Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nagash Antoine Clarke, University of Michigan; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

]. STEM higher education for example has been described as historically designed toattract white, cis-gender, able bodied, white, Christian males [5]. Consequently, “White people,men, straight people, cis-gendered people, able-bodied people, with settler mindsets, aresystematically powerful people in engineering” (p. 450) [41]. White men, for example, oftenexperience an insulated segregated world where white privilege or supremacy is neverchallenged, racism is unacknowledged, or ignored, and white solidarity works against socialjustice [42], [43]. Thus, interventions (e.g., bridge programs) aimed to increase minoritizedparticipation are then seen as unnecessary or even unfair to white students [6]. Another elementof whiteness is the exclusion of

Conference Session

DB & Information Integration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ed Crowley, University of Houston; Cheryl Willis, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Linux, Windows, and OSX.Netcat Netcat can read and/or write data across network connections, using TCP or UDP. By design, it functions as a "back-end" tool that can be used directly or driven by other programs and scripts. Both Linux and Windows Netcat versions are available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Page 11.974.4TCP/ TCPdump is a promiscuous mode sniffer with a command line interface. ItWinDump allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a local network. WinDump is a

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona; John Castellanos, DeVry University, Pomona; Adam Doty, DeVry University, Pomona; Michael Sweeting, DeVry University, Pomona; Isasio Velez, DeVry University, Pomona; Nathan Watson , DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing and Information Technology

, PomonaAdam Doty, DeVry University, PomonaMichael Sweeting, DeVry University, PomonaIsasio Velez, DeVry University, PomonaNathan Watson , DeVry University, Pomona American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Student Senior Project and Covid-19AbstractIn this paper, the design of a negative pressure room in tandem with a standard residentialHeating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system will be discussed. The need for sucha room is urgent because of the recent pandemic that has disrupted both the economy and thehealth and welfare of not only in the US but the entire world. This project is geared towardsproviding a means to quarantine family

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Paper ID #19287The Impacts of Active Learning on Learning Disabled StudentsDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Master’s degree in

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University; Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University; Anthony Vizzini, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

AC 2010-610: EMPORIUM BASED REDESIGN OF STATICS: AN INNOVATIVEAPPROACH TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND REDUCE COSTSMasoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University Masoud Rais-Rohani is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He teaches courses in aircraft structures, structural mechanics, and design optimization, and his primary research activities are in the area of structural and multidisciplinary design optimization.Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University Andrew Walters is an instructor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His primary area of teaching is undergraduate engineering mechanics courses such as Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Prior to joining

Conference Session

Student Self-assessment in Mechanics Courses

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Isabella Fiorini, University of California, San Diego; Edward Zhou Yang Yu, University of California, San Diego; Richard Eugene Vallejo Jr, University of California, San Diego; Zongnan Wang, University of California, San Diego; Trevor Keoki Oshiro, University of California, San Diego; Changkai Chen, University of California, San Diego

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

literature review as well as manuscript writing and editing. In addition to research, Edward spends his time on campus building rockets at the UCSD chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, where he designs, simulates, and manufactures structural components. Edward plans on pursuing a PhD in a structures-related field, which he hopes to leverage in the development of more cost-effective and useful space vehicles. In his free time, Edward enjoys watching films and picking up a good book.Richard Eugene Vallejo Jr, University of California, San Diego Richard Vallejo is a third-year undergraduate student at UC San Diego majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Controls and Robotics

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak

, but not to technical deficiencies inthese teams.2,3 Therefore, educating our graduates as effective team members is as important asproviding them with advance technical knowledge and skills.In the last two decades, academic institutions have put significant efforts toward enhancing theircurricula for providing their students with teamwork skills along with technical ones. As aresult, teamwork has become very common in engineering and technology programs. Theaccreditation boards, such as the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET),also require evidences that students are actually acquiring teamwork skills. However, theassessment of teamwork skills like all professional skills is challenging. Unlike technical skills,which can

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy Roldan, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Paper ID #23904’I Came in Thinking There Was One Right Practice’: Exploring How to HelpGraduate Students Learn to Read Academic ResearchWendy Roldan, University of Washington Wendy is a first-year PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Wash- ington.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make

Conference Session

STEM Education at the Two-Year College

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Mara Lopez, Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Sarah Belknap, Westchester Community College; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Laurie S. Miller McNeill, Westchester Community College; Juan R. Rodriguez, Westchester Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Program Manager working at the Center for Broadening Partici- pation in STEM at ASU. In her work at the Center, she works to develop culturally responsive practices and increase the intentionality with which institutions work with Latinx students in STEM. She has taught First-Year Success courses at ASU since 2019. She recently graduated with her Doctorate in Education from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College with an emphasis in Leadership and Innovation. Her research is centered on curriculum redesign, career decision-making self-efficacy, equity in education, social justice in education, and culturally responsive pedagogy. Through her research she has developed a Curriculum Interrogation Checklist through a

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pao-Chi Chen, Lunghwa University Science and Technology; Kwannin Kuo, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology; Meei-Ruey Hsu, Ming-Chuan University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-1184: ESTABLISH AN IMPORTANCE INDEX OF BASIC CHEMISTRYCOMPETENCE IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTAIWANPao-Chi Chen, Lunghwa University Science and Technology Professor Chen is the Dean, College of Engineering at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology.Kwannin Kuo, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology Kwannin Kuo is a lecturer in the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. He is also an EdD candidate in TESOL program at Queen's University, Belfast.Meei-Ruey Hsu, Ming-Chuan University Meei-Ruey Hsu is a professor in the department of Tourism at Ming-Chuan University in Taiwan

Conference Session

Student Motivation and Faculty Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Keeler, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra May Friedrichsen, Unaffiliated; Jeffrey A Nason, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

instructors canselect the exit question appropriately.MethodsOur quasi-experimental study empirically investigates students’ in-class responses toweekly reflection prompts. Participants were enrolled in a sophomore-level course titled“Material Balances and Stoichiometry” at a large public university in the NorthwestUnited States. The course is a requirement of chemical engineering, bioengineering, andenvironmental engineering degree programs. It is the first of a three-course sequence thatis followed by “Energy Balances” and “Process Data Analysis.” Being the firstdepartment-specific requirement in the curriculum, the course also serves as the entrypoint for transfer students. Data are only reported for students who agreed to participateand signed an

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nghia T. Le

Session Number 3226 Infrared Emitter – Detector Project Nghia T. Le Purdue UniversityI. IntroductionThe following project is a design of an infrared emitter-detector circuit. It reviews of some of theconcepts and applications the students have learned during the first few semesters in theElectrical Engineering Technology program at Purdue University. The advantage of this projectis that it progresses in steps that are manageable and easily to conduct laboratory activities.The project consists of an analog part and a digital

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibraheem A. Kateeb, North Carolina A&T State University; Larry Burton, North Carolina A&T State University; Naser El-Bathy P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; Faris Abdullah Almansour, North Carolina A&T State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

has more than 20 journal, book chapter, and peer-review publications in these areas.Dr. Larry Burton, North Carolina A&T State University Larry Burton received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Duke University. He has 25 years executive international management experience in technology-based businesses and holds 10 patents in microwave and optical communications, video switching, and broadband infrastructure. His current research is focused on high availability/high reliability enterprise computing.Dr. Naser El-Bathy P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Naser El-Bathy is an Assistant Professor of electronics, computer, and information Technology at North Carolina A&T State

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Faculty Development 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth Long Lingo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jeanine Lee McHugh Skorinko, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #29924What is valued and who is valued for promotion? Enacting and sustaininga policy that rewards multiple forms of scholarshipDr. Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Chrysanthe Demetry is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her scholarship focuses on faculty development, ma- terials science education, K-12 engineering outreach, and intercultural learning in experiential education abroad. As director of the Morgan Center at WPI since 2006, Demetry coordinates programs and services fostering excellence

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdulmalek Al-Gahmi, Weber State University; Kyle Feuz; Yong Zhang, Weber State University

Paper ID #36962On Time-based Exploration of LMS Data and Prediction ofStudent PerformanceAbdulmalek Saleh Al-gahmi (Assistant Professor) Dr. Abdulmalek Al-Gahmi is an assistant professor at the School of Computing Department of Weber State University. His teaching experience involves courses on object-oriented programming, full-stack web development, computer graphics, algorithms and data structures, and machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Mexico State University, M.S. in Computer Science, M.A. in Extension Education, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering.Kyle Feuz Kyle Feuz is an Associate

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2011-238: ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HOWARDGARDNER’S THEORYMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

provinces of the northwest part of the state, bordered by NewMexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north. The largest population centers are Amarillo andWichita Falls, home to roughly half of the Region’s 600,000 people. Outside of these, it is a ruralarea served by widely dispersed small towns.The Region 1 Flood Planning Group expressed a strong interest in understanding contemporaryand historical flooding events to facilitate planning. Through the Panhandle Regional PlanningCommission, the state contracted with Freese and Nichols Inc. (FNI), who constructed a survey(i.e. a research interview) for Amarillo and Wichita Falls. The firm conducted these withknowledgeable professionals (e.g. city managers, planners, and engineers). Following

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joey Valle, Purdue University; Nafissa Aïda Maïga; Roshan Krishnan; Jessica Ng; John Mulrow

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

operationalized for and against are some of theacts that can reconfigure the term life cycle assessment. Orienting such reconfigurations to resourcecaretaking economies rematriating land and honoring Indigenous sovereignty can propagate healthier,life-sustaining relationships amongst humans, non-humans, and the environment.AcknowledgmentThis work is based upon research supported as part of the ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability throughPowered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification) award, an Engineering Research Center program bythe National Science Foundation (NSF), grant no. EEC-1941524. The views and conclusions containedherein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the officialpolicies, either expressed

Conference Session

International Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Kirandeep Kaur, University of Florida; Sarah Jayasekaran, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2009-409: OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR MALAYSIA, FLORIDAAND QATARFazil Najafi, University of FloridaKirandeep Kaur, University of FloridaSarah Jayasekaran, University of Florida Page 14.922.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR MALAYSIA, FLORIDA AND QATARAbstractThe purpose of this research is to compare oil spill contingency plans of Malaysia, Florida andQatar. The idea behind the comparison is to identify best oil spill contingency plan practices toexpedite the removal of the spill. Furthermore, the three places are selected due to increased oiltankers traffic. Oil spill is the

Conference Session

Session 8 - Track 3: Framing Cultural Bridges For Relational Mentorship

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

SYLVANUS N. WOSU, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

enter the relationship with unique identities and self-cultures that mustbe transformed, and boundaries crossed in the mentorship process. Such a mentorship culturalbridge is designed to relationally connect mentor and mentee to each other in functional andimpactful ways, with goals to discover more about each other’s culture, build relational trust andempathy, practice relationship building, improve cross-cultural communication skills, andprovide a pathway to improved understanding and valuing of differences. Moreover, thiscultural bridge should make graduate education mentorship a mutually beneficial effort andinspire mentees to be successful in a competitive culture of high expectations, such aspreparation for and success in a Ph.D. program

Conference Session

Faculty Development Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College; Christopher Miller, Dartmouth College

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

Paper ID #29936Improving Automated Group Assignments in an Academic SettingProf. Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College Petra Bonfert-Taylor is a Professor and an Instructional Designer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Technical University of Berlin (Ger- many) in 1996 and subsequently spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan before accepting a tenure-track position in the Mathematics Department at Wesleyan University. She left Wesleyan as a tenured full professor in 2015 for her current position at Dartmouth College. Petra

Conference Session

Faculty Development II: Building Community Among STEM Educators

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Ann Sitomer, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

targeting multiple levels[15]. Such interventions acknowledge therelationship between organizational activity on these three levels and many assume change cannot berealized at one level without also targeting the interactions between levels. Those with more macro-focusinclude interventions spanning all postsecondary disciplines, such as federal policies like the Obamaadministration’s Postsecondary Institutions Rating System and national programs such as the LuminaFoundation’s Achieving the Dream initiative. Those spanning more of the meso- and micro-levels can beinterdisciplinary, but often focus on a discipline. These include, for example, accreditation policies suchas ABET for engineering (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 21: Student Grades and Feedback

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jae-Eun Russell, University of Iowa; Mark S. Andersland, University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-year engineering program. The course’s objectives were to introducefundamental electrical quantities, components, and concepts, and to develop students’ ad hoc andsystematic circuit analysis skills. The course consisted of three weekly 50-minute class sessionstaught by a professor and one weekly 50-minute discussion session led by a teaching assistant.As part of a previous study, [7], the professor had transformed the course from lecture-basedinstruction in a TLC, to active learning instruction in the same classroom by replacing 40minutes of lecture with 40 minutes of collaborative, professor assisted, student problem solvingactivities supported by a web-based problem delivery and feedback system. A TLC class sessionfrom the transformed course

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark J Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Miguel Bazdresch, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); George H Zion, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Joseph (Yossi) Nygate, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Surabhi M Sarda, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

overallresults and analyzed the wording, key phrases and key words in their explanations, to create aninitial concept inventory specific to telecommunications.This concept inventory will allow instructors to prepare their instructional material and tune theirdidactic approaches to meet specific student need - some of which may be related to culture andexperience.IntroductionThe context of this work is an engineering technology program that offers telecommunicationsand networking courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The vast majority ofundergraduate students are American, whereas the graduate students are largely from India. Overthe years, the authors have observed (anecdotally) that each of the two groups of students facedifferent

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Essam M. Kosba; Ahmed Dawoud

disbelief), fuzzy sets use a spectrum of possiblevalues. Fuzzy logic is difficult to apply especially when people provide evidence. Theproblems stem from linguistic vagueness to difficulties in supplying the definitions needed18 .3- Major Components of ITSITSs are computer programs designed to transfer knowledge about a particular domainthrough the use of individualized learning sessions. ITSs are meant to simulate human tutorsin a one-on-one environment rather than human teachers in a classroom environment. ITSsare among the most promising of emerging technological solutions for coping withprofessional instructor shortages. The ability to offer personalized instruction to individualstudents can enable ITS to successfully increase the effective

Conference Session

COED: Spotlight on Diverse Learners

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vijesh J. Bhute, Imperial College London; Ellen Player; Deesha Chadha, Imperial College London

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

bystudents but lack consideration for student preference as well as inclusivity. In this study,using feedback from students and evidence-based design principles, we have developed ascreen reader-accessible website to deliver Engineering Mathematics to second yearundergraduate students. Student surveys and usage statistics on the website indicated highlevel of engagement throughout the year with students shown to prefer this delivery methodover PDF options. We have further extended the implementation to first year Mathematicscourse and propose a practical four-factor framework of ‘accessibility’ which can influenceengagement and access by students. The proposed framework can be used to chooseappropriate learning resources and screen reader accessible

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aubrey Nicholas Birdwell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jack Cook, The Evergreen State College; Richard S Weiss, The Evergreen State College; Jens Mache, Lewis & Clark College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

instructors to create and organize student groups and ex-ercises. Additionally, students interact with the web application to access tutorials for the exercisethey’re playing, answer assessment questions, and interact with the instructor via a real time chat.We also provide connection information for the virtual environments and an interactive in-browserterminal. The control framework for exercise deployment is managed via Terraform to allow in-structors to deploy pre-designed Docker containers on demand, depending on which exercise theyare running. This also allows designing new exercises to be a very flexible and streamlined pro-cess, since any Docker image can easily be turned into a new exercise [7]. As a result of usingDocker as our only

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University; Seyed Hamid Reza Sanei, Penn State University, Behrend College; Jiawei Gong, Penn State University, Behrend College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

gap in existing literature.[4]A significant concern highlighted in previous studies is the apparent lack of structured supportsystems within U.S. academic institutions for international faculty[5]–[7], which also remains apertinent theme in our narratives. This gap manifests in several ways, from inadequate navigationalguidance within the academic system to insufficient mentorship opportunities, often leaving thesefaculty members to face both professional and cultural barriers alone [6]. Despite these challenges,the international faculty contributes immensely to their fields, bringing a rich tapestry of culturaland linguistic diversity, particularly beneficial in the realms of global engineering andhumanitarian design [8]. A previous study

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

much higher.Around 2015, we started exploring a commercial, cloud-based (public cloud) platform -Microsoft Azure. Starting 2016, we used Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in a small number ofcourses. A public cloud is owned and managed by a third-party service provider such asAmazon, Microsoft and Google that provides IT resources for multiple clients over the internet.Amazon Web Services (AWS) has the largest share in the commercial, public cloud market.Some public cloud vendors provide free credits to educators and students via educational grantprograms to use their systems. In 2015, Microsoft Azure University Educator Grant offered themost generous monthly credits. The Azure portal was also simple and easy to use. However, theAzure grant program

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Luntz, University of Michigan; E. Emanuel Almeida, University of Michigan; Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan; James Moyne, University of Michigan; Keith Hargrove, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

(DRFT) has been devel-oped as part of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Reconfigurable Manufacturing.The testbed combines hardware and simulation components at both universities operating undercommon control using secure channels over the Internet, and is designed in such a way as to easethe addition and modification of its various components The original UM RFT comprises 1) aserial-parallel manufacturing line, 2) a Virtual Factory software component, 3) factory-wide opensoftware integration platform and data warehouse, 5) modular logic control developed at the celllevel, and 6) a multi-teir networked control and diagnostic structure. To this system, the MSUportion was added comprising an Automated Storage and Retrieval system and a