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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Partha P. Sarkar; Kishor C. Mehta; James R. McDonald; Ernst W. Kiesling

wind-related documen~s. Items such as the blueprint of an in-house tornado shelter available from the wind librw-v Page 1.267.2 @..% } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘Jmj and damage documentation files are in high demand. These results are directly visible in the engineering community, including: a) Estimation of peak wind speeds in tornadoes (Mchta, McDonald and Kiesling, 1975; Mehta,McDonald and Minor, 1976): The maximum wind speed in a tornado used to be considered as high as 500”mph, but through

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1996 Annual Conference

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Joey K. Parker; Dale Schinstock

. However, systemscontaining ten to several hundred individual components are not uncommon in industrial automation systems.The programmable logic controller (PLC) was developed in the early 60's to overcome the deficiencies of relaylogic systems. Programmable logic is implemented using a microcomputer instead of the hard-wired logic of theconventional hard-wired relay system. The major advantage of PLC's (frequently referred to as justprogrammable controllers or PC's) is that the programming can be done in ladder logic, just like relay logicsystems. The major criteria for specifying PLC's are the number of input contacts that can be read and the numberof output switches that can be controlled. Small PLC's might have 8 to 12 inputs and

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1996 Annual Conference

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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

-. ?$iiia-’> 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘O.,yyyc,: I.— - Some have concluded that the reason behind the U.S. weakness vis-a-vis foreign competition isthe fact that U.S. industries have inadequately addressed the role of technology in managing businesse~eqy@s.2 On a more positive note, others simply maintain that “big companies need managers well-versed in technical areas.”3 Such situation creates a distinct need for industrial leaders who havereceived a formal education in both engineering and management, and from an engineering rather than abusiness base

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1996 Annual Conference

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Peter M. Boerger

bemapped to a total cost finction (in that “first cost s“ are represented in both), average cost fimctions are chosento coincide with the per-unit decision space normally illustrated in macroeconomic analyses. The average cost finction of macroeconomics does not include the time value of money, a significant dis- advantage for investment analysis. To overcome this problem, we assume that the uniform annual equivalent ofthe first cost is divided by the number of units expected per year to arrive at an equivalent uniform annual aver-age cost (EUAAC, see Boerger).’ In this way the optimization performed in macroeconomic space can be legiti-mately used to solve problems in which the time value of money is a significant factor. See Appendix 1

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1996 Annual Conference

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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho; Diana George; Linda M. Ott; Philip Sweany

approach to faculty orientation. In the intensive two-dayorientation workshop held shortly before the fall term began, we focused on developing an appreciation for theavailability of research results with direct application to classroom practice as well as providing teaching "tips"to help new faculty with their first teaching assignment. In addition, we have held weekly one-hour seminarswhich focus on different teaching issues. This combined approach allowed time for in-depth investigation ofdifferent teaching methods as well as providing some help in getting started. A few words about the faculty attendees are in order. Initially we expected that the majority of the newfaculty attendees would be recent Ph.D.'s, i.e., earned their Ph.D

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1996 Annual Conference

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

. • Covey, S. R., The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic, New York, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1989 • Douglass, D. N., Choice and Compromise: a woman’s guide to balancing family and career, New York, NY, AMACOM, 1983. • Levinson, H., Career Mastery: keys to taking charge of your career throughout your worklife, San Francisco, CA, Berrett-Hoehler Publ., 1992. • Mackenzie, A., The Time Trap, New York, NY, AMACOM, 1990. Page 1.353.5 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings • Messenger, J., Personal Excellence: a system for making

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1996 Annual Conference

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Sarah Lynn Garrett

’} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.J31131L: ITfie Participants The idea for the project was conceived in the late 1960’s, when Polk County first began torealize the impa~t’ of the newly planned Disney World complex. Like many areas in the Sun Belt, centralFlorida was experiencing rapid growth; the Disney phenomenon catapulted the area into national andint~aticmal prominence as a tourism destination. Though not critical at the time, the coming need for morejudicial office space was clear to the county planners. Polk County itself is not a tourist destination. Thecounty’s

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1996 Annual Conference

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Sarah Lynn Garrett

’} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.J31131L: ITfie Participants The idea for the project was conceived in the late 1960’s, when Polk County first began torealize the impa~t’ of the newly planned Disney World complex. Like many areas in the Sun Belt, centralFlorida was experiencing rapid growth; the Disney phenomenon catapulted the area into national andint~aticmal prominence as a tourism destination. Though not critical at the time, the coming need for morejudicial office space was clear to the county planners. Polk County itself is not a tourist destination. Thecounty’s

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Miller, Montana State University

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Mechanical Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 10. Foroudastan, S. D.. Campbell, I.D., “Student Projects: Hands-on Experience with Mechanical Engineering Technology,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 11. Gregory Branch, G., Kumar, V., Wheeler, M., “Bringing Reality to the Classroom: Two “Hands On” Labs for Use with a Machine Design Course,” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 12. Widmann, J., Birdsong, C., Ridgely, J., Owen, F., “Integrating Experiment, Modeling and Design using a

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1996 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; John Law; Donald M. Blacketter; Herbert Hess

1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings[2] R. Wall and K. Belknap, "Capstone Design for Education and Industry: ThePerspective of Industry Sponsors and Graduates," ASEE Annual Conference, June 1996.[3] E. Zinser and R. Jacobsen, "A New Paradigm for Engineering Education in Idaho,"Report to the State Board of Education, January 27, 1995.[4] S. Beyerlein, D. Blackketter, T. Gottschalk, and B. Willis, “An Interactive Model ofStatewide Engineering Education," ASEE Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, April1995.[5] H. Hess, R. Rinker, R. Wall, J. Peterson, and K. Belknap, "Two UniversityCooperation: Paradigm for the Future of Statewide Engineering Education," ASEEAnnual Conference, June 1996.[6] Barry Willis, Distance Education, Strategies and

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1996 Annual Conference

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Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

Average A’s F’s 31 95 W/S 15/16 2/0 N/A 2/1 3/4 Success/Failure Rates -- Clustered SectionsNumber of Students Year Clustered M/F Non-Motiv’td Class Number Number Non-Clust Ratio Average A’s F’s 30 95 C 14/16 5/3 76 4/2 7/3 30 95 C 19/11 2/3 72 1/0 5/4 28 95 C 18/10 3/3 65 0/1 8/4

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1996 Annual Conference

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III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

International Conference on Education in Manufacturing, San Diego, CA, March 13-15, 1996.(Hoffman 1991) Hoffman, E. G., cd., Fundamentals of Tool Design, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, MI, 1991.(Sisson 1994) Sisson, Jr., RD., George, A., Shyam-Sunder, S., Eager, T , Park, E., Ray, P., Durgin, W., “Manufacturing Education for Product Realization: The REALIZATION Consortium”, A Proposal to the Technology Reinvestment Project 1994.(Sisson 1996) Sisson, Jr., R. D., Acuna, N. M., “The Results of the ‘Gaps Analysis in Undergraduate Engineering Education’ by the Industrial Advisory Board to the REALIZATION Consortium: An Analysis”, ASEE Conference on Manufacturing Education, Washington, DC., June 1996

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1996 Annual Conference

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Sylvia D. Pifion; Elsa Q. Villa; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

. Page 1.507.6 $!&”-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,HypjREFERENCES1. Astin, H. S., A. W. Astin, A, Bisconti, and H. Frankel, Higher Education and the Disadvantaged Student. HumanScience Press, Washington, D.C. 1972.2. Barefoot, Betsy, Follow-up Report to Visit to The University of Texas at El Paso, July 1994.3. Bonwell, Charles C. and J.A. Eison, Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom, ASHE-ERICHigher Education Report No. 1, Washington, D. C.: The George Washington University, 1991.4. Felder, Richard M. and R. Brent, Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, andPayofls, National Science Foundation Report, Division of

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1996 Annual Conference

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Troy E. Kostek

communications 4to Allen-Bradley, GE/Fanuc, Modicon, Square D, and Reliance PLC S . In an Allen-Bradley environment, thecommunications hardware shown in Figure 1 could consist of a 1784-KT adapter card which allows thecomputer to function as a node on Allen-Bradley’s Data Highway Plus LAN. The client program can thencommunicate to any PLC on the LAN. Application, Topic, and Item Names Each DDE conversation can be described by 3 pieces of information: application name, topic name,and item name. The application name is the name of the server. The application name is the name of anexecutable (.EXE) program. For example, if Microsoft Excel is the DDE

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1996 Annual Conference

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Steven Wayde; Ph.D., Roger W. Webster

) with X-windows. Other software includes:Sense8 Corporation's WorldToolkit Virtual Reality software for Virtual World Modeling, the 3DStudio graphics modeller system used to build 3D models and textures on the Pentium systems, XIL,XGL. All programming code is written in SUN 'C' using the Sense8 WorldToolkit library calls.Sense8's WorldToolkit (WTK 2.1) is a very powerful, easy to use, object oriented package of 'C'programming function calls for visual simulation and virtual reality applications. WorldToolkit's high-level application programmer's interface (API) allows students to prototype applications quickly andreconfigure them on the fly. WTK also supports many vendor's virtual reality devices and has devicedrivers built in to the package

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1996 Annual Conference

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Jennifer T. Ross

Engineers, "Report on Surveys of Opinions by Engineering Deans and Employers of Engineering Graduates on the First Professional Degree", no. 3059, pp. 1-15, Nov. 1992.5. P.A. Rosati, and S. Surry, "Female Perspectives of Engineering Education: A Qualitative Assessment", International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 10, No. 2, pp. 164-170, 1994.6. Douglas A. Pucknell, and Kamran Eshraghian, Basic VLSI Design, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1994.7. John. P. Uyemura, Physical Design of CMOS Integrated Circuits Using L-Edit, PWS Publishing, Boston, 1994.8. Wayne Lang, Dean Brock, and Mark Boyd, "An Undergraduate VLSI Design Course Using OASIS", Computers in Education Journal, Vol. IV, No. 3, pg 83, 1994.Jennifer T. Ross is an

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1997 Annual Conference

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar; Jeffrey A. Francis

is made, thenetwork module can pass on the user name(s) to get information on specific users or it can pass acarriage return to get all the current users on the machine desired. The response is returned to theclient via the same network module that passed the data to the server. A loop in the CGI perlprogram reads the data from the server until it reads a termination or EOF character from theserver. The received data is then packaged into HTML code and finally given to the web clientfor display.Like the first project simplicity was our primary goal. The instructor supplied the complete codefor a simple application wherein the server just echoes the client data. It consists of a sampleHTML module, a corresponding CGI module and a server

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1997 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

. This obviously takes time, why not use that to my advantage? Finally, when Iwork in the lab, I break things. In most cases, broken stuff is solid evidence that people areworking hard and hopefully learning from their mistakes. Of course, that is especially true whenI am the one breaking things. REFERENCES1. Amon, C., Finger, S., Siewiorek, D. Smailagic, A., “Integrating Design Education, Research and Practice at Carnegie Mellon”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85, (4), 1996, pp. 279-285.2. Middelberg, A., “Laboratory Projects: Should Students Do Them or Design Them”, Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 29 (1), 1995, pp. 34-38.3. Meade, J., “Envisioneers”, Prism, December

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F. C. 'Ted' Weston

project sponsor with a cautionary note to the student to scopethe project within reason, allowing for the amount of time that the student can reasonably spendon this one project.The second project includes a stand-up, professionally prepared, oral presentation to the entireclass. This is in lieu of a final exam. The project may also be presented at the company sitewherein the research or project activity was undertaken. As instructor, all external presentationsare scheduled to include the instructor’s presence. Several of these projects have resulted inadditional work by the student(s) after the course has concluded, an internship, and even full-time employment following graduation.The final elements of the grading structure include assigned

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Jon E. Freckleton

impact on the lives of manypeople through health and safety issues as well as financial issues. The Canon of Ethics shouldbe stressed from the student's first day as a freshman until graduation day. Page 2.94.7Biographical InformationJON E. FRECKLETON PE. Associate Professor department of Mechanical engineering at rochesterinstitute of Technology. Changed form engineering management at Xerox Corporation to teaching in1985. Area of interest s of interest are DFMA, GD&T and Senior design.JEFEME@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU Page 2.94.8

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Ray N. Nitzsche

let's look at how research became overemphasized. Let's investigate the origin of thiscause. I think there are several interrelated reasons for this overemphasis, which I offer below. 1. Many research type faculty come to universities because they can do research in thearea(s) of their choice, free of the restrictions they would encounter in an industrial or researchlaboratory environment. They do not come to teach, develop, and guide students. In many casesthey cannot even cope with an industrial environment, or perhaps a university is the only placewhere they can find employment. Again, they did not come to teach. Consequently, theysupport, consciously or subconsciously, the idea that research is an essential part of a facultymembers

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1997 Annual Conference

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

routines from among appropriate routines.INTERPRETATION--Reducing real world information to useful data for routines. Also lookingat the implications of a problem solution in the real world. Includes making appropriateassumptions.GENERATION--Development of routines which are new to the solver or putting routinestogether in ways new to the solver.* Plants, Dean, Sears, Venable, "A Taxonomy of Problem Solving Activities and its Implicationsfor Teaching," The Teaching of Elementary Problem Solving in Engineering and Related Fields,ASEE, 1980. Appendix II--Bloom 's Taxonomy in the Cognitive Domain**KNOWLEDGE--Remembering specifics of previously learned material; lowest level oflearning.KNOWLEDGE OF WAYS AND MEANS OF DEALING WITH

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1997 Annual Conference

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John G. Nee

$___________________ Double TimeEmployer’s Name: Central Michigan UniversityEmployer’ s Address : John G. Nee, IET Department Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859Employer’sRepresentative: John G. Nee THIS AGREEMENT is entered into between Central Michigan University (CMU) and[________________] (Student). CMU and [_____________]agree as follows: 1. [____________] and Central Michigan University have entered into an agreementwhereby [__________] will supply supervised job positions to IET students from CMU as part of aCooperative Education Internship Program. 2. Central Michigan University has

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Chang; R. Barat; J. F. Federici; H. Grebel; A. M. Johnson

polarized light source, experimentally measure polarizationproperties of polarizing filters (b) 1/4 wave plate © ½ wave plate. 10. Polarization by reflection (a) measure ratio of s and p polarized light after transmission Page 2.119.4through a glass plate (b) experimentally determine Brewster’s angle. 4 11. Light Scattering (a) scattering and absorption of laser light from a suspension of smallparticles. 12. Spectrometers (a) measure spectral width of He-Ne laser as a function of spectrometer slitsize (narrow source compared to instrument resolution) (b) measure spectra of florescent lamp.For the

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hernandez, Michigan Technological University; Stanley Vitton, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

-orientated laboratorythat enhances student learning.Current Teaching StrategiesHistorically, soil mechanics has been taught through a lecture-laboratory approach since theintroduction of the laboratory component during the 1930s. One of the first soil mechanicslaboratory manuals published in 1939 by William S. Housel at the University of Michiganillustrated a systematic and discrete approach of teaching by introducing important test methodscommon to soil mechanics1.As the 1950s emerged authors developed manuals where there is little change to the overallstructure and content in comparison to the first texts. Authors seem to have written theselaboratory manuals to accommodate the teaching strategies desired at each institution or toinclude regional

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie Kephart, University of Texas, El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Louis Everett, University of Texas, El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas, El Paso

(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.addition to faculty in Engineering and Education at UTEP, participants include STEM facultyfrom Baylor University, University of Texas Pan American, the New Mexico State University,and Prairie View A&M University.Defining Faculty DevelopmentWe define faculty development as a structured approach to support: 1) development ofawareness of teaching and learning theories and methods, 2) motivation to change instructionalstrategies and to try new strategies, and 3) reflection on strategy implementation. First andforemost, participating faculty members must become aware of the nature of the innovativeapproach of using modules to pique students’ curiosity about key

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydotta Taylor, EdVenture Group; Erika Shaffer, EdVenture Group; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 14.726.10opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.”

Conference Session

E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

. Journal of  Engineering Education, 1998. 87(2). 11.  Heinrich, E., M. Bhattacharya, and R. Rayudu, Preparation for lifelong learning using ePortfolios.  European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007. 32(6): p. 653 663. 12.  Johnson, D., R. Johnson, and K. Smith, The State of Cooperative Learning in Postsecondary and  Professional Settings. Educational Psychology Review, 2007. 19(1): p. 15 29. 13.  Leifer, L., et al. (December 5, 2002) ITR Folio  Thinking, Executive Summary. 14.  Wheeler, S., P. Yeomans, and D. Wheeler, The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student generated content for collaborative learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008.  39(6): p. 987 995. 15.  Heys, J.J., Group

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Rebecca Simmons, Duke University; W. Neal Simmons, Duke University; Michael Ehrenfried, Kent Denver School; Tod Laursen, Duke University

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First-Year Programs

Progress: Theme-Based Redesign of an Electrical and Computer EngineeringCurriculum, Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2004, pp. S2C-1—2.5 Chapra, S.C., Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists. McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed.,2008.6 Palm, W.J. III, Introduction to MATLAB 7 for Engineers. McGraw-Hill, 2005.7 National Instruments, BSeries Multifunction DAQ, 16-Bit, 200 kS/s, 16 Analog Inputs, specifications online athttp://www.ni.com/pdf/products/us/4daqsc208-209_212-213_230.pdf.8 Omega, PX 26 Low Cost Wet/Wet Differential Pressure Sensor, specifications online athttp://www.omega.com/Pressure/pdf/PX26.pdf

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaolin Chen, Washington State University, Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Tech. Design I All equipment All S/W MECH417 Senior Spring MECH485 Required courses CAD & Mech. Engr. Sys. System Design II