Title :
Modernization of material testing laboratory curriculum
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Detroit Univ., MI, USA
Abstract :
Due to lack of improvement and maintenance for many years, the material testing laboratory at University of Detroit Mercy had failed to keep up with the ever changing standards of industry. Equipment was old and unreliable and the curriculum was unexciting to the students. Improvement of this laboratory has been going on for a few years. This paper describes modernization of the curriculum and laboratory facilities and the impact of this improvement on student learning.
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; laboratories; materials testing; student experiments; University of Detroit Mercy; industry standards; laboratory facilities modernisation; material testing laboratory curriculum modernisation; student learning improvement; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Capacitive sensors; Civil engineering; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Laboratories; Materials testing; Mechanical engineering; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.841667
