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Saffeer M. Khan; Mohamed Ibrahim

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Power Supply Design Project in Electrical Systems Laboratory Course Saffeer M. Khan, PhD, P.E. and Mohamed Ibrahim, PhD Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, ARKeywordsEngineering design, project-based learning, power supplies, testing and validation, faculty paper.IntroductionEngineering Design is an important element of engineering curriculum to prepare future engineersin implementation of engineering design cycle by creating a new product or process to meet adefined need under cost, practicality, and safety constraints. The primary goal is to train theengineers through a 7-step

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Mahmood Jebur; S. Ranil Wickramansinghe

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Design of an Integrated Electrocoagulation-Microfiltration System for Community College Laboratory Experiments Mahmood Jebura, S. Ranil Wickramasinghea a Ralph E Martin Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United StatesAbstractIn collaboration with faculty at NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) anintegrated electrocoagulation-microfiltration (EC-MF) system was designed for use in laboratoryexperiments as a part of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers(RET) program. Here

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Solomon Isu

Role of laboratory-based teaching assistantships on the career development of chemical engineeringgraduate studentsTeaching assistantships (TA’s) are an integral aspect of graduate research in chemical engineering.Through TA’s, graduate students can offset the cost of education through subsidized tuition, fees, andstipends. TA’s also provide career training and development as graduate students enter academia or pursuean industry career.TA’s can be of two forms: classroom course teaching opportunities and laboratory course teachingopportunities. Laboratory teaching opportunities are pertinent for graduate students since these availstudents with engineering scenarios and troubleshooting tips. Laboratory assistantships also

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Abner Peralta; Natacha Souto-Melgar

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference An undergraduate experience for studying the diffusion of a solute in an aqueous solution Abner Peralta and Natacha Souto-Melgar University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Chemical Engineering DepartmentKeywordsStudent extended abstract, laboratory, chemical engineering, diffusion, Fick’s law.Molecular diffusion driven by concentration gradients is the most common type of diffusion inchemical separation processes, such as liquid-liquid extraction, stripping, and adsorption. Tobetter understand molecular diffusion, a fundamental knowledge of Fick’s law of diffusion iscrucial. In the Spring 2021

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Rossana Villa-Rojas; Mei Lu

activities in their lectures. Hands-on learning inthe form of laboratories presented a challenge, especially when delivered asynchronously.Careful planning and re-evaluation of laboratories was important to determine how to achieve © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencethe learning objectives for each session. For on-line asynchronous laboratories faculty eithersimplified the experiments allowing students to perform it at home or produced pre-recordedvideos of experiments and gave students simulated data to do the analysis. When students wereable to go back to NWAF but faculty was unable to travel abroad, instruction was comprised ofpre-recorded

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Mostafa Elsaadany; Timothy J. Muldoon; Raj R. Rao

molecular biology that are used forprotein engineering. Additional topics include recombinant DNA techniques, biochemicalkinetics, cell growth reaction and kinetics, bioreactors, membrane processes, and bioproductpurification. The two courses comprise three hours of lectures each week, and laboratorymodules performed throughout the semester, the topics of which mostly parallel the topicscovered during the lecture component.KeywordsRemote learning, Inclusion, Laboratory © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceChallenge Statement:We identified several challenges associated with the remote delivery of the BiomedicalInstrumentation and Biomolecular

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Yifan Zhou; Yanwei Sun; Zachary Ball; Zhenjun Ming; Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree

Laboratory, University of Oklahoma, USA/Systems Realization Laboratory, University of Oklahoma, USAKeywordsEngineering Design, Design Education, Learning Statements, Self-Tutoring System, studentpaperExtended AbstractHow can students leverage the historical learning reflection data collected from former studentsin design, build, and test courses to tutor themselves in their own learning through reflection ondoing?University of Oklahoma (OU) offers a course named AME4163: Principles of EngineeringDesign. In the course, students learn by reflecting on doing in an immersive authenticenvironment[1]. After taking the course, the students need to write learning statements. Alearning statement is a

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Dominique Savage; Trent Porterfield; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference The Draining of a Tank: A Lab Experiment in Fluid Mechanics Dominique Savage, Trent Porterfield, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical EngineeringAbstractAn improved apparatus has been constructed and employed in the fluids laboratory for thedraining of a tank through a sharp-edged orifice and, with minor modifications, other orifices ofinterest. The experiment was operated at steady state to accurately determine the dischargecoefficient, CD, with only a 2-5% deviation from literature values. In addition, transient datawere collected and compared to model data generated from a

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Christi Patton Luks

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Teaching Unit Operations Lab in the Pandemic Christi Patton Luks Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstract2020 was a year of many changes. Faculty suddenly needed to convert their courses to an onlineformat. For lecture classes there were many issues to address, but laboratory courses had aspecial set of concerns. When the lab instructor also left during this year, the author suddenlyfound herself thrust into teaching unit operations lab. The university was beginning to open up,but there were more students scheduled to be in the lab facilities than the university

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Victor S. Frost

Carrier (DSB - LC) - Commercial AM9 Single and Vestigial Sideband Modulation (SSB and VSB)10 Frequency and Phase Modulation (FM/PM)11 Superheterodyne Receiver12 Communications Channels, Noise and Link Budgets13 Performance of Analog Modulation with Noise14 Performance of Digital Modulation with Noise15 Multimegabit/sec Terrestrial Wireless Communication Systems: Impairments andImplementation16 Introduction to Error Detection and Correction TechniquesAppendix: net*TIMS FreeWire Laboratory ExperimentsExamples of Student Driven Interactive Graphics and Dynamic Performance MetricCalculationsThe purpose of this section is to provide a flavor of the student driven interactive graphics anddynamic performance metric calculations included in the ebook

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Michael A. Rother

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Online Unit Operations Lab, a Difficult Balance Michael A. Rother Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota DuluthAbstractAs a result of COVID-19, teaching Unit Operations Laboratory in an online format becamenecessary in Spring 2020. Implementing experiments, which could be easily conducted fromhome, or at least away from the standard lab environment, but were challenging in nature, proveddifficult. In particular, the labs needed to be amenable to theoretical treatment and significantuncertainty analysis. In addition, the topics studied

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Thomas W. Smith; Natacha Souto-Melgar; Edgar C. Clausen

Section ConferenceUndergraduate laboratory courses are generally used to demonstrate the operation of engineeringequipment and to generate experimental data to test parameters and validate engineering models.In addition, laboratory experiments are used to develop and improve teamwork and leadershipskills and as a vehicle to improve written and oral communication skills. Feisel and Rosa [2]present a history of the development of educational laboratories and how changes have beenincorporated throughout the years. Recently, there have been significant developments in the useof virtual labs. Korestky et al. [3] note that virtual labs are better for experimental design,critical thinking and dealing with ambiguity, while physical labs are better for

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Robert C. Knox; Robert W. Nairn

development, work assignments, summary of work to date, and refined GANNT Chart for meeting project deliverablesWorking Review Session 33% Oral Presentations – oral presentations of team development, work assignments, summary of work to date, and refined GANNT Chart for meeting project deliverablesWorking Review Session Laboratory Work (examples) 7-9 a. Laboratory Analyses i. In house equipment/techniques ii. Contract laboratory a. Data CompilationDeliverable

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Robert F. Saunders

health of students and theirquality of work. The rebuilding of the student/university community can be accomplishedthrough well documented practices in the classroom, laboratory, and student societies. Asuniversities open it will be necessary for the instructors to play a vital role in implementing thesepractices to help students rebuild a healthy community with in the university.KeywordsCommunity, student society,IntroductionOver the last year students, instructors and university communities have seen massivedisruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic and many of the disruptions have ramifications forthe years to come. The speed with which the pandemic moved on the university communitycaused educators to move quickly into teaching in an online

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Helen Douglass; Peter LoPresti

k-12 students see themselves becoming engineers.Helen DouglassDr. Douglass is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education with a research focus on inclusiveSTEM learning spaces and teaching practices, visual methodologies and maker education. Sheteaches science and mathematics methods courses, Design Thinking and Introduction to STEMEducation.Peter LoPrestiDr. LoPresti is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He currently acts as aconsultant on the development of three-dimensional displays and optical sensor systems and isthe Director of the Optical Networking Laboratory at TU. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021

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Justin M. Hutchison; Edward Peltier

Chemical and PetroleumEngineering (CPE) and incoming EE graduate students.The EE curriculum focuses on first-principle conceptswith correspondingly named courses of Concepts ofEnvironmental Chemistry (CE770), Physical Principles(CE772), and Biological Principles (CE773). At the start Figure 1: Alignment of the core EEof the 2020 academic year, Professors Hutchison and curriculum that incorporated skills.Peltier initiated a course transformation to align coursecontent and increase skill-based curriculum, specifically in writing, modeling, data interpretation,and experimentation (Figure 1). This included a significant expansion of our one-creditEnvironmental Engineering Laboratory (CE771) into a three-credit course.As these classes represent core

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Emmanuel U. Enemuoh

for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencewith a project conducted on Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) University Design Challengeand it illustrated that the approach enhanced the design functionalities stipulated by the AFRL. Figure 1 Subject matter experts (SME) integrated into the traditional series of steps in engineering design [4] 2. Description of the Program, Capstone Course and SME Integrated Approach The curriculum in mechanical & industrial engineering (MIE) emphasizes design,manufacture, and automation while preparing students for careers in industry and continuededucation. A four-credit engineering design course is designed

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Todd Easton

effectiveness of online versus in person library instruction on finding empirical communication research. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(2), 149-154.[15] Gorman, E. F., & Staley, C. (2018). Mortal or Moodle? A comparison of in person vs. online information literacy instruction. Journal of Library & Information Services in Online Learning, 12(3-4), 219-236.[16] Brockman, R. M., Taylor, J. M., Segars, L. W., Selke, V., & Taylor, T. A. (2020). Student perceptions of online and in person microbiology laboratory experiences in undergraduate medical education. Medical education online, 25(1), 1710324.[17] Deutch, C. E. (2021). Moving a Journal Article–Based Upper-Level Microbiology Dry Lab from In person to