Instrumentation Systems

Code:

EEC0099

Acronym:

SINS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Automation, Control & Manufacturing Syst.
OFICIAL	Electronics and Digital Systems

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.fe.up.pt/0910/course/view.php?id=388
Responsible unit:	Automation, Control and Industrial Production Systems
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Electrical and Computers Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEEC	5	Syllabus since 2007/2008	5	-	6	63	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims:
This course aims to use a Project Based Learning (PBL), using students to develop a project proposed by the professors.
Students can work as a group in order to reach the final goal. This kind of learning aims to define and redefine students’ ideas and opinions, as well as to make them choose the best solution and to apply their knowledge of planning and project management.
This type of approach develops and trains students’ skills, which will be necessary in their life.

Learning Outcomes:
Students should be capable of:
- doing an individual engineering project
- using their critical thinking in complex problems (to ask relevant questions)
- Using technological tools and skills for self-learning/management and project management.
- Specifying products through investigation/autonomous research, as well as to explain theories used/associated
- Developing their skills through the feedback of the colleagues and mistakes
- Working in a team
- Communicating in oral and written form in enterprise environment
- Lifelong learning
- Having professional ethics
- Integrating technical and scientific knowledge of different course units.

Program

Suggestions of projects (depending on the number of students)
Wearable wireless sensors networks for real-time recognition tasks in shooting sports
Wireless data acquisition and transmission systems for railway circulation applications
Development and calibration of an ultrasonic anemometer

Mandatory literature

7th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering APCMBE
Yang, Guang-Zhong 340; Body sensor networks. ISBN: 1-84628-272-1
Karl, Holger; Protocols and architectures for wireless sensor networks. ISBN: 0-470-09510-5
Gast, Matthew S.; 802.11 wireless networks. ISBN: 0-596-00183-5
Couto, Rui Manuel Ferreira de; Wireless acquisition and logging of the kinematics of human gait
Pallás-Areny, Ramón; Sensors and signal conditioning. ISBN: 0-471-54565-1
Usher, M. J.; Sensors and transducers
Webster, John G. 340; The measurement, instrumentation, and sensors handbook. ISBN: 0-8493-8347-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

PLB- Project Based Learning

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	52,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable

Calculation formula of final grade

Students’ assessment will be based on their individual performance, oral and written communication skills, quality of the solutions and contents, as well as their contribution to the final result of the project.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Not applicable

Observations

Not applicable