Conference Session

Projects in Instrumentation and Control

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet; Tanima Zaman, Purdue University Calumet

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Instrumentation

AC 2012-3605: HMI DESIGN: AN ANALYSIS OF A GOOD DISPLAY FORSEAMLESS INTEGRATION BETWEEN USER UNDERSTANDING ANDAUTOMATIC CONTROLSProf. Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet Akram Hossain is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Director of the Center for Packaging Machinery Industry at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Ind. He worked eight years in industry at various capacities. He is working with Purdue University Calumet for the past 24 years. He consults for industry on process control, packaging machinery system control, and related disciplines. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He served in IEEE/Industry Application Society for 15 years at vari- ous capacities. He served as chair of

Conference Session

Embedded Control and Instrumentation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Y. Hung, Auburn University; Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Alex Wong, Digilent, Inc.

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Instrumentation

-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

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University

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Instrumentation

experience in digital communication protocol. The course project has four majorcomponents: a LabVIEW20 based closed loop control system design using the Modbus17 digitalcommunication protocol; hardware design to replace the Modbus slave with a PCB; softwaredesign for the Modbus slave; and system integration. The focus of this article is on the firstcomponent, i.e., LabVIEW based closed loop control using Modbus communication protocol.LabVIEW was chosen to be the tool for the course project because it can provide hands-onexperiences for students, which is particularly important for engineering technology programs.Another reason for using LabVIEW was that it was being used by several other courses in theEET program, as part of the curriculum

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Instrumentation

online teaching environment, creating modules, the role ofdiscussion, technology integration and assessment. The main goal of the “Online Course DesignWorkshop” is to teach instructors interested in developing and teaching online courses how todivide the course into modules that last approximately one to two weeks. These modules have tofurther be divided into sub-modules with topics that students can work through in about an hour. All courses were required to conform to “The 2008 – 2010 Quality MattersTM (QM)Rubric” [12]. This rubric outlines many of the practices that are generally accepted for teaching Page 25.1003.5engineering courses

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Instrumentation

, the bottles may be shattered. To find the root of the problem a high speedcamera should be used.Using the camera we can narrow down the cause of the above problem. Judging the pattern ofthe phase difference between the motor shafts and how it acted at different speeds, we cannarrow down the troubleshooting and comment that the problem must be due to tuning of themotors. The problem cannot be due to a fault in the cam tables because the phase difference isvaries along with speed of the servomotors (Experiment 2).The servomotors are controlled by proportional-integral-derivative controllers (PID Controllers).This is a generic control loop feedback mechanism (controller). It calculates an "error" value asthe difference between a measured process

Conference Session

Projects in Instrumentation and Control

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University

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Instrumentation

Evaluation Form Page 25.286.5IV. Project DesignThe focus of this pilot study project was to develop a prototype of an Electronic Name Tag(ENT) system. This project focuses on creating an ENT that can be used for conferences,visitors’ badges etc. The development of the ENT will help the world become moreenvironmentally friendly. The ENT consists of a microcontroller, the brain of the system, whichis a programmable electronic integrated circuit with built in processor memory and peripherals.The microcontroller is programmed using the Basic Stamp Editor program. The microcontrolleruses this program to display the information on the liquid crystal

Conference Session

Projects in Instrumentation and Control

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University

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Instrumentation

experience in curriculum development. Page 25.447.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development and Implementation of i-Laboratory for Instrumentation, Sensors, Measurements and Controls CoursesAbstractComputing, information and communication technologies have strong impacts on education, bysignificantly improving the distance and online collaborative learning, via the virtual or remoteexperiments and simulations. One of the distinguishing features of engineering technologyeducation is the laboratory work and hands-on experience as an integral part of the

Conference Session

Embedded Control and Instrumentation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Thomas Ruch, University of Saint Thomas

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Instrumentation

Engineering StudentsIntroduction – Observatory Mission Small robotic observatories are enhancing educational programs and generatingexcitement around science and engineering at an increasing number of institutions. TheUniversity of Iowa, a pioneer in this area, has been successfully using a remotely operatedtelescope in their undergraduate curriculum for over a decade1. Middle and high school studentsthroughout the United States have shown significant gains in conceptual understanding of mathand science topics through use of the MicroObservatory2, a distributed network of automatedsmall telescopes. Access to such facilities is becoming more common as the hardware andsoftware required to build them becomes less expensive and more readily