Conference Session

Understanding Student Development in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Nuri Zeytinoglu P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Masoud Mojtahed, Purdue University Northwest; Matthew William Wooden, Purdue University Northwest; Ikechukwu I Nnachi, Purdue University Northwest

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Design in Engineering Education

a required course with lecture and lab components integration. Lab portionincludes a project from each engineering discipline.The of the course includes two parts with the first eight (8) weeks focused on mechanical and civilengineering (MCE) fields and the second half semester covers electrical and computer engineering(ECE) disciplines. For the MCE part, the following objectives are expected [9]. 1) analyze forces intrusses; 2) design a bass wood bridge, using statics analysis and material properties; 3) show thatthe design process is iterative in nature; 4) write a technical laboratory report; 5) determine simpletypes of equations that can represent a set of data, using x-y, Semi log and log-log plots; 6) useEXCEL software for analyzing

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qianlong Lan, Texas Southern University; Ning Wang; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Gangbing Song, University of Houston (CoE); Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

moremobile applications are designed and developed for the M-Learning. In this paper, a novelmobile-optimized application architecture is proposed to integrate the remote laboratory intomobile environment for the M-Learning. With this mobile optimized application architecture, theremote experiment applications can use a common codebase to deploy native-like applications onmany different mobile platforms (such as, iOS, Android, Window Mobile, etc.). To demonstratethe effectiveness of proposed new architecture for M-Learning, an innovative remote networkedSmart Vibration Platform (SVP) experiment is successfully implemented based on this newapplication architecture. This remote SVP experiment has been used in several

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session I: WIP: Experiential Learning Potpourri

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Lily Chang, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Paper ID #25208Work in Process: Collaborative Design ProjectsDr. Mohammad Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville Mohammad Habibi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Prior to coming to the UW-Platteville, he was an assistant professor of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University-Mankato. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2010. His primary research interests are in the field of signal processing, dielectric spectroscopy, and sensors. Specifically

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-2879: USING THE SAE COLLEGIATE DESIGN SERIES TO PROVIDERESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATESGregory Davis, Kettering University DR. GREGORY W. DAVIS is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, formerly known as GMI Engineering & Management Institute. Acting in this capacity, he teaches courses in the Automotive and Thermal Science disciplines. He also serves a Director of the Advanced Engine Research Laboratory, where he conducts research in alternative fuels and engines. Currently, Greg serves as co-faculty advisor for the world's largest Student Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Clean Snowmobile Challenge Project. Greg is

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Declan Thomas Mahaffey-Dowd, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Negar Beheshti Pour, University of California, Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

important skill in traditionalundergraduate engineering curricula (4). Engineering students are often expected to work ingroups during laboratory or design courses, but a large portion of engineering classes arelecture-based and students compete for grades based on individual work products (6).  Whilethere is a growing emphasis on implementing cooperative learning strategies in engineeringclassrooms, students need to practice teamwork skills for these learning methods to succeed (6,7).  Thus, it could benefit engineering departments to ensure that there are other ways for theirundergraduates to gain experience working in teams. In recent decades, many programs have adopted active and collaborative learning in theirengineering programs, and a

Conference Session

FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Elizabeth Carruthers, The Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University - EEIC

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First-Year Programs

two concurrent parts. In the microfluidicsportion, teams of four students learn the basics of flow in channels by reading and completing aguided example. Then, students are asked to create a MATLAB program in which a user couldinput any of several parameters and calculate the velocity distribution in a channel. In thisassignment, students are meant to build on their MATLAB experience from the Winter Quarterprogramming class and focus on the calculation of fluid mechanics.In a process designed to mirror graduate university research, this knowledge is put to use. Teamsare asked to design unique microchannels to test the adherence of yeast to varying patternedsurfaces. These channels are constructed and tested by the teams, who present their

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Spinelli

laboratory demonstrations and experiments.3. Gathering Output WaveformsOnce a signal, has been displayed on an oscilloscope, the Signals and Systems toolboxprovides a simple interface to transfer waveform data into MATLAB. The functionswave() takes a specified oscilloscope channel and returns the displayed waveform.The function is designed to work with the Agilent (formally HP) 54xxx family ofoscilloscopes, but can be easily modified to work with the scopes of other manufacturerssuch as Tektronix. Assume that the function x(t) that was downloaded to the arbitrary waveform generatorin Section 2 is displayed on channel 1 of a supported oscilloscope. The waveform, calledsx with a time axis st, can be transferred to MATLAB using the swave() function

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K Lape, Harvey Mudd College; David L Harris, Harvey Mudd College; Matthew Joseph Keeter, Harvey Mudd College; Madeleine S Ong, Harvey Mudd College; Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

with embedded systems. E11 addressesthese issues with a substantial hands-on team-based design problem involving C programming inan embedded context.E11 also has a number of constraints. The course needs to be scalable to serve a large body ofinterested students given limited faculty teaching resources. The materials budget should notexceed $250/student. Because it is an elective with limited enrollment, students who do not takethe course should not be unduly disadvantaged in subsequent courses.A secondary objective of this effort is to give upper-division students a rich experience learningto teach. Much of the course development was performed over the Summer of 2010 by twoseniors in close collaboration with the faculty. The seniors continued

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gendrachi

textbook problems limited tocreativity of the author. As good as some of these problems are, they are not “real” problems.For example, a student might encounter a “real” problem in the laboratory setting up a circuit fora fundamental AC or DC course. The student realizes something is wrong when he does not getthe expected results. The cause is usually a setup problem; something is not connected right.After checking the schematic, the student can determine the problem by inspection and correctthe error. However, this technique does not work very well when the circuit the student has toconstruct involves a significant amount of wiring and components as in a memory circuit addedto a computer. In the microprocessor, lab this is often the case.The

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

Program was originally founded through the Center for EnergyEfficient Electronics Science, and has since branched to multiple disciplines includedbiotechnology and robotics. TTE REU was designed as an intervention for students so thatthey would have an opportunity to build their confidence and knowledge in science andengineering with the goal that this intervention would lead to more students transferring to abachelor program. As discussed by S. Artis4, TTE REU brings students from communitycolleges around the state of California to the University of California, Berkeley to complete a9 week summer research internship. The first week of the internship has the students goingthrough a “laboratory bootcamp” where the students learn lab safety, ethics

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ramiro Jordan, ISTEC-ECE-UNM; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Javier Paez Saavedra

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International

AC 2007-576: FORMING THE GLOBAL ENGINEER FOR THE AMERICAS:GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES INVOLVINGLATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan Esparragoza is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Penn State University. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, and global design. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the Latin American and Caribbean

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Schubert, University of San Diego; Frank Jacobitz, University of San Diego; Ernest Kim, University of San Diego

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Design in Engineering Education

for the engineering Fundamentals Examination. Dr. Kim is a member of the IEEE, ASEE, and CSPE. He is a licensed professional electrical engineer in California. Page 14.1213.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Engineering Design Process: An Assessment of Student Perceptions and Learning at the Freshmen LevelAbstractAn investigation into the impact of a simple team design experience in teaching the engineeringdesign process is described. The design experience occurred early in an Introduction toEngineering course after a single lecture on the engineering design process. The design

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vance Poteat; Abdullatif Bagegni

course in Power Quality (PQ) has proven popular. A laboratoryexperience, which includes elements of power quality and energy savings, has been designed andimplemented. In addition, the ECE department now requires a sophomore level class inembedded controllers. An extension to the PQ laboratory experience that incorporates embeddedcontrollers has also been designed.The lab set up is based on maximizing student understanding in conjunction with minimizingcosts. The students learn causes, impacts, and solutions of PQ problems. They learn how todesign a power factor correction capacitor bank and an LC filter to mitigate harmonics. Theyalso conduct simulations of the power system network, and analyze system data. The students aretaught methods of

Conference Session

PCEE Technical Session 8: Engineering Design in Elementary School

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron Skinner, University of California, Santa Barbara; Danielle Harlow

research at the University of California, Irvine; and nanotechnology research at Sandia National Laboratory. He gained practical engineering experience as a patent reviewer for Lenker Engineering and a software engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric Company and Visual Solutions, Inc. For 14 years he owned and operated an organic farm, where he developed and directed a yearlong apprentice program in sustainable agriculture, ran informal education programs both on the farm and as outreach in local schools, and designed and fabricated small-scale farming equipment. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Physics from the University of California, Irvine.Danielle Harlow

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

filtration are fundamental topics in physiology courses taughtto medical students and undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students. Studentsreport anecdotally that this material is difficult to master. Furthermore overall student examperformance does not correlate with performance on questions regarding capillary filtration. Amodule that presents capillary filtration in the context of glomerular filtration is being developedas part of the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering (education) ResearchCenter (VaNTH ERC) sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Module design is basedon the learning and teaching principles outlined in How People Learn1 and the goals of theVaNTH ERC. The content is delivered through a

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; Jacob William Leachman, Washington State University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company

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Design in Engineering Education

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 on the visco-plastic flow of hydrogenic materials for the fueling of fusion energy machines. He has conducted guest research in the Physical and Chemical Properties of Fluids Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Pellet Fueling of Fusion Plasmas Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Dr. Michael Richey, The Boeing Company Dr. Michael Richey is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support technology and innovation research at The Boeing Company. Michael is responsible for leading a team conducting engineering education research projects that focus on improving the learning experience for students, in

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Thuriya Rajkumar, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

director withquestions and concerns.2.2 Overview of the ProcessThe process overview section describes what the IPPD program is and how it operates, thegeneral philosophy of the approach, and the benefits of industry participation. The overviewemphasizes the educational aspects of the IPPD program. It is important to reinforce thateducational success is the primary mission and that project success is secondary.The IPPD program provides both classroom and laboratory experience that show: ≠ How fundamental engineering science is relevant to effective product and process design ≠ That design involves not just product function but also manufacturability, cost, schedule, reliability, quality, customer preferences and life cycle issues ≠ How to

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta, Canada; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein, P.E., University of Kentucky; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Stephen W. Thiel, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

. Someinstitutions (20%) have design courses throughout the curriculum in addition to the capstonedesign sequence, but more programs (40%) have design projects within non-design coursesthroughout the curriculum. The course or courses in the capstone design sequence are primarilyoffered only once a year (78%) with a slight edge to the spring semester/winter quarter (80%)over the fall semester/quarter (72%). Most institutions (78%) include instruction in software orprogramming as part of the course(s). The culminating design project is most often a theoreticaldesign (68%) as opposed to one based on experiments (3%) or resulting in a prototype (7%), andmost institutions do not use the AIChE Design Competition problems (70%). Professional skillsare mainly

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Linda Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Evaluations of Sponsor Interaction in a Capstone Interdisciplinary Senior Design ProgramAbstractOne possible benefit to students of an industrially sponsored capstone senior design program isthe ability to try working with a particular organization prior to committing to full timeemployment. This can also be viewed as an incentive to sponsoring organizations as a way toobserve students before making a permanent hiring decision. The student population in theprogram analyzed is composed of Millennial generation students (born between 1982 and 2002),who expect a fun work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, company paidtraining and travel opportunities along with a flexible work schedule. As experience in theclassroom

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, University of Minnesota-Duluth

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Electrical and Computer

Duluth. Her interests include control, robotics, image processing, digital systems, and microprocessor applications. Page 11.934.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Mobile Robots Capstone Design CourseAbstractThis work describes the educational experience gained during the "Design Workshop", a fourthyear course in the undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering program at ourUniversity. The main topic of this course is concentrated on a team-based, semester-long projectin which students design and build mobile robots for different applications.1. Introduction The number of electronic

Conference Session

Machine Design Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dennis O'Connor, California State University, Chico

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Mechanical Engineering

activities are essentially nolonger possible. Mechanical Engineering Design (i.e., Machine Design) at California StateUniversity Chico normally facilitates a semester-long design and fabrication project to givestudents a real-world engineering experience. As an alternative, this paper considers theeffectiveness and benefit of focusing on the documentation and presentation of engineeringanalysis and design work rather than hands-on projects. In a series of activity assignments,students are required to compose short technical reports which document their engineeringanalysis in professional form. Each subsequent assignment had an increased level of analysiscomplexity and documentation which related to the course material. A mid-semester survey

Conference Session

Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Beardsley, Central Washington University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

easily performed, many levels of complexity can beincorporated into a lesson to demonstrate chemical principles, physical properties, and processconstraints. Used as a lecture or lab experiment, this process demonstration may lead to lessonson topics such as balancing chemical reaction equations, converting molar relations into scalablevolume measurements, reaction equilibrium and completion concepts, side reactions, and polarvs. nonpolar molecules. Fluid properties of specific gravity and viscosity change during thereaction, and temperature affects the rate at which these changes occur. The effect of theseproperties on process equipment design can be discussed and calculated, along with materialcompatibility issues.Using the biodiesel process

Conference Session

Improving ME Instructional Laboratories

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matsson, Oral Roberts University

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Mechanical Engineering

themain hardware components but excluding the cost for LabVIEW software, wind tunnel andcomputer.Bibliography1. Jacobs E.N., Stack J. and Pinkerton R.M. “Airfoil Pressure Distribution Investigation in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel.” NACA Report No. 353, 1930.2. Marchman III J.F and Werme T.D. “Clark-Y Airfoil Performance at Low Reynolds Numbers.” AIAA-84- 0052, 1984.3. Stern F., Muste M., Houser D., Wilson M. and Ghosh S. “Measurement of Pressure Distribution and Forces acting on an Airfoil.”, Laboratory Experiment #3, 57:020 Mechanics of Fluids and Transfer Processes (http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/fluidslab/pdfs/57-020/airfoil.doc)4. Warner E.P. “Airplane Design: Performance.” McGraw-Hill, New York, 1936.5. Hurst

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

sizableinvestment.Innovative approaches have been adopted to accommodate the number of students in order toprovide each student with a hands-on experience. The traditional approach to laboratoryexercises required a scheduled lab period during which the class, or part of the class, met with theinstructor or lab assistant and completed the exercise. This approach requires a large number ofworkstations or lab periods to accommodate the enrollment. Second, the time each studentspends in lab is limited to the duration of the lab period. In “Sensors and Transducers”laboratory-type homework requiring students to use laboratory equipment to complete theassignment has been used as an alternative to scheduled lab periods. This arrangement increasesthe time the student has

Conference Session

Design Teams 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education

research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring ways to to promote collaborative problem solving in engineering education and provide students with team design experiences that mimic authentic work in industry. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 WIP: Exploring the Nature of Students’ Collaborative Interactions During a Hands-On Ill-Structured Engineering Design TaskIntroductionThis work-in-progress paper explores the nature of engineering students’ interactions during ahands-on design task. Engineering education is experiencing a shift in curriculum format towardmore emphasis on collaborative design work; indeed, collaborative problem

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Camille George, University of St. Thomas

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Mechanical Engineering

psychrometrics in cooling units-understanding the implications involved in converting salt water into freshwaterWith the goal of encouraging creativity the performance of each design was minimallyweighted in the grading and the design aspect was completely open-ended. Theinstructor was available for questions and to help recognize potential issues but refrainedfrom offering suggestions during the design phase. As heat transfer or fluid mechanicscourses typically follow thermodynamics the project was not intended to be a capstone,but did provide valuable experience from which a student could build from in a futuresenior design project. The project also provided an opportunity to present a qualitative

Conference Session

'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of essential notions of intellect, drive, and self-discipline thatcenter on bodily ‘normalcy’” [8]. Notions of engineering skill have assumptions about “capable”bodies and minds built into them [12]. For example, to be seen as proficient at circuit design andtesting in an electrical engineering lab, one is expected to have the manual dexterity tomanipulate centimeter-long resistors and capacitors and the visual acuity to see small details upclose. A students’ demonstration that they understand the workings of a circuit is often conflatedwith the physical act of circuit-making in the laboratory. In such instances, lack of physicaldexterity or visual sharpness may be interpreted as lack of proficiency at engineering tasks.Because of the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

‚" Signal analysis ‚" Data visualization/presentation One of the main criteria for the choice of software was the ease of interfacing and communicating with data acquisition hardwares. The duration for this project was only 13-weeks, careful decision on the choice of software had to be made prior to the start of the course. To reiterate, one of the main objectives of this project design was to allow students to write software codes for data acquisition, measurements and perform some fundamental signal processing, namely the FFT etc. The students were expected to have a hands-on learning experience with regard to issues such as A/D conversion, sampling, signal processing implementation etc and a firm grasp of those mentioned. It was not the

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Melissa Lin; Aik Mon

the programmingskill and knowledge related to the project of all team members before the project. We found thatall team members also have had experiences with HTML language, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl,C/C++, and Visual Basic for developing Web-based applications. All members had MicrosoftAccess database experience. One team member has extensive IBM DB2 experience and isfamiliar with Erwin database design and modeling tools.Database and Web Server Selection. There was also a great deal of uncertainty as to whetherthe Omni Web server running on a Windows 98 PC, that also served the lab activities of the WebProgramming Application course could satisfy this need. Windows 2000 was released but wasnot a mature platform at this time.Since there is

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Laboratories

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuqiu You, Ohio University

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Manufacturing

concepts, operation, programming, interfacing, andapplication developments of industrial robots, robotics kinematics, control theory, sensory, andvision systems. Robotics Interfacing Engineering is taught as a 300 level course to introducerobot actuators, sensory, fundamentals of control theory, and the integration of robot systems.This course integrates the engineering design of a specific robotics problem and implementationin the laboratory. The problem involves industrial engineering techniques, hardware interfacing,software interfacing, and control devices for designing and building an autonomous robot. Aninterdisciplinary approach is used. Recently, vision system technology has been introduced inthis course as a new component for students to