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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

members to study at the graduate level and to pursue their career dreams.Three field trips were held throughout 2012 as part of the second component of Links toEngineering. Several EEWIE members visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CAand the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona during the summer, 2012. Two of the EEWIE participants attended a three-day NASAAdvanced Rocketry Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama from July 18 to 21, 2012.The final component of Links to Engineering was to have students work on Engineering-relatedresearch projects. Members were not required to conduct research, but several students opted todo so. Three EEWIE members joined the Citrus College Rocket Owls

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2013 GSW

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

articulation agreements have beeninstitutionalized, they now represent a platform for recurring future communication/collaborationamong the STEM departments across all three campuses.Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences for Transfer StudentsUndergraduate research experiences have been shown to be an excellent opportunity forengagement and persistence within STEM degree plans.10 Thus, the Collaborative placed twentySTEM students from Collin and Richland College in the research laboratories of UT Dallasfaculty in the summers of 2011 and 2012 with an additional twelve planned for the summer of2013. The research areas covered a wide STEM base including biology, chemistry, geosciences,applied mathematics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering

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2013 GSW

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Cherif Aissi; Mohammed Zubair

control and avoid chaos butalso how to design chaotic circuits and develop applications, which explore these phenomena.Realizing the educational value to introduce undergraduate students to the phenomena of chaos, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright ©2013, American Society for Engineering EducationLonngren [1] describes an interesting electronics experiment to illustrate the existence of chaos.The described laboratory experiment with the accompanying theory is a good start for the studentto grasp and understand chaos. As a continuation of this goal and to enhance studentsunderstanding of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ameya A. Chandelkar; Deepak G. Bhat

test, it is relatively cheaper and easier to prepare test specimens.Implementation of a Hot Hardness Test Method for Materials LaboratoryWe have implemented a unique high-temperature micro-indentation hardness tester in theSurface Engineering Laboratory at the University of Arkansas, by assembling variousmechanical components and electrical systems for the operation at high temperatures in the rangeof room temperature to about 1200oC. The basic hardware components were obtained from acommercial company which had dismantled and discarded their equipment since it was no longerfunctional. The equipment was assembled from various components and modules as a graduatestudent project, and tested to verify the operation of different functional modules

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia L. Morse

outcomes.Grading sheets in engineering education literatureThe use of exam or assignment grading sheets is certainly nothing new. Walvoord andAnderson’s 1998 work on Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment1 redirectedthought on the use of grading rubrics to specify desired outcomes, objectives, or “primary traits”expected from student work. This was considered a dual attempt to (1) encourage specificdesired learning outcomes and (2) make grading more fair and efficient. V. L. Young et. al.,applied Walvoord and Anderson’s Primary Trait Analysis to the grading of laboratory reports ina senior capstone chemical engineering course. In addition to meeting goals (1) and (2), Youngand her colleagues also noted the benefits of their grade sheets

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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B. Zhang; H. Misak; P.S. Dhanasekaran; D. Kalla; R. Asmatulu

science, technology, and engineeringfields. Advances in miniature electronics could result in changes in the classroom25. Havingorganized education or training systems to college students and researchers in laboratories is akey factor of reducing the negative impacts of nanotechnology. Educational progress followsnanotechnology research progress. Researchers or college students do not fully realized andunderstand how nanoparticles affect a system. One of the important causes is the lack of toxicityinformation from manufacture and could easily be handled safely with appropriate protectionequipment26, 27Developing new nanotechnology classes, providing nano safety seminar and conference couldnot only benefit college students, but also engineers and

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jeffery S. Thomas

hadtrouble correctly identifying failure modes, because this was probably their first attempt at failureanalysis, but the experience was motivational because it involved real-life components andcreative writing.IntroductionA reverse case study was used in the sophomore-level Materials Testing course at MissouriUniversity of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) during the spring semester of 2012. Thisone-credit-hour laboratory course accompanies the mechanics of materials course required ofmany engineering majors. The inspiration for this unique type of case study came from DeborahA. Beyer1 in the Department of Nursing at Miami University. Professor Beyer presents herstudents with a list of medications and asks them to deduce a patient’s medical

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Md. Mamunur Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed; Khalil Dajani; Jobaidur Rahman Khan; Haider Bhuiyan

engineering andProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2mechanical engineering), engineering technology (civil and mechanical), computer sciencecourses as well as courses from other disciplines (i.e., Introduction to Arabic). The engineeringcourses include introductory and advanced undergraduate level, and graduate level – both lectureand laboratory based courses. The student satisfaction and teaching performance were measuredbased on the calculated SSE and SET indices.The necessary data were gathered from student evaluation forms from five different institutions.The name of institution, discipline, and list of courses are provided in Table

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jennifer L. Anthony; Keith L. Hohn; John R. Schlup; Chris Aiken; Christopher Frampton

cooperative effortbetween the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and universities. Initiatives started bySACHE include an on-line certificate that students can earn by completing several modules onsafety and the SAChE Student Design Competition for Safety in Design that recognizes studentswho do an outstanding job considering process safety in their submission to the American Instituteof Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student design competition.However in 2007, a reactive chemical explosion at T2 Laboratories killed four employees andinjured 13 more people, including multiple civilians. Within their final report, the Chemical SafetyBoard emphasized the critical need to improve chemical process safety and hazard recognitioneducation within

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu; W.S. Khan; E. Asmatulu; M. Ceylan

10 19. NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, Joint Programmatic Commission Science and Ethics, Bioethics Education, December, 2007. 20. http://web.gccaz.edu/~mdinchak/eng101/argbioethics.htm, accessed on July 7, 2010. 21. Asmatulu, R. “Biomaterials—Class Notes,” Wichita State University, 2008. 22. Asmatulu, R., Khan, W., Nguyen, K.D., and Yildirim, M.B. “Synthesizing Magnetic Nanocomposite Fibers for Undergraduate Nanotechnology Laboratory,” International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (in press). Biographical Information RAMAZAN ASMATULU Dr. Asmatulu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University for five years. He has conducted several

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu; H. Misak; W. Khan

of Materials II Spring 2007,” University of Connecticut, 2007.17. Asmatulu, R,. Claus, R.O., Mecham, J. B. and S. G. Corcoran, “Nanotechnology-associated coatings for aircrafts” Materials Science, Vol. 43, No: 3, 2007, 415-422.18. Jaksic, N. “Nanoscience, Nanoengineering and Nanotechnology Education at Colorado StateUniversity – Pueblo,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 931, 2006.19. Feisel, L.D. and Rose, A.J. “The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 121-130, January, 2005.20. Leva, A., “A Hands-On Experimental Laboratory for Undergraduate Courses in Automatic Control,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 263–272, 2003

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

7 Department of Chemical Engineering Survey Fall 2006 Advisory Board/Student Luncheon Our educational objectives are to prepare our students, through a high-quality course of instruction involving classroom, laboratory, and professional activities, for successful employment in the chemical process industries, including energy-related industries, environmental, materials, or biotechnology, for graduate studies in chemical engineering; or for graduate studies in other fields such as medicine, law and business administration. For the purposes of ABET accreditation, and to help keep our program current by responding to changes in the global economy

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

, laboratory experiences,research based upon appropriate professional literature, and communication skilldevelopment (both written and oral). Teams within the Department configured unique courses to fit the guidelines. Bothcourses have evolved through time with feedback from both instructors and students.Accordingly, more discrete skills sets were refined and delivered. The net result is atandem of courses that engage and expand student awareness about the engineeringaspects of their world.Call to ArmsIn 2005, the General Education Program at Temple University challenged the many collegeson campus to create a new series of general education courses to expand the offerings for 91students and enhance

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

classroom learning, laboratory experiences and cooperative education alliances withindustry.”The school offers graduate and undergraduate degrees showcasing the best of RobertMorris University’s practical, real-world philosophy of engaged and applied learning. Inbiology, environmental science, pre-medical, mechanical engineering, and mathematics,our faculty are experts in their fields.Close ties to the business world allow our students to tackle real problems under theguidance of their professors. Internships and research are key to our curriculum, helpingour graduates gain subsequent employment. Students work with sophisticated labequipment, such as our 7,500-square-foot Engineering Learning Factory and dedicatedscience laboratories in physics

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nikola Jovic; Abayomi Dairo; ASHENAFI TESFAYE; AIME VALERE; YANNICK ROLAND KAMDEM; Sasan Haghani; Paul Cotae

orcoauthored more than 100 papers in these areas and 4 books. Dr. Paul Cotae is a SeniorMember of IEEE, member of ASEE, member of HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) and SIAM. He is cited inWho’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in America, and in Who’s Who in the World.Dr. Paul Cotae is Vice Chair of the IEEE Washington Section, Chair of the CommunicationChapter Washington Section. He is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE ComSoc ChapterAchievement Award and 2011 IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the Year award. He has beenselected as ASEE Fellow by the Naval Research Laboratories in 2009 and 2010. 422 Detecting Falls among Elderly Patients in Nursing Homes by Using Wireless Sensor

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stephanie Parker; Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias

improve the detection of hazards due to terrain, air traffic, and runway obstacles byintegrating data from weather radar, infrared video or Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) with existingaircraft sensors 1. Within this project, our laboratory has focused on the use of dedicated FieldProgrammable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware for computationally intensive algorithms. When images andvideo are acquired, some manipulation and processing must occur before they are displayed. In order tomaintain real-time feedback to the pilot, dedicated hardware can be used instead of software solutions.This article evaluates a design method for a real-time processing system based on Field Programmable GateArray (FPGA) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) structure. To

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Dahm

nor the design problems can be well described as “multidisciplinary.” • Some program objectives are related to ability to perform hands-on experimental and laboratory work. Chemical Plant Design makes extensive use of simulation but has never been taught with a wet lab component (at least, not at Rowan).The next section describes a project-based course that complements Chemical PlantDesign.Junior/Senior Engineering ClinicRowan University has an eight-semester Engineering Clinic program intended to provideEngineering students with experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems. The sequence culminates in the Rowan Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, inwhich students work on real engineering research and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

the LEGO NXT brick (a powerful 32-bit machine), directly from a high-levelSimulink environment. The motivation and design decisions underlying the development of thetoolbox have been discussed, together with some details of its architecture. From a user’sperspective, the VU-LRT blockset provides a strong base set of input/output blocks which can beused like any of the other standard Simulink blocks in student designs. Further work is requiredto add ‘external mode’ capability to the toolbox, but Bluetooth and USB communications arealready in place. Future work will also focus on the design of exemplary laboratory moduleswhich demonstrate how the toolbox can be used to enhance student learning in a classroomenvironment.AcknowledgementsThe

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Rajavel; M.G. Prasad

Acoustic Noise Synthesis For Muffler System Design And Simulation B. Rajavel Noise and Vibration Control Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ-07030 M.G.Prasad Noise and Vibration Control Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ-07030 729 Acoustic Noise Synthesis for muffler system design and simulationAbstract: Mufflers are typically used to reduce the automotive exhaust noise, which is one of the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

Engineering Clinics The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technicalprinciples, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills andthe ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professionalsuccess 2, 3, 4. Rowan’s Clinic Program integrates these diverse challenges of “real-world”projects with pedagogically valuable hands-on learning experiences 5, 6 and technicalcommunications7, 8, 9

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chang-Hee Won

simply cannot be introduced in conventional lecture and laboratory courses. From proper documentation techniques and the systems engineering philosophy to teamwork and systems-level integration, students learned valuable lessons in both the technical aspects of engineering and the group dynamics of a large-scale project. • Large-scale system integration also rarely takes place in either undergraduate or graduate education. The satellite project allowed the students to gain valuable experience that is generally not found in either the on-campus curriculum or through cooperative (co-op) education. • Dealing with group dynamics helps students to polish their “soft skills,” which

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

Structure and AssessmentMET 210W is a three credit hour course that meets for 5 hours a week and is divided intolecture and laboratory time. As stated above it is the goal of the course to provide eachstudent with the necessary concepts and procedures to properly design and performanalysis of common machine elements in mechanical systems. Prerequisites for thecourse include statics, strength of materials, kinematics, and dynamics. Some sort ofAutoCAD or Pro-Engineer software experience is also necessary along with MS-Officeskills in creating engineering drawings and reports.The text book used in the course is Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, 4 th edition,by Robert L. Mott, 7. The authors feel this text does a great job in addressing all

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bert Davy; Indranil Goswami; Jiang Li; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Charles Oluokun; Arcadio Sincero

. 2003 Design of a mass transit system for Baltimore 2004 Design a structure to serve as a laboratory on the Martian surface 2005 Design a feature in a structure that allows the structure to respond automatically to a disturbance (earthquake, wind, tsunami, etc) so as to minimize damage to the structure. 2006 Design a system to protect a metropolitan area on the US coastline along the Gulf of Mexico from a Category 4 hurricane. For the spring of 2004, the assignment was to design a structure to serve as a laboratory on Mars. Some specifications were – occupancy, specific usage designations for the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David I. Schwartz

would be lost, a more complexmodel would offer greater insight into how a game changes state. Deciding which game components andstates should contribute (and to what degree) to a score needs further work. 8Finally, educators may wish to introduce mathematical concepts from a game design and analysisperspective. Ultimately, scoring could provide an essential link between theoretical fundamentals andsoftware implementations.7. AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New Yorkfor providing a Visiting Faculty Research Professorship for the summer of 2007 and a subsequentextension grant. Research into wargame design and development methods

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Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Himani Sharma, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Materials Division (MATS)

professionals. This article examines the guest presentationsdelivered by materials manufacturers in two undergraduate lab courses within the field ofMaterials Science and Engineering (MSE). Additionally, it presents findings from a survey studyconducted to evaluate the impact of the guest lecture initiative, involving an average class size of55 undergraduate students in each of the two courses.In Fall and Spring of 2022 and 2023, industry presentations were integrated into MSE 3021 andMSE 4022 materials properties and processing laboratory courses to enhancethe students' understanding of real-world applications and industry practices. Presenters wereinvited from diverse sectors of industry, including metal, ceramic and polymer processing(Applied

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Scoles

Everything, MorrisCooke [Online]. Available: http://www.morriscooke.com/applications-ios/explain- everything-26. MovieCaptioner, SynchriMedia [Online]. Available: http://www.synchrimedia.com7. Quality Matters, A National Benchmark for Online Course Design, Quality Matters [Online]. Available: https:// www.qualitymatters.org8. “Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices,” Sandia National Laboratories, SAND87-7023, Updated 1995 [Online]. Available: https://www.wbdg.org/ccb/DOE/TECH/ sand87_7023.pdf9. HOMER, HOMER Energy [Online]. Available: http://homerenergy.com10. Respondus LockDown Browser, Respondus [Online]. Available: https://www.respondus.com/products/ lockdown-browser/11. PVWatts Calculator

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Warren A. Rosen; M. Eric Carr

, students learn importantconcepts including the system bus, three-state logic, and active-low signals. Inaddition, the laboratory work is complemented by lectures and readingassignments on such topics as pipelining, superscalar processing, cache, andadvanced architectures such as Core Duo.Introduction Historically, early courses in microprocessors were based on simple training kits usingprocessors such as the 6800 or 8085 connected to system components such as memory, clock,etc.1 In these courses, the internal architecture as well as the remaining system components andinterconnects (memory, clocks, buses, etc.) were described conceptually and the emphasis, interms of the hardware usage, was on learning and using the instruction set and

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim; Tang-Hung Nguyen

Minitab, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.11. Messner, J., & Horman, M. (2003). Using advanced visualization tools to improve construction education.Proceedings of CONVR 2003, Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, Blacksburg , VA, 145-155.12. Meyer, R., and Krueger, D. (1998). A Minitab guide to statistics. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.13. Uran, S., & Jezernik, K. (2008). Virtual laboratory for creative control design experiments. IEEE Transactionson Education, 51(1), 69-75.Author BiographiesJIN-LEE KIM, Ph.D., P.E., LEED GA is an assistant professor of Dept. of Civil Engineering & ConstructionEngineering Management at California State University, Long Beach. He is a director of Green