numerical methods werecompared with the corresponding closed form solutions.INTRODUCTIONThis study constitutes a laboratory component of the strength of materials courses taught to bothengineering and engineering technology students. It is important that engineering students learnthe detrimental effects of stress raisers such as notches, holes, and sharp corners in machinemembers. Such discontinuities can cause a large rise in stress above the nominal value. Thistopic is introduced in the strength of materials course in the design of a stepped shaft withkeyways subjected to bending, torsion, as well as axial loads. The nominal axial stress, thebending stress, and the shear stress due to torsion in the shaft are each multiplied by thecorresponding
associated STEM courses at BGCC. She also provides outreach and education for existing water operators in the form of CEU trainings. Ms. Wade holds a Master of Science Degree in Biology from WKU, and was employed as an analyst in the WATERS Laboratory at WKU for 5 years prior to her current position. Page 15.1354.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Water Training Institute: Industry Linkages and InstitutionalizationBackgroundProvision of adequate water and wastewater treatment is crucial to successful rural economicdevelopment1. It is also vital to public
teams work and what didn’t? We discuss the nature ofengineering, following with an introduction to our five-step engineering method: 1. Define the problem 2. Collect Information 3. Create Solutions 4. Perform Analysis 5. Make Decisions and repeat the cycle as necessaryThe design teams document this process in a team binder, graded at the end of each project,which is really a teaching tool to introduce them to laboratory notebooks. We use the binder, asopposed to a bound lab notebook, so that each team member can add individual exercises, in-class notes, CAD drawings, etc. throughout the semester.For each block of instruction students are required to study (review?) the lesson materialsprovided at the
weekly on-line conversations.All submitted a one-page summary including a project description, assessment plan,results, and next steps; some added resources. The topics are listed below as examplesfor participants in future programs. • Introduction to computer and software engineering course incorporating LEGO Mindstorm Labs • Using computers in laboratory: computers interfaced to physics laboratory measurement equipment and computers simulating the use of measurement equipment • Using computer simulation software to help students understand specific concepts • Using Group Instructional Feedback Technique to assess how students were reacting to the “active” classrooms both professors strive to create
. The new status may be shown on the LCD and thecontents of the linked lists in response to the status changes may be displayed on the PCscreen. The structure chart for the Car Lot RTOS System is provided in Figure 7. Itprovides the basic features required to operate the car lot scenario. The basic softwaresystem consists of functions to initialize the system and to perform basic linked listprocessing such as print a linked list, insert a new item to the linked list, delete aspecified item from the linked list, and search for a specific item in a linked list. Thiscode could be provided to the students to become familiar with basic linked listoperations. As a homework or laboratory assignment, students could add the necessarysoftware for
the programming language being taught. This language is still sometimesused for code development at the graduate level. Research level computational work at LosAlamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories is often done with FORTRAN.Despite FORTRAN’s historical importance, C (also C++) programming has become much morewide spread. Thus, several years ago FORTRAN was dropped in favor of C. Because of thischange it was possible for ME students to take a programming class from the Computer ScienceDepartment as well as through their own department. This scheduling flexibilitynotwithstanding, C programming was dropped this academic year in favor of the higher levelprogramming available with Mathcad and Matlab.Once the decision to drop
1998,where he is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of the Wireless Microsystems Laboratory.ADAM KLEIN received the B.S.E.E. degree from Cal Poly Pomona in 2001, and will receive the M.S.E.E.degree from Virginia Tech in 2004. In the summer of 2002, he interned with the Wireless Broadband SystemsGroup at Motorola SPS. He joined the Wireless Microsystems Laboratory at Virginia Tech in 2002 where hisresearch has involved RF VCO design in SiGe and Si CMOS technologies. He was also the GTA for the RFICdesign course during Spring 2003.RICHARD SVITEK received the B.S.E.E. degree from The University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and the M.S.E.E.degree from Virginia Tech in 2002. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at
: 1. Application of the fundamental concepts of systems engineering to solve engineering problems. 2. Laboratory techniques including procedures, recording, and analysis. 3. Design, fabrication, and testing techniques. 4. Use of contemporary systems engineering analysis, design, test, and management tools. 5. Written and oral communication skills. 6. Knowledge of ethical and professional responsibilities. 7. Breadth and depth of knowledge and skills in systems engineering, human systems, information systems, operations research analysis, mathematics, program management, and other disciplines necessary to effectively identify and solve the types of
Divisionof the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)where she was teaching for the last twenty years. All this time she was involved indeveloping, testing and implementing in her classes a variety of computer-basedcourseware. She got involved in developing computer-based courseware in 1982 whenshe worked at Computer-Education Research Laboratory at UIUC where the PLATOsystem was developed. Later the PLATO evolved into the NovaNET system1. HelenKuznetsov also authored a package of lessons and simulations on Road Design andConstructions for US Army Engineering School. These lessons as well as NovaNETlessons in Statics and Strength of Materials for Engineering and Architecture studentsare available on the
University. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2004, and he previously worked as a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.Dr. Gerard F. Jones, Villanova University Following a several year period as a project engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Jerry Jones joined the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his MS in 1975 and PhD in 1981. Jones was a technical staff member with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico until 1987. His research activities included experiments, analysis, and simulations on thermal systems, including solar and geothermal energy conversion. He consulted with LANL on a wide array of technical topics from 1990 until 2006. Jones joined the
significant component of the hands-on lab exercises as listed below.4.2 List of Laboratory ExercisesThe following laboratory exercises and activities were conducted throughout the term: Metal riveting hammer – traditional workshop – sawing, milling, turning, facing, drilling, tapping, grinding, assembly, finishing Auto CAD/ SolidWorks – free-form design Rapid prototyping – fused deposition modeling Injection molding - demonstration and some operation of the machine –plastic rulers Powder metallurgy – aluminum and stainless steel powders – cold isostatic pressing Several manufacturing technology videos produced by SME, History channel Metrology – calipers, micrometers, go – no-go gages, tolerances 3D CMM – Co
Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE.Miss Sof´ıa Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University Sof´ıa Carolina Maldonado is a graduate student at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), cur- rently completing a M.S. in Information Systems. She obtained her B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the same University in Fall 2011. Sof´ıa was a Distinguished Student Scholar and Student Respondent at the Fall 2011 Commencement Ceremony. Throughout her TAMIU education, she has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Vice-President and Treasurer of the
a hundred international refereed journals. In the aforementioned areas, he has research projects with grant support as principal investigator and collabo- rator from various funding agencies and industry. Among research students whom he supervised, one received two IMechE 2001 Awards for her undergraduate project, and another two received the IMechE Andrew Fraser (Runner-up) Prize for their postgraduate research. YS Wong has played a major or leading role in several collaborative research and teaching programmes: the Summer Design Program, the joint EE-ME Mechatronics (M.Sc.) course, the Architecture-Business-Engineering Industrial Design (B.A.) course, the Laboratory for Concurrent Engineering and Logistics, the
Technology Scholarship awarded to a Venezuelan by the U.S. Department of State. His advisor is Dr. Ayanna M. Howard, director of the Human-Automation Systems Laboratory. Greg is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has served as referee for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the journal of the Faculty of Engineering at the Central University of Venezuela, and the International Conference on Environmental Systems.Dr. Ayanna M Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received
laboratory period. We present the implementation of this activity in our optical engineeringand engineering physics capstone design course; sample activity materials will also be providedand discussed.Students are tasked with designing a widget capable of holding a heavy weight at a minimumheight off a table. Specifications are provided on the maximum widget size and allowablematerials which can be used. The activity is organized as a competition with a goal ofmaximizing profit – revenue earned per widget less the cost per widget (material costs,development costs, labor, and cost of poor quality). Students are allowed to choose their teamsize (there are advantages and disadvantages to both small and large teams) and given time todesign and prototype
University of Wisconsin-Platteville are required to complete a large number of diverse writing assignments. Theycomplete ten laboratory courses, many of which require weekly lab reports. Senior-level coursesare focused on design, and students prepare many technical design reports in these courses; alarge design paper is the final deliverable for the capstone Senior Design course. Moreover,given the undergraduate-only nature of the university, all student writing is assessed by facultymembers. The traditional model for grading student writing is to mark up the writing withcorrections and suggestions for improvements and assign a grade between 0 and 100%.Despite the extensive practice students carry out and despite the frequent, thorough, and well
pedagogy to technology and to the learning styles oftoday’s college student is an additional strategy, which may enhance classroom management.The modern engineering classroom, for example, is changing in format. There is the traditional lecture(possibly accompanied by recitation sections), the flipped classroom where students watch recordedlectures prior to class and engage in active learning during class time,3 and the online classroom wherestudents access course material through the internet and laboratory sessions. In all of these formats,faculty must manage the environment to ensure a supportive learning experience. Faculty come tohigher education wellversed in their subject matter but largely unprepared to successfully confront andmanage
the second author while the first author taught the MET classusing the same text at the third author had used for the MET course in 2008 and 2009 fromwhich data are not available in the same format as presented here.Figure 1 presents the instructor evaluation of the student performance for each of the courseobjectives. The student evaluation was based upon their scores on a mixture of homework,quizzes, laboratory reports, and exams that covered the topic. The mixture of these 4 elementswould change from topic to topic, but similar combinations of the instruments were normallyused from year to year. The average percentage scores on each instrument in a topic wereaveraged and then converted into the 0 – 4 grading scale used at EWU. Key points
Electrical Engineering curriculum is the Electric Circuits course (4semester credit hours). The course covers electric circuit analysis techniques along with certainaspects of circuit design. The course objectives include circuit analysis, design, simulation, anddata gathering and analysis in the laboratory. The analysis-portion of the objectives emphasizesproficiency in the analysis of DC and AC circuits, including operational amplifiers, first-ordertransient analysis, ideal transformers, and balanced three-phase circuits. The design objectives inthe course include design and construction of simple circuits based on given specifications. Thelab component of the course emphasizes competence in the simulation of circuits with PSPICE,safely
its application in the analysis and design of RLC active circuits. Covers DC, AC, and transient analysis utilizing node and mesh analysis. Introduces the use of CAD tools. Integrates a laboratory.3. ECE 2255 Circuit Theory Lab Prerequisite: MATH 1210, PHYS 2220 Description: Laboratory for EENG 2250 develops linear circuit theory and its application in the analysis and design of RLC active circuits. Covers DC, AC, and transient analysis utilizing node and mesh analysis. Introduces the use of CAD tools.4. ECE 2700 Digital Design I Prerequisite: MATH 1050 and (CS 2810 or PHYS 2220 or ECE 2250) Description: Studies the design and application of combinational and sequential logic circuits with
material processing, metallurgy and manufacturing systems. Dr. ElSawy received ˜ $2M of state, federal, and industrial grants in support of his laboratory development and research activities. He advised several masters and doctoral students who are holding academic and industrial positions in the USA, Germany and Taiwan. Dr. ElSawy has numerous publications in national and international conferences and refereed journals.Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-KingsvilleDr. Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University Sally Pardue, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Tech University, and Director of the Oakley Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Science, Technology
Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). SARL focuses on the design, develop- ment, and evaluation of medical devices, especially for balance-impaired populations such as individuals with vestibular loss or advanced age. LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of
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thestudents the lesson notes relating to that particular class and has discussions about the concept orconcepts of the day. Typically, there might be some mathematical work involved but this is notalways the case. At the second meeting of the class, students are given laboratory work, led by ateaching assistant, which most times include the creation of physical circuits or the simulation ofthe circuit in order to test for expected values. These measured values are then used to provevalues that were previous calculated outside of the class. The basic requirement is that studentscomplete all class activities in the time allotted as well the completion of all assigned laboratory
using LEGO® NXT Robotics, Chemical Engineering Education, Spring 2011, 45:2, pp. 86-92 12. Johnson, S. H., Luyben, W. L. and Talhelm, D.L., “Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Controls Laboratory”, Journal of Engineering Education, 84, (2), pp.133-136, (April 1995). 13. Hmelo, C. E.; Problem-based Learning: Development of knowledge and reasoning strategies, in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; Pittsburgh, PA; 1995; pp. 404-408. Page 24.769.1014. Yu, Chung Y. and David T. Shaw; Fostering Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Students; 2006 International
: ExploringEngineering and Engineering Communications. Exploring Engineering I & II, each have twocomponents: (1) a one-hour lecture section that meets twice a week, and (2) a one and one-halfhour laboratory section that meets once a week. The lecture section is one for which all thestudents are registered while the laboratory component is split into classes of twenty-fivestudents or fewer. In Exploring Engineering I, the fall semester iteration of this course,attendance is mandatory. However, in Exploring Engineering II students have been given theoption of viewing the recorded lecture, rather than being physically present when the lecture isgiven. Attendance is taken in the lecture with an iClicker™. Students, who choose not to attendthe lecture, access
and signal recording are available in this system. The abilityto generate arbitrary waveforms makes this instrument more versatile than an ordinary functiongenerator that can produce only three or four different waveforms. This design offers two significant advantages to educators: (1) it provides a low-costinstrument that can be used in undergraduate laboratories where more expensive commercialarbitrary function generators are not available; and (2) it is suitable for use as a student project.One interesting application for this system is the synthesis of sound. If the equation for aparticular sound wave is known, that sound can be produced when this function generator isconnected to an audio amplifier and speaker
, controller design and its implementation isillustrated using a physical system in the laboratory setting. The students’ survey response on theintroduction of FPGA based controller implementation in the course is mostly positive.I. IntroductionThere is a wide-spread interest in field programmable gate array (FPGA) based implementationof controllers in industrial applications1-5. FPGAs consist of reprogrammable gate array logiccircuits and offer flexibility, reliability, and high-speed parallel execution1,2,6,7. TraditionallyFPGA courses are offered in programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)8-10. Tobetter prepare the engineering students in FPGA technology, especially those in control systemsarea, there is a need to introduce FPGA
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. Likewise, many ideas anddemonstrations that were developed for outreach activities have found their way into collegecourses. Perhaps our best measure of success is the numerous repeat requests that we get fromdifferent schools and organizations. Page 10.990.7Figure 8. The MatEland visitor guest book for signatures and comments about their visit. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographic Information1. “Classroom Demonstrations: Suggested Classroom Demonstrations and Laboratory Experiments