Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno; S. Shelley, U.S. Air Force; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Mark K. Smith, California State University, Long Beach, College of Continuing and Professional Education

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Two Year College Division

serving as a Director on the Antelope Valley Board of Trade and is the Honorary Commander of the 412th Electronic Warfare Group at Edwards AFB. He is also a member of several professional societies and has authored and co-authored several papers pertaining to the Antelope Valley Engineering Program.J. S. Shelley, US Air Force J. S. Shelley, PhD, PE After 20 years as a researcher and project manager with the Air Force Research Laboratories, Dr Shelley has transitioned to teaching mechanical engineering, mostly mechanics, for the past 6 years.Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach Dr. Sathianathan is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Califor- nia

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

; 2. Learning to use software, to use test equipment, and to conduct basic testing in the laboratory environment; 3. Completing part of a faculty member’s research project; 4. Using the results from the projects for curriculum development to bring the benefit to other students.With these goals in mind, the following two projects were selected: 1. DC motor speed control;2. Pump jack and AC motor control system design.The principles of DC/AC motors were taught in a course at the sophomore level, and bothstudents had successfully completed the course. The pump jack and AC motor control systemwas initially developed by a group of ET students as a capstone design project under theguidance of their faculty advisor10. It was

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Carol Davis, North Dakota EPSCoR

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Minorities in Engineering

from passiveto active learning, enhanced research and laboratory skills, and increased understanding andinterest in the discipline are some of the benefits undergraduate students gain by engaging inresearch. Therefore, “engaging the students in research” is adopted here as a major strategy toimprove their retention in STEM programs. Faculty involvement in research mentoring not onlyleads to their enrichment as teachers but also enriches them as scholars. Though theresponsibility of the tribal college (TC) faculty is primarily teaching, engaging in research anddeveloping research project situations for students, research provides them opportunities toenhance their teaching capability and professional development. In this collaborative model

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson; William Gay

developed.The four-course certificate program curriculum was designed by the advisory committee. Itconsists of the following four courses: PC Operating Systems PC Hardware Basic Network Techniques PC Systems TroubleshootingEach course consists of a four-credit hour lecture/laboratory combination, for a total of six-contact hours per week. The design of these courses was in response to what the advisorycommittee anticipated the needed skills were.The PC Operating Systems course was designed to cover DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95,Windows 98, Windows NT 4 Workstation, and Linux operating systems. Over time one wouldexpect coverage of older

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

for both civilian and military applications with a special emphasis on techniques focused on indoor, underground or otherwise GPS-deprived situations. Most recently, Dr. Michalson has been involved with the development and refinement of the Robotics Engineering curriculum at WPI.Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteRobert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Robert Labonté received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1954 and 1959 respectively. From 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the technical staff of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory Division. In 1959, he joined MITRE Corporation when it was formed from

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Delmer Nicholson, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985.Delmer Nicholson, University of Cincinnati Delmer W. Nicholson Jr is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BSES and MSCS from The University of Cincinnati in 1982 and 2009, respectively. He has held several research and development positions in industry working for such companies as Cincinnati Milacron, Delco Electronics and Nicholson Computer Consulting. He has taught as an adjunct instructor in the Mathematics and also the Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tianyi Li, Northwestern University; Walter E. Thain Jr., Southern Polytechnic State University; Thomas Fallon, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

simulations as a teaching aid is very useful, perhaps even more so in a distancelearning environment. Southern Polytechnic State University’s (SPSU) Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology (ECET) program is engaged in converting its curriculum to a distanceor hybrid distance format. Since all but two of the ECET courses have a laboratory component,this creates a significant challenge in providing a similar laboratory experience for the off-campus students. An obvious choice is to require distance students to visit the campusperiodically to perform hands-on lab exercises. This can be difficult for some students to do andwill limit enrollment to students who can.The laboratory for the department’s Telecommunications Engineering Technology (TCET

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott L. Post, Bradley University

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Electrical and Computer

for each of their courses. That is to say, in a given discipline-specificcourse, it is not easy for an instructor to find resources that provide easy-to-use active learningactivities for their courses.While the author was on sabbatical at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, he had theopportunity to teach a course in Electronics Technology for Mechanical Engineers. This courseused laboratories in both the electrical and mechanical (mechatronics) engineering departments.The course was to cover basic analog circuit theory, an introduction to digital circuits, and Page 24.971.2instrumentation and measurements for mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin Madison; Xuan Zhang, University of Wisconsin - madison; Mehdi Shokoueinejad, University of Wisconsin Madison; John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Biomedical

stopping of breathing during sleep (under Prof. Webster supervi- sion). He is also Teacher Assistant for courses in Medical instrumentation design and Bioinstrumenation Laboratory. His research interests are the design of physiological sensing technologies and the signal processing techniques.Prof. John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering John G. Webster received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 1953, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA in 1965 and 1967, respectively. He is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA. In the field of medical

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

chemicalengineering majors. The course is also open to juniors and other engineering / sciencemajors when space is available. It is a four-credit course, meeting twice weekly for twohours. This block schedule was adopted in order to allow flexibility in the use of classtime, as described below. It is a “permission” course, having no formal pre- or co-requisites listed, although the course relies on students’ coursework in mass and energybalances, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and chemistry to a significant extent.We wanted to have a food-safe laboratory available as part of this course so that studentscould not only prepare and assess food products, but also taste what they had made. Westrongly suggest that anyone wishing to bring this course to their

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Tommy D Ball; Austin B. Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University; Cyril B Okhio P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

thatcomplement traditional teaching methods. Course and laboratory development are discussed,and project selection and management is emphasized. This analysis was done to predict theeffectiveness of project-based instruction for programs related to power generation, ingeneral, and to renewable energy, in particular.Two different courses were examined and their course learning outcomes compared to theexpected, statistically predicted outcome. Both courses were structured as lecture-lab-project,where the laboratory experiments were sufficient in number and complexity to consolidatethe topics addressed during lectures, while the projects selected were intended to coversufficient number of topics addressed through the first half of the course, as the

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Conference Session

Tech Session 2: Course-Level Innovations in Environmental Engineering: Projects, Case Studies, and Social Impact

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Plymesser, Montana State University - Bozeman; Adrienne Phillips, Montana State University - Bozeman; Catherine M Kirkland, Montana State University - Bozeman; Amanda Hohner, Montana State University - Bozeman; Susan Gallagher, Montana State University - Bozeman; Craig R Woolard P.E., Montana State University - Bozeman

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Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

concepts, andengineering tools like Excel and GIS in a project-based learning format. EENV 202, SustainableWaste Management, combines systems thinking concepts, an introduction to ethics and socialjustice topics, and technical content related to solid and hazardous waste management with a life-cycle assessment project on laboratory waste streams. The initial offering of these courses tookplace in the 2023-2024 academic year. This paper reviews the design and implementation ofthese two new project-based courses and shares lessons learned. The findings can guide otherprograms in collaboratively designing integrated project-based engineering courses (IPBC) forfirst- and second-year students.1.0 IntroductionEnvironmental Engineering (EENV) faculty at

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB’s Center for Con- trol, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award and a UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self Efficacy in Different Learning

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Kai Ren, Wentworth Institute of Technology

], Matlab-based instruction[7], and conceptual questions for assessment [8]. Novel approaches regarding teaching antenna-related courses were investigated as well [9]-[13].In [9], an antenna laboratory course with helical and discone antenna design projects was proposed.In [10], a theory simplified antenna course with focusing on design, simulation, and measurementusing a low-cost portable kit was presented. In [11], design and measurement of dipole and Yagiantennas were embedded into undergraduate EM course to provide better understanding of EMfield theory. In [12], a four-patch methodology in teaching antenna theory was implementedthrough delivering theoretical analysis, solving problems using derivations and Matlab, gaininghands-on experiences

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bilal Ghosn, Rice University

understanding and training in this manner will help reinforcetheir newly developed statistics skills.In an effort to reduce student anxiety, the majority of the assignment grade was attributed tocompletion. However, a student’s grade on the assignment was negatively affected if theydemonstrated minimal or weak effort on the assignment.Assessment PlansTo evaluate the value and efficacy of this intervention, we are evaluating numerous factorswithin the course and effects on downstream courses in which statistical analysis is a key part ofstudent assessment. This includes assessing the students across a multi-course sequence, whichincludes two of our laboratory courses in Systems Physiology (following semester) and TissueCulture (following academic year

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Design and Labs

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. He has advised on over forty (40) Senior Design Projects and his teams of students have received five (5) National Championships and three Best Design Awards. In the recent years, he has challenged himself with the creation of an effective methodology for successful Invention and Innovation. He was part of a 14-member multi-disciplinary team to design and create the "Society, Ethics, and Technology (SET)" course at TCNJ in 1994 and has taught multiple regular and Honors sections of this course since then. He led a multi-disciplinary team of faculty from TCNJ's School of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A Chapman, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Education, 2023 US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 2: Improving Student PreparednessAbstractThis National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Students (IRES)site centers around a common theme of bioinformatics. Students selected for this program spend10 weeks at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden using anddeveloping bioinformatics tools to analyze ‘-omics’ (i.e. genomic, transcriptomic, andproteomic) data generated from human subjects. Since the program’s inception, a significantamount of effort has been made developing programming to prepare students for their researchprojects. Specifically, technical training sessions focused on coding languages and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Suzanne Stathatos, The California Institute of Technology; Cassandra Shriver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

professional ethics; 8. and explain the importance of professional licensure.In this paper, we discuss several connections, not just with these SDG connections and CivilEngineering. Still, we especially believe that the case studies of edge computing and machinelearning give direct connections to applying probability, analyzing and solving problems,conducting experiments, and designing a process in civil engineering contexts, all discussedabove.Environmental Engineering CurriculumFor emerging environmental engineers to meet the SDGs, students will need to: 1. Have hands-on laboratory experiments; 2. Analyze and interpret data from their experiments in more than one central environmental engineering focus area, e.g., air, water, land, and

Collection

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Randy Kelley

ofunderstanding contact resistance for engineering students. It also incorporates an analyticalmethod for helping the understanding of this phenomenon. This experiment was intended forstudent learning and not for scientific rigor. There are just too many variables that are notcontrollable in a classroom setting. The lecture on heat transfer can explain the concept, but aphysical demonstration enhances learning objectives. Heat transfer lectures do not normallyhave associated laboratory classes. This experiment can easily be conducted in a class roomwithout extensive laboratory equipment. This type of teaching method promoted active learningas the primary learning objective.[3] Allowing students to actually see a problem and thenformulate a solution

Conference Session

Faculty Development 2: COVID-19 Impact on Faculty

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maria Chierichetti, San Jose State University; Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E. Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University; Liat Rosenfeld, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

questions were based on the students’survey developed by the researchers at Georgetown and HEDS [14-15] , and modified accordingto the peculiar aspects of our university. Because many of the engineering classes at SJSUinclude laboratories, projects or other group experiences, we wanted to create our own survey toask faculty members about these experiences. The research questions of the study are: 1. What are the impressions of faculty members to the learning environments in engineering courses after the switch to remote learning in Spring 2020? 2. What was the impact of the switch online in Spring 2020 to lab classes?COVID-19 forced many universities to transition quickly to remote teaching. Since Spring 2020,there was been many articles

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session (Works in Progress)

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eric Gary Fuller, University of Florida

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Biomedical Engineering

, medicine, andmore. For example, an “Engineering Education Island” virtual world was created via SecondLife [3]. This island featured a virtual laboratory with multiple floors and exhibits such as ACgenerators and DC motors. For creating detailed laboratory exhibits Second Life might be anideal platform. However, users must download software and register for an account, and thecreation of scenes is a labor-intensive task for the instructor. For simple, ready to use scenes tohost small group discussions Mozilla Hubs is a more efficient platform for both instructors andstudents.Figure 1: Mozilla Hubs poster session example. Two students are in a virtual forestdiscussing a draft of a senior design poster. Instead of having all eyes on all participants

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento; Lawrence David Landis, Intel Programmable Solutions Group; Perry L. Heedley, California State University, Sacramento; Tyler Sheaves, Intel Corporation

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Electrical and Computer

-signal integrated circuits for companies including Intel, Sacramento (formerly Level One Com- munications), Crystal Semiconductor, and Harris Semiconductor. In 2003 he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at California State University, Sacramento, while continuing to consult with industry on a part-time basis. In 2005 he co-founded the Mixed-Signal Design Laboratory (MSDL) at Sacramento State with Professor Thomas W Matthews. His interests include high-speed data converters, low-jitter clock generation and distribution, high-speed serial data communications, switched- capacitor circuits for analog signal-processing, low-voltage analog design in deep sub-micron CMOS processes, and mixed

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

G. L. Pratt; K. R. Kaufman; L. F. Backer; J. Walter; M. Ziejewski

the EMA test cycle will soon be initiated. Dr.Everett Pryde, Research Leader, Oilseed Crops Laboratory,Northern Regional Research Laboratory, USDA, Peoria,Illinois is cooperating on these tests. The EMA AlternateFuels Committee is monitoring these tests. Twelve tractors are also being operated in NorthDakota fields on blends of sunflower oil and diesel fuel.Flower Power, Inc., P.O. Box 26, Grand Forks, ND 58201, issponsoring the project and NDSU is providing the dataanalysis. John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, and J.I. Case arethe manufacturers represented in the program. The tractorsrange in power from 120 hp to 250 hp. Six tractors arebeing run on a 25% blend of sunoil and diesel fuel. Theremaining tractors operate on a 50% blend. A

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

assumptions and concepts as they aredeveloped, allowing students to make informed judgments. However, these benefits rely on thesuccessful implementation of human-centered design activities in engineering classes. This oftendepends on the graduate teaching assistants (TAs) who lead discussion or laboratory sections. Thiswork-in-progress paper describes the implementation of a human-centered design activity thatintroduces human-centered design to students in a Design for Manufacturability course. It exploresthe TA’s experiences in implementing this activity and the impact of the activity on students’understanding of the role of human-centered design in design for manufacturability in engineering.MethodsDesign This study is part of a design

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev; John Irwin; Adrienne Minerick

) for therequired masters-level courses. To accommodate the distance, laboratory components will betaught in a week-long format on campus in a condensed fashion at a time that is most convenientfor the students. This hybrid (online lectures and in-person hands-on training) approach will notonly attract industry representatives but will also provide additional flexibility to the studentscurrently enrolled in the degree.International students and the students from other universities will be able to enroll in the MSdegree of Mechatronics based upon their earned BS degree, admittance by the graduate school,and approval of the graduate advisor. The approval will be based on comparing the individuals’transcripts with the current requirements for

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany

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Labs and experiential learning

Webster* Purdue University rwebste@purdue.edu ABSTRACT A free professional certification exam was adopted as an ad hoc individual remote lab in anintroductory course on the study of polymers and composites after the course was transitioned toremote education due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic in the spring of 2020. Attempting theCertified SOLIDWORKS Associates – Additive Manufacturing (CSWA-AM) exam andwatching the prerequisite 10-part online video learning path helped to replace student learningthat traditionally would have come from various other hands-on laboratory activities. Twenty-five engineering technology (ET) students

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Qingli (Barbara) Dai

(Unigraphics NX) into the curriculum ofstrategically selected academic partners worldwide. Michigan Tech was one of only twoU.S. universities selected for the initial four academic program partner sites. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 1Today NX is the key CAD/CAM/CAE software used in our mechanical engineeringcurriculum and utilized in our laboratories [1]. It is integrated throughout our curriculumbeginning with the first year, to learn solid modeling using NX. Sophomore students useNX in the lab portion of the course “Integrated Design and Manufacturing” to create thetool paths to produce a designed part. Junior students use NX in the Product Realization Iand II courses. Senior students use NX in

Collection

2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Niklas Cyril Bitters, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

for student research in the design andoperation of intelligent and autonomous vehicles, project activities on this platform will enablestudents to gain valuable laboratory and project experiences. This can be accomplished throughthe inclusion of exercises on this platform in graduate and undergraduate courses offered as partof the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curriculum. Graduate ECE courses, such asimage processing, neural networks, and embedded system design would be choices for projectactivities on this platform. Typical courses in the undergraduate ECE program are digital logicdesign and programming in C/C++/Python. The platform will promote student participationacross the ECE program in competitive design events for the next

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Isabel Velásquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

tocommunicate with each other and to the teaching assistants (TA’s).[2]Laboratory StructureMethod of DeliveryWith a total of one hundred and nineteen students, alterations to weekly laboratory sessionsrevolved around minimizing exposure and keeping students safe by broadcasting the lab sessionlive in a Zoom conference meeting while still holding an in-class session. The in-person sectionwas properly socially distanced based on New Mexico COVID restrictions. There were two TA'savailable in the physical classroom to guide students, one undergraduate, and one graduate TA.The Zoom call was hosted by additional graduate and undergraduate TA's to ensure that studentshad the opportunity to receive support at any time throughout the lab session. All students