Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session III

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley B. Williams P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

professional expe- rience also includes work in the pharmaceutical industry where he designed custom instrumentation and automation solutions for pharmaceutical researchers. In addition to his professional and academic ac- tivities, Dr. Williams is active mentoring students through programs such as the UNC Charlotte Senior Design Program and US FIRST Robotics. Page 23.846.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 LabVIEW and Arduino as a gateway to PLC programmingAbstractThe key topics of an instrumentation and controls course are a) the transducers that convert

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus; Wieslaw Grebski, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

netted a total of 163Wof array power. The power from the array was used to charge the marine battery and the batterypower was feed into the 200W inverter. The power from the invertor was used to run thecirculation pump for the solar water heater. The AC current for the pump was measured using aclamp-on current meter and observed to be approximately 0.95A at 120VAC, or 114 W . Page 23.971.5 Figure 3 – Solar Cart Providing Power to a Pump for a Solar Water Heating SystemWorkshop DetailsTwo separate Act 48 workshops were developed and conducted at Penn State Hazleton thatfocused on middle school and high school teachers (grades 8-12). Both workshops includedinformation about all the different forms of renewable energy as well as