Conference Session

Innovative Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Mechanics

AC 2007-42: THE DYNAMICS SUMMER SCHOOL – A UNIQUE EDUCATIONALPROGRAMPhillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Phillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000.Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chuck Farrar has 25 years experience as a technical staff member, project leader, and team leader

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

can be identified and encouraged to revise their proposal. For complex designs, the final lab may span multiple weeks. Students may then focus on particular aspects of design in a systematic way. 4) As students become comfortable with the progression, they approach the qualitative and quantitative labs as precursors to their design lab.Advantages for the Student: 1) Students practice the process of design several times before the senior capstone experience. 2) Phenomena experienced in lab are used to motivate the lectures. 3) The laboratory becomes a place where real experiments are being conducted. 4) Students realize that the topics

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John D. Cremin

Session 2526 Linking Laboratory Instruments for Simulation: Comma Separated Variable Files John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThis paper describes two workhorse electronic instruments, the function generator andthe oscilloscope, and their use in recording and simulation applications in design andlaboratory electronic courses. The paper also discusses the application of the recordingand simulation techniques to performing experiments over the InternetThe oscilloscope used in the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

South Carolinaand is a 2-year participant in the NSF GK-12 Fellowship Program.JED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and theDirector of the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratory, design,and materials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. Jed is the GK-12 PI. All correspondence should be addressed to Jed S. Lyons, University ofSouth Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. lyons@sc.edu.CHRISTINE EBERT a Professor of Education and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Co-PI on theGK-12 grant Dr. Ebert is instrumental in teaching engineering students how to

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A R Zaghloul

educational order.4. Integrate Lecture(s) and Lab by dividing the concepts/tools between the two in theproper order and fashion.V. ConclusionsThe educational analysis, discussion, and algorithm presented in this communicationpave the way for educators to properly design and integrate lab activities with lectures toachieve proper educational objectives. The presented material is equally applicable to alldisciplines that employ lab work as an educational experience in their educationalprocess. The material is presented in the context of applying it to electrical engineeringeducation.Bibliography 1. Ko, C. C., et al, A web-based virtual laboratory on a frequency modulation experiment, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Hultman

option. Other in-state transferees must take a lab course at UMCPprior to attaining junior status.The laboratory equipment, facility layout, lab experiments, simulation support and coursecoordination form a seamless sequence of digital and analog experiences. The focus is onproviding a learning experience combining phased-level-complexity industry-level equipmentand useful/leveraged experiments, with a high-writing-content professional report as the product.This session will provide a brief but comprehensive overview of the design of the course, theobjectives and outcomes, the facility and equipment, the laboratory experiments, and the reportgeneration. Several elements will be featured: Each experiment requires designing from an engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Wicker; Connie Della-Piana; Bill Diong

result, when faculty in the respective Departments recently decided to incorporatelaboratory experiments into the lecture-only Electrical Engineering (EE) Controls course and toupdate the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Controls laboratory course experiments, the opportunityarose to develop a Dynamic Systems and Controls laboratory using state-of-the-art equipment toprovide a present-day-relevant education. In particular, we aimed to enhance student learning of amodel-based, simulation-oriented approach to control systems analysis, design and development,and to provide them with the experience of implementing Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-basedcontrollers. In 1999, we received funding from the National Science Foundation’s Course

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl R. Kipke

system-level testing. Design experiments. Be the lead person in preparing the project report. • Hardware engineer: Design, construct, and test the electronic circuits. Develop data acquisition program. • Software engineers: Design, write, and test the signal processing programs.These job assignments rotate for each project so that by the end of the semester, each team member serves inevery job at least once. Completing each job is sufficiently complex that communication and cooperation amongteam members is essential. Each team is assigned a laboratory workstation that is equipped with a personal computer containing aNational Instruments data acquisition board (LabPC

Conference Session

Labs and Demonstrations in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucas Landherr, Northeastern University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

formatsbeing presented. These methods include Lego kits to control liquid level in a tank by modifyingfluid flow,1,2 and Arduino kits for a range of applications,3 both for smaller, in-class approaches.On a larger scale, other techniques have focused on temperature control in a pilot polymerizationreactor,4 and through direct integration into Unit Operations laboratory components.5-8 Similarly,there has been a desire for Process Control projects that involve a more open-ended focus,potentially providing students the opportunity to design an original control system and evaluate itsperformance.9 In this paper, we describe efforts to connect students’ familiarity with hands-onlaboratory experiments with more theoretical open-ended control design.In order

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University; Stephen Gent, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

which laboratory exercises to eliminate. Three of theeight laboratory exercises performed in the Spring 2010 semester were removed from the course:the Heat Recovery Lab, the Bomb Calorimeter Lab, and the Gasification Lab (briefly describedin Table 1 above). The student survey response show in Fig. 2 is representative of their thoughtson these labs.The five remaining laboratory experiments, which have been expanded due to the improvementof their operating condition, comprise a more appropriate amount of work for the one credit hour Page 22.231.7value of the course.4.2 Changes and Additions to Course Content and MaterialsSeveral changes designed

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kang-Mieler

skills and knowledge needed todesign and test the hypotheses and perform data collection and analysis of biologically-basedengineering problems are introduced. Technical communication skills (oral presentation andtechnical paper writing) are an integral part of the class. The emphasis of the course program isto deliver an understanding of the “process” of investigating a problem using the scientificmethod to biomedical engineers, and not focusing on the “correct” answer. The laboratory classprovides hands-on experience in proper laboratory use, experimental design, methodologies, andas well as building communication skills that are needed for careers in the various biomedicalengineering fields.IntroductionStarting a new biomedical engineering

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Constantin Ciocanel; Mohammad Elahinia

the students with more hands-on experienceand to challenge them by requesting the procedure for each laboratory experiment to be designedand carried out by each group of students.This senior level laboratory course consists of experiments in deformable solid mechanicsincluding stress and deflection analysis, fatigue life evaluation, stability and mechanicalvibration. Prerequisite courses for this laboratory are Mechanical Design I and MechanicalVibrations. In line with the program objectives of the department, the following list of objectiveshas been defined for this course: “Upon successful completion of this course, the students shouldhave: (1) become knowledgeable in the use of standard instrumentation for static and dynamicstructural

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane L. Marcy; James C. Sturm

background in tinkering with systems bytaking them apart and fixing them, because with the cover off, a modern system (such as a TV orradio) reveals just an inaccessible layer of complex boards and integrated circuits (ICs). Thecurriculum revisions included changing an upper-level elective IC fabrication laboratory course to arequired sophomore level course. More details concerning the reasoning behind this change arepresented in the motivations section of this paper. The new requirements needed to make thischange are discussed in the implementation section, and finally a new set of experiments which weredesigned to show how systems are integrated on an IC and to measure the performance limitation ofthese simple systems are described in the final

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment and design, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education.Dr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-2163: SIMULATION-BASED VIRTUAL AND HYBRID LABORATORIESFOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Blekhman; Jason Keith; Ahmad Sleiti; Eileen Cashman; Peter Lehman; Richard Engel; Michael Mann; Hossein Salehfar

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, UND is incorporating fuel cell education into itsengineering curriculum. Funds from the DOE award allowed UND to acquire several fuel cellsystems, including a 50 W proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and a 600 W PEM fuelcell. This equipment is being used to facilitate teaching of basic fuel cell characteristics andoperation.Initial experiments are performed using a hydro-geniuses laboratory experimental setup. Thisequipment contains a solar cell, a single cell PEM electrolyzer, two single cell PEM fuel cells,and a small resistive load. Students generate I-V characteristic curves of the fuel cell and theelectrolyzer and analyze system efficiencies. In this lab, the students are given a memo fromtheir “boss” asking them to design a system

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Online Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bo Yu, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

, WI, 53818, USA yub@uwplatt.eduAbstractControl theory can be abstract and mathematically complex to students. Educational hardware canhelp students reinforce the concepts and observe the real-world applications. Most importantly,they can be used to foster students’ interest in the subject so that they are motivated to learn more.In this work-in-progress paper, a low-cost Arduino temperature control kit for performing systemmodeling and real-time feedback control experiments is presented. The laboratory courses basedon these experimental systems can be used to consolidate the knowledge of modeling andcontroller design for the students, improving

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin LaFerriere; John M. Spinelli

. Finally, when major conceptssuch as frequency response have been mastered the black boxes can be used to motivatethe student design of equalizers or approximate inverse systems.In a chemistry laboratory, students are frequently presented with an "unknown" samplewhich needs to be identified by testing for the presence of various substances. In a Page 5.20.1systems lab, a similar educational experience can be gained by giving students anunknown system and asking them to describe its behavior and properties qualitatively andquantitatively. With appropriate equipment at their disposal, they can ask questions like"What would happen if I applied a particular

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Shellee Dyer, Metro State of Denver

lab experiment and fromthe final exam, administered after the lab experiment. Only 50 % of our students were fullysuccessful in their answer to an op amp design problem on the first midterm, while over 80 % ofthe students were able to successfully solve a significantly more complex op amp design problemon the final exam. We believe that this improvement in performance can be attributed, at least inpart, to this laboratory experience.In summary, we have demonstrated a novel electronics laboratory experiment in which we haveintegrated the students' smartphones and/or other mobile devices into our educational goals. Theresult is an accessible demonstration of some of the major topics covered in the classroom,including analog signal processing

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Page 15.1358.7Screenshots presented in Figure 4 enable students to understand the design and operation of aLight Emitting Diode (LED) used as a light source in the optical sensors. Page 15.1358.8 Figure 4. Screenshots of the simulation Light Emitting DiodeSome virtual laboratories facilitate a multilayered instructional approach. A multilayered virtualexperiment is comprised of several interacting simulations. The main purpose of such an experiment isto bridge technical skills and the scientific knowledge base. An example of a multilayered experimentis presented in Figure 5. The lab enables students to achieve the following tasks

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert King; Joan Gosink

like to share information on how to design and presentlaboratory courses that can become centerpieces for ABET evaluations at other universities.The Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory (MEL) sequence was initiated in 1997 byreplacing three traditional, closed, theory-verification laboratory courses in electrical circuits,fluid mechanics, and stress analysis4. MEL’s educational objectives are implemented with asequence of experiments that transition from closed to open-ended and that increasingly integratemultiple subjects. The goals of MEL are to prepare graduates who can integrate multipledisciplines, extend their knowledge to new topics over their professional lifetimes, be team andproject leaders, and implement instrumentation in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Navya Mereddy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

26.1766.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Work-in-Progress: Experience of Teaching Internet-of-Things Using TI ARM based Connected LaunchpadAbstractMost embedded systems design efforts in industry have moved to modern 32-bit devices withnetworking capabilities. The widespread development of such embedded applications has led tothe highly influential concept of the “Internet of Things (IoT)”. This paper describes our ongoingwork of introducing the IoT technologies in an embedded networking course. We mainly presentour experience of applying the TM4C1294 Connected Launchpad with two BoosterPacks -Sensor Hub and SimpleLink WiFi provided by Texas Instruments (TI) to the

Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Barnett, Saint Louis University; Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

was 56%. Thenumber of national awards presented to our undergraduates is also significant, ranging fromBMES and Society for Biomaterials Undergraduate Awards and Sigma Xi grants to variousposter and paper recognitions at the local, regional, and national levels. The ability to havecontinuous projects where students can easily pass on their work to underclassmen has also beenimproved thus leading to an increase in overall scholarly activity in the laboratory and a morepositive experience for the undergraduate. Page 12.313.2IntroductionWhile capstone design courses are at the core of all engineering disciplines, the depth ofexposure to

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman; Beshara Sholy

maintenance of such systems at frequencies above 1 GHz. At Parks College of Engineeringand Aviation, a lecture course and accompanying laboratory are designed to give avionicsstudents an introduction to Radar systems in which microwave measurements and techniquesare a major portion of the exercise.This lecture/laboratory combination provides our students with the opportunity to demonstratethe basic theory of transmission, reflection and attenuation measurements of microwave signalsat frequencies up to 12GHz. This is explored in a variety of laboratory experiments designed togive an understanding of microwave signal measurement, characteristics of microwave devices

Conference Session

Developments in the Energy Laboratories

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ke Chen, Cleveland State University; Ana Stankovic, Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

courses to undergraduate electricalengineering curriculum. With these changes, a new state of the art laboratory was designed andimplemented, providing students with experiments related to all topics covered in twoprerequisite courses, Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Power Electronics I.The laboratory experiments represent the unique blend of traditional and contemporary approachto learning electric machines and power electronics. Modular Lab-Volt equipment has been usedfor experiments related to steady state analysis of Electric Machines and transformers. Inaddition, modern software and hardware technology (DSPACE) has been used for experimentsrelated to real time control of different types of electric machines. In addition

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Ann Thompson, Loras College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

relatively foreign unit further exasperates adisconnect between the number on a screen and what the number actually means.This experimental setup is designed to enhance student learning by allowing students to usemultiple senses which is well documented to enhance learning [7] [8] [9]. The procedure for thislab is short and relatively simple, so it was paired with a triple point lab (described below) towork in conjunction with each other help students better understand phase changes. While thisexperiment is not complex, the simple nature of this experiment allows it to be targeted atovercoming common misconceptions. Students commented after the lab that this is one of themost memorable experiences they have had.Due to the tactile element of this

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Oscar D. Crisalle; Haniph A. Latchman; Denis Gillet; Christophe Salzmann

forwardnetworks such as the Internet were not originally designed to handle real-time traffic, now thatthis global communication infrastructure exists and is becoming ubiquitous. Computer-basedhardware and software subsystems are being designed to transport such real-time services asbroadcast audio and video (live or via various streaming media technologies) and eveninteractive audio and video services. In this paper we propose another step ahead into the realmof remote real-time control over the Internet. We demonstrate the feasibility of using adistributed on-line laboratory to complement and enhance traditional and on-line courses inControl Engineering. It is shown that the distributed laboratory readily enables students toconduct real-time

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pnina Ari-Gur, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Roman Rabiej, Western Michigan University; Peter Thannhauser, Western Michigan University; Marwa M Hassan, Louisiana State University; Daniel M. Litynski, Western Michigan University; Renee Schwartz, Western Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

experiments for use in anundergraduate materials science course, community college instructions, for demonstrations tothe public and hands-on recruiting events for middle and high school students. The methodologyand technology used is designed to make it possible to easily disseminate the laboratory to alarge variety of institutions and locations. The fact that the laboratory is fully interactive makesfor a realistic experience for the student.IntroductionDespite a growing need for engineers in the workforce, there has not been a significant increasein engineering degrees awarded1. In fact, foreign-born engineers account for a significantportion of engineering and technology companies established in the last decades; e.g. accordingto2, “companies

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoffa, none; Steven Freeman, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

some researchers11,22,6 question the value of lab experiments,there is no doubt that the lab experiment is a commonly employed teaching tool in industrialtechnology. The purpose of laboratory experiments in industrial technology is, as Gillet,Latchman, Salzmann, and Crisalle10 said, “…to motivate, illustrate, and enlighten thepresentation of the subject matter addressed in the lecture” (p. 190).A written report often follows the lab experiment in order to cause the student to reflect on,summarize, and quantify the laboratory experience. To learn by doing in the laboratory,followed by reflecting on that experience and writing about it in the form of a report, can onlyfurther enhance learning. Lederman16 stated that “the assumption that students

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education” elementary/secondary classroom, modeled after our laboratory course structure. • Participate in an in-service workshop for area teachers on a designated Saturday.5. Laboratory activitiesLaboratory experiments composed a major portion of this class. Our goal was to introduce thestudents to many experiments they could actually do in their own classrooms. Through theseexperiments, students not only learned or reinforced science, math, and engineering principles;they also practiced skills such as data measurement and analysis, graphing or tabulation, andfundamental statistics.Some of the laboratory experiences are described below:• Examine how materials respond to