Future rigs

Listing of Rigs. Sorted alphabetically A-Z:

Compound Pendulum

This rig employs a pendulum to demonstrate acceleration due to gravity. The pendulum may also be used to illustrate simple harmonic motion, conservation of energy, differential equations, linearisation and vectors.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Civil Engineering,
Industrial Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
Physics,
Tags:
energy,
gravity,
Provider:
UNE::Science &Technology

Coupled Tanks - Second Generation

The rig is ideal for introducing students to the design, optimisation and application of common controllers, system modelling using static and transient measurements; steady state error analysis, transient response studies and controller tuning methods.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Chemical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering,
Industrial Engineering,
Tags:
control,
process,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT

Inclined Plane - Second Generation

The Inclined plane rig (IPR 2) is an automated version of the classic incline plane experiment. It is designed to illustrate principles such as static and dynamic friction, conservation of energy and acceleration due to gravity.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Physics,
Tags:
friction,
gravity,
inertia,
Provider:
UTS::Science

Netlab 2 - Electrical Power

This rig allows a student to wire and test real electronic circuits remotely over the internet and to monitor the results using real test instruments showing actual data shown in real time.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Electrical Engineering,
Tags:
electrical,
power,
Provider:
UniSA::Electrical, Information Engineering

OMAP

The rig is designed to introduce students to technologies used in many modern consumer device with concurrent programming.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Computer Systems Engineering,
Electrical Engineering,
Software Engineering,
Telecommunications Engineering,
Tags:
assembler,
c++,
dsp,
video,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT

Power System Protection

This rig demonstrates the components and functionalities of a fault protection system for electricity distribution and is designed to impart basic knowledge on power system protection principles.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Computer Systems Engineering,
Electrical Engineering,
Power Engineering,
Software Engineering,
Tags:
fault,
overcurrent,
power,
reticulation,
switchgear,
Provider:
QUT::Built Env & Engineering

Signal Measurement

This rig is designed to familiarise students with signal generators and oscilloscopes in a controlled environment before using the actual devices in a hands-on lab.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Telecommunications Engineering,
Tags:
oscilloscope,
signal,
waveform,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT

Strain Gauge

The objective of this rig is to further students' understanding of how to use strain gauges in engineering design, particularly the application of Mohr's Circle on strain gauge readings to find directions and magnitudes of principal stresses. This rig has been approved but is on hold until future notice.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Mechanical Engineering,
Tags:
compression,
elasticity,
tension,
Provider:
Curtin::Engineering

Structural Visualisation

This rig is designed as a flexible platform for the visualisation of the effect of various vertical and transverse loads on simplified model structures.

1 lesson available
Discipline:
Civil Engineering,
Tags:
structures,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT

Wave Energy Converter

This rig is designed to provide a practical illustration of the principles of producing energy from sea waves.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Energy,
Power,
Tags:
Wave energy,
renewables,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT

Wind Tunnel

To allow students to visualise and measure parameters associated with basic aerodynamic concepts as an extension to theoretical study via observation of models surrounded by a laminar airflow.

No lessons available.

Discipline:
Aerodynamics,
Fluid Dynamics,
Mechanical Engineering,
Physics,
Tags:
laminar flow,
streamlining,
turbulence,
Provider:
UTS::Engineering & IT