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Ac Power Monitoring System, Jared L. Newman, Luke M. Tomlinson, Grayson H. Dearing, Frederick G. Harmon

Channels: Where Disciplines Meet

Motivated by high energy costs, people and organizations want to cut back on their energy consumption. However, the only feedback consumers typically receive is a monthly bill listing their total electricity usage (in kWh). Some companies have begun developing systems that allow households and organizations to monitor their energy usage for individual circuits. Available systems are expensive so a CU engineering senior design team has designed, fabricated, and tested a system for use at Cedarville University. The AC power monitoring system has the ability to measure energy consumption for each individual circuit in the breaker panel, store the data, and …

Engineering Students Recognized By International Society, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University’s solar boat racing team, which has won nine world solar splash titles, hopes to build its next boat so that it will “fly on water.”

Leading this effort for Cedarville are former solar boat team members Elijah Thompson and Caleb Jacobson, both 2016 mechanical engineering graduates. They and four other engineering students submitted a 20-page technical article introducing their recent breakthrough in hydrofoil design to the International Hydrofoil Society. Their work netted them an honorable mention on their website and a $1,000 prize.

The School Of Engineering And Computer Science Class Of 2016 Mechanical Engineering Academic Celebration Program, Cedarville University

Engineering and Computer Science Academic Celebrations

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The School Of Engineering And Computer Science Class Of 2016 Computer Science And Computer And Electrical Engineering Academic Celebration Program, Cedarville University

Engineering and Computer Science Academic Celebrations

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Spinal Implant Design And Subsidence: Finite Element Analysis, Samuel G. Stanaford, Timothy L. Norman

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

Artificial disc replacement and intervertebral fusion devices are alternatives to pain and spinal instability when disc failure occurs. Understanding the mechanical performance of these devices can be achieved by long term clinical studies, costly experimental studies or through numeral analysis using finite elements. This study was conducted to study the subsidence, or vertical motion of the artificial disc or fusion device into adjacent vertebral body segments. Specifically, the effect of implant size, shape and sagittal profile was studied using a finite element model of the L4/L5 human spine using ABAQUS finite element software. Results compared the stress state and subsidence …

2016 Symposium Overview, Cedarville University

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

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Spinal Implant Design And Subsidence, Schuyler E. Price, Lorrin Schoeneweis, Hannah Steele, Matthew Shomper, Timothy L. Norman

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

A spinal implant may be used in people who have diseased or injured intervertebral discs pushing against their spinal cord and nerves, causing them loss of sensation due to nerve impingement. Patients who have not found relief through non-surgical means may require a discectomy, which removes the disc and relieves the pressure. There are several ways to then fill the resulting gap which include fusion devices, artificial disc replacement (ADR) devices, or bone grafts. Our study focused on the first two mechanical options.

Subsidence, or the vertical movement of the device into the adjacent vertebral bodies, is an often reported …

Ac Power Monitoring System Provides Individual Circuit Energy Consumption Data, Jared L. Newman, Grayson H. Dearing, Luke M. Tomlinson, Frederick G. Harmon

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

Motivated by high energy costs, people and organizations want to cut back on their energy consumption. However, the only feedback consumers typically receive is a monthly bill listing their total electricity usage (in kWh). Some companies have begun developing systems that allow households and organizations to monitor their energy usage for individual circuits. Available systems are expensive so a CU engineering senior design team has designed, fabricated, and tested a system for use at Cedarville University. The AC power monitoring system has the ability to measure energy consumption for each individual circuit in the breaker panel, store the data, and …

Usability Simplified: A Basic Guide To Undertaking Effective Usability Testing, Garrison Reeves

Professional Writing and Information Design Capstone Projects

Usability can be complicated but I provide simple guidelines to effective usability. Every product has an intended purpose, and the scope and aim of usability testing is measuring if a product meets this purpose with regards to a user. Testing is used in many fields, but I intend to focus on user-centered interaction design and how to test when designing and developing such a product. I provide a simple head-start to usability testing based off of my research. Usability testing is a technique used for evaluating a product by testing the product on users who are part of the respective …