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William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

Session 2326 Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers William Jordan, Debbie Silver, and Bill Elmore Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractDuring the 1999-2000 academic year, the authors created and offered to elementary and middleschool pre-service teachers a course on engineering problem solving. This course was designedto build the knowledge base and strengthen the confidence of future teachers when working withscience, engineering, and mathematics principles using laboratory-based activities as thefoundation for learning.Using the theme “Our Material World

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Kathleen Kramer

Session 2793 Using MATLAB-based Laboratories to Demonstrate Wireless Communications Systems Principles Kathleen A. Kramer University of San DiegoAbstractThe usefulness of mathematical simulation to study complex communications concepts,combined with the preparation it provides students for continuing work in the field, make theinclusion of computer simulation exercises or laboratories very appropriate for augmentingundergraduate student learning in these areas of communications. A series of three suchlaboratories have been developed within a

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Charles Nippert

Session 2213 Using Web Based Supplemental Instruction for Chemical Engineering Laboratories Charles. R. Nippert Associate Professor Widener UniversityAbstractThe Virtual Chemical Engineering Laboratory (VCEL) was implemented as a supplement to theregular lab course during the fall of the 2000/2001 academic year. Successful completion of theon line experiments was required before students could perform the actual experiments.Comparison with the previous year indicated that the online experiments increased the students’abilities to perform and complete

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John Hackworth

Session 2649 A Video-Taped Laboratory in Electrical Power and Machinery John R. Hackworth Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThe development and implementation of an upper-division (junior-level) electrical power andmachinery laboratory utilizing video taping of the machine operation is described. Thelaboratory course was developed to accommodate distance-learning students who have limited orno access to campus facilities. All students enrolled in the course have completed an associatedegree in electronics or electrical engineering technology and, therefore, have

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John D. Cremin

Session 2526 Linking Laboratory Instruments for Simulation: Comma Separated Variable Files John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThis paper describes two workhorse electronic instruments, the function generator andthe oscilloscope, and their use in recording and simulation applications in design andlaboratory electronic courses. The paper also discusses the application of the recordingand simulation techniques to performing experiments over the InternetThe oscilloscope used in the

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Phillip J. Cornwell; Charles Farrar

Session 3268 The Los Alamos National Laboratory Dynamics Summer School – A Mechanics Motivator Phillip J. Cornwell, Charles R. Farrar Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology/Los Alamos National LaboratoryAbstractA unique summer educational program focusing on engineering dynamics has been developedand implemented at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The purpose of this summer school is toexpose a select group of students to the broad field of engineering dynamics with the hopes thatthey will be motivated to pursue this area of research in their graduate studies. The summerschool activities

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Robert King; Joan Gosink

Session 2526 Meeting ABET EC 2000 Criterion 3 Outcomes with a Laboratory Course Drs. R. H. King and J. P. Gosink Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines1 IntroductionColorado School of Mines (CSM) is a public research university devoted to engineering andapplied science that has distinguished itself by developing high-quality graduates andscholarship. The U.S. News and World Report Inc. rated CSM 26th in the Top National PublicUniversities and 50th in the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs with Ph.D. Programs in20011. The school’s mission as written in the Colorado statutes

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Timothy McLaren

Session 2663 A Microelectronics Fabrication and Packaging Learning Laboratory for Manufacturing Engineers Timothy S. McLaren Washington State University - VancouverAbstractWashington State University (WSU) has recently established a Manufacturing Engineeringprogram at its Vancouver campus. Included in a new laboratory building is a microelectronicslearning laboratory specifically for teaching this application of manufacturing engineering.Vancouver is located within the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region, sometimes referred to asthe “Silicon Forest” due to

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Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Session 2526 A Multivariate Calculus Approach to Uncertainty Error Estimation in Teaching Laboratories Laura J. Genik, Craig W. Somerton University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityAbstractIn the engineering profession, a key component of any experimental work and its results is thepresentation of the error associated with those results. Many undergraduate engineeringprograms have moved away from a standard instrumentation or measurements laboratory, andhave also eliminated the laboratory components of the basic physics and chemistry courses.These changes could lead

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Nam Kim

Asession 3220 Process Control Laboratory Experiments Using LabVIEW Nam K. Kim Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThe process control laboratory course in Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech was recentlyrestructured to teach students how to operate cutting edge computer-based systems, and tointegrate this knowledge with process control theory. The laboratory equipment, as well as thestructure of the

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Yarrow Nelson; Charles Tritt

Session 1109 Rabbit Season – A Battery Based Laboratory Exercise for Engineering Students Charles S. Tritt, Ph.D. Milwaukee School Of EngineeringA laboratory investigation suitable for college freshmen is provided (see Appendix A). In thisexperiment, students investigated the performance of ordinary consumer batteries underspecified discharge conditions. The discharge conditions were those described in a internationalstandard for battery performance.1,2 The experiment was intended to introduce students theimportance and utility of

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Tor Fjeldly; Raymond Berntzen; Michael Shur; Kjetil Smith; Jan Strandman; Hong Shen

Session 3532 Advanced Internet Technology in Laboratory Modules for Distance Learning Kjetil Smith, Jan O. Strandman, Raymond Berntzen, Tor A. Fjeldly, Michael S. Shur, Hong Shen Physics Department, Oslo University, Norway/ UniK-Center for Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway/ ECSE Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590AbstractWe describe user-friendly and efficient technologies for interactive, on-line operation oflaboratory experiments over the Internet. The objectives are to utilize the most recent

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Jeffrey Nadel; Dan Walsh

Session 1520 Advanced Technology Laboratories: A Crucible for Technology Enhanced Learning Jeff Nadel, Dan Walsh College of Engineering California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA partnership among industry, academia and government has led to the construction anddevelopment of a facility which provides a capstone experience for engineering students. Thepurpose of the ATL is to provide a vehicle that enables partnerships between industry, faculty, andstudents. This partnership is designed to produce

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

Session 1526 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course Jed Lyons, Edward F. Young and Susan D. Creighton University of South CarolinaAbstractA new capstone mechanical engineering laboratory course was recently institutionalized at theUniversity of South Carolina. The course is based upon an integrated sequence of laboratoryexperiments on a Legends-class racecar, chosen because it involves many fundamentalmechanical engineering principles. It's also exciting to the students. As the students progressthrough the series of experiments, they are increasingly involved

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Jr., Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

Session 2647 Assessment Methods for Virtual Laboratories in Civil Engineering Technology Carol L. Considine, Vernon W. Lewis, Jr. Old Dominion UniversityAbstractOld Dominion University has developed an extensive distance learning system that includes 40remote sites. A majority of the sites are located at community colleges. There are 30 sites inVirginia, three sites in North Carolina, one site in Washington State and one site in Arizona. Inaddition, there are four sites at Higher Education Centers in Virginia and one site at a localindustrial

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Susan Sharfstein; Patricia Relue

Session 1413 Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Laboratory for Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Susan Sharfstein, Patricia Relue University of ToledoIntroductionWith the revolutions in cell and molecular biology of the last three decades and the impendingtransformations that genomics and proteomics will bring, there has been increasing interest inincorporating biology and particularly biotechnology into the engineering curriculum.Bioengineering has often been considered only biomedical engineering; however, as describedby Beth Panitz in ASEE

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

Section 1526 Case Study Based Laboratories for an Undergraduate Human Factors Engineering Curriculum Ann M. Bisantz, Victor L. Paquet Department of Industrial Engineering University at Buffalo, State University of New York Amherst, NY 14020 bisantz@eng.buffalo.eduAbstractThis paper describes the ongoing implementation and evaluation of a set of design-orientedlaboratory exercises for two undergraduate Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) courses,which draw

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Priya Olden; Nikunja Swain; Maurice Robinson; James A. Anderson; James Parker; Cristal Caroll; Alan Seedarsan

Session 2247 Computer Based Virtual Engineering Laboratory (CBVEL) And Undergraduate Engineering, Technology & Science Research Nikunja K. Swain & James A. Anderson Cristal Caroll, Priya Olden, James Parker, Maurice Robinson, & Allan Seedarsan School of Engineering Technology & Sciences (SETS) South Carolina State UniversityI IntroductionAdvanced electronics and computerization are revolutionizing today’s industries and the engineeringtechnology and science

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Session 1526 Developing and Implementing Hands-on Laboratory Exercises and Design Projects for First Year Engineering Students Richard J. Freuler, Audeen W. Fentiman, John T. Demel, Robert J. Gustafson, John A. Merrill The Ohio State UniversityAbstractDuring the past ten years, The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering has moved from aseries of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of course sequencesin the Introduction to

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Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

Session 1630 Developing and using rubrics to evaluate subjective Engineering laboratory and design reports Rebecca Sidler Kellogg, J. Adin Mann, Ann Dieterich Iowa State UniversityAbstractIn the past two years several faculty in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics atIowa State University have been utilizing rubrics to evaluate student work in laboratory coursesas well as the engineering design course sequence. The laboratory course had primarilysophomores and the design course sequence were graduating seniors. Developing rubrics is notan easy task

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David M. Beams

Session 3220 Developing Computer-Based Laboratory Instruments in a New Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program David M. Beams University of Texas at TylerABSTRACT: The Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler hasdeveloped several computer-based laboratory instruments (CLIs) consisting of LabVIEWvirtual- instrument programs coupled with custom external hardware and has integrated their useinto the undergraduate curriculum. Semiconductor curve tracers for diodes, JFETs, MOSFETs,and bipolar transistors have been

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Hakan Gurocak

Session 2263 e-Lab: Technology-assisted Delivery of a Laboratory Course at a Distance Hakan Gurocak Manufacturing Engineering Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for real time delivery of a ManufacturingAutomation laboratory course at a distance. The enabling technology is the combination of aninteractive TV system and the Internet. The interactive TV system, controlled by operators ateach location

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Rodolfo Molinari

Session 1690 Engineering Education Procedures Based on Compute Simulation Resources as an Alternative for Laboratory Facilities Rodolfo Molinari Centro Universitario Lusiada, Santos, BrazilAbstract.When teaching the majority of the disciplines of an Engineering Course, of any specialty, it is offundamental importance that theory classes could be connected to experimentation, in order togive to the students the necessary perception of the actual applicability of any new knowledge. Indeveloping countries it is nearly an utopia to try the application of the full

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Thaddeus Roppel; Victor Nelson

Session 3432 Web-Enhanced Instruction and Assessment for a First Laboratory Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering Thaddeus Roppel, Victor Nelson Auburn UniversityAbstractElectrical and Computer Engineering students taking their first core laboratory course respondwell to web-based instruction recently implemented at Auburn University. Pre-lab introductoryreading and exercises, and in-lab experimental procedures are provided to the students on thecourse web site. These in-house materials are supplemented by links to publicly available JAVA-based demos

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Michael Jenkins; Dwayne Arola

Session 2526 When is a Truss not a Truss: A ‘Do-Say’ Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise Michael G. Jenkins, Dwayne D. Arola Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA/ Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MDAbstractContrary to common perception, engineering mechanics in undergraduate education does notneed reform. Basic aspects of mechanics (strength of materials, mechanical behavior ofmaterials, experimental mechanics, etc) are still necessary components of any MechanicalEngineering program. However, the delivery system and the tools used by students and facultyin learning and teaching engineering mechanics does

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Salvatore Marsico

Session 3150 EXPERIENCE with the INTRODUCTION OF MULTIMEDIA INTO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Salvatore A. Marsico Penn Sate UniversityAbstractThe Penn State Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology program offersa two course sequence in mechanics of materials, one of which is a laboratory course(MCH T 214). The educational objectives of this one credit course, as described in thePenn State Associate Degree Programs Bulletin, are “measurement of mechanicalproperties of materials; structural testing; data acquisition and

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Jeffrey Jones; David Niebuhr; Heather Smith; Lanny Griffin; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

Session 1526 THE FOUNDATION SERIES ON CORROSION: INTEGRATING SCIENCE, MATH, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY IN A LAB SETTING Linda Vanasupa, Heather Smith, Blair London, Katherine Chen, David Niebuhr, Lanny Griffin California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Jeff Jones Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406AbstractWe have developed a laboratory module focussing on the subject of corrosion. The module itselfis designed to be completed in one three-hour session. It consists of three parts: I. The Impact ofCorrosion Media, II. The Impact

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Gwan-Ywan Lai

Session 1526 Integration of Enhanced Coordinate Measuring Machine Systems with Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories and Curriculum at Kettering University Gwan-Ywan Lai Kettering UniversityI. IntroductionCoordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) are one of the most powerful and widely usedmetrological instruments in the manufacturing industry. There is virtually no workpiece whosedimensions cannot be measured with a properly equipped CMM system [1-6]. This NationalScience Foundation funded project (NSF-ILI: DUE-9851082) is to enhance two existing CMMsin

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Andrew Otieno; Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

Session 1547 The Integration of Laboratory Based Computer-Aided-Methodologies into a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum Radha Balamuralikrishna, Clifford R. Mirman, and Andrew Otieno Northern Illinois UniversityAbstract Northern Illinois University (NIU) is strategically located between the majormetropolitan areas of Rockford and Chicago, Illinois. This region encompasses many differenttypes of industries, and thus, the departmental graduates must have a very diverse educationalbackground. To address the needs of industry, NIU’s Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MET) program

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Paul Eckerman; Robert Hendricks

Session 2793 A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for an Undergraduate Microchip Fabrication Facility Paul D. Eckerman and Robert W. Hendricks Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractWe have built an 1,800 ft 2 Class 10,000 cleanroom dedicated to teaching the elements of themicrochip fabrication process to a multidisciplinary cohort of students from all areas ofengineering, science, and even the humanities. This laboratory, equipped with educational toolsthat allow the fabrication of silicon enhancement mode and depletion mode MOSFETs at