[vc_row el_class=”inner-body-content” css=”.vc_custom_1667364204640{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE OBJECTIVES” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1667364185999{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The purpose of this course is to introduce fundamental concepts, principles, procedures, and computations used by engineers to analyze, select, specify, design, and maintain modern instrumentation.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLO)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]CLO-1: Construct a general measurement system and relate experiment design, instrumentation, calibration, and testing with it. (C3)
CLO-2: Analyze error and uncertainty of a measurement system using necessary statistical principles. (C4)
CLO-3: Demonstrate operations of various devices used to measure temperature, pressure, flow and strain. (C3)[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE CONTENTS” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1667364161546{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]
1. Basic Concepts of Measurement Methods – Four Lectures
- General measurement systems
- Experimental test plan
- Standards, calibration and testing
2. Characteristics of Signals – Four Lectures
- Input/output signal system
- Signal analysis
- Fourier transform and the frequency spectrum
3. Measurement System Behavior – Four Lectures
- General model for a measurement system
- Transfer functions and phase linearity
- Coupled system
4. Sampling, Digital Devices, and Data Acquisition – Four Lectures
- Sampling concept
- Data-acquisition systems and components
- Analog and digital input-output communication
5. Temperature Measurements – Four Lectures
- Standards and definitions
- Thermometry based on thermal expansion
- Electrical resistance thermometry
- Thermoelectric temperature measurement
- Physical errors in temperature measurement
6. Pressure and Velocity Measurements – Four Lectures
- Pressure reference instruments
- Pressure transducers
- Pressure measurements in moving fluids
- Fluid velocity measuring systems
7. Flow Measurements – Four Lectures
- Volume flow rate through velocity determination
- Pressure differential meters
- Insertion volume flow meters
- Mass flow meters
8. Strain Measurement – Four Lectures
- Resistance strain gauges and its electric circuits
- Apparent strain and temperature compensation
- Optical strain measuring methods
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