Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Thomas Adams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

AC 2010-1626: ON TEACHING THE OPERATING PRINCIPLES OFPIEZORESISTIVE SENSORSRichard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is the Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education (CPSE) and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. in Engineering from California State University, Northridge, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Washington, Seattle. His areas of scholarship include student team management, assessment, education, and remediation, undergraduate engineering laboratory reform focused on student learning, data analysis

Conference Session

New Instrumentation Ideas

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hergert, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

video or video streaming and are connected to an http stack. The equipment typically includes HVAC trainers, conveyors, wind tunnels, and fluid trainers. F. Laboratories in Vans Driven to Distance Sites. This equipment is driven to the distance sites. Some community colleges use vans to teach labs at distance sites. The problem with this method is that it allows access to equipment for a limited time, making it difficult to accomplish more than competency based tasks. The California Distance Learning Project states that these types of mobile labs are becoming less popular as distributed learning increases. 3 G. Smaller Portable

Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

that were all developed and built in-house with student participation.Topics: laboratories and experiments; innovative experiments; instrumentation emphasis inundergraduate programs. IntroductionDuring the undergraduate teaching process, instructors and students often get bored solving simpletextbook problems that require little, if any, imaginative thinking. These types of problems areusually significantly simple compared to real life situations, and more often than not, they havevery limited connections to the real world. They are also very limited in terms of their usefulnessin incorporating the individuality of the students involved, and they make it difficult to givestudents genuine

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

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Instrumentation

mechanical engineering.IntroductionThe application of modern instrumentation is important in engineering education to providestudents with critical skills for use in research and industry. Providing interesting andmotivational learning opportunities in engineering laboratory experiences builds students’enthusiasm while teaching critical skills in modern instrumentation and engineering problemsolving. It is relatively easy to provide students with interesting instrumentation activities todayby using low cost data acquisition hardware and software, and to explore interesting dataacquisition applications while implementing group, project-based instruction. Vehicleinstrumentation applications today embrace a large spectrum of applications with the

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto De La Cruz, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

successful model of knowledge transmission centers for the mostpart on the teacher and what they want students to learn and accomplish from theses lectures.Another teaching approach known as Project- Based Learning (PBL) promotes critical thinkingutilizing real-life problems as the starting point. Professors and students are expected to playnon-conventional roles by engaging in this instructional and learning approach. In a PBLenvironment, learners practice higher order cognitive skills (analysis, synthesis and evaluation)and are constantly engaged in reflective thinking asking questions that are based on applicationof concepts from different Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)disciplines. This paper draws on the lessons learned

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

AC 2010-786: SMART GRID, CLEANTECH, SENSOR NETWORKS COME OFAGEGary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College Mr. Gary J. Mullett, a Professor of Electronics Technology and Co-Department Chair, presently teaches in the Electronics Group at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. A long time faculty member and consultant to local business and industry, Mr. Mullett has provided leadership and initiated numerous curriculum reforms as either the Chair or Co-Department Chair of the four technology degree programs that constitute the Electronics Group. Since the mid-1990s, he has been active in the NSF’s ATE and CCLI programs as a knowledge leader in the wireless

Conference Session

New Instrumentation Ideas

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Dayvon Green, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

AC 2010-2117: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE OF A REMOTE-CONTROLLEDPLATFORM TO MONITOR WATER QUALITY DATAAbhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Prior to joining UMES he worked in Turabo University in San Juan , PR as well as Duke University in Durham North Carolina as Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Professor, respectively. Dr. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, robotics, systems and control, design of mechanical and