Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

Session 2632 Augmenting Hardware Experiments with Simulation in Digital Communications Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversitySo Much Equipment, So Little TimeAn undergraduate course in digital communications is usually offered with a supplementalhardware laboratory to illuminate the concepts presented in the course text. The traditionalundergraduate laboratory presents communication circuit hardware (phase-locked loops, voltage-controlled oscillators) and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

programming course WIquarter. This fits well with an AU, SP pattern for the two courses.Other courses in graphics are offered by a Department in the College to both engineeringand non-engineering majors. Since it was anticipated that the new program would atleast partially share space, needs of these programs were also considered. Since opencomputer laboratories are available to freshman students in other nearby spaces, it wasnot necessary to plan for open computer lab time in the new facilities.Both IE (2-course sequence) and FEH (3-course sequence) have two components to eachcourse: basic skills and laboratory exercises. In the basics skills portion of the classstudents study sketching, visualization, oral and written communication, and use

Conference Session

Dynamic Systems and Control

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J Cox, University of North Florida; Lawrence K. Mao, University of North Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the goal of hands-on experiences in system dynamics and controlexperiments in a mechanical engineering curriculum. A single-credit, co-requisite requiredlaboratory course in system dynamics and control is redesigned to effectively quadruplethroughput of student participation and credit-earning potential from prior course offerings. Thestrategy to accomplish this goal is described in this paper, as are examples of the experiments,activities related to the experiments, and the methods of assessment.IntroductionThe goal of a hands-on laboratory course in dynamic systems and control is to realize physicalsystem experiments while maintaining meaningful experiential learning. Hands-on experimentsare augmented with tightly coupled simulation

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University; James O'Brien, Villanova University; Kenneth Kroos, Villanova University; Amy Fleischer, Villanova University

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Mechanical Engineering

fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education. Ken was elected Vice President of ASME Region III in 2001 and served a three year term on the Council for Member Affairs.Amy Fleischer, Villanova University Professor Amy Fleischer received her PhD from the University of Minnesota at Berkeley in 2000. She is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University where she is also Director of the NovaTherm Research Laboratory and Chair of the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include energy storage in phase change materials, development of nano-enhanced materials

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

work on appliedengineering problems. As a result of the these changes, the Engineering Department at PennState UniversityAltoona Campus added a Bachelor of Science degree in Electro-mechanical Engineering Technology(BSEMET). An automation laboratory in a new Automation Technology Center was added to support three newcontrols courses taught in the last year of the BSEMET program. The development of the controls laboratory presented some unique problems. The laboratory wasrequired to support a standard laboratory class size of 16 students while delivering laboratory training over awide range of manufacturing control problems. A laboratory system was required that permitted eight teams oftwo students each to have equal access to control

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

developed an integrated junior-year curriculum supported by anIntegrated Systems Laboratory and related projects. The projects provide opportunities forstudents to apply their newly acquired tools in an integrated setting prior to enrolling in thecapstone course. Project requirements can include work measurement, work design andergonomics, engineering economics, simulation, statistical analysis and experimental design,project management, and technical communication. In addition to a description of the laboratoryand projects, the rationale and a description of the curriculum is presented. Also included is apreliminary analysis of the impact of this approach on student learning.IntroductionABET program criteria for industrial engineering require

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

;M University College Station, TX 77843-3123AbstractMechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University is reducing the required number ofundergraduate degree credit hours from 138 to 130 or 132 credit hours. Two long-standingcourses, Properties of Materials (4 credit hours) and Manufacturing Processes (3 credit hours),will become one new junior level course (4 credit hours). Both of the predecessor courses hadlaboratory components as will the new course. This paper describes the process used to developthe course. An outline of the topics covered and the laboratory activities are included in thepaper. One thrust of the laboratory portion of the course will allow students to make choices andto plan their

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 5: Strategies for Increasing Classroom Engagement

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tooran Emami, United States Coast Guard Academy

Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com An Innovation Methodology to Increase Students' Performance in Hybrid Classroom and Virtual EnvironmentsAbstractThis paper presents the course design and laboratory contents for a 3.5 credit Electrical Energyand Machine course for an undergraduate Electrical Engineering major. The main innovation ofthe course design is to create a hybrid active learning setting to increase the students' performanceoutcomes. Students learn to work in a team and collaborate with only one teammate and work ina group of three or four members. The practical application of each topic presents via video,animation, and hands-on hardware. In addition

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; William Brownlowe, Montgomery County Community College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

journals. At Goodwin College, he is in charge of curriculum and laboratory development for the mechanical engineering track of the Applied Engineering Technology program. Page 11.1430.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Videoconference Teaching for Applied Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractThe development of a fully-interactive videoconference teaching facility for AppliedEngineering Technology (AET) students is described in this work. This facility will providegreater program delivery flexibility by offering a non-traditional educational approach

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Smith; Jeffrey Franzone; Thomas Slack; Alan Proffitt

Session 3547 A Course in Computer Networking with a Laboratory on a Minimum Budget, for Engineering Technology Thomas B. Slack, Dean Lance Smith, Jeffrey Franzone, and Allan Proffitt, The University of MemphisAbstract--The addition of Computer Network Technology as a course in the ComputerEngineering Technology Degree program at The University of Memphis was a success; why isenumerated and discussed. Also discussed is the experience gained from offering this course on arotating basis from 1999 to 2001.Index Terms--Engineering Technology, Data Network, CiscoI. IntroductionThe addition of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Seung H. Kim; James Scudder

education, but also intransforming traditional teaching mechanisms to computer-screen-based interactive structures.The goals in the development of the multimedia-based laboratory manual in the Manufacturingand Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) programs are to provide fundamentalinformation and to visualize laboratory practices in plastics testing for distance-learning students.This paper presents the development of a multimedia-based laboratory manual in plastics testingin the distance-learning program in the MMET Department at R.I.T. The paper also considerssome change needed to improve teaching quality by adapting asynchronous interactions

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell C. Schroder; Charles D. Turner

an adaptation of the University ofArizona’s ABET 2000 criteria Course Classification Form found at their web sitehttp://www.sie.arizona.edu/ABET. A "not applicable" category has been added to the levelcolumn . A course with a high level of content for the criteria being evaluated scores three, amedium scores two, a low scores one and a "not applicable", zero. Relevant activities are listedfor the IEE class. The first column shows scores for the class without a laboratory and secondcolumn shows scores for the class with a laboratory. An obvious example of the numericalassignment for each of the categories is criteria C "Ability to design and conduct experimentsand interpret data" where the course with the laboratory is listed as scoring 3

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 An Overview of Existing Power Electronics Courses Offered at Universities in the United StatesAbstract: This paper presents the current number and location of academic programs offeringcourses in Power Electronics at universities in the United States of America. A survey ofElectrical Engineering (EE) and Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) programs has beendone to determine the US universities that are offering courses of Power Electronics with orwithout laboratory/practicum content, within their respective EE and/or EET programs.Data was collected from each university’s on-line catalog, and has been analyzed to evaluate theextent of practicum

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton; Joseph W Haus, University of Dayton; Surinder M. Jain, Sinclair Community College; Jamshid Moradmand, Sinclair Community College; Nick Reeder, Sinclair Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7689Collaborative Classroom Tools for Nanotechnology Process EducationDr. Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton Dr. Andrew Sarangan is a professor in the Electro-Optics Graduate Program at the University of Dayton. His current research is in the areas of photodetector technologies, polarimetric imaging, nanofabrication, nano-structured thin films and computational electromagnetics. His research laboratory includes thin films, nano-lithography, plasma processes and imprinting technologies. He has developed optical compu- tational tools such as Beam Propagation Method, Finite-Difference-Time-Domain and optical

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Kieta; Christopher Decock; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

Session Number 2150 Students Teaching Students: a Pedagogical Experiment Gregory M. Dick, Stanley J. Kieta, Christopher A. Decock. Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractHow do you fill a course and laboratory instructor vacancy on no notice? What happenswhen the Adjunct Professor cannot arrange a schedule for the laboratory portion of thecourse? Peer tutoring has been utilized for years in the sciences, math and humanities. Isit possible to use an upper-class student to assist in an engineering technology laboratorysetting

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anton Pintar

separate from their other chemical engineering activities. Furthermore, the students maynot experience a “hands-on” exposure to process safety. Finally, many chemical engineeringdepartments do not have extra credits available in their curricula to permit a separate coursein process safety.Integrating chemical process safety into existing chemical engineering courses has theadvantage of exposing the students to chemical process safety “in context”. The unitoperations laboratory and the process design courses are ideal settings for integration ofprocess safety. The instructional materials developed by SACHE make it possible to spreadaspects of chemical process safety throughout the entire chemical engineering curriculum. Thebiggest difficulty with

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

Conference Session

Teaching Methods in Mechancial Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake M. Ashby P.E., Grand Valley State University; Wendy S. Reffeor, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and build projects in traditionally analytical courses in the Engineering Mechanics sequence. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Stress Shielding in Hip Implants as a Case Study to Teach Loading of Composite BeamsAbstractA laboratory activity was developed in which the students modeled and analyzed the femoralportion of an artificial hip replacement as a composite beam. A historical challenge with artificialhip replacements has been that the stiffer artificial femoral component shields the surroundingbone from stresses during physiological activities. This phenomenon, known as “stressshielding,” results in bone resorption that can lead to implant failure

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Shawn N Gieser, University Of Texas At Arlington; David Levine, University of Texas, Arlington

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Electrical and Computer

Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a licensed professional engineer in Texas and Alabama.Shawn N Gieser, University Of Texas At Arlington Shawn N. Gieser PhD Student in Computer Science and part of the Heracleia Human-Centered Comput- ing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Also, Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor for Digital Logic.Prof. David Levine, University of Texas, Arlington David Levine teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches computer architecture, computer organization, cloud computing and operating

Conference Session

Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Engineering Education Across Diverse Learning Environments

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rowdy Sanford, University of Idaho; Joe Law, University of Idaho; John Crepeau, University of Idaho

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

of Idaho Professor John Crepeau received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. After serving as an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, he began teaching at the University of Idaho. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He has served as Department Chair, Associate Dean and Interim Dean at the University of Idaho. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Enhancing Pathways from Community Colleges to Four-Year Schools with an Online Lecture/Laboratory Course in

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Allen L. Jones

established, known as the “a” through “k” outcomes. Evaluation of outcome“b”, “a graduating student should have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well asto analyze and interpret data” was accomplished using a well-designed rubric, as is the subject ofthis paper. The rubric was established and administered in CEE-346L, Geotechnical EngineeringLaboratory. The means of assessment was a particular laboratory experiment, One DimensionalConsolidation Test. The rubric consisted of several indicators in each of the categories: “1” –Below Expectation, “2” – Meets Expectation, and “3” – Exceeds Expectations, with a desiredmetric threshold score of 2 or greater. The rubric was applied to the entire class for the selectedlaboratory exercise during

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

Session 2648 Low Cost Process Control Trainers James A. Rehg Penn State AltoonaAbstractProcess control laboratories in most colleges and universities include process trainers for controlexercises in temperature, level, flow, and pressure. Schools are usually limited to a single trainerfor each process variable because of system size and cost. The use of single systems makes itdifficult to use small laboratory teams without reducing the enrollment limit placed on thelaboratory section. Ideally, the process laboratory should have multiple trainers in each of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Mallini

broad range of topics, includingelectrical energy, analog circuits, combinational logic, and digital circuits. Teaching a survey course in electricalengineering to a class with no prerequisite engineering knowledge except introductory calculus poses a considerablechallenge for the instructor. What is the objective of such a course? Where does one begin? How can the material becondensed into twenty-five 50-minute lectures? Why should a non-engineer want to acquire this knowledge? Becauseengineering is much more than book learning, theory is reinforced by laboratory exercises in circuits and digitalelectronics. Typically, the students have no prior hands-on laboratory experience. The laboratory component seeks tomeld the familiar (computer

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle R. Murray, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Luke Plante, United States Military Academy; Kimberly Quell, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and graduated from Columbia University with an M.S. in Environmental Engineering in 2016. He teaches Environmental Biological Systems, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering Technologies, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Advanced Individual Study I-II, Biochemical Treatment, and Officership.Kimberly Quell, United States Military Academy Kimberly Quell is a Laboratory Technician in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineer- ing at the United States Military Academy. She is a 2010 graduate of SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a B.S. in Environmental Science and is a currently attending graduate school

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2020 ERC

Authors

John Coulter

TIPS FOR ASSOCIATEDEANS“A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A RESEARCH LEADER – LESSONS LEARNED”1) Get a Good White Board2) Understand Your Role• Research proposal submission • Management of cost-sharing arrangements• Research proposal development • Management of conflict-of-interest matters• Pre-proposal research development for single PIs and/or • Research-related compliance and/or Research-related multidisciplinary teams financial compliance• Development of new research involving corporations, • Laboratory safety compliance and culture foundations and/or new government sources • Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

Session 1417 A Multidisciplinary Dynamic Systems Curriculum Timothy M. Cameron, Rosalyn S. Hobson, Gary S. Huvard Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractFaculty in Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering collaborated in developing a newcourse, “Process and System Dynamics,” and new dynamic systems laboratory exercises that canbe used in a variety of courses and disciplines. The objective was to educate students in thefundamentals of dynamic systems and expose them to a broad diversity of applications indifferent disciplines. The labs are largely complete and are being used by

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew A. Dettman

Contracting in the amount of $100,000 provided the necessary support tocreate CETAC. The primary functions of the Center from the university’s standpoint are 1) Toprovide support for faculty to engage in professional consulting activities involving students, 2)To gain access to the firms state of the art construction materials laboratory for instructionalpurposes, and 3) To provide release time to faculty to engage in scholarly activities inaccordance with the mission of the department. The primary functions of the Center from thefirms standpoint are 1) To gain access to the wealth of education and experience of theengineering faculty, 2) To expose the students to the firms specific area of expertise within theconstruction industry, and 3) As a

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Julius J. Marpaung; Jeff Burke; Josh Weibling

At the University of Houston, we focus on hands-on learning in our curriculum. We begin byintroducing Arduino and Matlab in our freshmen introductory level course, ECE 1331: Computerand Problem Solving. In spring 2016, students have the opportunity to program Arduino usingMatlab in conjunction with an LED matrix to design a game as other institutions [1-4] have alsoused Arduino in their classrooms with great success. Although Dr. Marpaung has received apositive feedback in regards to using a Zumo bot in classroom [5], he believes that he can alsoenhance students’ hands-on learning experience by offering them a different set of projectsinvolving an LED matrix. Lab Assignments Laboratory assignments are

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Classroom and Online Innovations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominik May, TU Dortmund University; Claudius Terkowsky, TU Dortmund University; Tobias R. Ortelt, TU Dortmund University; A. Erman Tekkaya, TU Dortmund University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

faculty. In his research Dominik May focuses, inter alia, on future requirements for science and engineering graduates, such as interna- tional competence, in order to become successful engineers in a globalized professional world. Therefore he designs and investigates respective educational strategies with a special focus on online solutions and the integration of remote laboratories. For his research and the development of several transnational on- line courses he benefits from his working experience in international companies and a broad international professional network. Furthermore Dominik May is founding member of both the Engineering Education Research Group at the Center for Higher Education and the Working

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelin Kuhn

Proceedings II. Logistics As can well be imagined, allowing the students to self-select a design project within the broad area oflasers is a logistical nightmare. For the first few years, the last four weeks were hellish. However, as the classevolved, I began to develop better ways of managing the self-selected design projects. Some successful tricks include: 1. A dedicated room for the projects (the Photonics Teaching Laboratory)4 2. A well-established system for inventory management 3. Making past projects available as posters, Xerox copies, and (most recently) Web copies 1. The Photonics Teaching Laboratory The EE 488 class is managed as part of the Photonics Teaching Laboratory. The