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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Hector E. Medina, Liberty University; Jonathan Tristan Polk, Liberty University

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Paper ID #30296Repurposing of a Nuclear Integrated System Test Facility forEngineering EducationDr. Hector E. Medina, Liberty University Dr. Medina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Va.). He obtained a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechani- cal and Nuclear Engineering from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the oil industry and 7-12 education, in his native Venezuela and Aruba. Since 2012, he has published and presented about forty articles in peer-review journals and conference

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University; Marius Strom, Saint Francis University

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-division courses.Labs covered with the Pocketbeagle include digital and analog I/O operations, PWM and UARTinterface lab projects, all using Python programming. Several of these labs will be discussed in thispaper, along with schematics, configurations, and results as well as an assessment of how well thestudents were able to achieve the course goals.IntroductionIn a General or Mechanical Engineering degree, there are many classes that incorporatemicroprocessors / microcontrollers as part of their curriculum. The format for each of theseclasses are similar (in curriculum) in that their end goal is to teach Python programming, as wellas embedded hardware and applications.While educational philosophy and pedagogy will vary from one instructor to

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Daniel Dannelley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Elliott Bryner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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and Mechanical EngineeringAbstractAs part of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering curriculum, Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity (Prescott, AZ) has developed a combined lecture / laboratory (lab) course to givestudents an introduction to the fundamental principles of instrumentation and tools necessary toperform measurements while reducing the data obtained. This Measurements andInstrumentation course will provide essential knowledge and skills that students can use forcomplimentary engineering lab courses such as Thermal Fluid Sciences [1], Experimental SpaceSystems, and Experimental Aerodynamics as well as during their yearlong capstone course andnumerous student clubs / research activities.Topics covered in this course are measurement

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Elliott Bryner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Daniel Dannelley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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of thislecture is part of Learning Objective 1 in that the proper selection of measurement systems, thecombination of probes and sensors is a critical part of planning and experimental program. a. b. Figure 2. An example of a probe and a sensor. A pitot static tube (a.) is a probe and a pressure transduce (b.) is a sensor.Numerical Methods (L.O. 2, 3) –While this is not a numerical analysiscourse there are a series of lecturescovering the use of numerical methodsfor experimental data reduction. Theselectures cover topics such as numericalerror, numerical integration, finding rootsof equations, Fourier series andfrequency analysis, and curve