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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

engineering technology curriculum because of the stronghands-on emphasis. The department of electrical engineering technology has been offeringnumber of high level courses in the areas of fiber optics, data communications & computernetworking, digital image processing & vision and data compression & multimedia technologyand optical communications. Because of hands-on nature of the program each course has anassigned laboratory. Considering the rapid rate at which electrical engineering technology andequipment are changing, the existing equipment needs to be updated and improved to adequatelyprepare the students.The purpose of this paper is to present the results of NSF-sponsored Instrumentation andLaboratory (ILI) program for equipment to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard N. Foster

processing of voice and musicsignals can add interest and understanding to the basic concepts that are taught in electricalengineering technology. The applications presented below are some of the ways that the soundsof voice and music can be included in technical laboratories and demonstrations.Transduction and display of soundThe function generator is the standard device for the creation of waveforms in the laboratory.Such waveforms can be displayed and measured with an oscilloscope. However, waveforms canalso be gathered from physical media and transduced with a microphone and amplifier circuit.The author has successfully used this method on a number of occasions to demonstrate to highschool students and teachers the nature of sound, electronics

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia A. Basaly

development experiences; (3) increasing the retention rate of program participants as theyprogress in their pre-college and college courses; and (4) increasing the number of competentlyprepared minority and female students to pursue careers in SMET.2. Objectives Within this program a new course “Foundations of Engineering” was developed to attractstudents to the engineering program. The new course addressed three fundamental needs for thestudents: (1) awareness of future engineering careers and guidance through educational video tapes;(2) strong academic foundation in engineering and technology through developed laboratory-basedcourses; and (3) skills building targeting students’ creativity and learning abilities to help themunderstand

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James N. Peterson; Herbert Hess

, for example, electrical wiring. The design team specified these to meet building codes andin a technical format appropriate for university physical plant technicians. Adding the waterwheel and a needed fire hydrant produces the expanded plumbing system shown in Figure 2. What will it cost? Parts and components total about $6000, not including installation,transportation, and constructing the powerhouse. This is considerably less than a comparablesolar installation.Summary of Technical Issues A discussion of the technical issues of this project appears in reference [1]. A brief summaryof the issues and design is given as follows. Operating voltage. The load consists of computers and laboratory equipment, lights, a radiofor

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett; Kauser Jahan

for enhancingtheir problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift fromHenry and Betty Rowan in 1992. The College of Engineering’s key features includecollaborative teamwork in inter- and multi- disciplinary laboratory and coursework and theincorporation of state of the art technologies and innovative teaching methodologies. Activitiesof the freshman and sophomore engineering clinic classes at Rowan have already receivednational recognition (1-8). The freshman clinic focuses on primary principles, measurements,and competitive assessment. The sophomore clinic focuses on formalized engineering designtechniques. The junior and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; James Solomon; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

cannot be focused on just the physicsteacher. Second, it has to include a healthy dose of engineering science concepts and must includeinstructors across engineering disciplines. Third, it has to have a hands-on element that can be easilytransported to all high school laboratories and translated into all science courses taught. Finally, such anoutreach program cannot be a parochial effort, but must be national in scope. This paper will describe a very successful engineering outreach program that meets these criteria.The Science Educator Workshop sponsored by the American Vacuum Society (AVS) has been workingwith high school science teachers throughout the country for eight years. This workshop provides afocused educational experience

Conference Session

Technical Proficiency and Cybersecurity Awareness in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

a weekly structure of a 2-hour lecture, 2-hour lab, for a 3-creditcourse. For the laboratory activities, 5 PLC labs and 2 projects were designed. All labs and projectswere done individually. Click Model C0-12DRE-2-D (Automation Direct, Cumming, GA, USA)PLCs were used in the course. Features of the Click Ethernet Analog PLC include 24 VDC power,ethernet and serial ports for communications, discrete Input (4-point, DC), analog input (4-channel, voltage), discrete output (4-point, relay), and analog output (2-channel, voltage). Theutilized programming software was Click programming software v2.20 or later. Table 1 shows the nine labs and the objective of each lab. Table 1. List of Labs and

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

James Kribs

graduate research assistants. These types of projects have been developedin the sciences, and specifically biology and chemistry undergraduate programs (Ballen et al.,2017; Corwin & La, 2014). These courses are used as an alternative to conventional laboratorycourse with fixed objectives and predetermined results. The intent is to show undergraduatestudents how higher-level research is completed, without the standard “training wheels”.Students observe new unique outcomes, and get experience in a laboratory environment,including common practices within the field of study, as well as teamwork and collaborationwhile conducting research with unknown results (Ballen et al., 2017; Corwin & La, 2014).These types of projects have expanded into the

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; A. Yourdkhani

. • Students, workers, engineers and scientist who are working on nanomaterials and devices are recommended to wear a disposable, typically plastic, body covering over their work clothes during high exposure activities and wear long gloves pulled over sleeves to 5 minimize wrist exposure. Other recommendations can be antistatic shoes to prevent ignition by static charges, sticky mats at laboratory entrances to prevent accidental nanomaterials transfers in and out. • Hazardous effects of nanomaterials needs to be reduced during the production and processing. The waste of nanomaterials should be limited. Outputs are sometimes more hazardous than products or

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Steve Watkins

ethics emphasize theresponsibility of engineers to consider the “safety, health, and welfare of the public” [2,3].Regulations, standards, laboratory practices, etc. reflect the importance of safety in engineeringwork. Also, the negative consequences associated with safety-related failures such as accidentsand product defects make such issues a priority for industry. Creating a safety culture isdifficult. It involves the performance of proper actions and the avoidance of improper actions.Any definition of safety must specify what is considered proper, what is considered improper,and what is an acceptable degree of risk.In engineering education, practical safety concerns are necessarily part of laboratory courses andsafety concepts are often

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramazan Asmatulu; Waseem Khan; Humphrey Wamocha; Adebayo Adeniji

careers innanoscale science and engineering [6-10]. Our team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State Universityalready started developing a nanotechnology laboratory. The objective of this laboratory is todesign, fabricate, analyze, and test structures and systems at nanoscales. In this laboratory, ourstudents will learn nanotechnology to improve their skills, which will also improve their job 2finding opportunities and leadership in the near future. We strongly believe that laboratoryexperiments in nanoscale research and development are essential for engineering students toenhance their practical knowledge after fundamental concepts. For this reason, following testsare

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Hergert

with ten community colleges. Students complete a two yearengineering technology degree at the community college, then complete the bachelors primarilythrough live videoconferencing. One of the most challenging aspects of this program is thestudent laboratory experience. The focus of this paper is on a bottling process that allows forremote monitoring and control.Comments on Engineering Laboratory InstructionIn the last thirty years there has been “major paradigm shift in technology, starting from analogto digital, macro to micro, from fixed (or wired) communication to mobile (or wireless)communication, etc.”1. Tiwari also notes that there is a lag in traditional engineering laboratoryexperiences, especially with regards to remote monitoring

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

cultivate a mentor network, enabling CUNY graduatestudents who are only a subway ride away, to become role models for STEM undergraduates atCity Tech. The goal is to increase the number of students receiving associate and bachelor’sdegrees within science, technology, engineering and math, by conducting the following activities: 1. Development and institutionalization of two three-credit courses, one in the sciences and math, the other in engineering technologies, that emphasize academic preparation through development of laboratory techniques, communication, team work and creative thinking skills. 2. Academic year mentoring of undergraduates by teaching assistants in STEM, and block programming of the summer cohort in

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

development, implementation, and assessment of this team-taught course at LafayetteCollege will be discussed.IntroductionFlow visualization is a family of techniques used to reveal the details of fluid flow. Leonardo daVinci is widely recognized to be one of the first practitioners of this scientific art. He spentmany years in his makeshift laboratory and in the field observing the movements of water andair. During his research, he maintained detailed notes and drawings to record his observations. Asketch from Leonardo’s notebooks of a free water jet issuing from a square hole into a poolrepresents perhaps the world’s first use of visualization as a scientific tool to study turbulentflow.As the quintessential “Renaissance man,” Leonardo would likely

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Edward F. Glynn; Frank E. Falcone

creation of a new fall semester, sophomore-year course titled Civil Engineering Fundamentals. Fundamentals is a 4-credit course that hasthree 50-minute lectures and one 150-minute laboratory session each week. There are twosections with a limit of 30 students per section. The course includes material that had beenpreviously presented in four courses, two of which are no longer part of the BSCE curriculum.Fundamentals is designed to help the students develop analytical, experimental, interpretive andfield-based skills and procedures for use in subsequence courses. Fundamentals is a criticalcourse in the curriculum because it serves as a foundation for most of the technical courses thatfollow. The faculty in the CEE Department provided input for the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ryan A. Ebel; Donald S. Abbott-McCune; David Chang

Undergraduate Mechatronics Couse Design Project MAJ Ryan A. Ebel, United States Military Academy MAJ Donald S. Abbott-McCune, United States Military Academy MAJ David Chang, United States Military AcademyAbstractThere is a real need to educate our engineering students in the application of electronics, controls,mechanics, and software; this multidisciplinary initiative has led to the creation of an undergraduateMechatronics courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and many other universitiesaround the world. The focus of these courses is to emphasize application and hands on laboratory work ingeneral, and design projects in particular. This paper presents an

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

) through out the course and laboratory. Before the test could be performed,students had to state the predicted maximum load the beam could hold. These values were later employedwhen evaluating the effectiveness of the beams.ResultsBefore 2007, from the students’ perspective, the main objective of the project was to design a beam thatwould be able to achieve a maximum load before it reached failure when subjected to a three-pointbending6. There were no restrictions in terms of the shape. These students were enrolled in the Strengthof Materials course; therefore, the project had a direct connection with the topics discussed in class.Table 2 and Figure 2 present the pictures and the results of the three-point bending test of the beamsconstructed in

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shari J. Klotzkin; Howard S. Kimmel

Using Working Model Simulations in a First Statics Course Shari J. Klotzkin (Cincinnati, Ohio) Howard S. Kimmel (NJIT, Newark, NJ)IntroductionIntegration of computer activities into the engineering classroom enables students to gain hand-on activelearning experiences without the expense of laboratory experiments. In addition, they can gain valuableexperience with exercises that are closer to practical real-world problems than those that can be solvedwith pencil, calculator and paper. These kinds of problems enhance the students’ understandingcomplement the textbook problems because students would focus on analysis and interpretation of theresults. Students feel

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryndol Sones; Frank Wattenberg

classrooms have evolved into activity-based studios for student learning and assessment, and Physics Education Research (PER) has emerged as a research field at many universities. This philosophical change in the way teachers think about student learning has been accompanied by new classroom technologies that included video analysis techniques, student response cards (clickers), and a robust suite of sensors that bring classrooms and laboratories to life with the ease of plug-and-play data acquisition. PASCO Systems is one such sensor suite adopted at West Point in its introductory physics and math courses. In the context of studying a vertical spring-mass system, a motion sensor that uses the echo of

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

survey, Graduating senior survey, Lecturesurvey, Laboratory survey, Faculty survey, and the result of outcomes a-k. Once the change hasbeen agreed upon the present process makes no attempt to link the change to any one of theassessment tools. A summarized list of the assessment and evaluation feedbacks is as follows: Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 87Course-Level Assessment:Mechanisms used in course-level assessment include the course, lecture, laboratory, exit surveys,senior seminar, comprehensive (exit) examination

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

but as an enhancement to the learning process. The growth of the Internet and the ubiquitous nature of students’ access to multimedia materials and the wealth of amateur and professional videos on a wide range of manufacturing processes make their inclusion in the classroom and lab a logical expansion and necessity. The manufacturing related courses are among the natural candidates for such experiments. They often require instructors to attempt to describe processes that the schools laboratories lack the equipment to demonstrate. This paper reports an on-going effort to investigate whether such an approach yields better learning results and the degree and best

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lawrence Fong; Brian P. Self

tobe a motivational and fun way to help students learn about rigid body dynamics. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 284IntroductionAt Cal Poly, students have always been encouraged to utilize a hands-on approach towardslearning. In our coursework, we have found that real-world type of problems help students learnthe material more effectively, as well as prepare them for careers in engineering. Throughout allthe laboratories and student projects, Cal Poly's "learn by doing" motto is evident - in how weapply the principles of engineering towards realistic

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

cultivate a mentor network, enabling CUNY graduatestudents who are only a subway ride away, to become role models for STEM undergraduates atCity Tech. The goal is to increase the number of students receiving associate and bachelor’sdegrees within science, technology, engineering and math, by conducting the following activities: 1. Development and institutionalization of two three-credit courses, one in the sciences and math, the other in engineering technologies, that emphasize academic preparation through development of laboratory techniques, communication, team work and creative thinking skills. 2. Academic year mentoring of undergraduates by teaching assistants in STEM, and block programming of the summer cohort in

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

development, implementation, and assessment of this team-taught course at LafayetteCollege will be discussed.IntroductionFlow visualization is a family of techniques used to reveal the details of fluid flow. Leonardo daVinci is widely recognized to be one of the first practitioners of this scientific art. He spentmany years in his makeshift laboratory and in the field observing the movements of water andair. During his research, he maintained detailed notes and drawings to record his observations. Asketch from Leonardo’s notebooks of a free water jet issuing from a square hole into a poolrepresents perhaps the world’s first use of visualization as a scientific tool to study turbulentflow.As the quintessential “Renaissance man,” Leonardo would likely

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University; Qing Zheng, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

insubjects with STEM components (c) promote the interaction between the engineeringfaculty at Gannon University and the K-12 school students through activities whichdeliver critical STEM components.Recently, the ECE department at Gannon University, Erie, PA organized twoEngineering Day events in its system integration laboratory. The laboratoryaccommodated nearly 105 high school students in six hour-long sessions with up to 20students in each session. During each session, the students worked on a traffic signalcontrol circuit. The project activities comprised the following steps (1) complete thedesign of the circuit (2) test the operation of the circuit. Two ECE faculty members andsixteen ECE students currently enrolled in the undergraduate ECE

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Laura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School

aproblem, they need to establish the specifications for the device, provide detailedinstructions for construction, and determine appropriate methods to evaluate the finalproduct. Laura Lang, former chemical engineer and current physics teacher oftraditional high school, Advanced Placement, and college students, will describe howher Advanced Placement Physics students have used engineering practices to designdevices during laboratory activities. Participants will have an opportunity to use some ofthose engineering practices to design their own devices to solve a specific problem.Laura will share her ideas for other engineering challenges that can be used inchemistry, biology, and Earth science classes, and then participants will brainstorm tocreate

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jonathan W. Valvano, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Embedded Systems - Shape The World Jonathan W. Valvano¹, Ramesh Yerraballi¹², Chad J. Fulton³, Chinmaya Dattathri¹ ¹Electrical and Computer Engineering ²Biomedical Engineering ³Center for Teaching and Learning University of Texas at AustinAbstractWe have designed, implemented and deployed a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) with asubstantial lab component within the edX platform. If MOOCs are truly going to transform theeducation, then they must be able to deliver laboratory classes. This offering goes a long way inunraveling the perceived complexities in delivering a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Perry Deess; Judy Valyo; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

concept of open-ended design has remained at the core. Studies have shown that the freshman engineering designcourses have resulted in increased retention and 6-year graduation rates [1], thus meeting aprimary objective of the courses. Materials developed for these courses from several disciplines Page 10.515.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationare available at the web sites for the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition [2] and NJIT’sGateway Coalition web site [3], including the laboratory

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland

, anticipate potential problems, anddevelop procedures. Students were required to write these steps as part of the pre-lab portion oftheir laboratory report.At first, there was resistance by a number of students, who felt that all they wanted to do was“complete the lab”. Eventually, those students who offered some resistance found that, contraryto initial beliefs, the laboratory assignments actually took less time to complete, if the procedureswere followed. Some students told the instructor that they applied this problem solving approachto other laboratory based courses.Toolbox concept Page 10.1067.2The next approach in helping to develop

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Chapman; John Brocato; Jim Harden

Improving the Writing-Evaluation Abilities of Graduate Teaching Assistants in ECE Labs John Brocato, Jim Harden, Bill Chapman Mississippi State UniversityIntroductionIn 1999, faculty in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State Universitybegan a project to improve the writing-evaluation skills of graduate teaching assistants(TAs) in charge of undergraduate laboratories in electrical and computer engineering(ECE). Long considered valuable for discipline-specific undergraduate writingexperiences, undergraduate laboratories have also proven problematic due to the largegaps between sound writing-instruction pedagogy, the standards and