Schedule
Breaks are not shown on the schedule, but we will have short 10-15 minute breaks periodically for refreshments.
Monday
- 0800-0900 Welcome, Introductions, Safety, Shop Walk Through
- 0900-1030 Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, and Electricity Basics
- 1030-1200 Soldering demo and lab - build a blinky!
- 1200-1330 Lunch
- 1330-1430 Designing for Manufacture (3D Printing, Machining, Laser Cutting)
- 1430-1530 Making a DAQ System that Makes Sense
- 1530-1700 Build a Load Cell Lecture/Lab
- 1800-2000 Brewery Poster Session and Mixer (Ivory Bill Brewing 516 E. Main St.)
The evening event will be a poster session open to the public, we’ll all be mixing to learn about each other’s work while enjoying some local brews. Don’t worry about standing beside your poster the entire time though, but please do answer questions as we have a very active and interested scientific community at the brewery! There are MANY excellent restaurants that will deliver food to the brewery, and Casey at the bar can recommend food/beer for any taste!
Tuesday
- 0800-0900 Live Fire Safety Training
- 0900-1200 Instrument Building - Session 1
- 1200-1330 Lunch
- 1330-1430 Alternative Design Working with Sheet Metal and Tour
- 1430-1730 Instrument Building - Session 2
Weather permitting we will offer plane rides over Siloam and the surrounding area from 1800-2000.
Wednesday
- 0800-0900 Calibration and Standards
- 0900-1200 Instrument Building - Session 3
- 1200-1330 Lunch
- 1300-1500 Instrument Deployments/Testing
- 1500-1600 Overflow/Look at test data/initial interpretation
- 1600-1700 Troubleshooting
Weather permitting we will offer plane rides over Siloam and the surrounding area from 1800-2000.
Thursday
- 0800-0900 Sensors, Transducers, and Actuators
- 0900-1000 Operational and Instrumentation Amplifiers
- 1000-1200 Amplify, test, calibrate load cells.
- 1200-1330 Lunch
- 1330-1430 Nance Machine Tour
- 1430-1530 Control Systems and PID
- 1530-1630 Flex Time
- 1630-1700 Instrumentation Applications by Eric Bruning
After the workshop, please join us for a BBQ celebrating sucessful instrument builds and a week at the shop! We’ll be having a BBQ with outdoor games, food, and more at the Leeman House.
Friday
- 0800-0900 Pickup Instruments - Additional topics if there is time
- 0900-1100 Data Analysis/Presentation Preparation
- 1100-1200 Group Presentations
- 1200-1330 Lunch
- 1330-1500 Working on your projects/issues/Q&A/Departure