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368 Engineering Measurements Laboratory. I, II, SS; 3 cr. Application of modern instrumentation to engineering measurements of mechanical strain, vibration, acceleration, velocity, displacement, temperature, pressure, gas-mixture composition, mass flow-rate, and sound. P: ME 340, 361 & ECE 376.

Course Prerequisite(s)

ME 340
ME 361
ECE 376

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

This course is intended to provide an introduction to experimental measurements for mechanical and thermal systems. Students are expect to have an understanding of mechanics of materials, system dynamics, electrical circuits, and thermodynamics.

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Lab manuals must be purchased by the student. Supplemental material is suppled in the course.

Course objectives

Students will develop an understanding of the characteristics of experimental measurements. These include concepts such as uncertainty, the dynamic limitations of physical instruments, and how an instrument may affect the physical system being studies.
Students will also become familiar with the operation and characteristics of several experimental tools including oscilloscopes, data acquisition systems, and spectrum analyzers.
Students will be exposed to LabView.
Students will become proficient with using a personal computer to carry out data reduction and create high quality plots.
Students will be capable of generating professional quality lab reports.
Students will gain experience with some of the basic engineering measurements including temperature, strain, pressure, energy and power.
Students will be able to design experiments to answer one or more specific questions and carry them out with minimal instruction.
Students will be able to communicate their experimental results, conclusions, and the significance of the conclusions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Students will be able to integrate theory and experiments to provide themselves with a better understanding of the physical phenomena. Students should be able to decide whether an analytical or experimental approach is more likely to be successful for a problem.

Topics covered

During the first third of the course we will focus on some basic concepts related to experimental measurements (uncertainty and dynamic behavior of instruments) and become proficient with important experimental tools (e.g. oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and the personal computer). Some time will be spent gaining familiarity with LabView.

The second third of the course will apply these concepts and skills to some important engineering measurements such as temperature, pressure, strain, etc.

The final part of the course will be dedicated to the design, fabrication, and implementation of a student-run experiment. This work will be communicated via a final presentation and lab report.

Each lab session will take 1 week (2 lab periods). The labs are broken into two parts:

In the first part, students will follow a detailed set of instructions and answer questions in order to gain familiarity with a tool, concept, or measurement technique.

In the second part, students will strive to answer an open ended question using the tool, concept, or technique and present their results in the form of a short lab report.

Class/laboratory schedule

two 2-hour lab periods one 1-hour lecture

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of college-level mathematics and/or basic sciences and does provide experimental experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

There is a consideration of economics, health and safety, and manufacturability as it relates to engineering measurements, data interpretation, and experimentation.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

provides foundation for experimental discovery as a source of new information develops student experience in conceiving, designing, and performing engineering experiments encourages straightforward assesment of uncertainty in experiments allows practice in presenting experimental results (reports, tables, graphs,...) and evaluating experimental results gives experience with solving unstructured (real world) engineering problems in a group setting

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

students are given short, weekly homework assignments
students create lab reports for weekly lab sessions
students take examinations (2) and a final exam

Person(s) who prepared this description

Gregory F. Nellis

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Date last modified: 04-Aug-2007
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