Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Measurement principles and basic definitions. Standards. Accuracy and error analysis; measurement statistics. Instrument systems; sensing devices, transmitting devices, terminating devices. Typical systems and devices for measuring quantities such as temperature, pressure, flow, size, displacement, velocity, acceleration, force, power, torque, stress and strain. Analogue methods of measurement. Dynamics of measurement. Data presentation and curve fittings. Laboratory work in measurement techniques.  Control Engineering: Mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and hybrid fed back control systems, analysis, using Laplace transforms and state-space. Laboratory exercises include setting up and analyzing pneumatic, fluidic, and hydraulic control systems. Use of analogue computers.