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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University; Devin Connor Whalen, Bucknell University

Paper ID #40512Photovoltaic Design Projects as an Innovation in Our Fundamentals ofElectric Circuits CourseDr. Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University Professor Jansson currently is engaged as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University where he is responsible for pedagogy and research in the power systems, smart grid and analog systems areas. His specialties include grid integration of large scale renewables and research of novel sensor and energy technologies.Devin Connor Whalen, Bucknell University Devin Whalen is a graduate student at Bucknell University, pursuing a master’s degree in

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Martin Nieto-Perez, Pennsylvania State University

fission. Two courseshave been designed and already offered: one devoted to the physical principles of plasma physics,and one focused on the specifics of magnetic confinement fusion. This latter course is the focus ofthe present paper.Content Development Strategy.The overall goal of the introductory fusion engineering course is to give the student a globalperspective on the technological requirements of a nuclear fusion device. In order to understandthe material, some prerequisites need to be established. Given the nature of the content, theprerequisites established were: • Fundamentals of modern physics • Vector calculus • Ordinary differential equations • Fundamentals of electromagnetic theoryBeing cognizant of the

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Zhiqing Lu; Herschel Pangborn; Katie Fitzsimons

thisaffects their confidence in their ability to write programs and prototype designs. In addition, weexplain how key components of the kit were streamlined to reduce cost to the students acrossthree required courses.The following is a detailed description of the hardware kit development process, online repositorydesign, and an assessment to evaluate efficacy of the hardware kits and online resource in meetingstudent learning outcomes.Courses and Course-Specific Hardware RequirementsPenn State’s Mechanical Engineering curriculum includes three required courses that have beenusing Arduino-based kits in lieu of textbooks: (1) Circuit Analysis, Instrumentation, andStatistics, (2) Mechatronics, and (3) Mechanical Engineering Design Methodology since at

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

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) system, and3) The existing core engineering courses are used for advertising and encouraging students to register.The course is structured such that the whole class meets once a month, with the remainder of the time spent in theARG research teams in weekly meetings for research and reporting. Four graduate students provide research supportfor the ARG research team faculty mentors and are peer mentors to the students enrolled in the course. The coursemodules include conducting hands-on experiments, developing solutions for real-life problems, writing algorithms,presenting their results in a group, classroom, and school, reporting experimental results, developing team workingskills, communication skills, networking, etc.2.2. Course objectives and

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Preethi Chandran, Howard University; Arlene P Maclin; John Harkless; Courtney J. Robinson, Howard University; Hassan Salmani; Sonya T Smith, Howard University; Gloria Washington, Howard University; Hessam Yazdani, University of Missouri

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an undergraduate research experience (URE) which exclusively recruited freshmen who hadnot yet established a GPA and sophomores with a GPA of 2.0-3.0. This population is neither equipped withthe science, math, and engineering disciplinary fundamentals that students typically take in advanced yearsin college nor may they be highly motivated to start a co-curricular research activity. The I-RISE program,therefore, provided a financial incentive in the form of a stipend and tailored activities and training thataimed to develop skills useful for STEM education and endeavors. Specifically, the STEMProfessionalization Workshop offered an interactive forum in which students learned basic yetconsequential skills for writing technical statements

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Andrew ONeill, Pennsylvania State University Electrical Engineering Department; Tim Kane, Pennsylvania State University

asked for comments on the course one student had the following to say: ”The student-led research reports expand the scope of the course dramatically. Virtually every student found a different niche for the applications of spectroscopy. Almost every class has some sort of hands-on activity where we could see the day’s topic in action.”It is worth noting that when the semester began, the student quoted above chose to drop anothercourse in favor of this one for the ”unique educational opportunity” it provides.In addition to that, students have been observed instructing each other on topics and addressingquestions on their own. Each class they develop a plan together to assemble the experiment of theday. At the time of writing

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Carmen Cheng; Steven Rotolo, Northeastern University

to futsal playersfrom Bina Darma University demonstrate that “ladder drills training is a feasible method toenhance the agility performance” (Ali, et. al., 2020; Hidayat, 2019). More recent research has beenconducted on the ladder's applicability outside of sports, namely among motor learning in elderlyand children. Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relativelylow-level mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-levelcognitive decisions about how to act in a novel situation” (Krakauer, et. al., 2019).Examples are fundamental movements such as walking and grasping to more specific movementslike pitching a baseball. Most studies have demonstrated “that performance gains in fine