Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Aero and Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition”, AC 2012-392015. Trainor, T., McCarthy D., and Kwin M., “From Cornerstone to Capstone: Systems Engineering in the West Point Way”, Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition”, AC 2010-153116 . Gipson, K.G., Henriques, J.J., and Sequeira, S., “ Development and Implementation of a Cornerstone Course: Engineering Opportunities”, Proceedings of the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition”, Session 1158017. Vernier, M.A., Wensing, P.M., Morin, C.E., Phillips, A.P., Rice, B., Wegman, K.R. and Hartle C., “Design of a Full-Featured Robot Controller for Use in a First Year Robotics Design Project”, Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Curtis Darfler, California State University, Maritime University; William W. Tsai, California State University, Maritime Academy

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test section and actively with a recirculation valve. The total cost for this projectwas approximately $3500 and required 3 months of part-time work to construct. Flow velocitymeasurements in the test section were made by simple flow visualization and found velocityranged from 0.32-0.65 ft/s within a 6”x12”x12” test section. The water flume was subsequentlyused by a senior capstone project for testing of their water turbine. Student self-evaluations wereused to assess whether their experiences reinforced fluid mechanics concepts and developed theirskills in experimental fluid mechanics. The results show that the students believed their workwith the water tunnel strongly met the learning objectives in the area of experimental methodsand

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Aero and Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College; R. Erik Spjut, Harvey Mudd College

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final project. Although we have yet not performed formal assessment measuring howmuch students re-use their work in our capstone course, anecdotal evidence suggests that ourjunior and senior Clinic students have increased their skills and familiarity in the selection anduse of sensors, and in acquiring data using PC-based DAQ systems. The custom data logger ismore representative of data acquisition systems that are used in Clinic (and industry), and modelcalibration using multiple channels of experimental data is a common task in our capstonecourse. Regarding Warren’s observation that students did not necessarily use time outside of labto build and test, our structure of E80 was designed such that students felt restricted from doing alot of