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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20832Laser Music - Authentic Engineering Product Development for a Real Cus-tomerDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak enjoyed a 22 year career in the optical-fiber manufacturing industry living and working in 7 countries where he held a variety of hands-on technical and business-management positions. Starting as a R&D Engineer, Peter became fascinated by how a manufacturing business operates and made successive steps into engineering and manufacturing management culminating in

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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voltage capacitors surprisingly exhibitedan internal resistance upon discharge that required an unexpectedly small value for the resistor inthe circuit. The low voltage capacitors were inexpensive, physically less than 10 millimeters indiameter and 5 millimeters thick, with high capacitance at 1/3 Farad, and were easy to solder intoa parallel configuration.Figure 2. The 200 LED light test bed used to directly measure the electrical energy storage andrelease effectiveness of the capacitor-resistor (RC-Circuit) and capacitor-DC/DC convertercircuits. In this case the full number of LEDs used in the final product were able to beconveniently tested at low cost.VIII. Mechanical AssemblyThe 200 LEDs required by the Illuminated Umbrella product were