Session 1626 Integration of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Using a Microprocessor Controlled Injection Molding Machine: Applications of Statistical Process Control Laura L. Sullivan and Courtney R. Oliver GMI Engineering& Management InstituteAbstractAn independent study project was developed to apply the principles of statistical process control (SPC) topolymer processing using a new microprocessor controlled injection molding machine, purchased through a1994 Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) award from the National Science
justof mere mathematical interest. We also felt that the traditional approach, in which the tools for theanalysis of discrete and continuous time signals were taught separately, often in different courses,was misleading the students and preventing them from acquiring an integrated view of signalanalysis. The possibility of offering laboratory courses depends, of course, on the availability of per-sonal computers. We rely on low-cost i486 based machines, running Matlab. We have found thatMatlab provides an easy to learn yet powerful interface, and a powerful set of commands to dealwith graphics, signals, and systems. Although we can not present a final evaluation of this experience yet, we may alreadyreport that the students reacted
2006-156: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN THE DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMSENGINEERINGKhaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University Khaled A. Mansy is an Assistant Professor in the Architectural Engineering Program, School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2001, and has 16 years of teaching experience in professional programs in the USA and Egypt. Dr. Mansy is the PI of the NSF grant awarded to build this daylighting laboratory; the artificial sky dome.Steven O'Hara, Oklahoma State University Steven O’Hara is a Professor of Architectural Engineering, School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University. He received his Bachelor of
on how to follow the Page 11.949.4protocols of research, carrying out experiments on the CNC machines in the college’smanufacturing laboratory during the summer. They investigated machine chattering undervarious spindle speeds, feed rates, and depths of cut. Through participating in research, studentshad a better understanding of the purpose of research, enhanced their knowledge of the researchtopic by the hands-on experiments, and increased their interests in manufacturing engineeringtechnology. They reported that the research better prepared them for advanced level engineeringeducation and inspired them to pursue a career in the field.2. NAFP
Director of Career Services talkedfor about 20 minutes on various issues associated with the Co-Op program. After this, threesenior students who had already returned from their co-op assignment talked (for ten minuteseach) about their experiences. Each student had worked at a different company. For theirpresentation, they were instructed to focus on issues such as: (1) How did my co-op assignmenthelp me when I returned to school, (2) What did I do on my co-op assignment and (3) What arethings they wished they knew before they went on co-op. After all of the presentations werecompleted, they took questions from the audience.Class 8: Chemical Engineering Laboratory TourOne of us is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator (UPC) for the Department of
and retention of these segments of the population.3. Course ContentThe “Sensors and Actuators for Mechatronic Systems” course has been offered as a technicalelective for both mechanical and electrical engineering senior undergraduate students as well asto graduate students. There were two formal weekly meetings for an hour and fifteen minuteseach for the 14-week duration of the course. Apart from the lectures extra time was scheduled asneeded to foster synergistic laboratory activities involving working with actual sensors andactuators.3.1 Learning OutcomesThe learning outcomes for this course are as follows. After completing the course the studentshould be able to:a) Understand the underlying physical principles of the basic transduction
willreport the above conceptual framework in more details against its literature background.2. The Multiple-Lab-Driven Pedagogy with TCK IntegratedThere have been plenty of studies performed on lab-based curriculum. For instance, Abbas andLeseman [5] developed a laboratory-based curriculum on the theory, fabrication, andcharacterization of microelectromechanical systems, in which course assessment data is input bystudents from three semesters, based on which the effectiveness of the laboratory project isevaluated. Alexander and Smelser [6] proposed a distance laboratory teaching method thatcombined multi-media computer experiments, portable hands-on exercises, and place-boundlaboratory experiments. Zhang et al. [7] utilized graphical development
also contributes to their lackof inclusion and sense of belonging. To a smaller extent, some hearing students misunderstand spokeninformation, especially in lab environments.We report on the evaluation of an extension to our Real-Time Text Display (RTTD), to handle multiplespeakers (RTTD-MS), for engineering labs. RTTD was developed to reduce frustration in following theteacher and other peers during laboratory and other academic settings. The system projects a real-timedisplay of captions (RTTD) above a teacher who can move around the room during the class orlaboratory, which may aid deaf students in viewing both the speaker and the speaker’s words as text.Our first study with RTTD found that deaf students in engineering course lectures
computational modeling. He runs the Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues Laboratory at Bucknell, where they use computational and experimental techniques to better understand the mechanics of musculoskeletal soft tissues and human movement. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Appropriate Finite Element Analysis in Mechanical Engineering: Teaching Best Practices through SimulationFinite element analysis (FEA) is a powerful computational tool employed in engineeringindustry, research, and in the classroom. While the finite element method was developed duringthe mid-twentieth century for civil and aeronautical applications, it has been adopted inmechanical
Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring an inquiry-based learning with peer-teaching pedagogy in a physiological signals lab courseIntroduction and BackgroundActive learning can support meaningful engagement with science concepts and practices, whichhas been known to improve students’ affect toward science [1]. Professors recognize theopportunity for students to engage in such active learning during laboratory courses and haveemployed successful methods of doing so that foster meaningful engagement [2,3,4]. Onemethod of active learning and enhancing student engagement is using inquiry-based learning in alaboratory environment. This method also helps to develop creativity and critical thinking skills[8,9] which are
Paper ID #22642Academic Practice/Design Interventions: An Activity-Based Design Coursefor Conceptualizing Failure and Factor of SafetyMr. Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology Nikolaos Vitoroulis supervises the Engineering Design Laboratories at Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens and specialized in Robotics, Mechatronics, and Manufacturing. As a member of the Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship at Stevens (IDEaS) team, he works with the development team to update and generate engineering curriculum con- tent. His past industrial
Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a Diploma in Applied Mechanics in 1989 from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and was awarded M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses related to mechanisms and machine dynamics, integrated product development, solid mechanics and plasticity theory, structural design and analysis, engineering analysis and finite element methods and has interests in remote laboratories, project-based learning and student learning assessment. His research is in the areas of remote
Paper ID #14813Digital Manufacturing Education: Implementation of an Integrated CAD/CAMWorkflow to Reduce the Difficulty of Using Complex Digital Fabrication ToolsMr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette Eric Holloway currently serves as the Senior Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue University, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. From 2007-2013, Eric served as the Managing Director and the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. As Director, he was in charge of the building and
to the different engineering disciplinesand principles associated with engineering design. Consequently, by the end of the course, itwas our expectation that students would be able to: 1. Articulate the fundamental differences between the engineering disciplines 2. Work in a team environment to solve engineering problems 3. Write technical communications for various audiencesWe used a combination of laboratory worksheets, laboratory reports, quizzes, concept maps, anda final paper assignment to evaluate student learning.The course was taught by six faculty and was comprised of five modules (engineering topics andpanel sessions) that introduced students to the various engineering degree programs. The fivecourse modules
includes sensor based condition monitoring of CNC machining, machine tool accuracy characterization and enhancement, non-invasive surgical tool design, reverse engineering and bio materials.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is a full-time Laboratory Manager and part-time adjunct instructor with Drexel Univer- sity’s Department of Engineering Technology. Eric assists faculty members with the development and implementation of various Engineering Technology courses. A graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer Engineering Technology program and Drexel’s College of Engineering, Eric enjoys finding innovative ways to use microcontrollers and other technologies to enhance Drexel’s Engineering Tech
Education, 2015 MAKER: Design and Create with Natural DyesDyeing with natural dyes is a combination of science and art. The science dictates that apermanent bond requires a metal ion – a mordant – to bridge between the fabric and thedye. The art allows a multitude of colors. By varying the combination of dye andmordant, and the purity and concentration of each, a nearly infinite number of shades canbe obtained.A course open to all students, both engineers and nonengineers, explored the history andtechnology of dyes and the dyeing process1. Simple exercises allowed students to extractdyes, discover the colors obtained by combining different mordants and dyes, and notehow fabric type contributed to the shade. Other laboratory exercises
. Page 26.1464.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Teaching an Electrical Circuits Course Online”AbstractDue to the increased demand for MOOCs, online, flipped, and hybrid courses, it is becomingmore important to identify techniques to also teach engineering courses virtually withoutcompromising standards. This paper will present a comparison of teaching an electric systemscourse for non-majors online and in a face to face classroom. It will provide a motivation forthis transition and examine the related literature for teaching engineering courses online. It willalso detail the challenges and lessons learned in transitioning an engineering course with anintegral laboratory
Paper ID #12013Chua’s Circuit for Experimenters Using Readily Available Parts from a HobbyElectronics StoreMr. Valentin Siderskiy, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Valentin Siderskiy received his B.Sc. degree from the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering and M.Sc. degree from Columbia University. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include controls and chaos. Siderskiy is also the CTO of a technology startup.Mr. Aatif Ahmed Mohammed, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Aatif Mohammed is currently enrolled in his second year of B.S. Mechanical Engineering at NYU Poly
legal issues related to water resources management(WRM); 4. Many students were inclined to think of the course as an imposed GeDC rather thantaking the opportunity to connect it to their major field of study for creating unique expertise; 5.They lacked simple laboratory experiences to visualize the concepts and field trips to provideknowledge about how water works and how related careers develop; and, 6. The assessmentmethods did not facilitate the students to develop enough inquiry, research and communicationskills.Connect2U was developed on a collaborative instructing-learning concept to minimize thesedrawbacks and implemented in gradual steps for six years. The success of the approach wasassessed based on student performance indicators.In
encourage undergraduate students to consider graduate level studies 10. Jiang and Maoattempted to implement SDR based courses in minority institution 11. Wu et al developed anaffordable, evolvable, and expandable laboratory suite to allow different institutions to offerlaboratories in communications and networking courses 12. However, to the best of ourknowledge, there is no existing work that introduces cooperative transmit beamforming, the keytechnique in next-generation communication systems, with SDR to undergraduate electricalengineering students.To bridge the gap between the undergraduate communication systems education and theindustrial demands of entry-level electrical engineers with SDR and beamforming expertise, aneducational module has
classroom and laboratory setting, enhance thelearning process7,8.In the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at FSC the digital design education is accomplished by a sequence of three courses: EET 105-Introduction to Digital Electronics, EET 223-Digital Electronics and EET 316-Digital Design.Each course is taught by various instructors, both from academia and industry. Annual meetingswith the Industrial Advisory Board provide continuous feedback regarding the curriculum andthe content of the EET and CET courses, including the digital design sequence of three courses.The first digital course in the sequence, Introduction to Digital Electronics, presents fundamentalconcepts of digital electronics, specifically
given Assessment Semester. Exceptions to this are the writing course, specific laboratories, and the capstone design sequences where student work is used to demonstrate attainment of multiple SOs. The design process reported here started with the development of preliminaryrequirements. The formal statement of the need, goals, and objectives were developed iterativelyas the process was refined.Design Need An efficient and systematic way to approach satisfying ABET Criterion 4 is needed.Goals (1) Collect and analyze data sufficient for assessment of student outcomes. (2) Use these analyses plus other data to improve the curriculum. (3) Avoid collecting extraneous data. (4) Standardize the data analysis and
curriculum,requiring an efficient and integrated process. By incorporating EML in different coursesequences such as circuits, electronic design, and communication sequences, students will havethe opportunity to develop and build up their entrepreneurial mindset.The paper reviews the CoE’s experience and preliminary evaluation results of integrating EMLin our junior level course EE375 Electronic Design I. EE375 is the first electronics course of athree-course electronics design sequence. The course covers circuits design using diodes andtransistors with several laboratory experiments.This lab modification is part of a curriculum-wide effort to integrate EML to different coursesequences. Students will be repeatedly exposed to entrepreneurship skills
University, Pomona in June 2018. During his senior year at Cal Poly Pomona, CJ contributed to the design and manufacturing of the Radial Wave Engine. After graduation, he worked as a Research Engineer testing the Radial Wave Engine at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Continuing his career in the Aerospace industry, CJ works as a Design Engineer at HiRel Connectors, Inc.Mr. Colby Stark c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of a Novel Engine Test Rig for Research and Educational PurposesAbstractThis paper overviews a senior design project conducted by three undergraduate engineeringstudents at California State Polytechnic
projects, progressing through an on-site industrial CO-OP and culminating with a team Senior Project or Masters Thesis.Problem-Based Learning within a Multidisciplinary, Industrial Project-Based ContextCalifornia Polytechnic State University has an earned reputation as a proponent of the hands-on,laboratory-based, learn-by-doing approach to education. We have also won a reputation as acollege whose students are steeped in open-ended problems and underpinned by anunderstanding of design and the process of design. As part of our newly-created Biomedical &General Engineering Department, it was our goal to implement Problem Based Learning (PBL)within a larger, industry project-based context. Based on our experience with industry as a keypartner in
to acontinued funding commitment which can survive the departure of any critical individual oneither side of the partnership.MEDITEC (Medical Engineering Development and Integrated Technology EnhancementConsortium) is an industry/academic partnership that matches multidisciplinary teams ofundergraduate and masters-level engineering students with the project needs of biomedicaldevice developers. Industry provides the project topics and technical mentors, while projects areself-selected by students based upon a match with their background skills and educational goals.Reconfigurable project space, with physical isolation between the confidential projects ofcompeting companies, is provided on campus. This physical laboratory serves as the focus
get advice and training. Thedepartment chair spent a summer at WPI studying fire dynamics, the curriculum of fireprotection and conducting numerous interviews with the director of the program and othermembers of the WPI faculty. The cooperation and advice of WPI was critical for thedevelopment of the fire protection program at UHD.Engineering technology programs are laboratory work intensive in order to provide students withpractical experience. Developing fire laboratories that are called “burning houses” is close toimpossible in an urban university such as UHD. Under the guidance and experience of WPI acritical decision was made: to develop a fire protection program based on computer simulation.There were several factors that contributed to
received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, in 1996, where he studied under the Bradley Fellowship. From 1996 to 2001, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and Whippany, NJ. While at Bell Laboratories his research focused on CDMA systems, intelligent antenna systems, and multiuser detection. He was named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000. In 2001, he joined Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor with the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, where he works
these teachersinfluence their students’ interest in engineering and then ultimately resulting in majoringin engineering is not clear. To aid in the direct encouragement of promoting engineeringto students and eliminating the uncertainty of how science and math teachers inspirethese students to enter engineering we bring the math and science teachers to the UConncampus for a week long residential summer workshop. They work along side engineeringfaculty in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of what engineering disciplinesexist and their potential. The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and sciencebackgrounds, then serve as spokespersons for engineering in their respective classroomsby being able to discuss engineering
from the student’s point of view. Instruction should thus include additional material to enhance student motivation. Subject-based learning is much more amenable to achieving subject-based course objectives while it can be difficult to achieve professional objectives such as teamwork and communication that are required by ABET 2000. • Cookbook laboratories: The traditional laboratory format, the organizing principle for a cookbook lab is set of clearly defined steps that closely guide the student through an experimental procedure. The student follows these steps, often without significant initiative or forethought, and achieves a successful result. This results in a relatively smooth-running