Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-1391: A LAB FOR ALL SEASONS, A LAB FOR ALL REASONS:COLLABORATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF ENGINEERING WITHIN THEUNIVERSITYDavid Ollis, North Carolina State University Page 12.53.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Lab for All Reasons, A Lab for All Seasons: Enlarging the Participant 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

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont

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Computers in Education

enhance both individual and team learning in these settings from both student andfaculty perspectives. The working premise was that Tablets have added benefit, in comparisonto laptops, since much engineering content consists of equations and diagrams, entry of which iscumbersome at best with a keyboard and/or mouse. A secondary objective was to ascertain howstudents would adopt and adapt to this new computing platform. Three distinct studies arediscussed in the following pages.Study 1: A First-Year Engineering Design LaboratorySince Spring 2005, Tablets have been utilized in the laboratory section of a first-year engineeringdesign course. This course is a requirement of our electrical and mechanical engineering majors.To date, ~250 students have

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University

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Civil Engineering

results demonstrated thatthe new teaching improvement is capable of adding students’ GIS knowledge.1. INTRODUCTION The GIS courses for graduate and undergraduate students are offered in Old DominionUniversity (ODU) via distance education mode. The distance courses are delivered to 15 states,50 higher education centers, and 4 oversee navy bases (Japan, Koera, Mid-East, and Canada) viaboth the regular classroom and ODU’s TTN (Tele-Tech-Net) system (active satellites, streamvideo, video tapes, DVD, etc.). One of the problems in the distance courses is that the remotestudents have difficulty to access the large volume of geospatial data for their homework anddistance laboratory via internet. The GeoBrain system, which is funded by NASA

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Verstraete, University of Akron

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Biomedical

Page 12.1483.5 assessed through the assignment of homework problems using Excel® Spreadsheets and exam questions. Exam results on this subject, for the three students, were as follws: 1-20/20, 1-18/20 and 1-8/20%.CO-2: Understand error analysis and how to report uncertaintiesThis course outcome is implemented through the building of a DC voltmeter, then calibrating it, and writing aspecification sheet that includes error and uncertainty analysis. The experimental design intentionally introducedreproducibility, linearity and accuracy errors. The results of this error analysis was evaluated through ahomework and laboratory assignments. Laboratory exercises included measuring the speed of sound in the field(1-18/25, 2-24/25), measuring the speed

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omar Zia, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

. Improve information exchange by creating a centralized Internet repository for educational materials. These materials should include tutorials, exercises, case studies, examples and histories, as well as laboratory exercises, software, manuals etc. 8. Encourage the development of www-based initiatives for technical information dissemination to industrial users of control systems and encourage the transfer of practical industrial experience to the classroom.Only two of these recommendations (1 and 6) may be difficult to satisfy in ET programs. Therest can be easily implemented in any ET program. One of the fundamental strengths of ETundergraduate program is the emphasis placed on laboratory work. Recommendation # 4

Conference Session

Software and E-learning in the ME Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Blekhman, California State University Los Angeles

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Mechanical Engineering

conditions, and data postprocessing. However, this design has its drawbacks, allowingthe instructor only limited capabilities in adopting the software.The experience of introducing FlowLab into the Fluid Mechanics course at Grand Valley StateUniversity (GVSU) was mixed. The course was offered with an integrated laboratory.Complexities arose from the need to introduce the Fluid Mechanics fundamentals before anyproductive work in FlowLab could be performed, leaving limited time for thorough integration.After a few introductory demonstrations and tutorials, students used FlowLab to simulate theexperimental results from laboratories on the converging-diverging channel, flow over acylinder, and flow over an airfoil. The results were mixed, ranging from

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2007-410: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MECH LAB I AT THE UNIVERSITYOF SOUTH FLORIDADon Dekker, University of South Florida Don Dekker is currently an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is currently teaching Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I, and Capstone Design at USF. Before his retirement in 2001, Don taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He first joined ASEE in 1974 and some of his ASEE activities include Zone II Chairman (86-88), Chairman of DEED (89-90), and General Chair of FIE ‘87. His degrees are: PhD, Stanford University, 1973; MSME, University of New Mexico, 1963; and BSME, Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1961

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs

will be described. Additionally,examples of polymerization mechanism and self-assembly from the current literature arepresented.Supramolecular self-assembly is the process by which molecules are directed to create highlystructured materials in a novel manner. In self-assembly processes, molecules are driven bythermodynamics to form complex macromolecules. This approach is important in thedevelopment of materials in many areas of technology including energy, biology, and theenvironment.One example of a supramolecular polymer synthesis, which has been done in the PolymerScience and Engineering Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno is a supramolecularproton exchange membrane1. This membrane is used in hydrogen fuel cells. It offers a

Conference Session

Technology in the Physics Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitat Berlin; Thomas Richter, Technische Universitat Berlin; Harald Scheel, Technische Universitat Berlin; Christian Thomsen

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

can be implemented as a simulation within a virtual laboratory making the same physicalquantities available for measurement as in the “real” experiment. It makes it easier for a studentto compare the outcome of the two approaches and to compare them again with an analytic resultof a physical theory. Thereby, similarities and differences between the theory, the model and theexperiment can be demonstrated and analyzed.In this paper, we discuss two important physical systems: first, the physics of ferromagnetismand the Ising model1 as the most prominent system of statistical mechanics. Second, the physicsof ideal gases and -as the corresponding theoretical model- the lattice gas model2,3 to discuss theconcept of entropy phenomenologically as

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Liaw, City College of the City University of New York; Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York

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Mechanical Engineering

curriculum.Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York Professor Ioana Voiculescu received a Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania, in 1997 in the field of Precision Mechanics. She finished her second doctorate in 2005, also in Mechanical Engineering, but with the emphasis in MEMS. She has worked for more than five years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC in the area of MEMS gas sensors and gas concentrators. Currently, she is developing a MEMS laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City College University. She is an IEEE member, an ASME member and a reviewer for IEEE Sensors Journal in 2004

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamihzmani, Arizona State university

applications.Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University Slobodan Petrovic is an associate professor at the Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus. He received B.Sc. in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He has over 20 years of experience in various areas of technology such as fuel cells, Si processing, catalysis, and sensors.Govindasamy Tamihzmani, Arizona State university Govindasamy Tamizhmani (Mani) is an associate professor of Department Electronic Systems and the director of Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory at Arizona State University. Dr. Mani has over 24 years of research experience and 7

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Barat; G. DiBenedetto; T. Boland

Self-Rating Scale (0 = none, 5 = a lot)Course Objectives and StructureThe overall objective of our ChE FED course is to give freshman and transfer students an introductoryengineering design experience combining experimental and computational tools that is FUN!Specifically, the students will learn to work successfully in a team; to plan effectively; to design,engineer, and construct a working system that uses available resources, meets required objectives, andoperates within stated constraints; and, finally, to report on their results.The chemical engineering FED course meets three hours per week for fourteen weeks (one semester). Itis divided into laboratory and computer components. Each week, the students typically spend 1-2 hoursworking in

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Bruce Cain, Mississippi State University

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU and is the Thermal-Fluids Laboratory Coordinator. He is on the ASME PTC committee on Air-Cooled Condensers.Bruce Cain, Mississippi State University Bruce L. Cain is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. He teaches courses in laboratory techniques and experiment design, and traditional courses in energy conversion, system dynamics and automation, and materials engineering. His

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

first hand the issues involved in prototyping and product development.These laboratories are expensive to set up and even more expensive to maintain and staff withwell-qualified technicians. At Wichita State University (WSU) we have worked out a plan thatenables our students to use the laboratories at one of the local community colleges called theWichita Area Technical College (WATC). In this agreement the students are provided first handexposure to manufacturing techniques such as machining, welding, and composite blue printreading / fabrication, among other laboratory exercises. The laboratory sessions are taught byWATC instructors with extensive background and training dedicated to the variousmanufacturing areas. Students will be expected to

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Introduction to Mechatronics Experiment: LEGO Mindstorms NXT Urban ChallengeAbstractThis work describes a laboratory experiment designed for an introductory mechatronics course toemploy discovery-based learning. Two robotic vehicles are constructed using new LEGOMindstorms NXT sets. One of the two moving robots is equipped with sensors and programmedto follow the prescribed path on an enlarged city map. The other robot has no sensors and isprogrammed to follow the first robot. Programming of the robots is accomplished using theNational Instruments LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT and the Mindstorms NXTsoftware. The inter-robot communication necessary for

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tarek El Doker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Justin Gigliotti, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

around the senior design project. While the Aerospace Engineeringdepartment has been active in increasing design and laboratory content throughout thecurriculum, certain courses have changed little over the many years they have been taught. SolidMechanics is one of these courses.Solid Mechanics, typically taken during the second semester of the sophomore year byengineering students, has been taught to aspiring mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineers fornumerous decades, and the course content has changed little over that period of time. SolidMechanics may be considered the first course in engineering structures (perhaps this could beargued, depending on how one views the prerequisite course Statics), and involves computingthe stresses and

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Prepare students for and begin their integration into the culture of the mechanical engineering program.Course StructureThe three-credit course was taught in a lecture and laboratory format. A syllabus for the coursemay be found in Appendix 1. Lectures were held twice per week for 50 minutes each. Thelaboratory sessions also met twice per week for 80 minutes each. To provide students with Page 12.931.2continuity and a logical connection between the lecture topics and the practice of solutionmethods in the laboratory sessions, lectures and laboratory sessions met on the same days of theweek (Tuesdays and Thursdays), with lectures given in a

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Daren R. Wilcox; Gerd W. Wostenkuhler

structure is used and, just in case, all ICs arein a socket and all parts are through whole components for easy repair. Figure 2. Macrocell Block Diagram [7]Located in the center is the Lattice ispM4A5 64/32, 44 pin PLCC CPLD. Directly above is the JTAGconnector used to program the chip while it is in the system, hence in system programmable (isp).Above and to the left are a USB connector and a screw terminal connector. Either connector can beused to provide the board with a supply voltage. By having the USB connector, the board can be used inthe academic laboratory without the need for an expensive power supply. The board can be poweredfrom any computer with a USB port. Below the power connectors is the clock

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Brennan, Pennsylvania State University

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Instrumentation

sensing and hardware systems, and fault-tolerant sensing and control. Page 12.1051.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Mechatronics and Systems Instruction Across Graduate, Undergraduate, and Research Applications Using Rapidly Reconfigurable HardwareAbstractA challenge with the development of any new laboratory is the cost-effective use of hardwareresources. This work discusses the development of a reconfigurable data-acquisition architectureacross three different application areas in university mechatronics and control systemsinstruction setting: undergraduate

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Pauline schwartz, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Agamemnon Koutsospyros, University of New Haven

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First-Year Programs

necessaryfoundation for incorporation of biological applications in upper level engineering courses such asmass transfer.The course includes a laboratory component incorporating experiments from biology andenvironmental engineering concepts with classical general chemistry. Approximately one half ofthe experiments are common with a typical second semester general chemistry course. Theremaining experiments include protein assay, enzyme kinetics, acid base behavior of amino acidsand biochemical oxygen demand. The laboratory component also places a heavy emphasis ondata analysis, uncertainty analysis and applications of statistics in experimentation.This paper will detail the development and delivery of Chemistry with Applications toBiosystems. Comparative data

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Bigelow, University of North Dakota

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering Focus program that was developed required that five additionalcourses be inserted into the curriculum. These courses are provided in Table 1. Although thesecourses are specific to our institution, there are similar courses at other institutions that could beadded if a similar program were to be implemented.Table 1: Courses added for the biomedical focus program. Course Name Number of Credits General Biology 1 (w/ Laboratory) 4 General Biology 2 (w/ Laboratory) 4 General Chemistry 2* (w/ Laboratory) 4 Anatomy 3 Human Physiology (w/ Laboratory

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wing Chan, Alabama A&M University; Peter Romine, Alabama A&M University

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Manufacturing

for Biotechnology(HAIB). In August 2005, Alabama officials formally announced the location of the Hudson-AlphaInstitute for Biotechnology (HAIB) in Cummings Research Park (CRP) in Huntsville, Alabama,and the creation of a 120-acre biotechnology site to be named the CRP Biotech Campus. Whencompleted in mid-2007, the HAIB will be the second-largest biotechnology institute located onthe second-largest biotechnology campus in the nation [2]. The institute will contain state-of-the-art laboratories for biotechnology and is expected to employ some 400 scientists and staffupon opening. According to Jim Hudson, institute founder and president, the institute isexpected to employ 900 at full capacity. The property, sold by the City of

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramazan Asmatulu; Mehmet B. Yildirim; Waseem Khan; Adebayo Adeniji; Humphrey Wamocha

nano-sized fibers thatconsist of higher physical properties (e.g., surface area, porosity and flexibility). In a typicalelectrospinning process, a jet is ejected from a charged polymer solution when the appliedelectric field strength overcomes the surface tension of the solution. The ejected jet then travelsrapidly to the collector target located at some distance from the charged polymer solution underthe influence of the electric field and becomes a solid polymer filament as the jet dries. Thiscommunication presents the fabrication and characterizations of nanofibers and devices forundergraduate and graduate students to enhance their hands-on laboratory experiences.KeyWords: Nanotechnology, fabrication and characterization of nanofibers

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Engineering(ECE) topics a rough draft of a second2 book was used. Other books were considered4,5,6, andmay be reconsidered for future offerings. Whenever possible these topics were interwoven withtutorials or laboratory experiences to reinforce the material. Aug 28 Jack2, Ch. 2 – Drafting Jack, Ch. 3 - Metrology Jack, Ch. 4 - Cutting Jack, Ch. 5 - Joining Jack, Ch. 6 - Rotations Sept 12 Jack, Ch. 7 – Feedback Control Page 12.71.3 Jack, Ch. 8 – Mechanical Transmissions Jack, Ch. 9 – Mechanical

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, farahmandfar@ccsu.edu

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Engineering Technology

availability, learning about VoIP, its protocols, and underlyingtechnologies can be considered as valuable academic investment. Consequently,engineering, IT, and technology students who are familiar with these concepts can beready for the future competitive job market.Unfortunately, as in many other universities and colleges, at Central Connecticut StateUniversity we offer no specific courses on VoIP technology. In fact, in the currentnetworking and IT curriculums, we don’t even cover the topic of Voice-over-IP.Consequently, many of our graduates and undergraduate students have very littleunderstanding of VoIP and its underlying technologies.In this paper we present a simple VoIP laboratory experiment that can be integrated in theclassroom. As an

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

demonstration board. The paper also discusses whywe chose an assembly language over a higher level programming language for the introductorycourse and the set of laboratory exercises that guide the student through the learning process in athird semester engineering technology course.Goal and SituationThe goal is to teach an Introduction to Microprocessors course to third semester EngineeringTechnology students in a way that will catch their interest and provide a background on whichsubsequent courses can build. At Middlesex County College, Introduction to Microprocessors isa 3 credit course taught in a 14 week semester. Classes meet for 2 lecture hours and 3 laboratoryhours each weekMCC previously used a lab manual developed by Prof. Steve Foster

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Devine, University of Notre Dame - College of Engineering

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Engineering Technology

semester of the course bynot only traditional means common in many surveying courses and but also new assignments andactivities. The current textbook used in the course covers the subject matter in the secondchapter. An active classroom exercise is used to bring the experience of the subject matter intothe classroom when covering this chapter. Laboratory exercises for the course still utilize thesteel tape. Thus, error corrections for temperature can be used to reinforce the concept of error.An Internet investigation assignment is used to get students to search beyond the class textbookand reinforce the types of error that occur with EDM and GPS equipment. Level survey workboth in the classroom and laboratory always involve “closing the circuit

Conference Session

Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lee Toderick, East Carolina University; Jingyuan Deng, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

enables students to perform experiments 24/7from any location thus maximizing the utilization of the equipment and providing schedulingflexibility to the students. Student laboratories for wireless devices can be problematic ininstitutions that offer wireless network access. This production wireless environment can bedisrupted or even disabled if a student misconfigures the laboratory equipment.This paper describes our success with the adoption of an isolated, remotely-accessible faradaycage that houses wireless equipment, permitting even the most invasive wireless projects to beperformed in an area that offers production wireless network access. Our lab isolation isoptimized for the ISM 2400-2483 MHz frequency band thus providing isolation for

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Meader Woo; John M. Watkins

output signals at the different frequencies as they are beingmeasured. The input and output signals in the time domain and the magnitude and phase of thefrequency response are plotted in real time.To run the virtual DSA in simulation mode requires only SIMULINK. However, if combinedwith the Quanser WinCon software and hardware input/output board, it can be used formeasuring the frequency response of experimental apparatus in the laboratory. If the linearsystem is mechanical, the students can compare the system’s movement with the responses theyare seeing on the screen. 2Other authors have used SIMULINK to create a virtual DSA. Wang

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Neale, University of Waterloo; Jason Shirtliff, University of Waterloo; William Bishop, University of Waterloo; Cutberto Santillan Rios, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

processing.Cutberto Santillan Rios, University of Waterloo Cutberto A Santillan received the Engineering degree in Electronic and Communications from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City, in 1999 and the M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in 2002. He is also working towards his PhD degree in the same institution. He is currently working as a Laboratory Instructor for electromagnetic, communications and electronic circuit design courses at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include RF & Microwave design, measurement and analysis, RFICs, electronic circuit design and antenna modeling