The purpose of this project focused on providing senior design students with a designated space furnished with the necessary instrumentation equipment and supplies used to engage in advance hands-on project-based opportunities. Lab space within the BME department area was already set aside for the equipment and supplies. Funds from INSGC and cost matching provided this space with electrical instrumentation stations,
measurement equipment, tools, and supplies that allowed our students the ability to design, build, and test electronic circuits within our department area.
As a direct result of the INSGC and cost-matching funds, the PIs created an electrical instrumentation lab space equipped with three instrumentation stations, essential devices, tools, and supplies necessary for our senior design student teams. The designated space facilitated the completion of their hands-on NASA-related research and design projects over the course of this past academic year. Overall, the PIs equipped the laboratory space with 4 laboratory workbenches (creating two workspace islands), 1 soldering station workbench, 9 stools, 3 oscilloscopes, 3 function generators, 3 protoboards, 3 digital dual-display multimeters, 2 10â x 4â rolls of ¼ââ rubber (workbench mats), 3 power surge protection stations, 1 6â surge protector power outlet strip, 1 soldering iron, 1 soldering supplies set, multiple cables/clamps/leads kits, 2 electrical component bins, and multiple electrical component kits were purchased. Ten senior design students used some, if not all, of the purchased equipment. Figure 1 below, displays one of the senior design teams from the BME 4863 course utilizing the protoboard, dual-display multimeter, and function generator for their project prototype.