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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

, and demeaning factory floor andrun (not walk) in the other direction.What is needed to turn these impressions around are exciting exposures to engineeringtopics in existing high school courses such as technology education, science, math andphysics. The purpose of this paper is to identify exactly one such exciting module thathas been successfully used to build bridges that link high school students to anengineering career path.Case StudyThe University’s relationship with a local high school began with a simple invitation totheir technology education teacher. When asked if he would be interested in bringing aclass to tour our Industrial Power Transmission and Control laboratory, our phone callwas answered with a slightly skeptical – perhaps

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin M. Nickels

Session 2532 Pros and Cons of replacing discrete logic with programmable logic in introductory digital logic courses. Kevin Nickels Trinity UniversityAbstractDigital circuit construction with small-scale integrated (SSI) and medium-scale integrated (MSI)logic has long been a cornerstone of introductory digital logic design laboratories. Recently, in-structors have begun replacing these projects with designs using complex programmable logic suchas programmable array logic (PLA) chips and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This paper

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communication skillsin the existing engineering curricula. Communication instruction has always been an important part of theuniversity education process but this current initiative strives to focus on the study and improvement of technicalcommunication skills throughout engineering coursework requirements. This reflects the need of employers forengineers with strong communication skills and the desire of our students to improve these skills. Three engineeringcourses have been targeted for the initiative: ENGR 1201 (Fundamentals of Engineering), ET 2371 (Metals andCeramics), and ENGR 1171 (Engineering Ethics). The first two courses have a laboratory component with writtenlaboratory reports and oral presentations while the third is a course created in

Conference Session

Simulations and Visualizations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Mark Randall, University of Southern Maine ; Mehrdaad Ghorashi P.E., University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

difference one strategy is to use activities like computersimulations and hands-on experiments where students can actually see the differences betweenthe two types of loadings.A search in the engineering education literature on the mentioned subject did not provide anyresult. Few papers that discuss related courses like materials science look at other issues likemaking homework more interesting1. In the field of chemical engineering there are many papersthat discuss various aspects of laboratory experiments. The majority of these papers discussissues like challenge-based learning, web-based teaching and multimedia laboratory manual2-4.In other references, the three methods of laboratory experience, i.e. simulation, hands-on andremote are discussed

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Best. Class. Ever.

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor M. Ugaz, Texas A&M University; Aashish Priye, Texas A&M University ; Yassin A. Hassan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

double-stranded target DNA, annealing ofprimers to complementary locations on the denatured single-stranded fragments, and enzyme Page 25.473.2catalyzed extension to synthesize the complementary strands.The predominant thermocycler design employed in most laboratories essentially consists of ametal heating block whose temperature is regulated by computer-controlled thermoelectricheaters. Unfortunately, this design is very inefficient because its inherently high heat capacityseverely limits the attainable heating and cooling rates and consumes considerable electricalpower. These problems are compounded by the low thermal conductivity plastic

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghu Korrapati; Nikunja Swain; Mrutyunjaya Swain; James A. Anderson

Session 1547 State-Space Analysis of Linear, Time-Invariant Control Systems Using Virtual Instruments Nikunja K. Swain, James A. Anderson, M. Swain, Raghu Korrapati School of Engineering Technology & Sciences (SETS)/School of Business and Technology South Carolina State University/Webster UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an innovative and cost-effective method of modernizing undergraduate technologyand sciences laboratory and education so that our graduates can be well trained with the latesttechnology. This will also help the technology and science programs

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranil Wickramasinghe; William Timpson

Society for Engineering Educationincluded practical applications of theory and was related to the sequel unit operations laboratorycourse which followed the next semester. In particular, it was decided to:• Include laboratory demonstrations thus linking the lecture course to the companion laboratory course.• Include team based group assignments that would prepare the students for the laboratory course and their future professions.• Solicit student feedback by conducting mid-semester course evaluations using an expert third party facilitator.The sequel laboratory course contains three fluid mechanics experiments: pressure drop in pipesand fittings, fluid flow meters and rheology. Modified versions of these

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gray; Christopher Timmons; Robert Hendricks

four-mask, nine-step nMOS process using 100 µm rules for use with 4-inch wafers that can be completed bystudents working in teams of four in six two-hour laboratory periods. Our masksets and theprocesses used were developed in less than a year, primarily by senior level students in materials,chemical, and electrical engineering.I. IntroductionVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, under the auspices of the VirginiaMicroelectronics Consortium (VMEC), the Bradley Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, and the Materials Science and Engineering Department, has developed an 1,800 ft 2Class 10,000 cleanroom for teaching the elements of the microchip fabrication process to amultidisciplinary cohort of students from all areas

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Meghann Norah Murray, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

reported a laboratory activity that incorporated various aspectsof nanotechnology. In the activity, undergraduate students produced working solar cells by spin-coating a conjugated polymer containing the fullerene C60 onto indium tin oxide (ITO) coatedglass slides and subsequently applying a metallic cathode.14 Undergraduate laboratory activitieson the dielectric and mechanical properties of polymers have been reported.15 In this paper wepresent another activity that we believe is suitable for physics and engineering students inundergraduate courses.16,17The paper is organized in the following manner. First, we present a brief outline of the physicsof OLEDs. Subsequently, we describe the organic synthesis procedures, the device depositionprocesses

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane F. Cotter, Union College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

laboratories with biometricsensors and software, introduces students to biometric systems and pattern recognition while alsogiving students another opportunity to more fully grasp the fundamental concepts of DigitalSignal Processing (DSP). Students are first introduced to biometric systems through thedevelopment of a speaker recognition system which ties nicely into the one-dimensional signalprocessing theory that they have already learned. Then students use image processing methods indesigning a face recognition system and working with a fingerprint recognition system. This isstudents’ first introduction to image processing and sampling, filtering, and frequency analysis intwo dimensions are covered.The application of signal processing methods to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

George H. Williams; James . Kenny

Electric Fund. One result is afirst-year curriculum that includes a new common course, “The Fundamentals of Engineeringand Computer Science.” The course is being offered for the third time in the 1998-99 academicyear. The catalog description of the course is provided in Appendix A; the course (ABET 2000)objectives and performance measurements are detailed in Appendices B and C.Union College offers undergraduate degrees in Civil, Computer System, Electrical, andMechanical Engineering. Material from each of these disciplines is incorporated in the first-yearcourse. The course includes basic lecture material with extensive handouts, reading assignments(from texts listed in Appendix D), economic case studies, and laboratory exercises that

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Pearson

Session 2323 An Interdisciplinary Junior Level Team Design Experience in Engineering Dr. James V. Pearson Division of Engineering and Technology John Brown UniversityAbstractThe course (EN3222, Design Laboratory, two semester hours, spring semester) describedin this paper was initiated in the spring of 1992 at John Brown University to providestudents with design-cycle experience and interdisciplinary team activities. Typically theteams of this course are formed with three students of engineering and two students ofgraphic

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy R., Jr. Craig; Edward McConnell

course occurred that was centered around the shift to digital dataacquisition through the use of virtual instruments (VI’s) based on the LabVIEW™ software.1This paper discusses the development of the VI’s used in the course, the laboratory exercisesthat comprise the course, and the improvements in student morale and report-writing skills thathave resulted from the restructuring of the course.1. Introduction Measurements and Instrumentation (M&I) is a 3-hour, required, junior-level course inthe Aerospace Engineering curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin. A confluence ofcircumstances occurred in the early 1990’s that led to a major restructuring of the course: theearly medical retirement of the principal course instructor; the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz A. Soysal

advanced engineering courses of a metropolitan university. Thedeveloped model is an economical way to extend engineering education possibility to remoteareas without loosing experimentation and design activities and student-instructor interactions,which are essential for technical education.Beside many advantages, distance education has also significant limitations in engineeringcourses with laboratory applications. Various surveys and observations have shown thatengineering and science students gain more thorough understanding of physical concepts if they Page 5.164.1actively participate in laboratory experiments. In fact, active experimentation is

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony J. Muscat; Evan D. H. Green; Emily L Allen; Linda Vanasupa

laboratory project is to build integratedcircuit devices on a 4" silicon wafer using a 5-mask pmos metal gate process. The short-termdesign experiments improve upon the existing IC process or develop a next generation process.In the lecture portion of the course both the unit operations needed for device building and theelectrical principles required for device testing are discussed. The cooperative learningenvironment that is created provides the knowledge content of semiconductor processing andstrengthens the oral and written communication skills necessary for success in industry. I. IntroductionMicroelectronic device fabrication is inherently interdisciplinary. The microelectronic circuitsthat have found

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Technological University students,employees of industry looking to improve their knowledge in robotics automation areas, as wellas students from another universities and colleges. So far, the developed “Robotics Automation”4 credit hours course has been offered twice. The first offering was conducted in a semester long,and the second one in the intense 2 weeks mode. Each offering included extensive hands-onexperience. A significant part of this course is devoted to introducing the basics of programmingindustrial robots using the ROBOGUIDE software package. After receiving sufficient off-lineprogramming training, students implement their knowledge and perform laboratory experimentsprogramming and operating a state-of-art LR Mate Fanuc Robotics

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

)microcontrollers.To meet the demands of this new trend we have decided to teach the Microchip 8-bit PICmicrocontrollers. However, before making this transition several factors such astextbook, hardware and software tools must be specified to implement the course in a realworking environment.In an effort to teach students the PIC microcontroller, the Electronics EngineeringTechnology Department has developed a course in which emphasis is directed towardsthe PIC microcontroller in addition to the traditional concepts of the MC68HC11. Thispaper will discuss the course outline, laboratory equipment, and embedded designexample with the PIC18F452 microcontroller.IntroductionElectronics Engineering Technology and Computer Science Technology curricula eachrequires

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New EET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

after the first few topics are covered, the instructorcan select which ones of the remaining topics will be covered and in what order depending onthe particular interests of the student s and instructor, the integration of laboratory experimentsand, in general, the focus for the course. 1.- INTRODUCTION : OVERVIEW O F SATELLITE 7.- THE SPACE S UB-SYSTEM SYSTEMS 2.- B RIEF D ESCRIPTION OF O RBITS 8.- THE EARTH S UBSYSTEM 3.- THE G EOSTATIONARY O RBIT 9.- A NALOG A ND DIGITAL SIGNALS 4.- PROPAGATION O F RADIO W AVES 10.- T HE SPACE LINK 5.- W AVE POLARIZATION 11.- INTERFERENCE A ND

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisle Hites; Eric Nauman; Edgar O'Neal; Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

focusing onteamwork issues, teaching style, students’ belief in their own abilities and desire to continue theireducation, peer interactions, and laboratory projects. While student perceptions are only one partof a comprehensive assessment program, they are certainly important. By addressing studentperceptions of core outcomes and fundamental pedagogical issues, TUBA should be relevant to arange of BMEN programs which offer a wide variety of specialized “tracks,” different areas ofprogrammatic emphasis, etc. Given that there exists a need for a measure such as the TUBA, thefollowing sections will describe the development and subsequent validation and reliabilitytesting that has been thus far performed.Development of the TUBAIn keeping with the

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New EET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani; Abul Azad

adequate instruction coverage for this area ofstudy. As a result, a laboratory component was added to support student training.Most modern power electronics and machine drive circuitry are semiconductor-basedtechnology. Nearly all solid-state devices, such as diodes, transistors, thyristors, MOSFEETs,and IGBTs are covered in basic electronics courses. Thus, students eligible to enroll in theelectric machine course should be ready to tackle advanced topics. During the development ofthis course, good efforts were made to avoid abstracts and general field theory that requiresadvanced math and calculus. Instead, basic electric circuit analysis was used to explain machinebasics with some trigonometry and algebra. This applied approach was found to be

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

Education; many classes and workshops are presented in conjunction with theseconferences as well as stand-alone activities. Some may even be available on campus forinstructors.This paper will discuss practical applications of active and collaborative teaching techniques whichcan be used in the classroom with little to moderate preparation. In addition, the paper willdescribe various activities the author has collected which can be used to increase lecture and labinvolvement in the lecture and laboratory material without costing excessive classroom time. Thepaper should be especially of interest to new educators and instructors looking for ways to beginintroducing interesting and useful techniques into their lectures. This will not be an exhaustive

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

6-year traditional collegepreparatory school with a diverse student population. The course is nearly identical to theIntroduction to Engineering sequence required of beginning engineering students at The OhioState University, but has been modified to be taught over an entire school year instead of two10-week quarters. Fifty-nine students are enrolled. A math teacher and a science teacher atWalnut Hills High School are team teaching the course during the 2001-02 school year withsupport from OSU faculty and staff. A grant from General Electric provided the funds topurchase laboratory equipment, textbooks, and software for the course. In addition, the grantsupported the high school instructors’ preparation to teach the course.This paper was

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

Session 1613 Fundamentals of Fixed Bed Adsorption Processes: Analysis of Adsorption Breakthrough and Desorption Elution Curves. James M. Becnel, Charles E. Holland, James McIntyre, Michael A. Matthews, and James A. Ritter Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29205IntroductionFixed bed adsorption processes are ubiquitous throughout the chemical process and otherindustries. This laboratory is an extension of a lab proposed by Cruz et. al. (2000), which isdesigned to allow students to

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephen C. Donnelly; Savanah G. Godwin; Nghi K. Ngo; Kaleb B. Manley; Edgar C. Clausen

performed to collect experimental height vs. timemeasurements that were compared to model data generated from a Bernoulli balance and themeasured discharge coefficients. The experimental and model data agreed very well,demonstrating the validity of the procedures used in the experiment and in the development ofthe model.Keywordslaboratory, fluid mechanics, experimentation, modeling, tank draining, orificeIntroductionThe undergraduate laboratory is an essential part of the engineering curriculum because itintroduces the student to engineering equipment and hands-on activities while illustrating manyof the concepts that are taught in the classroom. At the same time, lab is often used to buildimportant soft skills such as teamwork and oral and written

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Nafiseh Mohammadianaftah; Sara E. Wilson

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Mechatronics Education: Exploring Inertial Measurement Units Through Hands-on Learning Mohammadianaftah, Nafiseh and Wilson, Sara E. Mechanical Engineering, University of KansasAbstractInertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are commonly used in many devices, from exercise trackingwatches and cell phones to aircraft and space vehicles. These sensors include triaxialaccelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers. In a mechatronics course taken by upper levelundergraduates and graduate students, a set of laboratory exercises was created to provide hands-on experience and practical exposure to the operation

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

measure response, and their mobile phone turns out to be a very good tool for this.Finally, they need a way to solve for the dynamic response of the structure based on an arbitraryblast loading and you happen to have introduced a spreadsheet implementation of Newmark’smethod. All the pieces are in place; let’s see what the students do!This paper describes the implementation and results of a blast loading experiment using aircannons and the resulting student responses. Exam performance was comparable to students in aprevious offering without the laboratory. Laboratory reports provided insight consistent withprior studies of problem-based learning and that support theories that experimentation labs maybe more effective than verification

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Advancing Online and Hybrid Learning in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mona ElHelbawy, University of Colorado Boulder; eric bogatin, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #44351Introductory Circuits and Electronics Remote Labs: Design, Implementation,and Lessons LearnedDr. Mona ElHelbawy, University of Colorado Bouldereric bogatin, University of Colorado Boulder ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Introductory Circuits and Electronics Remote Labs: Design, Implementation, and Lessons LearnedAbstractIn this paper we describe our re-design and delivery of an Introduction to Circuits andElectronics core undergraduate course at the University of Colorado Boulder. The courseintegrates take-home laboratory experiments designed to foster deep learning

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim

Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas R. Marrero

   Project-based Learning: Centrifugal Pump Operations Thomas R. Marrero Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe a new project-based experiment on centrifugal pumpperformance and operation. A low-cost modular, table-top centrifugal pump system wasdesigned and constructed for use by undergraduate chemical engineering students. The use of thepump system resulted in an increased hands-on experience. Laboratory activities includedgenerating pump performance

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

Engineering Technology School of Technology and Professional Studies Goodwin College Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104AbstractEngineering Technology (ET) is an undergraduate degree program at Drexel University(DU). Several innovative laboratory components are integrated in MET 205 Robotics andMechatronics (a 10-week upper-level undergraduate course) to achieve maximumeffectiveness in teaching multi-disciplinary concepts in emerging fields. The primaryeducational objective of the course is to introduce students to the multidisciplinary theoryand practice of robotics science and technology, integrating the fields