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- Faramarz Mossayebi, Youngstown State University; Frank Li, Youngstown State University; Eric Lombardo, YSU; CHITRA RAJAGOPAL, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus
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presently employed by Mine Safety Appliances Company in Pittsburgh, PA.CHITRA RAJAGOPAL, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus Ms Chitra Rajagopal is Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at the Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus, where she teaches electrical and electronic engineering technology courses in in-person and on-line formats. She is currently researching on embedded system design, microcontrollers and control system. Page 13.390.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing an Advanced Digital Control Laboratory with a System-On-a
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- Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)
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AC 2008-2288: UTILIZING A PCI DAQ BOARD IN THE LABORATORY COURSEOF MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS AND INTERFACINGYanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng) Dr. Yanfei Liu received the B.S.E.E. Degree from Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering in July 1996. She then received the M.S.E.E. Degree from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 1999, and Ph.D. Degree from Clemson University in August 2004. She has been a member of the IPFW Department of Engineering since August 2005. Dr. Liu’s research interests include robotics, dynamic manipulation, computer vision and image processing
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- Innovations in ME Laboratory Instruction
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- Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University
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AC 2008-2369: PROMOTING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING USING LABORATORY TEAM PROJECTS:A CASE STUDYGregory Davis, Kettering University Gregory W. Davis, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, formerly known as GMI Engineering & Management Institute. Acting in this capacity, he teaches courses in the Automotive and Thermal Science disciplines. He also serves a Director of the Advanced Engine Research Laboratory, where he conducts research in alternative fuels and engines. Greg is active on the professional level of SAE, currently serving as a Director on the SAE Board of Directors (term, 2007-2010), a Director on the Publications Board
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories
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- Steve Naumov, Purdue University Calumet; William Obermeyer, Purdue University Calumet; Rahul Singhal, Purdue University Calumet; Eduardo Garcia, Purdue University Calumet; Nasser Houshangi, Purdue University Calumet
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AC 2008-2502: UNIFYING LABORATORY CONTENT OF A DIGITAL SYSTEMSAND COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE CURRICULUM THROUGH HORIZONTALAND VERTICAL INTEGRATIONSteve Naumov, Purdue University Calumet Steve Naumov graduated in 2007 with highest distinction from Purdue University Calumet with a B.S. in Computer Engineering and minor in applied mathematics. He intends on pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research interests include high performance computer architecture, digital system verification, and computer architecture education. Along with initiating the accomplishments described in this paper, he has held two consecutive internships at Intel Corp. as
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- Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford; Akram Abu-aisheh, University of Hartford
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laboratory settings,as well as in independent projects. The toolkit is being used with students during the spring 2008semester. Preliminary results will be available for the 2008 ASEE convention and alldocumentation for the toolkit is freely available on the project website1.IntroductionOptical fiber technology provides very high quality data communications over great distances.With the growing and now common use of optical fiber in industry and high-end consumerelectronics, the use of optical fiber should be more widely taught. For this purpose we aredeveloping an educational optical fiber data communications toolkit that provides students withthe means to investigate the physical layer in such a network. We first used the toolkit duringthe spring
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- Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Jenelle Piepmeier, U.S. Naval Academy
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is defined in the traditional robotics manner). The first and last linksconnect to exactly one joint. No active appendages of any sort were allowed, although the linksthemselves could be complex.To ensure that the students focused their designs toward effective locomotion, the worm robotsare required to pull behind them a ‘chariot,’ which contains the battery and processor. Therobots were thus required to generate good traction and ground force, as opposed to simplygenerating forward motion. The exercise took place over one week, during which there werefour hours of laboratory time.Our prior experience suggested that the motivation of the students would increase significantlywere the design cast as a competition. As such, the demonstration
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- Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Ulrich Schwabe, Rowan University; Andrew Hak, Rowan University
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- Pramod Kumar, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Suren Dwivedi, University of Louisiana-Lafayette; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University
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- Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Luis Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University
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- Felecia Nave, Prairie View A&M University; Michael Gyamerah, Prairie View A&M University; Irvin Osborne-Lee, Prairie View A&M University
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2 2 1 1 -Finally, in 2006, the department was awarded the NSF Targeted Infusion Project to establish abioengineering concentration within the department. This grant provided the last integral piece inproviding the department of funding it needed in order to move forward. One component of thegrant focused on purchase of laboratory equipment and re-design of undergraduate chemicalengineering lab 1.Curriculum DevelopmentThe current Chemical Engineering curriculum is designed to prepare engineers who are wellqualified to design and operate chemical processes. The undergraduate baccalaureate degreerequires that students complete 138 hours, of which 20 hours of chemistry and 42 hours ofchemical engineering specific courses
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- B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Brian Anderson, Kansas State University; Mina Hosni, Kansas State University
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inviscid fluid flow behavior, as well toillustrate the relative importance of various sources of mechanical energy losses to wind tunneldesign.This paper presents the authors experience with modifying an Aerolab educational wind tunneltest facility for experimental work associated with an Undergraduate Campus Internship (CSI)mentoring program project. The purpose of this laboratory activity was to demonstratecharacteristics of variable area duct flow and diffuser boundary layer separation using flowvisualization by smoke injection. A simple modification to the test section region of the windtunnel was made to conform to a converging and/or diverging (diffuser) duct flow configuration.This setup was used in conjunction with a special-purpose smoke
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- Helen McNally, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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graduate and undergraduate levels. Her interest also includes outreach and curriculum development for K-12. Page 13.450.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Does the Index of Learning Styles Predict Laboratory Partner Success in Electronics Courses?IntroductionThis paper presents the results of a study into the success of various combinations of learningstyles for laboratory partners in electronic courses. Specifically we are using the Introduction toCommunications (electronics) course/lab in the Department of Electrical and
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- Steven Walk, Old Dominion University
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he was a University Scholar. Page 13.856.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Long On Students and Short On Equipment: An Effective and Well Received Method to Improve Laboratory Outcomes Given Laboratory Equipment ConstraintsAbstractColleges and universities experience temporary increases in student populations for manyreasons, such as changes in local population demographics or the popularity of specific majors.These periods of high enrollment do not always justify expansion of laboratory assets such asconstruction of new workstations, purchase of new test equipment, or the addition
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- Roger Beardsley, Central Washington University
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Gerpen, J., Shanks, B., Pruszko, R., Clements, D., & Knothe, G. ( 2004, July). Biodiesel productiontechnology. (NREL/SR Publication No. 510-36244). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder CO. p. 56(4) Local B100 Website, http://www.localb100.com, accessed Dec 29,2007(5) Journey to Forever website, http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_vehicle.html, accessed Dec 29, 2007(6) Van Gerpen, J., Shanks, B., Pruszko, R., Clements, D., & Knothe, G. ( 2004, July).Biodiesel productiontechnology. (NREL/SR Publication No. 510-36244). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder CO. p. 1(7) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, CRC Publications(8) Canakci, M. & Van Gerpen, J. (2003). A pilot plant to produce biodiesel from high free fatty
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- Ali Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University
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ArabiaAbstractEngineering is a practical discipline. It is a hands-on profession where doing is a key element.Practicing engineers use research laboratories and development laboratories to obtainexperimental data to guide them in designing and developing a product and/or to determine if adesigned product performs as intended. Engineering students, on the other hand, need to go tolaboratories to build up essential skills and abilities required for the engineering profession ingeneral, and particularly those required to deal with industrial research and developmentlaboratories.In January 2002, ABET, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, held a 3-daycolloquy to explore the issues related to the true goals of students’ undergraduate lab experience.The aim
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- Katherine Taconi, University of Alabama, Huntsville; R. Michael Banish, University of Alabama, Huntsville
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production of ethanol has doubled,while biodiesel production has more than tripled. Media attention highlighting the current highprice and limited supply of crude oil and continually escalating environmental concerns with theuse of petroleum fuels has increased interest in and awareness of renewable energy and biofuels,especially among students. Since chemical engineers play a vital role in the advancement of thebiorefining industry, biofuel production is an excellent vehicle to make chemical engineering“come alive” for students and stimulate interest in the field as both a discipline and a profession.The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alabama inHuntsville has developed a hands-on laboratory activity allowing
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- Chiu Choi, University of North Florida
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- Joe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy; Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy
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6-axes of inertial sensor data, GPS, a real time clock (RTC) for data stamping, magneticcompass, and temperature sensing, making it an ideal circuit board for embedded applications.The system integrates analog and digital sensors, serial communication interfaces and protocols,and a user command interface.In this work we outline the development of a digital signal processor-based navigation systemand describe its capabilities. We also describe its application in student work, particularly as thebasis of laboratory experiments in a course on autonomous vehicles.System DescriptionOur research combines low cost readily available components to provide a sensor system capableof improving embedded computing applications and enhancing laboratory
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- Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland
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in a communication system course. Page 13.1351.2Using Real RF SignalsThe author's communication systems course uses real AM and FM radio signals to demonstratevarious concepts in communication systems. In addition to the homework assignments whichdeal with the theory of communication systems, the students perform a series of five projectsusing real signals as shown below. 1. Spectrum Analyzer Laboratory Experiment 2. AM Demodulation and Frequency Division Multiplexing 3. FM Demodulation 4. RDS Demodulation 5. RDS DecodingIn the first project, the students use a Tektronix RSA3408A Real Time Spectrum Analyzer toexamine and
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- Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown
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few students thatwork in the electrical power sector of industry do have prior knowledge of electrical powerindustrial software.A virtual electrical power systems laboratory is used in the EET-3334 course in conjunction withthe theory and application of the lecture. This virtual electrical power systems laboratory allowsa variety of electrical power systems to be designed effectively with minimum cost. In addition,the lab use of industrial software allows the students to practice using a tool that typically isrequired later when they work in industry. The students in the virtual electrical power systemslab first learn basic theory power theory using the Electronics Workbench / Multisim software.The students then learn to program some small
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- Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie
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- Bruce Vaughen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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laboratory, training the students about process safety in aninherently low-risk environment. The approach is based on more than ten years of industrialprocess hazards analysis experience, which includes assessing for process-related hazards andreducing process-related risks. Before the students began the experimental phase of theirlaboratory project, they documented that they understood the potential hazardous events relatedto their project. The students completed a series of Project Risk Analysis (PRA) check sheetswhich listed both the hazards addressed in the OSHA Process Safety Management standard (i.e.,fire, explosion, and toxic release) as well as other area and personnel safety-related hazards (e.g.,noise, utilities, etc.). Then the students
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- James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Brian Resnick, University of Cincinnati
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industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985.Brian Resnick, University of Cincinnati Brian Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BSEE and MSEE from The University of Cincinnati and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is the current Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section. His speciality is software engineering and prior to joining the university he had a software
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- Lingtao Zhang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University
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AC 2008-1298: GRADUATE LEARNING THROUGH TEACHING: DESIGN OF ADSSS SYSTEM FOR UNDERGRADUATE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSLABORATORYLingtao Zhang, Western Carolina UniversityRobert Adams, Western Carolina UniversityJames Zhang, Western Carolina University Page 13.652.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Graduate Learning through Teaching: Design of a DSSS System for Undergraduate Wireless Communications Laboratory Lingtao Zhang, Robert Adams, and James Z. Zhang Department of Engineering and Technology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723AbstractOver the past few years, wireless communications technology
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- David Olowokere, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olutola Jonah; Temitope O. Ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; O.O. Akinwunmi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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AC 2008-1316: REALISTIC LOOKING INTERFACES: IN SEARCH OF THE BESTERGONOMIC METAPHORS FOR REMOTE AND VIRTUAL LABORATORYINTERFACESDavid Olowokere, University of Alabama at BirminghamKayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityLawrence O. kehinde, Texas Southern University, Houston, TexasOlutola Jonah, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityTemitope O. Ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, NigeriaO.O. Akinwunmi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Page 13.1025.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Realistic Looking Interfaces: in Search of the Best Ergonomic Metaphors for Remote and Virtual Laboratory Interfaces.AbstractIn the last few years
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- Robert O'Connell; Michael Moore; Kevin Zimmershied
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Engineering Education, 2008 Using Student Projects to Develop Laboratory Experiments for
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- Gurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA); Lakshmi Munukutla
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AC 2008-1386: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCE TO STUDENTS BYINTRODUCING USB CONNECTIVITY INTO LAB ENVIRONMENT USING FTDIGurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA) Lakshmi Munukutla received her Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from Andhra University, India. She has been active in research and published several journal articles. She is the Chair of the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus.Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University Gurinder Singh brings almost a decade of experience in the electronics industry to his position as Senior Field Applications Engineer
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- Rocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College; David Hunt, State University of New York, Alfred
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inthe Electromechanical Analysis Laboratory to promote hands-on and real-world experiences tostudents enrolled in the mechanical and the electromechanical engineering technology programsat the State University of New York, Alfred. Because the students taking this course come fromtwo different backgrounds, mechanical engineering technology and electrical engineeringtechnology, the incorporation of virtual instruments has helped to balance the difference in thebackgrounds. The paper describes in detail how the experiments have been organized to ensurethat students from both backgrounds acquire the knowledge and skills in the mechanical and theelectrical components of the course.IntroductionThe present work describes our experiences in
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- Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Tenille Medley, Purdue University; Jeremi Hayes, Purdue University
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providepedagogical feedback to engineering laboratory graduate teaching assistants. The project beganwith use of the VaNTH Observation System, a direct observation instrument which providesfeedback about the extent to which an instructor’s interactions with students fit within thedimensions of the “How People Learn” framework, a model of effective teaching and learning aspresented in the National Research Council monograph, How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School. Preliminary findings revealed challenges to the use of this instrument ina first-year engineering laboratory course taught by graduate teaching assistants. To provideinformation for the adaptation of this instrument for use in the laboratory environment and to aidin developing new
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- Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olutola Jonah; Olusoji Ilori, Obafemi Awolowo University; E.O.B. ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; Oladipo O. Osasona, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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AC 2008-1098: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER VIRTUALLABORATORY BASED ON ILAB ARCHITECTURE AND NI ELVISKayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityLawrence O. kehinde, Texas Southern University, Houston, TexasOlutola Jonah, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityOlusoji Ilori, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityE.O.B. ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaOladipo O. Osasona, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Page 13.426.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of an Operational Amplifier Virtual Laboratory based on iLab Architecture and NI ELVISAbstractWe have developed and deployed ‘OpAmp Lab’, a pedagogic operational