Instrumentation and Electrical Measurement
Code
10481
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
Stanimir Stoyanov Valtchev
Weekly hours
5
Total hours
75
Teaching language
Português
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.
Prerequisites
Electronics I + Theorectical Electrotechnics
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
Bibliography
Basic book: Alan S. Morris, R. Langari, Measurement and Instrumentation, 617 pp., Elsevier 2011 or Academic Press, 2012. Exists ed. de Outubro 2015.
Additional:
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! The practical classes with inscription is reserved only for students without the "frequency" already obtained. The ones who possess "frequency" may join (voluntarily) any practical class except the laboratory ones. Any score is only considered positive if its value reached at least 9.5.
1st Way: test No.1 (30%, but with a minimum note of 8, being this test eliminatory, i.e. not permitting continuing this way), test No.2 (45%), 4 reports on laboratory exercises (25 % of the final note, being the reports compulsory for the permission= frequency);
2nd Way: 4 reports on laboratory exercises (25 % of the final note, being the reports compulsory for the permission= frequency), exam of retrying (75%).