Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

distance coursesbecause the technological innovations have open up new vistas to be explored inimparting education. Probably, there is not a universal approach how to use the Internetto introduce the various scientific disciplines. One of the biggest hurdles to offeringdistance courses to undergraduates is requirement of the laboratories. This paperpresents an example of the computer simulation of the thermodynamics laboratoryexperiments for undergraduate students. It also presents some ways in which eachstudent should do independent laboratory work and should not obtain extraordinary helpon this work that will have being on his/her true grade. It provides a further step into therealm of introduction the thermodynamics course on the

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akhter Hossain, University of South Alabama; Kevin White, University of South Alabama

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Civil Engineering

personnel involved in the design and maintenance of concrete structures. This problemcan be effectively addressed by educating those who are already in the transportation industry aswell as those who will work in that industry in the future. This paper describes an attempt madeat the University of South Alabama to introduce civil engineering undergraduate students, manyof whom will work for the transportation industry in the future, to the premature cracking ofconcrete bridge decks and pavements. In the summer of 2005, a group of undergraduate students,under the supervision of a faculty member, made significant efforts to enhance the CivilEngineering Construction Materials Laboratory to increase its capacity for the purpose ofstudying the early age

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Roy W. Melton

pressing required learning objectives, electronic instrumentationinstruction is often relegated to a very brief discussion and demonstration in the very lab sessionwhere some quite extensive use is required.Thus, a student’s prior experience level with electronic instrumentation can affect many facets ofhis or her laboratory coursework. Beyond obvious characteristics and implications of abilitywith such equipment, attitude is a paramount determiner of laboratory performance. Inparticular, a student with no prior equipment experience who is neither confident nor proficientfollowing a three-minute just-in-time overview in a laboratory session, will likely be somewhatintimidated by the laboratory expectation, at the very least. Depending on his or

Conference Session

Development of Undergraduate Distance Education Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hamid Hadim, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Robert Ubell, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

best todevelop, implement, and assess a fully accredited online undergraduate engineering program. Ofparticular importance is to identify and address critical elements of such a program, including:potential student populations, faculty requirements, curriculum requirements, admissions criteria,accreditation requirements, implementation resources (faculty, technical equipment, financial),collaboration with other institutions, and laboratory requirements.Successful development of such a program will enable access to superior engineering educationby under-represented populations, students in remote locations, and students who are otherwiseconstrained with regard to traditional undergraduate engineering programs due to family oremployment

Conference Session

Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Anderson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tyson Hall, Southern Adventist University

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Computers in Education

–point and floating–point implementations. 9. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of implementing DSP systems in DSP microproces- sors and dedicated hardware (FPGAs or ASICs). Figure 1: Measurable student outcomes for ECE 4273. ECE 4273 is a senior–level technical elective in digital signal processing. It is a threesemester–hour course with two hours of lecture and a three–hour laboratory session eachweek. The lecture and laboratory material are closely coordinated such that topics coveredin lecture are reinforced in a hands–on laboratory experiment within at most a two–weektime period. Undergraduate students taking this course are expected to be familiar with Matlab,digital filter design, basic

Conference Session

Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Helbling, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Darin Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Capture simulation. Page 12.826.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 IMPACT OF NEW FACILITIES ON ENGINEERING STUDENT OUTCOMESAbstractEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) has established a reputation for providingundergraduate students with a curriculum which has a strong emphasis on application basedlearning. In an effort to improve this learning environment, the campus has recently added a20,000 square foot Aerospace Experimentation and Fabrication (AXFAB) building dedicated toproviding undergraduate students with a premier laboratory

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Griffith, University of Wyoming; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Daniel Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Lincoln Laboratory. He co-authored two textbooks on microcontrollers and embedded systems and authored over 70 journal and conference papers. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi (faculty advisor), IEEE (senior), and ASEE. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado. In 2005, Pack was named “Colorado Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research interests include cooperative UAVs, intelligent control, automatic target recognition, and robotics. Email: daniel.pack@usafa.edu Page 12.1586.1

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2007-1528: A COLLABORATIVEUNIVERSITY-COLLEGE-INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGYTRANSFER PROJECTAaron Ball, Western Carolina University Dr. Ball is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology within the Kimmel School at Western Carolina University. Dr. Ball served as the PI on three year funded project by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help develop a new product with the collaboration of a College-Industry-Government partnership.Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University Dr. Dunlap is Professor of Engineering and Technology within the Kimmel School and has the honor of serving as the Director for the Kimmel School and Associate Dean for the College of Applied Sciences at Western

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

A Hands-on Approach To Teaching CAD/CAM for Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping ApplicationsAbstractThis paper describes an integrated laboratory-oriented course IT445 in computer-aideddesign/manufacturing and computer numerical control. Teaching this subject in an 11-week ofacademic quarter is a challenging task requiring a combination of instructional delivery methods.We used a hands-on learning approach involving in-class computer-based exercises and team-based laboratory projects. The course content is designed around four major subjects: softwarefamiliarization, hardware familiarization, design and manufacturing integration, and industrialapplications. The author will share his observations and experience with

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ASME and SPE, and he has received a best paper award from SPE’s Injection Molding Division, the distinguished Assistant Professor Award at Stevens Institute of Technology, an Honorary Master’s Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Tau Beta Pi Academic Excellence Award. Page 12.675.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Enhancing the Learning Experience Using Simulation and Experimentation to Teach Mechanical VibrationsAbstractMechanical vibrations represent an important subject in mechanical engineering. This paperdescribes a simulation-based online laboratory

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

technologies based on Virtual Instrumentation, it is now possible toimplement multidisciplinary labs that span different facets of engineering from control and signalprocessing to embedded design, from chemistry and physics to electrical and computerengineering. In this paper, we will explain how Virtual Instrumentation helps to establishmultidisciplinary labs. We will also examine a modular, cost-effective, laboratory platform, NIELVIS (Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite) from National Instruments thathas gained acceptance in academia as platform to teach concepts in sensors & transducers,circuits, electronics, microcontroller programming, control, signal processing and embeddeddesign and test.1. IntroductionThe recent years

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

contain both lecture andhands-on laboratory design work in the same course time period. Its format was coined the“lecture-laboratory venue.” The folks at this luncheon meeting all agreed that it was a uniqueidea that had merit. At that moment the College of Engineering dean happened to walk into thismeeting. As he inquired as to what was going on, one of the folks at the meeting explained thatProfessor Tapper had a new idea that had merit and would be an excellent way to help revitalizethe electrical engineering technology program. Interestingly enough, the first words from thedean in response to this was, “What is it going to cost me..?” This seemed like an interestingcomment in that the dean had no idea of the details of our preceding

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massoud Moussavi, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

androuting in cheap designs. While optics has become a vitalpart of electronics, it has unfortunately been absent in mostfour-year college/university engineering technologyprograms. The Electronic and Computer EngineeringTechnology (ECET) program at California StatePolytechnic University - Pomona (CalPoly-Pomona) hasrecognized this deficiency and in order to help alleviate thisproblem joined the NSF funded PHOTON2 project (1). ThePHOTON2 project is a New England Board of HigherEducation (NEBHE) sponsored program (2). By workingclosely with NEBHE, ECET program developed a seniorlevel photonic course using modified PHOTON2 materialsand laboratory experiments. This course uses optical andlaser components and equipment supplied by PHOTON2project. This

Conference Session

Creating 'Materials' Awareness

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bridge, Maine Maritime Academy; Barbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy

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Materials

can be contacted at john.bridge@mma.eduBarbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy Barbara Fleck is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Department at Maine Maritime Academy and a professional engineer. She began teaching at MMA in 1994 after working with several research and development groups, including Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sunpower, Inc. and Stirling Technology, Inc. She can be contacted at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME 04420; 207-326-2103, or bfleck@mma.edu Page 12.648.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

additional laboratory science courses and mathematicscourses through calculus, as well as traditional engineering science courses such asthermodynamics and fluid mechanics. The four Motrosports Engineering minor courses are usedas major courses in the curriculum. The Old Dominion University courses will be offered inMartinsville both live and through ODU’s TELETECHNET satellite television distance learningsystem. Laboratories for the Motorsports Technology courses will be uniquely situated at theVirginia International Speedway in Martinsville and at the NASA Langley Windtunnel facility(operated by ODU), in Hampton, Virginia. Plans are to initiate the program in the Fall 2007, asfunding becomes available. This paper will describe the detailed

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

microfluidics and MEMS devices for chemical and biological assays. He was the teaching assistant for the Biochip Laboratory course discussed in this paper. Page 12.971.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Microfluidics to Electrical Engineers: An Integrated Problem-Based Learning ExperienceIntroductionMicrofluidics is a multidisciplinary field comprising of physics, chemistry, engineering andbiotechnology that studies the behavior of fluids at the microscale and the design of systems thattake advantage of such behavior. The behavior of fluids at the microscale differ from“macrofluidic

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management positions in industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985.Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati Max Rabiee is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1987. Dr. Rabiee has been a registered professional engineer since 1988, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

for residue streams resulting from biofuel manufacturing operations. He is formerly an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, in the Department of Technology. He received the Faculty of the Year award in 2002 sponsored by the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. Page 12.1146.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Partnership in Undergraduate Research ExperiencePractical laboratory and work experience has been helpful in reinforcing the undergraduateeducational experience. With limited resources, individual organizations may struggle to give

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Menicucci, Montana State University; James Duffy, Montana State University; Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2007-1748: HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALENGINEERINGJoseph Menicucci, Montana State UniversityJames Duffy, Montana State UniversityBetsy Palmer, Montana State University Page 12.796.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Hands-On Introduction to Chemical and Biological EngineeringAbstractMontana State University has revised our freshman seminar course by modeling it afterRowan University’s exemplary Freshman Engineering Clinic which utilizes a hands-onlaboratory approach to introduce freshman students to engineering.In the first half of the course, innovative laboratory modules developed by faculty atMSU and Rowan were adapted and

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Neville Parker, The City College of The City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

andacademic experiences to underrepresented secondary school students. Cohorts of approximately25 students participate in the program, each year, over the four-week period immediatelyfollowing Independence Day. An effective internship component is embedded in the program toaccommodate the STI graduates. The students (11th or 12th graders) are paired with facultyprofessors to conduct research in transportation-related topics. During the past two summers, theinterns worked on transportation materials including plastic and SuperPave hot mix asphalt. It isnot surprising that the interns had no initial interest in this type of a traditional researchenvironment and laboratory setting since this new generation of students is attracted to the digitalworld

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

, 2007 Incorporating Studio Format into an Introductory Microprocessor CourseAbstractIn the fall 2002 semester I expanded an introductory microprocessor course by adding studiocontent and received very positive results. Studio format is a method of teaching engineeringmaterial, using cooperative learning and hands on activities. This course is a requirement for allof our electrical engineering and computer engineering undergraduate students. The coursepreviously did not have laboratory content and in expanding the course we chose studio as analternative to laboratory format. Unlike other uses of studio format, the lecture component wasretained as-is. In this case studio is scheduled separately

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

grade students, 11 and 12 years old, who have completed Introductory FEMME) • Senior FEMME (8th and 9th grade students, 13 and 14 years old, who have completed FEMME Continuum)• Chemical Industry For Minorities in Engineering (CHIME, 7th and 8th grade students, 12 and 13 years old)• Upward Bound, Mathematics and Science Program (9th-12th grade Newark, NJ minority High school students, 14-17 years old)These K-12 programs have a strong emphasis on laboratory safety and “hands-on” learning with Bench Scale, Freshman Engineering Laboratory and SeniorChemical Engineering Pilot Plant scale experiments. The programs have beenvery successful over the years with approximately 80 percent of the K-12students enrolling as

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Cheng, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kathleen Hayden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Electrical Engineering and ComputerEngineering programs. They also told us about their strong interests in the applications ofsoftware-hardware co-design (SHC) in embedded systems. With their assistance, we wereable to set up a digital design laboratory with design software from Cadence, Synopsisand Xilinx.There are many inexpensive FPGA boards from several vendors, which offer flexibility,performance and ease of use. Our students can design, implement and test digital circuitsusing a hardware description language, Verilog or VHDL. Many FPGA boards allowusers to instantiate a high performance processor, such as MicroBlaze, PowerPC, andARM, etc., and its memory and I/O devices on an FPGA chip. Therefore, we can use theboard to implement a very

Conference Session

Novel Applications of Computers/Software in Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, University of Northern Iowa; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

) software package is used toaccompany the teaching of a power electronics application course. PSCAD is a software packagefor power system simulations developed by Manitoba HVDC Research Centre1. Free trial andstudent versions are offered on the web site at www.pscad.com. This is especially attractive forstudents because they are able to download the software on their personal computer and work onthe simulation before or after the laboratory. PSCAD results are solved as instantaneous valuesin time, but can be converted to phasor magnitudes and angles via built-in transducer andmeasurement functions. This is very similar to how real system measurements are performed,such as rms meters and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum analyzers. The

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy Linn, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and applications ofsome innovative technologies in the classroom. I have chosen to concentrate on one suchtechnology in this paper. This technology is the use of computer based laboratory experiments inlieu of or to supplement hands-on laboratory experiments. I will focus on computer based labexperiments. The driving force behind this technology is to speed up student progress onlaboratory experiments and make the learning experience in the lab more efficient. I choose theelectrical field to concentrate my discussion because my background is in electronics and I havesignificant experience teaching electrical courses with accompanying labs. I will first give some

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kamesh Namuduri

Partnerships between Universities and Community Colleges Kamesh Namuduri, Assistant Professor, ECE Department, Wichita State University Abstract Wichita State University leads the Kansas Cybersecurity Consortium consisting of severalcommunity colleges within the state of Kansas, the Wichita Police Department (WPD), the RegionalComputer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) in Kansas City, Missouri, and regional industry. The efforts ofthis consortium are geared towards promoting education and training opportunities for professionals andincreasing the number of trained professionals in this important field. At present, the consortium consistsof seven community colleges that

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

/her academic field of study and ismade up of the following courses: Fundamentals of Biology, Molecular Biology andGenetics, Cell Biology, Biotechnology Laboratory courses, Compliance, Process QualityControl, and Bioinformatics Technology. The minor is available to any ---- Universitystudent majoring in any four-year degree baccalaureate degree program, i.e., science,technology, agriculture, pharmacy. The purpose of the minor is to offer the graduates ofthese four-year programs the basic knowledge and understanding of life-science basedproducts, processes, and product quality to seek employment opportunities in the area ofbiotechnology and biotech-manufacturing. The biotechnology minor aims to provide aUniversity-wide opportunity for

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Graham Walker

An Experimental Process Course Graham Walker Mechanical engineering department Manhattan College1 Introduction In many industrial environments today an engineer is expected to perform tests or simpleexperiments. This will become ever truer in the future as more and more design is done offshore andoutsourced to countries such as India and China. Consequently, it will become even more important forfuture engineering graduates to be familiar with testing and experimental procedures. A typical engineering curriculum has a number of laboratory courses distributed throughout itsfour years

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Kim, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of concepts introduced in each course.Curricular design of both courses as well as assessments of concurrent registration in the coursesis presented. Specific laboratory design, fabrication, and measurement experiments conducted inthe RF and microwave engineering course that helps emphasize concepts introduced in theengineering electromagnetics course are outlined.IntroductionRadio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering courses are commonly taught as an electricalengineering elective in the senior or graduate years of study.1 Concepts introduced in RF andmicrowave courses benefit from a solid understanding of passive and active circuits, and time-varying electromagnetic field theory.2 With regard to electromagnetic fields, wave

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

BaseAbstractA “device dissection” laboratory, based initially on light driven devices, was conceivedand realized in the early 1990s as a means of introducing new engineering students to thefield of engineering1. The varieties of summer and semester engineering uses for thisfacility were summarized in an earlier paper2 of related title “A Lab for All Seasons, ALab for All Reasons.” The present paper, “A Lab for All Reasons, A Lab for AllSeasons: Enlarging the Participant Base,” extends utilization of our engineeringlaboratory to non-engineering faculty and to non-engineering students. The first of thesenewer forays involves utilization of the lab as an enrichment adjunct to courses taught inother non-engineering departments, here with examples from