MCT242: Electronic Instrumentation

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Course Meeting Times: 
Lectures: 2 hrs/week
Tutorials:  2 hrs/week
Laboratories: 2 hrs/week

Goals 
After this course you will be able to:
  • Identify, build and use a set of basic instrumentation systems to acquire data from a laboratory experiment, engineering field site or test vehicle and process it using standard algorithms.
  • Discuss recent developments in sensor enabling technologies. 
  • Analyze the performance of a sensor system, including transducer, electronics and signal processing.

Related Courses 
After this course, related courses include:
  • MCT241: Engineering Measurements
  • MCT381: Design Of Mechatronics Systems (1)
  • MCT382: Design of Mechatronics Systems (2)
  • MCT498: Graduation Project


Recommended Textbooks: 
  • Class Notes.
  • Additional reading from different sources is encouraged.

Examinations:
There will be a mid-term exam scheduled after  Lecture 6. The final exam is 3 hours long.

Tutorials: 
The purpose of the tuorialsis to give students experience in the subject by working out examples and expanding on the material presented in the lectures. Attendance and participation in the recitations is obligatory.

Homework: 
Homework problems will typically be assigned every Section and will be due as specified in the assignments section. The problem sets will be provided in the assignments section. Late homework will be accepted but with maximum of half the grade given. 
You may discuss the problems with others in class, but you must (a) write up your eventual solution independently, and (b) list the names of students with whom you discussed the problem set.

Grading: 
  • 15% - Attendance & Class Contributions
  • 10% - Quizzes
  • 5% - Labs
  • 10% - Midterm Exam
  • 30% - Project
  • 40% - Final Exam

List of Topics:
  • Lecture 1 – Introduction
  • Lecture 2 - Instrumentation Definitions
  • Lecture 3 - DC/AC Circuit Analysis Revision
  • Lecture 4 - Signal Conditioning
  • Lecture 5 – Operational Amplifiers
  • Lecture 6 – Op-Amp Circuits 
  • Lecture 7 – Filters
  • Lecture 8 – Op-Amp Filters
  • Lecture 9 – D/A Conversion
  • Lecture 10 – A/D Conversion
  • Lecture 9 – Sensor Systems
  • Lecture 10 – Errors and calibration
  • Lecture 11 – Transduction mechanisms (1)
  • Lecture 12 – Transduction mechanisms (2)
  • Lecture 13 – Linear Position Sensors
  • Lecture 14 – Rotational Position Sensors
  • Lecture 15 – Introduction to MEMS