Postgraduate Course: Applications of Integrative Sensing and Measurement (ISM) (PGEE11127)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | The course covers a representative range of applications of integrative sensing and measurement. Five applications are covered in taught material, each application being addressed over a 2-week period comprising typically five to six lectures, one case study and one tutorial or examples class. In addition an assignment, spread through a large part of the semester, covers at least one additional application. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    The syllabus will cover 5 or more applications of ISM (typically 4 by taught delivery, 1 or more by assignment) each year. By way of example, it is proposed that the applications to be covered in the 1st year of delivery include - 3D, astronomical, automotive, autonomous motion, environmental, homeland security, in-vivo, microfluidic. 
 
Sample Lecture Syllabus for Academic Year 2014/15: 
 
Week 1: Introduction to Applications of ISM 
Weeks 2,3: ISM for autonomous motion 
Weeks 4,5: Environmental ISM 
Weeks 7,8: ISM for homeland security 
Weeks 9,10@ In-vivo ISM 
Week 11: Revision classes 
 
Assignment 
Week 1: Introduction to assignment - Automotive ISM 
Weeks 2-10: Assignment is carried out 
Week 11: Assignment due
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 2 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
200
(
 Lecture Hours 22,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
 Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 1,
 Other Study Hours 4,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
156 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) | 
Guest Lectures
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Coursework (100%) | 
 
| Feedback | 
Not entered | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    By the end of the course the student should be able toż: 
 
- Prepare or assimilate a detailed ISM system specification or application requirement. 
 
- Compare, contrast and select the most appropriate ISM technique(s) to meet the requirements of an application or range of applications. 
 
- Design an ISM system to meet an overall system specification or application requirement. 
 
- Integrate the results of a range of ISM modalities to provide a 'whole is greater than the sum of the parts' picture of a system. 
 
- Understand and appreciate the constraints and limitations of a given ISM system in a given application or range of applications.
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Reading List 
The Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition: Two-Volume Set, Ed John G Webster, Pub CRC Press. ISBN-13: 978-1439848838. 
 
Further reading TBF by application topic. |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Keywords | Applications; Sensing; Sensor; Transducer; Transduction; Measurement | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Ian Underwood 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5631 / 7474 
Email:  | 
Course secretary | Miss Christina Belton 
Tel: (0131 6)50 7815 
Email:  | 
   
 
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