Scribd
Upload
118 views

Measurements and Instrumentations

This document provides information about the course "Measurements and Instrumentations". The course is a theory and application course with prerequisites in electronics devices and circuits. The course objectives are to learn about instruments used in industries, work with transducers, and learn recent instrumentation developments. Upon completing the course, students will be able to measure electrical, optical, thermal and mechanical quantities, reproduce published results, and design experiments for industrial measurements. Course content includes measurement methods, instrument principles and types, transducer characteristics, and measuring various quantities like displacement, strain, temperature and biomedical parameters. Assessment includes continuous tests focusing on remembering, understanding, applying and analyzing concepts, as well as a semester end examination.

Uploaded by

maheshboobalan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
118 views

Measurements and Instrumentations

This document provides information about the course "Measurements and Instrumentations". The course is a theory and application course with prerequisites in electronics devices and circuits. The course objectives are to learn about instruments used in industries, work with transducers, and learn recent instrumentation developments. Upon completing the course, students will be able to measure electrical, optical, thermal and mechanical quantities, reproduce published results, and design experiments for industrial measurements. Course content includes measurement methods, instrument principles and types, transducer characteristics, and measuring various quantities like displacement, strain, temperature and biomedical parameters. Assessment includes continuous tests focusing on remembering, understanding, applying and analyzing concepts, as well as a semester end examination.

Uploaded by

maheshboobalan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

15EE701 Measurements and Instrumentations 2/0/0/1

Nature of Course: D (Theory Application)

Pre Requisites: 15EE301 Electron Devices and circuits.

Course Objectives:
1. To state about instruments utilized in various disciplines in Industries.
2. To execute the different transducers in real time.
3. To expose recent developments in Instrumentation.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to
CO310.1 Apply knowledge and handle instruments for measurement of Electrical, Optical, Thermal and
Mechanical quantities.
CO310.2 Can able to reproduce results published in peer reviewed journals.
CO310.3 Design and conduct experiments for measurement & can able to match industrial requirement.

Course Contents

Measurements: Significance & Methods of Measurements, Functions of Instruments & Measurements,


Applications of Measurements, Characteristics.

Types of Instruments Working Principle, Construction, Torque equation, Advantages and


Disadvantages: Moving coil, PMMC, Moving Iron, Attraction and Repulsion Instruments,
Electrodynamometer type Instruments. Transformers, Current transformers and Potential Transformers,
Single Phase Induction type Energy Meter.

Measurement of Electrical Quantities: Components of Generalized measurement system, Introduction


of Transducers/Sensors: Characteristics of Transducers, Requirement of Transducers, Classification of
transducers, Selection Criteria of Transducers.

Measurement of Mechanical Quantities: Displacement, strain vibration and pressure: Potentiometers.


Measurement of thermal parameters: Temperature measurement: RTD, Thermisters, Thermocouples

Instruments for Biomedical application: Clinical thermometer, Stethoscope, Sphygmomanometer, Bio-


potential based ECG, Pacemaker.

Total Hours
Text books:
1. Sawhney.A.K, A course in Electrical and electronic Measurement and Instrumentation,
DhanpatRai& Sons, New Delhi, 19th Revised Edition 2011 Reprint 2014.
2. Albert D Halfride& William D Cooper, Modern Electronic instrumentation and measurement
techniques, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd., latest edition, 2013.
Reference books:
1. Instrumentation: Theory and Applications Paperback by S Sheel, Narosa Publishing House (2013).
2. H. Oliver and J. M. Cage, Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation, McGraw Hill, 6 th edition,
2014.
3. J.J.Carr, Elements of Electronic Instrumentation and Control, Prentice Hall, 5th edition, 2014.
4. Electronic Instrumentation (Third Edition), H.S-Kalsi, Tata McGraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.
Publication, 2010.
5. S Balachandar PhD Thesis Optical Interrogation of transient heat conduction in dielectric solids.
Web sources:
1. http://www.electrical4u.com
2. http://nptel.ac.in/courses
3. https://en.wikipedia.org

Online Resources:
1. http://kupce.ku.edu
2. http://www.shortcoursesportal.com
3. www.idc-online.com

Journals for seminar/ Mini project


1. Measurement science and Technology.
2. Journal of Instrumentation.
3. Review of scientific Instruments.
4. Geoscientific Instruments
5. IEEE sensors
6. The Physics teacher

Blooms Taxonomy based Continuous Assessment Tests Semester End Examination


Assessment Pattern: Blooms
Category
CIA1 CIA2 Term Examination
Remember 20 0 10 10
Understand 30 20 20 10
Apply 50 40 40 40
Analyse 0 40 30 40
Evaluate 0 0 0 0
Create 0 0 0 0

You might also like