Conference Session

Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sample, Oregon Institute of Technology; John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

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Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anne Glorioso, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Libraries

adequacy for aparticular activity. While competence does not equate with excellence, it does imply a level ofproficiency that has been judged to be sufficient for the purpose of the activity in question.” 1The literature surrounding competency presents 1) a behaviorist approach where the competencyis a list of tasks; and 2) an integrated, holistic approach where the competency is part task, partattitude and part adaptation to context. The integrated approach elevates the roles of coachingand problem solving in actual world settings. 2The competency training program can provide a foundation of learning for a set of tasks, butattitude and interpretation of context are an important part of library staff training. On-going jobtraining is best

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Williams, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech; Karen Gilbert, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

following the design method taught in class.In this paper, the authors will describe the rationale, pedagogical choices, and administrativetasks involved in providing a design-related service learning experience for first-year students onsuch a large scale. Excerpts from students’ reflection essays are presented as anecdotal evidencethat the proposed program assisted students in achieving the course objectives and learningoutcomes.1. Offering a First Year Engineering Design Experience on a Large Scale1.1 Context: “Exploration of Engineering Design”The context for this paper is a required introductory course for first-year engineering students ofVirginia Tech. Virginia Tech is a large mid-Atlantic land-grant university; the engineeringcollege is its

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Mark Barker, Louisiana Tech University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

active, integrated, project-based learning.1 In the United States, themovement toward project-based freshman engineering curricula began in the 1990s due in largepart to the National Science Foundation Engineering Education Coalitions.2-5 This movementtowards hands-on freshman engineering programs with a significant design component continuestoday at universities across the United States.6-8 A vast body of literature on the subject clearlyshows the benefits of incorporating project-based instruction with design early and often.There is no one-size-fits-all freshman engineering design experience. These experiences rangefrom nothing at all, to product dissections, to team-based competitions, to open-ended “product”design, and a host of other

Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Civil Engineering

. Results of the assessment in-dicate that the project has a significant effect in developing historical perspective by thestudents. However, assessment results for the communication outcome indicate theproject has minimal impact in improving communication skills.IntroductionDeveloping a basic understanding of the history of civil engineering is important for un-dergraduate students. As noted by Petroski, “Engineering history is useful, if not essen-tial, to understanding the nature of engineering.”(1) Because of the importance of engi-neering history for civil engineering students, the newest version of the Body of Know-ledge (BOK) includes an outcome on “contemporary issues and historical perspectives.”To meet this outcome at the undergraduate

Conference Session

International Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akbar Eslami, Elizabeth City State University; Aliza Williams, Elizabeth City State University; Kerry Krauss, Elizabeth City State University; Amir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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International

laboratories provide an efficientway by providing remote access to a number of real experiments.Architecture of the Online Automation LaboratoryThe main goal of this project is to design and implement an online automation laboratory thatwill provide hands-on lab experiences for engineering and technology distance learning studentsin areas of robotics and PLCs. The project starts with the designing and prototyping of an onlinerobotics and PLC unit in three steps that include setting up the online laboratory unit withappropriate hardware and software, configuring the network connection, and testing robot andPLC units by programming them remotely.Step 1: Setting up the online laboratory unitFigure 1 shows the dedicated online robotics and PLC units

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Harding, Purdue University; Benjamin Scott, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

traveel case with an integrateed 19” rack. A local saleesrep for JBBL got his coompany to donate d a pairr of their Conntrol 1 Pro looudspeakerss6 to the project.We purchhased an ineexpensive DV VD player loocally and orrdered somee cabling andd connectorsonline. The T student was w already proficient inn mechanicaal parts fabriccation, had several s tools ofhis own, and was allo owed to use fabrication tools t and a good g bit of scrap materiaal from his joobsite. He fabricated th he

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University

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Industrial Engineering

human factors principles.The learning objectives for each module are shown in Table 1. Details for each module arediscussed below. The modules have been used in both split level (junior, senior, graduate) andgraduate level classes. The size of the courses has typically been between 15 and 30 entrolledstudents. However, each class has been a mixed-campus class, with some student participatingin the classroom and others participating online. Page 14.1334.2Table 2. Learning Objectives Learning Objective Module “At the completion of the learning module

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University

101 for initially underpreparedstudents. It will also summarize the scope of a recent NSF CCLI Phase 3 award, which includespilot adoption and assessment of the WSU model by a total of 15 institutions across the country.The goal of this initiative is to effect a transformative and nationwide change in the wayengineering mathematics is taught.The WSU Model This section provides an overview of the WSU model for engineering mathematicseducation, which involves three primary components: 1) The development of EGR 101, a novelfreshman-level engineering mathematics course; 2) A large-scale restructuring of theengineering curriculum, where students can advance in the program without having completed atraditional freshman calculus sequence; 3

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials and General Mechanics Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Christiansen, Brigham Young University; Steven Benzley, Brigham Young University; Spencer Guthrie, Brigham Young Univeristy; Gaurab Paudel, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Engineering Technology students take bothstatics and mechanics of materials with the engineering students. The College decision to givethe Civil and Environmental Engineering Department this overall responsibility has significantlycontributed to the economy of the resulting program.As shown in the five year average enrollment graph, Figure 1, the average mechanics course sizewas growing modestly but remained under 40 students until in the early nineteen eighties. Then,during the late nineteen eighties and into the early nineteen nineties, the average class size grewto about 100 students per class and has remained approximately at that level. The early growthrate reflected a desire and ability to keep classes small and the average rate of increase

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Electrical and Computer ET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Patrick, Texas A&M University; Clint Vigil, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ben Zoghi, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

for tactile displays. A B Fig. 1. A) 2x2 tactile display with 3D movements. B) Enlarged view of pins and platforms.The display (Fig. 1) consists of five main parts: pins, platforms, servomotors, servo controller, Page 14.1081.3and user interface program. Four pins directly interact with the user’s fingertip. Looking downfrom above the display, the pins form the corners of a square. Each pin is attached to a separateplatform. Each platform is moved by three servomotors. Note that if six actuators were attachedto each platform, we would have a platform capable of motions in all three

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorene Perez, Illinois Valley Community College; James Gibson, Illinois Valley Community College; Sue Caley Opsal, Illinois Valley Community College; Rose Marie Lynch, Illinois Valley Community College

engineering technology students. 2000. p. 13. http://www.scate.org/pdfs/monograph/pdf.2. National Science Foundation Engineering Task Force. The engineering workforce: Current state, issues, and recommendations. 2005. p. 25.3. South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence. Monograph: Recruitment and retention of engineering technology students. 2000. p. 13. http://www.scate.org/pdfs/monograph/pdf.4. South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence. Monograph: Recruitment and retention of engineering technology students. 2000. p. 37. http://www.scate.org/pdfs/monograph/pdf.5. Extraordinary Women Engineers Project. Extraordinary women engineers: Final report. 2005. p. 1

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McDowell, University of California, Santa Cruz; Adrienne Harrell, University of California, Santa Cruz

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First-Year Programs

face many challenges bothacademic and non-academic9. One widely studied impact of these challenges is transfer shock, adip in the GPAs of transfer students during the first one or two terms after transfer6. Althoughbelieved to be nearly universal, transfer shock is generally not severe10 and Cantrell et al.1 havetheorized that pre-transfer support programs are one technique that can be used to help transferstudents get through their transfer shock and “experience the rewards of their efforts.”We were interested in comparing how well our transfer students were doing in comparison withtheir native classmates. One measure of success is how long a student takes to graduate and dothey ever graduate. The most commonly used metric for graduation and

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erich Schneider, University of Texas, Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas, Austin; David Hearnsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

radiological hazards are present. We have structured the Institute around twointensive two-week academic sessions with a classroom environment in the morning andlaboratory experiments in the afternoon. The 1 Megawatt TRIGA reactor at UT-Austinwill therefore play a central role in the Institute curriculum, as will the health physics Page 14.1096.2instrumentation maintained at UT-Austin. The strong practical and experimentalcomponent of the Institute curriculum will be complemented by the classroom lectures.These provide a sound grounding in the fundamentals of health physics, nuclear reactorphysics and nuclear systems engineering.Institute Overview and

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bowles, University of South Carolina; Caitlin Buchhaults, University of South Carolina; Donald Griffith, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

optimizing their code.Implementing the robot and the contest environment in a simulator such as Microsoft RoboticsDeveloper Studio allows the students to develop their software and hardware concurrently. Thisgreatly improves individual team performance in the competition and provides students withincreased exposure to software design, which should result in increased numbers of studentsentering into computing careers.1. IntroductionEach year in January, the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)organization releases the rules and specifications for its annual Robotics Competition. Teams ofhigh school students have six weeks from the time the challenge is issued until the finished robotmust be shipped to the contest site

Conference Session

Project-Based Student Learning: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

workforce that understands innovationand entrepreneurship. As part of this new initiative, the Programs held a “Product DevelopmentSummit” where industry experts were brought in to discuss best practices. The insight from thismeeting resulted in several action items, one being that the students need more exposure toproduct development concepts over and above their capstone experience. To begin incorporatingbest practices throughout the curriculum, the faculty identified the Instrumentation course as agood starting point since it is the first place that the students have enough background to engagein a meaningful product development experience. Through the addition of a six week courseproject (see Figure 1), student teams are now required to develop

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

withinformation literacy, but the topic did come up unsolicited in both focus groups, with somestudents making that link, albeit belatedly.Data from Course Evaluation SurveysSummative student course evaluation data included student self-assessment of their fulfillment ofcourse learning objectives, including information literacy. Students ranked the fulfillment oflearning objectives on a 1-5 Likert-type scale. Mean scores ranged from 3.63 to 4.41. Studentsranked learning community (teamwork) and basic engineering calculations the highest (4.41),and information literacy came in a close third with a mean of 4.35. However, large standarddeviations for the scores (0.65-1.05), typical of the standard 5-point evaluation scale, precludedrawing any definitive

Conference Session

Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

] is a US GOCO overseen by agovernment agency. Operations and management of the site are contracted to a private services provider.These providers are usually, a consortium of major construction and engineering firms. Thecommuniqués in the case are a series of announcements from the management and operating (M&O)contractor’s president. For the time period covered by the case study, the M&O contract was managed bythe [company], a subsidiary of the [parent org].The issues addressed in the case are qualitative in nature and cover organizational structure, culture,finance and management. Table 1 provides a summary of issues that are addressed. The analysis of thiscase study, because of its construct as a series of company president letters

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; David Bowman, Clemson University; Randolph, Randy Hutchison; Carol Wade, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

experimental design consisted of comparisons between three maingroups: 1) controls, 2) those who viewed the tutorials, and 3) those who viewed the tutorials andparticipated in the in-class activity. Student performance on pre- and post- content tests, andself-assessments of learning gains were compared. We report on results of these assessments,and their implications for affecting change in student success, especially for students with weakpre-requisite skills.IntroductionStudents entering our first year engineering course arrive with different levels of mathematicspreparation, which is of critical importance to their academic success. In our program, studentsscoring below a proficiency level on an institution-wide mathematics placement test are

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; John Lanzarone, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mico Miller, George Mason University; Barry Liner, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

, in contrast to the difficulty in attractingnew students and obtaining candidates interested in satisfying the Certificate requirements, bythe fall 2007 semester an additional three students had completed the Certificate program, twohad completed their MS degree (taking additional classes outside the USACE officeenvironment), and another five are on schedule to earn their MS degree in the spring 2009semester.Goals and Objectives of the ProjectThis paper assesses the impact of the GMU certificate program on HQUSACE and itsemployees. It attempts to answer the following questions: 1. Are USACE engineers better leaders, better communicators, and more professional as a result of the completion of the Certificate Program

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

use today for computing in support of science and engineeringresearch. These systems, known as commodity cluster systems, have undergone tremendousgrowth in the last decade. Unfortunately, the technical workforce trained to operate thesesystems has not grown at the same pace and the lack of skilled practitioners limit the adoption ofthese systems. Moreover, enrollments in Computer Science programs have steadily declined by50% since the beginning of the century 1. Employment in computer and mathematical scienceoccupations are projected to increase by 30.7% by 2014, and positions in network, systems, anddatabase administration are also projected to increase by 38% 2. Individual courses exist todayin many institutions in isolation for topics

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; Chris Moore, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Chris Baralus, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Page 14.533.2BackgroundOur Engineering College is committed to innovative methods of learning to best prepare studentsfor a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace [1]. Key objectives include: • Creating multidisciplinary experiences through collaborative laboratories and coursework; • Incorporating state-of-the-art technologies throughout the curricula; • Creating continuous opportunities for technical writing and communication, and • Emphasizing hands-on, open-ended problem solving, including undergraduate research.To help meet these curriculum objectives, the four engineering programs have commonEngineering Clinic classes (Clinics) throughout their programs of study. Students enroll inClinics in each of their

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials and General Mechanics Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong, University of Arkansas; William Springer, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

textbooks for machine design,1-7 such a stress is derived using principalaxes in terms of the principal stresses σ 1 , σ 2 , and σ 3 as 1 1/2 =σ′ (σ 1 − σ 2 ) 2 + (σ 2 − σ 3 ) 2 + (σ 3 − σ 1 ) 2  2In their latest editions, some of these textbooks for machine design began to show that the vonMises stress with respect to non-principal axes can also be expressed as 1 1/2 = σ′ (σ x − σ y ) 2 + (σ y − σ z ) 2 + (σ z − σ x ) 2 + 6 (τ x2y + τ y2z + τ z2x

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marvi Matos, University of Washington; Danilo Pozzo, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, [1-3]nanotechnology, chemical product design, and biotechnology. As a result, Chemical Page 14.78.3Engineering educators are continuously challenged to identify and teach a changing set of skillsthat students need to acquire to develop into successful engineers.[2,4] This imposes a uniquechallenge to the design and evolution of adequate modules for the chemical engineeringlaboratories. There is a particularly high degree of complexity associated with the economic,logistic and technical difficulties that are involved in implementing significant changes to largephysical facilities and to the design of effective experiments

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Blowers, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

focusimprovement of their aural comprehension skills.IntroductionThe history of education is filled with innovation in approaches for enhancing student mastery ofmaterial while also allowing more efficient delivery of instruction. New technologies in theclassroom are often attractive to faculty members because they can be used to foster learning inways that are not possible through a traditional lecture style format. As instructors, faculty havemoved from the not so distant past of writing on a black board, to writing in multiple colors on awhite board, to using overhead projectors with preprepared slides, to using overhead projectorswith PowerPoint[1], to using television sets in classrooms to watch videos in person or fromdistant classrooms[2, 3], to

Conference Session

New Research and Trends Related to Minorities in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

supporting the government’s effortto employ solar energy as a sustainable alternate source of energy.IntroductionThe issue of global warming and its effect on the Arctic presents a problem that is beingtaken seriously by governmental agencies such as the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA)1. In an article by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDF) titledGlobal Warming puts the Arctic on Thin Ice2, some of the questions asked that have yesas a response are Will Arctic ice melt have any effects beyond the polar region? and Canwe do anything to stop global warming? The first of the two questions indicates that theone event of the ice melting at the Arctic can have global impact and the second questionindicates that a global joint effort is

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Canfield, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

small engineering college that uses project-based learning (PjBL) as its main curricular and pedagogical practice, this curriculum expects that mathematics and physics faculty team-teach in the environment of integrated course blocks. A semi-structured, open-ended interview protocol is employed and grounded theory is used to identify answers to the following questions: (1) What are the conceptions of teaching held by mathematics and physics faculty involved in implementing a first-year integrated project-based engineering curriculum as defined by Kember’s categorization of faculty conceptions? (2) To what extent does the context, in which faculty instruct, affect their teaching approaches

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Randa Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

on finding a community forempathy, support and guidance.1-7 For underrepresented minority students at largepredominately white institutions, the isolation from low representation can make finding an idealcommunity difficult. A recent article Museus describes college campus cultures and sub-culturesand their importance in students’ academic outcomes.8 These sub-cultures can develop along avariety of dimensions including racial or ethnic identity, gender-based organizations, commonacademic experiences within majors or departments, religious affiliations, etc. This paperexamines the interplay of personal cultural backgrounds and identities with the varied and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; Alfred Kalyanapu, University of Utah; Dasch Houdeshel, University of Utah; David Judi, University of Utah; Christine Pomeroy, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

environments provide theopportunity for asynchronous, on demand, and repetitive interaction, which may be a potentialsolution to these challenges, especially during tough economic when resources for traditional labimprovement are at a premium or nonexistent.Numerous approaches to create a virtual laboratory environment have been introduced inengineering education by (1) permitting lab experiments to be performed remotely6, (2)providing time flexible lab experiences, (3) providing capture of lab content for later recall, and(4) creating opportunities for lab experiences for impaired students. There have been virtuallaboratories created using 3D rendering technologies1,5, Java3 and other web-based programminglanguages, live video, web services4

Conference Session

Experiments in Remote-access Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Hyder, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian Post, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

physical laboratories how they can be implemented throughtoday’s technologies. Templates for developing a cohesive set of remote laboratories areidentified along with Nemours IT considerations. In addition to the requirements related totechnology, educational impacts are addressed. An example of a Control Systems experiment isthen presented as an example of a functioning remote laboratory.1. Introduction The engineering students of yesterday have permanently changed the way we presentlylive and work with technology. It is essential that we take full advantage of their contributions inorder to prepare the minds of the future. Advancements in telecommunication practices havemade learning from remote locations viable, thereby granting access