100% in course assessment based on reports summarising all practical exercises and team assignment presentation assessing 1, 2 and 3

1. Basic Dimensional Measurements
Spatial measurements such as Engineer's Rule, Feeler gauge, Micrometers, the Vernier calliper, Dial gauge and Gauge blocks (slip gauges). Measurements of angles, areas and volumes.
2. Basic Electrical Power Measurements
Measurements of the electrical resistance, current, voltage and wattage.
3.Temperature Measurements
The standard thermal expansion Thermometer (liquid-in-glass), Electrical Resistance Thermometers, Thermocouples, Thermistors Infra-red thermometers.
4. Pressure & Flow Measurements
The Bourdon gauge, U-tube manometers, Pressure Transducers of all various mechanisms, Flow measurements such as the orifice meter, the venture meter and the pitot-static tube. Rotameters, Turbine flow meters, Anemometers.
5. Force, Torque and Power Measurements
The Mechanical balance. Elastic deformation systems, such as Spring-stiffness, Strain-gauge system. Load Cells, LVDT
6. Inter-connection technology for electrical circuitry - soldering techniques, to build and test an electrical circuit.
7. Electrical circuit simulation - construct and measure a virtual circuit using a simulation package, then compare its electrical characteristics with a real circuit.
8. Calibration and Errors
Errors during the measurement process. Calibration of measuring sensors and instruments. Report writing and presentations.

3 hours per week comprising 1 hour lecture and 1 x 2 hour laboratory sessions for groups of 20 students maximum.
Students will undertake different measurements of real applications, and compare the different instruments available and write a brief report for each session.

1. Instrumentation and Measurements, T. T. Al-Shemmeri, 2009, VDM Verlag, ISBN-10: 3639206428
2. Engineering Instrumentation and Control, Haslam, Summers and William, 2001, Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN: 978-0713134315
3. Introduction to Instrumentation and Measurements, Robert B. Northrop, 2005, CRC Press, 2nd Ed, ISBN-10: 0849337739

All practicals will be conducted in the Engineering Laboratories.
Instrumentations and testing equipments are available for each session.

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