Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William A., Jr. Russell

Session Number: 2649 Real-Time DSP Signal Application In An Engineering Technology Laboratory Course Using An Analog Devices’ SHARC ADSP-21061 Processor William A. Russell, Jr. Electronics Engineering Technology University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg MS 39406AbstractThe objective of our "Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Applications" course is to enhancethe students understanding and retention by presenting hands-on design, and implementation ofreal-time DSP applications. Each

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Reza Raeisi; Sudhanshu Singh

39length of the NIOS II processor is 32 bits. All registers are 32 bits long. The NIOS II architectureuses separate instruction and data buses, which is often referred to as the Harvard architecture. 4Figure 1-Nios II system implemented on the DE2 boardµClinuxReal-time and embedded systems operate in constrained environments in which computermemory and processing power are limited. They often need to provide their services within stricttime deadlines to their users and to the surrounding world. It is these memory, speed and timingconstraints that dictate the use of real-time operating systems in embedded software. RTOSkernels hide from application software to the low-level details of system hardware, and at thesame time provide several categories

Conference Session

Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaoye Li, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

interactivity of remote laboratories and thus alleviatesome of the above mentioned concerns. These efforts are consistent with the attempts by manyother institutions for enhancing the learning effectiveness through the application of the latesttechnologies. In this paper, the development and implementation of a real-time interactiveremote laboratory are delineated Several up-to-date streaming media technologies are employedin conjunction with various Web applications and protocols, including ASP.NET, TCP/IP,JavaScript, AJAX, and SQL Server. By using a multi-tier application architecture, it becomespossible to facilitate the continuous expansion of the current pool of experimental resources andto enable the flexible sharing of the experimental resources

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

of being disconnected from the real world. Therefore, a series of webexperiments are introduced to complement the lecture materials. The students form teamsof two to tackle to experiments. For the “prime time” period (9am-9pm), the students arerequired to sign up for a weekly schedule while the off hours (9pm-9am) are available ona first come first serve basis with a maximum 60 minutes time allocation. Each team hasa unique ID and password for access control purpose.(IV) Web ExperimentsTo participate in the web experiments, the students connect their PCs to the serverlocated in the NJIT Real-time Control Lab by using Web Page Plug-In and applying IPaddress of the server. The students (client) connect to the server containing DataSocketreader

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2005 GSW

Authors

Ray Bachnak; Mike Englert

wirelessdata acquisition and analysis is applicable in many different situations and used in manydifferent types of industry. This paper describes a real world application where there is aneed for data to be transferred wirelessly through a portable device to a base stationwhere the data is analyzed. The data is sent wirelessly through a modem, received by apersonal computer, and analyzed through the use of different software programs. Thepaper also presents test results. IntroductionData loggers and acquisition units are useful and versatile equipment used in today’sindustry. One manufacturer of this type of product is the Fluke Corporation. Flukemanufactures the Hydra Series Data Loggers. These units are very

Conference Session

Retention of STEM Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Joseph Arumala, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-3031: ENHANCING ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGHREAL-LIFE PROJECTSIbibia Dabipi, University of Maryland-Eastern ShoreJoseph Arumala, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Page 12.666.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 ENHANCING ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH REAL LIFE PROJECTS Joseph O. Arumala and Ibibia K. Dabipi AbstractThe University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s (UMES) Engineering Program offered thefirst two years of an engineering sequence when it began. UMES students were admittedto the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) College of Engineering with officialverification

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

collaboration styles have also to beconsidered regarding curricula, courseware and teaching methods.Computers are now used in the classroom as multimedia tools to provide alternative sources oflearning material, to provide interactive learning situations and to provide simulation of systemsthat cannot for reasons of cost, size or safety be used in reality. The use of the Internet is rapidlyincreasing and is being seen by some people as the greatest source of knowledge available forlearning. The use of simulation tools has a number of benefits to education. The learner is notexposed to the hazards of the real world. The learner is able to explore a range of possiblesolutions easily and quickly. The learner is able to use the tools that will be available

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

TMS320C5515 eZdsp USB Stick, a powered microphone, an audiosource such as an MP3 player or cellphone, and speakers. Undergraduate electrical engineeringstudents were shown the demonstration and were surveyed to determine which algorithms theyfound most interesting. The C language source code for the software is available from the authorfor free, so this program can be modified by instructors who wish to make their owndemonstrations or used as a convenient starting point for student projects.IntroductionThe material in a DSP course is often highly theoretical and mathematical, and so it is useful toconnect the theory to real-world applications with laboratory experiments, simulations, ordemonstrations. Fortunately, there are many interesting

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Maeng; Amanda Gonczi; Robert Handler; Hamid Nadir, University of Virginia; Whitney McCoy

practices with technology under situated professional development. Computers & Education, 59(4), 1109-1121.Kwon, K., Ottenbreit-Leftwich, A. T., Sari, A. R., Khlaif, Z., Zhu, M., Nadir, H., & Gok, F. (2019). Teachers’ self-efficacy matters: Exploring the integration of mobile computing device in middle schools. TechTrends, 63(6), 682-692. doi: 10.1007/s11528-019-00402-5Merriam, S. B. (1998). Qualitative research and case study applications in education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Metz, S. (2014). Engineering a new world. The Science Teacher, December 2014.Moore, T. J., & Hjalmarson, M. A. (2009). Developing measures of roughness: Problem solving as a method to document student thinking in engineering. International Journal

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati

will use automotive and other real-world industrial applications to extend the fundamentals introduced in Manufacturing Processes, Engineering Materials, Solid Mechanics, and CAE to perform virtual formability studies of sheet metal parts. Other topics such as rolling, forging and extrusion will also be covered. Deformation behavior of axisymmetric, symmetric and nonsymmetrical sheet metal parts will be discussed. For the computer simulation software tools such as I-DEAS, DYNAFORM and QuickStamp will be used to perform the modeling and analysis. Several practical design projects will be demonstrated during the term of this

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Juneau; Kant Vajpayee; Eyler Coates

environment. Theanalysis of stochastic engineering economic problems has been ignored and the technologicalchanges over the past 15 years have not been fully utilized in the traditional engineeringeconomy courses. Therefore, students are not proficient to do such analyses when working in thebusiness world. This paper demonstrates the ease that engineering economy problems withstochastic input variables and real options can be simulated with simulation software that isreadily available to students on personal computers. The novel application presented in thispaper will greatly enhance both Engineering Economy and Simulation courses.IntroductionIn order to deal with the variability issues of real business projects, risk analysis is necessary.But, the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

beforestarting class, and setting up procedures for meeting and communicating that are presented tostudents at the beginning of the project. A teaching assistant is ideal for scheduling meetings andmediating communication. D. Group learning. Deliberate instruction on how to learn and work in a group setting isbeneficial, as students had much more success working in groups when this instruction wasprovided than when it was not. While there is a wealth of literature on this subject, readers areencouraged to consult Wankat and Oreovicz12 to start, and to share this information with theirstudents.IV. ConclusionsThere are a number of benefits for students, instructors, and clients. The first benefit is studententhusiasm. Working on real world problems is an

Conference Session

ECCD Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriela De Mattos Veroneze, North Carolina A&T SU; Zhichao Li, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Pedro Augusto Pinto Caldeira

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Geothermal energy is the heat that comes from the center of the earth in the form of hotwater or vapor, it is a clean, renewable free resource that can be used around the world formultiple application; in the United States the largest reservoirs are located in west coastincluding Alaska and Hawaii. Almost everywhere, the shallow ground or upper 10 feet of the Earth's surface maintains anearly constant temperature between 50° and 60°F (10° and 16°C). Geothermal heat pumps cantap into this resource to heat and cool buildings. A geothermal heat pump system consists of aheat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried inthe shallow ground near the building. In the winter, the heat pump removes heat from

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Amos L. Purdy; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

with the release of the secondedition.Laboratory Exercise Development Approach To get practical experience, the graduate student interned with Infinity Power andControl of Rock Springs, Wyoming. This company is an industrial controls company that workswith oil and natural gas companies, such as British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, to installmonitoring and control systems on drilling platforms. The following is the graduate student’sreview of the internship: “Working as an intern at Infinity, I learned real world applications of industrial controls. The first month I got acquainted with the field work and installation of industrial controllers. My work entailed installing the wiring for the control system from start to

Conference Session

ECCD Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Samuel Daouda Diarra, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the solenoid valve for therequired amount of water needed for the crops, based on the average soil moisture reading, or theagronomist remotely use the cloud data to trigger a channel by writing a specific value. The linklocated below the channel is assigned to turn on and off a solenoid valve. Sensor data arecollected using wireless communication to avoid loose running signal wires and cables in thefield.This is a one semester senior capstone project, involving four electrical engineering students.Senior Capstone Projects represent the culmination of the educational experience, integrating theclassroom with real world problems. The students handle open ended engineering problemswhose solutions require a synthesis of engineering knowledge

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University, Calumet; Joseph Edward Cody, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

user-friendly format to the World Wide Web. Thebasic Data Presentation flow is presented in Figure 4. Page 25.397.7 Figure 4 Data Flow Block Diagram a. OPC ServerOPC (OLE for Process Control) is a process control standard for communicating process data in anumber of methods. The SLIM System utilizes both real-time (OPC-DA, or OPC-Data Access) andhistorical (OPC-HDA, or OPC-Historical Data Access) data. The OPC Server is provided as part ofthe DeltaV system and is installed on the remote control station. b. Human-Machine Interface including OPC ClientThe Human-Machine Interface (HMI) is a custom developed

Conference Session

ECCD Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Masi, University of Southern Maine; Daniel M Martinez, University of Southern Maine; James A Wilson, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps; Benjamin Richard Male, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 26.869.12Observing the reactants and products listed in Table 2 demonstrated the need for the students toproperly balance chemical equations and to be more steadfast in literature review. Specifically,the students proposed that acetylene was a product of the reaction between sodium borohydride,water and acetic acid. However, sodium borohydride is not known to reduce acetic acid and theacid’s presence is there only to reduce the pH of the system and facilitate faster hydrogenrelease. It became clear that more time spent on chemical principles would improve this aspect ofthe design experience. However, the use of infrared thermography to observe reactionprogression in real time is an interesting application that could gain traction as an

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

viable.For us, this starts with developing a community of support to give faculty the confidence toeffectively introduce wicked problems into their existing courses. Through this community,faculty may leverage one another’s expertise in order to expose students to real-world wickedproblems. In the spirit of holistic engineering education, our hope is to enable instructors toconfidently develop their students’ non-technical skills which are integral for generatingsustainability-minded leaders of the future.5,6Research MethodsIn this paper, our primary research objective was to develop a valid and reliable psychometricinstrument that measures a series of sustainability-related learning objectives that are central toWPSI. Our second objective was to

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Keith W Cunningham; Samuel Vanderwaal; Eyal Saiet, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

termwithout support by the other. UAF has begun a holistic program to address deficiencies in both camps,using robotic vehicles like UAS as a primary means to achieve this.BackgroundThe University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) hosts the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft SystemsIntegration (ACUASI), a collaborative research program linking education in engineering, aviation, andremote sensing with real-world applications for geospatial data products collected by unmanned aircraftsystems (UAS) [1]. As part of this mission, the center promotes STEM learning opportunities relevant tothe burgeoning UAS field at high schools in Fairbanks and rural Alaska.As a part of UAF and in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Pan PacificUnmanned

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leszek Gawarecki, Kettering University; Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Gina Rablau, Kettering

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

for solving many problems inphysics and engineering, examples will be provided in this course.”The use of real examples, data, and physical objects, helps the instructor to provide an informedanswer to students’ questions about applications of the theory and decrease the gap between thetheory and practical applications.  We have used real world problems to motivate students, to spark their curiosity, and show the course relevance in real life situations.  We have used examples from science, engineering, economics, and finance to demonstrate the relationship of integral calculus to various broad areas of interest to students.  We have used examples from future courses, especially in the area of engineering, to

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

actual job site management and coordination support through linksto the schedule of a project, photographs of job progress, and safety information. Meetingannouncements are posted on the system, and the site also has an E-mail capability that allowscommunication about current issues at the job site between the contractor, subcontractor and thearchitect. Some portions of the web sites are not available because of passwords to maintain theconfidentiality of certain issues within the project. The students found this application veryinteresting, particularly the photographic images of the job site as a real world example.Student FeedbackAfter the course was concluded in the Fall of 1998, each team was asked, "What did your teamlearn out of the class

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thyagarajan Srinivasan

computer utilization module was developed. The software chosen wasCITYgreen developed by American Forests (Washington, DC). CITYgreen is software formapping urban ecology and measuring the economic benefits of trees, soils and other naturalresources. It is an application for ARCVIEW (ESRI, Redlands, CA), desktop GeographicInformation Systems (GIS) software.The students are given an overview of how the software operates and how it is applied – they areshown how to digitize a study area, how to input data, and how to analyze and model variousscenarios. After the students become familiar with the basic operations of the software, they aregiven a “real-world” problem and asked to act as consultants. In this exercise, the students areto use the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachariah E. Fuchs, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

order to create an immersive world under glass.These topics include power management, microcontroller and real-time programming, digitallogic, reactive state machines, sensors, and actuator control. The broad range of topics andinteresting application make pinball an ideal teaching vehicle for engineering education, and wehave recently created a new pinball themed Introduction to Mechatronics course with a heavyemphasis on labs, projects, and experiential learning. This course is a dual-listed, upper-levelundergraduate/graduate electrical engineering course that focuses on the integration ofmicrocontrollers, actuators, sensors, and supporting electronics to create a complete rudimentarypinball machine. Each lesson and corresponding lab

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

difficulty relating the computer exercises in the textbook to real-world applications. Afterteaching this course a few times, the author decided to explore methods that might make thecourse more exciting to a greater number of students while remaining challenging. After someresearch it was decided that computer control of objects using microprocessors might be a goodaddition that will allow the students to test their programming skills, complement the techniquesencountered in the numerical exercises, and at the same time lead to fun and challenging designs.ObjectivesThe objectives for ME175 are to: Provide students with a basic exposure to numerical methods. Use MATLAB as the software environment to conduct numerical analysis

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Victoria Schuele; Ronald Edwards; Don Gillich; Andrew Kovanen; Brian Moretti

project sponsor at the end of the year. Additionally,cadets give a poster presentation at USMA’s annual Project’s Day held during the Springsemester each year.ConclusionThe pyroelectric crystal accelerator at West Point provides the cadets in the Department ofPhysics and Nuclear Engineering a unique opportunity for outside the classroom, discoverylearning. Cadets can apply classroom skills to real world applications while gaining valuableresearch, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. This project will help them to be moreproductive in future academic endeavors as well as in future career fields.1. Naranjo, B., Gimzewski, J.K., and Putterman, S., “Observation of Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Pyroelectric Crystal”, Letters to Nature

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gregory Kulczycki, Virginia Tech; Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

practices used in real-world web development, theprofessor invited the professional web developer to join the course as an instructor in the nextsemester. The project underwent a major revision to bring it more in line with current industrypractice. Two years later, the project went through another major revision, again in the interest ofreflecting common practices in industry.We learned a lot from doing two major project rewrites in less than three years, but perhaps themost important “lesson” is that these revisions will continue. And if we want to keep up with thechanging software landscape in industry – especially in the fast-moving world of web-development – the project must continually evolve to reflect those changes. This does not meanthat

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #28669Assessing Grassroots Engineering Applications in BrazilDr. Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute I currently develop a post-doctorate research at the Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) with a schol- arship from FAPESP (#2018/20563-3). I hold a PhD degree in Philosophy (University of S˜ao Paulo, 2017), a bachelor degree in Philosophy (Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, 2008), a master degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Campinas, 2002), and a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Campinas, 1999). My research area encompasses philosophy of

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

2006-449: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING APPLICATION IN SPACE MISSIONDouglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Douglas McLennan is the Project Manager of the Space Technology - 5 (ST-5) at the Goddard Space flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. McLennan received his B.Sc. in Physics in 1978 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He received his M.S. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from Georgetown University, Washington D.C.Guangming Chen, Morgan State University Dr. Guangming Chen is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at Morgan State University. He joined Morgan State faculty in 1990 as an Assistant Professor. Since September 2002, he has worked with ST-5

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Panchul, UTSA; David Akopian, UTSA

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

) Symbian OS v7.0s native APIsBluetooth API (JSR 82) OMA Client ProvisioningSeries 60™ platform has a large number of resources for application developers including SDKs,white papers and discussion groups. The SDKs have all the tools required to develop real-worldapplications including an emulator, target compiler, example applications, and extensivedocumentation. The following are specific minimum requirements for a device being targeted fora port of the Series 60 Platform:Display 176 x 208 pixel, 256 color display.Input Two soft-keys, five-way navigation, an application launching and swapping key, as well as Send and End keys. To improve and facilitate text input, it

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Rudy Wojtecki; Charles P. Wentz

faced a world of intense international competition. To confront this challenge, there needs to be a focus on partnerships. #2 $ Partnerships must build closer ties to industry. #3The many advantages of cooperative education are well established. It provides notonly an almost essential link between theory and real-world application, but also itoffers an income opportunity to assist the student in funding his or her education. Forthe traditional student co-op is a program of either alternating terms of course work andprofessional experience or part-time of both. For the non-traditional student it istypically a repeatable course with specific objectives, frequently tailored to the needs ofboth employer and student. Nevertheless