Metrology and Measurement Systems
Code
10590
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Ana Sofia Leonardo Vilela de Matos, Rogério Salema Araújo Puga Leal
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
80
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
- To recognize the importance of metrology, at national level, international and enterprise level.
- To develop and follow an accreditation process of a laboratory.
- To provide the knowledge associated to measurement uncertainty and the ability to prepare calibration procedures.
- To analyse measurement systems utilizing statistical methods, namely the Taguchi Methods applied to the metrological control.
- To provide the ability to develop calibration procedures
Subject matter
Importance of Metrology (guidelines; support levels; documentation; National and International organizations).
Quality and Metrology (tools; structures; assurance).
Metrology Laboratories (laboratory obligation; accreditation of laboratories (NP EN ISO 17025:2005).
Validation of Experimental Results (International System of units; detection of outliers - Dixon method, confidence interval method and Grubbs method; detection of outliers in inter-laboratorial comparation - Cochran and Dixon methods).
Uncertainty of measurement (classification of measurement errors; determination of measurement uncertainty; tolerance and acceptance criteria; periodicity of calibrations).