Week 1 - Theoretical

Physical quantities, Measurement and instrumentation, Sensitivity, error, reliability, and precision concepts

Week 2 - Theoretical

Sensor types and classification, Wheatstone bridge, Review of op-amps, data loggers, data acquisition, and real time measurement

Week 3 - Theoretical

Review of Arduino and Labview, PWM signal and power control

Week 4 - Theoretical

Position, direction, distance and motion measurements

Week 5 - Theoretical & Practice

Project #1: potentiometer application and measurement of angle, angular velocity, displacement, and velocity.

Week 6 - Theoretical

Temperature sensors and thermal transducers: thermoelectric effect, thermistors, thermocouples, resistive heaters

Week 7 - Theoretical

Project #2: thermistor and thermocouple application

Week 8 - Theoretical & Practice

Project #3: resistive heaters and peltier application

Week 9 - Theoretical & Practice

Strain, elasticity, force, and pressure sensors

Week 10 - Theoretical

project #4: Strain gauge and force-pressure applications

Week 11 - Theoretical & Practice

Light and radiation detectors and transducers, project #5: LDR, LED, and laser applications

Week 12 - Theoretical & Practice

project #6: photodiode, phototransistor, and solar cell application

Week 13 - Theoretical & Practice

Other sensor-transducer applications: DC motor drives, AC generators, 3D Accelerometers, ultrasound and piezoelectric effect, Hall effect and Hall sensors, semiconducting sensors, superconducting sensors, SQUIDS, sensing nuclear Radiation, X-rays, etc.

Week 14 - Theoretical

Other sensor-transducer applications (continuing), project #7: it will be distributed to the students among the followings: i) DC motor drives, ii) AC generators, iii) production and detection of ultrasound waves, iv) Hall sensors, v) semiconducting sensors, vi) superconducting sensors, vii) sensing nuclear radiation, viii) production and detection of X-rays, ix) others.