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Spring 2026 Laboratory Lecture Upper Division
This course builds upon the prerequisite knowledge and covers implementation of electric systems to measure and record mechanical, electrical, and biological parameters. Signal characteristics, transducer specification and selection, signal conditioning and transmission design, data conversion, software, and an overall system error budget are developed.
Learning Outcomes1Differentiate appropriate transducers for sensing various signals, including mechanical, biological, and electrical.
2Design, simulate and verify signal conditioning circuits.
3Implement analog-to-digital converters and examine conditioned data for sampling and quantization effects.
4Create software programs to interface with analog-to-digital converters, process data, and display or utilize the results.
5Evaluate common sources of errors in instrumentation systems.
Prerequisites
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