ME 196T - Introduction Test Automation

Course Information

• Date I took this class:   Spring 2009

• Teacher:                       Kenneth Sprott

• Teacher's site:               none

• Grade earned:              A

• Book used:                  LabVIEW 8 Student Edition 

•  By Robert H. Bishop

Information About Teacher

Professor Sprott is, overall, a good teacher. 

Sprott teaches the class from basic principles to applications covering a variety of topics.

Sprott has fast paced lectures which are always interesting and applicable to the subject. 

Sprott is a practical teacher. He covers the most important topics and demonstrates a number of applications. 

Sprott does not regularly assign homework for this class. All those who follow his lecture and review class notes usually pass with A's. 

Sprott's exams are based on his lecture.

The LabVIEW text is required and is used for the lab section of class. Reading assignments are given from this text.

Labs - MATLAB

• Lab 11-Feb-09 - Filtering and sinusoidal function

•  Lab 18-Feb-09 - Determining the frequency content of a signal

•  Lab 4-Mar-09 - Filtering and resample a noisy signal

•  Lab 11-Mar-09 - Fitting data to a curve

Labs - LabVIEW

 notes on the subject.

The links below are the MATLAB files used to perform the homework.

•  Low Pass Post-Process Difference Filtering - A low pass filter which is designed to filter data using a difference equation

•  Low Pass Real Time Difference Filtering - A low pass filter which is designed to filter data in real time using a difference equation

•  Low Pass Recursion Filtering - A low pass filter which is designed to filter data in real time using a recursion equation

•  High Pass Recursion Filtering - A high pass filter which is designed to filter data in real time using a recursion equation

•  Band Pass Recursion Filtering - A band pass filter which is designed to filter data in real time using a recursion equation

Final Project

The Propeller Controlled MiniMover 5.