Laboratory projects -tentative: (BACK to KOSTIC Homepage)
(not limited to but including major items of equipment and instrumentation used):

  1. Lab Safety Rules and Demonstration of different bench-top measuring instruments.
    Click Q & A for Experimental Tips, Questions and Answers.
  2. Introduction to Oscilloscope and Vibration Measurement of a Cantilever Beam
  3. Calibration of and Measurement with Strain Gages
  4. Thermocouple calibration
  5. Experimental verification of Bernoulli equation
  6. LabVIEW and Data Acquisition (DAQ)
  7. Dynamic response of a thermocouple sensor
  8. Measurements of flow rate and specific heat of air
  9. Thermal conductivity measurements
  10. Measurement of Motor-Flywheel Load and Dynamic Characteristics

a) Individual lab project/experiment of your own choice (with approved proposal).
b) Transducer/Sensor Posters & Lab Fair at the end of the Semester.

Note: Special handouts about the above Lab Assignments are available. Teaching assistant will organize lab groups and supervise your laboratory assignments. Students are involved in actual measurements, data reduction and analysis, and reports writing.

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