Paper ID #20414Development of an Integrated Electro-mechanical Energy Conversion Systemto Support Undergraduate Electrical Engineering CurriculumDr. Kenan Hatipoglu, West Virginia University Insttitute of Technology Kenan Hatipoglu is an assistant professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He completed his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Louisville, Kentucky in 2008 and joined Tennessee Tech University in 2009 to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical (Power) Engineering. He completed his graduate study in August 2013
Technology is a new program in the department ofEngineering Technology. The curriculum emphasizes high-speed packaging that involvesmotion control mainly with servomotors and induction motors. The students in this program, inaddition to many other courses, take courses in basic mechanics and mechanical design, electriccircuits, basic mathematics and calculus before taking four courses of the sequence of courses.Concepts of mechanical cams (Ref: “cam definition” Merriam Webster) operation andperforming an electronic cam using a servomotor control system for a given task are introduced.Writing ladder logic to perform a given cam operation for an application is also an integral partof the PLC course. A semester long project based on real life
AC 2012-3605: HMI DESIGN: AN ANALYSIS OF A GOOD DISPLAY FORSEAMLESS INTEGRATION BETWEEN USER UNDERSTANDING ANDAUTOMATIC CONTROLSProf. Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet Akram Hossain is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Director of the Center for Packaging Machinery Industry at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Ind. He worked eight years in industry at various capacities. He is working with Purdue University Calumet for the past 24 years. He consults for industry on process control, packaging machinery system control, and related disciplines. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He served in IEEE/Industry Application Society for 15 years at vari- ous capacities. He served as chair of
to be an auxiliary to aprogramming course. We developed an IoT module and have integrated into our M&I course. Inthis class, students are required to develop a sensing device, and the IoT module helps them toadd remote sensing/controlling to their products. The students have learned the material quicklyand have shown significant interest in the IoT topics.References[1] McEwen, Adrian, and Hakim Cassimally. Designing the internet of things. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.[2] Koo, Simon GM. "An integrated curriculum for Internet of Things: Experience and evaluation." Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015 IEEE. IEEE, 2015.[3] Orser, David John, Bazargan, Kia, Sartori John. "Harnessing State-of-the-art Internet of
AC 2009-386: A LOW-COST APPROACH TO INTEGRATING SENSORTECHNOLOGY IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSESFarid Farahmand, FARID FARAHMAND is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Sonoma State University, CA, where he teaches Advanced Networking and Digital Systems. He is also the director of Advanced Internet Technology in the Interests of Society Laboratory. Farid's research interests are optical networks, applications of wireless sensor network technology to medical fields, delay tolerant networks. He is also interested in educational technologies and authored many papers focusing on eLearning and Active Learning models.Leela Mohan Kesireddy , Central Connecticut State
nongovernmental organizations. His research in- terests include complex systems modeling and simulation, and systems engineering and their applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Incorporating a Software System for Robotics Control and Coordination in Mechatronics curriculum and ResearchAbstractThe goal of this paper is twofold: to develop a software system using MATLAB to control andcoordinate of tasks between mobile robot and robotic arm to solve sophisticated robotics tasks,and to use the software in teaching an undergraduate course in robotics in Mechatronics programat the university. This robotic system will help students to understand the basic and
Paper ID #30296Repurposing of a Nuclear Integrated System Test Facility forEngineering EducationDr. Hector E. Medina, Liberty University Dr. Medina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Va.). He obtained a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechani- cal and Nuclear Engineering from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the oil industry and 7-12 education, in his native Venezuela and Aruba. Since 2012, he has published and presented about forty articles in peer-review journals and conference
feature is not taught in this introductory course, its deployment as a softwareinterface certainly streamlines the data collection procedure for the students and adds remotecontrol capability. Furthermore, our campus has student clubs such as the Robotics Club.LabVIEW can serve as an integral part of this kind of extracurricular activity that combinesmechanical, electrical and optical engineering principles. Due to the low cost of purchasing astudent version, LabVIEW is cost effective in a teaching environment.I. IntroductionOne of the major utilities of an introductory course is to provide for the prerequisite foradvancement to advanced courses. The use of LabVIEW in the engineering curriculum for dataacquisition and virtual instrument has been
specificcriteria) for direct assessment of these outcomes.IntroductionIn an Electrical/Computer Engineering Technology degree, there are many classes that usemicroprocessors/microcontrollers as part of their curriculum. The format for these classes aresimilar (in curriculum) in that their end goal is to teach ‘C’ or ‘C++’ programming, as well asembedded hardware and applications. Most computer courses employ a large amount of hands-on lab material and selecting a proper embedded processor can greatly improve theoutcome/success of the course. In general, the preference is to use a processor that has:• Wide industry acceptance (usage after graduation). This allows the students to leverage their knowledge into better/more advanced job positions
Paper ID #26165TQM Applied to an Educational OrganizationDr. Mysore 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
2006-2105: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTER-UNIVERSITY ADVANCEDINSTRUMENTATION COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGYMark Rajai, Northern Kentucky UniversityHank Javan, University of MemphisSeyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky UniversityHorold Wiebe, Northern Kentucky University Page 11.471.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Advanced Instrumentation for Graduate Students in Engineering TechnologyAbstractInstrumentation is one of the most important courses of engineering curriculum. Almost allprograms in engineering technology at undergraduate level offer labs and instrumentation.Also, most of the textbooks on instrumentation
Paper ID #10699Designing, Building, and Testing an Autonomous Search and Rescue Robot— An Undergraduate Applied Research ExperienceZachary Cody Hazelwood Cody Hazelwood is currently a software developer at the Alpha High Theft Solutions division of Check- point Systems. He received the B.S. degree in Professional Computer Science from Middle Tennessee State University in May 2013. He currently does freelance projects involving mobile software develop- ment, microcontroller applications, and electronics. He enjoys learning about and testing ways to improve people’s lives with technology.Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee
sufficiently modest—we may have asolution for you! If this describes your motivations, we invite you to read on.Various authors have confronted the problem of semiconductor curve tracing in theundergraduate electronics laboratory and have described their work in ASEE conferences. Wethus turn to the work of those who have gone before, of the giants upon whose shoulders wepropose to stand.A curve-tracing system for pn diodes, NPN and PNP BJTs, and n-channel MOSFETs relied uponLabVIEW running on a desktop computer and laboratory instruments (power supply andvoltmeter) communicating with the program through a GPIB (General-Purpose Instrument Bus)connection.1 While the system was successfully integrated into the curriculum, it had thedisadvantage of being
-chair for the 2008 IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON-2008) and the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE-2010). His teaching and research interests are in control systems applications.Prof. Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University Victor P. Nelson is a professor and Assistant Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. His primary research interests include embedded systems and computer-aided design and testing of digital systems and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). He is co-author of the textbook Digital Logic Circuit Analysis and Design and a tutorial book on fault-tolerant computing. He has been Chair of the ECE Curriculum Committee
2006-2307: DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND TESTING AN ADVANCEDINDUSTRIAL-GRADE THREE-PHASE DIGITAL POWER METERBobbie Meredith, Middle Tennessee State University BOBBIE JO MEREDITH, Mrs. Meredith is currently a graduate student, Computer Engineering Technology major in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. She earned her BS degree in Computer Engineering Technology with minor in Computer Science from MTSU in 2005. She is currently working as an Electronics Test Engineer for Schneider Electric, Power Monitoring and Control Division. Her interests include the design, building, programming, and testing of microprocessor and microcontroller based
, No. 4, American Society for Engineering Education, October, 2002, pp. 367-368.2. Wilczynski, Vincent, “A Virtual Instrumentation Based Engineering Experimentation Course,” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, MS, 2000.3. McStravick, D., and O’Malley, M., “Virtual Labs in the Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004.4. Akins, Robert E., and Nelson, Jr., James K., “Integration of Engineering Measurement and Analysis Into Civil Engineering Programs,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Roanoke, VA
had an enthusiastic response fromstudents interested in both Robotic projects and interest in learning more about Robotics. Roboticsis an interdisciplinary field that incorporates the integration of many systems in software,electronics, control systems, actuators and sensors. The Robotics of today imparts the mostimportant attributes such as the nature of motion, the motions available to rigid bodies and the useof kinematic constraints to organize motion. Because the growing field of Robotics covers manyareas of EET education we decided we would develop curriculum for an introductory course inRobotics. This paper explores the curriculum design and the Lie Algebra and Lie Group that arekeeping track of the variables involved in arm robotic
experience in digital communication protocol. The course project has four majorcomponents: a LabVIEW20 based closed loop control system design using the Modbus17 digitalcommunication protocol; hardware design to replace the Modbus slave with a PCB; softwaredesign for the Modbus slave; and system integration. The focus of this article is on the firstcomponent, i.e., LabVIEW based closed loop control using Modbus communication protocol.LabVIEW was chosen to be the tool for the course project because it can provide hands-onexperiences for students, which is particularly important for engineering technology programs.Another reason for using LabVIEW was that it was being used by several other courses in theEET program, as part of the curriculum
, according to this criterion. Second, the centrality criterion means that projects in which students learn things that are outside the curriculum ("enrichment" projects) are also not examples of PBL, no matter how appealing or engaging.(2) PBL projects are focused on questions or problems that "drive" students to encounter (and struggle with) the central concepts and principles of a discipline. This criterion is a subtle one. The definition of the project (for students) must "be crafted in order to make a connection between activities and the underlying conceptual knowledge that one might hope to foster."(3) Projects involve students in a constructive investigation. An investigation is a goal-directed process that involves
students forfuture engineering and technology development. Such new modules will allow students to haveimproved learning experience through more involvement in research and hands-on activities andbetter outcome. This paper presents the experience of undergraduate research during summer2008 supported by NSF REU program at the University of Houston on “Sensor Networks andsecurity Infrastructure”. The project also serves to upgrade existing upper level design projectsthat aim at introducing research components into the curriculum of the computer engineeringtechnology program.IntroductionWireless smart sensor networks have the ability to integrate sensing, communication andcomputation and are being implemented in a wide range of data gathering and
online teaching environment, creating modules, the role ofdiscussion, technology integration and assessment. The main goal of the “Online Course DesignWorkshop” is to teach instructors interested in developing and teaching online courses how todivide the course into modules that last approximately one to two weeks. These modules have tofurther be divided into sub-modules with topics that students can work through in about an hour. All courses were required to conform to “The 2008 – 2010 Quality MattersTM (QM)Rubric” [12]. This rubric outlines many of the practices that are generally accepted for teaching Page 25.1003.5engineering courses
exhibit a higher level of satisfaction with the course asindicated by Pape4. Casey et al5 reported that, while project work was always seen as an integralpart of later semesters in the curriculum, the need became evident to apply project-based learning(PBL) earlier, primarily to motivate early-stage students that otherwise failed to recognize theapplicability of what they were studying to their future professions.Electric Vehicle InstructionThere is tremendous interest in electric vehicles today. Several major automotive manufacturersare developing an electric car for mass production, and the United States is on the eve of massproducing an electric car for the first time in history. US Economic Stimulus funding and similaractivities are
programs, especially those who have the interest to deal with energyissues. Many teachers are working to integrate energy related topics into their curriculums andinvolve students in “a community based sustainable energy project that will give them theopportunity to make a difference in their local community and the world”.[2]At the university level, various “Energy Engineering” programs have begun to emerge to addressthe anticipated shortage of energy engineers. In a 2009 industry survey by the Center forEnergy Workforce Development [3], it was found that over half of engineers engaged in powergeneration could leave their jobs by 2015, due to retirements and other attrition. This anticipatedshortage of traditional energy engineers, along with the
, the bottles may be shattered. To find the root of the problem a high speedcamera should be used.Using the camera we can narrow down the cause of the above problem. Judging the pattern ofthe phase difference between the motor shafts and how it acted at different speeds, we cannarrow down the troubleshooting and comment that the problem must be due to tuning of themotors. The problem cannot be due to a fault in the cam tables because the phase difference isvaries along with speed of the servomotors (Experiment 2).The servomotors are controlled by proportional-integral-derivative controllers (PID Controllers).This is a generic control loop feedback mechanism (controller). It calculates an "error" value asthe difference between a measured process
fieldbus networks with linksto official web sites of each fieldbus organization [4]. Integration of fieldbus topics intoundergraduate curriculum is slowly taking places at various institutions. For example, Franz [5]reported the development of a National Center for Digital and Fieldbus Technology (NCDFT)under an NSF grant at Lee College, Texas. Also in Reference [6], Müller and Max Felserdescribed how fieldbus concepts are adopted in control technology curriculum in Switzerland. Aweather station instrumentation experiment that uses digital and wireless communicationconcepts was adopted in a Computer Engineering curriculum at University of Oviedo, Spain [7].The concept of fieldbus networks such as Devicenet are also introduced in PLC courses
Evaluation Form Page 25.286.5IV. Project DesignThe focus of this pilot study project was to develop a prototype of an Electronic Name Tag(ENT) system. This project focuses on creating an ENT that can be used for conferences,visitors’ badges etc. The development of the ENT will help the world become moreenvironmentally friendly. The ENT consists of a microcontroller, the brain of the system, whichis a programmable electronic integrated circuit with built in processor memory and peripherals.The microcontroller is programmed using the Basic Stamp Editor program. The microcontrolleruses this program to display the information on the liquid crystal
experience in curriculum development. Page 25.447.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development and Implementation of i-Laboratory for Instrumentation, Sensors, Measurements and Controls CoursesAbstractComputing, information and communication technologies have strong impacts on education, bysignificantly improving the distance and online collaborative learning, via the virtual or remoteexperiments and simulations. One of the distinguishing features of engineering technologyeducation is the laboratory work and hands-on experience as an integral part of the
. He is based out of Chicago, IL and is focused on curriculum development at large research-focused institutions. These Universities include: University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Kettering University The Ohio State University Michigan Technological University Purdue University University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign Northwestern University Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology University of Wisconsin—Madison University of Minnesota—Minneapolis Iowa State University Andrew joined NI in 2000 as an applications engineer moved quickly through jobs as team lead and team manager. In 2002 he left Austin and served as a field engineer in Richmond, Virginia covering various
Technology at Purdue University Calumet, USA (from August, 2013 till present). His enthusiasm developed for learning Electrical controls, PLC Ladder logic (Allen Bradley), HMI design, Robot (Motoman) programming and Motion controls helped him to accomplish the integral part of his research projects. Moreover, he has been a dedicated Instructor for an undergraduate level course ’Electricity and Electronics fundamentals’ from January, 2014 to June, 2015 at Purdue University Calumet. At present, he is also working as an Electrical Engineer at Plastipak Packaging Inc. experi- encing different technologies like Injection Molders, Blow Molders, High Speed Vision System, Robotic palletizers in a packaging environment. His strong
Paper ID #11219Designing of Bottle Washing Machine in Virtual Environment Using the En-hanced Mechatronics System Design MethodologyMr. Rizwanul Neyon, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Rizwanul Neyon, M.Sc, has completed his masters from Purdue University Calumet majoring in Mecha- tronics Engineering Technology. In his MS Directed project he worked in a Pick & Place machine where he has integrated a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) & Human Machine Interface (HMI). He was awarded a graduate assistantship from Purdue University Calumet in 2012. As a graduate assistant in engineering Technology