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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Meyers; Donald Kirk

people, many engineers became familiar with and excited by technology by Page 7.1114.3taking apart and putting together commonly found household products. In addition to theProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and 3Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationchallenge of accomplishing the disassembly and reassembly (with no parts left over andwithout damaging the product) excitement is engendered by figuring out how the productactually works. This “How Do Things Work” learning goal is to be achieved byproviding hands-on laboratory sessions disassembling and reassembling

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

Education, pp. 261-264.BiographiesSudhir Mehta is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University. His areas of interest areenhancing student learning, measurements, controls, robotics, mechanics, design optimization, and machine vision.He was named the 1997 North Dakota Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the HPaward for excellence in laboratory instruction in 1999. He was awarded university’s prestigious Faculty LectureshipAward in 2001 and the Peltier Award for Innovative Teaching in 2000. Dr. Mehta and his colleagues have receivedthe best paper awards from the ASEE in 1999 and 1995. He is a co-author of the courseware, “Statics: The NextGeneration,” which is electronically published by

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Beena Sukumaran; Paris von Lockette; Douglas Cleary

course to refresh thisunderstanding.Engineering Clinics The eight-semester Engineering Clinic sequence will benefit from these tools. Freshmen andsophomore clinics involve measurement and basic engineering analysis. Since many topics arecovered in these courses, the use of hands-on and visualization tools will be useful in teachingmaterial typically taught in statics and solid mechanics. Having these tools available in theMaterials, Dynamics and Systems Laboratory will allow students in the junior and senior levelclinics as reference materials to refresh their knowledge of statics and solid mechanics conceptsneeded for solving design problems.Implementation and Equipment The Visual Cantilever and Simply-Supported Beams, along with

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New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rakie Cham; Brian Moyer

and Balance Laboratory, focuses on modeling, simulation and control of virtualhuman body motion to gain insight into injury biomechanics. Page 7.742.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

alumni and industrial advisors.The role of IAC was then expanded to include advising the department across all programs,participating in our ABET EC2000 continuous improvement process, and helping organize andexecute other outreach activities. Current members of IAC are from government and small andlarge industries such as the US Army Research Laboratory, GE Aircraft Engines, LucentTechnologies, Corning-Lasertron and Cambridge Applied Systems. These outreach activities define the third and fourth areas of university-industrycollaboration - co-organizing our annual Thermal Manufacturing Workshop and sponsorship ofdesign projects. As part of the outreach activities and in order to involve the local engineeringcommunities, Tufts University

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

3rd year, 2nd semester, discipline of the 5-year degreecourse in Mechanical Engineering, run at FEUP under the responsibility of the second author(TR), in which around 60% of the time is devoted to "hands on" laboratory activity involvingover 140 students. In order to comply with the demands for a non-conventional final projecttopic coming from a highly dynamic group of students led by the third author (PP), an open Page 7.330.1experimental problem was devised (by TR) using a very familiar object – a beverage can. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

ten ERAUstudents have studied at EPF as of this writing, only three have followed through with thedouble diploma option. Of seventeen EPF students in the program, six have earned all threedegrees; to achieve that, students must complete a minimum of 33 undergraduate and 27graduate engineering credits taken at ERAU, on top of the five-year French EngineeringDiploma. A flow chart of the ERAU-EPF Double Diploma program is displayed in Figure 1.Accreditation concerns are addressed through course-by-course comparisons between thedouble degree participants. Professors from each institution cross the Atlantic to examine thecurricula, laboratories and design projects. EPF engineering and computer science(infomatique) department chairs spent a week at

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

meaningless results due to seemingly minor input errors(inconsistent units, unrealistic boundary conditions, etc.). During this semester’s activities, all ofthe finite element analysis results were reasonable. Overall, the teaming experience proved to bevaluable but several improvements are planned in the future. Planned modifications includesmaller teams, better documentation of team activities through the use of a team binder andproviding more guidelines for teaming activities.5.0 AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), Course, Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Award No. 0088315.References1. Barr, R. E

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Missouri-Rolla. Prior tojoining the BE department in August 2000, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.at UMR from 1989 to 1999, and taught high school physics 1999-00. She completed her Ph.D. in ECE at NC StateUniversity in 1989. Dr. Hubing enjoys research involving educational methods and technology in the classroom.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall, Associate Professor of Psychology at UMR, will be moving to UMR’s new Information Scienceand Technology program in the fall of 2002. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of NorthTexas, and PhD degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’sMedia Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

7.434.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction In industry and government laboratories, teams of scientists and engineers need to worktogether closely to achieve their goals. In large projects, the team members may live and work atgeographically distant sites, and may work for different organizations, making communicationand interaction between the team members difficult at best and disastrous at worst. An exampleof the worst-case scenario is the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in September 1999. “The peerreview preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units [inches, feet

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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Ossman

Session 1448 Teaching State Variable Feedback to Technology Students Using MATLAB and SIMULINK Kathleen A.K. Ossman, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati I. IntroductionThis paper describes a course and laboratory in State Variable Feedback developed as a t echnicalelective for students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program atthe University of Cincinnati. Students pursuing the EET degree are required to take courses inSignals and Systems and Feedback Controller Design. They learn to design lead

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

will add to the range of workplace information that will be represented in the planningsheets, the criteria of communication excellence, and the web-based system. Teaching facultysuggestions will be implemented, and at some point there will be a communication laboratory.The laboratory activities will include continuation of the workplace research and support of Page 7.1111.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents and other constituencies in both oral and written communication. More

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Kilduff

was designed to help students visualize theserelationships and develop a deeper understanding of mass balance principles. The model was usedto separately demonstrate how to measure elevation-storage and stage-discharge relationships.The scale of the model makes it suitable for real-time, in-class demonstrations and experiments.All required equipment fits on a standard laboratory cart, and can be easily transported to theclassroom. A second objective of the model reservoir was to provide a system of sufficient simplicityto allow mathematical modeling. If a step function is used for the inflow hydrograph, and a vesselhaving a regular shape is used for the reservoir (e.g., cylinder), the differential mass balanceequations can be

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

opportunity to widen access to real experiments that might otherwiseonly be offered to those able to get to a suitably equipped laboratory” 13. This project, lead byOpen University, provides a wide range of student activities. B. Student participation in the evaluation process. As mentioned above, student self-reflection about cognitive evolution is important. Oneexample of this reflection can be found in a question development about constructed concepts5,that run an experience dividing a class in two groups. Each group, with the assistance of theteacher, had to set up questions for the other group, thus building a positive participationenvironment, adequate to learning:“...the evaluation process should be democratic, clear, transparent

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mayuree Thespol; J. Clair Batty

currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. He recently completed a one semester sabbatical toThailand as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He received the ScD degree in Mechanical Engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.MAYUREE THESPOL is Assistant Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at KasetsartUniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. She teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and energy management.She received B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Kasetsart University and M. Eng in Industrial Engineering andManagement from Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1980

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry, Sara Washburn, “Amy Hossain, Rachel Meyer Engineering Students in K-12 Schools” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1692, 2000.5. Alvin P. Sanoff, “Building Tomorrow’s Workforce,” ASEE Prism, Volume 10, Number 6, pp. 16-2. 2001.Biographical InformationJED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design, conducts research on reinforced plastics and composites, developsmechanical engineering laboratories, and improves the teaching and communication skills of graduate students.MARYANNE BANICH is a doctoral student in the University of

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Crosthwaite; David Radcliffe

practice rather than on equipment and facilities. Forpeople from the physical sciences and engineering conditioned to research being located intraditional laboratories, there is not much to see at the Centre. Much of the research and otherwork of the Centre (and its precursors) is conducted in the field, in situ in real workplaces. This isnothing new for our colleagues from the social sciences. However, working in a strong physicalsciences culture, this lack of tangible experimental artifacts makes the task of communicatingwhat we do very difficult. Taken together with the use of qualitative modes of inquiry from thesocial sciences, this makes our work both confronting and superficially easy to dismiss, as it doesnot fit the prevailing

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Morton; John Gassert; Douglas Troy; Osama Ettouney

diagram in Figure 4. Our approach in mapping the events, conditions, andactions in the state model to physical parameters is to create a look-up table such as Table 1. The State Table is obtained by combining the information provided by the state transitiondiagram and the look-up table. Table 2 is the State Table developed for the milling procedure atthe Miami work cell using this approach. The State Table provides all the necessary systemspecific information needed by the decision component. Currently, Table 2 is created using amanual procedure from the state transition diagram and the look-up table. It is feasible forinstructional purposes since most laboratory work cell contains limited number of sensor, andcontrol functions. For

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harley Hammond; Chih-Ping Yeh

å (q n =1 robot_n - q measured_n ) q average_error = , (7) Nwhere N = 8 for this application.5. ConclusionThis project was completed in one year. The machine vision system was first programmed andtested in a laboratory. After installation in the tire rim factory, the system was found to beaccurate within the required tolerance. The reliability was excellent, failing in less than 1% ofsearches due to the rim being oriented at a certain angle. All failures were corrected within fiveseconds by the robot program, which

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Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Karas; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

appointments include State firmed the seal integrity over time. University of New York at Binghamton, Tuskegee University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and IBM. This project showed that the pneumati- A registered Professional Engineer, he is active in cally operated injection valve is a viable ASME, SME, ASHRAE, and ASEE. He has component that could be used in a production served as a Commissioner on the TAC of ABET. environment to further enhance productivity. A holder of numerous publications and This development would be very much welcome inventions, he is listed in several Who’s Who in industry

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Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

· Theories of Fatigue: stress and strain based · Fatigue of Welded Structures · Fracture of Welds · Control of Shrinkage and Distortion in Welds · Corrosion in Welds · Weld Defects and Inspection of Welds · Page 7.76.2 Case Studies Laboratory (demonstrations only): · Intro. to optical experimental methods of materials characterization (e.g., moire interferometry and photelasticity) · Mechanical testing of welded specimens – tension, bending, torsion · Quasi-static and dynamic

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Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Brower

Page 7.1117.4Conference Travel/Fees $1950 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education" Course Material - The course material included a combination of hand-on laboratories used in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at OIT, workshops on space related technology, brainstorming sessions with the counselors to arrive at an experimental idea, Logo 7 robotic exercises, and a field trip to a nearby military air base. A schedule of activities that the high school students followed throughout the week is given in Table 4 below. Table 4. Technology Space Camp activity schedule.Time

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Abhishek Patil; Jungyun Bae

teachingassistant and developed ROS-based lab environments for an undergraduate course on autonomous systems. Hisprimary interest is developing and experimenting with optimization algorithms for robotic applications.JUNGYUN BAE is an assistant professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanicsand Applied Computing at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. She received her BS and MS inmechanical engineering at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and PhD inmechanical engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, in 2014. Prior to joining Michigan Tech,she was a research professor in the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory at Korea University, Seoul, SouthKorea

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Brad Dahm; Emma Davidson; Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev

of the robotic platform. The initial configurationand installation being handled by the EET students made it possible for future students to utilizethe robot for learning to operate the robot and incorporate skills from other disciplines toaccomplish the 3D welding process. Projects in the future can be aimed at accomplishing thetasks laid out in the Progress and Preparation for Future Students sections.SafetyAs safety is of the utmost importance, the number one priority was to design the work cell to beas safe as possible. The Department of Health and Safety (D.H.S.) on campus was contacted totour the lab and verify the safety of the work cell and laboratory layout. Currently there are onlygeneral lab safety training courses available and

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2022 CIEC

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Laurie Flood; Adam Slazas; Hank Stewart; David Walker

inextensive hands-on learning in numerous shoreside laboratories, but much of the experientiallearning required to develop students into competent officers in a ship’s engine department iscompleted on the Training Ship State of Maine (TSSOM), shown in Fig. 1 on the next page.Various ships have supported student learning at MMA since the beginning: the currentTSSOM is a former U.S. Naval Ship, now owned by the US Maritime Administration andoperated by MMA since 1997. It is approximately 500 feet long, displaces over 16,000 tons,and is propelled by an 8,000-horsepower diesel engine [3].Students in the MET program are required to cruise on the ship in the summers after theirfreshman and junior years. Faculty in MMA’s Engineering Department, many of whom

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev; Nathir Rawashdeh

ETD 475circuits. Since this Mechatronics curriculum is based on the programs of engineering technology,there is a strong laboratory experience offered to the students. Labs such as PLC; industrialrobots; digital logic; programming; electric machines; electric circuits; automatic control anddata acquisition are part of the curriculum which helps students to gain the necessary hands-onexperience. The labs are often equipped by the support of industry sponsorships. Industrycollaborations are an important enabler of applied learning, which are utilized in Michigan tech’sMechatronics curriculum in two ways:1- Voluntary but popular Internships 2- Senior designprojects. The senior design projects are two semester long and are often industry funded

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Gary Mullett

Conference on Industry & Education, Palm Springs, CA7. A Novel Interdisciplinary Sensor Networks Laboratory, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, TN8. Intelligent Infrastructure Systems and the Technician, by Gary. J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2011 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, BC9. Teaching Networked Embedded Control at the Two-year College Level, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2012 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX10. The Internet of Things (IoT) Will Create the Need for the Cyber-Physical Systems Technician

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Ghazal Rajabikhorasani, Western Michigan University; Claudia M Fajardo, Western Michigan University

-minute (lpm) is split to supply one lpm to the burner. The remaining12 lpm is routed through the heat exchanger to cool the exhaust gases. Since the combustionsystem couples with the laser diagnostic equipment, it was necessary to limit the footprint to 4 ftx 8 ft, based on the optical table dimensions and available laboratory space.Table 1 The main design metrics for the combustion system Range Pressure (Torr) 200-760 Equivalence Ratio 0.6-1.0 Temperature (⁰C

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2024 ASEE North East Section

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Jessica Dawn Ventura, Endicott College; Rob De La Espriella, Endicott College

,investigations into actual recurring problems on campus. Team 1 followed up on a surveyindicating a low sense of belonging among female students, Team 2 explored laboratory safetycompliance issues, and Team 3 delved into alcohol infractions on campus. These topics werechosen because they were relevant to students and involved both procedural and humancomponents. Teams worked with their client-mentors to gather evidence and identify SMEs to beinterviewed in focus groups. They presented the results of their BlueDragon Rapid Investigationsduring the final class period. Since the same chart is used for both analysis and reporting (eg,Fig. 1), no additional written report was required.Preliminary ResultsTo measure results, the instructors developed two

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2024 ASEE North East Section

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Tahmid Latif, Wentworth Institute of Technology

it in mechanics. The goal wasto design the course such that its materials would cater to the strengths and weaknesses of thestudents. The course was first offered in the Fall of 2022 as a technical elective to be taken byengineering students, primarily from the aforementioned majors.Course OverviewStudents were introduced to basic concepts and applications of robotics, including topics onsensors and actuators, kinematics, control systems, localization, and state-of-the-art industrypractices and future directions. The project-based course included laboratory exercises thatallowed students to develop programs and assemblies to work on robotic manipulators andmobile robots. To begin with, students needed to understand and analyze the five