Measurement and instrumentation
BI BM BN BEC
W Perera
4.5 points * 39 lecture hours, 26 laboratory/tutorial hours * First semester * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GEG1503
Systems of units of measurement, types of errors and statistical analysis of errors, introduction to analogue and digital electronics. Analogue and digital measuring devices: moving coil, moving iron and other movements; amplified dc meter, digital meters, oscilloscope theory and techniques, transducers and applications. Techniques for error minimisation, such as screening for electronic and electromagnetic systems; IEEE instrumentation bus system.
Assessment
Examination: 70% * Practicals: 20% * Assignments: 10%
Prescribed texts
Berlin M and Getz F C Principles of electronic instrumentation and measurement Merril, 1988