Instrumentation

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: ENGEK 307 and ENGEK 381 and (CASWR 120 or KHCST 111); Undergraduate Corequisite: ENGME 303 or ENGBE 436 Designing, assembling, and operating experiments involving mechanical measurements; analyzing experimental data. Safety considerations in the laboratory. Mechanical and electrical transducers for flow, pressure, temperature, velocity, strain, and force. Electric circuits for static and dynamic analog signal conditioning. Computer use for digital data acquisition and analysis; instrument control. Introduction to frequency domain analysis. Professional standards for documenting experiments and preparing reports, including formal uncertainty analysis involving elementary stat Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.