Poster Session Abstracts

		Bringing together, under one roof, the best and the brightest students doing fluid power research today and the industry that will one day employ them.

Center For Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP)

• Education and Outreach Programs

Central Community College

• How Mechatronics Education Center uses Innovative Professional Development Activities to Build a Stronger Technical Base in Nebraska Secondary Schools

Clemson University 

• Vehicle Stability Control with Modular Hydrostatic Wheel Drives

Cleveland Community College 

• Cloud Computing and Asynchronous Distance Learning in the Instruction of Fluid Power Courses

Georgia Institute of Technology 

• User Interface with Multisensory Feedback for Fluid Powered Rescue Robot 

• Modeling of Biodynamic Feedthrough in Backhoe Operation 

• Adaptive Robust Control of Variable Displacement Pumps 

• Design of an Excavator Testbed to Evaluate Operator Efficiency for Novel Human Machine Interfaces 

• Shared Control of Hydraulic Excavators to Improve Energy Efficiency

• Steady-State and Transient Simulations of Hydraulic Rod Seals

Greenville Technical College (Brashier Campus) 

• Fluid Power the Essence of Manufacturing Automation

Iowa State University 

• Dielectric Sensing for Quantifying Water, Metal and Dust Contamination in Hydraulic Fluids 

Milwaukee School of Engineering

• Hydraulic Fluid Efficiency Studies in Low-Speed High-Torque Motor 

• Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization of Fluid-Power Components

• The Future of Fluid Power and Motion Control Education - Universal Transportable Fluid Power Trainer

National Fluid Power Association

• NFPA Fluid Power Challenge

• Product and Price Information Format

North Carolina A & T

• Predict Backhoe Excavator Operator Performance Using Digital Human Modeling 

• Using Discrete Event Simulation to Model Fluid-Powered Rescue Robot Operator Performance

PTDA Foundation and Industrial Careers Pathway®

• Tomorrow’s Workforce – Where Are They? How Do We Connect?

Project Lead The Way

• Engineering Courses for Middle and High School Students

Purdue University

• Energy Recovery Through Displacement Controlled Actuator Circuits for Multi-Actuator Machines 

• Noise Source Reduction of Hydrostatic Transmissions and Hydraulic Hybrids

• A New Approach in Modeling of Piston/Cylinder Interface by Considering Material & Fluid Properties 

• Modeling and Design of the Cylinder Block/Valve Plate Interface 

• The Hydraulic Hybrid – a Viable Alternative to Electric Hybrids

• Energy Savings Though Optimal Control of Multiple Pump-Controlled Actuators

• Development of High Speed On/Off Valves 

• Design of Low Cost Water/Air Hydraulic Trainer and Curriculum for K-12 Students 

• Design, Simulation and Control of Hydraulic System Topographies with Integrated Energy Recovery

• High Efficiency, High Bandwidth, Actively Controlled Variable Displacement Pump/Motor

SkillsUSA

• SkillsUSA Championships

Texas A and M University 

• The Industrial Distribution Program

University of Minnesota 

• Rotary Self-Spinning On/Off Valve for Digital Hydraulic Applications 

• Control and Optimization for a Hydromechanical Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle 

• Open Accumulator Approach for High Density Fluid Power Energy Storage 

• Single Channel Hybrid FES Gait System Utilizing Fluid Power 

• Zero-Leak O-Rings by Using Adaptive Materials

• Integrated Algorithms for Optimal Energy Use for Mobile Fluid Power Systems

University of Missouri-Columbia

• Metering Poppet Valve Development with an Extended Kalman Filter 

University of Nebraska at Kearny

• Pneumatics Trainers

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Design of Low-Inertia, High-Speed External Gear Pump/Motors for Hydrostatic Dynamometer Systems

Vernon College

• Industrial Automation Program - Basic Fluid Power Courses

Western Michigan University

• Performance Analysis of System Components for Hydraulic Bike Design in a Capstone Design Project

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Phase-Shift High-Speed PWM Hydraulic Valve

Youngstown State University

• Fluid Power Initiatives in Research and Teaching at Youngstown State University