This article describes several automotive controls-related senior design projects. In this project, a team of two students built several masked Simulink blocks comprising elements of a mean value ...engine model (MVEM) and assembled these blocks into a blockset in the Simulink block library. The MVEM blockset was used to create a virtual engine for which an idle-speed controller was designed. An interesting aspect of this project is that neither student was from the controls option, having taken only a compulsory introductory course on system dynamics and control. Yet, their first task after creating the MVEM engine model was to design a speed controller. The overall learning and design phases proceeded quickly due to the use of the sisotool graphical user interface (GU) in Matlab's control system toolbox. The aim of this project was to create an HIL and human-in-the-loop driving simulator for testing vehicle dynamics control algorithms, examining the effect of a steer-by-wire actuator on vehicle dynamics control (VDC) performance, investigating driver-controller interaction, and eventually for driver modeling.
Aminoacylase from Aspergillus oryzae was adsorbed on functionallized macroporous copolymers where the enzyme showed excellent catalyzing activity and operation stability. Various factors which effect ...the activity of the immobilized aminoacylase such as temperature, pH and ionic strength were investigated. The continuous operation of the enzyme immobilized on macroporous copolymers was compared with that of the enzyme immobilized on DEAE-Sephadex.
This provides an overview of space science and space systems engineering education at Penn State University. Students at the graduate and undergraduate levels participate in an educational program ...consisting of three interdependent components: space systems-related courses, space systems project work, and research. Courses range from Introduction to Space Physics to Spacecraft Design. Student project involvement is realized through a number of student-driven space systems projects completed throughout the past two decades. Students are provided opportunities to do independent study projects, honors theses, M.S. theses, and Ph.D. theses on a number of space science and space systems-related topics. Our educational goal is to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for productive careers in technical and nontechnical fields relating to space systems. Due to student interest, we are developing a certificate in Space Systems Engineering for undergraduates in the College of Engineering. Strengthening Penn State's position in space engineering are its Center for Space Research Programs, membership in the USAF's Space Education Consortium, and its role in serving as the lead institution within the Commonwealth for the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
