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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

systems that have historically been restricted to specific laboratory facilities. Thepaper’s presentation will demonstrate the pedagogical practices, the interactive materials, andaccompanying hardware/software that turn the Tablet PC into a mobile laboratory suite -integrating a function generator, multimeter, 5v power supply, and scope. A description of theinitial pilot project deployment is provided along with an explanation of how the student’slaboratory results will be integrated into a WebCT course management system (from connectionsto the hardware system) for automatic grading and review.BackgroundEngineering students are typically running multiple applications while simultaneously usingbrowsers, instant messaging and search engines on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

. Calc. III (3) MATH 320 Ord. Diff. Equations (3)PHY 231 Physics II (3) PHY 310 Modern Physics (3) 16 15WCU will initially assume responsibility for the two network analysis courses (EE 201 and EE202) as well as the Laboratory courses (EE 211 and EE 212). To complete the offerings, UNC-Charlotte will be responsible for the Digital logic course (EE 221) and the Engineering Designcourse (EE 222). In this manner, the students will have access to both faculties. The studentsresiding at WCU will have access outside of class hours to the labs and to mentors for allcourses.Admission standards to the program shall

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

paper describesthe major laboratory equipment and the implementation of online experiments that offerdata acquisition, monitoring, and control from remote locations. A front panel inLabVIEW displays the results and allows storage of acquired data for later processing.A digital camera that provides real-time pictures of the monitored equipment is part ofthe system configuration.IntroductionLaboratory development is a major task that faculty at institutions of higher educationare constantly addressing [1-3]. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (A&M-CC)recently established a new Control Systems Laboratory that provides interdisciplinaryeducational and research capabilities across several science and engineering areas.These areas include

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krohn

laboratoryexperiments/demonstrations, and 8 hours of facility tours.Grading for the course was based on laboratory reports, class participation, development of twoclassroom activity/lesson plans, and a class portfolio which included a daily journal of activities,impressions and reflections on lessons learned.While the primary instructors for the course came from the mechanical engineering faculty,every effort was made to keep the course at a level appropriate for the students, most of whomhad taken college algebra (sometimes several years ago!) as their highest level mathematicscourse. The class lectures were kept as informal as possible with lots of encouragement forquestions and discussions during the class.ContentA copy of the course syllabus/schedule for

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

paper presents the design and development of a generic control architecture that enablesover-the-Internet access to automated manufacturing equipment. The architecture has beendeveloped through a series of projects that have been conducted at the Integrated SystemsFacility (ISF) in the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla.The projects include Web-based applications for materials management, product design andmachining, robot programming, and programmable logic control programming. For eachapplication, a prototype has been developed and implemented in the course Emgt 334 ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing Systems as an E-Lab Suite for various laboratory applications.The concept presented in this paper offers a

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

engineering open houses.THE REU SITEFounded in 1923 as Glassboro State Teachers College, Rowan University has evolvedinto a comprehensive regional state university with six colleges. The College ofEngineering was initiated as a result of a major donation in 1992 from the RowanFoundation. The Rowan University College of Engineering has a brand new engineeringbuilding, including state-of-the-art equipment and computer resources, and a dedicatedand extremely competent faculty. Facilities such as seminar and lecture rooms,laboratories, computer rooms, audiovisual equipment and study hall space are located inRowan University’s state-of the art $28M Henry M. Rowan Hall. This newly constructedhome of the College of Engineering has a 92,500 sq. ft

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Livingston; James Squire

H-bridge motor controller and contact sensors) to the frame, and build the digital logic on the supplied solderless protoboard. The teaching pendent used for programming is shown to the right.II. Course ImplementationEE 101, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, is a two credit-hour course - one lecture hour andone lab hour - presented over 14 weeks. There is no text; all material is presented using lectureand lab notes. There are no tests or final exams. Student evaluation is performed via individualhomework assignments, team lab assignments, and a team project.The laboratory has six stations each consisting of a computer, an oscilloscope, a bench-top digitalmultimeter, a hand-held digital multimeter, a logic probe, a 32

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Ganago

tradition creates several steps of reassurance for thestudent that the material has been learned before grade points are given or deducted forthe results of this learning demonstrated on the exam.Surprisingly, this tradition is often defied in laboratory teaching. For example, it is not unusual tofind a laboratory assignment, in which the beginning students who were just shown anoscilloscope are required to make measurements using this new instrument, with a possibility oflosing the points for getting wrong results. The learning suffers when students are unsurewhether they are doing the right thing and whether their data make sense. Lack of reassuranceleads to unnecessary stress, shifts focus from learning to fear of losing points, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King

department) and related matters. The course was scheduled for a two-hour blockin the afternoon; students were informed that class each week would consist of a one-hourlecture or a two-hour laboratory visit. The topics covered in the course are listed below: • Basic medical nomenclature (construction of medical words, especially those relating to cardiology) • Overview of the evolution of the heart and structure/function • The heart as a pump, normal electrocardiogram generation, excitable tissue • EKG capture (in-class capture of student electrocardiograms, discussion while doing so) • General lecture on and demonstration of bioelectric signals • Lecture by a cardiologist on heart problems and electrocardiogram

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas H. Baxter

the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”the hand-sketching portion of the course. The last two weeks of the semester arededicated to work on a final project. The final project consists of a small assembly thatstudents create as a solid model and then document with a collection of engineeringdrawings. Each of the twelve lectures has an associated laboratory session where studentswork problems based on the lecture material. The laboratory sessions are two hours long.As EG&CAD is a one credit course, no additional work is assigned outside thelaboratory; the goal of the lecture and laboratory is to contain the course to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

more of one at the expense of the other? Also, in research, there is a growing trend ofmultifaceted partnerships involving academia, government, national laboratories and industries.Such partnerships in education are almost nonexistent. With changing societal needs anddemands, the way we educate and train the future generation of engineers will evolve. We willneed to integrate the latest research developments into students’ curriculum more readily andtrain students in a cooperative environment with involvement from industries. This will helpstudents appreciate the impact of their education on society and will also help develop skillsuseful for their future careers. This paper describes a novel curriculum development that grewout of what

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wells; Jeffrey Mountain; Donald Goddard

Session 2463 Integrating the Product Realization Process into a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum using Desktop Manufacturing Equipment Robert Lindsay Wells, Donald L. Goddard, Jeffrey R. Mountain The University of Texas at TylerAbstractThis paper describes how desktop manufacturing equipment can be used to help studentsexperience the full Product Realization Process, and understand how production considerationsinevitably impact the design process. Curriculum development has included the enhancement ofan Introduction to Manufacturing course with demonstrations and laboratory exercises, thecreation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Sidi Berri, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

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NSF Grantees

instructor to simulate real life product designactivities inside the classroom and laboratory. Not only were students exposed to the latest inmechatronics, they also learned the concurrent engineering design approach. Students were givena framework of fundamental design knowledge with hands-on cross-disciplinary activities thatallow them to develop an interdisciplinary understanding and integrated approach to productdesign. Through these hands-on activities, students will also learn the concept of productlifecycle management and sharpen their teamwork skills.Curriculums of the all three programs (mechanical engineering technology, electro-mechanicalengineering technology, and industrial design technology) will be modified to create cross

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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College Industry Partnerships

interests include the areas of reconfigurable computing, analog circuit design, and semiconductor testing.Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar is the Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he develops curriculum and laboratories in computer engineering. Prior to this he worked at Texas Instruments specializing in real time imaging systems. Dr. Shirvaikar graduated with his doc- torate from the University of Tennessee. He also has a M.S. degree from the University of Maine, and a B.Tech. from Banaras Hindu University, India. His current research interests include real time imaging and engineering education

Conference Session

Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Keller, University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily, University of Tulsa

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Instrumentation

instrumentation and measurement typically have two objectives: 1)introducing the students to essential and modern engineering instrumentation and 2) developingthe ability of students to plan, execute, and analyze engineering experiments. The projectdescribed in this paper encompasses all of these objectives and introduces students to practicalaspects of control systems. The multi-week laboratory exercise requires the students to interfacewith laboratory hardware and modern instrumentation with only limited guidance from theinstructor. The self-guided problem solving approach to instrumentation gives students a deeperunderstanding of the nuances and complexity of developing and implementing multi-componentinstrumentation systems. Additionally, the

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abed El Hameed El Madwar, University of Northern Iowa; Kenan Baltaci, University of Northern Iowa; Reg Recayi Pecen, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 22.923.5 Figure 3: Electronic Load EL200 1 Figure 4: Voltage Converter VC100 1ExperimentsThree laboratory exercises were introduced at the end of the Electric Circuit course that requiredconnecting the fuel cell system as shown in Figure 5. All students were undergraduate majors inthe EET program. A graduate assistant supervised twenty students to perform the experiment.The students were assigned as teams to perform the experiment on ten sessions that took abouttwo days. Each team consisted of two to three students. Although this system was not introducedin detail in the lectures, particularly the chemistry of the Hydrogen fuel cell, the authors believeit is a potential educational tool to extend

Conference Session

Materials Experiments, Labs, Demos, and Hands-On Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David S. Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Materials

,masonry, metals, wood, and other materials. With an enrollment of approximately 85 studentsfor Spring 2011, this course features two 75-minute lectures plus a weekly 3-hour laboratory.The laboratories explore material properties through design, placement, and testing and areconducted parallel with class topics to reinforce classroom instruction and enhance theprogression from one topic to the next. In fact, this parallel structure of the classroom andlaboratory program has proven essential to the course’s success in giving the students the abilityto link what is being taught to them during the weekly lectures to the laboratory work with thesame materials during the same week. Specific laboratory topics that are covered include: • Aggregate

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Wallace T. Fowler, University of Texas, Austin; Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

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Systems Engineering

Prerequisites for Capstone Design Abstract A NASA project to improve university design education curricula has resulted in the addition of an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering and a spacecraft subsystems modeling laboratory as prerequisites to the capstone spacecraft/mission design course in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The systems engineering course materials, created by the second author, are based on NASA systems engineering practices and available in the public domain on the internet (http://spacese.spacegrant.org). The current paper summarizes the content of the systems engineering course, as well as a companion lab on modeling spacecraft subsystems, and focuses on the positive

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Carreno-Castillo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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Women in Engineering

“boundary”metaphors that yield a rich lexicon of terms related to the complicated characterization andcategorization of ideas and values associated with engineering11, 14.Some of the faculty members’ language explicitly expresses the idea of boundaries: Two fulltime laboratory professors described they felt that their work was undervalued because theirclasses are not theoretical on their idea of boundaries within the school of engineering: “Here is a very strong tendency to consider lab classes as a lower degree or not as important as the theory ones, being a professor of laboratory does not mean we do not have the capacity to lecture a theory class, but we believe that we are not given the same opportunity that is given to the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hirak C. Patangia, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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engineering as a career path or for personal enrichment. He has written a textbook and a laboratory manual for the course ”Introduction to Electronics and Electrical Systems: A PBL Approach.” He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence at UALR, including the Donaghey Outstanding Teacher Award. He has also received recognition for re- search excellence from the chancellor and college. His research interest is in the general area of signal processing (analog/digital), and he is working on new approaches in inverter design and solar controller to improve efficiency of solar energy conversion. Another area of interest is engineering education research. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors from the Indian

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design effective and efficient part manufacturing methods and complete production systems for commercial and industrial products. The common theme for students is mastering process and system design procedures that are applicable to any product in any industry. Graduates have been successful in manufacturing enterprises that produce virtually every type of product, literally, from spacecraft to foodstuffs. Wells also leads in- novation teams in two engineering venues: product realization and transforming laboratory research into commercial products. Wells’ active research lies in orthopedics, micro-assembly, micro-machining, cir- cuit board process engineering, printed

Conference Session

K-12 Experiences in Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Sebestik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

integrate technology into K-12 classrooms. TCIPG is addressing the challenge of how to protect the nation’s power grid by significantly improving the way the power grid infrastructure is built, making it more secure, reliable, and safe.Mr. Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Quanyan Zhu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing and the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), working with Prof. Tamer Bacsar at the Information Trust Institute (ITI). He has received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from University of Toronto and McGill University, respectively and both in electrical engineering. He has been

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

applications of electronic components and controllers utilized on industrialequipment. Laboratory sessions focus on instrumentation, programming, downloading,and wiring discrete input / output devices.Specific Course Competencies of the course include the ability to: 1. Identify major applications of programmable logic controllers in industry, transportation, construction, and environmental control. 2. Identify, discuss, and describe the purpose and function of the primary components utilized in open and closed loop process control systems. To assist in this outcome, each student will develop an appropriate theoretical base, and a complete comprehension of the associated

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges I: Novel Approaches to Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2012-4579: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE TRAINING IN BIO/CHEMICALENGINEERING COURSESDr. Arthur Felse, Northwestern University P. Arthur Felse is a lecturer in the master’s of biotechnology program and the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His responsibilities include teaching, student advis- ing, coordinating master’s research training, and managing the biotechnology teaching laboratory. Before joining Northwestern University, Felse completed his postdoctoral training at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he was awarded a NSF fellowship. He and his colleagues at Polytechnic Institute received the EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2003

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Y. Ofoli; Mackenzie Davis; Craig W, Somerton

. Page 6.118.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationA set of course learning objectives has been developed and is shown below: With successful completion of this course the student should be able to do the following: • Apply fundamental theories of cognitive processes in the practice of teaching engineering students • Design effective lectures, laboratories, and assignments • Use appropriate methods to deliver course content • Design and apply

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Barnwell; Ronald Schafer; Joel Jackson; Douglas Williams; David Anderson; Monson Hayes III

tracks: DSP system theory,real-time implementation principles, and laboratory exercises. The theory and real-time principlesare presented in short lecture modules like the one shown below, while the laboratory exercises areperformed using a DSP development board attached to the student’s local computer. The use of aphysical development board allows more realistic laboratory exercises to be performed than woulda network-based simulation tool. Student interaction, instructor feedback, and course organizationare provided through the web interface. The student interaction and hands-on aspects of the coursemore closely approximate a university experience rather than a typical asynchronous web-basedtraining course.1. IntroductionThe rapid advancement

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Christopher Kobus

money over aspecified operating time. Heat transfer augmentation is encouraged as a means of being morecompetitive.In addition to the responsibility for design, teams are provided with the raw material and tools tobuild and test the performance of a prototype module of their recuperator design. In addition,along with a cover letter to the chemical company requesting the bid, each team submits atechnical report documenting their company’s proposed recuperator design.II. Background of the Class BodyThe Fluid and Thermal System Design class mainly consists of senior-level undergraduatestudents with a minority of graduate students. The course is a four-credit class, and involvesboth a lecture and a laboratory component. The lectures, however, do

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilya Grinberg

solving methodologies in methodologies advanced applications, ability to recognize a problem and to reduce it to a simple case from an introductory technical courseTo achieve the objectives of the introductory courses the following structure is used: 1. Simple problems from the textbook – but let the students choose numeric values. This provides for the sense of their ownership for the problem and allows to follow solutions from the book 2. More complicated problems. One problem covers one or more topics 3. Laboratory

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Willis Marti; Wei Zhao; Steve Liu

material server; and direct access servers. These servers aredesigned to provide remote users the feel and look of the user interfaces of the laboratorydevices, yet still prevent misuse of the VNL physical and logical components to affect theoperational networks. An additional resource configuration server is responsible forefficient and reliable (re)configuration of laboratory facilities. The MITB represents the first of what will be several exercise environments inthe VNL. Rather than have instructors assemble individual laboratory components foreach individual exercise, the VNL will provide pre-configured environments which canbe adapted for individual exercises with minimal effort. MITB contains four conceptualtiers: backbone

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

Session 1432 Interactive Modules for Electric Circuits Mahmood Nahvi, Professor California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractDigital simulators are familiar tools in the undergraduate teaching and learning environments. Inboth inanimate and live forms, simulators are used as tools for design, concept development,demonstrations, and supplements to laboratory experiments. We have developed computer-basedmodules for the circuits, signals and systems courses that provide maximum man-machineinteraction with minimum effort. For maximum learning effectiveness, the modules