Instrumentation for Undergraduate Laboratory Instruction in Engineering

通过最近购置的主要系统部件，包括计算机、模拟/数字和数字/模拟电路板、20个放大电路板、示波器、打印机和条形图记录器，7个多用途数字/测量和控制系统站现已到位。这些仪器是大二机械工程仪器课程的主要仪器教学工具，也是初级和高级机械工程实验室和高级控制课程学生仪器工作的中心。本科生可以使用一个多功能的工具来获得复杂的数据收集、分析和报告的经验。随着本科实验室课程的改进，学生们可以接触到比以前更多种类的此类体验。

Seven multi-use digital/measurement and control system stations are now in place through the recent acquisition of major system components including computers, analog/digital and digital/analog boards, 20 amplifier boards, oscilloscopes, printers and strip chart recorders. These stations are the main instrumentation teaching tools in the sophomore mechanical engineering instrumentation course, and are central to student instrumentation work in junior and senior mechanical engineering laboratories and in a senior controls course. A versatile tool is available for undergraduate students to gain experience with the intricacies of data collection, analysis and reporting. With the improved undergraduate laboratory curriculum, students are exposed to a wider variety of such experiences than was previously possible.