Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Miceli; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball

product. A call for proposalsaddressing the transfer of energy conservation and efficiency technologies into a workableprototype was issued by the Department of Energy. The ultimate goal is to stimulate regionaleconomical development and promote job growth. Resulting from an awarded contract, a uniquepartnership was formed among Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Western Carolina University,Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, and American Carolina StampingCompany to develop a marketable energy efficient hybrid water heating and dehumidifyingproduct. This partnership was made possible by securing funding from the Department ofEnergy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy through a competitive request forproposals. Benefits

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

session 1761 What is Design and How Do We Let Non-Engineers in on the Secret That it’s Fun? Charles Nippert, Antonia D’Onofrio, Stephen Madigosky, Akshay Vilivalam Widener UniversityAbstractEngineering design is often one of the more interesting and exciting aspects ofengineering. Yet few outside the profession ever experience its challenges. At WidenerUniversity, an education course is offered to in service high school teachers that providesthem with an opportunity to develop a Virtual Laboratory designed around standardscience experiments. Programming was performed by one of the authors, while

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

ofthe service-learning activity has been in the engineering disciplines. 1, 4 This is very unfortunatesince many of the problems that exist in the world require engineering intervention. During the fall semester of 2002, the Introduction to Materials Laboratory Class from theMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Dayton was involvedwith a service learning project through ETHOS (Engineers in Technical HumanitarianOpportunities of Service-Learning). This project supported the work of the service organization,Aprovecho. The overall technical objective of the project was to improve the efficiency of awood burning cook stove or “eco-stoves” by proper selection of the insulative brick materialsused to make the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

, pulse driver circuits, modern high-speed digital integrated circuit technologies, memorycircuits, analog and digital switches, multiplexers, power up/down sequencing, hot-swap circuits,clock generator and recovery circuits, data processing and recovery circuits, various signalingstandards, analog to digital conversion and an introduction to signal integrity, EMI, shielding,grounding and layout issues in printed circuit boards, integrated circuits and packages.III. ECET 154 - Analog ElectronicsThis is a course with 3 lecture hours, 3 laboratory hours and 4 credits.Prerequisite: ECET 100-level course in dc circuits or the consent of the instructorPrerequisite or Co-requisite: ECET 100-level course in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Chris Kobus

Session 1566 A Unique Liquid-Vapor Thermodynamic Property Measurement Apparatus For A Hands-On Undergraduate Laboratory Experience Gilbert L. Wedekind, Christopher J. Kobus Department of Mechanical Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309AbstractThis paper describes a fluid property experiment used in an introductory level Thermodynamicscourse. The Thermodynamics course is geared to introducing students to fundamental principlesand their applications, including fluid property relationships. This paper presents a uniqueexperimental apparatus

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 3649 Introducing Hands-on Manufacturing Experience to Students Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractThis paper describes a laboratory-based course in Manufacturing Processes that provides hands-on manufacturing experience to students in Engineering Technology. The theoretical part of thecourse provides a general understanding of the behavior of the materials commonly used inmanufacturing, the basic techniques used in processing them into useful products, the scientifictheory underlying those processes, and the criteria

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

control chart signals but returns to the process at a later random time. The web-basedmodule was written in Netbeans and utilizes the Glassfish application server. A MySQLdatabase maintains the Mouse Factory information and student records. A major advantage ofthis approach is that Netbeans, Glassfish and MySQL are all open-source software packages. Page 25.1244.4Figure 2. Bill of Materials Page 25.1244.5Figure 3. Critical Point - CoverSPC Lab FourThe fourth SPC laboratory allows students to design, implement and evaluate the impact ofimplementing a c control chart within the Mouse Factory. In the first SPC

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

Engineering is presented. The objective of this curriculum is toprovide students with a general knowledge of the principles of geometrical and physical optics,optical instrumentation, optical fibers and lasers, as well as a hands-on practical experiencethrough laboratory sessions and individual projects. The ultimate goal is to give biomedicalengineering students the ability to understand the principles of medical optical instruments andlaser systems, and sufficient knowledge and practical experience to be able to design and operatebasic optical and laser systems for biomedical applications.1. Introduction and ObjectivesAlthough light has been used in medicine and biology since ancient times, and opticalinstruments, such as microscopes and endoscopes

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay S. DeNatale; Gregg L. Fiegel

. Inmost undergraduate geotechnical programs, students are taught these topics using textbooksand/or videotapes. This practice is often frowned upon by industry professionals since thestudents are unable to get a true feel for the work and thought involved in a typical siteinvestigation.A primary goal of the geotechnical engineering program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is tointegrate field and laboratory experiences into the undergraduate curriculum using a hands-onapproach. The faculty of the geotechnical engineering program believe that students must have acomplete understanding of geotechnical exploration practices if they are to appreciate thejudgment required in geotechnical analysis and foundation design. Described in this paper is

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristopher Delgado; Hartono Sumali

Session 2608 Instrumentation Education in Agricultural and Biological Engineering Hartono Sumali, Kristopher Delgado Purdue University, West Lafayette, IndianaAbstractThis paper presents the development of an instrumentation and data acquisition course in theAgricultural and Biological Engineering Department at Purdue University. The discussionincludes the necessity for the course, the challenges in starting the laboratory course, a survey ofsimilar courses at other institutions, the educational philosophy of the course, the coursematerials, the

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-305: TEACHING POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTER EX-PERIMENTS THAT INTEGRATES FUZZY LOGIC APPROACHAhmed Rubaai, Howard University Ahmed Rubaai received the M.S.E.E degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988. In 1988, he joined Howard University, Washington, D.C., as a faculty member, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is the Founder and Lead Developer of Motion Control and Drives Laboratory at Howard University (http://www.controllab.howard.edu) and is actively involved in many projects with industry, while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of artificial

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Joseph McCoy Mydosh, Western Michigan University; Jason Michael Shane

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 22.563.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Energy efficiency and sustainability in engineering design curriculumAbstractThe knowledge and skills for the future workforce of an energy efficient industrialsociety are not fully nurtured in our current educational programs. Energy efficiency andinnovative design practices need to be an essential part of the learning experience inundergraduate engineering design programs. Current engineering design curriculum isreformed to teach the theoretical knowledge and hands-on practices in an integratedfashion. To study energy loss and overall energy efficiency of a system and itscomponents, laboratory

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

a laboratory environment. The laboratoryexercises would certainly enhance experiential learning of the students. However, choosing asuitable platform to accommodate the laboratory exercises is challenging as it needs to satisfypeculiar needs of different types of designs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide aflexible hardware platform to accommodate digital systems. FPGAs, such as the ones providedby Xilinx, are quite useful in applications requiring hardware changes to accommodate systembehavior. As such, these devices offer the opportunity to implement different computer systemcomponents conveniently in hardware using VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuitHardware Description Language). FPGAs can be easily reconfigured to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

regular basis. The lab content was integrated with the Electronics course that it essentiallyserves. The lab experience and the collected feedback are being used for writing a laboratory manual andfurther fine tuning will be performed with the help of the incoming students enrolled in the course. Theexperience with restructuring the course and blending in the students’ needs has been very positive andthe lessons learned from this initiative may prove useful to other instructors in their own approach tomodifying electrical engineering labs. I. IntroductionEngineering education is an important factor for sustained economic growth and progress throughtechnological innovation. The analysis of global development suggests that the next economic

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Foster, George Fox University; Chad Hammerquist, George Fox University; Robert Melendy, George Fox University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

suggestphysical applications. Some engineering programs have gone a step further and chosen to includea laboratory experience along with the lecture. 31 This approach enhances the in-class learning byproviding hands-on applications.In addition to focusing on continuous-based control systems, few engineering programs alsoinclude coverage of non-continuous (process or discrete) control that are common in industrialenvironments. Mechanical engineering graduates engage with both continuous andnon-continuous control systems; however, they play a more key role in the development ofnon-continuous systems 30 than continuous-based systems where additional education is usuallyrequired and/or their electrical engineering counterparts are better equipped. A valuable

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sumit Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shreya Prakash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Estrada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

connected computer or web-browsing mobiledevice (Fig. 1). Web browser (AJAX client)The initial WS design is aimed as part of a large under- Figure 2. Photograph of hardwaregraduate electronic device course (~150 students), where used for our remote laboratory (top)individual lab access is prohibitive. With the WS access, and schematic of the remote instru-students benefit from doing real-time measurements, and ment WS and Web interface archi-can perform subsequent data analysis. Currently, the WS tecture (bottom).enables measurements of typical silicon transistors fab-ricated at the University of Illinois (Fig. 2 and Fig. 5),state of the art nanoscale transistors provided by Intel

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Nathan VanderHorn; Rashmi Bahuguna; Arun K. Somani; Mani Mina

High Speed Systems Engineering: A New Trent in Electrical and Computer Engineering Mani Mina, Robert Weber, Arun K Somani, Nathan VanderHorn, Rashmi Bahuguna High Speed Systems Engineering Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State UniversityThis paper introduces the main ideas and program objectives for High Speed SystemsEngineering (HSSE). HSSE (funded by NSF CISE-EAI)1 has been proposed by our team as anew and viable platform for integrating engineering education, research and development. Thisapproach identifies and integrates the common

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

, discusses the development and implementation of the three courses, anddescribes the laboratory being developed with state-of-the-art instruments to support thesequence. The laboratory provides several capabilities, including internet-basedexperimentation, data acquisition, process variable measurements, control systemmodeling and design, sensor technology applications, and signal processing.IntroductionAt Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, we are in the final phases of implementing aB.S. degree program in Control Systems Engineering Technology (CSET). The CSETcurriculum has a three-course sequence consisting of Principles of Measurements,Control Systems I, and Control Systems II. The purpose of this sequence is to producegraduates that have a

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

communication skills, project management, as well as overview lectures on major technical and non-technical disciplines.2. Creation of a large, interdisciplinary undergraduate laboratory, used by students from many disciplines to plan a variety of engineering experiments in a common space.3. Use of laptop computers as design tools that are integrated into the Engineering courses.I. IntroductionOur world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer possible to cope by relying onexpertise from a single discipline. Concurrent Engineering is now a practice used throughoutindustry, and its participants are expected to be able to work in an inter-disciplinary environment.A second trend is the renewed emphasis on design, as opposed to analysis, in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

automotive arena.An automotive systems laboratory supports the automotive systems design course. As part of thecourse, students get to disassemble a modern (1996 GM Northstar) V-8 engine and identify eachsubassembly and component. Selected subsystems of the engine are then reverse-engineered asclass assignments. The laboratory houses an electric vehicle and contains a variety of otherautomotive sub-assemblies for students to study. Students complete one design project in thecourse. They get to design a major subsystem for Tuskegee University’s SAE Mini-Baja contestvehicle.A survey of students taking the course indicates a substantially high level of interest in thecourse. One indicator of the level of student interest in the course is the increased

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yljing Stehle, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

be addressed, which is partially open-ending [2,3].Recognizing the efficacy of project-based lab designs in fostering creative engagement anddeep learning, this modification aims to bridge the gap between traditional, instruction-centriclabs and student-directed projects. The project-based laboratory design is intended to motivatestudents towards deep learning, advanced engineering skills, and high-level learning outcomeswhile preparing them well for open-ended labs at the senior level [4,5]. In addition, studentswill work as a group and focus on provided materials (i.e., graphene oxide membrane, aerogel)in this project-based lab to encourage communication and peer learning. Moreover, theselection of materials for the project is drawn from

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kathleen Condray

studentsare able to realize the dream of going abroad. Using German as an example, this paper will outline how students can both stay on-trackin their engineering curriculum and gain valuable work and study abroad experience in thesummer which will help them in their job search and in their careers beyond graduation.Programs discussed will include RISE (Research in Science and Engineering) of the DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service), in which students receive paid fellowship positions inuniversity doctoral laboratories, CDS (Carl Duisberg Society), in which students work in paidinternships in offices in their field at companies such as Porsche and Siemens, and ICE(International Cooperative Education), in which students complete paid

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

grade students, 11 and 12 years old, who have completed Introductory FEMME) • Senior FEMME (8th and 9th grade students, 13 and 14 years old, who have completed FEMME Continuum)• Chemical Industry For Minorities in Engineering (CHIME, 7th and 8th grade students, 12 and 13 years old)• Upward Bound, Mathematics and Science Program (9th-12th grade Newark, NJ minority High school students, 14-17 years old)These K-12 programs have a strong emphasis on laboratory safety and “hands-on” learning with Bench Scale, Freshman Engineering Laboratory and SeniorChemical Engineering Pilot Plant scale experiments. The programs have beenvery successful over the years with approximately 80 percent of the K-12students enrolling as

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lauren Cole; Lindsay R. Hoggatt; Jamie A. Sterrenberg; David R. Suttmiller; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

A Transient Experiment to Determine the Heat Transfer Characteristics of a 100 W Incandescent Light Bulb, Operating at 48 W Lauren Cole, Lindsay R. Hoggatt, Jamie A. Sterrenberg, David R. Suttmiller, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractA simple and inexpensive experiment that illustrates a number of heat transfer principles ispresented for use in either the laboratory or the classroom. The purpose of this paper is todescribe a transient experiment which determined the heat transfer characteristics of a 100 Wlight bulb, operating

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

instruction.CLaaS DefinitionComputer Lab as a Service (CLaaS) is a cloud based system that provides educators with aplatform to create and deliver computer based laboratory (lab) exercises to students. CLaaS isideally suited to provide unique capabilities for distance education, and it also functions in atraditional brick and mortar environment. CLaaS combines virtual machines and networkresources in a lab configuration that emulates real world computing technology supported by apedagogical learning infrastructure that makes the lab useable by instructors with minimalpersonal administration, configuration and maintenance.The lab environments created in CLaaS are tied directly to specific learning outcomes and moregranular learning objectives defined in the

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Mentorship and Communication in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalena G. Grohman, University of North Texas; Matthew J. Brown Ph.D., Southern Illinois University; Nicholas Raphael Gans, The University of Texas at Arlington; Jeff Glenn Edwards, University of Texas at Dallas

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

, TX, USA Author Note:This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No 1902072.Authors are listed in the order of their contribution to the manuscript.Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be sent to Magdalena G.Grohman at magdalena.grohman@unt.edu.AbstractMultiple studies report the benefits of authentic research experiences in STEMeducation. While most of them focus either on course-based research projects oron undergraduate students’ experiences, few document authentic learningexperiences unfolding in real time among and between graduate students inresearch laboratories. Therefore, we situate our study in the context of authenticresearch experiences in

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Heather Lai, State University of New York at New Paltz; Graham Werner, State University of New York at New Paltz

of new and revised courses, including a new System Dynamics Lab. She has also worked with a number of SUNY students to investigate different aspects of 3D printed multi-material structures.Graham Werner, State University of New York at New Paltz Graham Werner is an assistant lecturer, who teaches engineering labs and lectures for the Division of Engineering Programs at SUNY New Paltz. He primarily develops curriculum for mechanical engineering laboratory courses, and is interested in promoting STEM education in local K-12 communities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing a Dynamics Lab on a Shoestring Budget Heather L. Lai and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, The Ohio State University at Marion

Paper presents adaption techniques for teaching second-year Electricaland Computer Engineering courses post-pandemic. Challenges faced by students and faculty willalso be presented in this paper along with some guidance and best practices. COVID-19 beganimpacting education in early 2020 and many land-grant universities were not fully equipped withthe tools to offer the best learning experience to students due to lock-down and inability to accessthe laboratories and teaching equipment. This global pandemic had caused the universities tochange their operations and impelled instructors to quickly adapt to online instruction. Manyuniversities began to invest their resources to explore teaching pedagogies that best fit the needsof their students

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #29057The Design and Impact of a Combined Makerspace, Wet Lab, andInstructional Design Studio for Chemical Engineering CurriculumProf. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory, capstone laboratory, first year design laboratory, and the introduction to chemical engineering. His research interests focus

Conference Session

M1B: WIP - Learning Experiences 2

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Dimitrios Bolkas, Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus; Jeffrey Daniel Chiampi II, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

Enhancing experience and learning of first-year surveying engineeringstudent with immersive virtual realityIntroductionThis paper, a work in progress, focuses on the application of virtual reality on first-yearsurveying engineering. Students enrolled in the surveying engineering major at Penn StateWilkes-Barre take SUR 111 in the fall and SUR 162 in the spring. These courses have anobjective to introduce students to surveying equipment and techniques for mapping. Bothcourses contain outdoor laboratories with extensive use of surveying equipment. Activities arefrequently affected by inclement weather (rain and snow), which leads to cancelled classes. Thisdisrupts the educational process and limits the time students spend with instruments