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

-sponsoredprojects. Research shows that projects that were funded by industry and then turned completelyover to the students were invariably less successful than those that had an interested mentorengineer involved with the project. Having students feel responsible and accountable to anindustrial “customer” seems to be an important factor in their learning the practice ofengineering.E. Evaluation of student PerformanceIndividual students will be evaluated by their team members. Each member is required to write aconfidential percentage of the individual member’s contributions to the project. The grade willbe based on the average of the team member’s evaluation. For Example: Team 1 has gained 400points in their project. One member was evaluated by his peers

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

. Demonstration type labs seem to haveevolved primarily to deal with increasing enrollment, which has gone up dramatically in recentyears. Unfortunately, it has been difficult for the infrastructure to keep up with the increase.Since a broken piece of equipment in the first of six lab sections makes it impossible to teach theremaining sections, the emphasis had shifted in many cases to protecting the equipment above allelse. In the Measurements and Analysis class, for example, the pressure experiment was by andlarge performed by the TA, with the students watching and writing down data. In anotherexample, the strain lab required several inconvenient work-arounds to allow students to adjustthe zero setting on a Wheatstone bridge. In real life this would be

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

, graphics editor, and presentation software. Each student also archives his or her engineering work in a personal engineering notebook that is periodically reviewed.4. Study how engineering practice relates to a professional code of ethics. Students examine peer-reviewed case studies, identify ethical dilemmas, and propose professional practice solutions.The following student outcomes are assessed during the semester: • Ability to design and realize an electronic system to meet performance constraints. Page 25.788.2 • Ability to create experiments and draw meaningful conclusions from experimental data. • Ability to function as a

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

Electrical Engineering Laboratory CoursesAbstract This paper presents our experiences and results in developing and delivering newlaboratory experiments for the sophomore level Electric Circuits Lab, and Introduction to DigitalLogic design courses completely online. The paper will clearly outline how we utilized a newpedagogy to re-write our laboratory experiments so that they can be completed by face-to-faceand/or online students using new portable laboratory instrumentation devices, such as the MobileStudioTM board. We also present detailed descriptions on how we used the Adobe ConnectTMsoftware to allow the students to demonstrate their design and laboratory experiment circuits tothe course instructor from a remote location. We have