TIME - SEM
Electronic instrumentation laboratory
This Laboratory has two main purposes: to inform as well as to train students. We want to teach young people how to properly set up a measurement problem, how to organize the relevant system and how to garantee the validity of the results that he will obtain. The Laboratory illustrates the main measurement methodologies, the characteristics of
the physical quantities, the operating principles and the mode of using the digital instrumentation that are most frequently used in laboratories and in the industrial field.
Educational objectives
The objectives of the Electronic Measurement Instrumentation Laboratory are to provide the theoretical bases as well as the practical experiences that are necessary to cope with the measurement problems that a technician or an engineer will encounter during his work activity. The laboratory will teach the basic principles of the measurement theory, the architectures and the techniques behind the main measurement and signal processing instrumentation. The hands-on experience will include exercises on methods and instruments that are used in the electronic measurements for what concerns the characterization of electric and electronic components and circuits.
Program Summary
• Measurements and measurement methods
• Measurement uncertainties evaluation
• Direct and indirect measurement methods
• The characteristics of a measurement device
• The International System of Units
• The measurement generation diagram
• The measurement electronic chain
• Signal conditioning circuits
• The signal sampling modes in digital instruments
• Digital instrumentation: measurement of the frequency; measurement of time intervals
• The digital multimeters
• The measurement of voltages and currents
• The measurement of resistances, inductances, capacitances


