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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

contextprovides indication of the historical and intellectual developments prior to the current,most modern device; the content explains the operation and principles underlying thedevice’s performance, and the laboratory forces confrontation of device utilization anddissection with device explanation. Devices visited, one per week, in the correspondingweekly laboratory period are bar code scanner, compact disc player and burner, FAXmachine, electric and acoustic guitar, electric drill, bicycle, internal combustion engine,optical fibers, photocopy and scanner, digital and video cameras, cell phones, and(model) airplanes.Introduction The author created, in 1992, a device dissection laboratory for incoming first yearengineering students. As “It seemed

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

analysis are introduced. The directbenefits of experimental exercises in fracture mechanics to materials science/mechanicalengineering education have been discussed. The basic/primary objective of these experiments isto give students the hands-on experience. Furthermore, more emphasis is given for improvingstudents’ learning skills and creative thinking by having small group discussions and frequentquizzes on laboratory exercises.Keywords: Fracture mechanics course; Teaching methods; Laboratory methods; Fracturetoughness testing and microstructure analysis.1. IntroductionA new elective course on fracture mechanics is proposed to be introduced for the undergraduatestudents in mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineering undergraduates typically

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Stanley; Daryl Beetner; Donald Wunsch; Rohit Dua

),memory elements, and sequential logic design. Students’ grades are determined by theirperformance on homework assignments, quizzes, and in-class examinations. A laboratory course(optional for all but EE and CpE majors) supplements the lecture by providing experiments thatinclude analysis and design using Mentor Graphics and FPGAs. While the laboratory is a veryuseful supplement to the lecture, almost half the students taking the lecture are not required totake the laboratory and there is not sufficient time in the laboratory schedule to introducesignificant design elements. In Fall 2004, hands-on group projects, for all students, wereintroduced to the lecture course. The goal was for students to develop a more practicalunderstanding and

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kessler

Air Rocket Thrust Experiment Involving Computerized Data Acquisition, Calibration, and Uncertainty Analysis Michael R. Kessler Department of Mech. Eng., The University of TulsaAbstractThe development and modification of a laboratory experiment to determine the thrustcharacteristics of an air propelled rocket is described. The experiment is used in the junior levelInstrumentations and Measurements course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at theUniversity of Tulsa. It involves elements of instrument calibration, computerized dataacquisition, and uncertainty propagation. The experimental details of the laboratory aredescribed along with the goals

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mauritzen

An Integrated Approach to the Design of Experiments David W. Mauritzen, William A. Westrick Indiana University Purdue University Fort WayneThis paper defines a philosophy for the design of experiments which has been used to generatematerials primarily intended for sophomore level engineering students in laboratory courses. Itoutlines integration of background course material, analytical work, computerizedevaluation, and simulation which has been used successfully in our first electrical circuitslaboratory.Both the design and contents of our laboratory courses have been impacted by technical andsocietal changes. The complexity of both has increased dramatically and requires that we

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

projects in order to integrate hands-on experiments in traditionalthermal science lecture courses and to reorient traditional teaching laboratory courses withdesign, build, and test (DBT) activities. In particular, the following principles and methods areadapted: a hands-on experience integrated to abstract concepts discussed in lectures, a clearlinkage to industrial applications, and Design Build and Test (DBT) projects. Specifically, twoDBT course modules are developed: the heat exchanger and scaled building air-conditioningsystem. The project reforms the current thermal science stem curriculum with changes to threerequired lecture courses in such a way that the contents of the stand-alone ME lab course isintegrated with the lectures through the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

Division of Experimental and Laboratory Oriented Studies Session 1526 A Laser-Based Flow Visualization System for Fluid Mechanics Instruction John P. Crimaldi, Daniel W. Knight University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309AbstractAn interactive turbulent water flow facility and laser-based flow visualization system are used toreinforce fundamental concepts in the instruction of fluid mechanics. For this pilot study, thelaboratory instructional module was incorporated into a single topic within the curriculum of agraduate-level fluid mechanics course

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

. However, the combination of a statewide reduction in credit hours and thedifficulty in students determining the application of various mathematic and engineeringprocesses resulted in a new combined focus for this course. Because of need to develop a perspective of understand of statistics, multipleexposures to the topics is useful. In recent interviews with seniors, they have agreed thatthey have taken a good course in statistics, but it was difficult to relate to “realapplications”. Although they used the concepts in the BME laboratory course, it tookextensive time to really see what to apply. They expressed a desire to see some of thematerial utilized earlier in their courses. The new BME 271 course will provide students with some

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

disciplines. An investigation ofeducational web sites of 126 educational institutions that offer an Electrical and ComputerEngineering degree is used to provide information on whether or not this fast growth in onlineeducation is a representative of growth of online engineering disciplines. A comparison ofdifferent delivery methods for the online environment is presented as well as a review ofdifferent systems for offering electrical, electronics, and digital laboratories via distance learningis presented.IntroductionDistance learning or distance education is a term used extensively by colleges and universities todescribe remote delivery of course contents. It usually refers to off-campus sites, web-facilitatedcourses, and web-based (online) courses

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

CommunicationsDepartment faculty to better prepare the engineering graduate for effective technicalcommunication. This collaboration began in the spring of 2003 with the laboratory for theMaterials Science course and now exists in the senior capstone design courses.For the Materials Science with Laboratory course, a supplemental COM course was offered inparallel to the lab in order to help students write and edit their lab reports. This served as aneffective means to help the students turn in better reports and also helped the faculty learn how tocollaborate between departments. An Engineering Style Manual was one of the early products ofcollaboration between the Aerospace Engineering and Humanities and Communicationsdepartments.Due to the writing and

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

Technology, through its Center for EducationIntegrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC), has provided summer researchexperiences for over 900 teachers in both university and industrial settings, with more than 200teachers working in university laboratories at Georgia Tech and Emory University in the last fiveyears alone. By offering business, industry, public science institute and academic researchfellowships to teachers, GIFT allows educators to observe first-hand the skills and knowledgenecessary for the preparation of our future workforce: the students currently in Georgia’sclassrooms.By participating in GIFT, an average of 75 teachers per summer have had the opportunity toexperience the applications of science, mathematics, and

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

use of detection, signalingand suppression systems. The course laboratory has both software and hardware. LabVIEWcomputer software is being used to develop new standalone software projects, and newproject designs that interact with hardware.Many of the fire alarm system class students are often fire and safety personnel that work invarious related professions. Additionally, the class students have varied technical experiencelevel and background in academics. The LabVIEW software is being used to develop alaboratory that is suitable for a class with students that have different backgrounds.Newly developed laboratory exercises are used to acquaint the safety and fire students withLabVIEW and fire alarm systems.Original LabVIEW exercises have

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

Cross-College Collaboration to Enhance Spanish Instruction and Learning Ana Kennedy, Foreign Languages and Literatures, NCSU, Raleigh, NC David Ollis, Chemical Engineering, NCSU, Raleigh, NC Rebecca Brent, Education Design, Inc, Cary, NC. We report our pilot collaborative results for enhancing foreign languageinstruction and student learning by incorporation of an engineering laboratory componentinvolving use, dissection, and discussion, in Spanish, of four modern consumer devices:compact disc player/burner, electric and acoustic guitar, internal combustion engine, andbicycle. Our original lecture course, “Spanish: Language, Culture

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

How can user-centered design help us think about the challenges of engineering education? Jennifer Turns, Matt Eliot, Steve Lappenbusch, Roxane Neal, Karina Allen, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Beza Getahun, Zhiwei Guan, Yi-min Huang-Cotrille Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE) University of WashingtonAbstractBecause engineering education is a complex endeavor, tools that help educators understandengineering education can be valuable. User-centered design is a conceptual tool that educatorscan use to understand current projects and imagine new opportunities. This paper focuses on theconcept of user-centered design and its application

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

)microcontrollers.To meet the demands of this new trend we have decided to teach the Microchip 8-bit PICmicrocontrollers. However, before making this transition several factors such astextbook, hardware and software tools must be specified to implement the course in a realworking environment.In an effort to teach students the PIC microcontroller, the Electronics EngineeringTechnology Department has developed a course in which emphasis is directed towardsthe PIC microcontroller in addition to the traditional concepts of the MC68HC11. Thispaper will discuss the course outline, laboratory equipment, and embedded designexample with the PIC18F452 microcontroller.IntroductionElectronics Engineering Technology and Computer Science Technology curricula eachrequires

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

sand casting, and test the part incompetition with other students.Equipment and Materials 1. Solid modeling software (Solid Works® is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 2. Rapid Prototyping Facility (A Z-Corporation unit is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 3. Casting Facility (We have a green sand casting laboratory.) 4. Milling Machine available to prepare part for mechanical testing. 5. Mechanical testing machine.Introduction With the impetus from ABET, the faculty, and former students to include more designwithin the curriculum, the Materials Division within Mechanical Engineering was looking forways to do this in a creative manner. Students many times see activities within separate classesas disconnected from other

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

environments • Utilizing emerging technologies such as muscle wires, air muscles, micro- and nano- controllersInitially ONU technology and engineering student body was chosen as the main target audiencesince the focus areas were mechatronics and robotics. However, art majors and minors did showstrong interest during promotional activities. They were subsequently recruited. Students who arenot in the honors program were also allowed to register depending on the number of availableseats within fifteen seat capacity limit of the Honors Program.This paper elaborates on the HONR 218 – Animatronics course through its description,objectives, curriculum, and delivery structure including laboratory assignments. Examples ofstudent work are also

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathy Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session [2]. The student will demonstrate competencies in experimental testing, error analysis, laboratory safety, data acquisition, instrumentation and laboratory report writing. [3]. The student will demonstrate computer competency and an intelligent use of computers as a tool for developing solutions to engineering problems.The objective of each course has to be designed to meet the overall program objective and bemeasurable by criteria (a-s

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

alsogives the student a head start for success in courses that come later in the curriculum with the expectationthat early exposure to various topics in engineering will lead to improved student success and retention.The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focus on ‘just-in-time’theory. The learning platform of the course is a magnetic ball levitator, and the course prepares thestudents to be able to design and construct the levitator system by the end of the semester. Theengineering topics have been selected in a way that they are central to accomplishing the project goal, andthe laboratory exercises provide them with the hands-on experience necessary to complete the project.The course has been offered six

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

programoutcome on mathematical modeling. These outcomes were developed concurrently with thecourse, and were used to guide the selection of content. The outcomes of the instrumentationcourse in the junior year and the senior capstone laboratory course were also considered.The first five weeks of the course are focused on vibrations. Topics range for single degree-of-freedom (DOF) to multiple DOF systems. Some coverage of continuous systems is given, butonly to a limited degree. Various traditional forced problems are reviewed, includingtransmission and isolation. Students work a range of problems, beginning with assignmentsfrom their sophomore dynamics text and moving into instructor provided sets.The primary focus of this section is the creation of

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

more1-13. The ECU online MSIT program will be discussed in the next section, followedby issues and experiences in implementing this lab-based graduate program.The ECU graduate online programThe graduate MSIT degree and certificate programs at ECU have evolved over a nine-yearperiod, and have been designed to meet the demands of working professionals. Students canchoose from a variety of IT emphasis areas including Computer Networking Management,Digital Communications, and Information Security. The bulk of the technical courses havesignificant hands-on components that utilize real equipment to provide laboratory environmentsthat are fully accessible over the Internet. Most of the students in the program are professionalsholding full-time jobs at

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

laboratories. The final review is attendedby senior spacecraft designers from industry, Aerospace Corporation and government. The NavalPostgraduate School has a Spacecraft Design Center, which is dedicated to these courses. Thepaper will also present results of a spacecraft design project, Space Based Radar, recentlyundertaken under this program.I. INTRODUCTION Space systems are playing an increasingly critical role in war fighting efforts of the USDepartment of Defense (DoD). It is critical that military officers are knowledgeable in spacesystems to perform their tasks properly in requirements, science and technology/research anddevelopment, acquisition, and operation. There is currently great emphasis in DoD to educateSpace Cadre to perform

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

2005semester.BackgroundLast year at this meeting the authors presented a paper describing the University of Texas atTyler Electrical Engineering Laboratory Style Guide and assessing its impact on the writing of Page 10.1009.1upper-division EE students (http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2004-457_Final.pdf). The StyleGuide is a document drafted to help junior and senior-level electrical engineering students write Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstronger, more coherent laboratory reports. The authors’ research

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

outcomes or intended learning objectives. The second is the set oftopics included in each area. The third is the laboratory exercises included (if any) in each course.Part of the exercise of preparation for ABET is to be as specific as possible, without listing items that cannot or willnot be measured. While some of the items are certainly included in a course, they are not stated because they are notgoing to be measured in the particular course at the particular institution. Where “Not stated” is used, the materialmay well be covered, but not measured for ABET purposes.Electric MachinesElectric Machines Course Outcomes BSC RIT UPJIdentify types, characteristics and components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nuno Delfino; Calvin Cutshaw; Brian McGee; R. Mark Nelms

on feedback from students interviewing for jobs, a PLC-basedcourse with laboratory was developed to provide students with basic PLC skills. The laboratory was constructed around the Allen-Bradley SLC 5/03 processor andRSLogix500 software. Six identical lab stations contain an a SLC 5/03 processor, an 8-bitdiscrete input module (Allen-Bradley 1746-IB8), an 8-bit discrete output module (Allen-Bradley1746-OB8), and an analog combination module with 2 A/D channels and 2 D/A channels (Allen-Bradley 1746-NIO4V). The processor, modules, and power supply are housed in a seven-slotrack, which allows room to add other modules in the future. The RSLogix500 software isinstalled on a generic PC, which is connected to the PLC via a serial connection

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

instructor to establish a healthyand balanced base of theory and practice.Previously the department owned out-dated electronics workstations (experimenters) and asimulation package that was not current and suitable for integration with hardware. Sincepractice is an important part of the program just like any other technology program,laboratory activities took a good portion of the two courses mentioned above. There waslimited time available for simulation, hence the students lacked computerized design andanalysis skills. This paper elaborates on the efforts of improving the quality of electricity andelectronics education with the help of simulation and virtual instrumentation tools.The author obtained 9 NI (National Instruments) ELVIS (Educational

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kamesh Namuduri; Ravi Pendse

Security, it is important to design a set of hands-on exercisesthat are intended to make students understand security vulnerabilities in variousnetworking elements and solutions to protect the network. The laboratory exercises may range from configuring routers, setting up firewallswith different configurations and options, simulating denial of service attacks, hardeningthe network, intrusion detection, to detailed forensic analysis and investigation of hostsand network components. Students should be able to freely use any tool that they want totest in the security laboratory. In order to be able to experiment with various operating systems, networkconfigurations, and tools, the systems in the laboratory should be connected as anindependent

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

andmathematical concepts of modeling physical systems, it is much more difficult to give students anunderstanding of the artful aspects of the modeling process outlined above. In this paper wedescribe a series of laboratory and homework exercises designed to help students hone these skills,discuss how to assess their performance on the exercises and share the results of student opinionsurveys.1 IntroductionIn the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy all students arerequired to take a junior level course on mathematical modeling. During their senior year allstudents in the department form teams of two or three to design and build a device. Many of theseprojects contain some type of basic automatic control system. Most

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Adrienne Minerick

discussed for both experiments andavailable for instructor use.Keywords: Freshman course, Electrophoresis, Bioreactor, Experiment, Inexpensive equipmentIntroductionAt Mississippi State University, our 1-credit hour freshman seminar course has been designed tointroduce students to the Chemical Engineering field. The class meets once a week for 50minutes with about 15 contact sessions in the fall semester. The objectives of the course aremultifaceted and include having the students • Gain an appreciation and knowledge of chemical engineering as a career, • Perform laboratory activities that illustrate key chemical engineering concepts, • Gain experience in oral and written communication skills, • Gain an appreciation for chemical

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

Paper # 854Introducing Biomedical Engineering Using Creatinine Based Time-in-Dialysis Experiment Daniel Cutbirth, Brett Hughes and Sundararajan V. Madihally School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State UniversityAuthor for correspondence – Sundar Madihally email address: sundar.madihally@okstate.eduIn the emerging field of biomedical engineering, there is a need for experiments which canillustrate the importance of engineering concepts in medicine. One of the laboratory exerciseused in demonstrating the fundamental concepts is hemodialysis device. Typically it is usedunder simulated conditions via salt solutions