAU/Prescott. Engineering Materials

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim A. Elwazani

can be obtained from interfacing the three basic teaching methods are a)lecture/design (LD), b) lecture/case study (LC), and c) lecture/design/case study (LDC). Model ApplicationThe faculty of the Architecture/ Environmental Design Studies Program at Bowling GreenState University decided in 1991 to incorporate lighting and other environmental controlsubjects into a newly developed, second-year level, two-course sequence in buildingsystems technology. Lighting, covered through lecture and laboratory sessions, wasinstituted as a segment of Building Systems Technology II (BST II), the second course inthe sequence. Chronologically, lighting succeeded the segment on building electricalsystems. In its lecture

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Julius J. Marpaung; Jeff Burke; Josh Weibling

At the University of Houston, we focus on hands-on learning in our curriculum. We begin byintroducing Arduino and Matlab in our freshmen introductory level course, ECE 1331: Computerand Problem Solving. In spring 2016, students have the opportunity to program Arduino usingMatlab in conjunction with an LED matrix to design a game as other institutions [1-4] have alsoused Arduino in their classrooms with great success. Although Dr. Marpaung has received apositive feedback in regards to using a Zumo bot in classroom [5], he believes that he can alsoenhance students’ hands-on learning experience by offering them a different set of projectsinvolving an LED matrix. Lab Assignments Laboratory assignments are