Detailed Program:
The course is subdivided into eight didactical units and experimental trials that are reported in the following:
1. Metrology (12 hours): Measurement procedures, Measurement unit systems, Sensors, Static and Dynamic characteristics of measurement systems, Influence quantities, design of experimental setup; Experience on first order instruments, Experience on second order instruments.
2. Calibration and statistics (12 hours): Gauss probability distribution, standard deviation, statistical inference tests, confidence, guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement, type A and type B uncertainty, propagation of uncertainties and distributions; Experience on potentiometer calibration.
3. Operational amplifiers and Filters (10 hours): inverting amplifier, non-inverting amplifier, ideal and real amplifier, instrumentation amplifier, low-pass filter, high-pass filter, bandwidth filter, Notch filter; Experience on operational amplifiers.
4. Electrical measurements (6 hours); Galvanometer, amperometer, clamp meter, voltmeter, Wheatstone Bridge, resistance measurements.
5. Thermal measurements (10 hours): Thermal measurement units, Platinum thermometer, thermistor, thermocouple, chemical thermometer, ultrasound thermometer, calibration; Experience on thermal measurements.
6. Strain, Force and Pressure measurements (10 hours); Strain gauge, load cell design, tension, bending and shear load cell, multi-component load cell, torquemeter, load cell calibration, manometer, vacuometer, pressure sensor calibration; Experience on load cells.
7. Dimensional, displacement, and velocity measurements (6 hours): ruler, caliper, micrometer, bore gauge, gauge block, CMM, potentiometer, LVDT, Encoder, laser scanner, speedometer.
8. Viscosity and flow measurements: viscometers, flow meters, Venturi meter, Pitot-tube, hot-wire anemometers.

E. O. DOEBELIN Measurement Systems: Application and Design , Mac Graw Hill