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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference
Authors
Farouq Alhourani
Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects
Collection
1996 Annual Conference
Authors
Kelin Kuhn
Proceedings II. Logistics As can well be imagined, allowing the students to self-select a design project within the broad area oflasers is a logistical nightmare. For the first few years, the last four weeks were hellish. However, as the classevolved, I began to develop better ways of managing the self-selected design projects. Some successful tricks include: 1. A dedicated room for the projects (the Photonics Teaching Laboratory)4 2. A well-established system for inventory management 3. Making past projects available as posters, Xerox copies, and (most recently) Web copies 1. The Photonics Teaching Laboratory The EE 488 class is managed as part of the Photonics Teaching Laboratory. The
Conference Session
DEI and Other
Collection
ASEE Southeast Section Conference
Authors
Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute
Tagged Topics
Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers
hours. Also, thenumber of actual hours spent in the lab at VMI varied from 25 to 42 hours with an average of36.4 hours during the period from 1936 to 2016 [2]. There has never been a period when labswere not viewed as essential to the VMI civil engineering program.Educational theory has supported the use of laboratories as effective teaching techniques [3].Laboratories promote active learning and reduce the probability that students will passivelyreceive knowledge. Images and activities are more easily remembered especially if they arevivid and appeal to the senses [4]. Most laboratories require interactions among students andprofessors and force them to actively work with the principles under investigation. Teachingassistants are also commonly
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2000 Annual Conference
Authors
Matthew A. Dettman
included utilizing this laboratory as an extension of WKU’s materials laboratory. SinceScottys office is close to campus and they have a fully equipped classroom within theirlaboratory for the training of their own personnel, it became an ideal place to teach constructionmaterials related courses utilizing their state-of-the-art equipment. This virtually doubledWKU’s laboratory space related to construction materials and allowed students and facultyaccess to more modern equipment than currently available in the existing laboratories withouthaving to purchase and maintain any new equipment.In addition to the laboratory and teaching space, the gift funded release time for the facultydirector of CETAC to actively engage in applied research
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees
demonstration video for PEEK training in addition to the paper-based tutorial. Visual training should be more efficient than paper-based material for the purpose of equipment operations.2. Make a teaching assistant available at an easily accessible location a few hours per week after the laboratory/lecture meetings. Last time, the TA met and helped students more on campus during afterhours than they used online “office hours”.3. For students in the first electronics course, requiring only the use of portable virtual equipment (rather than using both the portable and bench-top versions) might be preferable in order to reduce confusion. Once students grasp a set of tools, it should
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly
exposure toinstrumentation due to the need to share equipment, teaching assistants must be properly trainedto ensure effective instruction, and many universities simply cannot afford to maintain moderninstrumentation readily accessible to students.6 More readily utilized, economical laboratorysolutions that address the above issues are needed to improve conceptualization of thefundamentals of dynamic systems and their control. To address these issues, three inter-university laboratory formats utilizing virtual systemsand remotely-accessible experiments are being developed to complement the MechanicalEngineering curricula at UTPA and UTSA. The laboratory formats provide inexpensivealternatives that are more readily accessible and available
Conference Session
Materials Science for Nonmajors
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Aaron Blicblau
Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical
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2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock
modules in science and engineering. This work ranges from basic courses suchas physics [18], statics [19, 20], dynamics [21], thermodynamics [22], strength of materials [23],and engineering economy [24], to advanced topics such as finite element analysis [25]. One areathat has received considerable attention is manufacturing with some work done on laboratoryapplications [26, 27] and other work on using multimedia simulations to teach design [28]. Somework has also been done in the area of environmental engineering [29 - 31].The topic of trying to supplement or replace basic engineering laboratories has also been studied.The concept of virtual engineering laboratories was introduced for electric circuits at Vanderbilt ina paper by Mosterman et al
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Steven W. Peretti; Richard M. Felder
, some preliminary theory, and minimal information about the types of behavior they are to observe and analyze. The groups are required to seek out relevant references, develop a rationale for their experimental design, and work out appropriate data analysis. The teaching assistants are instructed to be circumspect when faced with questioning regarding experimental design, but vigilant regarding potentially unsafe practices.2. Hands-on experimentation is augmented with process simulation. In some experiments computer simulations are used to model the experimental systems and then to explore “what-if” scenarios far more extensively than time would permit in a conventional laboratory.3. Structured cooperative
Conference Session
Labs and Experiments
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Dee Clay, Ohio State University
Tagged Divisions
Chemical Engineering
a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (14), Natalie (14), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Leading an Effective Unit Operations Lab CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the logistics and unique learning opportunities present in supervising aUnit Operations laboratory course. Specifically, the paper outlines some best
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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne
resource allows instructors todistribute course information, lecture notes, handouts, papers, and laboratory data to students.Group pages are created to allow laboratory groups to communicate and transfer data to oneanother. The first author currently teaches a junior level civil engineering materials course at theUniversity of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. This course has been taught withand without Blackboard™ assistance. The course CE 3141, Materials Testing Lab, is taughtmore effectively as a result of distributing course materials and data online. Laboratory groupsprocess data and develop laboratory reports without meeting through online groupcommunication and file download capabilities. This mode of delivering materials to
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New Trends in ECE Education
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU
educationresearch and contribute considerable knowledge in the area of using simulation technologyfor learning and teaching enhancement in engineering higher education.Methodology The current research effort has two complementary tracks. The first of these is aquantitative study to examine the differences between the two groups on their scores on post-test as well as follow-up measure. In addition, the quantitative section examines thedifference in terms of lab completion time. The physical lab group performedcommunication systems laboratory exercises using traditional hardware laboratory and thesimulation group used simulation software for performing similar laboratory exercises on thesubject of modulation and demodulation. The second track is
Conference Session
Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University
Tagged Divisions
Environmental Engineering
-designed laboratory experiment. Journal of College Science Teaching, 269-270.21. Krivickas, R. V., & Krivickas, J. (2007). Laboratory instruction in engineering education. Global J. Eng. Educ, 11(2), 191-196.22. Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2001). The miniature guide to critical thinking: Concepts & tools. Foundation Critical Thinking.23. Bean, J. C. (2011). Engaging ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom. John Wiley & Sons.24. ASEE Connections 2016. Female Enrollment by Discipline; Teaching Global Development, March 24, 2016. 14
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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Juliana Danesi Ruiz, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Phillip Deierling
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)
the instructors. Thus, the hands-on laboratories provide an experience-based learning opportunity. In the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa, the robotics classesare designed to teach students the basics of robotics and robotic kinematics. Robotics is a verylarge interdisciplinary field with multiple job opportunities ranging from programming tomanufacturing [5]. Given the overwhelming breadth of potential material, the class of interest inthis study primarily focuses on teaching students the basics of robotics with respect to anindustrial setting. The topics covered include three-dimensional (often nonlinear) concepts likerotation matrices and forward kinematics. Since the class consists exclusively of
Collection
2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Karen S. Hays
and habits of prudent behavior in the laboratory so thatsafety is a valued and inseparable part of all laboratory activity.1In 1997, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas began thedevelopment of laboratory safety training for all undergraduate students participating in theinstructional laboratories. Over the past eight years, this program has expanded. Initially, thetraining consisted of a simple one hour session for undergraduate students, focused primarily onHazard Communication and the departmental lab rules. Now, the laboratory safety programincludes safety seminars held monthly for all chemical engineering graduate students, trainingfor the instructional laboratory teaching assistants and periodic reviews
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2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Ahmad Ibrahim
lectures.Developing such laboratories can be expensive and time consuming; global cooperation throughthe Web can ease these difficulties. Currently, excellent virtual laboratories are available throughthe Web at no cost or obligations, but their educational potential is not fully used globallybecause the Web looks like a huge disorganized library; useful material is there but accessing itcan be frustrating and time consuming 11. The work presented here would make some of theexcellent and freely available Web virtual laboratories more accessible for teaching and learningElectronics. It is important, however, to keep in mind that virtual laboratories do not achieve allthe objectives of laboratory exercises mentioned earlier and have to be used wisely. It is
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1996 Annual Conference
Authors
Ph.D., M. Zoghi
.— - . . Session 3215 . .. . . . USE OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO ENHANCE THE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION l M. Zoghi , Ph.D.Abstract The integration of personal computers in teaching the geotechnical engineering courses including thesoil mechanics and foundation design, as well as soil mechanics laboratory will be described herein. Inaddition, the potential use of microcomputers in undergraduate and graduate special projects as part ofindependent studies will be
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1999 Annual Conference
Authors
Walthea V. Yarbrough; Sarah J. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Hugh Fuller; Laura Bottomley; Mary Clare Robbins
inculcate engineering problem solving strategies whileallowing students to inductively discover the approach used by various engineering disciplines.The structure for E497F was based on the large lecture format used in E100 (six sections perweek; 175-190 students per section) with an added laboratory limited to 48 students. Thelaboratory alternated with the E115 computing class. In any given week, approximately onehalf of the students were in E115 and the other half in the laboratory. Each lecture section wasassigned one faculty member and the laboratories had two undergraduate teaching assistantseach (selection and responsibilities are described below). The course carried one credit hourand was letter graded. The lecture component (including
Conference Session
TIME 1: Controls
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
John-David Yoder; Michael Rider; Juliet Hurtig
MechatronicsLaboratory, Journal of Engineering Education. 86(2):113-118.[9] Johnson, Stanley H. et al, 1995. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Controls Laboratory, Journal of EngineeringEducation. 84(2):133-136.[10] University of Texas, http://www.me.utexas.edu/student/courses/me244l.shtml[11] California Polytechnic State Institute, http://me.calpoly.edu/Labs/LabsMain.htm#Controls[12] University of Notre Dame, http://www.nd.edu/~msen/Teaching/IntSyst/Description.html[13] Jack, Hugh. Teaching Mechanical Students to Build and Analyze Motor Controllers. Session 2666,Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2003.BiographyDR. JOHN-DAVID YODER is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently holds the LeRoy H.Lytle Chair at
Conference Session
Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 5: Strategies for Increasing Classroom Engagement
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tooran Emami, United States Coast Guard Academy
, "Teaching Sustainable Energy and Power Electronics to Engineering Students in a Laboratory Environment Using Industry- Standard Tools," IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 173-178, August 2015.
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Monica Mallini
broad range of topics, includingelectrical energy, analog circuits, combinational logic, and digital circuits. Teaching a survey course in electricalengineering to a class with no prerequisite engineering knowledge except introductory calculus poses a considerablechallenge for the instructor. What is the objective of such a course? Where does one begin? How can the material becondensed into twenty-five 50-minute lectures? Why should a non-engineer want to acquire this knowledge? Becauseengineering is much more than book learning, theory is reinforced by laboratory exercises in circuits and digitalelectronics. Typically, the students have no prior hands-on laboratory experience. The laboratory component seeks tomeld the familiar (computer
Conference Session
Approaches to K -12 Engineering
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Dennis Coon, University of Wyoming; Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; John Pierre, University of Wyoming
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
semester of the Freshman year. While the course does not require a textbook, a number of textbooks, including [4] and [5], are available for such a course. Associated with [4] is a laboratory manual available on the internet describing a series of experiments.‚ Thinking and Doing Mathematics: Engaging today's youth in mathematics and science is the foundation for sparking their future interest in the fields of engineering and science. This is the motivation for "Thinking and Doing Mathematics," a program that helps teachers learn more hands-on approaches to teaching mathematics through engineering and science. Participating teachers attend a ten day workshop at the university. The university’s colleges of Engineering
Conference Session
Virtual and Distance Experimentation
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Javad Hashemi
procedural steps and required significant guidance from the instructor.ConclusionInteractive software is an excellent tool to prepare the students of laboratory courses forthe actual experimentation period. Our results show that the students can learn theobjectives and the procedure of the experiment in a more meaningful manner whenexposed to such software. The software can be accessed by the student at theirconvenience and can be viewed as many times as the student requires.AcknowledgementThe support of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) is gratefullyacknowledged. Also, two of the authors (JH and EEA) gratefully acknowledge thepartial support by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and LaboratoryImprovement Program
Conference Session
Simulation
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale
Tagged Divisions
Computers in Education
components in theircurriculum; theory components are carried out during traditional lectures and practicalcomponents are carried out during traditional laboratory settings. In a traditional lectureenvironment, the professor teaches in-class, in-person and supports the lecture materials withtextbooks, and lecture notes. In a traditional laboratory environment, the students conductexperiments, collect data and report their results under the guidance of their professor. Thesetraditional approaches have proven to work very well to educate engineering students. However,with the continuously increasing student enrollment, many educational institutions can’t findadequate laboratory space and equipment to meet the demand. In addition, students
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2009 GSW
Authors
Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng; Richard Chou; Yongjin Kwon
: design, construction, and measurement [2]. Dedicatedlaboratory courses have been the successful vehicle to provide the hands-on experiences at someuniversities, such as the University of South Florida (USF) [3], with tremendous success. Whilethe idea of a dedicated laboratory course in microwave engineering is attractive, it is difficult tointegrate such a course into an emerging curriculum with limited resources. The BaylorElectrical and Computer Engineering Department is in a period of significant growth, but atpresent, the department faculty numbers a mere eleven, with only two members presentlyteaching RF/microwave and electromagnetics courses. A second issue that must be tackled ishow to teach both passive and active circuit design
Conference Session
E-Learning in Chemical Engineering
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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tiffany Hesser, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven
Tagged Divisions
Chemical Engineering
reactions and chemical hazards, information onglassware set up, procedure and waste disposal.To assess the effectiveness of using Web based lectures to prepare students for the weekly labs,data has been obtained from laboratory instructors, teaching assistants and laboratory assistantsof how the lectures have impacted students’ preparation. Feedback has been obtained throughstudent surveys following the completion of the labs, questioning students about the usefulnessand ease of using a web program for pre laboratory lectures, if the video method is preferred tosupplemental readings or if it helped to enhance instruction from the text.Overall, the research proved to be a useful tool in saving laboratory instructors and students’time, while
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1996 Annual Conference
Authors
Kelin Kuhn; Blake Hannaford
amplitude and frequencycharacteristics of the damped oscillation on an oscilloscope.5 Page 1.162.4 Philips Electronics has been kind enough to donate units to us each time we have run this laboratory. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings 8. Suggestions for implementation The most difficult part of teaching a consumer electronics class is obtaining sufficient backgroundinformation6. We found that the minimum set of information is probably K. Pohlman's book7, IEC 908 and101498, and a subscription to IEEE Spectrum, CD/ROM Professional9 and PC magazine10. 9
Conference Session
Curriculum Exchange
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Alison Lynn Fielding, Centennial High School, Boise, ID; Dale Brown, Boise State University; Richard Livingston, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Boise State University ; Curtis Heishman, Boise State University; Louis Nadelson, Utah State University; David Estrada, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
Paper ID #11248Production and Characterization of Graphene and Other 2-dimensional Nano-materials: An AP High School Inquiry Lab (Curriculum Exchange)Mrs. Alison Lynn Fielding, Centennial High School, Boise, ID Mrs. Alison Fielding teaches Advanced Placement Chemistry and College Preparatory Chemistry at Centennial High School in Boise, ID. She earned her BS in Earth Science Education from Boise State University in 2013 with a minors in Chemistry. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Science degree in STEM from Boise State University. In an effort to explore new pedagogical approaches she worked with Boise State
Conference Session
First Year and Cross-Disciplinary
Collection
ASEE Southeast Section Conference
Authors
George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia
Tagged Topics
Professional Engineering Education Papers
Disciplines George Prpich and Natasha Smith University of VirginiaAbstractEngineering Laboratory courses are used to teach many of the core professional developmentcompetencies that are required of engineering graduates. Safety is one competency that is highlyvalued by industries (e.g. petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, aeronautical) that hire from a varietyof engineering disciplines, but is not commonly taught across the disciplines. In this paper, wediscuss a work in progress to transfer safety pedagogy from a Chemical Engineeringundergraduate laboratory to a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate laboratory. First, wepresent results from a baseline safety culture survey that
Conference Session
Student Teams and Active Learning
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz
learning. Through close interaction with teammates,with other students working on different projects, and with the instructor, they worktowards understanding and applying the theory, techniques and skills necessary tocomplete the project; hopefully successfully.References[1] American Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission,Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2003. (accessed at www.abet.org)[2] Wankat, P. C., and P. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993.[3] Lyons, J., and E. F. Young, "Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solving andDesign of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course", Journal of Engineering Education, pp.109-112, January