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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh, Senior Member, IEEE new smart grid workforce. In the Department of Electrical Abstract— In advanced Power Engineering and Smart Grid Engineering and Computer Science we have developed smartLaboratory environment students get opportunities to grid laboratory to support both undergraduate and graduatedemonstrate their ability to design and conduct experiments

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Web-based Personalized Laboratories for Engineering Students Enid K. Sichel, Member, IEEE , Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan Abstract. We developed software that provides intelligenthands-on bench-top dynamic help to students as they study inlaboratories for introductory circuit analysis. Tutoring help is Theavailable at “teachable moments” as opposed to students waitingdays or weeks for traditional teacher-graded labs reports.Quantitative and qualitative studies show that using the softwareleads to improved learning, verbalization and

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Harry Knickle; Don Gray

Adding Automatic Control to the Senior Laboratory Experience Harry Knickle and Don Gray Chemical Engineering, URI ASEE 2008, West PointDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island knickle@egr.uri.eduIntroduction and BackgroundOur program has 2 semesters of senior laboratory requiring a total of 4 credits. We alsohad a second semester junior level required data acquisitions and control laboratory for 2credits. The Department decided to drop the junior course and integrate data acquisitionand control into the senior lab courses. One objective was to reduce the credit load.Another objective was to introduce larger

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

313 A Laboratory-Based Course in Aerospace Engineering Failure David Lanning, Wahyu Lestari, and Shirley Waterhouse Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on a unique laboratory-based course in aerospace engineering failure createdfor undergraduate engineering students. The three-credit hour course is intended as an upper-level technical elective for students in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department atEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the Prescott, Arizona campus. The lecture is heldtwice a week and the two hour and forty minute laboratory is

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ETD Design II: Mechanical Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-514: USING A LIVING-BUILDING LABORATORY (BUILDINGAS A LABORATORY) AS A FLUID MECHANICS LABORATORY PROJECTIN THE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUMJason K Durfee, Eastern Washington University Professor DURFEE received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He holds a Professional Engineer certification. Prior to teaching at Eastern Washington Uni- versity he was a military pilot, an engineering instructor at West Point and an airline pilot. His interests include aerospace, aviation, professional ethics and piano technology. Page 22.1601.1

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Energy Laboratory Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Kevin Renken, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

APPARATUSES TO BE USED IN TWO SEQUENTIAL THERMAL SCIENCE COURSESAbstractIntegration of concepts throughout a curriculum can aid in student understanding and retention ofdifficult concepts. One area that is ripe for such integration is the Thermal Sciences, whereThermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Mechanics courses all share some common ground.In this paper, the development of experimental apparatuses, which can be used for experimentsin both Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer courses, is discussed. By having undergraduatestudents perform laboratory experiments focused on appropriate topics for each course using thesame setups, the students can relate the course materials more effectively.Four different experimental

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Throne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

often have students apply control strategies on systems (plants) thathave been given to them in the problem statement. However, this often leaves the students withthe belief that the system models in these assignments are exact, and easily obtainable. Utilizingour Education Control Products (ECP) systems, as well as Matlab’s Simulink, we developed asequence of laboratories to emphasize the difference between the model of a system and a realsystem in our undergraduate controls classes.All of the electrical engineering students at Rose-Hulman are required to take ECE-320: LinearControl Systems. This is a junior level class offered in the first and third quarter each year. Thecurrent prerequisites for the class are ES-205: Analysis and Design of

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Hye Jeong Kim, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

2006-544: AUTOMATED ROBOTIC WORKCELL DESIGN TOOLKIT -PRELIMINARY EVALUATIONSheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh is an Associate Professor and member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Halliburton Faculty Fellow for 2005-2006. His research interests include intelligent manufacturing system design, virtual instrumentation, thermal profiling for process and product characterization, and simulation and modeling. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory, a state-of-the-art

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Landon Gray, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

2006-545: COGNITIVE SUPPORT FOR LEARNING PLC PROGRAMMING:COMPUTER-BASED CASE STUDIESSheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh is an Associate Professor and member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Halliburton Faculty Fellow for 2005-2006. His research interests include intelligent manufacturing system design, virtual instrumentation, thermal profiling for process and product characterization, and simulation and modeling. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory, a state-of

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ECE Laboratory Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kain Osterholt, Belcan Corp.; Adam Vaccari, Caterpillar Incorporated; Joe Faivre, Caterpillar Incorporated; Gary Dempsey, Bradley University

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Electrical and Computer

, Illinois where he is currently an Associate Professor. He teaches the undergraduate control theory courses, a graduate course in neural networks, and a senior design laboratory. Page 11.1432.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Virtual Control Workstation Design Using Simulink, SimMechanics, and the Virtual Reality ToolboxAbstract Control workstations are used in education to teach control theory principles as well asa test station for control algorithm development. Two workstations from Quanser Consulting arebeing used in our electrical and computer engineering program in student

Conference Session

Energy Laboratory Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Tebbe, Minnesota State University-Mankato

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. These experiments canencompass very non-linear and coupled phenomena. Subsequently, they can often be very timeconsuming to perform and difficult for the students to initially grasp. One such experiment is thestudy of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle. Adjusting one cycle parameter often induceschanges in several others. It is common for students to operate the cycle in a way which violatesstandard cycle assumptions or which can create safety hazards.For a laboratory instructor this creates three problems. First, students will take longer to performthe experiment as they struggle with the equipment. Second, students and equipment may be putat risk. Third, student comprehension and educational impact is reduced. To address theseissues the

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Energy Laboratory Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

2006-681: LABORATORY-SCALE STEAM POWER PLANT STUDY -- RANKINECYCLER EFFECTIVENESS AS A LEARNING TOOL AND A COMPREHENSIVEEXPERIMENTAL ANALYSISAndrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU and is the Thermal-Fluids Laboratory Coordinator. He is on the ASME PTC committee on Air-Cooled Condensers.Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville Philip Gerhart is the Dean of

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Manufacturing Laboratory Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Manufacturing

2006-721: MANUFACTURING LABORATORY LEARNING MODULES ONCAD/CAM/CMM AND ROBOTICSR. Radharamanan, Mercer University Dr. R. Radharamanan is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He has twenty-eight years of teaching, research, and consulting experiences. His previous administrative experiences include: President of International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE), Acting Director of Industrial Engineering as well as Director of Advanced Manufacturing Center at Marquette University, and Research Director of CAM and Robotics Center at San Diego State University. His primary

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas-Tyler; Mark Humphries, University of Texas-Tyler; Leonardo Estevez, Texas Instruments Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

2006-797: REAL TIME SYSTEMS LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT:EXPERIMENTS FOCUSING ON A DUAL CORE PROCESSORMukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas-Tyler MUKUL SHIRVAIKAR received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1993. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He has also held positions at Texas Instruments and the University of West Florida. His research interests include real-time imaging, embedded systems and pattern recognition.Mark Humphries, University of Texas-Tyler MARK HUMPHRIES received his Master’s in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from the University of Texas at Tyler, and is a

Conference Session

New ECE laboratories

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamer Omar, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Anas Salah Eddin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mohamed El-Hadedy P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Hyoungsoo Kim, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

applications make it mandatory for electrical and computer engineeringstudents to gain basic concepts in the digital domain in addition to the analog domain. This studyaims at integrating MSO features into analog oscilloscopes to teach students both digital andanalogue systems and signal analysis. The proposal will show how the MSOs can be used in theelectrical and computer engineering curriculum through an “Introduction to Microcontrollers”laboratory course. Two labs are introduced to allow the students to analyze and study the digitaldomain of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) protocols.Finally, the labs will teach the student how to analyze machine code and map it into both assemblyinstructions and high

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New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mark William Thoren, Analog Devices Inc.; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2007.[5]. Song, J., Dow, D., and Ma, L. “In-Class Laboratory Exercises to Improve a Signals and Systems Course”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2019.[6]. LTSpice, https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice- simulator.html.[7]. Open Source Definition https://opensource.org/docs/osd

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New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pelin Kurtay, George Mason University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #30554Development of a Printed Circuit Board Design Laboratory CourseDr. Pelin Kurtay, George Mason University Pelin Kurtay is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at George Mason University. She currently heads the ECE Department’s undergrad- uate curriculum development efforts and leads other departmental initiatives. She is the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of Distinction Award at George Mason University for exceptional teaching and commitment to teaching-related activities in electrical and computer engineering and Information technology. She is a

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New ECE laboratories

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #25312In-Class Laboratory Exercises to Improve a Signals and Systems CourseDr. Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology Jiahui Song received her B.S. in Automation and M.S. in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent Systems from Southeast University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology at Wentworth Institute of Technology.Dr. Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Department of

Conference Session

Engineering Laboratory Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecilia Dianne Richards, Washington State University; Fanhe Shamus Meng; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

made the switch from Instruc- tional Laboratory Supervisor to Post-Doctoral Research Associate on an engineering education project. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom.Prof. Robert F. Richards, Washington State University Dr. Robert Richards received the PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He then worked in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST as a Post-Doctoral Researcher before joining the faculty of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research is in

Conference Session

Engineering Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Norman Love, University of Texas, El Paso

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

, identifying a learningapproach, and on quantifying the student learning is explained in detail. It is found that theinstructional setting plays a significant role in flipped classroom learning effectiveness. Flippedclassroom learning setup does not guarantee better learning effectiveness if not set upappropriately in a laboratory setting. Keywords: Flipped Classroom, Project based learning, Energy, Engineering Education.INTRODUCTION The term Engineering Education refers to imparting the knowledge of professionalengineering practice to students in advanced educational institutions towards enhancing andimproving their knowledge. In United States, Engineering Education is a part of STEM(Science, Technology, and Engineering & Mathematics

Conference Session

Engineering Laboratory Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Schertzer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Patricia Iglesias, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kate N. Leipold, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); John D. Wellin, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Mechanical Engineering

heat management. He is the founding director of the Discrete Microfluidics Laboratory, co-director of the Knorr-Bremse Mechatronics Laboratory and co-director of RIT’s Beyond 9.8 program. Dr. Schertzer is also serving as the vice-chair for the Micro and Nano Fluidics topic at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition 2015. Dr. Schertzer received a double major in Engineering and Management from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He also received his M.A.Sc. from McMaster for examining the heat transfer performance of capillary pumped loops in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial applications. He earned his Doctorate in the Department of

Conference Session

New ECE laboratories

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Joseph Ebel Sr., Saint Louis University; Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

this paper describes a Linear Systems laboratory project that involves designing a simplifiedspeech recognition system to recognize the 5 long vowel sounds for a team of 3 or 4 students. Thisproject is assigned soon after the student has been introduced to the Fourier Transform in theassociated Linear Systems lecture course. This paper describes the Laboratory project byillustrating the solution with a specific example drawn from real data for a single student team.This laboratory project has the primary goals: 1. Understand the importance of the Fourier Spectrum for developing useful signal analysis algorithms and systems. 2. Develop a speaker-independent vowel classification system to distinguish the 5 long vowel sounds for a

Conference Session

New ECE laboratories

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #27275An Introductory Communication Systems Course with MATLAB/Simulink-Based Software-Defined Radio LaboratoryDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory J. Prust is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Depart- ment at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff mem- ber at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing, communication systems, and embedded systems areas. c

Conference Session

New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Junfei Li P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Cara Li; Jae Sok Son, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Weidong Kuang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Edgar Gil, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

focus on hands-on experience and practical skills. This arrangement ismainly due to the convenience of having information delivered in a classroom environment, whilemaking use of the lab resources to apply and experiment with the newly gathered information.However, keeping these two separate is neither ideal nor representative of the workplace, whereengineering is a coherent and iterative process. In fact, problems often arise when the lecture andlab components are not fully coordinated. In attempt to progress engineering education, theMyFPGA platform is developed.Building a remote laboratory such as MyFPGA has been an active research area since MIT startedthe iCampus research project [1], aiming at creating an online laboratory for various

Conference Session

New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University

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Electrical and Computer

such as USRP, these mid-rangeSDR platforms can provide fairly wide sampling rates and spectral bands with just a little bitfewer choices in terms of radio frequency (RF) frontend configurations and host interfaces. It hasbeen shown that the ADALM-PLUTO helps improve the presentation of the concepts in the firstdigital communication course and facilitates a flipped classroom and an open laboratory 18.Motivated by the existing works and in order to bridge the gap between the undergraduatecommunication systems education and the industrial demands of entry-level electrical engineerswith IoT transceiver and SDR expertise, an educational module on IoT transceiver using theaffordable SDR platform, ADALM-PLUTO, has been developed for Communication

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

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Manufacturing

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

2006-1313: DSP ON GENERIC MACHINESDick Blandford, University of Evansville Dr. Dick K. Blandford is the Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Evansville. Page 11.499.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 DSP on Generic MachinesAbstractMany electrical engineering classes which introduce digital signal processing at theundergraduate level include a laboratory component in which students implement systems ondedicated DSP boards. Many such boards are programmed in an unfamiliar assembly languageor they require cumbersome I/O drivers

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.455.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of a Comprehensive Industrial Controls Course in a Manufacturing Engineering ProgramBackgroundThis paper illustrates efforts and their outcomes for re-design of an industrial controlscourse. The course, Device Control, has been taught in this ABET accreditedundergraduate manufacturing engineering program since the inception of the program notso long ago. The course has been mainly taught as a PLC (Programmable LogicController) based controls course with a major experiential learning component includingproject-based laboratories for design of automated machinery. Students have been wellexposed to PLC’s and PLC-based control applications.The course

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Ravi Chilumula, Arizona State University; CHIH-WEI HUANG, Arizona State University; Mike Stiber, University of Washington-Bothell; Philip Loizou, University of Texas-Dallas; Takis Kasparis, University of Central Florida

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Electrical and Computer

UNIVERSITIESAbstract - This collaborative effort involves five universities, namely, Arizona StateUniversity, the University of Washington-Bothell , the University of Texas at Dallas, theUniversity of Rhode Island, and the University of Central Florida. The paper describeseducational technology innovations and software extensions that enable the on-linesoftware Java-DSP to be used in three courses at five different universities. Assessmentfrom use at ASU is presented in this paper. Preliminary assessment from the otherinstitutions is also available. A new concept for concurrent collaborative laboratories isalso presented. INTRODUCTIONJava-DSP (J-DSP) (http://jdsp.asu.edu) is an educational program that enables on

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fitra Khan, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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Electrical and Computer

networking laboratory (CNL)1. Built around a 24-nodedistributed Beowulf2,3 supercomputer, the main goal of CNL is to enhance the understanding ofparallel computing principles in key courses of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science(BS-CS) degree, the two-year Associate in Applied Science in Computer Information Systems(AAS-CIS), and the four-year Bachelor of Applied Technology in Computer InformationSystems Technology (BAT-CIST).The strategy has been to use this supercomputer as the main instrument to infuse concepts andprinciples into targeted courses by creating a set of laboratory modules and capstone projects.Such project framework in CS education is strongly emphasized in the ACM/IEEE-CS curriculamodel4. CNL has aided in motivating the