Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College; Ted Sussmann, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

AC 2009-1203: A NOVEL INTERDISCIPLINARY SENSOR NETWORKSLABORATORYGary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College Professor of Electronics Technology and Co-Department Chair, Gary J. Mullett presently teaches in the Electronics Group at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. A long time faculty member and consultant to local business and industry, Mullett has provided leadership and initiated numerous curriculum reforms as either the Chair or Co-Department Chair of the four technology degree programs that constitute the Electronics Group. Since the late 1990s, he has been active in the NSF’s ATE and CCLI programs as a knowledge leader in the wireless

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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Instrumentation

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

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

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Instrumentation

author taught anew course in the area of Engineering Instrumentation during 2005 – 2006 andexperimented with some new ideas. He also successfully designed, developed andimplemented certain assignments and exercises to enhance student learning anddiscovery. In this course, the author attempted to move away from a teaching andlearning paradigm to a discovery paradigm. This is a junior/senior level course whichalso includes a set of creative laboratory experiments that aim at providing hands-onexperience to students. As a part of this course curriculum development, the authorimplemented certain assessment techniques. In this presentation the author describeshow he assessed the outcomes for selected topics in this specific course. He also

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; Stan Mitchell, LogicForce Consulting, LLC; Hugh Berryman, Middle Tennessee State University

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Instrumentation

AC 2009-1123: COMPUTER FORENSICS: SEIZING AND SECURING DIGITALEVIDENCESaleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty is a professor of Computer Engineering Technology, earned his Ph.D. and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and his BS degree in electrical engineering from Damascus University. Dr. Sbenaty joined MTSU in 1993 and has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in electronics and computer harware. He is actively engaged in curriculum development and assessments for technological education. He has authored and co-authored several industry-based case studies and participated in three major NSF-funded

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy DiTraglia, Middle Tennessee State University; Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston; Mequanint Moges, University of Houston

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Instrumentation

such excitement and involvement inundergraduate research motivates the classroom and is a major step forward in the improvementof the curriculum for quality instruction eventually.References 1. Arpaia, P., Baccigalupi, A., Cennamo, F. and Daponte, P. “A measurement laboratory on geographic network for remote test experiments, IEEE Trans. Inst. Meas., 49, (5) 2000, 992-997. 2. Fortino, G., Grimald, D., Nigro, L. “ An agent based measurement laboratory over internet, Proc. of the IEEE Automated Test Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA, 1999, pp 61-71. 3. Thiriet, J., Robert, M., Martins, M. and Hoffmann, M. “Pedagogical resources reachable via internet for teaching intelligent instruments: developments within a

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Rossmery Alva, Savannah State University; Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University

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Instrumentation

Education Through Multi-Disciplinary Nationally Relevant Projects: The Solar Decathlon Project., session 2632, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition3. Alex See, “Hands-on learning and implementing using LabVIEWTM for undergraduates in 13 weeks,” session number 2756, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition4. E.L. Ferguson and M. Hegarty, “Learning with real machines or diagrams: application of knowledge to real-world problems”, Cognition and instruction, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 129-160, (1995)5. Nirmal Das, “Teaching/Learning Modules For Structural Analysis” American Society for Engineering Education, 20066