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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Amardeep Kaur; Theresa Swift

effective engineers in practice (Krivickas and Krivickas 2007, Feisel andRosa 2013, Watai, Arthur and Brophy 2007).In the work presented here, a structured approach is taken to redesign and update The CircuitAnalysis Laboratory course at our institution. The course has not been updated or revised for anumber of years resulting in out-of-date equipment information in the manuals, lack of cohesionin the lecture and the lab courses, significant time spent by teaching assistants (TAs) in helpingstudents, and frustrated students. This report discusses the nature of the course redesigned,motivations that led to the redesign, feedback received from TAs and students prior to theredesign, and tools used to bridge the gaps between lab tasks performed and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

teach laboratory curriculums required in the 21st century. This situation hasdeveloped over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimental concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Hines; Belle Upadhyaya

course for both certificate programs.This course, along with three others, were developed under an NSF-CRCD grant. The course istaught for seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering, and is designed in a modularfashion with each module describing a specific topic in maintenance engineering. The courseactivities include team projects, and cyber-linked student projects2 with student teams in Franceand Brazil. This independent study component provides experience in team-based activity andcoordinating and carrying out project goals when the teams are separated by large distances.In order to compliment the classroom activities, a Maintenance Engineering Laboratory wasdeveloped under the NSF-CRCD grant. This self-contained teaching

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College; Ted Sussmann, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

AC 2009-1203: A NOVEL INTERDISCIPLINARY SENSOR NETWORKSLABORATORYGary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College Professor of Electronics Technology and Co-Department Chair, Gary J. Mullett presently teaches in the Electronics Group at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. A long time faculty member and consultant to local business and industry, Mullett has provided leadership and initiated numerous curriculum reforms as either the Chair or Co-Department Chair of the four technology degree programs that constitute the Electronics Group. Since the late 1990s, he has been active in the NSF’s ATE and CCLI programs as a knowledge leader in the wireless

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Dayna Lee Martínez, Northeastern University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #29405Operations Laboratory module on heat exchangersDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University In the fall of 2011, Dr. Pfluger took a position as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern Uni- versity in the College of Engineering as a part of the First Year Engineering Faculty with a focus on chemical engineering. In the summer of 2013, she developed and ran a faculty led Dialogue of Civiliza- tions program to Brazil where she taught two courses that focused on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Brazilian Culture. This program has successful ran for 7 consecutive years gaining popularity among a

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-2974: ENGINEERING LABORATORY ENHANCEMENT THROUGHCLOUD COMPUTINGDr. Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University Lin Li is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department at Prairie View A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2004. Before that, he received his B.S. and M.E. from Beijing Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996 and 1999, respectively. Currently, his research interests are in computer educational technology, green home, and network communications.Prof. Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University Yongpeng Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Houston (2003

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Karweit

StudentSuccess in the WorkPlace and Beyond, Information Series 376, ERIC clearinghouse on Teaching andTeacher Education, pp 67-98.4. Karweit, Michael (1997), “A virtual laboratory for beginning scientists/engineers”, proceedings Ed-Media & Ed-Telecom 97, Calgary, Canada.Biography: Michael Karweit is Research Professor in Chemical Engineering with primary research interests influid mechanics and acoustics. He is also Director of the University’s Instructional Television Facility.His educational interests have focused on technology-enhanced instruction in engineering--inparticular,Web-based interactive JAVA applets. Page 7.502.7

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Session 0607 Advanced Manufacturing Program and Laboratories For Engineering Majors Reza Sanati Mehrizy Afsaneh Minaie Associate Professor Assistant Professor sanatire@uvsc.edu rsanatire@uvsc.edu School of Computer Science and Engineering Utah Valley State College Orem, Utah 84058 Eric Tillstrom

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Lim; James Kokernak; Dean Lewis; Abhijeet Golwelkar; Paul Schoch

isto present a snapshot of a successful large engineering laboratory course as it continues toevolve. Those of us who work to deliver this course believe that it is the combination of theproject, teaching techniques, and resources that results in LITEC being both highly rated by thestudents and a pleasure to teach.The tar get system:The target system refers to the project the students will work on during the semester. Presently itis the Smart Car, previously it was the Intelligent Faucet, and the future target system will be anAutonomous Blimp. A good target system is one that: 1) Engages the students. It is hands-on, visual, and makes the students respond and interact. 2) Is flexible. There are two reasons to require flexibility; one

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Integrated Learning Environment (New Paradigm), Page 2.68.3the student is forced to review and understand concepts and specific calculations from a priorcourse laboratory, and then apply that knowledge in the current course and future courselaboratories. The new paradigm also encourages faculty to continuously upgrade their laboratoryexercises and constantly keep in touch with other faculty members who are teaching other courselaboratories within this integrated environment. Equipment On Hand and Pilot WorkThe School already owns the motion

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald L. Buchwald

technologyassociate degree program and now has become required courses for both the associate and bachelordegrees in Mechanical Engineering Technology.The presenter is constantly exploring more applications of robotics/sensors/vision system interface.This paper is written to suggest to educators in engineering technology, options to consider ininstruction of automated manufacturing applications. AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to acknowledge the support provided through funding by a National ScienceFoundation project, A Machine Vision Application Teaching Laboratory - KSUS of some equipmentused in the laboratory. He also wishes to acknowledge Associate Professor Zexiang Zhao, HenanProvince, China as the 1996-97

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Arthur; Michael Sexton

Session 3233 LABVIEW APPLICATION: ENERGY LABORATORY UPGRADE J. Howard Arthur Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450AbstractThis paper describes an effort to upgrade the quality and timeliness of the VMI’s MechanicalEngineering Department Energy Laboratory. Two of the current laboratory experiments wereselected for modernization. These experiments were a steam power plant experiment and acooling tower experiment. Both of these

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Swope; J. Paul Giolma

andconceptually difficult physical phenomena and to provide “hands-on” experience. In this process of change,the teaching and practice of engineering design principles began to disappear from the curriculum. Issues raised and discussed in this paper support a return to design as the primary purpose for theengineering laboratory. The issues include: the purposes and style of experimentation, the roles of simulationand the computer, pedagogical relationships between the laboratory and the lecture, the role of engineeringscience in support of design, and intended outcomes for students (graduate school vs. immediate career entry). We provide an example which articulates our goals for an engineering laboratory experience: thegathering of

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford R. Mirman

, the adage garbagein, garbage out applies. This especially true when teaching numerical analysis at the undergraduate level.In general, the students spend much time preparing a numerical model and only a fraction of that timeanalyzing the solution. In this laboratory course, most of the design projects are based, not only aroundan experimental method, but are also modeled numerically. Thus allowing the students to see if theresults correspond to theory or to experimental procedure. If one method shows a high percent error, theanalysis is redone. This process allows the students to make the assumptions and simplifications to boththe experimental procedure and the numerical analysis, and after comparison of the results, they will beable to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leung; Cathy Godbois; Richard Ciocci

Session 2265 Applied Algebra with Laboratory Experimentation Richard Ciocci, Cathy Godbois, Eric Leung Harrisburg Area Community CollegeThis paper describes a work in progress. Students in a variety of majors at the communitycollege-level are required to take at least two courses in math and science. Often these studentselect to take college algebra, which neither prepares them for a data-oriented environment in theworkplace nor exposes them to scientific methodology. These students need an interdisciplinarycourse or a course with an interdisciplinary focus, which gives them these

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

: 1. Writing instruction. Every semester we have made major revisions and improvements to the way we teach technical writing to freshmen. Recent improvements include teaching writing one report section per week and providing a sample laboratory report for students to follow. 2. Instrumentation and Measurement. We are in the process of evaluating a strategic change in the course to an introduction to instrumentation, measurement, and statistics. Instrumentation and measurement is an important way in which engineers collect data to aid in resolving product, process, and operations issues. Thus, statistical methods could be

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel J. Tylavsky

Session 2532 An Introductory Digital-Logic Design Laboratory Daniel J. Tylavsky (tylavsky@asu.edu) Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State UniversityAbstractA series of digital-logic design laboratory experiments have been created for a first course indigital logic design. These laboratory experiments are aimed primarily at first and second yearelectrical engineering and computer science/engineering students. The laboratory exercisesinclude a set of six hardware laboratory experiments, and eight digital-logic simulationexperiments. To

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Michael Zagorski, Drexel University

horizons.7,8,9 This facility will allow all AET students at Drexel,as well as students at remote locations, to be involved in the same educational and trainingprocess in NDT. By expanding training opportunities to students who might not otherwise takeadvantage of them, due to distance and time, this facility helps reduce the shortage of trainedspecialists in NDT field. Key factors in the development process include creation of theeducational laboratory that can significantly contribute to the development of technologicallyliterate students and workforce that will be in great demand not only in the tri-state area but alsonationwide. The fully-interactive videoconference teaching course in NDT was designed forundergraduate AET students and may also

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Fucik; Michael McKenna; Bogdan M. Wilamowski

implementation in silicon.Bibliography1. G. Puvvada and M.A. Breuer, “Teaching computer hardware design using commercial CAD tools,” IEEE Trans.Educ., vol. 36, pp. 158-163, Feb. 1993.2. V. Madisetti, A. Gadient, J. Stinson, J. Aylor, R. Klenke, H. Carter, T. Egolf, M. Salinas and T. Taylor,“DARPA’s Digital System Design Curriculum and Peer-Reviewed Educational Infrastructure,” 1997 ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, Session 1232.3. G.M. Brown and N. Vrana, “A computer architecture laboratory course using programmable logic,” IEEE Trans.Educ., vol. 38, pp. 118-125, May 1995. Page 5.421.94. C.R. Carroll, “Portable Input/Output Instrument for

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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler; Karthik Somaraju, University of Texas, Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

in ElectricalEngineering (BSEE) curriculum has a required course in microprocessors and the prerequisitesare courses in structured programming and digital systems. The laboratory procedures developedfor this course are aimed at meeting the learning objectives of this course including assemblylanguage programming, program debugging, serial communication, input/output devices,interrupts, interfacing, and direct memory access (DMA). The laboratory projects introducestudents to the host–target environment using an integrated development environment (IDE). Theplatform currently utilized is a Freescale Semiconductor 68HC11 board produced by AxiomManufacturing. The 68HC11 is a dated 8-bit architecture and has proved to be a robust platformto teach

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia; Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and Aerospace Technology at UDC. He is a Past President of DCSPE and is currently the Director of the Civil Engineering Program and the Chairman of the Professional Engineers in Higher Education (PEHE) of DCSPE. Over 30 years of teaching and engineering practice in Europe, Japan and the US. Page 13.1252.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 THE PEDAGOGY OF THE SURVEYING LABORATORY Abstract Surveying and surveying laboratory (field work) fifty years ago were standard fair for most engineering programs in all disciplines. Today, in the 21st Century, surveying is no longer an

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Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

students the opportunity to access recent technology in fluidpower, and gain hands-on experience in this area by using it. Our current hydraulic motioncontrol equipment did not provide for computer control and simulation. In the past, theequipment was an excellent tool for teaching basic principles in motion control. However, recentadvances in computer technology and computer control left our laboratory behind. In order to Page 9.438.1limit the cost of the modernization, the existing equipment was to be used whenever possible in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Nikulin; Victor Skormin

advancements come at the right time: the amounts of knowledgeexpected at the baccalaureate and master’s levels show drastic increase. The system ofengineering education is especially vulnerable to the effects of Internet, global communicationsystems, computers, etc. However, there is one area in engineering education that is stilldominated by classical teaching/learning methodology: the laboratory. This could be easilyexplained: the purpose of an engineering laboratory course is to teach future engineers to interactwith the “real hardware” in all its imperfection. Any attempt to replace the “real hardware” in astudent laboratory with the most elaborate simulation software can result in the loss of realismand prevents students from gaining important

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Tisdale

tapes and chemicals sent to homes. It is possible but expensive to send awell equipped electronic laboratory to an individual home. This would require a multi-meter,AC-DC signal sources, an oscilloscope, a prototype board, and RLC discrete components. It ispossible that given a very good video tape walk-through on all of the equipment and each of thelaboratory exercises, the student could learn something and that the equipment might survive.Should this plan be approached, considering the cost, the potential to teach electronics ismarginal. The opportunity to make mistakes in the presence of someone who can assist in therecovery from those mistakes is a necessary element of the hands-on-laboratory. A laboratorywithout the possibility of mistakes

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Young; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

Program grant DUE- 9950153 is gratefully acknowledged.References• Abbitt, J, Carroll, B., Fearn, R. and Rivers, R. (1996), “Flight Test Engineering - An Integrated Design/Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, v 85, n 1, p 73.• Abu-Khalaf, A. (1998), “Getting The Most Out Of A Laboratory Course,” Chemical Engineering Education, v 32, n 3, p 184.• Arce, J. and Betancourt, R (1997), “ Student-Designed Experiments in Scientific Laboratory Instruction”, Journal of College Science Teaching, November 1997, p. 114.• Burke, A., Phatak, A., Reilly, P. and Hudgins, R. (1993), “Introducing Statistical Concepts in the Undergraduate Laboratory,” Chemical Engineering Education, v 27, n 2, p 130.• Byrd, J. and Hudgins, J. (1995

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; David W. Russell

the two frequency analyzersin the ANV laboratory: a Brüel & Kjær (B&K) Dual Channel Real-time Frequency Analyzer Type 2133(octave band) and a Hewlett-Packard (HP) 35670A Dynamic Signal Analyzer (FFT). This third lab intro-duces students to the use of these analyzers as well as teaching them some important concepts in signalanalysis. To introduce some of the features of the B&K octave band analyzer, the students investigate andcompare the spectra of white and pink noise as measured in frequency bands. They observe that white noisehas the same energy at all frequencies, but has an increasing power spectrum on an octave band scale. Pinknoise maintains a constant octave band power spectrum, but its energy decreases with increasing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Stilson Applin, Montana State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

six mask set to create P and N type transistors as well asinverters and diodes. The students will be conducting oxidization, RCA clean,photolithography, etching, diffusion, metallization and other processes. A briefdescription of these processes and the methods used to teach them will also be described.In addition to these processes students will also learn about clean room protocol,chemical safety, and testing devices. All of these skills will be marketable to futureemployers and graduate schools. These same skills and processes will be covered in aseminar course for educators, with the main purpose of inspiring the high school teachersto teach about semiconductor manufacturing. The cost effective design is what makes the laboratory

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

Session 3548 PLC Laboratories – The Next Generation James A. Rehg, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) were a novelty in the automotive industry aftertheir introduction in the early 1970s. Thirty years after their debut, PLCs are the defaultindustrial controller used in a broad range of control applications from simple machinesto entire production facilities. In the last ten years, PLC development followed thecomputer industry trend toward networked devices and shared databases. In the last threeyears, however, vendor

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric A. Stueber; Chiang Lin; Susan M. Morgan

Session 1554 Web-Based Database for Laboratory Courses Chiang Lin, Susan M. Morgan, Eric A. Stueber Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleAbstractAs many other departments are doing, the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern IllinoisUniversity Edwardsville is in the process of incorporating the Internet into courses. Inconjunction with a project to develop course web pages, it was determined that there was a needin laboratory courses to find a method for students to share data more readily. In the past, thestudents posted their laboratory data on a hall bulletin board. However, these

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State

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Engineering Technology

22.457.10This kind of state-of-art laboratory and technology will help our engineering technologyeducation better prepare students for careers in industry.AcknowledgementsThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DUE-0942778and HRD-0928921.References:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_technology.2 http://www.coe.neu.edu/Depts/SET/set/whatisset.html3 http://www.careercornerstone.org/pdf/engtech/engtech.pdf4 M.L. Good, N.F. Lane, “Producing the Finest Scientists and Engineers for the 21st Century”, Science, Vol. 266, pp. 741-743, November 1994.5 http://www.ni.com/nielvis/6 http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/86577 Y. Zhang, “The Application of MATLAB to Teaching Communication Systems” Proceedings