New Instrumentation and Equipment to Extend Instructional Capabilities in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman.

该项目有两个主要目标。i)使实验成为机械工程课程中大量课程的组成部分，这些课程传统上严格依赖于讲座/背诵式的展示。ii)让学生接触复杂的仪器系统，这些系统包含目前在非学术环境中使用的系统的基本特征。该项目在很大程度上依赖于三个通用数据采集模块和一个专用信号处理器- FFT分析仪。两个复杂的机械工程系统，一个蒸汽轮机的实验室模型和一个全尺寸数控铣床，将支持该项目的目标。最后，一套最先进的流量计将扩大该部的科学仪器库存。

The project has two major goals. i) To make experimentation an integral part of a large set of courses in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum which have traditionally relied on the strictly lecture/recitation type of presentation. ii) To provide students with an exposure to complicated instrumentation systems which contain essential features of systems currently used in non-academic environments. The project relies heavily on three general purpose data acquisition modules and one special purpose signal processor-an FFT analyzer. Two complex Mechanical Engineering systems, a laboratory model of a steam turbine and a full scale numerically controlled milling machine, will support the goals of the project. Finally a set of state-of-the-art flowmeters will extend the Department's inventory of scientific instrumentation.