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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Zengqian Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Instrumentation

control engineering teaching laboratory14 was developed and demonstrated atOregon State University in 1998. A remote laboratory called VLAB15 involving an oscilloscopewas set up at The National University of Singapore in 1999. Later, a Web-based experiment16 forcontrolling a coupled tank apparatus was developed. In the Process Control and AutomationLaboratory17 at Case Western Reserve University, a process rig was made accessible over theInternet, where the user can submit parameters using a Web browser from a remote client to aLaboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) Web server, which isconnected to the process rig via a PLC control module. An interactive online laboratory forremote education called Automated Internet

Conference Session

Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meghan Marie Rock, Rochester Institute of Technology; Harry Marx, Rochester Institute of Technology; Seth M. Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Larry Villasmil, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Applied Science and Technology; James H. Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Institute of Technology. He received his BSME in 1988 from the ”Universi- dad Nacional Experimental del Tchira” in Venezuela. After graduation, he joined ”Petrleos de Venezuela” working in several positions as a rotating equipment specialist in the E&P division. He earned his MSME in 2002 and PhD ME in 2006 from Texas A&M University. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Rotor dynamics & Turbo machinery, Industrial Power Generation & Refrigeration, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Power. He teaches courses in the area of thermal and fluid sciences such as fluid power, applied fluid mechanics and thermo-fluid laboratory. He holds memberships in ASME, AIAA and ASEE.James H. Lee, Rochester

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Keller, University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily, University of Tulsa

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Instrumentation

AC 2011-2237: INTRODUCTION TO INSTRUMENTATION AND CON-TROL SYSTEMS USING A PENDULUM MOUNTED AIR ROCKETMichael Keller, University of Tulsa Michael Keller is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the university of tulsa. His research and teaching interests are in solid mechanics, both experimental and theoretical, and materials science.Jeremy S. Daily, University of Tulsa Page 22.967.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Introduction to Instrumentation and Control Systems Using a Pendulum Mounted Air RocketAbstractCourses on engineering

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State Univeristy; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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Instrumentation

AC 2011-392: INTRODUCING ADVANCED ENGINEERING TOPICS TOFRESHMEN STUDENTS USING ROOMBA PLATFORMFarid Farahmand, Sonoma State Univeristy FARID FARAHMAND is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Sonoma State University, CA, where he teaches Advanced Networking and Digital Systems. He is also the direc- tor of Advanced Internet Technology in the Interests of Society Laboratory. Farid’s research interests are optical networks, applications of wireless sensor network technology to medical fields, delay tolerant net- works. He is also interested in educational technologies and authored many papers focusing on eLearning and Active Learning models.Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Instrumentation

communications with all the chargers, and perform the basicstart up and initialization procedure. After this initialization procedure, all commands to alter theoutputs were received incorrectly by the chargers. The values entered into the GUI were not thevalues being sent to the chargers and use of the command prompt line showed the inaccuracies ofwhat the GUI was showing and the values being read into the individual chargers.Revisions to address the incomplete success of version 1.0 At the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, we presented a successful model fororganizing and teaching students using large, daunting projects like this. 5 This model againproved successful in enabling completion of this project on time and within budget. A

Conference Session

Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao-Chia Cheng, National Central University; Lee king-lien, Department of Electro-Optic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 542, R.O.C.; Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa University

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Instrumentation

, the integration ofthis measurement apparatus can be divided by four parts: “system design”, “optical systemintegration”, “data acquirement”, and “data analysis”. Students from Physics Department andDepartment of Optics and Photonics had been participated in this project in their “Special TopicsStudy” course. In this paper, we would like to share our approach to realize the physical conceptwith the community in the hope that this selected topic will be helpful for teaching the principlesand methods about index characterization.Measurement principle and resultAs shown in Fig-1, one laser beam is incident on a prism of apex angle . The first air-prisminterface which laser beam enters is regarded as “entrance face” and the one which laser