ENGINEERING 129 - Instrumentation and Measurement

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Dartmouth College

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08F, 09F: 11; Laboratory A very significant part of designing electronic instruments involves selecting the appropriate physical devices to translate quantities to be measured into voltages or currents that can be sensed with electronic circuits. The range of sensors and transducers available will be studied with examples from industry and medical instrumentation. The course will explore in some detail the use of analog to digital (A/D) and digital to analog (D/A) converters and their applications. Students will also learn to use complete A/D-microprocessor-D/A systems since these are part of nearly all instruments now. In this course students will learn to implement a complete instrumentation system with a "system on a chip" device and also explore the use of very high performance digital signal processing (DSP) devices to implement advanced algorithms. We will review the basic concepts one needs to understand to construct such instruments and experiment through a series of labs. The course will culminate with group projects to induce the students to go through the design process on a problem of their choice.Prerequisite: Engineering Sciences 31 and 61 or equivalent. Hartov.

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3.00

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Lab

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Institution Website:

www.dartmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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