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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Tisdale

the level of a watertank. The 5010 will be the level measurement device. Preparation for this experiment requiresthat sensors be discussed and during that discussion the 5010 will be presented as it was used in amedical research application. During the case history discussion the student is to consider howto collect the desired information. History of the project will assist the student in understandinghow the final device was conceived. A discussion of the problems that were solved and thosethat were not are given to broaden the scope of the sensor experience.The Application and Case HistoryA technique called ASTM (Augmented Soft Tissue Mobilization) has been developed and isunder study at Ball Memorial Hospital(1). It has been known that

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

Session 2613 An Interdisciplinary Program and Laboratory for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design and Manufacturing Milo D. Koretsky, Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort, William F. Reiter Chemical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State UniversityABSTRACTOregon State University and Merix Corp. (Forest Grove, OR) have initiated a cooperativeUniversity-Industry program for hands-on education of engineering students. Thisinterdisciplinary program spans the Departments of Chemical Engineering (ChE), Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) and MechanicalEngineering (ME

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L. LeBoeuf; Gregory Spaulding

unit. As is the tradition of the MET faculty, the entire college was invited to the finalproject presentation and demonstration of the finished demonstrator. This provides faculty andstaff outside of the MET department the opportunity to see the fruits of their labor.First Semester ResultsSix students were registered for the senior project, so dividing out a group for this project wasnot necessary. Initially all six students were set to work identifying all of the anticipated tasksand their expected duration and optimum start and stop dates. This information was entered ontoa project management chart which was refined during the first month of the project. The hardestpart of this process for the students was getting familiar with the HVAC

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Khader

: the theoretical part includinganalysis of algorithms, data structures, and the fundamentals of the language --syntactically and lexically, and hands-on components that includes practical performanceof algorithms and data structure. Problem solving approaches are emphasized in both thepractical and theoretical components. Students are given a practical project that requiresmost of the materials covered in class and materials outside the class that need someundergraduate level research. The laboratory assignments provide for building blocksthat can be reused in the project. This structure of class materials forces the concept ofmodular design in applications development

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Karlesk; Hugh Jack

MODEL The virtual laboratory is primarily designed for prelab preparation. The goal is that thestudent gains some knowledge of the equipment before arriving at their scheduled laboratorytime. Once they arrive at the laboratory, the equipment may be used at a greater extent thannormal. If needed after the lab session is over, the student will be able to call in and verify/testnew ideas. Furthermore the student will be able to conduct assigned or interest driven projectswith the equipment outside normal hours. A simple model of the pedagogical sequence (Fig. 1) was developed for the robot todetermine how a student would initially use the virtual laboratory. The student would start byusing a simulated robot (explanation follows later

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

Diversified offers, and the department does not have the resourcesavailable to offer this course many times per semester.II Recommendations for starting a cooperative training program:The secret for departments wishing to start developing and presenting industry specific trainingis the same as starting any new project - sufficient planning. Once the need for specific traininghas been established and one industrial partner has been identified, the department shouldestablish a pricing policy, which includes necessary support for personnel involved, as well assupplies, duplicating, components, etc. The initial cost of the course may have an additionalcomponent for development time.Curriculum development should include a team of involved faculty with

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Siegfried M. Holzer; Raul H. Andruet

interconnectedness is central to holistic learning (Miller, 1993).Cooperative Learning. Cooperative learning is a structured learning strategy in which smallgroups of students work toward a common goal (Cooper, et al., 1994). Cooperative learning isan old concept [Ercolano, 1994]. Extensive research, initiated in the late 1800s, hasdemonstrated significant advantages of cooperative learning over competitive and individualisticlearning in various learning characteristics; these include [Johnson et al., 1991]: high-levelreasoning; generation of new ideas and solutions; motivation for learning; personalresponsibility; and student retention.Cooperative learning provides structures [Kagan, 1990] to engage students in meaningfulactivities that can be shared with

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda V. Itzoe; Charles A. Gaston; Janice Margle

Session 1547 A Multipurpose Windmill Design Project Charles A. Gaston, Linda V. Itzoe, Janice M. Margle Penn State - York / Penn State - Abington College ABSTRACTThere is growing recognition of the value of having engineering design projects in the freshmancurriculum1. The Windmill Project described here not only provides a design challenge, butincorporates elements of team-building, laboratory data collection, engineering designcalculations and optimized testing procedures. If desired, the project can be expanded to includesignificant research and writing on the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Hing Pang

. In this manner, the condensers are designed suchthat they deliver sufficient duty to condense all refrigerant vapor to liquid.To facilitate convergence, initial estimates of two streams S1 and S2 are provided. The streamS3 calculated by HYSYS from exchanger duties of E11 and E12, is considered an external feedstream. The product S4, which is the same stream as S3, will equal S4 when the systemconverges. The simulation executes very fast generally converging in less than 10 seconds.To demonstrate the flexibility of the system, we change duty specs first on one exchanger, thenon several exchangers simultaneously. The system responds appropriately by re-calculating thecorrect flow rates and compressor horsepowers.ConclusionHYSYS is an effective

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. D'Souza; N.W. Scott; B.J. Stone

. measure the response of I1 . The theoretical steady state response may be shown to be given by, 3 Essential theory and initial measurementsThe rig is close to a two degree of torsional vibration system Θ1

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John N. Berry; Thad Welch

screen and make the measurements for themselves. III. ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF THE SUPPLY This three-phase supply can be built from readily available parts and has a material cost ofaround $1,000 for a set of six, including $800 for the initial fabrication of circuit boards.Subsequent runs of the board were less than $300 for a set of six. Assembly and testing time isestimated at approximately 5 hours per unit. One benefit of this modest cost is that an entire labcan be outfitted for a reasonable price. This allows small groups to have direct, hands-onexperience with three-phase power systems. The output stages of the unit use the familiar 741 opamp and thus have built-in protection from direct shorts between phases or

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Do Ba Khe; Ngo Dinh Thinh

Session 2660 University and Community College Articulation for Engineering and Science Education in Vietnam Do Ba Khe, Ngo Dinh Thinh California State University, Sacramento Vietnam is restructuring its higher education system to consolidate separateinstitutions into multidisciplinary universities, and resurrect the community collegeconcept which was initiated in Vietnam before the end of the Vietnam war, in 1975.This paper reports the articulation between universities and community colleges inVietnam for engineering and science education, beginning with the1997-98

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy N Adkins, North Carolina State University; Naji S Husseini, North Carolina State University; Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Paper ID #43292Board 20: Work in Progress: Understanding Student Perceptions and Use ofGenerative Artificial Intelligence for Technical WritingDr. Amy N Adkins, North Carolina State University Amy N. Adkins is a n Assistant Teaching Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of North Carolina (UNC) and North Carolina State University (NCSU). She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and her B.S. in Engineering Science from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Her technical research which relates to her PhD Dissertation is focused on utilizing

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Topics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Hayne, The Citadel

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

FPGA Board.Results and ConclusionsThe initial offering of this new Computer Architecture course produced great results. Eventhough the students had very mixed backgrounds and VHDL experience, all were able tosuccessfully complete the homework assignments and design project. Realization of only asubset of the processor instructions provides sufficient capabilities to demonstrate fundamentalprogramming concepts. Additional instructions, implemented as homework assignments, allowdirect application of the design techniques taught in class.Integration of the UART, timer, and interrupt systems provide the students with an in-depth lookat the design and interfacing of internal and external components. The RFID microcontrollerapplication demonstrates

Conference Session

Hands-On Learning in ET II

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Li, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

difficulty using the software after the initial labs. Many software-relatedissues could be resolved using reference links and short videos. Students expressed appreciationfor the short videos as a valuable supplement to literal instructions. The new format lab manualafforded students more time to engage in hands-on DSP practice. These results also indicate thatthe method assists students transitioning from other programs in becoming familiar with new labsetups.IV. CONCLUSIONThis paper explores the use of the quiz tool within an online learning framework to create amulti-format lab manual aimed at enhancing students’ hands-on performance. Short videos,literal instructions accompanied by images, and various types of response questions areincorporated

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Justin Fausto; Benjamin Cuebas; Preston Carroll; Rohit Dua

morebutton signals are sensed, the decoder allows no signal to pass. If a single activate button ispressed, the signal passes through the 3:8 decoder and is then distributed to some diode OR gatesand SR latches. Depending on which of the three signals passed through, the signal will either setor reset the appropriate SR latches. These SR latches will store and hold the correct combinationof signals to send to the Relay Board.These SR latches constructed out of NOR gates inherently have an unknown initial value at turnon. For this reason, a “Startup Reset” circuit, composed of a resistor and capacitor, wasimplemented to force the SR latches into the Astable configuration on startup. The resistor andcapacitor simply force a low state on the Astable

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2023 CIEC

Authors

John Irwin

with manufacturing and mining asthe third top industry. Quantitative analysis indicates that the top five industries in the UP aregovernment, real estate, manufacturing, mining, and health care [5].The MMET Department floated ideas for training in fluid power, machining, CNC, welding, 3Dprinting, CAD, GD&T, and mechatronics among the local manufacturers, and fluid power wasthe most popular. After conducting the initial needs survey, a course format was designed foroffering the Hydraulics Bootcamp which consists of 20 contact hours. Future needs expressed bymanufacturers are Electro-hydraulic skills which requires a follow up course.The fluid power training is an introduction to fluid power components and systems. The courseincludes

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Mel I. Mendelson

for teaching nanotechnology have revolved around the basic sciences,i.e., physics, chemistry and biology. This is probably because basic research in nanotech is stillevolving. However, there are over 380 products currently on the market that usenanotechnology, and $30 billion worth of nano-products were sold in 2005 1.Scientists are now passing on the development of micro- and nano-systems to engineers forcreating new products. Engineers are beginning to design and manufacture micro-/nano-systems. Hence, nanotechnology is taking on an engineering approach. Now nanotechnology isbeing taught in some engineering departments of U.S. universities, and it requires a differentapproach when teaching it to engineering students. Since nanotechnology

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Peg Pankowski

, although these reports had been completed several years ago, there were norecords of the assessments actually being conducted and no results available.In preparation for the next NWCCU accreditation visit, the college developed a template to beused for assessment plans for all academic programs. This template can be found in Appendix 1.The engineering technology faculty struggled to use the template both for the college’sassessment program and for ABET accreditation. Fortunately, the dean had attended an ABETTechnology Education Initiative (TEI) workshop and was somewhat familiar with theAssessment Planning Flow Chart1 created by Gloria Rogers to guide faculty through the process.It was that experience which guided the process for our

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

online courses is well-known, the online formathas caught the attention of academic administrators in their effort to offer quality instruction to awider audience in an era of shrinking budgets. The notion of online engineering educationdefinitely raises questions of course quality, but initial research indicates that online educationcan reach its learning objectives as well as or even better than the face-to-face course2.Current Flipped Classroom FormatWe teach our current digital design course, CPE 133, in a flipped classroom format. In a flippedclassroom, students watch video lectures on their own time and spend classroom time solvingvarious ‘homework’ problems. CPE 133 meets in two three-hour blocks each week. Each classmeeting starts with a

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

students initially in the classroom and laterin an afterschool program. Exercises will give the elementary school students the experience ofacting as the architect, engineer and contractor. The culmination of the project will be asandcastle competition. Students will design and plan the construction of their sandcastles andwill build them at a local beach on a Saturday morning. The paper will describe the goals of theSandcastle Project, the method of its implementation, assessment methods and future steps.IntroductionStudies by the National Academy of Engineering1 and President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST)2 among others have identified the need to enhance thepathways to careers in science, technology, engineering and math

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2013 GSW

Authors

Yucheng Liu P.E.

series of processes is a fundamental type ofthermodynamic problem. Given an initial status and a series of quasi-equilibrium processes,such problems may require you to solve the gas status after each process and evaluate thework during each process. Typical quasi-equilibrium processes and their governingequations are (assume the process is from state 1 to 2):Isothermal process: 2 V2 V2 T1 = T2, W pdV p1 V1 ln or W mRT ln (ideal gas) (1) 1 V1 V1Isobaric process: P1 = P2, W = P(V2 – V1) (2)Isometric process

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott C. Smith

instructions, including conditionalbranches, and adding instruction prefetch capability so that the branch instructions were able tobe executed in one clock cycle. Furthermore, the students were required to write an assemblylanguage program to perform a sign magnitude multiplication using the microprocessor, andwrite a testbench, which initially loads the program from a text file into the microprocessor’sprogram memory, executes the multiplication program and writes the resulting product to themicroprocessor’s data memory, and then writes the contents of the data memory to a text file andchecks the calculated product to ensure that it’s correct. The project was performed in5 randomly selected groups of 4 members each. Groups of 4 were chosen because

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael C. Reynolds

Engineering Analysis. The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith willcontinue to refine the freshman curriculum to optimize retention and success of its engineeringstudents.Bibliography1 Knight, D.W., Carlson, L.E., Sullivan, J.F., “Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On,Team Based, First-Year Design Projects,” 31st International Conference on Research in Engineering Education,Honolulu, HI, June 22 – 24, 2007.2 Bodnar, L.J., et al, “Engaging Freshman in Team Based Engineering Projects,” Proceedings AmericanSociety for Engineering Education 2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012.3 Budny, D., Newborg, B., and Ford, M., “Combining the Freshman Introduction to Engineering and theFreshman Writing Course

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Allen A. Busick; Melissa L. Cooley; Alexander M. Lopez; Aaron J. Steuart; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

bucket) with nylon fittings and barbs. Thissimple coupling arrangement is shown in Figure 4. Tygon® tubing (3/4 in ID x 1 in OD) wasused to circulate water through the system, and ¼ in copper tubing was used to inject live steaminto the reservoir to raise the temperature of the water. Type K thermocouples connected toOmega HH82A thermocouple readers were used to monitor the water temperature inside thesuction and discharge lines. A 0-15 psig pressure gauge was installed in the discharge line tomeasure developed head. Finally, a ½ in ball valve and 0-10 gpm rotameter were installed in thedischarge line to adjust and monitor the flow rate through the system.To initiate the experiment, the pump was started to circulate water through the system

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fred John; Seong W. Lee

) exhaust duct while exposing students to new instrumentation at thesame time. The experiments carried out were done on the scale model space shuttle main engine(SSME) exhaust-duct at the Center for Advanced Energy Systems & Environmental ControlTechnologies (CAESECT) at Morgan State University using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).This scale model is part of NASA’s research on the behavior of exhaust flow from the spaceshuttle while on the launch pad. The Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) is the most reliable and highly tested largerocket engine ever. The SSME uses a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that canenable it to attain a maximum thrust level of 5.13 x 105 pounds in a vacuum, which is equivalentto greater than 1.2 x

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

undergraduate physics laboratories, the underlying mathematics ofthese fundamentally quantum aspects of light (and matter) is extraordinarilysimple – making it readily accessible to Engineering Technology students.Moreover, although these experiments were initially geared towards illustratingthe most strikingly non-classical features of quantum physics, they are indeed akey step towards educating our society in what will soon become one of the mostdramatic technological revolutions of our time. Quantum computers can (inprinciple) do things that are classically impossible – such as guess your bankaccount password in a matter of minutes. Quantum encryption is the only knownmeans of restoring the security of such information. The technologicalimplications

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C Cooper, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

included a pdf ofan assignment, anecdote on how it demonstrated the career competency, and the connection to acareer competency.courses more than 75% of the students submitted an assignment and connected it to a careercompetency. This result is directly in line with current career data that 73% of students cite jobpayment and skills as a primary reason to enroll in a bachelor program 1 .ConclusionsThe initial results described in this paper suggest that students are intrisically motivated toconnect their classroom experience to career competencies. The course assignments, activities,and projects are all still aligned with ABET student outcomes, but because they have beenmapped to NACE career competencies students are shown direct connections

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

200-level course, then were able to track whether a subset Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityof the students were able to incorporate the lessons learned in the class as they approached theirsenior projects and club project builds. We also used sourcing by lab managers to teach theengineering concept of trade studies and used failures in initial ‘buys’ to build better habits in ourstudents.Good systems engineering involves understanding of all parts of the engineering process,including sourcing and acquisition of components and the role that shopping plays in designing,building, and integrating projects. Experiential learning in the classroom has to teach skills andallow for mistakes, yet

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Matuga Obed; Guangming Chen

EDcrowding has strained the EDs to a breaking system is an ongoing study to maintainpoint. The major cause of ED crowding is sustainability for future generation in ourholding patients waiting in the emergency communities.department. In most cases, the capacity of the Introduction: The research work was done inED cannot be increased due to lack of space in hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Due to privacythe building, so other solutions have to be found corner, the hospital will not be identified in thisin order for it to function efficiently. This study paper. This Emergency Department specializeslooks at ways to eliminate bottle necks from the in acute care of patients who presentpatient