Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

represent some of the emerging areas: polymer processing, foodprocessing, environmental reactor design, fluidization, membrane separation. These experiments havebeen utilized by chemical engineering faculty at a unique hands-on industrially integrated NSF workshopon Novel Process Science and Engineering conducted at Rowan University. We have integrated theseexperiments into our curriculum so that students can see chemical engineering principles in action andtherefore improve the quality of education. Introduction Hands-on laboratory experience is a critical element in undergraduate chemical engineeringeducation [Par94, Gri97]. Chemical engineering programs are often confronted with how tomore

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi G. Mukkilmarudhur; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

). Page 3.127.1In this study, a course in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which is normally only availableat the graduate level, was taught at the mezzanine (500) level for predominantly undergraduates.The purpose of offering a course of this nature is to introduce undergraduates to a technologythat is increasingly applied in many engineering applications by industry. The objectives of thecourse included enabling the students to develop a fundamental understanding of the physicaland numerical behavior of the Navier-Stokes equations and to develop the ability to runcommercially available preprocessing, CFD, and post processing software packages. The coursewas divided into a lecture portion and a laboratory portion. The lectures covered the

Conference Session

Design Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

subsequent engineering education. The two credit lecture, one credit labcourse entitled „Production Engineering‟ now includes significant hands-on work ontraditional machines (lathes and mills), powder metallurgy, plastic injection molding,welding, 3-D co-ordinate measuring machine, and several rapid prototyping / rapidmanufacturing technologies. Appropriate laboratory tasks were designed and applicablesafety and operational instructions were prepared.The laboratory curriculum was implemented since the Fall „06 term. Despite increasedworkload for the students that sometimes required them to work additional hours outside Page 15.39.2of the scheduled class

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Christine King; Dalton Salvo; Joanne Ly; Nia Dowell; SueJeanne Koh; Warren Wiechmann; Brett Sanders

research positions,allowing for more inclusive practices across laboratories [5]. However, they are typically offeredfor only one semester or less time and require mentors to guide multiple students [6], unlikeindividual undergraduate research experiences that typically provide very few undergraduateswith research experiences over the course of a year or more [4].To be able to provide an inclusive research experience that allows many students to join researchlaboratories as well as mitigate issues associated with the short duration of course-basedundergraduate research experiences, the University of California Irvine (UCI) has developedSIRiPods: Summer Interdisciplinary Research in Pods. Unlike typical research programs within asingle laboratory

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Jerry K. Keska

laboratory for a course in Instrumentation and Measurements.The course, designed for the undergraduate junior level, was a two-semester course for a total offour credits, and it took place in conjunction with a one-hour classroom lecture in mechanicalengineering. A modified version of this approach, however, can easily be used at all levels of themechanical engineering curriculum. This laboratory’s development process began by writing asuccessful proposal for outside funding in order to create a hands-on teaching laboratory. A two-semester long, open-ended project was utilized, a process which required the students to come upwith creative approaches to problem solving. Consequently, a full-cycle learning experience tookplace. The students began with

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Muff, Iowa State University; Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University; Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

2006-863: DEMONSTRATING ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE IN ANUNDERGRADUATE MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION COURSEDavid Muff, Iowa State University At the time of this laboratory development, David J. Muff was a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He graduated with an MS degree in May 2005 and is current employed as a Design Engineer with Vemeer Manufacturing in Pella, Iowa.Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University Ted Heindel is the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He taught ME 370 at ISU from spring 2003 through spring 2005 and was responsible for major course modifications, including development of several new

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michel A. Reece, Morgan State University; Tracy R. Rone, Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University; Carl White, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Morgan State University (MSU) is the only Historically Black College and University(HBCU) offering a structured program in RF (radio frequency) and microwaves at theundergraduate level. Within this program, RF/microwave courses are offered as senior electiveswithin the Electrical Engineering curriculum. However, these courses suffered low enrollment,poor retention and minimal student engagement. Recently, with the award of a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Grant, microwaveequipment was purchased to provide minority students with a laboratory environment thatincorporates cooperative learning to increase student interest in RF Microwave Engineeringfields. Studies show that students learn best when

Conference Session

ETD Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Border, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Multisim and Mathsoft Mathcad into a Digital Communication Technology Curriculum XXX NAME HERE XXX XXX PROGRAM NAME HERE XXX XXX DEPT. NAME HERE XXX XXX UNIVERSITY NAME HERE XXX XXX CITY STATE POSTAL HERE XXXAbstractTechnology program texts that seek to teach digital communication fundamentals follow basicdevelopments that can be modeled in laboratory classes using computer-based electronicslaboratory simulators and computer-based symbolic mathematics systems. For technologyprograms, this is particularly important as the laboratory work reinforces foundational datacommunication

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Douglas Howe, Portland State University

for students in the third year of engineering and engineeringtechnology programs. Students volunteered to participate in the research study by allowing theresearch team to track their grades and survey responses. This paper presents results fromanalyzing student responses to attitude surveys given before and after the use of the inquiry-based exercises.Inquiry-Based Demonstrations and Laboratory Exercises The exercises use common, everyday hardware such as a kitchen blender, a toaster, and ahair dryer. This equipment (1) is familiar and potentially interesting to students, (2) isinexpensive, and (3) clearly exposes important topics in the thermal and fluid sciences. Theexercises are based on a guided inquiry model of pedagogy. Students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

forenhancing the overall learning experience as well as expanded educational opportunities for alarger pool of students have been enabled by the Internet. One such example is a remotely-accessed instructional laboratory experiment. Initial remote access development has been in thefields of computer science and electrical engineering where the Internet and related infrastructureare part of the curricula. Currently, these advancements are being adapted into engineeringprograms where a “hands-on” laboratory approach is essential.This paper presents a "proof-of-concept" remote-controlled experiment developed at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (formerly the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research) to illustrate aconcept for an introductory undergraduate

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timokleia Togkalidou; Rudiyanto Gunawan; Mitsuko Fujiwara; Jr., J. Carl Pirkle; Eric Hukkanen; Richard Braatz

Session # 1413 A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO CHEMICAL PROCESS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Richard D. Braatz, Mitsuko Fujiwara, Eric J. Hukkanen, J. Carl Pirkle, Jr., Timokleia Togkalidou, and Rudiyanto Gunawan Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 braatz@uiuc.eduAbstractThis paper describes a combined lecture-discussion-laboratory course for teaching students asystematic approach to process design and development. This course intends to providestudents with a

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

problemsolving techniques, obtaining an active role of regional industry, and creating aggressive non-traditional student recruitment and retention plans.The incipient construction of a new building to host the recently formed School of Computing andEngineering Sciences will provide a state-of-the-art facility to house the SET program. The newbuilding has been designed keeping in mind the space requirements for laboratories for the SETprogram.The ETMD Department’s close ties with the Computer Science Department, and the new buildingextended facilities, will provide the necessary infrastructure and human resources to offer a Cyber-security option. This option is consistent with the current research and academic trends innational security.1 This paper is

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”behavior of the geometry and documentation. It will be seen how laboratory assignmentevaluations have been adjusted to examine specific skills and skill growth. In addition,continued evaluation of the laboratory assignments allows instructors to determine whichstudents are having difficulty in a particular skill or concept; this allows for earlyintervention and correction targeted to these particular skills and concepts.Motivation for Examination of the Grading CriteriaEvaluating student performance in a beginning course in Engineering Graphics must bedone on several levels. Traditionally, the engineering drawing

Conference Session

Impact of Information Technology on Engineering Education (3215)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering (CE)

constraints on student project-work. WPI's schedule includes 4 seven-week terms(Terms A through D) during the nine-month academic year. CE 1030, as all other undergraduatecourses at WPI, is taught at a fairly intensive pace over the seven-week duration. The courseformat typically includes one-hour lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, a three-hourlaboratory on Wednesday and a one-hour laboratory on Thursday. The students learn thebackground material for the week's topic on Monday and Tuesday, work on the project in thelaboratories on Wednesday and Thursday, and present their results on Friday, and submit theirfinal report on the following Monday. The course content was easily adjusted to satisfy theobjectives of this investigation by incorporating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

AC 2010-415: IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING OF MICROPROCESSORSYSTEMS THROUGH HANDS-ON AND ONLINE EXPERIENCE:Brock LaMeres, Montana State University Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson; John Wellin

concern that the current electronicscourse was not significant nor applied enough to enable them to participate in multidisciplinaryprojects and co-op opportunities involving electrical and computer components, sensors, dataacquisition software or controls. Students suggested that more hands on data acquisition andanalyses projects throughout the curriculum, would be extremely valuable in preparation for theworkplace.RIT is addressing these needs by developing a new curriculum based on the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineers Program (E 4) which was pioneered by Drexel in 1988 3. Acritical component of E 4 is the Engineering Test, Simulation and Design Laboratory (ETSDL) 4,the adaptation of which defines the scope of this paper. The ETSDL

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Douglas Howe, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Project. Page 14.1215.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Engineering of Everyday Things: Simple Experiments for the Thermal and Fluid SciencesAbstractA series of demonstrations and laboratory exercises have been developed to teach fundamentalconcepts in the thermal and fluid sciences of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Thismaterial is part of an educational research project called the Engineering of Everyday Things.The title reflects the use of common technology like hair dryers, blenders, toasters and bicyclepumps, which are used to demonstrate principles of thermodynamics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darrin S. Muggli, Benedictine College; Brian Tande, University of North Dakota

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

literature.The current delivery method has been described by others at UND13, “DEDP delivery formatincludes streamed on-line lectures (with download or play options) available two-hours aftereach class is taught on campus, periodic video conferencing, e-mail- and phone-based officehours, and on-campus concentrated summer laboratory experiences. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance program has essentially the same content as the on-campus program…” Thus,all class lectures are captured electronically and posted on a Blackboard® site for each course, towhich BC students and faculty will have access. The Blackboard® sites include integrated videoand audio of class lectures, lecture notes, homework assignments and solutions, interactive

Conference Session

ERM: Lessons Learned from COVID (COVID Part 2)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia; Fred Beyette; Amy Ragland, University of Georgia; Dominik May

[National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Navy, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)] and industry partners [Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Sun Nuclear, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell Collins, PTC, Alstom].Fred Richard Beyette (Professor and School Chair of Electrical & ComputerEngineering)Amy Ragland Amy is a passionate educator who believes in accessibility and equal access to education for all. A part of the UGA Online Learning team, Amy has extensive experience in developing, designing, and supporting impactful online courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Outside of her work at UGA, Amy has experience as a library media

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Jackson, University of Florida; Emily Hope Ford; Allison Kathleen Porras; Andrew John MacIntosh

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

Paper ID #39941Student-centered design: A capstone design project of a batch vacuumevaporator for food science students by a multidisciplinary team ofengineering seniorsDr. Philip Jackson, University of Florida Dr. Philip B. Jackson earned B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, all from the University of Florida. He is currently faculty in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida where he leads the Game-Based Learning and Digital Experiences Laboratory (GLaDE)Emily Hope FordAllison Kathleen PorrasAndrew John MacIntosh

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

, 2021 ANCHORING STUDENT INTEREST IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING Albert Lozano-Nieto The Pennsylvania State University Electrical Engineering Technology Wilkes-Barre Campus Dallas, PA 18612AbstractThe traditional approach to the laboratory component in the first electrical engineering (EE) orelectrical engineering technology (EET) course has been based on students learning the use ofbasic electronic instrumentation, mainly a digital multimeter (DMM) and an Oscilloscope.Through his experience of more than 25 years teaching EET, the author has realized

Conference Session

Innovation & Assessment in the delivery of IT/IET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Stienecker, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

equipment used in the laboratory. These are the textbooks that are used inindustry. These documents are sometimes inconvenient when used as a teaching textbook, butthe solution carries an added benefit that the students are well trained in using technical manualsand sorting their way through datasheets after having gone through the curriculum. In someinstances supplemental material must be provided as a datasheet does not give attention to allissues. One such issue is that of EOAT selection. If an angular finger gripper is required whatforce must be used to maintain hold on the payload? If a vacuum cup is required, how muchvacuum is required? Another issue is communication networks. How does DeviceNet work?What are the priority levels in the

Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

Jerry K. Keska

creative limits. Through the instructional use of design, unique experiments, andopen-ended projects that formulate and investigate realistic, inventive and complex problemsstudents received more closely aligned classroom topic with industrial standards.This paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed laboratory for a two-semester undergraduate course inInstrumentation and Measurements in Mechanical Engineering. The course, designed for theundergraduate junior level, was a two-semester course for a total of four credits, and it took place inconjunction with a one-hour classroom lecture in mechanical engineering. A modified version of thisapproach, however, can easily be

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC techniques.The new curricula combine the DC circuit analysis materials with part of the AC circuit analysismaterial to become a course covering the fundamental circuit analysis materials. The secondcourse focuses on advanced AC circuit topics and power systems. It starts with an introduction tothe power generation and transmission. The principles of motors and generators are introduced.AC power and power factor correction are discussed next, followed by resonance, filter,transformer, and polyphase systems. The laboratory classes are also redesigned to include moremotor, generator experiments. Software packages such as MultiSIM and MATLAB areintroduced to help the students better understand the theory and laboratory experiments. Whilethe

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

opportunities exist for one to pursue an undergraduate degree in engineering.This is mostly due to the fact that a number of courses in such programs carry a considerablelaboratory and/or design component, normally hard to offer in a distance education mode. Thisdifficulty has often been overcome by universities such as University of North Dacota6, byseparating the theory and the laboratory component and offering the theory component in adistance-education mode and conducting the laboratory component in a compressed formatduring summers on campus.On the other hand, limited options exist for those living in the vicinity of only a non-engineeringuniversity and desiring to pursue an undergraduate degree in engineering. One option for themwould be to move

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

and toimprove those skills. The primary motivational technique is the use of student interviews withpracticing engineers, allowing students to personally “discover” this real world phenomena byinteracting with professionals in their field and gaining first-hand understanding of theimportance of good technical writing skills. To help give a sophomore-level technical writingcourse immediate relevance, it is linked to a class/laboratory that was reformulated to include alarge writing component. The laboratory includes team written prelabs, draft reports that are peerreviewed, and final reports that use both a memo and formal report formats. The timemanagement plan and grading procedure that are used to effectively compact the technicalmaterial

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

background, and as a result, they have difficulties to learn thesesubjects. Another issue for electric power system or electric machines students is finding thetextbook problem solutions through the use of routine problem-solving techniques, such asequations and formulae. But the students’ reliance on formulae and routine use of techniques inproblem solving too often leads to poor performance in real-world scenarios. On the other hand,the laboratory sessions in any engineering program particularly in electrical power engineeringare critical as these labs are designed for students in accordance with theoretical course work.Setting and running electric machines, energy conversion and power systems laboratories putseveral challenges and requirements

Conference Session

Microsoft Teams, Deep Learning, and Classroom Flipping

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College; Alexandru Belu

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

undergraduate students [6-8, 12].A natural and efficient way of teaching renewable energy into curriculum is the project-basedapproach, shaping the course content to local industry fields. Course content and deliverymethods should be structured to meet the demands and challenges of such a dynamic,interdisciplinary and complex applied science field. Laboratory work is a critical component ofthe engineering education, and a core component of technical programs. Unfortunately, in therenewable energy case, the equipment is expensive, in terms of acquisition and maintenance,requiring adequate space and utility access. To cope with such challenges we are proposing inthe next academic year to develop a virtual renewable energy laboratory, consisting of

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

collaborative activities. Some of the ongoing projects have additional researchobjectives, such as the analysis of patterns of human behavior and the study of the collaborationbetween users and their interaction with virtual environments. A few other developments areaimed at utilizing computer game technologies as a platform for personnel training andeducational laboratory simulations. This paper provides a review of the current state of computergame applications, with a special focus on education and training implementations.IntroductionToday's students have been described as preferring learning experiences that are digital,connected, experiential, immediate, and social1. They appear to prefer learning by doing ratherthan learning by listening and

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Eshan V. Dave

Development of Infrastructure Materials Course for Undergraduate Students in Civil EngineeringEshan V. DaveAssistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth.AbstractThis paper describes the development of Infrastructure Materials course for undergraduatestudents in civil engineering. The course comprises of balanced lecture and laboratorycomponents and serves as a core course for future civil engineers. The course spans a variety ofmaterials ranging from steel to Portland cement concrete. The lecture component of the coursefocuses on topics associated with origin and manufacture of materials, physical and mechanicalbehavior and material design. The laboratory component focuses