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code, of good quality, without much formalinstruction in C programming per se. Similarly, students with little mechanical designexperience, or who had not previously played with LEGOs, could construct simple machines,design geartrains capable of trading speed for power, and build sturdy structures, simply byparticipating in the course and interacting with their groupmates.These observations suggested that the LEGO 375 curriculum and laboratory design could helpSTEM educators to teach computer or robotics laboratories at the secondary school level. In July Page 13.1283.61997, a group of high school science teachers and their
Session 3102 Learning by doing: An innovative laboratory exercise to enhance the understanding of thin-walled Mechanics of Materials Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Jan de Vries Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionMechanics is widely considered to be the core of any type of construction engineering course inthe world, be it a mechanical, aerospace or naval architecture engineering course. Yet at the sametime it also considered by many students as one of the most difficult subjects in the course
Paper ID #19541A Laboratory-based Course in Systems Engineering Focusing on the Designof a High-speed Mag-lev Pod for the SpaceX Hyperloop CompetitionDr. Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is a Professor of Engineering and former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He has been teaching science and engineering courses there for 25 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received BS and MS Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, and a PhD in Mechanical
AC 2011-376: WIRELESS-INTEGRATED EMBEDDED REAL-TIME CON-TROL: A CASE STUDY IN ADOPTING RESOURCES FOR DEVELOP-MENT OF A LOW-COST INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROJECTPaul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University Paul G. Flikkema received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. From 1993-1998 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, and joined Northern Arizona University as an Associate Professor in January 1999, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has been a JSPS Visiting Researcher at Yokohama National University, a Visiting Research Scientist at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, and a Nokia Fellow at Helsinki
this approach is getting all the chemical engineering faculty to followthrough with the implementation.The Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University uses acombination of the two approaches to teaching process safety. In 1982 a process safetyprogram was initiated in the unit operations laboratory. In 1986 an elective course in processsafety was developed. Starting in 1993, this course has been required of all chemicalengineering undergraduates. There is a synergy between the process safety course and thesafety program in the unit operations laboratory. The SACHE (Safety and ChemicalEngineering Education) instructional materials are used in freshman and sophomore courses
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 USB-Powered Portable Experiment for Classical Control with Matlab Real- Time Windows TargetAbstractEngineering education has the objective of not only presenting the scientific principles,i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these to realproblems. Therefore, hands-on laboratories have been an integral part of the engineeringcurriculum since its inception. This presentation will demonstrate the use of a novel low-cost experimental apparatus for use in a typical undergraduate course in control systemstaught to mechanical engineering students, i.e. students with limited exposure to electricalengineering. The system demonstrates the use of
directly from BME instructors about their laboratory and project-based courses (including senior design). Survey participants were asked to provide informationon each laboratory course that they currently teach. Participants were asked course structure,credit hours, techniques taught, and methods of assessment. Participants were given the option toupload a course syllabus.Survey Data Collection. Survey data were collected under institution IRB approval. Surveyquestions reported are listed in Appendix 1. The survey was advertised through informationcards passed out to attendees at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting inthe fall of 2019 and through emails to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)Biomedical
adjunct professor for Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, and an automation consultant for Crossroads Consulting, LLC. Brian’s consulting, teaching and research focus areas include hardware and GUI software integration primarily using LabVIEW by National Instruments and kinematic and kinetic data collection and analysis methods for human body movement characterization especially as related to normal and perturbed (slipping) gait. Dr. Moyer earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1993, a MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Brian teaches courses in computer programming for engineers
over thirty years of teaching experience at different universities such as Northeastern, Suffolk and Tufts. He has been teaching as a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the last twenty years. Dr. Olia has taught variety of courses such as Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Material, Vibrations and System Dynamics. Professor Olia has pub- lished more than eighteen technical papers in the areas of stress concentration in the hybrid composites, adhesively bonded composite joints with gaps subjected to bending, biomechanics and dynamic response of adhesively bonded joints. Professor Olia has appeared in a WBZ-TV Channel 4 news interview as an expert on MBTA crash
assignment, which must be completed during theassigned laboratory time, is a subset of or is closely related to the week’s project. The project iscompleted outside of the normal laboratory meeting time and the total weekly assignment is dueSunday midnight. Friday afternoon office hours are held in the lab and are well attended.Each of the weekly assignments has baseline requirements and optional challenges; thechallenges are intended to provide a deeper level of understanding and are used for bonus points.It should be noted that those who complete the challenges rarely need the extra points! Studentswho meet the challenges, demonstrate good debugging skills and submit high quality reports anddocumentation are invited to serve as (paid) teaching
should teach the manufacturing, testing, and components ofcells. If these classes can also have physical labs for making cathodes and anodes andassembling cells that would be beneficial as well.""I think so. I believe there should at least be a course or lab about analyzing electrode material,assembling cells, cycling cells, and analyzing cycled data. And even includes the deconstructionof a cell for possible recycling or analysis for side reactions and performance. This would havestudents see the construction of a cell from start to finish." Due to the scope of funding available, this laboratory has been initially launched as a anactive on-campus research laboratory, and currently is not used for academic class activities. Noformal
Paper ID #37730WIP: A novel problem-driven learning laboratory course inwhich biomedical engineering students conduct experimentsof their own design to answer an authentic research questionBalakrishna S. Pai (Director of Instructional Laboratories)Ketki Patil (Research Technologist II)Todd Fernandez Todd is a lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are engineering students beliefs about knowledge and education and how those beliefs interact with the engineering education experience.Paul Benkeser (Senior Associate Chair) Paul J
2006-984: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VIBRATIONS/STRUCTURAL DYNAMICSCOURSE FOR CIVIL AND MECHANICAL STUDENTS WITH INTEGRATEDHANDS-ON LABORATORY EXERCISESRichard Helgeson, University of Tennessee-Martin Richard Helgeson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Dr. Helgeson received B.S. degrees in both electrical and civil engineering, an M.S. in electral engineering, and a Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University of Buffalo. He actively involves his undergraduate students in mutli-disciplinary earthquake structural control research projects. He is very interested in engineering educational pedagogy, and has taught a wide
Paper ID #17376Experience and Reflection on an Industry-College Partnership to Develop aNew Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory CourseDr. Bob Brennan, University of Calgary Robert W. Brennan has been actively involved in a wide range of national and international design ed- ucation initiatives over the past 12 years. He has served on the Canadian Design Engineering Network (CDEN) steering committee, chaired the organizing committee for the second CDEN conference (2004), chaired the Schulich School of Engineering’s first Engineering Education Summit (2007), served as an or- ganizing committee member for the CIRP
Page 3.607.1 Providing laboratory instruction for such distance education students poses a difficultproblem. The appropriate equipment is usually too expensive to provide each student with alaboratory setup. Supervision and safety remain problematic in a distance learning environment,even if the student has the equipment. Consequently, most on-campus courses with laboratorywork drop the requirement to perform that work when serving the distance education student.This is unfortunate because the laboratory remains the best vehicle to teach such skills astroubleshooting and circuit assembly. This project addresses that problem by using the World Wide Web interactively. Withequipment, software, and methods described in this paper, a distance
Session 1526 A Multidisciplinary Electronic Manufacturing Undergraduate Laboratory for the Design and Manufacture of DSP and Computer Based ASIC Systems Maher E. Rizkalla, Charles F. Yokomoto, Zina Ben Miled, Paul Salama, and Mohamed El-Sharkawy Department of Electrical Engineering Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 723W Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Tel. No. (317)274-9719
information—in order to create useful toolsand technologies. Consequently, engineering education has the objective of not only presenting thescientific principles, i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these toreal problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that hands-on laboratories have been an integral part ofthe engineering curriculum since its inception [1]. Their importance has been recognized by theAccreditation Board of Engineering Education (ABET) and its predecessors by creation of criteriarequiring adequate laboratory practice for students [2-6]. Unfortunately, during the last severaldecades, engineering laboratories have become highly complex and expensive, with multiplesimulation tools and computer
particular, physical models are incredibly usefulfor teaching system modeling and system identification. These courses make an excellentcandidate for low-cost laboratory experiences, as commercially available systems fromeducational suppliers can cost on the order of ten thousand dollars. This motivates anycontributions to the literature in the development of relatively inexpensive laboratory systems forupper level dynamics and mechanics courses.The low-cost laboratory experience developed in this paper is a two-degree of freedom spring-cart system, with a particular application to system identification. The physical system wasdeveloped by modifying an inexpensive set of educational equipment to create a spring-cartsystem. The actual lab experience
to experience a specific type ofrobot, and most institutions cannot afford a complete (or even partial) collection of robots forlaboratory exercises. Therefore, many approaches for virtual robotic exposure have beendeveloped, including virtual environments for teaching the kinematics and dynamics of robots,software environments for visualizing a wide range of robot manipulators, and simulationenvironments for showing how these robots behave in the real world, some with an emphasis onmultiple robotic configurations. Simultaneous to the development of various instructionalrobotics laboratories, there has been a development of strategies in educating students remotelythrough what has been labeled as eLaboratories[3][4]. The motivation for such
Paper ID #31289Work-in Progress: Identity and Transitions Laboratory: UtilizingAcceptance and Commitment Therapy framework to support engineeringstudent successProf. Jeremiah Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Laboratory for Oxide Research and EducationJoanne Moliski, University of Illinois at Chicago Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Laboratory for Oxide Research and Education American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work-in Progress: Identity and Transitions Laboratory: Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Paper ID #27080Board 55: Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of an AdvancedElectric Drive Laboratory using a Commercial Microcontroller and a MAT-LAB Embedded CoderMr. Bhanu Babaiahgari, University of Colorado, Denver Mr. Bhanu Babaiahgari finished his master’s program in 2015, at the University of Colorado Denver. He started his PhD at University of Colorado Denver supervised by Dr. Jae-Do Park in 2016. Since then he has been teaching Electric drives and Energy conversion laboratory as part-time grad instructor. He is an active researcher at Dr. Park’s Energy and Power lab under Energy Conversion Research Force (ECRF
Paper ID #14030Development of a Laboratory set-up interfacing Programmable Logic Con-troller (PLC), Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and HVAC ApplicationsDr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering (AE). He teaches capstone, lighting, electrical, HVAC and energy design courses. He is the ABET Coordinator for the AE Program. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Dr. Megri holds a PhD degree from INSA at
at home to support these tools. Further, readyaccess to (a) electronic components (e.g., through research laboratories, the parts shop, or thelaboratory support staff), (b) corroborating benchtop laboratory equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes,multimeter, and spectrum analyzers), and (c) other students is a disincentive to leave the confinesof the engineering environment and work at home. Therefore, to realistically gauge theeffectiveness of this teaching approach, the instructors may need to mandate at-home workduring the next offering of this course.Regarding the Topical Learning Experiences, the self-reported learning that occurred wasmoderate across the board for all topical categories. This is encouraging. Approximately onethird of these
, please see the subsequent section.Course ContextAAE 20401, Aeromechanics II Laboratory, is a one-credit laboratory (lab) course in aerospacestructural mechanics at Purdue University. The lab course offers six lab preparatory lectures andsix physical (hands-on) labs. The durations of the lectures and labs are 50 minutes and 110minutes, respectively. During the lab preparatory lecture session, a faculty member delivers alecture. Then, at the beginning of the physical lab sessions, graduate teaching assistants (TAs)leads the guided physical lab sessions. All individuals in the teaching team are Purdue AAEmembers. Table 1 shows the summary of AAE 20401 using abstract terms in StructuralMechanics. The course provides the students with the
various research and development projects in industry and academia for more than 15 years.Dr. Nicholas B. Conklin, Gannon University Nicholas B. Conklin received a B.S. in applied physics from Grove City College in 2001, and a Ph.D. in physics from Penn State University in 2009. He is currently an associate professor and chair of the Physics Department at Gannon University, Erie, PA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Assessment and Analysis of Use of Self-Regulated Learning in Laboratory-Based Extracurricular Undergraduate/First-year Graduate Research ProjectsAbstract This paper in the Research category examines student use of the self
. Alternatively, the objective of the mechanical engineering (ME) laboratorysequence at Mississippi State University (MSU) is to teach students experimental design, whichincludes transducer selection, computerized data acquisition system usage and programming,uncertainty analysis, and data reduction techniques. To achieve the goal of teachingexperimental design, the undergraduate laboratory sequence in ME at MSU consists of three,one-hour laboratories: ME 3701—Experimental Orientation, ME 4721—ExperimentalTechniques I, and ME 4731—Experimental Techniques II.In ME 3701, students study engineering measurements, transducers, and data acquisitionsystems. Students perform eight to ten experiments concerning electrical and mechanical
directs the Kansas Wind Applications Center and teaches wind and solar energy system design, as well as undergraduate classes in electronics, electromagnetics, and engineering ethics. Page 25.456.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 DEVELOPMENT OF A POWER ELECTRONICS LAB COURSE WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONSIntroductionIt is widely accepted, and much research has shown, that laboratory experience is an essentialpart of a good education in power electronics1-6. Engineering students at Kansas State Universityhave many opportunities for hands-on learning in lab classes
earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer En- gineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research with Ruth Streveler in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering education, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, conceptual change and development in engi- neering students, and change in faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. He serves as the webmaster for the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Scaling-up project-based
AC 2012-5030: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN GROUND VEHICLE COAST-DOWN TESTINGMr. Zeit T. Cai, Princeton University Zeit T. Cai is a third-year mechanical and aerospace engineering student at Princeton University. Over the summer of 2011, he participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) hosted by Michigan Technological University. Under the tutelage of Jeremy Worm, he conducted research on coastdown testing and helped design a procedure to conduct coastdown testing in a classroom setting.Jeremy John Worm P.E., Michigan Technological University Jeremy John Worm is the Director of the Mobile Sustainable Transportation Laboratory at Michigan Tech and a Research Engineer in the Advanced Power Systems Research