living with the lab
boosting hands-on learning in engineering education
fundamental content

The course materials that define the Living with the Lab experience are grouped below by topic. These same course materials are also linked to the course schedules for ENGR 120, 121 and 122 where they are mixed together to build the Living with the Lab experience.

Electricity and Circuits

course topic downloads
120
 Introduction to Electricity PowerPoint
120
 Current, Resistance, Voltage and Ohm's Law PowerPoint
120
 Electrical Power, Resistors in Series & Parallel PDF
120
 Combined Series & Parallel Circuit - Example Problem PDF
120
 Kirchoff's Voltage Law (with Arduino) PowerPoint
120
 Implications of KVL PDF
120
 KVL Examples Example 1 and Example 2
120
 Kirchoff's Current Law (with Arduino) PowerPoint
120
 Implications of KCL PowerPoint

Linear Regression

course topic downloads
120
 introduction to linear regression PowerPoint
120
 r^2 and trendlines in Excel PowerPoint
120
 exponential and power fits PowerPoint
120
 summary of equations PDF
120
 linear, exponential & power example PDF
120
 graph paper linear; semilog, log-log

Conservation of Energy

course topic downloads
120
 pump efficiency: PE & KE output gained from electrical energy input PowerPoint
121
 energy sources and conversion; 1st law analysis of water heater PowerPoint
122
 measuring the efficiency of a hobby servo PowerPoint

Salt Water Chemistry

course topic downloads
121
 conductivity sensor introduction (salt water chemistry) PowerPoint or PDF
121
 salt water chemistry: %wt and conduction through chemical reactions PowerPoint

Material Balance

course topic downloads
121
 conservation of mass - introduction PowerPoint
121
 conservation of mass - extended solution to in-class problem PDF
121
 conservation of mass: paper machine problem PowerPoint
121
 material balance problem solution (fishtank salt water balance) PowerPoint

Resistivity / RTD Design

course topic downloads
121
 temperature measurement and RTD design PDF

Statics

course topic downloads
122
 units, forces & resultants PowerPoint
122
 equilibrium PowerPoint
122
 moments and torque PowerPoint
122
 equilibrium of beams PowerPoint
122
 torque and RPM of gears Handwritten

Engineering Economics

course topic downloads
122
 simple and compounding interest (F, P, i, n) PowerPoint
122
 cash flow diagrams (F, P, i, n) PowerPoint
122
 uniform series (F, P, A, i, n) PowerPoint
122
 summary of formulas PDF
David Hall
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana		  

Project initially supported by the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program under Award No. 0618288.
Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.