Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

curator. a) b) Page 12.704.2Figure 1. a) The SciTechatorium at the Bellvue Santa-Fe K-6 Charter school in Avila,CA houses b) numerous demos and items that promote scientific inquiry for all ages.The SciTechatorium is open for a few hours per week (depending on docent volunteers),and is available to the K-6 students during recess and lunch. The children can come inand spend as much (or little) time as they wish to take out the reptiles, use the computers,look at displays, talk to Chick and the docents, and play with any of the numerousinteractive items at the museum. The museum is an amazingly fun and inviting

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Gutierrez, University of Wyoming; Charles Dolan, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

problem sets and the Learning Scores will improve. Page 13.1381.6 This program is being integrated into the Engineering Science curriculum. Incorporationwill provide the University of Wyoming and its associated community colleges the opportunityto monitor the student’s cognitive skills through a longitudinal study. It is the author’s intentionthat this project be published on the internet for other universities to use. This will provide theopportunity to improve engineering education across the nation, and provide all students with anew drive to continue learning. The fall set of problems and assessments can be found atHTTP

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Brian Thomas, Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

” artifacts in teaching Lean. NIST has made available acircuit-board manufacturing exercise kit, though its cost is certainly higher than manyalternatives16. Johnson, et al.9 have students assemble two models of clocks. Verma12 usesmodel ships to simulate Lean implementation for dry-dock overhaul procedures. To engagestudents in a distance-learning environment, Mehta uses computer simulation to model Lean13.Students use Microsoft Paint, email, and virtual classroom software during the exercise. As agraduate student, the author participated in the exercise developed by Lilly, et al., employingsingle-use cameras in a product design and management context. The cameras have theadvantages of being inexpensive to acquire (when used, from a camera store

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to order. In the third section, the same example elicitedmerely a few head nods from the students, without the same display of enthusiasm.Additionally, the instructor could sense that the students in the third section did not enjoy someof the active learning activities, whereas they were accepted positively in the other two sections.Students expressed some resistance to different group activities throughout the semester.ParticipantsOf the 48 students enrolled across all three sections, a total of 44 students participated in thestudy. The number of students included 9 in Section 1, 17 in Section 2, and 18 in Section 3. Thestudents were from a variety of departments in the College of Engineering including electricalengineering (17), computer

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petros Katsioloudis, Berea College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

evaluate student learning, (e.g. for certain types of educational objectives visual tests have been found to provide more valid assessments of the amount of information students acquire by means of visualized instruction).7 The instructor's ability to effectively and efficiently integrate visual based learning material into the Technology Education classroom environment and curriculum.8 Time spent teaching background knowledge9 The quality of the Visualization used10 The student’s ability to effectively and efficiently understand integrated visual-based learning material into the Technology Education classroom environment and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Parendo, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and worked for thirteen years in industry in the fields of optical sensor design and process control. In 1984, he co-founded CyberOptics Corporation, where he led engineering efforts as Vice President of Research. In 1997 he returned to academia, joining the engineering faculty of the University of St. Thomas where he teaches courses in digital electronics, computing, electromagnetic fields, controls, and design. Page 13.1068.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Senior Design Delivery Model using an

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California-San Diego; Kara Boettcher, Montana State University; Heidi Sherick, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

48.3% 42.1% 34.8% Men only Engineering Graduates 41.4% 35.6% 32.9%While job titles are the most obvious proxy for understanding work activities, there exists a greatdeal of variability in the types of day-to-day work that engages different people within the samejob title. Therefore, the second dimension of interest was engineering graduates’ primary jobresponsibilities. Respondents chose between a list of thirteen responsibilities and were asked tochoose the task that comprised the majority of their day-to-day work activities. Theresponsibilities were categorized as technical (basic research, applied research, development ofknowledge, design, computer applications, production, and quality management

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Flynn, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

allocate about two hours of office time per week. By union-inspired institution rules, faculty may be scheduled for a maximum of three preparations persemester. This once imposed a severe scheduling limitation on management, but with a structural Page 11.696.4change in the curriculum introduced several years ago, it is no longer an issue.A Practical Time Demand ModelUnder the Corporate Model, a faculty member contracts to provide service to the institution duringa particular calendar period. Ole State is buying my time through the period from August 31through June 29. In my case, my entire obligation is to perform work in the area of

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

De'Jeune Antoine, Xavier University of Louisiana; Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

education and the retention of engineering students. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2002. Her research is directed by Dr. George M. Bodner and Dr. Deborah K. Follman.Deborah Follman, Purdue University Deborah K. Follman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2000. Her research interests include engineering education and gender equity, specifically regarding self-efficacy, issues of gender on student cooperative learning teams, and curriculum

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita Comeau, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Pastirik

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-1436: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CANCELING PHYSICS: AN INITIALSTUDY IN AN AT RISK URBAN HIGH SCHOOLBenita Comeau, Georgia Institute of Technology Benita M. Comeau is a Ph.D. candidate in the school of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Benita received her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Benita is a STEP Fellow in the Georgia Tech NSF GK-12 program.Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Marion C. Usselman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marion received her Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experience at the University of Idaho is a two-semester sequence thatinvolves a variety of projects sponsored by regional industry. This culminates in the largestacademic design show in the Pacific Northwest where design teams from departments ofMechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering,Biological Systems Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and Computer Science display theirwork to the public. Information about this annual event can be found at www.uidaho.edu/expo.The Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments have joined forces in aninterdisciplinary class that meets concurrently and has uniform project expectations. More than80 seniors and a half-dozen graduate student mentors are part of

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia; James Thompson, University of Missouri; Steve Wyatt, University of Missouri - Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the advanced electronics research group. In 1985, he joined the electrical engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington where he was Director of the Applied Physical Electronics Research Center. During his 11-year tenure at UT Arlington as a principal investigator, Dr. Nunnally was responsible for external research funding of over 11 million dollars or approximately 1 million dollars per year. After 11 years at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Nunnally moved to the University of Missouri - Columbia where he is currently the C. W. LaPierre Professor and interim chair of the electrical and computer engineering department. He is the author of over

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Student

tenure she created Energy Clubs for students in grades 3-5. Albers is passionate about experiential learning and strongly encourages the inclusion of hands-on activities into a curriculum. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and quantifies the effects of hands-on activities in an engineering lecture.Dr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission

Conference Session

Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Marvin E. Criswell P.E., Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

besides Topic Group A and Topic Group E B. General Structural Engineering Tools B1. Behavior of Structural Systems. Load-Path. B2. Building Codes & General Requirements B3. Architectural/Aesthetics Considerations B4. Conceptual & Preliminary Planning B5. Design Loads, Including Evaluation B6. Foundations & Geotechnical Topics C. Technology and Communication Tools C1. Project Plans & Specifications C2. Communication Software & Tools C3. Computer Graphics C4. Structural Engineering Design Software C5. Building Information Management (BIM) Systems C6. Programming Skills

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd C. Hufnagel, Johns Hopkins University; Michael J. Reese Jr., Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

course in question, Structure of Materials, is an entry point intothe undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering (MSE) taken by mostprospective major students in the autumn of their second year of study. Being a gateway sciencecourse, it is important for students to develop a deep conceptual understanding of foundationaltopics before they embark on more advanced coursework. Structure of Materials is also taken bystudents from other departments, most notably from biomedical engineering, who can take it asan elective as part of a focused group of courses on biomaterials. These students are typically at amore advanced level of study (third or fourth year) than the MSE majors.The primary instructor has taught Structure of

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Douglas, University of Wisconsin Colleges; Mark H Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

includingcalculus, chemistry, and physics as well as introductory engineering courses and the engineeringmechanics courses. The curriculum is offered via face-to-face instruction at five of the campusesand via distance education (DE) to the other campuses. Prior to 2007, the DE courses wereoffered synchronously using either audiographics or compressed video. Audiographics connectsstudents via a telephone conferencing system and a web meeting using Blackboard Collaborate.The faculty member controls the computer and the meeting in real time. Compressed video is ateleconferencing system where the faculty member can connect via video to up to five remotecampuses. Both methods require students to attend class at a specified time and day. Thestudents must be

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, University Park Dr. Renata Engel is Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Penn State and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 1990. Dr. Engel’s research couples her interest in design and manufacturing with advanced materials, with a focus on computational modeling. She has also been involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning primarily to infuse design into the curriculum. For her contributions, she has received several individual and collaborative teaching awards, and is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. She has held several leadership positions in ASEE including those in the Middle Atlantic Section, and Mechanics Division. She has served on

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales; Thomas Consi

the amplified outputfrom the accelerometer. Shortly thereafter the engine ignites, swiftly accelerating the rocket intothe air. When the propellant is consumed, the rocket continues to coast. During this stage, therocket is in free fall and the accelerometer registers 0 g. After a set delay, the engine fires theejection charge (to open the recovery parachute), which is recorded by the system as a short,intense impulse. The system continues to record acceleration as the rocket returns to Earth, untilthe serial EEPROM is full, at which point the program stops.Upon recovering the rocket, the students remove the circuit board and attach it to the serial portof a laptop computer (through an intermediary level-shifting circuit). They then move a

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; John Reisel

has served on both the College of Engineering and Applied Science's and theuniversity's undergraduate curriculum committees. Dr. Reisel was a 1998 recipient of the SAE Ralph R. TeetorEducational Award, and the 2000 UWM-CEAS Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Reisel is a member of ASEE, ASME,OSA, SAE, and the Combustion Institute. Dr. Reisel received his B.M.E. degree from Villanova University in 1989, hisM.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University is 1991, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromPurdue University, in 1994.KEVIN J. RENKENKevin J. Renken is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee(UWM). He is the Director of the UWM Porous Media Heat Transfer Lab, the UWM Radon

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faizal Karim; Saloome Motavas, University of British Columbia; Deborah Esther Feduik, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2012-3420: ENGINEERING TEACHING ASSISTANT TRAINING: IN-CREASED ENGAGEMENT USING VARIED DELIVERY METHODSMr. Faizal KarimSaloome Motavas, University of British Columbia Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDeborah Esther Feduik, University of British Columbia As manager of the professional master’s of engineering degree, graduate programs, and as the Engineering TA Training Program Coordinator, this initiative falls into the UBC Faculty of Applied Science vision to provide support for graduate students to interact across all engineering disciplines. Page 25.560.1 c American

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asaad Mohamed, Auburn University; Emily Reynolds, Auburn University; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Nanda Kumar B.S.

Tagged Divisions

International

won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, Amer- ican Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, Computer World, Campus Technology, and the Project Management Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the Managing Editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research.Dr. P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE)Mr. Nanda Kumar B.S. Nanda Kumar B.S. is Assistant Construction Manager, Center of Excellence & Futuristic

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

. Course guidelines specify that reports must follow a traditionalformat that includes an Abstract, Table of Contents, Introduction, Theory, Apparatus andProcedures, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion and Recommendations sections.While students either work individually or in small groups while performing the in-classexperiments, all written lab reports are required to be individual work. In fact, EngineeringMaterials Science with Laboratory is notable in that it is the only junior or senior course thatrequires each student to complete several individually written reports, and may therefore be oneof the last chances in the curriculum to improve each student’s writing ability before graduation.Thus, collaborative teaching of the laboratory

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

project. The student team learns and produces the desired endproduct. The School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at the University of Oklahomais incorporating real-world experience into its curriculum through the Senior Design PracticumProgram. In addition to providing a valuable product to the sponsors, the program has thefollowing educational goals:• Develop ability to apply the acquired knowledge to solve engineering problems, and to design realistic systems, components, and/or processes• Develop ability to function in a team environment to gain organizational and communication skills, to understand professional and ethical responsibilities, to promote initiative, innovation, and excellence, and to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

tenure.Tip #11: Have some fun – you probably could make a lot more money working inindustry. Try to remember that you picked your job because you wanted to do it, and liveout your dream!Things That Went Right – ResearchThe author’s background is in theoretical analysis and computer modeling of heat andmass transfer problems. He was able to take a couple of ideas he had from his thesis andturn them around into two manuscripts. The work was done and the papers were both Page 9.1204.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard R Harris, Northeastern University; Lauren Machunis, Northeastern University; William Tiga Tita, D'Amore-McKim Business School, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

engineeringcapstone team, to help address the possible repurposing of compromised crops.Fourteen Northeastern University students enrolled in the DOIC initiative, with 85% identifiedas members of underrepresented populations (African American, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian,Female, First-Generation). They consisted of majors from across the university including:Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering,International Affairs, Human Services, Pre-Law, Entrepreneurship and Management InformationSystems. Students participated in two academic courses, Engineering Discovery & Innovationand Business in Modern African Economy taught by Northeastern University lecturers andadvisors who traveled to Cameroon with the

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Michelle Mazak, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Cristopher B. Font-Santiago; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4498,distributed among five different departments (Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering andSurveying, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and ChemicalEngineering). Over 91% of UPRM’s undergraduate enrollment consists of bilingual studentsmainly from Puerto Rico, whose primary language is Spanish.14Out of UPRM’s CoE undergraduate enrollment of 4498 students, 17% (845 students) of thestudents belong to the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying.14 Participants wererecruited from this department through e-mail invitation. Researchers followed confidentialityguidelines to conduct research with human subjects as established on the IRB protocol.InstrumentCATS is designed

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Katherine Sofía Palacio, Fundacion Universidad del Norte; Sarah Spencer-Workman, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Yaneth Correa-Martinez, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the concepts of public service andsustainability into engineering education?Many universities have available courses mainly focused on sustainability, with 64civil/architectural/environmental engineering courses identified in a recent benchmarking surveyby Allen et al.1. These courses are most often electives targeted to upper-division students, suchas the Green Engineering and Sustainability course at Michigan Technological University andYale University referenced by Zhang et al.2 and the seminar course at Lamar Universitymentioned by Koehn et al.3. An alternative approach to teaching sustainability in upper-levelelective courses is to introduce sustainability at the beginning of the curriculum, during the firstand second-year courses. The

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Rae Volpatti, University of Pittsburgh; Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Lauren M. Byland, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curriculum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a vari- ety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential. Most recently, she has started to engage in the development of programs aimed at retaining women within Chemical Engineering including mentor lunches with visiting female seminar speakers, a leadership book club and sexual harassment workshops.Mrs. Lauren M. Byland, University of Pittsburgh Lauren Byland, M.Ed., Associate Director & Coordinator of Student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Boise State University; Ross A. Perkins, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

? Page 23.252.10 a. How are teaching innovations best measured? b. How do the current policies in COEN impact innovative teaching practices at BSU?6 How do the current policies at BSU impact innovative teaching practices in engineering? a. How much do you see faculty in COEN taking advantage of the CTL’s professional development (“10 for Tenure”) program? b. Virginia Tech has had a program for at least the past number of years called the “Faculty Development Institute,” where every three (maybe four) years, faculty can earn a new computer after they participate in 12 hours (or so) of technology or pedagogical training. Would you foresee this ever happening at BSU?7 Should

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

, one undergraduate and one dual-level. Thestudents in the department routinely use Cadence electronic computer aided design (ECAD)software for the design and analysis of circuits and for the design of printed circuit boards(PCBs). The boards are fabricated by a commercial PCB fabricator, then assembled in one oftwo laboratories the department has with assembly equipment suitable for both manual andautomated assembly of SMCs. This paper will briefly discuss the design concepts unique to SMT devices and themanual and automated assembly technologies suitable for use in teaching laboratories. SMCsfrom chip resistor and capacitor components through fine-pitch quad flat pack ICs can bemanually soldered and desoldered from PCBs with equipment