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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

Session 2249 2005 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Engineering Technology Division Real World Applications C.S.I.-Engineering Technology: Directing Engineering Technology Curriculum to Solve Real-World Engineering Problems Francis A. Di Bella, P.Eng.ABSTRACTThe recent spate of the popular, original TV series CSI (Crime Scene Investigations)television series has spawn similar series entitled CSI- Miami and CSI-New York. Thereasons can vary but most critics

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark French

offering. Future offerings will include class time on thenature of composite materials and examples of their implementation on IRL cars. A labmay be included to perform a basic material test on composite specimens.6. Compare design, performance, and manufacturing methodology between racing and street engines. Emphasis shall be placed on internal engine components such valving, fuel injectors, piston, and crankshaft.One lecture was devoted to air-fuel systems. This included an overview of manifolddesign for racing applications versus street applications and the calculation of volumetricefficiency. A lab activity characterized production variation in fuel injectors.7. Conduct a study of the selection and use of gears on a race vehicle. Topics

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rainer Fink

Engineering Education Session 2249SummaryThe Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University is using its collaborationswith industry to continually enhance the curriculum by adding new real life topics and experiments. Byupdating laboratories and adding sophisticated concepts, the Electronics Engineering Technologyprogram is preparing students who are well-suited for today's job market. The development of the TexasInstruments Mixed-Signal Test Laboratory allows instruction of high tech automated testing using themost current instruments available today. The Mixed-Signal Test emphasis allows real world, high techproblems to be

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

properties such as unitweight, specific gravity, fineness modulus of the sand, and moisture1. This methodology ispresented to the students using examples where they must follow the numerical procedurescomparing the results with a spreadsheet called “ACI-Method,” developed in-house using theACI method. Figure 1 shows the spreadsheet prepared for this purpose. The spreadsheet wasdesigned to include any modification of the theoretical relationships, such as the f′c vs. w/c ratio,admixtures used, and real proportion per cubic-yard after modifications during mixing. Thespreadsheet also computes the cost of the materials per cubic-yard of concrete, which is useful incomparing price versus quality of concrete.The principal admixture used is a super

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Youakim Kalaani

will be revised to incorporate renewable energyconcepts and applications as follow:• Electricity and Electronics (TECH175/175A): A new chapter about renewable energy technologies will be added including identification of various system components and learn how to collect system data and perform meter readings.• Electrical Fundamentals and circuit Analysis (TECH270/270A): The solar system will provide real-time data streams that will be introduced into the classroom via the Internet. Students will examine and analyze on-line electricity production data to calculate hourly and daily amount of green energy produced. They will also calculate the amount of greenhouse emission that would have been released had fossil fuel been

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Fuehne; David Lenart

analyze the boiler to determine its efficiency.One group is asked to study alternative fuels to compare with natural gas and while theother group determines the effect of utilizing an economizer to pre-heat the water.These projects address several program outcomes including teamwork, written and oralcommunications and ethics as well as the thermodynamic technical content.IntroductionThermodynamics is admittedly a challenging science for both students and teachers.Concepts including entropy, enthalpy and internal energy are difficult to learn. Realworld applications are valuable in assisting students in identifying thermodynamics atwork in their world. For this reason, the authors, in a partnership described in moredetail in a previous work 1

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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H. Jean Russo; Joseph Hartman

boring), especially in the first few years of coursework. This is because engineeringand technology majors take courses in science (physics, chemistry), mathematics (linear algebra,calculus, differential equations), computing, and economics (economics, engineering economy).In these courses, students are generally taught methods and are not exposed to the applications ofthese methods until later in their education. Unfortunately, it is difficult to motivate studentswhen they do not see how their work applies to the real world [1].We have previously reported on the use of The Wall Street Journal [2], among other mediasources, in the classroom in order to motivate students and improve the learning environment forstudents in engineering economy

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

Practicing Real World Design, Teamwork, and Communications through Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Projects Richard R. Schultz and Arnold F. Johnson University of North Dakota Department of Electrical EngineeringAbstractStudents enrolled in the B.S.E.E. with an Aerospace Focus program at the University of NorthDakota (UND) receive a traditional electrical engineering degree, along with aviationcoursework and a private pilot’s license. Cross-campus collaborations with UND’s world-renowned aerospace program provide the students with many experiential learning opportunitiesthat satisfy EAC/ABET EC2000 design, multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Grossfield

ARE FUNCTIONS REAL? Andrew Grossfield Vaughn College of Aeronautics and TechnologyAbstractSome think that the calculus reform movement, consisting of computers, calculators, hands-on,interactive and applications, is going to make calculus and other mathematical analysesunderstandable and accessible to high school and college students. I remain skeptical and hopethat many others share my skepticism. The reason students have problems learning math is thatthe explanations they receive and the organization of the their texts and other teaching materialsare not clear. Many students do not see that functions are real and that functions are

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell

techniques or tools did you learn on your project that was NOT part of your academic program? 1 2 None Some 4. How confident are you that you can learn new techniques and tools in the future? 1 2 3 4 5 Very Low Low Neutral High Very High 5. How well did the capstone project fulfill the purpose it was created for – to present cadets the opportunity to discover the real world applicability of their academic endeavors? 1 2 3

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

curriculum integration.2 Strong Version: In its stronger version, curriculum integration is a pedagogical approach to help students build a small set of powerful, broadly applicable concepts/abilities/skills instead of a large set of weak, narrowly applicable concepts/abilities/skills. Weak Version: In its weaker version, curriculum integration is a pedagogical approach to help students build connections across disciplines.The goals of curriculum integration in this paper refer to the strong version with respect tobuilding powerful, broadly applicable concepts/abilities/skills and refer to the weak version withrespect to building connections. However, the connections here are within the discipline ofindustrial engineering.Integrated

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

college level mathematics and basic sciences (some with experimental experience) appropriate to the discipline (b) one and one-half years of engineering topics, consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student's field of study. The engineering sciences have their roots in mathematics and basic sciences but carry knowledge further toward creative application. These studies provide a bridge between mathematics and basic sciences on the one hand and engineering practice on the other. Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision making process (often iterative), in which the basic sciences

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Wolter

objectives were created that together will help develop capableacquisition leaders. The courses objectives include: 1. Apply a holistic acquisition methodology to solve a large-scale, complex acquisition problem. 2. Utilize a family of dynamic models to evaluate an acquisition system, and explore its operations and processes. 3. Use engineering management and system engineering principles to develop an acquisition strategy of real-world systems, operations, and processes. 4. Design control options and other criteria to evaluate, improve, and manage an acquisition system’s operations and processes. 5. Understand the role of modeling in the engineering management process

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

products. Othersources of fad promotion include business schools, consulting firms, and mass-mediaproductions.4Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s successes in Japan finally garnered American interest in his theories.The success of the Japanese economic recovery after World War II and the change in the qualityof Japanese-produced goods caught Americans’ eyes. While Americans enjoyed a cushy marginin trade in the early 1950’s, it soon became discernable that Japanese goods were disturbingAmerican markets. Engineering management became part of the quality revolution whenJapanese parts and products began to cut into the U.S. trade balance. By 1980, U.S. automotivemakers were embarrassed by the NBC documentary If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? Deming wasinsistent that

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sam Geonetta

programmaticcontext, the standards that provide its foundation, and the content of the course, including keythemes, supporting resources, and activities.Programmatic Context5 The College of Applied Science’s program focuses on IT in its broadest senseencompassing all aspects of computing technology. IT, as an academic discipline, focuses onmeeting the needs of users within an organizational and societal context through the selection,creation, application, integration and administration of computing technologies. IT is anacademic discipline distinct from computer engineering, computer science and management ofinformation systems. IT encompasses software engineering and development, computernetworking and communications, Web technologies, computer

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Somchan Vuthipadadon; Jie Li; Piyamart Kumsaikaew; Shantha Daniel; Patrick Patterson; John Jackman; K. Jo Min

sum of fixedcost, variable cost, and transportation cost (if applicable).We now proceed to present the coordination issue of the global partners as follows.Part II International Consortium PlanCoordinating among partners for higher profits and expanding markets where applicablewere the motivation for the consortium. There were six possible local markets in theconsortium: Scotland, India, USE, USM, USW, and Australia. Since the demand inAustralia was assumed to be small, the consortium decided not to build any plant inAustralia. Therefore, there were only five possible production facility locations: Scotland,India, USE, USM, and USW. And as in Part I, the new supply chain problem was alsosubject to the cultural, regulatory, and dietary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Guide, the Flash Programming Tutorialand the C Programming Tutorial. They have been developed by the authors of this paper. Class work also includes homework assignments every week and they are due thefollowing week. Most of the homework assignments include real world applications as well asmathematical calculations to achieve the required timing details, and a C program. Students areexpected to give a detailed explanation of their procedures to solve the problem. Theassignments cover problems such as peripheral data interface, digital signal interface, afrequency detector system, analog to digital conversion, and a printer interface system. Solutionsto the assignments are provided by the class instructor and are regularly posted on the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven VanderLeest

converseStudents often assume that there is very little communication between disciplines. Each domainis nicely parceled out and no interdisciplinary conversations are necessary. This idea comesnaturally to them, since the academic departments at the institutions they attend are similarlydivided.But outside of the rarified air of academics, disciplines must mix and converse and interact bynecessity. Almost every substantial engineering project requires multiple disciplines to workclosely together. Thus students need to know the jargon of these other disciplines, at least at arudimentary level. This often comes home to students in our senior design projects course wheninterdisciplinary teams of varying engineering disciplines tackle a real world project

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amanda Runciman; Lisa Christensen; Katherine Chen

Hollywood movies.While eating is usually prohibited in labs, we allow tasting of our special rapidly solidifiedmaterials – liquid nitrogen ice cream (Figure 5)7. Again, phase transformations can be discussedas the visitors eat their creation. Explanations are made as to how the liquid nitrogen turns theliquid ingredients into solid ice cream, how it produces very small ice crystals, and how it aeratesthe ice cream as it boils away. This is by far our most popular and tasty demonstration.Connecting to the “real world”While many of the demonstrations or activities have “wow” factors associated with them, it isimportant not to lose sight of how they demonstrate important principles in Materials Scienceand Engineering and to give practical applications

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

developed cover the following topics sequentially: introduction to theenvironment, real time operating systems, software development and application debugging 3.Some of the applications covered are: implementing a finite impulse response (FIR) filter andtesting with audio, modifying the filter for different band pass characteristics, testing a media Page 10.1058.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcodec and implementing an embedded web server. TI expects to disseminate the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

largestoutputs and map the pair of tones to a digit.This project presented several challenges to the students. To begin with, the students had to thinkthe problem through at a relatively high level, focusing on the algorithm itself. At this stage, theyrealized they needed to use the DIP switches to control the generation of tones which, after beingtransmitted, had to be passed through a filterbank in order to decode the signal. The nextchallenge was to use their theoretical knowledge to design the actual components of the system.As this was a real-world application, the students were able to extract the parameters of theirsystem (e.g., center frequency and bandwidth of the filters) directly from the problem statement.This approach is clearly preferable

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Venkitaswamy Raju

Nanotechnology Applications: Issues in Implementing Engineering Technology Curriculum Venkitaswamy Raju and Prema Muthuswamy School of Engineering Technologies State University of New York-Farmingdale Farmingdale, NY 11735A. IntroductionNanotechnology deals with working on matter at the molecular scale. It promises torevolutionize the way in which we live and change our world for ever. From the designand manufacture of electronics products to production of medicine and treatment ofpatients, nanotechnology offers enormous advantages over other technologies employedthus far. Educational institutions can help shape

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tyson McCall; Corinne Ransberger; Steve Hsiung

Session 582 Implementing Simple Protocols in Multiple Processors Control Applications Steve Hsiung, Tyson McCall, Corinne Ransberger Engineering Technology Department Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529Abstract Using microprocessor/microcontroller in various control applications is not only one ofthe major topics in Engineering Technology curricula, but also of interest in industryapplications. To accomplish it correctly

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

that they make use of sensors and real-timedata acquisition hardware and software. This alleviates the drudgery of manual data collectionand allows students to focus on the concept at hand. Other experiments are entirely new anddemonstrate connections between real-world applications and high school physics. In some cases, the developed sensor-based experiments illustrate concepts that would bedifficult, if not impossible, to demonstrate manually. In one example, to illustrate the concept ofconservation of energy, a ball is tossed directly above an ultrasonic sensor that precisely detectsthe position and velocity of the ball throughout its path [9]. Using this data, the potential andkinetic energy of the tossed ball can be calculated at

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ahmad R. Sarfaraz; Tarek Shraibati

application of economic analysis to real lifeeconomic problems. This is in part due to the fact that students typically do not have theopportunity to apply the concepts learned in the classroom to common sense applications outsideof the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to present two examples of these common senseapplications in detail and show how these approaches can be used in other engineering schools.IntroductionEngineering Economy is one of the basic engineering courses in an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. At California State University, Northridge the general engineering studentpopulation is required to take only one course in economics which is taught within the college ofEngineering. The class addresses the need for students to

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

class. Teamassignments are generally conceptual in focus, and are completed exclusively in class.Practically, team assignments provide an excellent venue for extending simple concepts andtools to real world situations, as well as providing context, motivation and real-time feedback.The intellectual and communal support structure of the team seems especially beneficial tomarginal students whose future in engineering is in jeopardy. Initial assessment metrics haveindicated that student approval and performance have been overwhelmingly favorable. Studentshave demonstrated improved conceptual understanding as well as computational skills. Whilethis example is not all encompassing, it does demonstrate the application of team based learningto

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

Math, Engineering, and Science: Applications for Grades 4-8 Mary M. Hofle, Ken W. Bosworth College of Engineering, Idaho State UniversityAbstract:We present what we believe is a novel outreach program providing grade 4-8 math teachers a“grade-appropriate” exposure to real-world engineering and science situations, and how themathematics they teach has real, interesting, and fun applications. The project originated in thespring of 2004, and culminated in a week-long mid-summer workshop attended by some 25grade 4-8 math teachers from several local SE Idaho school districts. We present our motivationfor developing this program, an overview of the structure of the workshop and

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

Session 3662 Proposal for Alternative Energy Applications in the Field of Desalination Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Professor, Jared Odom, Research Assistant, Olivia Dees, Research Assistant Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractMany parts of the world are currently suffering from such an intense deficiency in ground andsurface water, that this life sustaining treasure often makes the “black gold” of oil resources lookunimportant by comparison

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

The Engineering Decision Making Model: Its Importance as Applied through the Context of a World War II Simulation Elias W. Faraclas1 & Catherine Koehler2 1 School of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 Neag School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268Abstract The NSF sponsored Galileo Project, at the University of Connecticut, aims to bringengineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms and curriculum. Inattempting to

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rajab Challoo; Shuhui Li

and design using other computer IT tools suchas Mathcad and PSpice. a) Waveforms b) Switch on c) Switch off d) Switch off in discontinuous period Figure 9. Web-based interactive power electronics seminar for Buck converterVII. LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT In the restructured Power Electronics course, a diverse converter topologies are coveredin a rapid succession so that it is important to have hardware-based experiments performedconcurrently by students to ensure that those concepts are grasped by the students and also toprepare them to the “real world” where they can build, test or use real hardware