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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thrassos Thrasyvoulou; Constantinos Panayiotou; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

MATLAB INTERFACE WITH JAVA SOFTWARE Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Thrassos Thrasyvoulou, and Venkatraman Atti MIDL, Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 AbstractThe J-DSP editor is an object oriented environment that enables distance learning students toperform on-line laboratories. The editor has a rich collection of signal processing functions andis currently being used in a senior-level DSP course at ASU. In this paper, we present newenhancements to the infrastructure of J-DSP that provide embedded MATLAB™ scriptingcapabilities. The synergy of the J-DSP object-oriented

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

Session 2004-124 ASEE ANNUAL MEETING Salt Lake City, Utah June, 2004 The Trebuchet Project: Launching a “Hands-On” Engineering Technology Approach To Conducting Hands-On Statics and Dynamics Laboratory Courses Francis A. Di Bella, PE Assistant Professor Northeastern University, Boston, MA Mechanical Engineering TechnologyABSTRACT“…Hands-On, real word engineering experience” is the refrain that is

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

had a lab directly associated with each core course. The decisionwas made to create a set of core laboratories that were separate but aligned in a co-requisite structure with the core academic courses, Table 1. Table 1. Core Labs - AY 2000-2001 Semester Lab Co-requisite Core Courses Fall 2nd Year ECE Lab 1 Intro to Signal Processing Digital systems Spring 2nd Year ECE Lab 2 Circuits Linear Systems Fall 3rd Year ECE Lab 3 Electronics Microprocessors Spring 3rd Year ECE Lab 4

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

in biomedical engineering recommended for all undergraduate BiomedicalEngineering majors. In category 19, we simply provide some concluding remarks and solicitgeneral feedback about the survey from the participant.It should be noted that we did not explicitly list such important categories as “Laboratory Skills”and “Mathematical Modeling”. Whereas mathematical modeling has been included within Page 9.258.2category 17 (we solicited feedback on nine modeling concepts), laboratory skills were not“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Uske; Robert Barat

classical measurement technique for estimating LBVs. The availability andutility of the modern digital camera, together with the ease and power of digitalphotograph computer processing, greatly facilitate the determination of LBVs, especiallyfor the undergraduate laboratory. In this work, the LBVs of hydrocarbon/air mixtures areestimated using direct digital photography. In addition, selected flames doped withammonia are studied. The estimated precision of this technique illustrates the need forcareful measurements.Introduction Undergraduate experiments on flame dynamics are rare since actual temperaturesare very high, and rates are very fast. However, the most common flame in the laboratorycan now be easily studied thanks to modern digital

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

developedfor an undergraduate course in digital design. The projects to be described were initiallydeveloped within an undergraduate advanced digital design course and as independent studentprojects and were then adapted for use as a final project within a junior-level first course indigital design. As second-semester juniors, students are also completing a course in signals andsystems that provides them some initial background in frequency-domain topics that areapplicable.Beginning in Spring 2002, laboratories within the digital course were updated to make use ofaffordable and versatile programmable logic device boards produced by Digilent, Inc [DIGI

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

Session 1532 Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience are the salient steps for the reintroduction of Amateur Radio intothe capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering and diverse examples ofsuch projects. These steps include the involvement of the faculty supervisor, the establishmentof an Amateur Radio station as a communications laboratory sponsored by the department, asurvey

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

school women to bioengineering and the applications forBiomechanics, Ergonomics, Biochemistry, and Automotive Crash Safety.There are very few residential bioengineering summer programs nationwide. Kettering’s LivesImprove Through Engineering, or LITE, is a two week, residential, summer program for youngwomen entering their senior year of high school. Approximately 36 students, recruited fromthroughout the United States and Canada, attend the fully funded camp each year. Universityfemale students receive a stipend to mentor the high school students. The student to mentor ratiois kept low, 3 to 1.Four different professors, one for each bioengineering subject, are dedicated to presenting thecurriculum. Hands-on laboratory experiences are integral

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Pietryga; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

isused to monitor voltages, currents, and powers in the various Power System Simulator sections.The digital I/O board controls a limited number of discrete channels which enable the simulatorto be controlled in a dispatched manner. The PC system is capable of performing real-timesupervisory control and data acquisition in an open-loop operator assisted format. The graphicsprovided to the user are the same as those found on major utility dispatching systems in theUnited States, Canada, and Europe. With the combination of the Power System Simulator andthe computer system, the student may be come familiar with all aspects of real world powersystem operation and control in a laboratory environment. The UPJ Power System Simulatorwith remote

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

Session 3464 Teaching About Materials Using Electronic Devices Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractIntroductory materials courses must, of necessity, contain a great deal of theoretical andfoundational information about the structure and properties of materials. Materialcategories are often studied separately, with comparisons being made between types. Thispaper describes a laboratory experience designed to bring together different types ofmaterials, by studying complex manufactured devices. Many electronic packagingsystems, including chip carriers and thick-film

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Vaidyanathan; Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

data acquisition in real-time.8) Prepare class presentations that are well researched, grammatically correct and which interpretprinted material relevant to instrumentation design.It was decided to enhance the course with introduction of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)principles. In addition to the existing laboratory exercises that fulfill the objectives of the course, itwas decided to introduce a comprehensive project that would enable the students to apply PLMprinciples to their academic investigations. The application of PLM principles in various phases ofthe project would enable the instructor to simulate an industry environment in the classroom. Forthis reason, it was decided to make the instrumentation course, a capstone course for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Peretti; James Spivey; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

designed to complement a junior-level chemical engineering laboratory surveycourse in chemical engineering (CHE 330). The students in 330 meet one morning a week for hour-longlectures on statistics and experimental design. In addition they have one three-hour afternoon periodreserved every week for experiments. Students who enroll in the course attend four TWS modules, whichtake place during their allotted lab time on weeks when there is no experiment scheduled. They also meetas a team with writing and speaking consultant four times throughout the semester. Table 1 shows atypical schedule for students’ activity in TWS and in the lab.The TWS module focuses on developing collaborative oral and written technical communication skills byaddressing how

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

organism, tissue and cellular levels • Biomechanics and Biomaterials - force analysis, mechanics of deformation, biomechanics of tissue, physical and chemical properties of biomaterials • Tissue Culture Laboratory - sterile technique; cell proliferation and transfection assays • Bioengineering Design - design of process or product, FDA regulations, economics • Advanced Bioengineering Laboratory - laboratory modules in biomaterials, biomechanics, systems physiology, instrumentation, bioprocessing and ethics.To enhance knowledge in one area of Bioengineering, students select one of three emphasisareas or tracks: (a) Cellular and Molecular Engineering, (b) Systems Engineering andBiomedical Instrumentation, or (c

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

technology, computer engineering technology and photonics. It also offers anintegrated Master of Science Program in Advanced Technology jointly with mechanical andindustrial engineering technologies departments. The curriculum in these programs emphasizeshands- on education and has a number of laboratories in the areas of communications, control,digital systems, computer vision, microprocessors, multimedia and networking technology.SUNY Institute of Technology is an upper division transfer college for students who havecompleted their first two years at a community college.According to Forward Concepts, a Tempe, Ariz, market research firm, the sale of programmabledigital signal processor (DSP) hit more than $3 billion in 1997, and is expected to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

assignments[Oakes, 1999], engineering economic case studies, and studio exercises that cover designmethodology and that prepare students for the culminating design project and competition.Course Organization and AdministrationThe First-Year Design course is taken by all majors in engineering (civil, computer systems,electrical, mechanical, and undecided), and majors in computer science. The course schedule isa two-hour classroom meeting and a three-hour studio/laboratory meeting each week. Thesetime periods are used for lecture, discussion, studio/laboratory time as appropriate for the coursemodulesEach offering of the First-Year Design course has involved a multidisciplinary team of faculty[acknowledged at the end of the paper] who administer, teach

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven M. Miner; Richard E. Link

heavily oriented towards teamdesign projects. The lectures are organized to develop the new material the students will need tolearn, in a logical manner that parallels their use of the software in the laboratory portion of thecourse. Ample time is provided once the new material has been presented to allow the students toapply it to their projects. In addition, a few short lab exercises and a homework assignments aregiven to reinforce the concepts developed in the lectures.II. Basic TheoryAs an introduction to the finite element method the students are given a set of notes1 (http://web.usna.navy.mil/~link/fea.pdf, http://web.usna.navy.mil/~link/fea2.pdf) that are covered duringtwo lectures. The following six major steps in the finite element

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Craft; Sunil Shenoy; Ronald Bolick; Ajit D. Kelkar; Devdas M. Pai

are light, cheap, and so energy absorbent that they will revolutionize commonground transportation systems.NC A&T State University has a number of grants involving research into impactdamage including impact behavior of sandwich structures. The authors feel thatthis research is sufficiently mature and important so that impact experimentsshould be added to our laboratory sequence within the department. Researchinvestigations of these materials in our labs involve static and dynamic testingincluding shear testing or impact testing, and it is relatively simple to include theimportant attributes of impact testing as a laboratory experiment. Motivatingfactors for us in developing new impact experiments include:• providing our students with

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Internet to look for background information and identify potential approaches to solve the problem, and will then brainstorm for approaches and select the best. Discussion on the selected approach will then be undertaken.2. Hands-On Interactive Classroom Session in Science Duration: 1.5 hours Skills Addressed: Creative thinking, experimental design, reverse engineering, learning to learn, teamwork, leadership, interpersonal skill, and communication skills. Session Description: This hands-on classroom session will involve exploration of the thinking styles and skills employed by scientists. Various characteristics of scientific thought and the scientific method will be investigated through a series of min-laboratory experiences

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

components. components.3. Advantages of This ApproachThere are a number of advantages of using competency-based learning in a laboratory: · The emphasis is on understanding, not memorizing, or completing without thinking, the laboratory procedures. This promotes discussions and collaboration among participants, and facilitator mentoring. · The facilitator also becomes more involved in participants’ work. He coaches, mediates, consults, and provides expertise. He is available when asked, or when he notices the need to be involved. Otherwise, the facilitator remains on the side. · Participants feel responsible for providing answers to the problems provided in the Data Sheets and those they

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

The course suitable for integrating the DSSC research results is a required seniorundergraduate course, Solar Cells and Modules for all students majoring in the BS degreeconcentration, Alternative Energy Technologies and as an elective for students from othermajors. During fall semester 2010, the students in the class participated in characterizingthe cells in the laboratory. In the lecture class theoretical discussion of the solar cell I-Vcharacteristics and internal resistance influence on the I-V curve were covered. TheDSSC’s I-V characterization was performed using an equivalent circuit model that isshown in the Figure 5. The series and shunt resistances of the cell are primarycontributors for the internal resistance. The Figure 6

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Manufacturing Education for Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin M. Ertekin, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

technology discipline.At the undergraduate level, many courses related to robotics, design, and materials are offered tothe students in the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology program. Courses such asRobotics and Mechatronics, Quality Control, Manufacturing Materials, Microcontrollers, andApplied Mechanics can benefit from the laboratory experience in applications of mechatronics,robotics, and rapid prototyping. As well as helping in the teaching of various courses, suchexperience benefits students who are pursuing degrees in the engineering field. Students in theMechanical, Electrical, and Industrial fields along with many others can learn many new skills

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University; Val Hawks, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

theoverall distribution indicates that a cutoff of 10 publications is reasonable. Disregarding the Other topiccategories, the two highest occurrences are papers on Curriculum and Lab Based Learning. That thesetwo topics are so common is not very surprising, after all this is in an engineering education venue.Figure 2 – Top Paper Keyword Distribution Over All Years Page 25.155.4The Laboratory Learning papers, Figure 3, have grown to a high of 16 in 2009. The steady increase in thenumber of papers validates the importance of, and interest in, labs and laboratory work to manufacturingeducation. The data suggests that the number of lab papers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Rogers, Alignment Nashville; Sandra M. Harris, Alignment Nashville and PENCIL Foundation; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; David Conner McNeel, Alignment Nashville

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

participated in this STEM activityorganized by TTU. The focus of the visit is to engage the girls in TTU’s cutting edge rapidprototyping (RP) laboratory. Students and coaches use the RP laboratory to create three-dimensional objects and design them using their artistic skills. Students and coaches are able tokeep their creations. In addition to experiencing the RP laboratory, students have a chance tovisit the Biology Laboratory, compete in Lego Robotics Design and a Paper Airplane Contest.A2S participants (including 112 students, 15 MNPS teachers, and 3 volunteer mentors) made thethird annual A2S trip to TTU on October 29, 2011. This day trip was an opportunity to tour theTTU campus and spend time going in-depth with RP. The schedule was designed to

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Best. Class. Ever.

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda S. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Deborah Lynn Grubbe P.E., Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC; Ronald Lee Cutshall Sr., R. L. Cutshall Sr., Consulting; Steven J. Swanson; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Arvind Varma, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Chemical Engineering

Service Award in 2009. He is also a Test Bed Leader and member of the Leadership Team of the NSF supported Engineering Research Center (ERC), ”The Center for Structured Organic Particulates,” which won the 2010 Research Team Award in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. He is the author of 75 peer-reviewed publications and 10 patents. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering in 1981 from Mississippi State University, and both his M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee while working full-time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Harris’s research is in the areas of nano- materials, colloids and interfacial phenomena, transport phenomena, particle

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

Session 2259 Micro-controller based Heater Control for Gas Sensors Michael Amos, Dr. Bruce Segee University of Maine Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research LaboratoryAbstractSemiconductor Metal Oxide (SMO) Gas Sensors have emerged as a dominant sensor technologyin recent years. These sensors are now able to detect compounds ranging from greenhousegasses to chemical weapon agents. The behavior of the sensor is temperature dependent and thesensor typically operates at elevated temperature (200 °C to 600 °C). Laboratory

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2001 Annual Conference

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Terry Derossett; Steven Nesbit; Scott Hummel

Multi-course design project creates ties between various mechanical engineering topics Scott R. Hummel Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 hummels@lafayette.edu (610) 330-5587 Terry A. DeRossett Director of Mechanical Engineering Laboratories Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042

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2001 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

Laboratory 3 BME Elective 3Engineering Electives 6 General Ed Elective 9General Ed Elective 3 16ME 402 Review Eng. Fund. 1BME 431 Sr. Seminar 2 Total = 135 Semester Hours 16sciences with engineering in the BME specialty courses to follow. The field of biomedicalengineering is introduced to students in a three-hour introductory course in the first semester ofthe sophomore year. The inclusion of this course early in the curriculum serves to build andmaintain student interest in the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

Session 2793 ONLINE MODELING IN TEACHING GEOMECHANICS VIA THE WEB SITE Jiang Li and Matthew Y. Lee Morgan State University/Amherst CollegeAbstractIn the present paper, the design of online modeling in soil mechanics with multimediatool on the Internet has been discussed. The online modeling in geomechanics servers asa virtual laboratory that can be used for both teaching and research at the Department ofCivil Engineering, School of Engineering, Morgan State University. In this paper, thefollows are emphasized: 1) design of main and sub web pages, 2) design of the online runtime ActiveX coded

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2000 Annual Conference

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

laboratoryenvironment can be designed around a somewhat limited budget. Our proposal is as follows. Ameaningful lab environment must give practical experience with a full range of HDTV related Page 5.228.3issues. Major concerns for laboratory equipment are video acquisition, MPEG encoding,broadcast capabilities, reception and decoding. Signal broadcast, reception and decoding are theeasiest issues to resolve if we think creatively. Existing computers and network wiring will serveas our broadcast and reception hardware. HDTV is, after all, digital. An upgrade of a few routersto 100 Mbps equipment along with network performance monitoring software will allow a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

in the Indian curriculum.Apart from the differences in structures, two important factors differentiating the U.S.curriculum from Indian curriculum are in the nature of the flexibility offered and theinnovativeness inherent in project type laboratories. The flexibility enables to cater to theneeds of different categories of students those who will base their professional careers asengineers on the Bachelor’s degree with no further formal study; those who will proceedfurther for post graduate studies in engineering or an allied field, and those for whom theunder-graduate programme provides a broad base for further professional study in fields likemanagement.The use of open-ended project type laboratories instead of set laboratory experiments