EET 307: Electrical Measurements

COURSE OUTLINE

EET 307: Electrical Measurements

Credits and Contact Hrs. (Lecture/Laboratory): 3 credit, 3 contact hours per week.

Course Description: Application of direct and alternating current circuit analysis to electrical measuring methods and techniques with emphasis on industrial problems and considerations.

Prerequisties: EET 120 or EET 201 or equivalent.

Basic DC circuit analysis.

Basic AC principles and definitions.

A computer programming language.

Co-requisites: None

Textbook(s):Cooper, Electronic Instruments and Measurements, Prentice-Hall, 3rd. Ed., 1985.

Reference(s):

Jones/Chin, Electronic Instruments and Measurements, Wiley, 1983.

Carr, Elecments of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement, Prentice-Hall, 3rd Ed., 1996.

Course Coordinator: Joseph M. Farren , Professor

Goals/Objectives: To apply DC and AC circuit principles in the analysis and design of basic measuring methods and techniques.

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic:

Introduction, basic measurement concepts and sources of errors. (1 hr.)

Design of ammeters and voltmeter circuits. (2 hrs.)

Design of ohmmeter circuits, series and shunt types. (2 hrs.)

The D'arsonval movement and its use as a galvanometer.(1 hr.)

Design of Aryton shunts and application of CDRX. (2 hrs.)

DC Bridges and applications. Analysis of DC bridges. (3 hrs.)

Unbalanced DC bridges and analysis. (3 hrs.)

Potentiometer circuits and calibration. (2 hrs.)

AC bridges and applications. Analysis of AC bridges.(5 hrs.)

Q-meter and high frequency measurements. (3 hrs.)

High Frequency characteristics of R, L. and C. (3 hrs.)

Transducers, characteristics and types. (4 hrs.)

Tests. (4 hrs.)

Computer usage: Design a C or BASIC program to analyze an unbalanced bridge circuit. Use PSpice to analyze unbalanced DC and AC bridge.

Laboratory Projects: None

Oral and Written Communications: Homework assignments made.

Calculus Usage: None

Library usage: None