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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Goodmann

Using Microsoft DirectX In a DSP Laboratory Peter E. Goodmann, P.E. Indiana University – Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThis paper reports on the use of Microsoft DirectX as a laboratory teaching tool in a junior-leveldigital signal processing (DSP) course for technology students. The DirectX SoftwareDevelopment Kit (available as a no-cost download from Microsoft), along with Microsoft VisualC++ or Visual Studio, can turn any soundcard-equipped desktop or laptop PC into a self-contained DSP laboratory for software development, experimentation, and teaching.Teaching DSP to ECET students represents a unique challenge, due to the hands-on emphasiscompared with the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Pierre; Frank Tuffner; Robert Kubichek

Innovative Communications Experiments Using an Integrated Design Laboratory Frank K. Tuffner, John W. Pierre, Robert F. Kubichek University of WyomingAbstractIn traditional undergraduate teaching laboratory environments, many communication topics aredifficult to convey because of their complexity in implementation. This paper describeslaboratory experiments that explore challenging communication topics using the University ofWyoming’s new integrated design undergraduate teaching laboratory. Each lab stationcomprises a PC using LabVIEW and GPIB to control oscilloscopes, arbitrary functiongenerators, power supplies and a data acquisition card. In

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

Laboratory/Demonstration Experiments in Heat Transfer: Free Convection Edgar C. Clausen, W. Roy Penney, Cole E. Colville, Alison N. Dunn, Noor M. El Qatto, Crystal D. Hall, W. Brent Schulte, Christopher A. von der Mehden Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractOne excellent method for reinforcing course content is to involve students in laboratory exercisesor demonstrations which are designed to compare experimental data with data or correlationsfrom the literature. As part of the requirements for CHEG 3143, Heat Transport, and CHEG3232

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Alison N. Dunn; Jennifer M. Gray; Jerod C. Hollingsworth; Pei-Ting Hsu; Brian K. McLelland; Patrick M. Sweeney; Thuy D. Tran; Christopher A. von der Mehden; Jin-Yuan Wang

Laboratory/Demonstration Experiments in Heat Transfer: Forced Convection Edgar C. Clausen, W. Roy Penney, Alison N. Dunn, Jennifer M. Gray, Jerod C. Hollingsworth, Pei-Ting Hsu, Brian K. McLelland, Patrick M. Sweeney, Thuy D. Tran, Christopher A. von der Mehden, Jin-Yuan Wang Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractLaboratory exercises or demonstrations which are designed to compare experimental data withdata or correlations from the literature are excellent methods for reinforcing course content. Aspart of the requirements for CHEG 3143

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Theodore W. Manikas; Douglas E. Jussaume; Gerald R. Kane

Developing Laboratory Courses in a Resource-Constrained Environment Theodore W. Manikas, Douglas E. Jussaume, and Gerald R. Kane Department of Electrical Engineering The University of TulsaAbstractLaboratory courses are an essential part of most engineering programs. The practicalapplications of engineering theory motivate student interest and enhance student learning of thesubject matter. However, many laboratory courses have special requirements that can exceed theresources of small departments.At the University of Tulsa, the Electrical Engineering department contains a laboratory that hasspace and equipment for

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glenn Blackwell

Paper 2005-1511 Laboratories for the Design and Assembly of Electronic Devices using Surface Mount Components Glenn R. Blackwell, P.E. Purdue University blackwell@purdue.eduAbstract Purdue’s ECET department has supported surface mount technology (SMT) in its labs forover 10 years. In that time the department has expanded its teaching of the design and assemblyof devices incorporating surface mount components (SMCs) from design basics and simplemanual assembly in one undergraduate class, to more complex designs and manual & automatedassembly in two electronic manufacturing courses

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kline

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh

lab times.• Limited resources to support students outside labs and the classroom: In many cases, no lab assistant support is available.• Limited equipment to support lab assignments: Because lab equipment is often expensive, students must often work in groups. For example, an industrial scale PLC—such as an Allen Bradley RSLogix 5550 processor and a set of I/O cards—costs about $8000.To help offset these obstacles, in recent years, a variety of computer and networkingtechnologies have been developed. For example, remote laboratories (also known as e-Lab,Tele-Lab)5,6, virtual laboratories8,9,10,11, and hybrid laboratories6 have been developed to reducelab equipment setup costs and increase accessibility. Other developments include

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

Real Time Systems Laboratory Development Using the TI OMAP Platform Mark Humphries, Mukul Shirvaikar Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Tyler Tyler, TX 75799. Leonardo Estevez Wireless Terminals Business Unit Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX 75243.AbstractThe laboratory curriculum developed for a semester long senior-level elective course in RealTime Systems is presented. The projects were developed on

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michele Miller

Problem Solving in the Research Laboratory —A Workshop for Graduate Students Michele H. Miller Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractGraduate students often struggle to overcome the obstacles inherent in experimental work.Through practice over the course of a graduate program, many students will transition fromnovice to expert problem solvers even though they receive little explicit instruction on how to dothis. This paper describes a workshop whose purpose is to give graduate students tools to usewhen encountering unexpected problems in the lab. A pilot two-hour version of the workshopwas delivered to nine graduate

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Mays

Student Designed Experiments in a Traditional Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Course Timothy W. Mays, Joshua T. Boggs, Thomas E. Hill, David B. Warren, and Pongsakorn Kaewkornmaung Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The CitadelAbstractCriterion 3 of ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs1 requires that allengineering programs seeking accreditation manifest that their graduates have an ability to“design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data.” The ASCE CivilEngineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century4 supports this requirement and expands onits

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

Software Engineering Design: A Laboratory in Building Team Management Skills Susan E. Conry and Douglas J. MacIntosh Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699-5720Introduction “Engineering is problem recognition, formulation, and solution. In the next 20 years, engineers and engineering students will be required to use new tools and apply ever- increasing knowledge in expanding engineering disciplines, all while considering societal repercussions and constraints within a complex landscape of old and new ideas. They

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christopher Fernando

2005-1661 Integration of Manufacturing Automation Laboratory Component with Distance Education Christopher G. Fernando Industrial Technology/Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Community & Technical College at WVU Tech Montgomery, WV 25136 Lfernando@mail.wvu.eduAbstractIn the last two decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on manufacturing automation andflexible manufacturing work cells in order to increase the product quality and reduce

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

Session 1526 Integration of Computer-Based Electronics Laboratory into a Control Systems Course Julio Garcia and Patricia Ryaby Backer San José State UniversityAbstractThe goal of this project is to adapt the work of other researchers to improve the delivery ofelectronics lecture and laboratory content in the Electronics & Computer Technology (ECT) areaof the BS in Industrial Technology at San Jose State University. There are several otherdemographic factors that serve to make the delivery of instruction challenging for thedepartment. Approximately 70% of

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Chia-Jeng Tseng

Session 3532 Efficient Resource Allocation for FPGA Demo Board Based Digital Laboratories Chia-Jeng Tseng Department of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837AbstractDue to its low cost and convenience, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) demo board isoften used in universities for teaching digital design. The major limitations of an FPGA boardinclude a small number of input and output options and limited high-level software capability

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alan Sahakian

An Inexpensive Laboratory Module to Teach Principles of NMR/MRI Alan V. Sahakian1, Christopher Hayes1, Bugrahan Yalvac2 Biomedical Engineering Department1 and School of Education and Social Policy2 Northwestern UniversityAbstractWe report the details of, and our experience with, a relatively simple and inexpensiveteaching laboratory apparatus which demonstrates some of the basic physical phenomenaand principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI). Our approach uses two 2x2x1 inch Neodymium Iron Boron (NdFeB) permanentmagnets in the 0.6 T range, and large cylindrical (5 inch diameter, one inch thick) field-spreading pole pieces made of soft steel, along with a one-half

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Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

Session 2266 Design, Build and Test in a Thermal Fluids Laboratory Course Robert Choate and Kevin Schmaltz Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractMechanical Engineering students at Western Kentucky University are required to take acomprehensive thermal fluids lab in the fall semester of their senior year that is designed toaugment the traditional thermal fluids engineering science courses taken during their junior andsenior years. In addition to a variety of instructor-led thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heattransfer experiments

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

Session XXXX Vertical Laboratories: Within Biomedical Engineering Courses and Across the Curriculum Samantha J. Richerson, Daniel P. Cavanagh Biomedical Engineering Program & Department of Electrical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering Program & Department of Chemical Engineering Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PAPurpose:In an effort to enable our students to further build their knowledge base experimentally, a newvertical laboratory method is currently being developed and implemented into the Introduction toBiomedical Engineering class at Bucknell

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Harder

Development of Heat Transfer Laboratory Experiments Utilizing Student Design Teams Robert F. Harder, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering George Fox University Newberg, OR 97132AbstractTeams of students designed and developed experiments for a new four-credit course in heattransfer at George Fox University as a part of their initial laboratory experience. Over the pastthree years, students have developed eight experiments that cover a broad range of conduction,convection and radiation phenomena. The new heat transfer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Session Adapting Engineering Laboratories to Enhance Learning using Real-Time Sensors Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan, and Benjamin L. Sill General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isdesigned to assess the efficacy of using real-time sensors connected to laptops in engineeringclasses. Earlier papers described the painstaking procedure used to develop parallellaboratories—one set of laboratories using sensors and another set of laboratories not usingsensors

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Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

Session 3120 A Unique Web Environment for a Remotely Accessed Laboratory Heather L. Cooper, David W. Goodman Purdue UniversityAbstractWeb-based learning is a hot topic; both online courses and remotely accessible laboratories arewidespread. Implementation of various course management systems and other distance learningresources has become common for online courses. Similarly, many new approaches to web-enabled data acquisition have been developed for online laboratory experiments. This paperdescribes a new online framework for laboratory experiments that combines existing

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Kang-Mieler

Re-structuring an Instrumentation Laboratory Class for Biomedical Engineers Jennifer J. Kang Derwent Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, ILAbstractIn order to re-structure a traditional instrumentation laboratory to include biological-basedproblems and methodologies, the Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory class wasdeveloped at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This laboratory class was designed as a stand-alone course to introduce students to various measurement techniques applicable to the threeconcentrations of study at Illinois Institute of Technology. The

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Vinod Yedidi; Brian Johnson; Joseph Law; Herbert Hess

Session XXXX Creating Power Engineering Laboratory Experiences for Distance Education Students Vinod K. Yedidi, Brian K. Johnson, Joseph D. Law, Herbert L. Hess University of IdahoAbstract:A virtual laboratory for outreach (or off-campus) electrical power engineering students using thepersonal edition of PSCAD/EMTDC, a time domain electromagnetic transients program, ispresented. The lab experience starts out with a video tour of the lab the on-campus students willuse, including a description of the equipment in the lab. Five lab experiments covering: threephase

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Olsson; Lars Håkansson; Johan Zackrisson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

A Remote Electronics Laboratory for Physical Experiments using Virtual Breadboards Ingvar Gustavsson1, Thomas Olsson2, Henrik Åkesson1, Johan Zackrisson1, Lars Håkansson11 Department of Signal Processing, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden/ 2Department of Electroscience, Lund University, SwedenAbstractIn traditional university laboratories students conduct experiments under the supervision of aninstructor. A remotely-operated laboratory for undergraduate education in electrical engineeringwhich emulates a traditional laboratory has been set up by Blekinge Institute of Technology(hereafter referred to as BTH

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Johnson; Donatus Cobbinah; Ahmed Rubaai

Session ???? THE NEW MOTORS AND CONTROLS LABORATORY at HOWARD UNIVERSITY Ahmed Rubaai, James H. Johnson, Jr. and Donatus Cobbinah Howard University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 2330 6th Street, Northwest Washington, DC 20059AbstractA generous equipment donation from Moog Aerospace has enabled the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering (ECE) at Howard University to develop a new motor and controllaboratory using state-of-the-art industrial motor

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Eppes; Tanuj Oruganti; Peter Schuyler

Session 2550 Pilot Test Results of a New Distance Laboratory Platform Tom Eppes, Peter Schuyler and Tanuj Oruganti University of HartfordAbstractA number of laboratory pedagogies have been developed to support distance learning. Theauthors’ approach has been to develop a hands-on laboratory experience delivered via theInternet using an internally-developed system called ALTE (Automated Laboratory TestEnvironment). The system consists of a single management server and multiple lab stations, eachwith dedicated measurement and instrumentation equipment and a PC. At each lab station

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

Enrichment Laboratory) whichwas funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As the Labneared completion, with involvement from the CS/CIS faculty and students, and wasfully funded, we started looking into institutionalizing the outcomes of BCEIL through itsmany individualized lab modules. This paper looks closely at the dissemination as well asthe implementation efforts that are being taken in order to achieve the department’sinstructional goals through BCEIL. These efforts have allowed the faculty to reevaluateand to rejuvenate the currently used projects and lab modules by dressing them up in astate of the art networking and simulation environment; additionally, many new labmodules were created and specifically used based on

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

Session 3133 Laboratory-Scale Steam Power Plant Study – Rankine CyclerTM Effectiveness as a Learning Tool and its Component Losses. Andrew L. Gerhart1, Philip M. Gerhart2 1 Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075 2 University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 47722AbstractThe Rankine Cycler™ steam turbine system, produced by Turbine Technologies, Ltd., is a table-top-sized working model of a fossil-fueled steam power plant. It is widely used by engineeringcolleges around the world.The objectives of this

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Adam El-Mansouri; Kevin Buck; Herbert Hess