Mechanical Engineering

519. Applied Instrumentation and Data Acquisition.  Operation, application and selection of engineering instruments for measuring position, velocity, acceleration, force, pressure, strain, flow rate, heat transfer and temperature.  Sensors, data acquisition and processing.  Output devices, including logic, and actuator operation and selection.  Three lectures.  (Credits 3) 

Prerequisite: Senior Status.

 

Course Objectives:

 

The student will be able to:

 

  • Select appropriate instrumentation for a specific engineering test or experiment

  • Collect data from various types of instruments using appropriate output devices

  • Process and analyze signals obtained from tests and experiments

  • Write programs using LabVIEW

Course Syllabus:

 

Textbook:

 

Sensors and Circuits, by J.J. Carr (Prentice-Hall).  LabView Student Edition, by National Instruments (Prentice-Hall).

 

Topics:  

  1. Instrument Response

  2. Measurement Systems

  3. Detectors

  4. Output Devices

  5. Fourier Analysis

  6. Signal Processing

  7. Data Analysis

  8. LabView Programming

 

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:

 

Engineering Science: 3 credits (100%)

 

Prepared by:  Dr. Graham Walker  Date: December, 2000