Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell J. Deaton; Michael J. Bartz

informal methods and through two formalall-teams meetings. The all-teams meetings were chaired by the instructors and used as informationdissemination and exchange between the companies. The specific details of each courses’ companies aredescribed below.Electronics Project As stated above, the students in the electronics course divided into companies with a design goalof producing a D/A converter that would meet their customers (the DSP teams) specifications. Theengineering teams were allowed latitude in their formal composition, but all teams were required to haveone project manager. Other identified functional areas included the following: 1. Design engineer: designs and constructs the laboratory prototype. 2. Quality control engineer

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Pumphrey, University of Cincinnati; Anna Hoessle, University of Cincinnati; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

filtrationtechnologies to simultaneously remove model microbiological contaminants is needed. Thus,the specific research questions to be addressed during the course of the MS degree are: (1) dofiltration technologies provide differential removal of viruses, bacteria, and protozoa?; and (2) doconventional measures of reductions in fecal pollution correlate to actual removal efficiencies forviruses, bacteria, and protozoa? To answer these questions, representative POUs have beenconstructed in the laboratory. The two technologies under evaluation include custom built slowsand filters and commercially available porous pot filters. As part of the laboratory-based study,existing cultivation and novel molecular biology based techniques are being employed toquantify

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Setting Student Safety Knowledge to PracticeAbstractIn a senior-year unit operations laboratory, students study the fundamental principles andpractical applications of Chemical Engineering through hands-on experiences. The injection ofsafety issues at multiple formative and summative evaluation points has been established topromote meaningful hands-on experiences with safety topics and is presented as a teachingtechnique for others to leverage. This paper describes how resources from the Chemical SafetyBoard (CSB), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) and the University’sEH&S program are interwoven into classroom discussions at the onset of the semester

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

Paper ID #12157A New Coastal Engineering Graduate ProgramDr. Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University Dr. Robert W. Whalin, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director, Coastal Hazards Center, Jackson State University. He is Director Emeritus of the Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1971 and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Whalin was Director of Army Research Laboratory (1998- 2003; Adelphi, MD), and Technical Director /Director of Waterways Experiment Station (1985-1998; Vicksburg, MS). He has

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamihzmani, Arizona State university

applications.Slobodan Petrovic, 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 Tamihzmani, 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

Topics in Energy Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaime Ramos-Salas P.E., University of Texas, Pan American; Emmanuel Benitez, University of Texas, Pan American; Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Council of Texas (ERCOT), and generate a report on the actual energyproduction revenue.In this paper we introduce a set of experimental laboratory exercises for undergraduate studentsto become familiar with these practices of Renewable Solar Energy.Hands on Experience for Students on an Energy Management SystemIntroductionWe have implemented a data acquisition/energy management system (DA/EMS) for a 5kWphotovoltaic array system. Our main goal with this system is to improve the education of ourundergraduate and graduate students about these arising technologies that are being implementedin our world today. Our DA/EMS has various hardware components including sensors, a dataacquisition interface, circuitry implementation, loads, and the

Conference Session

Thermal Sciences

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Lin, University of Southern Maine; James W. Smith, University of Southern Maine; Stephen Knittweis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

science, all from Penn State University. From 1967 to 1975 he worked as a physicist in the Corning Glass Sullivan Park Research Laboratory. From 1976 to 1986 he worked for GTE Sylvania in a number of capacities both as an individual contributor and as a manager. Since 1986 he has been associate professor of engineering at the University of Southern Maine.Mr. Stephen Knittweis Mechanical Engineering major with 25+ years experience in the HVAC industry. Page 23.302.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Combination Unit to Support Instruction in Thermodynamics, Fluid

Conference Session

CEIII Wrapup

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #6564Curriculum Exchange: ”Make Your Own Earthquake”Dr. Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB Dr. Seale earned the B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1981, the S.M. in Civil En- gineering from MIT in 1983, and the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from MIT in 1985. Dr. Seale is currently working as the Project Scientist and Outreach Coordinator for the Seismology Research Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara.Dr. Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University Dr. Thalia Anagnos is a professor in the General Engineering Department at San Jose State University, where she has taught since 1984. She also serves as the co

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Olson; Georgia Ehlers; David Lovelock; Ali Mehrabian

newspapers as well as alocal TV station.4. Lab Assessment and Design by Architecture StudentsAssessing UA labs is a joint project between Program ACCESS and the University of ArizonaCollege of Architecture. Each year 40 sophomore architecture students visit and surveylaboratories that lack adequate accessibility options and make recommendation on retrofittingand transforming them into “barrier free” laboratories. These visits are part of a project for astudio class required to be taken by all architecture students. The objectives of these experiencesare to train and expose the future architects to the accessibility issues and to increase theirawareness of the issues involving designing laboratories for students with disabilities. Theseprojects are

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

-private course web page and a course email listserve including all registered students. This technology implementation has been tested for asophomore-level strength of materials class for the purpose of improving the communicationsloop times between the students and professor and improving student satisfaction.The public portion of the web page includes a course outline, lecture and laboratory syllabi, dailyhomework assignments, examination schedules, and email access to the professor. The privateportion of the web page (available to only registered students with valid computer accounts)includes homework problem solutions, examination solutions, common laboratory data, andother potentially copyrightable course material. Hyperlinks are liberally

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dunning

that are utilized as electrical harnesses for FordAerostar vans. Class lecture time on PLCs alone is limited to three weeks, but laboratoryassignments cover four to five weeks. Figure 1 demonstrates an assembly station. Figure 1 - Lanco Assembly System - Station 1 Once students have mastered the basics of PLCs, we move on to DC machines. Asmentioned previously, we spend approximately two weeks covering DC machine theory. Then Page 7.1177.2we transition to power electronic devices used in DC machine control. We spend three weeks onpower electronics concepts and drive basics. In the laboratory, students

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard P. Coe, Thomas Edison State College

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

academic credit for all104 operating US nuclear electric energy generating facilities. This credit whenapplied to technical degree study can bring a candidate very close to achievingwhat has become not only a job requirement but the basis for future advancement.In 2011 Thomas Edison State College (TESC) did and in-depth review of 10nuclear utility occupational positions training and qualification programsaccredited by the National Academy for Nuclear Training. The positions rangedfrom operational to operational support positions. A TESC review team reviewedthe training curriculums, instructional strategies, laboratory and simulator training,testing and instructor qualifications. The utility laboratory training process, andespecially the on-the-job

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

Session 3563 Real World Learning in Distance Education John C. Anderson, PE Mechanical Engineering Technology Dept., Purdue University, 1417 Knoy Hall, W. Lafayette, IN 47909-6219 Ph. (765) 494-7526 email: jcanderson@tech.purdue.eduAbstractObtaining and maintaining laboratory equipment in technology courses is a constantproblem. This paper proposes an alternative to the use of simulation or to buying laboratoryequipment for a school laboratory, and uses a course in Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC) to illustrate the concept.With the reduction in pricing of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Josette Rice; Thad Welch

electrocardiography (ECG) and electromyography (EMG)signals. With the advent of real-time data acquisition and signal processing technology, it is nowmuch easier to develop instrumentation lab experiments for student use. The current hardware andsoftware enables our students to achieve highly accurate measurements, perform time domain andfrequency domain analysis, and store the data for subsequent use, analysis, and design. This paperdiscusses some of the methods developed for implementing these labs. We believe our techniqueshave greatly enhanced the ease of teaching and learning these important topics in instrumentation.1. IntroductionThis paper describes how student laboratories using data acquisition, measurement, and analysis ofphysiological signals has

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Hoop; Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

classes were recently involved in the redesign of a university laboratory site tofulfill the requirements of an architectural based design project. This project is a workingexample of how an interdisciplinary relationship between the Physics Department and the Schoolof Engineering Technology provided an ideal opportunity to support the practical goals of boththe ACE (Academic Common Experience) and the industrial format. To provide real-lifeexperience, students benefited from visits to the site of the proposed physics laboratory and apresentation by the laboratory director. Following the industrial model, student developedpreliminary design drawings based on the architect’s existing multi-layered AutoCAD workingdrawings. These preliminary

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Augustus K. Uht

this by teaching students to make key hardware/software tradeoff designdecisions. This is achieved with the following ICED components: 1) a 2-3 year long projectspanning six or more hardware and software courses; 2) required coursework including advancedsoftware topics such as compiler design, as well as a full slate of hardware courses; 3) the use ofmodern commercial EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools2; and 4) custom hardware3 andsoftware to enhance the laboratory experience of the students. Page 5.654.1ICED was begun in 1997 with funding from the National Science Foundation. In 1999 furtherfunding was obtained from the Champlin

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas F. Schubert Jr.; Kathleen A. Kramer

investigated in the exercisesare quantization noise, distortion, companding, and Nyquist's criteria for zero intersymbolinterference. These modules, which make use of interactive multimedia presentation techniques,can be used by the students within a computer laboratory, or be made available as web pages thatare internet-accessible. The exercises are appropriate for use as student laboratory exercises, as asupplement to hardware laboratory exercises, or as outside assignments for courses that do nothave a laboratory component. One significant advantage of these modules is that they allowmost of the student's effort to be devoted to understanding of communications systems ratherthan usage of a particular mathematical computation package. Another

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred E. McKenney; James A. Jacobs

. Scores of educators and industrial personnel have contributed 213experiments and demonstrations for demonstration then publication as NASA ConferenceProceedings. Through a collaborative effort among education, industry, and national laboratories,all of the experiments from the first ten years of NEW:Updates are now available for easy use onCD-ROM in the popular Acrobat Reader format; the same format used for the Annual ASEEConference Publications CD-ROM.This presentation provides an overview of the now completed Experiments in Materials Science,Engineering and Technology CD-ROM (EMSET CD-ROM) and a tutorial of how to use the CD-ROM to support teaching of materials science, engineering, and technology. The 213experiments and demonstrations are

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

"learning communities" introductory course. Thecourse is being offered for its second year at the company’s site, and has targeted a wide varietyof employees with little or no previous technical training, including sales and marketingpersonnel, account managers, and assembly group leaders. Topics include basic electronics,PCB layout and fabrication, and electronics assembly. Each lesson is accompanied by a hands-on laboratory experience in the classroom or on the production floor. The laboratory sessionscover topics such as basic electrical measurement techniques, printed circuit board design, andhands-on manufacture and assembly of a functional, mixed technology circuit board.The course allows faculty to interact with the design and manufacturing

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Aspnes

voltage and currenttransformers.2. The Laboratory Exercise2.a. OverviewThe original motivation for this laboratory exercise was a very interesting and useful paper byC.A. Gross and L. Thompson [1]. That paper describes an active filter consisting of a group ofinterconnected RC operational amplifier filters. The active filter has, as inputs, an arbitrary setof three voltage phasors which drive three inverting two-winding transformers that step theinput voltages down from 120 V rms to 7.5 Vrms (16:1 ratio). Six operational amplifiers have thenon-inverting input grounded, and the inverting input connected to an input resistor andfeedback components consisting of a parallel capacitor and resistor. The values of the tworesistors and the capacitor are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Relating Sociocultural Identities to What Students Perceive asValuable to their Professional and Learning Efficacy When Engaging in Virtual Engineering LabsAbstractVirtual, online, and digital learning tools can be used to provide equity in access to STEMknowledge. These tools also serve as the building blocks for personalized learning platforms. Theassessment instrument, Student Perceived Value of an Engineering Laboratory (SPVEL) wasdeveloped to ascertain the impact and efficacy of virtual and in-person engineering laboratories in21st-century undergraduate curriculum. SPVEL addresses an emerging need for assessingengineering labs that take place in a myriad of environments in higher education, i.e., in-person,virtual, and

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance W. Traub, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

to AE 314/315; the introductory experimentalaerodynamics laboratory course offered at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott Page 22.484.2campus. It is envisaged that the course design presented may be suitable for project orientatedexperimental courses with flexible learning outcomes. II. Course description The course consists of two 1 hour lecture periods per week and a 2½ hour laboratory. Formallecture based instruction typically constituted one of the lecture periods per week. At the time ofwriting, this course has been offered twice. Typical enrollment is approximately 10 to 14students. To provide students with sufficient

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

M. R. Smith

laboratories and open-ended questions in quizzes. Many 3rd year students are uncomfortable with the freedom thisapproach provides.Another factor is the change from the structured high-level language programming taught to 1stand 2nd year classes to the more unstructured format and steep, initial learning curve associatedwith assembly language programming at the 3rd year level. Experience shows that early quizzesproduce bimodal results with class averages around C/C-. This is very frustrating for studentswho will cotton onto the material later in the class. They can’t bring themselves to believe theinstructor’s verbal reassurances during the term that their marks will pick up and the final classaverage will be B/B- or better.A final factor in my poor

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

containing electronic devices to control signals5-7.4. Use PSpice to design and analyze electronic circuits.Network Analysis deals with a general introduction to elementary rules, theorems, and lawsapplicable to AC circuits. The course includes an introduction to differential equation modelingand analysis of linear circuits with sinusoidal inputs (power, phasors, impedances, andadmittances). A complete treatment of circuit analysis in the frequency domain (Bode plots,frequency response, Laplace transforms, and Fourier analysis) is included. Laboratory workemphasizes frequency response, circuit synthesis, and PSpice simulation/modeling. This includesbuilding and testing circuits to show and support theoretical concepts. Differential Equations

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He obtained a B.S. in engineering from Walla Walla University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research work focuses on the outcomes of globally oriented engineering education experiences. He has also been involved in the development of tools for the direct observation of pedagogy employed in laboratory teaching environments.Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University Asawaree A. Kulkarni, graduated from Purdue University's College of Technology with a degree of M.S. in Computer and Information Technology. She obtained her B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Pune

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Nippert, Widener University; Byung-Hwan Um, Widener University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

control group performed the actual hands-onexperiment and a test group performed a simulation using a Java applet that simulated the handson experiment. Students in both groups were given the same laboratory instruction andperformed the experiment either virtually or in reality. At the conclusion of the lab, they weregiven a brief multiple choice test about the experiment and the results of this test were compared.No difference was observed in the results of the tests. This appears to indicate that studentlearning immediately after the experiment was similar in both groups.Introduction and BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to determine if engineering students performing a simulation of anexperiment using Virtual Reality demonstrated similar

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Roemer, University of Utah; Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah; Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

,thermal power sources are emphasized as sustainable energy solutions and highlighted inlecture and laboratory experiences.A team-based design project reflects the sustainable energy theme. During the firstteaching of this course sequence we concentrated on energy storage in compressed air,which is used to propel an air-powered train in an end-of-year design competition. Theproject spirals the design methodology, communication, teamwork, programming,manufacturing and hardware skills acquired during the first year of our new curriculum.For example, students are introduced to the following new manufacturing tools andtechniques: CNC mill, CNC lathe, CNC router, vacuum forming and injection molding.The students continue to use Arduino

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

Division of Experimental and Laboratory Oriented Studies Session 1526 A Laser-Based Flow Visualization System for Fluid Mechanics Instruction John P. Crimaldi, Daniel W. Knight University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309AbstractAn interactive turbulent water flow facility and laser-based flow visualization system are used toreinforce fundamental concepts in the instruction of fluid mechanics. For this pilot study, thelaboratory instructional module was incorporated into a single topic within the curriculum of agraduate-level fluid mechanics course

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Willits

transportknowledge3. Topics include physical properties of the body and cells, solute and oxygentransport in biological systems, transport properties of blood, pharmacokinetic analysis,extracorporeal devices, and bioartificial organs. Throughout the course, it was essential thatstudents recognize the limitations of solving problems with fundamental equations and theimportance of assumptions when investigating realistic problems. Therefore, the objectives forthis course were: (i) to analyze mass and fluid transport both in the body and in bioartificialorgans, (ii) to create, fabricate, and implement a laboratory for introductory transport, and (iii) toimprove oral communication skills for scientific presentations.The text was used in combination with

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

DMC and comparisons to PIDare presented.IntroductionThe Online Widener Laboratories (OWL) is an online series of instructional modules forvarious aspects of Chemical Engineering written as JAVA applets running clientside(1,2). A portion of OWL is dedicated to process control including Model PredictiveControl (MPC) especially dynamic matrix control (DMC). Simulations of Single InputSingle Output (SISO) process and a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) process areused to illustrate and compare MPC to classic PID control. The modules illustrate bothDMC and conventional PID control of the same processes, allowing students to perform avariety of interesting and instructive process control experiments; several of which arediscussed in this