2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGR 381 Instrumentation and Measurement (Lec/Lab)

Instrumentation and Measurement covers experimental methods, statistical estimates of experimental uncertainty, calibration, signal conditioning, selected transducers for mechanical measurements, electronics for instrumentation data acquisition/processing. Temperature, pressure, humidity, stress-strain, force, velocity, flow/radiative properties. 

Credits

3/1

Prerequisite

ENGR 121; ENGR 210; PHYS 204

Offered

Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand the importance of instrumentation and how it is applied to engineering research, calculations, and decisions
  2. Understand the roll accuracy and precision play in instrumentation and how that is balanced with overall cost
  3. Define the roll statistics play in the presentation of experimental results
  4. Be able to identify different types and causes for uncertainty in experiments
  5. Understand the functionality, differences, and limitations of both analog and digital instrumentation
  6. Introduce students to a plethora of common engineering instrumentation devices
  7. Understand how to select appropriate instrumentation based on specified engineering design constraints