Implementing Automatic Data Collection and Identification Laboratory

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T), one of the two land grant institutions in the State, is a predominantly black urban university, located in Greensboro, North Carolina. What is missing from the Manufacturing Systems Department´s laboratory is a fully developed Automatic Data Collection and Identification (ADCI) Laboratory. Due to the lack of fully developed laboratory, undergraduate courses currently at NCA&T do not provide in depth education on ADCI technologies. To meet the need for students skilled in ADCI, the ADCI Laboratory was founded by the Undergraduate Education Grant from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of this laboratory is to familiarize students with the ADCI technologies so that they can integrate these technologies into manufacturing or other industrial applications. The first year implementation results of the ADCI Laboratory are presented in this paper