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Fall 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.
2Simulate and verify signal conditioning circuits.
3Examine the analog-to-digital conversion using conditioned electrical data, with consideration of sampling and quantization effects.
4Create software programs to interface with analog-to-digital converters, process, and display processed data.
5Evaluate common sources of errors in instrumentation systems.
Prerequisites
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