Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5: Remote, Hands-On Laboratories

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Ragland, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia; Andrew Jackson, University of Georgia; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia; Fred Beyette; Dominik May

), United States Navy, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)] and industry partners [Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Sun Nuclear, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell Collins, PTC, Alstom].Andrew Jackson (Assistant Professor) Andrew Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Workforce Education at the University of Georgia. His teaching and research interests relate to design-based learning and teaching in technology and engineering contexts. His current work explores how students navigate open-ended problem solving and design work, and seeks to enhance design teaching and learning through teacher partnerships and classroom research. Andrew received a PhD in Technology through Purdue's

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Best Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Steven Brill, New York University; Jared Alan Frank, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

illustrated on the screen of the smartphone through colorfulplots displaying both the angular position and angular velocity. The touchscreen display is usedas a guide to help the user perform the experimental procedure by providing instructions andhints throughout the process.The use of smartphone-mounted test-beds to teach students closed-loop feedback controlconcepts creates an opportunity to engage engineering students in new interactive ways to usethe devices they bring to the laboratory. To validate and evaluate the proposed system, a group of17 graduate level mechanical engineering students were asked to perform the experimentdescribed in this paper. This methodology serves as an expert analysis wherein the graduatestudents performing the

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Joseph Hass, Bucknell University; Juliana Su, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Page 25.947.3 used to develop applications on a wide variety of microcontrollers, so that student projects could scale upward into research or capstone requirements. • Similarly, the IDE should be portable from small projects to large projects. The tool set should be easily scalable to more ambitious projects than we would encounter in this course. • The IDE should be portable across host operating systems. Our campus laboratories use both Windows and Linux platforms, and student laptops often run Apple’s OS X. Tools that can be used on any of these platforms will be more accessible to students.Our final goal is to teach microcontroller system design using a modern microcontrollerarchitecture. While there is certainly a

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Brian Hong, MathWorks; Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology

¨uys¨uz, “The effect of the virtual laboratory on students’ achievement and attitude in chemistry.” International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010.[22] R. Arias, A. P. da Cunha, and A. R. G. Ramirez, “Teaching of mechanical vibration concepts using the computational simulation,” IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 18, no. 04, pp. 659–667, 2020.[23] M. T. Taher and A. S. Khan, “Effectiveness of simulation versus hands-on labs: A case study for teaching an electronics course,” in 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/p.23920. Seattle, Washington: ASEE Conferences, June 2015, https://peer.asee.org/23920.[24] J. Reeves, B. Sinha, M. N. Amin, and A. S. Davis, “Innovations in remote

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Lee, San Jose State University; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Tai-Ran Hsu, San Jose State University; David Parent, San Jose State University

AC 2007-1572: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MEMS LABORATORY COURSE WITHMODULAR, MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM PROJECTSJohn Lee, San Jose State University JOHN LEE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at San Jose State University. He teaches in the areas of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), manufacturing processes, mechanical design, and dynamics. He conducts research in microfluidics and micromechanics applied to MEMS design and fabrication. Contact: sjlee@sjsu.edu.Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University STACY GLEIXNER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at San Jose State University. She teaches courses

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John Hackworth, Old Dominion University; Richard Jones, Old Dominion University; June Ritchie, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

-onexperience that educates students with real experimental approach projects and lab exercises.2The wide availability of the internet and computers makes the delivery of educational materialsbeyond the limits of the traditional classroom teaching format easily available to a large pool ofnon traditional students.Distance learning is a curriculum delivery technique that has been widely implemented for manyyears to meet the increasing demands of those students who are not able to attend conventionalon-campus classroom or laboratory courses. Most distance learning courses focus on web basedstatic material presentation and "question & answer" format. 3,4 Other distance learningimplementations contain software simulations and virtual laboratories. 5

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; Alfred Kalyanapu, University of Utah; Dasch Houdeshel, University of Utah; David Judi, University of Utah; Christine Pomeroy, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

course at the University of Utah hashighlighted the need to specifically improve the linkage of lab experiments to class examples andprofessional practice. The virtual laboratory concept may be configured to meet this need inaddition to facilitating distance education and providing review of laboratory procedures andconcepts.The idea of a virtual lab environment to aid teaching and learning makes sense, but to beeffectively integrated into an existing course it must not substantially increase student timecommitment to the course. The laboratory core objectives related to data analysis andcommunications (writing) must remain the focus of the report writing outside of the lab session.A virtual lab environment must be streamlined to provide

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Dennis Mikkelson

Session 1626 Computer Graphics and Image Processing Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction. Dr. Dennis Mikkelson University of Wisconsin-Stout The ILI funded laboratory and curriculum development project described in this paperprovided UNIX workstations for undergraduate courses in computer graphics and image processingat the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Prior to this project, the computer graphics course wastaught on 80286 class personal computers using an implementation of the Graphical Kernel System

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott R. Short

Over the past several years, which types of materials engineering research should receive the mostfunding has been a hot topic of discussion in the federal government. High on this list is materials synthesis 3and processing. Granted that this area of research is of national concern, it is not the focus of the currentproject to develop a materials laboratory where students learn about research-intensive processes such as thesynthesis of diamond coatings, etc. Instead, it is NIU’s goal to establish a fundamental teaching laboratory inwhich students can gain hands-on experience with materials, possibly for the first time in their lives. In ourlaboratory, students will perform experiments which illustrate the relationship between

Conference Session

Laboratories in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

received his M.S. and Ph.D. from SIUC in 1991 and 2002 respectively. He teaches courses in electric power and machinery, industrial automation, and electric circuits. His research interests include power systems economics, power markets, and electric energy management. Page 14.748.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrated Simulation and Assessment Software for Programmable Logic Controller Laboratory InstructionAbstractProviding students with engaging laboratory experiences in sequential process control ischallenging. Simple training devices that use lights and switches to

Conference Session

Service - Learning Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Boyle, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

senior design project, aneducational device was created to teach students in developed and developing nations about theenvironmental impacts of water contamination and to promote sustainable water utilization. Toaccomplish this goal an interactive, educational, cost-effective water purification system, knownas the Adaptive Water Treatment for Education and Research Laboratory (Adaptive WaTERLab), was developed. The design includes six different purification methods contained inindividual housings that can be connected and reordered to create multiple purification solutions.The purification methods selected for this project include: sediment filtration, carbon filtration,chemical disinfection, reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, and ultraviolet

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec

this VI displays the shear and momentdiagrams for the simply-supported case (Figure 5). Page 8.303.6Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 5: Shear and Moment DiagramsSummaryThe experience of integrating a Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Innovation (CCLI) proposal,the multidisciplinary design experience and teaching tools for statics and solid mechanicscourses was successful for all involved. A team of faculty in the College of Engineering atRowan

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Conte; Mesut Baran; Joel Trussell; Jack Brickley; Griff Bilbro; Greg Byrd; Cecilia Townsend; Ben O'Neal; Amir Mortazavi; Mehmet Ozturk

Department. In this curriculum, students choose theirspecialization areas starting from the second semester of the junior year. The system is carefullydesigned to ensure that students acquire both breadth and depth in their studies. The flagship ofthis curriculum is a new laboratory course, which the students take during the first semester afterthe first year common to all engineering students. The objectives of the new laboratory are: i) Tointroduce different ECE specialization areas to encourage students to start thinking about whichspecialization areas appeal more to them ii) To motivate the students through practical, hands-onexperiments connected to real-life applications iii) To teach fundamental concepts and basiclaboratory skills. In this

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

. Page 8.51.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationhttp://www.abet.org.2. Munro, James M. “A Design Experiment for the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory,” Proceedings of the2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal,Canada, June 2002 .3. Dixon, David J., L. G. Bauer, J. M. Munro and J. A. Puszynski “Use of Simulation Software Packagesas a Teaching Tool in the 4-year Chemical Engineering Integrated Design Project,” Proceedings of the1999 Annual Meeting of the American In stitute of Chemical Engineers, Dallas Texas

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Waldo

tracing and analysis. Assignments for DSP II will be based on the followingtopics:• Breakpoints, probe points, file I/O• Graph window, profiling, host interface• Spawning and controlling tasks and data I/O• Real-time scheduling analysis, load analysis• Queues, semaphores and mailboxes• Semester long project where real-time system development techniques are usedDSP III will not have a laboratory component but students will be required to do assignmentsoutside of class utilizing the DSP hardware.Material adapted in the DSP courses will come primarily from three sources: 1) DSPFundamentals course offered at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2) the course Real-Time DSP Design offered at Georgia Institute of Technology and 3) DSP Teaching

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate A Disney, Mission College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

,often only one or two. Each instructor has high teaching loads of four or more courses persemester. Faculty have little time for course or laboratory development. There is limitedlaboratory support staff and budgets to buy and maintain equipment. While many communitycolleges exist, the relentless teaching demands on the faculty and geographic separation tend toresult in community college engineering faculty working in a state of relative isolation. Anyeffort to attract students into engineering careers and promote technological literacy for non-engineers through community colleges must contend with these challenges.Topics Cited as Appealing by Non-Engineering StudentsEngineering faculty teaching technological literacy courses for non-engineers

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L. Martin; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

teaching of introductory or core courses in electrical engineering or technology, laboratoryexperience by the students is a necessity. In teaching basic signal analysis and/or introductorycommunications theory and the use of basic instrumentation, it has been found that provision ofknown signals to the various student laboratory stations both increases the efficiency of theinstructor’s time and enhances the student’s learning. For over thirty years, the ElectricalEngineering Department at the U. S. Naval Academy has used a central signal distribution systemin its laboratories. The system was installed in 1968 and has been used to the present. The EElaboratory complex was in fact constructed around that facility, and the majority of the EE labshave

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

unit through basic handshaking.IV. Design projectThe laboratory sessions are conducted with a given set of hardware that is already assembled andwired. This facilitates the use of subsystems of the hardware to focus on teaching specificconcepts. However, the students also need to gain practical experience in designing anautomation system from the ground up. To fill this gap a design project was added to the coursein the second offering in Spring 2001.The project was assigned in the last month of the semester. At this point, the students alreadyhad a lot of experience with the type of hardware and software to be used in the project. In thefirst week of the project period, lectures on project management and team formation were given.Analysis

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Vian, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Paper ID #37253Laboratory Experiment for Improving Understanding of Grain RefinementinAluminum CastingsDr. Wei Vian, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Wei Vian is an assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s School of Engineering Tech- nology at the West Lafayette campus, where she teaches mechanics and materials courses. Her current research focuses on exploring teaching methods to increase student success in the courses she teaches, and past research includes exploring grain refining in aluminum castings. Dr. Vian received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2016. ©American

Conference Session

Developments in the Energy Laboratories

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Brelage, Purdue University; Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University; William DeWitt, Purdue University; Thomas Robertson, Purdue University; Athula Kulatunga, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-625: RE-WIRING A POWER/MOTORS LABORATORY FOR IMPROVEDSTUDENT SAFETYThomas Brelage, Purdue UniversityTimothy Skvarenina, Purdue University Dr. Skvarenina received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, in a variety of engineering and teaching positions. In the fall of 1991, he joined the faculty of the College of Technology at Purdue University where he currently holds the rank of Professor and teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machines and power systems and serves as the department assessment coordinator. He has authored or coauthored over 30

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pnina Ari-Gur, Western Michigan University; Peter Thannhauser, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Roman Rabiej, Western Michigan University; Daniel M. Litynski, Western Michigan University; Marwa M Hassan, Louisiana State University; Jeff Johnston, Muskegon Community College; Tyler Bayne

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

inpre-engineering do not complete their degree2,3. To improve engineering learning effectiveness, alaboratory experience is highly beneficial; it reinforces the material comprehension,complements the theory, and provides an active, interactive learning. However, issues such ashigh cost and high credit-hour engineering curricula have resulted in elimination of many of theengineering teaching laboratories, especially at the sophomore level. Our project goal was toimprove student success rate by providing them a set of virtual experiments that we develop toadequately simulate the physical laboratory.Guiding Principles in Developing the Virtual Laboratory: 1. The virtual laboratory modules must mimic reality and the learning experience in the

Conference Session

Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #12614Results & Lessons Learned from a Chemical Engineering Freshman DesignLaboratoryProf. Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and

Conference Session

Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Laursen P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University; Graham C. Archer P.Eng, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Paper ID #12112Creating an Experimental Structural Dynamics Laboratory on a Shoe-stringBudgetDr. Peter Laursen P.E., California Polytechnic State University Dr. Peter Laursen, P.E., is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytech- nic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where he teaches courses on the analysis and design of structural systems including laboratory courses.Dr. Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Cole McDaniel, P.E., is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Miller

Problem Solving in the Research Laboratory —A Workshop for Graduate Students Michele H. Miller Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractGraduate students often struggle to overcome the obstacles inherent in experimental work.Through practice over the course of a graduate program, many students will transition fromnovice to expert problem solvers even though they receive little explicit instruction on how to dothis. This paper describes a workshop whose purpose is to give graduate students tools to usewhen encountering unexpected problems in the lab. A pilot two-hour version of the workshopwas delivered to nine graduate

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Mays

of Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, January, 2003.4. ASCE, ASCE Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004.5. Chaplain, S.B., “Guided Development of Independent Inquiry in an Anatomy/Physiology Laboratory,” Advances in Physiology Education, The American Physiological Society, December, 2003.6. Guessous, L., Bozinoski, R., Kouba, R., and Woodward, D., “Combining Experiments with Numerical Simulations in the Teaching of Computational Fluids Dynamics,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.7. Miller, D.C., Anklam, M., Artigue, R.S., Carlson, A., Coronell, D.G., Sauer

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin; Cheng Lin

Software”, http://www.automationstudio.com.6. A. Otieno and C. Mirman, “A Laboratory Based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Course for aManufacturing Curriculum.” Proceeding of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.7. A. Karimi, A.C. Rogers, T.J. Connolly, and J.W. Frazer, “Automated Laboratory Experience in anUndergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program.” Proceeding of the 2003 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.8. G. Yang and Y. Rasis, “Teaching PLC in Automation – A Case Study.” Proceeding of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.9. D. Winchester, J. Cottle III

Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sushil Chaturvedi

Performing Interactively a Thermo-Fluids Laboratory Experiment in the Virtual Domain S. K. Chaturvedi, A. O. Akan, T. Abdel-Salam and A. Priyadershini College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529Abstract This paper deals with the development of an experiment in the virtual domain for theundergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory in the mechanical engineering program. A physicalexperiment titled “Venturimeter as a Flow Measuring Device” is replicated as a computer-basedexperiment as part of the ongoing effort at Old Dominion University to develop web-basedlaboratories that would provide students hands-on experience in the virtual domain

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

optimal sized group. It is estimated that graduate teaching assistantscan usually develop background on the relay test configuration in about two weeks and that afaculty member could become familiar with the test set up for a demonstration in approximatelyfour hours or one afternoon.Both laboratory exercises are being tested this semester with two classes: the junior-levelintroduction to power class and senior-level power engineering elective class. Both classes haveperformed the symmetrical components laboratory. The juniors had a very favorable responseon the exercise based on informal exit surveys. Additionally the senior students wereenthusiastic about the laboratory as it was presented at the same time as symmetrical componentsand

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter J. Shull

students to improve other skills as well, such as becoming avehicle to improve learning style and retention skills.However, it is a challenge to develop written exercises that provide an effective learningexperience without burdening the engineering faculty with overwhelming grading demands,especially at those undergraduate institutions where teaching assistants (graders) are unavailableand all grading is done by the faculty. The question, then, is what writing assignments wouldbest meet the needs of improving the learning environment while still providing the engineeringfaculty with a manageable workload. Formal group writing laboratory reports were consideredas a resolution to that major issue.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate both

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vance; Gloria Elliott; Craig W. Somerton

StateUniversity where during our transition from a quarter program to a semester program theinstrumentation course was eliminated with the understanding that instrumentation associatedwith a technical area, for example thermocouples with heat transfer and pressure transducers withfluid mechanics, would be integrated into appropriate technical laboratory course. A downside tothis approach is that several of the standard topics covered in an instrumentation course could beleft out in the cold. In particular, the teaching of the experiment design is a prime candidate forthis type of neglect. With the coming of Engineering Criteria 2000 and its specification inCriterion 3 that “engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have ... an ability