Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session Innovative Pedagogy in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University; Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Ankit Gupta, Tennessee Technological University; Seymur Hasanov, Tennessee Technological University; Allen Munyaradzi Mathende, Tennessee Technological University; Zhicheng Zhang, Tennessee Technological University

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Manufacturing

latest productiontechnology. Its popularity in fabricating functional parts in all fields is growing day by day. Therange of 3D printed products is limitless, including glass frames to hearing aids. It is thus importantto train educators and students regarding this cutting-edge technology so that they become familiarwith the functionality and implementation of it in several courses, laboratories, and projects. Thispaper reports several novel developments which have been implemented in the past few years,including details of these unique practices and feedback received from the educators and students.1. IntroductionThis paper will focus on the innovative delivery of 3DP in few different formats under the COVID-19 educational environment faced in

Conference Session

New Directions for Engineering Technology

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chen Xu, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Electrical Circuit lab course to face the challenges in Remote LearningAbstract This paper presents our practice to adjust to distance learning in an electrical circuit lab course.Electrical Circuits (EMT 1150) is a first-year engineering gateway course for ElectromechanicalEngineering Technology (EMT) Associate in Applied Science (AAS) students. It is a five-creditcourse with a combined 4-hours lecture session and 3-hours laboratory session every week, whichintroduces students to the physical basis and mathematical models of electrical components andcircuits. Laboratory work is performed on a breadboard using the digital multimeter, oscilloscope,and function generator. This course had a high failure and

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Computation in the First Year

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Darren K. Maczka, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Rehan Shah, University College London; Andrew L. Gillen, University College London

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First-Year Programs

computation data and computer science. For this study,we did not include these majors, but their existence affirms our motivation to establish a baselineof computational skills and concepts in first year programs, as more of these types of majorscome into engineering. Findings and DiscussionExtracting concepts from course descriptionsCourse descriptions are limited by nature in what they can tell us and some were written in adifferent style than others (e.g. talking about experiences versus listing topics). There isdisciplinary jargon that we need help unpacking to identify what the actionable concept or skillmight be (e.g. machines and power laboratory). The disciplines of civil, environmental,transportation, and

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Hans J. Goettler

. Of particular interest in this regardare educational systems that are significantly different from our own.The German higher education system has a strongly different structureand approach.Short descriptions of the educational progress of the German engineer-ing student and of the structure of the German technical universityare presented first. Some advantages and disadvantages from the au-thor1s point of view are enumerated. Specific courses, laboratories,projects, examinations, etc., that are listed in this paper as exampleshave been comoleted by the author at the University of Karlsruhe,Karlsruhe, Germany, for a degree in Mechanical Engineering.The CurriculumTable 1 is an attempt to contrast the educational progress of a typicalAmerican

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

ofroad design is the geometric design that focuses on locating the road on a topographic map.Introduction to Engineering Design is a laboratory-based course for first-year students at theauthors’ university. In this course, students work on a civil engineering-related project during thesemester. In the Spring 2019 and 2020 semesters, students were introduced to geometric designby working on a road design project. Three main sections were implemented in this project. Thefirst piece was understanding of topographic map. In this piece, students were asked to select anon-flat site located in the United States. The topographic map of the selected site was printedand provided to the students. Students were asked to draft the topographic map in

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Zhanping You

increasing demand of theDEM in engineering application and research, it is very critical to have a course on thisarea. In many universities, it is impossible to find a faculty member in the teaching of thisadvanced method. There are not many other universities offered the similar course. AtUniversity of Pittsburgh, the application of the DEM as a computer aid in a geotechnicalprogram was attempted (Lobo-Guerrrero and Vallejo 2006), where the simulation of astandard laboratory test and different cavities inside a rock mass were introduced tostudents.Objective of the Course and ActivitiesThe objective was to teach students numerical analysis methods-focusing on DEM. Inorder to introduce the advances of the DEM to the graduate curriculum, some

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Ali HASAN, University of New Mexico; Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico

of some ra- dionuclides of environmental interests with different types of soils and rocks. Research interests included Low- and high-level radioactive waste disposal, conditioning of radioactive waste, radiation protection, and subsurface contaminant transport. Other research program includes hazardous and mixed waste; per- formance assessment of the high-level radioactive waste repositories; colloidal transport of contaminants and; disposal of Greater-than-Class C radioactive waste. His research area of Contaminant Transport encompassed the physics and chemistry of the fate and transport of contaminants in aquifers. He has ac- cumulated laboratory experience in purchasing, installing, and operating analytical

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Sowrirajan Sowmithran, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Manufacturing

ofvision camera for improving student laboratory activity in automation. This project entailsdesigning, building, and testing a object sorting system that can be programmed to track a movingobject autonomously. Manufacturing processes are becoming more autonomous, requiring lessoperator intervention in daily operations1-3. Industrial robots are good examples of flexibleautomation. Manufacturing engineers need to integrate other technologies with the objective ofextracting from robots the flexibility they can offer. Vision systems have been introduced andimplemented on industrial robots to improve productivity and flexibility of manufacturingsystems. Some typical applications with vision systems are work piece identification, work piecepositioning

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Technical Session V

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2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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FYEE Conference Sessions

practice foundational skills to support the students intheir future endeavors, and to showcase fundamental and future areas of study for Electrical andComputer Engineering students at Norwich University. Additionally, the lecture and labexperiences provide a rich common set of experiences for instructors to reference throughoutfuture courses, connecting students to the School of Engineering, serving as motivating, masteryexperiences for students early in their academic careers. In this paper the pedagogicalmotivations behind the course design and an outline of the laboratory exercises developed arepresented. Lessons learned from multiple course offerings and results of a student attitudinalsurvey are shared. Students self-report making strong

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology; Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andy Deck, National Instruments; Michael Torba, National Instruments; Steven Trahan, National Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

Write a report outlining a design strategy and assessing its strengths, weaknesses, and feasibility o Write a report describing functional/technical specifications of the proposed design strategy • Write an end-of-project report presenting the final design, strategy, technical description, and performance assessmentThese outcomes were then used as a template to guide development of the course.In order to achieve both the education and design goals of this course, class periods are Page 12.409.4organized to be approximately half lecture and half laboratory. Lectures and labs are held in thesame

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Instrumentation

AC 2007-598: PROJECT GUISE: CURRICULAR INTRODUCTION ANDRESOURCES FOR TEACHING INSTRUMENTATIONDavid Beams, University of Texas-Tyler Page 12.1201.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Project GUISE: Curricular Introduction and Resources for Teaching InstrumentationAbstractProject GUISE (General-purpose, Universal Instrumentation System for Education) is acomputer-based laboratory instrument combining LabVIEW virtual-instrumentationsoftware and custom external hardware developed with support of the National ScienceFoundation under grant DUE 9952292. Descriptions of its development have beenpreviously published. However, an opportunity to

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula, Wayne State University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2008-1700: OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT IN A HANDS-ON MANUFACTURINGPROCESSES COURSEMukasa Ssemakula, Wayne State University Page 13.958.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Outcomes Assessment in a Hands-On Manufacturing Processes CourseAbstractIndustry has consistently identified lack of experience in manufacturing processes as one of thekey competency gaps among new engineering graduates. This paper will discuss a laboratory-based Manufacturing Processes course that provides hands-on manufacturing experience tostudents. In addition to standard theoretical concepts, the course uses team-based projects thathelp students gain hands-on experience with selected

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Zahed Sheikholeslami, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

college of engineering thatbenefits humanity by educating socially responsible engineers inspired for life-long learningusing an innovative learn by doing philosophy in partnership with industry and otherstakeholders.” PBLI is consistent with this mission because it promotes the use of a multi-disciplinary, participatory, learn by doing, “hands-on” laboratory, project and design centeredapproach. The PBLI enhances educational outcomes for students in accordance with the strategic Page 13.1010.2plan, it enhances the professional development of the faculty in conformance with the strategicplan, by encouraging and supporting expansion of faculty

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College; John Burke, Western New England College

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering at Western New England College. Prior to joining WNEC, Dr. Burke was with EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (95 to 2000), he was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (92-95), with Compact Software (90-92), with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts (87-90), and with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation (84-86). He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1984 and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. Dr Burke’s primary teaching interests are Electromagnetics, High Frequency Circuit

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2008 GSW

Authors

Ian A. Gravagne; Kenneth W. Van Treuren

of 2006. Three ELGs were approved in January 2007. After muchrefinement, the chosen ELGs were made available to the incoming freshmen through mailings andpresentations made during the summer 2007 orientations. The Energy and Society Engaged Learning GroupThe three new ELG’s commenced in fall 2007. In each, the students initially begin as freshmen andtake one semester hour per semester for four semesters. If students complete the required number ofsemesters, they will receive credit for a course in their major (typically a laboratory science, in thecase of the “Energy ELG.”) The four semesters for the Energy ELG roughly adhere to the followingtopics: Energy Literacy – This first semester (already completed) connected

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2008 GSW

Authors

Edward Crowley

curriculum developer,with several challenges. These challenges include defining the applied cryptographycourse with respect to course goals, scope, content, and organization. While there arewell-established cryptography courses offered in the Computer Science and Mathematicsdisciplines, these classes tend to focus on mathematical foundations rather than servicesand applications. Consequently, the developer of such courses finds that resourcesparticularly those relating to “hands-on” activities are lacking.For a lab module designer, creating modules that support an applied cryptography classpresents several unique challenges. For example, the choice of laboratory softwarepresents a unique challenge. This is especially true since most commercial

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiecai Luo, Southern University; Fred Lacy, Southern University; Pradeep Bhattacharya, Southern University & A&M College; Perry Daniels, Texas Instruments

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Electrical and Computer

considerations that will reduce the test portion manufacturingcost. This process is calling Design for Testability (DFT). The skills a test engineer should have include mastery of basic circuits includingthe ability to design and troubleshoot them using laboratory equipment as well asAutomatic Test Equipment (ATE). The test engineer should also be able to program(C++, MATLAB, and LabVIEW) and to effectively communicate technical issues to bothproduct marketers (possibly non-technical) as well as product designers (very technical). The high demand of the electronics industry is the main reason for establishingnew classes in universities. Practice based education is one of the many ways the “can dospirit” can be inspire in many students

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Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Beth Richards, University of Hartford; Abdul Hai Sofizada, SHEP

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International

and UK began to contact the Ministry of Higher Education directly.A new leadership in the Ministry of Higher Education and the creation of a strongerimplementation team in the summer of 2006 were the turning point toward building effectivepartnerships between Afghan and foreign institutions of higher learning. Table 1 reflects theUniversity Partnership Program.The partnership between the University of Hartford (UH) in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA,and Herat University (HU) in Herat City, Afghanistan was initiated in August 2007 to developand implement a modern program to strengthen and modernize engineering education at HU.The program includes a number of activities such as curriculum review and revision, facultydevelopment, and laboratory

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenden Mervin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Guillermo Maldonado, University of Tennessee

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Nuclear and Radiological

fundamental principles are now embedded in variouscomputational software packages developed by nuclear fuel vendors, software companies,universities and national laboratories. These software packages have become a larger componentof nuclear engineering practice, and therefore a gap presents itself as nuclear engineers transitionfrom the classroom to the workplace. Furthermore, the currently increasing demand for nuclearengineers is persuading more nuclear engineers to explore their career opportunities immediatelyafter receiving their undergraduate degree. This implies that most of these engineers will enter Page 14.484.2the workplace with little to

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

scenarios. The most recent resolutions from NationalScience Foundation education conferences1 and engineering accreditation workshops2 are to improveengineering students' thinking and problem solving skills, rather than inculcating a heavy emphasis on basicscience. The evolving objectives have been accompanied by significant changes in teaching methods as well. Forexample, engineering courses have experienced cycles of varying emphasis on laboratory versus lecture content.The engineering education experience of the 1950's was punctuated by heavy laboratory content and thepracticing of design rules. As the curriculum objective moved to engineering science, the in-class lecturebecame the predominant tool for teaching. Rather than being fields

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

energy conservation, but there is a need for better understanding of drive behavior. Inan electromechanical conversion course, opportunities to incorporate drive systems exist in theintroductory portion, as individual machines are introduced, in the laboratory, and in the course closure.Capstone design is a feasible place for realistic machine-drive projects. Methods of incorporating topicsare presented and tradeoffs are discussed.Introduction Not many years ago, the Adjustable Speed Drive (ASD) was just a specialized electronic systemassociated with direct current machinery. Now it seems that induction motors in many places havesprouted an ASD. The primary reason is the energy saving advantages, which are well documented.[1,29] Since

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Grenquist

correlation with final grade than the Scholastic Aptitude Test Score. This had been the case with a similar, but more specflc analysis done f{w years earlier. 2) “l’he women students would ha}’e higher preliminary scores, and would pelforrn better in all aspects of the course than their male counterparts. This hypothesis also extended to attendance in tutorials and pa-formancc on laboratory assignments. 3) The Progressive Assessment Tests would be go[xi forward-directed discriminant indicators concmning how students would perfbrrn on the final examination, and overall in their respective courses. 4) Students that had both a high score on their Scholastic Aptitude

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

N. A. Pendergrass

and systems course is required for electrical and computer engineering majors innearly all programs. It usually introduces students to important continuous and discrete time system conceptsand develops and applies Laplace, Fourier and z-transforms. These courses usually do not have laboratories orhands-on activity associated with them. However, these courses are very important because they provide thefoundation for important areas of electrical engineering including circuits, systems, communications, control andsignal processing. Unfortunately, many students do not recognize the relevance of the material at this point in their careersand have difficulty because it appears to be "only math and theory.” The resulting low motivation often

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

matt gallagher, Vermont Technical College; Andre St. Denis, Vermont Technical College; John Murphy, Vermont Technical College

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Electrical and Computer

use in everything from automobiles to remotelysituated data loggers. A balance needs to be struck in offering these courses: basic conceptsmust be conveyed along with skills that will allow students to be productive in future situations Page 14.826.2where they will use these devices. Basic concepts such as interrupts, memory maps and parallelports can be taught in a classroom with accompanying text and laboratory. Many standarddemonstration boards exist that can serve as a vehicle for showcasing these concepts in the lab1.Many courses have been developed with these types of boards2,3,4. What can be lacking in suchan approach is giving the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

diagrams: interpretation skills • Mechanical properties: laboratory experiments on tension test, impact test, hardness, heat treatment • Materials selection: study of common objects and designs – cups and saucers, cutlery, door knobs, skate boards, bicycles, cars, etc. • Failures: fracture generated from different tests Some topics such as phase diagrams and atomic bonding are very important, but theyare complex to teach and not easy for students to understand. Theses, of course, requiremore time, effort and homework problem sets to get the message across. As a result, it isnot always possible to appropriate equal amounts of teaching time and assessment tasksto meet all of the ABET outcomes listed for the course

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Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Dale Palmgren, Arizona State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

described as a complex systems engineeringproblem. In practice, however, security systems engineering presents challenges not normallyfaced in more traditional systems engineering problems. For example, the talent necessary todevelop effective systems requires the assembly of teams of experts from very diverse fields,ranging from mathematicians to specialists in languages and cultures. In addition, securitysystems must be capable of continuous and rapid evolution to respond to changing scenarioscaused by new and evolving threats. A systems engineering methodology developed and testedat the United States’ national laboratories over the last forty years, known as the Sandiamethodology, effectively addresses the unique aspects of security system

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ChE: Experimental Design & Error Analysis

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

of the report. Forexample, human error was frequently cited as a source of error in experimental procedure – withthe implication that this is acceptable, legitimate, or unavoidable. In the laboratory, studentsfailed to use techniques to reduce experimental error when necessary. Data were often notreported correctly to reflect uncertainty in measurement, and simple statistical techniques wererarely used to analyze error.A variety of methods for the introduction of error analysis to lower level engineering studentshave been described by other educators. Sterrett and Helgeson2 used parametric computersimulations to introduce error analysis to sophomores in a design course. Reardon3 introduceslinear regression and propagation of error analysis

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-432: EXPERIMENTS IN DRUG DELIVERY FOR UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING STUDENTSStephanie Farrell, Rowan University STEPHANIE FARRELL is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, her MS from Stevens Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Rowan in September, 1998, she was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. Stephanie has research expertise in the field of drug delivery and controlled release, and she is currently focusing efforts on developing laboratory experiments related to membrane separations, biochemical

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kanti Prasad, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1020: AN EXEMPLARY CURRICULA WITH PROPER MIX OFENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS AND TRAINING STUDENTS ATSTATE-OF-ART TECHNOLOGYKanti Prasad, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Page 11.186.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006An Exemplary Curricula With Proper Mix Of Engineering Fundamentals And Training Students At State-Of-Art Technology. Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E., Professor/Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology ECE Dept., UMASS LowellAbstract: The author established state-of-art laboratories in VLSI Design and Fabrication in 1984,and 1986

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Digital Communications Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Border, Bowling Green State University

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Electrical and Computer

2006-652: A BLUETOOTH-BASED HANDSET WIRELESS DATA ACQUISITIONSYSTEMDavid Border, Bowling Green State University Page 11.8.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A BluetoothTM-based Handset Wireless Data Acquisition SystemAbstractAn innovative data acquisition system that is suitable for laboratory work in electricalengineering/computer engineering communication coursework is detailed in this paper. Thework makes use of currently available technologies including a BluetoothTM module in thecommunication path, and a Windows Mobile 2003 PDA as the system handset. Such itemsillustrate important data acquisition and data communication elements that are being