MECH 330 - Measurements and Instrumentation w/Lab

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: ELEC 208
Fundamentals of measurement systems in mechanical engineering including transducer operation, signal conditioning, data reduction, and presentation of results. Transducer and measurement system characteristics including resolution, sensitivity, loading, time response, and frequency response. Operating principles of basic instrumentation for measurement of mechanical quantities such as force, torque, pressure, velocities, accelerations, temperature, and flow. Topics include uncertainty analysis, data analysis, probability and statistics, calibration, data acquisition, presentation of results, and an introduction to experiment design.