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Jiancheng Liu

422 Laboratory Projects Introduced in Teaching Manufacturing Processes Course Jiancheng Liu, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211-0197 jliu@pacific.eduIntroductionMechanical engineering students should graduate with strong practical and interpersonal skills (1,2) . Manufacturing Processes is a fundamental mechanical engineering course

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Kate Disney; John Krupczak

179 Laboratory Projects Appropriate for Non-Engineers and Freshman Engineering Students Kate Disney, Mission College Engineering Faculty John Krupczak, Hope College Professor of EngineeringIntroductionThe engineering departments at Hope College and Mission College both offer technologicalliteracy courses targeted to non-science majoring students. These lab-based general educationcourses are designed with mechanical dissection and “make

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Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

395 Engineering 101: Peer Teaching with LEGO NXT Robotics Stephen Beck1, Joshua Brent1, Thomas Brown1, Agostino Cala1, Eniko T. Enikov2, Richard Lucio III1 1 Undergraduate Student Mentors; 2Faculty advisor Advanced Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of ArizonaAbstractThe vast amount of knowledge and the multitude of disciplines encompassed by engineering canoften be intimidating and difficult, creating an educational barrier for beginning students. Thegoal of an

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information—in order to create useful toolsand technologies. Consequently, engineering education has the objective of not only presenting thescientific principles, i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these toreal problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that hands-on laboratories have been an integral part ofthe engineering curriculum since its inception [1]. Their importance has been recognized by theAccreditation Board of Engineering Education (ABET) and its predecessors by creation of criteriarequiring adequate laboratory practice for students [2-6]. Unfortunately, during the last severaldecades, engineering laboratories have become highly complex and expensive, with multiplesimulation tools and computer

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242 Teaching Classical Control to Mechanical Engineers via Take-Home Experimental Setup Based on Microcontrollers Vasco D. Polyzoev, Eniko T. Enikov Advanced Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of ArizonaI. IntroductionSupplementing a control systems class with a hands-on experience for students by working on areal dynamical system helps in better understanding the classical control theory and emphasizesthe importance of its applications. For a small size class this could be

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Gordon W. Romney

that its teaching model is based on “one-course-per-month”, its students are largelyemployed in industry, and the instructors are “up to date” with current technology because themajority are simultaneously employed in the IT industry. The majority of the students, likewise,are IT professionals, bringing with them many advanced skills, and are highly motivated towardobtaining a degree in order to advance in their profession. At NU the BS IT Management (ITM)program offers classes both in-person and on-line. Specific challenges of the NU teaching model,as they apply to IT, are its accelerated pace, long instruction class periods, the lack of thetraditional laboratory experience and the increasing demand for on-line instruction. Thetransition of

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

through a big transition of the programwith one professor retirement (founder of the program) and two new faculty members arriving.Our recent activities comprise following three major parts: 1) Expanded teaching laboratory, 2)Strong faculty/students research projects, and 3) Active SPIE student club. We are presenting theabove three efforts in this paper.1. IntroductionCalifornia Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) has one of the nation's largest primarilyundergraduate engineering colleges. The photonics program within the EE department began in1985. Currently, there are two senior elective lecture courses and one graduate-level lecture inthe photonics area. A 700 ft2 fiber-optics laboratory was introduced in 1986. This laboratoryserves dual

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Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

engineering lecture courses are taughtusing a traditional method i.e. only with the support of a blackboard or transparencies. The majordisadvantages of traditional teaching methods are that students usually have to choose betweentaking notes and listening to the lecturer. As a result, most of the learning in traditional teachingis individual, since the students in the classrooms are taking notes or listening instead ofparticipating2. Consequently, many students in conventional classrooms develop little confidencein their own ability to learn3. Demonstrations that illustrate concepts with visual aids are one of the important tools in thefield of engineering education. They help students connect theory with practice; they realize howtheory and

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Engineering Education, 5 (2), 93-99. 3. Quere, R., Lalande, M., Boutin, J. N., and Valente, C. (1995). An Automatic Characterization of Gaussian Noise Source for Undergraduate Electronics Laboratory, IEEE Transaction on Education, vol.38, No2, 126-130. 4. Kim A. S., Park C., and Park, S. H. (2003). Development of web-based Engineering Numerical Software (WENS) Using MATLAB: Applications to Linear Algebra, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (2), 67-75. 5. Orsak G. C., Etter D. M. (1995). Collaborative Signal Processing Education Using the Internet and MATLAB. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 12 (6), 23-32. 6. Pires V. F. and Silva J. F. A. (2002). Teaching Nonlinear Modeling, Simulation and Control of Electronic Power

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DingXin Cheng; Joel Arthur; Albert M. Johnson

410OBJECTIVESThe objectives of this research are to: • synthesize the knowledge of utilizing waste tires in civil engineering applications • develop effective teaching materials to educate university students about utilizing waste tire products in civil engineering • promote sustainability by using waste tires in civil engineering applications through university educationThe goal of this paper is to summarize the curricula of civil engineering applications of waste tireproducts and to make faculty aware of the existence of the course materials and resourcesdeveloped on this project.APPROACH AND PROPOSED CURRICULAUtilizing waste tires in civil engineering applications is a multi-disciplinary and complex subject.No single class

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student, and a quiz section. In the quiz section, students mustrun experiments, analyze their data, and then check to see if they have an answer within anacceptable range. The Lab charges virtual $ for each experiment to teach students that theyshould not run experiments indiscriminately, and then awards them virtual $ for correct answers.The Budget Report records the history of each quiz. Students must turn in their data, analysiswork, and a copy of the Budget Report which contains an authentication code. These quizzesincorporate the features Pavia9 lists that should be exhibited by a laboratory simulation.It is interesting to observe a new group of students start to use the software in a computer lab.Doing homework in the Lab is much different

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tobe a motivational and fun way to help students learn about rigid body dynamics. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 284IntroductionAt Cal Poly, students have always been encouraged to utilize a hands-on approach towardslearning. In our coursework, we have found that real-world type of problems help students learnthe material more effectively, as well as prepare them for careers in engineering. Throughout allthe laboratories and student projects, Cal Poly's "learn by doing" motto is evident - in how weapply the principles of engineering towards realistic

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Estelle M. Eke

programming languageincluding C and C++, (ii) engineering materials, (iii) circuits and (iv) engineering mechanics –statics. The mode of course delivery is two 50-minute lectures and a 3-hour laboratory per week.Emphasis was on the introduction to numerical computation and assigned problems were solvedon a PC/Workstation. Tests and final exams that rely heavily on computation were used toevaluate student performance; laboratory reports were used to assess writing skills. It wasobserved that a typical class was made up of two types of students; those who enjoyedprogramming, and students who considered programming as drudgery and were not motivated todo more than the minimum amount of work required to get a passing grade. The latter group alsohad

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. Teaming Multi-level Classes on Industry Projects, Lizabeth Schlemer and Jose Macedo 162 23. Redevelopment of a Systems Engineering Course into Blended (Hybrid) Mode, Kurt Colvin 172 24. Laboratory Projects Appropriate for Non-Engineers and Freshman Engineering Students, Kate Disney and John Krupczak 179 25. Multipoint Remote Temperature Monitoring and Data Acquisition System Using RF Technology, Reza Raeisi and Deepak Anand 189 26. Agile Problem Driven Teaching in Engineering, Science and Technology, Pradip Peter Dey, Thomas M. Gatton

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Amelito G. Enriquez

mathematical formulas. Combined with wirelessnetworking technology, Tablet PCs have the potential to provide an ideal venue for applyingpreviously proven collaborative teaching and learning techniques commonly used in smallerengineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger, more traditional lecture setting. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 33Currently, the range of use of Tablet PCs in the classroom includes enhancing lecturepresentations8,9, digital ink and note taking10, E-Books (books in electronic format) that allowhyperlinks and annotations11

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

teach students from diverse disciplines someessential concepts on computer technology in the context of applying cyberinfrastructure. Thesecourses developed for K13 & K14 levels will be offered in an innovative classroom setting forhands-on experimental learning with a focus on solving scientific problems as a team. Thesecourses will also be deployed for online learning in a virtual classroom. The effectiveness of suchan approach, introducing concepts from engineering education to the non-engineering students,will be assessed through formative and summative methods for further development anddissemination._____________________________________________________________________________*CIBRED is funded by NSF award OCI-0753375 to O

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student’s points of view. Areas of future research will also be discussed.Review of Literature Most engineering schools use team based projects, or laboratory assignments to helpstudents develop skills necessary for their professional careers. Teamwork skills havetraditionally been developed by assigning students to teams. To some extent, this approach doesproduce results, but a better approach was undertaken at the University of Dayton[4] wherestudent teams were instructed on teambuilding and leadership. One of their suggestions was notonly to instruct, but to give students opportunities to work on teams where students refine theirskills as they mature though the engineering program. Many researchers have struggled with thedifficult task of

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algorithms to multiply matrices. Mechanical engineering coding exampleswere not integrated into the course; they were presented without instructional design forethought.2.2 Course delivery Prior to Fall 2006 the class met physically and the exclusive method of content deliverywas through face to face lecture. Instruction was provided in a workstation laboratory. Thislaboratory was a dedicated computational resource cluster of 30 UltraSPARC models 170 and170E workstations using the Sun Grid Engine software from Sun Microsystems. Each stationin the cluster had 128MB of physical memory, and contained one 167MHz US-I CPU. Theworkstations were interconnected using high-speed network infrastructure from Myricom. The instructor taught at

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who did not organize their knowledge, knowing the individualreactions, but not how to link a series of reactions together1. Students in the prerequisite sciencecourses, then, may be attempting to learn more superficially than what will be required of themlater on. This view of teaching and learning fits well with an investigation of how some faculty Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 115see teaching as transmitting information and students learning as receiving this information2,without much focus on how the information really functions. The work by

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perform the following operations: 1. Reading the temperature sensor. 2. Use RS232 serial protocol to load temperature data to the wireless antenna. 3. Use RS232 serial protocol to unload temperature data from the wireless antenna. 4. Display the sent temperature on LCD screen and alerting with sound warning in case of emergency.The Dragon12-Plus trainer is a low-cost, feature-packed training board from Freescale HCS12microcontroller family. It incorporates many on-board peripherals that make this board verypopular trainer for teaching microcontroller course in universities around the world.RF Module (HAC-UM96)The HAC-UM96 is designed to be a low cost and high performance radio modem. It is a UARTdevice; data is framed according

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become “mutually dependent” so that advancement is done as acohesive unit with each member making contributions to the group (shared responsibility). Learning communities have some key parts of the successful Treisman’s Model.10 In theearly 1980’s Uri Treisman created programs that enlisted African-American students to excel inmathematics rather than a program created solely to help them evade failure. Like LCs,Treisman’s emphasis is on collaborative learning among the students through the use of “smallgroup teaching methods.” Students are not just expected to be remediated, but expectations areraised based on what Treiman observed to be the strength of some groups of students on hiscampus: their ability to merge academic and social lives

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Teresa M. Ogletree; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

248 Using Model Eliciting Activities in a Dynamics Course Teresa M. Ogletree, Brian P. Self, and James Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoAbstractTypical assignments in a traditional dynamics course often do little to motivate students or togive them an indication of how they would use the material in a future job situation. Manyinstructors are now attempting to provide motivational projects, hands-on demonstrations, andeven laboratory assignments to increase understanding and motivation. To

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failure to pass the prerequisite skillsexam can be a useful indicator for at-risk students.IntroductionThe Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree programs at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona, are somewhat traditional four-yearundergraduate engineering degree programs. The Prescott campus of ERAU may be categorizedas a “teaching institution,” where the engineering faculty place emphasis on instructor-studentinteraction, design experiences, and hands-on laboratory learning.Student retention is receiving increasing interest at Embry-Riddle, especially in recent monthswith the troubled economy. This is not a unique position for a small, private, tuition-drivenuniversity such as Embry-Riddle. Many such