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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Bradley Lane Kicklighter P.E., University of Southern Indiana
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Paper ID #31442Design and Development of a Sensor/Actuator Module to EnhanceProgrammable Logic Controller (PLC) Laboratory ActivitiesMr. Brad L. Kicklighter P.E., University of Southern Indiana Brad holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1989) and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2001). His past work experience includes eleven years at Delphi (formerly Delco Electronics) as an Advanced Project Engineer, eleven years at Whirlpool Corporation as a Lead Engineer/Solution Architect, and three years at Ivy Tech Community College as an Instructor/Program
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New Instrumentation Ideas
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David Hergert, Miami University
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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
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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
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David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler
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AC 2007-598: PROJECT GUISE: CURRICULAR INTRODUCTION ANDRESOURCES FOR TEACHING INSTRUMENTATIONDavid Beams, University of Texas-Tyler Page 12.1201.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Project GUISE: Curricular Introduction and Resources for Teaching InstrumentationAbstractProject GUISE (General-purpose, Universal Instrumentation System for Education) is acomputer-based laboratory instrument combining LabVIEW virtual-instrumentationsoftware and custom external hardware developed with support of the National ScienceFoundation under grant DUE 9952292. Descriptions of its development have beenpreviously published. However, an opportunity to
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Novel Measurement Experiments
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Terrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks
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2006-576: TEACHING A COMPUTER TO READ: IMAGE ANALYSIS OFELECTRICAL METERSTerrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Terrance D. Lovell is an electrical engineering student at Penn State Berks in Reading, PA where he has completed his associate’s degree in electrical engineering technology. He is a research assistant in the EET department. Prior to his academic pursuits he was an electronics countermeasures technician for the U. S. Marine Corps.Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Dale H. Litwhiler is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, PA. He received his B.S. from Penn State University, his M.S. from Syracuse
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Ventzislav Karaivanov, Colorado School of Mines; Jeffrey A. Holley P.E., Colorado School of Mines
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Instrumentation
Paper ID #12906A Hardware Enclosure to Increase Access to, and Reliability of, Data Acqui-sition Hardware while Enhancing the Student Laboratory ExperienceDr. Ventzislav Karaivanov, Colorado School of Mines • Ventzi Karaivanov, Teaching Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Col- orado School of Mines. Education • PhD – Mechanical Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering at University of Pittsburgh, 2009. ”Life prediction modeling of thermal barrier coated turbine airfoils” Teaching and Professional societies • Teaching Interests: Mechanics of Materials, Computer Aided En- gineering, Dynamics
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Simon Li P.Eng., University of Calgary
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Instrumentation
Paper ID #17376Experience and Reflection on an Industry-College Partnership to Develop aNew Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory CourseDr. Bob Brennan, University of Calgary Robert W. Brennan has been actively involved in a wide range of national and international design ed- ucation initiatives over the past 12 years. He has served on the Canadian Design Engineering Network (CDEN) steering committee, chaired the organizing committee for the second CDEN conference (2004), chaired the Schulich School of Engineering’s first Engineering Education Summit (2007), served as an or- ganizing committee member for the CIRP
Conference Session
Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Collins Adetu, Florida A&M University; Camilo Ordonez, Florida State University; Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University
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. Weitzen, Jay; Webster, Erin; and Alan Rux. "University of Massachusetts Lowell “Laboratory in a Box” For First Year ECE Students." Proceedings American Society of Engineering Education, 2013.6. “User guide and specification NI myRIO-1900.” http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/376047a.pdf7. Mosteo, A.R.; Tardioli, D.; Montijano, E., "The LEGO Pardo Experience: Motivational Control Demonstrations for Cadets [Focus on Education]," in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, vol.34, no.6, pp.78-126, Dec. 2014.8. Alisa Gilmore, P. E. "Design Elements of a Mobile Robotics Course Based on Student Feedback." American Society of Engineering Education, 2015.9. Liu, Cheng Chih. "Teaching Digital Designs by Building Small Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Using an
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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation
Collection
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
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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
Conference Session
Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mohit Raj Verma, Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology); Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest
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Paper ID #19107Design and Development of Pneumatic Lab Activities for a Course on FluidPowerMr. Mohit Raj Verma, Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology) Mohit Raj Verma received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue University in 2014 and after two years of engineering practice and teaching, continued his education at Purdue University Northwest in College of Technology where he is pursuing his M.S. in both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology. He is very fond of learning new things and technology. As an undergraduate he balanced a rigorous course load and a number of extracurricular
Conference Session
Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Grace Altimus, Syracuse University; Dacheng Ren, Syracuse University
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also the home of many classrooms. This setting allows the facility to be accessible withconvenience for both research and teaching applications. Thus, this facility provides a uniqueopportunity to allow students to observe and integrate their use into student laboratories tofacilitate not only a greater understanding of the principles of the coursework, but also acommand of the technology that translates these principles beyond the classroom. This modelwas applied to the course Biological Principles for Engineers (BEN 301) and included surveys, alecture, and a laboratory portion. Materials and MethodsStudent evaluations. In order to gauge student learning outcomes related to the knowledge offunction and
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Instrumentation Technical Session III
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Alex Wong, Digilent Inc.; Derek W. Edens
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the price of a textbook,students can purchase a low-cost analog hardware development platform and components, withaccess to downloadable teaching materials, reference designs and lab projects to design andimplement analog circuits as a supplement to their regular laboratory exercises.Colleges have traditionally had to build and maintain centralized teaching labs. These labs, withtheir specialized equipment and trained lab assistants, are expensive and hard to maintain. Withthe Analog Discovery design kit, can help to build distributed labs - labs that can be found indorm rooms, cafeterias, and libraries - anywhere students want to work. However, theimportance of working with real laboratory equipment cannot be ignored. The Digital
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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the SFs also took leadership roles to organize and teach these training sessions. The use ofstudents as teachers resulted in promoting mentoring of inexperienced students by moreadvanced students, higher rate of acceptance of the material and also minimized the cost ofproviding the training6-7, 10-11.II. LabVIEW ActivityWe organized two LabVIEW training sessions through the supplemental training session. Thefirst session was dedicated to provide students with a basic understanding of LabVIEW andfamiliarize them with the LabVIEW software, while the second session was dedicated foradvanced LabVIEW training4.Activity I: LabVIEW basicsThe first half of this laboratory activity familiarized the student with the software package LabVIEWfrom
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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David Muff, Iowa State University; Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University; Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University
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Instrumentation
laboratory exercises. He is currently teaching thermal science courses, including fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He also has an active research program in multiphase flow characterization and visualization and gas-liquid mass transfer enhancement, and is the director of a one-of-a-kind X-ray facility used for flow visualization in large-scale opaque and multiphase flows.Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University Sriram Sundararajan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. Currently, he is teaching ME 370 and is continuing to update the course and associated laboratories to include contemporary issues in engineering measurements. He has also taught
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Developing New Instrumentation
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sean Brennan, Pennsylvania State University
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Instrumentation
education, graduate education, and graduate-level research. Ananalysis is offered of the different operational and educational requirements across thesedifferent levels of instruction. In many cases, these educational tiers present non-complementaryrequirements including different expectations on ease of use, durability, compatibility, softwarecomplexity, and performance. This work presents a laboratory development strategy that assistsin balancing research and teaching while simultaneously fostering new activity in both areas.IntroductionWhen faced with developing laboratory or research hardware across undergraduate, graduate,and research level applications, the historical solution at many educational institutes is simply topurchase and support
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Modern Software Measurement Techniques
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College
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grant on designing remote laser laboratory for teaching techniciansDon Engelberg, Queensborough Community College Don Engelberg is a Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include nuclear physics, laser physics, and education. He was awarded several NSF grants and is currently serving as PI on a NSF grant in laser physics education.Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College Alex Flamholz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include bio-physics, electronics, and education. He worked in photonics research and
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Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
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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 and Measurement Innovation
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Farid Farahmand; Leela Mohan Kesireddy, Central Connecticut State University; Mark Lynch, Central Connecticut State University
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Instrumentation
AC 2009-386: A LOW-COST APPROACH TO INTEGRATING SENSORTECHNOLOGY IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSESFarid Farahmand, 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 director 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 networks. He is also interested in educational technologies and authored many papers focusing on eLearning and Active Learning models.Leela Mohan Kesireddy , Central Connecticut State
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Instrumentation in Education
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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
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
George E. Meyer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Yufeng Ge, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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identification and enumeration of plant species for field and greenhouse production. Winter-time greenhouse strawberry and herb production are recent funded research activities. YUFENG GE, Assistant Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska. Dr. Ge obtained his PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University. He started as a teaching assistant for the sensor and instrumentation class there in 2005, and gradually increased his teaching responsibility for the class to become a co-instructor (since 2010) and instructor (2013). He was the faculty advisor for the student robotics teams who competed for the ASABE robotics competitions in 2012 and 2013.Dr. Yufeng Ge, University of
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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
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Don Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University
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,physicists recognize problems of river currents and problems of headwinds and tailwinds inairplanes as involving similar mathematical principles, such as relative velocities.4 Gone are thedays when students were ham radio operators, played with Erector/LEGO sets, tinkered withelectronic kits or simply taken things apart for fun. As a result, students have less “gut intuition”and expert skills than prior generations possessed when entering the job market.5STUDIO PEDAGOGY The defining characteristics of studio classes are an integrated lecture-laboratory format, areduced amount of time allotted to lecture; a technology-enhanced learning environment,collaborative group work and a high level of faculty-student interaction. The studio
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kenan Hatipoglu, West Virginia University Insttitute of Technology; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Yogendra M. Panta, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Steven Kent Blevins, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
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involvedexperiments. A few experiments in the second course involve surge generators. The surgegenerators are all in-house design and construction. Therefore, the design information pertainingto the surge generators are available for teaching purposes. This gives students a visual tool toobserve exactly how certain devices are constructed2.Also at OSU, dissectible machines are used in the energy conversion lab. The test machines arefully dissectible and can be used to construct a wide variety of ac and dc electrical machines.This allows students the opportunity to observe the behavior and construction of various kinds ofac and dc machines2.At IIT Bombay, laboratory instruction is offered and believed to be a necessary part of theelectrical engineering
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Aidan F. Browne, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David George Vutetakis Jr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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for a greater diversity oftraining setups to be utilized in a smaller area.IntroductionIn order to effectively teach instrumentation, mechatronic and robotic courses in an Engineeringor Engineering Technology curriculum, a variety of electromechanical laboratory setups aredesirable. [1] Exposing students to an assortment of technologies is also desirable, to give themas broad an experience as is reasonable. Thus, setups containing different sensors, effectors andactuators and indicators are needed. Quite often, the cost of such laboratory setups (or trainers) ishigh, thereby challenging the desire to have numerous full setups.To broaden the students’ programming capabilities, many programs teach such courses acrossboth microcontroller and
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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sri Kolla, Bowling Green State University; Joseph Mainoo, Bowling Green State University
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2006-1830: FIELDBUS NETWORKS TOPIC IN INSTRUMENTATION ANDCONTROL SYSTEMS COURSESSri Kolla, Bowling Green State University Sri Kolla is a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Technology Program at the Bowling Green State University, Ohio, since 1993. He worked as a Guest Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2000-‘01. He was an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, 1990-‘93. He got a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Toledo, Ohio, 1989. His teaching and research interests are in electrical engineering/technology area with specialization in artificial intelligence, control
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine
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frequency response, the signal frequency has to be stepped, the measurement beingrepeated at every step to gather data points to plot the response as a function of the frequency. Inprinciple the input and output voltage amplitude measurements can be accomplished very simplyby employing two AC voltmeters. However, most undergraduate teaching laboratories areequipped with only one meter per station. Besides, most DMMs have a very limited frequencyrange, typically less than 100 KHz. Beams[2] has shown that, with external circuitry controlled bya PC, one can multiplex the input and the output signals into a single voltmeter. He employed anI-Q phase detector and incorporated it with a multiplexer to do both phase and amplitudemeasurement with only one
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Embedded Control and Instrumentation
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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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John Y. Hung, Auburn University; Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Alex Wong, Digilent, Inc.
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-chair for the 2008 IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON-2008) and the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE-2010). His teaching and research interests are in control systems applications.Prof. Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University Victor P. Nelson is a professor and Assistant Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. His primary research interests include embedded systems and computer-aided design and testing of digital systems and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). He is co-author of the textbook Digital Logic Circuit Analysis and Design and a tutorial book on fault-tolerant computing. He has been Chair of the ECE Curriculum Committee
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michael Patrick McGuire P.E., Lafayette College; Jeffrey David Helm, Lafayette College
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separated for convenience ratherthan some requirement of mechanics. Constitutive stress-strain relationships can be skillfullyapplied in a numerical model developed using the finite element method or finite differencemethod to reasonably predict the behavior of soil and soil-structure interaction1; however, astudent needs to believe what they are seeing is “true” in order for the teaching tool to beeffective. Soil behavior previously observed in the field or in the laboratory can be expressed in avariety of ways including charts, as shown in Figure 1, and photographs, as shown in Figure 2.These ways of illustrating soil behavior can help student appraise the reasonableness of theories
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Instrumentation Technical Session
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro
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isawake will receive the packet. The packet is retransmitted three times by each device, thusthese types of broadcasts should only be used when necessary. The other broadcast addressis the use of endpoint number 0xFF to send a message to all of the endpoints on thespecified device. For group addressing, an application can assign multiple devices andspecific endpoints on those devices to a single group address. The source node would needto provide the cluster ID, profile ID and source endpoint.Course Protocol and Zigbee MethodsA low cost, 68HC12 microprocessor module based, laboratory intensive instructionprogram was developed for common use in the newer microprocessor course ECET365. The overall objectives of this teaching module were to
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James Andrew Smith P.Eng., Ryerson University
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Paper ID #9584Inductive Learning Tool Improves Instrumentation CourseProf. James Andrew Smith P.Eng., Ryerson University Dr. Smith specializes in Biomedical Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He was Biomedical Engineering Program Director in 2010/11 and is currently Biomedical Engineering Stream Coordinator. His research combines aspects of biomechanics and robotics, with active research projects in legged systems, obstetrics and surgical systems. In addition to teaching awards received at the University of Alberta and Ryerson University, he is a recipient or co-recipient of four IEEE Real World
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Developing New Instrumentation
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen
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book approach for teaching computer implementation ofindustrial control systems”, IEEE Transaction on Education, Feb. 2003, Vol. 46, pp. 177 – 184.[4] E. W. Kamen, M. J. Gazarik, “A course in industrial controls and manufacturing for EE students andother engineering majors”, Proceeding of the 1997 American Control Conference, June 1997, Vol. 5, pp.3160 – 3165.[5] J. C. Anderson, “Design a flexible industrial controls lab module”, 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education,Nov 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 17 – 22.[6] J. Rehg, “PLC laboratories – the next generation”, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June2002.[7] J. J. Blakley, D. A. Irvine, “Teaching programmable logic controllers using multimedia-basedcourseware”, International Journal of Electrical