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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Robert Adams; H. Bora Karayaka

Session ETD 305 Mobile Lab Bench to Promote Engineering and Technology Education in Sustainability Topics – Year 1 H. Bora Karayaka, Robert Adams School of Engineering and Technology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USAAbstract“Demonstration” and “Discussion” are two important learning tools that effectively promotestudent retention and comprehension as outlined in the famous learning pyramid of the NationalTraining Labs (Figure 1). In a laboratory setting where resources are limited to accommodate allstudents, these tools together can be the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yewande S. Abraham, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

allocation and management.5. Understand and use tools to monitor the progress of construction projects in terms of both schedule and budget.Active Learning Techniques Used in the CourseA previous offering of the course involved techniques such as informal groups, case studies,guest lectures, and peer review. Laboratory sessions were an integral part of the course, and theyinvolved working through practice problems and creating schedules in Microsoft Project. Thestudents followed step-by-step in completing the exercises and they were given take-homeassignments. In-class exercises such as creating network diagrams and line of balance scheduleswere completed. The students work in groups on a real project to develop a constructionschedule. Students

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Mark Patterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, etc.). If we can successfully consider all these layersof course design separately then (hopefully) changing laboratory equipment suppliers fromMicrochip to Freescale, with the concomitant change of computer architectures, involves onlychanging one of several major aspects of the course, rather than re-designing the course againfrom scratch. Within each layer most RLOs would be kept and others would be created. Objectscreated at the learning objectives layer would most likely be similar from one iteration of thecourse to another and need little change. Objects at the organization layer would change slightlyduring a course redesign, but not significantly because the basic theories which govern ourcourses do not change that rapidly. Objects at

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey; Shou Rei Chang, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2007-2248: COMPARISON OF THE STRENGTH TO WEIGHT RATIO OFVARIABLE SECTION BEAMS WITH PRISMATIC BEAMSBijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at TCNJ and currently serving as the chairman of the department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science. He is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. He served as the Program Chair of ASEE Division of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS) in 2005-06 and is currently chairing

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Coutermarsh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Don Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and software (developed by Rensselaer) which, when connected to the PC via aUSB port, provides similar functionality to an oscilloscope (with a full 50KHzbandwidth), 2 function generators, a multimeter and bipolar power supplies (for less thanthe cost of a typical textbook – approximately $80). With the advent of this mobileinstrumentation studio PC-based laboratory, many instrumentation-based course offeringscan now be held in normal classrooms rather than in specially outfitted facilities. Inaddition, students are asked to perform hands-on experiments outside of the classroomanywhere/anytime, thus facilitating new opportunities for them to “tinker,” to gainvaluable insight through practical experience and to rekindle the passion for

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa Guvench, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

span the field of microelectronics including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumentation and measurement. Page 12.1132.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Optoelectronic Device and Fiber Link Characterization in Computer Integrated Electronics Laboratory AbstractThis paper describes how automated measurement capabilities of a Computer-Integrated

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 11.413.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Design your own thermodynamics experiment, a problem-based learning approach in engineering technologyAbstractThermodynamics is a difficult course for many undergraduate students in engineering.Engineering technology students usually struggle with the abstract concepts used inthermodynamics because they are often difficult to relate to everyday experiences. So,one may ask: What is the best way to teach thermodynamics in engineering technology?What topics should be covered? How should laboratory activities be organized andaligned to enhance the learning process?These are some of the critical questions thermodynamics instructors face and shouldaddress to ensure

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Maixner, U.S. Air Force Academy; James Baughn, University of California-Davis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2004-2005 and 2005-2006 academic years. Page 12.1369.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Psychrometry to Undergraduates by Michael R. Maixner United States Air Force Academy and James W. Baughn University of California at Davis AbstractA mutli-faceted approach (lecture, spreadsheet and laboratory)used to teach introductory psychrometric concepts and processesis reviewed. During introductory lectures, basic thermodynamicprinciples

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

-up opportunity at Boise State University. He was the first EE faculty hired in the newly created College of Engineering. He initiated several university/industry partnerships to design, fund, construct, and equip the Idaho Microfabrication Laboratory and was the director of this lab for the first few years after it opened in 1998. He became ECE Department Chair at Tennessee Tech University in 2006, where he implemented ”The 20/20 Vision” for improved curriculum, research funding, lab facilities, and engagement with indus- try and alumni. Since 2010, Dr. Parke has been the Engineering Program Director at Northwest Nazarene University, in Nampa, ID and Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research spans the

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

/technologycourses and demonstrate the relevance of engineering work to enhance their motivation andretention. The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focuson ‘just-in-time’ theory relating to the concepts central to accomplishing the project goal. Theprerequisite for the course has been kept at a minimum to make the course accessible to diverseuniversity majors including students from education. National Science Foundation is supporting anew focus of the course to include education majors and pre-college teachers. A preliminary studyof the effect of the course on recruiting and retention is included.IntroductionThere is a general decline in engineering technology enrollments in many state institutionsincluding our

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

A Model for Increasing the Number of Undergraduates Acquiring Skills in Computational Science Stephen U. Egarievwe, Janine A. Lafayette, Cathy R. Martin, W. Eugene Collins Informatics and Computational Science Laboratory Fisk University, Nashville, TN 37208AbstractThis paper presents a model that we have successfully used to increase the number ofundergraduates that are acquiring skills in computational science. This model involves theexploration of computational science by freshmen, involvement of undergraduates ininterdisciplinary computational science research, preparation of students for summer internshipsin computational science and related areas, and

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

laboratories. These efforts have been primarily supported by two successive NSF NanoUndergraduate Education (NUE) projects. Our first activity for enhancing nanoscience andnanoengineering education was to introduce simple concepts of nanoscience and technology intoexisting required undergraduate engineering courses. These modules covered the core conceptsof nanomaterials and unique phenomena at the nanoscale. Introducing the concepts ofnanoscience and engineering at this early stage of undergraduate education was found topositively impact student interest in registering for a technical elective nanotechnology coursethat we developed as our second initiative. An interdisciplinary 3-credit nanotechnology course(Nanotechnology I) with a significant hands

Conference Session

Embedded Control and Instrumentation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

experiencepresented here, employs under-utilized educational-grade process control equipment to crossoveras training tools for a microcontroller course. The emphasis here is on the ability to sense andcontrol the process with the microcontroller rather than the control theory itself.The laboratory space used for the microcontroller laboratory classes at (school name here) alsoserves as the control and automation laboratory. Contained within this laboratory, are severalBasic Process Rig model 38-100 trainer stations manufactured by Feedback™. Figure 1 shows aphotograph of one of the trainer stations. The trainer is comprised of rugged mechanical(plumbing) and electrical hardware that can easily be reconfigured for various water processcontrol demonstrations

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach

of and entire control systems in the laboratory “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1793A difficulty in teaching this course involves enabling students to relate the lecture and textbookmaterial to the laboratory experiments. Specifically, textbooks1,2,3 provide equations to modelthe dynamics of a system, assuming physical characteristics are available such as moments ofinertia, spring constants and gear ratios. They also provide both classical

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

. The Digital Information Age (3)Prerequisite: Category B2 General Education course. An introduction to commonplace digital information systems for non-majors.Information sources. Digital logic. Computer hardware and software. The Internet and the World Wide Web. (Lecture 3 hours.)Traditional grading only.CECS110. Introduction to the Internet (3)Prerequisite: Some computer experience. Provides a general overview of computer systems, networking, and the Internet. World-Wide Web, email, telnet, ftp, newsgroups, finding information on the Internet, and basic Web page creation. Considers legal, ethical,privacy and security issues on the Internet. (Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours.) Traditional grading only.CECS200. Introduction to Web Design (3

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirk D. Dolan, Michigan State University; Yinjie J. Tang, Washington University; Wei Liao, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. His extension appointment to assist the MI food industry gives opportu- nities to visit many food factories and hold workshops on various food safety issues. His research and teaching are in thermal processing, inverse problems, and parameter estimation under dynamic conditions. He teaches an undergraduate engineering class on biological fluid processing and a graduate engineering class on numerical techniques and parameter estimation using MATLAB.Dr. Yinjie J Tang, Washington University I did my PhD in chemical engineering at University of Washington. I worked on DOE GTL projects during my postdoctoral period in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Dr. Jay

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

computing tend to be difficult for beginning freshman and sophomorestudents. This difficulty is reinforced by the use of cheap simulators as opposed to hands-onmicroprocessor development tools. The faculty at DeVry University is developing new hands onapplication-oriented laboratory exercises which can actively engage students. These laboratoryexercises will also be helpful to students who will take capstone senior project coursework.The use of carefully crafted laboratory exercises is very important in exposing engineeringtechnology students to microprocessor projects. The previous assembly language laboratoryexercises were used in a two-course microprocessor sequence taught over a fourteen weeksemester. The newer three-course microprocessor

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

outcomes or intended learning objectives. The second is the set oftopics included in each area. The third is the laboratory exercises included (if any) in each course.Part of the exercise of preparation for ABET is to be as specific as possible, without listing items that cannot or willnot be measured. While some of the items are certainly included in a course, they are not stated because they are notgoing to be measured in the particular course at the particular institution. Where “Not stated” is used, the materialmay well be covered, but not measured for ABET purposes.Electric MachinesElectric Machines Course Outcomes BSC RIT UPJIdentify types, characteristics and components

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantinos Panayiotou; Yu Song; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

Session No. Teaching Digital Filter Design Techniques Used in High-Fidelity Audio Applications Venkatraman Atti, Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Yu Song E-mail: [atti, spanias, costasp, yu.song] @asu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering, MIDL Lab Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA AbstractThis paper presents web-based computer laboratory experiments and related assessment results fordigital filter design modules that have recently been integrated

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

. Casestudies are small to mid-range out-of-class assignments based on the analysis of data obtainedfrom senior-level design and laboratory courses, graduate theses, and reports from the literaturesuch as NACA reports.. Through the application of the case studies, students learn design anddata-analysis methods for real engineering systems using real experimental data in traditionally“lecture” courses. Furthermore, those case studies developed from the senior lab courses providea bridge between the last two years of the undergraduate curriculum. The case studies motivatejunior-level students by exposing them to experiences that will come in the senior year, and ingraduate research.IntroductionStudents in undergraduate lecture courses are often surprised

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

facultyposition and hydraulics laboratory equipment. Despite an increasing financial hardshipencountered by many of state-assisted universities in Ohio, the YSU Board of Trustees approvedthe plan as one of the two initiatives successfully submitted by academic units. A full-timefaculty position in the Mechanical Engineering Program was authorized and a faculty was hiredin Fall 2002.PACER GrantIn September 2002, the University announced a solicitation of proposals for the third and lastaward of the PACER (Presidential Academic Centers of Excellence in Research) that started in1996 to promote a high level of research and give a moderate financial support for the initialthree years to the selected centers. A successful proposal for the development of

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses withexposure to content in areas such as mechanics, electrical phenomena and programminglogic. In addition the course contributes significantly to the development of timemanagement, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills. Page 9.1025.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationIntr oductionTeaching and learning may be enriched by integrating new technologies in theengineering curriculum, particularly in laboratory-based courses. Traditional pedagogicalapproaches of teaching theory before

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

undesirable waybefore the systems responds—but now a vision-based system may allow preemptive actions tobe taken before the vessel reaches the wave. Recent laboratory model tests investigating areactive ride control system show the impressive heave, pitch and acceleration reductions; theseimprovements may be further enhanced incorporating a proactive wave-sensing system.After an extensive literature review on vision-based wave sensing was conducted, it was revealedthat many unsuccessful attempts to sense waves in a laboratory setting using stereo vision havebeen documented. However, several concepts contained in the literature such as threedimensional imaging prove to be useful background information. A novel laboratory tank-testing methodology was

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Asif Shakur; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi

. Table 1: Course Descriptions ENEE 204 Basic Circuit Theory — 3 cr.Basic circuit elements: resistors, capacitors, inductors, sources, mutual inductance and transformers; their current-voltage relationships. Kirchoff’s Laws. DC and AC steady-state analysis. Phasors, node and mesh analysis,superposition, Thevenin and Norton theorems. Transient analysis for first- and second-order circuits. Prerequisite:MATH 321. Co-requisite: 182H. ENEE 206 Fundamental Electric & Digital Circuit Lab. — 2 cr.Introduction to basic measurement techniques and electrical laboratory equipment (power supplies, oscilloscopes,voltmeters, etc.) Design, construction, and characterization of circuits containing

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Guerci; Douglas Baxter

teaching staff to run EG&CAD for 750-800 students/year has always been achallenge. EG&CAD runs twelve to twenty sections each semester; concerns aboutequality of instruction and evaluation between the sections always existed. Over the lastten years, several methods of instruction and teaching material have been developed tohelp ensure the uniformity of the learning experience for the students[2][3][4][5][6][7]. In thelast year, the focus of the course development has been on providing intervention tostudents who struggle in the early lessons[2]. In this paper, the software implementationdeveloped to provide students with immediate feedback to their laboratory work isdiscussed. By writing macro programs in Visual Basic and taking advantage

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Djafar Mynbaev

and mathematics. Thegraduates of engineering schools traditionally work as researchers, developers, and designers ofnew devices and technologies. Engineering-technology school graduates are more practical-oriented; the courses require less theory and are more descriptive. Engineering technologyeducation emphasizes extensive laboratory work. Graduates of such schools work primarily asmaintenance and control personnel, operating with existing equipment rather than creating newequipment. However, today industry has changed the traditional approach to design and maintenance.These changes are characterized by a dramatic shortening of the design stage and, moreimportant, by a consideration of the maintenance requirements of new equipment at

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffery S. Thomas, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Richard H. Hall, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Timothy A. Philpot, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas R. Carroll, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

possible inthe traditional lecture-and-textbook class format. The study described in this paper examines theeffectiveness of asynchronous online video that has been used in various ways in a Mechanics ofMaterials course over the past four years. The content delivered via the Internet includedconcept videos, problem-solving videos, and videos of demonstrations and laboratory activities. In this study, four differing approaches to present the Mechanics of Materials course toapproximately 1000 students in 17 course sections over a four-year period were compared. Thefirst approach involved traditional, face-to-face lectures. The second approach completelyreplaced the face-to-face lectures with videos recorded by the instructor outside of the

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Adams, University of Kentucky; Jens Hannemann, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

that evaluation, reassess and refine their work. 6. Recognize the importance of group collaboration, including oral and written communication.EE101 ScheduleThe new three-credit course was designed for a Tuesday/Thursday meeting schedule (1.5hrs/meeting). Tuesdays’ meetings consisted of lectures (by instructors and studentgroups), in-class exercises, quizzes, and exams. Thursday meetings were devoted tohands-on laboratory work.The course schedule for Fall of 2011 was structured as follows: Week Lecture (Tuesday) Lab modules (Thursday) 1 (8/24 – 8/26) No lecture Speaker + AM radio 2 (8/29 – 9/2) Intro to ECE

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

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

expenditure of some organizational energy, the focus of TECH-4 EducationalConsortium was on the creation of a technical educational structure that would be compatiblewith the existing community college and university system. This effort lead to a multiyearmillion dollar proposal with industry match to NSF's Advanced Technology Education Division,ATE. Grant partners are Brevard (Melbourne), Hillsborough (Tampa), Seminole (Sanford), andValencia (Orlando) Community Colleges; along with the University of South Florida (Tampa)and the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and Cirent Semiconductor (Orlando). Theawarded grant crossed the boundaries of three ATE areas (Curriculum and InstructionalMaterials; Teacher and Faculty Development; and Laboratory

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

as for more effective utilization of scarce researchhardware resources, with the ultimate goal of having such experimentation become a ubiquitouscomponent of distance education and research. The first step towards this objective consisted of implementing, as a prototype, a methodwhereby students studying Control Systems are able to conduct experiments on a small windtunnel system located in the UTEP Controls laboratory while off-campus via the Internet usingonly Web browser software and to view (near) real-time data from that experiment the sameway. Specifically, this allows the remote user to vary the PID controller gains and then monitorthe effect of such variations on the dynamic response of the air velocity in the wind tunnel