Instrumentation Education In Agricultural And Biological Engineering

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an instrumentation and data acquisition course in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at Purdue University. The discussion includes the necessity for the course, the challenges in starting the laboratory course, a survey of similar courses at other institutions, the educational philosophy of the course, the course materials, the laboratory, and new opportunities associated with the development of the course.

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“…Institutions of higher education have recognized the important role of technology. At Purdue University, for example, the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department introduced an Instrumentation and Data Acquisition course in 1998 [10]. Another course based on the 68HC11 microcontroller to teach industrial monitoring and control applications was developed in 1997 in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Georgia [11].…”