Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriyel Nieves, Pennsylvania State University; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Tim Kane, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Shengxi Huang, Pennsylvania State University; Diego Penaloza, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Electrical and Computer

Signal Processing and Instrumentation Research Laboratory (ASPIRL) in the same department. His research interests include applied electromagnetics, antennas, cognitive radars, software- defined radio and remote sensing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress for Developing Project-Based Experiential Learning of Engineering ElectromagneticsI. IntroductionElectromagnetics (EM) is traditionally taught as a core course within the electricalengineering curriculum. The theory and application of EM has enabled engineersand scientists to develop applications such as Radio Frequency (RF) circuits,telecommunication systems, and radar systems. Similarly, scientists

Conference Session

Dynamics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hirohito Kobayashi, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Mechanics

Laboratory (VML), was developed based on Matlab® Graphic-User-Interface. VML was created as the kinematic information measurement tool to be used ina class project environment. In the project with VML, first, the student will capture a digitalvideo image of an object subjected to the complex motion with a high frame rate digital camerathat is widely available today. As the second step, the student will evaluate the kinematics,position and angle, of the object with digital motion tracking algorithm within VML. Thekinematic information deduced from the motion tracking can be exported as the data inMicrosoft® Excel format. The data can then be used to evaluate other kinematic informationsuch as velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, and angular

Conference Session

Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathon E. Slightam, Marquette University; Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette University

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Mechanics

Paper ID #12625Machine Design Experiments Using Gears to Foster Discovery LearningMr. Jonathon E. Slightam, Marquette University Mechanical Engineering Department Jonathon E. Slightam received his B.S degree in mechanical engineering and M.Sc. in engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Jonathon is currently a PhD stu- dent in mechanical engineering at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. From 2009 to 2014, he was a research assistant in the Rapid Prototyping Research laboratory at the Milwaukee School of Engineer- ing. In 2013 he was an engineering intern at Parker Hannifin’s

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

, Instrumentation, software development, and automation design. Page 26.271.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Automated Bode-Magnitude and Bode-Phase Frequency Response Testing ofAnalog Systems and Electronic Circuits Using Standard USB interfaced Test Instruments AbstractThis paper describes the design, operation and use of a PC controlled automated frequencyresponse measurement system using the standard USB-interface-enabled bench-top testinstruments which are now available in most undergraduate electronics laboratories

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Electrical and Control Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Brent Walter Reed

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Mr. Brent Walter Reed c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Facilitating Student Learning with Hands-on Projects in an Electronics Course in a General Engineering CurriculumIn a general engineering program at East Carolina University, an electrical

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Liaw, City College of the City University of New York; Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York

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Mechanical Engineering

curriculum.Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York Professor Ioana Voiculescu received a Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania, in 1997 in the field of Precision Mechanics. She finished her second doctorate in 2005, also in Mechanical Engineering, but with the emphasis in MEMS. She has worked for more than five years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC in the area of MEMS gas sensors and gas concentrators. Currently, she is developing a MEMS laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City College University. She is an IEEE member, an ASME member and a reviewer for IEEE Sensors Journal in 2004

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of St. Thomas; Adam S Green, University of St. Thomas; Jeffrey A. Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Marty Johnston, University of St. Thomas; Paul R Ohmann, University of St. Thomas (MN)

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Embedding computation with experimentation in the sophomore and upper-level Physics curriculumIn the University of St. Thomas physics department, we have begun an ambitious, collaborativeproject to embed computation and experimentation in five required physics courses that span oursophomore and upper-level offerings. The laboratory for our sophomore Applications of ModernPhysics course, which is a required course for all physics and electrical engineering majors, isbeing redeveloped to serve as an introduction to computer simulation. All of our students arenow expected to be proficient in a common computational language—MATLAB—which can thenbe used as a tool in upper-level courses. We are embedding MATLAB in large and small

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

ENGINE AND DYNAMOMETER SERVICE AND FUEL CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENTS Emin Y•lmaz Department of Technology University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853 (410)651-6470 E-mail: eyilmaz@mail.umes.eduABSTRACTThe goal of “ETME 499-Independent Research in Mechanical Engineering Technology”course is to introduce students to designing, manufacturing, debugging and testingmechanical systems. The goal of laboratory part of “EDTE 341-Power andTransportation” course is to service small and/or large internal

Conference Session

Embedded Control and Instrumentation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Y. Hung, Auburn University; Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Alex Wong, Digilent, Inc.

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Instrumentation

his role as one of the developers of the bachelor’s of wireless engineering program at Auburn University, which is the first of its kind in the U.S.Mr. Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.Mr. Alex Wong Page 25.788.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Instrumentation for an Embedded Control Systems Design Course Incorporating the Digilent Electronics Explorer Board ABSTRACTAuburn University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering curricula include a junior-year,laboratory-intensive course on embedded control systems design.[1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

supported by a National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education3 (ATE) Grant. The goals of the grant project are to: a) createand implement a new Associate of Applied Science Photonics and Laser Technology (AAS PLT)program; b) fully equip an Optics and Photonics Laboratory for education and training; c) trainfaculty to teach core courses in the AAS PLT program; d) perform outreach activities to localhigh schools to promote the new program; e) educate 30 or more students or workers by the endof the project.The paper discusses the efforts and activities performed towards achieving the project goals, andthe results and outcomes obtained in the first year of the grant. Activities included convening anAdvisory Board with industry

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Stanley; Daryl Beetner; Donald Wunsch; Rohit Dua

),memory elements, and sequential logic design. Students’ grades are determined by theirperformance on homework assignments, quizzes, and in-class examinations. A laboratory course(optional for all but EE and CpE majors) supplements the lecture by providing experiments thatinclude analysis and design using Mentor Graphics and FPGAs. While the laboratory is a veryuseful supplement to the lecture, almost half the students taking the lecture are not required totake the laboratory and there is not sufficient time in the laboratory schedule to introducesignificant design elements. In Fall 2004, hands-on group projects, for all students, wereintroduced to the lecture course. The goal was for students to develop a more practicalunderstanding and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

laboratory. The laboratory facilities accommodate study ofseveral computer networking hardware and software technologies.IntroductionThe large proliferation of communication and networking standards provides adaunting amount of material to present to the EET student in addition topresenting the traditional basics of communication theory. As with most areas ofelectronics even the so-called “traditional” basics of communication theory needgreater emphasis due to innovation in smart antennas, radar technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID), wireless networks and other advances [3].Lectures will at least touch upon some of the new concepts if for no other reasonthan to motivate the EET Student to learn more about these subjects

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers with microtrainerssystems. This approach has two deficiencies. First, students must be in the laboratory todebug real-time code and physically connect peripherals, leaving little opportunity forextracurricular experimentation. Second, treating only the microcontroller distances thestudent from the ubiquitous PC and its standards. A new approach to teaching computer systems and assembly language for sophomoreelectrical engineering students is being investigated at Auburn University. Due to curriculumrestrictions, the sophomore level course has no formal hardware laboratory. From the outset,four issues were addressed: treating PC-related issues via the 8086 microprocessor (ourtraditional approach), introducing embedded systems with simple

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

continuing to focus on these systems throughout thecore courses, we will establish a “thread” that connects all these courses and continually placesthe courses in context, something lacking in traditional programs. This concept of a “threadedcurriculum” has been explored previously in a laboratory context 5 and the extension to the fullcurriculum is viable. As an example, by considering a biological cell, a biological organ, achemical plant with reaction complexity (e.g. polymer production), a modern material production(e.g. electronic grade silicon, aluminum), and a commodity chemical process (e.g. NH3or H2SO4)in parallel, one can demonstrate the overall applicability of the approach exemplified by the ChEparadigm, and with these five systems

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

metersto provide an experiential, hands-on mechatronics laboratory for junior high, high school, andfreshmen engineering students. This paper describes the process used in the mechantroniclaboratory and many opportunities for using these engineering masterpieces.I. IntroductionElectromechanical watt-hour meters have been under continuous development since 1888, whenOliver Shallenberger and Thomas Duncan built a working model1. As a result of thisdevelopment, modern meters, such as the three-wire single-phase model shown in Figure 1, aremasterpieces of engineering design. These meters:• Operate with a registration error of less than 0.5 % over a load range of 0.5 to 100 percent of maximum load.• Maintain high reliability while withstanding direct

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Beams

SESSION 2320 Project TUNA—The Development a LabVIEW Virtual Instrument as a Class Project in a Junior-Level Electronics Course David M. Beams, Ph.D. University of Texas at TylerAbstractThe Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler has a required two-semester sequence in electronic devices and circuits. The second course of this series (EENG4409, Electronic Circuit Analysis II) includes a traditional laboratory component with exercisesin amplifiers, active filters, non-linear circuits, oscillators, and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

Session 2380 Studio style of teaching at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley and Maarij Syed Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractThe studio mode of teaching has been tried in the three introductory physics classes at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In this mode, students go through both lectures and mini-laboratories almost in every class session. As soon as a theoretical idea is taught, the studentsperform a related experiment, which verifies the concept. In this method, the traditionallaboratories are

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen

. Therefore,the upper-level physics curriculum was modified and course content was altered in order to addand codify the needed engineering content. This was developed collaboratively by all three EPfaculty, and includes: developing an “Engineering Physics Lab” to introduce concepts inexperimentation, modeling, design and communication; and incorporating engineering intocourses on classical mechanics, optics, and quantum mechanics. Additionally, a course onsensors has been created; engineering ethics appears throughout the curriculum; and the ModernPhysics laboratory has been altered to serve as a better “bridge” to the Engineering Physicsportion of the curriculum. This continuing development has been aided by feedback from ourstudents, graduates and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; George Abraham

Session 1359 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP OF A LOW DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE PERMEABILITY APPARATUS FOR CONCRETE SAMPLES Kevin J. Renken, George T. Abraham University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAbstractThis paper presents the results of a mechanical engineering senior design project that was carried-outin the Radon Reduction Technology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).The objective of the student's project was to design, setup and test an experimental apparatus tomeasure the air permeability coefficient of concrete samples under low pressure differences (∆p ~5 - 10 Pa) that

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Alexander; Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

Session 3375Synergy of Applied Research and Education in Engineering Technology Rainer J. Fink, Jay Porter, James A. Ochoa, Richard M. Alexander Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEngineering technology programs at Texas A&M University are housed within a College ofEngineering that enjoys ever-increasing success in research productivity. Faculty across thecountry who serve in engineering technology programs are often attracted to those programsprimarily because of their desire to devote most of their time working with students in theclassroom and laboratory, while minimizing the time devoted to research

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

books and materials used in the course are listed in References 1-10.This paper highlights the non-lecture activities used to support the topics above. The activitiesincluded vibration measurements in the laboratory and at our campus steam plant, solvingdifferential equations graphically using MathCAD in a computer laboratory, and noisemeasurements simulating machinery noise in a laboratory.Lecture TopicsTypical topics in vibration courses were introduced. In the applied context, students calculatedspring constants for helical coil springs, beams with applied masses, and torsional springs. Theycalculated natural frequencies for mass-spring systems such as equipment foundations includingparallel and series systems. The Fundamentals of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Flikkema

, synthesis and evaluation.These concerns have driven the development of a new laboratory and a senior-level electricalengineering course: EE 440 Embedded Control. Three major goals of the course are to ✁ spark students’ interest by connecting exciting real-world problems to abstract concepts, ✁ show students how seemingly disparate and abstract systems disciplines such as signal pro- cessing, communications and embedded systems design can be joined to attack important problems, and ✁ help students develop the cognitive skills that allow them to use systems principles in the development of new technologies and applications of them.More generally, we hope that this course illuminates other deep connections

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kemeny; Bryan Zeitler

. Interactivity is anotherimportant element of the engineering classroom experience. One of the challenges in developingthe online course was to develop an approach that can effectively capture these classroomelements. In addition, the rock lab provides a hands-on, kinesthetic experience for the students,as well as a writing experience in the form of laboratory reports. The second challenge was todevelop an innovative approach to capture these important laboratory experiences.Several innovative multimedia components have been adapted to meet the challenges describedabove. For the lecture portion of the course, an approach that utilizes streaming audio and vectorgraphics was adapted. The streaming audio comes from actual lectures, and animated

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winston F. Erevelles

Mathematics. Salient points of this paperinclude the original concept of laboratory integration for deeper understanding of the subjectmatter, the funding process, faculty collaboration, student grant proposals to obtain equipmentneeded for the project, and the design and integration of cell components.I. IntroductionThe manufacturing engineer of today and the coming century needs to be an individual with avariety of technical and interpersonal skills. S/he will serve her/his community in diverse rolesas technical specialists, operations integrators, and enterprise strategists. What industry needsfrom its graduate engineers is the ability to thrive in environments that are characterized bypeople working in multifunctional interdisciplinary teams1.At

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P Hesketh; Michael Carney; C. Stewart Slater

Session 3413 Ã $ )OXLGL]HG %HG 3RO\PHU &RDWLQJ ([SHULPHQW Robert P. Hesketh, C. Stewart Slater, and Michael Carney Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Session 3413 ChE Laboratories in the Next Millennium A unique experiment that can have a large impact on student learning and retention is thefluidized bed polymer coating process. This experiment, first developed for a NSF NovelProcess Workshop, is a highly visual experiment in chemical engineering processes andexperimentation

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jerz

-ended laboratory assignments were introduced to stimulate thinking and to add designcontent. Integration with other engineering courses was carefully considered. Improvements inthe classroom lectures and laboratory assignments were made. St. Ambrose University’s industrial engineering program is small and operates on alimited budget. The small budget presented a particularly difficult challenge in determiningwhich equipment and software to use or purchase. Course development has been financedthrough creative use of existing laboratory equipment, internal department funding, facultyredevelopment initiatives, educational discounts for software products, in-kind gifts, and low costupgrades of existing laboratory computers. It was discovered

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

University are introduced to engineering designthrough a series of hands-on engineering laboratories and design projects. The objective is toinvolve them in incrementally progressive design experiences. For example, students design amodified flashlight switch, a complete flashlight, undertake the design of proof-of-conceptexperiments, and finish with a system-level design of an environmentally friendly coffeemachine. Thus, the freshman design experience at Rowan specifically avoids “gimmicky”competitions and focuses instead on the design of real engineering devices such as flashlightsand coffee machines. In order to achieve this focus, freshman students must be exposed to avariety of engineering principles, experimental methods, and design tools not

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hanson

Session 2315 Early Experimentation with Civil Engineering Materials James L. Hanson Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractA new project-based teaching method emphasizing laboratory experimentation is being used atLawrence Technological University. It has excited and energized the students about civilengineering applications. Engineering concepts are introduced early in the students’ academiccareers using civil engineering materials. Laboratory activities related to a Civil EngineeringMaterials course are being used for outreach, recruitment, and an intensive laboratoryexperience

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley J. Pisarski

Session 2548 Impact of Simulation Software in the Engineering Technology Curriculum Stanley J. Pisarski University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil,Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Technology Many of the courses offered in UPJ’sEngineering Technology Program rely on laboratory experiments to supplement the lectures.Although there is no substitute for the experience that a laboratory environment provides,various software packages allow the user

Conference Session

Flaming Moe's Influence: Bio-Inspired STEM Explorations, Hot Stuff!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Quell; Cristian Robbins, United States Military Academy; Kathryn Blair Newhart; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Paper ID #42202A Summer Leader Experience for Rising High School Seniors – Integratingan Introduction to Environmental Science & EngineeringKimberly Quell, Kimberly Quell is a laboratory manager in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. She graduated with an M.E., Environmental Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2023 and B.S., Environmental Science, SUNY-Environmental Science and Forestry, 2010Cristian Robbins, United States Military AcademyKathryn Blair NewhartCol. Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy Colonel Andrew Pfluger, U.S. Army, is