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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David R. Loker, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Adam Henry, Pennsylvania State University

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technology. He also enjoys designing and building electrical devices to use in his daily life. Page 22.383.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Conveyor Control System ProjectAbstractPart of the requirements in a junior-level measurements & instrumentation course (for an Electricaland Computer Engineering Technology program) includes an end-of-semester design project. Onepossible project is the design and implementation of a conveyor control system. For this project, theconveyor simulator is pre-fabricated and equipped with a 24-volt DC motor mounted directly

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State Univeristy; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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Engineering Topics to Freshmen Students Using Roomba Platform1. IntroductionThis paper describes integration of low-cost Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner robotsinto Introduction to Engineering course offered by the Department of EngineeringScience at Sonoma State University. The main purpose of introducing Roomba platformis to teach and integrate introductory engineering concepts, such as numbering systems,microcontrollers, serial and parallel interfaces, sensor technologies, wireless technology,and high-level programming language, such as LabVIEW. Through his experiment, astheir final design project, teams of freshmen students were required to design their owncreative Roomba projects involving sound, light, sensors, and even

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Keller, University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily, University of Tulsa

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meghan Marie Rock, Rochester Institute of Technology; Harry Marx, Rochester Institute of Technology; Seth M. Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Larry Villasmil, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Applied Science and Technology; James H. Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology

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AC 2011-2361: EFFECTIVELY UTILIZING LOCAL AND REMOTE THERMO-FLUIDS LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARN-ING.Ms. Meghan Marie RockMr. Harry Marx, Rochester Institute of Technology Harry Marx graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in March 2011 with a B.S. in Mechan- ical Engineering Technology. He is currently an employee of Micron Technology.Mr. Seth M Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology 5th year Mechanical Engineering Technology Major. Actively pursuing Bachelors degree. Worked at Johnson and Johnson as a Project Management Co op. Also worked at Fisher-Price as a Product Devel- opment Intern.Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Rochester Institute of Technology

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed B. Niku, California Polytechnic State University; Ross James Miller

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the skin ispopulated with a large array of touch sensors, a flexible tactile skin sensor can bedeveloped. Although this sensor does not communicate with the brain or the centralnervous system, nonetheless the information it provides can be used in a variety of formsto aid the user.Similarly, a tactile sensor that provides almost-continuous information about an object,forces involved, and shapes, can be used in many robotic applications, including hapticsand animatronics applications. This can be extended to advanced toys that can react tohuman touch and behave accordingly.In this project, stretchable, deformable, tactile sensors were developed to provide a largearray of sensory information that may be used by a microprocessor for other

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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Zengqian Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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plasticity theory, structural design and analysis, engineering analysis and finite element methods and has interests in remote laboratories, project-based learning and student learning assessment. His research is in the areas of remote sensing and control with applications to remote experimentation as well as modeling of microstructure changes in metal forming processes. He publishes regularly in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals. At the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago, USA, he received the Best Paper Award for his article ’A Virtual Laboratory on Fluid Mechanics’.Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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. Page 22.269.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Automated Battery Charger Instrumentation Interface for Multiple Interconnected Battery Strings as a Student ProjectAbstract The goal of this project was to create a remote monitoring and control capability for theeight large battery charging units currently in use at the Naval Acoustic Research Detachment inBayview, Idaho. These units charge 1866 valve regulated lead acid batteries that provide powerfor propulsion, instrumentation, and control of the second Large Scale Vehicle (LSV 2), a Navyacoustic research submarine. These batteries must be charged while the submarine is dry dockedwith each of eight battery

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Tyler Schecklman, Savannah Technical College

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infrastructure already exists and hence there is no need to install a medium forthe data to travel. This paper will present the home automation project designed/developed bythe students based on a socket connection functions from the Java.net library. Themicrocontroller and network connections in conjunction with sensors are used to control devicesin a typical home. For simplicity this paper will explore only three outputs from themicrocontroller and two analog inputs. The analog inputs will be used to measure temperatureand humidity. This system could be extended to run a whole home automation suite.IntroductionThe sensor network is a technique for implementation of ubiquitous computing environment. It isan environment that enables communications with

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao-Chia Cheng, National Central University; Lee king-lien, Department of Electro-Optic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 542, R.O.C.; Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa University

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, the integration ofthis measurement apparatus can be divided by four parts: “system design”, “optical systemintegration”, “data acquirement”, and “data analysis”. Students from Physics Department andDepartment of Optics and Photonics had been participated in this project in their “Special TopicsStudy” course. In this paper, we would like to share our approach to realize the physical conceptwith the community in the hope that this selected topic will be helpful for teaching the principlesand methods about index characterization.Measurement principle and resultAs shown in Fig-1, one laser beam is incident on a prism of apex angle . The first air-prisminterface which laser beam enters is regarded as “entrance face” and the one which laser

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet; Md. Rasheduzzaman, Purdue University, Calumet

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Applications Department of IEEE/IAS. He authored more than 25 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2009 he as PI received NSF-CCLI grant entitled A Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen pow- ered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process con- trol, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Jeff Kesling

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this project is to design a smart rod that will improve the accuracy of themeasurements of differential leveling over the currently used industry methods. The smart rodconsists of graduated rod that employs a tilt sensor (Parallax Memsic 2125 Dual-axisAccelerometer), transmitter (Parallax XBee 1mW Chip Antenna (XB24-ACI-001)), and ParallaxDiscovery board (Board of Education carrier board with BASIC Stamp 2 module). The tiltsensor is used to measure the rods’ angle with respect to the earth, and the transmitter wirelesslytransmits the angle data to an automatic level that is also equipped with a Parallax Discoveryboard (Board of Education carrier board with BASIC Stamp 2 module). The Parallax Discoveryboards are used to bridge the components

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bowker; Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; Mark Newton Johnson, Equipass ID

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