Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George Meyer; James K. Randall; Charles T. Morrow

Session 1675 Teaching Instrumentation and Controls using Multimedia and Television Instructional Methods George E. Meyer, James K. Randall / Charles T. Morrow 1 University of Nebraska - Lincoln / Pennsylvania State University ABSTRACT Teaching Electronic Instrumentation to both resident and distant students in biological andengineering sciences using television presents interesting challenges for instruction. Hands-on laboratoryexperiences are especially difficult. However, a good laboratory experience not only considers basicprinciples of instruments

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-3811: TEACHING CONTROL CHARTS FOR ATTRIBUTES US-ING THE MOUSE FACTORYDr. Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American Douglas Timmer is a professor in manufacturing engineering and the Interim Associate Dean of the Col- lege of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Pan American.Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American Miguel A. Gonzalez serves as the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Projects at the Uni- versity of Texas, Pan American. He has a significant amount of executive industry experience where he held managerial and executive positions including President and CEO of a large citrus processor, and throughout his experience, Gonzalez

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-305: TEACHING POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTER EX-PERIMENTS THAT INTEGRATES FUZZY LOGIC APPROACHAhmed Rubaai, Howard University Ahmed Rubaai received the M.S.E.E degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988. In 1988, he joined Howard University, Washington, D.C., as a faculty member, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is the Founder and Lead Developer of Motion Control and Drives Laboratory at Howard University (http://www.controllab.howard.edu) and is actively involved in many projects with industry, while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of artificial

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

Session 2268 Teaching Mechanical Students to Build and Analyze Motor Controllers Hugh Jack, Associate Professor Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI email: jackh@gvsu.edu1. IntroductionAll junior Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering students take EGR 345, Dynamic SystemsModelling and Control, at Grand Valley State University. This course looks at modeling systemswith mechanical, electrical and other components. This is supported by

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Ting

Session 1526 Using Inexpensive Modern Equipment in Teaching Turbulence to Undergraduate Engineering Students Francis C. K. Ting South Dakota State UniversityAbstractThis paper summarizes the development of four laboratory experiments designed to enhancelearning of turbulence theory by undergraduate engineering students. The concepts taught bythese experiments included boundary-layer structure, flow separation, vortex shedding, surfacepressure distributions, Reynolds stress, and statistical description of turbulent motion. Therequired equipment included an

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Uma Balaji

industry-standard and open-source tools in the course is I. INTRODUCTION assessed through an anonymous student survey, and its findings on student engagement and learning outcomes areIn many universities, Communication Systems is offered as an discussed.optional elective for electrical engineering students. Electivecourses within the major typically carry three credits and arelecture-based, often lacking a laboratory component. Teaching II. TOPICS COVEREDCommunication Systems as a three-credit course involves The course

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Materials

instructions that were assignment-specific. Therefore, I started to add handouts and lecture discussion points for each labexperiment, emphasizing key points needed for each assignment. Table 1 summarizes thetimeline of teaching of graphing skills to 122 students in twelve materials classes over ninesemesters. The following discussion explains these improvements in more detail.Semester Class size ImprovementS04 10 New laboratory manual and guide for creating graphs for lab reports.F04 –S05 9F05 11 Rockwell vs. Brinell diagram in lab manual.S06 8 Rubric for grading lab reports.F06 15 Handout explaining how to set up the spreadsheet for

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

working. Kettering University is currently engaged in reforming itscurriculum to meet some of these demands. The objective of this paper is to discuss two new corecourses that were developed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the area of multi-disciplinary dynamic systems in order to reach this goal. The idea is to teach these courses using aunified approach to systems, with hands-on laboratory experience and system simulation usingsoftware tools like MATLAB®, and focusing on an inquiry-based problem-driven approach. Thisis a team effort and a number of faculty members from the ME Department will be involved inexecuting this project. Upon completion of these courses, the students should be able todemonstrate a good understanding of

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Elahinia

Session 3566 Teaching Smart Materials to Engineering Undergraduate Students: A Problem Solving Approach Mohammad H. Elahinia Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061Summary and IntroductionThis paper describes a problem solving approach for teaching the subject of smartmaterials to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students. An experiment with aShape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuated robotic arm is designed for the seniorundergraduate laboratory (ME4006) in the

Conference Session

BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

engineering student to find the functions thatmost apply to their course and hence a better organization is needed to help teach and understandconcepts. In this paper, we will explore a new Startup kit that has been developed to address thisconcern. We will explore the current environment and the areas that can be improved upon andpresent the free biomedical startup kit and discuss the pros and cons of this approach1. INTRODUCTIONBiomedical Engineering education has evolved significantly in the recent years to encompassadvanced areas from the life sciences, as well as electrical and mechanical engineering such asadvanced signal and image processing, data acquisition and instrumentation. With the inclusionof such areas in the curriculum comes the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmet Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kerri Thornton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Paper ID #37704Leveraging ThingsBoard IoT Service for RemoteExperimentationAhmet Can Sabuncu (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Sabuncu holds a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from Old Dominion University. Dr. Sabuncu’s professional interests spans from engineering education research, engineering laboratory education, history of science and engineering, thermo- fluids engineering, and microfluidic technology. Dr. Sabuncu is eager to discover next generation workforce skills and to educate next generation of engineers who will carry Industry 4.0 forward considering the needs of the global world.Kerri Anne Thornton

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

results demonstrated thatthe new teaching improvement is capable of adding students’ GIS knowledge.1. INTRODUCTION The GIS courses for graduate and undergraduate students are offered in Old DominionUniversity (ODU) via distance education mode. The distance courses are delivered to 15 states,50 higher education centers, and 4 oversee navy bases (Japan, Koera, Mid-East, and Canada) viaboth the regular classroom and ODU’s TTN (Tele-Tech-Net) system (active satellites, streamvideo, video tapes, DVD, etc.). One of the problems in the distance courses is that the remotestudents have difficulty to access the large volume of geospatial data for their homework anddistance laboratory via internet. The GeoBrain system, which is funded by NASA

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gergely Sirokman, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

, simple laboratory exercises are then used to further reinforcethe concepts. A common exercise would be a map, where vectors can be drawn, combined andmanipulated using meter sticks and protractors. Some institutions have branched out and madeuse of vector type scavenger hunts to further engage the student.4 At WIT, we have theadvantage that laboratory sections are restricted to 16 students maximum, so small groups andgroup activities are easily implemented. Also, with the authors being avid gamers themselves,the opportunity to teach vectors on a virtual space battlefield was seized. Page 24.1173.2The students who were enrolled in the courses

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omar Zia, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

-19 December 2000. 3. Sigurd Skogestad, Multivariable feedback controls. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York 1966. 4. Francis J. Doyle III, E. Scott Meadows, An Interdisciplinary Control Engineering Laboratory Course. IFAC/IEEE Symposium on Advances in Control Education. 17-19 December 2000. 5. Vojslav Kecman, Affordable Lab and Project Based Teaching of Control. IFAC/IEEE Symposium on Advances in Control Education. 17-19 December 2000. 6. Blondel, V., M. Gevers and A. Lidquist (1995) Survey on the State of Systems and Control. European Journal of Control Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 5-23 September 7. Kheir, NA.; K. J. Astrom, D. Auslander (1966), Control Systems Engineering Education. Automatica. Vol.2

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hrynuk, Clarkson University; Matthew Pennington, Clarkson University; David Illig, Clarkson University; John P. Dempsey, Clarkson University

. Page 13.626.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Freshman Engineering: An Introductory Computer Course Teaching MATLAB and LabVIEWAbstractThis paper will describe the adaptation and implementation of a revised curriculum for ClarksonUniversity’s freshman engineering course ES100: Introduction to Engineering Use of theComputer. The objective in ES100 is to teach engineering problem solving using both MATLABand LabVIEW. The course was previously taught by Clarkson University’s four engineeringdepartments without the implementation of a common curriculum. Through the award of aCourse, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement, Adaptation and Implementation (CCLI A&I)grant by the National Science

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

Session 2380 Studio style of teaching at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley and Maarij Syed Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractThe studio mode of teaching has been tried in the three introductory physics classes at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In this mode, students go through both lectures and mini-laboratories almost in every class session. As soon as a theoretical idea is taught, the studentsperform a related experiment, which verifies the concept. In this method, the traditionallaboratories are

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

Session 3248 Teaching Industrial Applications of Vibration Measurement and Analysis Techniques Karen J. Horton, P.E. University of MaineAbstractA new junior level technical elective titled Industrial Vibrations has been developed forMechanical Engineering Technology students at the University of Maine. The course addressesthe needs of local industries such as paper production and shipbuilding, but the concepts areapplicable to a wide range of industries. Course prerequisites include calculus, but notdifferential equations, and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Simson, University of New Haven; Judy Randi Ed.D., University of New Haven; Amanda Lynn Becker, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-teaching between engineers and writers is not new, fewinstances involve bringing the communication curriculum and writing instructor into theengineering classroom, as was done in this study. For example, Harvey et al. describedengineering students’ attitudes toward writing in a communication course in which engineeringfaculty attended two of four sections of the communication course (Harvey 2000). Qualitativeresponses to items assessing attitudes toward writing and anecdotal data showed that the studentsperceived a disconnect between writing assignments in communication classes and their work asengineers.Context for the study:The present study was conducted in a chemical engineering laboratory course. The courseconsists of a weekly lecture session

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Christopher I. Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory; Michael Doroski, U.S. Air Force; Curtis Medve, U.S. Air Force; Michael Seery, U.S. Air Force; P. Len Orlando III, Air Force Research Laboratory; Farid T. Khafizov, University of Texas, Dallas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

fundamental logic blocks in a manner accessible to students.Rigorous instruction is especially needed to teach U.S. Air Force members, both military andcivilian, to design, specify, and procure the highest possible VLSI capabilities. Industry-standardstate-of-the-art Cadence Design Systems software has been selected by the instructor because itis used widely by professional engineers and scientists in industry, government contractors, andgovernment laboratories including the Mixed Signal Design Center at the Air Force ResearchLaboratory Sensors Directorate. The Mixed Signal Design Center is co-located with AFIT.Figure 1 shows the structure of the U.S. Air Force capabilities and relationship to the VLSIcourse sequence for engineers.6 Figure 1. Key

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2009-854: TEACHING AN OPERATING SYSTEM COURSE TO CET/EETSTUDENTSXuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati Page 14.1124.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching an Operating System Course to CET/EET StudentsAbstractThis paper describes the motivation for teaching an operating system course to computerengineering technology (CET) and electrical engineering technology (EET) students. It presentscourse topics and teaching approach. The accompanying laboratory exercises are also brieflydescribed.1. IntroductionAn operating system (OS) provides a well-known, convenient, and efficient interface betweenuser programs and the bare computer hardware. As a service

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, Middle Tennessee State University; Ahad S. Nasab, Middle Tennessee State University; Walter W. Boles, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

both sides, and to the fact that not allstudents learn at one single pace nor using one single learning technique.Semester Two: Spring 2014 On day one of the semester, the instructor distributed the updated syllabus which had detailson lectures, topics covered, laboratory experiments, homework assignment schedule, examschedule, and detailed grading policy. He thoroughly explained each aspect of the gradedistribution and elaborated on expectations from the students in the course. This helped himestablish a strong understanding with the students, and he also advised them on how muchadditional time they were required to dedicate in order to be successful in the course. Severalsteps taken by the instructor to improve his teaching techniques

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Jinlee Kim P.E., California State University Long Beach

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #8596Effectiveness of Green-BIM Teaching Method in Construction Education Cur-riculumProf. Jin-Lee Kim P.E., California State University Long Beach Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C is an Assistant Professor of Dept. of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management at California State University, Long Beach. He is a Director of Green Building Information Modeling laboratory at CSULB. He has earned a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida, majoring Construction Engineering Management with a minor in Statistics. His research interests include construction engineering

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods In Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Lin, Western Washington University; Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, and Circuit Analysis.Prof. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for Western Washington University’s Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) program for 25 years. He has been the EET program coordinator since 2005 and also served as department chair from 2008-2012. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C programming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer Faculty Fellow. He has a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Washington

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia; Juliet J. Trail, University of Virginia, Center for Diversity in Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of participants 4 and 10, as shown in Table 1, provide two examples of exciting, novelRET-based teaching materials for elementary education. Participant 4 teaches in elementarymulti-age classrooms for K-1, 1-2-3, and 2-3-4 grades and contributes to a school-wide “STEMacademy.” Her RET research in the Virginia Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (VEST)Laboratory, in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, yielded the classroomextension module entitled, “ALGAE: A Likely Gasoline Additive for the Environment.” Theteaching module contains a series of lesson plans and teaching materials based on the use of theScenedesmus dimorphus strain of algae as a potential source of biofuel. Specifically, the VESTlaboratory focuses on

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education for Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2012-3022: TEACHING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PRO-CESS AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO MANUFACTURING STUDENTSDr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is a professor of engineering at Robert Morris University School of Engineering, Math- ematics, and Science. He also serves as a Director of Engineering Laboratories as well as Co-head of the Research and Outreach Center. He has been an active member of ASEE and SME, serving as an officer of both societies and engaged in engineering education and K-12 outreach. Page 25.1239.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Innovation in Laboratory Studies and Outreach Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

control. Following this, the class completes the exercisewith the PID instruction in RSLogix500. Both methods will be compared in terms of speed,complexity, and accuracy.The laboratory assignments in controlling the oven heater temperature and dimming the lamp aregiven to the students so that they experience the effectiveness of the PID control. The studentswill practice the scaling of input and output variables and loop closure through this exercise.The closed-loop control concept is emphasized through these exercises. The closed-loopPMDCM control is the last assignment of the PID teaching components. The two PMDCMs areconnected back-to-back to form a motor-generator set. The PMDCM generator works as atachometer to close the velocity loop. The

Conference Session

Civil ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, University of Houston-Downtown; Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

effective application of modern technology using computers andtesting equipment to teach structural analysis and design. Two additional faculty members with Page 11.519.2many years of industrial and research experience also joined the department in the late 1990’sand early 2000’s.The Teaching Philosophy of the Department is focused on the idea that the best learning methodof engineering technology is “hands-on”. In this way, the laboratories were conceived as part ofthe teaching activities. The intensive use of computers models, designed by the Faculty orobtained from industry, are used as complements of the experimental tests and of the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony J. Muscat; Evan D. H. Green; Emily L Allen; Linda Vanasupa

for the course is a fictitious start-up company called Spartan Semiconductor Services,Inc. An effort is made to simulate a working microelectronic device fabrication facility in largepart to give a sense of the risks and rewards available in such an atmosphere. The professionalwork environment that is created encourages student ownership of their work. The unifyingproject and primary goal of the course is to make working microelectronic devices. Threaded inwith this larger goal are short-term design projects. All of the laboratory work is completed inteams. These ingredients are what we call the entrepreneurial approach to teaching and learningsince both the instructors and students own, launch, manage, and assume the risks of theeducational

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani; Abul Azad

Session 2548 Teaching Electric Machines and Power Electronics: Emphasis and Challenges Youakim Al Kalaani, Abul K M Azad Northern Illinois University, Technology DepartmentAbstractThe widespread applications of industrial power electronics and electric machine drives haveincreased the need for graduates well trained in leading edge motor control technologies.Efficient and flexible power electronics circuits are used nowadays in most areas of industrialapplications, including dc and ac motor control and commercial electric power transmission

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

Engineering Technology School of Technology and Professional Studies Goodwin College Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104AbstractEngineering Technology (ET) is an undergraduate degree program at Drexel University(DU). Several innovative laboratory components are integrated in MET 205 Robotics andMechatronics (a 10-week upper-level undergraduate course) to achieve maximumeffectiveness in teaching multi-disciplinary concepts in emerging fields. The primaryeducational objective of the course is to introduce students to the multidisciplinary theoryand practice of robotics science and technology, integrating the fields