SylabUZ
Course name | Electronic measuring instruments |
Course ID | 06.5-WE-ELEKTP-ElMeasIn-S16 |
Faculty | Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics |
Field of study | Electrical Engineering |
Education profile | academic |
Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
Beginning semester | winter term 2021/2022 |
Semester | 6 |
ECTS credits to win | 5 |
Course type | optional |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Exam |
Laboratory | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
- to familiarize students with the construction, principles of operation, metrological properties of modern multimeters, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and sources of measurement signals
- to shape the skills in the use of electronic measuring instruments and in the estimation of the accuracy of measurements
- to become aware of the role of the microprocessor technology in signal processing circuits of modern measuring instruments
Fundamentals of electrical engineering, Electronics, Metrology
Trends in the development of modern measuring instruments. Microprocessor devices, microprocessor measuring blocks, cards and plug-in measurement modules, virtual instruments.
Digital multimeters. Characteristics of basic functional blocks of digital multimeters. Illustration of the possibility of using software procedures to improve the metrological properties of microprocessor measuring instruments on the example of selected digital multimeter solutions.
Electrical interference in the measurement of voltages and methods of eliminating them. Types of interferences and their sources. Attenuation of serial and parallel interferences. Principles of connections of signal sources to measuring instruments.
Measurement of high frequency voltages. Sources of errors in RF voltages measurement. Tests measuring probes. Measurement with using the voltmeter with high-impedance input circuit and measurement with impedance matching.
Instruments for narrowband AC voltage measurements. Selective voltmeter. Voltmeters with synchronous detection. Vector voltmeters.
Digital oscilloscopes. Classification of electronic oscilloscopes. Structure and principle of operation of a digital oscilloscope. Characteristics of operating modes. Comparative characteristics of selected types of modern digital oscilloscopes. Measurements using a digital oscilloscope.
Spectrum Analyzers and Nonlinear Distortion Meters. Classification, principle of operation, metrological and functional properties of spectrum analyzers. Digital spectrum analyzers: digital filter analyzers, FFT analyzers. Methods of measurement of the nonlinear distortion.
Instruments for impedance measurement. Automatic RLC meters, impedance analyzers, Q-meters, transformer bridges.
Electronic instruments for measuring electric power and energy. Specialized integrated circuits for measuring electric power and energy. Electronic energy meters.
Measurement signal sources. Sinusoidal voltage generation methods used in the field of small and high frequencies. Generators with digital frequency synthesis. Voltage and current calibrators.
Lecture: conventional lecture, problem lecture, discussion
Laboratory: working with source document, group work, laboratory exercises
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Lecture – the credit is given for obtaining positive grades in written tests carried out at leastonce a semester.
Laboratory – to receive a final passing grade stude nt has to receive positive grades in all laboratory exercises provided for in the laboratory syllabus.
Calculation of the final grade: lecture 50% + laboratory 50%
1. Tumanski S.: Principles of electrical measurement. Taylor & Francis, 2006
2. Bhargawa S.C: Electrical measuring instruments and measurements. CRC Press, 2012
Modified by dr hab. inż. Paweł Szcześniak, prof. UZ (last modification: 08-07-2021 21:49)