You are an engineer who has been assigned the task of designing and instrumenting a practical system. In the project report, you have to describe the steps of establishing the design/performance specifications for the system, selecting and sizing sensors, transducers, actuators, drive systems, controllers, signal conditioning and interface hardware, and software for the instrumentation and component integration of this system. Keeping this in mind, write a project proposal giving the following information:
Select a process (plant) as the system to be developed. Describe the plant indicating the purpose of the plant, how the plant operates, what is the system boundary (physical or imaginary), what are the important inputs (e.g., voltages, torques, heat transfer rates, flow rates), response variables (e.g., displacements, velocities, temperatures, pressures, currents, voltages), and what are important plant parameters (e.g., mass, stiffness, resistance, inductance, thermal conductivity, fluid capacity). You may use sketches.