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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie Smith; Julie Greenberg

Session 1609 Design of a module for teaching/learning spectral analysis Natalie T. Smith, Julie E. Greenberg Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology/ Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis work concerns the design of a module for teaching/learning spectral analysis with emphasison biomedical applications. The module design is based on the principles of the “How PeopleLearn” framework as embodied in the STAR Legacy model. This model

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2000 Annual Conference

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T. Michael Keinath; Sara B. Soderstrom; Christian D. Lorenz; Trevor Harding

present at the session. This perspective was helpful forfaculty and staff to identify specific need of the GSIs in their department. The final componentis the Teaching Fellows Pilot Program. This is a program called for experienced GSIs to submitproposals for innovative approaches to team teaching a course with a faculty member. Theseproposals should have included a description of the teaching innovation, a description of theassessment techniques used, and identification of the role the mentoring faculty member wouldplay. A selection committee awarded the fellowship to an experienced GSI from the Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering to implement computer-based laboratory exercises in anexisting introductory hydraulics course. The

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2000 Annual Conference

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S. Hiranniah; N. W. Scott; B. J. Stone; M. A. Mannan

Page 5.594.7 phase. (This diagram has been truncated to fit)added. The basic material contained in the pages has been used for over 10 years as a set ofHypercard notes on a Macintosh for students enrolled in an advanced vibration course but whohave had little or no exposure to vibration. The students (without exception) have been able tocatch up by using those notes. It is expected that the WWW version will provide the samehelp. However there is far more information in the WWW version and it is hoped that thesenotes will find a use in many and diverse courses.Bibliography1. Li, X., and Stone, B. J., 'The Teaching of Vibration by means of Self-teach Computer Programs and Laboratories' Experimental and Theoretical Mechanics

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen E. Schmahl

Session 3263 TEACHING AN ADVANCED PROCESSES COURSE USING AN INDUSTRY PROJECT Karen E. Schmahl Miami UniversityA semester-long course in advanced manufacturing processes can barely scratch the surface inteaching students the many emerging technologies. An alternative approach to such a course hasthe students learning a single process very well, thus “learning what is takes to learn” a newprocess. This knowledge can then be applied to any process encountered. Senior students inMiami University’s Manufacturing Engineering program were given the opportunity

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ratan Kumar; Bill Watt

initiated in several courses. The idea of detecting orpreventing mistakes early on lends itself not only to the laboratory classes but to some classroomlectures as well. Currently the students of mechanical engineering technology at the Universityof North Texas take about eleven technical courses that have a laboratory attached to them. Thecourse were it can be first initiated is the first manufacturing course encountered viz.Manufacturing Processes and Materials. Here the students are introduced to conventionalmanufacturing tools, equipment and processes. Many of the equipment used are equipped withpoka-yoke devices but there are many areas were mistake proofing can be further extendedspecially for teaching purposes. Similarly during the

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

well as the basic principles, behind a CFD solution.When used in conjunction with a fluid mechanics course, it can be used to teach some of thefundamentals of fluid flow analysis, and 'replace' some of the laboratory experiments used toteach these principles. Similar examples include CALF (Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics)3, theNTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory6, Virtual Laboratory7, and Java Virtual Wind Tunnel5. CALF(Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics) is an interactive web-based course developed atthe Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. It gives an introduction to CFD and covers subjects likeCFD illustrations, turbulence modeling, parallel computing, and grid generation. The NTNUVirtual Physics Laboratory, a web site

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

reliable testinginfrastructure up front, students can concentrate on implementing and optimizing the DSPsystems and not the testing infrastructure.2 Theory to HardwareOur goal is to teach students at the senior or early graduate levels how to implement DSPalgorithms in hardware. Our initial effort has been to create a lecture plus laboratory coursethat is taught within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Techunder the title DSP Chip Design. Students taking this course have had exposure to Matlabin the required curriculum, and given its widespread familiarity in the DSP community,Matlab is the logical choice for use as a prototyping environment. On the hardware side,students have used VHDL and FPGAs in at least one

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

been the department’s technical communication professor,designing and teaching the technical communication portion of both labs in addition to teaching atechnical communication course for all engineering majors. The designation “w” after the coursenumber for each laboratory course, ChE 228w and ChE 229w, indicates that these coursesinclude writing instruction. Beginning in 1987, however, students in these junior and senior labshave received training in both written and oral communication.8In each course, students write numerous reports and give two videotaped oral presentations withvisuals. The chemical engineering professor grades the technical content. The technicalcommunication professor grades the organization, delivery, and visual aids in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 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

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-716: WEB-BASED, ACTIVE LEARNING MODULES FOR TEACH-ING STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROLDouglas H Timmer, University of Texas, Pan AmericanMiguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American Dr. Miguel A. Gonzalez serves as the Associate Dean and Director for the School of Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Texas Pan American’s College of Science and Engineering. He has a significant amount executive industry experience where he held managerial and executive positions including President and CEO of a large Citrus processor. Throughout his experience, Dr. Gonzalez’ pro- fessional and academic activities are focused on an overall mission to provide opportunities for student involvement by developing

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

courses are designed forstudents at the two-year college level in both the first and the second year of an ElectronicSystems Engineering Technology (ESET) associate’s degree (AS) program at SpringfieldTechnical Community College (STCC), located in Springfield, Massachusetts. This three coursesequence consist of both theory and laboratory work with a heavy reliance on student projects(typically, of an inter-disciplinary nature) that involve the implementation of functional, proto-type, sensor/control networks. These courses are a response to the changing world of electronicrepair (as previously pointed out), local area workforce demand, industrial advisory board input,and a desire to teach electronics technology from a systems perspective. Using

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2007-1465: USING INDEPENDENT-STUDY PROJECTS IN YOUR RESEARCHAND TEACHING PROGRAMEdward Gehringer, North Carolina State University Edward F. Gehringer is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University. His research interests include hardware and software support for memory management, architectures for security, object technology, and educational software for collaborative learning. Page 12.1550.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Session

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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jens Thiedke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

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International

University in 1985 and is a registered PE in Wisconsin. He teaches courses in circuits and communications.Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering.Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences Dr. Dahms is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences since 1991. He

Conference Session

Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuqiu You, Morehead State University

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Manufacturing

technologyprogram for their future careers in modern manufacturing companies, a new curriculum inRobotics Application Engineering has been developed and applied in the semester of spring 2008.This paper describes the course and laboratory of Robotics Application Engineering for studentsof manufacturing technology program (ITMT) in the Department of Industrial and EngineeringTechnology (IET).There are four Robotics courses offered in the IET Department spanning from 100 level to 400level to teach concepts, operation, programming, maintenance, interfacing, and applicationdevelopments of industrial robots. Robotics Application Engineering is taught as a 400 levelcourse for senior undergraduate students in the ITMT program. This course teaches

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dante Fratta, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Elizabeth C Harris, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, Queens University at Kingston; Barry D. Van Veen, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Women in Engineering

of Wisconsin, MadisonElizabeth C Harris, University of Wisconsin, Madison Elizabeth Harris has been part of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s College of Engineering since 2012. She approaches Engineering Education opportunities by leveraging her background in cognitive and systems engineering in addition to her background in education. Her work focuses on improving the effectiveness of the Institution, and the experiences of students, faculty, and academic staff, by addressing the holistic ecologies present around teaching and learning at UW Madison. She does this by partnering to foster, create, and explore cultural and strategic interventions, in addition to practical.Prof. Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of

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ECE Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Sterk, Virginia Tech; Tim Thacker, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth Tranter, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

lecture sections allowed information to be rapidly delivered to the REU students allat the same time rather than have each mentor teach each pair of students in parallel. This, inturn, freed up time for the mentors to prepare the laboratory sections of the program. There wasa response from a student that had previously taken an introductory power electronics courseprior to the REU program and they stated that the lectures help clarify the lessons learned in theirprevious power electronics course.In the survey there were also several questions that pertained to the mentoring portion of theREU program. In summary, the students expressed the notion that the hands on laboratoryexperience of the REU program far exceeded any other traditional

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

forthese items are shown in Figure 1, where the bars represent mean values and the lines representone standard deviation in responses. In all cases, the mean response increased over time. Thisincrease was statistically significant for all items except item 7, as measured by the application ofStudent’s t-test with a 99% confidence level. The results suggest that the fellows’ abilities toteach using laboratories, activities, investigations and computer technology was improved thoughthe GK-12 program.Fall Fellow Focus Group ResultsAt the three-month focus group, Fellows were asked how EDTE 710 and how being in theelementary classroom helped them develop their teaching and communication skills. All of theFellows agreed that transferring information

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hubert Smith

Session 3202 Teaching Flight Test Engineering with a PC-Based Simulator Hubert C. Smith The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the process of establishing flight test laboratory experiments by use of aPC-based flight simulator, and the details of conducting such experiments. It was determined thatit was feasible to perform airspeed calibration, and tests to determine stall speed, power required,rate of climb, cruise speed and range. While some of these tests yielded data that were a little onthe optimistic side, the results were consistent, and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Cole

. However this is not the best way to teach. Many education studies have shown thatstudents retain only a small fraction of what they hear or read. The retention rate increasesdramatically when a student says or does--when there is hands on learning.1 This is especiallytrue in Engineering Technology where students learn best through observing and doing. Hencethe extensive use of laboratory experiments in the Engineering Technology Program.New tools are needed to improve the teaching of technical material. Technology students arehands-on graphic learners--their learning improves when they can see things and work with them.Hence graphics can provide an additional tool to help teach technology students. Graphics is theprimary method of communications

Conference Session

Design and Graphics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William DeLuca, North Carolina State University; Nasim Lari, North Carolina State University; Jeremy V Ernst, North Carolina State University; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

) concepts. Cur- rently, Dr. DeLuca is the Principle Investigator of the GRIDc: Green Research for Incorporating Data in the Classroom project (Phase 1, 0737180; Phase 2, 0920268). The purpose of this NSF CCLI project is to develop curricula to teach STEM concepts associated with renewable energy technologies by provid- ing a living laboratory of performance data from numerous renewable energy systems. The overarching goal of the project is to develop undergraduate students’ higher-order thinking skills in the context of a data-rich learning environment. In addition, he is Co-PI of the NSF ITEST funded project GRADUATE: Games Requiring Advanced Developmental Understanding and Achievement in Technological Endeavors

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Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Prafull Purohit, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

cycles as well as memoryaccess. Our laboratories are equipped with a Tektronix TLA-714 logic analyzer per bench andthus the opportunity to use this board as a teaching and debugging platform.Field programmable gate array A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is included in the board for students to expand on thefunctions of the ARM core and also as a standalone hardware platform. The concept here isabout interfacing among different hardware components. One application is for the ARM to seethe FPGA as a coprocessor that will be customized for particular application. For example:digital filtering, matrix operations, data logging and averaging, etc. The Cyclone III integrated inthe board is on a QFP package such that the student may be able to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

SESSION 2475 INTEGRATING TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SERVICE TO DEVELOP SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Albert Lozano-Nieto The Pennsylvania State University School of Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering P.O. Box PSU Lehman, PA 18627 Phone: (570) 675-9245 FAX: (570) 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduAbstractThe publishing of scholarly work is one of the most critical elements at the time of

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

student feedback and an analysis of course results: § Important to be flexible to changes based on a review of the course.5) Since a common 1st year course involves teaching large classes in lectures, the course must be supplemented by tutorial and/or laboratory classes of smaller student numbers, in order to verify lecture content and to establish a relevance of the key material concepts for the separate engineering strands involved in the common 1st year: § Important to provide adequate resources for such supplementary tutorials and/or laboratory classes.Motivating students of mixed abilities and backgroundsKey Issues:“Materials for Engineers” classes often consist of students of mixed abilities andbackgrounds, with and

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

Session 2620 A Lego-Based Soccer-Playing Robot Competition For Teaching Design Ronald A. Lessard Norwich UniversityAbstractCourse Objectives in the ME382 Instrumentation Laboratory at Norwich University include1.Design of systems involving both computer hardware and software. 2.Use of modern computertools for data acquisition and control. By having the students use a Lego Mindstorms robot kitand Robolab graphical programming software as a rapid prototyping tool combination abeginning at achieving both outcomes can be efficiently accomplished. The problem to

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enze Chen, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Asta, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Minor, University of California, Berkeley and Larwrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Materials Division (MATS)

algorithms and computationalthinking. This is the foundation on which we introduce DS concepts, facilitated by open-sourcesoftware such as Python and Jupyter to enhance the accessibility and scalability of this knowledge.Instead of using canonical problems and datasets, we teach these tools using real experimentaldata collected by undergraduates in an upper-division materials characterization laboratory course(MSE 104L) at our institution, which is a large, public, research-intensive university in the UnitedStates. In MSE 104L, students perform a series of experiments (see Table 1), analyze the datathey collect, and write a lab report interpreting their data for each experiment. Student feedbackfrom previous years indicate a desire for more support

Conference Session

Beneficial Partnerships: Enhancing Library Programming with Strategic Collaborations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University; Ya-Ting T. Liao, Case Western Reserve University; J. Thomas Chapin, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

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Engineering Libraries

Case Western Reserve University, leads the Computation Fire Dynamics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering since 2015. Dr. Liao’s research projects range from basic fire science (material flammability, solid pyrolysis, ignition, microgravity combustion, flame spread, etc.) to understanding fire behavior in specific situations (such as structures, spacecraft, or wildland fires). Her work has been supported by NSF, NASA, CASIS, and UL. She currently serves on the Board of Advisors in the Central State Section of the Combustion Institute. From 2013-2014, Dr. Liao worked on thermal fluids and two-phase flow problems in the petroleum industry as a consultant and as a thermo-fluids

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Todd, University of California-San Diego; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

a dedicated facility with the requisite teaching,office, and laboratory space required to support the educational and research programs andpersonnel.ConclusionsLANL’s investment in the EI is building a firm foundation for coupled education/researchprograms that are defining innovative approaches to workforce development. These sameprograms will directly address economic competitiveness issues through the new educationprograms and exploratory research being developed with the partner universities. With furtherinvestments, these Institutes can expand their education/research portfolio, establishcollaborative efforts with additional university partners and government laboratories, increasethe technology focus areas, and address a variety of

Conference Session

Innovative Course Structures and Learning Environments

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christa M. Wille, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical Engineering

innovative teaching methods proposed in the flipped classroommodel as described herein.This paper focuses on the implementation of a flipped classroom for an undergraduate biomedical engineeringintroductory biomechanics course consisting of 77 junior and senior engineering students. Key aspects of thiscourse included pre-recorded video lectures, interactive problem-based learning during in-class time, onlinehomework, and applied examples of course content experienced during laboratory sessions. Unique assistancein the development of this course was provided by graduate students who provided significant contributions tothe prep work needed to prepare a course for the flipped classroom model. The purpose of this paper was todetermine the effectiveness

Conference Session

Renewable Energy in Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); KETKI GHAISAS, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

configurations. HOMER was originallydeveloped at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States. A commercialversion has been developed, upgraded and distributed by HOMER Energy, LCC and is used bythe authors as teaching aid for our renewable energy course. It can be used to design, analyze andmodel micro-power and hybrid power system’s configurations with various energy resources foreconomics and sizing to determine the optimal combination of them to meet the load demandand the user requirements. Figure 1 shows the basic architecture of this software package. Itshows the calculation result of the number of cases of different renewable energy sources underweather conditions, load demands, capacity ranges, fuel costs, and carbon emission

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Undergraduate Research and a Force and Moment Lab

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Audrey Pang, Sandia National Laboratories; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

,statics) would require the course to cover all of that course’s content, severely restricting the natureof the research projects and the time available to work on them. Also, the program is tailored toengineering research objectives that include elements of innovation and technology development,as opposed to discovery (in the natural sciences). Rather than spending extensive periods in aformal teaching laboratory, the students often spend time in the engineering makerspace and/or inthe research labs of their faculty mentors. Research projects are conducted in small teams,generally 2-4 students per team, and students are expected to spend approximately 5 hours/weekon their research—enough time to make steady progress on their project but not

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charmane V. Caldwell, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

; Engineering Liv- ing Learning Community (LLC), Educating Engineering Students Innovatively (EESI) and Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). Dr. Caldwell also serves as the activity director for the Title III program Engi- neering Learning Community. Those collective programs have nearly doubled the first-year retention of underrepresented minorities at the college.Dr. Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dr. Roxanne Hughes is the Director of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab). She has also directed the MagLab’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs from 2014 to 2019. She brings a breadth of experience in science teaching and infor