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14 Acoustic Analyzer Unit
Teamwork Award
Joseph Shim
Kevin Chen
Kristine Cabrera
Ryan Corey design_document0.pdf
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This project is based off of the two microphone probe presented by Professor Swenson and Dr. White. Our plan is to work closely with them at CERL to build a display unit to work with this two microphone probe. This unit will be complete with a GUI, user controls, and two to three BNC connectors for analog microphone input (whether it be two or three microphone probes). We also want to add features in this unit that are capable of: calibrating individual microphone probes, measuring acoustic pressure and particle velocity (the vibration of the particles). The underlying framework of this unit will be designed such that extra user defined features may be added easily. This allows for modularity in our project in such a way that we may also keep adding different measurement features, such as acoustic surface impedance measurement or acoustic surface reflection coefficient measurement. This modularity will also allow Professor Swenson or Dr. White to add on their own functions for their own purposes or for future senior design acoustic projects dealing with this two microphone probe.

Growing Degree Day Monitor

Anthony De Roo, John Habegger, Jay Zhaoyu Yao

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The purpose is to create an inexpensive growing degree day monitor that records temperature and computes growing degree days for a specific farming field during a growing season. This monitor will be placed near a farm field where it will monitor temperature conditions during the growing season. It will record both the ambient air and soil temperatures over the course of day. These temperatures will then be used to calculate the growing degree days. The cumulative number of degree days will then be displayed on either a seven-segment display or this can be downloaded to a computer. This monitor will be powered through a combination of both solar and battery power.