Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

Community Driven Digital Signal Processing Laboratories in Connexions Richard Baraniuk,◦ Hyeokho Choi,◦ Douglas L. Jones, Lee Potter† ∗ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ◦ Rice University, † Ohio State University AbstractThe conventional textbook is largely inadequate for digital signal processing (DSP) laboratoryeducation due to inherent factors such as a small and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

prepare for the opening of the laboratory including workshops toeducate faculty and presentations to inform the design community in the state of Oklahoma.2.3. Implementation of Testing Models into the CurriculumThe author will administer the laboratory to make it accessible to undergraduate and graduatestudents; and faculty in OSU. The implementation of testing daylighting models into thecurriculum will take place through the following activities: • Using the laboratory in teaching the two required Environmental Control courses for undergraduate students in the School of Architecture, OSU. • Using the laboratory in teaching an advanced Environmental Control course that focuses on the design for daylight. • Using the

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David McDonald

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe details of moving the computer laboratory, and also worked through necessities to upgradeelectrical and data lines.Team DOTE also did preliminary work on the new energy conversion laboratory. Theyinvestigated various types of energy conversion processes that could be utilized in this laboratorysetting. Finally, they initiated work on upgrading some of the existing laboratory equipment thatis used to teach electrical machines.Student Design Team ECSEngineering Conversion Systems (ECS) is the second senior design team to work on thelaboratory development. This team has one electrical

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Breznik

Session number :2004-1577 Hands-on learning system for Wireless laboratory courses Alfred Breznik, Carlo Manfredini Emona InstrumentsChallenge to be addressed:The challenge for the teaching of Telecommunications in the undergraduate laboratoryhas always been how to cover the ever expanding field of important new topics whilstmaintaining a solid grounding in the fundamentals, as well as how to do this without theneed for excessive and ever increasing laboratory equipment.Ideally the equipment needs to operate at a logical level which facilitates learning butwithout the need for lengthy setup time and without being too much of a ready

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Julia Williams

Session 2213 Incorporating Peer Review in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory David C. Miller, Department of Chemical Engineering Julia M. Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Unit Operations laboratory represents an important site for the development oftechnical and non-technical skills in chemical engineering students. Coming in the finalyear of students’ course work, the projects of UO lab give students the opportunity tocombine experimental experiences with team work and communication, a combinationthat chemical engineering educators would agree is

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

comments are extracted from student project reports. Overall, the comments arevery encouraging [10]: • “The Neophyte Receiver design and building experience diverged from my typical laboratory experience in several ways. Normally, the intent is for ‘laboratory experiments’ to enforce lecture topics. That said, a definite sense of compensation for hours spent in the lab could sometimes be lost, especially for an applied engineering technology student. A project such as building a short wave radio gives tangible purpose to time spent with hardware and serves to teach skills that might not otherwise be learned. More indefinable rewards were the ones that mattered most.” • “Attention to

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jed Lyons

Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, July 1999, p 311-3165. S.T. McClain, “It Does Not Have to Be Rocket Science—But Sometimes It Is,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference.Biographical InformationDr. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and the Directorof the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratory, design, andmaterials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. Page 9.1417.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Davis Charles; Tony Lin

Session 3263 Integration of Polymer Processing and Advanced Quality Assurance Courses - An Injection Molding Project using Design of Experiments Tony Lin, Charles C. Davis, Nanda K. Neethimangala Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractKettering University is a co-op college for Engineering and Managerial Studies located in Flint,Michigan. Our students alternate terms of classroom/laboratory work with terms of workexperience with their corporate sponsors. Because of this unique education system, it

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Stirewalt

Session Number: 3532 Teaching Software Engineering Bottom Up R. E. K. Stirewalt Software Engineering and Network Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48840 e-mail: stire@cse.msu.eduAbstractA typical CS curriculum contains a course on software engineering, which introducesprinciples and heuristic methods for designing large software systems subject to desirableproperties, such as maintainability and extensibility

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

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

Teaching Requirements through Interdisciplinary Projects Deepti Suri, Eric Durant Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 North Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 {suri, durant}@msoe.edu AbstractRequirements Engineering (RE) is the process of determining, analyzing, documenting,validating, and maintaining the services and constraints of the systems that need to be designed.Because of the high importance of RE in the design of software systems, the need to exposestudents to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

: Character & Temperament Types, Prometheus Nemesis Book Co; 5th edition, 1984.[5] KISS Institute for Practical Robotics. http://www.kipr.org[6] Klassner, F., “A Case Study of LEGO Mindstorms Suitability for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Courses at the College Level”, Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium 34,1 (2002), pp. 8-12.[7] Kumar, Deepak and Lisa Meeden, "A Robot Laboratory for Teaching Artificial Intelligence", Proceedings of the 29th SIGCSE Technical Symposium 30,1 (1998), pp. 341- 344.[8] Kumar and Meeden's on-line material. http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/Robots/ResourceKit/[9] Lewis the robot eyes future in wedding photography http://news- info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/190.html[10] Managing

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

. Activities are incorporated into lessons, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and fieldexperiences. By doing these activities, students will experience authentic scientific andengineering research practices that require higher-order thinking skills and creative problem-solving skills. This will enable each student to develop a better understanding of science andengineering and hopefully foster a desire to advance his/her education in a related field.The authors, as participants of project STEP, developed a module to teach magnetism to seniorsat Hughes High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The overall objective of this module was to increasestudent interest in physics and engage them in the learning process. To this end, technology wasincorporated in

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

dissection projects. Hence, providing an engineering laboratory experiencewithin this seminar is very consistent with the goals of the ROSES program.As an assignment for the seminar class, the students were organized into groups of three andgiven an exercise to be conducted in the department’s Heat Transfer Teaching Laboratory. In theassignment students were asked to predict quantitatively several behaviors associated withconvective heat transfer. To provide data, a simple experiment dealing with the convective heattransfer from a cylinder was conducted. This provided the students with exposure to severalengineering laboratory issues including: • simple laboratory modeling of a complex physical process • use of dimensionless parameters

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jason Moore; Mitchell A. Thornton; Ronald W. Skeith

the next: In laboratory experiments 0, 1, and 3 students become familiar with the designtools. Experiment 0 is quite simply a tutorial out of the back of student’s textbooks [1],and there is no design work required on their part. Experiment 1 is an exercise designedto teach the students how to use the schematic capture tool including such things as thedifferent synthesis option available. Experiment 3 teaches them how to use the LPMmodules. This is very important since we emphasize design reuse and hierarchy. In experiment 2 students are given the schematic below and are asked toimplement the 2×8 multiplier in one VHDL entity. The students are also given awaveform to test their circuitry and a “golden” waveform to compare

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

Is a successful r esear ch labor ator y possible with under gr aduate students alone? Roger V. Gonzalez, J uan Lopez, and Paul Leiffer LeTour neau Univer sityAbstractDeveloping a successful research laboratory with qualified graduate students is a demandingventure. Trying to accomplish this with undergraduate students alone, given the demandingacademic load and steep research learning curve is daunting. Nevertheless, during the past eightyears the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at LeTourneau University have managed to develop asuccessful undergraduate research program and secure multiple external funding sources.Laboratory research has

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

2004-1428 Technology-Based Business Incubators: Living Laboratories for Entrepreneurial Students W. Andrew Clark and Andrew J. Czuchry East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityAbstractThose teaching entrepreneurship to engineering and technology students are faced with thechallenge of converting theory into learning opportunities that provide real-world-practicalexperience. Although the literature stresses the need for experiential learning through group andfield projects and case studies, the potential of capitalizing on technology-based businessincubators as

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin; Cheng Lin

Software”, http://www.automationstudio.com.6. A. Otieno and C. Mirman, “A Laboratory Based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Course for aManufacturing Curriculum.” Proceeding of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.7. A. Karimi, A.C. Rogers, T.J. Connolly, and J.W. Frazer, “Automated Laboratory Experience in anUndergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program.” Proceeding of the 2003 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.8. G. Yang and Y. Rasis, “Teaching PLC in Automation – A Case Study.” Proceeding of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.9. D. Winchester, J. Cottle III

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Orling; Lisa Christensen; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

Obispo, CA.She received her bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly in 2002. While completing her master's,she is teaching a survey materials engineering laboratory to undergraduates and training students to use the ScanningElectron Microscope. Page 9.1322.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lance C. Perez; Jerald L. Varner; Michael F. Anderson

the same manner as traditionalhomework assignments. Each laboratory assignment requires a brief written report that consistsof responses to questions posed in the laboratory protocol, concise discussions of the results, andprintouts of the oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer displays. Students typically write the reportas they are performing the laboratory and submit it via email. A formal laboratory report is notrequired. Each laboratory experiment is designed to take approximately 90 minutes. Thislaboratory does not have a teaching assistant and students have 24-hour access to the laboratoryvia electronic locks. The laboratory stations are assigned on a first come, first served basis andthey may not be reserved.Laboratory ExperimentsThere

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Session 3120 Virtual Laboratory for Machine Tool Technicians – Concept, Development and Examples Xueshu Song1, Radha Balamuralikrishna1 & Philip Pilcher2 Northern Illinois University/Rockford Abilities CenterOverviewThis paper is an outcome of an NSF sponsored project designed to pave the way for an Internetbased learning tool for training machine tool operators and technicians (Song et. al., 2000). Theobjective in using this novel approach is to accelerate and improve the process of learning anddevelopment of skills in machine tool technology. We present concepts using

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

, including a variety of transducers, linkedwith information processing and the management/decision makers back at the “home office”must be linked. SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems combine remotemonitoring, control, and evaluation of system performance. Just as in the consumer productmarketplace with its microwave ovens, toasters, and other products equipped withmicroprocessor units, “intelligence” is increasingly a component being provided in civilengineering systems.(d) IT uses in Education (including “IT to teach IT”) – The use of IT in the classroom, includingfor distance education, has properly received much attention in the engineering education

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

teaching principles, and process, an environment to practice the applicationof these principles. Even though the content and process articulated in the T4E model hadevolved and been passed down through participation in ISW, they were very consistentwith the literature which included Lowman’s 3 two-dimensional model of teachingeffectiveness and Wankat and Oreovicz’s 4 compendium of learning principles. The T4E workshop eventually consisted of teaching pedagogy seminars,demonstration classes, and laboratories where the participants presented two classes totheir peers acting as students and assessed by a senior mentor. The seminars presented inT4E covered the following principles: use structured organization of content to guide thelearner; use

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mikaya Lumori; Ernest Kim

Session 1732 A Review of Two Appr oaches to Teaching Applied Electr omagnetics Mikaya L.D. Lumor i and Er nest M. Kim Univer sity of San DiegoIntr oductionTwo different approaches to teaching the mandatory engineering electromagnetics courseare reviewed. Using basic theories developed in the course, divergent applications wereemphasized in different semesters of the course offering. The two separate applicationscovered were (a) radio frequency circuit design and (b) radar and antenna design. Thegeneral electromagnetic theory lectures were enhanced through laboratory experiences inthe two different

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

Session 2230 Learning-Through-Teaching, a Collaborative Learning Strategy Chiang Shih, Namas Chandra, Patrick Hollis Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU-FSU College of EngineeringAbstractWe have proposed the promotion of collaborative learning by systematically engaging allstudents in an innovative “Learning-Through-Teaching” (LTT) pedagogical practice in the coreMechanical Engineering curriculum. The LTT program empowers students with self-learningcapability by involving them in the actual classroom/laboratory teaching. Through LTT, studentslearn

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

Session 1526 Using Case Studies to Teach Engineering Technology Ann Beheler, Wayne A. Jones Division of Engineering Technology Collin County Community College District 9700 Wade Boulevard, Frisco, TX 75035AbstractEmployers have often communicated to the educational community the need for graduatesentering the workforce who have a thorough understanding of how to integrate technologies andsolve real-world problems. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are required essentialsand are not optional. Currently, the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

in more detail.The Laboratory Experience After teaching the applied electromagnetics course twice as lecture-only, it becameapparent that the students would benefit greatly from an associated lab experience as detailed inTable 1.Table 1 – Laboratory AssignmentsLab Description Software and Hardware Tools Used Agilent 8712ET Network AnalyzerLab 1 Real Components – Study of the frequency response of resistors, inductors, and capacitors, determination of parasitic values. Orcad PSpiceLab 2 Parasitic Effects

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

, Page 9.1181.10 Oct 13-16, 2002. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education8. A. Spanias, K. Ahmed, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, and M. Zaman, “Assessment of the Java- DSP (J-DSP) On-Line Laboratory Software,” in 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, Boulder, Nov. 2003.9. T. Thrasyvoulou, K. Tsakalis, and A. Spanias, “J-DSP-C, A control systems simulation environment for distance learning: labs and assessment,” in 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, Boulder, Nov. 200310. V. Atti and A. Spanias, “On-line simulation modules for teaching speech and audio compression,” in 33rd

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

Session 2666 Scenario-Based Learning Approach in Teaching Statics Jawaharlal Mariappan, Angela Shih, Peter G Schrader California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes the initiatives currently underway at Cal Poly, Pomona to develop andimplement a scenario-based learning approach to teach major concepts in statics. Statics isgenerally the first engineering course taken by most engineering students. The course is typicallytaught in lecture format, although several schools have been adopting a laboratory component.Statics is a prerequisite for many courses and

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Thomas; Albert Rosa

Session 3632 A Proven Different Approach to Teaching Linear Circuits Albert J. Rosa, Roland E. Thomas University of Denver/USAF AcademyAbstractAt the University of Denver we have taught circuits for eighteen years to electrical (EE),mechanical (ME) and computer engineering (CpE) sophomores using a considerably differentapproach. Our course covers most of the traditional topics but with different emphasis andorganization. We introduce design and evaluation right from the beginning with studentsdesigning circuits to meet constraints within the first several lessons. We introduce theoperational amplifier as another linear