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)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the student should be able to¿:
- 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
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Course secretary | Miss Christina Belton
Tel: (0131 6)50 7815
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