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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

between student action less time for analysis of student learning. Faculty are oftenand focused feedback, students often make the same type of absorbed checking student data and have little time to add newerrors week after week. Additionally, engineering laboratories student experiences that might be important and relevant todo not typically use efficacious forms of teaching, such as industrial practice. This problem is shared by most science anddiscovery-methods or project-based learning [1]. technology curricula and delays integration of new topics andUnderstanding how people think and learn has forced a

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh, Senior Member, IEEE new smart grid workforce. In the Department of Electrical Abstract— In advanced Power Engineering and Smart Grid Engineering and Computer Science we have developed smartLaboratory environment students get opportunities to grid laboratory to support both undergraduate and graduatedemonstrate their ability to design and conduct experiments

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Paul B. Crilly

. Mukhopadhyay and D.N. Pinder, “Teaching engineering electromagnetics to information and communication engineering students at Massey University,” [Online] Available: http://itee.uq.edu.au/~aupec/aupec03/papers/012%20Mukhopadhyayfull% 20paper.pdf[4] H. Xie, Y. Liang, and Q. Wang, “A laboratory measurement method of radiation pattern,” New York: Springer-Verlag, 2012.[5] N.N. Rao, “PC-Assisted Instruction of Introductory Electromagnetics,” IEEE Tran. Educ., vol. 33, pp. 51-59, Feb. 1990.[6] M.F. Iskander, “Technology-Based Electromagnetic Education,” IEEE Tran. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, pp. 1020, March 2002.[7] Z. Raida, “Internet Support of Education in Antenna and Microwave Techniques,” [Online]. Available

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Melody Baglione

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Building Sustainability into Control Systems: Preliminary Assessment of a New Facilities- Based and Hands-On Teaching Approach Melody Baglione, Member, ASEE, and Gerardo del Cerro, Member, ASEE by developing facilities-based undergraduate thermodynamics Abstract—This paper presents an overview and preliminary course materials and also reported positive results [5].assessment of an NSF TUES funded project, “Building The motivation for this NSF sponsored

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Ruzanna Davtyan

only when students process new information orenvironment, whether a classroom, a laboratory and encourages knowledge in such a way that it makes sense in their frame ofeducators to design learning environments to get preferred reference (Hull, 1995) p.23.” He also says that this approach tolearning outcomes. “learning and teaching assumes that the mind naturally seeks meaning in context and does so by searching for relationships Keywords—context, teaching, learning, style, student, teacher that make sense and appear useful (Hull, 1995) p.24.” This I. INTRODUCTION

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

attraction of additional resources, such, as thetasks by case studies; reports on the practical and laboratory glossary, animations, screencasts which can be used in anassignments implementation. interactive mode. For example, the videos created by the From learning outcomes, teaching methods, studentactivities and methods of knowledge assessment are formed HyperCam program can be used for demonstration ofinterrelated chains, for example, such as: opportunities of the software (fig. 1, 2). "Skills application” ↔ «Performing of laboratory tasks» For good

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Mohammed-Noor Naher Al-Maghrabi; Ahmed A. Abdou El-Abbasy

with dynamics and vibrations. of several buildings. They created one of the earliest multi-Dynamics and vibrations are yet extremely complex subjects and dimensional building models and studied its performance on ademand costly laboratory resources. Since the faculties ofengineering in these universities are new, there are no shaking table. During the 1940s an impact table for simulatinglaboratories for dynamics and vibrations yet. It was obvious that, earthquake ground motions was used to study the mechanicalwithout laboratory work, the students were not able to performance of large shear

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

. Sorby, Developing 3-D Spatial VisualizationResearch. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. Skills. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Volume 63,[10] Michael J. Prince, Margot A. S. Vigeant and Kathayran Number 2, 21-32Nottis. (2009). A preliminary study on the effectiveness ofinquiry-based activities for addressing misconceptions ofundergraduate engineering students. Education for ChemicalEngineers, 4: 29-41[11] Quentin de Radigues, Quentin Van Overmeere, RonnySantoro, and Joris Proost. (2011). An undergraduate studentlaboratory on electromechanical engineering. Education forChemical Engineers, 6:e56-e61.[12] Ertugrul, N. (2000). Towards virtual laboratories: asurvey of Labview based teaching/learning tools and

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A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

education points to hands-on experiences asof fundamental concepts during undergraduate engineering a necessary ingredient in the learning process. A participant ineducation. We describe recent experience at the University of the recent 2013 ASEE University/Industry perspectivesMassachusetts in introducing a laboratory component into the workshop stated this succinctly, “Students must experience aFundamentals of Electrical Engineering course taken by 170upper-level mechanical and industrial engineering hands-on example of every fundamental taught in order toundergraduate students. The lecture part of the course exposes reinforce it

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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

MA 119) as a prerequisite (or a satisfactory score on the Manuscript received February, 14, 2014. This work was supported in part college mathematics placement test). The course consisted ofby the CETL of the Queenborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala teaches at the Physics Department of the Queensborough 3 class hours, 1 recitation hour and 2 laboratory hours (4Community College. (All corresponds should direct to Suni Dehipawala: credits).Phone 718-281-5720; e-mail: sdehipawala@ QCC.CUNY.EDU). The study population consisted of two Physics 201 sections Vazgen Shekoyan is at the Physics Department of the Queensborough

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Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

- ! !!! On Teaching Approach,” Submitted to ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference,27   . As seen in Fig. 2, the graph has an increasing slope in April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. !this range, and therefore the average value of τ would be [2] M. Baglione, “Incorporating Practical Laboratory Experiments tolarger than the value of τ at 50% level. Theoretically, if Reinforce Dynamic Systems and Control Concepts,” Proc. of the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,Method 5 was repeated going from 100% level to a steady- Nov. 13-19, Lake

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Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

-experimental evolution report on suggested that the laboratory investigation of the thermo-elongation factor EF-Tu structural stability results using the stability of elongation factor EF-Tu protein by circularancestral protein sequence reconstruction modeling has been dichroism data would provide an opportunity to rewind theused in teaching community college pre-engineering students to tape of life using ancestral protein reconstruction modelingdo research. A project analyzing free energy and Shannon approach [1]. Furthermore they reported that the insertion ofentropy of the engineered DNA sequences would benefit students an ancient version of EF-Tu in Escherichia coli (E. coli

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Abdullah Ibrahim Almhaidib

processes. The college of engineering, with its long tradition of excellence in research and teaching, will remain committedAs stated above, the college of engineering at King Saudi to taking and maintaining a leading role as one of the topUniversity was established in 1962. The college started with premier engineering schools in the region.three departments, namely the civil engineering department,electrical engineering department, and mechanical engineering The college defines its vision and sets up its mission anddepartment. The department of architecture engineering was objectives. The same is done by every department which linksestablished in 1968 which

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Ketul B Shah; Aritra Ghosh; Md Naim Hossain; Young Lee

application available that can be used in medical Figure 1.projects [3]. J-DSP application is designed for educationalpurpose [4]. This application is used in the laboratories for The blocks are used to construct this architectureteaching Digital Signal Processing to students. with the aim to provide some logical divisions of the In case of environmental studies, now-a-days many resources in the system. The architecture organizes availableapplications are being developed in the market to study resources into the following blocks: sensors, mobile devices,environmental factors. One of them is used to measure web server and

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Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque; H. M. Imran Hassan; S. M. Abul Hossain

. [2] Hassapis, G., “An interactive electronic book approach for teaching computer implementation of industrial control systems”, IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol. 46, pp. 177 – 184, Feb. 2003. Figure 22: Time versus error of PLC. [3] Kamen, E. W., Gazarik, M. J., “A course in industrial controls and manufacturing for EE students and other engineering majors”,From the experimental result it is depicted that In control Proceeding of the 1997 American Control Conference, Vol

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Damien Laird; Jack Price; Ioannis A. Raptis

is sacrificed forreach of the field from university laboratories to classroom size, the number of potential algorithms to be tested is greatlysettings. limited. With more advancement in these two categories, it There has been a large number of centimeter-scale multi- will also extend swarm robotics into the classroom as arobotic teams developed in research laboratories worldwide, system for teaching, another discipline in which tools mustbut only a small fraction of them are commercially available. be small and inexpensive in order to be useful. The resultingThe Alice Micro-Robot of EPFL represents a drastic reduction Spider-Bots platform

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

how the computer revolutionized physics research andintroduced into the classroom. We will discuss the design investigated how to use computers as tools to emphasizeof the programming lesson modules and how they are physical concepts. They tested the using computers in physicsincorporated into the physics curriculum. The difficulties, courses at the University of Maryland and concluded that thesuccesses, and failures of this experience will be presented. students scored better on laboratory reports and felt more satisfied with the nature of the work. They also stated that Keywords—R programming; high school; physics

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Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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Tamer Abukhalil; Madhav Patil

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. UBSwarm: Design of a Software Environment to Deploy Multiple Decentralized Robots Tamer Abukhalil Madhav Patil Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory Laboratory School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

academic advising tools. However, we argue that theCentre of Excellence Program. continued development of online advising tools has not kept N. Mattei affiliated with NICTA, University of New South Wales, Neville pace with development of course delivery, educational theoryRoach Laboratory, Level 4, 223 Anzac Pde., Kensington NSW 2052 about online education, or education evaluation systems. InAustralia. (Nicholas.mattei@nicta.com.au; +61 2 8306 0464). T. Dodson affiliated with Department of Physics and Astronomy, the process of designing an advising support system, we haveUniversity of

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Eman Abdel Fattah

REFERENCES [1] Y. Rodriguez-Gallo Guerra, J. P. B. Rodriguez, and C. R. Beltran, “Development of laboratory practice on WiMAX IEEE 802.16d physical layer,” Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching (TAEE), pp. 216 - 221, 2012.Bit Error Rate [2] M. D. Patidar, R.; Jain, N.K.; Kulpariya, S., “Performance analysis of WiMAX

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Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

programs.reports on the transformative power of early curriculumredesign efforts in this field [10]. As part of this Fall Semester 2012 student enrollment was 16,208, oftransformation, the gap between teaching methods and whom 35% attended part-time. Approximately 31.5% ofpractitioner’s skills can be addressed, at least in part, through students self-identified as Black (non-Hispanic), 33.8% asindustry and academic partnerships [11], which have been Hispanic, 20 % as Asian/Pacific Islander, 11.3% as White,shown to help foster interdisciplinary education. We have 0.6% as Native American, and 2.8% as Other. Sixty-onefound that this approach can also be beneficial to a percent (61

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Vazgen Shekoyan

make them transforming the transitional problems into reduced-specificitysuch. Context rich problems have real-world context settings. problems.To increase motivation, one can start problems with “Youare…/you have been…” and then describe situations in such IV. DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS OF THE STUDYcontexts that can motivate the solver to find an answer (e.g., Course Descriptionstart the problems with statements like: you have been hired as The General Physics I (PH-201) course at QCC is an… and your job is…; you are watching TV about… and algebra-based 3 class hours and 2 laboratory hours course (4wonder…; etc). More suggestions on making problems credits). It is a