Temperature Control Using a Microcontroller:An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Engineering Design ProjectJames S
McDonaldDepartment of Engineering ScienceTrinity UniversitySan Antonio, TX 78212AbstractThis paper describes an interdisciplinary design project which was done under the author’s supervision by a group of four senior students in the Department of Engineering Science at Trinity University
The objective of the project was to develop a temperature control system for an air-filled chamber
The system was to allow entry of a desired chamber temperature in a prescribed range and to exhibit overshoot and steady-state temperature error of less than 1 degree Kelvin in the actual chamber temperature step response
The details of the design developed by this group of students, based on a