There is no question 'if' or 'why' we should teach sensors. The contemporary world cannot operate without them. A basic understanding, principles of choice and principles of application of sensors in instrumentation systems are of fundamental importance in all disciplines of engineering. Fascinated by information processing people often forget that the function and also properties of every instrumentation system are defined by both the sensor and the software support provided. This paper presents some basic information on sensors and sensing, and the main problems faced when teaching them....
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In this paper the general description of the schedule of studies on Electronic and Telecommunication at Technical University of Bialystok from the point of view of delivering metrology knowledge is presented. Also three typical subjects of metrology like the base of metrology, surveying of electronic and technique of experiment are underlined. The attempt of qualification the profile of graduate is one of the final conclusion of this work.
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The paper presents an influence of new information technologies upon measuring systems designing and proposes a new course that covers new trends in measuring systems designing. Distributed structure of modern measuring systems requires the use of special software technologies for design software of such systems. Possibilities of applying some modern information technologies for these purposes are considered. In the second part of the paper a program of a new course, concerned measuring system software designing, is presented. An example of student project, designed in the frame of the...
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Reports on experimental work should be based on a well-documented laboratory report. With the laboratory report we mean the logbook, kept during the experiments. Making such a laboratory report is an important part of the practical courses at our Electrical Engineering faculty in Twente. Nowadays our students write their report on paper. We consider the option to write it directly on the computer so that it can be integrated with managing the measurement results. Doing this however will pose severe requirements to the user friendliness of the software environment. In this paper the idea of...
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The main purpose of the paper is to present a method of calculation of the expanded uncertainty at required confidence level. It is elaborated as a piece of software with the main intention for metrology and quality engineering courses. The definition based algorithm is used and convolutions of different probability density distribution are precisely calculated. The uniform, triangular, normal and t-Student distributions are implemented in the software. One of the advantage is no limitation of encountered measurands.
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The new worked-out computer program, named TEXPRO, for modeling of textiles properties is presented. The program is written in C++ language and built in form of handbook divided into particular exercises. It is designed for students doing the laboratories from subject "Structure of Yarns and Textile Fabrics".
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Authors compared courses related to biomedical measurements at Wrocław University of Technology, where they are a base of speciality education and at Rzeszów University of Technology, where they are merely a supplement on measurements of living organism for students of Metrology. This comparison revealed that there is a "canon" of the necessary and common knowledge offered to students.
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Modern university education is very strongly based on computer techniques, which provide necessary computational power to develop specialized software. Very intuitive graphical programs became indispensable tools for word and graphics processing, data storage, and advanced computational tasks. An increasing role of information availability from the data stored on web pages and network accessible data bases can be observed. This immense potential source of information requires appropriate searching tools and algorithms. In this situation a well-scheduled track through computer science...
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The laboratory exercise dealing with voice transmission quality of service measurement in mobile networks that is being designed in Czech Technical University in Prague is described in the paper. The final experiment that is made during the exercise is based on measurement of voice quality of the GSM connection established between student’s GSM terminal and remote GSM station of measuring system. The measurement is performed by means of measurement system that has been developed at the University. The remote station can work either in fully automatic mode or can be controlled via web...
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Kenneth T. V. Grattan, Sanowar H. Khan, Ludwik Finkelstein
The paper presents an illustration of the use of photonics and optical measurements in today’s engineering world and emphasizes the need for and value of the field which is seen as a key subject for current engineering education. The paper emphasizes the place of photonics when viewed within a systems approach to measurement and instrumentation, but also stresses the value of the appreciation of the fundamentals of physical science to achieve a full understanding of modern devices of this type. The relationship of photonic measurement systems to optical communications systems is stressed, as...
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