Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Jenkins, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Michael G. Jenkins is chair and professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Detroit Mercy where is specializes in materials, mechanics of materials, machine design and reliability/probability. He has been involved in pedagogy in higher education for the past 15 years and test engineering and R&D activities for the past 25 years. His post PhD positions include 12 years at University of Washington in Seattle, 5 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and 1 year as a postdoctoral invited researcher at the University of Tokyo. Prior to his PhD he worked at PACCAR Technical Center for 2.5 years. He has authored or co-authored over 75 archival publications, over 100 proceedings

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Braley, University of Idaho; Paul Anderson, University of Idaho; Tracey Windley, University of Idaho; Kevin Buck, University of Idaho; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

-boardpower source and the insulation that encloses the experiments. It also helps the designers byplacing the electronics closer to the sensors. In developing such low-temperature electronics, theUniversity of Idaho’s Microelectronics and Communications Institute (MRCI) recognized a needfor a low-cost, low-temperature test chamber. Such chambers can be quite costly, even for atemperature range that permits cooling with liquid nitrogen.The MRCI has not previously performed cryogenic testing for developing electronics.Cryogenic testing requires special procedures and equipment, as liquid nitrogen is hazardous andrequires special handling precautions. The industry standard for cryogenic testing uses large andcostly environmental chambers to perform

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, Page 15.78.3 irrespective of how it was acquired - in laboratory through experiments, by 2 generalisation of practical experience through measurement, by study of archival materials, or theoretically. This new information should contribute to the development of knowledge as well as to practices, and should be statistically or otherwise objectively documented. The new information should also be compared to the state of knowledge at the input, i.e. the period during which work on the dissertation was begun. It is recommended that the results of the dissertation be at least partly published or otherwise

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

Session 3248 A Single Session, Laboratory Primer On Taguchi Methods David Myszka University of DaytonAbstractOver the past decade, Taguchi Methods have become an extremely popular approach toimproving the quality of products. These techniques provide a systematic approach forthe application of experiments to improve the product design and production process.However, outside of quality engineering courses, there is a lack of instruction on thesemethods in many technical programs. All technical professionals should have anunderstanding of Taguchi Methods. The reason for the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberly Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 14.652.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Grad Students Just Wanna Have Fun: Great Sociability Makes a Great Graduate ProgramAbstractThe Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin combinesunique research and social aspects of graduate work for structural engineering students. Theresult is an education and experience that aids in the development of students who surpass theirpeers from other universities, as evidenced by consistently high rankings of the graduateprogram. In research, the students are responsible for producing top-quality results in anextensively equipped, hands-on laboratory. Socially, the lab employees, graduate researchers,and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Sara McNeil, University of Houston

Power and Power Electronics andhelp address the low student enrollment crisis in the field.The laboratory experiments adapt and improve upon the highly successful pedagogicapproach and model laboratory developed at the University of Minnesota [1-3]. To improve uponthe University of Minnesota model, special emphasis is placed on design aspects of powerelectronics by incorporating pre-Labs involving PSpice simulation. Experiments involving state-of the art DSP-based software reconfigurable control of Power Electronic converters have beenadded. This paper will disseminate the results of the newly developed laboratory experimentsthat have been implemented so far. It was required by the NSF-CCLI grant that an independentevaluator be identified who

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaoguang Yang; Chika Nwankpa; Valentina Cecchi; Karen Miu

Reconfigurable Distribution Automation and Control Laboratory: A Network Reconfiguration Experiment for Load Balancing and Loss Reduction in Power Distribution Systems Xiaoguang Yang, Valentina Cecchi, Karen Miu, Chika Nwankpa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Drexel University Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaAbstract – At Drexel University, a network reconfiguration experiment has been developed toprovide students with hands-on experience on how to balance loads and reduce real power lossesof a distribution system through network reconfiguration. The experiment has been set up withinDrexel’s Reconfigurable

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Waskiewicz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Ideen Taeb, University of Colorado; Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston; Frank Barnes, University of Colorado; Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado at Boulder

designed around six independent laboratory experiments. Eachexperiment is somewhat modular and portable in that the specific order is not critical to studentlearning. However, the data analysis required in each lab increases in the order presented to thestudents. All six experiments were accompanied by three hours of videotaped material – onehour of lecture, one hour of setup demonstration, and one problem-solving session.Table 3 - Experiment SummariesTitle Description1. Free Space Propagation Use a “laser microphone” & signal processing techniques to extract audio information2. Modal Noise Observe how mechanical vibration & stress affect fiber

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Dickrell, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

notpedagogical reasons. Apart from reasons specific to large-scale laboratory experiences (hydraulicsystems, HVAC systems, mechanical testing load frames), this work explores an alternativemodel of all individually-based data acquisition and experimentation activities in a mechanics-of-materials laboratory course. The main goal of the course was to expose every student to asmuch data acquisition and hardware/software/experiment interaction as possible whileminimizing the cost required as much as possible.The CourseThe Mechanics-of-Materials Laboratory (MoM lab) curricular requirements are explicitlydelineated as: experimental characterization of the mechanical properties of engineeringmaterials, precision instruments design, computer-based data

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Olawale Akinwale, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Lawrence Kehinde, Texas Southern University; Oladipo O. Osasona, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; E.O.B. ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; O.O. Akinwunmi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

written in transact-SQL. These stored procedures provide an abstraction layer ofdata access procedures which reduce the regeneration/embedding of boiler plate SQL code inC# code. Page 14.163.8 Figure 6: Screen capture showing the Experiment Engine in operationThe DE1 board features a state-of-the-art Cyclone® II 2C20 FPGA in a 484-pin package. Theoriginal purpose of the board was to serve as a vehicle for learning about digital logic,computer organization, and FPGAs. The board offers a rich set of features that make itsuitable for use in a laboratory environment for university and college courses, for a varietyof design projects, as well as for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati

reading about earlier.” • “I enjoyed this course very much. I learned a lot without realizing it. I was too busy having fun improving my [micromixer] design…” • “This class helped me visualize microfluidics and physical phenomena… It also gave me a good start at simulation and fabrication/experimental characterization of micromixers. Very good course!” • “This lab taught me so much. I learned how to use CFD and the microscope. I got hands on experience [in] fabrication [of] a microfluidic device and I learned how to characterize using fluorescence.”Broader impacts of this teaching initiativeThe “Micro/Nano Fluidic Biochip Laboratory” course introduces students to the exciting, rapidlyemerging field of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

Assessment of Remote Experiments and Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction and Suggestions Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web.The students in a

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

offering, I solicited and discussed ideas forimprovements and changes to the laboratory format with faculty, staff, and students who hadpreviously taken the class. Because of its small size, our machine shop is too small to allowextensive student training on the equipment; however, the students strongly recommended thatmore hands-on experience with manufacturing methods was needed. They suggestedcomponents of laboratory exercises that could be deleted from the formal exercise and convertedinto self-paced, independent student activities. Our department’s machinist is heavily involvedin working with students in the capstone design courses in the second half of each semester;therefore, the assistance of the staff machinist was incorporated into

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Wood, Keysight Technologies; Alexander O. Ganago, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

with 2- and 4-channel oscilloscopes. • Overview of Arduino-based projects, which were chosen and completed by high-school students during the summer camp.For the advanced level, in the context of student internships at Keysight Technologies, a set ofspecially developed laboratory experiments, which are targeted at the following topics: • Communications between DMM and computer (drivers, interfaces, writing software to execute a single command); • Accuracy and precision, with direct comparison of Arduino and DMM; • Input protection against noise and electrostatic discharge; • Various sources of electronic noise; • Several types of analog-to-digital converters, including that used in Arduino; • Expansion

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liu Junhua, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Yue Zhang, Singapore University and Technology and Design; Justin Ruths, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Diana Moreno, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood was formerly a Professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Texas (1989-2011), where he established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufac- Page 23.758.1 turing. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rania Hussein, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Remote versus In-Hand Hardware Laboratory in Digital Circuits CoursesAbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has isolated many engineering students at home and complicatedaccess to instrumentation and hardware resources necessary to support laboratory courses. Oneviable alternative to bringing the hardware to students (and the correspondingly high overheadassociated with shipping laboratory kits all over the world) is to enable remote access to thathardware. A remote lab allows students to access real hardware physically located in a singlelocation from anywhere in the world. Advances in cloud computing allow students to takeadvantage of a full-fledged remote experience

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilia Andreeva-Moschen, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz; Adrian J. Millward-Sadler, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

(Austria). She gained industrial experience in automation of control systems, engineering of electronic control systems and software development. Her R&D activities comprise design of signal processing and data analysis methods, modeling, simulation and control of automotive systems as well as Engineering Education.Adrian J Millward-Sadler, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz Adrian Millward-Sadler is a lecturer in the Department of Vehicle Technology and teaches undergraduate English language courses. He has taught English variously in Madrid, Crete, Prague and Graz both in the private and university sectors, as well as having worked in private language school management. He has been teaching in the

Conference Session

International Research Experiences

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City College of New York, NYC Louis Stokes Alliance; Julianne Vernon, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

translational aspects of fundamentalneuroscience towards applied neurodegenerative and neurological neuropsychiatric strategies.Program ModelStudy abroad courses that are faculty led and short term are seen as the major vehicles forstudents to integrate an international experience in their curriculum. The opposite is true for theNYC LSAMP model, which has a term length of 8 weeks or more typically in the summer. Asummary of the program elements at each university site is shown in Table 1. The eleven coreelements of the program were deemed an integral component of the success. For example, thefaculty led designation for the KTH program is linked to the career award of the faculty. TU-Graz/Univ. Graz program is also faculty led, but is based in CUNY at

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Henry

-generator set by varying the signal to a motor powerThe controls laboratory for several years has been supplyusing desktop computers for data acquisition andcontrol of engineering equipment. The students 5 Position control in a cart-on-a-rail byconduct experiments to accomplish system varying the torque in a motoridentification and design feedback controllers forthe systems. The data acquisition and control 6 Flow control in a closed flow loop bysoftware is written with LabVIEW software. varying the speed of a pump.Controller design involved tuning two feedbackcontrollers, a proportional

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University; Don Heiman, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

. For example, Richard Feynman was famousfor persuading scientists and mathematicians to explain complex ideas using only simpleterminology. This can also be extended to the connection between theory and experiment. RobertMillikan stated “The fact that science walks forward on two feet, namely theory andexperiment…….”[1] Although the understanding of physics may start from theoretical conceptsexplained in the lecture room, those ideas when complemented with laboratory experiments revealthe simple truths via observations and analysis. Physics is experiential.Indeed, experiments in the Advanced Physics Lab (APL) are different from those in theintroductory physics lab (IPL). APL experiments should be carefully designed to go beyond thesimple

Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Elahinia, University of Toledo; Constantin Ciocanel, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Redeveloping the Mechanics and Vibration Laboratory: A Problem Solving ApproachAbstarctThis paper presents the redevelopment method and process of the laboratory experimentsfor the Mechanics and Vibration Laboratory, MIME3390, in the Mechanical, Industrial,and Manufacturing Engineering Department at the University of Toledo. Theredevelopment objective was to transform the learning process from a subject-basedlearning to a problem-solving learning. Particular objective was to provide the studentswith more hands-on experience and to challenge them by requesting the procedure foreach laboratory experiment to be designed and carried out by each group of students.This senior level

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hernandez, Michigan Technological University; Stanley Vitton, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

learned and achieved throughoutundergraduate and graduate education. It contains twenty-four desired learning outcomes whichare categorized into three groups: foundational, technical, and professional. Each learningoutcome is assigned a minimal level of achievement corresponding to the cognitive domain ofBloom’s Taxonomy.It is believed that twelve of the twenty-four learning outcomes within the BOK can beincorporated into the soil mechanics laboratory curricula through a workshop orientatedapproach. The twelve learning outcomes include: 1. Materials Science (L3) 2. Experiments (L4) 3. Problem Recognition and Solving (L3) 4. Design (L4) 5. Sustainability

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Krygowski

use in the laboratory; to introduce modern Computer Data Acquisition equipment andtechniques; and to shift the course emphasis as much as possible from lecture to laboratory,using the strengths of interdisciplinary teams of students (MET and EET) to aid in learning.Equipment was purchased, and nine experiments were designed or revised to investigate thebehavior of over thirty sensors and sensing systems, as detailed below.Several experiments use National Instruments data acquisition hardware and its LabVIEWsoftware, including custom Virtual Instruments. However, the course is not intended to teachLabVIEW programming. Instead, these tools are used to aid efficient progress throughexperiments, and to provide real-time graphic displays of sensor

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; R. Roemer, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

SPIRAL Design-Oriented Laboratories in the First-Year Mechanical Engineering CurriculumAbstractAs a primary part of realizing a Student-driven Pedagogy of Integrated, Reinforced, ActiveLearning (SPIRAL) throughout our Mechanical Engineering curriculum, we are implementingnew laboratory experiences in the first and second years of our program. This paper will focus onthe laboratories for our new, required first-year course sequence, in which the traditional topicsof design methodology and computer programming are taught in the context of robotic andmechatronic systems. The laboratories encompass engineering software, mechanical andelectrical hardware, and manufacturing, with content driven by the semester-long team

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P. Dempsey, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Joey Mead, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

three workshops: "Introduction to Library Resources,""Efficient Identification and Use of Databases," and "How to Read a Research Paper." The firstworkshop was a standard offering. As shown in Figure 1a, the students attended the workshopsin the library and were led through interactive, hands-on demonstrations of the various databaseoptions offered by the library system. The latter two workshops were designed specifically toaddress the graduate students' needs. Evaluation showed that all three workshops produced thesignificant improvements in searching the literature (Table 1, Questions 2-4). Although thegroup included students with various levels of research experience, even more senior doctoralstudents reported a 1.0-point increase in their

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Johnson

Session 3233 A Psychrometric Test Facility for the Undergraduate Laboratory William S. Johnson The University of TennesseeAbstractThis paper describes a laboratory test facility designed, built and tested by undergraduatestudents. The facility incorporates industrial hardware including electric heating coils, a coolingcoil with a chiller, a rotary enthalpy recovery heat exchanger, a humidifier, a blower and threeremotely controlled dampers along with instrumentation to measure airflow, varioustemperatures and relative humidities throughout the system. An

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

engineering lab assistants in both the device lab and the industrial designstudio facilitated achievement of desired, multidisciplinary design proposals. Thus, theaddition of a “device dissection” engineering lab experience to an existing IndustrialDesign studio course demonstrated an enhancement in student performance. Plans fornext year’s collaboration are presented.Introduction Ten years ago, the College of Engineering created a Product and ProcessEngineering Laboratory, within which engineering students could deepen theirunderstanding, and satisfy their curiosity, by taking apart and re-assembling devices intheir everyday lives. Early examples were light-driven devices included bar codescanners, CD players, FAX machines, and video cameras

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuyler, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

is a vital element of alltechnology programs and EET and CET are no exception. The majority of technicalcourses taken within an EET or CET program contain a laboratory section that parallelsthe lecture.Courses are typically offered as 4 semester credits, and consist of 3 hours in lecture perweek plus 3 hours in the laboratory per week. Some institutions count the laboratorysection as 1 credit while others make the composite laboratory grade a part of the overallcourse grade weighted by some percentage, e.g. 25%. Most instructors work hard tosynchronize the experiments performed in the laboratory to the most recent topic coveredin the lecture. Ideally, the weekly laboratory experiment is designed to reinforce thetheory covered in the

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Theodore W. Manikas; Douglas E. Jussaume; Gerald R. Kane

the instructor by the end of the last scheduledlab of the semester.Since the laboratory course is coordinated with the co-requisite lecture course, the first project isnot assigned until sufficient background material has been covered in the lecture course. Thereare three main parts of the course. The first set of projects help students get familiar withhardware design through practical application of digital logic theory. Next, the second set ofprojects focus on using programmable logic devices to implement digital designs. Finally, thethird set of projects has students use the experience gained from the earlier projects to builddigital design projects. More specific information on the course design projects can be found ina previous ASEE