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Paul B. Crilly

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Teaching an Undergraduate Electromagnetics and Antennas Course Using A Hand-Held RF Analyzer - Engaged Learning Paul B. Crilly Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 06320AbstractThis paper describes an experiential learning concept to teach undergraduate electromagneticsand antenna theory using a hand-held RF analyzer and other basic laboratory apparatus. Theanalyzer contains both an RF source and spectrum analyzer. The RF source serves to enableSWR measurement for stub matching, measuring cable losses, detecting cable faults, cablelengths, and such

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Benjamin D. McPheron

-roundedindividuals while also pursuing deep technical knowledge in their engineering education. Inaddition to this challenge, undergraduate-focused schools require faculty members or adjunctinstructors to teach laboratory courses, due to a lack of graduate students, which limits theavailability of such courses. One possible solution to this issue is to institute a mixed learninglaboratory approach, in which eight lecture periods throughout the semester are replaced with in-class studio laboratory exercises and larger take-home lab projects are assigned to encouragestudents to refine skills by applying skills learned through in class lab assignments4. 1

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

Introduc-tion to Mechanical Engineering.3.0 The ‘ New’ I ntr oduction to M echanical Engineer ingThe new Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course is a 2-credit freshman year experiencecourse comprising 1-hour of lecture and 2-hours of laboratory contact per week. In the Fall 2014offering in mechanical engineering, a single lecture/meeting of ~160-165 students was held eachweek. There were also 9-assigned laboratory sections, each comprising 19 students or less. Thelecture component used clickers to assess attendance and gain real-time feedback from students.Homework is deployed using the Blackboard course management system. The Fall 2014 teach-ing team was comprised a pair of professors, 3 half-TAs (one responsible for CNC

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

pedagogies (e.g. traditional chalkboard writing, presentations, field trips,labs, etc.) to appeal to different student learning preferences and create a more inclusive learningenvironment. Utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, instructors focused on the first twodichotomies, Extroversion vs. Introversion and Sensing vs. Intuition. With an innovativeapproach towards CE Materials, the goal of stimulating independent thinkers and assistingstudents with the retention of core course material is being achieved across a range of studentlearning preferences. By teaching the course in a way that encompasses all learning preferences,a greater breadth of students can succeed in and enjoy a civil engineering curriculum.IntroductionTypical civil engineering

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Md. M. Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed

laboratory work). Website or other electronic locations for the course (i.e., Blackboard) may be listed here. • Units/time dedicated per week (i.e., meets on T, Th at 4:00 – 5:15 PM) • Prerequisites/co-requisites – should include course names and numbers according to institution catalog so that they can be easily identified. B. Instructor information • Instructors’ names and preferred name – name or names and their function in relation to the course, along with degrees and credentials (i.e., Dr. John Doe, P.E., instructor; and Smith, L., Ph.D candidate, teaching assistant (TA)). The instructor prefer to be called Professor Doe, and the TA prefer to be called Mr. Smith) • Office hour – indicate where and how students should

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Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

different historical contexts.Rather than require students to write the standard history term paper, we assigned a term projectto study the relationship of design to performance in ancient naval vessels in the Aegean. Thestudents were challenged to make connections between their hands-on experiences and the largerhistorical and geographic contexts. In other words, interdisciplinary, experiential learning wasapplied not to the technical component of engineering education, but to the societal contextcomponent. The preliminary results were encouraging. Plans are underway to adjust and re-offer the course, and to disseminate it more broadly.KeywordsHistory, society, laboratory, engineering, educationBackgroundAs the authors have discussed previously1

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Michael J. Davidson

the structure, in a three dimensionalmodel and through the use of add-on software and/or third party software analyze and design thestructure. As educators, how do we, or for that matter do we, bring this software to theclassroom or laboratory. It allows our students to solve complex problems and potentially makesthem more marketable. However, if all we teach is the software, who answers the question “ Dothe results make sense?” As of today and it may change in the future, the computer does nothave a professional engineering stamp and the software provider implicitly states that it shares noliability and make no guarantees concerning the use of the output from its software. Is itpossible to make tens of thousands of input entries and have no

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Matthew Stein

determine distances ormay generate graphs, e.g. velocity versus time, to study motion characteristics. As a direct result,students are able to independently validate their symbolic solutions with numerical simulations.This paper will provide a detailed description of the use of SolidWorks in a sophomore levelDynamics course offered spring 2012-2014. This paper will present examples of student workand assess the benefits and challenges associated with this teaching method.KeywordsDynamics, Simulation, SolidWorks, Self-check.IntroductionThe faculty in our engineering program are committed to achieving ABET objective k. an abilityto use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.However, an isolated

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Sigrid Berka

Institute for Medicinal Pharmacy to internship at BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany This Chemical Engineering & German senior was involved in Chemical research in three different labs—stretching across both the spectrum of scientific fields and different locations. His undergraduate engineering research journey took him from a project sponsored by NSF led by Geoffrey Bothun in URI’s Bionanotechnology Laboratory trying to enhance oil spill treatment methods, to characterizing drug delivery systems under Professor Heike Bunje’s guidance at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology at TU Braunschweig to attempting to increase the lifetime of a battery cell at BASF’s Ludwigshafen headquarters. At first glance these research topics seem to be

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Naser M. Alajmi; Khaled M. Elleithy

25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations are distinguished inall the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses and Ph.D.dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed and introduced many newundergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching / research laboratories in his area ofexpertise.Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books by Springer. He is a member of technical programcommittees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as aguest editor for several International Journals. He was the chairman for the International Conference onIndustrial Electronics, Technology & Automation, IETA 2001, 19

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Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Khaled M. Elleithy

communications, network security, quantumcomputing, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than threehundred research papers in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr.Elleithy has more than 25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations aredistinguished in all the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MStheses and Ph.D. dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed andintroduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching /research laboratories in his area of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 booksby Springer. He is a member of technical program committees of many international

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Anne L. van de Ven; Mary H. Shann; Srinivas Sridhar

nanomedicine research project that could beconducted from at least two different perspectives within different laboratories (and ifappropriate, via an internship as well). For some students, the proposed research was acontinuation of their primary thesis project; for others, it was an opportunity to develop a newsecondary research direction. Trainees were asked to select at least one scientific co-mentorduring the application process; however, many took the initiative to cultivate additional mentorsover their 2-year training period (Table 1). Sources of formal and informal mentorship wereidentified from trainee progress reports, meetings, interviews, and publications. Table 1. Trainee utilization of mentoring during their Nanomedicine research