Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Yan Zeng, Savannah State University

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Instrumentation

method (8,9,10). We believe this would be a good lab exercise for the studentsand advanced experiment skill for those students who will conduct their research inchemical physics area in the future.References1. “Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy” Clark, R.N. Manual of RemoteSensing, A. Rencz, Editor, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1999.2. “Reflectance Spectroscopy: Quantitative Analysis Techniques for Remote SensingApplications”, Clark, R.N. and T.L. Roush, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 6329-6340, 1984.3. “Mapping with Imaging Spectrometer Data Using the Complete Band Shape Least-Squares Algorithm Simultaneously Fit to Multiple Spectral Features from MultipleMaterials”, Clark, R.N., G.A. Swayze, A. Gallagher, N. Gorelick, and F.Kruse, Proceedings of

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College; Ted Sussmann, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

beconnected to this network for educational purposes.III. SensorNetThe actual physical data-network (industry standard Cisco integrated services routers and variousinterface modules) that support the project’s diverse, distributed sensor systems will be locatedprimarily on the sixth floor of Putnam Hall (a major academic building on the SpringfieldTechnical Community College (STCC) campus consisting of classrooms, laboratories, lecturehalls, and home to the School of Engineering Technologies’ Electronics Group). To make theteaching network reflect real world conditions it will be set up to emulate a wide area network(WAN) with the capacity to provide connectivity to many other types of “area networks” andhence facilitate the operations necessary to

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Polito, Valparaiso University

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Instrumentation

for training engineers in seismic behavior and design, and the need for research in theseareas, also increase. Unfortunately, due to the high cost of dynamic soil testing equipment, fewstudents are able to have hands-on experience with this type of soil testing. Dynamic soil testingequipment such as cyclic triaxial and cyclic simple shear machines typically ranges from$60,000 to $200,000. As a result, typically only students at large research universities have anyexposure to this type of testing and only those performing research have anything more than anobservational experience.The apparatus discussed in this paper reflects the author’s attempt to develop an affordabledynamic soil testing system (less than $10,000). Such a system will make

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Instrumentation

support open inquiry.(Barrows, 2000). It is important that the aims and objectives of problem-based learningare reflected in every aspect of the learning environment created. Problem-basedcurriculum should document accomplishments at the upper levels of Bloom's TaxonomyTriangle. (Boud & Feletti, 1991). Scholars in the area of cognitive science andeducational psychology have identified four features that clearly separate a problem-based curriculum from a traditional, topic-based curriculum. (Nickerson, et. al. 1985). Inthis presentation, the author describes how he has utilized the four features in the coursehe teaches. He also presents analyses of the feedback data he has obtained and suggestsguidelines for further improvement (Narayanan

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Silas Bernardoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tyler Lark, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Watchorn, National Instruments; John Webster, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Instrumentation

BME curriculumaccount for the high interest among biomedical engineering students. Figure 1B show that theinterest in the seminar was well distributed from freshman to graduate level, showing awidespread appeal to students at all levels of their academic careers. Participation by gender isshown in Figure 1C and as expected reflects the greater percentage of males enrolled in theCollege of Engineering. Page 14.734.6 Figure 2 The number of students with prior LabVIEW experience As displayed in the graph above, 19 of the 21 students had no prior experience usingLabVIEW graphical programming software. The lack of experience or