Page 11.76.12posed a challenge since it was time intensive. All of the students were satisfied with theknowledge acquired. One student termed this “very hard but still the best class I everhad.” The students were extremely satisfied when they performed their first successfulscans.At the end of the semester, all students submitted their lab reports describing their STMsand commenting on the laboratory experience in the course. All student comments werepositive and encouraging. Student course evaluations were administered at the end of thesemester. For this course, the average numerical evaluation was excellent, 4.92 out of 5.Acknowledgement: This project was supported in part by NSF Grant 0407289.References[1] Adams, J. D., Rogers, B. S., and
supported by a National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education3 (ATE) Grant. The goals of the grant project are to: a) createand implement a new Associate of Applied Science Photonics and Laser Technology (AAS PLT)program; b) fully equip an Optics and Photonics Laboratory for education and training; c) trainfaculty to teach core courses in the AAS PLT program; d) perform outreach activities to localhigh schools to promote the new program; e) educate 30 or more students or workers by the endof the project.The paper discusses the efforts and activities performed towards achieving the project goals, andthe results and outcomes obtained in the first year of the grant. Activities included convening anAdvisory Board with industry
. Additionally, wronganswers were not accepted. Students had to get their pre-labs checked in face-to-face meetingswith the instructor and anything that was incorrect had to be re-done and re-checked prior toreceiving a grade. The grade was based solely on when the student was able to get it all correctand checked. The post-labs became just a matter of filling in a spreadsheet that was created inthe pre-lab and answering a few questions. The post-labs were graded during class. Studentsstayed in class for most, if not all, of the class period. See Appendix A for an excerpt from thesyllabus that explains the flipped lab format in more detail and Appendix B for an example pre-lab assignment.2.2.1 ReflectionThis flipped format certainly provided an
feedfrom Mogulus and Ustream. These attempted the experiments from a network with abandwidth of 60 kbps and more.54 % were unable to view the live video feed. These attempted the experiments from anetwork with a bandwidth of 15 kbps and less.3. User Experience:a. Lab intuitiveness: Page 14.39.13The average score given by the users for the intuitiveness of the lab (i.e. the experimentclients and the available documentation) was 72.9 %.b. Depth of understanding:From the questions asked the students sequel to their performing the experiments, ouraverage assessment of the depth of their understanding of the concepts being taught,introduced and
often do not perform as many exercises as needed and/or they do not achieve the proper force levels for satisfactory progress. We want to differentiate our products from others on the market by having them (a) beep when the desired force amount is reached and (b) count the number of cycles that the patient completes. Our equipment ranges from wrist and finger exercises up to squat types of exercises, so we probably need different sized devices to get the accuracy that we desire. One of the players on my softball team went to Cal Poly and says that small companies like yours can help us develop our product. He suggested using a ring-type transducer (whatever that is), but I don’t really care what you design as long as it
Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 137-149, May 20113. Yao, J. and Limberis, L., “A project-driven approach to teaching controls in a general engineering program,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 20084. Ahmed, B. and Alsaleh, K., “Robotics: its effectiveness as a tool to teach engineering design and computer programming,” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), pp. 1018-1021, 20115. Dym, C. L., et al., “Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 103-120, Jan. 20056. Denayer, I., Thaels, K., Vander Sloten, J., and Gobin, R., “Teaching a structured approach to design process for undergraduate
, the leecture was broken b into thhree laboratoory sections. During botthsemesters, two sectio ons were assiigned contex xtual exercisses (either thhroughout orr in onelaboratorry meeting) and a one secttion was a co ontrol that wwas assigned the stylized book exampplefor their self-guided exercise. e Th udent broughht in for the contextual eexercises werre he objects stuphotograaphed. Studen nts were proovided a ruleer to help theem determine the dimenssions of theiirobject. a. b. c. Figure 1. Self--guided
without specific classification. Finally a user can be given administrator Fig. 2: User rights by RLAB administrators, which then allow him to use models and experiments not yet available for the public. The only dynamic information in this entity, 'Active', indicating whether the Page 22.428.7 user is currently working with RLAB, has been introduced for implemen- tation reasons; it could have been retrieved from other entities as well. b) Model Entity Model The entity 'Model' describes a physical system available at the local site of ModelID
Page 23.1287.10the R134a experiment was a good exercise in analyzing the energy balance of a thermodynamicprocess. Survey Statement Score / Standard Deviation A. Lab 1: Finding the cost of electricity for lighting and a shower was a good 4.58 / 0.51 way to practice energy conversion calculations B. Lab 1: Calculating the cost of a shower is not relevant to engineering 1.79 / 0.85 thermodynamics C. Lab 2: Measuring the outputs of the thermocouple & RTD at different 4.21 / 0.63 temperatures gave me a better understanding of how temperature sensors work D. Lab 3: Using the dead weight tester with the pressure gauge and electronic 4.21 / 0.79
has not moved. The waves started to develop in the middle one-third sectionof the tube and it took approximately 3 seconds for the waves to amplify and break down. At theend of the sequence of the pictures we see that the heavy fluid has gathered to the left and thelighter fluid is positioned above the heavier fluid as expected.Figure 4 is showing a close up view of the instability. The wave length was determined to beapproximately = 0.09 m and the corresponding wave number k = 0.07 m-1. In comparison,inviscid theory using equation (4) predicts that the Kelvin Helmholtz instability is amplified forall wave lengths smaller than = 1.1 m. a) Horizontal position at t = 0 s. b
the reactor dataacquisition system and the remote user.References1. J. R. WHITE, A. JIRAPONGMED and L. M. BOBEK, “A Web-Based System for Access to Real-Time and Archival Research Reactor Data”, Trans. Am. Nuc. Soc. (June 2004).2. P. JAIN, S. MARKIDIS, B. G. JONES, RIZWAN-UDDIN, J. R. WHITE, and L. M. BOBEK, “Web-casting of Nuclear Reactor Experiments”, Trans. Am. Nuc. Soc. (Nov. 2006).3. J. R. WHITE and L. M. BOBEK, “Reactor Operations Training via Web-Based Access to the UMass-Lowell Research Reactor,” Proceedings of Conference on Nuclear Training and Education, Jacksonville, Florida (Feb. 2007).4. The Nuclear101 website and UMLRR Online prototype, www.nuclear101.com/.5. InduSoft Web Studio, www.indusoft.com/.6. Centra Live for e
, McGraw Hill (1997).4. Selmer, A., Goodson, M., Kraft, M., Sen, S., McNeill. V.F., Johnston, B.S., and Colton, C.K., “Performing Process Control Experiments Across the Atlantic,” Chemical Engineering Education, Summer 2005.5. Burrell, B., Wiggins, R.J., Sonwalkar, N., Kutney, M.C., Dalzell, W., and Colton C.K., “A Comparison of Web- Based and Laboratory Learning Environments,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (1999).6. Wiesner, T.F. and Lan, W., “Comparison of Student Learning in Physical and Simulated Unit Operations Experiments,” Journal of Engineering Education, July 2004.7. Mosterman, P.J., Dorlandt, M., Campbell, J.O., Burow, C., Brodersen, A.J., and
Recognition”. Proceedings of ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, March 1993.[4] Veton Këpuska et al., “Voice Activity Detection “ Patent No. 13323-011001 - 10/144,248, 5/14/02[5] C. S. Myers and L. R. Rabiner, “A comparative study of several dynamic time-warping algorithms for connected word recognition”, The Bell System Technical Journal, 60(7):1389- 1409, September 1981.[6] Duane Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield, “Mastering MATLAB 7”, Prentice-Hall, 2004[7] Rabiner, L. R. and Juang, B. H., “An introduction to Hidden Markov Models”, IEEE ASSP Magazine, pp. 4-15, January 1986i Wake-Up-Word [WUW] Recognition is defined as a Speech recognition task of:Correctly responding to a specific word/phrase when spoken, andCorrectly rejecting
after using the mobile application.Table 1: Statements provided to the graduate students for expert analysis and to undergraduate students for post-assessment, including the mean and standard deviations (S.D.) of student responses for each question. The five-point Likert scale was used with 1 representing strongly disagree and 5 representing strongly agree. Graduate Undergraduate Statement Mean S.D. Mean S.D. a. It was easy to navigate the smartphone application. 4.63 0.50 4.80 0.47 b. It was easy to work with
Paper ID #9119Engaged in Thermodynamics – Learning What We Don’t KnowDr. Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato Dr. Patrick Tebbe is a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Tebbe received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering as well as the M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is currently a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and a student branch advisor for
required (5) _____________ mol CH3OH CH3OH = ______________ g/mol S.G of Methanol @ room temp = .7914 (6) ______________ ml CH3OH6. Based on (2), predict mass and volume of Glycerin (7)______________ mol Glycerin = 92.10 g/mol Specific gravity = 1.2613 Glycerin = (8)______________ ml8. Measure reactants: (Note: Have amounts checked before proceeding) a. Measure oil volume and add to oil bottle. Label bottle with your name or initials b. Measure methanol volume and add to catalyst solution container Note: DO NOT add methanol directly to oil in oil bottle c. Measure catalyst mass and add to pill container9. Create catalyst solution: Add NaOH
Science from North Carolina A & T State University.Shona Morgan, North Carolina A&T State University Shona Morgan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at North Carolina A&T State University. She received her B. S. from Spelman College, and M. S. and Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.Silvanus Udoka, North Carolina A&T State University Silvanus J. Udoka is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department Business Administration at North Carolina A&T State University. He received his B. S. from Weber State University, and M. S
the green samples for compaction. Aftercompactions, the green forms were sintered in air (Fig. 2b) at different temperatures (over nightsintering for each condition). During the third stage, the students collected all the sinteredsamples (Fig. 2c) for the measurement. The students measured the weight (using the digitalweigh scale (Fig. 2a) and the dimensions (using calipers, Fig. 2d) for the volume calculations. (a) (b) (c) (d) Fig. 1 (a) Weighing the powder (b) steel die and its components used for the compaction (c) preparing for die for compaction and (d) powder compaction process
CPressure Ratio: 3.4Specific Fuel Consumption: 1.18Engine Oil: Turbine Oils meeting military specification Mil-L-236993C (Exxon 2380 Turbo oil and Aeroshell 500)Approved Fuels: Commercial Grades: Jet A, Jet A-1, Jet B, Kerosene, Diesel, Heating fuel oil #1 or #2 Military Grades: JP-4, JP-5, JP-8 Page 13.662.5 Figure 3. Schematic of Jet-Propulsion Cycle and Cut Away of SR-30 EngineEngine Sensor Location and Data
Paper ID #8866Access to Cooperative Education Programs and the Academic and Employ-ment Returns by Race, Gender, and DisciplineDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University and a
control systems with MATLAB/SIMULINK 3.8 4 0.97 4. Apply new MATLAB/SIMULINK capacities 4.0 4 0 Page 26.1163.7 b. Project Learning Objectives AssessmentAs stated in the project handout in Appendix I, the students are expected to achieve a set ofspecific learning objectives, listed as follows: 1. Research and find acceptable temperature range for waterfowl hatching. 2. Model the dynamics of the tungsten bulb and the glass incubator using MATLAB. 3. Build the thermal dynamics models of the tungsten bulb and incubator using SIMULINK. 4. Obtain the open loop
Figure 5(a). Vantage Pro 2 Console Figure5(b). Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS)The Vantage Pro2 can display up to 24 units of data, such as the last 24 minutes, hours, days, andmonths. When it is connected to a PC, using its WeatherLink software package it can log dataevery 10 seconds. The wireless ISS has a range of 400 feet through walls, 1000 feet line of sight.Other modules include a system designed to be run solely or predominantly in the daytime, thatwill not be needed or rarely used in the night, such as, an attic exhaust fan which will be usedmainly during the day to help keep down the temperature in the roof and operate solely onrenewable energy in conjunction with a thermostat. A solar powered led display system to showan
this model? b. How good are those assumptions? c. How can you test those assumptions? d. Is this an upper or lower estimate? 7) Estimate the final temperature a. What assumptions went into this model? b. How good are those assumptions? c. How can you test those assumptions? d. Is this an upper or lower estimate? 8) How much work was done during the process a. What assumptions went into this model? b. How good are those assumptions? Page 14.881.5 c. How can you test those assumptions? d. Is this an upper or lower estimate? 9) Upon completion
., Tropea C., (1997) Special Issue: Particle Image Velocimetry, Meas. Sci. and Technol. 8, 12.8. Willert C., Raffel M., Kompenhaus J., Stasciki B., Kaehler C. (1996) Recent applications of Particle Image Velocimetry in Aerodynamic Research, Flow Meas. Instrum., 7, 247-256.9. Stanislas M., Westerweel J., Kompenhans J, (2003) Particle Image Velocimetry: Recent Improvements, Springer.10. Goharzadeh A., Khalili A. and Jorgensen B. B., (2005) Transition Layer at a Fluid-Porous Interface, Physics of Fluids, 17.11. Goharzadeh A., Saidi A. and Khalili A. (2006) An Experimental Investigation of the Brinkman Layer Thickness Page
) Introductory computer programming (e.g. C/C++, MATLAB), and 2) Linearcircuit I. The course corresponds to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) Outcome criterion (b) “an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret data,” and (k) “an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modernengineering tools necessary for engineering practice.”[1]When I joined CSU Chico in 2013 as a new faculty member, I took over the course from aretiring professor, who had been teaching the course for many years. A good part of the labequipment had been purchased presumably in 1980s and in 1990s, such as HP 3478A DigitalMulti-meters (DMM), which we still use. We also have Hewlett-Packard (HP) 34401A DMMsthat are getting
similar programs. Timeline for the Evaluation Activities: During the first year of the project, questionnairesfor the baseline data will be developed. In addition, the project evaluator will work with thecourse teachers to (a) identify all major learning goals (e.g., knowledge, application) and then(b) develop assessment procedures for appraising each kind of learning. At the end of eachcourse, two tasks were completed: student learning was assessed by the written methods andthe professors were interviewed. The latter information was used to determine such things ashow satisfied the teachers were with the level of student learning and whether the work loadinvolved in teaching the course was within acceptable limits.Outreach Assessment
the U.S. Navy (SPAWAR). She held a Fulbright fellowship at the Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu in Finland. She has received teaching excellence awards from her Division and the College of Engineering. She has received funding for her research from the NSF, the US Navy, NASA, and the business community. She is an ABET IEEE ETAC Commissioner and an active program evaluator.Mr. Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College Thomas Stout is an associate professor of Electromechanical Controls Technology at Tidewater Commu- nity College in Chesapeake Virginia. He has worked in industrial maintenance, mechatronics and safety. He earned his BS degree from Old Dominion University in 2004
mistakes” inthis paper has been illustrated using a thermodynamics example. Certainly, anylaboratory experiment can be “saved” and even improved upon by the instructor whomay even help the educational process along by intentionally compromising (perhaps“sabotaging” the experiment is too harsh a description) the system. The experiment canthen be turned into a project that either improves the existing apparatus or, as discussed inthis paper, encourages the students to devise their own design that can be built and tested.In the view of the authors there is not a better way to train engineering and engineeringtechnology students to expect to conduct “hands-on” application of their diverse classroom instruction. Figure 4 a and b. Final
given purpose (i.e.,evaluation)2. Within the context of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),the lowest levels in any learning hierarchy model are incompatible with required ABET programoutcomes. According to ABET1, three of the required 11 ABET student outcomes include 1) theability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (i.e., ABET studentoutcome [a]), 2) the ability to design and conduct experiments (i.e., ABET student outcome [b]),and 3) the ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (i.e., ABET studentoutcome [e]). It is important that engineering faculty of all disciplines continuously push theenvelope and work to elevate student learning and comprehension so that
the convolution of the impulseresponse and the square wave, as shown in Figure 7. They then look at what happens when thesystem is excited with a sinusoidal input. The subsequent lab explores 2nd order circuits anddemonstrates the significance of complex exponentials and the effect of dampening, whilereinforcing the notion of convolution. What before was a mathematical exercise in integrationbecomes an experience in probing a circuit with various input signals to see what happens. Norigor is lost, as they are still required to go through the drills of computing the convolutionintegral, but the process now has meaning. (a) (b) Figure 7 Measured and computed responses for an