Conference Session

Exploration of Written and Team Communication

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyesun You, The University of Iowa; Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin; Thomas E. Lindsay, The University of Texas at Austin; Rhya Moffitt Brooke, The University of Texas at Austin

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. Her research interests center on interdisciplinary learning and teaching, technology-integrated STEM teaching practices, and assessment development and validation in STEM education.Dr. Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin Daniel is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin. Dan received a BS in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and then worked at NASA Johnson Space Center for 15 years before pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University. In 2016, Dan graduated from Rice and began teaching four design/laboratory courses required for all undergraduate BME students at UT Austin.Thomas E. Lindsay, The University

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Track 4: Technical Session 6: Building Bridges to Success: A Thriving Program

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Labrisha Nicole Mabry, Mississippi State University ; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Lorena Andrea Benavides Riano, Mississippi State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

help students strengthen their math skills, and they take a placementexam and are placed into a course to head start their academic career. Depending on thestudent’s performance on this exam, they will either be placed in college algebra, pre-calculus, or calculus. Our program has proven improvement in bridge participants' grades inCalculus and the following courses. 6 Components of Summer Bridge • Engineering laboratories Engineering • Creation of a 3D model of a tank. • Interaction with Ergon engineers on Research Project campus and on-site

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Computer Hardware

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Yu, University of Hartford; Krista M Hill, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

students’ first semester of theirsophomore year. Although the majority of the students in this course comes from Electrical andComputer Engineering majors, there are frequently students from Computer Science, Math,Mechanical Engineering majors, etc. The courses that follow in the digital systems sequence arelisted below:  ECE 234 Digital design using CPLD*  ECE 332 Microprocessor Applications**  ECE 335 Computer Architecture *  ECE 336 Computer Systems Laboratory*  ECE 534 VHDL and Applications***  ECE 532 Embedded Microprocessor*** * required only by B.S.Comp.E, ** required by both B.S.Comp.E. and B.S.E.E *** electives for both B.S.Comp.E. and B.S.E.EOur research started in the Fall 2011 semester

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ryan Smith

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #10212Using Engineering to Address the Common Core Standards: A Four WeekWorkshop (Curriculum Exchange)Dr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia ”Pat” A. Carlson is a transplanted middle westerner, having spent her childhood in Norfolk, Va. She came to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology early in her teaching career and has taught a variety of courses over the past three decades. Dr. Carlson has held a number of American Society for Engineering Education summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott P.E., University of Dayton; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

, product design, process design,laboratories, and many others. Below the lintel are the four pillars whose labels are taken fromthe program criteria for ABET accreditation of manufacturing engineering and manufacturingengineering technology programs. (Reference 2) These are: • Materials and manufacturing processes: understanding the behavior and properties of materials as they are altered and influenced by processing in manufacturing • Product, tooling, and assembly engineering: understanding the design of products and the equipment, tooling, and environment necessary for their manufacture • Manufacturing systems and operations: understanding the creation of competitive advantage through manufacturing planning

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Weissbach P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Ruth Camille Pflueger, Pennsylvania State University in Erie, the Behrend College

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Engineering Technology

process, butoftentimes engineering technology students have few opportunities to develop their skills in thisarea as they matriculate through their chosen degree program. Many programs require only oneor two writing courses outside of the major. In addition, courses that require communication inthe form of laboratory reports often provide minimal feedback regarding appropriate writingstyle, the effective support of results with analysis, and maintaining efficiency in writing.In this paper, a new approach is presented that unburdens some of the responsibility from theinstructor to peer tutors outside of the engineering technology major who are skilled writers.Although this effort has been ongoing, with engineering technology students required to

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chun-Hsing Ho; Nyawa Allieu

redundant in participating in class activities. We immediately tookaction to address the obstacle and bring students back on track.MethodsWith the support of the School’s Director, we made the following adjustments.1. Rearrange lecture room: we worked with the staff to reserve two classrooms for laboratory practice. The lecture delivery method was rearranged with 30-50% lecture presentations and 50-70% laboratory practices depending on the student’s learning progress2. Readjust lecture pathing: we reallocated the percentage of lecture presentations and lab practice by reducing course presentations and increasing the Q&A sessions. The direction of lecture delivery was switched right away to mainly focus on lab practice which allowed us

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Hossein Salehfar; John Watson; Arnold F. Johnson

delivery mechanisms foreducational programs are constantly evolving. Distance education has become morereadily available, and the non-traditional student now has enhanced opportunities in manyacademic fields. In 1989 the school of Engineering and Mines at the University of NorthDakota established a distance education program to deliver Bachelor of Scienceengineering degrees to employees of participating companies. This program was knownas the Corporate Engineering Degree Program and has recently expanded into openenrollments and renamed the Distance Engineering Degree Program (DEDP). The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static InternetWeb pages of handouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

offered again the spring 2009 semester and there were 22 students enrolled. Allbut one of the students enrolled had already taken the IDS 110 class, so minimal class time wasspent on study habits and campus resources. Instead the additional class periods were used toinvite more guest lecturers from the local engineering community.The end of semester survey of students in this class revealed that these students, like those in theprevious semester, rated the presentations by practicing engineers as best of all the materialcovered in the course. On this survey students were also asked to make suggestions about othertopics to be covered in the course.A number of the students suggested some form of hands on laboratory exercise as part of thecourse

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton

highlights of what did and didn’t work.BackgroundDegrees conferred from chemical engineering programs across the U.S. declined 34% between1997 and 20061 and The University of Tulsa (TU) has mirrored this trend. This same period oftime saw significant changes in the technology infrastructure at TU in the College of Engineeringand Natural Sciences. Every classroom was equipped with a computer console and display forinstruction. All engineering departments established computer laboratories for their students inaddition to the numerous facilities available to all students. WiFi was installed campus-wide.Two instructional laboratories were created with computers for up to 30 students.In 2007 and 2008, the public has watched the price for a barrel of oil

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jianming Liu; Steven L. Grant

PhD candidate of Missouri S&T, and he received his BS from Shandong University, China in2005 and MS degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2009. He was an audio design engineer of Nokia inBeijing, China, and currently his research in Missouri S&T mainly focuses on speech signal processing,especially adaptive signal processing and doubletalk in echo cancellation.Steven L. Grant is currently the Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Professor at Missouri S&T, and hereceived his B.S.E.E from Missouri S&T in 1979, M.S.E.E from Caltech in 1981, and Ph.D. from Rutgers in1994. In 1980, he was with Bell Laboratories. He was with International Telephone and TelegraphCorporation--Defense Communications Division from 1982 to 1984 and

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas F. De Boer

and math.” It is true that science andmath are applied when we do engineering, but engineering has more breadth than that.Heuristics may be applied. Ergonomics may be applied. Safety codes, developed by a complexpolitical and legal process, may be applied. One more aspect of engineering that certainly shouldbe applied is the aesthetic aspect. By explicitly including consideration of typography when weteach students how to write laboratory reports, we do justice to the breadth of engineering andsensitize the students to the aesthetic aspect of engineering work.Engineering laboratory reportsOne of the common objectives of requiring students to do engineering laboratory work is to teachthem to communicate technical concepts effectively in

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta

Experiments in Micro-/Nano- Characterization of Material Surfaces Surendra K. Gupta Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623AbstractThis paper describes eight experiments developed for a 4-quarter credit hour upper-divisiontechnical elective course on Micro- and Nano- Characterization of Material Surfaces. The coursehas 3 hours/week of lectures and a 2 hours/week laboratory segment. Offered for the second timelast Spring quarter, the course has attracted students from mechanical engineering,microelectronic engineering, materials science and engineering as well a doctoral student inMicrosystems Engineering. The course has become part of a concentration program

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Melody Baglione

(HVAC) systems and theircontrol laboratory experiments. New curriculum materials design encompasses many engineering concepts, why notintroduce basic operational principles of central HVAC systems leverage these systems to enhance student learning andand provide an overview of the control systems theory involved. motivation? Given that students are often familiar with typicalA value-added, mixed-method assessment strategy uses both home heating and refrigeration systems, introducing feedbackqualitative and quantitative techniques to closely track student control theory using HVAC systems may further improveperformance and outcomes. Preliminary direct and indirect

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Robot Artist - Automated Picture Portrait Abdulrahman Alkhodairy Sarosh Patel Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Chludzinski, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering; C. Virgil Solomon, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering

Paper ID #49532Predictive Modelling of a Continuously Variable Transmission for OptimalPerformanceKathryn Chludzinski, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering Kathryn Chludzinski is a graduate student in Youngstown State University’s (YSU) mechanical engineering program. Her research focuses on developing a laboratory for Dynamic Systems Modeling (DSM) students, utilizing a continuously variable transmission and inertia dynamometer. She has been a member of YSU’s SAE Baja team since the 2020 season. She is a certified machinist, having achieved her certification in 2019, and has been working in the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques Richard, Texas A&M University; Janie Moore, Texas A&M University

. The first-course in engineering for entering students became anintroduction to programming where each week consists of one hour of lecture and three hours ofin-class programming laboratory activities. The Computer Science faculty developed the contentfor this course. The course would provide sufficient understanding of computer logic and good,structured, modular programming habits to be a foundation and base level of preparation for anyother supplemental languages that students may end up mostly using when problem-solving inconsequent courses of their major disciplines.MethodsSettingThe on-campus physical classroom environment is the typical format for Fall 2019. A versioncombining the onsite physical classroom concurrently with a virtual

Conference Session

Technical Session 5a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

enrollment increase of 52.1% from 2010 to 2016 despite the factthat over the same period, total enrollments at the JEP partner institutions decreased slightly.However, courses requiring laboratory components have been difficult to develop and offeronline in these colleges. For instance at Cañada College, although enrollments in lecture courseshave increased over 100% due to a dramatic increase in online enrollment, enrollments in labcourses have only increased 23%12.In 2014, inspired by the success of the Joint Engineering Program in strengthening communitycollege engineering programs, three colleges in Northern California, Cañada College, College ofMarin, and Monterey Peninsula College collaborated to develop the Creating AlternativeLearning

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Lovitts, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

worksheet. Major category First-order subcategoriesIntervention Teaching and learning Educational technology Communication and information technology Development of professional skills Student assessment Student retentionSubject/content area Engineering major Engineering fundamentals Design Laboratory & laboratory courses Basic sciences

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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ASEE Board of Directors

courses and be prepared for upper-division coursesupon transfer has increased. A survey of enrollments in engineering courses at the JEP partnerinstitutions shows an overall enrollment increase of 52.1% from 2010 to 2016 despite the factthat over the same period, total enrollments at the JEP partner institutions decreased slightly.However, courses requiring laboratory components have been difficult to develop and offeronline in these colleges. For instance at Cañada College, although enrollments in lecture courseshave increased over 100% due to a dramatic increase in online enrollment, enrollments in labcourses have only increased 23%12.In 2014, inspired by the success of the Joint Engineering Program in strengthening communitycollege engineering

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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First-Year Programs

educational materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. © American Page 15.470.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engaging Spaces for First-year Engineering: A Tale of Two ClassroomsAbstractEngaging students in learning through the use of active and cooperative approaches has beenrecognized as an effective way to improve their educational experience. These approaches areparticularly important in the first year where student engagement is an important factor instudents success and retention. Engineering education has used these approaches in laboratories

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

teachers who areinterested in developing pre-engineering curricula. This year, the workshop was co-sponsored bySETRC (Sacramento Engineering and Technology Regional Consortium) and the Capital CenterMESA program (Math, Engineering Science, Achievement). It consisted of “hands-on”laboratory sessions in the morning followed by discussions about curriculum and pedagogy inthe afternoon. The high school teachers were divided into teams and rotated through fivelaboratory stations on Robotics, Digital Circuits, Signal Processing, Optical Engineering,Structures and Materials. Faculty and students from CSUS served as facilitators and workedclosely with the teams. The afternoon featured three breakout sessions on the following topics:A: Objectives and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

entrancequestionnaire concerning attitudes towards working on a team in the laboratory class; and (2) adocument in which the questionnaire responses are sorted and merged for each team, which werefer to as the “Initial Team Dialogues.” The dialogues foster introspection and immediatelyforce the students to deal with core behavioral issues, and they create an arena where themembers can examine the function of their team as a unit.I. IntroductionEffective communication between people has undoubtedly been an elusive goal ever sincehumans developed the ability for speech. The need for its attainment is especially critical in thedevelopment of high performing teams. Team building training is beginning to becomerecognized as an important element that

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

LuoBin Cui, Rowan University; Ryan Hare, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Tyler Philip Casas, Rowan University

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Diversity

attractingpotential new professionals to the field. The user-friendliness and appeal of the WaterMobilesystem make it a pathway to guide more individuals into the water treatment industry. Additionally,in light of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to regular laboratory courses [5], wehave also introduced virtual simulation laboratories [6] and Raspberry Pi technology, allowingstudents to remotely participate in practical operations and experiments without the need to bephysically present on-site. This provides valuable hands-on experience to students without theconstraints of limited laboratory equipment, thus promoting and enhancing the accessibility ofwater treatment education.Project Approach and System DesingWaterMobile is an innovative

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2004 GSW

Authors

Brian Nutter; Tanja Karp; Sunanda Mitra

using this equipment tostudents taking courses in Digital Signal Processing, Project Laboratories,Telecommunications, and Networks as well as those working on master’s theses anddoctoral dissertations.The DSK environment allows students to implement a variety of solutions to problems insignal filtering, data transmission, encoding, encryption, modulation, demodulation andcompression. The DSK comes with the interface circuits necessary for capturing andreproducing analog audio signals and a variety of modulated waveforms. The embeddedDSP can effectively process, analyze, adjust and reproduce the digital signalrepresentations necessary to realize most modern communication methods. The CodeComposer Studio, which is included in the DSK system

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Paul Benjamin Crilly, United States Coast Guard Academy; Julian Blanco, US Coast Guard Academy

areas of interest include laboratory development, antennas, wireless communications, signal processing, and instrumentation.Julian Blanco, US Coast Guard Academy American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Plasma antennas – a gentle introductionAbstract – Abstract – In this paper, we describe the theory, practical construction, andexperiments of a plasma antenna to radiate a VHF signal. The primary goal is to provide aintroduction to plasma antennas to undergraduate electrical engineering students and eliminatesome of the mystery surrounding this device. In our experiment, we implement a half-wavedipole whereby the conductor is a ionized

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Stein, Bethel University; Grace Riermann

Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Low-Cost, Portable, Smartphone Schlieren Imaging SystemAbstract We introduce a smartphone schlieren imaging system for application in theundergraduate fluid mechanics laboratory. This system provides a low-cost schlieren imagingalternative for project-based learning and is based on a single-mirror setup, with the smartphoneflash serving as the light source and the smartphone camera as the detector. Adjustable mountsfor the smartphone and mirror are 3D printed and secured to a common base, allowing for theapparatus to be relocated as a single, portable system. Situations involving refractive indexvariations, such as

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nazli Aslican Wodzinski, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Stephen Druschel, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Matthew Simones, Minnesota State University, Mankato

. The university cancelledaccess to most campus laboratories and brought a halt to all experimental research conducted inthese facilities. Moreover, a significant number of undergraduate students lost their internshipsfor Summer 2020. With these two substantial changes, CTRI created the Summer UndergraduateResearch Experience (SURE) program. CTRI contacted a donor who donated a funding for asingle undergraduate research project (pre-COVID) and asked to make changes in the fundingprocess to benefit multiple students. With the adaptation approved by the donor, the researchcenter asked the faculty to submit proposals for undergraduate research projects that theresearchers can conduct at their homes.The proposals requested projects to employ 1 – 4

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Mahdi Joseph Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Joel Michael Tomlinson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

students to gainknowledge during the step-by-step project performance from beginning to completion. Thiswould allow them to build confidence, a sense of accomplishment, and ownership and makesthem prepared and ready for taking the next design course in the following semester.The highlight of this paper demonstrates challenges and accomplishments of students andfaculty performing a hands-on design project during the COVID-19 pandemic. As manyengineering and technology courses rapidly transitioned to online or distance learning modality,the struggle to generate the same active learning environment online was challenging. Afterstudents returned to on-campus courses in hybrid or socially distanced laboratories, the learningenvironment was modified to

Conference Session

Technology Integration in Manufacturing Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack P. Eng., Western Carolina University; Scott C. Rowe, Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Colorado Boulder. Scott’s research relates to accessible and inexpensive engineering equipment for laboratory education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Teaching Industrial Control with Open-Source SoftwareAbstractThis paper presents an innovative approach to teaching Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)using open-source software and low-cost hardware in an engineering curriculum. The OpenPLCsoftware and a variety of affordable hardware platforms, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, areemployed to provide students with hands-on experience in programming PLCs. Theincorporation of PLC content in the second year of the curriculum prepares students for summerinternships, better satisfying