Instrumentation Projects
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese and english
Objectives
1. Identify current trends in advanced instrumentation.
2. Describe the scope of development and applications of instrumentation projects (IP) to: a) the industry; b) research organizations; c) large international infrastructures.
3. Understand and be able to contribute to the development stages of an IP: a) conceptual design; b) preliminary and final designs; c) assembly, integration, and testing; d) operation.
4. Develop an overall view of IP, including a) objectives; b) specifications; c) operation, calibration, and maintenance; d) system architecture and design, including subsystems and instrument "error budget"; e) interfaces; f) architecture of optical, mechanical, electronic, and computational systems; g) data analysis, including extraction algorithms and quality control ; h) safety analysis and risk assessment; i) management plan, time planning, budget planning, product trees e traceability matrices.
5. Explain the rationale of a PI subsystem.
Learning outcomes and competences
Learning outcomes of this course unit are intended for the student to be able to describe development contexts and applications of instrumentation projects (IP), contribute to the stages of development of an IP, develop the different components of an IP in a way. and explain the 'rational' of a subsystem of an IP.
Working method
Presencial
Program
The syllabus is divided in five blocks:
1. Instrumentation seminars: a) virtual instruments; b) new transductors and intelligent transductors; c) realtime processing; d) bidirectional telemetry; e) transductor networks.
2. Systems engineering for instrumentation projects; a) Generic lifecycle stages; b) technical processes; c) project processes; d) enterprise and agreement processes; e) systems engineering process activities; f) system engineering support activities. This block essentially follows INCOSE v3.0.
3. Instrumentation projects in international organizations of research infrastructures: a) CERN; b) ESA; C) ESO; d) ESRF; ITER.
4. Procurement practices in international organizations of research infrastructures.
5. Instrumentation topics (specific to each student’s project).
Mandatory literature
Benjamin S. Blanchard;
Systems engineering and analysis. ISBN: 0-13-186977-9
David D. Walden;
Systems engineering handbook. ISBN: 978-1-118-99940-0
Complementary Bibliography
Peter Fortescue;
Spacecraft systems engineering. ISBN: 0-471-95220-6
Teaching methods and learning activities
Items 1 and 2: to be delivered in seminar classes by the UC’s teaching staff.
Items 3 and 4: to be delivered in seminar classes by invited speakers from the international organizations and the FCT’s (Foundation for Science and Technology) Industrial Liaison Officer. In special cases, like ITER, visits to the Lisbon-based
IPFN (Institute for Plasma Research and Nuclear Fusion) will take place within FEUP-IST agreement.
Item 5 to be individually delivered in tutorial guidance sessions within the scope of each student’s project.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation without final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
50,00 |
Trabalho prático ou de projeto |
50,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
76,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
10,00 |
Trabalho laboratorial |
76,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Does not aplly
Calculation formula of final grade
Acessment: CF=0.5*RI+0.5*AF
CF - Final Standings
IR - Individual Project Report 50%
AF - Oral presentation individual project 50%