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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

George A. Perdikaris

laboratory using digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and encoderinterface boards made by Measurement Computing Corporation. The plant consists of an industrialmotor and drive made by the Bosch Rexroth Corporation. The computer-controlled system is run inreal time using the Real-Time Workshop (RTW) and Real-Time Windows Target (RTWT) software,also made by MathWorks, Inc. Computer simulation results are verified experimentally.I. IntroductionIndustrial automation incorporating computers is becoming increasingly important in the productionof goods and services. It is a highly sophisticated job to design and implement automation systemsthat operate and coordinate modern manufacturing processes. Quite often, such systems involve theapplication of computers

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

David Lanning

the instructor are provided.IntroductionThe Aerospace Engineering undergraduate degree program at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona, is much like aerospace engineering programs at manyother four-year institutions. While the faculty place emphasis on faculty-student interaction,design experiences, and hands-on laboratory learning, the basic structure of the ABET-accreditedprogram (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) is similar to other undergraduateaerospace engineering degree programs.Students refer to the typical second-semester sophomore schedule as “the gauntlet,” whichincludes courses in dynamics, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and differential equations.While Statics is often thought of as

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

attitude dynamics and control,” Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.32. R.P. Hesketh, S. Farrell, C.S. Slater, “The role of experiments in inductive learning,” Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.33. M. Alley, H. Robertshaw, “Rethinking the design of presentation slides,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.34. A.M. Eskicioglu, D. Kopec, “The ideal multimedia-enabled classroom: perspectives from psychology, education and information science,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.35. K.R. Most, M.P. Deisenroth, “ABET and engineering laboratory learning objectives: a study at Virginia Tech,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.36. R.P

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Jackson J. Graham; Randy C. Hurd; Tadd T. Truscott

, we designed aninstructional laboratory to study two-dimensional conduction. The experimental apparatusconsists of a thin sheet of copper wired with an array of thermocouples and paired withtemperature-controlled circulating baths capable of creating temperature differences across thesurface. The system is operated with a LabVIEW VI to provide a temporal visualization oftemperature over the surface. The exercise provides students with a chance to visualize andsolidify fundamental principles while also strengthening related concepts such as the importanceof experimental validation, error and uncertainty calculation and the power of numerical tools.Keywordstwo-dimensional conduction, heat transfer, numerical methodsIntroductionThe lab

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Hugh Smith

).These students have had a minimum of four quarters of required programming courses. Thisincludes CS1-CS3 where they learn C or Python and then Java. They are also required to take aSystems Programming course where they learn to use Unix systems calls similar to the SocketsAPI.Cal Poly is on a 10-week quarter system. The computer networking course consists of 3-hoursof lecture per week and 3-hours of lab. In the lecture we cover the major aspects of the protocolstack layers 1-4. The lab component of the course is similar to an Electrical Engineering lab.The lab is held in the Cal Poly Advanced Networking Laboratory. This laboratory has 15workbenches. Each workbench consists of multiple PCs, switches and routers. The students aregiven a lab

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

17 Hrs 18 Hrs 18 Hrs 18 Hrs 15-17 Hrs 17-19 HrsNote: Credit for Advanced Compositon (not listed) may be obtained by exemption orexamination. If a student must actually enroll in Advanced Composition the graduationrequirement increases to 139hours.Foundation EngineeringFoundation Engineering, CVEG 4143, is normally taken by students in their senior year and hasbeen a required course in the civil engineering program for many years. In accomplishing themajor objectives of this course, students are required to produce an unconstrained site layout forsome type of commercial facility, plan a subsurface exploration program for their site, interpretraw field and laboratory soils data to extract design parameters

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

Practical Courses for Synthetic Ability Practical Courses for Specialized Skills Practical Courses for Basic Skills EXPERIMENTAL AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION PLATFORM The National Experimental Education Center of Transportation Engineering The National Engineering Education Center for Practice Teaching The Joint Center of National and Provincial Engineering Education The Provincial Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Transportation The Railways Schedule Formation Center of Ministry of Transportation (P.R.China) 21 Large Enterprises for

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

as an undergraduate, supervising a chemical engineering laboratory as a masters studentand grading assignments for an undergraduate chemical engineering course were teachingexperiences that were a standard part of my education. Although these were minor teachingresponsibilities, these experiences exposed me to the opportunity to share knowledge and fueledmy subsequent interest in becoming a college professor. At the time when my interest in teachingbecame clear, it almost seemed too late as I was already halfway through my doctoral degreeprogram. Despite that, I started doing some reading about what it would take to become aprofessor. The wealth of information served only to confuse me further. I did two things at thatpoint: 1. I mapped

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stuart Baur; R. Joe Stanley

% 131 974ChemistryChemistry 1319 – General 6.85% 185 1389Chemistry Laboratory I Table 5. Improvement in Average GPA for Missouri S&T Students with PLTW Course Experience in Select Speech CourseCourse % Improvement Number of Students Number of Students w/ PLTW Exp. w/out PLTW Exp.Speech 1185 – Principles 1.66% 116 694of Speech Table 6. Improvement in Average GPA for Missouri S&T Students with PLTW Course Experience In Select Statistics CoursesCourse

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

and mass balances, and software to complete their design. Students work in groups andwrite a report summarizing their findings. The activity connects course concepts to real worldapplications and requires students to design their own case studies through exploring the researchand patent literature. These aspects engage students in topics they are interested in whilesimultaneously relieving the burden off of faculty for constructing new projects each courseoffering.IntroductionProblem-based learning and laboratory experiments are common teaching methods for theundergraduate kinetics and reaction engineering courses in chemical engineering (Silverstein2011). However, these approaches typically are concentrated on one course topic at a time

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson

sciences.At the graduate and post-doctoral level, responsible conduct of research and engineering ethicstraining for engineers has been less common outside of bioengineering. Unlike the biomedicalsciences, engineering research and graduate work includes a wide range of activities and studentsin these programs have a wide range of career opportunities, not all of which are covered intraditional in a traditional RCR course. Therefore, in order to address the NSF mandate withcourses appropriate to engineering students, it is critical that new materials and lesson plans becreated.Unique Elements of RCR for EngineeringResearchIn the biomedical sciences, much of the research performed focuses on hypothesis-driven,laboratory or clinical research. As such

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shaibal Mukherjee; Pallabi Mukherjee

. According to a recentsurvey by Concord Coalition13, if the current economic trend continues, by the year 2020, interestpayments on national debt and other expenses like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaidwould consume most of our national revenues. Under such a scenario, availability of federalfunds for university-based research is expected to go down substantially. Changes in budgetarypolicies and priorities may be needed to retain the nation’s lead in higher education anduniversity-based cutting-edge research16 while competing with other economically developedcountries. Federal Budget ScenariosThe federal government funding is the main source of support for science and engineeringresearch14, 15. Out of the 700 laboratories that are funded

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shannon G. Davis; Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Bradley M. Dearing; Edgar C. Clausen

, understandingand application of selected laboratory exercises. It includes classroom/laboratory instruction,follow-up activities at the schools, and evaluation, both during and after the institute.While the Year 1 (2006) Summer Institute focused on providing engineering hands-on activitiesthat teachers could subsequently use in their classrooms,5, 6 the Year 2 (2007) Institute taught theparticipants how to design their own experiments using a reverse design teaching method calledthe “design loop” method which emphasizes results-driven outcomes.7 The design loopapproach focuses on three components: 1) a clear set of desired results by identifying goals forstudents, the specific information the students will understand , and what students will achieve asa

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

engineering geology Junior Soil Mechanics Laboratory Case study of a civil engineering Spring (CEE 3901) failure Senior Foundation Design Evaluation of the resources available Fall (CEE 4801) on a geotechnical engineering project Solid and Hazardous Waste Term paper on a contemporary Fall (CEE 4331) solid/hazardous waste issue Advanced Transportation Design solution for a highway Fall Engineering (also open to juniors) focusing on highway safety (CEE 3235)Activities and outcomes

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik

with large well lit open areas and high ceilings. Five race teams have race carson display with a sixth bay for the permanent Motorsports Instrumentation Class race car. These race carbays all radiate out from a large central machine shop/fabrication area. Besides the expected shopmanager office, there is also a reinforced engine and chassis dynamometer room(s), and a laboratory witha variety of chassis and engine test machines.There is also a computer room that doubles as a study hall and meeting room located on the large storagemezzanine over some of the race team bays.A “Motorsports Instructional and Research Laboratory Manager” was recently hired to both train studentson equipment use and supply them with fabrication skills with regularly

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

for the people inside the building in case of any emergency. Needless to say, the instructions could be different to people in different parts of the building according to the situation at that particular location. 6. This system could work even if there is no power due to the emergency. If the condition #1 was not there, we might be able to have a fast and easy solution since cost factor is abig limitation to any project. We started by collecting information about what we have in the building.We basically have the following: 1. Great Ethernet network infrastructure where basically every laboratory / office / class-room has many data-drops (CAT-6). We have a Gig -feed to the network-room (Tech-114), so the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Junichi Kanai

required little encouragement to start usingthis system, many project teams quickly learned to use it productively and obtained good results. Thesystem allowed sponsor mentors to share project information with a broader audience within theirorganization. It enabled them to provide better and timelier feedback to students and faculty; therefore,the students were able to explore more realistic design solutions. The faculty advisers were also able toassess a team’s progress, problems, and individual contributions more effectively by monitoringinformation posted by the team. The system made a significant impact on the project outcome andstudents’ learning experience.IntroductionThe O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL) at Rensselaer

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M. Ali Montazer

sea of everyday chores only to deepen themanager’s skepticism. To counter the trend, the University of New Haven (UNH) andthe Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) embarked on a programwhere faculty/students teams provide technical assistance on modeling and simulation toaerospace parts manufacturers in their quest to become lean.To this end, a Center for Simulation Modeling and Analysis is established at UNH withpartial funding support provided by (CCAT). The Center is fully student-centric: thestudents will be learning the concepts and techniques of modeling and simulation usingthe state-of-the-art software tool in the classroom / laboratory followed by a practicumwhere they will work on actual cases provided by area

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

constructed within the virtualworld [5].Students in engineering classes at our campus have also designed interactiveengineering exhibits and various prototypes to support coursework. An interactive mobilerobotics virtual laboratory was developed to instruct virtual users in the basic programmingtechniques to direct a robot to successfully navigate a maze. Due to the persistence of virtualworld platforms, this virtual, interactive robotics laboratory (as well as all other virtual worlduser content) is available online at all times to an international audience [6]. In general, virtualworlds offer more immersive and powerful user (avatar) interaction, collaboration and in-worldbuilding, but may offer less in the way of accurate and precise models that

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

Computer-Aided Experimentations usingLABVIEW. Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut andUnited Technologies. He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored bythe National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is amember of ASME and ASEE. 7

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

wellas engineering decision making concepts. Lastly our novel approach to curriculum development allowed for an earlier incorporation of theactual data into the process via ChemCad, the Chemical Engineering software that was used by eachstudent. Typically, use of this software does not occur until later in the design sequence. Background The Friedel-Crafts reaction is used in laboratory synthesis as well as in industry in the synthesis ofethylbenzene and its derivatives as an intermediate to make styrene monomers1. Therefore, this reactionwas a good choice to integrate several different courses. Laboratory experiments conducted during the second semester of organic chemistry generallyillustrate practical

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

veryfriendly and useful for better understanding of the basic terms used in random variables andprocesses.AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part by the CONACYT under Grant No. 91013. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 344References 1. Li, S. G. and Lie, Q. (2004). Interactive Groundwater (IGW): An Innovative Digital Laboratory for Groundwater Education and Research, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11(4), 179-203. 2. Jovanovic Dolecek, G. (1997). RANDEMO: Educational Software for Random Signal Analysis, Computer Applications in

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

wellas engineering decision making concepts. Lastly our novel approach to curriculum development allowed for an earlier incorporation of theactual data into the process via ChemCad, the Chemical Engineering software that was used by eachstudent. Typically, use of this software does not occur until later in the design sequence. Background The Friedel-Crafts reaction is used in laboratory synthesis as well as in industry in the synthesis ofethylbenzene and its derivatives as an intermediate to make styrene monomers1. Therefore, this reactionwas a good choice to integrate several different courses. Laboratory experiments conducted during the second semester of organic chemistry generallyillustrate practical

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M. Ali Montazer

sea of everyday chores only to deepen themanager’s skepticism. To counter the trend, the University of New Haven (UNH) andthe Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) embarked on a programwhere faculty/students teams provide technical assistance on modeling and simulation toaerospace parts manufacturers in their quest to become lean.To this end, a Center for Simulation Modeling and Analysis is established at UNH withpartial funding support provided by (CCAT). The Center is fully student-centric: thestudents will be learning the concepts and techniques of modeling and simulation usingthe state-of-the-art software tool in the classroom / laboratory followed by a practicumwhere they will work on actual cases provided by area

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik

with large well lit open areas and high ceilings. Five race teams have race carson display with a sixth bay for the permanent Motorsports Instrumentation Class race car. These race carbays all radiate out from a large central machine shop/fabrication area. Besides the expected shopmanager office, there is also a reinforced engine and chassis dynamometer room(s), and a laboratory witha variety of chassis and engine test machines.There is also a computer room that doubles as a study hall and meeting room located on the large storagemezzanine over some of the race team bays.A “Motorsports Instructional and Research Laboratory Manager” was recently hired to both train studentson equipment use and supply them with fabrication skills with regularly

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

Computer-Aided Experimentations usingLABVIEW. Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut andUnited Technologies. He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored bythe National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is amember of ASME and ASEE. 7

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

wellas engineering decision making concepts. Lastly our novel approach to curriculum development allowed for an earlier incorporation of theactual data into the process via ChemCad, the Chemical Engineering software that was used by eachstudent. Typically, use of this software does not occur until later in the design sequence. Background The Friedel-Crafts reaction is used in laboratory synthesis as well as in industry in the synthesis ofethylbenzene and its derivatives as an intermediate to make styrene monomers1. Therefore, this reactionwas a good choice to integrate several different courses. Laboratory experiments conducted during the second semester of organic chemistry generallyillustrate practical

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

for the people inside the building in case of any emergency. Needless to say, the instructions could be different to people in different parts of the building according to the situation at that particular location. 6. This system could work even if there is no power due to the emergency. If the condition #1 was not there, we might be able to have a fast and easy solution since cost factor is abig limitation to any project. We started by collecting information about what we have in the building.We basically have the following: 1. Great Ethernet network infrastructure where basically every laboratory / office / class-room has many data-drops (CAT-6). We have a Gig -feed to the network-room (Tech-114), so the

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Junichi Kanai

required little encouragement to start usingthis system, many project teams quickly learned to use it productively and obtained good results. Thesystem allowed sponsor mentors to share project information with a broader audience within theirorganization. It enabled them to provide better and timelier feedback to students and faculty; therefore,the students were able to explore more realistic design solutions. The faculty advisers were also able toassess a team’s progress, problems, and individual contributions more effectively by monitoringinformation posted by the team. The system made a significant impact on the project outcome andstudents’ learning experience.IntroductionThe O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL) at Rensselaer

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, investigate the local environments of arsenic in an arsenicchemical engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical hyperaccumulator, Cretan brake [2]. It was reported that As-Oengineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing a has bond length values from 170 pm to 180 pm and As-S hasresearch project in a laboratory and presenting the results in bond length value of about 225 pm. Another report for Zn inconferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. tobacco roots also shows that Zn-O bond length values haveOur community college, Queensborough Community College more variation (196 to 207 pm) as compared to Zn-S inQCC