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Edwin Zivi; Jenelle Piepmeier

Session 2220 Dynamic System Animation Within a Simulink Laboratory Environment Edwin Zivi, Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier U.S. Naval AcademyAbstractRecent innovations in the animation of student developed, laboratory simulations have beenfound to significantly improve student understanding and enthusiasm. This animation canbe implemented using Matlab s-functions that are typically called from a Simulinksimulation. These rudimentary animations have been found to be relatively easy toconstruct and well received by students. General observations and

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Roger Minear

skill development, students will be muchmore effective in their future careers. Preliminary work to improve the curriculum hassought to provide students with a fundamental education as well as with training in areasnot traditionally taught in lecture classes. Most undergraduate classes do not includelaboratory experiments. Due to inadequate instructional equipment, most efforts toimprove the undergraduate educational experience have been limited to field trips,writing projects, presentations, and project simulations.The state-of-the-art laboratory course serves as a model for meeting the challenges oflinking teaching with engineering practice. Environmental scientists and engineers mustunderstand the basic concepts of many subjects: fluid

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Frank Krygowski

Session 2649 Modernizing a Physical Measurements Laboratory in Engineering Technology Francis R. Krygowski Youngstown State UniversityAbstractIn 1997, the Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty at Youngstown State University wereawarded a National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant tomodernize a Physical Measurements laboratory, NSF-ILI Grant # DUE-9750992. This paperdetails the experience of that project.The objectives of the project were: to greatly increase the number of sensors available forstudent

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Jeffrey Newcomer

wellas to some commonly used circuits. The laboratory exercises are simple to create and relativelyinexpensive, and they have a high return in terms of student learning.IntroductionFluid Power courses need a meaningful laboratory component to guarantee that studentscomplete the class with the practical knowledge that cannot be garnered from textbook photos orlecture overheads. Most commercially available fluid power modules are hydraulic. These areexpensive and have the potential to make a tremendous mess. Other options include softwaresimulations and fluid mechanics experiments. While these are all valuable, they do not providereal ‘hands-on’ experience. The Engineering Technology Department at Western WashingtonUniversity (WWU) teaches a Fluid

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William Berg; Morris Boughton

engineering experience in signal conditioning, instrumentation,and microwave communication and control systems for aerospace industries and major commercial televisionnetworks, plus an additional 14 years of marketing and management experience in entrepreneurial ventures. Since1995, he has been teaching at UTB, setting up the engineering technology laboratories, and assisting with therefinement of syllabi for multi-semester course sequences in the electronic engineering technology program. Heearned two degrees in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a B.S.from the Michigan State University

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Robert Avanzato

Session 1520 Handheld Computers in the Classroom and Laboratory Robert L. Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has integrated the student use of personal digital assistant (PDA)technology into several Information Sciences and Technology and engineering courses inorder to foster active and collaborative learning experiences in the classroom andlaboratory. Activities supported by the use of these handheld computers includeelectronic team exams, distribution of notes, programming, collaborative databaseprojects, and access to web-based materials. Student access to handheld

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James Garner; David Metz; Willie Ofosu

Session 1426 Laboratory Exercise on Demodulation Of PAM signal Willie Ofosu - Penn State Wilkes-Barre James Garner, David Metz - Penn State AltoonaAbstractPulse amplitude modulation (PAM) is used extensively in telecommunications as anintermediate step of other techniques such as phase shift keying (PSK), quadratureamplitude modulation (QAM) and pulse code modulation (PCM)1. PAM however is anamplitude modulated (AM) form of a pulse carrier2, and hence has all the advantages anddisadvantages of the purely analog AM, a major disadvantage being noise. PAM can

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. Morton, Todd, Embedded Microcontrollers, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001.4. Morton, Todd, A Digital System Design Laboratory, ASEE National Conference, June 1991, New Orleans, La.5. CPU12 Reference Manual, CPU12RM/AD, Motorola6. MC68HC912B32 Technical Data, MC68HC912B32/D, Motorola7. M68EVB912B32 Evaluation Board User’s Manual, 68EVB912B32UM/D, MotorolaTODD MORTONTodd Morton has been teaching the upper level microprocessor and digital courses for Western WashingtonUniversity's Electronics Engineering Technology program for 13 years. He is the author of the text ’EmbeddedMicrocontrollers’, which covers assembly and C programming for the 68HC12. He has also worked as a designengineer at Physio Control Corporation and has worked several

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Jeffrey Franzone

Session 2526 A Laboratory Experiment in Linear Series Voltage Regulators Jeffrey S. Franzone University of MemphisAbstractMany advanced electronics courses cover linear voltage regulators from the “black-box” (or IC)perspective. Although this perspective is valid and useful, it doesn’t give students muchopportunity in a laboratory setting to deeply investigate the behavior of the major parts of theregulator, its characteristics, and the reinforcement of transistor theory. Many “canned” linearvoltage regulator labs favor the “quick-and-dirty” approach

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

self-assessments assist in fullyunderstanding the realized benefits of ETW.II. ETW OrganizationHow is ETW organized? ETW is a one-week short course (Figure 1) providing seminars on thebasics of excellent teaching (using Lowman5 and Wankat and Oreovicz6), demonstrations ofeffective teaching, laboratory exercises requiring the participants to teach lessons followed bygroup assessment, and discussions on how to apply the presented techniques in differentuniversity settings (laboratory, large classrooms, auditoriums, or seminar groups, etc.).The most critical and transformational part of ETW is the opportunity to learn new techniques,then practice them in the three classes presented by each participant. Team members assume therole of students

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Robin Redfield; Brian Self

New Approaches in Teaching Undergraduate Dynamics Brian Self Robin Redfield United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, COABSTRACTIn order to enhance a first course in dynamics, instructors at the United States Air ForceAcademy have supplemented the class with demonstrations, laboratories, computationalproblems, and student presentations. Goals of the enhancement are to increase student motivationand understanding. Initial results may not show that students perform better overall, butmotivation and interest levels are definitely improved and long-term appreciation andunderstanding may be

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Hugh Jack

Session 3663 Teaching Integrated Manufacturing Systems with Programming Hugh Jack (jackh@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a novel approach to teaching an Integrated Manufacturing Systems course.The first offering of the course focused on the use of C++ programming on Linux based machinesto create a fully integrated manufacturing workcell. The workcell created used a material handlingsystem, two CNC machines, a robot and a PLC. An SQL database was used for central storage ofdata and coordination of operations. To control the sensors and

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Earl Owen

formalexamination.A second problem is the rigid predetermination of laboratory work in a teacher-determinedcourse. In this mode, the teacher writes the laboratory procedure, usually a list of experimentswith their expected outcomes--current engineering technology textbooks are full of suchexamples. When I began teach, I was expected to produce these laboratory procedures but foundit frustrating. To begin with, if every student must follow the same procedure, a dampening ofexperimental creativity may occur. In many cases it was the prospect of this creative tinkeringthat drew the students (and their teachers) to the profession in the first place. Moreover, if allstudents are expected to perform at the same level and reach the same outcome, many organizeto

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Tomás Gómez; Maria Velasco; Joséantonio Turégano

Session 1520 Thermograf, a didactic tool for teaching and learning thermodynamics José A. Turégano, Maria C. Velasco, Tomás Gómez jat@posta.unizar.es/cvelasco@posta.unizar.es/tgomez@posta.unizar.es Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Zaragoza, SpainAbstractThe present paper gives a description of Thermograf, a tool that has been designed for teachingand learning thermodynamics using a graphical interface. Thermograf is a didactic tool thatprovides a learning environment designed for working with

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Daniel Raviv

Session 2630 Teaching Hands-on Inventive Problem Solving* Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773AbstractThis paper reports on a new undergraduate course at Florida Atlantic University titled:“Introduction to Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering”. Its goal is to enhance inventivethinking abilities of undergraduate students resulting in skills

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Rakesh Pangasa; David Scott; Marc Herniter

Session 1520 Teaching Programming Skills with MATLAB Marc E. Herniter, David R. Scott Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Rakesh Pangasa Arizona Western College, Yuma, ArizonaAbstractA major challenge in contemporary engineering education is how to include and reinforcecomputer programming thinking skills throughout the curriculum without trivializing theproblems to be solved. With all of the application specific computer programs available to solveengineering problems, engineering schools do a

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Rami Zarrouk; Andrew Love; Maurice F. Aburdene

Session 1520 Teaching Kalman Filters To Undergraduate Students Andrew Love Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Maurice Aburdene, Rami William Zarrouk Bucknell UniversityAbstractThe Kalman filter algorithm is one of the most common estimation techniques used today, yetgenerally engineers do not encounter it until they have begun their graduate or professionalcareers, even though the concepts necessary to understand it are introduced to sophomoreengineering students. This paper presents an approach

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

declined, performance on an open-ended, design oriented final exam improved. Thus,the results gathered to date indicate some positive impact of the new laboratories in terms ofstudents’ abilities to apply Human Factors knowledge to more real-world, design orientedproblems.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by an NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Grant #DUE-9980971, and a University at Buffalo Ed-Tech Grant.Bibliography1. Chinowsky, P.S. and J. Robinson, Enhancing civil engineering education through case studies. Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(1): p. 45 - 50.2. Cliff, W.H. and A.W. Wright, Directed case study method for teaching human anatomy and physiology. Advances in Physiology Education

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Zbigniew Prusak

Session 1648 Development of Engineering Problem Solving Skills Through Laboratory Experimentation Zbigniew Prusak Central Connecticut State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes approaches used to teach and develop various aspects of skills necessary forsolving majority of real world engineering problems. The learning takes place duringexperimentation with a very low cost apparatus for accelerating projectiles. The apparatus utilizesseveral basic physical principles such as elasticity, gravity, sliding friction, and fluid friction.Various

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

, is relatively inexpensive, and is in the realm of student experience.The Laboratory DesignA major role of the laboratory is to teach students how to design experiments. The focus is onthe physical design of experiments (Figure 2). The physical design of experiments deals withidentifying a problem and solving it. It includes the determination test variables and datarequirements, the selection of sensors and the design of the instrumentation system. Details onthe approach to developing this ability have been previously published (Lyons 2000).Essentially, a scaffolding approach is followed where the amount of student input into the designof the experiment is increased with each experiment during the semester. In the first labs

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Timothy McLaren

Session 2663 A Microelectronics Fabrication and Packaging Learning Laboratory for Manufacturing Engineers Timothy S. McLaren Washington State University - VancouverAbstractWashington State University (WSU) has recently established a Manufacturing Engineeringprogram at its Vancouver campus. Included in a new laboratory building is a microelectronicslearning laboratory specifically for teaching this application of manufacturing engineering.Vancouver is located within the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region, sometimes referred to asthe “Silicon Forest” due to

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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Session 3213 Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory V.L. Young, D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractGoals for student learning in Unit Operations Laboratory are diverse. Students are to developskills in the planning and execution of experiments, the interpretation of experimental data, andthe communication of technical information. Additional goals include gaining familiarity withprocess equipment, improving teamwork skills, and developing professional habits in

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tracing and analysis. Assignments for DSP II will be based on the followingtopics:• Breakpoints, probe points, file I/O• Graph window, profiling, host interface• Spawning and controlling tasks and data I/O• Real-time scheduling analysis, load analysis• Queues, semaphores and mailboxes• Semester long project where real-time system development techniques are usedDSP III will not have a laboratory component but students will be required to do assignmentsoutside of class utilizing the DSP hardware.Material adapted in the DSP courses will come primarily from three sources: 1) DSPFundamentals course offered at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2) the course Real-Time DSP Design offered at Georgia Institute of Technology and 3) DSP Teaching

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Susan Sharfstein; Patricia Relue

into analysis and “packaging” of the final product.The list of experiments is shown in Table I. A detailed laboratory and teaching assistant manualis available at http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~ssharfst/bioe4500/LabHomePage.htm Page 6.240.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Table I: Laboratory Schedule Week Lecture Laboratory Report 1 Introduction, sterile technique, Pouring

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Rajib Mallick

newly developed coursework are to provide the undergraduate studentstools for field experience in asphalt pavement construction, including quality control techniques,and to teach the concepts of statistical quality control through analysis of real time quality controltest data. A thorough knowledge of all aspects of asphalt mix design and construction, and anexperience of using real time data for statistical quality control is provided to help understand thelink between design and construction, and identify potential problems during production,construction, and life of the pavement. As part of the field and laboratory work for the newlydeveloped course, students used testing equipment in the field and analyzed data with portablecomputers and

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Robert Weis

Session 3486 Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Laboratory Development for Chemical Process Operator Technology Education Robert S. Weis Delaware Technical & Community CollegeAbstractDelaware’s chemical industries are critical to the state’s economic viability and requiretechnicians entering their workforces to have greater academic knowledge and laboratory-basedexperiences related to current and future job responsibilities. To meet this community needDelaware Tech has initiated a new Associate Degree in Chemical Process Operator Technology.Delaware’s

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Charles Nippert

ofexperiments, although occasionally the scheduled experiments may be replaced as a result ofequipment malfunctions. A student will experience a total of 12 different experiments.As an incentive, students are told that if they complete an experiment to the instructor’ssatisfaction in the first week, they do not have to attend the second week’s laboratory period.This policy was implemented in the fall of 1999, when the author began teaching the course, sothat the appropriate number of laboratory periods for each experiment could be determined.Starting in the fall of 2000, students were required to complete the appropriate module in theVirtual Chemical Engineering Laboratory (VCEL) before starting an experiment. VCEL wasplaced on the author’s web site

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Scott Morton; Donald Smith

Session 2526 A Fluid Flow Experiment Utilizing Computer Aided Laboratory Instruction Scott A. Morton, Donald A. Smith Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of WyomingAbstractExperiential discovery laboratory exercises and computer-aided instruction (CAI) are botheffective pedagogic means for complex science learning. The combination of these twotechniques into computer aided laboratory instruction (CALI) has the potential for being a highlyeffective teaching method with several attractive side benefits. These side benefits include:significantly reduced

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Robert King; Joan Gosink

engineering practice. h. I feel confident that I could design an experiment to 1.55 2.78 calibrate a new laboratory or field apparatus or sensor that my future employer might purchase. i. This lab teaches me to solve engineering problems on my 2.45 3.17 own.Our assessment continued during the spring semester, 1998, with MELII. The independentevaluator report16 concluded: 1. Students refer to traditional labs as “plug and chug” and to MEL as “open-ended”. It was clear that MEL students sometimes wrestled with the fact that open-endedness requires more time and effort on their part. 2. MEL students mentioned that because the lab procedure was not specific that

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John D. Cremin

Session 2526 Linking Laboratory Instruments for Simulation: Comma Separated Variable Files John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThis paper describes two workhorse electronic instruments, the function generator andthe oscilloscope, and their use in recording and simulation applications in design andlaboratory electronic courses. The paper also discusses the application of the recordingand simulation techniques to performing experiments over the InternetThe oscilloscope used in the