Integration of Active Learning Framework in an Instrumentation Course to involve Junior Level Engineering Students in Multidisciplinary Research Projects

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri; Jesu Raj Pandya; Isaac Omodia; Charles Raleigh; Kenny Fotouhi

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Conference: 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Publication Date: August 23, 2022
Start Date: June 26, 2022
End Date: June 29, 2022
Conference Session: Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1
Page Count: 14
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--40621
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/40621
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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore(UMES). Dr. Nagchaudhuri received his baccalaureate degree from Jadavpur University (India) with honors in mechanical engineering in 1983. Thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for a little over three years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received a master’s degree from Tulane University in 1989 and a doctoral degree from Duke University in 1992. He is a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and, American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of (i) robotics and mechatronics, (ii) remote sensing and precision agriculture, and,(iii) biofuels and renewable energy

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K. Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Dr. K. Fotouhi has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore since the fall of 1983. He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1983. He was an Interim Chair of the Department of Technology from 2018-to 2021.
Dr. Fotouhi has been active in area research and published numerous papers in Electrical Engineering and Solid- State Physics Fields. He has been involved in joint research in the growth and development of new semiconductors and Maryland off Shore Wind Energy Research and Smart Agriculture- Smart farming
He was the recipient of the 1990 University of Maryland Eastern Presidential Distinguished Research Award and also he is a member of ASEE and IEEE and the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society.

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The ENGE 380 (Instrumentation) course offered to the engineering students at the junior level at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) provides the basic foundation for the interdisciplinary domain of sensors, instrumentation, and data acquisition that permeates almost all scientific and engineering endeavors. Project efforts integral to the course offer an opportunity to the primary author to expose interested students to the experiential learning and research efforts ongoing at the campus under his leadership that are aligned with sustainability-related initiatives of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), earth and space science mission objectives of NASA, and the broad educational experiences for students in a land grant minority-serving campus. To provide hands-on learning experiences the students are introduced to a popular microprocessor board with add-on sensors & actuators kit to complement the course lectures. Students receive guidance with the basics of the microprocessor board and its peripherals for analog and digital inputs and outputs. As an integral component of the project, the students are encouraged to participate in extramurally funded project efforts collaborating with doctoral students in the Food Science and Technology (FDST) graduate program in the areas of mechatronics for smart farming and digital agriculture. This paper will provide an overview of the ENGE 380 course and the project efforts integrated with the fall 2021 offering of the course. In particular, the paper will highlight the instrumentation and data acquisition efforts undertaken by interested students to investigate the charging patterns of solar and wind turbine setup that powers a 3 axis farming robot installed in a tunnel house over a 10 ft. by 20 ft. raised bed, as well as an autonomous precision ground robot under development in the campus for collecting photo-synthetically active radiation (PAR) data at selected way-points under the crop canopy. ABET learning outcomes and assessment efforts that are in alignment with the course will also be presented.

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Nagchaudhuri, A., & Pandya, J. R., & Omodia, I., & Raleigh, C., & Fotouhi, K. (2022, August), Integration of Active Learning Framework in an Instrumentation Course to involve Junior Level Engineering Students in Multidisciplinary Research Projects Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40621

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AU  - Abhijit Nagchaudhuri
AU  - Jesu Raj Pandya
AU  - Isaac Omodia
AU  - Charles Raleigh
AU  - Kenny Fotouhi
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Integration of Active Learning Framework in an Instrumentation Course to involve Junior Level Engineering Students in Multidisciplinary Research Projects
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/40621
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--40621
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