ENEE 477 Electronic Instrumentation (3)

 

Required course for majors in the electrical specialty.

 

Catalog Description:

Basic principles of operation of commonly used sensors. Signal conditioning and grounding considerations. Introduction to programming of virtual instruments using software such as LabVIEW. Specification and design of systems to acquire, condition, display, and control using data from multiple sensors. Laboratory included. Spring semester. Lecture 3 hours.

 

Prerequisites:

ENGR 225, ENEE 377, 378 with grades of C or better.

 

Textbook/References:

“Instrumentation for Engineering Measurement” by Daly, et.al., John Wiley a.=nd Sons; 1993;

“LabVIEW For Everyone”, 2nd Ed. By Travis, Prentice Hall; 2002.

 

Course Objectives:

                                Study the sensors, transducers, and methods used to take accurate measurements of physical phenomena from the engineering point of view (1,2,3).  Develop an understanding of basic data acquisition and signal conditioning techniques and to apply these principles to the development of VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS using LABVIEW, a graphical programming language (1,2,3). 

 

Class/Laboratory Schedule:

Lecture/lab combination two times per week 85 minutes per class. 

 

Topics Covered:

                Experimental Error

                Analog Measurement Methods

                D/A and A/D Conversion Schemes

                Digital Meters

                Data Acquisition Systems

                Aliasing

                Sensors for Transducers to measure strain, displacement, temperature, etc.

                Power supplies

                Wheatstone Bridge circuits

                Filtering

                Dataflow and Graphical programming concepts

                The LabVIEW programming environment; Front panel and Block Diagram

                Controls and Indicators

                Menus

                Wiring methods

                Structures: FOR and WHILE loops, CASES; AUTO-INDEXING

                Debugging techniques

                The Formula Node

                ARRAYS and CLUSTERS

                Charts and graphs

                Strings and File I/O

                Interfacing via the data acquisition tools in LabVIEW

               

Contribution to Professional Component:

                Contributes toward the 1.5 years of engineering topics as a 3 credit hour course in engineering sciences and engineering design.

               

 

Relationship of course to program outcomes

This course supports engineering outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

 

Prepared by:         Dr. Michel Elizabeth Holder, 04/02/03