Unit ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS WITH LAB ACTIVITIES
- Course
- Computer science and electronic engineering
- Study-unit Code
- 70A00076
- Curriculum
- Ingegneria elettronica
- Teacher
- Antonio Moschitta
- Teachers
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- Antonio Moschitta
- Hours
- 54 ore - Antonio Moschitta
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Ingegneria elettronica
- Sector
- ING-INF/07
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Teaching Unit - Introduction
Teaching Units - Fundamentals of Measurements Theory
Teaching Unit - Measurement methods for electric quantities: volt-amperometric, potentiometric, bridge circuits.
Teaching Unit - Architecture of modern electronic measurement instrumentatio: digital multimeters, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, waveform generators. - Reference texts
- Pisani, Misure Elettroniche: Strumentazione Elettronica di Misura, Politeko Edizioni, 1999. C. Offelli, D. Petri, Lezioni di Strumentazione Elettronica, Città Studi Edizioni, Milano, 1994. Doebelin, Sistemi di Misura, Mc Graw Hill, 2004.
- Educational objectives
- Training goals
- Understanding of Measurement Theory fundamentals
- Understanding of architecture of basic electronic measurement and lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, waveform generators)
-Understanding of the main methods for measuring electric quantities
- Understanding of methods for estimating and reducing measurement uncertainty, and of their usage in compliance verifications
Skills
-Capability of designing and realizing a system for measurement of electrical quantities
-Capability of selecting and using electronic measurement instrumentation
-Capability of evaluating measurement uncertainty in a given measurement
- Capability of designing a compliance verification - Prerequisites
- For a better understanding, skills related to courses of Calculus I/II, Physics B, Probability Theory, Circuit Theory, and Electronic should be already acquired
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lesson, lab activities
- Other information
- This Unit aim at providing knowledge and skills with respect to Measurement Theory, measurement of electric quantities, and modern measurement instrumentation. Lab activities are envisioned, to consolidate both knowledge and skills.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam (2 hours), followed by an optional oral test
- Extended program
- Measurement Theory: history and definition of measurement. Measurement scales. Measurement uncertainty: definitions and methods of evaluation. Intrinsic, interaction, and instrumental uncertainty. Type A, Type B, and coupound uncertainty. Standard and expanded uncertainty, coverage factor. Use of uncertainty in comformance verifications. Metrological traceability. Uncertainty in indirect measurements: law of propagation of uncertainty.
Electronic measurement instrumentation
Measurement methods. Architecture of modern measurement instrumentation: signal conditioning, acquisition, and processing. Digital Multimeters. Digital Oscilloscopes. Spectrum Analyzers (basics). Measurement bridge circuits.
Electronic Measurement Laboratory: use of electronic measurement instrumentation (12 hours)