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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outlines many of the practices that aregenerally accepted for teaching engineering courses and includes some items that are critical foran online student’s success [13]. Finally, we use the Adobe ConnectTM software to allow onlinestudents to demonstrate their projects and laboratory assignments to their instructors fromanother location. The results of our implementation of 10 laboratory experiments in twosophomore level ECE courses completely online are discussed in the rest of the paper.Online Course development The development of the two online ECE courses discussed in this paper started about 10years ago with the addition of web-based course supplements for the regular courses. The web-based course supplements consisted of additional

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

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Teaching Digital Communication using LabVIEWAbstractIn response to the needs of the power industry, the Electronics Engineering Technology programat Texas A&M University has been revamping the instrumentation course to focus on digitalinstrumentation, in particular, digital communication protocols. Modbus was selected for itssimplicity, open architecture, and wide use in industry as the communication protocol for twocourse projects in an instrumentation course.LabVIEW was extensively used in the laboratory sessions, which better prepared students for thecourse projects. Two course projects were designed to familiarize the students with virtualinstrumentation, data

Conference Session

Computer-based Measurements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Harika Kuppuru P.E., Sonoma State University; Swathi Matsa, Sonoma State University

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Instrumentation

in various dimensions, includingdistance lecture delivery or remote instrumentation to teach laboratory-based courses 1-3.Over the past several years a vast number of systems have been developed to provide remoteaccess to laboratory instruments in order for students to conduct online experiments. In fact,today, almost every major instrument has the remote access feature. Web-based experimentsallow students to interact with real testing equipment without the need to purchase redundantinstruments or dedicate large lab spaces. Another major advantage of online experiments is that,as many researchers have pointed out, it allows students to complete hands-on activities on theirown time, resulting in higher level of involvement and overall

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

instrumentation per activity station combined with the increased studentenr2ollment on one side, and the budget limitations for the laboratory technicians and equipment,on the other side. The development of computing and information technologies has opened newpossibilities in realization of experimental teaching in the field of measurements5-7. Low price ofmicroprocessor’s components and systems, made possible the realization of remotely accessiblelaboratories, which can be used for education. Those laboratories provide students to accessmeasuring system via Internet and directly carry out real experiments without their physicalpresence. Interactive experiments are fundamentally different from their batched counterparts.Primarily, interactive experiments

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

Computer-based Measurements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Shih Ek Chng, DeVry University, Pomona; Furqan Muqri, University of Texas; Aceela Muqri, VCU School of Medicine

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Instrumentation

care, and medicalstudents for quick health screening and cardiologic health assessment. Students progressivelylearn to monitor and interpret the conventional noninvasive electrocardiography by leveragingthe power of java’s graphical user interface and data structures.The paper explains the laboratory setup of a basic 3-lead EKG monitoring station using moderndata acquisition tool and software for EKG feature extraction. Students will begin their analysisby looking at rate, rhythm, axis, hypertrophy, and infarction and correlate the characteristicappearance on the EKG with existing conditions, certain pathology, and drug or electrolyteeffects. A diagnostic tool using Java and Objective-C programming is then developed. Thegraphical user

Conference Session

Computer-based Measurements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Kevin McCue, Northeastern University

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Instrumentation

– Should Students Do Them or Design Them?”, Chemical EngineeringEducation, vol 29, no. w, 1995, p. 34.vi Macias-Machin, A., Guotai Zhang, and Octave Levenspiel, “The Unstructured Student-Designed Research Typeof Laboratory Experiment”, Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 24, no. 2, 1990, pp. 78-79.vii Dym, C.L., A.M. Agogino, O. Eris, D.D. Frey, and L.J. Leifer, “Engineering design thinking, teaching andlearning”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, 2005, 103-120viii ABET, 2009-2010 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2008ix Northeastern University, ABET Self Study Report for Mechanical Engineering, 2007