Instrumentation and Measurement: MICA Projects

3-6-3 units · Undergraduate

Engages students in project-based learning by using a wide variety of experimental setups called MICA (Measurement, Instrumentation, Control, and Analysis) Workstations to learn about sensors, actuators, instrumentation, and measurement techniques. Over 50 MICA Workstations allow experiments to be performed on a broad range of phenomena including those found in optics, electronics, acoustics, biology, botany, material science, mechanics, thermal, and fluid systems. Experiments utilize Mathematica Notebooks in which students conduct data analysis and model fitting, and complete homework assignments. The integration of ChatGPT into Mathematica provides help in the learning process. Students also build new Workstations guided by CAD models and develop the Mathematica code to run experiments, perform data analyses, and model parameter estimation. Students taking graduate version build more sophisticated Workstations..