Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen McNally, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

session of basicinformation can be conducted to provide all students with the necessary backgroundinformation. Laboratory or hands-on experiences are difficult to provide due to the largecost of the nanotech instrumentation, environmental conditions necessary and biohazardsassociated with nanomaterials. This report will present our efforts to develop ananotechnology curriculum within the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology at Purdue University.Introduction The interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology provides many exciting challengesin curriculum development. A number of courses1,2 and curriculums3,4 are beingintroduced at this time. Books on the subject have been published5-7 although few withthe feel of a

Conference Session

Case Studies and Engineering Education Around the Globe / International Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Kathryn Jenner, University of Florida; Sarah Jayasekaran, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

expectations3.Truss Bridge LaboratoryThe second portion of the lecture is a brief tutorial on basic engineering concepts as theyapply to a truss bridge. Some concepts that are covered include, but are not limited to,tension, compression, neutral axis, stress, strain, buckling, and deflected shapes3. Theseconcepts are related to the students through demonstration with a foam board anddrawings on the blackboard. The instructor conveys the purpose of the laboratory, whichis to design and build a truss bridge, in teams, that will hold the most weight and “cost”the least. Finally, the instructor discusses the main failure modes for the bridge, so thatthe students could apply the engineering concepts they learned to design a more effectivebridge. For example

Conference Session

SDR & Programming in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiping Zhang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-director of Broadband, Mobile and Wireless Networking Laboratory at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Wright State University.Dr. Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University Dr. Zhiqiang Wu received his BS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1993, MS from Peking University in 1996, and PhD from Colorado State University in 2002, all in electrical engineering. He has worked at West Virginia University Institute of Technology as assistant professor from 2003 to 2005. He joined Wright State University in 2005 and currently serves as full professor. Dr. Wu is the author of national CDMA network management standard of China. He also co-authored one of the first books on multi-carrier transmission

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

enhance both individual and team learning in these settings from both student andfaculty perspectives. The working premise was that Tablets have added benefit, in comparisonto laptops, since much engineering content consists of equations and diagrams, entry of which iscumbersome at best with a keyboard and/or mouse. A secondary objective was to ascertain howstudents would adopt and adapt to this new computing platform. Three distinct studies arediscussed in the following pages.Study 1: A First-Year Engineering Design LaboratorySince Spring 2005, Tablets have been utilized in the laboratory section of a first-year engineeringdesign course. This course is a requirement of our electrical and mechanical engineering majors.To date, ~250 students have

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2006-1431: INTEGRATING TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY USING COELIVEEce Yaprak, Wayne State University Dr. Ece Yaprak is an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at WSU. Her academic interests are in digital design and computer networking. Her research has led to seven NASA and one U.S. NAVY faculty fellowships and three NASA grants. Her professional experience at General Electric, the Ford Motor Company, and several NASA laboratories and the US Navy SPAWAR Center help her blend real world experience into her teaching. She has won three teaching awards in the College of Engineering. She has developed distance learning classes. She is an IEEE/TAC program evaluator

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Ketkar, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Secondly many programs in college had to redefine their goals andpublish in the catalog and on the university web site. Table 1. ELET Matrix Outcomes Measured in each Course in ELET Program required courses ABET Criteria Course Number and Title a b c d e f g h i j k ELET1111 DC Circuits Laboratory x x x ELET1113 DC Circuits x x x ELET1141 AC Circuits Laboratory x x x ELET1143 AC Circuits x x x ELET2221 Basic Electronics I

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hirshfield, Oregon State University; Jaynie L. Whinnery, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

student studying Public Policy at Oregon State University. She also holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State Univer- sity. Her research in engineering education is focused on student teams engaged in the Virtual Bioreactor (VBioR) Laboratory project. She is specifically interested in understanding the student-instructor interac- tions and feedback that occur during this project and how these factors influence student learning.Dr. Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University. Debra has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

, American Society for Engineering Education Before the authorization of the new program, a course entitled Digital Electronics (TECH4374) had been taught for some years in support of programs in industrial and engineeringtechnology. The course is typical of many undergraduate courses in the Department ofTechnology in that it requires two credit hours of lecture and two credit hours of lab per week, aso-called “2-2” credit-hour course. This relatively heavy emphasis on laboratory instruction is apotential strength shared by many existing technology courses in the department with regard tothe new Manufacturing Engineering curriculum. In the fall of 2001, we received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Course,Curriculum, and

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

Developing STEM Educational Grant Proposals: Best Practices David Jeff Jackson Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0286AbstractMany programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other funding agencies, have agoal of the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education. Funding opportunities exist for laboratory development and curricula reform insupport of improvement in student learning and STEM educational pedagogy. Understanding allfacets of the grant proposal process, from inception through proposal review and, ideally, togrant awarding is critical in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

electricalengineering class at Iowa State University. Discussion of classroom, laboratory, and out-of-classlearning is included, along with some of our results.IntroductionThe increasingly rapid growth of the various fields of engineering has led to great challenges ineducation, and many proposals have been made regarding changes in curriculum1-3. The needsof first-year university students have especially changed; quickly changing and evolvingtechnology demands more than ever that students continue to learn efficiently throughout theirprofessional career. To this end, a first year course must provide the student with a number ofobjectives:• Identify the scope of the particular field which he or she has chosen to study;• Begin to learn the process of

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Goddard

quality alloy that they can lateruse in practical applications.IntroductionAny student, having completed basic chemistry, would be ready for a first laboratory course inthe realm of Materials Science and Mechanics of Materials, which might fall anywhere from thefreshman to junior year, depending on the particular engineering curriculum. In such coursesthere is need for interrelated experiments which can give both depth and breadth ofunderstanding which can be built upon in other classes, such as Machine Component Design. Itis also very useful if such experiments should happen to be at the lower end of the cost range. Ahappy concurrence of these factors is to be found in threaded rod, which meets the ASTMSpecification A 193 Grade B71ASTM (American

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sreenivas Sathyanarayana; Saravanan Rajendran; Robert Bolton

. Taken as a whole, these systemcharacteristics provide an ideal modern laboratory setup for instruction in the use ofpositioning controllers and the development of supporting control methodologies.The development of several novel undergraduate laboratory modules devoted to the useand understanding of this modern servopneumatic system and implementation of fuzzybased control methods is presented. These modules include an introduction toservopneumatic systems, position control using a standard industry controller, NumericalControl (NC) programming, calibration of proportional flow control valve, results of animplementation of position control using proportional plus integral and derivative (PID)control and alternative control algorithms. The PID

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

inScience Programs to serve the needs of the growing service and technical industries in the area.The Manufacturing Technology program is but one of these efforts to develop workforce- Page 5.439.3training curricula in Brandon. A full time faculty position was created and space for the Session 3586laboratories has been allocated for the program. Additionally, HCC applied for, and wasawarded, a grant of $200,000 from the Florida State Workforce Capitalization Incentive Programto purchase equipment for a vacuum technology training laboratory and curriculum materials

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shafaat Qazi; Sam Gile; Mustafa Guvench

Session 1359 Automated Measurement of Frequency Response of Electrical Networks, Filters and Amplifiers M.G. Guvench, S. Gile and S. Qazi University of Southern MaineAbstract:This paper describes the design, operation and use of a PC controlled automated frequency responsemeasurement system using the standard bench-top test equipment available in undergraduateelectronics laboratories. The system described employs the waveform data acquisition and processingcapabilities of digital oscilloscopes to extract amplitudes (rms or peak), periods, frequencies

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvan Champoux

first time in the fall of 1997 to a class of 120 sopho-mores. The purpose of the course is threefold. First, it covers the basic knowledge associated toexperimentation. Second, several laboratories are used to enhance the understanding of thecourses content and to develop the students skills. Finally, the course is closely linked to a majorsemester experimental project. This paper presents a short description of the course content andhow the course was designed. It also demonstrates that the course is an excellent “integrator”that allows the students to link the knowledge covered in various courses. I. IntroductionA new mechanical engineering curriculum was introduced in 1996. This innovative curriculumis

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

overcome the third problem, availability of good resource material for teachinglaboratories equipped with Allen Bradley SLC 500 PLCs. The web site provides the followingprogram development support: 1) an introduction to the SLC 500; 2) an overview of thecommand structure used in PLCs and the SLC 500 in particular; 3) discussion of the hardwareinterface for the SLC family of modules; 4) SLC 500 command reference and definitionsaccessible by symbol, name, or command group; 5) command syntax and example ladder logicprogramming applications; 6) introduction to programming; 7) introduction to development ofhuman machine interfaces; and 8) laboratory exercises. The paper describes the developmentand use of this site in teaching introductory and advanced

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Baddock; Catherine S. Bolek; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 2793 A Collaborative University-Industry Agreement to Establish an Advanced Communication Laboratory Ali Eydgahi , Mohammad Fotouhi, Ronald Baddock, Catherine S. Bolek University of Maryland Eastern Shore/ University of Maryland Eastern Shore/ Amtek Company/University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractThis paper describes the details of a partnership and collaboration that have recently beencreated between University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Lab-Volt systems, and AmtekCompany. This partnership has been envisioned to meet several goals and objectives foreach partner. The individual goals when combined, benefit the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Magill

failure due to fatigue loading on cracked anduncracked structures, designing to prevent failure, analyzing stress corrosion cracking, andconducting ASTM standard tests. An outline of course topics and laboratory projects is includedin this paper along with detailed highlights of effective course activities. This paperdemonstrates that the topics of fatigue and fracture mechanics fit well with the mechanicalengineering technology (MET) curriculum and the MET student.BACKGROUNDThe course has two primary components: fatigue and fracture mechanics. This section provides abrief description of these two topics.The term fatigue, in the engineering sense, means the mechanical fatigue of materials. Allstructural materials (i.e. metals, timber, concrete

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Manojkumar Vilasrao Deshpande, SVKM's NMIMS, Shirpur, MS, India; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Innovation Centre; Prashant Pralhadrao Udawant P.E., SVKM's NMIMS, MPSTME Shirpur Campus

Tagged Topics

International Forum

program, student need to take course related programminganalyzed statistically. language. These courses are offered to student with further objectives: (1) Student must acquire fundamentalsThe proposed pedagogy incorporated hands on practice of programming languages (2) Student should have abilityin laboratories tailored with short theory sessions to learn software tools related to their discipline.(3)replacing conventional way of conducting theory sessions Student should have adequate skills of analyzingin classroom and practical sessions in laboratory requirement and developing engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

students are required to take an accompanying courseproduction design laboratory. During the pre-bench top era this laboratory course was offeredduring a summer session at the end of the freshman year. This format provided students with acommon laboratory experience. However, the summer laboratory experience lacked the capacityto correlate lecture materials with actual laboratory exercises. This disjoint provided stimulus forchange, and change did occur in the form of two concurrent course offerings. In response tothese changes each campus location of Penn State University offering the associate degree inmechanical engineering technology was required to procure equipment for these courseofferings. In conjunction with a grant received from The

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Daren Wilcox, Kennesaw State University

a challenging experience. In this paper, anembedded design project in an online only sophomore course is presented. The design project isbased on the EFM8BB1 from Silicon Laboratories. The EFM8BB1 is an 8051 seriesmicrocontroller that is self-contained, economical, and very student friendly. What follows is adiscussion of the sophomore course, an overview of the EFM8BB1, and an example of theproject design based on the EFM8BB1.1. IntroductionThe sophomore course referred to in this paper is the second course of the digital designsequence in the electrical engineering technology program at Kennesaw State University.Kennesaw State University was founded in 1963 as part of the University System of Georgia. In2015, Kennesaw State merged with

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

IMPARTING CONSUMMATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS ENGINEERING AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For consummate VLSI program, theoretical instructions must be complemented withadequate laboratory facilities in order to validate the design from its conception to thefinished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

Preparing Students with Industrial Collaboration in Meeting the Challenges in Engineering Design with Consummate VLSI Education Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For in-depth Microelectronics education, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities are requiredto complement theoretical instructions in order to validate the modeled microelectronicdesign from its conception to the finished chip along with its

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kanti Prasad

Preparing Students with Industrial Collaboration in Meeting the Challenges in Engineering Design with Consummate VLSI Education Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For in-depth Microelectronics education, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities are requiredto complement theoretical instructions in order to validate the modeled microelectronicdesign from its conception to the finished chip along with its

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

IMPARTING CONSUMMATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS ENGINEERING AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For consummate VLSI program, theoretical instructions must be complemented withadequate laboratory facilities in order to validate the design from its conception to thefinished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Zhanping You; Sanjeev Adhikari

. In the class lectures, the basic concept ofasphalt specification, mechanical properties and test methods are discussed. The sustainabilityconcept of the materials is also integrated in lectures. Homework is assigned to students so thatthey have the chance to bridge the concepts and practical problems. The most important parts ofthe class are the hands-on experiments in laboratory, and the sustainable material concepts inlectures. The relationship between students’ homework, exams, labs, and total grade are compared.Three semesters’ results are analyzed to improve the curriculum.IntroductionThe Civil Engineering Materials class (CE 3101) is designed for junior and senior undergraduatestudents. This class covers different materials such as

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Chance Glenn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2008-937: INCORPORATION OF BROADBAND ACCESS TECHNOLOGY INA TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMWarren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology Warren is currently a professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology at RIT and chair of the Telecommunications Engineering Technology program. He joined RIT in December 2000 after retiring from Bell Laboratories. He began his thirty two year career at Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in the Electronic Switching Division in Naperville Illinois. He was involved in a variety of projects at a variety of Bell Labs locations, including international assignments in The Netherlands and Germany. At the time of his retirement, he

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Materials

laboratory experiments are typical examples of active learning.Depending on the course objectives, the laboratory experiments are either of a cookbook typewhere students follow a set of instructions and all produce similar results, an organized projecttype where the instructions are not precise and allow for some creativity, an open-ended projecttype where the course instructor has a reasonable knowledge of the final outcome, or researchwhere neither the students nor the instructor know the final outcome of the experiments. Thedescribed experiment falls in the organized project type category since the given instructions arenot precise. In addition, the steps whereby students analyze the obtained results, compare themwith the results obtained by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Arunachalanad Kannan, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovich, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Arizona State University

Arizona.Slobodan Petrovich, Arizona State University Slobodan Petrovic is an associate professor at the Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus. He received B.Sc. in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He has over 20 years of experience in various areas of technology such as fuel cells, Si processing, catalysis, and sensors.Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Arizona State University Govindasamy Tamizhmani (Mani) is an associate professor of Department Electronic Systems and the director of Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory at Arizona State University. Dr. Mani has over 24 years of research experience and 7

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida; Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida

Laboratory for Medical Devices (VirtualMD Lab) at USF.Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida Kingsley Reeves is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department. In addition to engineering education, his core research interest centers on the creation of value across the extended supply chain. His current research focus is on inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaboration within the healthcare supply chain. Page 14.157.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Active Learning Experiences