Sylvio Jr. Machado, Marco Antonio Cavaco
AN INTERACTIVE TOOL FOR TEACHING METROLOGY
This project was meant to be a study supporting material different from the current available ones to graduating students and technicians in the metrology field. Its setup was based on personal experiences from its elaborators. When deciding the contents and formatting of this project, it was agreed that it should contain the subjects: metrology history and terminology, number treatments, measurements, calibration and uncertainty estimates. It should also point out notions of nanotechnology. We were careful not to turn this project into a simple transcription of study notes from textbooks to a computer screen, so definitions and concepts a bit more difficult to understand were reviewed and illustrated with animations and / or interactive exercises. A growing order of difficulties was obeyed, beginning with its supporting chapter and concluding with some complex calculation of uncertainty measurements. Accessing it from remote locations will be possible in a near future. During its elaboration, this project was positively evaluated by several collaborators from different fields, from engineering students to technicians. The users were pleased with its contents and formatting what gave us the confidence that we were innovative and in the right track to become a reference supporting material for metrology studying and researching.
