Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #30551Metering and Data Acquisition System for Electrical GatewayDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he teaches subjects in He received the PhD Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Metering

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Solve structural technical problems. ii. Solve technical problems to satisfy a given set of specifications. iii. Develop alternate strategies to solve open-ended problems. 5. Recognize the value of diversity, and identify ethical and societal issues in business and technical tasks. i. Participate in a diverse group. ii. Discuss ethical and societal issued related to technology. 6. Solve problems and design components, systems or processes appropriate to the discipline of civil engineering technology. i. Utilize graphic techniques to produce engineering documents. ii. Conduct standardized field and laboratory testing on civil engineering materials iii

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

. Laboratory surveys are now a regular featureof laboratory courses. These quickly pinpoint problems with equipment or other facilities,teaching assistants, potential safety hazards or other aspects of laboratory courses. Graduatingstudent surveys give all students a chance to comment anonymously on all aspects of theireducational experience. Exit interviews are conducted by the advisor (in the last advisementsession) and the chair (near the end of the last semester) to give/get personal feedback.These surveys were instituted for a variety of reasons. Some issues with the laboratory were notdiscovered until the surveys were instituted. Minor problems were reported that had goneunnoticed. Problems with certain teaching assistants were also discovered

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

design, improvement,and implementation projects in their companies. Managing and handling projects is an essentialpart of work for most engineers and engineering managers. Because of this trend, mostengineering programs have some kind of industrial project format embedded into theircurriculum1,2,3,4. So it is desirable for programs to include industrial project experience in theundergraduate and/or graduate curriculum5,6,7,8.Teng and his colleagues9 offered a Teaching in the Factory approach which provides engineeringstudents team experiences in industrial settings. The industrial settings include the workingenvironment that an engineer may encounter, such as a manufacturing facility, an operationsfacility, or an office environment. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Ali Navvab, Gloucester County College

sports, studyingtechnology and its effect on sports and sports performance provide a good way to teach basictheories. “Studying some of the dynamic effects contained in sports, we can introduce all of thedynamic systems that we are trying to teach our students. Students tend to tune out whenstudying the same old greasy gearbox.”2These ideas were combined with the key features of the undergraduate engineering program, (1)multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (2) teamwork asthe necessary framework for solving complex problems; (3) incorporation of state-of-the-art Page 15.220.2

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yong Wang, University of Illinois, Chicago; Lin Li, University of Illinois, Chicago

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

interested in the teaching and research in the ar- eas including operations research, system reliability and safety, fault diagnosis and prognosis, and their applications in sustainable manufacturing and renewable energy systems.Dr. Lin Li, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Lin Li received the B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2001, and the M.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering, the M.S.E. degree in indus- trial and operations engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

capstone classes for the last three years in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper presented difficultiesand problems encountered in completing these projects from the viewpoints of both instructorand students. Each project and the problems associated with it were discussed in details. Theexperiences and lessons learned from these projects are applicable to most capstone designprojects and thus, the paper will be beneficial to other instructors teaching capstone designclasses.Introduction Senior capstone design classes represent the penultimate experience for undergraduatestudents in completing their bachelor degree. These classes require higher learning skillsinvolving analysis and synthesis of knowledge and

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

engineering such as mechanical andcivil in safety and fire protection.Technology is a key ingredient in performance oriented fire protection because it providesalternatives to old traditional methods. The department has an electrical technology facultymember, with extensive background in electronics and industrial experience in fire protectiondevices now teaching courses related to alarm systems and developing laboratories forinstruction in fire protection electronics.The Safety and Fire protection program currently includes three tenured faculty memberswith advanced degrees in engineering and academic or industrial experience in fireprotection. Six adjunct professors with extensive safety and fire protection experience in theHouston area support the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

Paper 2004-1243 Real or Simulation: Experiences Using Computer Simulation versus Remote Operation for Process Control Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

between science (or the sciences) and practice. As Mead expressed it,“We were out in the research laboratory trying to figure out what was true. . . .Of course, thingsthat don’t work in the lab don’t work in the real world, but things that do work in the lab oftentake a long time to work out in the real world.”4 Mead might also have added that things thatwork in the lab sometimes do not work at all in practice. The “bridge” between the engineeringcurriculum and engineering practice matters, then, because it educates students about the realitiesof the disjunction between the laboratory and practical application. Ideally, educationalexperiences that fulfill the Criterion 4 requirement give the students an understanding of theintegrative nature of

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

the National Research Council1, 2 advocated the adoption of InformationTechnology to improve student learning at the high school and university levels, but Hilton2 alsoacknowledged that "Information Technology (IT) is changing at a breathtaking pace, making itvirtually impossible to accurately predict its future impact on teaching and learning inundergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education". Maeroff's3 surveyshowed that "A Classroom of One" is just around the corner, and Raschke4 predicted that theUniversity, as we know it, will be "deconstructed" in the near future as learning shifts from ateacher-initiated orientation to a more active role from the student. For this purpose, the NationalScience Foundation had

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

establish future successes of the individual. Inability toperform satisfactorily as a student in the educational process can adversely affect the individual’sfuture.III. Institutional Requirements Computers have revolutionized not only industry, but the education system as well. Apartfrom the ease with which information can be accessed, simulation packages help in demonstratingto students, applications that would otherwise only be viewed in an industrial setting. These are allpossible through the use of computers. The computer can thus be considered as a modern daytool that all students need, if they are to succeed in school. For this reason, many institutionscreate computer laboratories where students can have access to computing

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

1986, a large number of engineeringeducators in universities eagerly embraced and used the controller in digital systems courses.The chief reason behind the enthusiastic acceptance and the continuing use of the controller isdue to a variety of built-in functional units such as I/O ports, timer units, and an analog-to-digitalconverter that allow the educators to easily teach students the fundamental knowledge on how acomputer works while readily incorporating those units in homework and laboratory exercises toenhance student learning 2. Thus, the use of built-in units (as opposed to building and assemblingindividual components) made it possible for educators to concentrate on central issues ratherthan solving problems associated with assembling

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Nored; David Compton

thecurrent 2nd Generation systems.The above depth in theory, breadth of laboratory and computer simulation experiences, andexposure to advanced applications, provides the fertile ground for students. They can then ask,“Can we use similar techniques to develop a wireless spread spectrum based system?” And, notonly to answer in the affirmative, but have the confidence that they can do it themselves.IV. Senior Systems Design ProjectWhen the students have completed all of their general courses and are deep into their selectedemphasis, they enroll in a mandatory senior design sequence. The senior design project, alsocalled “Systems” is a three-semester capstone course designed to teach engineers how to conducta real-world project. This project goes

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zorica Pantic-Tanner

Society for Engineering EducationEMC Society in 1993. The IEEE grant was used to establish and teach an undergraduate EMCcourse that included both theoretical and experimental part. Some of the experiments wereperformed in the existing SFSU Communication Systems Laboratory but the others, due to thelack of adequate equipment, were hosted by some of the Silicon Valley companies. Overall, thecourse was a great success and prompted the IEEE EMC Society to establish an internationalUniversity Grant Program for EMC curriculum development. The further SFSU EMC laboratorydevelopment was in part funded by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE 9751722 and inpart by generous equipment donations from companies such as Hewlett Packard, SiliconGraphics

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University; George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Frank Miceli, Asheville Bucombe Tech Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Design, Fabrication and TestingAbstractComputer Numerical Control (CNC) machines are used in a variety of ways in supporting thedevelopment of new products and processes and can provide an excellent means to exposestudents to standardized control procedures as well as offer opportunities to effectivelysupplement the teaching of control systems and instrumentation. Using Mach3 TM for softwarecontrol and stepper motors for power transmission, a relative low cost but effective CNC Plasmamachine was developed by Western Carolina University (WCU) and Asheville-BuncombeTechnical Community College through a joint partnership. This paper will present a logicalapproach to developing such a system and describe how applications

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University; John P. Henry

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

journal articles, and book chapters in research and pedagogical techniquesDr. Kauser Jahan, Rowan UniversityDr. S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University S. Keith Hargrove, serves as Dean of the College of Engineering, Technology & Computer Science. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from TSU, M.S. from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla, Mo., and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has worked for General Electric, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, NIST, Oak Ridge Laboratories, and General Motors. He is an Associate Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Institute of Industrial Engineers, ASEE, and the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers. He is

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

Constituents,it will Provide for Programmatic Excellence and it will Establish and Maintain Linkages to key Partners.We have created an upper division capstone course treating Failure Analysis which promotes the development ofthese skills and provides a vehicle for their demonstration. The course is based on a systems approach toengineering challenges. The course provides a laboratory setting for active learning in which students candemonstrate a basic understanding of engineering science, and of design and manufacturing, of experimental designand data analysis. Furthermore, students are encouraged to exhibit skill in the communication of ideas, initiative inacquiring information and knowledge, and a familiarity with contemporary tools, all in a team

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John G. Nee

movement. The intent of these courses was to providestudents experiences that would allow them to introduce and teach students this (these) subject(s)in the public schools of the state. Early courses consisted of fine and applied arts, simplewoodwork, bent iron, and mechanical drawing. The mechanical drawing course included“projection of shadows, instrumental perspective and plane geometry.”Early inclusion of CAD/CAM concepts were taught via Tektronix CRTs, digitizing tablets,joysticks, binary tape preparation devices, customized 2-D software, very early versions of NCsoftware, all with output provided by a B-size plotter. By the early 1980s the CAD operation wasupgraded to a large mainframe computer with remote dumb terminals located in

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

of data pointsacquired strongly influence the resolution of frequencies and their amplitudes in the spectracalculated for a signal. The use of simple laboratory structures for which experimental andanalytical frequencies are readily obtained enhances the understanding of vibrations, datasampling, and interpretation of Fourier analysis results. Since structural vibrations may produceclosely spaced harmonics, an understanding of the presented method is critical for a prioridetermination of frequency resolution.Introduction Much can be learned about the characteristics of a vibrating structure by experimentaldetermination of dynamic strains or kinematics. Often, extremely high loads can exist due toimpact loading or excitation of a

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Raffaello D'Andrea

[6], and the Working Model 2D and3D multibody code software from Knowledge Revolution [4]. A new course is being being developed aroundthese experiments, entitled “Experimental Model Based Control Design Using Multibody Codes”. Limitedversions of the experimental setups have, and will be used, in other senior electives at Cornell. To our knowledge, no other projects of this scope exist; there are several projects, however, which sharea similar philosophy. In [2], a laboratory is described where computer simulations are compared to actualmeasurements as integral parts of an undergraduate mechanics laboratory. It is argued quite convincingly inthis paper that simulations should not replace real experiments in the undergraduate curriculum

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prawat Nagvajara, Drexel University, Electrical and Computer Engineering ; Robin Kizirian, Drexel University, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

laboratory manual5.The relevance of the project can be justified by the sensitivity of electronic devices totemperature. Most of these devices contain fans which have to be controlled to keep theelectronic environment at a stable temperature. This represents a practical application that canfamiliarize students with different engineering theories and concepts such as PWM andfrequency measurement techniques.The system design is shown in Figure 2(a). The fan is equipped with an integral tachometerwhich allows the monitoring and controlling of the fan’s speed. The controller utilizes a simplepulse width modulator to change the width of the pulse provided to the fan and thus, allowing tochange its speed. Although the fan’s speed is calculated by

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

calling to provide solid interdisciplinary knowledge to all graduates of 2university technical programs . Such an approach to teaching is not fully compatible with 3, 4immediate needs of employers, but benefits long term goals of national economy as a whole .Therefore, a narrowly focused technical training (presently highly popular in teaching softwaretools) is not a primary domain of academic education. It is therefore more important fromuniversity education point of view to emphasize inventiveness and good algorithms to solveproblems rather than perfecting how to solve a problem using a particular engineering tool

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Lowery, West Virginia University; Steve Kane, West Virginia University; Vicki Kane, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Gary Ganser, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

often perform poorly in their first calculus course. Working from the perceptionthat first year engineering students do not make the connection between what they learn incalculus and the problems they solve in freshman engineering, the faculty who teach theengineering sections of first semester calculus and the faculty who teach freshman engineeringworked together to define projects that span both classes.The primary goal of these projects was to show students how the concepts and techniques theywere learning in math class were relevant to their future career in engineering. It was proposedand believed that if the students understood the connection between the two subjects, they wouldunderstand both subjects better and be motivated to work

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

entry-levelpositions in industry. This necessitated an evaluation of both the laboratory and theory content ofeach course.During this portion of our analysis, we pondered many difficult and often philosophicalquestions regarding the curricula. In discussions amongst ourselves, with employers, graduates,and our IAB, we heard that graduates should be “ well versed in the basics…”, and they shouldhave “ an exposure to a variety of advanced concepts and technologies”. The most difficultquestion that arose was “what are the basics?”, and “how much of the curriculum should bespent teaching them?.” The only conclusion we were able to definitively agree upon is that astime passes the breadth of knowledge that constitutes “the basics” continues to

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

toemphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they will encounter asengineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning and improvement inthe design of this course.9 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuous steps: Plan, Do,Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students did not learn whatwas intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycle again underslightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because it leaves roomfor change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” orComplex Systems (see the class web page at http://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). Thisallowed room in the course for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

requirement has not been used as a deciding factor inselection. Instead we have targeted recruiting directly at institutions, majors, and organizations,which result in an application pool that is more representative of the general population than theaverage demographic pool in engineering at Washington State University.Our REU program starts at the beginning of June and runs for ten weeks ending the first week ofAugust. We have found that interactions between the students are increased if they all stay indormitory accommodation on campus. These interactions are important not only on the sociallevel but also appear to increase collaborations in the laboratory. During the first week of theprogram the students meet each other, are introduced to the

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American society for Engineering Educationsubstantial and the program has a great deal of potential to serve an important need for themilitary and for the country._________________________________Bibliography1. Crossman, G. The Logistics of Teaching an Interactive Television Course to Remote Sites, Proceeings of the1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1649, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997.2. Verma, A. & Crossman, G. A Mobile Instructional Laboratory to Supplement the Televised Program inEngineering Technology, Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 1995.3. Crossman, G. Teaching Laboratories in Distance

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Benson; John Baker; David Silverstein

students in mechanical engineeringtechnology enrolled at MuSU and mechanical and chemical engineering students at UK.This collaborative effort involves utilizing the design skills of the UK students to developtransfer functions required to model and design a control system for an ElectrohydraulicActuation (EHA) position control apparatus located in the Motion Control Laboratory onthe MuSU campus. MuSU students use their hands-on skills to develop the hardwaresystem and implement the control scheme. Students at UK and MuSU then jointly (viathe Internet) operate the equipment, conduct experiments, report observations,troubleshoot problems, and evaluate both success and failure. In addition to the practicalexperience in controls education, students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Williams; Robert Doty

are discussed. Finally,results of an alumni assessment survey are presented. The goal of the practice-based seniordesign experience at Baylor University is to produce engineering graduates who have the self-confidence and practical knowledge necessary to become immediately productive in today’sproject-oriented workplace. Interpretation of these assessment results supports the conclusionthat this goal has been met.I. IntroductionEngineering design is integrated throughout the curriculum at Baylor University, and meaningfuldesign work is required of students in many courses beginning with the introductory freshmancourse and progressing through the senior electives and laboratories. However, EGR 4390Engineering Design II is the capstone design