Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Chase Fearing, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mesut Muslu P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

year undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin Platteville majoring in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Communications and Electronics.Dr. Mesut Muslu P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Pros and Cons of Laboratory Methods Used in Engineering EducationAbstract Laboratory activities are the most critical part of an engineering education as moststudents learn by experimenting, observing, and writing reports. Laboratory activities arecommonly implemented in curricula using several different instructional methods: the cookbook,design-based, and proposal-based. In the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla; Carol L. O'Loughlin; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session 1526 Development of an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Laboratory for a Course on Design and Manufacture of Surface Mount Printed Circuit Board Assemblies Maher E. Rizkalla, Carol L. O’Loughlin, and Charles F. Yokomto, Department of Electrical Engineering Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisAbstract:This paper describes a new interdisciplinary undergraduate laboratory experience that wasdeveloped for an existing electronic manufacturing course for senior electrical and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pnina Ari-Gur, Western Michigan University; Peter Thannhauser, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Roman Rabiej, Western Michigan University; Daniel M. Litynski, Western Michigan University; Marwa M Hassan, Louisiana State University; Jeff Johnston, Muskegon Community College; Tyler Bayne

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

lab running an experiment unassisted.Methods Used In Developing Virtual Laboratory ModulesThe virtual experiments were developed using severaldifferent tools. In common, though, the first step wasperforming the experiments in the physical lab, usingexisting procedures and collecting data. For example,the X-ray diffraction experiment was developed usingLabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument EngineeringWorkbench), a system-design platform anddevelopment environment4. Part I of the lab is amandatory X-ray training (that includes radiationsafety), then the student takes a quiz to demonstratesufficient knowledge to run the experiment. Thestudent must put on a radiation badge to continue

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sterling E. Skinner; Eric G. Chapman; Sheldon Jeter

and an understanding of the design process. Thepaper concludes with subjective feedback on the effectiveness of this design project andits implementation from both student and instructor feedback.The Freshman Design Course:Like many other engineering programs, our mechanical engineering program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology attempts to include design experiences throughout thecurriculum. As part of this overall emphasis, a 2 credit course is currently offered duringthe spring quarter of the freshmen year. Its primary focus is to offer students their firstformalized introduction to the process and methods of design as applied in an engineeringcontext. A wide variety of design methods and team oriented experiences are included inthis

Conference Session

Assessment in Laboratory and Project-based Courses: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology; José M. Reyes Álamo, New York City College of Technology; Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

: Robotics Technology in the department of Computer Engineering Technology atCUNY-New York City College of Technology is offered as a technical elective to its senior students. Inaddition to introducing fundamental subjects in both Autonomous Mobile Robot [1] and RoboticManipulator [2], another goal is to prepare students with necessary knowledge and skills for roboticprogramming and design. The course is structured to have a 2.5-hour lecture session and a 2.5-hour labsession each week. When teaching onsite the school (i.e., in-person), students were given physical robotsfor implementation of the algorithms discussed during lectures. When access to laboratory facilities wasimpossible under e-learning (for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #29398An emancipatory teaching practice in a technical course: A layeredaccount of designing circuits laboratory instructions for a diversity oflearnersDr. Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State Univer- sity since 1991. She is a professor of materials engineering at Olin College. Her life’s work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

Designing Effective Electrical Engineering Laboratories Using Challenge- based instruction that Reflect Engineering Process Lason L. Watai, Arthur J. Brodersen, Sean P. Brophy Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TNI. IntroductionIn electrical engineering, physical lab courses should provide a multi-facet environment thatenables students to apply concepts and principles to design, synthesize and analyze electricalcircuits and systems, and gain practical “hands-on” experience, knowledge, and skills and givestudents “a feel” for problem solving. However, students are often ill prepared to perform thelabs and few resources are available for students to learn how to

Conference Session

Remote Physical Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

learn the material and could complete the experiment without instructor intervention.Henke et al [4] used a hybrid approach where students are able to design control algorithms tocontrol electro-mechanical models in the online lab. In this format, the experiment actually takesplace, and the data reflects interactions between physical devices, not virtual entities. However,these remote web-accessible laboratories are in some respect similar to simulations in that thestudent does not have to be co-located with a particular piece of laboratory apparatus. Nedic et al.[5] developed remotely controlled labs called NetLab that allows multiple students to run anexperiment remotely in real time. Amiguid et al. [6] evaluated 100 web-based remote labs

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Zulinski; Jon A. Soper; Dennis O. Wiitanen; David Stone; Allan R. Hambley; Martha E. Sloan; Noel Schulz

communication-systems course sequence to create aninnovative senior-year experience. Our newly established Undergraduate CommunicationSystems Laboratory, sponsored by NSF, parallels the industry work setting of practicing wirelesssystem design engineers. In this paper, we describe the innovative aspects of this project.BackgroundEngineering education has been widely criticized for turning out graduates who are poorlyprepared to enter industry. ABET has called for more design content in engineering curricula. 1ASEE has made extensive recommendations for curricular improvements. 2 Among other actionitems, the ASEE report, Engineering Education for a Changing World, calls for acceleratedcurricular change to incorporate team skills, collaborative learning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Payne, University of Florida; Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida; Lorelie Imperial; Chang-Yu Wu, University of Florida; Philip J. Brucat, University of Florida; Maria Korolev, University of Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.[2] Crippen, K. J., Boyer, T. H., Korolev, M., de Torres, T., Brucat, P., & Wu, C.-Y. (2016). Transforming discussion in general chemistry with authentic experiences for engineering students. Journal of College Science Teaching, 45(5), 75-83.[3] Crippen, K. J., Imperial, L., Payne, C., Korolev, M., Brucat, P., & Wu, C.-Y. (2018). General Chemistry Laboratory as Situated Engineering Design. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Salt Lake City, Utah.[4] Bandura, A. (1989). Human agency in social cognitive theory. American Psychologist, 44(9

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

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NSF Grantees

 faculty/students.  • Acquire and analyze signals using the RASCL, myDAQ, and LabVIEW toolset • Utilize the two isolation channels on a RASCL board • Describe the features of time-domain ECGs and EOGs • Relate time-domain features of ECGs and EOGs to their corresponding frequency spectra • Compare characteristics of ECGs and EOGs in the time and frequency domains • Design filter circuitry to remove unwanted signal components in ECG and EOG signals while retaining desired signal components • Archive the results of such an experience in an electronic formatElectrodes Laboratory – Condensed Protocol. In preparation for this laboratory, the studentsfirst

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlin Shaodong Song, USNA; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, U.S. Department of Defense

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Instrumentation

following the pressure sensorselection. The concept of the experiment used to collect and analyze the data necessaryfor tsunami prediction is presented in detail. Paper provides a discussion of the possiblemodification and improvements to the finalized pressure sensor model as a platform forfuture applications of this work. Finally, conclusion provides the overview of the pressuresensor design and gives insight for the continuation of this project for the next semester.PRESSURE SENSOR SELECTIONSensor Parameters The desired sensor parameters for a pressure sensor in a tsunami warningsystem are repeatability and linearity. Repeatability refers to the closeness of agreementamong a number of consecutive measurements of the same variable

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

are presented and discussed along with changes that are being implementedto address student concerns.IntroductionIn the past two years several faculty in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics atIowa State University have been utilizing rubrics to evaluate student work in laboratory coursesas well as the engineering design course sequence. These courses require students to preparewritten and sometimes oral technical reports. These forms of communication, which are veryimportant to the professional engineer, have often perplexed students who were unsure of theformat and requirements of technical reports. Faculty, in turn, was faced with the overwhelmingtask of objectively evaluating work product of a very subjective nature. The use of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alireza Rahrooh

integrating computerswithin the control loop is essential. An innovative feedback control laboratory has been developedin the department of engineering technology at University of Central Florida to fill this need. Thelaboratory is equipped with some of the most frequently used control systems in engineering andindustry. It is designed to bridge the gap between theory and real-life problems, and to give thestudents valuable hands-on experience which helps them better prepared for their careers. Anumber of practical feedback control system experiments are being developed that will allowstudents an opportunity to develop appropriate transfer functions and control programs forclosed-loop system with a computer in the loop

Conference Session

Developing Teamwork, Student Attitudes, and Hardware Solutions for Laboratory Courses: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jill Johnson P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

://all3dp.com/2/anet-a8-mosfet-upgrade-does- it-help-and-how-to-do-it/. [Accessed 7 March 2021].[11] P. S. B. Phil Jones, "Topological Optimization with an Example," in Western PA ANSYS User Group, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018.[12] P. S. B. Charlotte deVries, "Development of a Mentorship Program between Upper-class and First- year Engineering Students through 3D Printing," in Division of Engineering Education Design, ASEE, Virtual, 2020.[13] N. Jaksic, "What to Do When 3D Printers Go Wrong: Laboratory Experience," in Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies, Seattle, Washington, 2015.[14] J. I. A. ,. F. I. C. M. Fraley, "A Comparative Study on Affordable Photogrammetry Tools," ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2018.[15] AliceVision

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra R. Sekhar, Purdue University, Calumet ; Omer Farook, Purdue University; Jai P. agrawal, Purdue University Calumet; Essaid Bouktache, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

the curriculum of an Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology program, the biomedical course is redesigned so that the students can follow thetheory with laboratory experiments for processing biomedical signals utilizing System DesignApproach (SDA). Isolated experiments focused on a single topic never conveyed the holistic feelthat is gained through a complete instrumentation platform design.This course is offered in the form of Learning Modules. The paper discuses the coursesystem design learning modules which encompasses: 1) Bio signal, Transducers and SignalConditioning, 2) Microcontrollers based Embedded System design, 3) Embedded SystemProgramming, 4) Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Design, 5) Use of Graphical UserInterface (GUI

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Steven T Rowland; Michael William Eckels; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

IoT CourseAbstractThis work-in-progress paper discusses the laboratory setup and delivery of a pilot course on thefundamentals of Internet of Things (IoT). Hands-on laboratory experiments and project-basedexperiences are adopted to introduce and reinforce IoT-related concepts. The laboratoryexperiments introduce the students to (a) the collection of data using temperature and motionsensors (b) program the microcontroller, and (c) to communicate between WiFi-enabledmodules. Rather than using the hardware and software tools from an established vendor in theareas of IoT, we chose to design and assemble our laboratory experiments and projects withsimple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf components. The project activities focused on system designand

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sankar Sengupta; Ronald J. Srodawa; Robert P. Van Til; Michael J. Latcha

to the Remote Design/Manufacturing Laboratories, the Oakland University students usethe facilities of Oakland’s S. and R. Sharf Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Laboratory and its ArtificialIntelligence and Manufacturing (AIM) Laboratory to complete the their engineering design/analysis activities whilethe Seaholm High School students use their technology facilities.These interactive projects emphasize two key factors that differ from most team-based projects conducted inuniversity engineering or high school technology programs. The first difference is that the individual teams containmembers with varying levels of education and experience. In traditional university or high school team-basedprojects, all team members have roughly the

Conference Session

Laboratory and Internship Innovations in IT/IS

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaoxi Martin, Western Carolina University; Brant Price, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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Information Systems

a student is separated from an instructor by either space or time, the studentcan participate in a course on-line [8].Figure 1 shows a system block diagram of the project. Database development is essential to thesuccess of this project. Two databases were designed in this project using MySQL Front, anopen-source product. The first database stores data for the pre-lab exercises and tutorials thathelp fulfill the students’ learning objectives. This database also consists of several fields thatwill contain the student scores from the pre-lab exercises for assessment purposes. The seconddatabase contains the student information, which includes student name, student ID, lab number,and the time elapsed for conducting a laboratory experiment. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy John Vaillant, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Christopher Hansen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jonathan D. Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Stephen Johnston, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Sammy G. Shina, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David Joe Willis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

actively being integrated into several core engineeringcourses (25.108 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, 22.202 Mechanical Engineering De-sign Lab I and 22.423 Senior Capstone Design).2.0 CNC Platform SelectionThis section presents a brief survey of desktop CNC machine platforms and the associated sup-port hardware necessary to implement a safe and meaningful CNC machining laboratory experi-ence. Platform selection in this first phase of the project is also described.2.1 Desktop CNC MachinesA broad range of commercial desktop CNC machines are now readily available in assembledand/or kit form. Numerous desktop CNC machine specifications were considered for student usewithin engineering curricula and include: overall dimensions, design

Conference Session

Using Laboratories for Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanie N. Abdelmessih, California Baptist University

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Mechanical Engineering

these courses: Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers; Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning; Energy Systems; Computational Heat Transfer & Thermal Modeling; Heat Transfer in Electronics and Micro-electronic Packaging; Solar Thermal Engi- neering; and Heat Transfer and laboratory. She also enjoyed teaching Thermodynamics I, II. In addition to her teaching experience Dr. Abdelmessih worked several years in industry. She performed research at NASA Dryden and Marshall Space Flight Research Centers, Argonne National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, receiving five certificates of recognition for her research contributions at NASA. She received the 2001 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Monks of

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cara Poor, University of Portland; Kyla Burrill; Mason Jarvis

. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Paper ID# 12246, Seattle, WA. 3. Dillon, H., Schmedake, N., Eifler, K., Doughty, T., and Lulay, K. (2016). Design of a curriculum-spanning mechanical engineering laboratory experiment. Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Paper ID# 14548, New Orleans, LA. 4. Lulay, K., Dillon, H., Eifler, K., Doughty, T., Anderson, D., and De Jesus, J. (2017). Increasing engagement in materials laboratory with backward design and quadcopters. Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Paper ID# 17633, Columbus, OH. 5. Doughty

Conference Session

ME Laboratories and Undergraduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Schertzer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Patricia Iglesias Victoria, National Technical Institute for the Deaf; Kate N. Leipold, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); John D. Wellin, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE)

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Mechanical Engineering

presented in week one and students performed the lab in week two.The change to a semester-based system increased the number of weeks in the term from 10 to 15,which allowed for the introduction of new material to the course. It was decided that the newmaterial should give students the opportunity to design their own laboratory experiment. Thegoal of this independent study would be to (1) identify a practical problem, (2) develop andcommission a test facility, and (3) analyze experimental results. It was the hope of the instructorsthat this exercise would give students practical experience in problem solving while providinghands-on experience in experimental investigation. The focus of the independent study was todesign a test facility, determine

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin Odom, University of Idaho; Russ Porter, University of Idaho; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Adrian Gomez, University of Idaho; Lloyd Gallup, University of Idaho

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Mechanical Engineering

Steven Beyerlein is professor Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he coordinates the capstone design program and regularly participates in ongoing program assessment activities. For these efforts he won the UI Outstanding Teaching Award in 2001. Over the last three years he has assisted Dr. Odom in creating the Mindworks laboratory discussed in this paper. Currently he is collaborating on an NSF grant with other members of the Transferable Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) consortium to develop valid and reliable instruments for measuring student performance in design.Russ Porter, University of Idaho Russ Porter is the manager of the Mechanical Engineering Machine

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks

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Instrumentation

University and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer. Page 11.1196.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching a Computer to Read: Image Analysis of Electrical MetersAbstractThere exists a vast infrastructure of heritage analog and digital meters installed in commercialand industrial applications. These devices typically have no built-in means of automatedreading. Modifying

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

E. J. Mastascusa; Maurice F. Aburdene

textbookproblems using resistors, and application/design problems. An instructor can begin to introducestudents to more complex, open-ended problems that lead to design considerations whilecontrolling the complexity of the problem faced by the student. This type of problem can bemodified and adapted to the background and level of the student.AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank all of the EE102 students who worked on this problem, andparticularly those students who helped author the ToolBook lesson - Paul Lo, Sia Yiu andRodney Young.ToolBook is a trademark of Asymetrix Corporation, Bellevue, WA.References:1. Aburdene, Maurice F., and Mastascusa, Edward. J., “Laboratory Experiments for Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Laboratories”, 1987 ASEE

Conference Session

Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

Paper ID #29827Identifying Effective Student Leaders to Improve Capstone Design TeamAssignmentsDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a teaching assistant professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, and engineering ed- ucation. He oversees undergraduate laboratories in fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. Pedagogically, Dr. Johnson employs active

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh V. Kudav

Session 2266 Development of Undergraduate Laboratories in Thermal-Fluids Area Through Student Involvement Ganesh V. Kudav Youngstown State UniversityIntroduction The undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at Youngstown StateUniversity (YSU) currently requires the students to take three experiment-oriented 1-quarter-hour laboratory courses from the areas in applied thermodynamics, stress-strain analysis, heattransfer, fluid mechanics, vibrations, acoustics, and advanced machine design. These labcourses are offered at the senior level and the

Conference Session

Online and Remote Teaching

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nazanin Mansouri, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

. Mansouri has several years of experience working both in academia and industry. She has held posi- tions as an assistant professor of Computer Engineering, and the director of the System-Level Integration research laboratory at Syracuse University, and as a System on Chip Design engineer working on power management at Intel Corporation. Dr. Mansouri’s research interests are in the broad area of digital design and include the development of theory, methodologies, and tools for the design of high-performance Systems on Chip (SOCs), VLSI Design and CAD, applications of machine learning to design automation, high-level design and synthesis techniques for low power, embedded systems and functional and formal verification

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Moallem, Simon Fraser University; Yaser M. Roshan, Simon Fraser University

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Electrical and Computer

integrate concepts frompreviously taken courses such as programming, control systems, microcontrollers, andelectronics. The laboratory component of the course is project oriented involving severallow-cost mechatronic testbeds. The students go through the design of an embeddedcomputer system using open-architecture mechatronic testbeds and integrateddevelopment environments. Furthermore, the students experience automatic C codegeneration techniques using high level code generation tools in the Matlab/Simulinkenvironment which is further discussed in this paper.1 IntroductionEmbedded computer applications have experienced a rapid growth in the past few years1,2 . Developing embedded computer applications requires multidisciplinary skills 3−6