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
specific lesson plans, hands-on activities selected to encourage interest in teachingScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). At XXX University four weeksummer program was conducted for teaching STEM activities and lessons plans geared towardsMiddle/High School Teaching. The main focus of the summer enrichment program was toencourage students to enter the STEM teaching profession as Middle/High School teachers.Three primary areas selected to build enthusiasm for teaching STEM were ElectronicsEngineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology and Mathematics.IntroductionThe demand for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is expected togrow at a phenomenal rate as compared to the non-STEM (17% from 2008 to 2018
derived quantities such as volumetric ormass flow rate. Students work with a number of types of probes (Kiel probes, pitot-static tubes),measurement systems (square edge orifice plate, venture tube), and experimental equipment tomake these measurements. The students use National Instruments data acquisition and controlhardware and LabVIEW software extensively in the lab portion of the course.This two credit course, one credit lecture and one credit lab, places a high level of emphasis oncritical thinking and originality through several open-ended laboratory assignments and a groupproject. These activates focus on planning an experimental program, designing the measurementsystem, reducing the data, and interpreting the results. Students will
, sample of the labs will be introduced. Finally, the student’s feedback regarding incorporating visual components software with the programming industrial robots’ course will be presented. Keywords: Robot simulation software, Visual Components software, industrial robot, 3D CAD data, virtual commissioning, Process Optimization, robot integratorIntroduction:The Visual Components (VC) simulation software has become an increasingly essential toolfor manufacturing professionals having the responsibilities of layout, planning, and optimizingthe work cell design for virtually commissioning the robot and accelerating the time toproduction [1]. It uses 3D CAD data to create a virtual model of the robot
pieces of equipment communicate via USB, but thedistance between the control computer and the equipment is greater than the maximum distanceallowed for a standard USB cable. An engineering student was hired as a research assistant todevelop a communications solution. After researching variety of products including RS-232 to USB adapters, expansion cardsto provide the computer with additional RS-232 ports, and USB extenders, our student settled ona combination of RS-232 to USB adapters and a USB extender. The extender consists of a localunit that connects to the computer and a remote unit that presents several USB ports. The twounits communicate via a cat-5 cable. The plan was to have all communications travel on thesingle cat-5 cable. The
advancements have introduced a new kind of flying robot called aDrone, which is an unmanned aircraft. The drone may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomouslythrough software controlled flight plans along with the embedded microcontroller chip working inconjunction with onboard sensors and GPS receiver. Recently, flying robots has further enriched theinterest of students in STEM disciplines which includes electronics, control, fabrication, mathematics,critical thinking, and computer programming. This paper presents the results of a five-week summerprogram for high school students. The participants of the program were 15 underrepresented studentsfrom rural school districts. During the five-week period, students were assigned several activities
down. A serial interface was also implemented for the arm controller so the arm could becontrolled from a PC. The students had a mentor from industry to guide them in the design of theirrobot arm and controller. The mentor also evaluated the robot arm and similar designs for use with theRobotic Operating System (ROS) and Moveit software, for possible use of Moveit on future studentprojects.ROS and Moveit bring interesting functions for control of robot arms. The Open Motion PlanningLibrary (OMPL) is used by the Moveit, providing a variety of motion planning algorithms to controlthe students arm. A 3D Camera can be directly used by Moveit to provide obstacle avoidance functionsfor the robot arm. The results of the evaluation of Moveit were
Page 26.1024.15After students create the URDF Joint Element Parameter given the D-H table they perform, theyconvert it to URDF and display the results in RVIZ to confirm it matches the Fig. 12 axis systemorientation. The a3 parameter is between Joint 3 and Joint 4. The Red axis is x, the Green axis isy and the Blue axis is z in Fig. 13.Lab 4 MOVEIT and Inverse KinematicsThere are two sections to this lab: a) Setup Moveit b) Using Different Planning Algorithms to move robotIn this Lab we took advantage of existing demonstration software that uses the PR2 and 6R Robot.Students set the robots to different start and end states for the PR2 and 6R robots. Students canwatch the robot perform the motion using the planning algorithm from the OMPL
Technology (IT/OT) systems to identify vulnerabilities using a wide variety of penetration software tools methods and tactics to simulate cyber-attacks. Forensic computer analyst: responsible to investigate computer-related crimes by using forensic tools to recover electronic data/information that serves as legal evidence. Cybersecurity analyst: responsible to assess, plan and enact security measures to safeguard the privacy, integrity and availability of an organization’s cyber and information assets by preventing compromise (e.g., outside/inside security breaches). Security Software Developer: responsible to implement and develop security software and systems to ensure an organization’s network
of the program include the following: 1. Launching an aggressive recruitment plan for talented math and engineering majors to pursue teaching careers in 6 -12 secondary schools; 2. Implementing a comprehensive STEM teacher training program; 3. Providing Summer Educational Internship Program (SEIP) to rising sophomores; 4. Providing Field Observation Experiences for sophomores; 5. Providing $10,000 scholarships to talented math and engineering juniors and seniors to pursue teaching career by acquiring education training through SSU teacher education math, civil, and electronics engineering technology programs; 6. Providing $10,000 stipends for STEM professionals or recent STEM graduates to become
improvements. Students get realistic design and applicationopportunities and experience that lead to no shortage of the best job offers, giving their careers agreat start.Electrical Demand ChallengeElectrical demand is a means for public utilities to charge customers more fairly for their use ofthe utilities’ infrastructure. Utilities plan and build their electrical distribution systems to belarge enough to provide enough power to meet the demands of their customers. The more that autility expects its customers to demand, the larger must be the utility’s investment in equipment.Equipment has a capital cost and a maintenance cost. To help meet these costs, most publicutilities have demand charges in their billing structure for commercial and industrial
. in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Bolivariana University in 2003. He obtained his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University in 2006 and 2010. Currently, Camilo is a Teaching Faculty at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research interests include dynamic modeling of legged and wheeled vehicles, terrain identification, motion planning, and low level control.Dr. Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University Nikhil Gupta received his Bachelor of Technology degree from Y.M.C.A. Institute of Technology, Haryana, India in 2008, Master of Science degree from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, in 2010, and Ph.D from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, in 2014, all
- Replace one cylinder with the one of different rating and repeat Steps a to c.In the second part, students will build the circuit on the pneumatic trainer to verify Step c. Also,they should answer the following questions: 1- Do you observe any difference between the hand calculation, the simulation, and the actual circuit built? Where do you observe the differences, if any, and why? 2- Explain what you observed in Part D. Propose a solution to modify the circuit so both cylinders extend/retract synchronously. 3- How would you modify the circuit for overrunning loads (e.g., loads that are more than the allowed maximum loads)Plans for assessmentUpon completion of both phases, the authors will develop a
, and apply the relevant aspects ofinformation technology, data analysis, monitoring and processing.o I&M courses will provide ample opportunities for students to learn by doing (activelearning), in a real industrial environment.Additional outcomes expected:• Students will work cooperatively and be able to form effective teams.• Students will practice and improve technical communication and report writing skills.• WSU and FH will utilize the lab as support for advanced engineering applications inI&M and process control for senior undergraduate and graduate projects and research.3.1 Planned ActivitiesLeveraging the strengths of each institution – FH’s reputation for innovation andeducation of highly-qualified industrial personnel and
formulate a research problem.4) I can identify basic principles and knowledge related to the research question or problem.5) I can develop a research plan to address or resolve a specific question or problem.6) I can find refereed research papers (articles) via the library databases.7) I can collect and interpret data and information in an attempt to resolve the question or problem.8) I understand the role of data management (ownership, collection, storage and sharing) in conducting research.9) I understand responsible authorship (accurate representation of results, and open and honest assessment of the findings)10) I can demonstrate awareness of the responsible conduct of research.11) I can articulate research findings through written
sizes. With no sitting space, it is desirable to use portable desktop trainers which can beused in any classroom. The same issue exists with regards to the PLC course. Previously, theauthors had proposed two separate portable desktop units for these lab activities with theircorresponding lab activities and they also mentioned their plan to incorporate instrumentation inthese lab activities ([1, 2, 3]). Currently, there are 21 PLC trainers and a prototype is alreadybeing built for the fluid power lab. Further discussion and consideration resulted in identifyingsome lab activities that can be shared if there were one set of trainers that cater to the need ofboth courses.This paper discusses the design and development of an integrated trainer
a graduate student in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison, College of Engineering. Design and fabrication has been one of his main activities and hobbies his entire life while growing up on a farm in rural Wisconsin. He has been on the Intro to Engineering Design teaching team for three years and is currently the Teaching Assistant in charge of planning and coordinating all fabrication training and seminars. His graduate research focuses on usability testing and implantation systems for open source software and low cost electronics in developing countries. He is also the TA for the Triathlon Training course on campus and loves to teach
specifically, rather than re-viewing lectures, there may be otheractivities that students could be performing outside of class that would be more beneficial (e.g.,working on programming exercises, summarizing material, etc.). Recent studies on “flipped”delivery have pointed out that online lectures (especially in multiple courses) can requirestudents to spend considerable time outside of classroom that could be spent on other (possiblymore productive) activities13.In our future work in this area, we plan to explore the differences between in-class and onlinelearning more directly by comparing student cohorts in traditional, in-class lectures to those withsupplemental online resources as described in this paper. As well, we plan to investigate
SICK LMS200 Laser Range Finder installed on top and has a360 degree sonar transceiver and bumpers array in the middle and bottom, respectively. Thedemonstrated characteristics of the developed software system indicate an improvement inpicking certain objects located on hazard and unsafe environment where it would be toodangerous to send in a human subject.This real world robotic setup would be an excellent teaching and demonstration tool for studentsin mechatronics and related programs. Specifically, the authors are planning to offer a newintroductory course on robotics in which the software will be taught in the lab. This courseincludes 10 modules in which groups of students will use the developed software to control andnavigate two different
generalframework for project planning that can be used by students and faculty advisors to outline goalsand objectives of senior design Capstone projects that requires team members to organize anddesign/build the project with limited resources. This paper also describes a capstone projectwhich served as a pilot study for the capstone project course which will be implemented in theDepartment of Engineering Technology in spring 2012 for the Civil and Electronics EngineeringTechnology majors. Electronic Name Tag System project was carried out by the SummerUndergraduate Research Training (SURT) program student during the summer of 2011. Thebasic project requirement was to design and build an Electronic Name Tag using the PIC16C57microcontroller. The main
to such changes.The algal masses consume the dissolved oxygen for respiration leading to anoxic conditions inthe waters which in turn could result in massive fish kills and related organisms.4 The algalblooms are a strong indication of the overall health of a body of water in any region, and throughmonitoring the water quality of a specific ecosystem it becomes much easier to devise a waterquality management plan towards reversing or preventing the changes that are negativelyaffecting the region.5The monitoring of water quality using remote sensing was initiated in the 1970’s using earthresources technology satellite, later renamed Landsat1 (ERTS-1). Since then, the digitalevaluation of remotely sensed data has been widely used to estimate
AC 2009-819: TOWARD THE INTEGRATION OF PSOC AND BIOMEDICALINSTRUMENTATIONJoshua Schwartz, Western Carolina UniversityMequanint Moges, University of HoustonXiaojing Yuan, University of HoustonDriss Benhaddou, University of Houston Page 14.1275.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Building Toward the Integration of PSoC and Bio-medical InstrumentationAbstractAs part of its quality instruction enhancement plan, the University of Houston is transformingundergraduate learning experience through research. This transformation aims to improvestudent learning by providing and expanding research experience and its importance to
-house using 1/8-inch aluminum sheet. Figures 3 show thecomplete trainer in the lab. Figure 2. The complete trainer. Figure 3. The working trainer in the lab.ComponentsThe trainers have several features such as 2 analog outputs (0 - 10V), Over temperature display,1 Ethernet port 10/100 Base-T, to name a few. Appendix A includes a list of all the features. Asmentioned before, the software installed on the trainers are B&R, which is an open-sourcesoftware. Figure 4 shows step-by-step instruction to assemle the trainer. All the electroniccomponents were provided by B&R [1]. The authors are planning to complete all the 22 trainersin near future.Lab Activity OutlineThe trainers
for the usersto plan their tracking system.Tag readability depends on many variables, such as type of tag and antenna, distance from tag toantenna, tag orientation and tag placement. Also interferences with the surroundings due to otherwireless devices might have some effects on tag readability. The major interest in this research isto obtain a foot print depending on the tag readability in 3-D space in real time.EQUIPMENTResearches performed with RFID system requires a specific Antenna, Tag and Receiver. There aretwo types of tags, active and passive tags. Active tags require a continuous source of power. Theyare either connected to a power infrastructure or they use energy from an integrated battery. Onthe other hand, passive tags do not
customer, marketing decisions, inalignment with general corporate goals and strategy. Commonly considered as a complex andknowledge demanding process, management of supply chain can interest significantly with theimplementation of RFID technology [1].RFID technology has grown to become a innovative element in supply chain management. RFIDis not just a substitution for barcodes. RFID ensures that accuracy in inventory control and realtime product information available to make decisions. It makes the supply chain significantlymore accurate and improves the reliability and efficiency of the entire chain. As real-timeinformation is made obtainable, planning and administration processes can be extensivelyimproved as well [1]. Applying RFID technology
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
engineering function throughout the product life-cycle.For those involved in the process of system design and validation, the important jobfeatures are: Plan all data acquisition and its management over the whole life of the product. Recognize that the quantity of data will be large. Organize the data structure to facilitate the way it will be used. Have consistent descriptions for all variables with complete supporting Page 13.672.6 documentation. No mistakes with units and conversions. Build-in adequate scope for calibration and validation. Assume no data will ever again be lost or destroyed. Never
is the assembly of a rhombus fromsemiconductor nanowires using optical traps. This has encouraged us to plan to investigatethe potential of our LG profiles for similar manipulation of nanowires.The Oneonta effortThe availability of a thin film lab equipped with a couple of thermal evaporation units and aspin-coater at SUNY-Oneonta led to the anticipation that a feasibility study into one or bothof these areas (QCA and Nanowires) of nano-science and technology would be worthwhile Page 14.69.5and might lead to some useful experimentation. Initially QCA was thought to have betterprospects than the nanowire research. However, the situation seemed to
acceptable threshold. We planned to use the gas board to initially detect CarbonMonoxide levels (CO). The gas detection board parts did not arrive on time so we were onlyable to take temperature and relative humidity readings [11].A ROS Environmental node had to be developed and run on the PC mounted on the Robot Baseto read the sensor values from Environmental Ardunio Uno through the serial port. The sensordata was combined by the node with position data and time from the Odometry (odom) topic andwritten to an Environmental data file. The Environmental data file was analyzed off line withtools such as Microsoft Office Excel.Part ProcurementFor previous Senior Capstone projects, the students in each group were responsible fordetermining parts and
Shore graduating in Spring 2015. He enjoys the technical aspect of putting a system together to solve engineering problems. When he graduates he hopes to work for a research company as a systems engineer.Mr. Ayokunle Adeyemi Akangbe A, University of Maryland Eastern Shore I was born and raised in Nigeria, but came to the United States when I was twelve years old. I am currently a Sophomore at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore majoring in Mechanical Engineering. After obtaining my bachelor’s degree, I plan on getting my Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Page 26.720.1