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Learning about Electric Energy Conversion

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert O'Connell; Michael Moore; Kevin Zimmershied

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-1323: USING STUDENT PROJECTS TO DEVELOP LABORATORYEXPERIMENTS FOR THE POWER ELECTRONICS COURSERobert O'Connell, Robert O'Connell, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He teaches courses and conducts research in power electronics, power semiconductors and power systems. He is also interested in various aspects of engineering education. He received the Ph.D degree from the University of Illinois.Michael Moore, University of Missouri-ColumbiaKevin Zimmershied, University of Missouri-Columbia Page 13.1358.1© American Society for

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Pedagogy II - Best Teaching Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Esmee Vernooij, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Catherine LaBore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Ava R. Wolf, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning; Cheelan Bo-Linn, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois; Robert Thomas Baird; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #30769Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience using ePortfoliosMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics and is now pursuing a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency (DELTA) program. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mir M. Atiqullah; Norman Russell

Design, Building and Teaching with a Hydrostatic and Buoyancy Apparatus Mir M. Atiqullah and Norman Russell Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA.ABSTRACT A typical Fluid Mechanics laboratory includes various laboratory equipment andinstruments to cover standard topics. However laboratories may not include a hydrostaticdevice, assuming it is so straight forward that it does not warrant a laboratory instrument or alaboratory exercise. As part of the senior design class a group of students wanted to design andbuild a Fluid Statics device that will clearly verify the static force and

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Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

understanding of aparticular system. We developed a new medical imaging curriculum by associating a series ofcourses with 1) on-site lecturing in research and clinical laboratories and 2) a set of Internetaccessible imaging simulation tutorial programs, and formed an integrated teaching program.This program provides students with medical imaging knowledge in live, effective andinteractive formats.Introduction Biomedical engineering has been emerging as a multi-disciplinary engineering area sincethe end of last century. As a key component in this field, medical imaging education, combiningphysics, mathematics, electrical engineering and computer engineering together, providesstudents with a broad view of information technologies applied to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan B. Gürocak

. Page 4.478.1* Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Division of UndergraduateEducation through grant DUE # 9796330.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a balance between theory and practice1.A control systems laboratory that provides the connection between the abstract control theoryand the real world applications is an invaluable tool for this purpose. However, given today’strend, this is not the only dilemma the control engineering educator is facing. Because of theability of a digital computer to process immense quantities of information and base controlstrategies on that information, more and more control system designs involve a digital controlleras part of the control

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Use of Technology in Civil Engineering Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Jason D. Millar, Oregon Institute of Technology; Samuel Lozano, Oregon Institute of Technology; Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

experiment” and “No lab” versions2. The materials, handouts, andinstruction for each laboratory session are located in the corresponding appendices. In assessingstudent responses in each laboratory section, the researchers analyzed survey responses andmanually assessed the written responses for demonstration of learning objectives. Following thelaboratory development and conduct and analysis of survey results, this paper will discuss theconclusions gathered from this study with respect to the research questions above.According to recent research in alternative teaching and learning practices in science andengineering courses, students seem to respond more positively to inductive or active learningwhen compared with traditional lecture sessions6. The

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Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Genik, Wayne State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators

11.1213.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Labs: The Challenges and Practical Considerations for New FacultyIntroductionIt is very common for untenured engineering faculty to be assigned the responsibility forteaching and managing a teaching laboratory in their program. At undergraduate institutions thisis due to the relatively low numbers of faculty in departments, the faculty replacement process,and the desire for the program to update their laboratories. Similar reasons exist atgraduate/research intuitions, but, in addition, we might add the unwillingness of senior faculty tocarry out this task as a reason for the assignment of a new faculty member to this task. Thepurpose

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

effectively support classes of 16 students for laboratoryexercises ranging from basic control concepts to the control of a large discrete manufacturing systems. Thelaboratory was designed (Figure 1) with Student Programming Laboratory Benches (SPLB) that support basiccontrol exercises at the bench and exercises in control and programrning of the single large manufacturing systemby students at each SPLB. The SPLB concept was important because teaching students to work on the complex systems used inautomated manufacturing is a two step process. First, students must master the operation of the hardware andprogramming of the sofiware for the individual automation machines; second, they must learn how to integratethe machines into a production

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-1284: A NOVEL LABWORK APPROACH FOR TEACHING AMECHATRONICS COURSEIoana 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 five years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC in the area of MEMS gas sensors and gas preconcentrators. Currently, she is developing a MEMS laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City College of New York. She is an IEEE

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Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

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Engineering Physics & Physics

committee work between physics and engineering on the E&M course. Thisprovided the starting point for answering questions such as, “What E&M skills do we want ourstudents to have?”, “What is our final product?”, and “Where do our graduates go to work?”Since the study of E&M has been active for over a century, the approaches used by otherinstitutions to teach and integrate their undergraduate, graduate, and laboratory curricula were Page 11.72.3studied. A very useful list of ‘Universities' Electromagnetics Research Groups’ can be found atthe web site of the University of Illinois, Urbana4. A majority of the research groups located inthe

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Bazuin; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

processing (DSP) course, ECE 455.This has come about in response to industrial demands for students with more real-time, real-world experience, not just theory and computer simulations. In the laboratory, students workdirectly with audio signal sources, TI DSP based evaluation modules and development tools, andwrite software for real-time operations. This approach helps the students to better understand theapplication of the DSP concepts learned. Working with real-time signal processing at theundergraduate level has proven to be a challenge for both students and instructors. This paperdiscusses the real-time DSP laboratory and enumerates the opportunities and challengesassociated with teaching real-time, hands-on signal processing to undergraduate

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Haberly; Iskandar Hack

Session 0047 Low Cost FPGA Development System For Teaching Advanced Digital Circuits Iskandar A. Hack, P.E., Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne James Haberly, BMT Microelectronics CenterAbstractThis paper covers the development of student development system to use with the AlteraMax+ PLUS software for teaching Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s) andComplex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD’s). This software is available free ofcharge from Altera directly for students to download for use in at home or can be installedvia an educational license in any university laboratory. The

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Firdous Saleheen; Salvatore Giorgi; Zachary Smith; Joseph Picone; Chang-Hee Won

Virtual Teaching Assistant for Electrical Engineering Science: Initial Study Firdous Saleheen, Salvatore Giorgi, Zachary Smith, Joseph Picone, and Chang-Hee Won Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, USAAbstractThis paper presents a framework for a Virtual Open Laboratory Teaching Assistant (VOLTA)which provides personalized instructions for undergraduate students in an entry level electricalcircuits laboratory. Traditional closed laboratory environments do not provide 24/7 access tosuch labs hindering the learning-on-demand paradigm that is so critical to the laboratoryexperience. VOLTA offers an open laboratory environment with a virtual teaching assistantwhere the students enjoy a self

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland

Session 1648 Teaching Problem Solving Techniques in a Circuits Analysis Course Dr. Ronald H. Rockland New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe ECET program at New Jersey Institute of Technology is an upper division program,accepting students from a variety of community colleges. One of the first courses these studentstake is ECET 303, which is a circuits measurements course. While the course covers standardmeasurement techniques and circuit theory, the author found that student skills in areas such asproblem solving needed to be enhanced.Rather than create problems that students could

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Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Computers in Education

, three exams are given including a comprehensive final exam that assessesstudents’ achievement of items 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9.2.1 DSP System DesignA separate, but related course, Real-time DSP System Design, was taught for the first timein 2005 at Georgia Tech. This course had a much smaller laboratory component and wasdesigned to expose students to real-time DSP concepts and system design trade-offs.3 Proposed FPGA DSP CurriculumHaving covered previous courses in DSP hardware design and system-level design, a refinedfixed-point DSP hardware design curriculum that uses a system design approach will be pre-sented. Teaching fixed-point hardware design is most natural within a hands-on, laboratoryenvironment where real-world obstacles

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Computers in Education

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

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Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

donated a set of four Allen Bradley PLC 5/20 systems and additionalfunding from NSA to refine the DCS emulator and design a realistic DCS water system test-bed.During the fall of 2004, the results of these efforts were used to teach the students how to designDCS systems that are reliable, secure and survivable. This experience is described in detail in therest of this paper.II. Microprocessor-based Applications (EE411) EE411 is a 4 credit course with a 2 hour weekly laboratory experience. It builds uponearlier coursework in microprocessor programming as well as in higher level programminglanguages such as C++ and National Instruments LabVIEW, and in electronics design. It isrequired in both the electrical and computer engineering

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Beavis; Mahbub Sardar; Lewis Sircin; George Janack; Daniel Pack; Austin Griffith; Steven Barrett

& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”OverviewWhen teaching advanced courses in microcontroller theory it is difficult to teach advancedconcepts such as real time operating systems, multiple interrupts, fuzzy logic, and structureddesign techniques. Part of the difficulty is that a lot of the finer details of these concepts are notreadily visible to the students. If paper exercises are used to illustrate these concepts, studentsoften view them as esoteric, obtuse, and dry.In an attempt to make these concepts come alive, we have developed a low-cost, educationalrobot platform called PROFBOT using off-the-shelf components. To support the use of thisrobot in a laboratory environment, we

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Stemprok

Session 3148 Teaching and Curriculum Development of Electronic Classes in Malaysia Roman Stemprok University of North Texas, Department of Engineering Technology Denton, TexasAbstractElectronics classes with comprehensive laboratory training components were developed at thenewly established University at Batu Pahat in Malaysia. The students had previously earnedtheir bachelor’s degrees and were pursuing teaching positions at new institutions being built inMalaysia’s rural areas. The curriculum development included process/computer control and realtime

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5: Remote, Hands-On Laboratories

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; David Hicks; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; G. Beate Zimmer, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

, M. Dubois and J. P. Trovao, “Problem- and Project-BasedLearning in Engineering: A Focus on Electrical Vehicles,” 2016 IEEE Vehicle Power andPropulsion Conference (VPPC), pp. 1-6, 2016.[4] R. Pucher, A. Mense, and H. Wahl, “How to Motivate Students in Project Based Learning,”6th IEEE Africon Conference in Africa, vol. 1, pp. 443-446, Oct. 2-4, 2002.[5] L. McLauchlan and M. Mehrubeoglu, “A Laboratory Exercise - Unmanned Vehicle Controland Wireless Sensor Networks,” 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis,IN, USA June 15-18, 2014.[6] A. Maiti, A. Raza and B. H. Kang, “Teaching Embedded Systems and Internet-of-ThingsSupported by Multipurpose Multiobjective Remote Laboratories,” in IEEE Transactions onLearning Technologies, vol

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Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Rhudy, Lafayette College; Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Mechanical Engineering

Musical Analogies as a Teaching Tool for Engineering ConceptsAbstract This project investigated the inclusion of a music laboratory experience within theexisting core Mechanical Engineering curriculum at Lafayette College. Music is a naturaladdition to engineering curricula as it can easily be used to illustrate many different engineeringconcepts. This allows students to think about their engineering topics from a differentperspective, which helps to improve their understanding of these concepts. Additionally, byusing music as a teaching tool, students are also exposed to topics from the art of music.Students completed a survey both before and after the experience in order to reflect on theirlearning. On average, the students reported a

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

Session: 1449 Teaching Local Area Networking Using Samba Instead of Windows Gary D. Steffen Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Indiana University – Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThe increasing cost of computer server software, such as Windows NT/2000, can prohibit its usein laboratory settings. Furthermore, the system hardware requirements for these softwarepackages can far exceed current institutional laboratory computer hardware. The same principaltechniques for local area networking can be taught using Linux with

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John N. Berry; Thad Welch

approach to teaching severalelectrical power distribution and usage topics can also be very effective. Our course includesseveral laboratory experiments and demonstrations designed to involve the student in thelearning process. A locally designed and manufactured three-phase, low-voltage, variable-frequency power supply is used to teach parts of this Electrical Power Systems course. The three-phase low-voltage system enhances student safety while allowing for student involvement in thelearning process. Additional laboratory time also leads to numerous other learning opportunitiesfor the student. This paper discusses the utilization of the three-phase low-voltage power supplyas a teaching tool. A discussion of several laboratory experiments and

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida

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Manufacturing

. Page 13.1344.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using LEGO to Teach and Learn Micromanufacturing and Industrial AutomationAbstractThis paper describes the design and evaluation of two laboratory experiments that introduceLEGO® Digital Designer and MINDSTROMS® Education systems as meaningful means toreinforce concepts of micromanufacturing and industrial automation to engineeringundergraduate students. The proposed laboratory experiments aim to complement the classroomlectures and to increase students’ conceptual understanding and learning motivation. The firstlaboratory experiment introduces the LEGO Digital Designer as a 3D design program to betterunderstand the micromanufacturing process

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Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

AC 2010-884: TEACHING CONTROL CHARTS FOR VARIABLES USING THEMOUSE FACTORYDouglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan AmericanMiguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan AmericanConnie Borror, Arizona State UniverstiyDouglas Montgomery, Arizona State UniversityCarmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American Page 15.1169.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Control Charts for Variables using the Mouse FactoryIntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality

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BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge E. Bohorquez, University of Miami; Ozcan Ozdamar, University of Miami; Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen, University of Miami

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Biomedical

Biomedical Engineering of the University of Miami were directs the Biomedical Design and Instrumentation Laboratory and teaches Se- nior/Master Design Project, Biomedical Instrumentation, Microcomputer based medical instrumentation and Bio-signal processing. He mentors multidisciplinary teams of students, mainly interested in the de- sign of novel bio-electric devices. In his teams he integrates students at different academic levels from undergraduate to PhD. In research he is affiliated with the Neurosensory Laboratory where he performs research in audiology, ophthalmology, anesthesia and neurology. Collaborating with researchers of the Miller School of Medicine, he develops and validates novel Electrophysiological

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George Meyer; James K. Randall; Charles T. Morrow

Session 1675 Teaching Instrumentation and Controls using Multimedia and Television Instructional Methods George E. Meyer, James K. Randall / Charles T. Morrow 1 University of Nebraska - Lincoln / Pennsylvania State University ABSTRACT Teaching Electronic Instrumentation to both resident and distant students in biological andengineering sciences using television presents interesting challenges for instruction. Hands-on laboratoryexperiences are especially difficult. However, a good laboratory experience not only considers basicprinciples of instruments

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-3811: TEACHING CONTROL CHARTS FOR ATTRIBUTES US-ING THE MOUSE FACTORYDr. Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American Douglas Timmer is a professor in manufacturing engineering and the Interim Associate Dean of the Col- lege of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Pan American.Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American Miguel A. Gonzalez serves as the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Projects at the Uni- versity of Texas, Pan American. He has a significant amount of executive industry experience where he held managerial and executive positions including President and CEO of a large citrus processor, and throughout his experience, Gonzalez

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Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-305: TEACHING POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTER EX-PERIMENTS THAT INTEGRATES FUZZY LOGIC APPROACHAhmed Rubaai, Howard University Ahmed Rubaai received the M.S.E.E degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988. In 1988, he joined Howard University, Washington, D.C., as a faculty member, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is the Founder and Lead Developer of Motion Control and Drives Laboratory at Howard University (http://www.controllab.howard.edu) and is actively involved in many projects with industry, while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of artificial

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

Session 2268 Teaching Mechanical Students to Build and Analyze Motor Controllers Hugh Jack, Associate Professor Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI email: jackh@gvsu.edu1. IntroductionAll junior Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering students take EGR 345, Dynamic SystemsModelling and Control, at Grand Valley State University. This course looks at modeling systemswith mechanical, electrical and other components. This is supported by