Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silveira, California State University, Chico

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at California State University, Chico since 2015, teaching Digital Logic Design, Linear Circuits, Electromagnetics, and High Frequency Design Techniques. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Theory and Hands-On Experimentation in RF Distributed-Element Filter DesignAbstractWhen a graduate-level course in high-frequency circuit design was taught in previous semestersat California State University (CSU), Chico, there were no laboratory sessions or projects thatallowed students the opportunity to design physical circuit prototypes or gain experience withinstruments and measurement techniques in the radio-frequency (RF

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Hawkins; Susan M. Lord

outside of class time. Due to limitations ofspace and equipment, we chose to split the laboratory into three lab stations. The lab could alsobe used for classes for non-science majors because of the basic level at which it has beenwritten.Laboratory ExperimentIn designing this experiment, we began with the sample experiments provided by Burleigh intheir Metris-2000 Atomic Force Microscope Workbook [6]. These experiments appeared mostsuited to an entire laboratory period dedicated to one sample. Also, several experimentsinvolved biological materials that would not necessarily be considered relevant by engineeringstudents and some posed liability issues. After consideration of a number of different samples,we decided to have the students examine

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Musa Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; William Palm, University of Rhode Island

Dynamics Take-Home Laboratory Kits AbstractTo make the teaching of dynamic systems concepts more engaging and interesting to students,we need to relate class theory to the dynamic performance of real engineering systems includingones that are available at home. This paper addresses the design of take-home software andhardware kits that can be used to perform laboratory experiments and measurements at home toimprove the understanding of system dynamics concepts in an undergraduate student population.Rather than having students perform an experiment in the university laboratory, the students aregiven a compact, low cost kit with which they can perform an experiment at home using theirown PC/laptop. The kits

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Estridge Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Amy Charlotte Martin P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Terri S. Hogue, Colorado School of Mines

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the United States. The RET program serves to support collaborative partnershipsbetween K-12 and community college Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) teachers and post-secondary research faculty and students. Through these long-termpartnerships, the goal of the RET program is to enhance STEM content knowledge in teacherparticipants through their exposure-to and immersion-in a summer research experience hosted bya research university. The program is also designed to support the translation of the researchexperience learning outcomes into meaningful curriculum development for K-12 and communitycollege teacher participants. Following summer participation in the RET program, researchteams (university research faculty and

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS) Technical Session 4: Bring Your Own Experiments +

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Laramie Potts, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

. This case study describes aproject-based learning exercise that requires students to process point cloud data and developspatial literacy skills. Point cloud processing experience ramps up critical geospatial skillsthrough using Open3D, an open-source library that supports rapid visualization and processingof 3D data, and Open3D-ML, an extension of Open3D for 3D machine learning tasks. With afew lines of Python code, students will be presented with complete workflows such as surfaceregistration, scene reconstruction, semantic point cloud segmentation, and object detection, thusgaining a better insight into these complex topics and how they are translated into easy-to-followoperations and applied on real 3D data. It is our hope that our efforts

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

education formats. [2] Offering distance learningprograms in Engineering and Engineering Technology pose special challenges for institutions.While it is relatively easy to modify a lecture course for distance education, it is the laboratorycourses that offer real challenge. Various solutions have been proposed to address the problemof offering realistic laboratories experience for distance learners. These include virtualLaboratories, computer based simulations, videotaped laboratory experiments and mobilelaboratories. This paper discusses the effort that has gone into the design and construction of amobile laboratory to be used in conjunction with the televised program in MechanicalEngineering Technology Program at Old Dominion University

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Mohammad Abdul Ahad, Georgia Southern University; Thomas Murphy, Georgia Southern University; Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University

) Digital Design Laboratory Manual in enhancing the educational outcomes ofsophomore students in an Electrical and Computer Engineering Digital Design Laboratorycourse. The primary objectives of this study were threefold: to elevate the quality of students’learning experiences, to alleviate their financial constraints by offering complimentarycourse materials, and to ensure the adaptability of these resources in tandem with evolvingtechnological advancements.Traditionally, laboratory manuals, especially those tailored for specific engineeringprograms, are highly specialized. However, given the rapid evolution in the field of digitaldesign, frequent updates to these manuals are imperative. The market offered severalelectronic versions of digital

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

appropriate learningfacilities in response to the critical needs of the PV industry. Integration of hands-on laboratoryexercises in a solar power course can provide an excellent opportunity for the learners to gainpractical experience and achieve learning outcomes which would otherwise be impossible to attainwithout exposure to laboratory experimentation. This paper describes the design and developmentof a rooftop PV lab setup to facilitate various experiments to provide the students with systematichands-on training and improve their engineering competency.The PV Array and System Components:The rooftop photovoltaic installation comprises of twelve 100 watts monocrystalline silicon-basedsolar modules (or panels), thus totaling an installed capacity of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhanu Babaiahgari, University of Colorado, Denver; Zizhuo Chen, University of Colorado, Denver; Jae-do Park, University of Colorado, Denver

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Electrical and Computer

students to understand and use them without putting in significantamount of effort and proper guidance. Typically, students get to gain experience and trainingwhen they work as entry-level engineers or graduate students. It would be beneficial if these tools,skills, and ideas can be taught systematically earlier, so that students can expand and evolve whilethey are in undergraduate program. This paper presents the design and implementation of asenior-level instructional electric drives laboratory using commercial off-the-shelf microcontrollerand driver kits that provides step-by-step projects from scratch. The paper will also discuss thehardware components and their design, laboratory equipment setup, and experimentsessions.Hardware DesignThe

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

technological literacy for a wide audience byteaching courses on engineering topics to non-engineering majors.Such courses for non-engineering majors can take various forms.7-9 Courses can take the form ofa traditional lecture, with the engineering professor lecturing on technical subjects to a largegroup of non-majors. While such a course has the advantage of exposing a large number ofstudents to some science and engineering knowledge, unless well-done, such a course is likely tohave minimal impact on the overall understanding of technological or engineering principles andpractices for most of the students. Courses could also be centered on laboratory experiments,which allow the students to gain hands-on experience with engineering principles

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

processengineering components such pipes, tubes, valves, regulators, filters, pumps, compressors,mixers, instruments, etc. Most of these components are integrated into the set-ups used in a unitoperations laboratory. Often the students start the unit operations laboratory without priorexperience with or technical knowledge of these components. As a result the students seldomappreciate the need for such knowledge and experience that leads to the proper design, sizing,selection and operation of these components. Since ABET emphasizes the outcomes that arebased on practicing profession of engineering, we found it very useful to have one-hour lecturesas a part of the laboratory course in which we discuss various process components, theirspecifications

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa Guvench, University of Southern Maine

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Electrical and Computer

modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumentation and measurement. Page 14.888.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 MOSIS Fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifier Designs as Class Projects in an Analog I.C. Design Course AbstractThe paper describes use of MOSIS fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers as a realworld design experience in senior level Analog Integrated Circuit Courses in ElectricalEngineering. In the one-semester course on CMOS Analog I.C. Design offered at ourdepartment, design of a CMOS Operational Amplifier is

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Mechanical Engineering

, together with decreasing budgets for technician support experienced by many engineering departments, often hamper efforts to develop new laboratories for engineering instruction."The solution presented by Bidana and Billo1, O'Connel et al.2, and Webster3 is to involvestudents in the designing and building of laboratory equipment. Bidana and Billo1 investigatedthe development and startup of an Automatic Data Collection laboratory, whereas O'Connel etal.2 investigated the development of experiments for a power electronics course. Bidana andBillo1 concluded that "the use of students for laboratory startup was a win-win situation" and"students were able to gain valuable technical educational skills". O'Connell2 concluded that"students can

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Hayne, The Citadel; Mark McKinney, The Citadel

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-947: INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROJECTS INTEGRATINGLABVIEW WITH VHDL MODELS IMPLEMENTED IN FPGA HARDWARERonald Hayne, The Citadel Ronald J. Hayne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Citadel. His professional areas of interest are digital systems and hardware description languages. He is a retired Army Colonel with experience in academics and Defense laboratories.Mark McKinney, The Citadel Mark H. McKinney, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Citadel. His professional areas of interest include power systems, measurement and instrumentation systems and engineering

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater

this project, several educational objectives are met: to develop creative andcritical thinking, to introduce design principles, to provide hands on experience, to developteamwork and communication skills, and to stimulate enthusiasm for engineering.IntroductionRowan University is pioneering a progressive and innovative Engineering program that usesinnovative methods of teaching and learning to prepare students better for a rapidly changing andhighly competitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE [1]. Key features of the programinclude: (i) multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (ii)teamwork as the necessary framework for solving complex problems; (iii) incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kuhl; Matthew Marshall; Andres Carrano

Session 2357 DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND INTEGRATION OF AN EXPERIENTIAL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM ENGINEERING LABORATORY MODULE Andres L. Carrano, Michael E. Kuhl, Matthew M. Marshall Industrial & Systems Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Techno logy Rochester, NY 14623 USAAbstractCurriculum integration and multidisciplinary studies have become key issues in improvingengineering education. This paper presents the design and implementation of laboratory materialthat integrates three traditionally

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobing Hou, Central Connecticut State University; Shuju Wu, Central Connecticut State University; Karen Coale Tracey, Central Connecticut State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

reflects the rapid growing IT industry and Page 26.1764.2covers a wide spectrum. The new program's laboratory is under continuous update to enhancestudent's hands-on experience with cutting-edge equipment. Similar to the curriculum design, thelaboratory development benefits significantly from industry help and donation.This paper presents the curriculum and laboratory upgrade. The paper is organized as follows.Firstly, the role of industry is introduced. Then based on the feedback from industry, the updatedNIT curriculum is presented, followed by the upgraded NIT laboratory. Finally, the paperconcludes with the future work.Collaboration With

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subha Kumpaty

has personally tested its use in classroom, design projects andlaboratory for the last three years. All mechanical engineering (ME) and mechanical engineeringtechnology (MET) students run a 100-kW steam power plant in the laboratory at various part-loads and full load in groups of 10 and conduct thorough, first and second law analyses on theplant employing the user-friendly software. They are also assigned 3 to 4 design projects in theThermodynamics sequence, the treatment of which has become easier with the parametricstudies accommodated superbly by the TEST™ software. The overall experience with thisintegrated teaching has been very rewarding to both faculty and students. The details of theexperience, a sample problem, a sample project

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

have been enriched with an updated experimentallaboratory sequence, which include three 2-hour courses: 1) Mechanics Laboratory, 2) ThermalFluids Laboratory, and 3) Aerospace or Mechanical Laboratory. The first two courses were de-signed to supplement lecture-based theory courses during the same semester students are takingthem. The third course challenges students to design and execute their own experiments, buildingupon skills they learn in the earlier labs. Thus, the new sequence includes horizontal integrationwith discipline courses across the curriculum, and vertical scaffolding of skills related to experi-ment design and analysis.The Mechanics Laboratory course was offered to the first cohort in Spring 2019. It was designed togive hands

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I - Courses I

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

F.C. Lai, University of Oklahoma; Dong Liang, Laboratory Engineer; Al R Evans, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

best knowledge of the authors, this has never beenexperimented in other institutes. To provide the best learning experience for our students and totake advantage of the MakerSpace (a new facility that was recently set up in SCUPI), the idea ofa SCUPI Derby, which was modeled after the well-known US Boy Scouts’ Pinewood Derby [1],was assigned to our students as the final project. What is different from the Pinewood Derby isthat the model car of our project would be made from 3D printing instead of elaborating on apinewood block. To prepare our students for this challenging task, SolidWorks has been used asthe main design tool. Not only the concept of concurrent engineering was introduced in the earlystage of the class, but also the technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-1459: ENHANCEMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING IN EXPERI-MENTAL DESIGN USING VIRTUAL LABORATORIES - YEAR 3Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He cur- rently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, York University; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #34228Providing Meaningful Hands-on Design Experience in the Remote-learningEnvironment with a Miniature Mechanical Testing KitMiss Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto Crystal Liu is a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on engineering design and education. She obtained her BASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019. She has worked in product development and is interested in application of technology and design in engineering education research.Dr. Yasaman Delaviz, York University Yasaman Delaviz

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendra Seniow, Oregon State University; Eric Nefcy, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

learning outcomes. One way to overcome theselimitations is to use alternative modes of delivery, such as virtual or remote laboratories. In avirtual laboratory, students do not interact with real equipment to obtain data, but rather withcomputer simulations of laboratory or industrial process equipment that produce results that canbe obscured by pre-programmed statistical variation. In the most common approach, the virtuallaboratory is used as an alternative mode and simulates a similar set of activities as in thecorresponding physical laboratory. In a few cases, virtual laboratories have been used to createlearning activities with no analog to the university instructional laboratory. The instructional andsoftware design of the virtual

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Mohsen Azizi; Venancio Fuentes

commissioning of solar PV systems. The new courseswere developed to train the students with the skills immediately required by renewable energypower companies. These hands-on courses target the real industrial demands in this field, andhence are designed, developed, improved, and enhanced continuously in close collaboration withthe partner energy and power industries. Using the new laboratories and the associated developedcourses for the engineering technology and college students, we envision preparing a new classof engineers and technicians who will be in high demand and able to quickly integrate into themodern renewable energy sector in industry.In order to develop the laboratory experiments for the new courses, the following products fromAmatrol

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

Design and Implementation of an Online Secure Linux Laboratory for Networking Courses Kai Li East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Jing Zhao Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24060 Tang Xin East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Yi Li Northwestern Polytechnical University

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Kurt Colella, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Simpson, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

future” facilitated by thefaculty effectively serves the purpose of more trips around the design spiral by the students. Thecombined effect of a wider range of possible solutions to design decisions and multipleconsiderations of the design of each particular ship system or component moves the USCGAship design experience much closer to a set-based design than might be expected from thelargely serial design approach that results from “just-in-time” learning. The three instructorsserve as that bridge toward set-based design on a foundation of frequent and strongcommunication among themselves.An additional benefit of laboratory design that is closely supported (both temporally and basedon subject matter) by classroom instruction is that some of the

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

present the development of our educational DCmicrogrid platform which includes popular renewable energy sources and hybrid storagesystems. This lab-scale platform provided an educational environment for senior students andgraduate students to take part in laboratory experiments and to understand and develop new ideasfor DC power system applications. I. Introduction Power system planning and its design are the major challenges of the future power system [1]-[3]. Recently, DC microgrid and hybrid DC power systems have gained a lot of popularity andinterest. The importance of the DC power system is not only because of the fact that most of therenewable energy sources such as solar and fuel cell have a DC output but also becauseimplementation

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bradley Lane Kicklighter P.E., University of Southern Indiana

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

common industrial networking topologies, protocols, and hardware.Most of the laboratory activities for ENGR 382 involve programming a programmable logiccontroller (PLC) that is part of a PLC Trainer. The PLC Trainer only has switches and oneanalog sensor as input devices and relays and LEDs as output devices (see Figure 1). While theseare sufficient input/output devices for learning about PLC programming, the laboratoryexperience could be enhanced with a set of sensors and actuators that interact with each other.Figure 1: PLC Trainer with IDEC PLCThis paper presents the design and development of a Sensor/Actuator Module to be used with theexisting PLC trainer. To provide a better learning experience for the students, the module wasdesigned to

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ronald E. Barr; Thomas J. Krueger; Ted A Aanstoos

student’s confidence ingoing from 2-D to 3-D solid geometric modeling. Once their confidence in computer graphicsmodeling is established, the students explore the many design applications for the 3-D modeldatabase. In so doing, they experience the concurrent engineering paradigm that underscores thecourse. Several computer graphics exercises are available for each laboratory module, thusallowing the students some choice in the objects they model and analyze. All objects selectedfor the exercises are real parts taken from commercial catalogs, or actual parts taken from themachine shop.Module 1: Computer Sketching IThe first module is an introduction to the modeling software, its menu structure, and on-screentoolbars. The basic methods of creating a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory and SoC Developments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Spencer, Harvey Mudd College

engineeringtopics: first-year Arduino programming and computer architecture respectively.This work describes a controlled experiment comparing a lecture-based implementation and acompetency-based implementation of an analog electronics course. This work differs fromprevious competency-based publications in engineering education literature because it describesa course on a different subject – analog design with a heavy laboratory component – and becausethe competency-based implementation uses a flipped classroom (where students learn contentoutside of class and then engage in active learning in class, as reviewed in [20]) to provide moretime for the instructor to review failed competencies in one-on-one meetings with students.(Note that though [14] uses a