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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Croft

engineering students and feedback receivedfrom co-op employers was very positive. Seeing these results, OSU decided to adapt the Drexel E4model in a slightly modified format.In the early days, the OSU adaption involved a select and dedicated faculty from the College ofEngineering and the College of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Engineering Mechanics wascombined with Math with accelerated Calculus, Statics, Particle Dynamics, and Rigid BodyDynamics. Engineering Fundamentals and Graphics as well as the programming course included ahands-on laboratory where students could experience different engineering disciplines throughoutthe first two quarters and thus they spent more productive time in engineering. First year studentswere offered the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

ofthe laboratory component in the Machine Design course. Here, the formative skills needed forthe Capstone Senior Design project are further improved. Open-ended design projects are createdto complement the specific mechanical element – or topic – being covered. The purposes of theseproblems are twofold: (1) to understand, use and become proficient in the ‘design process’; and(2) to explore, discover and learn a relatively basic yet significant facet of engineeringtechnology as it is practiced. A detailed design report is required and can include: title; table ofcontents; introduction; technical body with sketches, figures, tables, chronological development;results; conclusions/recommendations; appendix; and references. Preference may be given

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Anil B. Shrirao; Raquel Perez Castillejos

® tape, scalpel, 65°C oven, glass slides, commercial uncuredsilicone—poly(dimethylsiloxane) or PDMS1,—and polystyrene Petri dishes). We believe thatthis technique will circumvent the limited access to cleanroom facilities that most high schooland colleges have and provide them with a fabrication technique that students can use in standardteaching laboratories. As a demonstrator of the method, we present the fabrication of amicrofluidic device consisting of three individually-addressable microchannels.Microfluidic devices have at least one of their dimensions (height, width, and/or length) smallerthan 1 mm. As a result, flow in microfluidic devices is governed by viscous and capillaryforces2-3. Low Reynolds numbers (corresponding to the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Amit Bandyopadhyay

many have somewhat contradictory implications for educationalpractice. With the emergence of several schools and resulting competition among them,spokesmen seemed to lose their reservations about the tentative nature of their practicalsuggestions. More and more recommendations were made as scientific facts rather thanas tentative descriptions for the real world outside laboratory. Although there is anexpectation among psychologists and educators that it should be possible to derive quiteexplicit prescriptions for educational practice from the comprehensive learning theories.If an educator is going to select a learning theory, it would seem reasonable to expect thathe/she would pick the theory which provides the most complete and valid

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla S. LoPiccolo

study showed that students who used their own notes scored nearlytwice as high as students who used notes either given to them by the teacher or from anotherstudent.7 ) The active process of copying drawings and diagrams by hand as part of note-takingis turning into passive observance and a procrastinated review of supplied informationimmediately prior to an examination.The goal of this paper is to further the author‟s study of the use of visual aids in classrooms thatare not supplemented with a laboratory component for hands-on learning. The visual aid beingtested is one type of symbolic representation – a construction detail. In this study, studentretention after examining a labeled hand-held detail drawing without reproducing it is

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Qinghai Gao

– 401.[9] F. Hao, R. Anderson, and J. Daugman (2005). Combining cryptography with biometrics effectively. TechnicalReports, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.[10] U. Uludag, S. Pankanti, and A. Jain (2005). Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints. Proc. of Audio and Video-basedBiometric Person Authentication, pp: 310-319.[11] A. Kumar, and A. Kumar, A. (2008). A palmprint-based cryptosystem using double encryption. Proc. of SPIE,6944:1-9.[12] K. Rabuzin, M. Baca, and M. Sajko(2006). E-learning: Biometrics as a Security Factor. International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI'06), pp. 64.[13] S. Asha and C. Chellappan. Authentication of e-learners using multimodal biometric technology

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell

synergistic interaction between industry and academia through the RowanEngineering Clinic Program. A case study is presented presented from the student perspective,focusing on the educational and professional benefits to students who have worked on theseprojects.1.1 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 and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

wrenches, pliers, etc.) and a variety of measuringtools. The area was equipped with a bench milling machine, miter saw and two drill presses.We had, at our disposal a CNC milling machine, lathes, grinders and sanders.The suggested building materials were plywood, ¼” phenolic (scrap contributed by a localmanufacturer), and 2 x 3 metal building studs. Other materials were available and, within limits,we were able to supplement the stores. A variety of standard hardware was available (sheetmetalscrews, machine screws, nuts & bolts, pop rivets, etc.). The hardware available was acombination of laboratory supplies from MCC and the stock of hardware loaned toTechXploration by a local high school FIRST Robotics team.For controls we chose Parallax

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

Technology and Construction Management Engineering Technology programs inour department. It is also a prerequisite course for a number of other courses in both programs.CON 161 is a 2 hour and 50 minute per week lecture course that introduces students toconstruction material characteristics, residential and small-scale commercial buildingconstruction methods, and the construction industry as a whole. Other than a soil sieve test,CON 161 lacks a laboratory component. Assessment of student learning in this course hastraditionally been either via weekly quizzes, mid-term and final examinations. Faculty membersteaching the three sections of this course normally draw construction details on the board andsupplement their teaching with PowerPoint

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

José L. Torres; Vijendra Agarwal

,technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines has existed much longer than socialsciences and humanities. It is not surprising given the fact that faculty in STEM areas havebeen discussing ways to integrate UR as a capstone experience longer and found that URenhanced student learning, increase critical thinking skills and steered students into successfulSTEM related careers. It has also been relatively easier to provide UR experiences in sciencesand engineering because faculty typically have their research laboratories to fit in one or moreaspiring undergraduates. In the current global competitive environment and United Statesfacing a critical shortage of students majoring in STEM areas, it is more critical than everbefore that institutions

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

E. N. Bart; J. Kisutcza

diagram upon which graphical design work may be done. (Examples of the t-x-yand x-y diagrams appear in the appendix.) Considerable space has been left on the enthalpy-concentration diagram above the dew point curve and below the bubble point curve to allowspace for delta point construction. The chart has some 40 tie lines computer generated upon itand an auxiliary curve to generate tie lines tie lines not appearing on the chart. The authors dohave complete computer generated Ponchon-Savarit solutions for the systems ethanol-water andmethanol-water.Such charts do not have to be confined to use in the laboratory. Workshops can be run in order toteach the design techniques. The students can be equipped with the necessary graphs and thesolutions can

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Pathickal Poulose; Ahmet Zeytinci

Aptitudes)essential to laboratory experimentation.IntroductionWhat are the essential differences between the realms of Science, Engineering and Technology?There have been many different attempts at distinguishing among these “vineyards”. For thepurposes of this paper the following distinctions are used: 1. Science is the discovery of phenomena. 2. Engineering is the ingenuity of invention or creation of things useful for society. 3. Technology is the art and craftsmanship of bringing all of this to fruition. “Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 2Very little, if

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A Gray

and teach them the concepts, emphasizing the language. 3. Ask all faculty and advisors to use the language and concepts when dealing with students, for example, in advising sessions. (In a business that expects to improve, personnel would be told to do so.)It is not complicated. Perhaps in a few years an entire upper-class student body of a college will act asmentors when they shoot back, “Change your process.”David A. Gray, following retirement from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, has been an assistantprofessor of engineering at Messiah College since 2000. 51 Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams, Six Sigma for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 5: Virtual Learning and Technology Integration

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bo Yu, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.[4] Yu, B., “Teach online controls laboratory using a low-cost temperature control lab hardware,” 2022ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Doug Kim

. Rappaport (2002) Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice. Prentice Hall2.  Cisco Systems (2012) Challenges of unlicensed Wi-Fi deployments: A practical guides tocable operators. Cisco Systems3.  Carr, J.; Frank B. (2007) Active learning using guided projects in an upper year ECE course.Presented at 2007 ASEE Annual Conference4.  Border, D. (2012) Developing and designing undergraduate laboratory wireless sensornetwork. Presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference5.  Crilly, B (2013). A novel approach to teaching an undergraduate electromagnetics, antennaand propagation course. Presented at 2013 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

they would order would be in perfect condition, and backups would not be necessary. Thestudents also did not include a possible substitute if one of their items could not be ordered.These assumptions made it harder for the buyer, and also increased the chance of disappointmentwhen their order was not met.In our after-action follow-ups with each team, the primary walkaway was that imperfect sourcingwastes time and causes frustration by both requestor and clerk. In some cases, lessons learnedfrom the earlier class led to success in this real-world buy.V. Laboratory ManagersStarting in January 2014, students have been employed as Lab Managers for an on-campusFusion Lab. The Fusion is a multidisciplinary lab run by the Astronautical

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul B. Crilly; Richard Hartnett

Navigation course where phased arrays areused to localize signals, indicates that students who did this experiment had better intuition and solidunderstanding about this subject than those who simply did simulations. It was especially gratifying toobserve their reactions when the perceived sound volume went from loud to almost complete silence withonly inches of movement. Thus we transformed an abstract set of equations into a sensory experience.While the 8-element array provides further confidence that the theory matched the experiment results, itwas much easier to perform the experiment using the 4-element array. This experiment will be integrated into the laboratory portion of the antennas course at the U.S. CoastGuard Academy where additional

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wenli Guo; Vazgen Shekoyan

solutions. Then we asked themto do reflective self-corrections and submit it within a DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDYweek along with their original graded homework.Once both students' homework and self-corrections Course Description: The Conceptual Physicswere submitted to us, we filled in the last two columns course at QCC has three 50-minute lectures and one 1of the spreadsheet. Note that no points were recovered hr 50 minute long laboratory per week. It is a onesemester-long introductory physics course focusing on Few of the reasons why we used the midtermconcepts with minimum math requirements for non- exams rather than FCI scores for the analysis are thescience majors. We offer 6

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

conducted in a computer laboratory – a setting that has more distractions than thetraditional lecture room and therefore not the optimal venue for student note taking. Note taking,per Piolat, increases both students’ attention in class and their performance on tests, but it canalso interfere with students’ efforts to comprehend lecture content.1 In a separate study Kiewrareported that students typically record only about one -third of the important points in a lecture.2The goal of this paper is to show that guided note taking – faculty generated partial notes thatstudents actively complete during a lecture – improve students’ comprehension in a lecturelaboratory setting. In addition, this study furthers the author’s research in innovative

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

major.IntroductionPartnership between an Educational Institution and Secondary Schools is not a new concept infostering learning among students. There are many universities that work closely with highschools to develop a relationship to help fit students’ needs. Universities and high schoolstraditionally maintained collaborations by including student job shadowing, outreach activities,faculty exchanges, and recruiting. The purpose of these partnerships is to expose high schoolstudents to the major so they can plan ahead to meet the needs of industries, governments,national laboratories, and the training need. The goal of any university engineering technology curriculum is to provide theinformation and skills so each student so they can be successful in their

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence J. Genalo

their three years of courseworktogether was an engineering course called Toying With TechnologySM.Toying With TechnologySM: The CourseThe Toying With TechnologySM course was initially offered during the 1996-1997academic year at Iowa State University by two engineering professors: Dr. Larry Genaloand the late Dr. Charles Wright. This engineering course was unique in that it was onlyoffered to education majors. According to Genalo (1998), the course encouraged andassisted students in designing and conducting hands-on laboratory exercises, whichwere based upon real world problems constructed out of LEGOs®. The courseexpounded upon technological innovations and assisted the preservice teachers inincorporating these activities into classroom

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Skills • Stage One: Building up knowledge and skills from scratch to a “preset” level Two semesters • Stage Two: Addressing writing skills, comprehension, and technical English One semester Math and Science One or two semesters • “Prep” Math: To link high school math with first year college math • “Prep” Science: General physics and/or general chemistry at high school One or two semesters level with hands-on laboratory experiments Practical Training

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

Format The teaching experiment described herein was carried out in the “Mechanical SystemsDesign” course taught at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP). This is a junior/seniorlevel course that serves as a precursor to Senior Design. Key elements of the course include acomprehensive “design and build” project, and a lecture focus on developing the completedesign process. In the semester studied, students in the course were required to design and build alaboratory experiment to demonstrate the functioning of a mechanical system. The premisewas that the experiment would become part of a “lab kit” to be used in conjunction with an on-line presentation of the Mechanical Systems Laboratory course taught at UWP. Students worked on

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

, teacherswere to gather knowledge from collaborative learning, lectures, and laboratory activities at theinstitute. Then they would apply the knowledge to solve the design project [5].Daily activities in the institute would consist of the following three interrelated components:1) Lectures: The purpose was to provide the background knowledge for conducting engineeringdesign, and illustrate how mathematics and science are used to solve real world problems.2) Experiments: Participants were to conduct an inquiry-based learning that combinedobservation with hands-on activities. Some commonly available devices were used as theexperimental objects to learn how mathematics and science were involved in making thesedevices. This type of experiments did not

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard E. Smith

Description of the TX-0 Computer,” Memorandum 6M-4789-1, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lincoln, MA, October 1958. On-line (retrieved 8 July 2004) at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/tx- 0/6M-4789-1_TX0_funcDescr.pdf 3. Bell, C. Gordon, J. Craig Mudge, and John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Design, Digital Press, Bedford MA, 1978. 4. Osborne, Hugh, "The Postroom Computer," Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, Volume 1, Issue 4 (December 2001), pp. 81 - 110.

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Reza Raeisi; Deepak Anand

and system level modeling using HDL, and application of embedded microcontroller hardware and software as they related to education and laboratory environments.Deepak Anand Mr. Deepak Anand received a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from Uttar Pradesh Technical University in India in 2006. He also received a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University Fresno in 2008. His research interests include nanotechnology, embedded system, and control Systems Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

. Fig. 9. Rating scheme.AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part by the CONACYT under Grant No. 91013.References1.T. C. Hutchinson, F. Kuester, „ Hardware Architecture for a Visualization Classroom: VizClass, 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput appl Eng Educ 12:232-241.2. Fuller D.A. and Moreno A.F. (2004). Experimenting With a Computer-Mediated Collaborative Interaction Model to Support Engineering Courses, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 12 (3), 175-187.3. Li, S. G. and Lie, Q.(2004). Interactive Groundwater (IGW): An Innovative Digital Laboratory for Groundwater Education and Research, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (4), 179-203.4. Fu, T.T. (2003). Applications of Computer Simulation in

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Anil B. Shrirao; Raquel Perez-Castillejos

® tape, scalpel, 65°C oven, glass slides, commercial uncuredsilicone—poly(dimethylsiloxane) or PDMS1,—and polystyrene Petri dishes). We believe thatthis technique will circumvent the limited access to cleanroom facilities that most high schooland colleges have and provide them with a fabrication technique that students can use in standardteaching laboratories. As a demonstrator of the method, we present the fabrication of amicrofluidic device consisting of three individually-addressable microchannels.Microfluidic devices have at least one of their dimensions (height, width, and/or length) smallerthan 1 mm. As a result, flow in microfluidic devices is governed by viscous and capillaryforces2-3. Low Reynolds numbers (corresponding to the