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Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Kehinde Abimbola; Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott

Teaching a Sophomore Course with a Laboratory Component Online Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, Kehinde Abimbola, Yacob Astatke, Craig Scott Morgan State University 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21239 Jumoke.Ladeji-Osias@Morgan.Edu, Kehinde.Abimbola@Morgan.Edu Yacob.Astatke@Morgan.Edu, Craig.Scott@Morgan.EduJUMOKE LADEJI-OSIASJumoke Ladeji-Osias, Ph.D. is an associate professor of electrical engineering at MorganState University. She teaches courses and conducts research in the area of digital design.KEHINDE ABIMBOLAKehinde Abimbola is a doctoral student in civil engineering at Morgan State University

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Mir Atiqullah; Norman Russell

andsimulated annealing, parallel supercomputing, engineering education.Teaching a broad range of engineering courses including machine design, materials science,engineering mechanics, manufacturing, and fluid mechanics.Professional experiences include 10 years of industrial and 17 years of teachingengineering and technology areas.NORMAN RUSSELLPhD in Chemical Chemical Engineering from Institute of Paper Chemistry in 1965.PE from Alabama.Research areas include paper chemistry, engineering education.Teaching a broad range of engineering courses including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics,and laboratory courses.Has 29 years of industrial and 17 years of teaching experience. 41 Development of a

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Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

Engineering Technology School of Technology and Professional Studies Goodwin College Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104AbstractEngineering Technology (ET) is an undergraduate degree program at Drexel University(DU). Several innovative laboratory components are integrated in MET 205 Robotics andMechatronics (a 10-week upper-level undergraduate course) to achieve maximumeffectiveness in teaching multi-disciplinary concepts in emerging fields. The primaryeducational objective of the course is to introduce students to the multidisciplinary theoryand practice of robotics science and technology, integrating the fields

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Bryan Dallas; Parsaoran Hutapea

The Mechanics of PEM Fuel Cell Stack Compression Bryan Dallas Composites Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Temple University Parsaoran Hutapea Composites Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Temple University 756The Mechanics of PEM Fuel Cell Stack CompressionBryan Dallas and Parsaoran HutapeaComposites LaboratoryDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringTemple UniversityThe decreasing performance of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells can be caused by changes instack clamping pressure (i.e., compression). When the stack is compressed, the membrane electrodeassembly (MEA) typically deforms 50 to 200 nm. Lee

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KENNETH WADE JACKSON

embodiment could provide a moreholistic situation and might be useful for better engaging students with physicalreality. Secondly, increasing laboratory work might also be useful. Unfortunately,there seems to be a lower value placed on teaching laboratory courses as evidencedby these courses being frequently assigned to graduate assistants. Havingexperienced both analytical and experimental work, there is no doubt in the author’smind that analytical and deductive engineering courses take less time to teach andare easier to assess than their iterative and inductive counterparts. Those who haveworked in engineering laboratories know well how difficult it can be to get stubbornobservations to cooperate and agree reasonably well with our

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Donald D. Joye

engineer, should never be lost as part of the educational process,and cannot be reproduced by “virtual” laboratory experiences, useful though some of them maybe. Another compelling reason for hands-on experience in laboratory is preparation for research.This is often overlooked in these arguments, but lab can be a place where the student makes uphis or her mind that research may be interesting or not interesting to pursue. In my own personalexperience I can remember one lab in particular that was not particularly exciting, but stirred myinterest in research, because it was set up like a research project. Similar anecdotal stories havebubbled up from our students in my teaching experience at Villanova and elsewhere. In our laboratory

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Walter W. Buchanan; Robert J. Herrick

the Franklin Institute of Boston) in 1947. [1] Theseprograms very successfully educated engineering technicians and made them a valuable part of theengineering team.After Sputnik was launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union, leaders in the United States became veryconcerned that the Russians were surpassing the U.S.A. in engineering. As a result, moremathematics and science was pumped into the engineering curriculum. Something had to give andthat was experiential learning laboratories with most of the engineering classes. As a personal aside,when one of the authors majored in electrical engineering at Purdue University, only five or six ofhis engineering classes had laboratories with them. Later when he became a faculty memberteaching electrical

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Radian Belu

System for Large Load6. Fuel Cell Inverter Based4. Student AssessmentTable 1 Questionnaire for the evaluation of the Project-based Power Electronics courseQ1 Are the courses challenging and interesting?Q2 Have you learnt more than what you expected with the course?Q3 Is the team project useful to you?Q5 What was the level of “hands-on” feeling experienced the laboratory exercises?Q6 Please, provide an overall evaluation of the courseThe Power Electronics and Senior Project Design courses, using the new teaching and learningapproach was first time offered in theFall 2008 quarter, and 2009-2010 academic yearrespectively at the main campus of our university. It was offered in Winter 2009 quarter at one ofthe partner college. At the end of

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David Hergert

with ten community colleges. Students complete a two yearengineering technology degree at the community college, then complete the bachelors primarilythrough live videoconferencing. One of the most challenging aspects of this program is thestudent laboratory experience. The focus of this paper is on a bottling process that allows forremote monitoring and control.Comments on Engineering Laboratory InstructionIn the last thirty years there has been “major paradigm shift in technology, starting from analogto digital, macro to micro, from fixed (or wired) communication to mobile (or wireless)communication, etc.”1. Tiwari also notes that there is a lag in traditional engineering laboratoryexperiences, especially with regards to remote monitoring

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Hossein Rahemi; Shouling He

teach the course of Fundamentals of Mechatronics - PLCprogramming and basic concepts of industrial automation. The electronic document, UniTrain-I,developed by the Lucas-Nuelle company, has been exploited to explain the sub-systems and demonstratetheir programming process. Through the course and laboratory exercises, students have the opportunityto work with sensors, devices that convert mechanical and physical variables into electrical outputsignals, as well as a programmable logic controller (PLC), a computing devise that manages andregulates the behavior of a mechatronic system. To the end of the course, students are expected to have 532basic knowledge of sensors and devices as well as how

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Daniel Schmalzel

. Students work on projects that address engineering measurement and reverseengineering. An exemplar task would be to perform systematic testing of existing products withthe goal of possibly illuminating areas for improvement [3]. During this year students are alsolectured on professionalism and engineering ethics [4]Sophomore Engineering Clinics (SEC I and SEC II)By the second year students have an understanding of the basic composition of an engineer; theirnext area of development is communication. The first semester focuses on written communication,while the second emphasizes oral communication. During both of these clinics the engineeringstudent takes a separate course that teaches the fundamentals of each communication type, awriting/literature

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

York - Farmingdale State CollegeAbstract:Oppenheimer said “The best way to learn is to teach."1 Mazur found that “Nothing clarifiesideas better than explaining them to others.”2 Using this philosophy, Jigsaw Learning,3 is a peer-to-peer teaching method developed by Elliot Aronson in which every student teaches somethingthat they have learned from one study group to another group of students. During class, thefaculty breaks a course topic into different assignments and the class into the same number ofstudy groups. The study groups each contain an equal number of students. Each group is givenan assignment to read, discuss and finally decide how they will serve as instructors on their topic.The faculty visits each group to discuss the topic and

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Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

,generally a PhD in Engineering, and a teaching fellow, generally a high school science teacher, closelywork with students to pedagogically inculcate basics of core engineering disciplines such as civil,mechanical, electrical, materials, and chemical engineering. EI values independent problem-solving skillsand simultaneously promotes team spirit among students. A number of crucial engineering aspects suchas professional ethics, communication, technical writing, and understanding of common engineeringprinciples are instilled in high school students via well-designed individual and group activities. Thispaper discusses the model of the EI program and its impact on students learning and their preparation forthe engineering career.Introduction: Shortage

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PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

, laboratory experiences,research based upon appropriate professional literature, and communication skilldevelopment (both written and oral). Teams within the Department configured unique courses to fit the guidelines. Bothcourses have evolved through time with feedback from both instructors and students.Accordingly, more discrete skills sets were refined and delivered. The net result is atandem of courses that engage and expand student awareness about the engineeringaspects of their world.Call to ArmsIn 2005, the General Education Program at Temple University challenged the many collegeson campus to create a new series of general education courses to expand the offerings for 91students and enhance

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Frank M. Croft

Section Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 1982, the North Central SectionBest Paper Award at the 1987 NCS Conference, the EDGD Distinguished Service Award in 1997,the North Central Section Distinguished Service Award in 2002, the Charles E. MacQuiggOutstanding Teaching Award at Ohio State in 1994, and in 2009, the Department OutstandingProfessor Award (OSU-CEEGS) 2009, and the Orthogonal Medal from North Carolina StateUniversity in 2009. Croft has been the lead professor for Engineering Summer Academy, aprogram designed to attract outstanding high school students to engineering since 1985. He is aregistered professional engineer in Kentucky. 18 Ohio State’s First-year

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

might be shown mathematics laboratories, the media production facilities, and computer-assisted instruction programs. But on the way to those installations, they will pass dozens of classrooms with instructors lecturing and conducting discussions just the way they and their predecessors have been doing for decades (p. 155).Service learning is an appropriate teaching and learning approach in which the workplaceprovides a practical setting for structured problem-based learning experiences.Blumenfeld, Soloway, Marx et al. (1991) concluded that technology can play a powerful role 151in project-based learning. Technology contributes to students’ learning by enhancinginterest

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Ted E. Batchman

using the most modern communications technology. They need to attract significantamounts of research funding, they need to publish extensively and they need to help develop the K-12 pipeline into an engineering career. In addition, they need to insure that the curriculum is up-to-date and meets the needs of new and developing industries.Will the rewards still be there for our young faculty members? Can we maintain the tenure andpromotion bar at a level that is reasonable to attain or will we lose too many of our good teachers?We also must look at opportunities to use retired engineers from industry to teach some of ourcourses and laboratories. Their experience is valuable to our students, but we must treat theseinstructors with the respect they

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Nikola Jovic; Abayomi Dairo; ASHENAFI TESFAYE; AIME VALERE; YANNICK ROLAND KAMDEM; Sasan Haghani; Paul Cotae

a M.S. degrees in communication and electronic engineering in 1980 from theUniversity of Iassy and a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from “Politechnica”University of Bucharest, Romania in 1991, and a Master in Applied Mathematics in 1998from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2002 to 2008 he was with theDepartment of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Texas at SanAntonio (UTSA). From 1984 to 2001, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Iassy, where he conducted research and teaching in the area of digitalcommunications as a Full Professor at the same department. Since 2008, he has been withthe University of the District of Columbia as an Associate Professor. He has authored

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Edward M. Land; Michael Marcus; Aaron Abugaber; Rohit Dayal; Noah Greenbaum; Sally Hong; Jon Hunt; Joseph Saltzman

. The steps in the project development will bedescribed along with the contributions of various team members and how their work wasevaluated. The regulatory aspects of this project will be described along with how an on-goingsearch is made for competitive devices. Finally, the future direction for this project including:next generation developments, partnering with the Veterans Administration, other educationalinstitutions, selecting manufacturing facilities and setting up future supply chain distribution willbe presented.1. Introduction (By Michael Marcus)As an Associate Professor of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, York Campus, Ihave worked with students on design projects for various courses that I teach. In addition, I

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

revision and updating of 5 existing courses atCity Tech and HCC. The project will result in i. Developing curriculum for two new multidisciplinary courses “Introduction to Research Management”, and “Special Topics in Remote Sensing”. ii. Updating and revising six courses to incorporate NASA-relevant material (4 courses at City Tech and 2 at HCC); the courses will be detailed in the next section. iii. Acquiring a limited amount of engineering laboratory equipment to support the new course and the revised courses. iv. Overall, improving the quality and content of the offerings at City Tech and HCC.(3.c) To enhance students’ skills in research. The project helps students in developing their