Overhaul of an undergraduate mechanical measurements laboratory

Author

Weaver, Jonathan M. ; Das, Shuvra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Detroit Univ., MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

10-13 Nov. 1999

Abstract

The undergraduate mechanical engineering program at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) includes a required laboratory course in mechanical measurements. An NSF ILI grant made it possible to modernize ME361 by procuring four personal computers, data acquisition cards, Labview software, and many transducers and other needed items. All of the ME361 lab experiences were modernized as described in this paper.

Keywords

engineering education; laboratories; mechanical engineering; strain measurement; student experiments; temperature measurement; weighing; Labview software; NSF ILI grant; University of Detroit Mercy; accelerometers; data acquisition cards; dynamic strain measurement; personal computers; pressure control; shock analysis; static weight measurement; temperature control; temperature measurement; transducers; undergraduate mechanical measurements laboratory; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Instruments; Laboratories; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical variables measurement; Microcomputers; Testing; Transducers; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual

Conference_Location

San Juan, Puerto Rico

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5643-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1999.841666

Filename

841666