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EM 337 - Instrumentation for Measurements (Instrumentação para Medição)
Scientists and engineers need experimentation for confirming theory, computer modelling and controlling even the most elementary systems. The instrumentation is fundamental in metrology, laboratory and industrial measurements, systems’ control and supervision. All these fields of instrumentation are taken into account in the syllabus of this one semester compulsory course of the mechanical engineering degree, although the main focus is in the domain of laboratory and industrial measurements. Objectives To convey metrology concepts and terminology; to offer a basic background in laboratory and industrial measurements principles, methodologies and procedures; to practise the evaluation of error analysis and measurements’ uncertainty; to establish the main principles for measuring the physical quantities most important to mechanical engineering applications; to promote the "hands on" laboratory activity; to develop the students' capacity in analysing, interpreting, criticising and reporting results; to encourage students initiative and imagination; to reinforce students teamwork skills, personal responsibility, self-organising and conflict-solving capabilities; to attempt in teaching how to learn. |