Paper ID #42897Getting Started Teaching an Undergraduate Engineering LaboratoryDr. Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rebecca M. Reck is a Teaching Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research includes alternative grading, entrepreneurial mindset, instructional laboratories, and equity-focused teaching. She teaches biomedical instrumentation, signal processing, and control systems. She earned a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, and a B.S
laboratories of Pythonprogramming, which teach students how to edit and run Python source code that calls theblocks. For example, in one laboratory the students need to connect two sine waves intothe left and right channels of a sound card, respectively, and create a dial tone generator(see Figure 2). An incomplete source code (without the highlighted statements) isprovided and the students need to complete and test the code by themselves. Thisexperiment does not require USRP front, therefore it can be done on any computer with asound card and an Ubuntu operating system. 4 Figure 2: Python Code for a Dial Tone GeneratorIV) GNU Radio and USRP Implementation. Adapted from Wright State
Paper ID #31336Effectiveness of Using MyFPGA Platform for Teaching Digital LogicDr. Junfei Li P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyCara LiDr. JAE SOK SON, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Dr. Son is an associate professor at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research interests include radar signal processing, and machine learning.Dr. Weidong Kuang Dr. Weidong Kuang received a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida in 2003. He has be with University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2004 starting as an assistant professor, up to an associate professor now. His research
Paper ID #15144Lasting Laboratory LessonsProf. Ian Frommer, US Coast Guard Academy Dr. Ian Frommer is an associate professor of mathematics at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland and his A.B. degree in astronomy and physics from Harvard College. At the Coast Guard Academy he teaches a wide range of courses in mathematics and operations research, and is an active advisor in the senior capstone course. His research interests include the application of mathematics and operations research to sustainability and music.Dr. Paul Benjamin
Paper ID #12974Design and Hardware Implementation of Laboratory-Scale Hybrid DC powerSystem for Educational PurposeMr. Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University Mustafa Farhadi received the BS degree in EE from Mazandaran University, Mazandaran, Iran, in 2007 and the MS degree in EE from Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran in 20011. He is currently a graduate teaching and research assistant working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Florida International University, Miami, Florida USA. His current research interests include design
Paper ID #39606At-Home Drug Delivery Experiment: Teaching Mass Transfer Using FoodDyes, DIY SpectrometerDr. Gautom K. Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Gautom Das is a Lecturer in the Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at UMBC. Prior to joining UMBC, he was a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Chemical and Biomolecular En- gineering at Rice University, and a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California, Davis. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has worked in laboratories in the US, Canada
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has previously been a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Education in the De- partment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven. Dr. Ciston holds degrees in chemical engineering from Northwestern University (PhD) and Illinois Institute of Technology (BS). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Modifications to a graduate pedagogy course to promote active learning and inclusive teachingAbstractGraduate student instructors, also known as graduate teaching assistants, have an impactful role inthe education of undergraduate
Paper ID #15943A New Approach to Teach Electrical Engineering Using a Para DidacticLaboratoryDr. Ivan Cardoso Mons˜ao, PPGM-UFBA/BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab Ivan Cardoso Mons˜ao received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, from the Federal University of Bahia, (UFBA), Salvador-BA, Brazil, in 1986, and the M.Eng. and the D.Eng. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of State University of de Campinas (UNICAMP), in 1988 and 2014, respectively, all of them in Electrical Engineering. From 1986 to 1995 he was a researcher associated with the Laborat´orio de Eletrˆonica e Dispositivos at
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Resistance is Futile: A New Collaborative Laboratory Game Based Lab to Teach Basic Circuit Concepts AbstractIn recent years, gamification of education has proven to be an effective paradigm in modernpedagogy. Following the success their previous work "Sector Vector”, the authors now present anew game-based laboratory to highlight the manipulation and calculation of resistors in circuits.In Game of Ohms [1] the lesson of electrical resistance is delivered as an interactive exercisebuilding an intricate circuit. As the game progresses, students are forced to make short and longterm plans to modify an evolving circuit which
Paper ID #12496Test Bed for a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Based on Integration of Ad-vanced Power Laboratory and eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol(XMPP)Dr. Ilya Y. Grinberg, Buffalo State College llya Grinberg graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute (Lviv, Ukraine) with an M.S in E.E. and earned a Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering (Moscow, Russia). He has over 40 years of experience in design and consulting in the field of power distribution systems and design automation. He has over 40 published papers. Currently he is professor of engineering technology at SUNY Buffalo State. His
Paper ID #18757A Microcontroller-based DSP Laboratory CurriculumDr. Ying Lin, Western Washington University Ying Lin has been with the faculty of Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington Uni- versity since September 2010 after she taught for two years at SUNY, New Platz. She received her MS in Applied Statistics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, NY, respectively. Her teaching interests include first-year Intro to Electrical Engineering, circuit analysis sequence, and upper-division communication systems and digital Signal Processing courses. Her research areas focus on
Paper ID #11226USACE’S COASTAL ENGINEERING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMr. Jose E. Sanchez P.E., Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Mr. Jos´e E. S´anchez is the Director of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS. ERDC R&D supports the Depart- ment of Defense and other federal agencies in military and civilian projects. Principal research mission areas include Warfighter support, installations, environment, water resources, and information technology. CHL is the national laboratory for the specialized professional field of coastal and
Paper ID #25090Utilizing an Individually Built Mobile Robot in the Laboratory of an Ad-vanced Digital Logic Design Course in Conjunction with a Final Class Com-petitionDr. Clint Kohl, Cedarville University Dr. Kohl joined the faculty of Cedarville University in the fall of 1994. His graduate research involved the development of a new magneto-resistive non-volatile memory technology. His areas of interest include digital electronics, microcontrollers, programmable logic devices, and embedded systems. He has enjoyed advising numerous autonomous robotic competition teams. Dr. Kohl is a member of the Institute of Electrical
Paper ID #37969Toy Adaptation in a Laboratory Course: An Examination of LaboratoryInterests and Career MotivationsDr. Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of California, San Diego Dr. Alyssa Taylor is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengi- neering at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Taylor has twelve years of experience teaching across bioengineering laboratory, introductory, and capstone design classes. Through work such as toy adaptation described in this paper, Dr. Taylor seeks to prepare students to engage in Universal Design and consider accessibility in their
, however, is reduced due to limited interaction, delayingfeedback until after an exam, and tediousness of many repeating laboratory sessions.We are implementing steps to teach manufacturing laboratory to a large class of 250 studentseach semester. Complementary online instructional videos and class lectures, Clickerassessment, regular grade feedback, and cellular manufacturing laboratory exercises are utilized.Laboratory exercises are grouped into cellulars to save resources, space, and are synchronizedwith relevant lectures to facilitate students’ understanding. For each laboratory exercise, theoverall lab objectives are covered in class, but details of tooling and machine operation areshown using online professional videos so that students can
follow the procedures to acquire data, present any collected data in theforms of tables or graphs, and correlate the results to the particular theories, hypotheses, ormodels that they learned in prior classes. Students usually do not put much effort into theselaboratory classes, which are usually assigned with only one credit hour and taught by graduatestudents. Efforts have been made recently to improve learning effectiveness. Some studies havelooked into improving laboratory instruction from the perspectives of teaching assistants andstudents 3. Other studies have proposed alternative teaching methodologies, such as theframework of Legacy Cycle 4,5,6, a web-based four step tutorial, LabWrite 7, multimedia coursecontent 8,9 and pre-laboratory e
Paper ID #14717An Asynchronous Course/Laboratory Development for Automation ControlsDr. Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University Dr. Lin is a Professor and Program Director of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University. He received his PhD of Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. Dr. Lin has expertise in automation control, machine design, CAD/CAM, CNC, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and robotics. He has been active in the technology application research and teaching training courses for the local industries and
of Technol- ogy in 2006 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 2011.Dr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environ- mental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing improvements to the undergraduate labs. He also serves as secondary instructor for the CHE labs, the Departmental
Paper ID #36097Design of a Low-Cost PID Level Control Experiment to Teach ChemicalEngineering Concepts in an Introductory Engineering LaboratoryAlexia Leonard, The Ohio State University Alexia Leonard is a PhD candidate in the Engineering Education program at The Ohio State University. She is currently working as a Lead Graduate Teaching Associate for the First Year Engineering program within the Department of Engineering Education and as a Graduate Research Associate for the Beliefs in Engineering Research Group (BERG) led by Dr. Emily Dringenberg.Dr. Andrew Maxson, The Ohio State University Andrew Maxson is an assistant
Paper ID #32851Innovative Use of Technologies to Teach Chemical Engineering CoreClasses and Laboratories During the Covid-19 Pandemic at an HBCUDr. Rupak Dua, Hampton University Dr. Rupak Dua graduated with a Ph.D. in 2014 in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in Tis- sue Engineering and Biomaterials from Florida International University located in Miami, FL. Dr. Dua worked for two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Orthopedic Research and Education housed in Texas Medical Center - the world’s largest medical center - located in Houston, TX. Before joining Hampton University in the Department of
Paper ID #29398An emancipatory teaching practice in a technical course: A layeredaccount of designing circuits laboratory instructions for a diversity oflearnersDr. Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State Univer- sity since 1991. She is a professor of materials engineering at Olin College. Her life’s work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and
year. Regardless ofmajor, all students taking the introductory sequence are enrolled in the same inquiry-basedsecond-semester general physics laboratory. Consequently, assessing the impact of the sharedlaboratory curriculum takes on added importance to determine if students are learning what weare teaching.8Gender & Pedagogical Issues in Physics Assessment TestsThe impact of gender on undergraduate enrollments and pedagogy have bedeviled the physicseducational community for many decades.9,10 Among all fields of science and engineering,physics continues to have among the lowest representation of females at the undergraduate level.The situation deteriorates at higher levels on the educational and professional ladder.11 Thegender gap in the
Paper ID #35178Paper: Necessity Brings Out a Welcomed Laboratory ChangeDr. Arthur Densmore, California State University, Long Beach Arthur Densmore has been a lecturer at CSULB for six years teaching electronics seminar and laboratory courses and loves the subject. He entered the field of electronics first as a hobby as a child, won 1st place in the California VICA Industrial Electronics state-wide competition in high school and earned all of his degrees in electronics with honors: BSEE at Cal Poly Pomona, MSEE at Caltech, and PhD at UCLA. At the end of each semester he usually receives student reviews above the department
solution for “instant” TA. This could range from the utilization of a Frequently Asked Questions section or a dedicated time period in which the TA is available online via Blackboard Collaborate. 4. Encourage students to better utilize the University’s online learning management system. 5. Consider new assessment methods for laboratory learning outcomes to better gauge the success of future implementation.AcknowledgmentThe Analog Discovery Boards and additional supplies were supported by a grant from the WestVirginia University’s Teaching and Learning Commons along with the West Virginia UniversityLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.We are also immensely grateful to Ms. Jessica Liu and Ms. Amy
on equity, inclusion in the classroom, and easing student transition to the workforce catering to STEM graduates.Marcos Jose Inonan Moran, University of Washington Marcos Inonan is a PhD student and research assistant in the Remote Hub Lab (RHLab) of the depart- ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is centered on developing remote laboratories with a lens of equitable access to engineering education, and driven by his commitment to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM education. In addition to his research on remote laboratories, Marcos has expertise in digital communication theory, signal process- ing, radar technology, and firmware
reported. Third, a comparison could be made between the opinionsof department heads, lab managers, and safety officers.References[1] Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, “Self-Study Templates,” 2018. [On- line]. Available: http://www.abet.org/accreditation/self-study-templates/. [Accessed June 18, 2018].[2] P. Alaimo, J. Langenhan, M. Tanner, and S. Ferrenberg, "Safety teams: An approach to engage students in laboratory safety," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 87(8), pp. 856-861, 2010.[3] D. Herrington, and M. Nakhleh, "What defines effective chemistry laboratory instruction? Teaching assistant and student perspectives," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 80(10) pp. 1197, 2003.[4] M. Jiménez
analyzing and thereby assessing howdifferent methods used in a flipped classroom setting will impact student-learning effectiveness.The study compares flipped classroom instruction to a traditional teaching method which is usedas a reference for control study. Data gathered for the analysis is based on a non-biaseduniformly distributed lab setting focused on using smart materials to determine the vibrationfrequency of a cantilever beam. The lab setup is a part of a Green Energy Materials &Engineering course offered in the summer 2014 semester. This class introduced students to theconcepts of Green Manufacturing, Green Technologies in industries, and Fabricating advancedGreen Energy devices. The framework used for gathering unbiased data
Paper ID #25587A Speech Recognition Linear Systems LabDr. William Joseph Ebel Sr., Saint Louis University Dr. William J. Ebel received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 1991 in Electrical Engineering. He joined St. Louis University in the Fall of 2000 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and has served as the department Chairman for two different periods. He teaches in the areas of signal and image processing, communications, and robotics and he is actively involved in novel instructional methods. His research interests include image processing and robotics.Dr. Chris Carroll, Saint
and preparations.Students with little or no preparation have a lot of difficulty understanding the physics andconnecting the physical principles to the methods and potential applications within the shorttimeframe each method is discussed. To address these challenges, we augment the (virtual) class by virtual laboratory sessionsin order to reinforce student understanding of the physics and operation of select NDEtechniques (ET and UT). Simulation-based virtual laboratories have long been used to increaselearning in engineering courses. For example, Kukreti et al. [3] developed simple simulationtools to teach fundamental concepts of ‘Strength of Materials’, a core engineering course whileDerks et al. [4] combined actual and laboratory
. It was amazing to observe them during the final workshop, they acted like they hadbeen teaching this material for years." Secondly, there was no language barrier during theworkshop because the trainers provided the training. It is never enough to emphasize howimportant it is to establish a good working relationship with the host faculty before you go tomake sure what to expect when you arrive and to inventory what materials, laboratories andclassrooms are available. Dr. Sterkenburg decided to ship enough materials to Univalle beforehe went on the trip so that he could teach the course as soon as he arrived. Also, be specificabout your needs with the host. For instance, if you need a specialized curing oven of a certainsize make sure you