Engin 103 –UMass Boston

Homework 1

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Remember all assignments should be typed. Use Windows Paint for drawings and sketches.

 

             

1.-        Create a flow-chart type diagram to illustrate the effects of the different modes of transportation (water, air, land, and intermodal) on the environment. Describe at least two proposals on what can be done in the future to reduce or eliminate these effects.

2.-        Visit www.smart-traveler.com or http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/Trafficinfo/ , watch some live-traffic cameras. These are examples of an Advanced Traveler Information System, which uses advanced technologies to acquires environmental and traffic conditions, processing them into useful information, and delivering them to the traveler. Draw a flow-chart type diagram indicating the essential elements of an Advanced Traveler Information System, use directional arrows to indicate how these different elements are related to each other.

3.-        Design a vehicle that can drive past a deep crack in the ground of about 2 feet wide (a normal passenger car cannot do this since its wheels will get stuck in the crack). Explain also the disadvantages of your vehicle. Include a computer sketch of the your vehicle.

 

            The following questions are related to LabVIEW

 

4.-        Write next to each of the following elements where you can get them. Use C for Controls palette, F for Functions palette, and T for tools palette. (Five wrong choices or can-not-find O.K.)

           

Numeric control

 

String Subset

 

Vertical Pointer Slide

 

Implies

 

Knob

 

Tick Count

 

Push Button

 

Greater?

 

Horizontal Slide Switch

 

Intermediate Counter

 

Round LED

 

Read File

 

String Indicator

 

Demo Voltage Read.vi

 

Array

 C/All Controls/Array& Cluster

Operate Value

 

Table

 

Connect Wire

 

Waveform Chart

 

Set/Clear Breakpoint

 

Numeric Constant

 

Position/Size/Select

 

Reciprocal

 F/All Functions/Numeric

Set Color

 

Round to Nearest

 

 

 

           

5.-        Insert a snapshot of the Front Panel and the Block Diagram for a Virtual Instrument you created to produce a division operation between two numbers to be specified by the user.

 

 

Code of Conduct

 

You can discuss this homework with your classmates but submissions should be individual.

 

Students are required to adhere to the University Policy on Academic Standards and Cheating, to the University Statement on Plagiarism and the Documentation of Written Work, and to the Code of Student Conduct as delineated in the catalog of Undergraduate Programs, pp. 44-45, and 48-52. The Code is available online at: http://www.umb.edu/life_on_campus/policies/code/

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