Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Knickle

environment. Some other concepts are integrated into the course such as design for manufacture, reverse engineering and new products. All freshman engineering students at the University of Rhode Island enrolled in the first semester one credit module. Most of the engineering students will take the second semester course of two credits. Faculty from every department have volunteered to teach this course and work together in a high performance team. The team plans the course, develops the assignments, teaches the course and provides feedback and revision of the course. Undergraduate and graduate mentors help in the computer laboratory. Last year we taught a pilot scale course involving three

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

Instructional Resources for a Technician-Level Plasma Technology Course David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstractText materials, training systems, and supporting laboratory exercises have been developedby Portland Community College to support a technician-level course in plasmatechnology. Faculty workshops are planned for 2003 and 2004 to equip communitycollege faculty to teach technician-level courses in plasma technology. The project isfunded through an Advanced Technological Education Program grant from the NationalScience Foundation.IntroductionPlasma technology, although not as pervasive in the wafer fab as vacuum technology

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gwan-Ywan Lai; Laura L. Sullivan

Session 2526 A POLYMER PROCESS OPTIMIZATION CENTER: INTEGRATION OF NSF AND INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT Laura L. Sullivan and Gwan –Y. Lai Kettering UniversityINTRODUCTIONThe Polymer Processing Laboratory at Kettering University has enjoyed tremendous growth incapability over the past four years. Four National Science Foundation ILI Grants have providedfor microprocessor controlled injection molding, stereolithography, capillary and on-linerheometry, and tensile testing. Funding from the Society for Manufacturing Engineering hasresulted in the acquisition of mold temperature

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Lawrence Chatman, Camden County College

contents.CONCLUSIONThis paper presents a collaborative effort by the faculty of the Electrical and ComputerEngineering department at Rowan University and the Engineering Science department atCamden County College to integrate SoC concepts across the curricula. In particular, thepaper addresses the activities of reconfiguring and developing courses at CCC tofacilitate their students’ transition to major in ECE at a 4-year educational institution.These newly developed or modified laboratory-oriented courses not only teach studentsbasic ECE principles, but also give students skills and tools necessary to advance theirknowledge in SoC.ACKNOWLEDGMENTThis work is supported under a Course and Curriculum Laboratory Improvement grant#0633512 from the National Science

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Jantzi; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

stack [5, 13]. Hardware exercises may include building a network from a collection ofindividual pieces of hardware such as cables, connectors, network cards, computers and routers[1, 2].Comer [5] describes a large set of laboratory exercises that can be used in various networkingenvironments, with an emphasis on Internet programming and the protocol stack. Al-Holou [3]suggests using simulation tools as a supplement to computer network curriculum, with theadvantage of such tool being the flexibility, allowing the instructor to alter network parameters,hardware and software with relative ease. Hill and Mayo [8, 10] present cases where an isolatednetwork is needed to teach network security issues. Abraham, Bressan, Francia, and Mengel [1,4, 7, 11

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

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

Collection

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

Conference Session

Conceptual Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morris Girgis, Central State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-solvingcompetencies has been developed. First, an engineering conceptual and procedural taxonomywill be presented. The taxonomy is organized into seven taxa and three cognitive levels.Further, an exercise of conceptual and problem-solving analysis will be performed on a spring-pulley problem. Using this analysis, a model of a CPI was developed. An assessmentinstrument was then constructed to aid in the placement of students at their appropriate levels ofthe taxonomy. A sample laboratory assignment will be presented to show how such hands-onexperiences could effectively complement the classroom teaching activity. Finally, preliminarytesting results and concluding remarks will be reported.II. Development of the Conceptual and Procedural TaxonomyA. The eed for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Tian-you YU, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; James Sluss, University of Oklahoma; Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma; Phil Chilson, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma

AC 2009-2426: A STATUS REPORT ON A COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM FORHANDS-ON LEARNING, SEVERE WEATHER, AND NEXT-GENERATIONMULTIFUNCTION RADARMark Yeary, University of Oklahoma Dr. Mark Yeary is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Atmospheric Radar Research Center (ARRC). He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and faculty member. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 14 years of teaching experience. For the 1999-00 academic year, he received the Outstanding Professor Award, given by the Texas A&M student chapters of IEEE and Eta

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Paul Weber, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Anh Phan, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

Education, 2020 A Virtual Reality Simulation and Experiment for Sputter Deposition and Vacuum TrainingMatthew Meyers, Anh Phan, Daniel Rodriguez, Marty Clayton, Afsaneh Minaie, and Paul Weber Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058 USA AbstractWe have developed a laboratory exercise that teaches students the method of RF sputterdeposition for coating both metals and dielectric materials onto silicon wafers. Since thesputter system involves the rather complex structure of two-stage vacuum system including adiffusion pump, we have created a virtual reality (VR) simulation that reproduces the operatingsequence of the system with high fidelity. This simulation requires students to perform

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Rafic Bachnak P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

thesoftware remotely, one positive outcome of this experience is incorporating Multisim in severalexperiments in a very meaningful way. When teaching the course in-person in the future, Multisimwould be further integrated into the course with additional improvements. Experiments would berevised to include two phases: (1) Completing a pre-lab that involves theoretical analysis and softwaresimulation, and 2) Building and testing the circuit on a breadboard.Laboratory ExperimentsThroughout the semester, students completed a total of 9 experiments in addition to a finalproject. The experiments were designed to complement the material covered in the lecture part ofthe course [11]. Three experiments were completed in the laboratory on campus and

Conference Session

Model Eliciting Activities

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; John Anthony Christ, U.S. Air Force Academy; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Besterfield-Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas pf innovative design, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She is an Associate Editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Hess

course relies heavily on involving the students in hands-on learning activities, itassists them to better understand theoretical concepts. The hands-on approach utilizes laboratoryactivities and is ideally suited for teaching the concepts of design and analysis of metallic andplastics welding fabrications and castings, lathe turnings, as well as the set-up and analysis ofplastics molding (injection, compression, thermoforming and extrusion blow) investigations.The laboratory environment, a custom facility containing laboratory size equipment, encouragesstudents to develop and present solutions to manufacturing processes, organizational andproduction systems problems through the use of solid modeling software, solid object processingplus metallic

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

lourdes gazca, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Enrique Palou, American University, Puebla, Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. Page 22.207.2  Observed coursesThe first course we observed was Introduction to Engineering Design (EI-100), which is a first-semester 3 credit required course for almost every engineering program of UDLAP since springof 2001. UDLAP’s Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Food, Industrial,Mechanical, and Mechatronic engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity for amultidisciplinary collaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active,collaborative and cooperative learning. Course content and classroom activities are divided intothree, two-hour sections (Modeling, Concepts, and Laboratory) per week. Students have sixdifferent EI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teaching assistant for each

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Tullis, Utah State University; Steven Barfuss, Utah Stat University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

in the laboratory, the students are also able tosee the effects of pipe velocity and pipe pressure on diffuser port discharge efficiency.They also learn that it can be difficult to build a structure or device exactly like the outputof a computer program indicates. It is one thing to design a perfect widget, but another toask someone else to build it exactly as designed for a reasonable cost.Weir design: In some cases, a more inductive teaching approach is used as new topics areintroduced in the laboratory first. Students are given the opportunity to design, build, andtest a structure with limited knowledge of that specific topic. These design experiencesoften provide students with opportunities for discovery through both their successes

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander N. Cartwright

, prepares students for industry by emphasizing working in teams,speaking and writing skills, and solving ill-defined problems [11].Furthermore, the photonics courses have home pages on the WWW, encourage the use of email,and require the use of technical professional software. Taken together, these changes provide anexcellent discovery-oriented environment to enhance student learning. More importantly, theseundergraduate laboratory courses with high design content stimulate interest in materials, lasers,and physics (areas with declining student populations and student interest).This learning environment has a number of advantages over using traditional lecture styleteaching for teaching photonics. Specifically, with experience-based learning (active

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander N. Cartwright

workenvironment. Consequently, any teaching environment should teach interpersonal skills throughclassroom discussions and group projects.With this in mind, the author has converted the photonics courses at UB, traditionally taught aslectures, to laboratory courses with high design content which include cooperative (collaborative)learning, experience-based learning, and the application of information technologies.Specifically, RAQ (reading to answer questions)5 and LAB (Launch, Activity, Buildunderstanding)6 learning techniques are being followed. These experience-based techniqueshave been successfully used in calculus and computer courses at the University of Wisconsin EauClaire6,7. Furthermore, the photonics courses have home pages on the WWW

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

AC 2010-415: IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING OF MICROPROCESSORSYSTEMS THROUGH HANDS-ON AND ONLINE EXPERIENCE:Brock LaMeres, Montana State University Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

IMPARTING CONSUMMATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS ENGINEERING AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For consummate VLSI program, theoretical instructions must be complemented withadequate laboratory facilities in order to validate the design from its conception to thefinished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

IMPARTING CONSUMMATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS ENGINEERING AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:For consummate VLSI program, theoretical instructions must be complemented withadequate laboratory facilities in order to validate the design from its conception to thefinished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of

Conference Session

Capitalizing on COVID: Using This Disruptor to Change the Educational Model

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University; Kaikea Kaoni, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Surveying LabAbstractIn 2020, the COVID pandemic forced educators to pivot to an online teaching modality in themiddle of spring semester. In preparation for a summer offering of a surveying and geomaticsclass, faculty chose to develop a virtual laboratory that could provide a quality, virtual learningexperience for students that would fully meet the course learning outcomes. The resulting virtuallaboratory centered on a series of videos that put the student in a second-person perspective of anote-taker on a survey crew. The modules built around these videos not only allowed for a fullyvirtual delivery of the laboratory, with students participating from as far away as Saudi Arabia,they also ensured full participation of every student, something

Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and Sustainability in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

state that the number of expectedenergy related green jobs is expected to increase by 11% by 2018, and most of that growth isexpected to be in the environmental or energy related sectors [9-10].Edgar Dale’s cone of learning shows that participating in discussions or other active experiencesmay increase retention of material by up to 90% [11]. Richard Felder and Linda Silvermanrecommend several teaching techniques to address all learning styles, one of which is to providethe students with demonstrations that address sensing and visual learning styles, and hands-onexperiments for students with active learning styles [12]. According to Moore [13], there is adirect correlation between in-class performance, laboratory attendance, and performance

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin B. Wheatley, Colarado State University; Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

interactive experience where students wereable to act as a team member within a group that mocked to show a diverse team struggling withcommunication. This session involved humor, discussion, and lively responses from students inplace of a traditional static lecture.Laboratory SessionsIn place of Friday lecture, students were asked to attend laboratory sessions for one hour [14,3].A total of eleven sessions were provided throughout the week to accommodate all schedules.Sessions included one instructor, 13-16 students, and were held in laboratories with individualworkstations with Microsoft Excel and MATLAB software. Laboratory instructors included aGraduate Teaching Fellow and Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs).Laboratory sessions involved a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas David, Iowa State University; Suman Debnath, Purdue University; Munadir Aziz Ahmed; Dionysios C. Aliprantis, Iowa State University; Maryam Saeedifard, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

applications for the TI hardware tools. It includes compilers for each of TI’sdevice families, source code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators,and many other features.The laboratories are weekly 3-hr long sessions. The students are assigned a pre-lab exercise,which usually consists of prerequisite reading material, such as going through user manuals,datasheets, and other time-consuming but necessary activities. They work collaboratively ingroups of two or three per experimental station, and are supervised by a teaching assistant.However, each lab requires an individual submission of a number of deliverables, clearly identi-fied in the lab manuals. Typically, the deliverables themselves require the successful completionof

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sayara Saliyeva, Nazarbayev University; Dinara McLaughlin; Moulay Rachid Babaa, Nazarbayev University; Hella Tokos, Nazarbayev University; Stefaan Jan Rogier Simons, University College London; Sarim Naji Al Zubaidy, Nazarbayev University; Joseph A. Menicucci Jr., Nazarbayev University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Engineering at Nazarbayev University accepted its first cohort of students.The core building-blocks of the School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University are: problem-centered learning, the ‘upside-down’ curriculum, mathematics in context, design orientation, andcombining simulation with laboratory and workshop practices. These core building-blocks are allconnected through the central themes of safety and sustainability, transferable skillsdevelopment, and management and entrepreneurship.The School of Engineering’s teaching program has been developed in partnership withUniversity College London, considered one of the world’s best universities. Students are taughtin an “engineering systems” fashion, with all first year modules common with the

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

laboratories, activities, discussions and homework assignmentsthat use a learner-centered approach to teach kinematics through graphical analysis. Observationof these classes and anecdotal student accounts indicate that this approach was successful forincreasing conceptual understanding of kinematics as well as increasing student interest in thestudy of physics. A formal assessment process is needed to document the success of theapproach and will begin in summer 2002.Bibliography1. NRC Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, How People Learn, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (2000).2. Arons, Arnold B., A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching, John Wiley & Sons, New York (1990).3. Turner, W.A. and G.W. Ellis

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

examples of exploratory electric circuit computer modules, in which basic elementsof interaction loops are structured for maximum learning effectiveness, are presented.2. IntroductionIn asynchronous learning and web-based environments computer modules play an important rolein helping students to develop concepts, practice, simulate and design. Efficient interaction withthe computer plays a critical role in learning effectiveness. In this paper we discuss a user'sinteraction with the computer in a simulation environment. The conclusions apply to other casessuch as presentations, tutorials, design projects and laboratory supplements.Digital simulators are familiar tools in the undergraduate teaching and learning environments. Inboth inanimate and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John G. Webster

Session 2309 A bioinstrumentation course for sophomore biomedical engineers John G. Webster University of WisconsinAbstractThe curriculum for the BSBME degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a series oflecture-laboratory courses: bioinstrumentation, biomechanics, biomaterials, physiology forengineers, modeling of physiological systems, one each semester. Bioinstrumentation is taken inthe fourth semester, with prerequisites of calculus, physics, and chemistry. It builds on physics toprovide learning of electric circuits, instrumentation, and strength of materials

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

David F. Ollis

and D. F. Ollis, "Product and Process Engineering Laboratory", J. Engineering Education, 1995,July, pp. 106.2. Felder, R. M. and Brent, R., “Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-centered Instruction”, College Teaching,44(2), 43-47, 19963. Dale, E. , Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3erd) ed, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.4.(a) A first structure version appears in Susan B. Millar, “Full Scale Implementation: The Interactive “WholeStory’ ”, in Conference Proceedings of Project Impact: Disseminating Innovation in Undergraduate Education,National Science foundation, 1994, pp 14-19. 4.(b) The “structure” milestones for implementation are reduced from nine to eight (Table 1) in Susan B. Millarand Sandra Shaw Courter, “From Promise to Reality: How to

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

modules are completed, students should: 1. Have a working knowledge on regulatory compliance through good laboratory practices training. 2. Have a working knowledge on safety compliance, risk assessment, and hazard mitigation in a laboratory environment. 3. Understand the risks of regulatory and safety non-compliance. 4. Have functional knowledge to work with professionals in RC and SC areas. 5. Have the ability to write and understand RC and SC documentation. 6. Understand the interplay between technical aspects and compliance aspects of CHE profession.General teaching methodology RC and SC modules are designed to be used in lecture, laboratory or design courses. Allinstruction in these modules was done through