Transducers Engineering detailed syllabus for Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the EIE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit EIE 3rd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of transducers engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENTS AND CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSDUCERS Units and standards – Static calibration – Classification of errors, Limiting error and probable error – Error analysis – Statistical methods – Odds and uncertainty – Classification of transducers -Selection of transducers.
Unit II
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Unit III
VARIABLE RESISTANCE TRANSDUCERS Principle of operation, construction details, characteristics and applications of potentiometer, strain gauge, resistance thermometer, thermistor, hot-wire anemometer, piezo-resistive sensor and humidity sensor.
Unit IV
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Unit V
OTHER SENSORS AND TRANSDUCERS Piezoelectric transducer – Hall Effect transducer – Magneto elastic sensor – Digital transducers – Fiber optic sensors -Smart Sensors – Film sensor, MEMS & Nano Sensors, LASER sensors -Environmental Monitoring sensors (Water Quality & Air pollution).
Skill Development Activities
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Course Outcomes:
Students able to
- Understand the working principles of various types of transducers (L2).
- Gain knowledge on the application areas of different sensors (L2).
- Select the right sensor/transducer for a given application (L3).
- Determine the static and dynamic characteristics of transducers using software packages (L4)
- Design simple signal conditioning circuits for the R,L and C type of sensors (L3).
- Summarize the advanced sensor technologies and sensors for specific applications.(L2)
Text Books:
- Ernest O Doebelin, Measurement Systems – Applications and Design, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2019.
- Patranabis D, Sensors & Transducers, 2nd Edition, PHI, New Delhi, 2011.
- R. K. Jain, Mechanical and Industrial measurements Khanna Publishers, 2017
Reference Books:
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List of Open Source Software/ Learning Website:
- http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php
- http://www.nptelvideos.in/2012/11/industrial-instrumentation.html
- https://nptel.ac.in/content/storage2/courses/112103174/pdf/ mod2.pdf
- https://instrumentationtools.com/tag/sensors-and-transducers-nptel- pdf
- https://www.analog.com
- https://electronics-tutorials.ws/io/io-
- https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~lu/cse521s/Slides/wirelesshart.pdf
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