AC 2012-5457: DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHATRONICS AND INTELLI-GENT SYSTEMS LABORATORY FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCHDr. Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University Biswanath Samanta is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Ga. His expertise and research interests include broad areas of system dynamics and control, robotics, mechatronics, intelligent systems, advanced signal processing, prognostics and health manage- ment, and applications of computational intelligence in engineering and biomedicine. Samanta has de- veloped and taught numerous courses in these areas and supervised students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has more than 100 refereed research
field in the undergraduate curriculum. This paper will present a cell-culture based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.This module was developed to introduce students to basic cell culturing techniques and toprovide students with exposure to the issues related to the interaction between living and non-living materials (ABET Bioengineering Program Criteria). The lecture component focuses onbiocompatibility issues, including: the definition of biocompatibility, cellular response toimplantation of a foreign material, and the types of biocompatibility tests recommended by theFDA. For the laboratory component, students are first introduced to basic
nodes in wiring up a particular circuit, the client utilizes a depth-first-search algorithm to construct circuits from an arbitrary number of student node-to-nodeconnections. An attempt was made to prevent student disorientation by employing the use ofintuitive control actions to zoom and pan the view, as well as hide interface elements as desired.Lab assessment was done in two phases. First, a questionnaire was administered to students afterusing the lab. Their responses were compared with those for a previous generation of theoperational amplifier lab. Secondly, a small study was carried out to verify a previous argumentthat realistic interfaces improved students’ laboratory experience. The results of the study arediscussed and attempts are
mobile robotics. He is currently a lec- turer in the School of Engineering, Deakin University, where he teaches various electronics and robotics units.Ms. Robynne Hall, Deakin University Robynne Hall spent 13 years in the photographic industry designing cutting edge commercial print labo- ratories throughout Australia, maintaining and teaching silver halide and digital printing machines. As a mature age student, she returned to study and in 2002 completed an advanced diploma in electronics. She has since spent 12 months at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong as a Laboratory Technician and tutor. During the past eight years, Hall has been at Deakin University as the Technical Officer for electronics
25.1075.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Professional Development-Styled Short Courses for a Highly Effective Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory ExperienceAbstractProfessional development-styled short courses often provide working engineers an intensivehands-on learning experience that is difficult to achieve within the confines of the dailyworkplace. Can this model be extended into engineering education and provide engineeringstudents hands-on laboratory experiences that are difficult to achieve within the confines ofcampus? This collaborative project between the Engineering Department at East CarolinaUniversity (ECU) and the BioNetwork Capstone Center, an industrial-scale
. She also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. In addition to her duties in BME, she is a member of the interdisciplinary research team conducting the Science Learning: Integrating Design, Engineering, and Robotics (SLIDER) project.Dr. Essy Behravesh, Georgia Institute of Technology Essy Behravesh is the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from Rice University
liberty to investigate systems that are difficult to model1. Unfortunatelyhowever, for a variety of logistic and economic reasons, conventional telecommunicationscourses in Nigerian educational institutions are often unable to include sufficient laboratorycomponents to serve their students 2.A possible remedy to this problem is the use of remote laboratories (rlabs). Rlabs arearchitectures in which users interact with remote real equipment using appropriate webbrowser-delivered user interfaces 3, 4. They facilitate more efficient sharing of a wide rangeof lab resources like unique and expensive equipment and greatly simplify the logisticrequirements of laboratory work like scheduling of equipment, lab space, staffing and safetyof the users and
physical education teacher. He has also co-authored multiple papers and conference presentations related to physical education teacher professional development.Dr. Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University Marcia Pool is an Instructional Laboratory Coordinator in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She is responsible for overseeing and assessing junior level laboratories, bioin- strumentation, and biotransport, and is involved with teaching and mentoring students in the senior de- sign capstone course. Recently, she has worked with colleagues to plan and implement a problem-based learning approach to the biotransport laboratory to improve students’ experimental design skills and has modified
undergraduate laboratory courses, transport, undergraduate research, and oversees internships.Dr. Mark T. Swihart, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Mark Swihart is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB) and a co-author of Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th Ed (Smith, van Ness, Abbott, and Swihart). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024A Departmental Research Methods Course to Support New Undergraduate ResearchersAbstractMany universities promote experiential learning opportunities for students to apply their learningoutside traditionally required coursework. As one type of
AC 2011-2533: VIRTUAL AND BLENDED LIQUID CHROMATOGRA-PHY LABORATORIES FOR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEER-ING EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATEL, LLCDr. Sonia Sparks WallmanMargaret Bryans, Montgomery County Community College Principal Investigator of the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) funded Northeast Biomanu- facturing Center and Collaborative (NBC2) and instructor of biotechnology at Montgomery County Com- munity College. Page 22.1662.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Virtual and Blended Liquid Chromatography Laboratories for Chemical and
Xilinx University Program. He currently holds a BSEE and MBA degree.Alexander Ganago, University of MichiganRobert F. Giles, University of MichiganHongwei Liao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Page 22.1099.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 New lab project for non-EE majors provides hands-on experience with Analog/Digital, and Programmable Temperature ControllersAbstractWe designed and implemented in Fall 2010 a new laboratory project in a large introductorycourse in Electrical Engineering (EE) for non-EE majors. This project provides hands-onexperience with electronic
-thermal, photovoltaic, and geothermal systems10. It can be downloaded from the websiteof Vera Solaris11. Some detailed discussions on each of the tools and their features andcharacteristics follow. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in conjunction with Sandia Page 22.1297.3National Laboratory and in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SolarEnergy Technologies Program (SETP), developed the Solar Advisor Model (SAM)starting in 2004 with ongoing efforts today. The latest version of SAM which now standsfor System Advisor Model (SAM), SAM Version 2010.11.9, incorporates models ofother renewable energy sources such as geothermal
AC 2011-2661: TESTBEDS CONNECTING SPACE TECHNOLOGY TOTERRESTRIAL RENEWABLE ENERGYNarayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering Page 22.1423.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Testbeds Connecting Space Technology To Terrestrial Renewable Energy AbstractTechnologies to exploit resources beyond Earth bear great relevance to the problem ofdeveloping cost-effective solutions for terrestrial micro renewable energy systems. This papersummarizes the approach taken in a course-curriculum-laboratory initiative to
Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1997 and continued to serve there as a Visiting Assistant Professor until 2004 when he accepted an Associate Professor position at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va. He currently serves as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at VMI.Ryan Taylor, Virginia Military Institute Page 22.1076.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Modeling Rockets in Instrumentation LabAbstractA final project for an instrumentation laboratory course was developed involving the predictionof the maximum altitude of a model
AC 2011-84: TEACHING FLOWNET CONCEPTS TO ENGINEERING UN-DERGRADUATES USING ELECTRICAL ANALOGY OF GROUNDWA-TER FLOWMurthy Kasi, North Dakota State University Murthy Kasi is currently an Environmental Engineering doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering and an Instructor in the Fluid Mechanics laboratory for undergraduates at North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Andhra University, India, and Masters in Environmental Engineering from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA. Areas of concentration of his doctoral research are groundwater bioremediation, wastewater treatment, and water quality modeling. He has been
. Also described are the merits and impact of these reference designs to our students intheir engineering education. These reference designs promote hands-on experience. They can beeasily adopted into laboratory and experimental courses. They are suitable for engineeringcurricula that emphasize on hands-on experience.I. IntroductionThis paper describes a collection of practical reference designs for adoption into microcontroller-based class projects. These reference designs are applicable to our microcontroller applications Page 22.1230.2and capstone design courses. All these courses are at the senior level. The microcontroller unit(MCU) in these
AC 2011-792: THIRTY YEARS OF RUBE GOLDBERG PROJECTS: ASTUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING LABORATORY FOR INNOVATIONR. William Graff, LeTourneau University R. William Graff is a professor in the school of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University, where he has taught since 1975. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in electrical engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was assistant professor of electrical engineering at Drexel University for six years, and then at Wilkes College for two years. His professional interests include antennas, microwaves, plasmas, teaching, and ethics.Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University PAUL R. LEIFFER, PhD, PE Paul R
modeling and verification of automated processes ina robotics and mechatronics course. Experimental case studies are derived from topics of interestto train manufacturing engineers for performing virtual simulations on PLC modeling systems.The virtual design process is split into three main sub-processes that are recommended to beperformed in a hierarchical fashion. These design process structures include the component 3Dmodeling stage, logical I/O modeling stage, and the cell 3D modeling stage. Both the virtual andphysical models provide equivalent results. Course instructions are based on active learning.Tutorials and laboratories assist students in comprehending the simulation methods. The courseis taught with the computer-aided simulation
. Page 22.1063.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Microwave Plasma Cleaner Design for Semiconductor Fabrication and Materials Processing Laboratory Use AbstractThis paper describes a microwave plasma cleaner designed and built for use in integrated circuitfabrication and materials processing laboratories. It is a much less expensive alternative to RFplasma cleaners because of the fact that very inexpensive and readily available householdmicrowave oven is utilized to generate the microwave power to produce the plasma in theprocess chamber. The process chamber is an inverted Pyrex bowl placed on a metal base plateand is evacuated by a
AC 2011-75: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCESOxana S Pantchenko, University of California at Santa Cruz Oxana Pantchenko received B.S. degree and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Cal- ifornia, Santa Cruz in 2006 and 2008 respectively. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include education, renewable energy sources, sustainability engineering and ecological design.Daniel Scott Tate, University of California, Santa Cruz Daniel Tate is finishing his B.S. degree in Bioengineering from the Univserity of California, Santa Cruz. He will be attending law
Experimentation (ME310) and EngineeringExperimentation (ME311). Engineering Experimentation is an advanced laboratory coursewith the specific goal to enhance the students’ abilities in experimental design and analysis topartially satisfy the ABET’s learning outcome. Experimental design relies on principles ofcombinatorial mathematics such as combination, permutation, factorial, blocking, Latin square,etc. The analysis of experiments uses theories from statistics such as hypothesis, t-test, ANOVA,etc.It is often hard for the students to manually design experimental layouts if they do not havesufficient combinatorial mathematics background. The theories of statistical analysis arerelatively easy for students to grasp, but the calculations can be
AC 2011-254: FIVE FORCED-VIBRATION LABORATORY EXPERIMENTSUSING TWO LUMPED MASS APPARATUSES WITH RESEARCH CAL-IBER ACCELEROMETERS AND ANALYZERRichard J. Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University Richard Ruhala earned his BSME from Michigan State in 1991 and his PhD in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. He has 3 years industrial experience at General Motors and 3 years at Lucent Technologies. He was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Southern Indiana before joining the faculty at Southern Polytechnic State University in 2010 as an Associate Professor, where he also serves as director for their new mechanical engineering program. He has taught a wide
of work and power; electrical, mechanical, and chemical energy;and practical issues of batteries, fuel cells, and robot performance.LecturesThe course began with an introductory lecture giving the big picture followed by six weeks oflectures focused on practical knowledge required for the laboratories and programming. Thesecond half of the class largely consisted of guest lectures as the students prepared for theirdesign competition. Page 22.271.4Labs, Problem Sets & ProjectsThe hands-on interdisciplinary laboratory experience formed the core of the class. The first sixweeks involved tightly-defined labs in which students
Balancing Theory, Simulation and Physical Experiments in Heat Transfer EducationAbstract: Some big problems for students studying heat transfer are (1) difficulty in visualizingboth basic and complex theoretical concepts, (2) unsure how to design changes effect heat flowor temperature distributions, (3) unclear how to apply theoretical concepts in the development ofcomponents / systems and (4) confusion with how to extend single point experiments to genericapplications. It is impossible for students to solve complex heat transfer problems throughtheoretical hand calculations or execute real experiments when the boundary conditions arecomplicated because of time and laboratory equipment cost constraints. During the
AC 2011-1184: BASIC CLASS MATERIALS AND LABORATORY PROJECTSWITH DC MOTORS IN AN INTRODUCTORY UNDERGRADUATE ECECLASS FOR NON-MAJORSSergey N. Makarov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Submitting author: Sergey N. Makarov earned his B.S./M.S./Ph.D./Dr. Sci. degrees at the State Uni- versity St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russian Federation Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. Dr. Makarov joined Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at State St. Petersburg University in 1986 as a researcher and then joined the Faculty of State St. Petersburg University where he became a full pro- fessor in 1996. In 2000 he joined the Faculty of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA. His
Society and is active in an NSF funded Biology Scholars program Page 22.404.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Cross-Disciplinary Biomedical Engineering Laboratories and Assessment of their Impact on Student Learning Page 22.404.3AbstractThree cross-disciplinary team-based laboratory courses were introduced into the biomedicalengineering curriculum at Milwaukee School of Engineering to enhance student understandingof the interdependence of the engineering topics and biomedical science. A major challenge forthe faculty was the assessment of