Instrumentation and Electrical Measurement
Objectives
Students must acquire the knowledge of the composition, functioning, properties and limitations of the measurement apparatus used in Electrothecnics. Students will become able of executing measurement operations without jeopardizing people and equipments, and without introducing gross errors, and will become able to estimate, limit or correct measurement errors. Students must acquire the capacity of writing a complete, concise and precise technical-scientific report.
General characterization
Code
10481
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
Stanimir Stoyanov Valtchev
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 75
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
Electronics I + Theorectical Electrotechnics
Bibliography
Alan S. Morris, R. Langari, Measurement and Instrumentation, 617 pp., Elsevier 2011 or Academic Press, 2012. Exists ed. de Outubro 2015.
P.S. Girão, Instrumentação e Medida, AEIST, Lisboa, 1998
Aurélio Campilho, Instrumentação Electrónica. Métodos e Técnicas de Medição, FEUP ed., 2000
Silva, Instrumentação Industrial, ed. Escola Superior Tecnológica do I. P. Setúbal, 2000
The measurement, instrumentation and sensors handbook, Editor J. Webster, Springer Verl., CRC, IEEE Press, 1999.
Teaching method
Scientific principles are explained by the teacher in the theory class, aided by slides. The student’s capacity for oral communication is stimulated through debate around technical and scientific questions.
In practical classes a collection of technical problems is offered to be solved by students based on theoretical class knowledge by calculation. The dialogue between the students is encouraged, and qualitative evaluation is made.
Evaluation method
The precedency (previous taking of) Theoretical Electrotechnics and Electronics 1 is strongly advised!
1st Way: test No.1 (40%), test No.2 (60%);
2nd Way: exam of retrying (100%).
Subject matter
- Fundamentals of Measurement Systems
- Instrument Types and Performance Characteristics
- Measurement Uncertainty
- Calibration of Measuring Sensors and Instruments
- Data Acquisition (with LabVIEW or similar)
- Signal Processing (with LabVIEW or similar)
- Electrical Indicating and Test Instruments
- Display, Recording, and Presentation of Measurement Data
- Variable Conversion Elements
- Measurement Signal Transmission
- Intelligent Devices
- Measurement Reliability and Safety Systems
- Sensor Technologies
- Temperature Measurement
- Pressure Measurement
- Flow Measurement
- Level Measurement
- Mass, Force, and Torque Measurement
- Translational Motion, Vibration, and Shock Measurement
- Rotational Motion Transducers