Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Tanima Zaman, Ivy Tech Community College, Northwest

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Instrumentation

transducer, industrial process control, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices and renewable energy related projects. Page 23.1275.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Undefined Obstacle Avoidance and Path Planning of an Autonomous Mobile Robot in a Two-Dimensional

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus; Wieslaw Grebski, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

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Instrumentation

scale, thequestionnaire also asked the participants to rate the relevance of two stated workshop learningobjectives which are listed below.  To teach students topics related to sustainable forms of energy, for example, wind power, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal and energy efficiency.  To teach students to perform an energy audit for a residential setting and create an energy saving plan based on the energy audit. The post workshop evaluation asked the participants to again rate their knowledge in the topicareas addressed during the workshop and then rate the effectiveness of the workshop inachieving the stated learning objectives. In this manner the effectiveness of the workshop ineach area could be evaluated. The

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Jarvis Brewer T, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto G De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Faraz Muhammad Yousuf, 3D Imaging Developer

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Instrumentation

students, high school student andfaculty. Presentation mainly focused on robotics and was titled “Wireless Robots”. The mainobjective of the presentation was to highlight Project Based Learning activities that are used insystem design. The planned activities allowed the students to focus on learning about sensors,motors, controllers and Easy Bluetooth module to wirelessly control the movements of the robot.The area high school teaches a course in Computer Aided Design (CAD) in which the studentsuse the 3D modeling software solid works. During the high school presentation of wireless robotstudents are given assignments to design the 3D model of sensors, motors, controllers, chassis ofthe robot, breadboard and Easy Bluetooth module.Program

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #6350Programmable Logic Controllers: Essential and AffordableDr. John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Departmental Internship Co- ordinator at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Automation, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 23.989.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Instrumentation

PACKAGING MACHINERYMANUFACTURERSThe concept developed in this work saves both time and money for an OEM in several ways. Thefollowing are three of many scenarios that the OEM has plans to use the proposed work.Scenario one: a packaging machine located at a customer site is not functioning properly andrequires debugging. In this case packaging machine designers/developers all need to travel tocustomer site to fix the problem. If two or three such machines are having problems, it becomesmore difficult for this set of design/development engineers to go to all three sites and fix theproblem. In each of these cases travel time, travel expenses and availability of a particulardesign/development engineer become limiting factors. Scenario two: ability to